The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL,
FRANCE.

disposition., that am About to speak. Some five-and-
twenty years since he had a,quarrel with another (Polish)
artillery officer, whom he challenged to fight with pistols.
They met. On the ground they tossed for the first shot,
and Bern lost. His adversary took aim, fired, and Hem,
fell. The officer, believing him dead, prepared to,quit
the field, but Bern, who had received the ball in his right
hip, turned over on his left side, raised himself on his el-
bow and said, " Stop, comrade; it is my turn now. Take
your place." The -officer did so, and in a moment fell,
shot through the heart. gem lingered long under - the
wound. The ball could not be extracted. During twenty
years he suffered excruciating torments from its presence,
and at last resolved on proceeding to London to consult
the faculty there. He was told that the operation, -to be
successful, must be a •very painful one. He at once said
that he would submit to it. He was accordingly thrown
by ether into a state of stupor, and the operation com-
menced. The circular saw had indented the bone round
the bullet, when the intense agony roused the patient.
The operator became Alarmed, but Bern reassured him,
11 A f• • • .

tion prevail most among the parishioners. A new church,
faiainferior in architectural beauty, has been erected much
nearer the clergyman's residence, half a mile from the old
church.
The Rectory of Bishopwearmouth has been conferred
the Rev. John Patrick Eden, M.A., perpetual curate of
St. Andrew Auckland, and son-in-law of Lord Brougham.
In connexion with this appointment a re-distribution of
the revenues has been made, but it has been confined to
the parish of Bishopwearmouth. The distribution may
be summoned up in a few words. £2OOO is to constitute
the income of the Rector. St. Thomas' Church, Bishop-
wearmouth, is to have £200; St. Andrew's, Depford,
£150; St. Mary's, Hylton, £100; Trinity Church, Ry-
hope, £lOO. The surplus (£1,450) is to be funded, and
disposed of hereafter, according as the experience of the
working of the above arrangement during the next three
years may point out to be most necessary.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN SCOTLAND.—DIOCESE OF
GLASGOW AND GALLOWAY.—CONFIRMATION.—On Sa-
turday, the 11th ult. the Bishop of the Diocese held his
first confirmation in Glasgow, within the temporary cha-
ugees. 11 •... acpua
pel in Catherine-street, knderston. The Incumbent read
, 4.a .. ... .......
.--'. r........ I anynnlete success. The ball was extracted, and Bens per- 1 the usual prayers ; and the Bishop having delivered a most
impressive address, proceeded to administer the solemn
rite to fifteen candidates. After service a meeting of the
clergy and churchwardens was held in the vestry, the
Bishop in the chair, at which it was agreed that as the
subscription now amounted to nearly £l2OO, immediate
steps should be taken for the erection of the new church ;
and that in the meantime, till the completion of the struc-
ture, a resident curate should be engaged, whose whole
time should be devoted to the poor of the district, nearly
2,000 of whom are living estranged from the Church in
which they were baptised. ,His Lordship was pleased to
sanction these arrangements, subscribing £5O to the
building fund, and £lO to the curate's stipend for one
year, when, the church being built, it is believed there will
be ample resources from the increased congregation for
the due support of a clergyman, without extraneous aid.
HORFIELD CASE.—Tt has been known that there is
evidence that Lord Melbourne entered into an under-
standing with Bishop Allen, that the valuable leases
should be allowed to run out and go to augment the re.
venues of the Church ; that the estimated value of the
Horfield tithes and estates are £3,000 a-year ; but that
the incumbent has only £BO a year, besides £6O allowed
by Government for doing duty at the barracks near
Bristol; that, consequently, the incumbent and his curate
have, on the average, between them, about £l4O a year;
and that the bishop has neither continued his prede-
cessors' customary annual payment of £5, nor done any-
i thing for the schools of the parish ; that his lordship has
, an income which averages £6,400 on the last septennial
calculation, and will, on an average, amount to at least oe poor wretch lay asleep attacked him, cleaving his head £5,700 a year in future, besides his palace and several
in pieces. valuable commendams, the amount of which is not
REVERSE OF FORTUNE.—WO happen to know that a stated, but which would probably be underrated at£2,ooo
clergyman at Leitrim who has been receiving out-door a year besides. It is under these circumstances that the
relief; two other gentlemen, one a captain of militia, the bishop proposes to renew the lives, instead of allowing
enthusiasm, other having had a property of £6OO or £7OO per annum, the lease to depend on one, which is expected to drop
Tha French government had determined u are now reduced to pauperism in an adjoining county, the from month to month. To prevent this catastrophe, the
in pon despatch- latter having been for years defraudel by his tenantry. commissioners have agreed to pay the bishop £11,500,
g 3500 troops in six steamers to the assistance of the Another sad instance of reverse of fortune and station is which might otherwise have been employed for the
Pope, for his personal safety. This has been asserted, by that of a lady candidate as inmate of the workhouse ; this general good of the church.—Record.
the ReArrne, an opposition journal, to be only a stroke of melancholy victim of fortune's frowns is the sister of a ORIGIN OF THE GRIEVANCES IN THE TEMPORALITIES
policy, on the part of General Cavaignac. for eainina nn_ -,,
of property amounting OF THE IRISH CHURCH.—A century since, if a peer or a
bishop had a son or a nephew needing a " good living,"
• - and none offered at the moment, how obvious the tempta-
tion to make a rich benefice, by uniting several small
ones ! In such a state of things, and among such persons,
• --- -- a---_- --•----- •-a-----, a. waa, iliamuniy, and he was desperately beaten be-
to its ostensible purpose. cause he would not easily surrender it. The perpetrators can it be doubted that arrangements of this sort were
In the mean time there is good reason to hope that of this, however, have been taken and lodged in gaol. often made ? The principal law authorizing such
other means of succour to the Pontiff have already anti- One man is threatened with death if he acts as herdsman, unions," and making them legal and permanent, was
cipated the French government. The news from Naples it is presumed on pastures whence tenants have been
passed in the 2d of George I. And Bishop Mant tells us,
