The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-17 00:00:00

FISHER AND OTHERS V. GERMAIN

This was an undefended action on a bill of exchange for
£ll7 18s. 11d. Verdict for the plaintiff for the amount
claimed, with interest, altogether £llB Hs. 7d.

MITCHENER V. SLACK

Mr. Baines and Mr. Heaton appeared for the plaintiff,
and Mr. Cresswell and Mr. Pashley for the defendant.
It appeared that the plaintiff was the trustee of a money
club in Sheffield, and the action was brought in her name, for
the benefit of the members. The club was called the Friend-
ly Money Club, and in the month of April, 1832, a man
named Clayton, who was one of the members, and who had
for some time before paid the usual contribution, which was
3s. per month for each member, drew out the sum of £25.
For this he gave security, by a note, in which the other per-
sons were combined as sureties with him. He had then to
pay 3s. per month as interest, and 3d. per month to be spent
in drink by the committee, besides continuing his contribu-
tion of 3s. per month towards the principal. Having received
the money, however, he became exceedingly irregular in his
payments. He had been for some time deceased, and two of
the sureties were in difficulties. The club, therefore, were
compelled to come upon the remaining security, Mr. Ri-
chardson, the defendant. The note was dated April 6, 1832 ;
but to take the debt out of the statute of limitations, pay-
ments were proved in September, 1835, 19th May, 1836, and
2d November, 1836.

The jury found for the plaintiff.
Mr. BAINES said, the payments made to the club by Clay-
ton would reduce the amount to £22 17s. 3d.

RATE V. PARRY.
This was an undefended action, to recover £9B ss. 6d., on
a bill of exchange. The defendant pleaded that he did not
accept. The acceptance was proved, and a verdict returned
for the sum claimed, with interest, amounting altogether to
£lO3 2s. 6d.

THE CAUSE LIST.
The following cases were disposed of in the course of the
Afternoon :—Plaintiff. Nos. 4,6, 7,8, 9, 12, 17, 21, 27, 29.—
Withdrawn. Nos. 1,2, 3.

The court adjourned at o'clock, to nine this morning

To THE REV. J. D.-GREGG, A.M., CHAPLAIY or SAINT
NICHOLAS'S-WITHIN-DUBLIN,
THE ADDRESS OF THE UNDERSIGNED PROTES-
TANTS OF LIVERPOOL.

Rev. Stc.,—We, the undersigned Protestants of Liverpool,
express our deep sympathies for your sufferings, while in con-
finement for accompanying the brother and uncle of a stray-
ing Protestant to a nunnery in Dublin, in order to persuade
her to return to a mother's roof, and a pure, scriptural
church ; and for denouncing the wrath of God against the
Romish " apostacy," described in Holy Scripture as a har-
lot, " drunk with the blood of the saints," and as " blasphe-
mous" by the articles and homilies of the Church of England,
and " damnable and idolatrous" by the laws of the realm.

In visiting the nunnery, we feel that you violated no law,
statute, or• enactment, either in spirit or letter. Calling on
you, therefore, at the time, innocent of offence, to enter into
securities to keep the peace (which you had no desire or in-
tention to break), was, we conceive, a violation of the rights
and liberties of the subject ; and committing you to jail for
not entering into the required securities, we look on as an
outrage on all .British law.

.
AN e feel pained that a minister of the pure and scriptural
Church of England should be committed to prison under any
circumstances, more especially one who nobly and fearlessly
stood up to " contend for the faith once delivered to the
saints," when it was violently assailed, and whom the Lord
appeared to have nerved for the battle.

- The history of the times gives daily fearful evidence that
the spirit of Papacy is unchanged and unchangeable; and
though already " drunk with blood," she who drenched the
soil of England has her appetite as keen as ever, and wants
more of power than of will CO kindle again the fires of Smith-
field, and to act over again the days of the second James.
It is distressing to us to know that those who stand up as
witnesses for the truth, to resist the machinations of Popery
in the sister island, thereby nut in peril their lives, their
liberties, and their properties, and that full and equal protec-
tion of the laws is not dealt out to them by those in authority
in that country.

We hail your discharge from confinement, by one of the
highest tribunals of the kingdom, as an evidence that your
cause has not been deserted by the God of his people.
Praying that lie who " worketh all things after the coun-
sel of nis own will," and makes his truth to triumph in every
conflict, may be your stay and support in every trial and at
every time, and give you light, strength, and wisdom from
on high, and that he will bless our whole country, and cause
the light of his countenance to shine throughout it, we sub-
scribe ourselves your friends and well-wishers.

REPLY OF THE REV. T. D. GREGG, A.M.
HONOURED BRETHREN,—Ten thousand thanks for your
address. 1 recognise in it the breathings of that spirit that
has made England " the envy of surrounding nations and
the admiration of the world." Yea, brethren, it is the very
same bold, fearless, influence-despising, world-overcoming
spirit which has led you to stand by me, when suffering re-
proach for duty's sake, which led your fathers " to glorify
the Lord in the fires,"—" to bear their testimony before
kings and not be ashamed," and indelibly to brand " BLAS-
PHEMOUS" and " IDOLATROUS" upon the fore-
head of the Scarlet Whore, regardless of anathemas sus-
tained by the arms of the greater part of the potentates of
Christendom. Ten thousand thanks for your noble ad-
dress !

Some have told me that though supplicated by an injured
family, I ought not to have ventured to the nunnery—that
this was " not judicious," and that when there, I should
have employed a much more silken phraseology to the cowled
superioress of that bastile than I did. Why should we not
call it a bastile?—truth is prevented from entering its gates,
the most rigorous surveillance of all communications from
within and from without is maintained, nor is any inmate
permitted to see the nearest friend without the presence of a
third person—l do well denominate it a bastile. Some have
told me, I repeat, that I should not have gone there ; or that
having gone there, I should have culled my words with
greater delicacy. Brethren, this is not your opinion, and I
rejoice at it ; 1 learned plain speaking in your favoured land ;
I believe that it is essential to the deliverance of Ireland
from the curse of popery, and I hold with you that I
was entitled to the protection of British law, when, in this
respect, with no sinister intention, with no rude feeling, but
with a conscientious desire to awaken a soul enthralled by the
chains of an enslaving superstition, I used the privilege of a
British freeman. To have refused the summons of the
afflicted family—to have coolly referred them to their attor-
ney for redress, would certainly have been a very safe course
as far as it respected my personal convenience. Ido be-
lieve, however, that it would have been a course ill calculated
to strike terror into the soul of popery, or to elicit the en-
thusiastic cheers of the fathers and mothers, the sisters and
brothers of Liverpool, congregated together to sympathise
with me in thousands. Yes, protestant privilege was out-
raged in the treatment I received ; I thank God that He did
not allow it to be outraged with impunity.
Your address, your meeting, your enthusiasm, have fully
vindicated the judiciousness of my conduct.

You say well, brethren, popery requires butthe opportunity
to rekindle the fires of persecution. Since it cannot answer
the arguments of its adversaries, its only security lies in
stopping their mouths. A system of lies and of absurdity,
which is universally abandoned when the. spirit of freedom
leads its victims to examine into its pretensions, can only
subsist by trampling human liberty beneath its feet.
Our holy Catholic and apostolic Church is the parent of
constitutional liberty, because she is, under God, the source
of truth ; she glories in that freedom which, when rationally
exercised, is certain to multiply her disciples.
Never will England resume her proud position among the
nations—never will Englishmen be delivered from those ca-
lamities which at present afflict them—judicially afflict them
--until popery is nationally cried down, protestantism na-
tionally exalted, and, however millions may chafe, yea, and
rebel, the word of God and truth made the paramount rule
of the national policy. Faithful to principle, she may defy
the world in arms ; forgetful of duty and ungrateful for pri-
vileges, she may look for disaster, defeat, and disappoint-
ment in every field of contest.

I know, brethren, that you agree with me. lam well ac-
quainted with your principles, your feelings, and your power
to give efficacy to both. May God grant that you may con-
tinue to pursue the glorious path that you have entered on,
and that you may be favoured so far as to see your efforts
crowned with the triumph of truth, and the overthrow of
destructive error within the British dominions.

