The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-11-27 00:00:00

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The Liverpool Dock Committe
very liberally in giving the present
Mr. HUNT thought they had hater take
they were better off than they were before N
nothing. He had heard it stated that the
debt when Lieut. Kellock took her, but it
extensive repairs.

thought the

A FISHERMAN present suggested that it u
seful if the lamp now on the bridge at th
could be left lit all night, at present it was ex
twelve o'clock.
The RECTOR thought it very adviSable—t

were ratepayers, and tue
ought to be lit. He (the Rector) then react so
to the commissioners for the conservancy a
Mersey, and said he thought Mr. Barrow was
in stating the number of fishermen.
Mr. HUNT moved the adoption of the memo
was seconded by 'Mr. RIMIER, and carried new
The RECTOR then read the letter to the chair
Liverpool Dock Committee, given above,
moved by HENRY HODGE and seconded
JAcxsort (ftsherrnen,) and carried unanimonsli
The rector then signed the letter on behalf of
ing, and it was afterwards numerously signed
present ; but it being stated that a great nurnbc
absent who wished to affix their si it was arr.
that sheets should be left for that purpose in the localities,
where they reside.
The Rector having vacated the chair, it was taken
Mr. Hunt, when it was unanimously resolved that a
of thanks be paid to the rector, for his valuable s'
as chairman that evening.
The Rev. RECTOR briefly replied.
A vote of thanks was then moved to Mr.
his kindness in bringing the subject forwar
carried by acclamation.

by those

;natures,

Mr. BARROW returned thanks
always be happy in rendering all
power to the fishermen of the place
The meeting then broke up.

PABLO PANQUE'S TROUPE
trians, who have been 'pert
night at the Amphith€

—The compan

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Efttrature.

POETRY.

TO THE REV. T. NOLAN,
IM HIS DEPARTURE FROM LIVERPOOL TO ENTER ON HIS
MINISTRY, AT ST. JOHN'S, BEDFORD-ROW, LONDON.

Where Cecil held aloft the lamp all bright
With Truth immortal's pure and haliow'd light ;
Where, mighty through his Goa, his weapons were,
Not idly smiting on the empty air;
Where. (as in Jericho, in days of old,
Fell to the ground its wa!ls, and each strong hold,
When sounded long and loud the trumpet's blast,)

Satan's

holds in many a soul were cast

The Gospel trmnpet came, sonorous, clear,
Mild as on -ummer's eve is Zephyr's breath ;
Sweet as a cherub's voice, yet " siron; as death
Where Cecil stood, and to the " better land"
Led many a pilgrim, Thou art cai!'d to stand.

!eks for thee its prayer?

Friend of my heart, what
That of his honours Than may'st
That, souls converted.—inournei
God's blessing on thy labours m
That me

he heii

cheered and blest ;

joicin, see

A Cecil's mantle fallen upon thee!

FREDERICK PARRY,

N OTICES

The National Restoration of the Jews to Pales'ine re-
pugnant to the trord of God. London: Rivingtons ;

-Li;erpool: Deighton and Laughton

This is a slightly amplified reprint, now published in
pamphlet form, of a speech delivered about a month since,
and reported in our culuons at the time, by the Rev. W.
W. Ewbank, at the anniversary meeting in this town of
the Auxiliary Society for Promoting Christianity among
the Jews, when the Lord B shop of the diocese took the
chair. Our readers have therefore had an opportunity of
ju,lgini.r, how far the re7erend gentleman has supported the
proposition which he labours most eloquently, and in a
truly Christian spirit, to establish. This edition contains,
however, many lengthy notes mid scriptural references,
in further confirmation of the arguments advanced.

41n examination of some questions which recent events
hare raised in connection with the Liverpool Auxiliary
Society.hr Promoting Christianity among the Jews.

By the-14y

Toxteth, Liverpool

and Smyths

Incumbent of St.
erpool : Newling

This is the first publication which we remember to have
seen from the pen of this divin-. and whilst we admire the

spirit and temper in which the
we alFo think that the author:.
in a manner calculated to imr

force and propriety
propo,ition by mat

" examin, Lion " is written,
as put forth his sentiments
rets the reader with their
intains—and enforces each
nts—that prophetic views

. . . . _
..
em, n ntly comluce to the prosiy_,ritv of the Jewish society,
that the platform of a public meeting of the Jews' Society
Is the very last place where those views should ever be
called in que,tion, and that the very existence of a Jews'
Society, separate from the great Church Missionary So-
ciety, appears to imply that the national covenant of God
with the Jews is not entirely annulled, and that the pre-

restoration and tutu

di(
be folfillE
asks what
tenanee of a RE
Jews ? He aIF.4) refer
of ac

wy have yet to
Ret, our author

sow? c,ln he given to justify the main-
te society for a special mission to the
th becoming delicacy to the duty
re presented at

on such o

ngs the Liverpool Auxiliary

le and Popular Political Economy
By a Barrister. L•mdon : Seelevs.

lot confer a greater

thousands this terse,
The arguments are as
;and whilst the author

indispensable for estab-

lishcs the fallacies of our

tvl honestly

ith the

is evidently

cannot resist ma- ki

public charity

VARIETIES

" Men in trade find their means of payment less. They are
embar rus,ed.

"The taxes remain the same nominally, but not really. The
fund-holder receives more and more.

"The funds keep up, for there is little profitable employ-
ment for capital. And the interest which they pay partakes in
the augmented value of money.
"A low rate of interest is consistent with a high exchange-
ab'e value of money."
The contents of the volume, as our readers may re-
mark, embrace replies to most of the fallacious doctrines
of the political economists ; and among other of such
positions examined, we may enumerate, in addition to the
chapters from which we have so freely extracted, the
following :—" Free Trade would rover the earth with in-
dustry ;" " Protection confines it to particular spots ;"
" Don't over govern ;" " Protected manufactures are
sickly ;" " Protection would destroy external trade ;"
"The Laws of Entail and Primogeniture;'' "Free Trade
is good for Ireland ;" Higher wages will but increase
population ;" " Absenteeism is no evil ;" " A return to
Protective Policy will never be," &c., &c.

