The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-22 00:00:00

TUE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

TO CORRESPONDENT'S,

king population of the manufacturing villages
at the county remain sunk in a state of itt-

COMMITTAL OF MURPHY, SECRETARY TO THE more anxiously looked for, as likely to develope the pro-
1-?IELD CLUB, FOR A TREASONABLE bable events in Europe.
"A successful rencontre has taken place between Her
Majesty's ship Scout and a most audacious set of pirates
near Amoy; Commander Johnston was slightly wounded

g kit Let him not be misunderstood about Orangeism. They
were too much in the habit in England of talking of
C
Orangeisrn as of something allied to Itibandism, but he be-
lieved the Orangemen of England were bound together by
their love of an open bible and a preached saviour—that
tj
the men who branded them as political incendiaries had
I
a design in view, wishing to bring them into disrepute,
and to make them noxious in the eyes of the British
11
t public. (Hear, hear.) A lady told him the other day
that she had seen 10,000 Orangemen assembled together
ei
on a spacious plain, with banners inscribed with various
I
is passages from the Word of God,—that she had seen 30
ministers on their platform, by some of whom they were
'e rr
addressed—that these ministers preached to them
" Christ and Him crucified,"—(hear, hear.)—firmness,
P
in fortitude, and meekness to their foes; and that they
in
then awoke the hills to the echo of their song. It was,
ev
therefore, a lie according to this lady, and he fully be-
lieved her to assert that Orangemen were mere political
a?
incendiaries. He (Mr. Stowell) would give nothing for a
T
a mere political partisan, because politics, when weighed
in the balance, would be found wanting; but the
/ c
man who placed his back against the Rock of Ages,
and wielded the sword of the Spirit, would stand firm,
! and thousands of the Irish Protestants were buttressed by
that rock, and though they would not drive the poor
Papists into the sea, yet, they would face the burning
fiery furnace, heated like that into which Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abeinego had entered, before they would
f give the slightest sanction to what they conceived to be
ii idolatry. He was persuaded that our Irish Roman Catholic
J, .emarks on the
brethren wished for nothing more than an opportunity to
i- elate are extracted from the
burst the rotten bonds by which they were trammelled, and
that, despite all that statesmen could do to foster those
—umercio of the 24th of June :—•` The French
steamer Magellan arrived yesterday from Montevideo' bonds around them, it would still be impossible to keep
st the Gospel from the mass of the Irish people. That peo-
n-
ple wanted not e Reeal of U ; they only
wanted the Unionth betweenp Englandthe andnion Rome to be se-
Ve
vered, and the Gospel to be free. (Cheers.) He would to
led
God our British statesmen would come to a better mind,
tiesand that, instead of endeavouring to keep Ireland quiet by
gh- means of 70,000 soldiers and police, they would send over
:eni a set of troops in the shape of 5,000 Scripture readers,
yde officered by such men as Captain Foley and the Bishop of
it o
Cashel—(great cheering)—and other Irish-speaking cler-
;me
gymen, and guard them against altar denunciations, by
bringing every priestly imprecator to justice, if he dared
Aril to mark them out for slaughter. (Hear, hear.) If her
vic Majesty's government would carry out a plan like this,
ace' they would do more for Ireland than all their regiments
0 i of soldiery had ever done yet; and after all, if the past
policy were continued to be pursued, would it not be better
.r as to get rid of the country altogether rather than to keep it
wi Ly or Tipperary, and found the people
as a fortress of the Pope of Rome ! (Hear.) Why adopt
.
nor It was not so hospitable a part as the
diplomatic relations with Rome now, at the end of the
session, by a sneaking, Jesuitical sort of policy learned
north or Ireland. Be remarked that Cuddy had been
from Rome herself? Why hurry that bill through the
zed. For years this neighbourhood was the
very foolish in bringing pikes through the streets, and
stronghold of the Joanna Southcote imposture; that such pikes as they had in Liverpool were not fit for
house at a sort of express railway speed, in the face and ,
and Chartism, which succeeded the fanaticism of sending to Ireland, where they had them all polished and
against the expressed wishes of the great body of the
this impious sect, has been nowhere snore violent sharpened. Cuddy's were badly finished. In cross-ex-
people of England ? ( Cheers.) Six thousand people in
in its proceedings, or unscrupulous as to the wea- atnination, witness stated that the conversation took place Manchester had met in public meeting and opposed
pons of which it has made use. on the 17th inst., and he committed it to paper on the 19th.
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the bill. Where was the Protestant Association of
William Davidson, cabinet-maker, lived opposite pri- ANNUAL MEETING OF THE IRISH SOCIETY. Liverpool ? (Hear, hear.) Were they letting their asso-
The
was
circumstances of the recent attempted out- soner's house, in Peover-street. His attention was cal-
LAST NIGHT. ciation die away in Liverpool ? (Hear, hear.) This
break will be found in another place; and it will led by some of his family to prisoner,
who was busy ex- not the Meeting time to let Protestant associations die away.
The Annualof the above society for say that their agitation availed nothing. Be
be admitted that they were characterized by an amining a lot of pike-heads on a tablebefore the window.
the native Irish through the medium of their own lan- it so. But, at all events, let them fall fighting, and not
amount of brutal ignorance unparallelled, unless, On another occasion, after he had seen him so occupied,
prisoner left the house with a bundle in his hand, which guage, was held yesterday evening in the Lecture-room of falling back. Let them march on still. The Captain of
perhaps, amongst the repeal peasantry of Ireland.
their Salvation was on their side, and the shield of
he supposed to contain diea'rd pri-
The population has shown itself to have been armed
soneepike-heads ; and heswife caution himpas he left the house not to run the Collegiate Institution. The Rev. the Chancellor omnipotence was around them. The bill had been
- Raikes was in the chair. The spacious hall was crowded brought on in the front of the session, and now it had
as in Ireland, both pikes and muskets being sup- any risk.
plied in abundance, and, where they were not to be The whole of the evidence having been gone through, 1y a highly respectable audience, and we noticed upon the been suffered to fall into syncope, when most of the
members of the House were gone to amuse themselves iri,,.
had, other dangerous weapons, scythes and ham- and,the prisoner being cautioned that whatever he might platform the following gentlemen :—The Rev. Chancellor the fields; and now, by a sneaking sort of policy, the Diplo-
tilers, being substituted. The object of the out- the
wouldad boefurid againstit him on his
ytAlitriairin.,gßduienschlidtneoefnden,wcbeays;
Raikes, Revs. H. M`Neile, D.D., W. Carpenter, D.D., matic relations Bill would be carried by fraud, and stealth-
break was to carry the charter. How ? By march- and on his solicitors sin ti moarti nsgairalt air; R. Davies, F. Barker, F. Parry, John Hughes (Aberyst- ily, and not before the fair face of the British nation,
with), John Davies, Wm. Hughes, Wm. Falloon, Hugh This was really too bad, particularly at a time like the
