The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

GOVERNMENT EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY AND CLERIC-4L NEWS.
The Rev. John Hamilton Forsyth, M.A. of Trinity
College, Cambridge, has been appointed domestic chap-
lain to th'e Marquess of Thomond
The clergy of

The following petition was agreed to at the meeting of
the clergy, on Friday, at the Blue Coat Hospital.

St. Asaph are about to present Lord
Powis with seine substantial mark of their gratitude.
A bill is now in the House of Commons, for dividing
the Rectory of Doddington w. March, in the Isle of Ely,
returned at £7,306 per annum.
The Bishop of London intends alienating part of the
rectorial rights of St. Stephen Coleman, Fenchurch-street
(now vacant), in behalf of the district Churches in Beth-
nal-green. The value of the living, it is said, will be re-
duced from £l5OO to £BOO per annum.
Ir"-- installation of Prince Albert, as Chancellor of the

MN AND IRELAND, IN PAR-

LIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
The Humble Petition of the undersigned Clergymen of
the Parishes of Liverpool, Walton-on-the-Hill,
and Childwall,

Sheweth,—That your petitioners have viewed, with
feelings of great satisfaction, the measures that have been
lately proposed by her Majesty's Government for the pro-
scion, which, although not sc
nt demands of the social position

extensive as the urg

of this country require, are yet entitled to our approba-
tion, as containing the formal recognition of those great
principles, which should rule the interference of the state
in matters of education.

July; unless a general election should interfere to prevent
this arrangement. The venerable laureate, Wm. Words-
worth, is to write the installation ode, which will be set to
musib by T. A. Walmesley, of Jesus, M. 8., Professor of
Music in the University.

Thus, while the government, through its agents, pro-
poses to examine and inspect those schools which shall
receive the public aid, their internal management is to be
committed, in a great measure, to the local authorities ;
and while religious and secular teaching are to be inse-
parably united, intellectual developinent is to be based on

iNOTHER SECEDER THROUGH TRACTARIANISM TO

POPERY

in-law of a noble earl, and who made him-self very conspi-
cuous last year by leis advocacy of reproductive labour, is
about to add his name to the list of perverts to the Ro-
mish Church. His bias towards Popery has for some time
shown itself by the support invariably given to the Roman
Catholic candidate for any office in the disposal of which
he had a voice—no matter how well qualified the Protes-
tant competitor. Having lately (as foreman of.the grand

Your petitioners also hail, with feelings of unfeigned
satisfaction, the introduction, for the first time, into the
system of national education, of that most invaluable,—
and we regret being compelled to add,—novel principle,
. _

not only removing one of the chief objections of the poor
to mere school teaching—its apparent inutility—but in-
troducing an element into national education which, more
than any other, would tend to reduce the amount of that
enormous mass of unskilled labour, now constantly in-
creasing, and which the discoveries of science, their appli-
cations to art, and a state of society highly artificial, are
rendering daily less remunerative.
Your petitioners also view with approbation the provi-
sion which it is proposed to make for superannuated school-
masters ; and they trust that the wise liberality of the

jury) a sum of money for distribution to charitable socie-
ties, he gave it all to the Romish charities of the assize
town, though there are several most meritorious Protes-
tant charities in it. To crown all, he appeared in the
crowded streets on the Monday before Easter with palm
in his hat—a melancholy exhibition truly.—Church and
State Gazette.

IREL A N D

ve vessels laden with large cargoes of grain arrived
1,

:e, may have

.ofession

in a short time Wafter

fellow came into Clonmel, and
,sed a gun for one pound. He

Unhappily, at present,

too often the refuge of the incom-

petent

was afterwards discovered begging.
The young Earl of Belfast has given £BO, resulting
from the sale of his own musical compositions, to the Bel-
fast relief fund.

Holding, as your petitioners do, the opinion that it is
as much the duty of the state to provide that its subjects
are instructed in their duties, as it is its province to punish
the violation of those duties; it is to them a. source of
much gratification, that the sanctions of reward are to be
at length appealed to, and that the prevention of crime
by moral means, no less than its coercion by punishment,

The Rev. P. Pounden, rector of Westport, died on
Saturday seek of fever, caught in the discharge of his
sacred duties.