BUY IN THE CHEAPEST MARKET

(From Sophisms of Free Trade Examined.)

A recommendation perfectly sound, provided every one
is fully employed in producing the means of purchase.
In that event, to buy in the cheapest market, though it
should be a foreign one, is the manifest advantage of each
individual and of the whole community.

But suppose the foreign market for exports to be (as it
always is) limited, so that the preparation of exports will
not employ the whole community, the case is at once
changed. To buy in a cheaper foreign market will still be
the immediate interest of individuals, but it ceases to be
the interest of the community as a whole.

Suppose an agricultural and manufacturing nation to be
in this condition as to its supply in wheat. It requir s
an additional quantity of ten millions of quarters. It
could easily grow them at home, but they would then cost
50s. per quarter, and could not be grown for less ; it can
import them from abroad, and they will so cost only 40s.
per quarter. To pay for the additional ten millions of
quarters of foreign wheat, an additional foreign market
‘for manufactures to the amount of twenty millions sterl-
ing must be found. Suppose an additional foreign market
for manufactures to the extent of ten millions only can be
found. It is true that the exportation of the precious
metals to pay the balance, though it may cause tearful
distress for a time, cannot go on. It is l'ue the wheat
will not be had for nothing. Theretore only half of the
quantity will eventually be bad. Yet the price cannot
rise above 405., so as to allow of the production of more
native wheat, for as soon as a man can pay 40s. there is
foreign wheat for him.

Low prices, and real scarcity, ensue and coincide.
There is the appearance of abundance without the
reality.

Masses of the population are unemployed and in want.
But it is a question of figures. By not availing itselt
of the power to produce these ten millions' worth of corn
at home, the nation has lost the value of five millions of
quarters of wheat. Reckoning this at the foreign price
only, it has lost net income to the extent of ten millions.
And it has moreover lost a market for its own productions
to that amount.

What gain is there to set off against this two millions ?

At first it might appear that there is a gain of the dif-
ference between the 40s. a quarter and the 50s. a quarter
on the other five million quarters.
But by this supposition, the other five millions of
quarters also might have been produced at home. Here,
then, instead of a gain is a further loss of ten millions,
minus the difference between 50s. and 405., which is equal
to two millions and a half. The supposed gain turns out

The nation lost seventeen millions and a half per
mourn net income, and a market to the extent of ten
'nillions, by adopting the one policy instead of the other.

Let us attempt further to illustrate the same truths,
but in a somewhat. different manner, by the case of ma-
nufactured hoods.

England to manufacture from English materials

~... ..
loves to the amount of a million sterling a year.
This million sterling does, as we have seen, two things.
.., it affords net annual income to that amount, avail-
----' / able (every farthing of it) for tne support of the popula-
.l we invite some of our yree Trade I tion. Second) '• • •—• ..

. .
, this million sterling creates a market to
that amount for other English products. The whole mil-
lion is every year feeding, clothing, and lodging men,
women, and children, and at the same time finding a
market for cottons, woollens, hardware, corn, iron. timber,
silk. When an industrious population are employed, they
not only enrich the whole community to the extent to
which they themselves are enriched, but by the market
which_ ff their prosperity a,,rds to other industries. When
_ _

Manchester is in full employment, what a market does
Manchester itself afford, not only for other articles, but
even for its own productions !
Now change the sur position. Suppose that French
gloves can be imported cheaper by five per cent. than
English gloves can be made. It is the immediate pecuni-
ary interest of all consumers to buy French gloves instead
of English ones, and they will be bought accordingly.

we will even suppose the French government to allow
the French gloves to be bought by the very Fame English
cottons, woollens, hardware, corn, iron, timber, and silk
that bought the English gloves before; nay, we will go
further, and admit the extravagant postulate, that all these
English products could, in exchange for the French
gloves, find as good a market in France as they formerly
did in England. Now take the account. Let us see what
individual glove-consumers have gained, and what the
English nation have lost.

Gloves have in the aggregate cost those who wear them
less money than before by 5 per cent. on a million sterl-
ing, that is, by £50,000. Glove-consumers have gained
by the change £50,000 in one year. But the nation has
lost in the same year the million sterling which used to
maintain Englishmen with their wives and children.
Englishmen, as a body, have, by the change, lost a re-
venue of £950,000 a year.

But this is only part of the mischief; for though their
revenue, their sub.istence is gone, the English men,
women, and children remain, and must be supported by

But we have here given the free-traders the benefit of
three suppositions, no one of which is true. We have
conceded, first, that the French Government. would allow
the tree import of as much English produce as would
entirely pay for the gloves ; we have conceded, secondly,
that all the English produce finds at once as ready and
good a market as it did at home ; we have conceded,
lastly, that there will be no exportation of the precious
metals, depreciating prices, appreciating the currency,
and augmenting the pressure not only of taxes and public
burthans, but of all debts and private obligations.
But if these concessions are not true, then in addition
to a million a year lost as revenue, formerly supporting
men, wamen, and children, you lose a market also for
other productions to the extent of a million a year, and
are subject to all those numerous evils that afflict industry,
when there is a tendency to the export of the precious
metals.

Nor does the mischief stop here. Other commodities
which have lost their market will to that extent cease to
be produced. And by that cessation not only will the
subsistence of the people to that extent disappear, but
but other markets will be injured, and so the mischief
will go on and be felt through every grade of society, and
in every department of industry.
If these views be correct, we mar expect to see coun-
tries where protection has existed, flourishing, and coun-
tries where it has not existed, stationary or retrograding.

And that, as will presently be shewn, is exactly what
we do behold.

