The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-29 00:00:00

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

Good prime cider is now selling in the neighbourhood of
Taunton at £2 per hogshead.
The floods in the south of Ireland have been of the most
distressing nature to the poor.
FROZEN TO DEATH.—A man was found frozen to death
in the snow on Thursday last, at Ashmore, near Shaftesbury.
A horse and cart which he had been driving was found near
him.

A person in North Shields has a canary bird, which is now
sitting on eggs for the eighth time since April last, during
which period she has produced thirty-four eggs, and reared
twenty-five young ones.

NOVEL. RAT KILLER.—A few days since a rat was killed
by a horse, the property of Col. Drake, of Ipplepen. The
rat found its way into the manger where the horse was feed-
ing, when the latter seized it between his teeth and killed it
instantly.—Exeter Post.

A singular accident occurred last week to an individual in
Boston ; when lying down in bed he threw his head back on
the pillow, and a needle which was lying there was driven
into his head, where part of it still remains.—Stamford
Mercury.

A few days ago some loads of white turnips of an extra-
ordinary size, were taken from a field at Wisplaw, near
Rennington, belonging to Mr. Forrest. Three of them,
taken as an average, weighed 14i, 15, and 15 lbs. respec-
tively, and measured from 36 to 37 inches in circumference.
Newcastle Journal.

The attention of many persons in Stamford was on Thurs-
day directed to the singular aspect assumed by the heavens
between twelve and one o'clock in the day. From the south
point in the horizon to the zenith reached a stream of innu-
merable and very minute clouds in two distinct strata, the
higher of exceeding brightness, and the lower of a darker
appearance ; these covered the sun as with a net-work, and
had a most singular effect. The phenomenon is thought to
portend severe frost.—Cambridge Chronicle.
An apothecary, residing in a village not a hundred miles
from Leeds, went out the other day shooting, and took his
errand boy to carry the game bag. Entering a field of turnips,
the dog pointed, and the boy, overjoyed at the prospect of
his Master's success, exclaimed, " Lor, master, there's a
covey! if you get near'em, won't you physic 'ern ?" "Physic
them ! you young rascal, what do you mean ?" said the
doctor. " Why, kill 'em to be sure," replied the lad.
WILD FowL.—The Land's End is always famous for the
resort of wild fowl, which, on the approach of sharp weather
come flocking to its pools, in great numbers. This week
their visit has been indeed a plentiful one, and hundreds have
fallen victims to our expert fowlers. A man called Ellis
killed 22 at one shot in Mr. Trembath's pool, on Thursday,
and on Tuesday the same man killed 32 at the same place,
and again by a single discharge.—Cornwall Gazette.

During a snow storm, about eight o'clock on Friday even-
ing last, the brig Ino, of Shoreham, laden with coals, struck
on the rocks near Beachy Head. She was soon after deserted
by her crew, who, having lost their bearings; proceeded
round the Head in their boat, and landed at Seaford. Our
Fishermen discovered the brig, and, by lightening her of a
part of the cargo, were enabled, at the next tide, to get her
to sea, and carry her safe into Newhaven harbour. The brig
was, we hear, nearly new, and has not sustained very con-
siderable injury.—Brighton Gazette.
MR. OWEN.—On Monday morning, Mr. Robert Owen,
the Socialist, entered the Commercial Rooms, but was
almost as soon again shown to the door and bowed out, his
exit being accompanied by a salutation of hisses. He stayed
long enough to inquire how he could be introduced, and
being told that it must be by a member, he said, " Oh, I'll
get my friend Stokes to introduce me." In the course of
the morning he had the cool impertinence to .wait on the
mayor, and request his permission to have a body of the
police force at his meetings, to preserve order and protect
himself; we need not add that the request was promptly
refused.—Bristol Mirror.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM ON BOARD THE BELLE-
ROPHON, OFF BEYROUT, DATED Nov. 12, 1840.—The
writer, after giving a description of the siege of Acre, says,
" The other day, at Beyrout, after the prisoners had left,
we hoisted at sunset the Belgian ensign, which is black,
yellow, and red ; and the foolish French corvette that was
there actually sent on board to know what we did with-the
French ensign flying at that fluid of night, in consequence
of which our captain ordered the ensign to hang there till
seven o'clock next morning, which brought about an apology
from the ::orvette. The fools! (adds the writer) we will
make them think that Nelson is among us again. We expect
to winter at Marmorica, near Rhodes, to watch the French
fleet, which is up the Archipelago—l believe at Athens. The
weather here is very moderate, compared to last year. We
haVe only just taken to wear blue clothes.—Brighton Ga-
zette.

