The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-16 00:00:00

CORN TRADE

Flour is firm in this market at 4 dollars 87 cents a barrel.
This will probably be the price till the canal is open. Then
it must fall, unless a greater demand comes from England.
Prices have improved in Baltimore, though sales are small.
Howard-street sells at 4 dollars 50 cents. Wheat is held at
85 to 93 cents a bushel.

In Boston the grain market is a shade firmer. Nothing
ing in flour. Yellow flat corn 51, White 47 cents a bushel.

COTTON TRADE.
his market remains in an uncertain► condition. At the
st advices from abroad the dealers were undecided in re-

ation to the extent of the crop. The immense efforts and
inremitting misrepresentations of the large houses and their
, that are baying reckless in the southern market, had
,duced the impression that the crop would be much short,
id there was consequently some firmness displayed. On
is side the attention of the dealers in all the ports is direct.
to the Liverpool markets, and holders are firm, while
imate buyers are driven back by the agents of large
,s, who buy at any rates all they can get on credit. In
Creme south there is a large amount of foreign orders
at prices below those which the more reckless dealers
g. This latter class have used the greatest exertions
the cry of short crop, in order to mitigate their
as possibly. The facts, thus far, do not
cments.

VERY LATE FROM JAMAICA.
Extract of a letter from Kingston, dated March 2d, 1811
To give you an idea of how things are going on here would
piire the most horrid detail of distress in trade that Ja
dayaica
s ever known. Of money there is none. The ever
nouncement is of failures to an alarming extent. I believ
ey must amount to at least 500,000 dollars since the coin.
micement of the year, and in my opinion the worst is not
t known, for I imagine many others will follow.
Our market is overstocked with American produce—there
ist be at least 50,000 barrels of flour in our market yester-
y, with more expected.
Our Colombia trade is stopped by the revolution there,
d 1 see no room to hope for improvement for some time

his our present news from Jamaica. I hope in mY
ay be. able tocominunicate something
Is the result of the abolition of slavery.—New
d, 31st ult. more agreeable;

MONIY MARKET,e—WA;S:slitumv

The transactions in the fund p Age been inconsiderable,
but the quotations improved anhi y7gre well supported. Con-
sols for money and this acconnt were 901 to 1, and for the
next amount 90j to 1. Bank Stock 1711 to 21. India Stock
254 to 6. Exchequer Bills lls to 13s premium.
The settlement of the half-monthly account in Foreign
Stocks took place to-day, ;but eresented no special ferture.
1
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents were 52 to , the Five per
Cents 981 to 9. Belgian 101 to 3. Brazilian 69 to 70.
Mexican 301 to 11. Colombian 224 to 34, Sprnish Active
with the Coupons 231 to 3a. Portuguese Five per Cents 331
to I, the Three per Cents 20 to +.
It is understood that a fiat has issued against the Messrs.
Wakefield to-day, whose liabilities are carried by report as
high as £200,000, which however appears an incredibly large
sum, considering the limited extent of their banking busi-
ness. The profitable appointment of stockbrokers to that
ponderously wealthy concern, the Equitable Assuraece Com-
pany, which they had long enjoyed, has been conferred to-
day upon Messrs. Capel, Cuertons, and Candy, a firm of
well-known respectability and high standing on the Stock
Exchange.

Two or three failures of an unimportant character were re-
ported to-day in the vicinity of Fenchurch-street. But one
occurred in the tea trade of an old-established concern to a
more serious amount ; not, however, said to exeeed £60,000.
The tea market notwithstanding was more firm to-day, and
prices rather better. The delay which must intervene before
any arrivals can be expected from the coasts of China, and
even before cargoes can be taken in and completed at Wham-
poa, supposing that the preliminary convention of Captain
Elliot be confirmed and a treaty founded on it finally con-
cluded, which many people are inclined to doubt, has con-
tributed to allay the panic among the holders of tea and to
stop the downward tendency of prices.

THE GREAT ROWING MATCH BETWEEN THE
UNIVERSITIES OF CAMBRIDGE AND OXFORD.