It will be said, that however ;t may be with particular
nations, if all countries practised free trade, the world at
!stye would be a gainer.
But, first, that is not the question. The question is,
must every nation be a gainer. Must WE, as you say we
must NECESSARILY be gainers, should such an Utopia
ever arrive.

And, secondly, if it were the question whether the
world at large would he a gainer by such a system, it must
not be assumed that the true answer would be in the affir-
mative; some reasons, out of place here, will presently
be adduced, tending to evince the true answer would be
in the negative.

But, laTstly, when the world at large agrees to practise
universal free trade, it will be time enough to discuss what
effect on the policy of this country would have. The dis-
cussion may be postponed without much inconvenience
for two thousand years—i. e. till the year 3849.

Then it will be said, If protection lie good for a coun-
try,—for the same reasons, it may be sometimes good for
a county or a department.
And suppose it should sometimes be so, as possibly it
might :—The question is, what is for the advantage of a
whole nation. There may be good reason for a govern-
ment insisting on a county or a department foregoing an
advantage, for the sake of equal or greater benefits to
other counties or departments of the same nation ; and
vet no reason at all for a government insisting that its own
people at large, should give up an advantage for the sake
of foreign nations.

Lastly, it is objected, that, according to these princi-
ples, England should grow wine in hothouses, though it
would cost thirty times as much as foreign wine.
Not at all. The moment the price of the domestic
commodity exceeds by a certain proportion the price of
the corresponding foreign one, the main reason for pro-
ducing at home ceases.
Suppose even that wine could be produced in England
at less than twice the price at which it could be imported,
it might, on the principles above explained, be, under
ordinary circumstances, for the advantage of England to
buy, and not to grow it.

ARITHMETIC. We have seen a gentleman, named
Dishong, now in town, who casts up long columns of
figures, multiplies long lines, and divides them with the
greatest correctness, apparently without looking at them.
Mr. Dishong states that he can teach his method in ten
minutes.—Montreal Herald.
A PERUVIAN THEATRE.—A wretched theatre offered
an evening lounge, where saynites, or farces, were acted.
There was a strong feeling against the English at this
moment, and one representation called down thunders of
applause. The hero was a small Peruvian, in uniform,
who kicked and cuffed a large giant fellow, intended to
represent an Englishman. This was done to shouts of
" Viva Peru ! viva Castilia !" and the accompaniment of
soft music. The little fellow's air was sublime as be said.,
looking at the audience, " Pardon me, I could not restrain
myself,—l am a Peruvian"' The cause of excitement
was changed very suddenly one evening by the cry of
" An earthquake !" It was wonderful how the theatre
was cleared, considering the size of the door.—Walpole 's
Four Year., in the Pacific.
NATURE AVENGED.—A long time ago, a German, of
the name of Rapp, founded a colony at Harmony, in the
State of Pennsylvania. The doctrine of celibacy was
the main one, labour in common was the adjunct.
They then moved to Owen's settlement, called New Har-

mony, on the Wabash, and finally to the present location,
Economy. Their numbers have dwindled down to 300,
and they present the singular spectacle of a population
of old men and women without any children, the
town is fast falling into decay, farm lots are let to
strangers, for they are becoming unable to cultivate it
themselves, and in a few years the colony will have disap-
peared. A part,/ of ladies visited the place not long since,
taking with them their little children. This produced the
greatest excitement. The Rappists rushed out to kiss the
babies, and almost tore them from their ,mothers' arms.
Here was a lesson full of meaning, and this law of nature,
which they have violated, will triumph in the utter destruc-
tion of the community.

erneral

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The Mining Journal says that the mining operations of
the kingdom at large are in full activity.
On Monday the Royal British Bank commenced busi-
ness in London.

On Tuesday Mr. George Hudson, M.P., was a purchaser
of Consols to the amount of X 55,000.

The man Massey, who lodged with the Mannings, has
denied that he wrote the letter attributed to him in Man-
ning's confession.

The collections at the metropolitan churches on the
Thanksgiving-day amounted to £3,000,—a poor thank-
offering if that were all.
In several little parishes among the poor lands of Surrey,
there were forty or fifty unemployed able-bodied men out
of a population of 300.
The Rev. Baptist Noel is not going to Rome, as it is
thought better that the deputation about Dr. Achilli
should not be numerous.

On the Thanksgiving Day there was not a single case
of disorder or intemperance of any kind within the juris-
diction of the metropolitan police.
Some labourers employed in digging in a field near
Witham, Essex, have recently discovered some fine spe-
cimens of Roman tiles, and several urns and vases.

Messrs. Sturge, in their monthly corn circular, incline
to the opinion, that our low prices, and the advance of
winter, will combine to diminish foreign importations.
The Hall of Commerce. London, has been sold for
£44,900. For the site alone, a few years since, £35,000
was paid.

On Tuesday a fail of coals took place in a pit at Wood-
side, near Dudley, belonging to Mr. Cochrane, by which
four men were so badly hurt that they died the same day.
A destructive fire occurred at Inverness on Thursday.
The Glenalbyn distillery, the property of the provost. was
entirely destroyed, and damage done to the extent of
£5OOO.

The late Dr. Crowther, of Wakefield, has left nearly
the whole of his property, amounting to about £40,000,
to be applied, after the decease of his wife and niece, in
building an Infirmary in Wakefield.

For five days, last week, no less than 83,000 quarters of
wheat were imported into the port of London alone, and
a much larger quantity is known to be on its way from
continental ports.
At the Bingley railway station, the clerk transacts
business during wet weather, with an umbrella over his
head, to protect himself from the rain dropping through
the roof.

On Monday a surgeon of the Royal Navy, named Allen,
committed su;cide on the South-W, stern Railway, by
laying his neck on the rail and allowing an engine to pass
over it.