WRECK AT SALCOMBE.—GALLANT CONDUCT.—On the
night of the 7th, during a hurricane at south-south-east, the
French brig l'Esperance, of l'Orient, Rolland, master, from
Adrax, bound to Dunkirk, laden with lead, having struck on
a rock at the entrance of Salcombe harbour, a preventive
man on duty reported her perilous situation to Lieutenant
Leworthy. The surf was awful, and although the attempt
was made at the imminent risk of himself and crew, he suc-
ceeded in reaching the vessel, and was fortunate in saving the
lives of all on board—eight persons. Ile had considerable
difficulty in persuading the master, who was part owner, to
quit his vessel ; to effect which, this gallant officer was com-
pelled, at all hazards, to go on board, and at the moment he
regained his boat a heavy sea broke over the vessel, 'and
nearly swamped her. In a few minutes nothing but the
Hooting wreck was to be seen. The whole of the cargo being
lead, amounting to £4,000., was subsequently saved by the
active exertions of Lieutenant Leworthy and his men.— Slier-
borne Journal.

EXTRAORDINARY PARROT.—A beautiful gray parrot ar-
rived at Windsor castle on Wednesday afternoon, which has
been purchased by Prince Albert, for £5O, of Mr. Shepherd,
of the City-road. The prince saw it yesterday at Bucking-
ham Palace, where it was taken by command of his royal
highness, by Mr. Shepherd. I saw it upon its arrival at the
castle this afternoon, between three and four o'clock, and • I
must confess it is the most extraordinary bird I ever beheld.
It is three years of age, and has been in this country about
15 months. It is perfect master of upwards of 800 words in
the English language, and can speak several sentences in
French. It sings, with great apparent feeling, the first verse
of " The flag that braved a thousand years," and likewise
sings, with considerable humour, the first verse of " Jim
Crow," and afterwards whistles and jumps it in a most lu-
dicrous manner. if poll sees a person about to take
.a glass
of wine, it will hold out its right claw and lustily sing out,
" Her Majesty Queen Victoria's good health ;" occasionally
varying the toast to " The health of his Royal Highness
Prince Albert," and " Princess Royal's good health, and
God bless her !" " Pretty Poll" has been placed under the
immediate care of the Baroness Lehzen.—Morning Herald.
LITERARY OBITUARY.—Died of inanition, in this town,
on Saturday last, the Northern Liberator and Champion •
after an existence of little more than three years. This is
the third failure of an attempt to establish an ultra-Radical
Journal in this district. The first was the Newcastle Press,
the second was the Newcastle Standard, and the Northern
Liberator was the third. Sir John Fife, knight, ex-mayor
and ex-chartist, was the parent of the first • Mr. Charles
Larkin of the second ; and Mr. Thomas Doubleday has been
for long the sole prop of the one that has just expired. In
respect of literary ability, the Liberator was infinitely supe-
rior to either of its predecessors, and was conducted, more-
over, with that courteous bearing which ever tlistinguishes
the gentleman from the representative of low life. As politi-
tical opponents, the conductors of the Liberator were en-
titled to respect, which is more than can be said of some of
our contemporaries. The present failure, in short, may be
attributed' not to any want of ability, but to the fact of the
paper having advocated principles which do not accord with
the sentiments entertained by the mass of the community,
and particularly the lower classes to whom it was especially
addressed. Whatever may have been the support given to
the Liberator in other parts of the country, in the neighbour-
hood of Newcastle it was never held in high esteem ; hence,
its gradual decay and final extinction.—Newcastle Journal.

