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A VISION OF THE YEAR. I heard a midni I ran to ope Treading al ing at my gate, :h tender feet oice and sweet, ie ever said, d year is dead!" c l inging rime I bro And. star On his scanty coats and curling hair ; alit him to my fireside bright and fair; and fell upon the floor, ue sparkling; of its silver dew, nowarops arose. and crocus gold and blue, tiling at blasts that entered from the door; Where the snow melted, were his garments seen, Scanty and slight, and of a tender green. i‘v some little time, els, that I must relat night knocker at my Melted the sn And And to the Snowdrops other flowers succeed, Brighter in colour, and of perfume sweet, Summer. Clustering around the midnight stranger's feet, Now to a stately presence grown indeed. Meanwhile my fire san e low, but heat was there, Sweet genial heat, in prfume-laden air. Seemed my guest weary with the heat, and stooped '\eath the rich droppings of the gleaner's toil, Autumn. Thick sheaves of corn, fair produce of the soil, And purple clusters that from vineyards drooped, And apples, rosy-cheeked, and russet pears, And golden plums, heaped round him unawares Gazing amazed at this, a hail-storm beat, Loudly and wailing, at my lattice pane; TVinter. It roused the fire, that bright upblazed again, And an old man was bending o'er the heat, Spreading out trembling palms to catch the glow, And from his mantle shaking flakes of snow. So I had seen a Vision of the Year, On this its threshold and its night of birth : Seen all its fair succession upon earth, And hailed each change as right, and good and dear; I had dreamed longer, save the church bells broke My slumbers, and to New Year's dawn I woke._ Dublin University Magazine LITER ATURE. OOHS FOR REVIEW, &c.—Books, New Prints, Music, &c. intended for review, may be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red- lion-court Fleet-street London, addressed "to the Editor of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD," when they will be forwarded and receive attention Blackwood's Magazine. London : Blackwood's. Having received this magazine so shortly before our publication, we have been compelled to defer an extended notice until next week. It contains an able article on the recent defeat of the Ministry. Dublin University Magazine. Liverpool: Orr. We had marked for extract several passages in the January number, but want of space has com pelled us to postpone their insertion. The Protestant Magazine. London : Wertheim. The number for January has a variety of interest ing articles on " Pope." , in the Legislature," the late " Ministerial Defeat," " Cruelty of Popery," " The Priest and the Druggist," &c. The Scottish Educational and Literary Journal, London : .Groombridge. _ _ Among the principal contents of the January number are, " History in Secular Schools," " My first School," the " Dignity and Importance of the Teacher's Office," " Mathematical Questions and Solutions," &c. ARIETIES WHAT is most likely to become a woman? A little girl. WHEN is a ship in love? When it is attached to the boys. WHEN is a horse not a horse ? When he is turned into a field. WHEN do many bets become singular ? When they are won. HE who wears a tight boot is likely to have a narrow understanding. yr c.-xy t. rc - r cetv its second letter. a. ..r& that sometimes begins with WHAT letter is most valuable to a deaf woman ? A, because it makes her hear. Wnicn have you most, fathers or grandfathers ? Two grandfathers and forefathers. WHY are washerwomen foolish ? Because they expect to catch soft water when it rains hard. POETS seldom make good astronomers. They so lore the women, they cannot see the other heavenly bodies. DRAWING IT MILD.—An Irishman, in speaking of a relative who was hung, says he died during a tight rope performance. THERE are times when none of us would be found at home by any friend, if it were not for the fear of being found out. THERE are, by courtesy, no old maids in France. Those who don't drown themselves adopt the title of madame, and pass for widows. RECIPROCITY.—John's wife and John were tRe-a-lEte ; she witty was, industrious he ; says John " I've earned the bread we've ate ; " and I," says she, " have urned the tea." " INDEED, you are very handsome," said a gentleman to his mistress, " phoo, phoo," said she, so you'd say if you didn't think so." "And so you'd think, he answered, if I did not say so." THE Pekin Visitor says : " Coming home a few mornings since, we met a man attempting to walk on both sides of the street. By a skilful manoeuvre we passed between him." Goon ADVICE.—Always do as the sun does, look at the bright side of things. For while it is just as cheap, it is three times as good for digestion. The melancholy man don't even relish wedlock. SAUCE FOR YANKEE SLAVE OWNERS.—Soyer has become so imbued with the feeling of Uncle Tom's Cabin, that he has invented a new sauce, which, out of respect to Mrs. Stowe, he has christened " The Tom-Martyr." A LADY renowned for repartee, and a gentleman noted for tenacity to his own opinion, were overheard in deep and earnest conversation. Says Mr. M. (waxing rather warm), " Mrs. C., facts are stubborn things." Says Mrs. C. to Mr. M., " Then what a fait you must be." THE LUXURY OF WOE.—Dog Seller : That 'ere hanimal's the real stock, mum, and dog cheap at five pounds !—Young Widow : It's a sweet pretty darling— black and white—but in my present b ereavement you must procure me one entirely black ; this one will do in about six months, for half-mourning. POPULAR SIGNS.—A writer, speaking of " Public- House Signs," says—" There are Marlboroughs, Aber crombies, and Wellingtons ; Duncans, Rodneys, and Nelsons, by dozens. I have seen an admiral painted on horseback somewhere : but I never saw Cromwell on an alehouse sign yet." This is a singular and a significant fact. LUXURIOUS SHAVING.—A writer in Tait's Magazine declares that Italy is the only place to experience a truly luxurious shave. The young lady's operation is so pleasant as she manipulates your chin with her soft hand immersed in creamy lather, and her action is so fairy-like and grace ful, that one regrets the performance is so soon over, and feels almost inclined to wish that, like Gargantus in Rabe lais, one had ten chins. The charming maiden, too, beguiles your attention during the whole time by her delicious converse : and only think of having your nose pulled by a handsome dark-eyed girl —every glance teem ing with spiritual fire, and darting forth heart-slaughter. We never wished to wear our beard in Italy. ALEPPO BUTTONS.—But space fails me to describe hal the incidents of our stay in Aleppo. There are two thing, peculiar to the city, however, which I must not omi mentioning, One is the Aleppo button, a singular ulcer, which attacks every person born in the city, and every stranger who spends more than • a month there. It can neither be prevented nor cured, and always lasts for a year. The inhabitants almost invariably have it on the face, either on the cheek, forehead, or tip of the nose, where it often leaves an indelible and disfiguring scar. Strangers, on the contrary, have it on one of the joints, either the elbow, wrist, knee, or ancle. So strictly is its visitation confined to the city proper, that, in none of the neighbouring villages, or even in a distant suburb, is it known. Physicians have vainly attempted to prevent it 3,y inoculation, and are at a loss to what cause to ascribe it. —Tourney to Antioch and Aleppo. AN AFFAIR OF HONOUR AT THE CAPE.—The follow ing circumstance is mentioned in the last received Graaf- Reint Herald :—" On Sunday last a singular duel came off in the outskirts of the town. Two young Fingoes, it appears, had been quarrelling for a week, and at length worked themselves up to such a pitch that they resolved to fight it out. The combatants stripped, and arming themselves with a neck-strop apiece, the battle com menced. A powerful Pingo, with a double waggon-whip, acted as second, or bottle-hoPer,' to both parties, and when he perceived either of them in the least degree flagging, a judicious application of the doubled waggon whip was had recourse to. The fight lasted nearly three quarters of an hour, at the end of which time one of the lads was quite exhausted and gave in. Both of them were cover e d with blood from head to foot, and it was evideat they had received a wholesome lesson. The bottle-holder, in reply to a question from the only white spectator, ob served that they would not quarrel again, and that this was the Pingo method of putting a speedy end to all quarrels." CURIOSITIE S IN TER BERLIN LIBRARY. — During my sojourn at Berlin, I spent a morning in the library, and was !Inch gratified by the examination of its principal curiosities. Amongst them the Bible of Charles I. which he bore with him to the s ca ff o ld , possesses t o an English man great interest. It is a s ma ll volume, b oun d in black leather, and bears evident signs of h av i ng b een m uch used. It was lying open , appropriately enough, at the 7th chapter of Job, which commences , " Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth ? are not his days a l so like the days of an hireling ? By the side of this interesting relic, which should be in our national co ll ection, lies Luther's original manuscript translation of the Holy Scriptures. Turning over the leaves, it was ve r y apparent from the vast number of corrections and alterations in the mysterious Book of Job, as compared to the other books of the Old Testament, that it was to Luther, as it ha s been to m any o th er learned divines, full of difficulties. Some of the chapters present a tangled mass of additions, erasures, and amendments, showing clearly that Lutler was puzzled by the original. Another interesting MS. is i Goethe's " F aus t," w hi ch is very c l ear a nd legble—so clear, indeed, and free from alterations, that I cannot think it is the original draft of that immortal work. Close . to thepe . literary curiosities is preserved Otto von n Gueck's original air -exhau s ti ng apparatus, cons i s ting of two hemispheres, which when placed in juxta-position, and the air exhausted between them, could not be detached by the strength of thirty horses.