states that the misfortunes of the Pope have been expected evicted ; and another if he takes a farm. Tenants are that between 1721 and 1799, he finds mention of sixty-
there for some time. and that Admiral Parker had a fort- sworn
not to pay more than one half-year's rent, and one such unions having been formed, embracing, some
night before despatched her Majesty's steam-sloop Bull- landlords are warned not to receive more ; while to can two, some three, some four, and some even five and six
dog, Commander A. C. Key, to Civita Vecchia, to assist the whole, the excise collector is warned that in a, certain parishes. But either this is an imperfect statement, or
the retreat of the Pope, and to receive him on board for district named they will pay neither license nor paper duty, the practice of forming unions must have continued in
conveyance to any place he might select for an asylum. and he must not seek either there.—Limreick ?Japer. full activity after the Union. For the Commissioners of
Looking at the horrid state in which Rome is now placed, DREADFUL DESTITUTION. —1 he provincial papers re- Inquiry, in their Report of 1835, state, that they found
in all the violence of anarchy, and amidst a host of assas- ceived from the South and West are teeming with reports 907 benefices consisting of a single parish ; and 478 unions,
sins who rule every thing by their bloody violence, we of cases of the most frightful destitution,
disease, and of two or more. Now, if these unions consisted entirely
shall certainly hear with satisfaction that the Pope has death. The potatoes have nearly disappeared from these of two parishes only, it is clear that there would be 956
found his way in safety to Malta or some other place of doomed regions—the harvest earnings are spent in pur- parishes, or more than half of the whole, held in union.
refuge.
chasing food down to a recent period—the poorhouses are Supposing, however, the average of th un of two,
Letters from Rome of the 21st ult. announce that a crowded to overflowing, and notwithstanding the extent three, four, five, and six parishes to beese three,ions
sho
uld
resolution had been proposed in the Chamber of Deputies to which outdoor relief is administered the poor in ft,. then find 1,434 parishes held in union, while only 907
on that day to vote an address to the Pope to declare the r,,,,,,,,...:—.......,., , '' . • had a pastor to themselves. Some other lamentable facts
appear in this same Report of 1835, which may as well be
given in this place. The Commissioners report, that they
,o the
,
found 210 parishes without any church. And this was
the settled state of things, to amend which scarcely any
A strange report appears in the Monaghan paper of effort was making ! Of a piece with this was the further
Saturday—namely, that Lord Blayney, one of our most fact, that in 157 parishes there was no resident clergyman,
constantly resident noblemen, and not an embarrassed and no service of any kind ! And this was the•state of
one, had parted with his residence and estates at Castle- things in 1835, after a great revival of religion had long
blayney, county Monaghan, and was about to reside in been going on, and when, beyond all doubt, there must
England. This would be a most unexpected removal, have been far more vigour and strength in the Church
and one which probably would have a considerable effect than at any former period. What, then, must have been
on the local politics of Cavan, Monaghan, and Fermanagh, the state of things a century back ? Is it not wonderful,
in each of which counties this nobleman and his ancestors that even a million of Protestants should have been found
have always exercised great influence. Lord Blayney was in existence, after such a system of neglect and corruption
an ultra-Conservative of the Roden and Enniskillen had existed for more than a century ?—Record.
school. An English capitalist, it is said, has been the NEW CHURCHES AND DISTRICTS.—A very important
purchaser. meeting of the incumbents of new churches and districts
TENANT RIGHT.—Last week a tenant in this county, was held at the National School, Etruria, Staffordshire,
who owed a year-and-half's rent, called upon his land-
on Tuesday, for the purpose of considering the present
lord, and expressing his anxiety to lay down two fields
position of district churches, especially as to the inade-
with wheat, requested to be lent a pair of horses to plough quacy of "the voluntary system in supplying funds for
the ground. The request was granted, and after four the maintenance of divine worship and the repair of the
days the horses were returned. The landlord being
fabric, and to adopt memorials to his Grace the Archbi-
desirous to see how the work had been executed, visited shop of Canterbury, the Lord Bishop of Lichfield, and
the farm the day after the horses came home, and found the first Minister of the Crown, humbly praying that
that the fields were unploughed, upon which he went to means may be devised to form all Chapelries and Districts
his tenant's house, but he was not a:, home, and the
into separatt Parishes, and likewise to nominate a depu-
tation to present such memorial. The Rev. H. Wynter,
house was occupied by an apparent pauper. On further
o
inquiry it appeared the horses were used to remove all of Etruria, presided; and on the motion of the Rev. F.
the crops and furniture, which were sold, and the occupier Wade, a memorial to the dignitaries mentioned, was
refused possession, unless he got £2O, asserting that he agreed to, praying for the entire separation of all districts
gave £lO for the tenant-right.—Cork Constitution. and chapelries, as regards all rates, fees, and appoint-
WHAT AN IRISH LANDLORD MAY DO.—The following ments of church officers. The latter gentleman, in the
is from the judges' report of the late " show" on Lord course of his speech, alluded to a case "exhibiting the
h
George Hill's property at Gweedore, in the county of hardships to which churches erected under Sir Robert
Donegal, a place which owes entirely its present coma-
Peel's Act were exposed. The case was that of a church
rative prosperity to his lordshi s excellent mans emepnt
with which he was well acquainted : it was erected prin-
and the instruction he has afforded' to his peasantry:
,
cipally through the munificence of a benevolent indi-
" Taking into consideration the many difficulties the peo-
vidual : a district was assigned, but by being taken out
ple of Gweedore had to contend with during the last two
of a district parish, the inhabitants had two rates to pay
years, in consequence of the failure of the potato crop, without partaking of any benefit from them. The sti-
we were not prepared to see so many competitors for the Pend of the clergyman was little more than £lOO, of
premiums given through your lordship to the Trish Pea. which sum £5O was a grant from the Additional Curates