We seek the overthrow of popery in order to confer inesti-
mable benefits on papists themselves. Again and again
thanking you, I remain, brethren,
Your faithful and obliged servant in Christ,
T. D. GREGG,
Chaplain of St. Nicholas Within, Dublin.
Dublin, August 10, 1841.

RAPID TRAVELLING BETWEEN LONDON

AND DUBLIN

TO THE EDITOR OF CAUNDERS'S NEWS-LETTER

Slll,—Some days ago I observed a paragraph in your paper
headed as above, which, I observe, has been pretty generally
copied into the other Dublin papers. On first reading it
over I was under the impression that some great change had
been made by which the public would derive corresponding
advantages in time. A more attentive perusal, however, dis-
covered to my weak senses that there was some other object
in the paragraph beyond what appeared at first sight. The
fact is, under the new regulation for the line of packets re-
ferred to from Liverpool, the travelling public have gained
a considerable loss; for, instead of taking your seat, as
formerly; in London, at 8 30, p.m., and arriving comfortably,
in the same seat, at Liverpool, at seven the following morn-
ing, in time for the packet, you now have the delight of
changing your seat and your luggage four different times—
very
pleasant, indeed, of a dark winter's night. First, Lon-
don and Birmingham Railway to Birmingham Grand June_
.-one hours
Junc-
tion to Crewe, Chester and Crewe to Chester,
and Chester
y
and Birkenhead, and arrive in Dublin in twent
at soonest. Contrast this with my last trip from London. I
left town at 9
arrived, went all through to Liverpool wan:
started the evening mail
out change, at 6 30, p.m.,
packet at 7 10, and was safely landed at 6 30,
morning, just twenty-one hours. -W1 a.m., next
to the public by the great change so iere then, is the gain
blazoned forth in all the
Dublin paper?—l am, sir, yours,

AN OLD TRAVELLER.

A person in Perth had lately a canary hatched with only
one wing and one leg; which is as active and thriving a$ any
of its mates.

MEETING OF THE ROYAL BRITISH BOWMEN,
AT MOLLINGTON HALL, CHESHIRE.

Mollingtou Hall, the seat of John Fielden, Esq., has been
a scene of festivity during the past week. On Friday the
Royal British Bowmen held their annual meeting at this
splendid residence, but we are sorry to record that
" The morning lowered, and heavily in clouds
Brought on the day."
In fact, the weather was so bad that at one time we were
afraid the archers must have given in to the elements; but
when " a thousand hearts beat happily," it is not a trifle
that will mar their mirth. Everything was provided upon
the most liberal scale, and the company comprised the elite
of the county and the principality. Our return of the sports
will shew that "Cambria's fair daughters" bore off the prize.
The ground is admirably suited for the recreation; and the
well-known hospitality of the worthy host almost precludes
the necessity of stating, that everything was done to please
the palate, and add to the comfort, of the numerous visiters.
The company began to arrive soon after eleven o'clock,
and the shooting commenced at two. Amongst those pre-
sent we noticed the following :—Sir R. H; Cunliffe, Lady
Cunliffe, H. Cunliffe, Esq. ; E. Sparling, Esq., of Pulton ;
Gubbins, Esq. ; E. L. Kenyon, Esq., Mrs. Kenyon, and
the Misses Kenyon, of the Lodge ; Sir B. Leighton, presi-
dent; Parker, Esq., of Swiney, M.P. ; Lady Paramount,
Hon. Mr. L. Kenyon, J. Lovett, Esq., Colonel and Mrs.
Salusbury, Miss Currie; Mr., Airs., and Miss Roper, of
Plas Teg ; Mrs. Williams, Gwerslyth ; J. Townsend, Esq.,
Trevallans ; T. Maunwaring, Esq., M.P., Marchweil Hall;
Major and the Misses Swettenham, Rev. Ralph Congreve,
Charles Congreve, Esq., of Burton, R. Massie, Esq., Lady
and Miss Puleston, Rev. Arch. Clarke, Rev. W. Wrench
and lady, W. Blundell, Esq., of Crosby, R. H. Barnston,
Esq., and lady, of Crewe, Major and Mrs. Napier, Master
and two Misses Napier, L. Fielden, Esq., Rev. R. Massie
and lady, Miss Barnston, T. W. Eyton, Esq., J. W. Swan,
Esq., and lady, Rev. Thos. Heath, Miss Mawdesley, Rev.
Prebendary Slade, H. Hesketh, Esq., and lady. Rev. L.
Wynne, General and two Misses Glegg, Mrs. L. Townsend,
Mr. Latham, Mr. Ashton of Gayton, Rev. P. W. Hamilton
and lady, Mrs. H. Potts, A. Potts, Esq., and Miss Potts,
Miss Fletcher of Gwenthaylea, Rev. M. Thelwell and the
Misses Thelwell, Mrs. Garnett, Paul Panton, Esq., and
lady, P. Hunberston, Esq., and lady, Mr. and Mrs. Lovalt
of Tramhill, Mrs. and Miss Egerton of Gresford, Mr. Leek,
Mr. Newcome of Gresford, the Misses Slade, Rev.W.West,
Mrs. West, and Miss West, of Stoke, Colonel, Mrs., and
Misses Glegg, Lady Cust and two Misses Cust, Sir G. Cast
aad the Misses Cust, Col. Tomkinson, Messrs. Robinson,
Clare, Lyon, Jackson, Edwards, Jones, &c., &c.
The first gentlemen's prize was won by Brooke Cunliffe,
Esq. ; the second by H. Leigh, Esq.
The ladies' first prize was won by Miss Thelwall; second,
Miss Egerton. _

The gold medal was also awarded to Miss Thelwall ; se-
cond, Miss Fletcher.

TO THE MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE
LIVERPOOL OPERATIVE PROTESTANT ASSO-
CIATION.

Having seen a placard posted upon the walls of the town,
professing to emanate from our association, and signed J.
Leatherbarrow, secretary, calling a meeting to be held in the
Amphitheatre, on Monday evening, August 23rd inst., 1841,
I take this means of informing you that it is a Popish Radi-
cal hoax. It shows to what a desperate state of envy and
malice our radical and popish adversaries are driven. The
effects of our association have been deeply felt in thinning
their ranks, and in bringing many of our fellow townsmen
out of popish darkness into protestant light; therefore we
do not wonder at the malice which dictated the placard in
question, and led to the forgery of the names of the patron
and secretary of our association.

It will be observed that the printer's name has been
omitted on the bill: this is a proof that the forgers of it
were fearful of discovery in their contemptible trick.
JOHN LEATHERBAHROW,
Secretary.

26, Elliott-street

CHAIN CABLES

TO THE COMMITTEE FOR MANAGING THE REGISTRATION

OF SHIPPING, LIVERPOOL.
GENTLEMEN,—The recent reconstruction of this Com-
mittee for the purpose of regulating all matters connected
with the classification, &c. of shipping, induces me to address
you on a much neglected, misunderstood, but very important,
branch of the equipments, viz. chain cables ; for, it is gene-
rally allowed to be one requiring information, in order to be
better understood.

Lloyd's Registration Committee entertain a most erroneous
notion, and promulgate it as trnth, misleading themselves
and the public, that in the process for strengthening chain
cables, by exceeding the weights in practice greatly, renders
chains so proved dangerous ; and, under this delusion, frame
rules to regulate the shipping of this and other countries,
embracing, as these rules do, the security of life as well as
property. The plain and correct statements before the pub-
lic, together with what is here stated, cannot fail to attract
your notice, and obtain for it your best consideration, as a
duty (apart from personal motives) incumbent on a Com-
mittee constituted to frame rules for the government of a
society. Chain cables liege a place in these rules; and it is
to this 1 am calling your attention, that they may not alto-
gether be based on that absurd principle, problematical
strength !

