The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

SPAIN

Madrid papers of the 6th have arrived. Senor Olozaga
is not the only Deputy who has been prevented by the
illegal acts of the Isturitz Ministry from taking his seat in
the Chamber. Senor Gomez de la Serna, who was elected
for Orense, has been refused his passport by the Spanish
Ministers, because as Minister of Justice in 1843, he
countersigned the protest of Espartero, issued on board
the Betis. The Madrid Bolsa was closed on the 6th.

SWITZ F R LAN D.
Accounts from Switzerland state that the insurgents of
Morat have been defeated by the government troops of
Friburg, and that, taking advantage of this victory, the
government troops on the Bth marched on Morat, the
head-quarters of the insurrection. Several arrests have
taken place in Friburg by order of the authorities.

The King and Queen of the Belgians left Paris for
Brussels on Thursday.
REPORTED DEATH OF DONIZETTI.-Tho Roman Ad-
vertiser, of January 2, in a note to an article on an opera
of this eminent composer states, " we have just learned
that Donizetti is no more."

Criminal proceedings have been instituted against a
Roman Catholic priest in the Duchy of Brunswick for re-
fusing to register a divorce a vinculo, pronounced by the
civil court, between two of his parishioners, both of the
Roman communion.
The few copies of the London Punch, landed at Vienna
on the Ist instant, by extraordinary permission, were of-
ficially demanded back. The number in question con-
tains a rather rude caricature of the Sovereigns of Russia,
rnutfia, and Austria.
it is a curious fact, 'says one of our contemporaries,
that the order of Elizabeth the Catholic, which has just
been conferreil by the Queen of Spain on Baron Anselme
de Rothschild, of Frankfort, was founded in honour of
the expulsion of the Moors and Jews.

The Austrian Government has just decided on esta-
blishing a line of telegraphs from Vienna to Trieste, a dis-
tance of rather more than 120 English miles.
THE -CHCFLERA.-News has been received from Persia
that the cholera was still raging and sweeping off thou-
sands. The deaths had greatly exceeded the worst year
of the plague. More than 100,000 have been destroyed.
It is said to be making its way gradually towards Europe
by the roads which the caravans travel.

-The coloured citizens'of Cincinnatti held a public meet-
ing on the 2nd ultimo, and passed resolutions eulogistic
of the late Thomas Clarkson, and regrettinc, his death.
They also resolved to wear mourning for thirty days, and
recommended pastors of their churches to deliver dis-
courses appropriate to the occasion.
PROGRESS OF CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE JEWS AT
JERUSALEM.—In the correspondence of the current num-
ber of the Jewish Intelligeneer, we find the following
statement :—" The Jews at Jerusalem are greatly alarmed
at the progress of Christianity, which is secretly spread-
ing amongst them, almost from house to hduse ; they
therefore use all the means in their power to stop it. Se-

cret mounais are Tormea, wilose business it is to search
after those who read Christian books, or who visit our
houses. Not satisfied with that, they have recently issued
two excommunications against the missionaries, against
the hospital, and against all who are in connection
with us."

The feature of the colonial news is a military move in
the south of New Zealand. The scene of action was the
bush in the neighbourhood of the Hutt River, and its ob-
ject the capture of the rebel chief Rangiheata. The expe •
dition deserves to be called a successful one, the chief hav-
ing dodged his pursuers from one log-fort to another, till
his knot of followers was dispersed, and himself driven
into the open country. A party of natives were then laid
on the scent, and the troops returned to their quarters.
Cape of Good Hope papers announce the opening of a
vein of copper at the Orange River Mine.
THE CROPS IN CANADA.—Extract of a letter dated
Toronto, December 12, 1846 :—" Business has been very
dull this fall, partly owing to the very great quantity of
rain, which has rendered the back roads almost impassable,
and partly owing to the low prices the merchants and
millers have been giving for produce, which has made all
who could hold, in hopes of better prices in the s