santry Society. The industry of women is perceptible, Society; ; for repairs and all other expenses, about £9 per
from the quantity and quality of the flannels, bed-ticking, annum had been raised, £6 of which was derived from an
annual collection. Was it, he would ask, reasonable or
blankets, andadoth shown this day : the neatness of the
just that Cher parent churches should be freed from the
several parcels would reflect credit upon any manufaetory;
charge of upards 2,000 souls, and yet enjoy all the rates
the bed-ticking in particular is excellent. The butter is
of the district, in addition to making a claim on all the
superior to any exhibited in former years, and quite equal
fees which were collected in the poorer church ? Or was
to any we have seen in the neighbouring market towns.
It is, indeed, most gratifying to perceive such an increase it to be expected that the ill-requited clergyman was
and improvement in this particular branch of trade, which continually to have his mind harassed as to how he was
must in a few years become very remunerative in this to provide for the support of his church ? He honestly
mountain district, where, at a very moderate expense,
believed that, at this moment, there were many clergy-
deep bog can be made to produce from eight to ten tons
men who contributed largely out of' their inadequate sti-
per acre of that most nutritious of grasses—fiorin." pends to carry on the services of their churches."
PROGRESS OF DESTITUTION, DEMORALISATION, AND
THE' HON. BAPTIST NOEL.—On Sunday week, St.
RUIN.—For some weeks past we have been forced to re-
Johns Chapel, Bedford-row, London, was at an early
cord the progress of Ireland along the "road to ruin." hour crowded to so great an excess that it was barely pos-
The work grows upon us, and we see no prospect of a Bible to obtain even standing room. A large number of
cessation or diminution of our most unpleasing task. A persons were evidently attracted to the chapel by curiosity
t
reference to another part of this paper, exhibits a most to ascertain the " reasons" assigned by Mr. Noel for his
deplorable state of things : agrarian outrages, attempts at proximate secession from the Established Church. They
assassination, attacks on persons and habitations by armed were, however, "sent empty sway," for the rev. gentle-
men, burglaries, and robberies. In addition to all these
man, in the course of his long and able discourse did
reve-
did not
,
make the most remote allusion to the subject. T
the country is rife with predial disorganisation, dishonesty,
rend gentleman's retirement is, however, placed beyond
destitution, and retrogade morals : tenants flying from
their farms, which they leave uncultivated—defrauding doubt, as he has himself announced it. On Wednesday
evenine, at the usual weekly service at St. John's Chapel,
the landlords of years of rent, and sweeping away every-where 'Mr. Noel has officiated for the last 26 years, the
thing which is capable of being removed—others holding
r
their ground, but resisting totally the payment of rent ;ev. gentleman selected for his text, Rev. i. 5,6, "Unto
ejectments, numerous and wholesale, following as a na-
Him that loved us and washed us from our sins in His own
tural and unavoidable result; resistance to taxes and poor blood, and bath made us kings and priests unto God and
rates, the latter of which are levied `•at the point of the His Father, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and
—"
bayonet ;"and, to crown all, hundreds of the idle and the ever, Amen ;"—and then proceeded as follows : My
discontented besieging the poor houses in crowds, and dear Christian brethren, many of you have heard that, as
t
clamouring for indoor relief and outdoor relief—for that the result of opinions deliberately formed, which I know
bread which they have been taught to look for as the pri- no t alter,howtoto e
resist,
i st, I
h
e forceave
beenof
obliged conviction uo t - hoincihm I o
na re
man's brow."—Dublin Mail.
vilege of idleness, and not the earnings of " the sweat ofnot permitted
my intention of leaving this congregation, where I have
ministered for so long a period with comfort and satisfac-
tion to myself, if not with profit to others. Since I ad-
dressed you last I have seen my diocesan, and he considers
it to be his duty—an opinion from which I do not dissent
—to determine that I shall not remain with you beyond
next Sabbath. This, therefore, is the last Wednesday
evening on which I shall have the privilege of addressing
you. But let us not think of little matters ; let us indulge
in meditations on the best of all subjects ; and I have
chosen the words of my text because they speak of our
best friend, and are calculated very much to console and
animate us." The rev. gentleman then proceeded with
his address, but in no degree further alluded to the pain-
ful subject of quitting his flock.—The chapel of St.
John's is held under a lease from the trustees of Rugby
School, and the term of years, which formerly belonged
to the Bishop of Calcutta, is now vested in his son, the
Rev. Daniel Wilson. The Globe says that it was not
Mr. Noel's intention to leave the church until Midsum-
mer next, in order that due time might have been allowed
his people to choose a successor and make the necessary
arrangements for carrying on the schools and the various
religious and charitable institutions maintained by his
congregation ; but on Tuesday the Bishop of London sent
for the rev. gentleman, and, after ascertaining from him
that the reports of his intention to secede from the church
were true, at once intimated to him that he would be pro-
hibited from preaching again in any church or chapel
within the diocese of London. Mr. Noel, on receiving
this intimation, said, in the most respectful manner, that
he could not consent to act in accordance with the prohi-
bition, as he had not yet spoken to his congregation in
their collective capacity on the subject of his intended
secession. The Bishop said lie was determined to enforce
the prohibition. It was eventually agreed that Mr. Noel
should be permitted to preach on Sunday in his chapel,
on the understanding that that is to be the last time on
which he is to officiate as a minister of the Church of
England. His " Reasons for Seceding from the Church
of England" have been put into the hands of the printer.
On Tuesday the leading members of his congregation
met, when they unanimously resolved to present a me-
morial to the rev. gentleman, entreating him to reconsider
his resolution to leave the church, and expressing an ardent
hope that the result of such reconsideration would be his
still remaining with them. It was then agreed to nomi-
nate a deputation to wait upon him with the memorial,
and to receive his answer; but it was found that those
who were nominated could not be prevailed upon to un-
dertake the mission, owing to its very delicate nature.