To-individuals better acquainted, the appropriating of
chains, according to substance, is a grievance ; but if strength
be made a rule of appropriation, this same rule would attract
these individuals to the spot where it is in practice, and so
add to the business already done, whilst the present insane
rule continues on the books to suit these persons who prefer
doing business under it, or cannot produce certificates of
strength.

I❑ confirmation of what I have set forth here and else-
where, I shall relate a circumstance which occurred about the
opening of the proving establishment in Liverpool, and state
the bearings in a way which appear to me to be correct. Two
chain cables, of the diameter of one and a quarter inch, were
sent to the establishment to be proved. The chain first
proved had forced out of it every link short of 40 tons strength,
and was certified at 40 tons. The other chain had been in
use about two years, and soon as 15 tons had crept upon it,
in the operation a link gave way in the presence of the hor-
rified shipmaster.
According to the regulations laid down by committees,
this vile chain is permitted, without the least scruple, to he
appropriated to a vessel of 280 tons; but the strong chain
would be rejected for the next class, as being too small, not-
withstanding it is as well qualified to hold a ship of 1200 tons
as the weak chain is one of 280 tons, provided the party
which drew out the scale contemplated a surplus of strength
or substance equal to one-third for natural wear. An allow-
ance like this ought to be made in new chains, otherwise they
would speedily become insufficient, and require to be re-
placed. On another occasion, a chainmaker, who made
chains l y his own hands, told me, in confidence, that he had
made a chain the worst he ever knew to be made. The owner•
or master took it into his head to think differently of the
chain, praised it, and, through this unmerited praise, other
persons employed the chainmaker.

In this deplorable state, as ridiculous as it is hazardous, is
the British and foreign shipping subject to be placed ; and,
what is remarkable and lamentable, constituted bodies, with
strong evidence before them, have no inclination to grapple with
the subject, but keep aloof for reasons best known to them-
selves, just as if a continuance in this state is the grand ob-
ject of the society. The interest of parties does not harmo-
nise on the present plan. Surveyors, according to instruc-
tions, require chain cables to be of a certain size, disregard-
ing strength. The shipowner, knowing the underwriter
stands in his place, is often as regardless of strength, and
provides chains, of the prescribed size, as cheap as he can ;
so that, between these parties, the property of merchants and
the lives of crews are placed in jeopardy.
It is an easy matter to frame rules to make the interests of
all harmonise to their advantage, and to this end I am calling
your attention. There are experimental chains prepared suf-
ficient to show the state of affairs, and the necessity there is
for a wiser code of rules, to regulate the shipping community
on this head ; so that it only remains for:you to take advan-
tage of the circumstance. I am, gentlemen, your most obe-
dient servant, ROBT. PORTER.
Liverpool, 14th August, 1841.

The Earl of Harewood is dangerously ill at his house in
London.

The annual regatta of the Royal Yacht Squadron was to
commence at Cowes, Isle of Wight, yesterday, (Monday.)
Admiral Sir Robert Stopford assumes the governorship of
Greenwich Hospital in the course of the ensuing week.
It is most probable that Lord Lyndhurst will resume the
seals. His lordship, we understand, declines to go as am-
bassador to Paris.

Lord Morpeth has accepted an invitation to dine with the
Dublin radicals on the 9th September.

The army in Ireland is about to be further augmented, by
the addition of three regiments of infantry-

A young girl aged 16, named Maria Payne, committed
suicide at Hounslow on Saturday, by taking oxalic acid, in
consequence of her father having discovered an intimacy
between her and a soldier of the 11th Hussars.
The Russian government, it is stated, is beginning to con-
ciliate the inhabitants of Poland, and it is even added that
hopes are entertained of its being restored to the rank of a
nation, with the Duke of Leuchtenberg as vice roy.
EDITORIAL. FISHING.—We beg to acknowledge the receipt
of a beautiful dials of soles sent us from a friend in Tenby
this week,—they were most acceptable. He, as well as other
friends, need not fear offending us by sending us anything he
may consider worth accepting.—Carmarthen Journal.

A whig candidate in the north of England, during the
election, hit upon an ingenious method of corruption. He
presented the wives of several with silk flags to hang from
their windows, each piece of silk being sufficiently large to
make a gown !

The Duke of Bordeaux, whilst riding near Vienna on the
18th ult., broke his leg by a fall from his horse which took
fright.

CAST IRON CHURCH.—St. George's Church, Liverpool,
is an object of considerable interest for its taste, and as
having been nearly the first iron church erected in Great
Britain. The whole of the frame work of the windows, doors,
greins, roofs, pulpit, ornamental enrichments, are of cast
iron. The length is 119 feet, the breadth is 47. It is orna-
mented by a splendid cast iron window of stained glass. It
is not, perhaps, generally known, that a great proportion of
the larger manufactories erected in England within the last
ten years, are all iron except the walls. And within two
years past, several cottages and country villas have been put
up near London, which are exclusively cast iron ; walls,
doors, steps, roof, chimneys, sash, &c. In England where
wood is dear and iron cheap, the first cost of such buildings
is less than those of tirobei. In durability and beauty, they
are, of course, unequalled. When once finished such build-
ings require no repairs ; and the most finely carved orna-
ments cost little more than plain castings.—London 2lfe-
Manic? Magazine.
A BATCH or NEW WHIG PEERS.—Friday's Gazette an-
nounces that the following have been raised to the peerage
—Thc night Hon. Henry Charles Howard (commonly called
Earl of Surrey), by the stile and title of Baron Mal Travers.
General John Earl of Stair, by the the title of Baron Oxen-
foord, of Cousland, in the county of Edinburgh. Valentine
Earl of Kenmare, to be Baron Kenmare, of Castle Rosse,
Kerry. The Right lion. George Hamilton Chichester (com-
monly
called Earl of Belfast), by the stile and title of Baron
Ennishowen and Carrickfergus, of Ennishowen, Donegal.
and of Carrickfergus, Antrim. Charles Noel Lord Barham,by the stiles and titles of Baron Noel, of Ridlingtnni.Rut-
land, Viscount Campden, of Campden, Gloucester, Earland
of Gainshorough, Lincoln. William Fitzhard!nge Locirs Se-
grave,
by the stile and title of Earl Fitzhaursdslnge.
General the Right Hon. Sir Richardßi Right Hu Vivian, of
ssey
Hon. Sir Henry
Glynn and of Truro, Cornwall. The • fitio of Baron Brooke Parnell, Bart., by the stile and
Con-
gleton, of Congleton, Chester.
ARRIVAL OF THE
,11.—Yester ay
TOWN.—HOBART-TOWN•
:raificent steamer, under can-
SEA- SSA-HORSE AT
muchHOBA. RtTe-
vass, standing up the —%i2ja splendid vessel, of 300-horse
rest was excited by seenSinT,LA
emutE,Rgyvbich proved to be the SCR-
Horse, from Londeorns.tand?
the first of the four powerful
power, is, sye
vast resources of these important (f.)lonies.
and we can only
aere coining out to navigate our seas, and call
irsstewnicliechdthvices from home we learn that the Juno, of
similar Power,
steamers
into
ourmexe
last a was upon the eve of sailing ;
add, that
ifsheand the others are equal to the Sea-}horse,
no such vesselsn
Erebus and Terror, southern discovery ships, are in the har-
bour.
The have been further to the southward than any
former expedition, sailing over the continent receutiv dia.
covered by the Anurions,
eus a

And left us to regard thy flight
With mingled sorrow and delight?
Thy course, with holy ardour bright,
Declared thy duty thy delight
But scarce hadst thou thy race begun.
But lo ! thou 'rt fled—thy work is don
Why not with us in this dark vale,
Dilating on the wondrous tale
Thy tongue delighted to proclaim
To tribes of every tongue and name ?
- •

-- -
Why not below, to glad the sight
Of those who mourn thy early flight— ,
Who saw thee not, but feel thou 'rt gone
Why ? 'Tis because thy work is done.

