The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-29 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONI ' A`L. AMERICA.—New York papers of the Ist instant, re ceived on Wednesday, by the packet-ship Europe, an monocle that the new American ►ariff went into opera►ion on We tat instant. A frightful steam-boat collision had taken' s ", place on the Mississipi, on the 21st ult., by which thirty ; people were killed and about the same number rably scalded. The Europe had a summer's passage through .ut. OiA of the Quebec papers mentions a diabolical attempt to firea powder magazine at St. Pierre, Newfoundland, with the intention of destroying every house in the place From",th;rty to forty houses are said to have been blown up, and two lives destroyed. The villain who attempted the diabolical deed fell a victim to his infernal designs. Sbughter-houses for horses have been opened in Bel gium, and the wretched peasants purchase the meat for rood. The pope has dismissed the governor and treasurer of Rome, and the postmaster-general will follow. His holi ness has appointed a newspaper editor one of his cham bertaibs. The Spaniards seem unwealied in their enthusiastic re ception of Mr. Cobden. On the 33th ult. a grand fes tival was held at Malaga in honour of the English Free Trader Amongst the advertisements in the Roman Advertiser, of December 5, we find the following :—" The Chester field's rounds will meet on Monday, 7th December. Porcareccia. Porta Cavalleggeri. Tuesday, 8 do. Torre tre teste. Porta Maggiore. Friday, 11 do. Li Cesa rina. Porta Pia, halt-past ten o'clock precisely." A LIBERAL SOVEREIGN —A letter from Copenhagen state., that in consequence of the dearness of provisions, the K'ng of Denmark has published on order of the day, giving to each soldier an augmentation of pay of four skit lings (about 20 centimes) a day, and an additional loaf every three days. Each soldier. married with the autho risation of Government, and having three children or more, is to receive a second additional loaf every three days.— Gatignoni's Messenger. FOOLHARDINESS.—During the hurricane of Monday an individual made a wager, after partaking of a copious breakfast in a tavern on the Parvis Notre Dame, that he 'would waik round the parapet of the towers of Notre Dame. He had actually performed the three-fourths of Lis perilous undertaking, when he was swept off by a vio lent guA of wind, and thrown on a hackney coach, of which lie broke in the roof. The unfortunate man survived his fall; he was severely wounded, as also a lady who was seated in the vehicle. TUNNELLING THE ALPS.—The Moniteur Belge an nounces that experiments have been made within the last few.days, in order to toot the efficacy of a machine, just invented, for the purpose of effecting a new and easy me thod of boring tunnels. It is proposed to apply this ma chine to the construction of the great tunnel about to be commenced in connection with one of the Itztlian lines. This machine was placed in front of the web, and effected a bore to the depth of NI centimetres in 36 minutes. At this rate the new invention will complete upwards of 5 metres of bore per day, and the proposed tunnel through Mount Cenis will be finished in the space of three years. The experiments have been repeated twice before several of the first engineers of France, and with the most com plete success. INUNDATION AT ROME A sad calamity has befallen the city of Rome. The Tiber, suddenly swollen by rain such as is only witnessed under the tropics, and impeded in its course towards Ostia by a south-east wind, has just flooded two-thirds of the inhabited streets, and destroyed pr,,perty, both in town and country, to a melancholy extent. This century bad not seen a simi'ar inundation, that of 1805 being far less extensive or disastrous. As far as the eye could reach, from the Pinciau hill to the foot of Monte Mario, from the Sonte :Tolle to the contrescarpe of Castle St. Angelo, became at once a vast lake, interspersed with tops of trees and farm roofs, cattle swimming, and floating wagg us. Not only the accustomed low quarters of the Piazza Navona and Pantheon, but the Corso and Con doff were submerged, and the well-known magnificent area of the Porta del Pupolo became a deep pond impas sable to carriages. It was a singular sight to look down from the Pincian on this extemporised basin, reflecting calmly the surroundi , g churches and monument a, and receiving into its abundance the rather superfluous con tributions of the four Egyptian Lions who kept up the farce of their quadruple jet d'eau throughout. The cen tral obehsk of itharnses, which rose in quiet grandeur over the waters, seemed, after many thouaand years, to have got a glimpse of his native Nile at its work of fertilization. Un'ortun tely, mischief, unmixed with any compensating result, ensues from these visits of the Roman ricer. The reports from the various quarters (or islands) of the ce y have as yet brought no tidings of * drowned men, though horses, pigs, and kine have perished in numbers, and the misery of the poorer classes can hardly be esti mated unless by the knowledge of their exclusive tenancy of all ground-floors, in Rome the upper stories being alone inhabited by the wealthy. But the unfortunate Jews are in the worst predicament of all other denomi nations, their disadvantageous quarter being not of their own selection, and hence it became only an act of com mon honesty in the government to behave as it has done by them to-day ; supplying them at once, and in the first rank with food and necessaries. Foi this purpose domi ciliary visits were made to all bakers, and fashionable hotels, and every loaf carried off to the Ghetto. If any good could possibly be elicited from the present sad occurrence, it would be perhaps the forcing the Pope's attention to the folly and unchristian policy of his pre decessors in cooping up the remnant of Israel here into a space of the town so confined and so objectionable as to nearly resemble the hold of a Brazilian slave-ship on the middle passage. THE TRIAL TRIPS WITH THE OVERLAND INDIAN MAIL. (From the Augsburg Gazelle.) The first moiety of the six trial journeys arranged by the British Government for the conveyance of the Indian despatches through Germany is now completed; and it will not be considered inapposite to take a comprehensive survey of the events of those journeys, and tc.. glance at the further consequences that may result from them. The ordinary consideration of this subject, as an interest ing competition for the honour of the greatest celerity, as an adventurous neck-or-nothing "steeple-chase," is equally absurd and incorrect. As regards England, the object is nothing less than the securing of a second route, —one at least equal in point of celerity to that through France, in the event of a political quarrel with the latter country ; as regards Germany, the restoration of the old middle-age Venetian-Hanseatic commercial road, the construction of a new public road along the banks of the Rhine, over the Alps to the Adriatic Sea and the East, and also the freedom from useless intermediate traders ; as regards Holland, a more direct and rapid connexion with its East Indian colonies; and as regards Belgium, and the western and southerly part of Germany in par ticular, a most important conveyance of goods, passen gers, and letters, which is already increa-ing in import ance. We can assure our readers, from the best sources, that the English Government and the East India Com pany are perfectly satisfied with the results of the trial trips hitherto undertaken with reference to Germany ; and their zeal for this line is far more increasing than diminishing. Toe Cracow affair, far from restoring the entente cordiale, has only served to show that a fissure has been rent between the two Cabinets by the Spanish marriages, which cannot he filled up again by all the opposite argu ments of the public organs on both sides. Tic English statesmen are determined to command a second Continental postal line "at any price," and they will assuredly call it into existence, no matter whether via Trieste, Ancona, or Brindisi. Hitherto, all the facts have told in favour of Trieste, where the Austrian Lloyd has s.) powerfully united its efforts to those of Waghorn, and is, moreover, perfectly prepared to offer all the pledges of a regular service. Unfortunately, however, the unhappy idea seems to be cherished 'in Vienna of conducting the overland route through the capital, and the construction of the Bruck and ,s3.l.bar g road seems to be rejected altogether (?). The establishment of the Trieste route may be wrecked in this opposition -alone, but on no other obstacles. Switzerland and Naples receive the project with open arms, and the railroads jest decreed by the Pope will help the undertaking amazingly. Austria would then have once more to regret that she had not embraced it at the right time, but opposad to the unalterable geographical features of the country a centralization mania in this case utterly impracticable. We hope, however, that the energy and tact which have hitherto been manifested in the execution of the great state roads by the genial Baron Kubeck will not abandon him on this occasion, and will point out to him right speedily the only way in which the carrying into effect of the beautiful idea of an Austro-lndian com mercial road is possible. Here we will lay before our readers a correct summary of the three trial trips hitherto attempted, together with the preliminary trials, from which it is clearly to be seen how the sea and land journeys of the French and the Waghorn couriers were effected. PRELIMINARY TRIALS France.