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A RELIGIOUS MOTIVE FOR MURDER.—The Journal
de l' Oise informs us that on the 31st of October a strange
crime was committed at Jouy-sons-Thelle. A woman,
aged 45, named Elizabeth Lebrun (nee Lairel, having
nothing particular to occupy her attention, endeavoured
to procure a little temporary excitement by strangling
her sister with a packet of ribands. Having perpetrated
the murder, Lebrun went to the brigadier of police and
surrendered herself. She manifested no emotion when
confronted with the corpse of her sister, and stated that
she had no particular motive for perpetrating the murder.
The sisters having long resided together on the most
friendly terms, it is the general opinion that the mur-
deress was a religious monomaniac, and that, deeply con-
vinced of the fact that the present life is an intolerable
evil, she thought to render her sister a great service by
sending her soul to heaven.
DEATH OF AN ORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN SETTLER.—
The last arrivals from the South Seas announce the death
of Mr. George Leake, of Perth, Western Australia, at
the age of 64. This gentleman was one of the first set-
lers on the banks of the River Swan, in the year 1829,
when he literally pitched his tent on the soil of his newly-
adopted country in the primitive patriarchal style, and so
roughed it until something like a house was erected. Mr.
Leake soon reaped the reward of his exertions, he having
realized a large fortune as an agriculturist and a store-
keeper, and attained the highest offices under the colonial
government of the district. He was a member of the
council and a magistrate. In consideration of his valua-
ble services, and the respect generally entertained to-
wards Mr. Leake, the Governor honoured his remains
with a public funeral. Mr. Leake has left a young wife
to lament his loss. He was formerly a member of the
London Stock-Exchange, which he abandoned for the
antipodes soon after the disastrous commercial crisis of
1825. _ _