—Correspondent of the Literary Gazette. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1852. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY, DEC. 27 The Lord Chancellor (Lord St. Leonards) took his seat on the woolsack. The Earl of Aberdeen. the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of St. Germans, the Earl of Clarendon, and Earl Granville occupied the Treasury bench. 'There were a great number of peeresses present. The Duke of Cambridge was also in his place. MINISTERIAL STATEMENT, The Earl of ABERDEEN;aid,-Llt is my duty to give your lordships the requisite information respecting the recent construction of Her Majesty's Government, and to indicate, though briefly, the objects which will occupy our attention, and the general policy we propose to adopt. Before describing the proceedings which have recently taken place, I wish to advert to circumstances which I understand occurred a few days ago, when the noble earl opposite declined to perform what appeared to me to be a very reasonable request, and accused me, and those acting with me, of having entered into a species of combination or conspiracy to overthrow the noble lord's government. 1 believe it is an accusation which was answered at the time by the noble duke (Newcastle) near me; but, never theless, I wish to add that my share in such a conspiracy was not for the purpose of ejecting the noble lord from office, but for the purpose of keeping him in. When it appeared, from the ambiguous paragraph in Her Majesty's speech, that it was indispensably necessary that some de claration should be made of the advantage of free trade, my own anxiety was that the terms of that declaration or resolution should be such as the noble earl and his col leagues could accept, without doing violence to their feel ings, and consistently with their own honour. Those terms were framed with that view; they had the effect intended by those who proposed them, namely, that of enabling the noble earl to retain the office he held, by the assistance and votes of the very conspirators themselves. Lord Aberdeen proceeded to say, that on Saturday week he received a message from Her Majesty, desiring his attend ance at the Isle of Wight. Of course, he had neither youth, strength, nor will sufficient to undertake the formation of a ministry without the assistance of Lord John Russell ; and it was, therefore, w ith great pleasure that he found, at a casual meeting with the noble lord, that his senti ments were entirely conformable to his own. In the course of the week he succeeded in preparing an adminis tration which was fortunate enough to receive the appro bation of the Queen, and which now stood for the judg ment of the country. He then went on to allude to the office accepted by Lord John Russell, and said the truth was that for the last 30 years the principle on which the foreign policy of the country was founded had never failed—it being to respect the independence of foreign states, great or small, and not to interfere in their internal affairs. This he trusted would still be the case. With regard to our commercial policy, he believed the interest of the country and the feelings of the people were in favour of an extension of that system of free trade which Sir R. Peel commenced in 1846; and without stop ping to discuss the merits of direct or indirect taxation, he could assure their lordships it was the wish of the government to see that system further advanced. The question of education and legal reform would receive every attention at the hands of Government; nor would an amendment of the representative system, undertaken with out haste or rashness, be excluded from its mature consi deration. He came now to the complaint of the noble lord opposite with reference to the present coalition. The noble earl found fault with him for having joined Lord J. Russell, but he could assure the noble earl that he had long ago arrived at the conviction that the country would be satis fied with no other government but one of progress. Now Lord J. Russell, while he was in favour of moderate libe ralism, was also in favour of legitimate conservatism ; and he had, therefore, no• hesitation whatever in joining him, believing, as he was thoroughly convinced, that the country was sick of those party distinctions which were recognised in the terms whig and tory. In conclusion, he moved that the house adjourn until Thursday, the 10th of February next. The Earl of DERBY denied that he bad found fault with the course which the noble earl had thought it his duty to take. What he did complain of was, that the late government did not receive that generous considera tion from parliament which it had a right to expect, and he added, when he made that complaint, that the noble earl would meet with better treatment at his own hands and those of his supporters. He did not retreat now from that complaint; and he was sure, if their lordships would take the trouble to recal the events which had taken place since the last election, they would be con vinced that this complaint was not made without just cause. At the same time he had a good right to find fault in bitter terms with some of the noble earl's col leagues. For instance, there was a right hon. baronet who commenced his early life upon ultra-radical princi ples, but who afterwards abandoned those principles in favour of conservatism. That right hon. gentleman went down to his constituents at the last election, and declared that the late government was a government without a principle, and lie should therefore take every opportunity of giving it his most decided opposition. When he came up to town he disclosed matters in his speech on the corn law debate which led him (Lord Derby) to believe that there had been a union of parties, including whigs, re formers, and conservatives, for the purpose of ousting the late government. Although the negotiations which took place would not justify his calling the movement of these three parties a conspiracy, they yet did justify him in thinking that the three parties acted in concert, for the purpose, if possible, of defeating the late administration, and they ultimately succeeded in accomplishing it. He should abstain from discussing all the points of the budget, but there was one point, namely, the income tax, which must be taken up by Her Majesty's present ad visers, and if they could succeed in removing the ine qualities of that, they should have his hearty support. He must be allowed to dissent in toto to the statement of the noble earl, that the foreign policy of this country for the last 30 years had been conducted only upon one prin ciple. The intentions of Lord Aberdeen on education and legal reform were undoubtedly satisfactory, though his views on the amendment of the representation were of oracular ambiguity. The noble Earl had ridiculed the notion of a dangerous democracy, but it remained to be seen whether an alteration of the existing represen tative system might not throw too great power into the hands of a lower and less informed class of the com munity. Personally, he had no feeling of hostility against the new government, but he had no great confidence in it, for he had no conception of the principle on which it was based. If, however, the noble Earl conducted his administration on a truly Conservative policy, he should receive no evidence of public hostility. foreign and colonial wines be reduced to Is. per imperial gallon.—Mr. I. BUTT gave notice that on Tuesday, the 15th of February, he should move for leave to introduce a bill for granting a new trial in criminal cases.—Mr. BLACKETT gave notice that after the recess he should ask whether it was the intention of Government to bring in a bill this session to carry into effect the recommendations of the commission appointed to inquire into the affairs of the University of Oxford.—Mr. JOHN M 4 GaeGon. pre sented a petition from a mechanics' institution in Glas gow, praying for a supply of Parliamentary papers printed by order of Parliament.