This long• expected and interesting contest, which has ab-
sorbed the attention of sporting men of all grades during
the past fortnight, was, on Wednedsday, brought to an issue,
and afforded a very high treat to the patrons of aquatic
sports. In these diversions the good folks of London and
its vicinity have, from time out of mind, taken a peculiar
interest ; in early times, however, the matches, or conten-
tions, on the bosom of Old Father Thames, were confined
to watermen and persons in the more humble walks of life,
but in later years the thing has assumed a different and ten-
fold more attractive form in consequence of the patronage
bestowed upon it by the aristocracy of the country, gentle-
men of distinction not only encouraging others by their pre-
sence, but themselves participating in the exercise and sport.
The gentlemen of the Universities have been long celebrated
for equatic prowess. They have been from early boyhood
used

" to guide the bark,
To walk the waters like a thing of life."
And within the last four years, since the establishment of
the Cambridge club-rooms, more attention has been be-
stowed upon this manly and scientific amusement than
even heretofore. The first of the metches between the
Universities on the London river took place in 1836, and in-
cluding the one of that year, until the present period, three
races have been contested, in all of which the Cantabs have
been successful. With a laudable desire to retrieve their
lost laurels, a month ago the Oxonians again challenged
their more successful rivals, who at once accepted the in-
vitation to the contest. The Oxonians had on former occa-
sions derived great advantage from the tuition of Combes,
the well-known waterman, whose repeated successes against
men of tier superior weight have brought him up next in
repute to the Champion of the Thames, and again availed
themselves of his valuable assistance. The Cantabs, how-
ever, as on former occasions, judged for themselves, and
courted no " professional" aid, nor did they indeed take so
early to practise in their boat as the other gentlemen. The
Oxonians were first out on the water allotted for this test of
stamina and skill on Wednesday fortnight, although all their
crew were not in town, while, on the other hand, the Cam-
bridge men did not get into their boat until Friday week.
The matches that have within the last five years taken place
between the rival Universities have excited the greatest inte-
rest amongst all lovers of aquatic sports, but more particu-
larly amongst those whose happy stars have given them good
fortunes, and whose only difficulty appears to be in which
way they can dispose of them with the greatest gratification.
This, and the interest naturally excited in a contest amongst
gentlemen, will account for the thousands which depended
upon the result of this conflict, looked forward to, as it was.
with a degree of anxiety and excitement never surpassed in
contests of this description. The former success of the
Cantabs had predisposed sporting men in their favour, but
all were loth to lay out money in wagers until they had an
opportunity, by personal observation, of viewing the training
efforts of each day. During the last week, at the club.
houses at the West-end, betting has been 5 to 4 on Cam-
bridge, odds which increased a point on Tuesday ; and yes-
terday, at the time of starting, 7 to 4 was in many instances
laid.

At 6 o'clock precisely, both the University boats moved
to the station at Westminster-bridge, and Cambridge having
won the choice, took the Middlesex side. At this moment
the sight was extraordinary. Westminster-bridge had long
been impassable, and along the craft and land on either side
of the Thames, as far as the eye could reach, it met thousands
of animated and eager spectators. On the water, arranged
almost in a row between Westminster-bridge and Lambeth
Palace, were the Eclipse, chartered by Coombes and Kippen,
the celebrated watermen, for the occasioa, the Vivid, the
Lilac, the Primrose, and the Richmond, the whole of which
were crowded with anxious spectatorr.
The start took place at 10 minutes past six precisely, and
on Mr. Searle firing the pistol, both crews, who had stooped
in readiness for the stroke, went to work. Eight-oared Put-
ters have not so soon way upon them as lesser boats, and for
the first half dozen strokes they drew their length along but
slowly ; stroke succeeded stroke as quick as lightning, and it
was evident, directly the boats were at full speed, that Cam-
bridge had got the best of the start. Amidst the almost
deafening shouts of thousands, both crews strained every
sinew, and there never was a finer exhibition in the way of
rowing than that between the starting place and Battersea-
bridge. It was truly a spirit-stirring scene to witness the
efforts of the young patricians, the future aspirants to fame
and fortune the pulpit, at the bar, in the senate, to say
nothing of those who " seek the bubble lihnour in the can-
non's mouth," manfully but fearlessly contending for victory
on that which may fairly be termed their adopted element.
At the Horseferry the Cambridge men were clear of their
adversaries ; and as. they rowed round the point facing the
Penitentiary, they had half a length a-head. As they neared
Vauxhall-bridge, they were again greeted with loud plaudits,
and, encouraged by the presence of so many admiring hun-
dreds, both dashed through the bridge in admirable trim.
Here the Cambridge men were 10 seconds a-head ; but the
Oxonians, nothing daunted, made a desperate effort to over-
haul their opponents, but in vain. They neared slightly in
the reach of the water towards the Red-house. but it was but
a spirt ; indeed, it was even doubted by some whether they
did at all shorten the distance between their adversaries and
themselves. _ _ _ _ _ _