At the Cork assizes, on Monday, Private James Bucha-
nan, convicted of the wilful murder of Robert Frisby,

is to be provided f

Your petitioners have witnessed with much surprise
and sorrow, the vehement opposition which has been
given to the plan of national education, developed in the
recent minutes of the committee of her Majesty's Privy

was sentenced to be hanged on the 10th of May.
Twenty-one vessels are advertised to sail with emigrants
from Cork to the United States and British Colonies
within a few weeks.
On Friday and Saturday, four vessels sailed from Lime-
rick with 1000 passengers, including many independent
farmers—nearly all for British America. There are 15
other vessels to sail in a few days from the same port.
The southern landlords also contribute to the emigration.
The Cork Constitution gives a list of articles required
weekly for the workhouse in that union. Among the
articles are 5,396 gallons of boiling milk, 239 gallons of
new milk, 1000 lbs of salt, 560 lbs. of mutton chop, 2
chests of tea, 345 chickens, 100 sacks of flour, &c.
The brigantine Coquette has arrived in Dublin, with a
full cargo of corn, meal, biscuit, &c., shipped at Balti-
more, U.S., for Demerara, and thence forwarded to
Dublin. This is the first importation of bread-stuffs into
the United Kingdom from the West Indies that has been
ever known
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Council on Education ; and they would deplore, its a great
national calamity, the relinquishment of this plan by her
Majesty's Ministers ; knowing that the question is no
longer between the scheme now before the country, and
some other to certain classes apparently less objectionable;
but between the present plan, and the total abondonment
by the state, of the duty of promoting education, which
in all ages has been held by the best and wisest as one of
theyrimest functions of government.

Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that your
honourable house will sanction the plan which has been
proposed in the recent minutes of the committee of her
Majesty's Privy Council on Education.
And your petitioners will ever pray.

THE LAKES AND CANALS OF NORTH

`monster" trial has just terminated in Cork, after
ix days of hard labour. It was an action brought by a
Mr. Oliver against the Cork Steam-ship Company, to re-
cover damages for the loss of eight very valuable horses,
which were shipped on board the Jupiter for Bristol. The
vessel ran aground in the Avon, and the horses were lost.
Verdict for the plaintiff, £l5OO.
At the Kildare assizes, Catherine Coglan was convicted
of the wilful murder of Margaret Foran, a woman upwards
of ninety years of age, on the 22nd of February. The un-
fortunate woman was sentenced to be executed on the
23rd of April, at Athy. The cause of the murder was to
obtain the cabin in which the deceased lived, and three-
quarters of an acre of land attached to it. About an hour
after the sentence the culprit announced that she was

AMERICA

(From Simnionds's Colonial Magazine.)

The chain of " Fresh-water Mediterraneans " that go
so largely towards dividing the territory of " Uncle Sam "
from the domains of Queen Victoria are a geographical
wonder. Extending from east to west over nearly fifteen
and a half degrees of longitude, they seem, regarding them
upon the map, to rest like a crown of waters upon the
head of the union, their centre of gravity ; the island of

Macinac, balancing upon the meiidian. which separates
Indiana and Ohio, eqm-divides Kentucky and Tenetsee,
and passes between Georgia and Alabama, and East and
West Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico. The difference in
the latitude of the northern and southern extreme points
of the lakes is not far from eight and a half degrees. The
estimated area of country draining into them is 400,000
square miles ; the extent covered by the waters of the
whole is 93,000 square miles, divided as follows :—Onta-
rio, 6,000 ; Erie, 9,600 ; St. Clair, 1,060; Huron, 20,400 ;
Michigan, including the bay, 24400 ; Superior, 32,000.
The waters of the " Father of Lakes " (Superior) are 568
feet above the level of the sea ; which elevation is attained
by unequal gradations' each lake rising above the previ-
ous one from Ontario to Superior. The surface of the
waters from Ontario is 232 feet above the tide-water of
the St, Lawrence—Erie rises 333 feet above Ontario—St.
Clair, 6 feet above Erie—Huron and Michigan are 13 feet
higher than St. Clair—and Superior rises 44 feet above
those.
The St. Clair is by far the shallowest of any of the
Lakes, the average depth being about 20 feet ; Erie aver-
ages in depth about 85 feet—Ontario 500—Superior 900—
Huron and Michigan, 1,000, as nearly as can be arrived
at. The deepest soundings are found in Lake Huron :
off Saginaw Bay, we are told, leads have sunk 1,800 feet,
or 1,200 feet below the level of the Atlantic Ocean, with-
out reaching the bottom.
Great difference is observable in the transparency and
purity of the waters of the several lakes. Those of Onta-
rio, Erie, and the southern parts of Michigan have no pe-
culiar excellence—while those of the northern part of Lake
Michigan and Lake Huron surpass in clearness and fla-
vour any waters of which we have ever drunk, though a
still greater purity and a higher relish is said, by those
who have visited that lake, to distinguish the waters of
Superior.