—From Alexandria to Marseilles, 190 hours ; from Marseilles to London, 85 hours—total, 275 hours. Germany.—From Alexandria to Trieste, 156 hours ; from irieste to London, 991 hours—total, 2551 hours. FIRST TRIAL TRIP. France.—From Alexandria to Marseilles, 196 hours from Marseilles to London, 79 hours—total, 275 hours. Germany.—From Alexandria to Trieste, 130 hours from Trieste to London, 107 hours—total, 237 hours. SECOND TRIAL TRIP. France.—From Alexandria to Marseilles, 152 hours from Marseilles to London, 774 hours—total, 229& hours Germany.—From Alexandria to Trieste, 133 hours from Trieste to London, 12Q hours—total, 2534 hours. THIRD TRIAL TRIP. France —From Alexandria to Marseilles, and from Marseilles to London, 2-16 hours. Germany.—From Alexandria to Trieste, 156 hours ; from Trieste to London, 97 hours—total, 253 hours. Totils of the above trips.—France, 1,0251 hours; Ger many, 9991 hours. The average gives, for one journey, 250 hours on the French, and 249/ on the German line; and if the pre liminary trips are excluded, 250 1-6 for the first, and 247 5.6 for the second. If it be further considered that the Ariel sailed twelve knots an hour, and the Ardent seldom upwards of ten, and very often only three knots, —which will be taken into due consideration by those acquainted with the subject —as the object is not a com petition between two wholly unequal vessels, the superi ority of the German route cannot remain doubtful another moment ; and every German heart will rejoice that it is a general co-operation for so noble an object which hoists the standard of Germany and enables it to float on high in this hard contest, whilst the constantly increasing force of the well-exercised disputants promises a certain wistory, THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. fve men laden with bread, and says, " I was surprised to find the wretched hamlet apparently deserted. I entered some of the hovels to ascertain the cause, and the scenes that presented themselves were such as no tongue or pen can convey the slightest idea of. In the first, six famish ed and ghastly skeletons, to all appearance dead, were huddled in a corner on some dirty straw, their sole cover ing what seemed a ragged horsecloth ; their wretched legs hanging about, naked above the knees. I approached in hot ror, and found by a low moaning they were alive — they were in fever—four children, a woman, and what had once been a man. It is impossible to go through the de tail—suffice it to say that in a few minutes I was sur rounded by at least twenty of such phantoms, such fright ful spectres, as no words can describe. By tar the greater number were delirious, either from famine or from fever. Their demoniac yells are still ringing in my ears, and their horrible images are fixed upon my brain. My heart sick ens at the recital. In another case, decency would forbid what follows, it must be told. My clothes were nearly torn off in my endeavour to escape from the throng of pestilence around, when my neck cloth was seized from behind by a grip which compelled me to turn. I found myself grasped by a woman with an infant apparently just born in her arms, and the remains of a filthy sack across her loins—the sole covering of herself and babe. The same morning the police opened a house on the ad joining lands, which was observed shut for many days, and two frozen corpses were found lying upon the mud half devoured by the rats. A mother, herself in fever, was seen the same day to drag out the corpse of her child, a girl about twelve, perfectly naked, and leave it half co vered with stones. In another house, within five hundred yards of the cavalry station at Skibbei een, the dispensary doctor found seven poor wretches lying unable to move under the same cloak. One had been dead many hours, but the others were unable to move either themselves or the corpse. UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS. Lord Ward has presented the Rev. C. Girdlestone, now vicar of Aldersley, to the valuable living of Kingswinford, vacant by the death of Dr. Penfold. It is stated that the Hon. and Rev. G. Neville Gren ville, the Dean of Windsor, will come into possession of property, in consequence of the death of a relative, of the value of between £20,000 and £30,000 per annum. ORDINATION OF DEANJIBH AI NOWROJI.—On Friday se'nnight, the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh met in Tan field, and ordained Dhanjibhai Nowroji as a missionary to India. This young Parsee is the first ❑ative convert on whom ordination has been conferred. The Baroness de Speth, a German Roman Catholic lady, who has been for several months residing with the Duchess of Kent, has embraced the Protestant faith. The Baroness on Sunday week attended Divine service at St. John's Church, Windsor, with her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. The Rev. Edward Phillips, perpetual curate of East Tytherley , Hants, who has never received more than £lOO per annum from that parish, and for many years not so much, has just declined the offer of a rectory in Suffolk of the value of £385 per annum, simply on the ground that the parish of East Tytherley, which has long been in a neglected condition, because of the absenteeism of its pro prietors, is now emerging from poverty to prosperity, as from darkness to light, by the munificence and judicious management of W. F. Cooke, Esq., who has purchased the estate formerly belongir.g to F. Bailey, Esq., com prising a considerable portion of that parish. The pew holders and other inhabitants of Dudley, have raised, and are about to present the Rev. John Davies, minister of the unendowed church of St. Edmuads, a purse of £2OO and upwards, in testimony of their respect, and of their sense of the inadequacy of the income he de rived from the pew rents of the church. To this liberal and generous expression of esteem to a gentleman so ge nerally respected, Lord Ward, with his accustomed mu nificence, also lent his support, having made an augmen tation to the living of £lOO per annum. We understand that his lordship has also made a r, quest that daily prayers may be read in the parish church of Dudley. GRAND FESTIVAL AT TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE The third centenary of the royal foundation of Trinity College was celebrated on Monday with unusual magni ficence. The proceedings commenced at tPn o'clock, P.M., by the recital of the prize essays in the noble dining hall of the college, and the distribution of prizes to the prizemen. The master presided, and there were present most of the noble and distinguished gue,ts who had been in•ited to take part in the festival. The following is the list of prizemen : ENGLISH DECLAMATIONS.-1. Vansittart.—Suhject of the oration delivered in hall, " The Three Commer cial Powers—Athens, Carthage, and England." 2. Biome. field, J. 3. Bickersteth, E. H. 4. Edlin. LATIN DECLAMATION.-1. VanSlllart.—Subject of the oration, " Lutheri Laudatio." 2. Evans. LYRICS.—" Carthago."—Scott, C.B. HEXAMETERS.—" Byroni Statua."—Vansittart. ELE GI ACS —" Cordeiia "—Vansittart. ENGLISH ESSAY.-.—" Rome under Augustus, compared with London of the nineteenth century."—Bickersteth, E. H. . . BEADING PRIZES.-1. Ingram. 2. Alder. Senior Sophs.—C. Evans, Hillier, Luard, Macgregor, Mather, Sowerby, Walker, Wolstenholrne. Junior Sophs.—Barry, Berry, Chilton. Lord A. Comp ton, Hardy, Pearson, C. B. Scott, Turing, Twisden, Valling, Westcott. Freshmen.—Baxter, A. H. Bull, Carter, Carver, Dun das, Durham, F. W. Edwards, Elwyn, D. Fenn, Gibson, Headlam, Hinchliffe. Hodges, Hose, Lord R. Montagu, Rowe, Schreiber, C. Taylor, Thrupp, Waddington, Wig gleswortb, Wray, Wilde. Precisely at four o'clock, the Master of the Trinity, attended by the great majority of the distinguished mem bers of the university, who had been attracted by the festivities of the day to revisit the scenes of their scho lastic life, entered the chapel. The stalls were, by order, reserved for the heads of houses, for fellows, and distin guished visitors, while the body of the chapel was allotted to such strangers and other individuals as bid been fortu nate enough to secure cards of admission from the senior dean, the Rev. William Carus, M.A. By some want of arrangement, the chapel clerks, in obeying strictly the orders of the superior functionaries, kept at the entrance to the choir a mass of ladies and gentlemen, though ample space was left unoccupied on the floor of the chapel.