The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-01 00:00:00

iinprrial Varliantent. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY The Earl of RIPON made a very vet :It defence of hisconduct, with re:peet to the presentation to the livin g -of Noeton, and declared that he had been most uejustly aspersed by the in•putatiOns east on him. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved that the HODS( should go 111.0 Committee on the bill for fFeili - ,ating the employment of the poor in Jr'-hod; and stied. in which Lord M , disc ,scion en- misery of i r ri,ind of the present crisis , and cont . , stied bisinability to see his way ou After some further debate, the bill passed through Committee. Several other bills were also forward ed a stage, and the House adjourned HOUSE OF COMMONS -TUESDA' Mr. Hums. after alluding to the nine resolutions which be bad placed some time ago upon the order book, con demnaiory of the proceedings of the Poor-law Commis sioners, declared that it was not his intention to proceed with the first right of them at present. With respect, bowever, to the last, which referred to charges of a very grave nature against the proceedings of those commis sioners, it was too important to be passed over without some letnark. Parliament had resolved that every thing done by the Poor-law Commissioners should 111 done by them as a board. Now, the evidence provedsatisfactorily that the law in this respect bad been completely annulled by the Commissioners ; for it was made out, beyond the possibility of contradiction. that they were in the habit of sitting in their private rooms, and of acting without con sulting each other, and without keepipg any regular minutes of their proceedings as a board. lie concluded by moving an Address to her Majesty, praying, that she would be graciously pleased to car=e a special public in quiry to be made into the legality of certain recent pro ceedings of the Poor-Law Commissioners, and to .order their dismissal, if they should be found to have infringed the law laid down fur their guidance. Sir G. GREY observed, that when _he represented to Mr. Hume that it would not be practicable, at this period the session, and before the evidence taken by the An dover Committee was printed, to go into the. subject of his resolutions, Mr. Hume had distinctly assured him, in private, that he would not move them during the present session. Mr. Home replied, that he had proposed his resolu tions to obtain ati oprortunity of expressing his opinion upon them ; but be had no intention to press them upon the house at present. The motion was then withdrawn. Mr. ETWALL gave notice that it was his intention to take an early opportunity next session of bringing , the report of the Andover Union Committee under the.coa tdderation of the bou..e. Mr. D. BROWNE then called the attention of the house to the state of distre.s in the county of Mayo. -Mayo was the poorest county in Ireland, and bad the greatest number of mm-resident proprietors; and, as tranquillity was in great danger, owing to the famine with which its peasantry were menaced, in consequence of the total dis appearance of the potato crop, he called upon English members to urge upon the government to take more im mediate steps than could be taken under its own plan to relieve the imminen. distress of the county of Mayo. The Small Debts Bill and several other bills were then read a third tine and passed. HOUSE OF COMMONS-WEDNESDAY Lord PaLssEasTolv., in reply to Sir Howard Douglas, said that the late government had eropktied Mr. 'Hood, the Consu'-General at Rio, who was instruc ed, on the part of England, in conjunction with France, to endeavour to effect a termination of the hostilities between Monte Video and Buenos Ayres. Sufficient,time had not elapsed to allow of Mortnation on the sulj et. but he entertained a hope that the desired object would be accomplished. Mr. WA KLEY brought' under consideration the case of Haydock Lodge Lunatic Asylum, in Lancashire, to which public attention was attracted some time ego, by a petition to parliament . from Mr. Owen Roberts, a surgeon, of Bangor, who complained of the treatment of lunatics in that institution. From the offizial inquiries which had been instituted, it appeared that Mr. Cootie, while he ivas assistant-secretary to the poor-law commissioners, had a beneficial interest in Havdock Lodge, which was under the management of Mr. Mott, formerly an assistant poor law commissioner. Owing to the undue influence pos sessed by Mr. Conde and Mr. Mott, pauper lunatics were sent to Haydock Lodge from no less than twenty cliff-rent counties in England, some from the Lie of Man, and some from the island of Anglesea ; and there they were sub jected to treatment which rendered the management of the asylum one of the most frightful and horrible cases of heartless cruelty which had ever fallen under his notice. In that " human slaught r-bouse," so great cas the mor tality that in the second year 112 had diets out of 450; and in the year preceding the Ist of October, 1845, it was sixty. On inspection by the visiting magistrates, they were of opinion that the house could mils , accommodate 367 persons, while 500 had been compelled to live in it. Mr. Wakley, who spoke at great length, went into much detail on the subject, describing the dietary and treatment of the inmates, contrasting the management of the insti tution with that of Hanwell, and contending that the sole object of the owners of Haydock Lodge was pecuniary gain. The subject demanded a complete investigation, not by tl,e poor-law commissioners, w:lo were inte rested parties, but by an independent and competent tribunal. If this were not done during the recess he would on the very first day of the meeting of parlia ment, if he had a seat in the house, move for a committee of inquiry. But he suggested that a commission should be appointed, and moved an address to the crown to that effect. _ _ _ Mr. FIELDeN seconded the motion. Sir G. GREY would not say a word in defence of the manage-mint of Haydock Lodge, and admitted that it was most discreditable to any person in connexion with the Poor-law Commission to have had any interest in such an Institution. The disclosures which had been made ren deted it necessary thai. the case should undergo a search ing investigation by the Commissioners of Lunacy ; but the remedy for the evils of private asylums, which he feared were generally in a most deplorable state, lay in the hands of the magistracy, by the erection of county asylums. At the present late period, and in the absence of Lord Seymour, who could have given them informati on as to the course which the Commissioners of Lunacy might pursue, he urged the withdrawal of the motion. After some remarks from Mr. R. Yorke and Mr. Borthwick, Mr. WAr.mor withdrew his mot!on, but renewed his pledge to r,vive the question, if a searching investigation did not take place during the recess. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.-FitIDAY Parliament was prorogued this day by commission, when the following speech was read, by command of her maj , stv, by the Lord Chancellor, sitting on the woolsack in front of the throne in the House of Lords : "My Lords wad- Gentlemen, " We ;re commanded. by her Majesty to express to you -the warm acknowledgments of her Majesty for the public spirit you have evinced in the discharge of your laborious duties daring an anxious and protracted seision. " Her Majesty trusts that. you will be rewarded by wit nessing the beneficial results of the measures which have been sanctioned by her Majesty, for the present relaxa tion and ultimate repeal ut protective duties on corn and sugar. :" Her Majesty entertains a. confident hope, that the more -free admission of the produce of foreign countries in the home market will increase.the.comforts and better the condition of the great body of the people. • " Her Majesty feels the greatest satisfaction in reflect ing that her Majesty's r fforts to • settle, in a manner con sistent with pational honour, the conflicting claims of Great Britain and the United States, with respect to the territc•ry.on the north-west coast of America, have been completely successful. . . " Her--:ll.3esty continues to receive-from all foreign posers the stropgert assurances of theirdesire to cultivate friendly relations with this country. " Her Mtjesty commands us to congratuirte you on the - - •victorious coure.artd happy conclu-ion of the war in In dia; and her .Majesty-has much gratification in announc ing to you tha: perfecttranquillity prevails throughout the whole of the British,posseksicns in that,quartkr of the world, "-Gentlemen of the-flouee of Commons. " fief M.jesty has observed with ,atisfaction, the