OUTRAGES NEAR THE LINE OF THE GREAT WESTERN
RAILWAY.—A short time since a young married woman,
whose husband was working on the line near Corsham, was
passing not far from the place where he was employed, when
she was seized and used with brutal violence by several of the
' labourers. The husband coming at her cries, which were
heard by others at a great distance, was shamefully beaten,
and her brother attempted in vain to interfere. After some
time, a few men out of the hundreds within sight and hearing
interfered to prevent the brutality of others, and the woman,
after suffering much injury, was released in the deepest
affliction. Some of those who assaulted her have gone away
to another part of the line. Very recently also Mr. Bullock,
jun., a respectable watchmaker, on returning from his father's
at Corsham, to Pickwick, about nine on Sunday evening,
was seized by a railway labourer, thrown down, and stabbed
in the abdomen. The aggressor, and another who abetted
him, have been committed for trial at the next Wilts assizes.
Notwithstanding the settled population of Corsham now ex-
ceeds 3000, and several hundreds of strangers, many of them
violent men, have lately been introduced to perform the
laborious excavations, and raise the vast embankments on
this part of the line. only two (one of them a youth) of the
rural police are stationed in the parish.—Devizes Gazette.
THE SOCIALISTS.—The proceedings of the teachers and
upholders of this anti-Christian system in Bristol have already
rendered themselves amenable to the law. By taking money
for admission to their lectures on Sundays, at their mis-named
" Hall of Science," they have incurred the penalties in-
flicted by the 21st Geo. 111. c. 29, sec. 1, by which it is en-
acted that " any house, room, or'other place, which shall be
opened or used for public entertainment or amusement, or
for publicly debating on any subject whatsoever, upon any
part of the Lord's Day called Sunday, and to which persons
shall be admitted by the payment of money, or by tickets
sold for money, shall be deemed a disorderly house or place ;
and the keeper of such house, room, or place, shall forfeit
the sum of £2OO for every day that such house, room, or
place, shall be opened or used as aforesaid on the Lord's Day,
to such per Son as will sue for the same, and be otherwise
punishable as the law directs in cases of disorderly houses ;
and the person managing or conducting such entertainment
or amusement on the Lord's Day, or acting as master of the
ceremonies there, or as moderator, president, or chairman,
of any such meeting for public debate ou the Lord's Day,
shall likewise, for every such offence, forfeit the sum of £lOO
to such person as shall sue for the same ; and every door-
keeper, servant, or other person, who shall collect or receive
money or tickets from persons assembling at such house,
room, or place, on the Lord's Day, or who shall deliver out
tickets for admitting persons to such house, room, or place,
on the Lord's Day, shall also forfeit the sum of £5O to such
person as will sue for the same." And by sec. 2it is enacted
that the person who acts as master or mistress in any such
house shall be deemed the keeper thereof.—Bristol Mirror.
THE LATE MURDER ON THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW
RAILWAY.—ALLEGED APPREHENSION OF DENNIS Doo-
LAN.—Yesterday, information reached town from the police
of Port-Patrick, that a person answering the description of
Dennis Doolati, supposed to he oue of the most active hands
in the murder of the unfortimate man Green, at Bishop-
bridge, had been apprehended under very suspicious circum-
stances. The individual taken into custody was observed
lounging about the port, apparently waiting on a boat to take
him over to Ireland. Officers' we understand, have been de-
spatched to Port-Patrick for the purpose of taking means to
have the man identified. Since our last, another important
circumstance connected with this atrocious murder has come
out in the investigation by the authorities. It has been as-
certained that Green, in addition to being murdered, was
robbed by his assailants of a silver watch, a full description
of which has been procured. The guard to which it was at-
tached was found round his neck after the murder ; it is now
in possession of the authorities, and bears the mark of the
watch having been wrenched from it with violence. The
belief generally entertained is, that the watch was stolen away
by Doolan. The authorities have clearly made out that, at
the time the murder was perpetrated by the two men who
were more immediately concerned in inflicting the blows,
there were other three labourers on the bridge, making five
in all. Four of the six men now in custody can, we believe,
-be proved to have been present, an'd the fifth is believed to
be Doolan, for whom the search is going on. These five
lodged together in the same house in Auchinean, and it has
been ascertained that a poker, with which the murder was
committed, was taken on the fatal morning from that house.
It appears that there was no drinking among the labourers,
as some have supposed. Indeed, they are all members of
the Teetotal Society, and almost every person who was ap-
prehended had one of the medals suspended from his neck.
The fact that the men are members of this society shows that
the deed has been committed under no immediate excite-
ment, and would seem to strengthen the belief that the prin-
ciple of Ribbonism, shrouded in that of Teetolism, is at the
bottom of the foul conspiracy.—Glasgow Courier.

Mr. Ashton Yates, according to a statement made at th
Repeal meeting in Dublin on Monday last, does not intend
coming forward again for the county Carlow ; the liberals
there, however, are Making preparations to bring forward
two candidates.