The finest wheat is only from 2s. 9d. to 3s. a bushel of
601 b. weight, and good spring wheat is selling in London
for 2s. 2d. ; Indian corn I saw offered for is. 6d. per 601 b. ;
pork is selling at from 10s. to 12s. per 100 lb. ' • and I am
told very good beef was offered for 4s. per 1001 b. the
other day in Hamilton Market ; fine turkeys are from
Is. 6d. to 2s. each; geese—l saw two very large ones sold
for 2s. 6d. the couple in Brantford this week. Butter is

the crop, are high ; they are now selling here for 3s. 2d.
the bushel ; in London they were selling, when I was
ten days ago, for ls. 6d. There has been a large quantity
of flour sent off to Montreal, and I suppose shipped this
fall ; but much of it was the stock held over from last
spring, when the prices were so_ low that no one would

IREL

A N D

The Cork Examiner mentions the total discontinuance
of marriages in that county.
A Queen's letter is to be issued for the relief of the dis-
tressed Irish.

It seems that the Irish Society have only raised £2,000
for the special fund of £20,000 for the spiritual exigencies
of Ireland.

There are now upwards of 160 prisoners in Enniskillen
gaol, the largest number which it has contained for many

A joint-stock company is about to come before the pub-

lic for establis

£506,000, in £lO shares ; deposit, Is. per share.
The Repealers had their weekly gathering on Monday,
as usual. All was dull and stale, but not quite so unpro-
fitable as usual—the rent amounting to £ll9 9s. 2d.
£5 of this sum came from the islands of Arran, where
the people, they say, are dying like rotten sheep.
THE ORANGE INSTITUTION.—Owing to the paramount
necessity which (Mktg fnr PI7PrIT (MP INSTITUTION.—Owing
0+ M 'Nisei- Z.,

their several localities, at this awful crisis, the general
meeting of the Grand Lodge of Ulster is postponed from
February till some time in April, of which due notice will
be given to the members.

Accounts of the arming of the peasantry continue to be
received. Three lives have been lost during the last week
by the bursting of cheap guns imported into the country
from Birmingham ; one at Aughnacloy, a female who was
standing beside her father when trying his new purchase ;
another at Middletown, and another at Carrickmacross.
One fact stated by Lord Bernard, son to the Earl of
Bandon, at a meeting in Dublin on Thursday, is of painful
weight. He said that the Protestant Dean of Cloyne and
Ross informed him that five thousand persons had already
perished of famine, along the south-western coast, since
the beginning of September.
The Cork Constitution describes the apprehension in
Cork city of a man who was driving a cow that evidently
did not belong to him. On being stopped and interro-
gated, he fired a pistol at the watchman ; and on being
secured and searched, his pockets were found to contain a
second pistol and about twenty cartridges, together with
three soup-tickets.
THE YOUNG IRELANDERS.—A meeting of the seceders
from the Repeal Association was held in Dublin, on Wed-
nesday evening, for the purpose of forming an association,
to be called the Irish Confederation, with a view of pro-
moting a repeal of the legislative union between Great
Britain and Ireland. The chair was taken by Mr. Shea
Lalor, and Mr. Smith O'Brien addressed the meeting at
some length. Several resolutions were proposed and car-
ried, and the meeting separated shortly after 12 o'clock.
THE WORKHOUSE AT SKIBBEREEN.—The following
appalling paragraph appears in the last report :—There
are in the house this day 1,169 inmates, of whom 332 are
either affected by fever or dysentery. Deaths from Octo-
ber 10, 1846, to January 7th instant, 266; same period
last year being 10, and the preceding year 11. And of the
remaining number so many are either aged, infirm, or too
young for work, as to have rendered it lately necessary to
employ labourers from without to do some of the ordinary
duties of the house. In various towns the people have
plundered the provision shops.
Ma. O'CONNELL'S LAST.—The proceedings of Con-
ciliation-hall, on Monday last, would have been unusually
tame, but for a sudden fillip given them by Mr. O'Con-
nell, in alluding to the magnificent subscriptions of the
English people for the relief of the distressed Irish.
" They are offering," quoth the agitator, " bribes to effect
proselytism—they are offering food to the poor Roman
Catholics to induce them to become Protestants ; and, he
would ask, could the fiends of h—ll invent anything more
horrible than this ?" We need hardly remark, that the
premises of Mr. O'Connell, as his inference is out-
rageous. There are persons both in Ireland and England
who, after feeding the people, think it their duty to take
advantage of the opportunity to set before them the
truths of the reformed religion. There is nothing
"fiendish" in this act—nothing " hellish"—nothing that
has been done by Romanists themselves, a thousand
times, in every age and clime, since their creed was
adopted.
RELIEF FOR IRELAND. There are two chief com-
mittees at present in vigorous action in the Irish metro-
polis—the central committee for all Ireland, and the me-
tropolitan for the exclusive relief of the city. Large
sums are being subscribed to both. To the metropolitan,
the chief secretary has subscribed £lOO, in addition to
£3OO to the central ; and the Hibernian bank a sum of
£2OO. Nearly £7OO have been lodged within a few days,
at different%anks, to the credit of the " Central." An
active spirit of benevolence among the gentry is nowhere
more necessary than in Galway, where destitution is great,
and liberality not very conspicuous. There is, however,
one remarkable exception. Mr. Walter Joyce, of Mer-
view, has offered £lOOO to the relief of Galway. By the
last official return we find that the number of labourers