ing upon Manchester, burning factories, and ar- about to commit him, he would not address the bench,
tolvelli Ryan, Govell, D. Foley, present, when Popery was tottering on its pedestal.
resting the industry of the entire district. What Mr. Rushton said that the case was too clear to admit of ,§.
Stowell, H.
Fenton, Green, Woseley, H. There was no nation under heaven that was now sup-
other than mad or unreasoning men would think a doubt ; and that this was only a link in a chain. The t-'
H. Higgins, D. Stewart, and about 20 other clergymen ; porting the Jesuits but England and Turkey—the land of
witnesses were bound over to prosecute, and the prisoner
of such a mode of convincing the legislature and Wm. Jones, Esq., Edwd. Jones, Esq., George Langtry, the false prophet and the land of the true. (Hear) Oh !
was committed.
their fellow-countrymen of their fitness to exercise Esq., Edwd. Webster, Esq., &c., &c. was it mar vellous, then, that God was threatening our har-
es to the shopkeepers, who in large and the elective franchise, and to wield political power ? COMMITTAL OF O'BRIEN FOR TREASONABLE The meeting having been opened with prayer,—the vests—that the cholera, which scourged us so quietly once,
eagnating, their customers are not re- What other than a population, scarcely removed in Rev. Chairman briefly adverted to the objects for which should again be travelling towards us on the wings of the
CONSPIRACY. they were assembled together. We were at present, he wind, and that our country should be restless and dis-
Jtuality of payment, and give them no intellect and morals above the condition of savages,
eo lay in stocks of superior articles ; for,
said, exeriencing great crisis, both of a pocal and a quieted ? (Hear.) Bishop Wiseman, at Salford, had lately
Jr, if not the lesser, Englandee' an annual, could be brought to listen to the ruffianly prompt- On Saturday, Wm. O'Brien, at whose house, in Hurst- social nature; and there was but one stable object upon been twitting the Church of England- with having per-
4, a very long visit to , they supply ings of the demagogues, by whom so criminal and street, it will be remembered a variety of pikes, bayemets, which we could fix our regards. We could only look up- mitted the growth of Chartism ; and he (Mr. Stowell)
i that country with most they require. Ex- insensate a course was dictated ? We seek in vain and other weapons were found, was again placed in the wards to our great Creator and feel a certain dependence admitted that the Church of England had a great deal of
dock at the Police-court,. the charge against him having of security. God seemed at the present time to have a past and" present unfaithfulness to answer for. He ad-
the towns, we cannot purchase an article for a parallel case, unless it is to be found amongst now assumed the definite shape of "treasonable con-
, -day use that is not rusty and decayed."
controversy with Christians. However we might strive mitted that she still fell very far short of her duty; but
the thieves and desperadoes of the metropolis, spiracy." A man named Bond was called to prove that to evade his power he seemed determined to assert it ; if Wiseman found fault with the artisans of England,
This is really a very sad state of things. We driven to want and to outrage as the consequences the prisoner was in the habit of attending a Confederate and to teach us the lesson that a people never can be saved why did he not look at hem
oat did he not point to
know not which is the greatest imputation against of their own multiplied and habitual crime. These club-room, at 52, Hurst-street, and of addressing speeches when the interests of one portion of them are neglected Italy, where there was the most debased, priest-ridden,
to the audiences assembled there, On one occasion, when for those of another. Children when neglected, become and utterly wronged and degraded; population upon the
the character and doings of John Bull—the fact men live in the centre of enterprise and of ado- the customers of Irish shopkeepers are not Bond was present, he told them they should organize to a trouble to their parents. The domestic relations of a face of the globe? (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.)
quately rewarded industry. Unlike the Irish pea- liberate Mitchel, and produced a pike-head, saying the country. can never be neglected without disturbance of The Italians, however, had been unable' to bear the yoke
"remarkable for punctuality of payment," or that santry, they are, on the average of years, in posses- possession of these instruments was the way to achieve it. e social system of that country. The population of any longer, and they were now crying out, "No priest,
nothing being sold in Ireland except rusty and de- sion of employment adequate to the supply of their O'Brien denied that he had ever made a speech in his life, Ireland had been flagrantly neglected, although it was not and no Pope !" and, better than all, they were demanding
cayed wares, the gentry resort to shops where they moderate wants, as working people. Compared and said he could produce two or three witnesses to prove for them to- say by whom. They had not received the the bible. So much so, that a name dear to- them
can be better supplied,
even with our own agricultural population, the it. The case was accordingly remanded to yesterday, free use of the Word of God ; and the consequence was to all, and not the less dear because their beloved
y when he was brought up at the Police.court to receive be traced in the present perplexed and disturbed state of Bishop of Chester was now the Archbishop- of Can-
For the first time we learn what repeal of the have nothing, connected with their bodily wants, to the benefit of the evidence of his witnesses. The first of the population of Ireland. It would seem that God has terbury—the Archbishop had told him last week that an
union is to effect for Ireland. We are told that— complain of, the income of a family amongst them these examined was a boy named Henry M'Divett, an at length allowed to be discovered a mean of remedyine order bad come to London for 10,000 Italian Bibles for
"A native parliament would restore to Dublin its orie being double or even treble that of an agricultural apprentice to Campbell, the tenant of the reading or club- the evils of Ireland, by teaching us the great influence of distribution among the Pope's subjects. (Great 'Ap-
inal prosperity. Her ladyship of Londonderry, whose labourer's family. To their want of educational room in Hurst-street, the other witnesses being sent out the Irish language upon the Irish people. The best in- plause.) The batere; therefore, was the Pope against the
-- and balls are so lavishly displayed in one capital, . of court during his examination. M'Divett's evidence strumentality for promoting a Christian and loyal spirit Bible and the Bible against the Pope—who feared the
and moral culture, alone, can we attribute their
eransferred to another, and the Dublin weaver of
went only to prove that he had never heard the prisoner amongst that people had at length been made plain, and result'? (Cheers.) It was said that there was only one
have an equal chance with the Spitalfields. seditious violence and their debased social condi- make any speeches in the room, or seen him do anything this society was doing what all the wisdom of politicians niche vacant in St. Peter's for one POpe more, and it: was
-ehire, so redolent of flowers and horti- sion. beyond reading newspapers or books. had failed to effect. After a most touching appeal to the a common impression that that niche was for the present