care and to maintain the public faith. Her M ±jesty has commanded us to acknowledge the zeal and unanimity with which you aysented to the in creave in the-naval and military estimate:, which a "regard to the exigencies of the I:abbe...der vice itiduc,d her Majesty to propose for ycur consideration. My. Lord,. and Gent.;egnels. " Flee Majesty as to lament that the recurrence of_a failure in the pottroe crop, in an aggravated degree. will cause a serious deficiency in the quantity of a material ar ticle of foci. . . . Her M.jesty has given her cordiel assent to measures •by which this calamity may he mitigated in that part,of the United Kingdom where the cultivation of the poratoe bas hitherto tiffordeil the chief supply tor the subsistence of the people. _ . "1 - 1.4 r Ninjesty has seen with pleasure -that a considera ble dirnioution of crime and nutrage hars taken place in tbose,courefies of Ireland Neb4ch had been most, disturbed. " Her Majesty is confident that. on your return to your several counties, you will find a spirit of loyalty generally prevalent. The extension of vvolks of improvement has Jooreased the demand for labour, and the tranquillity of thecountry bas fpvoured the pursuits of industry in alike branches. " Her Majesty trusts that, by a combination of pru dence with _enterprise. and of a willing obedience to law with a desire for social progress, her people will, through -the D.vine blessing. enjoy the Lull advantages of peace." HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. .The royal anent waq given by cumuli:bier) to various .19111., aver which ber Mak sty's .tpet eh was read by the Lord _Cb.nctib r , anti Pcaliau t eut prorogued until Wed ,nebdaY, the 4th of Noveuibt-r. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—_ A new wit! was Ordered for Derby, in the room of Mr, St ruit, appointed a commissioner of the Railway Board. In answer to a q.nestio n from Mr. ProtherOe, Sir GEo. GREY stated, on authority, that pros. mint, iii the police force was not cansr9trent the hurt ber of co n victi o n s obtained, but on en. ir. ly ri nt !mond. ; and in answer to IA Mr. altiey, as to th e inalttr:a of a witnes s exa mino before the Andover Union Committee on his rt turn to that place by the POor.lBw Authorities, the right bon hAronet stilted that the subject, should recetre bis se fipUS consideration, FRIDAY FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. AMERICA The steamer Hibernia arrived at Liverpool on Friday, with date.; from the United States to the•lslh instant. The war with Mexico still continued, and still without and iinmediate or important results. The president, with the approval of the Senate, has offered negotiations with the Mexican government for the restoration of peace and the ad _ stment of all questions at issue between the two countries. Public confidence is not so strong that this attempt at pacification will prove successful. The presisleirtsolici:ed of congress an appropriation 012.000,000 dollars, to be used at his discretion in aidi tion g the neeocia The application failed. The use which he intended to make of it can, of course, only be matter of corjecture. No further progress has beton made in the active pro- numbers above 15,000 men, and is steadily, but very slowly, making its way into the interior. Camargo is still the farthest point reached by any considerable portion of the forces, though preparations continue for a march to Monterey. So far as any enthusiastic intelligence has reached, no organised opposition is to be expected. Pa redes still remains at Mexico. The enthusiasm of the people in favour of the war, seems from the latest ac count= to have flagged, and the hope-is entertained that the President's mission may •find them dispos-d to open negociations which shall end in peace. It is supposed that a large indemnity will be demanded for the expen.e of the war ;—and that the American executive will offer to purchase California. The yellow fever prevails at' Vera Cruz, and has in flicted great mortality on the American troops. Congress adjourned on. the .10th. The Sub-Treasitry Bill has passed, to take effect on-the Ist of January. The new Tariff Law goes into operation on the Ist of Decem ber. The Warehousing' Bill has become a law, and the bill has been passed with regard to the transit trade into Canada. The potatoe disease threatens to prove dislstrous to the crop. It is yet too early in the season to judge of its ra vages, but they are known to be extensive and severe. In 'a review of the session of the Congress, the New York Cborier and Inquirer has the following respectirg the Tariff the success which will attend this ef fort, conjectures can only be formed. .The bill was passed in the Senate by the casting vote of the Vice-President, Mr. Haywood of N.C.. an -administration Senator, hav ii•g resigned his seat and not so voting. An election in his state has since been held,landlias,resulted in the com plete triumph of the Whigs. A Whig Senator will there fore take his place at the n'xt session. The vote of the Vice-President, moreover, has given great offence to the people of his own state, - Pennsylvania, who are almost unanimous in favour of protection. Elections are also anon to be held in several of the States for members of Congress; and although the .new members thus elected will not take their s. ats until a year from next December, any marked expression of 'he popular will upon this sub ject, would produce a decided effect in the action of the coming session. The 'Tariff question will be made a pro minent point at issue in the elections ; and the general be• lief is. that the principle of protection will derive a consi derable augmentation cf popular strength. The new Ta riff, therefore, cannot safely be regarded. In passing the bill to give the 1 3- resident two millions of dolla , s to negotiate with Mexico. the House of Represen tatives adopted a clause, by an overwhelming majority, excluding slavery from California and all other territories that might be ceded to the Union. Congress has also prohibited shivery in Oregon for ever, and the prospects are. that no slave state will hereafter be admitted into the Ur ion. The whole of the correspondence relative to the Oregon treaty, between Messrs. Buchanan and M`Lace, and the debate thereon during the secret session of the senate, has been published in the New York Herald. The govern ments of the two countries are directly at issue in inter preting the clause regulating the navigation of the Colum bia, the American wishing the right I , mited to seventeen years, and on-s that it shoula be perpetual. Mr. Bucha nan's last letter to Mr. M`Lane directs him to inform Lord Aberdeen that the treaty was ratified according to the American construction of that clause; and he in reply stated, that as the British understand it, the right is per petual. The Herald suggeNts that the best plan of settling the dispute is to "people the country, chive off the Hud son Bay Company, and then insist upon our own con struction," In Canada, there still prevails considerable agitation on topics which have been forced into notice by the recent clmmercial changes in British policy, as well as by the warehousing and tariff bills of Congress.--A large public meeting was held at Montreal on the 10th instant, to adopt measures for carrying on the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad. It was numerously attended, and committees were appointed to solicit subscriptions tocarry nu the work. A Quebec letter, dated August s:b, states'that the ship Eliz4beth and Sarah, had arrived off the city front Mini-', after having lost no le,s than 44 of her passengers, with the captain; the ship, according to the statement, having been supplied with putrid water. The steam-ship Caledonia, arrived out at Halifax in eleven days. The steam-ship Great Western arrived out at New York in fifteen days, on the 10th instant. She may be expected on her return in a few days. REVIEW OF THE COTTON MARKET The steamer Cambria, which sailed hence for Liverpool on the Ist instant, carried out accounts of a very strong milrket here, produced mainly by the unfavourable ap pearance of the coming crop. The advance noted in my circular for that comparative pause in business, which has enabled chasers to buy on easier terms, as prices may be said to have occasionally fluctuated an eighth of a cent. in their favour—not, however, more than the usual difference be tween an active and an inactive market. The notice of the arrival at Boston of the steamer Hibernia, with Li verpool dates to the 19th ultimo, was received here by telegraph on Monday, 3rd instant. Her accounts were not of that satisfactory character looked for by operators generally, as holders at