It is said that the discovery has been made in Lincoln
that gotta percha can be used for large printing letters,
and that impressions can be obtained nearly as clear as

Eastcourt, near Wokingha-tri, Berks, the beautiful seat
of Admiral Sir John Sinclair, Bart., has been purchased
by John Walter, Esq., M.P. for Nottingham. The pro-
perty fetched nearly £60,000.
A few days since a badger was found and taken beneath

a large vat in a brewery-in the middle of the town of
Cirencester, whither it is supposed to have strayed from
the woods at Stratton or Baunton.

The aldermanship in the corporation of York, filled by
Mr. G. Hudson, was on Friday declared vacant, in conse-
quence of Mr. Hudson having been absent six months,
and not being a re,ident of the city.
The Morning Chronicle "Commissioner" finds that
there are in London 28.577 needlewomen under 20 years
of age, the average earnings of each of whom is fourpence-
farthing a day. They are nearly all prostitutes.
_ _

On Sunday night, some thieves took advantage of the
darkness to steal about fifty of the brass handles from the
carriages on the line of the London and North-Western
Company, at the station near Birmingham.
RABBIT SHOOTING EXTII.AORDINAHY.—On Thursday
weetc, the Hon. Lewis and George Grant, sons of the
Right Hon. Lord Seafield. shot no less than 436 rahbits
near Balmacaan, in Glen-U,ouhart.—Aberdeen Journal.
On Sunday week, at Worksop railway station. Mr.
John Hancock, timber merchant, aged 56. was run Over
oy a train, and kilkd instantaneously. The unfortunate
deceased had a son. aged 16, lying dead at the time.
So splendid has been the crop of apples this year in
Gloucestershire, that new cider can now be purchased at

Longhope for 4d. a canon. A quantity was sold and de-
livered at Mitcheldtan, a few days since, at 4'd. per
gallon !

George Hudson, Esq., M.P., paid a visit on Thursday
to his constituents in the borough of Sunderland. Iu the
clurse of his star, the hon. gentleman inspected the works
at the docks, and attended a meeting of the board of
directors.

The Chester Courant says of agriculture in Wales, " It
is curious that, wherever English is spoken, the farming
is very superior, and has much progressed of late;
whereas, in the Welsh parts, little improvement can be
traced."

The Bishop of Durham expresses decidedly his appro-
bation of the Ragged and Industrial School in Sunder-
land, readily accepts his nomination as patron, and de-
clares his intention of sending a donation for its encou-
ragement.

Mr. Playfair's final plans for the contemplated National
Gal!cry to be erected in Edinburgh, have been transmitted
to the Lords of the Treasury. The design is said to be
Grecian, and the site of the structure will be south-east of
the R.,yal Institution.

Ina letter to the Times, Miss Kelly, the celebrated
actress, intimates that she is reduced to poverty, and that
her theatrical property in Dean- street, on which she has
expended £16,000, is about to be sold to meet a demand
of £l6B for arrears of rent.

It is said to be the intention of Government to discon-
tinue to keep up the deer in the Forest of Dean, the
damage done by the animals, and the difficulty of preser-
ving them from poachers, being the cause assigned for
coming to this determination.
Last week we mentioned that Blenheim House had
narrowly escaped being burned. This week we notice
that Dalkeith House was exposed to the same danger,
through the carelessness of some plumbers, who were
using fire in one of the garrets.
The London City Commissioners of Sewers met on
Wednesday, when, after some discussion, Mr. Simon's
late report on the sanitary condition of the city was refer-
red to a committee to report what practical measures
could be adopted to carry out its suggestion.
The result of an interview which latly took place be-
tween Mr. Rives, the United States minister to France,
and Lord Palmerston, is said to leave little doubt of such
an adjustment of the matter as will throw the Nicaragua
route open t all nations on an equal footing.
In Devonshire there are nine packs of foxhounds ;
more than in any other English county, saving Yorkshire,
in which there are ten. There are also 17 packs of otter
hounds and harriers in Devonshire, while no other county
in England maintains more than five.
The Jewish Chronicle, as illustrative of the fertility of
the Old Testament, points out that, in a list of thirty
texts of sermons delivered in churches on the day of
thanksgiving., three were from the New, and the rest from
the Old Testament.

The fact that Mr. Hawes' soap-boiling establishment,
at Lambeth, is "to let," has drawn from the Daily News
a most pathetic lamentation, almost as touching as a
" yearly epistle," on the " sufferings " which the meek
men of soap have to endure at the callous hands of ex-
cisemen.

While a gentleman named Blakeley was taking down a
gun, which was supposed to be unloaded, from some
hooks in his brother's kitchen, at Loughton, Essex, on
Friday week, the gun went off, from some unknown cause.
and a charge of shot was lodged in the left side of a ser-
vant girl, who died in about twenty minutes afterwards.

Mrs. Mary Howitt writes to the morning papers that
an " audacious fraud" is now practising in her name.
Letters are sent round to the nobility and others in Lon-
don, stating that she and her relations are in abject cir-
cumstances, and begging for pecuniary aid, nothing of the
kind being true. It is feared that considerable sums have
been raised by this gross trick.
QUERY.—Is not sanitary reform a mere mockery as
long as the houses of the middle and lower classes are, by
the operation of the odious window tax, deprived of those
precious gifts of God—light and air ? Is it not a mockery
for the " Nuisances Act" to talk of " the ventilating of
houses" while the window duty is unrepealed ?—North
British Advertiser.