enciente.
The progress of cultivation in Ireland, under present
circumstances, is exceedingly consoling. In one large
district in Wexford the Spring business will have been
completed by Saturday next. In Carlow there never was
so large a breadth of land in cultivation ; and even Galway
such is the progress made, that the Galway Vindicator
states the cultivation of the land is much farther advanced
in the country than near the towns.
SLAUGHTER OF SHEEP.—About 1500 pauper labourers
entered the town of Gort, County Galway,. on Monday,
and paraded the streets, exclaiming, occasionally, they
should have " blood or bread," to the great terror of the
inhabitants. They eventually retired without any outrage
on person or property ; but their threats were not idly
meant, for during the night 154 sheep, the property of
William Lahiff, Esq., of Gort, at pasture, near the lands
of Bunnahow, were killed, and carried away. Seven of
the suspected principals, in this daring onslaught, have
been arrested.

POISONING OF DR. GRATTAN'S FAMILY.—At the
Wicklow assizes, on Thursday week, three servants, for-
merly in the service of Dr. Grattan, were indicted for an
attempt to poison the family of that gentleman, by mix-
ing arsenic in the stirabout prepared for their use. Mr.
Richard Grattan died from the effects of poison mixed in
some flummery made by one of the prisoners. The de-
fence set up was that the arsenic fell by accident into both
the stirabout and the flummery, although made on differ-
ent days. Verdict—" Not guilty."
REPEAL .ASSOCIATION.—The weekly meeting of this
association was held on Monday. The attendance was
miserable, and the proceedings destitute of importance.
Mr. John O'Connell addressed the meeting at consider-
able length, and repeated the overtures to " Young
Ireland," which he enunciated on the last Monday for a
reconciliation. To effect that object, he would not hesi-
tate to resort to any alternative, even to his retirement
from the association, if he were personally considered
offensive. At the conclusion of the proceedings the rent
was announced to be £24.
The Conciliation Hall madness is becoming rapidly
more and more extinct ;—and little as we sympathise with
that new combination of the Irish gentry against the re-
lief of their own poor, which calls itself "the Irish party,"
we yet cannot but feel that the exchange of the Repeal
"patriots" for this motley extract of all parties is at least
no loss. This last union of men of all parties, by the
way, has propounded a scheme for Irish emigration,—
stated at great length and in much detail, and apparently
considered with some care. It is signed by the Arch-
bishop of Dublin, Lords Ormonde, Ely, Devon, Desart,
Farnham, and Jocelyn, Sir A. J. Foster, Bart., about
thirty Irish members of the lower House of Parliament,
and J. R. Godley, Esq.
IRISH FALSE STATEMENTS.—There has been much
systematic misrepresentation, in the Irish writers, about
the landowners in England having Irish estates, in order
to excite compassion for one party, and prejudice against
another. A writer in the Morning Post, of Friday week,
having addressed something to the editor, to the effect
that Mr. Ormsby Gore, M.P. for the northern division of
Shropshire, had received £BOOO for a certain section of
his estate in one barony, the honourable member, in con-
tradiction, has asserted, in the same paper, that he re-
ceived £lOOO for half a year's rent at the end of 1845, for
the land in question, in the county of Sligo, and that at
the end of the year 1846, "he received nothing, and that
nothing had been demanded."
POTATOES.—One of the most extraordinary features of
the recent markets in Ireland is the resurrection (if it
may be so called) of the destroyed potato crop. Here
and there the native Patlanders are peeping out of cover,
and, daily acquiring more of their Hibernian confidence,
threaten in a short time to crowd the fairs and markets.
At Limerick, Galway, Sligo, Newry, Nenagh, &c., pota-
toes are reported to be coming forward in quantities.
HOW NORAH, OUR IRISH SERVANT, DID. The report for the latter town says—" Our markets are
well supplied with oats and potatoes. Indeed, we have
From " The Greatest Plague of Life, or Adventures of not seen a greater quantity of both articles for sale in
a Lady in search of a good Servant." Nenagh, even when scarcity did not exist." And, to
But though Norah Connor went on very well just at crown all, potatoes are actually being exported from Ire-
first, still, after a time, she got so frightfully familiar and land tq Scotland, two vessels within the last few days
presuming, that really the woman used to speak to me as having arrived at Glasgow from Londonderry with an
if I was her equal ; nor could I for the life of me get her aggregate quantity of 150 sacks of excellent quality.
to pay me the respect that I felt was due to me. Now, DREADFUL MURDERS—A HOUSE BURNED.—On Sa-
for instance, I remember, one morning, about two months turday night, two murders were perpetrated at Kiltankin,
before little Annie was horn, I rang the parlour bell, and Tipperary, within eleven miles of Cater at the Mitchels-
when the woman came into the room, I said in a quiet town side. The facts are these—a man named Michael