Off Chelsea Hospital, the Cantabs, who had eased slightly
for a few strokes, laid down to their work, and shot the cen-
tre arch of Battersea-bridge, 32:seconds a-bead of their op-
ponents. The least dilemma would have turned the fortune
of the day, but the " race was to the swift," and the Cantabs
first passed through Putney-bridge, greeted as the victors by
thousands, at 3.3lminutes after the time of starting, and 1
minute and 5 seconds in advance of the Oxonians.

The coup d'ceil at Putney-bridge was grand and imposing
in the extreme. It was crowded by horsemen and splendid
equipages of every description, and among the first-rate
spectators were many elegantly attired ladies, whom not the
dampness of the evening or lateness of the hour could deter.
Cambridge has thus added another laurel to her brow, and
although the victors, were not so distressed as persons would
imagine, after so trying a struggle.

BUILDING OF CHURCHES

(From a Correspondent of the Times)

The energy and power ,Which the -Church of England has
put forth, of late years, is quite astonishing ; and yet it seems
still to increase and grow. The efforts which the last seven
years have seen would have been deemed incredible a quarter
of a century since, and still every succeeding month brings
tokens of a further growth.
In the year 1820 the voluntary contributions received by
the three great church societies were as follow :
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge £51,822
Church Missionary Society
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
In the year 1810 the receipts of the same three societies

were—

-•-
Church Missionary Soeiety

£100,251

_ .
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge .. 81,970
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (about) 40,000
Being far more than a doubling, in the space of twenty years.
But this is only a single feature. The National Society, in
1820, collecting £2500 per annum, raised, in the course of
last year, about £15,000. Two societies also have recently
sprung up, for providing additional curates, and these raised,
in the last twelve mouths, about £30,000 between them.
The main effort, however, is directed to the supply of our
overgrown parishes with new churches and ministers. The
total sum raised and spent on this object in the course of the
last 10 years must be very great. In London we have seen
£120,000 raised in four years by the Metropolitan Churches
Committee, and £46,000 since then, for the single parish of
Bethnal-green. Other districts, too, have made their separ-
ate efforts. Islington, when the present Bishop of Calcutta
took the vicarage, had one church and one chapel of ease. It
has now ten churches and chapels connected with the Esta-
blishment.

A very remarkable effort of this kind has just been made
in Manchester. The Rev. Hugh Stowell, who is incumbent
of a church at Salford, called together a few of his friends,
and proposed to them to make an attempt to build and en-
dow ten new churches. The sum necessary to be raised was
£lO,OOO. In about three weeks they succeeded in collecting
£22,000. Meanwhile a spirit of emulation sprang up in
another part of that immense town, and a meeting was
called, with the dean in the chair, to concoct a similar but
independent scheme ; or rather to revive an old church-
building society, which had latterly fallen asleep. And this
second subscription has already reached £17,000 ; in addi-
tion to which, one wealthy individual has engaged to build
and endow one church at her own cost ! Amidst all these
plans and efforts, a very natural inquiry is made, why the
government remains quiescent, and lends no aid in this im-
portant work ? And the people are already beginning to call
upon the House of Commons to contribute some help in
furtherance of their undertaking.
Now, the mere fact of the earnestness and costliness of
the public movement constitutes in itself some claim on the
attention of the legislature. Any proper and laudable object
on which the people have set their affections becomes, from
that very circumstance, a matter worthy of the consideration
of the House of Commons. Even the embellishment of,
and free access to, a piece of one of the parks, is quite mat-
ter enough for the mind of parliament, if the people reason-
ably desire it. _ _ _

Sir It. H. Inglis 's motion is to be renewed, we perceive,
shortly after Easter; and a good many petitions in its favour
have already been presented. Their number, we anticipate,
will be greatly increased as the period fixed for making the
motion draws near.