The celebrated posting-house, the King's Head, at
Northallerton, which has been an inn for nearly two cen-
turies, and is situated in the centre of the market-place,
with a spacious assembly-room, and stabling for one
hundred horses, is now being converted into a farm house,
with upwards of 250 acres of land to it. So much for
railways. _ _ _

INCENDIARISM.—Two large grain ricks, value £4OO,
were destroyed on the premises of Mr. T. Jolliffe, an ex-
tensive farmer and dealer, at Long Ashton, near Bristol,
on Saturday evening last. Mr. Jolliffe's house and farm
buildings, which are close to the church, were saved with
difficulty. A few days before Mr. Jolliffe had an out-
house destroyed in a similar way. _ _ _

HAY-MAKING EXTRAORDINARY.—We had imagined
that the hay harvest in Derbyshire had been secured long
ago; but it seems we were in error, for a correspondent
assures us that on Monday last he saw from eight to ten
acres of hay in cock, or, as it is locally termed, quoil, on
a farm of 96 acres, in the occupation of Mr. Richard
Housley, of Weston, near Tideswell.—Stockport Adver-
tiser.
On Saturday week, at Louth, in Lincolnshire, five per-
sons met their death by the explosion of some railway
signals that were making in the manufactory of Mr.
Armitage, a chemist, who was the inventor of them ; Mr.
Armitage himself, his father, and three assistants or ser-
vants. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of acciden-
dal death, but noticed that sufficient care had not been
taken in the preparation of those detonating signals.
SHOCKING SIIICIDE.—A wool dealer, named John
Smith, residing at Charlton, committed suicide by hang-
ing himself to a bacon rack at his mother's house, a few
minutes after he Lad spoken to her. He had been read-
ing newspaper shortly before, and paid particular atten-
tion to that which related to the Mannings, wondering
what their feelings were on trial, and what they would
be when they came to the scaffold.—Gloucestershire
Chronicle.

SHOCKING OccuRRENcE.7On Sunday. a hog pig, the

property of Mr. John Boardman, Deptford, rubbed open

the sty door and made its way into the parlour, where it
attacked a male infant, about five months old, lying asleep
in the cradle. The cries of the child alarmed Mrs.
Boardman, who, with much difficulty, beat off the beast,
which also bit her severely on the leg. The child was
shockingly lacerated, the left foot being entirely gnawed
off. It is not expected to survive.
It is a fact well worth recording, with respect to the
public art of thanksgiving, that during the week on one
especial day of which nearly the entire nation knelt to
acknowledge mercies that were hardly merited—during
that week the rate of mortality, for London alone, was
lower than it has been (luring the corresponding week of
any year since registrations of death have been a portion
of our law. We record, and have pleasure in recording,
a simple fact, our authority for which is the report of the
Registrar-General.

The cases of harrowing distress depicted by the special
Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, in the metro-
politan districts, (and now pu'rlishing alternately in that
journal with articles on the manufacturing and agricul-
tural districts,) are exciting a considerable amount of
sympathy, every article appearing with ktters appended
from anonymous writers, and handing to the Correspond-
ent sums to be distributed by him for the relief of the
destitute objects whose situations he is the means of lay-
ing before the public.
How far cholera may be said to identify itself with
sewerage, may be decided by facts. The deputy-registrar
of the North Leeds district deposes as follows :—" The
cholera pays no respect to sewerage. Those localities,
as York-street and Marsh-lane, which have cost the town
thousands of pounds in drainage, have been the scenes of
its most malignant ravages; whilst in the adjoining dis-
trict, which lies nearly level with the river, and will
scarcely admit of any sewerage, I have not beard of a
single case of cholera."

A mishap of a very serious kind occurred on Monday,
connected with the operation of lowering the great
hydraulic machine from the summit of the pier at Menai
Straits. The capstan gang, nine or ten in number, seized
with a panic, suffered themselves to be overpowered;
and the consequence was most serious injury to two of
the men—one being dreadfully bruised. about the head,
the other having sustained compound fracture of the
thigh. The tide being favourable, the poor fellows were
taken in a boat to Caernarvon hospital. The press went
to the bottom, and will have to be fished up again.
On Wednesday a public meeting was held at Farring-
don Hall, King's Arms-yard, Snow-hill, " for the pur-
pose of adopting addresses of sympathy to the Citizen
Ledru-Rollin and his compatriots, who have just been
sentenced to transportation isor life for having attempted
to save the Roman Republic from destruction, France
from dishonour, and European freedom from the con-
spiracy of the enemies of human progression." Mr.
Petty was in the chair. Mr. Harney, whose contest with
Lord Palmerston for Tiverton will be remembered,
Mr. O'Brien, and others of the Radicals were the chief
speakers.

Mr. Campling, the chief constable of Essex, has died
from gun-shot wounds inflicted as he was entering his
own house at Saffron Walden. On the night of the 31st
October. Mr. Campling was parting from a friend, and
had turned to the street door, when a gun was discharged
from the opposite side of the road, and many shots entered
his legs. The assassin was not discovered at the time.
Mr. Campling had suffered such a shock from the wounds
that amputation could not be resorted to, and he survived
only a few days. A man, named Benjamin Pettit, has
been arrested on suspicion.