CALIFORNIAN GOLD.—The correspondent of the Times,
writing from San Francisco, remarks :—" It is impossible
to estimate correctly the quantity extracted. Every one
at all acquainted with the subject, will admit that the
following is a low estimate :-30,000 men earning one-
half-ounce of gold per day, will give 15,000 ounces, which,
at 4'15 an ounce, yields .8225,000 per day, which, reduced
to sterling money at the rate of exchange ruling here
now, is £48,750 gross yield of gold in the diggings' per
day. This is pretty well as tae produce of one branch of
industry. The total number of men employed all over
the gold region is generally put down at 35,000, even by
those who are most careful in making computations upon
the subject. The individual earnings, as I take it, at half
an ounce of gold, is making allowance for numbers occa-
sionally unemployed by sickness, absence, or business,
such as coming down to San Francisco to make remit-
tances, to buy provisions, and the like. It is generally
supposed that a full half of all the gold extracted is spent
in the country."
A VIRGINIA'S ADVERTIREMENT.—A Norfolk (Virginia)
paper contains the following advertisement :—" Notice.
For sale, a coloured girl, of very superior qualifications,
who is now in Mr. Hall's jail in Norfolk. She is what
speculators call a fancy girl—a bright mulatto, fine figure,
straight black hair, and very black eyes—remarkably neat
and cleanly in her dress and person. I venture to say,
that there is not a better seamstress, cutter and fitter of
ladies and children's dresses, in Norfolk or elsewhere, ora
more fanciful netter of bead bags, money purses, &c. Any
lady or gentleman of Norfolk or Portsmouth, who may
wish to purchase a girl of this description, (whom I con-
sider the most valuable in Virginia,) may take her and try
her a month or more at my risk, and if she does not suit
and answer the description here given, may return her to
Mr. Hill. The cause of offence, for which I intend,
though reluctantly, to sell her, is that she has been recently
induced, by the persuasions of some coloured persons, to
make her escape with them to the north, in which she
failed, and is now for sale. Apply to the subscriber in
Suffolk, or to James Murdaugh, Esq., or to C. C. Robin-
son, of Portsmouth, for further information.—Joseph
Holladay."—Boston Emancipator.
DREADFUL SHIPWRECKS.—The New Bedford(Ameri-
can) Mercury, gives particulars of the sufferings of a
boat's crew belonging to the barque Janet, of Westport,
Captain Hosmer. On the 3rd of June last, in lat. 3
north, and long. 104 west, three boats left the ship to at-
tack a shoal of whales, which they soon captured. In one
boat were the captain, his third mate, and four seamen.
While turning the whale to the ship the boat upset and
filled. They endeavoured to reach the ship but could not.
The other boats made towards them but turned back,
deserting them. In trying to bale out the boat two of
the crew were lost, two others were seized. with delirium,
from immersion and thirst. With only a fragment of a
sail left, the captain made for Cocus Island, on the Peru-
vian coast, a distance of 1000 miles. On the seventh day,
without food or drink all the time, lots were drawn which
one should die, to save the lives of the others, and the un-
fortunate victim met his fate with resignation. A shower
of rain gave some relief. They had no compass, and the
captain steered by probability and an occasional glimpse
of the north star. On the Bth day, one man died from
exhaustion. Another shower gave some relief—also the
circumstance of a dolphin leaping into the boat, and seve-
ral birds being caught. On the 13th July land was dis-
covered which proved to be Cocus Island—uninhabited.
They reached it almost hopeless, but secured a pig, and
drank its blood. They also caught birds, and got fresh
water. After remaining two days they joyfully saw a boat
approaching, she belonged to the whaler Leonidas, of
New York, Captain Swift, who received them on board
and treated them with every possible kindness. An ap-
palling wreck is related in the Meswayer du Midi, that of
the brig La Lucie, 215 tons, on the Coast of Africa. She
had left Algiers with eight men, for Gorea and Gambia,
on the 27th June, and on the 13th July, was wrecked in a
storm on the coast of the Desert of Sahara. The crew
got on shore by clinging to the mainmast, which was cut
away. After remaining under a sail for two days, they set
off, on foot, towards St. Louis, of Senegal, more than 100
leagues distant. They suffered dreadfully for want of
water—the soil was arid and burning hot. On the 9th
day they saw Cape Blanco, but were soon after robbed of
the remainder of the provisions they had brought on shore
from the ship. hey fell into the hands of some Moors,
and were cruelly treated, flogged, and sentenced to death
by the females, but on the latter retiring, the males
allowed them to escape. The captain and three of the
seamen went to look for a more hospitable place, but
never returned. The others were discovered by the
natives, were stripped stark naked, and maltreated, es-
pecially by the women. At nightfall, a fiery storm came
on, and one of the sailors died, while the others passed
the night almost buried in the sand. They all returned
towards the ship, ane after folic days' march, recovered
some clothing which they had left along the beach.
Another of the seamen died. The survivors reached the
ship, but found that the natives had plundered her of
everything—they had resigned themseves to death, when
a white sail appeared in the far distance. They raised a
signal, which was responded to, and they were saved by
the Spanish ship Adam, Captain Devega, who, after
making every possible effort, for a month, to discover
their brave comrades, but in vain, forwarded the unfor-
tunate Frenchmen to Cadiz, in a Spanish government
steamer. They arrived at Marseilles on the 12th ult.

IRELAND.

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On Saturday week, the extensive flax and linen mann-
fadory of Mr. A. W. Craig, Falls-road, Belfast, was de-
stroyed by are. The value of the stock burnt, exclusive
of the building, is estimated at £9,000.
Dr. O'Donnell, Roman Catholic Bishop of Galway, has
refused to countenance either of the agitation schemes ;
he has seen "so much selfishness and perfidy amongst
the apparently most enthusiastic patriots," that he is
determined to trust no more of them. _ _

—On Saturday night week, 300 men, well armed, and
having about 100 cars, swept away the corn from two
tenants of a gentleman named Garrett, in county Limerick.
On the next night, (Sunday,)a large party, also well
armed, and with 100 cars, swept off the corn, potatoes,
turf, &c., from the lands of a widow, named Hennessy,
who owed her landlord, Col. Bitten, two years' rent.