The King of Hanover has given directions for the dis-
mantling of his apartments in St. James's Palace ; waggon
loads of valuable articles are daily sent off.
EXTRACT FROM A LETTER DATED MACAO, JAN. 22:
" Regarding the terms of Captain Elliot's treaty with the
Chinese, I have not temper to speak. He had the Chinese
at his feet, and might have had what he wished ; and what
has he got? A few paltry dollars and a barren island, where
to be sure there is a tine harbour, but it is 100 miles from
Canton, the seat of business, which will always have the pre-
ference. If all foreigners were excluded from Canton, it
would do very well, but while the Americans and others go
there we must do so likewise. There is no doubt that had
Elliot taken the Bogue forts, which would not have cost a sin-
gle life, and pushed up to Canton, the people would have
forced the Commissioner to make peace on any terms. The
Chinese cannot fight, and the panic occasioned among them
by the shells and Congreve rockets is beyond description ;
they are greater cowards than ever I thought them. Their
numbers are of no avail, indeed a disadvantage. You wili
see we have not gained even liberty of trade to the northern
ports, on which our hopes of increasing the sale of British
manufactures were founded. I cannot believe that Parlia-
ment will approve Captain Elliot's conduct. The Chinese
are already chuckling, and say they have got the best of it.
It makes me quite sick to think of it, and there are not half
a dozen people either on shore or afloat who are not quite
furious."

FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 16, 1841

The Brindle will cause, which occupied so much
time at our assizes, and which was settled so much to
the satisfaction, we 'doubt not, of the Rev. Thomas
Sherburne, popish priest, furnishes to our mind just
an additional and very striking proof of the grasping
and encroaching principle of Popery. If there be any
advantage to which the reverend legatee and father
confessor is entitled, personally, from the circumstance
of the heirs at law having given in without entering
into a rebutting case, we freely concede it to him. The
case, as made for Mr. Sherburne, was different from
what the public expected. There seems. to have been
no fraud—no attempt to convert into an available tes-
tamentary paper an instrument that was not legally
such, nor any legal incapacity on the part of the testa-
tor to make a will and leave a handsome estate of above
£460 per annum to Father Sherburne, a total stranger
to him by blood or connection, if so it were his mind
to do. On this head the counsel for the heirs at law
and the learned judge who tried the case, after hearing
a great deal of evidence, were satisfied, and an ar-
rangement was entered into which put an end to all
further litigation, and will secure Mr. Sherburne or his
church in the enjoyment of this piece of good fortune.
Thus far, we grant, the advantage is all on the defend-
ant's side. He has his bond ; the law awards it to
him, and he may not be denied the fruits.

If the issue had gone to the jury, the material ques-
tion for them to determine would have been, whether
Mr. William Heatley was of sound mind at, till time
he executed the disputed will and on that point, we
allow, it would have been impossible (the evidence ad-
duced in support of the affirmative standing uncontra-
dicted) to have decided otherwise than in favour of the
will. But let us suppose that the issue had been a
little different, and that the question to be determined
were, whether the disposition of his property made so
largely in favour of the priest by the testator was, or
was not, attributable mainly to the " influence and as-
cendancy of popish superstition over his mind"—we
are much mistaken or the verdict would have been
such as to give new honours to the "acquisitiveness"
of that wakeful and amazingly self-enriching system.
The testator, though not deficient in ordinary busi-
ness, was, it seems, under strong impressions as to the
efficacy of Romish services for the good of his soul,
strict in the observance of all the ordinances of reli-
gion, and in the habit of entertaining priests pretty
frequently at his house. A band of monks and other
ecclesiastics used, as admitted by one of the witnesses,
to hold " conferences" thereat ; and it is certain that
he was a wealthy old bachelor. With these facts we
would submit to a discerning and enlightened jury an
exposition of Romish doctrines touching confession of
sins to a priest, absolution by the same, purgatory,
masses, prayers for the dead, and so forth; and, after
this, some thousand-and-one well-authenticated and
unresistible histories of actual acquisitions made by
that church with its immense corporatioh of bachelors
prowling about and seeking whom they may devour;
and, having thus arranged our case, and put it into the
hands of some able lawyer, such as Mr. Cresswell or
Sir W. Follett, we would with great confidence look
for a verdict in favour (if we may call it so) of the
Church of Rome ; that is to say, they would decide
that although in this case the attending confessor ob-
tained for himself, or his church, a snug estate, with-
out imputation of any actually fraudulent or unlawful
practice, (in common parlance,) he got it, nevertheless,
through that influence, and that alone, which popish
doctrines on the one side, and extreme credulity ,on the
other, enabled him to exercise, or placed at his com-
mand.