—Mr. KEATING gave notice that after the recess he should ask whether it was the intention of Government to take any measures for insuring unifor mity in the drawing up of future Acts of Parliament, and for the arrangement and consolidation of our statute law. The house then adjourned till Thursday, the 10th Feb. with the dictates of enlightened public opinion ; to secure the freedom and purity of elections to parliament ; in a word, to maintain the honoured institutions of the king dom in continual harmony with the growing intelligence of the age ;—to these objects, if you shall intrust me with your confidence, I engage, whether in or out of office, to devote myself with all the assiduity in my power. " I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your most obedient servant, " EDWARD CARDWELL. " Whitehall-gardens, 28th December, 1852." On Wednesday Mr. Cardwell met the electors at the Town-hall, and addressed the meeting, which was a very crowded one, for upwards of an hour. in a speech which was an expansion of his address. Mr. Cardwell took a review of the progress of the nation in well-being under a free-trade and reforming government—which aimed at removing taxation, not shifting it. When called upon to give his opinion respecting the ballot, Mr. Cardwell de clared that he would not pledge himself to vote for it, or for anything else, being determined to enter parliament free and unfettered ; but that, in common with every other measure of reform that might be brought forward by the Queen's administration and the reforming government of which he was a member, the ballot should receive his best consideration. He had suffered much from bribery, at Liverpool and elsewhere ; and when the ballot came before the House of Commons, he, if a member of it, would re member what he had promised at Oxford, and the senti ments of his constituents. After several speakers of extreme Radical views had delivered their sentiments, Mr. Nathaniel Castle proposed and Mr. Alderman Spiers seconded, that Mr. Cardwell was a fit and proper person to represent. the city of Oxford in parliament. To this an amendment was proposed and seconded by the Radicals, that, in the opinion of the meeting, no candidate should be supported who would not vote for the ballot. A general show of hands was made in favour of this amendment ; but it is the opinion of the best informed that Mr. Cardwell will be returned. The meeting lasted for nearly four hours. The day of election is fixed for this day (Tuesday). HORTICULTURE. THE LATE HURRICANE. Aso - GREAT DESTRUCTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY The dreadful hurricane, which commenced on Christmas Eve, and which continued raging until yesterday week with greater or less violence, has not been equalled in point of severity, and for extent of havoc, since that which occasioned so much destruction to life and property in 1839. We last week recorded its destructive effects in Liverpool, and the more immediate locality ; and from the accounts since received the storm seems to have raged with equal violence in all parts of the kingdom. As was predicted, it has led to many most heartrending catas trophes on the coast. Several fine ships (some of them emigrant vessels) perished amidst the fury of the gales, and in one instance more than forty unfortunate creatures met with a watery grave. It would seem that the effect of the hurricane was first felt on Christmas Eve, and, after sweeping round the coast of Ireland, burst over this country. The velocity and power of the wind far ex ceeded anything which had been experienced on our shores of late years. Amongst the casualties in Liverpool two ladies (sisters) were seriously injured in the Old Churchyard. They passed into the yard at the telegraph tower-gate, and went down to the front of the western side of the church tower, to look at the picturesque, view which was to be seen on the river. A gentleman who accompanied them there left them whilst he went to the Prince's Dock. As the ladies were standing looking at the splendid scene before them, they were lifted up by a sudden gust of wind which carried them forty or fifty yards across the churchyard towards the Mersey-chambers. Their clothes were blown over and twisted round their heads ; and, after being borne along in the way described, the ladies were dashed down on the grave-stones with considerable force. They were both removed in a state of insensibility to an office close by, and, on their recovery, were driven home to their residences. At Birkenhead and the neighbourhood the hurricane was severely felt. A portion of the south end of the roof of the market was carried off, and some of the brickwork shattered. Messrs. Crow and Williams, timber-dealers had a great portion of their yard-wall, in Oliver-street, thrown down. During the day, owing to the extraordi nary height to which the tide attained, considerable diffi culty was experienced at some of the opposite ferries in landing. At Woodside the water flowed up against the pay- g ates and over the quay, and the passen g ers h a d t o b e landed for some time by means of planks. There is perhaps not a town or village from one end of the country to the other which has not felt the effects of the gale. In London and the metropolitan districts the destruc tion of property was immense. At the Eastern Counties Railway the iron roof, 300 feet long and 47 wide, spanning the Shoreditch terminus was completely destroyed. At Gwydyr-house garden, opposite the Treasury, and adjoin ing the Duke of Buceknell's, Whitehall, a fine old elm, about 70 feet in height, was snapped off below the level of the ground and thrown forward to the street.—On West minster-bridge, eight of the old-fashioned globular lamps, with which it was lighted were wrenched from the sup porters and destroyed. The venerable elm, in front of Mr. Cole's house at the head of Upper Norton-street, Portland-place, two hundred years old, was blown down. A house in Red-lion-yard, Long-lane, Smithfield, fell, burying a family consisting of a man, lis wife, and five children ; fortunately the rafters fell so as to protect them from serious injury, beyond severe bruises. A lofty stack of chimneys near the Three Colts Tavern, Mile-end, was blown down, and two persons were E 0 injured as to be obliged to be conveyed to the hospital. At Baker's-build ings, Liverpool-street, Bishopsgate-street, City, an aged female, named Sarah Holliday, lost her life, and her hus band was very seriously injured by the falling of a stack of chimneys into their bed-room. An immense number of minor casualties also took place. At Lambeth, Vauxhall, Kennington, and other districts the destruction of trees, chimneys, roofs. &c., was very great. At Windsor the large gasometer on the premises of the Royal Gas Company, near the Great Western Railway Station, was blown out of the tank. Several large trees in the Great Park and Windsor Forest were torn up by the roots or blown down. Much damage was done to a portion of the works of the new Crystal Palace at Sydenham. A large moveable platform, erected for the purpose of raising the arch of the nave, was blown down among the columns and mas sive iron girders, bearing a considerable number of them to the ground along with it. At Oxford it caused very great damage in and around the city and University. A poor woman was killed at the workhouse by the falling of a chimney. A stack of chim neys fell into the dining-room of the President of Mag dalen College, making a total wreck. Happily the venera ble president escaped without injury. One of the pinna cles of all Souls' College-hall was swept down, and falling on the roof of the hall, broke quite through it in two places. From Bristol the accounts are very bad, scarcely a house escaped without sustaining more or less of damage. Roofs were partially dismantled, chimney pots blown down, and trees torn up or broken down in all directions. At Clifton the gale was most severely felt. The windows of Clifton Church were forced in, and the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Apostles was denuded of 'a portion of its roof. At Nottingham the circular roof of the Arboretum was blown off, and the factory of Messrs. Mallet and Bur ton blown down. The steeple of Trinity Church, Stockton-on-Tees, was blown down, and, falling on the roof, broke through it, carrying away in its fall the gallery beneath, and smashing the seats in the aisle. Several houses have been over turned at Hartlepool. Mr. Marshall Fowler, of Preston hall; near Stockton, had a narrow escape. A tall chimney stack that had stood for 25 years was blown over, and fell through the roof and floor into the room below, where two children were sleeping. The rubbish fell all round them and a heavy stone within three inches of one's head ; fortunately, they were not hurt. At Banbury it did considerable damage, blowing down a building at the Oxford and Birmingham railway station. At Preston, (as detailed in our last,) two cotton mills and several other buildings were destroyed, and the hurricane was succeeded by an