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EVENING, SEPTEMBER l3, 1851

—Lieutenant Aldrich on Somerville Island, and
Lieutenant M'Clintock on Cornwallis bland—to the

westward about twenty-five miles, but without dii-
covering any traces. Lieutenant Mecham found, in
the bay intended for the winter quarters of the As-
sistance and Tender, the expeditions of Sir John Ross
and Captain Penny.
21. On the afternoon of the 17th Captain Penny

arrived in his dog sledge, when the spring operations
were determined upon, Captain Penny cheerfully
undertaking the complete:search of Wellington Strait.
Thus ended the season of 1850. _ _ _

22. The expedition was now prepared for the
winter, and every means taken to pass as cheerfully
and healthfully as possible this dreary season; exer-
cise in the open air, instruction and amusement were
resorted to, which, with the most perfect unanimity
and a fair portion of conviviality (under the blessing
of Providence), carried us through the monotony and
privations of an Arctic winter in good health and
spirits ; for which much credit and my best thanks
are due to Captain Ommanney, the officers, and all
composing the expedition.
23„ On the 18th of February, 1851, a communica-
tion was opened (by a small party from this expedi-
tion) with our neighbours to the eastward (temperature
69i deg. below the freezing point), and shortly after
an interchange was made with Captain Penny, of the
detail of equipment for travelling parties determined
on by each.
24. By the 10th of March every arrangement bad
been made and generally promulgated for the depar-
ture of the spring searching parties as early as
practicable after the first week in April. All appeared
satisfied with the positions assigned to them, and
became alike animated in the great and humane
cause. 'With regard to myself, it appeared imperative
that I should remain with the ships, and leave to
those around me the satisfaction and honour of search
and discovery---fr:qm their ages well adapting them
for such service, the confidence I felt in their talent
and experience being fully equal to direct the energies
and command the powers of the parties under them,
and their determination to carry out the tasks they
were appointed to perform. I must, however, say
that (if such a feeling could exist on a matter of duty)
I did not without the sacrifice of some personal
ambition refrain from participating in this great work
of humanity.
25. From this period all joined heart and hand in
putting forward every effort in the general prepara-
tion. 'Walking excursions for four hours a day when
weather permitted (temperature ranging from deg.
43 min. minus), and sledge dragging with the actual
weights were measures of training.
26. By the 28th of March each individual was
ready, and the equipment of the sledges generally
complete; the best feeling and highest spirits pre-
vailed throughout the expedition, and all looked for-
ward most anxiously for the arrival of the time when
weather and temperature would permit their depar-
ture.

27. The weather being more promising on the 4th
of April (temperature 38 degrees below freezing
point), Mr. M'Dougall, second master, with one
officor and six men, one runner sledge and twenty
days' provisions, left to examine the depots laid out in
October last, and to search and examine with the view
to a subsequent survey the unexplored part between
Cornwallis and Bathurst Islands.

28. The temperature having risen, on the sth of
April the final departure of the parties was determined
upon for the 9th. On the 7th (temperature 44 deg.
below freezing point) the sledges were packed and
made ready for that purpose, but fresh winds frus-
trated that arrangement.
29. The weather becoming non-favourable on the
morning of the 12th (temperature 50 deg. below
freezing point), the whole of the sledges, 14 in num-
ber, manned by 104 officers and men, and provi-
sioned, some for 40, and others for 42 days, with an
average dragging weight of 205 pounds per man,
were conducted under the command of Captain Om-
manney to an advanced position on the ice off the
north-west end of Griffith Island, where tents were
pitched, luncheon cooked, and all closelyiinspected by
myself; the highly satisfactory result gave me great
confidence and hope. All then retired to pass the
next day (Sunday) in quiet reflection and prayer.
30. A moderate gale from the south east, with
heavy drift, prevented their departure on the 14th, as
intended.