TIIE MURRAIN.—An Oxfordshire correspondent informs
as that this disease has, in that county, extended " to all
kinds of live stock, including horses, sheep, pigs, and even
the poor shepherds' dogs." The writer adds, " beef is very
scarce and eagerly sought after."—Carlisk Patriot.
SALE OF MINERALS.—We understand that no leis than
sixty thousand pounds, cash down, has been paid for the iron
stone only, of seventy acres of land, on an estate in the neigh-
bourhood of Airdrie. The coal on the same land, in addition
to this, is also of great value.—Scotch Guardian.
THE WEST INDIEs.-i-A curious instance of the progress
of refinement in the West Indies occurs, in the fact that an
organ builder in London has just received orders for three
Leol9phons, to be sent overlo Jamaica, for the use of three
Baptists congregations in that AlAnd. Our coloured brethren,
it appears, are not insensible to the influence of music in the
exercise of their devotion.

The first iron steam vessel built in Bristol was launched
this afternoon, at three o'clock, from the building yard of
G. Lunell and Co. She is built for the Bristol Steam Navi-
gation Company, and intended for the station between Cardiff
and Uphill. Her engines and boilers are completed and
ready to be fixed on board, she may therefore be expected at
sea in a few weeks.—Bristol Standard.

THE DETAINED HOMEWARD-BOUND.—The following is a
copy of a letter received at Lloyd's, dated " Admiralty, De-
cember 23. Sir,—Having laid before my Lords Commission.
ers of the Admiralty your letter of the 22d instant, with its
enclosure, I am commanded by their lordships to acquaint
you, for the information of the committee for managing the
affairs of Lloyd's, that two vessels of war haVe been sent to
cruise in the. Chops of the Channel for the relief of the home-
ward-bound trade.—l am, Sir, your mast obedient servant,
JOHN BARROW.—To W. Dobson, Esq., Lloyd's."
CouRSING.—Mr. Chew's meeting at Fleetwood-upon-
Wyre is again postponed in consequence of the frosty wea-
ther.- A strong muster a embled on the day fixed. The
meeting now stands over Tor March 17, and two fol!owing
days.
INSOLVENT COURTS.—The next courts for the relief of
insolvent debtors will be held before Mr. Commissioner Law,
at Lancaster on the 9th, at Preston on the 17th, and at Liver-
pool on the 18th days.of March next.

POULTON.—On Monday evening last, the remarkable
phenomenon, the Aurora Borealis, brilliantly illumined the
whole northern hemisphere. At about eight o'clock the
meteor increased, and exceeded any thing before beheld in
this neighbourhood. The beams of light arose from the
east, extending all round to the west, and rising in all points
to the zenith. Many of the smallest stars, and among others,
some in the constellation oche little Bear, the electric action
was intense, the signs of streamers •risin,, under the great
Bear with the rapidity of lightnilig.—Presion Chronicle.
AURORA BOREALIS.—EXTRAORDINARY APPEARANCE
IN THE HEAVENS.—Often as this interesting phenomenon
has been witnessed of late years, never, we venture to say,
did it before visit these parts in such extraordinary beauty
and brilliancy as on the night of Monday last. As day
closed, a luminous arch, of a yellowish colour, appeared in
the north, stretching from E.N.E. to W.N.W. For two 'or
three hours it remained, almost motionless, or if its figure
changed at nll, it was only to break, by almost imperceptible
divisions', into two or more arches, or to occasionally grow
rather fainter at the crown than at the base. About eight or
half-past this arch began to break up into the usual pencil-
lings, which shot up towards the zenith, of a clear bluish
white. These increased in magnitude and brilliancy, till
they quite changed their character, becoming expanded into
broad flashes. Their recurrence had become so frequent too,
that from two extreme points of the compass mentioned
above, an unremitting blaze was kept up, each flash appeared
to chase its neighbour with rapid motion, sometimes from
West to east and sometimes the contrary way. But the most
extraordinary part of the visitation remains to be told, and
that is the variety of colours which it presented. All the
hues of the rainbow were exhibited, and occasionally with
such brilliancy that the effect was to call from those who had
the pleasure of beholding the scene, involuntary exclamations
of wonderment and awe. So magnificent a spectacle we should
say, has never before been seen in the heavens—at least, not
in these regions. We read of the extraordinary appearance
of the phenomena at the Poles, and we can now perfectly
well believe that these accounts are in no degree exaggerated.
The wonders of Monday night will not, we should think, be
easily forgotten by those who witnessed them. The lights
displayed themselves till after midnight, but their varied
tints and peculiar brilliancy departed about the hour of ten.
It is needless to say that during the- whole night, the earth
was overspread with an agreeable twilight. The aurora was
visible both on the Sunday and Saturday nights preceding,
but not under any peculiar circumstances.