The Rev. Mr. Rowe, chaplain of the Horsemonger-
lane Gaol, has written a letter to exculpate himself from
the charge of giving the communion to Mrs. Manning.
It was at her own earnest desire, which he discouraged.
and only yielded after insisting wish great plainness of
speech on every portion of the exhortations in the com-
munion service. He adds that the female prisoner always
showed herself anxious to receive spiritual instruction,
and did net admit. that she held the opinions ascribed to
her by her husband. He therefore thought he could only
warn her solemnly of an act which might be an aggrava-
tion of guilt and judgment to the communicant.
The Leeds Mercury says that considerable excitement
has occurred at Ackworth, in consequence of the Rev.
Mr. Kenworthy refusing to allow the corpse of a young
lady, the daughter of J. Gully, E,q., of Ackworth park,
to be carried into the church because she was a Roman
Catholic. A former branch of the iamily lay buried in
the churchyard, hut. in consequence of the refusal, Ack-
worth-park being contiguous to the churchyard, a spot
was selected as near as possible to the place where the
other members of the family had been buried ; and this
being by a Roman Catholic clergyman set apart as a place
of sepulture, the remains of Miss Gully were deposited
there on Thursday morning last, according to the rites of
the church in whose faith she died.
THE " TIMES" CHARGED WITH BRIBERY.—The fol-
lowing paragraph has appeared in the lithographic Consti-
lution.elle Correspondency, a Bolin paper:—" We are
constrained to reiterate it again, that precisely on ties
Danish question the judgment of The Times carnet he
acknowledged to be an independent ore, so long as tle:t
journal does not contradict the fact which has ben pub-
licly advanced against it, that in the month of September,
1845, it received £5,000 sterling of Danish money to
defend the cause of Denmark in its columns." The Times,
which devotes a column to the answering of this " slander,"
says :—" If a contradiction he all that is needed to crush
this fresh experiment on German credulity, vreaccept this
challenge, and we give it that contradiction in the most
unqualified terms. The statement is a complete and unmi-
tigated lie."
At the Bishop Auckland Police Court, recently, John
Davis, stating himself to have been up to a short period
attached to Batty's Equestrian Company, but now out of
employment, was charged by police constable Craggs with
imposing upon her Majesty's liege subjects at Willington,
on the previous day, by exhibiting a figure termed a
" Mermaid" for the small charge of one penny." On
examination, the head consisted of a turnip, apparently
fresh pulled, and the body stuffed with cotton rats, and
the whole covered with a skin, with a most hideous look-
ing face. The bench proposed that the "curiosity"
should be burnt, to which John very coolly consented, in
case they were convinced on dissection that it really was
not a mermaid ! The bench ordered him to be committed
to the house of correction for fourteen days.
PERVERSIONS TO POPERY.—The Tablet states that the
two Misses Bathurst, grand-daughters of the late Dr.
Bathurst, Bishop of Norwich, were " received into the
Catholic Church" a few days since. The same paper, in
giving an account of the confirmation of eight perverts at
the Chapel of the Oratorian Fathers in King William-
street, asserts that conversions are constantly taking place
both there and in other quarters, "which, from various
motives, it is not judged expedient to publish." The few
(it is added) which from time to time are made public in
the columns of the Tablet "are very far indeed from fur-
nishing an index to the real advances mrde by the Catho-
lic faith at the present epoch, both in the metropolis and
in the provinces, especially in the upper classes. Among
those who were confirmed at the Oratory, one was a bar-
rister of Lincoln's Inn, and another a barrister of the
Temple."

A JACK OF ALL TRADES.—WeIIs is not much renowned
in history as being the birth-place of eminent men. There
is, however, at the present time residing amongst us an
individual, who, though he cannot be exactly denominated
a man of genius, is nevertheless a master of almost all
sorts of trades and professions. He is sexton, gravedigger,
and bell-ringer ; house painter, colour maker, paper-
hanger, and stenciller; p'ofessor of music, repairer of
clocks, watches, timepieces, musical boxes, and weather
glasses; besides maker of umbrellas, parasols, violins, and
drums; in addition to this he is an excellent gardener,
and noted for his success in raising early crops in the park
gardens. He has also a son almost as clever as himself.
having served no less than three apprenticeships to different
trades; and is, consequently, aiboot and shoe maker, car-
penter, and cabinet maker, besides an excellent musician
and teacher of music.—Bath Journal.
A. SLEEPING PARTNER.—A man named Welch, lately
residing at Totnes, in the employ of Mr. Fowler, _railway
contractor, hasbeen robbed of £l7O by aningenious device.
The thief, thinking Welch had money, and kno wing in
what employ he had been, told him he had taken a large
railway contract, and wanted a partner who could advance
£2OO or £3OO. Welch, before parting with any money,
thought it advisable to see what the contract was, and took
away with him 170 sovereigns. On arriving at the intended
spot they slept together twice, and on the second morning
Welch missed his partner, and has not since heard of him.
Welch happened to have a return ticket, and so returned
home, but did not miss the money for three days. His wife
then thinking he might have spent too much money, re-
quested him to count his money over, when, to the great
surprise of both, the purse contained nothing but halfpence
and farthings, the sovereigns having been exchanged for the
baser coin.—London paper .
REDUCTION OF THE RATE OF INTEREST.—Ou Thurs-
day the directors of the Bank of England reduced the
rate of interest from 2 to 24- per cent. The former rate
had remained without variation for upwards of a year, the
change having been made on the 2nd of November, 1848.
At that time the bullion on hand amounted to little more
than thirteen millions. Now it amounts to above sixteen
millions, with every prospect of a further increase. The
reduction of the rate of interest by the bank is therefore
in this case rather a necessity than an act of policy. The
bill brokers in Lombard-street and the London banks
generally underbid the bank, and there is at present little
fear of speculation. It is stated that advances have been
made during the past month, on the best paper, as low as
11 per cent.: and that 2 per cent. has been the general
rate of discounts. This is having money cheap enough;
but a city reporter reminds us that in the first half of
1844, when the bullion in the bank was only about its
present amount, advances were made by the London
bankers at 11 per cent.
CURIOUS PUNISIIMENT FOR CONJUGAL INFIDELITY.—
On Friday week the inhabitants of Barnardcastle,
Durham, were amused by the town cryet proclaiming
the following :—" Mr. John Kay is going to burn Mrs.
Kay's clothes upon the Demesnes Hill, and he invites Mr.
Hopper to the fire which is now kindling." The crrar
commenced at Mr. Hopper's door, and it being the dinner
hour, he was followed by a large concourse of people.
They proceeded to the Demesnes, a field near the town,
upon a bill, a very large fire of straw and wood was made
by Mr. Kay, (who is an innkeeper in the town,) upon the
top of which he laid all the valuable wearing apparel and
articles of his wife, which consisted of satin and silk dresses,
including nearly the whole of her bridal garments, muslin
dresses, shawls, victorines, bonnets, veils, caps, artificials,
parasols, a pair of beautiful stays, stockings, brooches,
rings, a fine silk cloak, a quantity of bed linen, workboxes,
a quantity of baby linen, a pin-cushion with the inscrip.
tion "welcome little stranger" upon it, and a great many
more clothes of all descriptions. These clothes were con-
sidered to be worth at least £2O. It is supposed that
Mr. Kay's reason for doing this, was conjugal infidelity
on the part of his wife. In the evening of the same day a
large crowd paraded the town with an effigy which was
burnt in front of Mr. Hopper's house in Gallgate.street,

