The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-17 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

of his.seven children, and 255. from his quarter of a hun-
dred of grandchild,- n. (Cheers ;aid laughter.)
The Hon. and 1.?art11.11. GENTI.EII.kI,I titer came for-
ward to address the meeting, and vvis received with great
cheering. He said he had never ;addressed a punlic meet-
ing with a greater feeling of resp,msibility—with a more
triumphant conviction of the propriety of the conduct of
the people, and of the iniq•iity of their enemies. (Cheers.)
It was true he bad passed a most hideous day yesterday,
because for hours he could not raise his confidence in the
people to such a pitch as not to apprehend that mischief
might occur at Clontarf, and a massacre of the people
ensue as the inevitable result of any disturbance. (Hear,
hear.) He would say it was not the fault of the govern-
ment that a massacre did not take place, and if he were to
go to the scaffold for it, he would not hesitate to assert that
if the government wanted to entrap the people, they juar
adopted the course calculated to effect their purpose. (Hear)
Had it not been for his interposition a massacre would
have occurred. He now called on the people to obey
every thing having the shape or appearance of legality—
if they wished for safety to themselves and for a repeal
of the union. If they follow this course they must in-
evitably obtain repeal—by keeping themselves out of the
power of their enemies, who would never venture to throw
off the mask and raise the dagger against them —(hew-
and cheers.) If they did so, it would, of course, be a
different case altogether; but he wanted to carry repeal
without shedding a drop of blood—without crime or
violence of any kind—in such a way as that he could meet
his Redeemer without having anything criminal
to answer for, in that struggle for the liberty of his coun-
try—(cheers.l It had been said that if he was arrested
there might be a struggle. They could say nothing that
more grieved him, for it led to the inference that they did
no; believe him to be sincere, when he told them to keep
the peace. He now told them to obey the law even if he
were to perish in consequence of that obedience. The
course of the government with respect to the Clnntarf
meeting was, he repeated, calculated to cause the slaughter
of innocent people. They were in possession of the fact
for three weeks, yet did not announce their attention of
putting it down till the last moment. Only for the activity
used, and his being in town, the friends of the people
could ❑ot have cautioned them from attending, and the
result might have been fearful. For six months the go-
vernment had permitted, nay, he might say, countenanced
these meetings ; they knew the names of those who took
part in them, yet there were no prosecutions—no hint
even of their being illegal—no caution given—in fact, on
the contrary, there was a continual acquiescence and ac-
knowledgment of their legality on the part of the govern-
ment. Up to Friday last such was the state of things,
when suddenly the government thought proper to inter-
fere with the last of their meetings. and one. too, above
all others, characterised by decent tranquillity, for the
requisition by which it was convened was signed exclu-
sively by Catholic clergymen. (Hear, hear.) Why did
they not publish the proclamation in the Gareth, of Fri
day ? The association might then have had time to pre-
vent the people from attending. It was late on Saturday
before it was issued ; and if he had not sent messengers
to the various parts of the country, whence the people
were expected to attend, there was no doubt that three or
four hundred thousand persons from the surrounding
counties would have assembled at Clontarf on yesterday ;
and, if they had done so. it would be next to a miracle it'
some riot were not committed or fomented. (Hear,hear.)
Any of the low Dublin Orangemen could have gone there
and done it. (Hear, hear, hear.) He asserted that a set
of men who could act so, were unworthy of being entrust-
ed with the government of Dalkey Island. (Laughter.)
He then took out a copy of the proclamation, and corn.
mented on it in a sneering and contemptuous tune, clause
by clause. One clause referred to placards calling on
people to march in military order. Of these placards the
Association knew suing : they were anonymous. The
charge that their meetings tended to bring the govern-
ment and constitution into contempt, he utterly repu-
diated. Ile wished only to revive the constitution, and
this charge (to use the term of a friend when a man spoke
nonsense), mere " fudgeography." (Great laughter.) He
denounced the addressing of the proclamation " to alt
magistrates, officers," &c., as illegal in language, and of
ferociaus authority, and quite different from the proclam-
ation issued in Wales, in which a complete catalogue of the
crime was set forth, and ended with enjoining all " magis-
trates, sheriffs, under-sheriffs, and all other civil authori-
ties whatsoever to be aiding in the suppression of these
outrages." In Irelanl there had been no such outrages,
and the persons who issued the Irish proclamation should
be impeached for the abominable latitude as to the per-
sons to whom it was addressed. If they put such a procla-
mation into the Corn-Exchange Rooms, he would
be the first to go into it, notwithstanding. if they
sent police or soldiers to arrest them, they would
submit at once. The crime would be the govern-
ment's—the legal vindication should he theirs—(cheers.)
Mr. O'Connell then announced that he intended to have
simultaneous meetings tin two occasions, but he would
not then fix the days. They would take place before the
meeting of parliament, and would be for the adoption and
signature of petitions to parliament. He concluded by
impressing on the meeting the necessity of an implicit
obedience to the laws, but at the same time never desist-
ing from legally struggling for repeal, and proposed a
resolution to that effect.
Captain SEAVER, of Newry, seconded it, and it was
adopted.
Mr. O'Connell announced the amount of the week's
rent to be £1.105 3s. Id.
Major Nicuoisosr, who said it was the proclamation
brought him there, was the second chairman, anti the
meeting seperated after giving three cheers for Mr. O'Con-
nell.