THE MURRAIN.—In the " Quarterly Agricultural Re-
port" we find the following passage in reference to the
epidemic which has latterly been so prevalent amongst cattle :
This epidemic fortunately is not fatal to life if properly ad-
ministered to in time. In cattle it begins with symptoms of
dulness and loathing of food, and then a slavering at the
mouth ; then a blistering at the mouth and nose, and ten-
derness and breaking out at the foot, even to the loss of
hooves. In sheep it cannot be so easily noticed at first, as
disease in them generally proceeds some length before alarm-
symptoms are exhibited. Their feet, however, become
tender, and then they go on their knees to eat. A friend of
ours in Berwickshire tells us that he has had 55 cattle, and
200 sheep affected. He was on the outlook for the disease,
and fore-warned being fore-armed,' he got the mastery of
it in the course of a fortnight, having lost only four sheep,.
which he thinks were choked by improper administration of
the medicine and not killed by the disease. His cure was,
on observinc, the first symptoms of dulness and loss of ap-
petite, to administer one pound of epsom salts, and one ounce
of saltpetre, and half an ounce of powdered ginger, in a
quart of gruel, to every grown-up beast, and which served
five sheep. He bathed the feet with a solution of sulphate
of copper in water, the blue vitriol of the shops, one ounce
to a quart of water, three or four times a day. ome of the
beasts and sheep got the drink for several days, whilst others
were completely cured in one or two days."
PORTSMOUTII.—The Driver, a new steam-ship of 800-
horse power, is to be launched from this dockyard on Thurs-
day. She will afterwards proceed to Woolwich to be fitted
with machinery. The steamer Monkey has been commis-
sioned at Woolwich by Mr. William Saunders, second mas-
ter, who is to have the command of her. Two new steam-
ships, called th 6 Ardent and Polyphenius, are hastening with
all despateli Chatharn,lilso the Geowler and Vixen. These
ships are second-class steamers. The Phoenix steam-frigate,
Captain Stopford, is nearly ready to return to Malta. She
will convey despatches to the admiral, and letters announcing
the several promotions in the squadron. The steam-frigate
Dee, Commander Sherer, is hourly looked for from the
North American and West India station, to be paid off. The
Indus, 84, Capt. Sir James Stirling, will be ready to go to
Spithead about the 20th of January, and the Tweed, 20,
Commander Douglas, at about the same period. No orders
have yet arrived to commission the frigates Warspite, 50,
Vindictive, 50, and Madagascar, 44. The London, 92, and
Formidable, 84, are now quite ready at Chatham for com-
mission ; the whole of their stores are prepared. The Thalia,
46, is also bringing forward for the pendant. The troop-
ships Athol, Mr. Bellamy, master, and Apollo, Mr. White,
are refitting in the harbour, to take troops from Cork to the
lonion Island. The Monarch,*B4, Capt. Chambers, by pri-
vate letters from Sheerness, will be at Spithead by the 15th
January, where she will complete her complement. That
majestic ship St. Vincent, 120, has been undocked, and is
rigging with every practicable despatch in the basin, for com-
mission in about a month. The Impregnable, 104, Captain
Forrest, and Belleisle, 78, Capt. Nicolas, are to proceed to
the Mediterranean ; both will leave Plymouth about the 25th
of January.—Brighton Gazette.
NEW THIEF TRAP.—A respectable tradesman, residing in
Newark maket-place, who keeps a good larder, but not very
secure, was robbed, on Tuesday night week, of a dish of
sausages, and on the following night a fowl was taken from
the same spot. A birth-day was to be celebrated in the
family next day, when the wary housewife made two plum-
puddings, one for the family and one for the nocturnal de-
predators, and placed the destined dose upon the shelf which
had been twice robbed. Early in the evening it was greedily
eaten by the marauders, who were not aware that a portion
of jalap had been put into the morceau ; and it operated so
powerfully upon two well-known youths, that they believed
they were poisoned. This led to an immediate discovery,
and the pilfering rogues were placed in durance vile for a
night, to ruminate upon their own " condition," and its pro-
bable consequences.
SIGNS OF A SEVERE WlNTER.—Several weeks since we
predicted a severe winter, from the early appearance of num-
bers of wild ducks and geese upon our coast, and our opinion
seems likely to be verifid ; but if ducks and geese were the
heralds of the frost and snow we are now experiencing, what
must we expect.shortly, if, as we are credibly informed, se-
veral flocks of swans have been seen within these few days in
the neighbourhood of Lynn, one of which is said to have con-
tained no fewer than 100 birds ? A large body of scaup-
puchard and widgeon have arrived, besides many small quan-
tities of Brest geese. The purre, locally termed " stinte,"
are assembled in countless numbers along the shores of the
Channel. between the harbour and the roads. Twenty-nine
dozen of these birds were secured in three shots, filling nearly
a bushel measure, and it may reasonably be inferred that
many dozens more were wounded, but which were not cap-
tured. The shell, or borrow duck, has also now appeared in
considerable numbers for the first time this year.—Cam-
bridge Advertiser.

