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

noon, a boy, about

'rom the

toskFerry steam-Uoat to one of the BirkenE

ioned opposite to St. George's
The unfortunate youth missed his footing and fell

Pierhead

eh were

sank immediately. The most active search has been made
for the body, but hitherto without success.
THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION.
—We learn from a pamphlet just published by Mr. Ander-
son, that Count Walewski, in returning from Egypt to France,
preferred taking his passage by the Oriental rather than in
one of the French Government steamers to Marseilles. By
proceeding in the Oriental, first to England and then to
France, the Count actually shortened the time of his passage
to Paris by a fortnight, and avoided three weeks imprison-
ment in the Lazaretto at Marseilles.

CHRISTMAS IN THE WORKHOUSE.—An extremely grati-
fying spectacle was exhibited on Friday, at the Workhouse,
where the paupers (to the number of sixteen hundred and up-
wards, besides three hundred children) were regaled with
good old English cheer, namely, roast beef and plum-pud-
ding, and a pint of ale each. The overseers attended, and a
great number of ladies and gentlemen were also present, and
expressed themselves highly delighted both with the happy
faces of the poor and the excellent manner and management
of the Governor. The whole passed off with order, decorum,
and g-?eat good will.

ROBBERY OF WATCHES, IN _
Friday night week the shop of Ml'. Aronson, jeweller, Para-
dise-street, was entered between the hours of nine and eleven
o'clock, and twenty silver verge watches stolen therefrom.
The premises must have been entered by means of skeleton
keys, as none of the locks had been broken. A man always
sleeps on the premises, but, not apprehending such a visit at
that early hour, he went out to take his supper. It is sup-
posed, that the thief, or thieves, must have been disturbed,
otherwise they might have carried off a much larger booty.
WESTON POINT WATERMEN'S CHURCH.—It will be gra-
tifying to all friends of morality among watermen, to hear
that on this day of our publication, the foundations of this
interesting sanctuary are to be commenced, and the cere-
monious laying of the first stone will shortly follow ; and thus
we hope a work is undertaken which will, from generation to
generation, hand down to the watermen of the Weaver navi-
gation, the doctrines and precepts of the pure gospel, as in-
culcated in the devotional services of our national apostolical
church, and preached by her consecrated ministers. A
greater boon could not be conferred up.on this useful class of
mend and we hope to hear of all the navigations in the king-
dom having their Watermeu's Church and Minister attached
to them.—Manchester Courier.

PARADI

MARINERS' CHURdII READING-ROOM AND SCHOOLS.—
On Sunday, December 20, two sermons were preached in
the Mariners' Church, in aid of the, above, by the Rev. F.
Ould and the Rev. J. H. Stewart. The collection in the
morning amounted to £lO, and in the afternoon to £lll6s 6d.
On the Wednesday following an examination of the children
of the daily school took place, which afforded very great
satisfaction to those who were present.

EXTRAORDINARY RABBIT.—The largest-sized rabbit ever
seen in this part of the country was exhibited for sale last
week, at the shop of Mr. Fordham, poulterer, of Berry-
street, and attracted crowds of spectators. Its weight was
181bs. 10oz., and its age eight months. We understand, that
it was fed by E. F. Whitenstall, Esq., of Langley Bery,
Hertfordshire, on ale, grains, and barley-meal, and that it
was exhibited at the last cattle-show, in London, where it
carried off a prize of five guineas. Its hair was of a jet
black colour, and its length about two feet.
INVITATION TO PRAYER.—We beg to.remind our readers
that Friday next, the first day in the new year, has been ap-
pointed for holding simultaneous prayer meetings in con-
nection with several churches in the town, in accordance with
the recently published " Invitation" of! the Rev. J. H.

on that day

that there Aivine service
t eleven o'clock in the forenoon, at St. Bride's
a the sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be

Church. wh

administered

—Since the late

the number of

We announced some time ago that the estimable and faith
ful minister of St. George's church, Everton, inid been ap

Incumbent of the parish. The rev. gentleman has labourec
in Everton for a period of upwards of twenty-six years, and
departs from his flock, not only with many

of their appreciation of his ministerial servic

onering or to(
in the highly

r prayers to the Most High, for his usefulness
responsible situation to which he has beer

appui.t.cu. 1V uescrioe tne estimation in which Mr. Bud-
dicom is held, or the feelings which have been inspired by
his removal, would require us to enter into the bosom of
every member of his flock : the sensibilities of all are touched,
and we cannot for a moment doubt that the reverend gentle-
man is himself one of the greatest sufferers.

Mr. Buddicom took leave of his_ late charge on Sunday
last. He delivered two sermons to them, one in the morn-
ing and the other in the evening. They were such discourses
as might be expected on such au occasion : both were highly
characterised by that refined illustrative eloquence for which
Mr. Buddicom is celebrated, whilst in every passage he held
up, not himself, but the adorable merits of God the Saviour.
The sermon in the evening was one of the most affecting
ever delivered, even from that pulpit. Sterne says he saw
the iron enter into the soul of the captive ; in like manner
the " Finally, brethren, farewell," of Mr. Buddicom pierced
the inmost heart of his sorrowing flock.

In the morning,
of the Ist verse of the
believed our report."