THE CROP MOVEMENT.—A young man, named Farrell,
lately connected with the Liverpool police, returned a short
time since to Clare, for the purpose of enjoying a small
property, rented by a person named Connolly, to whom
Farrell had made very considerable abatement and granted
many other favours ; notwithstanding which Connolly, a
few days since, collected a number of men, and carried off
the entire crop and every atom of property.—lrish paper.
AWFUL MURDER.—On the 22nd ultimo, a most fright-
ful and unprovoked murder was perpetrated in the town
of Sligo, in daylight. The victim of this frightful crime
was a little girl, about thirteen years of age, the child of a
very decent man named Hart. The father cf the child
went to his work at nine o'clock that morning, leaving the
little girl, who was the only inhabitant, as usual, at home.
'At half-past two the father returned, and, finding his
house shut, he forced in the door, when he found his child
lying dead, her skull being fractured, and a " beetle"
lying beside her covered with blood. A room of the
?min had been broken ioto, ands nos under ./32. taken

from a trunk, the lock of which had been forced : robbery
was, therefore, the cause of this awful crime. Several
other murders of equal atrocity have been committed.
They had their origin in land disputes.
CHARACTER OF THE ORANGEMEN.—On the contrary,
the Orangemen and Protestants of Ireland, as a body, are
highly loyal, intelligent, industrious, ar.d " well to do"
in the world ; they are such men as constitute a nation's ,
strength; security, and honour. Does any one doubt ?
Let them ask themselves what would be the present state
of Ireland, at this hour, if occupied by a race of the prin-
ciples, habits, and objects of its Protestant population ?
That they are free from blame in their contests with the
Roman Catholics we do not say. In the circumstances it
was not to be expected. But this we say, that educated
in scriptural principles, and taught to venerate the pre-
cepts of the Bible, they are, in the abstract, admirable
members of civil society, such as any civilised nation
would covet as subjects ; while the Roman Catholics, shut
out by an impious mandate of an apostate church from
the word of truth and life, nurtured in the demoralizing
principles of the papacy, instead of the pure and sanctify-
ing truths of the Bible, are constituted by their teachers,
by the education this country gives them, the wretched
law-breakers and murderers, whom we see acting in reek-
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AND FASHION.

y and Prince Albert visited the Count de
Tel-omit on Saturday.
rt visited the exhibition of manufactures of

art at Birmingham, yesterday (Monday.)
It is proposed to erect an equestrian statue of the
Queen at Glasgow, in commemoration of her Majesty's
recent visit to that city
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4ND CLERICAL NEWS.

DIOCESE OF CHESTER,

PREFERMENTS

Rev. Benjamin Strettell Clarke, to the perpetual curacy
of ChriQt Church, Southport, vacant by the decease of the
Rev. William Docker. Patron, Rev. Charles ilesketh ;

value, £lO7.
Rev. Richard Chapman, to the stipendiary curacy of
St. Martin's Church, Liverpool.

VA CANT

Marthall, Cheshire, perpetual curacy, by the resigna.
tion of the Rev. John Paul, last incumbent. Value, £6O;
patron, Wilbraham Egerton, Esq.

The Rev. Jacob Picton, formerly of St. Stephen's
Church, in this town, has been presented to the vicarage
of Milwich, Staffordshire, value £95, with residence ; pa-
tron, G. Lewis Dyve, EN.
The number of freshmen admitted to Cambridge Uni-
versity during the present year, amounts to 462, of whom
nearly one-third have entered at Trinity College.
The Principality states that the interment of the late
Bishop of Llandaff, in Cardiff Cathedral, is the first in-
terment of a bishop there for 400 years.
On Sunday last, the congregation of the Rev. Gilmour
Robinson, the incumbent of Tockholes, presented him
with a magnificent inkstand and a handsome gown.
A purse containing two hundred and eighty guineas has
been presented to the Rev. Evan Morgan, curate of
Lewisham, Kent, on resigning the curacy after more than
thirty years service.