On Monday week a baker in Dunlin 'diced a hirge
placard in his window, with the following tionouncemen-:
" Notice!!! The five hundred thousand penny bon, pre-
pared for the great Clontart meeting of yesterday 4re LIOW
on sale at a half-penny a piece ! We nirly thank the go-
vernment for this toss. not an action will he brought
for the recovery. And may-be they won't be able to
p:ty ?"

Mr. Brunel, the celebrated engineer, with other gentle-
men, are at present in town, on au inspection of the coast,
with a view to wake a packet station in the most eligihle
position, for the purpose of landing English mails destined
for the south and east of Ireland. It is also contemplated
to reclaim the •ast submerged lands which rpm Ile useless
wastes, within our harbours and lakes.— Wexford Inde-
pendent.

THE YBOMINRY.—The Secretary of State has written
to the Lord-Lieutenants of Counties in the Northern
District of England, directing the Yeomanry Corps b
hold themselves in rea,iiness to assemble at a short notice,
on the requisition of Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Arbuth-
not, the General Commandant of the Northern District of
England. We suppose that this order has been given
merely to provide for any contingency that may arise in
case further troops should be required in Ireland.

lasew SQUADRON.—The ships of war which at present
compose the Irish Squadron are the Volage, 26, Capt. Sir
W. Dickson, Bart., stationed at Cove, hearing the flag of
Rear Admiral Bowles, C. 8.; the Meteor steamer, Lieu.
tenanant-Commander George Butler; the Lynx, 3, brig-
antine, Lieutenant-Commander John Thomas Nott, sta.
tioned at Torbert, on the river Shannon ; the Rhactiman-
thus steamer, Master Com. Thomas Leen, in attendance
on the Squadron, and the Snip Cutter. Lieutenant
George Raymond. The experimental squadron, which
comprises the Caledonia, 120, under the command of
Captain Alexander Milne, the Camperdown, 104, Cap-
tain Francis Brace; the Penelope. 22, Steam-ship, Cap•
tain William Jones, and the St. Vincent, 120, Flag Ship,
nnder the command of Capt. R. F. Rowley, and bearing
the flag of Admiral Sir C. Rowley, G.C.8., are at present
on a crui.e, and are shortly expected in this Harbour.
The Lucifer, steamer, Captain W. F. ileechey, and the
Comet, steamer, Com. George A. Frazer, have been en-
gaged for some time in surveying the Irish coast.
EXTRAORDINARY Ruuoua.—The Dublin Evening
Mail of Wednesday contains the following paragraph :
" An impression is very generally abroad—and exclusively
amongst Mr. O'Connell's own followers—that the Procla-
mation put forward by the Lord Lieutenant and Council,
was issued at the special request of Mr. O'Connell him-
self ; and that he was furnished with a manuscript copy.
and before the original had been in type, with a view of
having his own ready to promulgate simultaneously with
that from the Castle. We do not undertake to vouch for
the truth of this assertion; hut we can assure our readers
that it is extensively circulated as a rumour; and it is
reasonable to suppose that to it is to be ascribed the ne-
cessity of Mr. Mark Callaghan proposing, at the Abbey-
street meeting. on Monday, a ' vote of confidence in
O'Connell,' with the addition, ' that the people were re•
solved to adopt any measure that their great leader might
think fit to propose for the safety and peace of the empire.'
It is not usual, apropos to nothing, to move votes of con-
fidence, unless confidence be shaken."—[Whether this
rumour be correct or not, this much we confidently be-
lieve, viz., that there is not a man in Ireland who rejoiced
more in the course taken by government than Daniel
O'Connell. It gave him a chance of escaping a halter,
hich no effort of his own could have brought about.—
ED. L. S.]

WA L E S.

STATE OF SOUTH WALES

A daring outrage was committed on the night of the
6th instant, in the neighbourhood of Carmarthen. On
Saturday last, two men named Evans, master and ser-
vant, were apprehended on the information of a farmer
named Thomas, belonging to a parish twelve miles from
Carmarthen, charged with haying, on the night of the
30th September, together with others, with blackened
faces, created a disturbance, assaulted the said Thomas,
and obtained from him 40s. on false pretences. On the
same night (the 6th instant) Thomas, after giving the
information, was afraid of going home till late, and con-
cealed himself behind a hedge. About one o'clock he
heard a blowing of horns, and presently saw his house on
fire. It appears that the house was surrounded by a mob
of about 300 persons, most of them mounted and blowing
horns, hooting and firing guns. They then set fire to the
premises, and remained around, pre,ventinz any attempt
to save them, until the whole was consumed. The furni-

ture of the house, and forty cheeses, were destroyed. The
mob then dispersed. The reason assigned for the outrage
is, that Thomas had informed against two of the Rebecca-
ites the day before.