— Amongst this body stood no less a distinguished and learned personage than Mr. Justice Coltman. The com memoration service commenced with the chanting by the choir of three Psalms, selected appropriately for the oc casion, viz. :—Psalms 145, 146, and 147. The 44th chap• ter of the Book of Ecclesiastes was next read as the Lesson of the day, which being ended, the Rev. James Amiraux Jeremie, M.A., one of the fellows of the foundation, clas sical professor in the East India College, Hailesbury, and examining chaplain to the Lord Bishop of London, pro ceeded to deliver the commemoration serviceor oration. He opened with an eloquent and feeling allusion to the advan tages of a sound classical and academic course of education. and enforced his views by a retrospect of the events which had closed each of the three centuries of the foundation of the college, the last of which the proceedings of the day were intended to commemorate. Its two predecessors had been marked—the one by intestine wars, which brought a monarch to a scaffold—the second by a divided empire, which led to disputes, destroying the nearest ties of affinity and kin—while the third century, which the expiring year brought to a close, saw this nation blessed with peace and happiness under the dominion of a gra cious monarch and constitutional government. The rev. preacher then proceeded to point out many brilliant or nament, of all the learned professions which this college had sent forth to advance literature and science, and to promote the best interests pf the nation_ _ Ttina rani i i review ot tbe lives and characters ot Lor Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton, and other distinguished names of the olden times, and of Bentley, Porson, and Green, of our own times, and adopting as a presage of future excellence the fact that the college had now existed unimpaired by decay, the rev. gentleman concluded an able and touching dis course by invoking the blessing of Providence upon the future efforts which would still remain to be made by those entrusted with its conduct. The choir then gave with thrilling effect Parcell's celebrated anthem " Oh give thanks unto the Lord." The Rev. J. Romilly, M.A., registrar of the university, next recapitulated the names of the royal and other benefactors to the college from the date of its foundation to the present time—a proceeding which was of a most tedious and somewhat uninteresting character; at its conclusion the service was terminated with prayer. The crowning ceremonial was the banquet, and covers were laid in the hall for about three hundred guests. THE C..AIRT FASHIONABLE WORLD, The Court still remains at 'Windsor Castle, and the Queen and Prince Albert have taken their accustomed out-door exercise, favoured by the remarkably fine wea ther. The King of the Belgians will not arrive in this country until after the B'h of January. The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere purpose remaining in town until after Christmas. The Viscount and Vis countess Brackley are expected to return from Rome in February next. On Monday and Tuesday her Majesty's royal bounty was distributed to upwards of 1,000 poor and aged per sons, each receiving a crown, according to ancient usage at this inclement season of the year. Upon this occasion the applications for relief were more than usually nume- roes. A fine horse belonging to Prince Albert, named Isle worth, which was a favourite fur the Darby, in 1843, died at the Royal Mews, Windsor Castle, a day or two since, of inflammation in the bowels. A valuable road horse, belonging to her Majesty, also died at the Royal mews on Saturday. LAW INTELLIGENCE LIABILITY OF ATTORNEYS. —In the Queen's Bench, on Tuesday, Mr. Smith, a surgeon, obtained a verdict of £3O damages, against Mr. Shaw, an attorney, for gross neglect in conducting an action of debt with which he had been entrusted by the plaintiff. n a i c g a h l t: n s d G ar az m e o tt n e t , h to fro th a t t h e a , after the u th ee e n ex i p n ir c at o io u n nc o il f COUNTY COURTS.—A notice appeared in Tuesday d m e e t h ff a e t e t will take into consideration the propriety of making orders for putting the " Act for the more easy Recovery of Small Debts and Demands in England" in execution in every county throughout England and Wales. The Chief Baron on Saturday said to Mr. Cockburn (counsel for defendant in appeal against a verdict for breach of promise) that it would be an act of insanity in a counsel to bring forward witnesses in support of such an appeal. Mr. Cockburn, having said that such an ex pression from a judge in presence of a jury was likely to deprive his client of justice, threw his brief down on the table, and withdrew from the court amid the profoundest sensation. TRIAL IN TIM ROLLS ON STEAM BOAT ENGAGE MENTS.—The decision of Lord Langdale in the Rolls Court, on an application to dissolve the injunction granted at the instance of a proprietor, against the Eastern Counties Company, to restrain the later from completing the agreement entered into with the Harwich Steam Packet Company, is of considerable interest. The observations of his lordship on the merits of the case are exceedingly clear and decisive. They expressly declare the employment or engagement of the funds of a railway corporation for purposes not contemplated in the act by which it exists—whatever may be the advantage expected to accrue from this use of them—is contrary to law, al though it may have been established in practice. That neither the directors nor a majority of the shareholders, can legally impose on any railway proprietor liabilities foreign to the declared object of the partnership, as de fined by the company's act : that the objects of a railway company are confined to the making, maintenance and working of the traffic of the railway itself, except where power to transact other business or enter into other agreements is expressly given : that, allowing reasonable latitude in the construction of the terms by which the general purposes of the railway (including the promotion of its traffic) may be interpreted—a latitude sufficient to meet the objection that a strict reading of the law would forbid a variety of minor tarar gernents conducive or ne ceesary to the business—it could not, by the largest in terpretation, include the support of another company, engaged in a speculation of a different kind, and liable to serious risks—nor authorize the adoption or guarantee of the liabilities of any such foreign enterprise. On these grounds, the judge refused to dissolve the injunction; thus establishing an important position, as tar as the principle of such agreements is concerned. One of the " Fellows of the Royal Society" has an ; nouneed his intention of prosecuting the editor of the Athenaum for saying he was " ignorant." A STRANGE ANOMALY. The London Times of Saturday contains a copy of a circular from the " Reproductive Employment Commit tee," in DW,lin embodying the questions of temporary legislation and the food relief system, in which we find the following paragraph : - • - •` The attention of the sub-committee have been drawn to the defects in the food relief system in opera tion throughout the country, and the impending danger of absolute starvation from the difficulties in the way of importing food, owing to the scarcity and costliness of frieghts. It appears that hitherto, in ordinary years. in ordinary years, the rates of freightage from Liverpool to Tralee bas been usually 7s. per ton ; one fortnight since it had risen to 14a. per ton ; on Saturday, December 19. it was 255. per ten I Again, it has been ascertained, from one of the first houses in Liverpool, that they will charter vessels from America only to England, and not direct to Ireland; so that the necessity of importing from England, subject to this enormous freightage, is imposed upon Ireland." - The same paper of the same date contains the following announcement, which is the London version of the state of affairs between the two countries : IRISH SUPPLIES. - Of the vessels which arrived in the river on Monday, and which were by no means nu merous, in consequence of adverse winds and other ma ritime causes, thirteen were from Ireland, laden almost entirely with provisions of various descriptions, the pro duce of that country. Of these arrivals, s even were from Limerick, one from Sligo, one fi om. Belfast, one from Dublin. two from Tralee, and one from Cork. This is certainly very like an anomaly, if it is not one. Freights are so high from Liverpool to Tralee, that the population of the latter place are in danger of absolute starvation. Yet Tralee and other ports are shipping off their produce to the British metropolis. The common sense plan to procure cheap food one should imagine would be to save these exorbitant frieghts ; for Tralee to buy at Tralee its food, instead of shipping it to Liverpool or London, in order to buy it back again I rious. CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY.—Each successive day affords fresh demonstration of the alarming position of this ill-fated country ; and the gloomy, uncheering prospects which are admittedly in perspective, are subjects of so momentous—so paramount importance, as to call loudly —imperatively, for the co-operation of all classes of the community, to use their most strenuous efforts to avert the evils which threaten to subvert the whole fabric of society, and bring ruin and devastation in their train. The columns of our contemporaries teem with accounts of outrages on person and property, to an extent which the annals of crime in this country never hitherto bore any semblance. The Cork Examiner contains a history of ravages making by gaunt famine in the neighbourhood of Skibbereen, of so horrifying a nature, that the mind shrinks from the perusal of the dreadful details. Men, who, a few short weeks since, were strong and stalworth, in the prime of life's vigour, fall, stricken by death, the victims of destination and famine. Women, children, and RAILWAY INTE L.LitiElv CE. unconscious infants, on the mothers' breasts, pine be neath the overwhelming pressure of want and misery, and The Aberdeen Railway Company are advertising for find relief only by becoming the tenants of their coffinless two or three thousand labourers. graves ! This is no idle romance—it is fearful reality—of On Saturday, the first portion of the works, for an almost every day occurrence, in that ill-fated locality, immense station at Carlisle, was commenced. The station which has become in these sad times, a place of unenvia- will be 800 yards long. ble notoriety.—Tipperary Constitution. The directors of the Fleetwood, Preston, and West EFFECTS OF A GOOD EXAMPLE.—The Derry Journal Riding Junction have been authorised by the shareholders says :—Amid the want and wretchedness which prevail to proceed with the branch from Mitton to Burnley. throughout the greater part of Donegal, it gives us much The Preston and Longridge railway has been disposed pleasure to state, that there is one sunny spot on which, of to the Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction comparatively speaking, no gloom or sorrow dwells. The railway. beau iful glen of Dunloughey, adjoining the estate of A few days since, a train on the Bristol and Birmingham Lord George Ilill, at Gwedore, is as much distinguished Railway ran into a flock of sheep strayed on the line; four by the comfort and industry of its inhabitants, as it is by were killed, and several others much injured. the beauty of its scenery, and its delightfully romantic po- On Thursday last, a single train on the Eastern Coun sition. Mr. Russell, an English gentleman, purchased ties Railway, brought no less than 2,000 packages of the property a short time ago from Sir James Dombrain, poultry and game to London. and no exertion or expense has been spared by him to d e _ LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER.—Within the last few velop its capabilities. He has produced a crop of turnips da y s the ground for widening this line hes been staked from the bog which would stagger the credulity of any out from Liverpool to Huyton, and the double set of rails agriculturist. On every side fencing, draining, and other will be immediately laid. improvements are being made, which, in addition to the The outlines of bridges, dmbankments, excavations, great benefit they will confer on the cottiers, will tend to culverts, and drains, are visible over a length of 13 miles the ultimate advantage of the spirited and enterprising on the Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North-Western, from proprietor. During the whole of the summer, and up to Blackburn to the village of Chatburn, where the contract the present time, every one on the estate desirous of ors will soon turn out their staff of troops and teams. having employment, had only to apply for it to obtain it ; The new line of railway from Carlise to Lancaster has and there are, at this moment, upwards of fifty labourers been opened for two trains in each direction, and the constantly employed at one shilling per day, which is re- trains have arrived at their destinatien without interup gularly paid every Saturday night. If the other landed lion from snow, notwithstanding its elevation in places is proprietors throughout Ireland would "go and do like- nearly 1000 feet above the sea. wise," there would be little occasion for relief acts or pre- NOBLE COMMITTEEMEN.—A proceeding of some in sentment sessions. tereot to the fashionable world will be brought before the REPEAL ASSOCIATION, MO i on usual weekly public in a few days—no less, indeed, than the appear meeting of the Repeal Association was held on Monday. ance, in connexion with the Court of Bankruptcy, of the Mr. John O'Connell presented a report on the financial Marquis of Douro, the Earl of Essex, and Lord Bess position of the two countries, and he thoug'at lae said V borough the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland,-who figured. count snow that, in justice, tins country ougtit not to e as (no rkauers wilt recollect, as arrectors of Pi row a At mospheric Railway Company.-21./ining Journal. subjected to a rigorous exaction of any part of the present advances, but that, on the contrary, all, or nearly all, DUBLIN AND HOLYHEAD •PACKETS.—The Dublin and should be retained in the country. Mr. O'Connell then Holyhead Railway Company are about to build four read an abstract of his report, and moved its adoption, steam-packets to run to and from Dublin, in conjunction Mr. Cornet us MacLoughlin seconded its adoption which with the railway. They are to be of first-rate designs, and passed. Mr. O'Connell, after the reading of some cor- in order to encourage competition and secure good ves respondence, rose to make his address of the day. He sell, they have most liberally determined to offer a pre dwelt upon the miserable condition of the country, and mium of £lOO to the builder of the boat which, in the spoke of the horrors of Skibbereen, and this, said he, course of twelve months, makes the quickest passages with occurs in the forty-sixth year of the union with England. the smallest amount of repairs. Of course the boats will The post hoc was the propter hoc on this occasion, for be of iron.—Nautical Standard. the misery was the effect of the union. The learned gent. A solicitor of London has been instructed by 1530 condemned the national committee as afraid of their own shareholders in Remington's direct London and Man shadow, for they ought to compel relief. He again re- chester railway, to apply to several members of the pro peated his demand of the thirty millions, and though he visional committee for a return of the deposits, in conse had been called "impudent" for making it , he did not 9uence of -the funds of the company being improperly care, for he would be impudent whenever he could be of made use of in the purchase of land, and in the purchase use in Ireland. They had time now to attend to these of shares in the market at a premium, and in the improper things as the bye battle of Young Ireland was over. The Payments of solicitors and others, whereby the whole little party might machinate against him—he defied them. amount stated to have been subscribed, and which ex- The rent for the week was announced to be £BB. ceeded .£140,C00, has been recklessly squandered. The Daily News announces that a great and compre- FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday night, a fatal colli hensive measure with reference to Ireland is resolved sion took place on the railway, at the station near Park upon, and is to be promulgated by Ministers in Pa rlia- I side. It appears that the man who lost his life was the ment. We select the heads of the measure :—The chief brakesman in charge of a waggon-train, and was what is laws at present in operation, for employment, improve- termed " slipping" along the line, the frost preventing merit, and drainage in Ireland, are to be continued, but to the wheels from properly bearing upon the rails. Of he amended and made more efficient. The action of the course he thus cleared the way for any train which might poor-house will be put forward as a check, to fling back follow, and unfortunately so dense is the fog stated to the loiterer, who could find employment elsewhere, from have been, that the passenger train from this town ran burdening relief funds ; but the warden of the poor will be into the waggon train, and the unfortunate man was forced empowered to give relief in all cases to the infirm and the from his position by the violence and suddenness of the really destitute. Emigration will be provided. Not only shock, and instantly killed. will depots be formed at home, but active and beneficent CARRIAGE OF GOODS nY RAILWAY.