Then why detain thee ? Though we weep,
We dare not, Mould not break thy sleep ;
Nor wish thee from thy present bliss,
Again to tread a world like this.
Thy work is done, though short thy stay ;
Then rest with God in endless day ;

And with thy sainted brethren sing
The praise of heaven's Eternal King.
But though thy servant, Lord, has fled
To thee, yet send upon my head
Like holy love, like fervent zeal ;
A double portion let me feel:

And guide me in his course to run,
Nor haste me till my work be done;
And then with joy unending praise
To Father, Son, and Spirit raise.

Liverpool, July, 1841

THE QUEEN'S SPEECH

(From the Times.)
It is no longer kept a secret that the royal speech on the
opening of the new parliament is to raise the subject of the
budget. 'We had heard this confidently asserted almost a
fortnight ago, but we were unwilling to believe, ill as we
think of the yet lingering ministry, that they were prepared
to commit such an indecency as this. We could not per-
suade ourselves that, under all the circumstances of the time,
and with a proved impossibility of adding, by this new crime,
a single hour to their time, they would go the length of com-
mitting their royal mistress to a string of recommendations
to which they positively know that parliament must needs
firm, however respectful, refusal. If there be one
eutional principle which, more than all others, is im-
.ant_to the well being of'a monarchy, it is, that the wishes
the Sovereign shall never he made to appear in conflict
with the wishes of 63 people. For this reason it has been
usual with former administrations, when they have found,
from plain, though not perhaps actually direct indications,
that the confidence of the country was withheld or withdrawn
from them, to resign their offices, and so give their Sove-
reign the grace of the earliest possible compliance with pub-
lic opinion. This was not the course which it seemed good
to the whig ministry to adopt. After a decision of their own
House of Commons against' them, they held on, pretending
to believe that the people, on appeal, would reverse the
e. The appeal was made, and the sentence emphati-
, confirmed. Upon this, full many a simple-minded man
imagined that they would forthwith resign. We knew better.
We knew that they had instituted their appeal, not with any
real hope of reversal, but for delay. Thus it was clear that
they would keep possession until judgment could be actually
entered up, and execution issued against them. So far we
were not at all surprised at their waiting till the assemblage
of the new parliament, for we have always done them justice
about their consistency in the matter of adhesion ; and, in
common with our old friend Lance, we " would have one
that takes upon him to be a dog indeed, to be, as it were, a
dog at all things." But what they are now about to do is,
we own, a proceeding that astounds us. The only object
which the ministry can possibly have in pledging the Queen
to their obnoxious budget is the monstrous one of keeping
a certain hold upon her in opposition—of retaining, after
their constitutional and public relations with the crown are
determined, a private and unconstitutional relation with it
for their own party interests. A higher misdemeanour can
hardly be conceived, When the Sovereign dismisses an
administration for measures disapproved by the country, the
constitutional construction of that proceeding is, that the
obnoxious measures are abandoned, and that the Sovereign
is entirely free to take other steps more consistent with the
opinion of the people. A minister who relinquishes office
without leaving, as tar as in him lies, this entire freedom to
the crown, commits a crime against the Sovereign and a fraud
upon his successors and upon the country. The successors
whom the country brings in have a right to expect that the
Sovereign is prepared to act upon their advice in general,
and more particularly in the specific matter on which the
decision of the country has thus been taken. When
they have prepared their measure, and laid it before
the Sovereign, is the Sovereign then to inform them
that its principle is inadmissible—that a royal speech
has concluded the Crown against concession—and that
the appeal to the country has been made in vain ? This
may be the course the outgoing Whigs would fain have their
Royal mistress pursue, in the face of her loyal subjects, to
whom she has so recently referred this question ; but we be-
lieve they will hardly give this direct advice ; we believe they
will not, because they dare not—because the Sovereign, so
counselled, would assert the dignity and sincerity of her own
character, by instantly resenting, with strong apprehensions,
the very suggestion of so unworthy a dealing. But, if this be
not what her Ministers contemplate, in committing her to an
express adoption of their budget from the throne, what other
object is it which they have in view ? If they dare not pro-
pose to her to adhere to their budget by retaining themselves
in office, nor to take her stand upon it as against their suc-
cessors, they are bound to contemplate that when the new
House of Commons, by an amendment to the address, shall
repeat the condemnation pronounced by the old house on
them and that budget of theirs, her Majesty in dismissing
them will dismiss their budget also. But if she is to dismiss
their budget with them, and open her mind without prejudice
to the counsels of the new adviser's whom, in compliance with
-'ople's recommendation, she may call into her service,
-sibly, how inconceivably indecorous is it, that
lier present Ministers to put forth from
'se of Lords on Tuesday, the 24th of
on the 28th or 30th she will be
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Buckingham-house !
But the budget, the ministerialists will tell us, must have
a discussion ; they will urge that the old parliament was
dissolved without any direct debate upon any part of it, ex-
cept the sugar duties ; that the ministers, in justice to them-
selves and the subject, must bring it fully before the public ;
and that since an amel,dment to the address on the Queen's
opening speech is likely to put them at once out of office,
their only opportunity of raising the required debate before
their departure will be by directing the speech itself to the
items of the budget.
It is quite impossible to admit such a plea for so flagrant
an indecorum. Those who urge the necessity of a discussion
know thoroughly well that it will be a mere superfluity ; that
the whole matter was fully argued in parliament on Sir
Robert Peel's resolution of "want of confidence," as well as
upon several other less important occasions.
Again, then, we ask, for what low and personal purpose is
it, for what wretched chance of future office, for what dis-
honest hold upon the uneasy recollections of their sovereign,
that they have betrayed her youth and inexperience into a
promise that she will propound to the public next week a
policy which she will have to retract the week after? Is this
a situation in which to leave the consistency of the Crown ?
Is this the loyalty of whig gentlemen ? Is this the affection-
ate, the exclusive attachment, which they profess to the
character and person of her Majesty ?

STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH SOUTH
AMERICA.

? the .21Iorming Herald.)

Attention has been lately drawn in the city to the subject
of steam communication with that large portion of South
America, comprehended between French Guiana and Cape
`-‘7 the appearance of a contract concluded with the
--ament, through the influence and active in-
tremission of Mr. J. Stun, on behalf of Mr. Willian Mor-
gan, of the firm of Acraman Morgan and Co. of Bristol, for
the establishment of a line of steam-packets betwixt this
country, Brazil, and the River Plate, by which the mail ser-
service would be performed so much more surely and expe-
ditiously, to the signal advantage of the mercantile and
general interests of the states both on this and the other side
the Atlantic. The contract in question recites that a suffi-
cient number of steam-vessels (six is the number decided
on) shall he provided for a monthly communication betwixt
England and Rio Janeiro, as well as from Rio to Monte
Video and Buenos Ayres, calling and leaving mails and pas-
sengers at the intermediate ports of Pernambuco, Bahia,
and Santa Catharina. Exclusive privileges are granted
under this contract for fifteen years, dating from the time
when the steam-packets shall commence running, and such
commencement to take place within two years and a half
from the date of the approval of the contract by the legis-
lative assembly of Brazil. For the conveyance of official
and private correspondence from England the Brazilian
government undertakes to pay monthly the sum of six thou-
sand milreis currency, but stipulates moreover for other ad-
- • '- b,,wever seem sufficiently compensated by
iifferent ways. Thus the con-
-n required to ship gratuitously
each way, out and home, to the " extent of ten tons of
goods or stores belonging to the Brazilian government,"
from one port of the empire to another, always excepting
gunpowder ; also to convey gratuitously to the number of
-fifty soldiers from Rio to Santa Catharina, or the reverse,
each voyage, when desired, such conveyance not however
including their provisions; also in case of a Brazilian vessel
being cast away the crew, if at any port where the steamers
touch, are to have free passage back to their own country
with provisions, &c., to the number of ten of the crew_; also,
it is conditioned that the contractor shall convey to Europe
at half the usual passage money, to the number of ten each
voyage, when so required, such persons as the government
might desire to send to Europe for " instruction in any kind
of science, art, or trade," &c. In return the steam-packets
will be allowed to convey the goods and passengers from one
port to another of the empire at which they must call, with-
out prejudice however to the privileges of other steam-
packets already licensed. The contractor is to be provided
with special facilities in every port for the prompt despatch
of cargo and passengers, and may cause bonded warehouses
or hulks, to be constructed or fitted up, for immediate load-
ing and unloading of goods, &c. Ready-made sails,
anchors, cables, masts, coal, &c., for the use of the
steamers, may be imported free of all duty ; and the
steamers are to be exempted from payment of all port
clialar:te:, light and anchorage and all other dues, with
all other such advantages as British sailing packets now
enjoy. The Brazilian government is not to exact any postage
on letters conveyed to England, and no more than at present
on letters brought to Brazil. On foreign letters through
England to Brazil one-third less is to be charged than at
present, and one-half of the amount so charged paid over to
the steam-packet contractr plan of the contractor
embraces, besides this regular. atall'd'rct communication with
the parts of South America indicated,' the means of commu-
nication more or less direct, by connection
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generally,
coin.
who are understood to be favourable to
must be of the
will open out a vast field for improvement ill'ini:x4iSting
milt to be
mercial relations with Brazil, but above all
very greatest importance to Brazil herself thus
brought into closer connection with the trade and e
of Europe by one half the extent of the present distance a,
measured by time; and that which is true of Brazil, is not
the less so applied to the Oriental and Argentine republics of
La Plata. With the distance so materially lessened; inter.
course in every way, personal, commercial, and epistolary,
must rapidly, if not immediately and proportionally, in_
crease. It must be desirable as greatly as possible on every
ground, both of political commercial interest, to preserve and
encourage the direction of this intercourse as exclusively as
possible, through the channel of British steam navi
aidgation of
For the purposes of the British government, and in
the necessary creation and augmentation of a steam navy ap-
plicable to the purposes of war in cases of emergency, and
subject to call, control, and active service whenever required,
this enterprise cannot but be peculiarly and beneficially
adapted, through the medium of our post-office service on