The Red Republicans are outrageous against General
Cavaianac for having dispatched an expedition to Civita
Vecchia to rescue Pio Nono, in case his personal safety
should be endangered.

The Era Nouvelle says:—" The silence observed on
SaturOay in the National Assembly by M.-de Lamartine
and M. Francois Arago is significative. -It-was attempted
to induce M. de Lamartine to speak. M.,Garnier Pages
said to him—' I shall put interpollations to you, and you
must speak. M. de Lamartine will not do
so, for neither myself nor the Executive Committee is in-
volved in the affair; get out of it as well as you can.'
M. de Lamartine also declared that he was far from enter-
taining towards the Chief of the Executive Government
any feeling of hostility or ill-will."
In the sitting of the National Assembly on Wednesday,
the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and-the Minister for the
Interior. gave certain explanations as to the alleged mea-
sures of severity which had recently been adopted in the
t- . . -

went of patitsh re. it was reported on the
13Ourse that in consequem of the recent arrivals from
Rome the expedition to Civita Vecchia would be stopped.
On Tuesday, upwards of 1200 Nationat Guards, with
the colonel at their head, had an audience of General Ca-
vaignac in his garden, congratulating him upon his de-
fence on Saturday last, and expressing the confidence they
entertained of his character and conduct. Gen. Cavaignac
replied in a few words of gratitude for the sentiments pro-
claimed, and the parties sers.r,t.,l

while the operation was resumed, and was crowned with
complete success. The ball was extracted, and Bern per-
fectly recovered.—Paris letter.

The Paris journal, the Rcforme, hints rather signifi-
cantly. that the order given by Gen..Cavaignac, to for-
ward 3500 troops to the assistance of the Pope, was
merely an electioneering manoeuvre, to forward his ambi-
tion in obtaining the presidency.
The number of burials in Paris, which amounted to
21,505 in 1845, rose in 1846 to 23,822, and to 24,187 in
1847.

ITALY. •
THE INSURRECTION AT ROME.
In the STANDARD of last week we gave the particulars
of the insurrectionary proceedings of the populace of
Rome, to obtain from the Pope a democratic ministry.
This the Pope yielded, but since then, it has been ru-
moured, flat his holiness, after being kept prisoner in his
own palace, had succeeded in effecting his escape.
Accounts from Rome of the 23d state that the report of
the Pope's flight was premature, his holiness not having
quitted the city up to that date : but whether he was a
willing occupant of his palace, or detained there by a con-
tinual watch upon his movements, does not appear.
Certain it is, that every arrangement was made to aid the
escape of the Sovereign Pontiff. should his

anxious to avail himself of the opportunity for so doing.
The new ministry had issued their political programme,
which declared their adhesion to the principles contained
in the resolutions of June s—resolutions that had been
received by the .deliberative assembly with so much

.". ru- gentleman who was once possessed
pularity with a view to the Presidential election; but the to £9,000 a year. Sligo Journal
fact that such a demonstration is looked upon as likely to DISORGANISATION OF SOCIETY,
gain popularity proves that the assistance thlict

A viole

he part o

France, will be

pushed forw

poor man who was taking home a bag

ouenty of the Chamber to his Holiness. The resolution
was rejected. The Abbe de Rosmini had quitted Rome
for Paris, charged with a secret mission.

waLrieLs are suttermg all the hor-
rors of famine. Starvation rages in the counties of Mayo,
Cork. Sligo, Kerry, Clare, and Galway, to a fearful extent,
and more or 'egg an,—.l

graph, dated Paris, Friday evening, states that official
intelligence had arrived from Civita Vecchia to the 26th
ultimo. The Pope had left Rome on the 24th in dis-
guise, and had arrived at Gaeta, to which place the
steamer Lenare had gone to meet him, and convey him
to France. Rome remained tranquil, and seemed in-
different as to the Pope's departure. The Chamber had
passed a vote of confidence in the Ministry.
The son of Rossi, standing over the dead body of his
father, vowed awful vengeance on the murderer, whom he
says he will devote "c. to d' ""

Duchess de Rignana had writtendiscover a letter to the late mi-
nister. cautioning him not to attend on the opening day.
The document was found on his person.

AUSTRIA.
The Austrian diet was opened on the 22d ult., at
Kremeier. Two more military executions under the
orders of General Windischgratz are reported • that of
Dr. Becker, said to be an Englishman, and Dr.'Jellench,
editors of the Radical. A grand funeral ceremony with a
huge catafalque, in the presence of 15,000 troops, with
General Windischgratz, had been performed in the neigh-
bourhood of Vienna, in honour of the murdered Count
Latour.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.

Mr. M. H. Irving, of King's College School, has ob-
tained the first scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford.
The Dublin Mail says that there are twenty-two Colo-
nial Bishops, and amongst them not one single Irishman.
The total amount raised by the Church Missionary
Society since its commencement, in 1799, exceeds two
millions five hundred thousand pounds.
A Protestant Association is about to be formed at Don-
caster, and preparatory to it the Rev. Hugh Stowell will
deliver a lecture there this evening (Tuesday.)
The nave of Hereford Cathedral, it is stated, is forth-
with to be fitted up for the daily celebration of divine
worship.
The Rev. A. Thomas, M.A., has been presented to the
vicarage of Rottingdean, Sussex. Patron, Earl of Aber-
gavenny.