voice, " I want a glass of water to drink, Norah." Brien went to Clogheen to sell oats, and having disposed.
" You want to drink a glass of wather ?" she replied. of theme he returned home in the evening. Two ac-
" Well, I've no objection. Drink away, darlin' !!' quaintances of his, named William and Lawrence Cull
" Then," I continued, blandly, " I should feel obliged came to his house, and after remaining some time they
if you would be so good as to let me have one directly." departed. Brien and one of his daughters went to bed,
Let you have one ?" she exclaimed. " Faith, an' and another daughter, about ten years of age remained
didn't I give you permission just now ?" sitting at the fire. In some time after, the Cull's re-
This was past all bearing ; but I restrained myself, and entered the house, and took their seats by the fire. The
merely said, with becoming dignity, " I didn't have you I daughter who had gone to bed, meanwhile fell asleep, but
up stairs, Norah, to know whether you would permit me was soon aroused by the crackling of fire. She immedi •
to drink a glass of water in my own house, or not." I ately got up, and found her sister burned to death. She
To which she replied, as familiarly as if she were speak- then called her father, but he made no reply, and being
ing to the servant next door, " Well, by my sowl, when I almost suffocated with the smoke, she left the house. In
I heard you ask me if I'd let you have that same, I a short time it was pscertained that the father was also
thought you mighty stupid at the time. An' what is it dead. The money of the oats was taken off. Both the
you do want, then, mavourneen ?" Cull's have been committed.
" Why," I returned, in measured terms, remembering FEVER SIGHTS.—The Rev. W. B. Townsend, in coin-
my station, " I want what I told you before, as plainly as pany with Sir Arnold Knight, of this town, has recently
a person could speak—a glass of water." gone through the workhouse at Skibbereen, and gives
" Why, then," she cried, "by the powers!! if I were the following as specimens of what he saw :—" On entering
you, I'd get it Isn't there plenty down stairs, honey ?" the boys' school-room were presented to us the emaciated
" But," I continued, calmly, perhaps you will be forms of about 40 or 50 children, the very pictures of
kind enough, Norah, to bring me a lassg up here. starvation, seated on two forms placed at length on both
" Och !" she exclaimed, "so an' it's only a glass you're sides of the grate, perishing with cold near the embers of
wantin' me to fetch you, afther all ! A glass wid nothin an expiring apology for fire ! a cold north breeze was
in it, is it you mane ? ' blowing in upon them to help their speedy departure to
" No," I replied, almost losing my temper, " A glass another sphere! I give them a great respite in bespeaking
of water, woman, and not a glass without anything in it ! a week for their departure from their present state of
Do you understand me now ?" wretchedness!—We found the sick of fever and diarrhrea
" Out an' out," she cried, with a nasty, low wink. brought down into the house with the healthy to the
" You'd be havin' a glass of wather wid somethin' in it ! number of (deducting 225, the number in the Hospitals,
Oh, go along wid you—wanting a drop on the sly, now! from those reported diseased altogether, about 600!) 375!
You're takin' to the bottle, though, betimes this mornin', —We went from this to the Hospital and Infirmary, and
I'm thinkin'." there we found great cleanliness indeed, but two and three
I'm sure my fair readers can easily imagine that this in a bed, some at the head and some at the toot, the lat-
threw me into such a passion that it quite made my blood ter without bolsters, or straw to make them, or anything
boil. I told the fury to hold her tongue, and never dare to lift the hanging heads of the wretched patients ! From
to open her mouth about such things again. But the im- this we went to the dead house, and such a sight I never
pudent hussey only made me worse, for she kept declaring saw before !-18 or 20—(the latter the porter said)—naked,
" mum was the word with Norah," and saying, " that I emaciated skeletons of men women, and children—the
needn't go flurryin' mysilf about her findin' out my sly skin as if drawn tight over the empty exhausted frames !
thricks," and telling me to be " asy, for that the masther All lying about three days in a confused mass, thrown
should never hear bf it from hersilf." together without any ceremony just as they died, eyes,
So that at last, I declare I was positively obliged to run mouths and limbs ! saving one little ewe lamb, upon whom
up stairs into my own bed-room, in order to get rid of the some affectionate hand had bestowed .as much care as
creature. There I threw myself on the sofa, in the most circumstances would allow—dressed in its infant clothing
dreadful state of mind, I think, I ever was in all my life; —a little cap and so forth, smiling in death and upon a
and, torn with all kinds of horrid ideas, I said to myself, short plank! The very contrast made the sight more
" Norah washes very well, it is true—but alas ! what piteous ! Yes I remember where one old female frame
washing can compensate me for this !" had a piece of an old quilt thrown over her abdomen."