TAUNTON.—THREE TOO MANY.—On Tuesday, the Bth
instant, Ann, wife of John Webber, a bricklayer's labourer,
residing in East Reach, in this town, gave birth to three fe-
male infants, all of whom are in a thriving condition, and
the mother is also doing well. The poor woman had, before
her present addition, five children, who are all girls, and had
before buried three infants, all of whom were also females.
Her husband earns nine shillings a-week, and with such a
family it will surprise no one that when the poor woman was
put to bed, the destitution of her condition was most heart-
rending. Nearly without the most ordinary and lowly des-
cription of household goods—with a few fragments only of
bed clothing, and no supply of fOel, the whole of these poor
children were huddled together in one room, next to that in
which. the mother was confined. The occurrence was 110
sooner known than, to the honour of a number of kind sym-
pathising hearts, among whom were many ladies, as they ge-
nerally are in deeds of charity, most benevolently active,
supplies of clothing, food, fuel, dresses for the infants, and
proper attendance was provided for the prolific mother and
her babes, who are all going on well. The infant triple sis-
ters, who have been respectively named by the Rev. J. Cottle
Faith, Hope, and Charity, are nourished by the mother, and
the five other sisters lie altogether on the planks of an ad-
joining room, with as little in the shape of bedding under-
neath them as they have for covering.—Bristol Standard.
FANNY ELSSLER.—THE OPERA.—THE SLEIGH RIDNS'
—As we are on the eve of losing " la belle Fanny" fortth.
winter, public attention seems directed to her stronger that
ever. Enticed by the merry sound of the sleigh bells, le
Monday, she ordered a splendid • sleigh with four wee
horses, and drove out on our glorious Avenues of five rn nn
in extent, in a straight line. The news of her route flew, "40
the wings of the wind, and " quick as a flash," betweebrelik_
and 50 four and two-horse sleighs, and pungs, and
necks were dashing down the Avenues in the wake of Fanny;
and they formed a sort of escort to her in her tour- I
evening she attended that cheerless theatre, the. National,
to see the opera of Don Giovanni murdered, and to admire
the dancing of Madame Giubelei, Miss Wells, and Mons.
Martin. On her departure a crowd of fashio
herdeparturecollected
,
the sunny land of the south. And thus, like the sun, her
brilliant departure gives token of aehrraililiant oay on her re-
appearance.—New York Morning yd.
ANOTHER ACCESSION TO THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.-""
We had last week the satisfaction of announcing that the
Rev. Dr. Warren, (a distinguished Wesleyan preacher) had
been ordained, by the Bishop of Chester, minister of an
Episcopal chapel in Manchester ; and now we have to state,
that on Sunday last the Bev. Robert Aitkin, M.A., of Zion
Chapel, Waterloo-road, and White's-row Chapel, Spitalfield's
preached his final sermon at the former place, previous to Lila
return. under the direction of his diocesan, to the church
establishment, of which he was formerly an ordained minister-
From the great usefulness of this preacher for some Yeqs
past amongst Dissenters in general, and the Wesleyans in
particular, we are inclined to think well of his present niove-
mmt, which has, we understand, the approval of a conside-
rable part of his flock, who have, in a respectful petition to
the bishop, applied to his lordship to lessen the period of °.
" three years' silence" enjoined on their minister—a sentel
usual, we believe, in such cases. The chapel was crowde
to excess, and the congregation deeply affected. Most of thoy
waited to shake hands with their pastor and escort him to hl'
carriage, both minister and people apparently overcome bl
he separation.—Times.