31. (Temperature 14 below freezing point.) On
the evening of the 15th of April, the wind having
fallen, and the temperature having risen to plus 18
deg., all proceeded to the sledges. On arrival a short
period was devoted to refreshment, after which all
joined in offering up a prayer for protection and gui-
dance, then started, w th, perhaps, as much determi-
nation and enthusiasm as ever existed, with the cer-
tainty of having to undergo great labour, fatigue, and
privation.
32. On the 24th another party of one officer and
six men left to search Lowther, Davy, and Garrett
Islands, and examine the state of the ice to the west-
ward. Between this and the beginning of May the
temperature fell considerably (to minus 37 deg.) ac-
companied by strong winds.
33. The whole of the limited parties returned at
periods between the 27th of April and the 7th of May,
unhappily without any traces. They brought in
casualties of men from frost bite to the number of 18,
one of which, it is my painful duty to relate, ended
fatally. George S. Malcolm, captain of the hold of
the Resolute, a native of Dundee, whose death was
attributed to exhaustion and frost bite, brought on
while labouring as captain of the sledge Excellent
(virtually, it may be said) died at his post. He was
a most respected petty officer ; his remains are at rest
on the north-east shore of Griffith Island.
During this interval four sledges, manned with 27
officers and men, were dispatched with refreshments
for the extended parties in their return, and to assist
them, if necessary, as also to make observations, fix
positions, deposit records, &c.
On the 23d of May Captain Penny reached the Re-
solute, and made known to me that be had discovered
a large space of water up Wellington Strait, com-
mencing about 70 miles N.W. by N. of Cape
Hothatn. I much regretted that our remaining
strength did not admit of my placing at his disposal
sufficient aid to convey a boat, that he might ascertain
its nature and extent.

36. The extended parties returned—unhappily,
without any trace whatever—between the 28th of
May and the 4th July, in safety and good health, but
requiring short periods of rest and comfort to remove
the effects of privation and fatigue. They were out
respectively 44, 58, 60, 62, and (the Melville Island
parties) 80 days, some portions of periods they were
(from heavy drift) detained in their tents, with the
temperature ranging as much 69 deg. below the
freezing point.
39. Although all have experienced, in the perform-
ance of this extensive undertaking, considerable pri-
vation, labour, and suffering, and been animated with
corresponding ardour in the great cause of humanity
(which I earnestly hope will meet the approbation of
the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty), yet I feel
it to be due to bring specially before their
Lordships' notice the great performances of Lieu-
tenant M'Clintock and the crew of the sledge Perse-
verance.

40. I cannot omit to notice that the runner sledges
have withstood the severe wear and tear of these jour-
neys most admirably; I believe their construction to
have arisen from the experience of Artic voyages ; but
feel it to be due to express that the manner in which
they are put together reflects the highest credit on the
persons who did it.
41. I feel it would be a source of great satisfaction
to their Lordships to know that every officer reports
the conduct of his men to have been most exemplary,
each with their untiring labour and the good feeling
exhibited towards each other was highly gratifying.
And I must not omit to mention, that the crews are
reported to have been animated by the example of the
junior officers, who were almost constantly at the
drag ropes.
42. It is my pleasing duty to report that the health
of all composing the expedition is highly satisfactory ;
the sick lists, dated 9th instant, of the ships, have but
the following men upon them :—Thomas Brown
(blacksmith), Peter Eeclestone "(cook), Edward Pri-
vett (A. B.), James Rogers (A. B.), William Col-
will (blacksmith), Thomas Rumble (A. B.), John
lleydon (A. B.)
43. The four vessesl composing the expedition are
in every way efficient; the defects of the Pioneer,
consisting of 21 top timbers, crushed by a heavy nip
in Melville Bay, have been made good. The machi-
nery of both steam-vessels has undergone repairs and
numerous adjustments, and is in a state highly satis-
factory, reflecting much credit on the engineers.
44. The complements of the vessels composing the
expedition are complete, the vacancy in the Resolute
having been filled by James Fox, A. 8., volunteer
(native of Portpatrick, Wigtonshire), who was re-
ceived on the 17th of August last from the Prince
Albert (Commander Forsyth) for medical treatment.
45. Large caverns have been built and records de-
posited at 13eechy Island, cape Martyr, southern end
of Griffith Island, Cape Walker, in latitude 73 deg.
55 min. north, longitude 99 deg. 25 min. west; and
in latitude 75 deg., lon. 99 deg. Printed notices have
also been deposited on the routes of the several search-

iog parties.
46. Having yesterday been released from our
winter quarters, and most respectably reached to those
of Captain Penny, I have now the honour to state,
that having maturely considered the directions and
extent of the search (without success) that has been
made by this expedition, and weighed the opinions of
the officers when at their extremes, I have arrived at
the conclusion that the expedition under Sir John
Franklin did not prosecute the object of its mission to
the southward and westward of Wellington Strait,
and having communicated with Captain Penny and
fully considered his official reply to my letter, relative
to the search of Wellington Strait by the expedition
under his charge (unhappily without success), I do

not feel authorised to prosecute (even if practicable) a
further search in those directions.