Mr. Buddico rn selected as his text, part
53rd chapter of Isaiah, " Who hath
From this text the rev. gentleman

flock ices one of me

suited to their

that the revelation of it was e

port to them

tney could no
been the result of th
and affectionate invitation

earnesl

him for the last time, of the Lord's Supper

artake w•itl

In the evening, the test was trom the 15th chapter of tne
2nd epistle to the Corinthians, and the 11th verse—" Finally,
brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of
one mind, and the God of love and peace shall be with you."
We insert a few passages from this sermon—

" It is a solemn, and it is to me, and I believe to many of
you, a very mournful, time to say,—` tinally, brethren, fare-

What does it 'imply ?

munion in times past
have had together,

It implies converse and co

t. That converse and communion we
and for a longer period of time than

usually falls to the lot of ministers in their spiritual and
pastoral intercourse. "I have not only been the minister of
many of you who were in mature years when I entered upon
this sphere of labour, but I have seen your children brought
up ; 1 have lived to see the second generation : I have lived
to see those children themselves fathers and moth.--
us, so that time itself, as it were, sheds
mellowed feeling of a common interest between us. And I
am quite prepared for the fact, which has been mentioned to
me before, that it may be difficult for a time to find another
minister who should supply the place of my poor self, be-
cause it is not possible that another minister should, without
a long course, as it were, of residence among you, be able to
enter so nearly, and, let me add, so dearly, as you have per-
mitted me to enter into your families, and into your concerns.
The word of God, however, has told us that here we have no
abiding city ; and though the providence of God has said to
me you have staid long enough on this mountain, turn you,
and take your journey to another place,' believe me, my
dear friends, that the sense of that intercourse which I have
had with you, the sense of those sweet hours, and of tact
mutual pilgrimage that has been passed among you, wilt b
fresh upon my memory so long as
pressions. That time, however, and that rc,
and therefore 'finally, brethren, farewell

a hallowed and a

aemory cau retain im

lation are now past

After having been

were rooted and grounded, as it were, among you, it can be
with no common feelings that those roots are separated, and
the tree planted in its latter age in another soil. lam ar-
rived at that time of life when nature, as I have elsewhere
said, seeks repose, and when the heart cleaves to those ob-
jects with which it has been long conversant. You, my hearers,
are those objects. I did not seek this separation. It came,

placed before me, and offered to me, as a situation in which
I might yet do something to serve that cause which I hope I
have at heart. Ido not go to a situation in which I shall
have late to do and much to enjoy. Such a situation would
indeed have been, even to me, little to my taste
sphere of duty where there N

where there will be much

I go to a

perhaps, many discouragements, where the obligations
laid ,upon me will be very solemn, and where the object of
my charge will be the instruction of those who are them-
selves to be the instructors of others. I shall have to
endeavour to explain and to announce the oracles of God,
and the great scheme of Christian salvation, to those who are

in their turns

congregation

To say

farewell' at the close of a long
connexion is, surely, to have a sense of the kindness that has
been received. And here

if I wanted wo.

they will not come to my help at this moment. No, dear
friends, your kindness has not only outrun all my wishes,
but it has outrun all my thoughts. I never dreamed that I
could have experienced so much at your hands during a
period so long. I would, therefore, thank my God, provided
always that thy residence among you shall not have been
a stumbling block to any, that he has permitted me to leave
you, not in the vigour and the prime of life, when you might
have had a right to lay your hands upon my shoulder and say,
why will you leave us whilst you are yet in the strength and
of your days ?' But I have been permitted by God,
gracious helper, to labour, however noorlv and feebly

,
and —unworthily among you, untifa:t least the dregs of life
are beginning to appear in the wine. To that kindness, then,
I must ever recur with sentiments of the deepest and the
dearest gratitude. Imagine what a minister ought to say to
those whom he loves as personal friends, and as dear brethren
in Christ Jesus, who have done for himbrotherly offices with
unwearied kindness and assiduity, to whom he never applied,
that he could recollect, in vain on behalf of any thing he
wanted ; before whom he never placed those objects that he
thought would be most desirable for the promotion or the
Redeemer's glory and met with a ref,- ' I know tF

usat. _ _at
message which I have had to deliver has been again and
again displeasing to many, that they could not enter into my
views, that they could not feel the importance of the subject
as I wished to place it before them, and that I must again
and again have appeared to be enthusiastic and harsh towards
them ; but whatever they may have felt, I cau hardly re-
member a single expression of unkindness from any, for
more than six and twenty years. Opposition to the Gospel
there has been, and opposition to the Gospel there will re-
main; for I can no more expect there will be ought else, till
that period when the knowledge cf the Gospel of God shall
cover the earth as the waters cover the sea, and all shall be
under the influence of converting grace, and therefore all
speak of the same thing, than I can expect all the clocks in
world to keep exactly the same time. But Ido once for all
assure you that your kindness, if 7 `v use a trite expressi,
's r' •

eepstered where every day I have, where every day I do,
and where every day I shall, pray for you'. Other friends,
other friendships, other attachments, other endearments of

go from hence to a sphe;eOfduly:

it may be to s,

triendship, that attachment.
said before, that I honed. all

You hate seen to me all, as I

that. You have cheered me in sickness •, yOu have assisted
me in trials • you have done for me all that love and friend-
ship could do for me; and I hope it is not improper that I
acknowledge my duty and gratitude for all your kindness,
from a place where having said to you what 1 believe to be
the truth of God, and pressed the doctrines of Christian
love upon your hearts. I find these doctrines have not been
pressed in vain.
11
"`Finally, brethren, farewell.' Thera