inundation, which, for its magnitude, is without parallel in living recollection. On Monday afternoon, the Ribblebecame so much swollen by the incessant rains and the continuous freshest, that it overflowed its natural channel, and speedily laid all the low lying country round under water. The river was fully 30 feet deep in the channel, or 14 feet higher than the tide height marked in Holden's tables, and quite one foot higher than it was during the hurricane of 1839. It reached the arches of,the East Lancashire Railway Bridge over the river, and spread over the adjoining fields to such an extent that the tops of the hedges were barely visible. On both sides of the Ribble, gardens and fields were covered ; and the dwellings on the banks were inundated to a great depth. At Ribble Place, a street at the bottom of Fishergate, the water was five feet deep ; the cellars of all the houses were filled, and the flood even reached to the second story. A boy named Dickson was surrounded by water, and would have perished had not a Mrs. Bailey rushed to his rescue, and dragged him into her cottage, which was near. Her house, however, was speedily in undated, and to such a height did the water rise that she made signals of distress ; and a boat was brought, in which all occupants were rowed to a place of safety. The four cellars under the bonded warehouses were filled with water, and about £2,000 worth of currants, belonging to Messrs. Humber, merchants, were nearly all spoiled. About £4,000 worth of wine, brandy, and rum, the property of Mr. Breakell, spirit merchant, was floating about ; but as the bungs were perfectly tight, it is expected that the loss will be very small. On Monday and Tuesday, 100 men were employed in pumping out the water from the vaults. The damage to the farms on the banks of the river is immense, in the destruction of crops, garden pro duce. and farming stock. Several walls washed down on both sides, and great injury done to the vessels in the river and the cargoes with which they were laden. At Fleetwood, which is so much exposed to the Irish sea, Morecombe Bay, &c., the fury of the storm was appalling, but no loss of life has been reported. The greater part of Sir Hesketh Fleetwood's estate was submerged. At Blackpool (the well known fashionable bathing place), near Fleetwood, the damage done was considerable, several houses being blown down. The tide rose higher than known for many years, the sea running mountains high, and washing the whole front beach and road away; the waves breaking against the houses and bow windows, washing up many of the rail posts and palings at the front of them ; and in many cases the water ran right through the houses and out at the back doors. At Clifton, Lea, and vicinity, situated near Preston, en the banks of the river Ribble, great losses have been sustained by the farmers. Many hundred tons of turnips have been washed away ; and Mr. Dixon, of Lea Gate, lost fifty sheep, drowned in the flood, which, notwith standing the confining and deepening of the channel by the recent operations of the Ribble Navigation Company, spread over the fields as far as the eye could discern, causing most fearful devastation. The damage done amounts to some thousands of pounds. At Patricroft a larce three-storey cotton-mill, which was being erected by Messrs. Withington and Whitehead, of Pendleton, was blown down. The loss is estimated at £2,000. At Stockport the high wind upset three of the caravans belonging to the late Mr. Wombwell's menagerie of wild beasts, and by the fall a fine full-grown Bengal tiger was killed. This is a serious loss to the proprietor, the animal being valued at £3OO. At Wigan a Baptist Chapel, recently erected near Chapel-street, was blown down, and altogethe r destroyed. At Carlisle a spinning factory, belonging to i\lr M`Knight, was reduced to ruin. In Ifanchester scarcely a street has escaped, and in one row of new houses half-a-dozen are nearly levelled with the ground. Two pinnacles of the tower of St. Paul's Church, at Kersal-moor, now building for the Rev. H. W. Al' Grath late of St. Ann's, were blown down, one crushing in half the roof, the other breaking the Caen stone font, and doing damage that will cost £5OO to repair. At Tattersall railway station, near Lincoln, a man was killed by the engine -shed being blown down. In the neighbourhoods of Ruthin and Denbigh the country is one mass of water, the high winds being accompanied by heavy and almost incessant rains. The beautiful vale of Clwyd is so completely inundated as to resemble a large lake ; and in the vicinity of Holywell the depth of water is such that not only boats but large ves sels might sail upon its surface. A most terrible gale has been experienced at Carnarvon. The force of the tide was such that the massive wall which forms the quay was forced down in five places, huge stones being scattered in all directions, and the spray dashing furiously up to the walls of the ancient castle. In Dublin immense damage was done to property, and we regret that in one district (Milltown) three lives were lost. It appears that, between six and seven o'clock on Sunday morning, a large tree was overthrown at the Milltown Factory, which, falling on the gate-house attached thereto, carried down the roof, floor, and walls, burying the inmates, six in number, underneath. Three persons were suffocated under the r uins, namely, Mrs. Ryan, the owner of the lodge, her daughter, Margaret Ryan, and her son, Phillip Ryan. Life was lost in Limerick likewlse. A young man named Vaughan, a printer and glazier, while returning home, was lifted from the ground in 2ary-street, cast against a wall, and his brains dashed out. A letter from Alit:lame city mentions likewise that theso.utWy for miles The house then adjoUrned to the 10th of February. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY, DEC. 27. The Speaker took the chair at two o'clock. Mr. Disraeli, and the other members of the late Go vernment, took their seats on the opposition benches. NEW WRITS. On the motion of Mr. Hayter, the following new writs were ordered to be issued : For London, in the room of Lord John Russell, who had accepted the office of one of Her Alajesty's principal Secretaries of State. For Tiverton, in the room of Lord Palmerston, who had accepted the office of one of Her Majesty's principal Sa cretaries of State. For Oxford University, in the room of Mr. Gladstone, who had accepted the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. For South Wilts, in the room of the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, who had accepted the office of Secretary at War. For Carlisle, in the room of Sir James Graham, who had ace, pted the office of First Lord of the Admiralty. For Halifax, in the room of Sir Charles Wood, who had accepted the office of President of the Board of Control. For Southwark, in the room of Sir William Molesworth, who had accepted the office of Chief Commissioner of Works. _ _ .. _. For_ Leeds, in the room of the Right lion. M. T. Baines, who had accepted the office of President of the Poor-law Board. For Nottingham, in the room of the Right Hon. Edward Strutt, who had accepted the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. For the county of Cavan, in the room of Sir John Young, who had accepted the office of Chief Secretary for Ireland. For Marlow, in the room of Lord Ernest Bruce, who had accepted the office of Vice-Chamberlain of Her Majesty's Household. For Scarborough, in the room of the Earl of Mulgrave, who had acceptei the office of Treasurer of Her Majesty's Household. For Hertfordshire, in the room of the lion. W. Cowper, who had accepted the office of one of the Lords of the Admiralty. For Morpeth, in the room of the Hon. Edward George Granville Howard, who had accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Household of North Leitch. The house then adjourned to Tuesday. TUESDAY, DEC. 28. The house met at two o'clock, and, after some:notices and petitions, adjourned till Wednesday. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 29. The house met at noon. NEW WRITS On the motion of Mr. HAYTER, the following new writs were ordered to be issued : For Wolverhampton, in the room of the Hon. C. P. Villiers, who had accepted the office of Her Majesty's Judge Advocate-General. For Alyesbury, in the room of Mr. R. Bethell, who had accepted the office of Solicitor-General. For the city of Oxford, in the room of Sir W. P. Wood, who had accepted the office of Vice-Chancellor. For Leith burghs, in the room of Mr. J. Moncrieff, who had accepted the office of Lord Advocate for Scotland. For Dumfries, in the room of Viscount Drumlanrig, who had accepted the office of Controller of Her Ma jesty's Household. For Gloucester, in the room of Rear-Admiral Berkeley, who h a d accepted the office of one of the Lords of the Admiralty. For the county of Limerick, - in the room of Mr. Mon sell, who had accepted the office of Clerk of the Ordnance. For Brighton, in the room of Lord A. Hervey, who had accepted the office of one of the Lords of the Treasury. For Southampton, in the room of Sir A. Cockburn,who had accepted the office of Attorney-General. For Carlow, in the room of Mr. John Sadleir, who had accepted the office of one of the Lords of the Treasury. The house then adjourned till Friday. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31. The house met at two o'clock. About si x t y mem b ers present, chiefly Mirnsterialists.—M r . B LAND onlytook were the oaths and his seat, as member for King's County. —On the motion of Mr. IIAYTER, it was agreed that th e house at its rising, do adjourn till Thursday, the 10th of Feb. NEW WRITS. On the motion of Mr. HAYTER, the following ne w writs were or d ere d t o be made out, v i z.:— For the county o f H a ddi n gton, in the room of the Hon. Francis Charteri, who had accepted the office of one of the Lords of the Treasury • and For the bor oug h of Lichfield, in the room of Lord A. H. Paget, who had accepted the office of Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal to her Majesty. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. Mr. OLIVEIRA. gave notice, that after the recess he should move a resolution to the effect that the duty upon THE NEW MINISTRY. The following is a list of the appointments made by the Earl of Aberdeen, who is entitled to much credit for the ingenious way in which he has contrived to dovetail to gether specimens of each political party : First Lord of the Treasury.. The Earl of Aberdeen. Lord Chancellor Chancellorof the Exchequer, Mr. Gladstone. Secretaries of Home Lord Palmerston. { Foreign Lord John Russell. State ' Colonial The Duke of Newcastle. First Lord of the Admiralty.. Sir James Graham. President of the Council.... Earl Granville. Lord Privy Seal Secretary at War ..Mr. Sidney Herbert. President of the Board of l Sir C. Wood. Control First Com missionerofPub- l Sir W. Molesworth. lic Works The Marquis of Lansdowne (without office). • The above form the Cabinet. ¶resident of the Board oft Right Hon. E. Cardwell. Trade • President of the Poor-law Right Hon. M. T. Baines. Board.. Chancellor of the Duchy of Right Hon. E. Strutt. Lancaster Postmaster-General Attorney-General . , Sir A. Cockburn. Solicitor-General Mr. Bethell. Judge-Advocate-General Mr. C. P. Villiers. Mr. John Sadlier. Lords of the Treasury.... {Lord Alfred Hervey. Hon. F. Charteris. Under Secretary of State I Mr. F. Peel. for the C010nie5........ Under Secretary of State I Lord Wodehouse. for Foreign Affairs ..... Under Secretary of State Hon. Henry Fitzroy. for Home Department.. Commander-in-Chief Viscount Hardinge. Master-General of the }Lord Raglan. Ordnance (Vice-Admiral Hyde Parker. Rear-AdmiralM.F.Berkeley. Lords of the Admiralty .Capt. R. S. Dundas. LcHaopnt.. W. A. F. Milne.osv Cowper. Vice-Presidentoftheßoard of Trade and Paymaster- }Lord Stanley, of Alderley. General to the Forces Joint Secretaries to the J . The Right Hon. G. Hayter. Treasury.. .... Secretary to the Admiralty.. Mr. Bernal Osborne. Joint Secretaries to the r Mr. R. Lowe. Board of Control Vice-Chamberlain of Her } Lord E. Bruce. Majesty's Household Master of the Buckhounds.. Earl of Bessborough. Captain of the Yeomen of 1 Viscount Sidney. the Guard.. Treasurer to Her Majesty's The Earl of Mulgrave. Household Secretary to the Poor-law }Mr. Grenville Berkeley. Board .. Comptroller of Her Ma- Viscount Drumlanrig. jesty's Household Clerk of the Ordnance Lord Chamberlain Master of the Horse Duke of Norfolk. Lord Steward of the House- 1 Marquis of Westminster. Hold Captain of the Gentlemen- } Lord Foley. at-Arms .. Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard. Chief Equerry and Clerk } Lord Alfred Paget. Marshal to Her Majesty IRELAND. Lord Lieutenant... Chief Secretary to the Lord Sir J. Y oung. Lieutenant ... Lord Chancellor . The Right Hon. M. Brady. Attorney-Genera1...... Solicitor-General . Under-Secretary. . .. (Not appointed.) SCOTLAND, Lord Advocate .. Solicitor- General Right Hon. J. Moncrieff. Mr. W. Deas. The Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister, has appointed to be his Private Secretaries the Hon. A. Gordon and Mr. J. H. Cole. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. W. C. S. Rice, barrister-at-law to be his Chief Secretary. . _ _ Lord John Russell has appointed Mr. - Arthur Russell as his Private Secretary, and Mr. F. W. H. Cavendish, of the Foreign-office, Precis Writer. Lord Palmerston has appointed Mr. R. W. Grey, late M.P. for Tynemouth, his Lordship's Private Secretary at the Home-office. Mr. W. F. Higgins is acting as Private Secretary to the Duke of Newcastle, but will permanently continue to act for Mr. F. Peel, when the Chief Secretary shall make another selection. Sir James Graham hasappointed Captain Henry O'Brien to be his Private Secretary at the Admiralty. Sir William Moles worth bas selected Mr. Thornhorrow (of the Office of Works and Buildings) to be his Official Private Secretary. The Hon. F. 6. Lawley (M.P. for Beverley) is acting as Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has not yet selected his official private secretary for the Treasury. THE MINISTERIAL RE-ELECTIONS. There is nothing particularly striking in the addresses which the candidates for re-election to Parliament have made to their respective constituencies, but we subjoin extracts of the most interesting. In' appealing to the electors of Carlisle, Sir James Graham says :—" I am about to act with those who re pealed the Tests and Corporation Acts, who emancipated the Catholics, who abolished slavery throughout the British dominions, who passed the Reform Act, who ra pealed the Corn Laws, and who, at length, have finally succeeded in establishing Free Trade as the rule of our future commercial policy. In a Cabinet so led and so constructed the past is the surest earnest of the future. What has been done we shall steadily maintain. What remains to be done we shall endeavour to accomplish by cautious but progressive reforms, based on a desire to im prove the condition, to extend the education, and to en large the liberty, both civil and religious, of the great body of the people." In his address to the electors of South Wilts, Mr. Sidney Herbert says, " I still believe, as I have always done, that in the maintenance of public credit, in the pro motion of the comfort of all classes of the community, in the dissemination of sound education, and in the advance ment of well-considered reforms in all departments of the state, lies the best security for the permanent conservation of our institutions." On Saturday, the following returns were made without opposition :—Sir W. Molesworth, Southwark; Right Hon. E. Strutt, Nottingham ; Right Hon. Sir James Graham, Carlisle ; Earl of Mulgrave, Scarborough ; Hon. W. Cow per, Hertford. Sir George Grey was also returned for Moroeth, in the room of Captain Howard. The elections for Halifax and Tiverton took place yes terday ; and to-day the following will take place :—City of London, Lord John Russell : University of Oxford, Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone ; Wolverhampton, Hon. C. P. Villiers ; Brighton, Lord A. Harvey ; Leeds, Right Hon. M. T. Baines ; Lichfield, Lord A. Paget ' • Marl borough, Lord Ernest Bruce; City of Gloucester, Admiral Berkeley. To-morrow : Southampton, Sir A. E. J. Cock burn. Thursday : Aylesbury, Mr. R. Bothell, Q.C. The elections for South Wilts, and for the Irish and Scotch counties and boroughs made vacant, are not yet fixed. Besides these, writs have also been moved for the following places : County of Cavan, Sir J. Young ; Scotch boroughs, Right Hon. J. Moncrieff; Dumfriesshire, Lord Drumlan rig ; County of Limerick, Mr. W. Monsen ' - Borough of Carlow, Mr. John Sadlier ; City of Lichfield, Lord Alfred Paget; and Haddingtonshire, Hon. F. Charteris. It is said that Mr. Gladstone will be opposed at Oxford University by the Marquis of Chandos ; Sir A. Cockburn, at Southampton, by Mr. B. Cochrane ; and Admiral Berkeley, at Gloucester, by Mr. Hope. In consequence of Sir W. P. Wood, M.P. for Oxford, being appointed Vice-Chancellor, in the room of Lord Cranworth, made Lord Chancellor, a vacancy has occurred in the representation of that city, of which Mr. Cardwell has availed himself, and ,has issued the following address to the electors : " Gentlemen,—Sir William Page Wood has been ap pointed a Vice-Chancellor, and his place in parliament is vacant. You cannot but receive with regret the intelli gence which separates you from so faithful a servant, but I think you will recognise in his appointment a determi nation on the part of the Queen's ministers to place on the judicial bench those who are best qualified to discharge the solemn duties of that high trust. " For more than 20 years I have enjoyed the personal friendship of many most respected citizens of Oxford,and I venture to believe that my political opinions are in uni son with those of a majority of the electors. " Those opinions hive been recorded in . former parlia ments, and, in the hope that I may obtain your approba tion, I would wish to refer to the votes which I have given in favour of free-trade, of civil and religious liberty, of Protestant education, and generally