On Wednesday the living of Prescot, in Lancashire,
was presented to the Rev. Charles Chapman, by the Pro-
vost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge, vacant
by the death of the Rev. C. George Driffield.
The Bishop of Llandaff has received the thanks of the
diocese for his endeavour to protect it from the intrusion
of Clergymen not conversant with the language of the
Welsh people.
The Rev. T. C. Makinson, B.A. late of St. John's
College. Cambridge, has conformed' to the Church of
Rome. Mr. Makinson was formerly curate at Manches-
ter for two years, and left this country in 1837, on an
appointment in the diocese of Sydney, New South Wales,
as a Government chaplain.
A COINCIDENCE.—St. Augustine's College, Canter-
bury, opened (partially) on Friday. Among the students
there was one who gave in the following name—" John
Bird Sumner Austin"—the combined names of the first
and last Archbishop of Canterbury ! We hope this is a
favourable omen for both college and collegian.
GRATIFYING CIRCUMSTANCE.—The parishioners of
Jarrow, Northumberland, on recently learning of the in-
tended removal from the perpetual curacy of the incum-
bent, memorialised the patron in favour of the curate, the
Rev. J. M. Mason. In reply, the patron stated that it
was his intention prior to the receipt of the memorial, to
present the living to Mr. Mason, and that he was much
deceived if he (Mr. Mason) did not value the compliment
paid him by the memorialists more highly than the pre-
sentation of the living itself.
A DESTRUCTIVE. The interesting old church at
Buckenhall, six miles from Taunton, is undergoing entire
demolition, the tine old gothic windows being broken
up to mend a wall. A cross and other parts were taken
to Taunton, to be kept as a memento of what appears a
very strange proceeding. A faculty for taking the build-
ing down was obtained of the by the Rev. E.
Portman. It is difficult to say whether grief or indigna-

THE CHASE.
The CHESHIRE HOUNDS meet to-morrow (Wednesday)
at Warmington ; on Thursday, at Appleton Hall ; and on
Saturday, at Saighton—at 11.
Sir W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS meet to-morrow (Wed.
nesdav) at Little Ness; on Thursday, at Iscoyd ; and on
Saturday, at Halsten Gate—at half-past 10.

Dec. 5, 1848.