ESCAPE or Two Luialt(4ll.—On Tuesday, two females
viefe bbser+ed rambling shod Cross-square, Wakefield,
having cloaks thrown over their heads, and appearing in
an excited and curious state. It was soon discovered that
they had escaped from the lunatic establishment by get-
ting upon an outbuilding, from thence on to the outer
wall, and then dropping outside into the fields. The
height they had fallen was considerable, but they did not
appear to have suffered any injury.
A RAT RUNNING OFF WITH A LIGHTED CANDLE.—A.
few even.ngs since as some workmen were engaged form-
ing a sewer beneath the provision warehouse of Mr. Bri-
erley. Huddersfield, they were visited by a nimble footed
thief in the form of a rat. After seeking in vain for
something toothsome, the rat was attracted by a lighted
candle stuck in the ground, and most conveniently placed.
After a number of circumambulations the rat seized the
lighted candle, and at once plunged with it into the depths
of the sewer, leaving the workmen in total darkness. The
works were for some time suspended.—Halifax
Guardian.

THE TRIAL BY LOT AT LEEDS.—Mies Leggatt, the
young female tried at the last Leeds Borough Sessions on
a charge of stealing a violin, and sentenced to six weeks'
imprisonment, was on Thursday last liberated from the
Borough House of Correction by order of Sir George Grey.
It will be remembered, that after spending several hours
in fruitless discussion, the jury agreed to decide the ver.
diet by lot, and two pieces of a quill pen of unequal
lengths were deposited in a hat, the long one to denote the
innocence, and the short one the guilt of the prisoner;
that the short piece happening to be drawn first, the 12
good men and true at once returned into court a verdict
of euilty.
TAMPERING WITH A PARISH 13.EGISTER.—At the
Ipswich Town Hall, on Monday, Mr. James Boag, who
holds a respectable situation in the Bank of England,
was charged with having altered the' register of a marriage
between John Fearner and Susannah Burnby. It ap-
peared from the evidence of the daughter of the church
clerk of St. Rumwald's, that in the absence of her father
she accompanied the defendant, who wished particularly
to examine the register, to the church, that she observed
him examining the book with the left side up, his right
hand upon it, and his head down, when he suddenly called
her attention to an erasure; she looked at the book,
saying there was no erasure before, and that what he
referred to looked more like a dirty finger mark upon the
name Burnby ; she was called away, and left the defendant
with the book for a short time, and on her return put it
away in the chest. Having examined it in the evening,
she saw a mark between the " n " and the " b," seem-
ingly changing the name into Burroby. There were pens
and ink on the table while defendant was in the vestry :
at first the cover of the inkstand was down,—when she
returned, after her short absence, it was up. Other evi-
dence having been brought forward to show that the
register had been altered, the Mayor reminded the de-
fendant for a week, but would accept bail for his appear-
ance, which was procured by him.—lpswich Express.

SELF-SUPPORTING VILLAGE.—There is in circulation a
transreirent painting of a self-supporting village now in
contemplation. The idea was first suggested by a gentle-
man of the name of Morgan, who has spent some years in
endeavouring to make known the project. Several pub-
lic meetings have been held in London and elsewhere, and
Mr. Morgan's exertions have been at various times warmly
seconded by the late Bishop of Norwich, Lord John Man-
ners, and a number of other distinguished individuals.
The following is an outline of the project :—" It is pro-
posed to form, in the centre of an adequate extent of land,
(not less than one thousand acres.) atrangemEnts, in con-
nexion with the uhurch of England, in which, under effi-
cient direction, three hundred families may be enabled,
by the produce of their own labour, not only to support
themselves, but to defray the expenses of the establish-
ment. In these expenses would be included the interest
of capital advanced. The chief employment of the con-
gregated body would be agriculture, combined, at the dis-
cretion of the committee of management, with handicraft
and mechanical pursuits. It is in contemplation to take
the land required on a long h ase, for 30. 40, or 50 years,
the more considerable portion of it uncultivated, reserving
the power of purchasing within 20 years, upon the rental
agreed on, at a sum not exceeding 25 years' purchase.
The cost of the institution may he estimated at £45,800*
To the said outlay of £45.800, add for food and clothing
for the first year £14,200, thus making the total capital
required £60,000, which amount it is proposed to raise in
shares of £2O each, and by loans and donations." An
estimate of returns shows a balance of £4,171 129. a-year
in favour of the proposed community.
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WRECK. OF THE SHIP L'Etraoes.—The underwriters
at Lloyd's re-eived, on Tuesday, the following particulars,
announcing the deplorable loss of the barque L'Europe,
of Havre, with the whole of the crew (except the second
mat and passengers, on the Hand of Guernsey