• a.aa. asci nere a sense,
when friends are parted, of the offences which they may have
committed against each other. Of those which you may
in secret have committed against me I know nothing, and if
I did I should not say it, but for those I have committed
against you I am pained. I know how little in comparison
with what I ought I have sought your spiritual welfare—l
mean in the mode and by the exhibition of ministerial zeal.
I know that whatever may have been my desire I have not
been so faithful as I ought. I know that whatever may have
been my duty I have followed it with a lingering and a lagging
step. I know that in many things I have come short of the
duty which I owe to you and to that God who placed the
tremendous responsibility of your souls in my hands, and who
„ • hsic caia to c

watchman to the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear
the word at my mouth and warn them from me.' I know
that in a rnomTnt like this your pardon would be granted me
—even if it were as a mntrpr of :f

oe
but I ask it in the name of him who is the.youlu commongra/ Saviour
of us all—of that God who, by the atonement of his Son, has
given a full pardon to all them that have offended. But
whilst I ask it thus, and whilst I am sure you will thus grant
it, I should remember it is my duty to be ashamed and not
to hold up my face any more for all that I have done towards

" ' Finally, brethren, farewell.' This salutation implies,
let me say, an earnest desire and prayer for you as I hope
you feel it implies an earnest desire and prayer for me.
* * * ,L.

" Be of good comfort.' lam quite aware, not only from
the feelings of my own heart but from the expressed feelings
of many of you, that this is not a word out of season either
for you or for me. But I remember that there is an almighty
comforter whom the Lord Jesus Christ when he left this earth
of ours, after having triumphantly effected the work of re-
demption, promised to send to his people, and he promised
them not in vain. He is in that spirit the father of mercy
and the God of all consolation. May he visit and comfort
you and visit and comfort me ! Qh, remember, dear friends,
that the word of man fadeth away, but the word of God
abideth for ever. That is the word by which the gospel is
preached to you ; that is the word which, by the gospel, is in
your hands. The eunuch whom Philip taught out of the
Scriptures, and whom he made wise unto salvation through
faith in Jesus Christ, beheld Philip no more; he was carried
into the spirit of the Lord. The Euauch soon lost distinction—
what then? He went on his way rejoicing. You will not soon
have distinction, but go on your way rejoicing. You have the
God who sought you; you have the God that remains the
unchangable God for your promise—Jesus Christ the same
yesterday, to-day, and for ever. 'Be ye then of good com-
fort.' Be ye of good comfort to pray that you may have
consolation from him who shall succeed me ; and that as I
have been permitted to carry on the work of God to a certain
point, so it may be with me as with a statuary who has
chisseled and created a statue that is to be the resemblance of
a noble man, and carried it to a certain point of perfection,
but there he stops. His work in the studio is done. Another
master of the art succeeds him, brings it out to that perfec-
tion which was intended to be elicited, and then it stands
forth the admiration of the world. So let it be with you. So
I believe it is in very many cases : I do believe that the mi-
nisters of Jesus Christ are very frequently permitted to go
over a certain length with their congregations, and there
they stop: they can go no further. I have often told my
brethren in the ministry my persuasion it was thus, and I
have seen that persuasion remarkably verified. Oh may it
he thus with you! I would, indeed; my dear friends, be as
the morning star to bring in the sun; and I would desire
that, as that morning star throws an ineffectual ray when
the sun, rises, so my ministry here may not indeed be for-
gotten, but may be for ever surpassed in the energy, the
fidelity, and the success of him who will succeed me.

" One word more. It is observed by a great master of the
art of painting, that he had some self-congratulation at be-
ing able to feel himself sensible of those emotions which the
greatest painter perhaps of modern times intended to pro-
duce upon the mind. He observed it was not without some
vanity, as he was pleased to say, he had taken occasion to
mention the name, and to hold his works up the praise and
atimiration of all before whom he spoke ; and he added, ' I
wish that the last name which I should pronounce in tbis in-
stitution, and from this place may be the name of
Well, my dear friends, let me take a word from this pain-
ter's observation. Let me say that the last word which I
wish to pronounce in this place—is one which I would gladly
hope you can enter into the merits and meaning. It is that
word which I hope I have in some degree, however poor and
feebly, again and again, through multiplied years and oppor-
tunities, had occasion to press upon you—the name of Jesus
Christ. Oh, dear friends, I began my ministry in this
place, with these words— It is a faithful saying, and worthy
of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to
save sinners. I have desired still to know nothing since
but Jesus Christ and Him crucified. And no ar fwould
press him upon you as God and man—as your Redeemer
from sin by his precious blood, as your advocate at the
throne of the Father God Almighty, as your forerunner in
the realms of light and gic
that where he is there

you may be also, and as corning again
to receive you in his dominions to himself. I would press
him upon you as your portion, as you rest, your food, your
example. Oh, let inc beseech you to walk in the blessed
steps of his most holy life. Christ is all and in all. And

i
THE REV. R. P:BUDDICOM, PRINCIPAL OF THE ( now brethren
is able
to him and to the Word of his
COLLEGE OF ST. BEES. I grace, which able to build you up and' to give you an in-
heritance among all men ' thatjadeth not away. ' Finally,
brethren, farewell!" My love be with you all in Jesus
Phrict A ”,-...

CORRESPONDENCE

NCK ON 1

IE LIVERPOOL STANDAR.