generous of entertainment and musical feasts, Glance for a moment at the savage crime with Several other persons were then called who deposed that meeting, prayine for aid to a society which was doing more Pius, after whom there would be no more Popes, no more
eiso be constrained to lead the way to his coup- which they crowned, or rather commenced, their the prisoner was a quiet man, that they had never heard than any other at present before the public to advantage priests, no more masquerades,no more masses, and no more
try's welfare. His £BO,OOO per annum he derives from happily frustrated outbreak. A mob of these vii- him use any exciting language, and that he had not at- Ireland, and expressing his hope that the presentoppor- of the phantasmagoria of the Papacy, of which he was
this country, and which he expends elsewhere (London,
tended the news-room until after Mitchel's trial. The tunic y would not be lost, the Rev. Chancellor i f d ,I
introduced sorry to say, some so-called Protestant clergymen seemed
Chiswick, and Chatsworth), might be well bestowed in loins, armed with pikes, pistols, and other weapons, papers taken at the room were the Irish Felon, the Nation, the Rev. Henry Carpenter, who read the report of the mighty fond. Oh ! if the spirits of Peter and Paul
encouraging shops in the pining town of Lismore, and met with a poor fellow—a policeman—alone, pa- the Freeman, and the Liverpool Mercury. society : ever came back to earth, how must they have been
also in that of Dublin." trolling his beat at the dead of night. There was Mr. Davenport, who defended the prisoner, then said The report stated that at no former period was a greater de. horrified at the monstrosities of Romanism, and
We are assured that it would be ungallant to no effort made by him either to arrest any of them that though he had many other witnesses, he did not sire manifested in Ireland, on the part of numhers, to be in- how must they have been gratified as thee bee •
tteinskomitenzetsssary to call them, as they would only prove structed in the tritthe of the e oee-i mi,... ....t._
hint that our female letter writer has studied poll- or to give the alarm. The only words he spoke to
tical economy without profit. We might, however, them were a request that they would not injure Mr. Rushton then sa he could not over the evi-
venture to ask the question, whether, in her own him ; and the main body went away, leaving him dence which had beenid
brought forwardget against the pri-
little experience, she has not learned that ladies, in the hands of two or three persons. By one of soner. They had before them conclusive evidence of this
whether marchionesses or more humble persons, these he was shortly afterwards run through the man having been found fastened up in a room with gun-
whether living in Dublin or in London, are in the thigh with a pike; and another consummated the and, Powder,
il apdiciciejo, andaddition
to
tztahte raim letterelemoef not
suspicious
oosf
iwaroiouasronua
nature
ohim
had
habit of going to the cheapest markets for their horrible crime by deliberately shooting him in the also been found upon his person. He could not get over
silks and all other commodities. breast. A more cowardly murder was perhaps such evidence as that; and the prisoner as well as other
The concluding portion of the letter is really never perpetrated. It was the cold-blooded act of persons who placed themselves in such a situation would
cruel; and we pity our contemporary, the London fiends rather than of men. To all outward ap- find that the law must be vindicated. The prisoner had
been found in that room, and fully sworn to, and he (Mr.
Times, against whom the fair writer's denunciations pearance, it was a crime without a pretext ; but
must, therefore, commit. him
.for trial.. It was a very
are levelled. She says— circumstances have transpired which tend to show serious responsibility which working men incurred, when
"We had most ignorant remarks in the Times, and the that it was preconcerted, although the doom fell they engaged themselves in such schemes as the case his
editor's remarks on Ireland often, in his leading articles, by mistake upon an unoffending man. The poor closed—schemes from the success of which they must
ere flippant, ignorant, incorrect assertions, quite at va- policeman, thus murdered, was mistaken for a always be the first to suffer, by being themselves thrown
with existing events. It is a paper, until recently, brother officer who had given evidence against a out of work. Such disturbances could not in England be
J which I attached much weight, but I really now throw
Chartist 'of tolerated ; and, in justice to society, all concerned in them
demagogue—an offence in the eyes
t down in disgust, it is so very flippant and vituperativemust be brought to trial.
where it ought to conciliate. The battle now is not be- these brutalized and ignorant aspirants to the pos- The prisoner was then removed from the dock, shouting
tween the Celt, and the Saxon, as he affirms ;—it is one session of the suffrage which, it appears, is regarded out as he left, "I am very much obligde to those witnes-
for food and labour on the part of the peasant, and for in their sanguinary code of laws as worthy of sea who have spoken for me."
employment and business on that of the artizan and shop- death ! What can there be worse than such a state
keeper. It is of a too serious nature to be a war of races of things in Tipperary itself?
as in the feudal times. I will allow that the Orangeman
and Celt hate each other, but they are now antipodes, the It is worthy of remark that the bulk of the
former being in the north of Ireland and the latter in the would-be insurgents on this, as on all recent occa-
south. I have some weeks strongly suspected the editor sions of outbreak, were young men and lads—the
of the Times to be an Orangeman, he is so loud against rising generation (!) of this wealthy district. On
the O's and Mac's in this rebellion, whereas there are whose souls, we ask, ought to rest the onus and
plenty of English names among them he passes over. 1
fear much he fans the flame of rebellion, and if were opprobrium of their demoralised state ? Upon
not married I would tell him so. It is natural for the those of the millowners themselves, who, whilst
Celtic Irish most cordially to hate his paper, for he never amassing money from their toil, have neglected to
lets them alone."
make any provision for their education or their
Shocking suspicion ! The editor of the Times social and moral improvement ; who have seen
an Orangeman ! We wish sincerely that his ac- them grow up in ignorance and graduate in crime,
cuser was not married, that she might cover him without raising a hand to snatch them from the
with the shame which ought to follow such an perdition towards which they were, but too easily,
enormity. We have, however, the satisfaction to being led by the incendiary demagogues who are
learn, that she now throws down the Times with ever to be found in such localities, fattening in
disgust, "it is so very flippant and vituperative, turbulent idleness upon the toil and the folly of
where it ought to conciliate." Our contemporary their wretched dupes. But has the Government
will see the propriety hereafter of speaking in the and the Church itself nothing to answer for here?
most silken terms of Irish turbulence and rebellion In this and in all similar districts the population
and Irish affairs generally. has far outgrown the means provided for its moral
By the by, has the Journal been hoaxing the and spiritual instruction, even with the valuable
public by printing these comical communications, assistance of the Pastoral Aid and other kindred
or has the correspondence been intended for the Societies; and the efforts of voluntaryism and dis-
columns of Punch ?