close of December, was 398,231. At per day each,
£120,000 per week must be disbursed from the public
treasury, to afford relief to Irish labour. Yet this em-

have no sensible effect in diminishinEdistress.
DESTITUTION IN FERMANAGH.—The effects of famine
and destitution in Fermanagh are becoming more appa-
rent every day. The poor-house is literally crammed,
containing at present 1,200 inmates, and the renewed and
numerous applications that are made every week, render
it impossible that such numbers as are crammed into it,
can be located there without producing ultimately the

most disastrous consequences,
additional accommodation be n(

U_ must result, (if

the outbreak of fever, and other contagious disea;es.
Many families, who not long since lived comfortable and
happy, are forced to seek an asylum in the poor-house,

where they may receive temporary assistance. The
streets are daily crowded with the begging poor, and the
strong athletic youth, whose squalid and famished looks
show that the ravages of famine and distress are making
inroads in every part of the country. True, many means
of employment have been devised, and numbers are ob-
taining work, but whose wages are barely able to afford

of all this, robbery, on an extensive scale, is going on,
and in many instances, convictions have been had against
some of the perpetrators.
AN " IRISH PARTY."—An Irish party, for the protec-
tion of Irish interests, has been virtually constituted. We
refer to the declaration of Irish peers and representatives,
subscribed by seventy-eight of the highest names in the
land, including those of no fewer than forty-six peers, by
whom the preliminary step in this matter has been taken.
The list comprises the names of noblemen and gentlemen
of all parties. To borrow the words of the Freeman,

" Rathaown, and Farnham, and Waterford, and O'Neill,
and Caledon, move in glorious harness with Sligo, and

Arran, Shannon, Headfoit, and Cremorne." These no-
blemen and gentlemen have pledged themselves to united
action, in reference to all Irish measures, not exclusively
political, which may be produced during the coming ses-
sion. It is not, of course, to be supposed, that any of
them will forego their political opinions on any question ;
but that they will, all, make their politics a secondary
consideration to the peculiar interests of their common
country, and keep them in the back ground until the
grand object of bringing all classes in Ireland safely over

the present crisis, is achieved. "To this extent, no more,
does the present union go. We cannot deny our sym-
pathy and praise to such a produre. We should suspect
and dread a union of Irishmen for the obtainment of any
boon for Ireland, inconsistent with the general prosperity
and coherence of the empire ; but we sincerely believe no
such design is entertained by the majority of those who
now constitute the " Irish party." We say the majority,
for •we find in the list the names of the O'Connells,
O'Brien, Maher, and one or two more, who will doubt-
less, if permitted, insinuate the poison of their politics
into the porches of such ears as may be unguarded
enough to imbibe it. There must be a vigilant watch
against any surprise of this sort, and, if so, we have no
fear of the issue.—Belfast New* Letter.