The Calvinistic Methodists of Pembrokeshire (a nume-
rous sect\ have, at their quarterly meeting, strongly de-
nounced the outrages going on, and strictly enjoined the
members of .their society to mark and denounce any indi-
vidual found to partake in them.
The Chaplain of the Union Workhouse at Carmarthen,

having expressed an opinion that " the popular feeling is
decidedly hostile to the New P3or Law, and views with
disgust and abhorrence the salaries paid to its various
officers," the Poor Law Commissioners have addressed
to this gentleman a letter, expressing an opinion, that if
such are his views, he had better not " be identified with
the details of its daily administration." Mr. Rowlands
has addressed a letter in reply to the clerk of the Union
Workhouse, in which he says, that the unpopularity of
the Union Workhouses cannot be denied ; that thousands
upon thousands have petitioned the Queen to relieve their
wants by other means than bastiles. He adds, that were
it not for the workhouse there being garrisoned by soldiers,
" one stone would not long stand upon another."
Two men were apprehended on the 7th for destroying a
gate near Llandovery.
On the 9th inst. a large meeting was held at Llechryd,

The above we have abbreviated (torn the Dublin Even-
ing Mail of yesterday. In addition to the circumstantial
account given, our Contemporary states that the moment
the paper was giing to press, his question of " What will
Mr. O'Connell do next," has been answered by a less a
personage than Mr. O'Connell himself; for his reporter
who has just returned from Calvert's theatre, brought
an account that the Liberator had entered into a solemn
undertaking

a fine village near Cardigan, to consider local grievances,
and particularly to take measures for the removal of a
weir that was peculiarly obnoxious to the inhabitants.
The ♦illage is beautifully situated on the banks of the
river Tivy, across which the obnoxious weir is placed.
The weir is said to prevent fish ascending the river from
the sea, to the great injury of the poor cottagers who re-
side on its banks, most of whom keep what are called
" coracles," or small wicker boats, for fishing. With
the aid of nets, these poor men are often enabled to sup-
port their families by occasionally taking salmon which
get over the weir during the freshes which come down the
river. The weir having from this cause become highly
obnoxious, has recently been destroyed by a large party
of men calling themselves Rebeccaites, and again re.
erected. At the meeting there were present many of the
gentry of the country, and Mr. E. I. Williams was called
to the chair. He proposed that, as the weir was legally
constructed, they should legally get it removed. If £404
could be collected, he would undertake to subscribe £lOO
himself (hear); but on this footing—that they should wait
until the next spring, the fishing season now being almost
over. On that condition he would use every exertion in
his power to obtain the required subscriptions. ( Hear,
hear.)—This announcement was received with great ap-
plause. The meeting finally agreed to a petition to the
Queen for the redress of the grievance stated, and others.
In Carmarthen numerous arrests had been made within
the last day or two, in consequence, as it is said, of Jhon
Yscypwrfawr having turned Queen's evidence and impli-
cated various parties.

" TO PROSECUTE AT LAW EVERY MAN
WHO SET HIS HAND TO THE PROCLAMATION
PROHIBITING THE CLONTARF MEETING."
Farce after Tragedy is fair and quite in O'Connell's
view ; but he may shortly find other more serious matter
to occupy himself with.

On Tuesday, in Dublin, nothing worthy of observation
occurred, beyond the very general circulation of a rumour
that government, far from having any idea of doing things
by halves were about to follow up their first blow by a
vigorous prosecution of the leading repeaters, and it was
asserted that informations against several parties had al-
ready been sworn. The tone in the entire party in that
locality was represented as ♦ery materially lowered, and
there were very evident symptoms of an inclination to
back out of their late position.

The Repeal Association met on Wednesday for the
avowed purpose of " taking into consideration a reply to
the pro-slavery manifesto of the repealers of the State of
Ohio; and also an address to the people of Ireland, to
allay the irritation caused by the recent proclamation."
The proceedings were of a very tame character, wanting
in all that braggadocia which has characterised them in
former times. A great portion of Mr. O'Connell's sweet
breath was expended in defending his late remarks on the
character of Louis Philippe and his offer of an Irish bri-
gade, in case of a successful counter revolution in France,
to defend the throne of Henry V. He next addressed the
meeting on the subject of the late proclamation. He had
to move that it be referred to the committee to prepare the
frame of an address to the Irish people, and to have it
printed and circulated, exhorting them to persevere in
their agitation for repeal; but cautioning them against
any excitement in the present crisis, or, indeed, at all—
(hear, hear.) He was encouraged to adopt this course by
an address to him from the corporation of Limerick,
which he had received that morning. Having read tl is
document Mr. O'Connell continued to say that his object
now was to soothe irritation—to calm down the public
mind, and to keep the repeal cause steadily progressing
by adhering to those principles so often inculcated by him,
P-ohibitory of physical force of any kind—(hear, hear.)
The rule now was not only to yield to authority but to
the semblance of authority. So long as the executive
clothed itself with the appearance of legal authority, so
long he (Mr. O'Connell) claimed from the people of Ire-
land submission to the law, and a total abstinence from
violence or outrage—(hear.) He was pleased to find that
from every ;ia of the country letters were fast coming up,
stating that the people were universally determined to fol-
low the advice he had given, and that there was no danger
whatever of an outbreak. But it would be necessary to
repeat that advice, and to adopt every means in their
power of reminding the people of their duty. He had
himself intended to draw up an address to the people on
this subject, but he thought it better to make the address
in the shape of a speech to-day, aEd refer it to the
committee to draw up the documen with deliberation.
After describing the mode in which the proclamation bad
been got up and issued, Mr. O'Connell proceeded to state
his opinion that it was a military proceedure, dictated by
Lord Lyndhurst and the Duke of Wellington, on which
the rest of the cabinet had not been consulted ; and as-
serted that it was intended to have bean read, as a kind
of riot act, at the meeting, allowing them only a quarter
of an hour to disperse hefore bringing the troops upon
them. (!) He proceeded then to lay down his plan of fu-
ture operations, which may shortly be described as con-
sisting in the getting up of petitions from every parish in
Ireland, as a mode of amusing his dupes until the present
excitement shall have ceased ; and then he would com-
mence his proposed simultaneous meetings. The whole
proceedings were of a most tame and craven nature, the
only feature worthy of notice being the transfer of the re-
ap° sibility of having uttered the seditious placard, calling
for the mounted repealer. to proceed to the meeting at
Clontarf in military order, from the shoulders of O'Con-
nell and the Council to those of a Mr. F. Morgan, de-
scribed as one of the solicitors of the Dublin Corporation
The meeting was adjourned to Monday next.