The fa

acknowleC

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31 gptanZia rti.

failed in its
orpnted

Itt_y to those by whos
ited little communities upon every available
flum }arils of nntlOlo anti ;”

arse. I

neighbourhood of our coal field
confined dwellings, and exacted from them, almost
ant round of daily toil,

crowded them in

id has been for centuries a t

from infancy

attributed to the want of w

the inc

Ice before us the con(

t no i

complaints and the wa

e cultiva-

ither their mind

.n a gr

r amount of employment to

n pass to

The communities

de them, with the spectacle only of

ed for others by the wear and*tear

writers

SPIRACY

ay a young tr

Irish dis
and vet v

Irish poverty, and I

remai

out as mys

h miser

ever upon

rained ideas to schem

No educational provision

w that the cr

provide

o has come

and that Ireland

led, have Of

.eated with a host of

neither

tor the

tunity and leisure been

nself of

tie or t

treats us with an

nstalm

on in the shape of
Ireland by a military

iy to an eminent

mtain

)me really novel views

is, indeed

state of f

, not o

which has taken place in the

le sythpathies of
They have been

prtexof political

its of

population. The writer

the peasantry have pro-

g expor

Lestion, and vainly imagine that
or Boulogh Common, bet
irgents, and the

It is no su.c

nore to their taste the more VlO
s been.

instance of this disposition amongst

lortion of our manufacturing
.iTed during the past week.

'he most formidable class

recent Chartist outbreak, accompanied

pers and their assistants

In the neigh
_,uu of that town, comprising the adjacent
places of Stalybridge, Duckenfield, and Hyde,
there is probably to be found a greater amount of
realised wealth than in any similar district in Great
lritain, or in the world. Yet, in no other district

at Ashtor

-wide

h bad I

certainl

is a serious grievance with
al people, that Great Britain buys,
their grain, their pigs, and their
ht, it is to be presumed, to go over

by nature, and so perverted
ism, and tyrannical church

y one of the first countries
i_of having a good customer

gnbot

spot. The passage, however,
narked in italics, is enough to deter
possessed of nerves of iron, from so
an expedition. "The shopkeepers
istants have yet to take the field,"
armed possibly with yardsticks. scissors, daybooks,
or bills of parcels. Messrs. Pym's embryo colonels
and generals in green and gold uniforms, were, it
seems, a premature first instalment.

adventurou

and ti

The giiev

class is a particu:

rkable for pc

temseives
pt in the

I every

tabinet woul

e of this dangerous shopkeeping
ly Irish one. Our letter writer

His grace of Dev
culture,
would -1

bourh

L_yne.

condi

.cion more deplorable, more vici-
asly unbalanced and dangerous. With the excep-
tion of a small shop-keeping class, there is

the opera

no in-

iowner and

ween the wealthy mil'

ire population

named F

,rd Murphy, who
r.", cvaa romanripi

upon the above serious charge, was brought
up at the Police-court, before Mr. Rushton and Mr.
Hardman Earle, previous to his final committal for trial
at the assizes. The following is the substance of the evi-
dence, as read over to the prisoner :
Peter MacNally, policeman, deposed to going with an
""d other police-officers to make a search for
-rd Murphy, in

V. 141.1 e 6 yob our
Government appears officially to discourage merchant ves-
sels acting as convoys to native craft. We observe an in-
crease of foreign vessels carrying up native produce to the
north, particularly sugar from this port to Shanghae.
Owing to the late equalization of duties in India on foreign
and British bottoms, the American flag is already in
active and successful competition with the country
shipping, which must suffer severely."
Bst other things, a book
DEATH OF BERZELIUS.—

Arms at the house of -the prisoner, Edv
Peover-strP,o-

evidence was not shat

id other polieem►en to t

brought aw

printer. This witn
noes for the

!se search

The witnes

very rare exceptions, both ignorant a

' demon

went wit
J 4-, IF, P,

sent have proved them miserably incompetent to
effect any sensible good, if even the latter has not
done positive evil, by proposing the spread of
fanaticism in the place of true Christianity. The
state of our manufacturing districts, as here evi-
denced, must surely, after a while, bring home to
the consciences of statesmen, and of the selfish
wealthy of this money-grubbing world, that their
utter neglect of such communities is not only cri-
minal but dangerous as well. Let the Premier,
and any half-dozen of those " liberal" friends of
his, who object to all State aid for the promotion
of religious education and teaching amongst the
people, spend a week incognito in the filthy cot-
tages, the beershops, or in the streets of Ashton,
Stalybridge, and Hyde; and we venture to say
that they will return shocked and startled at the
amount•of ignorance, heathenism, and vice, which
their visit will disclose to them.