The population of Edinburgh, it appears by the census, is
138,194, being an increase in ten years of 2,140.
There is to be a complete change in the uniform of the
French infantry, which will extend to the ordnance service.
The 72d Highlanders were reviewed by Prince Albert, at
Windsor, on Thursday.
A respectable young man, named John Smith, was killed
upon the Dublin and Kingston Railway on Monday night.
The reformers intend giving Lord Morpeth a dinner in
Dublin. It will not take place immediately, but it will come
off soon.
The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has accepted the office of
High Steward of the borough of Barnstaple, voted him by
the Town-council.
William Major, the aged man left for execution at Exeter,
has been respited. The crime he was charged with was ,
murder, but it did not appear that he committed the deed.
A French officer writes home to say the Shah of Persia
cuts off heads at the rate of thirty or forty per day ! Plea-
sant country !
The celebrated steeple-chase horse Jupiter was recently
shipped, per Rob Roy steam-ship, from Hull, for Vienna, as
a present to Prince Lichtenstein.
A fine boy, about four years of age, son of William Lisle,
a labourer at the Railway Station, at Hexham, died on Wed-
nesday of hydrophobia, occasioned by the bite of a dog about
a fortnight before.
In the small village of Swinburne, containing twenty-three
inhabitants, there are now living eight individuals, whose
united ages amount to six hundred and eighteen years; the
majority of the above are following their ordinary occupations.
The address in the House of Lords, in reply to her majes-
ty's speech on the opening of the new parliament, will, we
understand, be moved by Earl Spencer and be seconded by

the Marqui's of Clanrietirde.
The half-yearly meeting of the London and Birmingham
Company was held on Friday, and a dividend of 4 per share
declared. The last dividend was only 3 per share. The
working expenses are reduced to about 35 per cent.

• -
MOLIERE.—A monument is about to be erected at Paris
to the memory of this great writer. The titles of the differ-
ent comedies will be inscribed on the pedestal. It is expected
that the inauguration of the monument may take place on
the 17th February, 1842, the anniversary of Moliere's death.
IRISH FREEDOM OF ELECTIONS.—A black proscription
list, containing the names of the persons who voted for
Messrs. Christmas and Reid, at the late election for Water-
ford, has been published and circulated ,with malicious
industry.
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An awfully sudden death occurred in Downpatrick last
week. A man named Montgomery, who for the last three
months was in the habit of taking between two and three
quarts of raw whisky every day, dropped down dead in a fit
of intoxication.

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At the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in the
Eastern Counties Railway, held on Friday, in London, the
chairman stated, that the line would be opened all the way
to Colchester, fifty-two miles from London, in the Septem-
ber of the ensuing year. The completion will be at an
average expense of £3-1,000 per mile, and the entire cost of
the line £2,300,000.
-

In the American Navy an official order has been lately
issued for all officers to cut off their soap locks, and enacting,
where whiskers are worn, that they shall not descend beyond
one inch below the tip of the ear, and from thence making a
straight line to the corner of the mouth. Moustaches and
billy goalies are absolutely prohibited to be worn by naval,
officers in uniform.
The project for rendering Belgium an integral part of
France, by the union of the customs of the two countries,
is likely to meet with very general opposition. The Augs-
burgh Gazette regards the proposed incorporation as a poli-
tical arrangement—and consequently opposed to the principle
of European equilibrium—to which none of the Five Powers
will consent without mature deliberation.
There is at present residing in the parish of Great Hazelly,
Oxon, a woman in her 40th year, who has favoured the parish
by producing 19 illegitimate children, she was married 20
years since, had one child by her husband, who absconded
before it was born, and has never since been heard of : the
woman, for 19 following years, has produced an illegitimate
child, making a total of 20, 13 of the children are living : the
cost to the parish of this expensive family exceeds £360.
RULES OF THE BAR.—In one of the cases at Nisi Prius,
only one counsel was engaged on the side of the plaintiff. Mr.
Sergeant Ludlow, who was on the other side, objected on the
part of the bar, as a point of privilege, that in every defended
case there should be a junior counsel employed as well as a
leader. This being coincided in by the bar generally, the
case was stopped for a moment till the attorney for the plain-
tiff handed a brief to a second counsel.—Hereford Journal.

SHARP PRACTICE.—At a Justice of Peace Court held
here a few days ago, one of our townsmen brought an action
against his neighbour for ls. 9d. The defender established a
counter claim for Is. 3d., when the former obtained a decree
for the sum of sixpence. By the rules of the court the suc-
cessful litigant had to pay a shilling for the oath given by the
defender in support of his counter claim, and the justice
awarded a portion of the expenses, amounting to Is.
against the pursuer. The latter had, therefore, to pay 2s.
for the recovery of his sixpence.—lnverness Courier.
THE POOR LAW ACT.—It is intended by the conservative
party that the Poor Law Commission, which will expire in
the course of a few months, shall be renewed for another
year. It is felt that in the short session of parliament,
about to commence, it would be impossible to deal satisfac-
torily with so important a question as the Poor I,aw Amend-
ment Bill, as propounded by the Whigs; but it is consola-
tory to know that the new administration fully purpose to
divest the obnoxious measure of its harsh and uncalled-for
provisions, and to adapt it to the real requirements of the
country.—Newcastle Journal.
THE CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS.—We understand
that the Society of Friends in this town has been applied to
for the use of their Meeting House, to hold the ministerial
Anti Corn-law Conferences in, but have declined to lend it,
as they consider the conference of a political character. Al-
though a few of the members of that society have been so
imprudent as to assist in soma of the various systems of poli-
tical agitation, which have now become so common, the ge-
neral body of that society entirely disapproves of such pro-
ceedings.—Manchester Courier.
A ridiculous story, copied from the Pottsville Miner's
Journal, has been put in circulation, stating that the bitu-
minous coal used on board the British steamers plying to this
country has frequently during the voyage ignited. The con-
signee at this port of the Great Western has thought proper
flatly to deny the fact. It was scarcely necessary ; for bitu-
minous coal having, time out of mind, been the sole fuel used
in some of the most populous countries of the world, and
having been piled up in cellars and in every possible way for
use when wanted, without any instance of spontaneous com-
bustion occurring, the idea that it should now for the first
time take place was' too ridiculous to deserve a moment's
consideration.—New York Morning Chronicle.