So completely transparent are the waters of Huron,
that the rays of the sun are said to pass through them as
through the cloudless atmosphere, without meeting with
solid matter in suspension to elicit their heat. Thus Dr.
Drake accounts for the fact, whicn he himself ascertained
by experiment, that the water on the surface, and that 220
feet beloW the same spot, had precisely the same tempera-
ment, fifty-six degrees.

Through the Welland Canal, the navigation of the
lakes is uninterrupted for the distance of 844 miles from
east to west : the distance north and south is, of course,
various, ranging from 347 miles as the extreme distance.
The, country to which these waters are the great highway
of transport has often been the theme of high-wrought eu-
logium, for the variety and richness of its soil, and the
extent of its resources. The justness of these praises, as
well as the extent to which fertility has been subjected to
the hand of culture, and the rapidity with which these re-
sources are being developed, under the life-bringing touch
of the enterprise which peculiarly characterises its inhabi-
tants, is gathered from the bare glance at the fact that
the commerce of the four great lakes, including all capital
afloat, during the year 1843, was estimated by the Topo-
graphical Bureau at 65,000,000 dollars. The total
amount expended by the general government of the
United States on these Lakes for the improvement ne-
cessary to protect and convenience this commerce is stated
by Mr. Whittlesey, of Ohio, at 2,100,000 dlrs.
When the projected ship canal around the Falls of St.
Marie shall be completed, the wide expanse of Lake Su-
perior will be added to the present extent of the lake naviga-
tion, allowing the adventurous commercialist to crowd
some 175 miles still farther north, and several hundreds
farther west. The length of the road proposed to be cut
by this canal is said to be but three fourths of a mile, and
the whole expense of improvement is estimated, if we
rightly remember, at 230,000 dollars. By this compara-
tively small outlay, access is at once obtained to the whole
country tributary to Lake Superior—a tract so rich in tim-
ber and mineral wealth, that it has not been unaptly
termed " the Denmark of America."

April 13,184'.