witli them and

MacNally

Led to t

produced

IF we were to judge by the somewhat pretentious
airs, which our neighbours in Manchester, and in
the manufacturing districts around, habitually dis-
play, we should be led to the conclusion that, in
visiting their locality, we should be encountering a
community of philosophers; that, in fact, here was
to be found the social fac simile of Athens in its
best days. A distant reader of the press of Man-
chester, informed weekly of the soirees, the learned
lectures, the numerous and excellent libraries and
reading rooms, in which its inhabitants delight;
and noticing the evident cultivation amongst them
of musical and critical taste, would conclude that
here education was recognised as one of the best
boons which can be conferred upon mankind. As
a natural result of such a conclusion, we should
submit to have dictated to us, from this central
seat of intelligence and refinement, our commercial
policy ; and be ready to pay a proper and respect- We are glad to perceive that the Rev. Daniel Foley,
ful deference to the suggestions, continually eman- the eloquent and faithful clergyman who spoke at the
ating from it, of changes in our social, our financial, ],[4sl! Meeting, last night, ig to preach at St. Michael's on
mvvemabeersdnaiethvennag(to. morrow.) Mr. Foleywasformerlya
and even our representative system. A people, so
ablest champions ofrCliroot
unapproachable n arts, in literature and in philo-
P festanmit seLainnd insrngnronhe of the
soh we we should conclude, could not but be per- We understand that Mr. Chadwick—the governmente
fectly au fait in the framing of constitutions and inspector under Lord Morpeth's health bill—is at present
systems of government. in Liverpool, for the purpose of making enquiries into the
Alas, we should err grievously in jumping to
state of the town, with special reference to that bill. In
such a conclusion. Admit that in Manchester, as probability all
broughtßivington under t
a centre, there is existing something approaching to AN YesterdaylMPOSTOß. a cunning old vagrant from
a fair average of the education and ability to be " Erin's Isle," appeared before Mr. Rushton, charged
with extorting money by simulating illness. He was
found amongst large communities, those qualifica-
seen to go and it on the steps of one of the hotels in
tions have scarcely radiated at all in the direction of
faTnhte.nttigsennattleumrnaltli made Is appearance
the surrounding localities, or amongst the labour- 1?eal arestternecal et 'd andt
ing classes in the town itself. On every side of the andpthe prisoner was relieved. The' excitedl t_compassion,
__e ow
discharged
on
ignorance dense as the darkness of a Lapland win- promising to go to Ireland.
ter. Wealthy communities have sprung up around NEW ORLEANS ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS.—These ce-
lebrated melodists are announced to give their entertain-
it, giving employment and food to a vast population,
and swelling the importance of the great centralpriorpace t o their departing
anncca
meat, at the Concert Hall,t Lord Nelson-street, every
mart, which receives their productions ; but it can- ;ovrentlineglcjlnuiritenf thepresenweek,
States, their native
not be said that education, and, scarcely, even that sions since their debut in this country they have afforded
Civilization, has followed the track of wealth and en- us great delight ; and we trust they will be gratified by the
terprise. The suburban townships of Manchester, attendance of a crowded audience, and experience a sub-
and the small manufacturing towns of Lancashire,
stantial benefit, as a parting reward for their exertions in
providing for the public amusement. We wish them a
contain society of the rudest order ; whilst the , safe passage to the " Far West."—See advt,

each as

'as also cross-examined t

mg a meeting. When they first went into the house the
cupboard was locked. He got the key from prisoner's
wife, and found the pike-head on the top shelf. In cross.
examination Mr. Yates endeavoured to draw from the wit-
ness an admission of having heard from Edwards that the
lun was in his hands to be raffled, but it was denied.
John Williams, tailor, 18, Tarlton-street, stated that
ner had been two years in his service as book-keeper,
wore that the letter found by one of the previous wit-
s, and some of the entries in the book—a minute
of the Sarsfield Club, we understood,—were in the
reply to a question from Mr.
e had dismissed the prisoner

—A letter from Stockholm
7th instant, of the illustrious

for embezzlement

Tile landlord of the prisoner was the next witness called,
and proved letting him the house in Peaver-street, and his
absenting himself from it when the officers were after him.
Joseph Burrill, inspector, Rose-hill station, deposed to
the prisoner's having called there for his gun and book;
and that when he came he was very communicative. He
said '

ie was secretary to the Sarsfield Club, but was con-
nected with no other, and that he had just been over in
Ireland.

lward Merrill, bri

xi with Murphy

there a

?eper, also spoke to a long
He said he had been all

11 quiet

LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

LATEST FROM PARIS.
Paris was perfectly tranquil at the departure of the
express on Sunday forenoon.

ius, aged 69 years

IGNATlUS.—Notwithstanding the
disper. m of the Jesuit Order, the feast of St. Ignatius
prated with great pomp at Rome on the 31st of
s,. Several Cardinals, Generals of Orders, and
nitaries, took part in the solemnity.
SENSITIVENESS.—One of t'sn sneakers in the

Our Turin letters of the 16th state that the conference
for the settlement of the Lombardo-Venetian question
would be held either at Piacenza or in Switzerland.

July last

other dig

Sational Assembly at Paris having made use of the11
term
jesuitical, the Bishop of Quimper interrupted the debate
for the purpose of protesting against an expression in-

GERMANY AND DENMARK.
FROM THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
Accounts from Hamburgh of the 18th instant, state
that the Prussian Finance Minister had given official
notice that the Bank was not in a condition to pay its
liabilities of five millions, without being authorised to
suspend its payments.

auout to pronounce, when he was put down by cries of
" question." The Univers is very indignant on the sub-
ject, and maintains that the word jesuitical ought to be
banished from parliamentary language.
THE RIVER PLATE.—The following remarks on the
state of affairs in the River Plate are extracted from the
Jornal di Comercio of the 24th of June :—" The French
Magellan arrived yesterday from Montevideo,
having on board Boron Gros. As we have already in-
formed our readers, the negotiations for peace entered
into have been interrupted in consequence of General
Grike having withdrawn the propositions which he had
presented through the medium of the inte,-

.vening negoti-
ators ; a withdrawal which had been imposed upon him by
General Rosas. Baron Gros, upon retiring, had resolved,
in accordance with Admiral le Predour, to suspend until
further decision the blockade of the port and coast of
Buenos Ayres, and to make effective the blockade of all
the points of the Oriental coast occupied by forces under
General Oribe. Besides this measure, the French Mi-
nister had decided upon allowing the government of
Monte Video a monthly subsidy. The Oriental govern-
ment had revoked the decree of the 20th of May, which
established an impost upon all articles of consumption,
substituting in its place another, by which all mercantile
houses had to pay monthly a quarter part of the annual
impost appertaining to each. In Monte Video, some in-
dividuals recently arrived from the besieging camp, and
suspected of being accessory to the murder of Ur. Varella,
had been arrested. Mr. Gore, the colleague of M. Gros
in his recent mission, remained at Monte Video in the
character of. Charge d'Affaires of her Britannic Majesty.
From Buenos Ayres nothing important."

The Danes attempted a secret landing on the 15th,
between Apenrade and Hadersleben, but were repulsed
by the Prussian general.

INDIA AND CHINA.
We have received by express from Marseilles our ad-
vices from India in anticipation of the arrival of the over-
land mail of the Ist of July from Calcutta. Our advices
from Bombay were by dank to Madras. The dates thus
received are from Calcutta and Bombay to thelst of July,
and Madras to the 9th of July.