47. It is now my intention to proceed with all
dispatch to attempt the search of Jones's Sound ;
looking to their Lordships' intention, and to the Vim-
pression that may now become strengthened with
reference thereto, I have at the last moment the satis-
fiction of stating that we are proceeding under fa-
vourable circumstances.

I have the honour to be, &c.,
HORATIO T. AUSTIN,
Captain, and in charge of the Expedition.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE VACANT AIDES-DE-CAMP.—It is currently
reported here that the three vacant naval aides-de-
camp to the Queen will be filled up by Captains
Pechell, \Vyvill, and Sir C. llotham.
Commander Lord John Hay returned to Devon-
port Dockyard on Thursday morning from Yester
House, Haddington, where he has been attending the
funeral of his late lamented uncle, Rear-Admiral
Lord John Hay.
Virago Steam-sloop, Commander W. 11. Stewart,
sailed from Devonport on Thursday morning for the
Pacific.

Grecian, 12, Commander the Hon. G. Keane,
will sail this day from Devonport for the Cape of
Good Hope.
Styx steam-sloop, Commander W. K. Hall, that
sailed from Plymouth for the Cape the sth August,
arrived at Madeira after a favourable passage on the
9th, all well.

Calypso, 18, Captain Forbes, sailed on Thursday
at noon tor Halifax.

DEVONPORT, TiIIIRSDAY.—The wind has been fresh
all day, which has prevented the Bellerophon, 78,
Captain Lord G. Paulet, being swung tb adjust her
compasses. It will be done as soon as the weather
permits, after which she will be paid advance to her
crew.

PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—Rear-Admiral W. W.
Henderson, C. 8., K.H., with Flag-Captain Cannon,
Commander Jenner, Flag-Lieutenant Goodenough,
and Secretary Triphook, embarked on board the
Centaur steam-frigate at Spithead at three o'clock
this afternoon, bearing the Admiral's flag, when he
was received with manned yards, guard of marines,
and all the officers of the ship in full dress, as usual
on such occasions. To-morrow the Centaur sails for
the Brazils.

The Shearwater steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Horton, sailed last evening for Plymoutlaand
the Mediterranean.

The Seaflower cutter, Lieutenant-Commander
Fletcher, is refitted, and will proceed to resume her
station off Jersey in the early part of next week.
The Defence convict-ship bas bent sails, and will
proceed to the Thames in a day or two.
The Hercules, 72, fitting for the Mediterranean re-
ceiving ship, is being newly coppered, and will come
out of dock on Monday. So eminently successful has
been Mr. Peacock's (the superintendent of the
Southampton Docks) composition on the bottom of
the Apollo troop•frigate i❑ preserving the copper,
that the Lords of the Admiralty have ordered the
Hercules to have two coats of it, and the Iris, at
Chatham, two also; and the Vulcan, iron troop steam-
frigate, is ordered to have three coats of Mr. Peacock's
improved preservative for iron bottoms.
The Dauntless steam (screw) frigate, Captain Hal-
stead, has topgallantmasts pointed, and is " rattling
down."

The Rodney, 92, Captain Charles Grahame, C. 8.,
has topmast up and fidded, and topmast rigging fitted.

APPOINTMENTS.

WOOLWICIT, SEPT. I.2.—Surgeons Superintendent
M'Crea (1843), to the Anna Maria con-
vict ship.
Second Masters—A. J. A. Parka (1850), to the
Sprightly paddle-wheel steam-vessel, of 100-horse
power, tender to the Victory flag-ship at Portsmouth ;
Charles Turner (1845), to the Hercules, 10, store-
ship, re-commissioned to-day at Portsmouth for par-
ticular service.

Assistant-Engineer—John M. Smith to the Asp
paddle-wheel steam surveying vessel, tender to the
Fisgard, flag-ship at Woolwich, for service at Holy-
head.

Midshipman George B. Cooper, to the Albion, 90,
on the Mediterranean station.

Gunner—Stephen Hayward to the Hercules.
Boatswain—William Davies to the Hercules.
Carpenter—John Reid to the Hercules.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
YACHTS WITII WOODEN SAILS.