Liverpool appeared disposed to supply the market freely at the currency then ruling. Early on Monday, the 10th instant, the steamer Great Westerc arrived with Liverpool dates to the 25. b instant, which advises being less flittering even than those by the previous steamer, the operations have been checked in a great degree, as holders here are withdrawing their sup p ies, except at the full currency previously existing, and ate small cellars, even at those rates. In fact, if cotton is no better under the last advises, it is certainly no worse, and these accounts have consequently had no influence on our market, and it has continued throughout the week just brought to a close, like that of the preceding one, in a very inactive state. The sales for the week ending the Bth instant were 5,000 bales ; since, to this date, 4,000 bales, with a firmer market yesterday at my quotations, which are similar to those in my last circular. It is, of course, too early to indulge in any but general remarks with regard to the prospect of the crop now ap proaching to maturity. It is certainly in a precarious position, and it is barely possible that it can equal that of the last season, while the prubahiltties now are, that it will be considerably less, even w,th a later frost than we have had for ten years. Exchange has been in rather better rrquest, and the rates have slightly improved. Freights are also firmer at the quotations. POTATOES IN CANADA.—We hear a good deal, in par ticulir localities, of damage done by rot to the potatoes. The early crop is abundant, and of very good quality.— Montreal Gazette The Connecticut House of Representatives, by a vote of 111 to 63, have voted to submit to the people the question of so amending the constitution as to a'mlish al/distinction of colour in reap- ct to the privilege of voting. Intelligence has been received at St. Petersburgh that the greater part of the town of Berdiansk, in Southern Russia, was destroyed in the month of July by fire. It is only 11 years since the town was founded. A letter from Palermo, in the Auusburgh Gazette, states that on the 7th a violent shock of an earthquake took place at Syracupe. Several boosts had been thrown down, said 20 per,otta were said to have been killed. The heat in the island is described as extraordinary. The trial of Henry, the reg cifle, at Paris, closed on Thursday, when he was declared guilty by a large mejority. The.discu: , si, , n by the cou►t, after hearing the evidence, is said to have been most animated, some of the Peers pronouncing him insane. and consequently guiltless, whileothers maintained that he h d acted with premedi ta! ion., and with a perfect knowledge of what he was anclinbiAed on h's being condemned to death INFIZ4tNAL MACHINES.—Two officers of the Belgian Cu,ionis, stationed at Ruuvrais•sur.Cethain, seized, on the night thenAt, a cent containing. in two eases, 250 switbc kat out ay a secre spring, . „. the value of which is estimated at 1500 f. They were manu actured at Liege, and destined for Paris. The driver we.., or at least pretended to be, ignorant of the nature of his load. TaLtaa'a WIDOW —An old woman of the name of Proche, upwards of seventy years of age, living in a very humble dw. ling in the Rue de Tournon, in Paris, not having been seen by the porter for two days going out to execute her little commissions, he became alarmed, and Feting to the door, saw through a crevice the body of .the old woman lying metionlers on the bed. He immediately sent to the romanissary of police, who arrived, bringing a medical man with him; hut when the door was broken open it was evident that she had been dead some time. On examination it vas found that the cause of her death was .a "long-standing complaint, for which she bad never received .any advice. (In examining the papers of the de cea.cd, documents were found which : cleat:ly proved that site had. been the wile of the celebrated Tema, from whom she bad been divorced. THE ,C...,[1,,RT ly .FAHION.ABLE WORLD. Her Majesty. ond Prince Albert, after enjoying a plea sure trip along , the south-western coast, in the course of which they called.at Torbay, Plymouth, F s t won rh, Wey. mouth, Devonport, &c., arrived at Osborne 114111. e Ott uesday morning, 4aving had thus a week's yachting. The weather bad bee=t mu s h, but her Majesty kept the , teck bravely; Prince Albert, as well as the Prince o f \'ales and Pt incess Alice, suffered from sea-sickness. Her Majesty, on her nr . xt marine excursion, is expected to visit the island of Jers , y. The Admiralty have ordered the moorings there to be examined, and a buoy to be placed there. Tlse Queen Dowager of England, the Princess Royal of Prussia. and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, arrived at Woolwirth on Friday at noon, from Rotterdam. At the desire of her Maj-sty, the artisans of the dockyard were gianted ht.lalaY• Dining the recent Royal marine trip , her Maj sty and Prince Albert visited Guernsey, where they were received by R., st gratifying marks of loyalty and affection. About 100 young ladies, b- Tonging to the priocipal families o f t h e place. most y clothed in rlegant white dresses. strewed dowers in the path of their Queen. Guernsey has not been visited by i's sovereign since the days of King John, now upwards of six centuries ago. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. IRA LAND. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland arrived in Dublin from this port on Thursday morning. His Excellency disem barked under a salute of 21 guns. At Nrnagh, on Saturday week, one Walsh was -fringed for the murder of a man named Barachree. Tile culprit had previously seduced the wife of his The marine condemned to death at Cork has received a free pardon, in cons:quenee of an irregularity in tie prJceedings hiving rendered the sentence of the court martial illegal. The man has been sent back to his com pany, the authorities expressing a hope that his recent pe.. ril may have a reformatory c if:Ct. A Nover, BEEHIVE.—Some time since a swarm of bees al.ghted on the head of nne of the ornamented liOns in front of Viscount o' , Neili's residence. Shane's Castle. itronst and healthy, and seem " secure from every harm —Dublin Freeman STRANGE IsvEsTIGATIoN.—On Monday, the. magis trates of the city of Cork were engaged in investigating a charge of murder preferred by the police there against cer tain parties, who, they alleged, had murdered a sailor named Kennedy. 'While the justices were in full con clave in this inquiry, Kennedy himself appealed 'to as sist them. IRELAND.- - Paddy Bull, it appears, is to go to his set tlement as a pauper on John Bull. Nothing is said of the poor English labourer—the li , tle farmer .and trades man—be cannot, a-la-Whig, raise the serfs of Popish rule to our level ; so we are to sink to theirs. We want a strong government, that will make every man -do his duty, end -we want nothing el: e. WRECK OF-THE " RAMBLER" STEAMER — It be recollected -that, a considerable time ago, the Rambler steamer-was wrecked upon the Maiden Rocks,•and - that the wreck was abandoned as irrecoverable by advice of se veral eminent 'engineers belonging to Glasgow: ('aptain Coppice, nf this city, purchased the wrr ck, for a very small sum, and has, lately, by astonishing perseverance, es well as by superior engineering skill, succeeded in raising both of the engines, and i. is confidently expected that he will also recover the two boilers.—Derry paper•. . . On Wednesday, a meeting of the general assembly of the Presby:erian Church, in Ireland, was held -in Dr. Cooke's Church, Beltast. Alter a long and somewhat angry discussion, the assembly affirmed the principle of ' attaching itself to the government educational institutiso, for the present. so far as .the reception of the expected endowments for the peculiar education required, the ap plication for bursaries to exete emulation among the stu dents, together with the admissi.in that the assembly is willing to place its youth under the Professors of the Queen's College, should they be orthodox, can be properly described as an affirmation of the principle. TH IRISH COLLEGES AND THE POPE.—The following appeared in the Dublin Evening Freeman.of Tuesday:— " We stop the press to announce to the country the most important intelligence we have for some time had to lay before our readers,—it is no less than the decisive con demnation of the godle, , s Colleges Bill by the court of Rome. The lateness of the hour at which we received this intelligence precludes the posibility of our f t - 4e ring into details. We can state, however, upon the -beet au thority, that the College of Cardinals, having all the do cuments before them, tr+liesitatingly, unanimously, and dechively pronounced their condemnation of the govern-• ment measure." THE REPEAL MAGISTRATES.