The Church of Rome possesses inexhaustible sources
of self-enrichment in various modes ; but this of in-
ducing her votaries to bequeath their wealth in her
favour in the prospect of death, has ever been one of
the most fruitful. The innumerable abbeys and reli-
gious houses, says Blackstone, which were built in this
country within a century after the conquest, and en-
dowed so amply, owe their origin to the due appliance
of the Romish ecclesiastics, who taught the overgrown
lords and their adherents in those times of civil tumult,
that founding a monastery a little before their deaths
would atone for a life of incontinence, disorder, and
bloodshed. And the doctrine inculcated was, "that
whatever was so given to, or purchased by, the monks
and friars, was consecrated to God himself; and that
to alienate, or take it away, was no less than the sin of
sacrilege."
It is the inevitable tendency and effect of Romanism
to enrich the church and starve the people. Look to
Ireland at this moment, where this process is carried
on with the most lamentable success. There the Po-
pish ecclesiastics are acquiring immense riches, and
building magnificent chapels, whilst the unfortunate,
fleeced people are steeped in poverty to the very lips.
Their machinery for extortion is unequalled in any
thing ever before known in the world, and it is ever at
work.

We may acquit Mr. Sherburne, then, on the evi-
dence in the Brindle will cause, of using any unlawfnl
means; but we certainly do not acquit his church of
being the great instrument by which he, a bachelor
priest, and a total stranger to the testator, obtained, in
preference to his two nieces, who had large families,
and with whom he (the testator) was on the most
friendly terms, an estate of f 460 a-year and upwards.
And this fact only shows that if Popery rears its crest
once more in this country, it will do so with all its
ancient pernicious influences and powers.

It is rather a sore point with the free-trade agitators
that if the corn duties were lowered or abolished, wages
must be lowered in proportion. This is a proposition
which throws a stumbling-block in their way of no
small amplitude, and we find that they bestow a great
deal of indignation, if not of argument on those who
advance it. Yet it appears to us that there can be no-
thing more obvious or unquestionable. Mr. Charles
Holland contends that if we take the corn of foreign
countries, we must therefore
this is
a non sequitur.ereforesendthemou There our
,eis
such a thing—in commodi-
ties in exchange
; bu
practice, at least, if not in theory—as
a "reciprocity all on one side," and we have experi-
enced it abundantly before now. The foreigner, he
says, will not give us his bread for nothing. No, of
course not; but he will for hard cash; and this is just
what is to be apprehended. We should take his corn ;
but it is not a necessary sequence that he should take
our goods in exchange. Nay, the cheap-corn-men ac-
tually negative the idea of our holding out any induce.