Strange as this announcement may appear, such
things may daily be seen in Cowes harbour. Thanks
to the talented builders and riggers of the America,
we say riggers, because, in spite of what the writers
in the Times, Herald, &c., may say, we hold to our
original opinion, that the cutting and the setting of
the sails has as much to do with a vessel's fleetness as
her hull. Our builders and sailmakers are alive to
this fact, and during the week the Whites and Ratsey
have been trying all sorts of experiments. Having
the lines of the far-famed America, and the little less
celebrated Madeira packet brig Brilliant, they have
constructed models of both, and schooner:rigged them,
ala America, with wooden sails. They are each six
feet in length, and it surprises every one to see how
swiftly they cut along, and how close they sail to the
wind with their wooden sails flat aft, or go ahead
boomed out when before the wind. Lord Mount
Edgecumbe, C. M. Talbot, Esq., and a number of
other yachtsmen, who are about to build new yachts,
or to have their present ones altered to suit the times,
are daily witnesses of the different experiments. The
sails are made of thin fir board, the thickness of veneer,
but Ratsey is now making canvas sails, of the Ame-
rican cut, for them. The Marquis Conyngham's yacht
Constance, 218 tons, is dismantling, to be ready to
be hauled up and lengthened 12 feet by the bows ;
as is Earl Fitzhardinge's, to be lengthened 10 feet.
The Etrl of Mount Edgecumbe has given orders to
White to build him another yacht, of about 80 tons.

A gentleman has offered to sail his yacht against
the America for 5,000/., but as we see no probability of
the match ever coming off, we do not mention mimes.
We have at present no yacht at all equal to the
America for fleetness ; ours have all balloon main-
sails, foresails, and staysails, and they are not fit to
go to wind with.
We expect daily to receive orders to insert adver-
tisements of a number of fine sea boats being for sale,
good burdensome vessels of from 30 to 200 tons, well
adapted for the foreign fruit trade, all well fitted and
well found, and built of the very best materials, well
known as the Cowes Fleet.

COURT CIRCULAR.
BALMORAL, THURSDAY, SEPT. 11.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Royal,
the Princess Alice, and the Prince Alfred drove yes-
terday i❑ an open carriage.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out deer
stalking. The Prince of Wales accompanied his
Royal Highness to the forest.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited
her Majesty yesterday evening at Balmoral.

Earl Grey arrived in town yesterday from Minto
House, near Hawick, Roxhurghshire.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday from the Colo-
nial-office to the Governors of the North American
Colonies.

His Excellency the American Minister, with Mrs.
and Miss Lawrence, left town on Thursday for a tour
in Ireland.

THE ROYAL VISIT TO LANCASHIRE.

The royal route through Manchester, on the occa-
sion of her Majesty's visit on the 10th of October, has
been received by the Mayor, and is found to embrace
a circuit of three miles. It commences at Victoria-
bridge, and includes the following streets :—Victoria-
street, Market-street (to High-street), High-street,
Shude-hill, Swan-street, Oldham-street, north end of
Piccadilly, Mosley-street, Peter-street, Deans-gate
(to King-street), King-street, Cross-street, St. Ann-
street, St. Ann's-square. Her Majesty, Prince Al-
bert, and suite will here visit the Exchange, where
an address is to be presented to her Majesty. The
route then continues by the north end of St. Ann-
street, Deansgate, Bridge-street, and the Albert-
bridge across the Irwell into Salford. From Salford
the royal cortege will return (by the road it came) to
Worsley. The entire route from Worsley and back
will be about seventeen miles.

The Royal party will pass through Salford on
their way to Manchester. The route lies close by
the walls of the Peel Park, and her Majesty and
Prince Albert, being patrons of the extensive public
library and museum recently established here, it is
proposed to invite a passing visit. The park contains
about 30 acres of ground, picturesquely overhanging
a bend of the river Irwell on its right bank, is well
wooded, has handsome carriage drives, garden plots,
shrubberies, and spacious lawns, so that it presents
some rare attractions for a people's park. The library
and museum occupy a will-built modern looking hall,
approached by a good carriage drive, at a distance of
about 100 yards from the entrance to the park. The
mansion itself cost the builder, Colonel Ackers,
30,0001 ; but the proximity of factory chimneys,
vomiting clouds of smoke incessantly, though not so
near as to prevent healthy vegetation in the park, ren-
dered it latterly an undesirable residence for a gentle-
man of fortune, and the Park Committee purchased
the building for 6,000/. It is proposed that the
Mayor and corporation shall present an address to
her Majesty in the park, and that the Sunday School
children of the two boroughs shall also be congregated
on the lawns (to the number of 60,000 or 70,000),
and sing the national anthem.
The county magistrates are anxious to testify their
respect for their gracious Sovereign, but whether it
shall be done at the south or the north extremity of the
county is a question to be determined. The ancient
castle at Lancaster, once the palace of John o' Gaunt,