—Tae deputation preparations will be made in the colonies, so as to insure to the Government Board of Commissioners of Railways, those who wish to emigrate against all the risks of the a pp ointed at the Birmingham meeting of merchants and poor, unprovided, and ignorant emigrant. The peculia- carriers, to present the memorial praying them to interpose rity, however, of the present plan of emigratinn is—that the authority of Government to prevent the injury to the it will be coupled with the choice of settlement at home. commerce of the midland counties, anticipated by the re- A commission will be issued for the purchase of waste moval of the carriers from the line of the London and Bir lands, which are to be enclosed, reclaimed, cultivated, mingham Railway, had an audience at the Goverment and then oft-red in no large lots for sale, with such facili- Chambers, Whitehall, on Tuesday week. To the memorial ties as will render them a premium for industry and fru- were attached between 3,ooorand 4,000 signatures, and in gality, and the foundation of a class of Irish yeomen. eluded Derby, Nottingham, Manchester, and the Chamber There are other lands, not waste, that are not cultivated, of Commerce of Worcester. Sir Dennis Le Marchant, and which in the hands of the poor, incumbered, mbar- M.P.for Worcester, introduced the deputation to the Corn rassed landlord, are as profitless to the community as the missioners, Mr. Strutt, Lord Granville, Sir F. Bruce, bog or the heath. To render these more available, liberty and Sir E. P. Ryan, who appeared to take much interest will be given to sell entailed property. Government In the important representations made to them, and asked wilt be ecnpowerea to proceed to the sale of a portion of many questions with reference to the clauses of the me those estates indebted to Government which have not mortal. paid up the interest or instalment agreed apon. 'LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCASTLE-UPON TYNE RAILWAY.—The public will have observed an arti cle in the papers, headed " York and Carlisle," the object of which appears to be to create fears that Kendal, Apple- The scenes of misery arising from famine are becoming by, and all that western district, will lose the anticipated advantage of a plentiful supply of coals at reasonable rates, every day more and more appalling. We learn the fol in case that portion of the original York and Carlisle line, !awing from a Cork paper —" At Dinnmanway the re situate beneath Bishop Auckland and Kirby Stephen porter met, on yesterday week, four corpses going to (which is almost incapable, front the nature of its gradients, Fanlobus grave-yard. The first was carried on two sticks for the application of locomotive power) should be aban or wattles borne by men ; it was followed be about a dozen people. Tile next was the body of a child carried doped. It will be found, we believe, that the supply in in a coffin on a mart's back, attended by no other person. question has been by no means lost sight of, but is calcu- The next was on a car, followed by ahbut twenty persons; fated upon as a thing of considerable importance in aid of and the fourth was on a butt, driven by a woman—no one revenue, although it has been found expedient to relin else in attendance. In fact, funerals are now of such quish that portion of the project referred to. We learn hourly occurrence that few have heart to attend them." that a well-judged and most prudent amalgamation has The same writer states :—" In Skibbereen, no one can been agreed upon by the leading representatives of the speak to you on any subject but that or the destruction Northern Counties Union with the Liverpool, Moriches of human life. Men are all day digging graves in the ter, and Newcastle Junction, under the title of the " Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle, and York and burying places, and all the carpenters and cartwrighta are Glasgow Railway Company," the effect of which will be at work day and night, not excepting Sunday ; still they to reduce the capital to £3,000,000 from £4,000,000, au cannot meet the demands made upon them for the rough est coffins. At Ballydehob, the people were dying in all thorised to be raised by Acts passed in the last session of directions—those living being mere skeletons." Parliament, without almost any sacrifice of the traffic The reporter says :—" On entering the town you are looked for by the two companies, according to the evi dence given before the Committee of the House of Com surrounded by famishing creatures, from whom it is al- mons.—Railway Times. most impossible to escape — every one of them bas a more ST. HELENS CANAL AND RAILWAY.—A special meet dirtressing tale of destitution than the other. Here I ing of the proprietors was held on Wednesday, at the heard horrible details of the neighbouring parishes. The Clarendon Rooms, to sanction an app li c ation to parlia parish of Skull adjoining, which extends to the sea coast. mint for powers to make branch railways to Warrington It contains 37,922 acres, and has a population of 18 , 000 . and Blackbrook, to make some alteratio ns, to issue shares, Here there are but two resident gentlemen—Mr. Lirorick and Mr. O'Callaghan — the landlords being all non-resi- and take other necessary steps towards the im p rovements. It was proposed to extend a branch to Bridge-street, dent. In this parish, as well as the adjoining—Kilcoe Warrington, to reduce two inclined planes on the present and Kilmoc—the deaths are daily increasing. and the line, and to cross the Sankey Canal to the collieries on bodies are carried to their graves without coffins. The the other side. The colliers of St. Helens had promised R. C. clergyman told me that in Skull the deaths were The the hoard their support. The necessary cap ital required ten a day on the average of the last fourte en da y s. was to be derived from 6,366 shares of £25 each. The people are living on sea-weed and cattle that they steal ; estimate for the Warrington extension was £77,000, for they are carrying off cows and sheep every night. Kilcoe the Sutton incline, 'k33,000, for the Widness incline, contains 5272 acres, with 2800 inhabitants. They are £23,000, making a total of £133, 000 . An es timate of the dying here at five a day on the average of a fortnight. I expected traffic was read, showing that after paying the was told that one family of eight persons were found in their hut on Thursday devouring a dog belo n g in g to them. working expenses and interest on the new c a p ital, a re turn would be left of .13025,000. Mr. Mozley thought after There were thirteen buried in Skull Churchyard on Fri day ; only one of them had a coffin • they were taken on what had already occurred the experiment w_s a danger- ous one, and would not consent to it but u p on good doors, covered with a little straw. Und er these circum grounds. It was urged in reply that by altering the in stances it is cruel to insist on these wr etched skeletons clines, they would open a coal field, which would give going miles to and from roads to earn a few pence ; it them 300,000 tons, in addition to 600,000 tons they now would be much wiser and more humane to give them a carried ; so that in every point of view the proposed little food and permit their remaining within doors. The schemes were desirable. Some discussion . ensu ed, at the stocks of corn are nearly exhausted." Mr. Cummins, close of which both the resolutions read by the chairman were put and carrred. There were only Mr. M ozie l and letter to the Duli a magistrate of the county of Cork , in a e of Wellington, relates the most heart five other dissentients. The meeting then separated, rending cases. lie visited a towniand in Skibbereen, with DISTRESS IN IRELAND IRELAND: An English merchant has given Ca) to the Rev. Mr. Nangle towards .the erection of a pier on Achill island. On Saturday night, six sheep, the property of Mr. Os borne were killed at Newtown,Tipperary, and the car cases carried off by some persons unknown. Two shillings a stone is asked for the foreign potatoes in the hands of merchants at Limerick. Not a single bag of home potatoes at market. MALICIOUS BURNING.—FOURTEEN HEAD OF CATTLE LOST.—On the night of the Bth instant, the cow-house of Mrs. Ross, Sanpagh, containing her whole stock of black . cattle, fourteen in number, was burned to the ground.