-
On taking up the Albion, on Monday 1

I had discovered a •circumstance so singular, and yet
pleasing, that I determined at once to make it publicly know
through your journal, namely, that on the last pace I four,
no abuse of any clergyman of the Church of Eng-1• Ind ; th
perfectly astonished me, but at the same time gratified tr
and I concluded to announce the fact through ',—
but before doing so I thought it better to set,
thoroughly, when at length I found (in an article vile.
would hardly look for it) that the editor calls a clergyman
the elegant and expressive epithet of a " shaved poodle."
You will often find this editor talking of charity P.,
liberality; but I think it would be more seemly in Lim,
Dissenter, if he exercised a little more charity himself whe
speaking of any clergyman.
I should recommend him taking an e---

t, I tho

t ch

..,,utty s s zrnes, who agrees with him both in reli
gion and politics, (aid perhaps they both belong to Dr
Raffles's congregation,) but who never descends to any low
vulgar abuse of any minister of the Church of England ; in•
deeed, of any other person.—Yours.

December

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hyperbolical; it is susceptible of proof, bowevetlXtntse
who will take the'trouble. That his written produc ions ex-
hibit but a meagre outline, and convey but an imperfect idea,
of that brilliancy of imagination and those astonishing powers
of both argument and eloquence with which he electrifies and
• _._ „

instructs his congregation, I am. prepared both to admit and
regret; and that an imperfect judgment of him would be
formed, if based on anything that he has written or published
(that has come under my notice at least), I am equally pre-
pared to concede ; but if the slanderer of the Albion means
to insinuate that the reverend gentleman's own powers were
inadequate to the task he undertook informing the Unitarian
Controversy, I take leave to tell that individual that he never
was more mistaken, and that if his heart or his judgment
betray him on other occasions as on this, his whole life will
')e one of base malignity on the one hand, or of criminal error

a the other

You-rs, &c

LEX TALIONIS

FRAUD UPON THE BANK OF MANCHESTER
APPREHENSION OF A SUSPECTED INDIVIDUAL.

(From the 21Ianaheeter Guardian.,

On Wednesday we stated, that the young man who had
presented the cheque at the bank of Messrs. Jones, Loyd,
and Co.; was described as being apparently about 18 years of
age, 5 feet 2 or 3 inches high. stout made, with full face,
dark and sallow complexion, with inflamed eyes. and dressed
in dark clothes, rather shabby, and a black hat. We added,
that the police had been in search of this individual, but up
to that time without success. On Wednesday evening, bow
ever, Mr. S. • ' • •

rintendent Sawley, with a view to disc-Over if
any of the Manchester thieves were implicated, directed
"I'Mullin, and also another less known officer, to dress them-
thes, and, stationing themselves in the
might be expected to he found, appre-
- they might
j patrolled
frequented streets of the town, out of uniform ;

is where thiey

ntertain a suspicion

officers accordi

a L,Lue oerore nine o'clock in the evening, they saw a
group of suspicious characters standing at the corner of
Fountain-street, Market-street, amongst whom was a young
man who appeared to them to answer the description above
given in several particulars. M`Mullin observed, too, that
this young man appeared to recognise him, and to turn away
as if he wished to escape notice; and,, this circumstance in-
creasinv • - - -
his S' •1

--..16 _ .AspiciOn, lie seized the individual, and, wil
the aid of another offic , conveyed him and a female with
f whom he was talking, the police-office, Town Hall, where
the young man struggle violently, resisting all the efforts of
the officers to search him. However, he was soon over-
ipowered and searched ; but we believe neither he nor his
companion had any thing in their possession at all tending to
throw any light upon the intercepted letters. M`Mullen
`-- lived' 1,...L- -ki to tell, and said he
preceding day from Shef-
, _....,. ~,..., ne had never heed in this town before in his
life. He stated that his name was William Smith, and
that he is a farmer living in the neighbourhood of Shef-
field. We believe that the whole of this story .is ascer-
tained to be untrue, as he is known to the police
as a reputed thief, and has been several times in cus-
tody. Some time ago, he was apprehended by Inspector
Taylor, on suspicion of being concerned in a felony. He
was also in custody on a former occasion, on suspicion of
having picked the pocket of an officer in a regiment then
stationed at Bolton, of a bill or note for t2OO. On former
occasions he has given his name not William Smith, but
Thomas Brown, which, singularly enough, as will be recol-
lected, was the name written across the cheque presented at
Messrs. Jones, Lloyd and Co.'s, by some one connected with
the fraud. The prisoner is 21 or 22 year of age, about five
feet six inches in height, stands erect, and has a d:rk com-
plexion and eyes apparently in a slight degree inflamed.
The only money found in his possession was about Is. 6d.
The female, who called herself Mary Solman, said that she
bad never seen the prisoner before, and stated that she lived
in New-street, Bradshaw-street, Shudehill. On Thursday
morning, Inspector Irwin went there, but found that this
was not true ; and prosecuting his inquiries further, he at
length discovered that the two prisoners had beon living for
about two months, in a furnished room, in a lodging-house
of not very good repute, in Thornily Brow, Shudehill. This
room was searched ; but nothing was found that could at all
afford a clue to the abstracted letters or their contents.
On Thursday the prisoners were brought up at the Bo-
rough Court, before the sitting magistrates, John Hall, Esq.
and James Kershaw, Esq. (Sir Charles Shaw being also on
the bench); and, Inspector M`Mullin having stated the cir-
cumstances of their application, Mr. Sawley applied to have
the prisoners remanded to Monday next, in order to give
opportunity for further investigation, and for procuring
more evidence. The prisoners were accordingly remanded
to Monday, with the understanding, that, if any thing
should occur to make it desirable, they might be brought up
for re-examination this day (Saturday). From what we have
heard of the circumstances, we should certainly suppose that
the prisoner is the principal in this fraud, so far as regards
the planning of the scheme for obtaining the letters. It
seems more likely that he has been put forward by older
bands to obtain the letters, and probably to get the cheque
cashed. The peculiarities of his personal appearance present
strong points of resemblance to the individual who got the
letters, and presented the cheque ; but we cannot say that
he has yet been satisfactorily identified.

asked hill; v

had galv come to Manchester the

A new Roman Catholic chapel, capable of holding 1100
persons, was opened the other day, at Newport, by the Right
Rev. Dr. Brown, V. A. of Wales. The Monmouthshire
Merlin states that the number of Catholics in Newport,
which in 1812 amounted to five persons, is now about three
thousand.