—AII the repeal magis trates have now received, and duly replied to the " preli minary" letters of the Lord Chancellor. Mr. Fitzgerald, of Muckridge Flonse, gives the model sentence, suggested by Mr. O'Connell's letters, a somewhat new turn, thus:— " In reply, sir. 1 beg to state that I should be sorry to in terfere in the slightest degree with the desire of the Lord Chancellor to perform an act of justice towards those ma. gistrates who were so unconstitutionally and unjustly de prived of their commissions by the late government. As one of their', theref re, I can have no objection to resume the duties of the office and be restored to the same position which I held previous to the 25th of May, 1843." Mr. R. A Fitzgerald does not give the slightest thanks for the restoration of his commission. _ _ Although all the Irish repeal magistrates have been re stored to the commis-inn of the pelee, none of the Orange magistrates, with the exception of Colonel, now Sir Wil. liam Verner, have been so dealt with, and much dissatis faction exists in consequence. The Dublin Mail SIVS " the only solution of the disparity which suggests itself to us—and, indeed, it is the only reasonable one—is this, that the measure of condonation is Mr. O'Con.•ell's : that it is his privilege to wield it as he wi:l : that he desires to show his power to reward or punish ; and that in the ex ercise of his good pleasure, he points outs the Repealers for honour—the OrAngemen for insult: the Repealers to be restored by an unmerited act of grace, and the Orange men to be pun , shed by wan►en cxere;;e o. prejudice." Lord John—not Russell—but Mac Hale—has again taken to the pen, and again selects a Prime Minister as a correspondent. As ministers have something to do, they must marvel at the prrtinacity with v Itich all' sorts a scribblers persist in pestering them with prescript;ons, and with dull reiterations of facts of which they have been informed a thousand titres before. Only that the Free man is a devout admirer of the Doctor, we should sus pect him of a quiz when he says, that "his Grace the Archbishop," "with an ability peculiarly his own, places the grant for Ireland in comparison with the grants of government in other eases." In truth, the ability is pe culiarly " his Grace's," for it consists simply in an ex ceedingly verbose "comparison" of the aforesaid grants, and a genuine Mantl alian vituperation of men and things uno lAJtattaa ~lac proval of his intolerance. _ THE POTATO CROP IN IRELAND.—In the House of Lords, on Friday. Lord Roden called the attention of the house to this subject, and said that he bad traversed a great part of the province of Munster, and be was not guilty of (thy exaegeration when be stated that during the, whole progress of that journey he did not see one field that was not either decaying or had not actually decayed, from the disease. This calamity was accompanied by an other evil, the great deficiency of the oat crop in that part of the country. But oats formed a great article of food to the Irish people, and if that crop failed to the extent he was afraid it would in some districts, the calamity would indeed, be awfully increased. On the western coast of Ireland there was an abundance of food of a par ticular species. but facilities of carriage were required to make it Lvailable to other parts of the country—he alluded to the fisheries. The people regard this calamity as a vi. sitat , on from heaven ; but they mum ured not; and in whatever direction any person travelled in Ireland, he could not but be struck with the manner in which they bore their distress. Only that morning had he received a letter confirming had he received a letter confirming, as to the north of Ireland, the statement which the noble lord opposite (Lord Monteagle) had made a few days ago as to the south; and he mentioned these things to induce their lord..hips to be more anxious, and more zealous, if p ssible. to remedy these evils ; and w'th the hope, al -I:), that it would call forth the sympath'es of those who might be able to assist the people of Ireland. At the same time, if his voice could r. ach the ears of those indi viduals who pos s essed any property in Ireland, and it could have any effect to speak to them from that place upon so solemn a subject, he would implore them, under every circumstance, to go home to their country and peo ple, to live amongst them, and encourage them in their present difficulties (hear, hear), and to show them that they themselves were willing, under these great trials, to share with then the evils they were forced to bear. AN ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER.—During the past week an incident occurred in the military circles of the city, which has afforded much amusement to the public, and caused no snrill annoyance and vexation to the parties concerned. An officer belonging t , ) a cavalry regiment, stationed near this city, became acquainted, on a voyage from Bristol to Cork, with a young nobleman of agreeable manners and fascinating corm r ath - n el powers, travelling under the name of Lord Clifton. The officer invited his lordship to the mess of the regiment, which tbe young no bleman, who said he was merely travelling for amusement. gladly accepted. The officers of the regiment were much pleased with their new acquaintance. skewed him every respect, and gave some expensive entertainments for his special honour. At one of these an officer of infantry had scarcely entered the room, when perceiving his lordship the centre of a throng of cfficers, he went up to him. and recognising him as an argnr.intance, saluted him as N 1 r. express'ng surprise at seeing him in the neigh bourhood. Jr would be hard to tell whether his lot dshin or the officers felt most astonished and disconcerted. The soi • disonl nob l eman blushed,stammered, and endeavoured to explain. He said it was true he was not Lord Clifton, hut his lordship was his particular friend, with a hom he bad laid a wager that he would personate his lordship for some time without being discovered, and in carrying out this spree he had introJaced himself to the officer who nad invited him to the mess. This explanation not being deemed satisfactory, his lordship was ejected from the room, turned down stairs, arid kicked through the bar rack yard. the r ffict r who had been the fist dupe being most remarkable for the punishment he appl.ed to his lordship's person. On the ensuing day a message was conveyed to the officers of the regiment. that Mr. was willing to give gentlemanly satisfaction for the decep tion he had practised, bur on inqui , t v being made at his address, it was found that be had decamped.—Cork Con. 1 A COACH SUBMERGFD.—The Dublin mai to this • town was on Tuesday delayed three hours in co nsequence of.the heavy rains of the previous night, which inv o l ve d not only the delay of the arrival of the mail, but also i ts pro bable less and that of the lives of eight passengers. The mail Jett Longford at the usual hour. and proceeded in safety .to Tarmon bog, about six miles on the route from that town. When the car arrived at this spot the road was found :to:be considerably flooded, with a very rapid current tassine .over it, also large heaps of earth carried down from the mountains were lying on the road. Th ere was an immense collecticn of country people at the place, and fortunately s large body of constabulary ; and on the pas sengers paying the country people, they were induced to remove the heaps of earth, The car was then driven for. ward, the leader (it was a thiee-horee ear), having pre viously been unvoiced, but scarcely bad ft proceeded a few ' , Ards when the horses were turned round by the impetuo. sity of the stream, and car, horses, and passengers carried away with its current. The passenger. immediately on perceiving the horses being turned r ff the road, threw themselves into the wav-s, arid most miraculously and providentially, and by mutually aasi.ting one anothrr, were saved Ircrn a watery grave. The ear. horses, and driver were brought up by the wheels of the ear corning against some obs:ron;ion, the watt,* sva-king over the c .I. and carrying away all 100-e luggage, and the heads of the horses scarcely above the surface. The country people, on seeing the lives 01 the paqs,'.ogers in danger, made every exertion to save them ; hut they would not stir band or foot towards extricating the car, taenddriver from the'r perilous position, until thev " e;, P ' e ra s C ' d a promise of payment trom the passeng rs, when aiX or set en of them went into the water. and with the assistan...,e of ro pes , at length succeeded in brinLing all safe to land. Toe con duct of the police was very d‘fferent. Without pny soli pitation, Ole: aesi.tiug to save the lives of the poesepprs, thef fa owed down the course of the torrent, and fear lessly entered it to save the various articles of luggage vrliclt were floating on the surtace. Subsequently they supplied the passengers with clothing (their own clothes and biggage being wholly saturated with wet). so as to permit of their proceeding on theirjourney.