of all those measures which have tended to remove oppressive taxes and to pro mote the public good. " The Reform Act was passed when I was a resident in Oxford ; and my earnest approbation of that change was always openly expressed. The act of 1846, which abolished the tax upon corn, was contested in parliament when I was a member of the House of Commons, holding office under Sir R. Peel ; I appeal to your decision whether the happy condition of this country, while every other coun try of Europe has been disturbed, may not, under Divine Providence, be attributed to the conjoint and beneficial operation of those great measures ; and whether the policy by which they are directed may not, therefore, be re garded as at once resolute and enlightened—at once Con servative and Liberal. The authors of the Reform Act are associated in the present government with the survi ving colleagues of Sir R. Peel, and I have accepted office with the confident belief that the p o li c y o f th e ca bi ne t w ill be animated by a spirit of progress i ve re f orm. , The controversies which have occupied the last ten years are now finally set at rest. To place upon a sound foundation the public finance ; to promote the extension of knowledge, to increase the comforts of the community ; and t) administer the affairs of the nation in accordance OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK Stove, Conservatory, Greenhouse, Bce.—Few gardeners can remember a worse season than that just passed for plants in houses ; the dull, sunless, damp days, have had their natural effect upon vegetation, which has suffered accordingly. Mildew has defied all remedial measures in the conservatory and greenhouse, and the stove plants have become, in most cases, sadly etiolated ; the only remedy for this evil is, in the former case, to give plenty of air wherever it is practicable, and in the latter, to place the plants as near the glass as possible, frequently turning them round, so that all parts receive their due proportion of light; besides this, take care not to raise the tempera ture too high, especially at night, when there should always be a diminution of at least 5 deg. over the day temperature. If proper care has been taken, the con servatory should now display considerable attractions. Flower and Kitchen-Gardens.—ln this department the continuance of wet prevents any other operation than pruning being carried on beneficially ; respecting this latter operation, we present our readers with the following valuable suggestion from the Gardeners' Journal:— Tree Nailing.—Among the common operations of gardening practice there cannot be said to be more urgent necessity for change and improvement than in the general system of nailing and fixing trees to walls and other - permanent buildings. It is rather astonishing that the old system of using cloth bandages and nails should be kept so long in practice, when it is considered that there is scarcely one feature in the system to recommend its continued adoption. It will seldom be found an easy matter to draw iron nails from the wall without doing considerable damage to the bricks or unfixing the mortar between them; this hole-making system is attended with many disadvantages, not only defacing the wall, but forming the hiding place and safe retreat for a countless number of insects; and every gardener is acquainted with the fact, that often the finest fruit of the peach and other stone fruits, that look tempting and lovely on the side exposed to the sun, when taken from the wall are found to contain a busy brood that have eaten their way to the centre of the fruit, rendering the fruit entirely useless, only to be thrown to the ground and pressed under foot, for the certain destruction of its inmates. I may mention a system that was adopted at the place where I am employed, in the meantime, which, I think, goes far to obviate the evils above stated. The wall had been in use a considerable time for peaches, and taking into account the amount of summer nailing, spring pruning, drawing the nails, and again nailing, it will be found that the peach wall suffers to a greater extent than other walls. The fact is, I have seen the peach and apricot walls so much damaged by a long process of nail-driving and drawing, as to allow the smoke to escape from a flued wall ; this is anything but desirable, especially while the trees are in blossom. But the present case was different, as it was not a flued wall, but the trees were taken from the wall while it underwent a thorough repair, entirely on the score of neatness of appearance, as it formed the boundary of the principal wall leading to the mansion ; after filling all the crevices with mortar, pointing and squaring the bricks, cast-iron nails were procured—what, I believe, are termed lathe nails, about an inch in length, which can be had at any ironmongery establishment ; when the mortar was dry enough to receive the nails, they were fixed in at regular distances, forming lines each way ; the surro.c., waz then washed over with cement, which may be of any colour, as taste may dictate ; the trees were then tied back, and when; finished presented a much neater ap pearance than when fixed to their places with different coloured cloth shreds, as before. And on the score of economy, these nails do not require to be again replaced, while it is very evident more than half the time is saved, a consideration not trifling in gardening matters, when it is borne in mind that the pressing operations of spring make a demand on all hands, making nailing, as a matter of course, a by-job, to be done when the ground is frozen. or perhaps too wet to allow the men to work it. But I am strongly of opinion, if anything can be done to lessen the time spent in nailing, it would be much to the pre sent comfort and future health of those so occupied. This system led to the adoption of another, which I think is still preferable. On a wall which is kept expressly for plums the same work was done, with the difference only that instead of nails, drilled circular-headed studs or hooks were used, which cost but a trifle more than nails. I would prefer them for any purpose, especially for trees which formed a stronger growth of wood than peaches do, and would have them no larger than just admit the tie to get through their heads. It occurs to me that this would be a very neat and judicious plan for training flower garden plants, shrubs, or climbers, against orna mental buildings. How clumsy it appears to put cloth shreds around the slender branches of a trailing plant, or to crush within the shred the leaves of those plants, the branches of which are covered with foliage. Over stone buildings lines of wire would be preferable, and it is rather surprising that such materials should not be oftener found in use. It is not costly, especially when compared with the clumsy system of driving nails into valuable walls of wrought stone work.—B. C. E. PRINCIPLE THE BEST POLICY. Few of our readers can be so cold in sentiment and creedless in religion, as to approach the close of 1852 without experiencing feelings of a deep and hallowed cast coming into connexion with the solemn close of one year, and the dawning prelude of another. Tried indeed by any standard,—from that of mean and miserable Utilita rianism, up to lofty and unbending Christianity,—the year which is about to join those " beyond the flood," must ever rank with one of the most eventful and remark able in the world's annals. Without, however, endea vouring to prove this by a detailed analysis of specific oc currences, we have only to recal two of those great events which have marked the past year, in order to justify its claims upon history : we allude to the re-construction of the French Empire in the person of " Napoleon the Third," and the death of that mightiest of the mighty, in heroic fame and worth, Arthur Duke of Wellington. As to the former of these, speculation can only dream ; and hence we must, in faith and hope, leave the possible future of that mysteriously-fated Empire, France, to re pose in the hands of Him whose undivulged purposes it is not for mortals to predict, or prognosticate. But this, with no presumptuous dogmatism, may be asserted—the last 50 years of French history ought to teach the English Nation to prize with increasing reverence, and venerate with more enthusiastic homage than ever, that eternal law of political righteousness Principle is the best Policy. With all its drawbacks, here in this ocean bulwarked Land, we have more national freedom, social happiness, and domestic privileges than perhaps any Empire in the World; and be it remembered that, under God, we owe these costly mercies to that magnificent Constitution which has lately been described as "That peerless growth of patriotic mind, The great eternal Wonder of mankind i" As respects the second great event which has signalised the past year—few will deny that, if ever one man, more than another, embodied a personal reverence for the great principles which are enshrined in the political sacredness of the BRITISH CONSTITUTION — it was the