'We understand that Lieutenant Curtis, of the 36th, sta..
tioned at Clare Castle, for some time under arrest, has been
served with notice that the court martial for his inquiry will
assemble in Limerick this or next week.—Clare Journal.
A meeting of the Temperance Society was held at Exeter
Llall this week to congratulate Mr. Buckingham, the late
member for Sheffield, on his return to England.

THE LADY THIEF.—This celebrated character is still in
Glasgow Gaol, and is included in the list of those to be tried
at the ensuing Glasgow assizes.—Glasgow Gazette.

There is some intention of clothing the army by contract,
by doing away with agents, and altogether reforming the
military system.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint George Grey, Esq.,
to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Province of
South Australia.

The Admiralty Board has given an order to Messrs. Sea-
ward for a pair of engines, of 200 horse power, for a vessel to
be built to be adapted for working the Arehimedian screw.

Why is a celebrated French marshal's name made use of
more in Wales than in any other part of the kingdom ?
Because they are fond of a Souk—m/11.—G.

TAFF VALE RAILWAY.—The works on the unfinished
parts of the line are proceeding with great spirit, a number
of men being busily employed along the line, and at the
Merthyr extremity, where, for a long distance, the perrna-
mull-. rails have been laid down. The fineness of the wea-
ther lately has been very favourable to the progress of the
-iliertk,T Guardian.

PHYSIC FOR POSTERITY.—A citizen of Konigsberg, lately
deceased, has left 2),000 thalers, (125,000 f.) to be placed out
at interest, which is to accumulate for 250 years, and then to
be employed in the founding of an homoeopathic establish-
ment. He has named a physician for the proposed founda-
tion, whose salary of 2,000 thalers is to begin at once.
It is stated by the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette
that, with the loss of her majesty s brig Fairy, the ten years'
scientific labours of the late Captain Hewitt are sacrificed,
draught copies of his charts, drawings, and marine observa-
tions never having beedsecured by the lords of the admiralty,
although it-is said this service has cost the country £40,000,
and to the completion of which the trading marine were look-
ing forward with every hope of advantage.
CAUTION TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.—AS the railway
train with the directors was proceeding at a rapid rate from
Dewsbury to Cooper Bridge, last Monday evening, a person
from Colne Bridge, who was travelling in one of the waggons,
incautiously opened the door, and while examining the fas-
tening he lost his balance and fell out. Very fortunately he
had presence of mind to spring forwards as he fell and thus
got clear of the carriages, otherwise the consequences must
have beer? fatal. He was severely stunned and his face hurt
by the fall, hut he soon afterwards got up and was able to
walk home.—Halifax Guardian.
FALL OF AEROLITES AT MILAN.—On the 17th of Lily,
at seven o'clock in the morning, a loud detotation Ord ,
resembling a peal of thunder ; and near Golosecca three
luminous projectiles were observed, proceeding towards
Somma, from east to west. The sound of the explosion ex-
tended for twenty or thirty miles round Milan. The largest
aerolite was found near Ceresato, a village in the neighbour-
hood, having penetrated twenty inches into the earth. It
weighed 10Ibs 2oz. The others were of smaller size, and fell
near the larger one, but they have not been found.
CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 2.—The Marchioness of Lon-
donderry was presented to the Sultan last Monday. She was
accompanied on the occasion by the lady of Captain Walker,
or Walker Pacha, as he is now generally styled, and both of
them were very graciously received. To Mrs. Walker the
Sultan spoke in the most flattering terms of the services of
her husband, whom he looked upon, he said, as the right
arm of his navy. Captain Walker has, since his return, been
presented with a magnificent snuff-box in brilliants. The
jewellers of the Sultan are now employed in making a gor-
eous diamond necklice for her majesty.
FATAL OCCURRENCE AT DOVER.—AN OFFICER OF THE
54TH KILLED.—On Thursday morning, about one o'clock,
as Captain Smith and Mr. Everatt, of the 54th, now stationed
at the Heights of Dover, were proceeding from the theatre,
we believe, to the garrison, they met some sailors, with whom
they had some words. One of the sailors, after collaring Mr.
Everatt, threw him down with such violence as to fracture
his skull. The affair took place near the Grand Shaft, Spar-
gate-street. The sailors escaped at the time, but have since
been apprehended. Mr. Everett, on being taken to his
quarters, only survived about four hours. j. coroner's jury
is to sit on the body at seven o'clock at night ; till then it
would be premature to enter minutely into particulars, as,
out of the many vague statements now abroad, it would be
hazardous to select. Mr. Everatt was an excellent young
man, and much esteemed by his comrades.