—Tyruuley Berald. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. — The_ members of this 1-ody a.aembled on Monday, in the Conciliation Ulan. Mr. O'Connell, ir. his speech of the-day, said there was one your enemies in the wrone,—that magic abundance of coal and coke, which enables her to produce the locomotive power much cheaper than her neighbours. Thecost of earthwork is much the same in England and France. The rails and chairs on the Southampton line were laid down at £2,790 per mile, while those on the Paris and Rouen line cost £4,635; the working of the former line costs le. a mile, of the latter, is. 4d. ; the locomotive power and the carriages of the former 14i per cent., of the latter, 16 1-3. On the South Western Rail way the general expenses are about 12 per cent., whilst on the Paris and Rouen they are 16. On some other tourlq, the report states the balar.ce is still n.ore in favour of England. There is, however, one item of expenditure, in which the English companies far cu'strip their neigh bours of the continent. We allude to the urelim►nary charges incurred before the permanent works are even commenced. The Eastern Counties Railway. which is 51 miles long, expended £ll,OOO in pas-ing their bill, be sides other charges, amounting to £48,000. The Parlia mentary expenses of the London and Birmingham were £650; and of the Great Western, £l,OOO, per mile. In the case of the Rouen and Havre line, the expenses in einred.in the inquiry before the board, and up to the time the act was obtained, did not exceed £7OO. Tight, and placin would not Save been carried out, it t tie tu-sociation 143, or even since, had lent itself to the doctrine of physical fcrce.—Why, even look to the state prosecutions. and, reflecting upon them, see what a conciliatory game the present government were playing. Men talked very much about uhvsical force. and of-vindicating the rights of their . . . . country by the sword—men who were afraid to look at a poker. (" Hear," and laughter.) He cared not for the Young Irelanders, hut he. regretted the loss of Smith O'Brien ; but even for him they could not break through their rules ; for it they -did they would peril their safety, and destroy for ever the great cause in which they were engage:i. The fact was this-, that, during the perio lof the monster meetings, they intended that if moral force fai!ed they would have recourse to physical force. They were working for high treason; but the basis upon which the association was originally framed, and would always be guided by, was of a different character. He (Mr. O'Connell) was ready to do anything rather than consent to any other than peaceable means ; he was even ready to sacrifice the cause and ahandoo it for ever, rather than be a party to any disturbance in the sociE-1 state, or the breaking up of the happiness of individuals. In fact— be would express himself shortly—no man should belong to the association if he suggested anything like physical force. (Cheers ) The boo. and learned gentleman then mentioned that his son Maurice had been reinstated in the commission of the peace. They never stood in so good a position for Ireland, for every party was then ready to afford her relief ; not alone because of her position as regarded the potatoe disease, but on the ground of her general state of poverty, set out on the face of the report Lord Devon's commission. Sir Robert reel had stated that justice should be dine to Ireland, and already the government bad brought in and passed two good bills to remedy the condition of the tenant, which enabled him to have justice from his landlord. The bill might be fairly considered as a legislative declaration and sanction of the principle FO often contended for, 4 . that the power of the landlnrd., of Ireland required to be revised, con trolled, and lessened.' This was a Whig question ; and why should he not support the men who passed it, and the men who voted £50,000 to relieve the distress of the Irish people? No doubt £50,000 was but a small sum to do so much with ; but it would also be remembered that, with that grant, a bill was passed in order to give employ ment and enable the people to pay for their own support. He would support any government that would pass good measures for Ireland ; but still, no matter how much he got, he would still rally to the last for Ireland's own parliament, and its restoration. The week's rent amounted to £l3B 16s. Bd. W HERE IS THE MONEY ? —Mr. J. V. Porter, who was considered a at eat prize by the Repeal Association, until he Would insist upon looking into the ledger of Concilia tion Hall, has addressed a letter to the Nulion, in which occurs the following paragraph : _ _ _ " The Freeman implied, and would wish its rukders to understand, that the committee has full controliVer the money. It wishes to throw the whole onus upon them •, whereas, in fact, the money is not paid into their hand ,nor lodged to their credit, neither of the General Com .mittee, nor of any Special Committee, but into the hands of Mr. O'Connell clone, and in a way and in a manner so dark and so irregular. that even members of the corn. »rifles, after years of attendance, do not yet know the process. O'Connell may denounce the Nation. and erase it from the list of paprrs supplied by the Association to dupes; but he will fin,l it a formidable ir,strument in unmasking him. lle knows, however, that exposure now is too late to do him much harm. It cannot make him disgorge; the money is in his pocket; and as to the future supplies, it has long been evident that they will barely"suifice to pay the weekly expenses of Conciliation 11 all. LAW INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Romily, Q.C., has been appointed recorder of Bristol in the room of the late Sir Charles Wetherell. The silary is £6OO with £lOO travelling expenses. It has been arranged that the next judgeship that be comes vacant will all to the lot of Sir David Dundas, M.P., the new Solicitor-General. Severs' t,f the judges are in broken health and of advanced years. Mr. Jarman, the eminent conveyancer, has given it es his opinion that the deeds deposited by members of build ing societies in the hands of the trustees, on obtaining tl►eir advance of money, ate not legally liable to any stamp duty. IMPORTANT TO BROKERS.—TO a case tried on Thurs day, Mr. 'Justice Cressweil said it was the duty of a bro ker, when he made a contract on behalf of a principal, to enter a record of that in his book and sign it. This was the proper evidence of the contract. Toe) , knew by ex perience that brokers very frequently did Lot do so ; that bought and sold notes were treated as evidence o the contract, but it would be much better if brokers would enter it in their books and sign it. A. la wr ' 184 G York, West Riding, with Ripnn—Wiliam Blanchard, E 104.. Berikirnin Boothby, Eeq., Levfrie Temple, Esq. West Riding Boroughs, except Ripon, Pomfret, and Knaresborough—William Gray, Es:q. East Riding and its Boroughs, with York Knares borough, and Pomfret—Robert Wharton, Esq. North Riding and its Boroughs, except York—Stephen Temple., E,q. Durham and its Boroughs—Richard MattheWs, Esq. NOithumberland and its Boroughs—Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Esq. • Curia):;Hand and its Boroughs, wish Kendal—Woron zow Greig, Esq. Westmorland and North Lancashire, with Clitheroe and Lancaster—J. W. Harden, Esq. South Lancashire, Warrington and Bury—Percival Andri Pickering, Esq.. William Walker, E:q., and Thos. Horncastle Marshall, Etc], Liverpool, Wigan, Button, Preston, and Blackburn — Thomas Shaw Brandretb, Esq. Boroughs of South Laticash;re., except Liverpool, Wigan, Bolton, Bury, and Warringtou—The Hon. Richard Denman. RAILWAY INTALLiuBACB. Mr. Strutt, the member for Derby, is to be the Chef Commissioner of the new Railway Board. FACILITIES FOR 7 HE PRESS. —At the meeting of the Maryport and Carlisle Railway Company, on Wednesday week, " it was resolved that previous to every general meeting of the company, the seera,ry should forward to the reporters of e , ch of the Cumberland newspapers free tickets to pass along the line." MONSTER MAI V.—One of the lamest trains ever seen on a railway ltft Rugby station on Fti.iay. It consisted of eight y-fuur carriages, and was impelled by three of Ste verson's powerful six-a heeled engines. 