A meeting of the inhabitants of the several pari-hes
round Llangadock was held on the 10th on a hill side
near that place. There were about 1000 persons present,
farmers and farm-labourers, many of the former substan-
tial men. Mr. Morgans, baptist minister of Tallyryn,
was called to the chair, and stated that the meeting watt
for the purpose of petitioning for an inquiry into existing
grievances, and of resolving to repress nightly outrages.
He alluded to those burdens on the people which have
been often described as oppressive to them—tolls, tithes,
rents, and the new poor-law, which he designated as a
harsh and oppressive measure. Mr. Lewis, a farmer,
spoke with great animation against the new poor-law, and
the salaries paid to the union officers. The rural police
was wholly unnecessary, and would impose fresh burdens
on the people. The county rate had been most lavishly
and improperly expended without control. He concluded
by moving that a petition expressive of loyalty and attach-
ment to the Queen, and embodying resolutions similar to
those agreed upon at former meetings, to discourage
nightly outrages, should be adopted. The Queen's pro-
clamation was read, and the meeting was called upon to
discourage all nightly and other outrages. He said that
the poor-rates, tithes, and other charges, were much too
high ; but was in favour of the new poor-law. A speaker
said that the proclamation went to teach the people, in
the hope of reward, to become false swearers. Annther
speaker said the proclamation amounted, in plain lan-
guage, to this—How are we to catch 'Becca? It would
be well at the same time to ask who she was. Some said
she was the mother of all farmers ; but the truth was, that
poverty was 'Becca (great cheering), and what kept her
up was grievances. She was here one day, and elsewhere
another. The grievances complained of were named in
the petition. Every one would wish to catch 'Becca, and
get rid of her. (Cheers.) The way to get rid of her was
to get plenty of food, in order to give enough to her. The
toll-bars that were oppressive ought to be taken away.
He admired the constitution of England, and thought
there was not a better man in the country than the Prime
Minister, but they would be enabled to judge of him bet-
ter after the meoting of that day. The Bible said, " He
that bath ears to hear, let him hear. If Sir R. Peel
wanted peace, let him listen to what they said. The
Chairman then put the petition to the meeting, and it was
unanimously agreed to, and the meeting'separated.
The active reporter of the Times, under the date of
Thursday last, states, that in consequence of the conces-
sions made in various parts by the gentry and others, in
respect to tithes and other burthens, the happiest results
have followed, and that the country is gradually becoming
more settled. The proprietor and the lessee of the
Llechryd Weir (above noticed) had expressed a willing-
ness to abolish it at a low rate of compensation, which,
coupled with the manner in which some of the gentry then
came forward to subscribe towards that compensation,
was immediately followed by expressions of satisfaction
and content by the people.
In the neighbourhood of Carmarthen nightly meetings
were still however held, and the blowing of horns was
heard amongst the hills. Fifty of the metropolitan police
had arrived in the town, and it was supposed would prove
more efficient than any hitherto employed. The writer of
these reports attributes much of the discontent to the op-
pression of landlords, and the tyrannous manner in which
some of the lawyers they employ proceed against tenants
by distraint. With respect to the approaching special
commission, he says :—" Many speculations are afloat as
to the effect of the special commission just announced to
iry the prisoners taken for Rebecca outrages. Some
think that a salutary terror will be created by it in the
minds of the people, and that it will put an end to the
diaturbances. This, however, is a matter about which it i

-riep.--

There will be a general illumination in Cork, this day
(Tuesday), the anniversary of the birth of the distin-
guished Apostle of Temperance.

I The firm of Messrs. Gould and M'Namara, owing to
the combination existing amongst the journeymen coop-
ers, Was compelled to send 200 firkins of butter on Fri-
day to Liverpool, to be trimmed and coopered.—Cork
Constitution.

DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT OF CARLOW COLLEGE.—
The Carlow Si nano! announced the death on the 2nd
inst., of the Rev. Dr. Fitzgerald, President of the Ro-
man Catholic college of Carlow for a period of 44 yeare.
In 1830 he refused to pay the O'Connell tribute, and told
the deputation that waited on him for that purpose, that
Mr. O'Connell was "a knave in politics, and a hypOcrits
in religion."