-.-
Our military position in the Punjaub seems well se-
cured. There is no news from the north-west of India
of any prominent importance.
The intelligence from Moulton, as regards the opera-
tions of the district officers in the field, continues to be of
the most satisfactory character. The force under Lieut.
Edwardes amounts by these advices to nearly 6,000 men,
Mahomedans. The body is secure along the line of the
Indus, and has managed to gain possession or all the
means of passage in that part of the stream. It is said
that the Bunnoo Sikhs continue to join the standard of
the Dewan, but that the Patens and Beloochees stand
aloof; while, on the other hand, Colonel Cortlandt's dis-
trict force had been much strengthened by Belooch en-
listments, and Lieutenant Edwardes counted a strong
body of Patans. The forces of the rajah of Bhawalpoor
had already crossed the Gharree river into the insurgent
territory, but, not taking proper precautions, in their
eagerness for plunder, one of their parties had met a
stronger body of the enemy and was cut off. This dis-
aster spread alarm at first, from conflicting rumours which
got into circulation, but happily did not entail any mis-
chief, and subsequent accounts announce the capture of
four small towns on the western bank of the river. There
seemed every probability an advance would be made,
should further circumstances secure the probabilities of
success for a movement by the British district officers on
the centre of insurrection. The captive governor of Dee-
ra, Ghazee Khan, and another man of note on the side of
the insurgents, had been executed. The Dewan, on hear-
ing this news, is said to have sent 100 rupees to each of
their widows; and, apparently taking a hint of the fate
that might await himself, ordered a funeral pile to be
prepared for his family, to be used in the event of his fall ;
evidently not more inclined, by these circumstances, to
sell his life cheap._

No less than 630 followers of the insurgent Gooroo.
Maharaj Singh, who took arms in the Punjaub, had sur-
rendered, and, by late accounts, were prisoners at Shung.
The property and arms of the fanatic Gooroo had been
secured, and he himself is reported to have been drowned.
Sir Lawrence Peel, Chief Justice in Bengal, has sus-
pended Mr. Grant from his office of Master in Equity in
the Supreme Court at Calcutta, in consequence of that
functionary having been implicated in the transactions of
the Union Bank as one of its directors.
Some disturbances which had broken out among the
Bheels in the Mye Counta district of Guzerat—a still un-
settled portion of Western India—had been promptly
suppressed by the energy of the Political Agent, Captain
Wallace, who gave orders for the instant march to the
scene of riot of a sufficient body of troops.

Our correspondent at Hongkong writes as follows, under
date of June 14 :

" We have had a month of inactivity, and nothing to
disturb the general quiet at Canton and the other ports.
The Braganza arrived on the 16th inst.; the next mail is

around the Church of England, and heard the people
praising God, not in an unknown tongue, but in a lan-
guage simple, and understood of all men ! Why had not
Bishop Wiseman pointed to Ireland.? Why had he not
looked at the picture drawn of that wretched country re-
cently by Lord Shrewsbury ? But what made it'
wretched? Popery. Look at the north of Ireland. Was
it a scandal to the world ? Nay, verily. Its beauti-
ful fire-sides, its peaceful hills and valleys, its
open-hearted generous yeomanry, and its fine, bold
Orange peasantry, had not a rival in the whole world.
(Great cheering.) Let Bishop Wiseman come nearer
home, and look at England. Why, we should have
had no disturbances in England. if it were not that
we had Irish Papists amongst us. (Hear, hear.)
The criminal returns showed that at least one-third of the
crimes perpetrated in this country were committed by
Irish Papists. (Hear, hear.) The Leeches and others
who had been lately arrested for Chartism were all of
Irish extraction, and the priests of Ireland nurtured
sedition in that country, though now, like the monkey in
the fable, they were putting the cat's paw into the fire
and taking care of their own paw. (Loud laughter and
cheers.) But the sedition in Ireland was theharbinger of
better times. The people would awake to the treachery of
the priesthood. The people would assert the prerogative of
immortal beings. This was the harvest time of the Irish
Society if only it bestirred itself. It was a disgrace to
England to have so long permitted the holding of masque-
rades and dumb•shows in. the middle of the noon-day.
Those who practised these masquerades should be made
ashamed of their tom-foolery. (Cheers and laughter.)
Such things might be practised in the twilight of
Spain and Italy, but never could they be carried on
in England, the cradle and birthplace of the Reformation,
the land which had successfully resisted the encroach-
ments of Romanism, and the country that was the very
palladium of Protestantism. (Loud cheers.) Let,
then, the people rise up ! Let every Protestant
try what he could do by the progress of Scriptural
knowledge, and the influence of the truth,to give Romanists
no rest until they changed the red robe to the surplice—
the sacrifice of the mass to the consecrated bread and
wine—angels, and saints, and purgatory and penances,
to Christ Jesus and Him crucified—the basin of
holy water for the Bible—and the service of the masque-
rade for the service in pure English of a known tongue.
(Great applause.) When they did this we would be one
with them. All we wanted was, that they should give
up innovations, and adhere to what was primitive—have
no head but Christ, and allow neither Pope nor any one
else to share homage with the Redeemer. Let British
Protestants demand this, and soon would the time
arrive when England and Ireland, and all the ends
of the earth, would have the Prince of Peace reign-
ing over a tranquillised and purified world. The rev.
gentleman resumed his seat amid loud and protracled
bursts of applause.
The Rev. F. BARKER moved the last resolution, and
in doing so expressed his warm approval a' the objects of
the society, and commended their exertions. As a me-
vious speaker had remarked, they would only attain their
object by showing a bold front to the enemy.
The Rev. Dr. M'NEILE seconded the motion in a pow-
erful address. The resolution called attention to the dis-
orders and commotions now prevalent in Ireland, and
which had their origin in Romanism, and could be over-
come finally only by the dissemination of Scriptural
truth. The Government of England had gone so far in
encouraging Romanism that they dare not now leek it in
the face. It was thought by Protestants some years back
that there were two ways to put down Popery,—the cir-
culation of the Bible and the co. operation of the British
Government. They (the Protestants) had long warned
the liberal legislators that if they proceeded from con-
cession to 'concession confusion would be the result, and
now actual rebellion was the result. The law-givers
had scorned their warnings, and the consequence now
was, that through divided interests, we had a suspension
of the constitution. The Liberal Government had gone
so far, that it would be difficult now to find a remedy. We
were now aware that no human powers, but God alone
could put down the moral disorders. He alluded to the
period between the reign of William 111 and George 111,
when alone, thorough peace generally prevailed in Ire-
land, from the maintenance of the principles of the
Reformation. He gloried in the measures that had
brought this about ; he had no objection to the
energetic measures of the Orangemen of Ireland, who
had but to show themselves in comparatively small
numbers, in order to disperse and confound their oppo-
nents. From the time that concessions were shown to
the Roman Catholics, rebellion showed its head. The
priests fomented disaffection in Ireland ; but the moment
they found the government too strong for them, they
changed their tactics, and preached peace. (Cheers.)
There was not a true-hearted Protestant who had belonged
to the government for some years back. Lord John Rus-
sell had not supported Protestantism ; neither had Sir R.
Peel, who had acted in fact more reprehensibly, for his
promises had been greater. He would always prefer an
open and candid foe, to a pretended friend. He then,
with allusion to the meeting of the night, said that they
had heard some excellent speaking, but that they had yet
some real business to transact, and late as it was he would
allude to it. He was sorry to observe that he saw among
them few or none of their merchant princes to support
their worthy and venerable chairman. (Hear, hear.)
True, the weather was unfavourable, but their respected
president had braved the rain and the tempest to be pre.