SERMONS IN BEHALF OF IHE ST. JUDE'S 1 days, we have dates from Pernambuco of the 4th ult•
DAY AND SUNDAY SCHCPLS. lThe Swordfish had arrived out after an extraordinary short
run of twenty Clay;; and had proceeded to Bahia. Ex-
change at Pernambuco was iron at 30d. Freights to the
United Kingdom 755. to 80s. From Rio the dates were
to Feb. 20. The following is the report from the circular
of Messrs. T. Le Breton and Co., of that date :
" Produce.—Supplies of coffee have been scanty and
transactions therefore limited, and a decline of 100 -reis
per arroba on previous quotations has taken place—those
of to-day being 2,900 reis to 3 milreis, superior ; 2,700
reis to 2,800 reis, good first ; 2,500 reis to 2,600 reis, ordi.

The Annual Sermons in support of the Chatity ge.h001.2
in connection with St. Jude's Church were preacbeal, on
Sunday last, by the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, M.A., lumina
bent of the church.

At the morning service the Rey, gentleman delivered

an eloquent and impressive discours

in illustration of the

rounwing text :--- Ivor we are his workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before
ordained that we should walk in them."— St. Paul's
Epistle to the Ephesians, chap. ii., 10th verse.
Mr. M'lsTeile proceeded to point out the state of Spi-
ritual death in which the world was at the coming of fir
Redeemer, and how V-- 'fir "'-is life, -€F,I) '

—le sacrifice of his if, ,nroui-,_
great and unmeasured love for mankind, effected their re-
demption ; and detailed, in language the most clear and

nary first ; 2,406 refs to 2,500 reis, ordinary. Stock, about
45,000 bags. The clearances of January amounted to
129,135 bag's 239 barrels, against 142,316 packages in the
same month of 1846.

` Sugar

reis per arroba was paid for first quality
whites:and 1,900 reis to 2 milreis for Muscovanos. Per,

nambuco whites had been selling at 2,850 reis to 2,900 reis.
" Hides.—Stock stilt heavy, say, about 80,000 pieces,
though large lots have lately changed hands. Prime Rio

exports were 2,450 dry, 5,576,5a1ted, and 150 half-tanned.
hides. Exchange, 281 d, to 29d., and money scarce.
" Prices of exports, free on board, ex freight, Feb. 20,
1847 :—Coffee, sup., per cwt., 295. 10d. to 30s. 9d. ; good
Ist, 28s. ld. to 28s. Ild.; regular, 265. 4d. to 275. 2d.
Sugar, white, 265. 11d. ; brown, fBs. sd. Hides, Rio
Grande, light per lb., 4.83 ; ditto, heavy, 4.98.
" Exchange on London, 281 d. ; Paris; 330 perf.; Ham-
burgh, 610 per mark banco ; Spanish doubloons, 29,500
reis to 30 milreis each ; Patriot doubloons, 29,200 reis to
29,400 reis; dollars, 1,830 reis to 1,840 reis ; Six per cent.
Stock, 81 to 82 per cent."

The demand for imports was satisfactory.
" Freights looking up ; last rates for Englislivessels to
load at Rio Grande, 70s. to 725. 6d. per for:; ; 50s. Aus-
e I trians, for Mediterranean ports

ut there being-no more
vessels of this flag in port, higher rates must now be given;
60s. to 625. 6d. have been given to proceed to Bahia for
sugar.

BAHIA, to Feb. 28 (as per Bahia Mercantile Review
of Feb. 27.)—Johnston, Napier and Co., and Le Breton,
Whately and Co. Sugar.—Early in the week holders
appeared anxious to realize at our last quotations of 1700
to 1800 for Muscovado, and 2300 to 2400 whites, equal to.
16s. 7d. to 16s. 6d., and 225. 4d. to 235. 3d. per cwt. ore
board, ex freight ; exchange 29d. ; but since the arrival
of the Swordfish sundry lots have been withdrawn from
the market. Inferior descriptions have been looked after
and bought at comparatively liberal rates
" Cotton.-6200 per arroba for
hardly any for sale.
" Freights.—Vessels being exceedingly scarce, a further
advance in the rates has taken place ; the last charter is
at 725. 6d., 675. 6d., and 625. 6d., according to destina-
tion, since when 755. per ton to the Channel and Great
Britain for a. British vessel has been offered and refused."
There has been a general fall in the value of Railway
Shares this week, owing to the depression in the Funds,
but the decline has not been so great as we might have an-
ticipated, under the circumstances. The difference ne-