its extremely (lithe !It to prognosticate. With apparent THE IRON MAREET.—The iron trade, in this neieh•
quiet around for a few days, one is continually startled by ibourhood at least, maintains its advanced position ; and
the reports of some fresh refrege or other. I am, how- to use the words of our informant (an eminent. irminineter)
ever, inclined to think, from the changed aspect of things is considered to be " ink health} state." There e• no
here, from the people having begun to state their corn- likelihood, we are informed, of any decrease of eriee, nor
plaints in public meetings by day „that the fearful state of is an advance considered probable. Wolverhampton
excitement which has prevailed in. South Wales is subsi• paper.
ding. and that it will find a harmless vent in speechifying, THE LATE FATAL DUEL.—The Commander-in-Chief
instead of in mischief." has directed Lieut. Munro's immediate return to his re-
On the 12th another turnpike gate in Brecon was broken giment. It is generally supposed that Lieutenant Munro
down, and the toll-house destroyed' A reward of 4;50 will not surrender at all to take his trial for the murder
was offered for the discovery of the guilty parties, of Colonel Fawcett ; but that his second, Lieutenant
Grant, will give himself up at the next sessions of the
SPECIAL COMMISSION.—A special commission, to be Criminal Court.
held at Cardiff, in Glarmorganshire, has been issued for THE WEATHER.—Wet, cold, and tempestuous weather
the trial of the Welsh rioters. The judges named in the
has Prevailed during most of the week, and the fineness
and
commission are M
Cr. Baron Parke, Mr. Bacon fn Gurney, of the season appears to have entirely gone, and the dark
Mr. Justice resswell. and the day. fieor the and stormy days of autumn to have succeeded. On Wed-
first sitting of the commission is Saturday, the diet inst. nesday it thundered and lightened. Yesterday there was
The Rieht Hon. Thomas Frankland Lewis, the Hon. hail, rain, frost, and snow. At present there appears no
Robert Henry Clive. and William Crippe, Esq., have signs of improvement.—Preston Clarowiele.
been appointed her Majesty's Commissioners for enquir- SUlClDE.—Yesterday, at ball-past two o'clock, p.m.,
ing into the present state of the turnpike' laws in South John Caunce, a tailor. from Clifton, deliberately walked
Wales, and also into the circumstances which have led to into the Ribble in the presence of his wife at Ashton, and
the recent acts of outrage in that country. G, K. Rick-
was drowned. He had come to Preston for medical ad-
ards, Esq., is to be the Secretary to the said Commission. vice, and was in a low state of spirits. The body was got
CONSECRATION OF LLANFYNYDD CHURCH, FLINT- out in about half an hour afterwards, but ife was sxtinct.
SHIRE.—This church is erected on a site generously given —Bid.
the . Brook Yates, Esq., by subscription, principally of CHARITY SERMONS.—On Sunday week, two sermons
Earl of Derby, Sir Stephen R. Glynne. the Dean and were preached in the National School, Symonstone, near
Chapter of Winchester, and 12%, ilson Jones, ESq., aided Padiliahat in the afternoon by the Rev. J. Groom,
by grants from the Incorporated Society, and the St. 8.A., curate of Padihnrn, and that in the eveeing by the
Asaph Diocesan Society. The church contains 427 sit- Rev. Walter Allnut, B.A , curate of Haber ham Eaves;
tinge, of which 329 are to be tree. The ceremony of con- after each of which a collection was made ign aid of the
secretion was performed by the Bishop of St.. Asaph in school, amounting to .£ll 135., being the largest sum
the presence of a large congregation, among whom were ever collected there for a similar purpose.
many of the first families in that part of the principality.
The Rev. E. S. Thurlow, the sinecure rector of Hope, Mr. Macgregor of the Board of Trade, who is at
has most liberally endowed the new church with £BO per present in this city, had a meeting on Wednesday with a
annum out of the rectorial tithes. number of our leading merchants and bankers. Although
the communications with Mr. Meartcgreg,,r are not of
LLANLLECHYDD CHURCH.—The old church of the
official character, it is generally believed that his visit is
parish of Llanllechydd, in the county of Carnarvone being intended as a means of feeling the pulse of the cum_
in
a dilapidated state, and utterly inadequate to the spirt- mercial community regarding certain changes supposed to
tual wants of the people, it is proposed to erect a new be in contemplation.—Glasgow Mail.
church, near the site of the present building, at a cost of
THE SEASON.—We have striking signs of the approach
about £l2OO. This praiseworthy undertaking has origi-
nated winter here. At the. Laund, near Cockerhana, (the
nated in the pious zeal of the Very Rev. the Dean of
residence of J. Clarke, Esq.,) some woodcocks were seen
Bangor (the rector of the parish), who is always ready to
l
promote every good work for the extension of the church ; last week, and this week, Mr. Atkinson, gunsmith, brought
and when we consider that the object of this charitable a fine one to our office. It was shot near the town. A.
project is to make due provision for the ministrations of large flock of wild geese nave also flown over the town.
The snow is on the hills, and for two days past the wind
religion among a scattered population of 5.000, we hope
the laudable design will be brought to a speedy and suc-
has blown sharply from N.E. The frost on Thursday
ceesful issue. Many of the neighbouring gentry have night was keen.—Carlisle paper.
subscribed.
LANCASTER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The annual
DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERT NEAR MPRTIIYR, IN meeting of this society wes held on Tuesday last, on which
SOUTH WALES.—The Cardiff Advertiser of Saturday occasion there was a very good show of cattle, &c. The
states that this day se'rmight, as Mr. Gaccon, cashier of company assembled in the field was very large, and in-
the Aberdare Iron Company, whose works are in the vici- eluded all the leading agriculturists of the neigh!) )urhood.
nity, was returning on horse- back from the batik in Mer- The usual dinner did not take place, no person in ntitho-
thyr with £2OOO in cash, to pay wages, he waestopp-d on rity having given the necessary directions—so that the
the mountain at noon-day between that town and Aber- business of the day would finish rather flatly.
dare, by three men, and robbed of the whole amount, AreertmlNG FIRE.-011 Friday night last the inhabi-
which was in a portmeanteau. One of them held a pistol tants of Rathmell Moor, near Settle, were into a state of
to his side, and they all escaped in the first instance. An consternation in consequence of a harp in that locality
alarm was, however, given with all possible celerity, and being observed to he on fire. The whole of the hay con-
the numerous workmen at the iron works, as well as the tained in the building Was destroyed, and the walls level-
inhabitants,immediately turned out,and after considerable led to the ground by the devouring element. No cause
search on the mountain discovered the three offenders hid whatever can he assigned as to the origin of the fire, and
in a hedge—and what was not less gratifying found the it is supposed to be the act of an incendiary.
treasure concealed in various parts in the vicinity. The SINGULAR DFATH.—A short time since Mr. R. Rich,
prisoners were examined before the magistrates at Mer- farmer, of Ridley Court, accidentally scretched one of
thyr, end were all committed for trial at the sessions, at his fingers (supposed by a thotii) ; inflemmation took
Cardiff.
place and spread over h-s frame ;it eaa followed by mot.-
The same paper (in very large type) says that " The Spe- tification, which shortly terminated in death. Tile de-
cial Commission for trying the persons charged with of- ceased, who was 56 years of age, was much respected and
fences on the Borders of Carmarthenshire, is to he held I lamented by his fancily and toirnerous friends. He ,vas
at Cardiff on the 21st instant, before the eminent judges many years the confidential bailiff to Mr. Niceola,,
Parke, Gurney, and Cresswell." of Franks, in this couny for his estate at Ridley.-
stone Journal.
MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF LIFE.—A
correspondent informs us of the shipwreck of the Mary
Anne, of Arbroath, about six miles from Islay, on Wed-
nesday night last, with the loss of all hands Ott leetrd,
except a young seaman. named John Purvis. She sided
last from N wcaatle, for Srangrord Lough, on Tuesday
week, with a cargo of 95 tons of wheat. 13esides the
Captain, whose name was David Cargill, her crew con-
sisted of five sailors—one of them a boy. The Mary
Anne foundered off the Runs of Islay.—Londonderry
Sentinel.