EASTERN COUNTIES NIGHT SlGNALS.—Favoured by the
manager of the railway, Richard Hall, Esq., we tried one of
the red signals, mentioned in our last, in the presence of some
ladies and gentlemen in a dark night of the present week.
The light was so exceedingly vivid that the ladies, at the dis-
tance of 30 yards, declared they could have read perfectly
well with it. It would be impossible, if men have eyes in
their head, and were awake, however long the train is, to fail
in perceiving the signal, whether their faces were towards it
or not, or whether they had or had not a reflector. Indeed,
we see no use in the reflector with so powerful a light, ex-
cept, perhaps, to concentrate it downwards. The principal
objection to it appeared to us to be the small time occupied
in withdrawing the guard, and driving up the screw to ex-
plode the fulminating powder, but this might easily be reme-
died. We have heard that Sir Frederick Smith, who has seen
this method of signalizing in the night, much approves of it.
Perhaps in the night the eye is the best organ to communicate
with. Wind, or noise, or rain, or men's tying up their ears,
have no effect on the eye. The only obstacle would be a
very intense fog. In that case, and if the train was very
long, it would be barely necessary for one guard to telegraph
by his light with the guard nearest the enftine, and the signal
coming from this one could not fail of being
seen. We in-
tend to try some more decisive experiments in a day or two.
—Railway Magazine.
The Austrian Observer contains intelligence from Con-
stantinople of the 2nd instant. The last accounts from
Syria received in the Turkish capital by the Prince Metter-
nich steamer, state, that the Fgvption garrisons of Caiffa
and Jaffa evacuated those places immediately- on learning that
St. Jean d'Acre had been taken by the allies, and endea-
voured to open a passage for themselves through Palestine
to return to 'Egypt. They were, however, it appears,
attacked and routed by the Mutualis and Naplus insurgents,
and the few who escaped repaired to Acre and surrendered
prisoners of war. Ibrahim Pacha had removed from Mala-
tia to within four miles of Balbec, and intrenched himself
in the plain, to use with the most advantage his artillery and
cavalry, which last-mentioned force consisted of about 2,500
men. The entire army of Ibrahim, which amounted in the
beginning of September- tb 75,000 men, had been reduced
to about 20,000, concentrated, for the roost part, in the plain
of Balbec, but which were so completely disorganised as to
nes Is
Le unable to resist the attack of the allies. The mountaineers

sonings which they have been unable to refute. All
that the " tory journalists" contend for is, the right of
the landowner to let his land to what candidate he will,
and to give it t' a Protestant rather than to a Romanist
if he be so disposed. And who to this right can
offer a rational objection ? Why, with two competi-
tors before him, is he to be restrained from selecting a
man with whom he has the prospect of peaceful and
harmonious co-operation, and to be compelled to take
one with whom he can anticipate nothing but trouble
and contention ? Is he to allow his land to be made
the instrument of opposition and vexation to himself ?
and if not, why are " tory journalists" to be maligned
because they demand for him the liberty claimed by
the ministerial scribblers for themselves, and insist on
his right to dispose of his land without obstruction
from, or responsibility to, these self-elected censors ?
The truth is, the landlords of Ireland have given too
little reason for the outcry raised against them. They
have been too inattentive to the interests of the hum-
bler professors of their own faith. They have treated
them too frequently with coldness, indifference, and
neglect, and the holdings which they ought to have
occupied, have been given to less deserving and less
grateful hands. • Had a wiser policy been pursued—
had a Protestant peasantry been encouraged, and bad
the owners of property provided for the religious in-
struction of the dwellers on their estates, what a diffe-
rent aspect would Ireland now present !—how many
an apprehension would she have been spared, and how
many a convulsion would she have escaped, and how
amply would they have been repaid in her improved
condition and her increased security ! But unfortu-
nately the duty, for a duty it was, was forgotten—the
opportunity was lnst, and a Protestant was often re-
moved to make way for a Romanist. In time these
things begun to operate. The tree brought forth its
fruits, and bitter fruits they were, and in sorrow and
suffering were they eaten by those who planted it.
Well does the Dublin Statesman remark :

" Let those who rant about the people's rights, and the
cruelty of landlords, remember what reason the gentry of
Ireland have to trust a Roman Catholic tenantry—let them
remember, among a thousand others, the murder of Lord
Norbury, and its attendant cireurnstances—let them recollect
that the Roman Catholic tenantry of that lamented noble-
man screened his murderer from the eye of justice ; and let
them honestly answer the question, whether they believe
that any Protestant tenantry in the world would have done
the like ? Again we would refer them to Tipperary, and to
other southern counties, all in a state of chronic rebellion
against the rights of property, full from end to end of agra-
rian outrage, all arising out of a systematic resistance to the
claihis of the landlord. These are facts, and the unavoid-
able consequences of establishing a tenantry who have
scarcely any affections in common with their landlord, and
scarcely any principles which are not hostile to his rights—
a tenantry who, rejecting the legitimate influence of the land-
lord, have substituted for it the absolute control of a med-
dling and turbulent hierarchy, rendering an implicit obe-
dience to the passive resistance' doctrines of the priest, or
to the still less equivocal mandates of the Ribbon Society."

Our contemporary might have enlarged his list. He
might have asked whether a Protestant tenantry, in-
structed as a Protestant tenantry ought to be, could
have been induced for years to wage a war of rebellion
against the law and of extermination against the
church ? Could they have been induced to imbrue
their hands in the blood of amiable and honourable
men ? Could they have been induced to shoot them
down at their doors and in their halls, while their un-
offending families were cast houseless and helpless on
the world ? Could they have been induced to commit
six or eight murders on one estate (Lord Lorton's, for
instance), without a single effort being made to bring
the murderers to justice ? No, we should have none
of these things had we been wise in time; and because,
here and there, a landlord instructed by sorrowful ex-
perience is endeavouring to repair the errors of the
past, he is held up to execration in the angry animad-
versions of the ministerial press ! We can only say
that we wish that press more frequent opportunities
for the display of its displeasure.
The Chronicle of Saturday asks :

" What is there, we should like to know, in the accident
of bring born a landlord, that should qualify a man for the
political and spiritual guidance of his fellow-creatures?
What is there, in that mere chance, to exalt his fiat above
the voice of a nation ?"