glorious Warrior, whose death has palled the heart of England with the moral drapery of deep and unaffected grief. On this theme, however, it is quite unnecessary to enlarge. Painting, poetry, sculpture, public obsequies, —have, each and all, according to their appropriate distinctness, revealed the profound sentiment of national sorrow, with which our bereaved Empire has followed the greafest of her heroes, and the truest of her patriots, to his sepulchre. And here let us borrow words from "The Hero's Funeral," a poem just published, whose truthful ness will commend them not only unto the poetical taste, but unto the Christian patriotism, of the reader : "Mere vulgar Heroes of the vicious stamp, Whose names suggest a carnage or a camp, Meteors of crime, the monsters of the past ! Who sweep the world with desolating blast, May point the moral of some future page:— But, when the Warrior, Senator and Sage Meet in one Man, like Him we mourn to-day, Conscience predicts what unborn years will say, That he had passed into the Nation's heart Of which he grew a principle and part, And when he died, far more than boundless grief Sought in the burial-pomp a fit relief, — Each for himself put funeral raiment on And wept a friend, in mourning Wellington." This allusion to the conduct of the populace, suggests, in conclusion, a line or two, on what we venture to con sider, not the least or lowest of those mortal phenomena which have accompanied all connected with the great Duke's death and burial—we refer to the unity of the en tire British press on this occasion. Such a political con cord from the myriad-tongued Press of an unfettered nation like our own, has no parallel in the history of the past, and (humanly speaking) cannot be expected to be repeated by the evolutions of the future. It was, indeed, a solemn truth, that on his funeral day, "The sun went down with unrecorded crime And left the British character sublime." But, scarcely less expressive and instructive is the fact — that all discords in the press were hushed into sacred ob livion, and all shades of political sectarianism melted into a touching unity of regret,—when " 7'he Nelson of all lands" became its mighty and majestic theme. Amid, then, the inevitable differences of opinion which perturb with fervish excitement the social and civil framework of this great country,—let us hope and believe, that, at the hidden core of all vital principles, the heart of Great Britain is sound ; and that from the destinies of our land the shielding care of the Almighty is not yet withdrawn. —Brighton Gazette. ...........,____ te rr Arent I , t - "1 AtTlC'easga..., t e , ...._____ Ballinasloe and other parts of Connaught. round was inundated. The storm was also severe) ? f el", ----- ifie HER 11 o f t nd Prince A t a le ! e t o in w the u s l o s lye yards f d A s ia o n f is thestated to bulwarkshave been of the.„,iiiikhichm- Y be will ado pier were tern away. At Peel considerable claw - 0 was done to a fleet of luggers. Several vessels ‘,/! s i t ,WiNnsou.- 1301 I l l ainns, fuel, driven on the coast. A life-boat belonging to the poor of t Queen, which vessel sailed from this port on Th o l l l ace on New week, was picked up at Castletown bay on Mond* is now in the possession of Mr. Robert Clucas, ler Majesty's town. At Ramsey much damage was done. Iltfore ten o'c SCOTLAND.—This part of the country, though .1 visited with the full fury o f th e ga l e w hi c h h as wr oughty e al children much destruction in the southern part of the i s land , F ' l ' ear Princess 1 of Abe r not altogether escaped, the st orm o f S un d ay an d 31 0 ° C ) the riding s having been severely felt in the west and south of S c° l ld di, c ergy of Wir Win land. From the p reva lence o f th e wester l y erald Welle: Clyde was on Monday swollen to an immense height' ' thlthe arran lighter craft at the Bromielaw being elevated froca;tithgem' perinte moorings, and great difficulty was experienced in ale Cede portion their coming into collision with the breast of tbe°l ll4 ?l 1.. o t thing Clul The flood rose so high in the town of Durnbarto a Monday, that sailing boats were made use of for Amountthet9g ron ag e, re c o of th veyance of parties in the High-street. At G re enock' g tflY the Queen' the same day, a very high tide occurred, which °° ji.:astle on Sati much damage. Most of the shops and cellars alo g 11 fOrmance this quay were flooded more or less. The West Butli f eind be contiut dammed back, an d rose a b ove th e arc h es of the hrrYies. covering the streets adjoining it. The most of the 5 1 0 n Tuesda building yards were flooded, so that all the men ha hichthe Y pit w re leave off work, and many of the poor people of the „od the new had their dwellings flooded, and their property ar i Court was hel e Accounts from Port-Glasgo w , G ouroc k, Roth . 8 1_ia' yelledb other places, state that in all the/ the tide was ardlieE WesternYt l unprecedented. In the Rothesa Post-office the 7,1 ik ett stood ankle deep. At Helensb urg , th e fl oo d o f SP, '''lr. Aarau morning week was most destructive. In the groua dncretary to Lo Ardencaple Castle, the property of the Duchess W i t LORD Jon's of Argyle, a considerable amount of damage was d oo 4Plomatic ley s the unusual fall of wat er . At A yr , on M on d ay, t h e e ow ree 'ning- t of the gale were very se r i ous . Ab out m i d-day, is if Foreign Poi course of a few minutes, the tide rose a couple of feted V" I.ORTII E-'si Ca the river was flush with the street, an d pene r tedelo sq., of . . .ensl houses near which it had never been known to owe of a va c an before. In m an y ca s es th e d ep th o f water was sr jid THE REV. N feet, and a nu m b er o f f am ili es h a d to l eave their dwei bancellor Cr; The terrible violence of the sea swept away many Is rfis and 000 ,1 Heacham, the Newton beach, the temporary railway, hundred yards of railway, placed far above usual : 1 0 THE COUNT! mark. The new breakwater has sustained great date om Rome, aci At Troon, on the same coast, the tide was greater t st year, has has been known for many years, and some of the 9 , i l inteSS is imp of the town were fl o od e d t o t h e d epth of sever a l to for some N The Tintern, screw-steamer, which sailed from Tro oo :rase of the I Friday night, having encou n t ere d a severe gale het° pected and Ailsa, which split her sails and rendered her 1 1 °A . --- nageable, came ashore at B arass i e ear l y on Saw' morning, and she now lies stranded. The Tay was 8 11, in flood on Sunday, and in the course of the aftec°, o inundated both Inches. Th e r i se a b ove the ordinar Y"LCourt dresse! of the river was fully fifteen feet. In the south of 6° 9 o lth trains refit land, Sunday and Monday were wild days. The NitbAcientiv droc Sunday was raging in full flood, covering the greater!) well as to th tion of the White Sands. At mid.dav the waters Iroidered satin: dammed back by the tidal flow of the Solway, a nd O i ,An evening then have been within about 18 inches of the high 911 e, hem me d they reached a fortni g ht ago . O n M on d ay evening the o ue silk over e moderated, though it by no means went down. ' ,Le top, formin driver of the Lockerby coach was obliged to go rouligiots. Th e s l e Hillhouse Bridge, Shillaiiill having been aga i n in3P, h e body. The ble ; and he reports the flood in the Annan to be lug `aced on the than it was a fortnight ago.—Edinburgh Advertiser' alf , way down ... hi% low and t ..,•..... 6.7 uu APPALLING SHIPWRECKS. A robe of vi( It is at sea that the most fearful catastrophes - p i ut i li zes are orna c hso 6 mrned with happened. The upper portion of the English ye l e4 rn another of was the scene of deplorable events. An emigrant from Hamburgh, a barque apparently of 500 tons b 1)8 0 0 1 kened with a it t bouffant, named the Louisa Emilia, bound with emigrants t° Grande, in South America, was wrecked in the band. A ems a Talma b Dungeness, and out of 80 souls on board 40 e centre. Cr drowned. The sufferings of the survivors were of ' Among thedi most harrowing description. jOhine Blanche On Monday morning the " Ocean Queen," of LOP was wrecked off Plymouth. At* the arms, or ;Ouch smaller. During Sunday night a large three-masted ship an" t. ends This o ri t o h w er h y s. es: . e it l h s, a s l u l p t p h o e s ir ed ha t n o d b s e , s a c s ho is on i e m rs ag , i f n o e u d n . dere v c y l l i:i zeraid. • ' Heroine, er distance oine, l o l f r. . L L y e m e ßi ßegis,Rich, a master, fine emigrant wh ieh o n s l h y i ° l,e l li tt t A it sortie gold. ..