ta,vc. Au Luc Ui tile gospel. inns, mine multitudes
have been drinking in the principles of treason and rebellion,
thousands in the Church of Rome have been drinking in-prin-
ciples from the pure fountain of Divine Truth, which will en-
sure loyalty to our Sovereign respect for British law, and,
above all, obedience to the Saviour. Whatever remedies may
be employed to establish order and promote prosperity in Ire-
land, the root of her disease will be left untouched until scrip-
tural light is poured upon the minds of the people. Other
plans for ameliorating their condition may be beneficial up to
a certain point, but theword of God alone can grapple success-
fully with the master evil of that land. If this remedy were
more extensively applied; the same results which we now be-
hold on a small scale, through the labours of the Irish Society,
would soon be discerned far and wide. On this principle that
society conducts its labours. Already it has brought almost
300,000 of the people into contact with the Irish scriptures, and
this year nearly 800 individuals are employed by this society in
instructing the people in their own tongue. The seeds of hea-
venly truth will promote Ireland's real welfare, and establish
British influence on a lasting basis.

The Rev. D. FOLEY proposed the adoption of the-re-
port, and said that the great master evil of Ireland was the
Church of Rome. He felt, as the result of a rational con-
viction, that Rome was not only the great evil of Ireland,
but the great evil of every country where Romanism pre-
vailed. In the north of Ireland a vigorous spirit of Pro-
testantism prevailed, and crime was almost unknown. In
the south of Ireland crime was encouraged, and all kinds
of evil were encouraged. The pike was the weapon fre-
quently used, and this, and much more than this, was the
vicious teaching of the Church of Rome. Ireland was
not one isolated instance of the villainous system of Po-
pery. Spain afforded a lamentable example of the atroci—
ties of the Roman system. What was the remedy ? He
had no objection to legislative enactments; but still, un-
less Protestant modes of order were adopted, no good
could be expected. It was a constant cavil that
Protestantism was a total failure in Ireland. He
denied this, and he asserted confidently that if it
were not for Protestantism, trial by jury would be
a farce in Ireland. The Protestants sustained trial by
jury, and were absolutely the only men who sustained the
connexion between England and Ireland. The great fact
must ever be told, and never be forgotten, that the Church
of Rome had never yet circulated the Bible in the Irish
language; and yet there never was, at any former period
of the Irish history, such an opening for the circulation
of the scriptures as there was at present, even in Tippe-
rary. About six months ago, we had only 25 scripture
schools, but in three months these schools increased to
92. Then persecution commenced; the priests spoke
from the altar against him (Mr. Foley) and other Protes-
tant clergymen ; and great were the efforts which were
required to sustain the position of the Irish Society's
school. But the society was nevertheless sustained ;
and here he was delighted to say that there was not
a single teacher connected with the Irish Society
who was connected with any Ribbon or Rebel Society.
There were now 100 teachers, and 1,850 readers of the
Bible in Tipperary alone; and, besides these, there were
upwards of 3,000 more who were reading the Bible in
their native tongue, though they were not exactly recog-
nized by the Irish Society. He asserted publicly and
fearlessly, that the priests, one and all, were the teachers
of sedition and rebellion, but he asserted with equal pub-
licity and fearlessness, that the two millions of Protes-
tants in Ireland would drive all the repeal clubs out
of Ireland. (Load cheers.) He, moreover, asserted
confidently that the Protestantism of Ireland was the
Protestantism of courage, and intelligence, and deter-
mination, and that in the midst of obloquy and persecu-
tion, the friends of the truth would steadfastly maintain
the cause of Christ. He was happy to say, also, that
even in Ballingarry, where the late rebellion was rife, the
Scripture readers were exceedingly busy, and that in
another part of the country not far distant from Ballin-
garry there were no fewer than one hundred converts
from Popery. .He had himself preached to one hundred
and fifty Roman Catholics in the city of Cork, the other
day, and the work of preaching was going on successfully
in various districts of the county of Cork. He was happy
to say that very many of the Protestant clergymen were
now preaching in the Irish language, and that one of
these clergymen alone had no fewer than six hundred
converts from Popery who were attending the Scriptural
schools. Along the coast of Waterford there was a most
wonderful spread of the reading of the Scriptures ; tradi-
tion was being entirely abandoned there ; and most im-
portant and interesting were the conversations which
were constantly going on among the peasantry relative to
the Sacred Scriptures. He (Mr. Foley) was in the habit
of addressing thousands of Roman Catholics, at the va-
rious funerals at Clonmel, and he was happy to say that
much good was the result. He concluded with a power-
ful appeal in favour of the society, and urged upon the
meeting valianCy to oppose the master evil of the day and
of Ireland—Popery—and strenuously to propagate the
Go spel of Truth in his unhappy land. Mr. Foley con-
cluded amid great applause.
The Rev. HUGH STOWELL rose, amid protracted cheer-
ing, to second the resolution. He said it had often been
his lot to stand before the people of Liverpool in favour of
Ireland ; and though he was no Irishman himself, yet he
was delighted with the Irish friends by whom he was sur-
rounded; and he could not but feel that Ireland would be
great and glorious among the nations were she but freed
from the upas-tree of Popery. Had it not been for the
direct and indirect conduct of the government, Popery
would now be as low as the depths of the sea, for she
seemed occasionally to be sinking like a dead body, until
galvanised again by the acts of the government.
Orangeisto was the mainstay of Ireland, ( Loud cheers.)