1!E; length ex tended to nearly half a mile, and the weight of merchan dise, exclusive of the carriages, was upwards of 210 tons. On Sutidav evening week, a . man tamed Robert Black burn, aged 28, eml:loyed as a striker at the North Union station, Preston, met with his death at the Farrington station, in his attempt to get on the Bkckhurn train when in motion, when the wheels of the carriage passed over him, and killed him on the spot. _ . LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.-011 Wed nesday the first trial trip was made on a portion of this line—namely, from Carlisle to Penrith, a distance of about e!ghteen miles, with an engine and tender. Au other trial trip was made the same day between Lancaster and Hackthorpe. but it is understood that the rails at va rious places were only temporarily laid for the occasion. A number of the directors came by this train to attend the general meeting of the company at Penrith. CHARGE OF EXTENSIVE FORGERY BY THE CHAIR MAN OF A RAILWAY COMPANY.—Captain Richardson. Chairman of the Worcester, Tenhury, and Ludlow ompany, t trended Mes;is. Coutts and Co., by altering a cheque for to the sum of .C5,0J0. was on Saturday aPeritoin brought before Alderman Musgrove, at the Mansion hnu-e. It was stated in evidence that the prisoner had, as the chairman of this company. filled up - and signed the cheque, that it was for £lO, that it had afterwards been returned to him signed by two other directors of the com p ny ; and that. subsequently, it had been paid into Messrs. Courts's hank, the aunt of £lO being altered into the sum of 1:5,100. Mr Robert Hare, clerk at Messrs. Courts and Cu's britiking house, stated that he paid the cheque produced, which purported to be for £5,000, on the 20th of July, to a person at the counter. He did riot know to whom be paid it. tie paid the amount in five notes of £l,OOO each. The witness here produced the notes as those which he harrpaid. Mr. Henry Jerning ham, a clerk in the Bank of England, stated that on the 20th July be charged three £l,OOO batik notes, which were all dated February 13, 1846. The person who pre sented the notes gave the name of J. Jones. They were paid in gold. Other individuals belonging to the Bank of Erigl Ind declared that they had not the least doubt that the prisoner was the person who got the gold. The pri soner declined so say anything, saying be was taken by surprise, and wished to consult his solicitor. He was re manded till to-day (Tuesday.) RAILWAY SURVEILLANCE. — Mr. Morrison's Com mittee on railways have made their report. It establishes the fact that rival companies are only a delusion. They are, it is alleged sure, to amalgamate, and wirer: there is already an established line, the old company brings up the new. The remedy which the committee recommends is. —an efficient system of Government ant nil/lance over roads already in operation, and a careful investigation into the merits of new schemes, conjoined with a prudent re striction of the powers of companies hereafter to be pro jected. The report contains much useful information concerning the c-,mtinental lines. In Belgium, it appears. a systematic plan has been laid down by the government from the commebrerrent, which has ever since been stea dily adhered to. France began as we did, hut soon find ing the inconvenience of disorder, adopted a regular sys tem, w hich has been in force since 1842. In Germany the choice of lines was at first the wor k of chalice; but there also a systematic plan was soon adopted. In all these countries the charges and fares are very much be low those of EriglanA ; in France, for the conveyance of Passengers in first-class cart iages, little more, in Germany less, !liana . ; in Belgium not beyond a third. ('ue la bour and lt m m a a y te materials h i o s Proportions lire thitd-class fates are, 71. 5 7-10, 4, 3 travelling on the continental railroads. This is not so; u g t h h e t t e tr a that e t I r o e f lower e h p e r a i t p •e lle o , f s of but, on Rig gontrary, England enjoys an advantage in total anb Vrobtiirtal On Tuesday, a man, named Peter Burns, fell into the Clarence -Dock, and was drowned. On Wednesday, the foundation stone of the National School at Fleetwood, to be erected as a testimonial to Sir Peter Hesketh Fleetwood, was laid amidst great rejoicing. On Tuesday morninz. a child named Fagan was found dead in his bed, in Marquis -street ; and another child named Ramsden, in Park-street. On Tuesday, a boy named Lowe, broke his arm whilst playing with ether boys on some waste ground, near Northumberland-street. A contract has been entered into for taking down and rebuilding the parish church at Runcorn. The work will be proceeded with immediately. On Monday, Sarah HaHain. aged thirty-seven, residing in Lionel -street, was found dead in bed. She bad been labouring under pulmonary consumption for three years. On Sunday week. as a boy named John Hitchman, was bathing in Tranmere-pool. be got out of his depth, and was drowned. The Blackburn factory operatives have signified their approval of the determination to work the mills only four days a week, adopted by the masters, and call upon the later to assist. thew F. obtaining a tcn bums bill. On Sunday week James Holden, a weaver, whilst eat ing voraciously at a beer shop in Oldham-road, Manches ter, was choked by a piece of beef, and died almost im mediately. CRICKET.—A match was played on Thursday between the aympus, of this town, and St. Helen's cricket clubs, on the tOrcner's ground, Tosteth-park, which was won by the Olympus, with eight wickets to go down. Mr. Justice Wight man finished the criminal business on Thursday afternoon, and was occupied during the whole of Friday in trying civil causes. On Saturday morning he returned to London. QUICK WORK.-Mr. Pollock, barrister, left the Crown Court on Thursday morning at a quarter past ten o'clock, went to Manchester by railway, attended the Salford ses sions, dtfended a prisoner, anti was again at two o'clock performing the same office for a prisoner in the Crown Court of this town. The masters of the steam-packets frequenting this port, have presented to Capt. M'Bride, who has recently been promoted from the Clarence to the mastership of the Alpert Dock, with a gold snuff box, as an expression of their approbation of his gentlemanly conduct during a period of sixteen years. _ _ It will be seen be an advertisement in another part of our paper that the Rev. M. Adolphe Alonod will deliver a lecture at St. George's Presbyterian Church, Myrtle street, on Friday evening next, on the state and prospects of evangelical religion ou the Continent. We understand he will also preach in the same church on Sunday nest, BIRKENHEAD DOCK COMPANY. The half-yearly meeting of this Company was held on Wednfsday, when the repot of the state of the works, &c. read to the pro prie'ors present, was deemed very satisfactory. Mr. Ambrose Lee was elected a director, in the room of Mr. 13oolby, who has resigned in consequence of not residing in the neighbourhood. The United Order of Forresters had a grand field day on I'hursday. The morning was fine, and the members, attired in complete custonne, formed into procession, and Paraded the principal streets. They then gathered to the Zoological Gardens, the centre of attr act,on—where old British sports were indulged in through the evening. The Concert Hall was thrown open, and dancicg was. conti nued for upwards of an hour. STONEMASONS.—A meeting of the operative stone masons of this town and neighbourhood was held on Tuesday. Resolutions were passed pledging the meeting to '' continued exerriongS, until the masons of England have one and HA become members of the association," and recommending, "for defensive purposes, that a (;o operative Building Association be formed, in order to secure employment for the masons when they are unable to obtain it elsewhere on fair and honourable terms." PRINCE A LBEaT.—H is royal highness having expressed himself much gratified wit.: the works of art executed by Mr. John It. Isaac, of Castle-street, on the occasion of the royal visit, has been pleased to appoint him his medalist, lithographer, and engraver at Liverpool. His royal highness was presented, through Mr. lvaac, with the gold medal, accompanied be an address. beautifully iliumiaateal ..n tudium, rind emblazoned in a v ry elegant manner, which was solely executed by Mr. Isaac. IMMKNSE PLACARD.—At the Pik', office, Preston, on Saturdao; a placard of immense dimensions was suspend ed. It contained the words, " The Pilot is now enlarged to 48 columns," and covers paper to an extent of twenty four feet long by thirteen wide. The letters of the word altog , .tfier is of a s'ze never t qua!led in a provincial town. Printers will understand its magnAtrle when we state that it is forty•eicht sheets of double royal. EXCESSIVE MORTALITY IN MANCHESTER.