instant

FEVER AND DYSENTERY.—The insufficiency of the
supply of food is beginning already to produce, amongst
the poorer classes of the peasantry, the results which
might naturally be expected—namely, disease and death.
Fever and dysentery, accordingly, in some parts of the
country, are becoming prevalent, and carrying off their
victims rapidly. :In the centre of Clonmany parish, we are
informed, the mortality has for some time past averaged
from five to six per day. Even in this city, which has
long been proverbial for healthiness, funeral processions
are of frequent occurrence • and we believe the same re-
mark holds good with regard to most of the towns in the
surrounding district.—Derry Sentinel.
SURRENDER OF MURDERERS FROM STARVATION.—
On the 15th August, 1845, a man named James Murphy
was horribly murdered at a place called Lisheens, within
five miles of Bantry. The principal in the murder was a
man named William Downing, the leader of a powerful
faction in this country. Since then the police were most
desirous to arrest him and others, who were abettors in
the crime, and though night after night they traversed the
hills, and a large reward was offered, they did not succeed,
Downing and his guilty associates having been sheltered
and protected by his murderous adherents throughout the
country. However, on 12th Deceinber last, James T.
Flynn, one of the parties charged, gave himself up to
head constable Grant, stating that he could not suffer
hunger any longer, as those who heretofore fed him were
without food themselves. On the same day James D.
Flynn surrendered, giving as his reason the inability of
the people longer to assist him. On the 15th ult. John
M`Carthy, a third party charged, surrendered himself,
and on the 24th, the principal, William Downing, came
in. He had been an athletic man, but his frame was so
shattered and his countenance so haggard, that he was
not-recognised until he gave his name. He said he sup-
posed he would be hung, but even that were preferable to
the horrid death which awaited him if he remained at large
any longer.—Cork Constitution.
GREAT MEETING IN DUBLIN.—The meeting of Irish
peers, commoners, and landowners, convened by the pro-
ductive employment committee, took place at Dublin, on
Thursday, for the purpose of "considering the present
alarming state of the country, and the measures which
may be necessary to meet the crisis—such meeting to be
confined exclusively to the consideration of the present
social condition of this country, and all extraneous topics
and party politics to be strictly excluded." The chair
was taken by the Marquis of Ormonde. The Marquis of
Sligo, Lord Farnham, Lord Cloncurry, and ten other
Irish deers were present. Mr. Daniel O'Connell, Mr.
Smith O'Brien, Mr. Frederick Shaw, and twenty-three
other members of the House of Commons, likewise at-
tended, as did also great numbers of the principal land
owners from every district in Ireland. Several resolution
were moved, and carried unanimously ; but their

precludes us from giving them. They propose the form-
ation of an Irish party,—call for a temporary suspension
of the navigation laws, and the import duties on corn,—
and declare it advisable that permission should be given
to use sugar and molasses in breweries and distilleries.

The systm of public works, introduced by the labour-
rate act, is condemned, and a claim is made that the bur-
den imposed by them shall fall on the empire at large,
not upon Ireland alone, still less on the most suffering
classes.

DESTITUTION IN IRELAND

": On Monday," says.the Mayo Constitution—

" Mr. Atkinson, coroner, held an inquest at Rathiskin,
on the body of Henry Doherty. Dr. Neilson deposed that
the body was reduced to a skeleton, and the stomach com-
pletely empty. Some of the jurors who were examined
deposed that they themselves, since the failure of the po-
tato crop, were reduced to a state of destitution. Ver-
dict—" Died of starvation "
" Mr.

Atkinson also held seven other inquests, of which,
_L•

" political economy" are as follow. In each case, after
the examination of a medical man, and other witnesses,
the jury returned a verdict of " Died of starvation :"

1. Mary:Loftus, at Millala, on Monday, the 4th inst.

"2. Tho Was Tully, on Wednesday, the 6th inst. One
of the children of the poor man died a few days previously

of starvation

3. James Grehan

at Lisglinan, on Thursday, the 4th

4. Mary M`Donnell, at Ballycastle, on Saturday, the

" 5. Patrick Barrett, at Killenduff, on the same day.
The sister-in-law of the deceased, in the absence of his
wife, who was out begging the.price of a coffin, deposed
that.the family, consisting of nine persons, were since the
failure of the potato crop, living on one meal of thin gruel
in the day, and that for many days they had no food at all.
" 6. Matthew Temple, at Crossmolins, on Sunday, the
10th inst.