Nothing, in the " accident" of the birth, but much
n the circumstances of th• landlord, to render him a
more competent judge of " political" measures, and to
give him a deeper interest in their peaceful and orderly
operation, than the man who farms a few acres of his
route. As to " exalting his fiat above the voice of a
nation," this is mere nonsense, and that the Chronicle
ought to know. The question is simply, whether, en-
entertaining certain opinions, and believing them to be
best and safest for the country, we should take care
that those whom we invest with a political privilege
are persons who support or persons who oppose them
—persons likely to unite with us in obtaining for them
a place in the government of the nation and the judg-
ment of the people, or persons likely to yield them-
selves as unreasoning instruments to men who profess
opinions and are acted on by impulses in everything
the opposite of ours. This, divested of misrepresen-
lotion and mysticism, is, we say, the question ; and
what rational man can hesitate as to the manner in
which it should be answered ? That the ministerial
papers feel the difficulties of their position, is obvious
from the pains which they take to misrepresent that of
their opponents, and to charge on it consequences for
which they are in no way answerable. Few landlords
will be so unwise as to claim the " political and spirit-
ual guidance of their fellow creatures ;" but it is in-
cumbent on every landlord to endeavour that, into
whatever hands it falls, that guidance shall be such as
his " fellow creatures " can safely follow.

" SETTLEMENT" OF THE EASTERN
QUESTION.
(From the Morning Herald.)
We are assured by a correspondent, to whose com-
munications we have reason to attach entire credit, that
the position of affairs in the east has been the cause of
" great uneasiness" to the representatives of the four
powers, now assembled in London. Lord Ponsonby
has been instructed, it is said, to "remonstrate" with
the Sultan on the impolicy of resisting the wishes of
his allies, in reference to the disposal of the pachalic of
Egypt.
The " convention," we are further given to under-
stand, "does not quite approve of the guarantee given
by Commodore Napier, in the name of the four pow-
ers, on the subject of the hereditary possession of
Egypt. The English government thinks that such a
guarantee militates, in the first place, against the su-
premacy of the Sultan, and, in the second place,
against the integrity of the Turkish empire. Sir Ro-
bert Stopford has been, therefore, directed to commu-
nicate these things to Mehemet Ali, and to declare, at
the same time, that the four powers are still unani-
mously disposed to recommend to the Sultan the ratifi-
cation of the terms enunciated by Commodore Na-
pier."

This looks exceedingly like a "settlement" of the
Egyptian question !
The "obstinacy" of Mehemet Ali was the pretext
for forming the quintuple, now the quadruple, alliance.
The "obstinacy" of the Sultan bids fair to bring that
alliance to an untimely end.
The conduct of the "convention," and more especially
of the English government, would appear, if our cor-
respondent he rightly informeQ, to be very much the
reverse of dignified. The "convention' does not
"quite approve of" the guarantee given by Commodore
Napier! The question, however, to be first determined;
is, we apprehend, not what the convention finds it con-
venient now to approve it—but whether Commodore
Napier was empowered to offer such a guarantee. If
he was not authorised to guarantee the hereditary pos-
session of Egypt to Mehemet Ali, then Commodore
Napier overstepped fearfully the limits of his duty, and
rendered himself liable to the severest censure—nay,
punishment. If, on the othyr hand, Commodore
Napier was empowered to treat with the Pacha on th
terms which he employed, how disgraceful must not
the conduct of the "convention" be pronounced to be!
The first, therefore, of the many questions to be

afore they give him a horse, such as it is, and he puts an
English bridle into his mouth, and an English saddle on his
back, and whips the nasty, spavin'd, brokenwinded brute
with an English whip ; and when he stumbles and throws
him off, he swears a bushel of horrid English oaths at him.
He trims the great shaggy, hairy beast with English scissors,
combs his nasty thick mane with an English comb, and cur-
ries his dirty hide with an English currycomb ; and then ties

1 with an

English halter: Then comes

him up in his sta
sportire.
" But where does his gun come from? and his powder?
and his shot? and his flask? and his belt? Why. clean away

omes from there, for ther

from England. Even his flu
ain't a flint stone in all Nova Scotia

" It's more natural this should be the case in gunnin' than
in fishin' ; but even here the chap can't help himself. Tho'
the country is covered with wood, he imports his rod, his
net, his line, his leads, and even his flies.

As soon as his I

comas (and sometimes afore, for I

gets.a British glass to admire his young mug in : he lathers
his chin with an English brush and English soap, a-lookin'
as big as all out doors, and mows away at it with an English
razor, sharpened on a British hone, and stropped on a Bri-
tish strop; then he puts on an English collar, and ties it up
with an English stock, and I hope I may be skinned if he
don't call himself an English man. Instead e,4' '
continP- a co^

_.,,ental trip, as boys ao, he takes astin' trip in I
father's shallop, to that ere great city of men, Halifax.