The Rev. J. Irvine of Leigh, and the Rev. J. K. Alsop
of Westhaughton, have addressed strong letters to the
Bishop of Manchester, with reference to the remarks
made by his lordship on certain Tractarian priests, and
the obstruction offered by the bishop to Tractarian ten-
dencies.

By the appointment of Dr. 011ivant to the See of Llan-
daff, the following appointments are vacant :—Regius
Professorship of Divinity, at Cambridge, worth £BOO per
annum ; a canonry in St. David's, £6O ' • a prebendal stall
at Brecon, £lOO ; and the rectory of Somersham, Hants,
£1770.
RESTORATION OF ALIENATED TITHES.—AbeI Smith.
Esq., of Woodhali, having become possessed of the great
tithes of Bengeo, Herts, as lay improprietor, has recently
restored them to their original holy purpose in the church,
by which the benefice, instead of £lOO a year has become
endowed with £6OO a year (the impropriate tithes having
been worth about £5OO a year). The population of the
parish is about 1150, and since this act of Christian jus-
tice, a school room licensed for public worship has been
erected in a distant hamlet.
THE CHURCH IN WESTMINSTER.—NO less than five
new churches have been erected in Westminster during
the last eleven years ; and on Friday the foundation stones
of two others were laid. Lord R. Grosvenor, M.P., laid
the foundation stone of one which is to be erected by sub-
scription. The other church will be built at the sole cost
of the Rev. W. H. E. Bentinck, archdeacon and preben-
dary of Westminster, whose lady laid the first stone. The
latter church will contain 850 seats all free; the former
1,209, of which 900 will be free.
In reference to a report that there is about to be an or-
ganisation of the evangelical clergy under Archdeacon Law
and Mr. Goode, a correspondent of the Record says :—" I
have every reason to believe that there is not a word of
truth in it; and you know my name, and the probability
that lam likely to be well informed. The paper in ques-
tion appears to be very anxious to make a split in the
church, and aspires, I presume, to be the organ of the
Free Episcopal Church ! The editor will eventually find,
I have no doubt, that this is no other than an Ideal
Church.' " The Record adds—" We confirm this repre-
sentation of our correspondent, and we believe our readers
have too much knowledge and good sense to give any cre-
dence to the representation of the dissenting parties who
write such paragraphs."

THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN AND THE REV. DR.
O'SuLuvArt.—The Archbishop of Dublin having, in his
recent charge, alluded to certain statements relative to
the exclusion of the bible from the National Schools,
made in "a speech at a public meeting," and charac-
terised those statements as " audacious calumnies." Dr.
O'Sullivan, who had made the speech in question, wrote
to the Archbishop, offering him "an opportunity of re-
considering his accusation, and of explaining or with-
drawing it, if he should find it unmerited and unfounded."
The Archbishop has replied, through his secretary, to the
effect, that " with whom the misrepresentation originated,
by whom it was uttered, or whether attributed by the
editor to the right person, or whether correctly reported,
were points to which his Grace made no allusion, having
no disposition at any time to enter into personal.discus-
sions."