FREEDOM OF PROTESTANTISM IN IRELAND.—A curious
and somewhat interesting case came on at the Tyrone assizes
on Monday. It was brought before Judge Crampton. The
simple facts are that a Miss Graham, who is disposed to
conform to the Protestant religion, was assaulted by her
uncle, who was anxious that she should be educated as a
Roman Catholic, and, in endeavouring to coerce her to sub-
mit to his wishes, treated her with great cruelty. Subse-
quently to this circumstance she was placed in a boarding-
school; it being understood that she was to enjoy full reli-
gious liberty. However, this understanding was violated ;
for on the 2Gth of July, as Miss Graham was proceeding to
visit a female friend, she was waylaid by her uncle and others,
who placed her in a covered car and carried her off. The
young lady appeared before the court, having been brought
before it, by virtue of a writ of habeas corpus. The result
was, that the persecuted lady has been placed under the care
of a Protestant lady of independent fortune, who will permit
her the free exercise of her religion.

THE CROPS.—The most favourable weather for the ripen-
ing of the corn crops has, with the exception of one day,
prevailed throughout this district during the present week,
and the atmosphere is now as bright and genial as could well
be desired. Some patches of barley have been cut in various
parts of Northumberland. The wheats have assumed a
yellow hue, and notwithstanding the late rains stand full and
strong upon the ground. It is believed that by the termina-
tion of the present month, should the weather continue
favourable, of which there is at present every reasonable
prospect, the harvest will have become general in the North
of England. The statements which have appeared in certain
" liberal" journals in the metropolis as to the prospects of
the harvest are as preposterous as they are wicked, and can
have been put forward with no other view than either to
favour the nefarious designs of a set of gamblers in grain, or
to increase the distress and discontent of the manufacturing
population. At present there is no probability that the crop
of wheat will be deficient in quantity or quality, and it may
be hoped that in a very few weeks flour will be much more
reasonable in price than now, though the management of in
terested parties, unhappily prevails.—Newcastle Journal.

SLEEPY JURORS.—In the course of an inquest held yes-
terday before Mr. Wakley, a juror, addressing the coroner,
asked if the witness then under examination might not be
allowed to sit down. Mr. Wakely replied, that he deemed
it a very bad plan for witnesses to be sitting while giving
their evidence, for they might perchance fall asleep, while
standing kept them awake. He did not know whether the
jurymen themselves, for the very same cause, should not be
required to stand • for he often met with jurymen who
seemed marvellously inclined to take a nap. He recollected
on one occasion a very bulky gentleman, who weighed about
twenty-five stone, who had been summoned as a juryman,
and who, after being sworn and seated, said to the person
next him, " I'm sure I shall go to sleep, so take this," giving
him a pin, "and when you see me going off, just prick me
with it." lie presently after dozed off, but the person who
held the pin, not knowing his temper, refrained from using
it, and let him slumber till he was aroused by the beadle,
when he became quite enraged at not having been " pricked"
by the gentleman he had appointed to that office, and he was
with difficulty pacified. At an inquest at Harrow, some
months since, the beadle was obliged, during the inquiry, to
be continually handing snuff to the jury to enliven them ;
and at a more recent inquest he held in Marylebone, after
viewing the body, and before any witnesses bad been ex-
amined, the foreman went home • and on the beadle being
sent for him, he actually found him in bed and fast asleep !
To prevent, therefore, the witness's falling into such a
lethargic state, he had adopted the plan pursued in all other
courts—namely, to make them give their testimony standing.
—Herald.

From " A Few Notes on Unpaid Letters" we take the
following :—" The penny postage has already wrought an ex-
traordinary change in the public ideas of the value of money.
Formerly, according to the old maxim, ninepence was but
ninepence ; but even twopence has now become a sum ster-
ling, to demand which is to stir men's blood as violently as
if the said coins were flung in their faces. To put a letter
into the post, and an intimate friend to the expence of two-
pence, was, only the other day, perfectly natural; under the
present system it is fiendish. A letter sent free costs the
sender a penny ; to receive a letter not prepaid, is to expend
double the amount. In the degree of attention shown to this
little fact, it is not impossible to find a test of the'principles
of mankind—of the whole corresponding portion of creation
at least. The last postoffice returns show that there are upon
an average 7,654 persons—monsters in the human form, we
should rather say—in this metropolis alone, who walk about
day
from by day, dropping stampless epistles into ravenous letter-
boxes,sheer misanthropy—hatred of their fellow-crea-
tures
, which feeling they are pleased to call forgetfulness,
stamplessness, or copperlessness, as convenience may dictate.
Reflect seriously 9
selfish,
upon the character of such a correspondent.
The manwhose letters are not prepaid may be thus de-
nounced.—Re is
thate, because he would rather you should
pay twice than
filet an injury onbe should pay once ;he would rather in-
disloyal, becaus hiehe ought to
than act fairly himself; he is
of his queen, and he'degclitnteos grace his letter with the head
picked
so •:. he prefers seeing his
brother s two pockets
one of his own
to having a hand thrust into

A fine specimen of the sturgeon was caught in the salmon
net at Reiss, on Saturday week. It was of a large size, rnea-
surina six feet seven inches long, and weighed about sixty

pounds

Moore, formerly a chartist preacher, has just died in
Tewkesbury workhouse. Before his death he expressed deep
repentance for having embraced the chartist cause.
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Mr. Holloway, the ointment man, was discharged in the
Insolvent Court on Tuesday last. His present debts amount
to £2747, and his assets, good, bad, and indifferent, to £230.
At the late Exeter Assizes, sixty barristers were in the
Nisi Prius Court in a short time after its opening, being
more than double the number of causes on the list.

One of the 36 carrier-pigeons despatched from Bayonne
the other day reached Liege, a distance of 300 leagues, in 24
bout s.

Three suicides by respectable persons, brought about by
gambling, and other pecuniary embarrassments, took place
in Lisbon last week.

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INCREASE OF EminnATioN.—Arrived at Quebec, to the
24th July, 22,577 emigrants. To same period last year,
18,280. Increase 4,297.

- ,
Mr. Green, the aeronaut, made a nocturnal aerial voyage in
the Nassau balloon on Monday from Vauxhall Gardens,
London, and alighted at Barking, in Essex.
UNITED STATES STEAMERS.—II is confidently reported
that the keels of• four or live government steamers will be
laid immediately, viz : two at Charleston, one at New York,
and one at Philadelphia.
During the last week, Dr. Bowrinf, has twice addressed
the Working Men's Association at Exeter, " for the pur-
pose," as a correspondent observes, " of enlightening
_them
on the three P's—the Principles of Paid Patriotism !"
The tailors and other artisans of a village in France have
formed a society, the object of which is to prevent the giving
of credit to customers who have not paid their debts to other
tradesmen in the same line.

MORE CIVILIZATION.—A man named Cutler, a labourer
in Lyme, Connecticut, threatened the life of his employer,
Dr. Noyes, last Tuesday evening. in the attempt to arrest
him, the sheriff, named Huntley, was shot.—Arnerican paper.
Two swallows, lately entered a room in the house of Mr.
Dorman, at Pickworth, Rutland, by the chimney, built their
nest in a tea-saucer on the chimney-piece, and hatched four
fine young ones, which are now nearly fledged.
Lord Palmerston has announced to the Anti-Slavery So-
ciety, that government will appoint no persons to offices
under the Crown where slavery and the slave trade exists,
who are not decidedly opposed to those systems of crime.
There is a talk of a marriage between one of the Sultan's
sisters and the son of Mehemet Ali ; the Viceroy seems in
favour with the Porte, and magnificent presents are to be
sent to him. _

The Grand Duke of Tuscany has instituted a silk fair,
which is to be held in Florence during the latter part of
September in each year, the 20th of next September being
appointed for the commencement, when it is to continue
open till the following Saturday.
The old and magnificent ruin of Cambridge Castle, the
only vestige of the warlike habits of our ancestors remaining
in that town, is now levelled with the ground, to make room
and furnish materials for the erection of the new county
court.