Aag►Ast 2.2,1848.

sent. He considered that no tOttn in the kingdom would
be more benefitted by the improvement of Ireland than
Liverpool, and he proposed, not as an amendment, but a
rider to the resolution, that a special subscription should
be raised in Liverpool for the furtherance of the objects of
the society, i n any way, suggested by the committee, in which
it would be likely to be most effective. The government, if
they showed themselves in earnest in this way, would be
constrained to come forward in the cause of Protestantism
and could no longer sanction Popery. He alluded
to the diplomatic negotiations between this coun-
try and the Pope in Italy, as disgraceful and de-
grading to England. He proposed that they should
come forward with small subscriptions for Scriptural
teaching in Ireland. The House of Commons would
then no longer taunt them when they petitioned. by say-
ing they talked much but did nothing themselves. ne
concluded by moving a rider, to the effect, that a special
fund should be raised in Liverpool, and a sub-committee
be appointed to conduct the correspondence and assist in
forwarding the plan. This was seconded.
The Rev. CHAIRMAN put the motion, remarking that
the rider was an excellent addition to the motion.
The motion, as amended, was unanimously carried.
A vote of thanks, on the motion of the Rev. gr.
PARRY, was passed to the Chairman, and the meeting
separated.

On Sunday sermons were preached in many of the
churches in town, when liberal collections were made in
aid of the funds of the society.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(BY EXPRESS.)

MONEY MARKET. YESTERDAY.
The Stock Market is exceedingly quiet to-day, and the quo-
tations are very fairly supported considering the weather.
Consols have been 851 to 86 for present transfer, and 85i to
86/ for account. Exchequer Bills of March have been 3* to
38s. prem., and India Bonds of .elOOO 225. to 255. premium.
The New Three-and-a-quarter per Cents. have brought 861
and the Three per Cents. 851 to 861

LONDON SHARE MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
Railway Shares, although not active, are rather better this
morning, especially Midland, since it is found that Mr. He&
son does not retire.

LONDON CORN MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
During the last week, the arrivals of all kinds of grain of
home produce, including Flour, coastwise and by land-
carriage, were on a very moderate scale. Although the
attendance of buyers was not large, the demand for all
kinds of Wheat of home produce was steady, arising
from the continuance of very unfavourable weather for
the growing crops, (harvest work in particular,) and the
spread of the Potato disease, at an advance in the quo-
tations paid on Monday last of from 3s. to 4s. per quarter, and
at which nearly the whole of the supply was disposed of. Them.
was a better inquiry for Foreign Wheat at a rise in value of
3s. to 4s. per quarter. In bonded Wheats, as well as in floating
cargoes, a good business was done, at ,4s. to ss. per quarter
more money : 575. per quarter was paid for bonded Dantzic:
Although the supply of Foreign Barley was good, that article
moved off freely, at an advance of from Is. to 2s. per quarter.
No English samples were on the market. Since Saturdaf
several cargoes of foreign have come in.
The Malt trade was active, and the currencies improved 18.
to 2s. per quarter, both on the spot and for delivery. The
supply was not equal to the wants of the buyers.
Notwithstanding the immense importation of Oats last week
—nearly 60,000 quarters—the Oat trade was tolerably steady'
and late rates were fairly supported.
Beans were in moderate supply and fair request, at extensive
rates of currency. White Peas were from 3s. to 4s. per quarter
dearer than last week; grey and maple qualities advanced 2s•
per quarter.

Indian Corn was Is. to 2s. per quarter higher, but the supPir
was very small. Indian Meat was held at a rise of is. per bar-
rel.

A good business was done in English Flour at last week's.
improvement. American qualities wertheld for is. per barrel
more money.

BIRICENITNAD.—We understand that the population of
this town has increased 300 within the last fortnight.
There is not a single house to let either in Higher or
Lower Tranmere.

The latest provincial journals received from the south
contain little of interest with respect to the late insurrec-
tion' except the announcement of the death of Mr. James
Stephens, the young man who was wounded at the battle
of Ballingarry, and who for some time was mistaken for
Mr. John Dillon..

THE ENGINEMEN ON THE NORTH-WESTERN RAM"
WAY.—It was hoped that the disputes between these men
and the company would have been settled on Saturday,
and the company, we believe, had consented to the men
reiuming work yesterday, but a meeting of the men took
tphlaecfieroenmeSn had
dy
notnig receivedht, atw
timhiicnhitawtiaesa
thatann they
yed that
might
resume work, and the enginemen, therefore, resolved not
to go to work until the firemen were allowed to do-so.
So great was the number of the mirrors, crystals ~&c.,
that were broken by the mob in the Palais Royal during
the revolution in Paris in February last, that the frag-
ments of glass, which were lately sold by auction, weighed
no less than 000 kilogrammes (25 tons.)
STANDARDS OF REPUTAPION.—At the last assizes in
Newcastle, the keeper of a lodging-house, a woman, who
had put some thievish men and women in bed together,
told Mr. Dundas that " she did not think they were bad
characters : she would not have any bad characters in
her house." " Bad characters," observed Judge Erler
" with such persons as the witness, means people who do
not pay for their lodgings." In another case the landlord
fo t
ef
elhe i
sh Beel
de s
man,wign who
kes ahsade dh eto
been
robbeddefine b twheficephnedivitiaoantiopf • a
s y,
and replied, " He had had drink, but was qualified tort
for liquor, AND PAY FOR IT :" which, said Mr. Otter, was
a landlord's criterion of sobriety..
A ROYAL ROMANCE.—The new Administrator of the
German Empire—the Archduke JOhn of Austria—was loft
exiled from the Imperial Court on account of his plebeian
marriage. The story is thus told :---Once on a summer's
day, upon arriving at Aussee, a small town in Styria, he
royal traveller was informed that from some grave mishap
or Other no postilion was at hand. The unfortunate gouty
old postmaster and his wife were in the greatest distress—
the maids were sent out to find a man able to drive the
Prince's carriage; the groom was bid rather harshly to put a
the horses, when the handsome young daughter of the
house quietly approaches her father, and assures him that
she will take the reins, for fear thaton the bad roads.some
harm might happen to his Imperial Highness by a more
unpractised driver. A few moments afterwards she
ascends the box, and drives the horses in a masterly man-
ner through the narrow and tortuous street of the moun-
tain village. The Prince was surprised, and, when the
road became easier, he accosted her, thanking her for so
great a kindness on her part. To all he said, the answers
were so innocent and so clever, that he ended an hour's
conversation by announcing his intention to marry his faii
driver. The post-master's daughter was frightened an
a
so was the Emperor Francis when he heard of this
untoward plan. The Imperial permission was refused;
but the Archduke John persisted in his resolution, eau,
the young lady of Aussee went to live with her husband
at his charming country seat at Brandhof, from which she
received her title. The Count of Meran, her son,. is °
lovely boy, ten years old, and brought up as a regular
Tyrolese.

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