' hai long been degraded to the purposes of a debtors'
prison ; but it has been thought that, should her
Majesty return from Balmoral via Carlisle, she might
be induced to make a short stay at Lancaster, and that
one of the assize courts in the castle might be used
as a reception room for the occasion. Whether her
Majesty will be tempted to enter the keep and mount
the fine old tower which commands such a magnifi-
cent view of Morecombe- bay and the mountainous
ranges of Cumberland and Westmoreland, is another
question ; but its fine position and the historical
associations connected with the building—which have
attracted other monarchs in past times—may probably
not be thrown away, should the weather be find and
time permit. A committee of magistrates has been
appointed to consider the matter and take the neces-
sary steps for ascertaining her Majesty's pleasure on
these points.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAFEES OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—The little town of Apt, in the depart-
ment of Vaucluse, has recently been the scene of a
series of those miraculous manifestations with which
the Roman Catholic Church from time to time regales
the spirits of her disciplss and keeps alive their faith
in the invisible world by turning upside down the
laws which have been established for the government
of this. Lord Shrewsbury and a large number of
pious pilgrims from our Universities have immor-
talised the trances of the Estatica and the pangs of
the Addolorata. What wonder that such notoriety
should stir up other candidates for fame, and that
fresh members of the more devout sex should conti-
nually be found ready to perform and to attest things
equally surprising and edifying ? The latest exhibi-
tion in this peculiar style of private theatricals is Rose
Tamisier, a young woman of good character and
mystical appearance, residing at the town of Apt,
in the vicinity of the scenes consecrated to the me-
mory of all time by the loves of Petrach and Laura.
It would be endless to enumerate her performances.
She mended the Cure's clothes with miraculous but-
tons; she desired her guardian angel to wake him in
the morning by knocking thrice on his table ; she
honoured his church by exhibiting in it the pheno-
menon of a bleeding picture, and by these means
gained so complete an ascendancy over his mind that
he called one witness an atheist for doubting her su-
pernatural powers, and turned his vicaire adrift for
similar incredulity. Rose knelt without touching
the ground, asserted that she was surrounded by ce-
lestial light, received the consecrated wafer miracu-
lously, and foresaw the bleedings of the picture—
nothing being required for the performance of these
latter feats but the possession of the key of the church
and free ingress alone and with her pious companions.
In short, poor Rose did everything which should have
insured her, according to all precedent, the utmost
veneration in this life, and canonization as a matter of
course. But how capricious is the lot of saints !
Whether it was that she had fixed upon a wrong
locality for the exercise of her power in the only de-
partment in France whose Council-General has adopted
a decidedly republican revolution, and should have
chosen the city of buttons and halfpence rather than
the land of Petrarch and Laura for the exhibition of
her function, certain it is that, though backed by the
Cure and not unpatronised by other reverend gentle-
men, the public of Vaucluse refused faith to her
miracles, and actually presumed to call her an
impostor. Why those who profess belief in
millions of miracles far worse attested and much easier
of explanation than the efforts of poor Rose Tamisier
should all of a sudden be seized with a spirit of incre-
dulity, we cannot say, but certain it is that the only
reward which she has reaped for her well-meant con-
tributions to the Romish hagiography has been a public
accusation before the tribunals of the country. Cer-
tainly there were circumstances which seemed to throw
a shade of doubt over the veracity of the votaress, and
it was asserted that she had miraculously caused a
person to write whose proficiency in that useful art
was proved to have been the result of a very common-
place and methodical course of instruction ; she was
also permitted to fall into a trap laid for her by the
Rev. M. Chavard, who somewhat irreverently, as it
appears to us, invented a vision about a hand and a
cup, and a voice and a mitre, which he declared that
he had seen, and which Rose, probably moved
by a spirit of honourable emulation, declared she
had also seen at the same time. But what of that ?
Surely a disposition to dabble in pious frauds is no
disqualification for sanctity. If it be, we tremble for
the integrity of the Calendar. However this may be,
the case was brought before the correctional police,
who after three days' hearing decided that they had
no jurisdiction in the matter, and so relieved them-
selves from the necessity of deciding at all. The
decision of the tribunal was that the 262,21 article of
the Penal Code did not apply bo the case. The article
is as follows :—" Every "person who shall have, by
words or gestures, outraged the objects of a worship
in the places destined or serving actually for its exer-
cise, or the ministers of this worship in their func-
tions, shall be punished by a fine from 16 to 500