A most horrible accident occurred last week in the County
of Two Mountnins ; a man, while in a state of intoxication,
having fallen into a kettle of boiling potash, had been com-
pletely dissolved. Search was made for his body, but not
the least particle of it could be found.—Canada Times.
On the 18th ult. the heavy rains had so loosened the earth
somewhere amid the mountains of Switzerland, that a whole
grove of trees became detached, and, slowly sliding down,
completely planted itself on a field of oats, which it entirely
covered.

The requisition to the Hon. 0. Duncombe, requesting
him to become a candidate for the North Riding of York-
shire, having received 4000 signatures, has been forwarded to
that gentleman, who has accordingly accepted the invitation.
The whigs dare not shew fight.
A respectable mechanic being tried at Hampton-court for
breaking a bough off a tree in Bushy Park, was urdered by
the magistrates, instead of the five shilling fine, to draw a
large roller over the gravel walk of the Wilderness for half
an hour.

It behoves conservative members of parliament just now
to look sharply after the movements of the Board of Trade—
the officials there, faithful to the bidding of their whig
masters, would connive at any returns, however false, which
might forward the free trade views of the Melbournites.
•

It is a curious coincidence that the Latin epigram recently
recited at Cambridge was on steam-carriages; and that the
prize was gained by a worthy scion of the mechanically
illustrious house of Boulton—Matthew Piers Watt Boulton,
Esq., of Trinity College.
PAIXHAN'S GVNs.—All the fortresses on the coast of
France are preparing to mount Paixhan's guns. The de-
struction effected by them on the coast of Syria has induced
the War Minister to employ them in all fortifications purely
defensive. We shall next hear of their being mounted upon
the walls of Paris.

A BLIND BARGAIN.—A distinguished field-officer, totally
blind, was led to the hymeneal altar last week, by a bloom-
ing bride, " fat, fair, and forty." Besides her personal at-
tractions she gives her happy bridegroom a fortune of not
less than £30,000. Ladies' ages are now, unfortunately,
accurately ascertained by the census returns.—Limerick
Chronicle.

The Queen Dowager of Spain has removed from the Palais
Royal to her new residence in the Rue de Courcelles, Fau-
bourg de Route; her private money-chest, which is of solid
iron, encrusted with coral and jewels, was removed last
week ; many Spanish families have taken houses, or apart-
ments, in the immediate neighbourhood ; the King of the
French has delivered to her Majesty a key of the park of
Mousseau.

NEW RAILWAY TRAIN CONTROLLER.—Vienna letters
describe a useful invention by an Infantry Captain, Herr
Ferdinand Freissauff de Neudegg, of a simple and completely
successful apparatus, enabling the conductor of a steam train
by pressure on a spring, immediately to detach the carriages
from the engine, and instantly stop the former. The appa-
ratus is said to be further so contrived as to act of itself in
the event of the locomotive quitting the line of rails, spon-
taneously, and at once effecting its separation from the rest
of the train.

AFFLICTING EVENT.—The Hague papers give the follow-
ing painful account of the death of Madame Rochussen, the
young and amiable wife of the Dutch Minister of Finance.
She had lain in a few weeks ago, but was still in a feeble
state, when her brother, whom she had not seen for ten
years, arrived from abroad. Intending to give his sister an
agreeable surprise, he entered her chamber without even her
knowing that he was in Holland. The shock was so strong,
that Madame Rochussen was thrown into a fainting fit,
which terminated in her death, before even the minister
could be called from his cabinet to receive her sigh.

COTTON CROP IN THE UNITED STATES.—Of the growing
crop, it is yet too early to say anything definite. The ap-
pearances thus far are favourable, but as the plant generally
this year is some weeks later than usual, the yield will even
more than usual depend upon the season. With late frosts,
and an open winter, which will allow more time for picking,
a considerable increase may he anticipated on the last crop.

the receipts of that crop, at the Southern ports, are now
nearly drawn to a close. They amount to 1,577,000 bales,
which will probably be increased to about 1,600,000; being
a falling off from the preceding year of 580,000 bales. Very
little of the new crop can be in market before October. As
before observed, however, all speculation upon the quality or
extent of this crop is yet premature.—New York American,
July 31.

CURIOUS STATISTICS OF HEALTH IN NEW ORLEANS.
—According to the report of the Board of Health, the whole
number of deaths from July 1 to 15, was 165—in a popula-
tion of upwards of 100,000—of these a large portion is taken

from that class that is not enumerated at illll-the strangers,
viz.,—certainly 29—and most probably, 44 others classed
as unknown. Only 12 cases of fever—of sudden deaths, ar-
ticuln mortis, sun-stroke, &c, are 21—a large number, but
accounted for from the extreme and unprecedented heat that
has prevailed. Of the ages, some remarkable facts are pre-
sented to those living, three over 100 years of age, two from
70 to 80, and five from 60 to 70. And we have also been in-
formed, that there was a case of twins, with the exact con-
formation and connection of the celebrated Siamese twins.—
New York paper.

THE " OVERPAID" ESTABLISHMENT IN IRELAND.—
From the last published report of the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioners in Ireland, it appears that the stipends paid to the
36 licensed curates of Dublin amounts to £2,013 19s. 4d. ;
while the salaries to commissioners, secretary, treasurer, and
clerks is £6,262 3s. 6d. 'Thus we perceive that these lay
gentlemen, a few hours a day at their writing desks, appro-
priate to themselves £4,248 14s. 2d. more than all the licensed
curates in Dublin receive for their toilsome and continual
labours. The report of these Irish Commissioners is cer-
tainly important in one respect, as it serves to show how the
Irish Church has been plundered and her revenues despoiled
for the purpose of glutting Popish hatred and the cupidity of
Whig-Radical partisans. The entire amount of the salaries
paid to all the licensed curates in Dublin gives an average of
£55 Bs. 7d. per annum to each ! a sum less than what the
lowest clerk of the commissioners receives; and considerably
lower than what a respectable butler or footman costs any of
three salaried commissioners who have entertained us with
the report from which we extract our figures.
INVESTMENTS IN IRELAND.—It is evident a more fa-
vourable opinion is entertained by the capitalists in England
of the value and safety of property in Ireland; a re-action
arising out of the favourable result of the elections is too
palpable to be mistaken. To corroborate this we mieht
mention that in one single case Mr. George Robins. who had
announced, three months ago, the sale of £150,000, of free-
hold farms, to be sold in July, had apparently abandoned
the idea altogether, at all events for a long period ; instead
of which we now perceive by our journal of to-day, that he
has fixed so early as the ensuing month to introduce to the
moneyed world some of the finest properties in that country.
In this fine property is necessarily included very considerable
politicalinfluence : to illustrate this fact it need only to be
mentioned there are 170 public houses, and dwellings in the
borough town of Mallow, with the power to create sufficient
to render a seat perfectly secure. it is, in fact, no longer in
doubt or uncertainty that rents are paid infinitely more re-
gularly in Ireland than in England, and yet the land there
sells to pay a clear 4 per cent. atter every possible deduction,
and in England little more than three. We have heard it
whispered, that the large sales alluded to in this paragraph,
must, from circumstances over which there is no control
whatever, be sold to the highest bidders. All these great
sales come off at Gresham's fine hotel in Sackville-street,
Dublin.—lrish Paper.

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OCCURRENCE AT SEA.—On Saturday, the
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and steering E. by S. A S., saw a large ship bearing north
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main
and fore-masts, which bore an unusual appearance
fofcriuoransotihtsiii:cpea,n tand she seemed to be distant about six or eight
miles. At half-past nine two of the men reported to the
captain, who (wuith myself) was below, that they had seen
two rockets go pint he direction in which we had last seen
the vessel. As the captain had not seen the rockets himself,
he did not feel sufficiently confident of their having gone up
to induce him to put immediately about ; but in about another
half-hour he and myself saw another rocket in the same di-
rection, when he immediately altered his course and steered
for the vessel. After keeping a northerly course for nearly
an hour, two more rockets were distinctly seen from the bows,
and we immediately after made the vessel, seemingly about
half a mile ahead. The captain directly hove to, and hoisted
a light. We could then see that she was a large three-masted
Upon showing our light, she stood away from us directly
vessel, with apparently more sail in her foremast than aft.
north, and we stood after her for an hour, when we lost sight
of her, and again stood on our course. At daylight it was
unfortunately so thick we could not see more than a ship's
length. and when it cleared up thing was to be seen of
her, nor did we see her again.