DR. OLLIVANT,—The earlier years of Dr. 011ivant's
life were spent at Manchester, where his father was en-
gaged in a very considerable and lucrative business.
Through the fault of some near relatives their affairs were
utterly deranged and the family were ruined, and they
came to reside in London. At this time Dr. 011ivant, a
boy of about nine years of age, was sent to a school at
Chelsea, and soon after was admitted at St. Paul's School.
There he greatly distinguished himself ; and becoming
captain of the school, and obtaining an exhibition of £lOO
per annum, he went up to Trinity College, and from that
time forward entirely supported himself. His career there
had been one singularly advantageous to the University
and the Church from his entire freedom from all party
feeling ; his great judgmtnt, diligence, impartiality, and
kindness ; and the dignified and scholar-like manlier in
which all his public duties have been discharged.
GOSPEL PROPAGATION SOCIETY—RARE MUNIFI-
CENCE.—AII zealous churchmen will be highly gratified
to learn that the " Report" of the Society for the Pro-
pagation of the Gospel, agreed upon on the 24th ultimo,
will be found to contain, among other interesting intelli-
gence, these truly cheerful announcements : William
Long, Esq., of Queen-street, Cheapside, placed some two
years since, in the hands of trustees, £19,400 3 per cent.
Consols, £lO,BOO 3j• per cent. ditto, and £3OOO Bank
Stock, ultimately to become the property of the Society,
after the decease of himself, Mrs. Fowler, his sister, and
certain annuitants. Mrs. Fowler who has left to the
Society a bequest of £550, and Mr. Long, having both
died in January of the present year, the Society can im-
mediately avail itself of about £27,000, sufficient being
retained by the trustees for the payment of the annuities
as they become due. An anonymous donor has also given
£4OOO 31 per cent. Consols.

THE BISHOP OF VICTORIA, HONG KONG.—On Tues-
day, the 6th instant, the Bishop of Victoria and his wife,
with a party of seven clergymen and candidates for holy
orders, embarked at Portsmouth, in one of Messrs.
Fillips, Shaw, and Lowther's vessels, the Sir George
Pollock, Captain Withers, for the distant field of their
evangelical labours in China. They were accompanied on
board by a party of clergy and other friends, who paid
them this farewell token of respect and interest in their ,
mission. The China Mission of the Church of England,
which now numbers two missionaries at each of the
northern cities of Shanghae and Ningpo (exclusive of
chaplains) will now be strengthened on the bishop's ar-
rival by the following conditions :—Rev. F. F. Gough,
8.A.. Scholar of St. John's, Cambridge, for Ningpo ; Rev.
W. Welton, 8.A., Otitis College, Cambridge, and Mr.
R. D. Jackson, Church Missionary Collage, Islington, to
commence a mission at Foochow Foo. Rev. E. T. R.
Moncrieff, M.A., and Mr. M. C. Odell, 8.A., of Trinity
College, Dublin, Tutors in the proposed Missionary Col-
lege at Hong Kong. The spiritual wants of our mer-
chant seamen in China have also not been overlooked .
Mr. James Holderness, brother of the indefatigable clergy-
man of the Thames Church Mission, accompanies the
bishop with a special view to the religious instruction of
European scholars, visiting Hong Kong and Whampoa.
An interesting member of the party is an intelligent
Chinese convert under course of preparation for the
Christian Ministry, and a probationer for holy orders,
with a view to future usefulness amongst his fellow-
countrymen at Hong Kong. The bishop's engagements
in visiting the various friends and supporters of the
mission since the period of his consecration, have not been
without success. In addition to £3OOO, given anony-
mously by a " Brother and Sister," some months ago,
and £2OOO granted in July and October, by the Society
for Promoting Christian Knowledge, (both which sums are
for building the college) the bishop has himself collected
nearly £.3000 towards the various objects of his mission.
From his lordship's various public addresses it appears
that next to the important duties of ministering to the
spiritual wants of British subjects at Hong Kong, and oc-
casional visitations to the Free Consular Ports, his atten-
tion will be directed to training a body of Chinese youths,
to become missionaries in their own country. For this
purpose be has succeeded in obtaining the services of two
able tutors, who will carry on the work of tuition under
his superintendence as ex-officio Warden of the College.
Considering the number of the party under his charge,
the bishop has determined to proceed with them by the
longer route, via the Cape, in preference to taking him-
self the more expeditious journey overland, and leaving
them to proceed by themselves.