francs, and an imprisonment of from 15 days to two
months." The tribunal seem to have been of opinion
that the withdrawal of the consecrated wafer from the
tabernacle, or the preparation of an apparatus to make
a picture bleed, were not outrages upon these objects.
A singular decision, and one which would seem to
imply that so long as the end was the advancement of
religion, the means, although they might take the
form of theft in the one case, and of perforation of the
surface of a picture in the other, could not be of the
nature of an outrage. It is melancholy to reflect that
the spirit of infidelity which Dr. Newman designates
as peculiar to Protestantism should have made such
progress in Roman Catholic countries that persons
should actually be threatened with fine and imprison-
ment for doing that which, according to him, is the
most easy, the most natural, and most probable thing
in the world—merely working a few miracles. Had
the archbishop who disbelieved and the curate who
was turned out of his office rather than sanction the
belief of Rose Tamisierts miracles only had the ad-
vantage of hearing this last unfolder of the develop-
ment of the Church, they would have learnt to blush
for the incredulous spirit which had led them to call
her supernatural powers in question. It is no exag-
geration of Dr. Newman's doctrine to assert that a
miracle is nothing strange or uncommon, and that
whenever one is related to us the burden of proof is
thrown on the man who denies it rather than on him
who asserts it. This child-like disposition ought to be
cultivated at all events, and it would be far better to
swallow oceans of falsehood than lose one particle of
truth. In fact, what do a few miracles more or
less matter when they are, according to the most pro-
found theologian of the day, the everyday practice of
the Church ; so that the violation of the laws of na-
ture may also be said to have become in his creed a
law of nature itself? Nay, so trite, so common, and
so vulgar are the supernatural gifts of the Roman
Catholic Church become in this matter-of-fact age
that the machinery of co-operation which covers our
land with railways and our sea with steamers, and
affords a mighty agency by which national improve-
ments are effected, has been applied to the purpose of
purchasing those unseen ministerial services whereby
the Church of Rome professes to deliver the soul of
the believer from its durance in the purifying flames
of purgatory. Of ell the applications of the joint-
stoc principle which this age and country have wit-
nessed, there is none probably so remarkable as the
All Souls Purgatorian at the mission of St. Ann,
Spicer-street, Spitalfields, London, the leading feature
of which is the payment of 2d. per week, and the
consideration a certain exemption, in return for this
very moderate sacrifice in this life, from the flames of
purgatory. Whether this society is conducted on the
plan of mutual assurance, so that those payments
which are in excess are carried to the credit of those
which are in deficit, or whether a separate account
is kept between the keepers of purgatory and each
contributor, we do not know—nor are we apprised of
the manner in which the funds of the society are to
be expended, whether according to the old and ortho-
dox precedent of St. Peter's in building the Roman
Catholic church which we are promised for the orna-
ment of our metropolis, in assisting the Roman
Catholic college in Ireland, or in restoring some de-
gree of substance to the dilapidated Papal exchequer.
It may deserve the consideration of Dr. Newman
and other advocates of development, whether the joint-
stock principle which is thus applied to the purchase
of indulgences might not answer equally well for
supplying new miracles as fast as required. We
can imagine no vocation in which combination and
co-operation would be more necessary than in the
working of modern miracles, and we only feel an
apprehension that, considering on the one hand the
limited supply of the article produced, and on the
other hand the boundless demand of minds ready to
swanev„, the portents of the whole Oriental mythology
at a single gulp, even this method of production may
not be fond sufficiently prolific to readjust the balance
and gratify those wbo deem nothing believed while
aught remains incredible.
ADVERTISER.—The tide of emigration from
Ireland continues to roll on with undiminished force.
If, indeed, there be any difference in the momentum
with which it proceeds, it is in addition to it, not di•
minution from it. It had hitherto been hoped, that
in the event of the present harvest realizing the ex-
pectations which had for some time past been enter-
tained of the abundance of its yield, the spirit of
emigration would receive a check, and that, with
better prospects at home, the Irish peasantry would
not seek a settlement in a foreign land. The event
has not accorded with these anticipations. The har-
vest has been all that could be desired. The yield is
good—much better than has
ample, and the quality g
been known for many years. For at least one twelve-
month to come there will bean abundance, we
might say a superabundance, of
country. Prices will, as a food in the sister
natural
be unprecedentedly cheat), \York, consequence,
moreover, is also
abundant. Formerly, the amount of employment
bore a melancholy disproportion to the number of la-
barers, The of Iriat Ib 15110 W reversed.