L'Europe was a vessel of nearly 400 tons burthen, and
was bound to the above-T.' entioned port (Havre) from
Sague la Grande, Cuba. She sailed on the 4th of Octo-
ber, and had a prosperous voyage 11;1 the morning of
Thursday last, having safely passed the• Lizard on the pre-
vious day with a fair wind from northwest, At two o'clock,
when it was blowing a gale from the northward, accom-
panied by heavy showers of rain and hail, the master,
reckoning that he had passed the Caskets, shaped his
course for Barfleur Lighthonse, but in an hour afterwards
land was seen on the larboard how, and immediately rocks
perceived close at hand. An attempt was made to put tl e
ve,sel about. but she missed stays, and in wearing ship
much ground was lost. Two tacks were made to avoid the
imminent danger, and the best. bower anchor was then let
go very close to some rocks in proximity with the. shore.
The anchor, however, did not hold, and finally, about
half-past five o'clock, the vessel was driven broadside on
against a dangerous ridge of rocks a short distance below
Hornet d'Albec, to the eastward of Vaeon Bay, and shortly
afterwards went to pieces. The second mate was the only
one of the crew who gained the shore ; all the rest
perished, and a lady passenger and her two children. The
bodies of the latter have been washed asho e. with two of
the crew, and decently buried. Not a particle of her cargo
was saved. The loss of the vessel and cargo is estimated
at £8,500. The Guernsey Cornet states that the name of
the lady passenger was Madame Dujardin. from Ghent, in
Belgium, and the names of her children are Henry, aged
about five, and Henrietta, three years. L'Europe wre
commanded by Captain Meheut, and she had a crew ot
nine men and a boy.
SOCIETY FOR IMPROVING THE DWELLINGS OF THE
LABOURING CLASSES.—The letter of the Bishop of Lon-
don recommending contributions to this society's funds
has been productive of good to an extent never anticipated
by the society's friends. Up to Wednesday the amount
received in subscriptions was £669 4s. 9d., and the contri-
butior s from the different churches had reached the sum
of £1193 133. The society are on the eve of com-
pleting a large building for the reception of a number of
families in the crowded locality between Oxford-street and
Russell street. This building is erected upon a new model
so as to accommodate the greatest possible number, the
arrangements being such as to consist with health and

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space. The building, which will be opened in March
next, will consist of a number of separate rooms or tene-
ments. Each tenement will contain a common room,
1541. 6in. by 10ft. 2 in. ;:a bedroom, 12 ft. Gin. by aft. 2in. ;
a second bedroom, 10 ft. by Lift. 6in. ; a large lobby, a
scullery, dust bin, safe, sink, water-closet, and store-
closet ; also proper means of ventilation, and an open
gallery, sft. in width, in frpt. Each tenement being a
separate dwelling, containing less than seven windows,
will be exempt from window tax. The entire cost of the
building, when completed, will be £7270, and a further
outlay of less than 1 per cent. on that amount will render
the place fire-proof, and prevent all communication by
sound and all percolation of water from floor to: floor.
The basement story, which is excavated, will contain a
range of will-lighted and ventilated workshops, and a
wash-house and bath-room for the common use of the
residents will also be provided. It is expected that the
income derived from the tenements in this building will
yield a proper remuneration on the outlay. All surplus
returns will, after the gradual repayment of the capital
borrowed, be devoted to the furtherance of the olkii2cts of
the society. The ascent to the tenements on the different
stories will be accomplished by a common open staircase
leading to galleries on the different stories, the doors from
the galleries opening into the lobbies. The society has
already expended 17.000 in its useful operations in. erect-
ing these model buildings in various localities, and the
model dwelling-house above described will, when com-
plete, form one of the most perfect and commodious, and
at the same time one of the cheapest, ever erected.

THE SPLIT AMONG THE WESLEYANS.—The persons
now attacked by Messrs. Dunn, Everett, and Griffith, in
the aggregate as the Conference, are the great bulk of the
Wesleyan ministers who are seen spread throughout the
country. Now, which is likely to be right or wrong ?
Is it likely that the 570 members of Conference, includ-
ing the most eminent and pious men in the connection,
have been guilty of deceit, hypocrisy, iniquity, and other
dark vices which have been attributed to them in this
controversy ; or is it likely that these three men are
martyrs ? The latter make a great point of the fact that
they are only three against several hundreds ; but this is
rather a proof that they are wrong—unless, indeed, Wes-
leyanism is rotten at the core. And such is the proposi-
tion by which the expelled members defend themselves.
" Methodism as it is, says Mr. Everett, "is distin-
guished for its cash accounts ;" but if this be true, we
wonder that they complain so bitterly of their expulsion
—that is, if they love religion better than the world.
Either they calumniate the body in which they have been
content to remain until expelled, by calling it " an artifi-
cial flower—a mere thing to look at—its ministers
mere accountants"—and its great men hypocrites and
workers of iniquity, or else their present movement to
regain their lost position in its ranks is inconsistent and
incomprehensible. The expelled ministers stand self-
condemned by the manner in which they try to make out
their case. Their language, which we have seldom known
rivalled in coarseness, is more fitted for the Chartist plat-
form than the lips of men who have heretofore filled
pulpits. Take, as a specimen, the following choice extract
from the speech of Mr. Everett. He is referring to Mr.
Box, a Wesleyan minister, who attended the meeting to
take the part of the Conference :—" A Methodist minis-
ter" (said Mr. Everett) " was preaching in the pulpit,
when a certain animal was at the door of the chapel, and
began to bray : the preacher very significantly observed,
: One at a time, neddy'.—(Laughter) Now, he thought,
it was his turn. If the box is full, empty it out and
shut the cover.' He then adverted to the sorry' Watch-
man, a Wesleyan newspaper, whose last dying speech and
confession would be soon heard. Mr. Box here shook
his head, which Mr. Everett perceiving, said ' You may
shake your head, Mr. Box, but there is nothing in it ; one
at a time, neddy l I will sweat thee before I have done.
If this is Bath, it shall be a Bath for thee." We rather
think that John Wesley would have been anxious to make
short work of his connection with a " minister" capable
of talking in this strain. We may add that Wesley would
have submitted, for the sake of religion, to his brethren ;
he would have repudiated the suspicion of being a secret
assailant; he would not have stickled about the forms of
his trial ; and he would have boldly told the truth, in
whatever position he might thereby have placed himself.—
Bath Chronicle.