" But look to his vessel; ropes, sails, blocks, anchor,
bolts, copper, iron, compass, and all the other fixings—
where do they come from ? Why, from where every part of
the vessel, except the sappy, dry-rotted wood she is built
with, comes from—from England. Look at the old, battered
watch he is rigged out with, the case half lead, half pewter,
that he swapped his wood for on the wharf with a woman
with a painted face and dirty stockings, who created him by

him ' captain,' and ' squire,' and ' your honour;
where did that watch and that old troll come from ? Why
from England, like the rest.

" He never waits till he has a place to put his wife in, or
anything to suppOrt her with ; he trusts luck for that, catches
the bird first, and then makes the cage. Well, see how he
goes about that; he cuts down the trees to build it with an
me of English iron, saws it with an English saw, planes it
with an English plane, puts it together with English nails,
driven by an English hammer, and then paints it with Eng-
lish paint and an English brush.' The sashes has English
glass, kept in by English puity ; the doors are hung upon
English hinges, and secured by English locks (against Bri-
tish thieves though, for they forgot to reform them afore they
shipped them out) ; the floor is covered with imported car-
pets, the windows with imported curtains, and the fire made
in imported stoves, and fixed with imported tongs and sho-
vels. When he gives a housewarmin' to his friends, for he
is rather amorous of a frolick, the plates, knives and forks,
decanters and glasses, and every thing else in English ; and
when the boys and gals go for to dance, hear the music,
that's all ! Pretty music it is too, afore tunes came in
fashion, I guess; but hear it—English fifes, English flutes,
English drums, English pianoes, and English fiddles (not to
mention Scotch ones, of which mnin is the word.)

" He don't like to be separated from English manufactures
even in death ; for he is so used and attached to the old
country, that he calls his own native land Nova Scotia, and
England he calls—what do you think, now !—why he calls it
home ;' he does, upon my soul ! No, sir, the grave don't
part 'em nor death shut his paw nother ; for as soon os he is
stiff he's dressed in an English shrowd, and screwed down with
English screws into his coffin; that is, covered with English
cloth, and has a plate on it of English ware, for the worms
Ito read his name and age on, if they have learned to spell.
The minister claps on an English gownd, reads the English
service out of an English book, and the grave is filled up
again with airth shovellbd in with an English shovel, while
every man, woman, and child that bears his name, pulls out
an English handkerchief to wipe their eyes and blow their
noses with; and buy as much English cloth, crape, and what
not, as would freight a vessel almost; for, havin' lamed the
multiplication table early in life, the number of his descend-
ants would make you stare, I know. His children run the
same rig round the sane course, till they end by being packed
up in a snug pill-box in the same grave-yard. And yet John
Bull says colonies are not good.
" Now, how is colonist able to pay for all this almighty
swad of manufactured plunder, seein that he has no gold
nor silver ? Why, mainly by his timber ; and yet them on-
fakilised, onderbaked goneys, the British, actilly want to tax
it and reform out the trade, so as to give a preference to
Baltic timber. We don't want colony timber, says they,
Don't you though ?' says Bluenose ; then I hope we may
be teetotally extinctified if we want your manufactures.'
What's the name of your great gun to Canada ?" Do you
mean Sir John Colborne?' said Snob. No, replied Mr.
Slick ; I don't mean the " man-o':Viar," I mean the " mar-
chant man."' Oh! I have it—Pullet Thomson. Well,
Pullet will larn somethin' to Canada about timber he never
knew afore, or it ain't no matter. When you see him, stump
him ;" Friend Pullet,' says you, ` when a log is hewed and
squared, can you tell the south side of it ?' And if he don't
answer it right off the reel (and I'll go my death on it he
can't) tell him to send out the board of trade, aye, and the
board of works too, to Sam Slick, the clockmaker, to go to
school for a spell, for be is jist the boy can teach 'em some-
thing that ain't sot down in the reform bill, knowin' coons
as they be. Yes, Sir, if ever you was to Antwarp, you'd see
what it is to lose colonies. When that place belonged to

Holland, and had colonial trade, five thousand merchants
used to meet on 'change : now, the exchange is left, but the
merchant is gone. * * * Bonaparte said he wanted ships,
colonies, and commerce. * * * Bonaparte did'nt know
what he was atalkin about, for colonies mean all three."

DID YOL

EVER?

FROM THE COMIC ALMANAC.)

Did you ever know a tradesman asking for his account who
had not " bill to take up on Friday ?"

--, •
Did you ever know a cabrnan, or a ticket-porter, with any
change about him ?

Did you ever know an omnibus cad who would not engage
to let you down within a few yards of any place within the
••• . l•

bills of morta

Did yon ever know a turnpike-man who could be roused
in less than a quarter of an hour when it wanted that much
of midnight?

Did you ever see a pair of family snuffers which bad not a
broken spring, a leg deficient, ur half an inch of the point
knocked off? - -

Did you ever know a lodging-'

house landlady who would

own to bugs •
Did you ever know the boots at at an inn call you too early
for the morning coach ?

not to excel Taglioni ?
Did you ever know a man who did not think he could poke
the fire better than you could ?
Did you ever know a Frenchman admire Waterloo Bridge?
Did you ever know a housemaid who, on your discovering
a fracture in a valuable china jar, did not tell you it was
" a long time ago," or that it was " cracked before ?"
Did you ever know a man who didn't consider his walking_
stick a better walking-stick than your walking-stick ?
Did you ever know a penny-a-liner who was not on intimate
terms with Lytton Bulwer, Capt. Marryat, Sheridan Knowles,
Tom Hood, Washington Irving, and Rigdum Funnidos ?
Did you ever know a'hatter who was nc

prepared
.to sell

xpence as