„,. t bocording to ti T stih r o a r mes a short time since for Port Philip, was Lvorith long gr T as h ! Honiton lost ; and, although the disaster was attended with sacrfice of life, it is most providential, consideriviOd tied with ri terrible character of the weather, that it did nob , (The Vely Pa ei t tdie much by c ol i onnet of viole fatal to many more of those on board. Some no.ield or silver, i: lows volunteered to man a boat to go off to their t o Bonnets are Procuring a craft belonging to the Frances revenue the men, comprising Mr. William Bridle, m as ter Primrose, Henry Cox, mate of the w o k is of ribbor pac ketprmed of nary three of the Frances's crew, named Black, B ea rneNilling in floatin Harvey, pulled off to the relief of the ship's boats i fraille velvets are of 'pother bouque were beating towards the port. They had not got however, when a heavy sea struck and filled the flinch of heart and, melancholy to relate, with the exception Bridle, the whole of the couragous fellows perished. tbeond is a full two boats from the Heroine succeeded in reachingyerlt, trimmed v harbour, hut the passengers and crew were in 3 , 1 06ke cap is comp exhausted condition. The ship f oun d ere d in the!'" I fancy capote of the afternoon. oletek velvet and A brig named the Corinthian, belonging to NO° r eds behind, ov was dashed to pieces on the Thorp Point, and th i . e fge* new materi ' were all drowned. A Dutch vessel, called De J A ° „l' e ste appearance bound to London, was thrown on the main at Orfnnbtall beads. and dashed to pieces. Some of her hands were lost* f r oOr he crowns el Pioneer, Mr. Taylor, master, on her way to the TY oe Aolth an open blc London, foundered, and four of her hands went '"„ olearded quick pros 3 v ie of the ere with her. The Active, of Stockton, also went d O / I ,7 e rslanosed of se' Caistor. The vicinity of the Humber also bad 98 ,: es athers ornamel casualties. The Yorkshire coast at the prominent ", tbrt simple and satre or coneei land, known as Flamborough-head, was exposed t % pes same form 1 full fury of the wind. Such a storm had not bee°, e ,,etly of a deep schooner, belonging to Southwold, was carried asb°`encle ; and c 4 rienced there for a number of years. The v`;', ttl et n t . y. T u he po in n sii t the southward of Bridlington. The life-boat was iltaufaniciehdedioinretahceh ihopereaching t b e e f In s a , vi and n g the the poorunforfteullnoawtes metere s:l.th .._ ea• il t)r , ro'yand poi as C h re e w ay s y watery grave. , 0 I,li 11 satin:then The schooner Argyle, of Glasgow, bound from 0 .11 .1, 5 ` an, edged with to Cork, was run foul of by the schooner Favourlr' te, with three saved' . • , , London, ln ivi and ort c o sank e almost ii ay the gale immediately. was (rote ekes between e south-west. A schooner was driven ashore with l' o rlun marks wl board dead, with the exception of one man. The " htekades of blo of the break-water sustai ne d muc h d amage, an d the 3 Aire bonnet. house was washed away. The blue capo In the Swin, and a l mos t a t th e mou th o f th e Tbel lt o i the crown is the hurricane was as severely felt as in any othe r fir the ribbon For upwards of 48 hours a tremendous sea existed'badeed flat over Mouse lightship was swept away by its fury, great is lined. occasioned amongst the coasters and small craft, and° t ship, named the William and Mary, from Texel, crown. So drifeAtiers are plac to the Gunfleet Sands. The crew took to the w aingl, a small wre rigging, to which they lashed themselves, In this ol ow n i e open edg le front. di , tion, exposed to the violent lashing of the sea andlew fi f:P l :, the first going the greatest suffering, they remained the or tt e d black to the day. Night set in with all its horrors, the P °°t r than th( lows' sufferings becoming more severe. Howeve r ' te li g 5 roon terry ve smacks, the Traveller and Emperor, both of Colche middle of tl about three o'clock in the morning, accomplished th e P tit e ti g ra a demi-wre servation of the poor creatures, who were clinging t° rigging, inciuding the master, Mr. Avery. As ni sy litlii med inside 0 h ar to the t imagined, they were in a very exhausted condition _ter and mor got on board the smacks. The ship has since gc ° , Visiting bona pieces. nova• A to w A v essel called the Nuova Fortuna , from L i v er 0 i • Th e eu vet, cut in g( ? bound to the Mediterranean, wa s carr i e d as h o re w ort! ll ir°nde. The ci northward of Port Lorgan, Shanear, on Sunday viel o rad band of and the greater part of the crew drowned. In the ente with api of Crookhaven, the Calder, from New York for Licerf !ik satin cap( was driven from her moorings on to a reef of rocks ° wre clilt l lr7 velvet. north of the coast-guard station, and became a A ship, called the Reine des Agnes, was wrec Ueldir th Flowers e leaves of b Christmas-day a few miles to the eastward of Bould A d io bonnet of and " Lloyd's List" contains numerous other ethers of the on that range of coast. ,he ~..., edge of th( dog 9 etiolltee::letiefivoeowl flowers. t 0 s di:tsi:Fecroa, erfteio,l°).sseementerie. ansversel KINCARDINE.—A fair resident in this place wooed and won by a jolly tar. As Jack was en a long voyage, the preliminaries were hastily and last Sunday week the loving couple were procl o d tld with a view to their joining in wedlock on tbe f° l s , e tie l --• h°ll l of Pi • Tuesday. But, alas, in the single day that i n tef i jo g &I . gl : i ernd: subsequently b 3" signs. the feelings of the fair bride underwent a complete r ngs of one A former flame, also a sailor, renewed his courts l ,,fbr. l ,4 persevering energy, and succeede fined inducing f"" it)," crow ribbons, bands with his rival. By the aid of a friend the o'ol° inds ap f ote of o blue v( mation certificate was procured, and in a neigli b o ° , Ofway on the town, where they were unknown, the parties v‘t er 'iP il ,suet bands int ried—the happy husband personating the disall" bres on each bridegroom. Witth velvet c 1 . 0 • 0 4e. 0 la A LONDON SHAWL WAREHOUSE.—Last sc-ereil to The coiffures Holmes. late.proprietor of 4kime . ‘..... ..- , .........• t vat t h ey , The Na or t in Regent-street, appeared In the Bankruptcy CA. 4 tad. : The plat sets about £3,500. Mr. Holmes had been in trau',,itart green silk stor 1830, and was solvent up to 1848, when he cotano l ig like enamaj with his creditors at ten shillings in the pound. gr:Acid , simple spring ranee, who supported the application for a cerf i lf4racefully over dwelt on the high character of the bankrupt befor e fi lii, green velvet 1 He had opened his shop in Regent-street at a tir° b e „uedilaced forward Regent-street was not what it is now. H e bad ''' ‘ i e tl i t which front 1 pride in his establishment, and it was justly reef,/ siimatee feather one of the most splendid in Europe,—the envY :"„clii An elegant c rounding nations. But in 1848 Mr. Holmes fellia w d e e Chness, is cot culties ; money-lenders got hold of him ; he went 0 'vers shades, a and deeper ; and to the money-lenders and the Grf ss ioAlia buds and hibition his ruin was to be referred. Mr. Conaf° l B , o fattened on a Ldeuble row c Fane enlarged the protection for a month, an would take time to consider his judgment. of Isertions of 1 SHOCKING MASSACRE ON BOARD THE PI 0 °lvers with fli BARQUE GERTRUDE.—A painful event has beel, o jl, l % left loose i known in relation to an alleged mutiny among a, 11 . 0 0 0 , 4, mixing w Chinese emigrants, on board the English ship il e ' e o lii half-dress when the master ordered his crew to fire on the P r 5 l o w of lace rot t pefvkoenfotteoef feat he o h : jefdet Two of the crew and seventeen of the passeng, e Orden by two I been killed and wounded. The Gertrude, vfl i A ir el Belfast vessel, of 605 tons burthen, sailed from -n- e b r i u the top, ant Havanna, with 350 Chinese emigrants (Coolies)• oto, the bunches of 20th of October, a dispute arose among the ernik re r es I A Pretty Ital which the captain and the crew got engaged. Tp e „d f °Ode. There was, that seventeen of the Chinesewere killed, fi'fr o "g the front course of an invesWation at Singapore, it transPn tterfow gauze captain and several of the crew seriously injured•...-a tp_wn g a k ind rater on board of the ship, 9°,oeMridation ban ,01' Novel for tr c c :7w of the Gertrude could only cu st grbon and whit t A ake C n and a half dollars, which had been B lue d r hi f n ro e m se ti t tninate th e 1 iniwitnessro, r 3,10. hi i i!k coiffure of the right ei also said— 'On the 19th October, we bads g b ort i 0 left side is nnnm g 's e o.aaei rs were not supplied with sufficient f° ° „ 9 o, soldered in gc etch other. Some of these things str c c 11 1 °. baPlendid ribl and began to fight and throw o e . u,?on. there atwtath:tieeeat A; :cpnmeaatagl whptsoes passengers se, ourselves,noli captain, and he, thinking they were fighting agai n o f got muskets and fired into us, and shot foor, o at ~ i '''ovel galoni number dead. Two of the Chinese jumped ov er by t; :t e ige, and poi The other Chinese adhere to the deposition tood e „i ell!, y,_Bes• witness. It would appear that there was a geo,er'ciussd The s• want of food among the passengers, and that tue,t se• e',, l en racine arose from some misunderstanding between dig' ens 9r; 4 ecarnier, 4 among them. About 80 of one country, Tarte •,",, 4 4aths of lea fighting with 100 men belonging to Chuan Ch a d it j ie w o r silver, 1 men had complained to the cook of the scantY ( T a ped! th blounting ferent character of the provisions. Thep asTir o 'o, /i t re ° bands c their statement, corroborate the men's dePos!' t ear to p Of the h affirm that, had the ship been provided with ao e 1 . She trvical occurrence would not have happen