" 7. John Grehan, at Farrandedin, on the same day.
" We have been informed that a poor man, at Mayo,
near Balla, after having been reduced to the greatest,des-
titution, was obliged to leave his home to beg, leaving his
wife, a feeble old woman, behind him. In a few days after
his departure some of the neighbours went to the wretched
hovel of the old woman, and found her lying on the litter
of straw in the corner, with the flesh of her shrivelled arms
and face mangled and eaten by the rats. The wretched
creature died in a short time after."

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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

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UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL

NEWS

OXFORD, JAN. 14.—1 n a congregation held this day,
being the first day of Lent Term, the following degrees
were conferred :—Masters of Arts : Rev. M. E. C. Wal-
cott, Exeter college ; Thomas Leslie, Balliol college ;
Rev. E. Garbett, Rev. J. T. Pigott, Rev. R. F. Wood,
and Richard Ley, Brazennose college ; Herman L. Prior,
Trinity college ; the Rev. H. Mansel, Fellow of St. John's
College.—Bachelors of Arts : Harry Wright, Magdalen-
hall, Grand Compounder ; J. W. Taft, St. Edmund-hall.
The Morning Post announces- another victim. The
Rev. Francis John Laing, 8.A., of Queen's College,
Cambridge.
The Rev. Charles Perry;M.A.' minister of the district
church of St. Paul, Cambridge, has been appointed to the
Bishopric of Melbourn, about to be erected in Australia
Felix.

The Chancellor of the Diocese has conferred on the
Rev. Henry Carpenter, 8.A., the respected minister of
St. Michael's, in this town, a token of his kindness and
regard, by appointing him to the office of surrogate, &c.
The Rev. William Cruttenden Cruttenden, M.A., Mi-
nister of Macclesfield, has been appointed by the Right
Hon. Lord Stanley, of Alderley, to the Rectory of Al-
derley, Cheshire, vacant on the resignation of the Rev.
Charles Girdlestone.

DR. HOOK.—A correspondent of the London Times
asks how, if Dr. Hook be sincere in his professed abhor-
rence of Popery, he can, when to draw near to Rome is
only to enhance her power, advertise a cheap tract with
some such title as this—" In the Sacrament there is a true
sacrifice." Was it not the denial of this monstrous doc-
trine, he asks, and the glorious defence of the simple truth
—Christ died once for all—that caused the life-blood of
the martyrs to be poured out ? And if so, how can we
justify any man, calling himself a Protestant, who thinks
lightly of a truth so dirty bought, who can tamper with
it, fritter it away by nice distinctions or mystical subtle-
ties of any kind, by which the name of the thing is left,
but the substance of the truth destroyed ? If a real sacri-
fice be once admitted, why should we halt between two
opinions.? A real presence must follow, and a change of
the elements too ; and who cares by what name it be
called, so that the doctrine is believed ?

FUTURE COURSE OF DR. HOOK.—A correspondent of
the Oxford Herald says :—" Dr. Hook has written to a
distinguished member of the Hebdomadal Board to ac-
knowledge the pain with which he now beholds the part
taken by him against the Heads of Houses, with regard
to the most prominent incidents of the controversy which
has furnished an excuse for secession. He no longer talks
of ' usurped authority,' or of the ' unhappy determina-
tion of the Hebdomadal Board to censure Mr. Newman ;'
he can, at length, see that lie was wrong, and confess it.
With his own hand he has torn down his colours from