—A let ter addressed to the Mayor of Manchester, by Mr. O. K. Holland, appears in the Manchester Guts-than of Sato-- . day, in which it is stated that aii unusual amount c f fat I disease is now prevalent in Manchester, hei►,g principahy in various forms of bowel complaint. It appears from a table given, that in eight of the ten registrars' districts (which comprise what is popularly called Manchester). the ordinary number of deaths is about GOO per month; but that, in Jay last, it was 1,034, of which 389 are stated to have been caused or accompanied by bowel com plaint. If the deaths of London-road and Deansgate districts were added to the above, it is probable that the excess of deaths, caused by this class of diseases, would be loomd to exceed 120 weekly. BEAUMARIS REGATTA.—The race for a purse of £l5, for yachts of eight and not exceeding twen - y lons, was won by Mr. F. Little's Jilt, beating the Hon. Col. Pen nart's Diamond, Mr. W. W. Shand's Petrel, Mr. H. Ty rer's Nautilus, Mr. W. Owen's Samuel Smith, Mr. Jo seph Edward's Editha, and Mr. R. B itley'a Dickey Sam. The principal prize, of £5O, for yachts not exc , edmg thirty tons, was won by Mr. bating Mr. Moss's Phoebe, Mr. J. Grindroil's I eander, and Mr. H. Be.iver's Zoe. A prize of £25 was contested for by yachts exceeding fifteen tons, and not exceeding th;rty tons. Four s'atted—Mr. It. Batty's Dickey Sam, Nlr. W. W. Shand's Petrel, the Hon. Col. Pennant's Dia mond, and Mr. F. Little's Jilt. Immediately after.start ing the Jilt took the lead, and kept it the whole way, win ning by seven minutes, Diamond second, and Petr, 1 third, Dickey Sam having resigned, being at the time lull a (latter of an hour behind ht.r opponents. SHOCKING SUICIDE AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—On Thursday morning great sensation was created in t! - ,e neighbourhood of Ancoats, Manchest , r, by a man who cut had Ws own throat attempting to destroy also the Me of his wife. The man's name is Abraham Ashworth, and it is state I that soon after 7 o'clock on Wednesday morn ing the wife was awoke by his untying the strings of her night-cap, and perceived to her great horror that her band had cut his throat, and was attempting to reach her own with the same razlr. It is said that she instantly rose from the bed and ran into the street, pursued by the husband, where some passers-by interfered, and the as. sailaut was easily disarmed, t from the loss of blood. A suig on was sent for, but the unfortunate man, who is supposed to have been labouring posed to have been the Jrimar ....... deceased's mind. He was a weaver by trade, and only 18 years of age. His wife is only 16 years old. EETING OA THE HIGHWAY COMMI3SIONERS.-011 Tuesday, the usuil weekly meeting of the Conimi-sioners of Highways was held at the Parish-office Mr. John Holmes presided. The following members were present : Whitby, Denton, Walthew, Leyland, Ktlshaw, 'fume, Morris, and Lawrence. Mr. Duncan reported that the walls of the engine -house in Green-lane were nearly up to their height, but that there was a want of stone for going on wilt their works. At the suggestion of Mr. Mason, the board sent a written communication to the Dock Committee to know when the dock-works at Wapping would be commenced. A letter from the. BooVe Water works office announced that one of their pipes had been broken by the town-water-woo ks in Litherldrot-alley. Mr. Duncan made the following report on this subject : " The iron pipe referred above cannot, in fairness. be charged to the commissioners. 1 can prove that it was of so defectkte a character, and so injured by some chemical agent, th 4 I actually cut a portion' of it with my knife. The Bcotle Water-works Company ought rather to pay the commissioners for finding it out." At the suggestion of Mr. Lawrence, a water report, handed by Mr. Simp son, to the parliamentary committee some time since, was or.lered to be laid on the table. The bo.ird soon after adjourned. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The Collins family have been charming the audiences at the gardens during the past week. On Tuesday, the United Ancient Order of Foresters held a grand fete, of which we have elsewhere artemnted a brief sketch; and for this week the celebrated silver sac-imrns, since their first appearance, h as a tt rac ted bTtcsMhopohat much Concerts. i n e t h l o e , ' a l x n lv t. :o t ai e i 'd n i i t ssim: meet se eilll four t o t a withrn i and t a sons,d(t .7 : c i C r h a u whosei n s : O'Connor, o n c ' e, hates the be e nperformanceengaged. Nobilities' l ie London, will accompany them. Mr. Atkins expense in procuring talent, and we are proud s. THE SHO TING SEASON —ln ailo her part of our raper will he found an advertisement of a gun, made by Mr. Bentley, of South Castle-street. in this town. The ad- vantages possessed by this gun ovrr those in general use " re So 'baldest, that they will be at once adrnAted by all who take (he trouble to inspect it. But what 'enders it an Improvement upon all others is the mode of fixing the nipple or touchhole, which is so cent rived that an accident wit., that particular part—hitherto the most unsafe pat t of the fowling piece —is rendered impossible. Colonel llam. r aud the late Mr. Johnson. of this town. were of opinion that a t , ode of discharging a gun try driving the flame horn the Primi ng directly to the centre of the charge was great desideratum; and this, with the improvement we have jo-t noticed, is now srfunnttliNhell by Mr Bentley. Wp Icpqpitzpend our spotting rrtt4t, to cull upon him. Sept. 1, 1846. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Friday evening as the workmen were engaged at the warehouses in course of erection on the margin of the new docks at Birkenhead, a soaffold gave way, and a number of men were precipi tated to the ground, burying several of them under thou sands of bricks. Four were very seriously injured. They were immediately attended by Mr. Jermatte, surgeon, who bad them removed to the hospital, and administered proper medical assistance to them. Their injuries are very serious, but it is hoped they will eventually recover. The following is a list of the parties more se►iously injured --Patrick Moran. 33 years, labourer, St. A nne street ; Terry M'Coen, 33 years, labourer, Oak-street; John Conway, 30 years, labourer, Albert-terrace ; Henry Reach, 35 years, labourer, 4, Wood.strert. They were all married men. • The last exhibition for the season, of the Bebington Horticultural Society, took place on Thursday, and was numerously and fashionably attended. Several beautiful baskets of flowers were contributed by Sir W. M. Stanley, Miss Creenham, G. J. Wainwright. Esq., C. Rawson, Esq., and others. Amongst the plants, including a large variety of fusehias and verbenas, with some rnaes , er i cas , petunias, cockscombs, calceolarias, &c. ; the followinz were prominent for their beauty :—" Burnett Lindleyana," sent by Harold Littledale, Esq.; " Depladenia Crag sinoda," and " Martynia I..'ragrans," from the conserva tory of G. J. Wainwright, Esq. ; " Bourgmansia," " Plumbago." " Lilium Laneetolium Rubrtm." and " Lilium Lancefolium Album," belonging to Sir W. M. Stanley. Mr. Wainwright had the gold medal awarded to him for having won the greatest number of prizes in the season. WEST DERBY UNION..--At the meeting on Tuesday, a letter was produced and read from the annuli overseers of Kirkdale, Messrs. Pee and Wareham. It was on the subject of Mr. Pritchard's complaint oft lie alleged neglect of his duties, by Mr. Parnell, in his office as assistant overseer, or collector of rates of that township. The two overseers assured the board that Mr. Parnell has their fullest confidence, and unqualified approbation ; express their surprise that the board shinid. have paid attention to any " loose, verbal charges" made by "au individual ap pearing before them," seeing that " the board had receier d no complaint from them" (the overseers) who are, as they say, the responsible parties. Mr. Roskell, one of the guardians for Kirkdale, deprecated any interference of the board in the matter, but ultimately it was agreed to pro ceed on Tuesday with the ir quiry. Mr. Rowland, re lieving officer of the Park, addressing the chairman, said that lie again felt it his duty to report to the board the alarming prevalence of fever in that place. The streets that were especially spoken of as being in a bad and dan gerous state were, Fisher -street, Mann-street, Bell-street, and Albert-street ; in the titter, in a court of only. 