— Derry Sentinel. Of the £BB acknowledged at the Repeal Meeting, last week, about seven-eighths were sent up from the most distressed parts of the country, by priests, who wrote despondingly of the famine—which prevented the remit tances from being larger. On Thursday, a very large and respectable meeting was held in the Town Hall, Belfast, in pursuance of a requisition calling upon the Mayor to convene such a meeting, for the purpose of memorialising the government to suspend the distillation of grain during the present season of distress. The Shannonvale mills at Clonakilty, near Cork, were destroyed by fire on Sunday week. A part of the stock of wheat, and all the flour, meal, &c., were consumed. It is feared that the total suspension of this large mill in the manufacture of flour, meal, &c., will affect the price of those articles, as the stock was the only large supply of food in that part of the country. The casualty will be severely felt. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT. — On Friday night last, the rail way coach, coming into Cork, was upset by reason of the wheels sinking in the newly repaired road, and was com pletely capsized. Though the coach was crowded with passengers, all escaped save one, who had been sitting with the coachman. His " apron" being fastened across his legs, the unfortunate gentleman could not extricate himself, and was neatly crushed to death, the coach hav ing fallen direct over him. STARVATION. — The last number of the Mayo Consti tution that we received contains an account of nine deaths from starvation, in six of which the awful cause of the fa tal event was ascertained by coroners' inquests. The Western Star also bears testimony that numbers are pe rishing in Mayo from starvation ; and in the same jour nal we find a resolution of the relief committee of Kil mena and Kilneclossen, Co., Sligo, declaring that " hun dreds are in a state of absolute starvation," and that " many have lately died of want and hunger. whilst many more are reduced to the last extremity." The y Mercury reports death from starvation near 'roam, and the Westmeath Independent mentions that nine other rkitances of the some tearful event occurred in the neigh bourhood of Ballinasloe. The Cork Constitution records two deaths from famine at Tralee, and the Cork Examiner gives the horrible particulars of six others in the neigh bourhood of Bantry, where numbers are endeavouring to sustain existence on a species of sea-weed called, milvawn. The misery at Skibbereen is now unhappily but too noto- NATIONAL EDUCATION. The Daily News is one of the abler advocates of the " Good time coming ;" and, though we consider it too good news to be true, we are always ready to bear, how ever much we may be abused for our scepticism in not becoming a convert to Perfectionism, as it is called in America ! percute sed audi. The babblement about Na tional Education has issued from many pens—Dr. Hook, Mr. (Leeds) Baines, and others, all contending for an enlarged system, and all differing as to what that system should be. The Daily News would introduce " Philo sophy" into legislation ; and the Spectator " Theory" into the policy of governments. The former says : '• Having publicly stigmatised the utter barbarism of our divisions of coins, weights, and measures, we cling to them contentedly, because philosophy does not add to the Popularity cf a statesman in Britain; and because an English legislator fears nothing so much as the puerile sarcasm directed against the Gregorian reformation of the calendar :—' He has found out an evil which does nobody any harm, and suggested a remedy which will do nobody any good.' We coot t the aid of the Church in accomplishing our great object; but we only claim of zealous and indiscreet churchmen not to claim for the Establish ment more than it can carry into effect, lest despair of doing all should lead to nothing." In answer to others, the Spectator argueth as follows : —" Education, besides its own merits and requirements, is a sort of transition question by which something of philosophic theorism is to be introduced into our states manship. England must be England in Education as in every thing else. She has been great, she is great, because faithful to her traditions ; vitalise them with a certain amount of theory, or perhaps we should rather say of idealistic tendency, derived not from transcendentalism, or communism, or any other foreign speculation, but from doing as much justice to her imagination as she has hitherto done to ber common sense. It is the men that impregnate English common sense with English imagi nation who will form the statesmen of the next genera tion, or, probably, after a few year:, of the present; men who, without despising traditions, will still aspire to some thing in the future sublimer than traditions disclose. These are the men destined to feel and perceive what edu eation means, and to give it a comprehensiveness of orga nisation worthy alike of the bygone glories of England, and of those instincts of a diviner civilisation which are stirring the world." Such are the reformers of the age ! [We contend that education, on any plan, without reli gion, is teaching Infidelity by system.—En. Salop Jour.] LEGAL DURATION OF THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT. A correspondent of the London Times writes : "As there appears to be a Question as to the precise period when the present Parliament will die a natural death. allow me to call attention to the Septennial Act, the Ist of George 1., stat. 2, cap. 38, which enacts as fol lows :—' That this present Parliament, and all Parliaments that shall at any time hereafter be called, assembled, or held, shall and may respectively have continuance for seven years, and no longer, to be accounted from the day on which by the writ of summons this present Parliament hath been, or any future Parliament shall be, appointed to meet, unless this present or any such Parliament here after to be summoned shall be sooner dissolved by His Majesty, his heirs, or successors.' "As this Parliament was summoned to meet in October, 1841, there would seem no doubt that (unless previously dissolved) it can legally sit until October, 1818, being seven years from the return of the summons." STEAM NAVIGATION The new law to regulate steam navigation, and to re quire sea-going vessels to carry boats, which was passed in August last, will came into force on Friday next, the Ist of January. By the 9th clause, every steam vessel, when meeting or passing any other steam vessel, is to pass, as far as may be sate, on the port side of such vessel ; and every steam vessel on a river or narrow channel is to keep, as far as is practicable, to the starboard side of such vessel, and in default, the master or other person having charge of the vessel is to forfeit a sum not exceeding £5O In the two following clauses, power is given to the Admi ralty to make regulations respecting the exhibition of " lights " at night, which regulations are to be published in the London Gazette, and then to take effect. By the 12th section, vessels within twenty miles of the coast are to exhibit " lights" at night, and in default to pay a sum not exceeding £2O ; " and the owner of every steam vessel in which such light shall not be exhibited, as aforesaid, shall not be entitled to recover any recompense or damage whatsoever which may be sustained in consequence of any other vessel running foul thereof." The 13th section is in the following words :—" And be it enacted. that if any damage to any person or property shall be sustained in consequence of the non-observance, as respects any vessel, of the rules contained in the two enactments relative to the passing of steam vessels, and to the exhibiting of lights, hereinbefore contained, the saline shall in all re spects be deemed, in the absence of proof to the contrary, to have been occasioned by the wilful default of the master or other person having the charge of such steam vessels, and such master or other person shall be subject in all proceedings, whether civil or criminal, to the legal conse quences of such wilful neglect." It is by other sections in the new law enacted that twice a - year, in April and October, two declarations respecting the sufficiency and the good condition of the hull of every steamer and of the machinery are to be transmitted to the Board of Trade. Accidents to steamers are to be reported to the Board of Trade, as also the probable loss of a vessel, that the board may investigate into the causes of the accidents or damages sustained. With respect to sea-going steam ships of 100 tons and more, it is enacted that from and after the Ist of January next they are to be provided with boats and with a hose for the purpose of extinguishing a fire on board. THE CHASE. THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS.—On Wednesday, at Hur leston ; Thursday, at Mere Hall; Saturday, at Crewe Wood Hall. Sin W. W. WYNN'S Houwns.—On Wedras icy, at Ertling ; Thursday. at Wynnstay ; Saturday, at Alan Sadler's — at half-past ten. DOMESTIC. THE REVENUE. — With reference to the present state of the revenue, the Globe makes the following admission : —" It so happens that there is not only no present surplus to meet such a reduction, but the revenue is at this mo ment, so far as can be conjectured, actually insufficient to meet the needful expenditure of the state." SINGULAR DEATH.—On Monday a young woman, re siding near London, expired after a few boars' suffering, occasioned by eating a considerable quantity of rice in an u Moiled state. The surgeon who made a post-mortem examination found a large quantity of undigested rice, with ordinary food, in the intestines, which were enormously distended. The whole stomach was loaded with undi gested matter. He had no doubt that deceased died from obstruction of the bowels. Never before saw a case of distension of so violent a character. THE ROBBERY AT MESSRS. ROGERS AND Co.'s.—An acceptance, forming part of the property stolen, was re turned cn Wednesday, to the acceptors, Messrs. Batty, Melville, and Co., wholesale statior ers, Aldersgite-street. It was contained in a letter, the writer of which stated the affair would never be traced, and the bill ber.g of no use to him, be returned it to its owners. This is the second of the stolen documents which has lately been returned, evidently by the same party. The writing of both the letters in which the securities were enveloped is similar, and ink of the same colour. The orthography, also, is equally defective. No clue to the recovery of the stolen property is afforded by these letters.—Daily News. MORE FATAL GUN ACCIDENTS.—On the 14th inst as a young man named David Thomas was getting over a hedge with a loaded gun at. Gwmsymlog, near Aberyst with, he inconsiderately took bold of the muzzle to draw the piece after him, when the gun exploded, and the shot, lodging in his breast, caused his death in an hour.—On Saturday week, as a preventive man, in the island of Portland, of the name of Hancock, who bad just returned from duty, was cleaning the b. rrel of his pistol, the charge of which he had unfortunately omitted to withdraw, while holding it with the muzzle pointed towards his person, it unhappily went off, and the contents were lodged in his body, excepting the ball, which passed through him, causinz immediate death. _ _ _ _ A NOVEL HIGHWAYMAN.—A gentleman of Lutter. worth was walking, about the middle of the day, on Mon day last, in the vicinity of that town, when his attention was suddenly arrested by the irruption from a ditch of a very singular antagonist. A mouse actually ran at him, sat about his foot, and bit his gaiters ! ! We have heard certainly, in our day, many strange tales about these little frolicsome animals,—how they have excavated ex cellent Stilton, tunnelled through heart of oak, and made embankments of " I promise to pay " and .post obits, but we never heard before of a mouse daring enough or hungry enough to attack a gaiter on a live leg at one o'clock p.m. The above assuredly must either be the mouse of .lEsop, that emancipated the lion, or it must be the " ridiculus mus" of classic story.—Leicester Journal. How SOME PEOPLE LIVE AND DlE.—Last week, an elderly woman, well known to the bargemen and watermen about Whitehall under the name of Peggy the Mudlark, dropped down in Scotland-yard, and soon afterwards ex pired. She lived by gathering up the pieces of coal which fall from the barges as their cargoes are discharged. Many a time has she been seen with half her body immersed in mud, working in her strange colliery, groping and digging for the black diamonds she was to transmute into bread. No weather which did not put a stop to unloading the barges was ever severe enough to give her a holiday. Last week, however, the cold seems to have been too great for her aged frame, and on her return from one of her usual excursions with a small booty, she was seized with a shi vering fit, and before medical assistance could be obtained he was a corpse. DONATIONS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS FOR THE IRISH POOR.—The " Friends " throughout England have come forward in a most unostentatious and truly liberal manner, in behalf of the destitute people of Ireland. In the language of a contemporary " the contributions of in dividual members have been most liberal—they put to shame the heartlessness with which the applications of voluntary Committees have been treated by some who draw their fortunes from the soil." Tile " Friends " of London have appropriated very handsome sums of from £5OO to at the least £5O by each member. Mr. Samuel Gurney and Mr. Jno. Gurney of London have each con tributed £5OO each, and we have before us a list of about fifty individuals, some giving £3OO each, others £2OO, a large number £lOO, and others £5O and £2O respectively. It is fully expected that the " Friends." in this town, Manchester, Leeds, &c., will follow this noble example. The establishment of soup-shops is the channel through which they appear to think relief can, at this season, be most beneficially distributed, and in that way the funds obtained are intended to be applied. Dec. 29, 1846. A deputation of the merchants, shipowners, and others interested in the salt-trade to India, waited on Sir John Hobhonse on Thursday week. The object was to urge the abolition of the power monopolised by the East India Company to manufacture salt in India. A memorial to this effect was read by Sir Denis Le Marchant ; and se veral gentlemen followed with addresses of the same pur port. Sir John Hobhouse promised to bring the subject before the Cabinet. He could not, however, hold out any immediate prospect that the East India Company would surrender £1,300,000 of annual revenue. The India Board, being a concurrent rather than a directly control ling power, could not issue peremptory instructions; but everything should be done which the case would permit. The East India Company had already sent a despatch to the Indian Government on the subject ; but he was not at liberty to disclose the nature of the communication. BURGLARY AT BRADFORD.—Three brothers, all des perate characters, have for some time been carrying on a system of robbery and plunder in and near Bradford, and have at length been secured, while in the act of com mitting another depredation. The names of the prisoners are Silvester, David, and William Petty. Yesterday week, early in the morning, they were discovered in a butchers' shop into which they had broken. The three sons of the owner attacked them, and a desperate struggle ensued. The thieves were, however, finally secured, though they were strongly armed. There were found in their possession lucifer matches, pick-locks, a hammer, a blunderbuss, and nearly 100 skeleton keys, and a dark lantern. In their houses an enormous quantity of stolen, property was found. They have all "been committed for trial at York assizes, on evidence of several daring burglaries. a A lifeless state t S e a wEeDrGeE safely. O n t stwise h ohpo,ns i wi ofecbsteivh m yeotrdehdo o rpmhpaal r haaelow n a dcsi fr i ssa: n ktnyfc g aertga. oatthl of Wednesday week,. just as Stockton market was about to be opened, a vehicle of a novel description, drawn by two horses, was seen wending its course from the Yorkshire side of the Tees towards the shambles. It attracted much at tention,. and, on close inspection, appeared to be a tub of huge dimensions, which had been used for the purpose of scalding pigs, and in which eight goodly sized grunters in rt this valuable :ptqhsorwusitiasahewn s t:i thttichuoci which tab c cyb k ahbhi sl ,noeo c e tbt a ft ot thys m oosouam e nomstosn f , v r edaea o avrnddn m aegdwi beside Guis i og T anoi me htti hi hr,oey e or 3rahon o spen6eui sdsesigtt n c.srhafiwe e tapson r ntpel hedreooes stock nn n mtt woit g maongi srder i eaeo t i ;fin. eaesme i ttcde m d:ro. a i re than he would have obtained the preceding we k. DEFECTIVE MEANS OF EDUCATION.—The Rev. Richard Burgess, B. D., hon. sec. to the London Dio cesan Board of Education, has published, in the form of a pamphlet, a " Letter to the right hon. and right rev. the Lord Bishop of London," on the want of means for educating the middle classes in his lordship's diocese. The importance of the rev. gentleman's suggestions may be inferred from the fact that the bishop has offered to contribute £5OO, and an annual subscription of £25 towards a fund for supplying the deficiency of education in the metropolis. Mr. Burgess suggests the erection of fifty schools, to contain 250 children each, which will provide for a daily attendance of twelve thou sand five hundred ; but, taking into account the occa sional absences, one-fifth additional may be placed on the register. In other words, the fifty schools contemplated will bring fifteen thousand children under education. It is calculated that the schools, with rooms for the resi dences of masters and mistresses built over them, may be erected for an average sum of £BOO, exclusive of the cost of sites and fittines. THE ESQUIMAux.