Maceio, but there are

cesiarily must arise from the Share market having found
nearly its lowest level, and having at the same time
within itself the elements' of firmness. The prices of the
favourite and old established lines have not suffered a
greater fall than £2 per share, whilst those of inferior
character not more than from 10s. to 20s. per share,
-ly about " The

anc ~ne low priced securities on, ss. to Ws. _
principal effect of the altered tone of the Funds on
shares has been the rapid decrease of business.

In the London money market, Saturday last was the
most gloomy day which has occurred during the present
pressure—a circumstance amply to be accounted for
by the Gazette returns of the Bank of England for
the week ending the 3rd instant. Consols opened at 851
to and declined to 851 to I. Front • this a reac-
tion took place up to 854, but the improvement was
only temporary, and at the close of business they had
fallen t, t-

aga. .43 .4 for money, ftnd 85E to 86 fOr the
May account. After the ordinary hours of business the
decline still continued, and the money quotation was as
low as 851 to a. No transactions occurred in Scrip, but
the price was about 3+ to &dia. Bank Stock left off' 194
t 0196; Reduced Three per Cents., 841 to ; Three-and-
a- Quarter per Cents.. 86 to 4- ; Long Annuities, 81 to 9. ;.India
Bonds ss. to ls. dis. ; South Sea Stock, 951;. and Exchequer
Bills, ss. dis. to par. During the day, as was to, have

been expected, a number of vague rumours were in circu-
lation, but with the exception of one relating. to a defal-
cation in the north, which it was apprehended may receive
confirmation, but little importance was attached to them.

LAW INTELLIGENCE,

BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY
The Chancery suit, Mozley v. Alston, was part heard

Wednesday and Thursday last, at the Vice-Chancellor's
Court. The case came on upon demurrerto a bill filed
by four persons, who alleged that they were shareholders.
in the Birmingham and. Oxford Junction, against twelve
persons acting as directors. The bill prayed an iniunc-
tion to restrain the defendants from voting or acting as.
directors of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction, and'
that they might deliver over the common seal and all-the•
papers, documents, funds, and property in their posses-
sion into the control of the lawful directors. The case.
stands adjourned for further argument on the 13th instanti.
the first day of the next sitting.
JURORS IN THE NEW COUNTY COURTS.—By the New
County Courts Act the law as to the attendance of jurors
in actions not exceeding £2O is altered, Incases whe- ,
the amount exceedsS a plaintiff or a defendant may re-
quire a Jury, but in actions under that amount the judge
of the Court has a discretionary power. The jury in.tha
new County Courts is to consist of five persons, and they
must give an unanimous verdict. It has been customary.
in every cause to swear the jury, but by a provision in the
new law they are not required to be sworn in each trial.
The expense on the part of the plaintiff or defendant re-
quiring a jury will be 55., which sum must be deposited
with the clerk of the Court, and be considered as costs in
the cause, unless otherwise ordered by the judge.