ment cp hir4 to do on; (pr the shy, cheaper bred, but
not lower wi4ges. Can they pos,iibly lie serious in ad-
vancing such absurdity—such transparent humbug ?
11 wages arc not to be lowered, bow shall our commo-
dities find a more easy vent in foreign markets than
they do at present ; and if they are to be lowered,
what advantage will the operatives. derive from altering
or even Pbolishing the corn duties ? Here is a dilemma
out of which we defy the democracy of free trade to
escape. Cheap bread does not imply low wages, said
Mr. Thornely, else why the great number of vessels
now in the docks of Liverpool advertised to take emi-
grants from the labouring portion of the population to.
the United States and to Canada? Would these la-
bourers emigrate except for the inducement of higher
wages in those countries ? This was his proof that
cheaper bread would not lessen wages in this country.
Surely the honourable member for Wolverhampton
(the colleague of Mr. Villiers) must have been jesting
when he adduced this fact by way of proving that a
different price of bread in this country would have no
effect upon wages. In America it is the inadequacy of
the supply of labour to the demand which causes the
high rate of wages ; but let the proportion of demand
and supply be altered.in favour of the latter, and wages
will immediately come down; and commerce being re-
gulated by the price of food, there is no parallel in
the cases which he attempts to compare. In this
country the labour market is overstocked, and the price
of food is the most important ingredient which regu-
gulates its hire; in America a state of things exactly
the reverse prevails, and wages are consequently de-
termined chiefly by the supply in the market, and not
by the price of corn; and they are high not because
corn is cheap, but because labour is scarce. The ho-
nourable member says that all the representations about
the cheapness of corn bringing down wages are a " de-
lusion" ; but we say that any other representation is a
delusion, and nothing but a delusion, whilst the rela-
tions of demand and supply as, to labour continue such
as they now are. Oh, but there will be an increased de-
mand for our manufactures in consequence of the corn
trade being opened; but what will produce that, unless
by lowered wages we shall be better able to compete
with the domestic manufactures of foreign countries ?
We are assured by Sir Joshua Walmsley, another great
cheap-loaf authority, that " if we should cease to be an
exporting country of manufactures, we should sink as
rapidly as we have risen."

But how have we become an exporting country ? It
was not by having an unprotected agriculture that we
became so—by subjecting the heavily taxed British
farmer to a ruinous competition with the lightly taxed,
or the altogether untaxed, serfs of Poland and boors of
Germany. It was not with such a system we pros-
pered ; and with such a system it would have been im-
possible for us to have arrived at that position of inde-
pendence and great political consequence which we
have enjoyed. But we have been now so long at peace
with the world, that it is imagined, we suppose, we are
never to be at war again, and that every other conside-
ration must give way to our trading interest. Well,
be it so. We abolish our corn duties then, not to
lower wages but to increase exports ; the farmers and
gentry are despoiled to give a little additional employ-
ment to our shipping, and to supply the factory people
with cheaper bread, and some trifling increase" does take
place (let us suppose) in our exports ; "Peter" is robbed
and " Paul" is paid ; let us suppose this, although if
employers are to derive no direct advantage from the
change of system, we cannot conceive how it can well
be ; but no matter—let us suppose it. But then agri-
cultural industry is prostrated ; inferior soils are thrown
out of cultivation ; rents fall ; and distress necessarily
overtakes all whose fortunes are bound up with the
produce of the soil, and its price in the market. Now,
do the manufacturers imagine that they will sustain no
loss in the home market in consequence of this fata-
lity, which would perhaps more than nullify all their
gains derived from a trifling increase in their exports ?
Here is a " respect that should give them pause," if
they will only look at it.
The "little Corsican," in spleen and spite, vexation
and bitterness of soul, did, once upon a time, call us,
in the way of contempt and disparagement, " a nation
of shopkeepers ;" but he had found to his cost, that
we were " ugly customers" as well, and that we have
a way of " dealing" both by wholesale and retail—and
though preferring to be civilians, in general, that we
can spew fight " sometimes." But there are twaddlers
amongst us who really take this speech. of the defunct
Corsican as if it contained a serious truth, and who
would have us act as if we really were what the "
sa-
tirical knave" said here. Yes, they would sweep away
our farm-houses—let our corn-fields run to waste—
pauperise our gentry, and exile our " bold peasantry—
their country's pride,"—in order to cover the whole
land with factories, and train the rising generation in
the healthful and intellectual operations of factory la-
bour. Fine reformers these—men of great souls, and
wondrous patriots. But we beg pardon—the phrase
is "children of light"—they are children of light; so
Mr. William Rathbone calls them. And certainly by
his splendid oration on the stage on Monday, he gave
great proof that he is himself a most promising babe
of the illumination. He boasted on this occasion that
they had ensnared the Tories by the recent meeting in
the Court House, and committed them to the principles
of free trade. Why, what meanness and trickery are
here ! But the statement is absolutely untrue. The
Tories were not ensnared, whatever intention might
have been entertained to that effect by Mr. W. Rath-
bone, or his cofreres—nor were they committed to any
thing beyond what they are now perfectly willing to
abide by. The Corn Duties were specially exempted
from the matters to be discussed at the Court House
meeting ; and there is not the slightest inconsistency
in assenting to a general principle, but maintaining,
at the same time, that there are exceptions to the rule
which must be strictly and rigidly guarded.