Tlie thoroughfare of the Thames tunnel is almost com-
pleted, the directors having passed through it on Thursday.
Some land in Glasgow was sold last week at the rate of
£l3OO per Seotcli_acre.
Lord Wharncliffe has laid the foundation stone of a new
church at Thurgoland, Yorkshire.
REPRESENTA.TION OF BRADFORD.—The death of Mr. W.
C. Lister, the newly-eleced member for Bradford, causes a
vacancy in the representation for that borough. Mr. Hardy
won the last contest by a triumphant majority. We trust
that his friends will again exert themselves, and seat, in like
manner, a firm supporter of the constitution.

ARRIVED.-- Columbine,. Robertson, from St. Doming—New.
burgh, Adamson. from Faro—Sophia,Fillan,
from Newfoundland—Sophia Wells, Gwythe, from
Montreal—Abigail, —, from St. John, N.B.—Active, Heys,
Wexford—Gazelle, Iti'Culloch, from Westport—Alex. M`Neill, For-
tay, Sligo—Aid, White. and Jean, White, from Dundee—Margaret
& Grace, Clarke, and Mary & Isabella, Ste Swart. from Tobermoryßritannia,
Duchess of Kent, Jones ; Princess, arsfield, and
M'Grath, from Dublin—Penrhyn Castle, Thomas, from Coleraine—
and Flyfisher, —, from Londonderry.
Off the Port.—lleroine. from Trinidad—Active, from Montreal—
and Plymouth, from Mobile.
SAlLEn.—Bonanza, Cragg. for Buenos Ayres—Aletta, Vdndam.
for Harlingen—Granville Bay, Taylor, for Quebec—Elizabeth
Rowell, Wake, for St. John, N.B.—Ann Grant, Walker, for Sierra
Leone—Alleghany, Michaels, for Philadelphia—Eli Whitney. liar.
ding, for New York—William, Politz, for Liebau—Pelham Clinton,
Caleb, for Dordt—Byrom, Shaw, for Bath—Alexander, Primrose,
for St. Petersburg—Konlngen von Schweden, Grap, for Stettin—
Par.line, De Boer, Rotterdam—Vrow Henrietta, Klie. for Rot-
terdam—Vigilant, Simons, and Nyverheid, Lievens, Ostend—Pan-
ther, Goodmansou, New York—Zoe, Holmes, Mauritius—Frederick
Wilhelm 4th, Mink, Hambro'—Frederlea, Rudolfe, Halifax—Bella
Portena, Pyott, Buenos Ayres—llorsburgh, Asken, Valparaiso—
Aberdeen, Duggan, Quebec—John Dunlop, Choate, Baltimore.

Herring, Stoddart, from Quebec, at Liverpool, and not the Erin,
as reported 11th instant.
Dryad, Rickerty, from Valparaiso, at Deal.
Jane Prowse. Wythcomb, from Inique, at Arica, and sailed 26th
March for Islay.
Ann Mary, Ruckham, from Valparaiso, at Arica.
Judith, Harvey, from Liverpool, do.
Montezuma, Selkirk, from Liverpool, at Valparaiso.
William Prowse, Prowse, from Mica, do.
Helen Anderson, Thompson, from Rio Janeiro, do.
Thomas Worthington, Payne, sailed from Valparaiso, for Arica,
15th April, and Robert Finnie, Beverley. 29th for Coquimbo.
Isabel, IVledhurst, from Liverpool, at Newfoundland.
Columbine, Woolverton, do, at Constantinople.
Dahlia, Burlinson, do, at Genoa.
Toreh, Bain, do do
Ann, Harrison. from Amsterdam, for Liverpool, off DIMIgelleSS.
Queen, from Liverpool, for Naples, off Scilly 10th instant.
Grace, from Liverpool, for St. John, N.B. uas spoken iu lat. 51,
long. 11 30.
Mary Coxon, Coxon, from Quebec, at Cove.
Industry, from Trinidad, at Dublin.
Pink was to sail from Valparaiso, for London, 16th May, and
for Swansea 14th.

SATURDAY, AUGUST It.—Wind S.W. moderate.
ARRlVlCD.—Henrietta, Johnson, from Mobile—Alderson, Custard,
from Montreal—Commerce, Gravel', from Ostend.

SAirasn.—Magnet, Morton, and Richard, Phillips, for Montreal
—Rising Sun, Howell, for Gulf of Mexico—Constant, Van Schie,
for Antwerp—Union Gill, for Madeira, &c.—Magic, Trewavas. for
Malta—Garrick, Palmer ; Prentice, Hopkins, and Russia, Elliott,
for New York—Alhambra, Wilson, for New Orleans—Courier,
Huntriss, for Newfoundland—Touch Me Not, Todd, for Genoa—
Hope, Robert, for Rio Janeiro—J. Geary, Reid, for Constantinople
—Jubilee, Anderson, for ditto, &c.—Devonport, Broadfoot, for
Bombay—Sarah & Claudine, Wulff, for Wyboig—Amizade, Mes-
quits, for Lisbon—Ceres, Vernes, and Cambrian Maid, Morris, for
Dordt—Chase, Powell, for Bilboa—Patriot, Murray, for St. Peters.
burg—King William, Daglish, for Husam—and Venilia, Lockhart,
for Sierra Leone.

Caledonia, (steamer) M'Kellar, from Boston, at this port ; left
Boston Ist August, at noon, and Halifax 3rd August, at 6 p.m.
On Bth August, in let. 48, long. 37, spoke the Convivial, hence for
Newfoundland
Acadia, (steamer) hence off Boston Ist August. On 27th July,
in lat. 47 5, long. 39 33, passed a barque, (supposed the Hawk) from
Greenock for Montreal, under jury masts, having carried away
foremast and main and mizen topmasts on 25th July ; was bearing
up for St. John, Newfoundland
John, -, from Liverpool for Montreal, was spoken in lat.
49, long. 14
Great Western, (steamer) from Bristol at New York 29th July
Fairfield, Wilson ; New Hampshire, Harding ; Cambridge, Burs-
ley; Brooklyn, Richardson; Marcia Cleaves, Thompson; Frances
de Pau, Forbes ; Hudson, Page ; Liverpool, Davenport; James
Edward, Howard, and Roscoe, Huttleston, hence at New York
Stirling. Saunders; Marathon, Brown; Constitution, - ;
Platlna, Duncan, Condor. Finney; and Vandalia, Wadsworth,
hence at Boston
St. George, Gwynn; Lady Milton, Sinnot ; Mary Caroline, Law-
son, and Princess Royal, Burns, hence at St. John, N.B.
Caroline, Campbell; Garland, Rodgers; John4Bolton. Teulon,
and Huron, Sibbeson. hence at Quebec
Washington, Benson, and General Washington, Marbury, hence
at Virginia
Thomas P. Cope, Miercken, and Columbia, Clark, hence at Phila-
delphia
Milo, Thompson, hence at Portsmouth
Plutus,-, hence at Halifax
Ann, White, arid Messenger, Taylor, hence at Miramichi
Britannia, -, hence at Barbadoes
Duchess of Portland, -, hence at Demerara
Mastery, Noel, hence at Tampico
Rapido, Becuechea, hence at Havana
Chaos, Pratt, hence at New Orleans
Leila, Higgins, hence at Baltimore
Glenturret, M'Callum, hence at Pillau
Frederich, Bartells, hence at Swinemunde
Samuel, -, hence at Gulf of St. Lawrence
Hibernia, -, hence for New York, was spoken
St. Lucia, -, from New South Wales, at Batavia
Frances, sailed from Galveston, for England, 10th July
Intrepid, -, from Demerara, off Deal