'six houses, he had. within a very few days, found fourteen persons afflicted with fever, w hich he believed to be typhus. Several of them died, and some were removed ;o the 1116' fir mars. DOCK COMMITTEE.—Mr. David Rowland, keeper of the telegraph, in Chapel-street, terdered his resignation, which was accepted, and Mr. G. Jones, the assistant keeper. was appointed to fill the vacancy, at a salary of £BO per annum ; Thomas Brannan was also appointed assistant keeper, at a salary of £3O per annum. A report was read on the state of the telegraph stations in Wales, which were represented to be, so far as regarded the buildings and machinery, in an efficient state, and the keepers performed their duties well ; some alterations re commendedin the management of the Anglesea branch. The report was adopted, with the exception of that part relating to the general superintendence, which was re.. ferred back for consideration. Iu reply to a question rut by Mr. Horsfall as to whe , her the electric telegraph might not be empioycd with effect on the Welsh coast, Ms, Henderson stated that they were contemplating putting down a line to Formby, on the electric principle, as an experiment ; plans were in progress, and would in ti short time be laid before the committee. It was agreed that the experiment of lighting the vaults of the Albeit Warehouses should be tried in the north stack, and that the appointment by the treasurer of Mr. Thomas Burton, as his book-keeper, be confirmed.—A letter from Mr. Horsfall, chairmen of the African Associati, n, ceiling the attention of the committee to the rates proposed to he charged at the Albert warehouses for palm oil, which they considered much too high, was referred to the Ware house Management Committee. Mr. Aikin stated, as• he had done on former occasions, that each association should have been consulted ; he conceived the rates were much too high, and, as a proof of it, stated there were only two vessels now in the docks—for his own wilt, he corld not afford to send a vessel there. It was stated by Mr. Henders , n, that a scale of rates was in the course of preparation by the cornmittee,which would shortly be sub rnitttd, and, as respects goods brought across the quay, which was the principal grievance, we ull , tr) doubt, be satin actory. A letter was received from the dock solici tor, to the eff•ct that, the trust had power to make re T gitl .1 ion s as regarded the fishing smacks leaving George's .• • IJOCK nasal, in ectrorthly Kith the request of Mr. Tear: a code of regulations was ordered to be drawn up. A letter from Mr. Deane, law-clerk to the Hi 4 hway Board, respecting the laying down of water pipes, when thealtera. tions are made at Wapping, in .connexion with buiiding the new dock, was referred to the Committee of works.. The chairman laid upon the table a bill which had been introduced into the House of Commons for the better management and protection of the ports and harbours of the country, but as it was stated ti at the measure had been deferred until next session the subject was not enter; tainrd. The secretary read a rep or t f rom th e surveyor t! to the progress of the new dock-works ; it went COtisl" derably iwo detail. and represented every department BS being in a most satisfactory 613k , f- ; the total amount ex pended Ln the new works vras £321,491 Ili. 10.1. A letter was read from Capt. Crawley, stating that he was about to enter on foreign commission, and thanking the committee for their unform kindness towards him since he had been . an duty in this town. The dock•surveyor stated that it was two yearr that day since the firrt north works was laid, and he wished the committee to in spect them. e of the new THE POTATO FAILURE A PROVIDENTIAL DISPENSATION. (From the Record ) The subject of Providential dispensations, especially when assuming the character of national judgments, is unquebtionably me which requires to be handl-d a ith caution. The infidel and sceptic, indeed, would press this caution so tar, as to close our mouths entirely. They are ever ready to warn us not to damnation round the land, On each w< e cecm ti ts toe." But the general tenour of scripture is of a very opposite kind. We are directed, in various ways, to connect pub lic events with the Divine will. Yet, as we have said, much caution is necessary. WO must not hastily or erbitr• ily affix our own sense to every dispensation that comes across our path. Hence, we would merely suggest a thought or two to others, arising out of recent events, rather than pronounce a positive opinion on them ourselves.. 1. Last sear, 1845, was lamentably remarkable, as be• ing the first year in which Protestant England lad resol vedly de ermined to set up a Popish establishment. For many years befote, she had given an annual dole, or belie f ction, to the Romish College of Maynooth ; but each year it was declared to be a mere bounty, and was apolo. g:zed for, on the ground that it was a kind of I..gacy be. queathed to us by the Irish parlia.nent. In 1815, how ever, it was perversely and quite needlessly resolved. both to increase the grant threefold, and also to make it a na tional act, by endowing and establishing the College for ever, by a statute of the legislatute. Here, then, was the first adoption and establishment of Popery by a P, otest ant parliament ; the plea being, that it would pacify and tranqull z.!lreand. 2. If t' ' -t - di9-' rising to God. as we firmly ...its act were - _ .y be liece it to have been ; and if he thought fit to rtbuke and punish us &a* it,—wLat kind of a visitation might wo exp-et ? When David sinned against the Lord, a pestilence was sent among the people. Yet this vis;tation both grieved and rebuked himself; the latter as strewing that the great niulousness of his realm, on which he prided himself, might be made to vanish in a night, by one breath from y I the month of God. Ireland was to be necified, tranquilliz.A, and made happy, and thus Sir It , ben Peel's "great difficulty" was nooth endowment of last sum tiler Was the result reaiiz A new and unexpected calamity quite frlstrated this hove. Wi:hin a very few weeks after the enactment of that "healing measure," a strange and portentous visita— tion came upon Ireland. rendering her government " difficulty" greater than ever. An unknown, unforeseen, and hitherto incurable, dis ease, appeared among the growing crops of that produc tion of the earth on which the people of Ireland chiefly depend. And thus before parliament, " aftertranquilliz ing teland," had separated more than a few weeks, the state and condition of that unhappy country became more alarming than it had been for a quarter of a century. And surtly we ought not to overlook the fact, that it was not a draught, or a wet season, Gr any other of the cOntrnoll mishaps, that came upon Ireland, but a visitation alto. g<ther new, inscrutable, and bathing all human skill ex erted fur its prevention or removal. The remaining fact to be seriou,ly thought upon is this —that this new and strange calamity, which no man ( °old foresee or prevent, had this important result, that it des troyed the Government which passed the Maynooth En down►ent B►ll. Sri Robert Peel's Administration was a successful one, and his governm , nt appeared unassailable by any human force. He was gradually and prudently relaxing commer cial restrictions, and would have pursued the same course, with certain success and popubitily, had not the alarm of an impending famine in Ireland been raised. Sir R. Peel has himself told us in Parliament, that this event entirely changed his plans. Instead of proceeding gradually with a series of commercial relaxations, he re solvedn n through all branches, by one Lange his plans broke up. • urge year had elapsed, from the pas-- eihu pe;: rar t tr v o a tyl; ande proces s .bory I lis aby h eiif p c ,o m r r o et n his Ministry was overthrown. Nothing more unlikely could have been imagined a twelve— month previously. Yet it has been already witnessed and foremost among its avowed causes is the uotato-rot Ireland. which assuredly was not the work of man. We might go further, and observe, that the bin of the nation bung not abandoned or finites to be felt. A be more severe ibis year sitation prom'aes tO But we will not at- tempt 10 prophecy,—pau,iog rather to recap tulate the f : ctb . to which we have already referred ; and to lease them le eon,ideration of oor rratirrA 1. In the summer ol 1845, the ruing Administration of Sir R. Peel used its power to give Puptry a national OM' shment in Ire-land. 2 In the autumn of the same year, a new and wiliest& of (Amity dflleted the People ut Irdand. 3. And ht-t. re Chriatmas ..t the ttn.e year, under the irltluence of this alarm, Sir Roheut Peel ad..pted a cours e wl.ieh, in the end, uiesulved hi s pa t ty, an d broke up ha Government.