Monim or DUBLIN.—We recommend our readers to visit
this very ingenious model. It is the best worth seeing of any
that has of late been exhibited.

" TEN THOUSAND A YEAR."-Mr. Martin's clever drama
of this name has been just published. We have enjoyed a
hearty laugh over it, while the recollection of the capital way
in which it was played at the Liver is fresh in our memory.
We are glad to see this demand for a drama first played in
Liverpool. It is very amusing; the dialogue is well sus-
tained and full of spirit. We recommend it to those who
have a taste for dramatic literature.

DEATH BY FALLING INTO A CELLAR.—On the after-
noon of Wednesday a little girl, Elizabeth, daughter of Mr.
Moses Moss, Clarence-buildings, Mansfield-street, fell into
an unprotected cellar, in that neighbourhood, and was se-
verely injured. She was carried home, and two surgeons
were immediately in attendance, who paid her every atten-
tion ; but she died at three o'clock yesterday morning, ill
consequence of the injuries she had received. An inquest
will be held to-morrow.

DEATH BY BURNING.—On the sth instant, as Catharine
Bell, a woman 67 years of age, who was much addicted to
drinking, was sitting alone, and partly undressed, in the cel-
lar in which she lived, under No. .14, New Bird-street, a
spark from the candle ignited her clothes, and she rushed into
the street, in a blaze. A mau named Smith went up to her,
and succeeded in putting out the fire. She was soon after
attended by a surgeon, but lingered on until Tuesday morn-
ing, when she expired. In the opinion of the surgeon, the
immediate cause of death was the burning. though the de-
ceased had previously injured herself by inebriety. An in-
quest was held yesterday on view of_ the body, and a verdict
of—died by being accidentally burned—w?s returned. Some
other parties,—abandoned characters—live in the cellar, but
were all absent when tho accident occurred.

YOUNG MEN'S ESTABLISHED CHURCH SOCIETY.—Last
evening a most admirable sermon was delivered in St. Jude's
Church by the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, to the members of the
Young Men's Established Church Society, on " the position
of the Christian ministry relatively with the civil ruler, and
the connection between a national establishment of the church,
and the permanence of such Scriptural position." The rev.
gentleman selected his text from the 13 and 14th verses of the
2d chapter of the First Epistle general of Peter—" Submit
yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake,
whether it be to the king as supreme, or unto governors as
unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil
doers, and to the praise of them that do well." The dis-
couase, which we understand will speedily be printed, occu-
pied about an hour and a quarter, and was listened to with
the most profound attention by a crowded congregation.

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—The contracts for
eleven miles:of this line (from Bridgewater to Taunton) have
all been let so as insure the completion of the whole distance
within twelve months. The terms are £lB,OOO a mile, in-
cluding the permanent way, and every other expense. This
line is now likely to return a handsome dividend to the pro-
prietors, as well as confer incalculable benefits upon the
surrounding country.
THE SILK GOWN.—" To be or not to be" is the question
which is now agitating the Wesleyan body throughout this
country, on the snbject of wearing clerical gowns in the pul-
pits of the Society, by its itinerant ministers. Mr. Welsh,
in a pamphlet which he has published, states that the system,
if adopted by all the itinerant preachers, will cost the Society
£7OOO a-year. The Rev. S. D. Waddy, the most popular
Wesleyan preacher in this town, having had a silk gown pre-
sented to him by some ladies in his congregation. has ap-
peared therein in public, but his so doing has riot met with
the approval of the office bearers of the Society in Hull. The
Rev. Mr. Bunting, at Manchester,. also appeared in one on
the same day as Mr. Waddy, which circumstance being
strongly disapproved of, Mr. B. has withdrawn himself until
the Conference, when the matter will come on for discussion.
—Hull Paper.

REPRESENTATION OF LONDON•^"A number of citizens
have pressed Sir Peter Laurie to allow himself to be nomi-
nated at the next election • he has accepted their invitation.