—The young stranger, yclept rookie Ekie, brought to Kirkaldy some weeks ago by one of the whale ships, has, since his sojourn in that town, not only become an object of attraction to the community, but has been taken under the special patronage of the gentry, who have bestowed on him every kindness and attention. They have metamorphosed his condition of life, from that of a rude denzen of nature's wilderness to a smart look ing sprig of gentility, by having dressed him in a new suit of fashionable :clothes. His savage dress of seal skin he only resumes when invited to visit any of the baronial seats in the neighbourhood, such as Raith, Dysart, Bal birnie, Wemyss Castle, where he has shown with what dexterity be can use the bow and the spear, and, when convenient, manage his canoe, which implements he al ways takes with him on such occasions. He seems a lad about fourteen or fifteen years of age, stout made, broad features, dark sharp eyes, 'jet black glossy hair, with a little tinge of sallow in his complexion, and seems quite at home. As he is apt to learn, it is to be hoped that the experienced teacher under whose tuition he is placed will use every endeavour to pour instruction into his untutored mind. Capt. Kinnear, with whom he is domiciled, pledged himself to his parents to take him home on his return to the country next spring. STAND AGAINST POPERY IN YORKSHIRE.—A Com mittee is in active operation in the West Riding with a view to check the rapid advancement of popery. In the circular which they have put forth they say—" The fact forces itself upon our attention that the church of Rome is at this season putting forth all her energies to prosely tise our people from the profession of Protestant truth. On every hand, and by every means, her emissaries are zealously employed in commending Romattism and de preciating the Reformed Faith as maintained by the church of England. Her cathedrals and churches, her colleges and schools, are rising amongst us throughout the country, and the success which attends her efforts is too manifest in the apostacy of many from the Protestant church." They propose, by means of sermons, lectures, meetings, &c., to call attention to the subject ; and adopt the language of the late Bishop Barrington, namely : "As Protestants, we are bound from the king to the humblest of his subjects, by an imperious duty, to the Reformation ; if the Reformation was worth establishing, it is worth maintaining; and can only be maintained by a mateet vigilance to support of those - principles which effected it in the sixteenth century." The document is signed by most respectable clergymen of Sheffield, Wake field, Barnsley, Doncaster, &c., who invite cooperation in the cause. A BANKRUPT COURT IN "A FIX."—On Tuesday week the Newcastle Bankruptcy Court presented an ex traordinary scene throughout the day, being filled with attorneys, debtors, creditors, &c., in momentary expec tation of the arrival of the Commissioner, who never made his appearance. He resides near a station on the Newcastle and Darlington Railway, and was unable to come up, the road being blocked up by snow. From time to time his honour was telegraphed from Gateshead station, but no answer was returned. Meantime, in anxious expectancy, creditors looked at bankrupts, as much as to ask when a dividend would be paid ; and some bankrupts seemed to ask creditors " if they would have the dividend now, or wait till they got it ?" Expectant assignees began to look " big ;" reporters forgot, or at least confounded dinner with copy ? insolvents at last smothered their grievances in a wish for a good dinner ; defendants rejoiced to think they had been brought from home to sit over a good fire, but wondered how they would be paid for their atter,dance : attorneys wondered how much they could charge for so long an attendance, and if so, whether the estates or the commissioner were liable; but one of their own number declared candidly, that the snow being in legal phraseology " the act of God," barred the right to recover. Finally, all hope of his ho nour arriving having fled, the parties were fain to run home, helter-skelter, to dinner. EXTRAORDINARY SUPERSTITION AND SUICIDE. — On Thursday, an inquest was held before Mr. Carter, one of the coroners of Surrey, on the body of John Gruff, a German and Dutch clockmaker, aged twenty-four, who committed suicide under very peculiar circumstances. It appeared that the deceased. who lived with another young man, a countryman of his, named Ruff, in No. 17, Cross-street, Newington, had last week complained of slight illness, and on Saturday night he received some grapes from a young woman who had been in the habit of washing for him. On eating a part of the grapes he fancied himself poisoned, and subsequently declared . that the fruit had been charmed by the y oun g woman, in order to increase his affection for her. S o stron g was his belief, that be got out of his bed on Sunday night, and went a considerable distance to the residence of the young woman, to request that she would revoke the charm. He re turned home more reconciled, and went to bed, but about two o'clock he got up, exclaimed to his fellow-lodger that 11:s time was come, that the devil had hold of him, and he must destroy himself. Ruff, his fellow-lodger, ran up stairs to request the assistance of his landlord, and on both coming down, they found the deceased lying on the floor, with a deep wound in his thro at, and a razor tightly clenched in his right hand, and death rapidly followed. A verdict of "Temporary insanity" was returned. LORD MORPETH ON STATE EDUCATION.— , The annual meeting of the York and Ripon Diocesan Board of Edu cation was held on Tuesday, in that city; Lord Morpeth, M.P., in the chair. Lord Wenlock, G. Hudson, Esq., (Lord Mayor of York,) the Bishop of Ripon, the Arch deacon of Cleveland, Archdeacon Wilberforce, and others. took part in the proceedings. Lord Morpeth, in return ing thanks at the close of the prcceedibgs, said—Of course, I feel that in this place, andon this occasion, it will not be fitting in me to enter into any of those con troverted questions which have excited public attention of late, to a considerable extent, and which may be made the subject of discussion, and possibly of difference in the legislature. I will not encounter the topic as to how far the state ought to act—how far the state ought to move—or how far the state ought to stand aloof, with respect to the education of the people. I may, perhaps, without incurring the imputation of great rashness, ven ture to conjecture that the fittest course to pursue would be not that which is indicated by an extreme view of the case. I think it certainly possible that the state may meddle too much ; for, in dealing with such a question. as in the case of the dinner which we are not to eat (re ferring to a dinner projected, but postponed in conse dquouenbclee r o i f s k t o h f e b s e t h a i t g e v o e f r d t o h n e eand weather, tn d ) e r t d h e o r n e e s a ( l L w a a u y g s h t t h e e r and applause.) But I will certainly further venture to say, that with respect to the country at large, I am not satisfied with the exact state of things which prevails at present. I think there is a call for more schools than we have. I think there is a call for better schools than many of those we have. (Hear.) I think that many of our systems are still imperfect ; that many of our masters are ill-qualified for the office, and almost all less well paid than we should wish to see. (Applause.) And speaking here, in the midst of this institution, and in this comely and suitable building, in which 1 am now glad to see it housed, I, for one, do not regret the assistance which has bees conferred by the state, in addition to local contributions and private munificence. But one thing, I think, is ab solutely clear, and in stating it I m.y challenge contra diction, that whatever the state may do—whether it shall leave the work of education entirely alone, or whe ther it shall proceed so far as the most venturous inter ferers would wish,—it is quite plain that there would still be much more left to he done—there would be still much more which private effort, private superintendence, private generosity, must always do the best, and will fre quently 00 the moat. (Applause.) in a bail, °pet of t 'nor of 7 has Mai chaff offsi stre late' met] Eyr eon wall fell got, sud unt bra last wel I sa afte the ins sea will vid }gat obj MI pai wl3 ♦et Flo