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It is then filtered again with fresh charcoal, after which
it is mixed with a tenth part of its volume of chlorine.
This operation being again repeated, and-the syrup.fil-
tered through flesh charcoal, it becomes as clear and
colourless as water. Every kind of syrup may be thus
bleached. But they must be filtered through lime to
ueutialize and separate the hydrochloric acid.

A.VNIVERSAIIY MEETING OF THE IRISH
,SOCIETY OF LONDON.

This Society held their Annual Meeting yesterday,
at the Argyll noo:ns. At one o'clock the Honourable
and Right Reverend the Bishop of LITCHFIELD and
P.Y took the Chair.

Ills Lonustsre addressed the Meeting. He said that
much good. had already been effected by the, exertions
of the Society ; and that, in proportion to the extent of
the subscriptions, the public might expect much more.
The SECRETARY then read the Report, which stated
that since the last Meeting thee persons had been sent
among the natives, to teach them in their own language;
that there had been a considerable deficiency in the Sub-
scriptions; and that they had received a number of let-
ters from Ireland, calling upon them for assistance, and
for an ad,iiional supply of Bibles.
Lord Got FORD rose to move, that the Report be re-
ceived and !Hinted. His Lordship observed, that the
great want of the Irish was instruction, and that the
best way of giving it was through the medium of their
own language.
The Revetend Dr. Hamturox seconded the Resolu-
tion. He said that, in the name of his countrymen, he
teturned thanks to their English brethren, who had al-1
ways treated Iceland as a sister coma! y, 'who had not 1
withdrawn their assistance from her in. the time of her
necessity, and who saw her in need of that CVater of 1
Life which they were resolved also to give her. Ile
entreated them to persevere and accomplish the end
they so much desired.
Lord CA LTIIORPE moved the thanks of the Meeting to
the Hon. and Right Rev. President, and the Vice-Pre•a-
dents of the Society. His L rdship trusted that the
exertions of this country would never be relaxed, until
they had made Irdand all that they desired she should be.
Lord Roc is.s A VAG r, in seconding the Resolution, trust-
ed that the Society, in union aith those established in
Ireland, would prove most useful to that country.
Sir GEORGE Rose moved the that: Its of the Meeting
to the Treasurer, Sub-Treasurer, Secretary, and Com-
mittee; rm.! that they ho requested to continue theit
exertions during the ensuing year.
The Rev. Mr. M.Nett., in seconding this resolution,
commented on the extreme want of instruction in Ire•
land, and of the important objects likely to be at-
tained by the Society. He said that the daily bread
of the Catholic I': jests depended on keeping the
Irish people in total ignorance, and that they were
consequently sunk into the lowest state of degradation.
He related the .r..tory of a woman, who, on being ques.
tinned, said she believed in. three Gods, and that, as she,,
caily spoke Irish, she could receive no instruction which':
was given by the Clergy in Latin or English alone. He'
hoped, therefore, the Assembly would make the Catho-
lic Priests the objects of their prayers, and assured them
that the conversion of one Priest would do more to-
wards emancipating the Catholics .from their state of,
bat br.ristu than one hundred Protestant teachers could
possibly effect.
The Honourable and Rev. ,Mr. NOEL •seconded the
resolution. He said, while Ireland continued as it was,
at the mercy of men who placed transubstantiation in
the place of atonement, this country would be guilty of
a dereliction horn its dutrif it looked on with tameness.
Lord LILNOR.D moved the thanks of the Meeting to
the Hon. and Right Rev. the Bishop of Litchfield and
Cuventry,,for taking the Chair, and for his conduct in it.,
The Resolution was seconded and cart ied unanimously.

NOBLE •EXPLOIT.—In the disasters which have arisen
fto.ti the late tremendous storms, we have pleasure In recording an
aot of gallantry and humanity of the Officer commanding the Pre-
ventive Service on the Hampshire coast, a son of the late Admiral
Sir T. Freenvantle : on the Bth inst. a brig was wrecked off the coast
to the westward of Christchurch ; the circumstance being reported
to Captain Freemantle, he posted immediately to the spot; a con-
course of people were assembled to witness the ship then on shore,
the wind blowing tremendously, and no prospect whatever of saving
the crew : in this sitUation one single chance existed, which was
that of attaching a rope to the ship, but no boat was at hand and
no individual willing to undertake the hazardous task of reaching
the vessel ; without a moment's hesitation Capt. Freemantle stripped,
and fastening a small line to his body, plunged into the sea, where,
after buffeting with the waves, then running mountains high, to the
astonishment and anxious dread of the beholders, be finally reached
the ship: all hope of saving her was now gone by, the sea had
nearly broken her to pieces, and In a few moments after he had so
bravely reached her, the crew were all washed overboard. Cap-
tain Freemantle was dragged to the shore senseless, but, after a
long interval (by the application of the usualremedies), hewn re-
stored to his recollection: we are ntost happy to state also that the
crew of the vessel were afterwards picked up on the shore, and we
believe were ultimately all saved.
Siinday, the 28th ultimo, the obsequies of the late.
Count do Stacpoole, were solemnized at Paris, in the
Chuteh of St. Philippe du Rollie. The funeral was
attemkd by his son, the present Count de Stacpoole,
his relatives and friends. He died after a long and
painful illness, which he endured with fortitude. He
has left his son a noble inheritance.

George Thomas, a shoemaker at Leeds, whom we
lately stated to have been committed to prison for hay-
i:ig drowned his infant son in a fit of insanity, was tried
at 11:e Yolk Assizes on the 3d inst. and acquitted,
hip insanity being clearly proved.
The following particulars, concerning a man who
v..as reported to have lately acknowledged on his death-
bed that he had • been guilty of murder, are given on
the testimony of persons from the village in which he
lived. He confessed that he had murdered a woman in
England, whom, after robbing of her harvest fee, he
threw into a pit; and that he had killed a man in the
nti,libourhood of Markinch, for the sake of a few
pounds that he had, and thrown.his body into the water
that supplies the machinery of Dalgonie furnace. That
the body of the man said to have been murdered was
actually found, a number of years since, in the water
aliwied to, is a fact, of which, as it can be attested by
many living witnesses, there can exist no doubt. When
his end drew near, lie was so horrified by the conscious-
ne.,s of his guilt;
,
that he told the neighbours who came
ti at the apparitions of the two
persons whose lives
he had taken were waiting for him at the foot of- the
bed.—
Dundee Advertiser.
Tagor'alia's Murky—, who was convicted at York, for
metamorphosing a Sheffield and Rotheram note, from
the sum of one to five guineas, was requested, after con-
viction, to ciulge the secret. On assenting, he retired
into a room, and taking a note, with a fine piece of sand-
paper, he erased the word "one," and after rubbing
the part wiles() the erasure had been made, with some
cream of tartar, be substituted the word "five" with a
' finely po:nted pen, in 'welt a manner as to deceive the
keenest
_eye.