GENERAL MISCELLANY

The net amount of the Income Tax receipts, deducting
all expenses, up to Saturday, the 26th ult., was £4,854,518.
Ahnut 2,500 persons have taken out game certificates
in Yorkshire for the year 1843.
The tradesmen of Bradford have agreed to close their
shops at 8 ,'cloak every evening during the winter.

The revenue returns were made up a few days ago :
the increase on the quarter amounts to nearly a million
and a 'calf.

Mr. Tidd Pratt, the certifying barrister, hat; refused to
enrol the rules of the chartists passed at the late Birming-
ham conference.

The estates and property of an iron company, which
cost them £1.641,626 15 4d,. and which were valued in
1841 at £1,078,667, are now offered for £200.000.

The arbitration courts are in the course of constitution,
very generally, throughout the south and centre of Ire-
land.

By the Mutiny Act of the last Session, it is declared
that the army shall consist at the preent period of "one
hundred thousand eight hundred and for.y-six men.

It is stated that so far did the demand for labour in
southern Lincolnshire exceed the supply during the har-
vest, that. the reapers in some instances demanded and
obtained the enormous price of 7s. 6d. a-day.
In the Times Sir Robert ['vet acknowledges the receipt
of a bank-note for the sum of £lOO, which has been sot
under cover to him " for the stamp-office," and which
will be forthwith paid in '.o the Exchequer.
LIGHTHOUSE ON THE CAITHNESS COAST.—Mr.
Stevenson, engines., has been visiting several places with
a view to ascertain the best site for a new lighthouse,
much wanted between Wick and Nosshend.

The tide was so low at the mouth of the Tyne, on Sun-
day fortnight, that William Young, a pilot, wad,-d across
Tynemonth Bar, from the north to the south side, a feat
never performed by any one within the memory of man.

Trade in Sheffield is, we are glad to hear, decidedly im-
proving; the best proof of this is the fact, that the ex-
penditure of the poor-law union, which reached till lately
the enormous sum of £6OO per week, has fallen to £4OO.
A new steam-ship, 180 feet long, which is to have stem
and stern exactly alike, and a rudder fitted to each, was
laid down last week at Chatham. One upon a some-
what similar plan was launched lately from the yard of
Mr. Laird, Woodside.

DISTURBANCE IN IRELAND AND WALES.—The Man-
chester and Salford Peace Society, on Friday night unan-
imously resolved to petition the cabinet to resort to other
means for the settling of the present differences than those
which involve the shedding of human blood.

ARMORIAT. BEARTNGS.—According to a recent deci-
sion of the judges, the impression of a thistle on a com-
mon pencil case, with the motto " Dinna forget," are
chargeable as armorial hearings when used, and subject
the party to a duty of £2 Bs.

Ray.
void-

GOOD NEWS FOR THE ARMY.—Thot projected new cap
for the Infantry is likely to be abandoned, as the Duke of
Wellington has submitted to the Queen that another cap
be substituted, and her Majesty has been pleased to accede
to His Grace's recommendation.—Globe.