the mast,' and from a PROTESTER has become a PROTES-
TANT. He will issue no more adverse manifestoes, but
will henceforth fight with the University."
NOBLE THANKOFFERING.—At the meeting of the
Lichfield Diocesan Church Building Society, last week,
the bishop of that diocese (who has just given £lOOO to
the society) related the following anecdote, showing the
good effects of this society. An extensive manufacturer
at Newcastle, Mr. Herbert Minton, was on a particular
occasion to send his foreman 500 sovereigns in a bag, to
pay his workpeople. The men came to know of this, and
a plot was laid between some of them to waylay the fore-
man, rob him, and throw him into the canal. One
of the men, however, repented time enough to give
warning to the intended victim, and the diabolical plot
was frustrated. Mr. Minton, in gratitude for this pro-
vidential escape, although not what the world calls
now a wealthy man, gave the 500 sovereigns, which were
to have been the price of blood, to the Church Extension
Society.
BIRKENHEAD N

W COLLEGE.—The site of this in-
Lg has been fixed. It is to be in Slaty-lane,
aughton, about midway between Oxton new Church
and Birkenhead new Park, where there are, fronting the
eastward, in one lofty block of stuccoed buildings, five
large houses, called Kenyon-place." These will form
the new Theological College of Birkenhead. The Bishop
of the diocese takes it under his own particular charge.
His lordship has nominated to the responsible office of
Principal, the Rev. Joseph Baylee, the indefatigable in-
cumbent of Holy Trinity Church, Birkenhead. Several
of the leading gentlemen of Birkenhead have handsomely
come forward and guaranteed the rent of the premises, in
case the Burser should, by any misadventure, find that
the establishment will not pay its own expenses, of which
there is little fear. The Bishop and the Principal have
hosts of applicants already. This is to be peculiarly a
Theological College—a sort of Ministerial Training
School. Its students will be the agents for the Parochial
Aid Association, lately organized for Birkenhead and its
vicinity, as well as for Liverpool and the suburbs on this
side the water.
TRACTARIAN AND EPISCOPAL MOVEMENT.—The Rev.
Mr. Macmullen has left England for Rome to join the
Rev. J. H. Newman, in that city. He is accomp Jailed by
other members of the university who have not con-
formed. The Lord Bishop of Ripon has, we fear, professed
himself unequal singly to meet the difficulties in which
the proceedings of the last few years at Leeds have
involved the church, and has decided on inviting his
brethren of the episcopal bench to a conference, with a
view to extensive measures of protection 'and defence.
Besides the case of St. Saviour's Church, and the Rev.
Mr. Ward, (not the professed Romanist of that name,)
Dr. Hook himself has among his curates the late editor
of the Oxford Magazine who, a year or two back, was
mixed up with Mr. Rawlinson, of Exeter College, Oxford,
in designating the English Reformation the so-called
Reformation. We fear much that these facts, added to
that of the Rev. Mr. Cox, a young clergyman of Leeds,
having also gone over to the Romish communion within
these five weeks, prove that the bishop has but too .good
reasons for the course he is said to be about to adopt.—
Church and State Gazette.

A CATHEDRAL FOR MANCHESTER.—The local papers
have, from time to time referred to the project of a cathe-
dral for Manchester. It is said that such a building, to
do credit to the town, cannot be completed under one
hundred thousand pounds, and it is proposed that, at pre-
sent, not more than the hancel, the two transepts, and
the tower (uniting the nave and chancel, the two transepts)
be attempted, and these, with ten bells, would cost fifty
thousand pounds. This sum it is proposed to raise by
one hundred individuals contributing £5OO each, and sub-
scriptions in smaller sums, for the erection of the nave,
might be collected, whilst the other parts of the cathedral
were being erected. The site proposed is the high ground
at Cheetwood, rather towards Broughton. The Manches-
ter Courier says:—" We apprehend that, for a work of
such magnitude, these suggestions are on a reduced scale.
To build a cathedral worthy of such a see as Manchester,
—for the extent of country over which its jurisdiction will
extend, and embracing Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton,
Rochdale, Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne, Bury, and other
large towns, incomparably the wealthiest ecclesiastical
district in Great Britain—one hundred and fifty thousand
pounds would be required to be raised. There ought to
be no difficulty in accomplishing this, simply by the plan
suggested by Presbyter'—the plan, namely, of collecting
in the first instance large sums (say to the amount of
£70,000 or £100,000,) for the purpose of building a chan-
cel, two transepts, and a tower.
•-