GREAT BRITANNIA TUBULAR BRIDGE.—The works strongest assurances of support. As an instance of the
of this great structure, which are of twice the stupendous division in the Whig-Radical ranks, we may observe that
character of those over the river Conway, have been put the Manchester Guardian (whig paper), supports Mr.
in full operation this week, and are already in an advan- Denison, the Yorkshireman (radical paper), supports Mr.
ced state. The platform for this purpose across the Roebuck, the Leeds Mercury (another radical paper),
Menai Straits alone is half a mile long, and four large supports Sir Culling Eardley, and the Liverpool Mercury
tubes, each weighing 1,700 tons, are now nearly comple- recommends " the liberal party to stand aloof and take
ted. Each tube is 472 feet long, and will have to be no part in the struggle." This is evidence of a worse
floated half a mile along the straits, and then raised 106 split than that which has taken place among the Conser-
feet home. The end tubes are also much advanced. The vatives.
scaffold or platform on which they are being put together POPERY AND MORALITY. —The Pope is practically de-
is 100 feet high, 230 feet long, and 60 feet broad, capable throned. His Prime Minister having fallen under the
of sustaining a weight of 1,500 tons on the top. The poignard of the assassin, and his Secretary by a ball of
cast-iron work of the bridge weighs upwards of 2,000 tons, the rebels, he, by the last accounts, was a prison= rin hie
and the chains used for raising it will alone weigh 100 palace • anxious to escape, but watched by his dntiful
tons. It will be floated on eight pontoons. Two of them subjects. An expedition has sailed from France for Civita
are of iron, of 100 feet long, 28 feet broad, 10 feet deep, 1 Vecchia, composed of six war-steamers and a division of
and capable of carrying 400 tons each. The middle pier, ~ 3,500 men, with a view of affording security to the Pope.
rising out of the water from the Britannia rock, after It is surmised that our noble fleet in the Bay of Naples,
which the bridge is named, is to be 230 feet high. There which, we believe, has on board an unusually large corn-
are two other piers of the same elevation, and the entire I plement of marines, will probably move in the same di
length of the tube-bridge across the straits will be 1,420 rection. We only hope they will not bring the Pope here.
feet, or one-third nearly of a mile. What are the ripe virtues of this spiritual mother. under
RAILWAY MANAGEMENT.—Captain Huish, the general the immediate
eye, and enjoying the fulness of the reli-
manager of the London and Nerth Western Railways has gious influence, of the assumed spiritual father of the
published a letter on railway management, in reply to a faithful ? Virtues ! religious and spiritual virtues ! Let
letter recently written by Mr. Whitehead, late Secretary the Times journal of last Monday reply. It says, in one
of the South Eastern Railway Company,—whose object of its able leading articles :—" It is a mockery to talk of
was to show that the present rates for the carriage of 1 national independence and constitutional government hi.
goods by railways is too low, and entail loss on the corn- , a country where the ordinary duties of police are not per-
panies--sinking a considerable portion of the profit derived I formed, where law has no authority, and religion no power
from passengers ; and he contends that the North Western , but to absolve from crime." Well may a correspondent
Day, Company are losing much by the goods traffic, and that I referring to this judgment of the religion of Rome,
either the rates are too low. or the passenger fares too by a journal which, under evil influences, is doing. much
, to strengthen it,—" Surely the most ultra Protestant
high. Captain Huish examines Mr. Whitehead's data
and assertions, and supplies some statistical facts. He never expressed a severer opinion of Popery, and surely
states that the total receipts from for the year ending if this witness of the Times be true, as I assuredly believe
30th June last, were £2,140,035 ; namely, passengers 1 it to be, what greater sin and folly can this Protestant
and mails, £1,417,659 ; goods and coals, £722,376. The j
nation commit, than to foster in her bosom a system
total cost of working the railway in every department was I
which turns the religion of the Redeemer, designed to be
only £751,172. It thus appears that the merclzandize 1 man's greatest blessing, into a means of his degradation,
receipts about covered the entire expenses of the line, ! misery, and increased depravity ?"
leaving the passenger traffic net ! " The goods train earns / ROMISH ENDOWMENT.—There is, after all, no way of
as much per mile run as its vaunted competitor the pas- dealing honestly with the question of Romish endowment,
senger train. The total weight of passenger travelling for save that adopted by the Rev. Dr. M`Neile in his address,
the year was 399,956 tons, about equal to the merchan- a few evenings since, to the three thousand listeners in
dise conveyed in eleven weeks; so that a run of 238,732 ' Exeter Hall, to
eats portrayed by the eloquent speaker
miles was sufficient to convey a weight of goods which it " the distinctive features of Protestantism and Popery."
required 4.220,078 miles to transmit when converted into If there be truth at all in revelation ; if that which we call
passengers."
Holy Writ be not a fable ; if our churches are not the
LIGHT LOCOMOTIVE,—Messrs. England's new engine, scenes of abject mummeries, and our preachers the most
the " Little Wonder," has had several trials. Her di- contemptible buffoons that ever lent themselves to the
mensions are as follow :—Cylinders, 7 inches ; stroke, 12 , perpetuation of a huge hypocrisy, there can be no subject
inches; driving wheels, 4 feet 6 inches, with four other so dear to the people of England, and to the people of
carrying wheels 3 feet diameter ; fire box, 3 feet diameter ; every country on the globe, as that which involves the
boiler, 2 feet diameter, with sixty tubes 11 feet 4 inches consideration ofimmortality, and the hopes and prospects
long, 11 inches diameter. The tender is placed upon the of a future state. Party questions sink into insignificance
same frame; the extreme length of which is about 20 feet, at the side of this. To be a Whig or Tory, Conserve-
and the weight, we are informed, is about 9 tons. The tive or Radical, may be to assume a badge indifferent
whole of the working parts are is sight, and within the I to one whose political views are subservient to the
immediate control of the driver while at work. From nu- duties claimed by the HIGHEST. It can never be a
merous trials, during which a distance of nearly 1,000 matter of indifference to the conscientious, let him
miles has been performed, we have ascertained, that for belong to, what party he may, whether he holds the truth
express purposes, with one or two carriages, a speed of 60 or not with reference to the faith upon which results the
miles per hour is well maintained ; and that a train of five most tremendous hang. Commence the work of retro-
carriages, with passengers equal to 20 tons, is run at 40
gression, and where shall you stop in the backward move-
miles per hour. With this load she ascended the heavy ment ? Confound the minds of the unreflecting with the
incline at New Cross-1 in 100 for three miles—at the public declaration that the state is bound deliberately to
rate of 20 mles per hour; and upon the level line, one propagate that which the state acknowledges to be false-
mile was passed in 80 seconds, being at the rate of 45 hood, degrading to man, and blasphemy to God, and upon
miles per hour, with a load of 20 tons—the consumption what other points will you have courage to enlighten them?
of coke not exceeding 6 lbs. per mile. This performance, Can it be an act of intelligence or liberality to foster
we believe, is unparalleled in the history of the locomotive and encourage openly and unreservedly the errors for en-