COTTAGF.RS' PIGS.—TWO of the cottagere pigs ex.
hibited at the Leyland agricoltural show have been killed,
and the following are their respective weights:—Mr.
Samuel Walsh's, 25 score 12i lbs. ; Mr. James Clarkson's,
26 score 6 lbs.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET.—thIr raw sutlar market
has been rather less animated this week, still the sales
amount to GOO hogsheads West Inds, at prices fully equal
to the former quotations; fine 66s to 675., good bright
62.5. to 655., middling 59=. to 615., strong- pan qualities
58s. to 615., low brown 565. to 57a. Scarcely anything
done t•i Bengals or Maui-ants. For rums there is rather
more demand, and about 50 puncheons have been disposed
of since our last at the previous quotations. Average
price of Sugar, Oct. 10, is 335. 91(1. per cwt.

The Northern Times furnishes a catalogue of no fewer
than fourteen vessels stranded or wrecked on the coast
near Shields on Thursday. It does not appear that many
lives were lost. The scene was most appalling on the
coast. The body of one seaman has been washed on
shore.

CUSTOM HOUSE.—Owing to the dismissals and SUR.
pensions nt the London Custom House, in conseq• ence of
the frauds committed there, several of the officers of the
customs at Bristol have been removed for a tirne to the
metropolis, to do the work until these vacancies are filled
up.—Bristol Mirror.

THE TIDES AT LElTH.—Another singular phenome-
non of the tide took place at Leith on Friday evening,
the 6th current. At eighteen minutes past seven, being
low water, the tide, in the course of ten minutes, rose to
the height of eighteen inches, where it remained for
nearly fifteen minutes, it then receded about six inches,
where it continued to stand for twenty minutes, and then
suddenly rushed in (and with great rapidity), and in half
an hour rose to the height of three feet. During the
spring tides at Leith, if they recede a great way, they
have bad ebbs at Burntisland, and vice versa.—Edin-
burgh Evening Post.

We have much pleasure in announcing, that H. M.
Feilden, Esq., son of Joseph Feilden, Esq., of Witton
House, near this town, has returned from the Continent,
along with his youthful and lovely bride, after their mar-
riage excursion. Mr. and Mrs. H. Feilden arrived at
Witton House on Wednesday evening last.—Blackburn
Standard.

PAISLEY AND ARDROSSAN CANAL.—The swift passage
boats on this canal, which have done so much to decom-
pose all the previously existing hydrodynamical theories,
without as yet giving anything in their place, are now
removed to another sphere of action, or rather traction ;
a change occasioned by a compact between the hitherto
competing canal and railway modes of conveyance. Two
of the five were recently shipped at the Brotnielaw, Glas-
gow, to be sent to Wolverton, and two for the Sheffield
Canal. The breaking-up of the establishment has occa-
sioned the sale of 60 horses. The canal company receive
£l4OO per annum as a bonus, in consideration of their
relit quishing the passenger traffic.
SMALL DEER —Captain Robertson, of the Monarch,
which arrived at Leith on Saturday from Hong Kong,
with a cargo of tea, brought home with him—out of a
variety of other animals intended for our Zoological
Gardens, but which unfortunately died on the passage—
a pair of Napu Musk Deer from the Island of Java. and
which he has liberally presented to this institution.
These deer are not much larger than a hare, and are the
smallest of the ruminating animals. They are very
beautiful, with large eyes like the Gazelle, and legs not
much thicker than a tobacco pipe. Mr. Alexander, of
Gaurock Castle, Gaurock, has also presented the Gardens
with an Ewu, brought by himself from New South Wales.
—Edinburgh Evening Post.

REDUCTION or RENTS.--At the Marquis of West-
minster's rent-days during the past and present week
a lf reductionyear ,s rental;of l
10 per
pert.ha cesbnetn to suchmaden from
mantsheaslaarset
h
willing to expend the amount returned in procuring ar-
tificial manure for their lands.—Chester Courant.
THE MOSTYN TESTIMONIAL.—The splendid cande-
labrum, value one thousand guineas, is to be presented to
the Hon. Mr. and Lady Harriet Mostyn, at Mostyn Hall,
on the 31st instant. The committee intend meeting at
Whitford, at eleven o'clock in the morning.
INCENDIARISM AT MOLD.—During the last fortnight
three different fires, supposed to be caused by incendiaries,
have occurred in Denbighshire. In one case the parties
supposed to be guilty have been committed for trial at the
ensuing assizes, at Ruthin ' • and there is reason to think
that facts connected with the other outrages will be
speedily brought to light.