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE TOWNSENA V..
SYMES.—This trial took place at Gloucester on Friday
last. The plaintiff was a young woman about twenty-
one years old, the daughter of a cattle dealer, at Elton,.
in Gloucestershire. The defendant was about twenty-
seven years old. He was living on a freehold property in,
the neighbourhood. He had known the plaintiff about
five years, and, in 1844, she had a child by him, shortly
after which he promised, in the presence of witnesses, to'
marry her, and even went so far as to give her father £5
to buy a wedding-ring, and, on being told that he must'
himself procure the license, he declared his intentions of
doing so immediately. At this time his parents inter-
fered, and he was unable to fulfil his engagements, but
promised to do so on their death. This took place not
long after, but, in. 1846, he married a certain Miss Lane,
and this action was commenced. It seemed, however,
that the defendant was a weak, foolish, young man, who-.
had been inveigled into the promise by the plaintiff and,
her parents. The jury returned a verdict for the plain-
tiff, damages one shilling.
A. CURIOUS MATTER OF LOVE.—CRESWELL V. COL-
LINS.—This was an. action tried at the Hereford Assizes.
on Thursday, for a malicious prosecution. The plainta
is a young man, about 28, a veterinary surgeon at Leo-
minster ; the defendant is a Miss Fanny Collins, the
daughter of a• deceased surgeon, who is very well con-
nected, and residos.with her mother at Buckfield House.
On the the 15th of. October, plaintiff went to the house-
of defendant's mother while the family were at church,
walked into the. drawing-room, looked at a number of
books, took one, and put it in his pocket, and then went.
into the defendant's dressing-room, and took up a rug;
belonging to her, and put it also in his pocket and went
away. He was on that evening arrested on the charge of
having stolen these articles, locked up, and brought before
the magistrates the next day, when he stated that at the
time he was taking the articles he told the servant maid
who let him in that he would bring them back in the evening.
—that he had frequently spoken to the maid and her
mistress before—and that he was entirely innocent of any
felonious intention in taking them. The defendant swore
that she had never spoken to the plaintiff, or held any
communication with him. The_case was sent to the ses-

sions, where the bill was ignored. Jane Hutchins was a
servant oil defendant's mother in 1843. Got a letter from
the plaintiff and gave it to the defendant, who opened it
and read it to me. It was a love letter. Miss Collins
said that she hoped I would say nothing about it to any
one. She was then twenty. She told me she had often
smiled on him, and on one occasion kissed hands to him.
I got a second letter from the plaintiff, and took it to, the
defendant. In that he said he was afraid, from her si-
lence, she was offended. She told me to tell hintto come
to the back door of the yard in the evening, and to listen
there, and she would come and speak to him, and show
him that he was not indifferent-to her. He came in the
evening, and she and I talked, and he listened outside the
wall. She spoke very favourably of him, and said she
liked him very much. He came in a week again, and saw
her at her bed-room window, at six in the evening. He
spoke to her. She threw up the window, and heard what
he had to say. She did not speak to him, She went on
a visit for some time. On her return he came again, and
saw her at the window, and spoke to lwr. She did not
speak to him, but a Miss Beale, who was with her, did.
The next night he came again, and then Miss Collins
spoke to him, That night he climbed up on the wall and
stood close to the window. The window opened from the
top, and he put his head half way in. He came often
afterwards, and used to stop talking from ten o'clock at
night till two in the morning. There was always another
person presen3, generally Miss Beale. She told him she
would go away with him, but she was afraid of her brother
and friends. Charlotte Watts—l went to live with Mrs.
Collins in May, 1844. I often saw the plaintiff talking to
the defendant. He used to write to her under enclosures
to me. Anne Edwards, a nursemaid in a neighbouring
family, proved that she once saw the plaintiff and defend-
ant walking together near Buckland House. John Fos-
ter, a brickmaker, residing at Leominster, swore that he
saw the plaintiff and defendant walking together, last
spring, along a pathway near his brick6eld, and that the•
plaintiff assisted her over a stile. Mr. Serjeant Talfour4
addressed the jury on behalf of the defendant. He said,
the plaintiff had been for a long time pestering the de-
fendant, who had applied to her uncle for a policeman, to,
protect her from the plaintiff. That on her going on a
visit he followed her, and that she complained to the gen-
tleman at whose house she was staying of the annoyance,
and he spoke to the plaintiff, and made him desist and
leave the neighbourhood. He was taken by surprise alto-
gether by the reference to Miss Beale, and therefore could
not call her to-day. He would prove that on the even-
ing after the bill was ignored the plaintiff, in a public
room of the Royal Oak, at Leominster, spoke in the most
dishonouring terms of the defendant. That her brother,
on hearing of it went to him, dared him to repeat the lan-
guage before the same company ; that he did not dare ta
do so ; and that the brother then horsewhipped him;
Evidence to this effect was then given. The jury RAW'
for the plaintiff.—lktuum .00,