engine. The fact that a load of 20 tons was propelled at tertaining which the recognized teachers of our church
the rate of 45 miles per hour, with 6 lbs, of coke per mile, declare eternal punishment awaits us ? Is it left for the
while the quantity required for any of the heavy engines most advanced age of the world to make known aloud
to perform the same work, would not be less than 25 lbs, and unblushingly, that it matters little what you do, pro-
per mile, shows, we think, the mistake of making loco- vided only that you preach ? Is it to be the crowning-
motive engines of enormous weight—engines which spend work of our " expedient" legislation to lift a veil from the
two-thirds of their immense power in propelling their own rising generation, and to make them mock the creed their
weight. During the experiments, we were highly pleased fathers worshipped ? We cannot drag ourselves away
with the very safe and steady working of the engine. from an opens onfession of our faith. We make it in the
NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT.—On Saturday night week, an church ;ifit is worth a straw we carry it with us into our
experiment was made on the Great Western Railway, to daily occupations ;if it influences our private prayers, it
test the power of a new species of light produced by elec. follows us into our public acts. Truth may be disliked,
but it cannot be avoided. We may plant error by its
tricity, particularly with the view to its being used by
railway trains. The light is produced by an apparatus side, but it must wither as a thing that takes no root.
invented by M. Le Mott, a French gentleman, who has There cannot be two religious truths for one nation. The
been ted
several years employed in electrical experiments Bible cannot be true and waferorship right. We can-
in Russia, and whose discoveries in that department are not abide by the book and encourage the worship.—
well known to the scientific world. At half-past six Morning Herald.
o'clock a truck, containing a wooden square box, about REWARDS OF INDUSTRY.—At a meeting last week, in
the size of a sentry-box, and having a galvanic battery of Leeds, Mr. Beckett Denison, in a speech t the electors,
some sixty or seventy small jars deposited around it, was said, " there is hardly a man in the possession of a large
attached to the last carriage of the train then about to landed property in the West Riding of Yorkshire, or even
proceed from Paddington. The light was produced inside in the whole county of York, whose father or grandfather
the box, and the rays, condensed and heightened by a was not connected with trade. and whose descendants
powerful reflector, were emitted by an aperture contrived now possess £6OOO, or £BOOO, or £lO,OOO, or even mote
for the purpose. The light was produced before the train
•A
year. (A voice—" No : Earl Fitzwilliam did not.")
left Paddington, when a dazzling blaze filled the whole of And that is the reason, I suppose, why you did not like
the spacious station, casting the numerous gas-lamps his son. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) My own grand-
there completely into the shade. As the train proceeded father was as humble a man as any one I see before me
on its way, the reflector left a long train of clear bright this day. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) His son obtained a
light for the distance of a mile and more behind it, in good education, and worked his way up to a somewhat
such a manner as to render it utterly impossible that any distinguished position ; and I hope I do not occupy a
train coming up behind should run into it, except as the despicable position. (Hear, hear, and applause.) I say,
effect of deliberate intention. The reflector, as seen from then, it is your own faults if you do not get yourselves and
the carriage, was very beautiful, the prismatic colours your children well educated • and, when they are well
being distinctly and vividly delineated along the outer educated, it is in their power to rise to the most educated
edge of the circle of radiation ;_ and as these fell upon the and prominent situations that there are in the State.
dense column of smoke ascending from the engine, the And it occurs only at this moment to my mind that the
but
effect
clear, was singular
ar favourable
dank, experiment
objects, such as a bridge, were rendered distinctly visible bear, who was a charity boy in a blueoat school in this
at the distance of two miles. The experiment was made town. (Hear, hear, and a cry of "Yo
uo have done away
as far as Slough, on arriving at which station the truck with that now.'') Judge Denison was a working man
was detached from the train, and continued there for from Leeds. He walked to London because he had not
about half an hour, till the up-train arrived, with which money to carry him, and he became there one of the
it returned to town. While at Slough the light was jdgesu of the land. (Hear, hear, and applause.) "Go
turned in the direction of Windsor Castle, as it
was the tuhod do likewise." expectation of M. Le Mott, who accompanied the expe-
an
riment, that it would be seen from thence. While there, COURT AND FASHION.
a gentleman stationed himself at the distance of 200 yards The Court still remains in the Isle of Wight.
or so from the apparatus, and read a newspaper by the Louis Philippe and suite were not last week on a visit to
light produced, which he found he could do with perfect Sir Robert Peel at Drayton Manor, as stated.
case. The apparatus 'then returned to town in the same The Duke of Wellington and Lord Palmerston visited
manner, the light being continuously intense during the the Prince of Parma on Thursday, at Mivart's Hotel.
whole of the journey and return ; and it was stated by the M. Gnizot arrived in town on Monday from visiting Sir
ingenious inventor that there could be no difficulty in Robert and Lady Peel, at Drayton Manor, and has since
keeping it up for the whole night. The experiment af- gone to visit Prince Lieven, at Brighton.
forded great satisfaction to all who witnessed it, the only PRINCE ALBERT A HIGHLAND LAIRD. —On Wednesday
drawback being that the apparatus, having been in the week the estate of Birk Hall, adjoining Balmoral, was ex-
first instance adapted for stationary experiments, suffered posed for sale in Edinburgh, and taken out at the upset
considerably from the jolting inseparable from railway price, £14,900, for Prince Albert. At the same time the
motion, a defect which the inventor considered might be life rent of the entailed estate of Abergeldie, another ad-
with ease overcome in any future experiment. This is joining property, was put up for sale, and taken for the
the first time that light produced by electricity has been heir of entail, Mr. Gordon, of Abergeldie. It is under-
applied to railway purposes • and if its use should be stood that negotiations are in progress, whereby his
found practicable, there can 'be no doubt that it will add Royal Highness will become lessee of Abergeldie. From
greatly to the safety of night travelling by railway• these circumstances, it is but reasonable to conclude, that
Balmoral will henceforth take its place in the same
cate-
gory with Osborne House, and the other royal residences,
where her Majesty regularly spends a portion of each
The nomination for the West Riding will take place on
season he must be welcomed in his new character of a
and Fri-day following. Highland Laird.
year. When his royal highness arrives on Deeside next
Monday next, and the polling on the Thursday
-....-=-.. - -
HONORS OF WHIG REFORMS.—Captain Kenderdine,
......STATE OF TRADE.
of Stafford, has been fined one hundred pounds for re- MANCHESTER.—The market has exhibited somewhat less
fusing the honor of the mayoralty of that bornugh ! buoyancy throughout the week, and this feature has been
commenced be accounted
e for
dbeymetehlieegxtrfezerefieremnaeseseoufrssepiwn=
ttneyd.
his DENISON'S
canvassing CA N a-s StSoiuNrGa
tT TOUR.—s Nolnr .
TDueensdisaoyn, servable more generally during the last two days, which may
where his reception was most flattering. O