PRESENTATION OF PLATE.-On Friday, the congrega-
tion assembling at St. Bartholomew's Church, in this
town, presented their respected pastor, the Rev. George
Dover, with a piece of plate and a purse, of the value of
£lOO, as a testimonial of the high esteem and respect
with which his labours have been viewed. The presenta-
tion took place in the school-room, Naylor-street, Mr.
Croston occupying the chair. After a few remarks, he
addressed the rev. gentleman in suitable terms, and pre-
sentedh emsrp.lpenodviedr
ienstri metuonrniailr;gin t
htah:ei
kns name of
'"ritii
inadequate the power of language was to give utter-
ance to his feelings. He said he was embarrassed, be-
cause he thought it necessary to do what he would have
h
•-4ly avonl.a -Q. -f F- -not to
the congregation.

. cu, which was, to speak o,
show, indeed, that he deserved, or was entitled to, any
such mark of their esteem and affection, but to justify
himself in accepting it. lie then took a review of the
Christian Ministry in its relationship to God, to Jesus
Christ, and to the church of Christ, and said he had en-
deavot-

_ltil this important trust to the best of his
power, while he confessed how far his efforts fell short,
not only of the standard set up in Holy Scripture, but also
of what his own desires would have led him to do. He
spoke of the valuable position of the Church of England
for the purpose of teaching divine truth, and after men-
tioning that the difficulties with which St. Bartholomew's
Church had to contend on account of the locality of its
situation, had been overcome, he concluded by imploring
the blessing of Heaven on ie congregation and all the
members of their families. The remainder of the pro-
ceedings gave the highest satisfaction to all present.

AND FASHION

ThTlursiedQa family returned to Windsor, on
Lord and Lady Stanleyand family arrived in St. James's-
yu,eefrnomancd
Square. on Thursday, from Knowsley.
The Earl of Aberdeen, accompanied by the Hon. Ar-
thur Gordon, has arrived Drayton Manor, on a visit to
Sir R. Peel. lib3areymalont.

The late Marchioness of Westminster has left the whole
of her personal estate, valued at £16,000, to her youngest
son, Lord Robert Grosvenor.

Mr. Dyce has been commissioned to paint, on the walls
of the staircase of Osborne House, in fresco, on a large
scale, an historical, or rather poetical, subject,—Neptune
yielding to Britannia the sovereignty of the seas." The
finished study for the picture has been submitted to the
Queen and Prince Albert, who have expressed their satis-
faction by ordering its immediate execution.

Prince George of Cambridge has been a visitor at Sir
William Stanley's since Friday week. On Saturday week
the worthy baronet's hounds met at the hall. The field
was attended by his Royal Highness and other of the
noble magnates of the land, who are partaking of that
friendly hospitality for which Hooton Hall is so justly
celebrated, at this season of the year. On Sunday his
Royal Highness attended Divine service at Eastham
parish church, accompanied by Lords Duncannon and
Francis Gordon. On Monday the royal and noble party
had a grand battue amongst the pheasants, hares, and
rabbits of the well-stocked preserves of Sir William,

Hooton and Eastham.
ELOPEMENT.—The Hon. Miss Lister, eldest daughter
John
of the late Lord R ibbilisd_lalet,intnhortheonlatelriLadavd.y
Russell, and consequently step-daughter of the Premier,
and Mr. Maurice Drunnuond, third son of Mr. Charles
Drummond, the opulent banker, and nevhew of the

Earl OT „Mut;
young lady left the house of her guardian in town, a
the lovers proceeded to France, whither they were iron
diately followed by the. Messrs. Drummond, and I;
back before the marriage had taken place. The lad

vought

her 20th and the gentleman in his 22nd year. It Is
ttu-
derstood that the only objection on the part of the Pre-
mier to their union, is their youth.