SUICIDE.—III our police intelligence will be found a
paragraph headed ' Singular Case.' It will be seen that a
young woman, named Mary Duck, was brought up before
the magistrates for leaving her infant child unprotected.
On that occasion Mr. Marshall treated the woman with
considerable cfintempt. [lad he given her a severe repri-
mand and examined into her real guilt, no one could have
complained. The woman evidently felt the treatment of
this New-Poor-Law-Advocating-Magistrate, and which,
added to what she had suffered from being taken into cus-
tody and exposed to the wide world, has caused her to
commit suicide. On Wednesday last her cold and lifeless
body was taken out of a pond between this town and
llorbury,—A coarse.—Wakefield Journal.
EXTRAORDINARY ROD FISHING IN THE Tt/6ED.—•
On Thursday last, Mr. Denistoun. Springwood-park, had
singularly good sport in the Tweed, at the Scurry-pool, in
Sprouston Water, having killed no fewer than 17 salmon
with the rod. The salmon killed were of the following
weights :—one 201 b., one 181 b., one 1-11 b., one 91b., two
51h. each. and the remainder between 71b., and 81b. each.
What renders Mr. Dennistoun's sport upon this occasion
the mete extraordinary is, the low state of the river, front
the long-continued drought, and that scarcely a single fish
has been taken with the rod for several weeks. The
only mode by which salmon have been taken in the Tweed
for some weeks past has been with the leister or spear,
and in th;s way a good number have been killed.—Edit.
burgh Witness.

IMPORTATION OP COAL INTO LONDON.—The follow-
ing
aannd acui
nt
dh
ee cfraocmco
tohnet
To fy
nteh,e
vvimpeortation, oflk cc.
,o coal,
London, for the month of September :—From Newelstle,
ni:r04,m7496 Sunderland,
tons,n
8618.5830 ships;tons
from Blyth, 10,944 tons, in 52 ships; Scotch coals, 1,380,
inl 122,863898 hi tons,ps in 35
from 4 ships;tocto
tons, in 19 ships ; Welch ditto, 6,281 tons, in 29 ships;
from Yorkshire, &c., 4.763 tons, in 51 ships ; total-
-260,540 tons, in 956 ships. This import, co spared with
that in September, 1842, which was 221,865 tons, shows
Stocton,
an tncreose for the September in this year of 38,675 tons.
The imports in last year, from January lst to Saptember
30th, amounted to 1,902,82$ tons, 6,864 ships; the im-
ports in the present, during the same period, is 1,860,965
tons, in 6,958 ships; decrease in the present year 41,842
tons.

CHESTER CHEESE FAIR.—At the Chester October
Fair, held yesterday week. a large quantity of Cheese was
piled for sale, and business, we are happy to state, was
very brisk, nearly the whole being cleared off by eleven
o'clock. Prices ranged from 455. to 555. per cwt, accord.
ing to quality : being an advance of about 3s. per cwt.
on the prices obtained at our last fair.

It is gratifying to state, that the hosiery trade in the
Leicester district still continues very brisk. The cut-up
hosiery branch, as well as cotton, and worsted, and
lanhbs'-wool, still keeps in an active state. The glove
manufacture is still finding general employment for the
hands. The fancy trade is in the same fair state of de-
mand that it has been in for some months past.
IcE AT SEA.—The Camilla, from Rotterdam to New
York, and which arrived at the latter place on the 24th of
of August last, reported the falling in with, in lat. 41 37,
long. 491, a number of icebergs, and one large field of ice
of several miles' extent. It is extremely rare to meet
with ice so late in the summer between Europe and Ame-
rica.

Goon OLD HOSPITALITY.—On the evening of Thurs-
day week our respeeted neighbour, Colonel Rawstorne,
summoned together the whole of his tenantry, and enter-
tained them at his residence. Penwortham Hall, to a good
sub.,tantial supper. After the entertainment, the Colonel
addressed his rustic guests in courteous and encouraging
terms, and expressed his intention of establishing for their
use an agricultural library, at Hutton village school.
This is the first and chief step to advance agricultural im-
provement: first eradicste the weeds of ignorance, and
there will be a greater disposition on the part of farmers
to root up and clear the soil of vegetable weeds, and to
reduce it to a better state of tillage. Then, and not tilt
then, will they appreciate the beauty of a well cultivated
field, than which, as the Roman orator observed, " No..
thing can be more delightful."—Preston Chronicle.
ARRIVAL OF THE DIJER OF BORDISAIII.—This
trious Prince of the house of Bourbon has arrived in this
country from Germany. His Royal Highness, or, as his
partisans in Prance call him, Henry V. of France,
landed at Hull on Friday week last from Hamburgh, at-
tended by the Duke de Levis, Count Loemarin, Marquis
de Chambannel, and Captain Villaret de Forgeuse. His
lioyal Highness embarked at Harnburgh on Wednesday
morning at half-past ten o'clock, and the steamer reached
Hull in 49 hours, after encountering strong head-winds
thromrhout the passage. On Saturday his Royal High.
ness and suite, in three carriages, left Hull for Leeds and
York, in which city the Duke stayed to go over the Mins-
ter arid view the different objects of interest in old Ebora-
cum. On Monday his Royal Ilighnegs departed front
that city for Scotland, with the intention of tusking a
brief sejour at Durhom and Newcastle, and en eonfe his
Royal Highness was expected to visit the Duke and
Duchess of Northumberland at Alnwic Castle. 1115
Royal Highness seems to suffer even soksb = tho effects
Qf the accident ho met with ElQua
taut;

NEW ACT FOR REGCLATING THEATRES.—An appli-
cation was last week made to the magistrates of Ashton
in this county on the part of a Mr. Grundy, proprietor of
the Victoria Concert Room, fora license to perform play!.
After a consultation amongst the magistrates, the appli-
cant was informed " the majority of the magistrates, after
a full consideration of the act, and Mr. Grundy's applica-
tion, believe that they have a discretionary power to grant
or refuse the license; and conceiving they would not be
justified in granting such license to a person who wss E
licensed victualler, the application is refused."