nn Wednesday amraenjaustinted in pursuing, by the orders the majority have on
the ere
gentleman visited Barnsley ; on Trsday, Brad- nd under such circumstances, it cannot be a matter of
ford; Friday, Wakefield ; and on Saturday he addressed surprise that they should decline to put themselves under ex-
them at Halifax.
tended contracts, at anything below the highest rates current,
MR. DENISON'S OPINIONS.—Mr. Denison declares but at such rates contracts forfuriLdelivertyecrtiollrbtt generally
Himself himself opposed to Romish endowment, but favourable to
weekstaken.
haTshleutbrhisolhdsegna d whichnnersand manufacturersexls
in possession
ssessieown
Church extension, scriptural education, and the further of such o
rders as will see the major part of them fully through
appointment of bishops for the colonies. He declines to the year to execute. Buyers seem rather more unwilling to
give any opinion on the navigation laws, and is an advo- give the highest prices generally current, most probably in con-
cate of every possible retrenchment and economy. sequence of some appearance of weakness in the For market
e
THE RIVAL CANDIDATES.—On Wednesday Sir Culling since Wednestwhichapsrrettsimtheenlotosewait
h—ein
couresae pricesseae
Eardley and Mr. Denison met at the Doncaster Station, of pressing. orders—for
when a gentleman, who accompanied Sir Culling to Don_ are
the week,
caster, introduced' him to Mr. Denison, and a cordial there has not been so animated a demand as lately for several
has likely
been
atogotaokae.genUenradlerbtuhseinseescsirdcounmestances, although there
shake of the hands took place. The three gentlemen weeks we have had to report.
have had g
then entered the same first-class carriage for Wakefield,
to report for
and left.
some time past. For the period of the year, an average amount
Who out of Bedlam would have dreamed that the mur- iDi
eSs. -, jmh eu
much
woollen ot lhl : n
same trade s ot
stale
t et haiss
wteownand nei hbourliood
of business has been doing. Prices are firm, although stocks
der of Rossi, the besieging of the Pope in his Palace, and are rather on the increase.
continues
perhaps his expulsion from his capital, were all the work BRADFORD.—WOOIS: There has been more wool changing
of England? Yet that is the explanation which the hands during the past week, and the spinners generally have
(Romish) Dublin Freeman offers to its readers. If the not large stocks. The supply in this market is now barely an
Khan of Tartary had to fly, England would by the same average for this time of the year. Neils and shorts are not
profound philosophers be pronounced the cause.
altered either in demand or prices. Yarns : The contracts for
, bobbins for the month about commencing have not been done
Sworn DEVON ELECTION.—Mr. Kekewich has resignea on such advantageous terms for the manufacturers as for the
all pretensions to represent South Devon at the coming month now closing. For all kinds, both low, middle, and fine
election, for the seat expected to be vacated by Lord
Courtenay. In a printed circular, he states,—" I find numbers, there is no disposition to take orders execest at higher
r
prices. Pieces 'cl the There sto Xs innothe l slackening
tinls of lothi n imi e r
cehina
na
tnsdatnod
that in consequence of the opinion which I entertain with plain 5
insnuiacturers are unprecedentedly low, and the prospects for
regard to some provision for the Roman Catholic clergy the winter are more favourable, so far as orders go, than we
in Ireland, the number of requisitionists is not sufficient have had for some time past.. Fancy goods are nfot active, nor
to induce me to disturb the peace of the county, and I any new styles introduced which are safe to order or the spring
therefore shall not offer myself as a candidate." Sir
In worsted goods and yarns, we have no altera-
Ralph Lopez (conservative) has been brought forward.
lion to report since our last. wool remains firm, at the late
He was formerly member for Westbury, and is a sound advance, and the growers, anticipating a further improvement,
Protestant.
e holding their stocks for still higher rates ; but the prospects
A BOON TO THE EXCHEQUER.—The expiring Corn of trade do not seem to warrant any such expectation.
forHtAhLeilFioAmxe.-t_rade.
Laws are pouring into the exhausted treasury supplies
~eHe7.DltreadSeFmlEanl.h—alte.hf,ise-eennt
limitedla te muche immediate
mae(iriaartek market
vents
that are no doubt very welcome to Sir C. Wood. In the
month ending October 5, the duties paid on corn amounted
ofo the parties concerned. There is no alteration in prices worth
to about £234,569, and that ending November 5, to about nticing.nocuDALE FLANNEL lIARKET.—The flannel market c0nti-
£165,492. These payments are after the rate of nearly noes to be well attended, and middling qualities of flannels are
two-and-a-half millions per annum ; and would relieve in goodhdemand. Strong Yorkshire goods and dyed flannels
the tax-payers of the country to that extent without in-
oaflei emr tit.
descriptionsaaht
ii•seardeimlyaiant previous
uluc rae rates.
same All
flirting injury upon any one. When the duties cease, we
our last, both in demand and prices. The wool market has
been moderately brisk, and prices firm. The hands employed
repeat, the foreign grower or the speculating importe,r
will pocket almost the entire amount, leaving the defies- in the flannel trade have full work, and those employed on the
ency of the revenue to be provided by some other tax. band looms have not had so much work as at present for the
THE LATE CHARLES BULLER AND TILE DUKE or last twelve months. The hands in the cotton mills have nearly
all of them full work, but wages are low.
Sussex.—The great fault of the late Mr. Buller was the
affectation of a careless indifference,—a sort of insouciant
spirit, as if the world and all its concerns, parties, politics, -
and principles, were matters of the supremest indifference
to him. Thus, for instance, when he was but a young man, and when it was important that he should appear S
' _
HAMPTON STATION!
with his best airs and behaviour, he was at a dinner party ..
given by the late Duke of Sussex. When the dessert bad Madeira come in, he looked around him, and, fancying
1 7th, 17th, ihmiter ....! Next Mad
every month';
1
nobody but pompous full-dressed noodles on each side, be Gibraltar_ .
threw himself back in his chair, and fell fast asleep ! 11
alta&lonian [stands 3nolfaenvder2Oth Indus 1 Next Meid
he saw Spain
:h mouth.y ' Nov. 20idue Dec. Is
This was an act of rudeness of which Charles Buller would Greece •- and Egypt
ntta,ueylon,& ma I
not have been guiity at a very much humbler table. -.
I
The free-traders of the West Riding are divided in opi- (l )xlicreitiCiall.iiANY. Int
i
2nd andinli)Trent,... ,
neon as to the fitness of Sir Culling Eardley to represent BeerMllll)(ifi ;MFOlri.raf&l.
them. Mr. Baines attended at Manchester last week to w. inaies, except 'of every ' Nov. 17 ,-
month.
advocate Sir Culling's claims, but met with a cold recep- 1 Havana, Venezuela,
tion. A meeting was held at Leeds on Thursday, at 1 and Madeira
which a resolution was carried, with only a few dissenti. 1
ents, in favour of Mr. Roebuck, and a deputation was ap. (2) 111exico& Havana . 1 2nd of every iTeviot .... Next Mtn
pointed to wait on Sir Culling's committee, to induce (3) Bermuda St. Juan
y.'
month onl Nov. 2;due Dec. 22
' them, if possible, to withdraw their candidate, but this ,de Nicaragua, and 17th of every Trent 1 Next Mail
they are not likely to do from fear of Mr. Roebnek's New Grenada
FALMOUTH STATION. 1
claims, though we should not be surprised to hear of his
1 Madeira, Brazil, and } F.vng. of 4th;ii M Ptterel,HM 13 Crane
Buenos Ayres
being withdrawn in consequence of the enthusiasm dis-
, LIVERPOOL
..STA.TION.I
every month
Nov. 6' Dee. 24
played in favour of Mr. Denison. All the old Whig fami-
I
lies have declared their intention to support Mr. Denison,
mu
iltd.a.ei,
aAntcrile:lic, Her- }I E% err Fri- Niagara.
aid his strnightforward speeches have won for him the ,
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