The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
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FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. IRELAND. was a strong muster of the is
port him by chanting the ree
ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA. The William Penn, steamer, arrived at Waterfcrd from crowded, but it appears that
The mail steam-ship Acadia arrived in the river Liverpool on Thursday, with fifty persons who had emi- entered into. The Rev. G
on Tuesday morning. She brought New York papers to grated some short time since. without chanting, but the
the 28th ultimo, and Boston to the 29th ; the news in the Six human beings were last week found in a hut at gowns and chanted the respe
latter is unimportant. Cross, Tipperary, who had subsisted for three days on tants generally are very ayes
The session of the Thirtieth Congress would begin on tainted horse flesh. abolished.
Monday, the 4th December. The grand jury of the city of Dublin have returned true EMIGRATION AS A Cl
The most important of the measures for the considera- bills against Mr. Duffy, for felonious articles in the Nation, should not the Church of
-lion of Congress, is the establishment of territorial juris- and for the letter to Smith O'Brien, urging him to united in the holy cause of
diction over the newly acquired territory of New Mexico rebellion. every corner of the British et
and California. And another important subject is await- The Dublin Freeman's Journal of Tuesday is in a for assisting, wholly or in pal
ing legislative action-the foreign and domestic postage towerine rage, because Mr. Connellan, one of the Castle Poor Church people of good
system. According to present appearances (says the Secretaries, writing to the Very Rev. Dr. Spratt, ad- precarious competition for
New York Herald), the obstacles placed in the way of a dressed him simply as "Sir." many of our overpeopled di
free postal intercommunication with England by the pas- A SIGNIFICANT HINT.-A human skull was deposited more genial latitudes where
sage of the retaliatory postage law, are in a fair way of at the hall-door of Mr. Kernmis, the crown solicitor, in fail to ensure to themselves a
being adjusted by negociation between the English minis- Kildare-street, on Friday night or Saturday morning, as tent period, an honest and e
try and the American minister. a premonitory caution against " jury packing."-Dublin Churchmen do combine wits
Doubts are entertained as to whether General Taylor Herald. nions for the promotion of
lea yet made up his mind on the particular measures and PRAYERS FOR THE POPE.-The Dublin Freeman's Ashley and his friends urging
policy of his administration. One thing, however, is Journal says :-" We understand prayers are being of- the claims of the " ragged."
highly probable-that both moderate men and moderate fared up, throughout the entire of Catholic Ireland, for Harrowby is at the head of
the speedy deliverance of his Holiness Pope Pius IX. while the City Mission and it
measures will be in the ascendant, and that the mere par-
tisans of any faction will have little influence in that from all his enemies." Who are they ? work among the convicted
quarter. PAUPERISM.-On Tuesday there were in the Cork Union however, where is the poor C
An effort is about to be made to grow tea in the States Workhouse no fewer than 5,057 paupers, and those in a Who is considering the dists
union the workhouse of which was originally built to con- faith ?" of Georgia and Alabama.
It is said that Forrest has lowered himself much in the tain 2,060 ! There are now, besides the Workhouse, two THE REV. BAPTIST NOE
public estimation by the course which he has pursued in other large and convenient auxiliary houses provided for grandfather was made First I
his quarrel with Macready. the paupers. impeachment of Lord Melv
A gold mine is said to have been discovered close to the BRUTAL MURDER.-On Saturday night a man named aged man. We have been int
John Hagerty, under driver in the Ballinrobe Union, on of the family, that on accept
sea coast at Salt Key, or Creag, belonging to Capt. Shep-
pard, Governor of San Juan. Lord Sligo's property, was brutally murdered within a he should not be expected to
The previous reports of the gold mines of California short distance of .he town of Hollyrnosmt. The deceased dinner, or in any way to vii
are confirmed. sold some oats in Hollymount, and was returning home created Lord Barham, and as
The celebrated Mormon Temple, in Nauvoo, has been when the barbarous attack was made upon him. succession was extended to th
entirely destroyed by an incendiary fire. No effort was There are already 1,500 applications for the professor- Lord Collingwood, who was
made to stop the progress of the flames. The magnificent ships of the new colleges in Ireland, and singularly enough !kited in vain. His only d
structure was erected at an expense of 200,000 dollars. there is not now living a single man who had taken a Baroness Barham, was marr
Nothing now remains but the blackened wall. scholarship in Trinity College, Dublin, for the last fifteen very many years M.P. for Rui
NEW COMET.-On Saturday evening, the 25th Nov., years, save a few who have succeeded in their professions, several children, the present j
-at 6h. 30m., a telescopic comet was discovered at the who are not among the candidates, borough by the Whigs, being
Observatory, Cambridge, United States, America, by Mr. On the 16th November, William Allice, living near was not happy, Sir Gerard I
G. P. Bond, the director. It is situated in the constella- Oen/mi, was going home when he was assailed near the assertions of his lady's friend
tion Cygnus. Its motion is towards the south. village by four men, one of them armed with a hammer, man, while Lady Barham was
THE DIVORCE CASE OF MRS. KEMimr. BUTLER.-Mr. with which their unfortunate victim was struck on the They separated, and while Si]
Butler has c6mmenced an action for divorce in %io Court head ;he was then taken into a public-house not far off, landshire, Lady Barham wes
of Philadelphia, against Frances Kemble Butler, which but he expired on the 3d instant. near Swansea. The children,
was part heard on the 27th ult. The allegation is, that 'i ne t.:.u.-..-ei,,,, m.lancilgojy
.n.prrative may well be classed tum, We e---e eeth their mce
she has absented herself from her husband's house and among the dreary anna ~ ~...... ..... ~,1LL11..1 venom. cm .m.-, and under uer eye ...rid d
eor land owes £2 odd poor rates-his two cows Barham occupied herself in I
home without lawful cause for upwards of two veers_ fiv' "-
...men, ny the laws of the State of Pe, ... hansa, is a are seized for the amount; he begs that one only may be meeting-houses in the several
..a
reasonable cause for chaise. IVO Infidelity on her part taken-his manner is not very composed, and the bailiffs, west of-Swansea. Her doctri
is alleged. believing there is mischief in his look, fall upon and kill tic Methodists, and her Chi(
HAYTI AGAIN IN TROUBLE.-The President of this him. Such is the substance of the report, which is taken ministers of that persuasion.
unsettled country has issued a proclamation informing the from the Roscommon Messenger, all, with the neighbouring co
people of Hayti that it is his intention to send an army ENGLAND'S CRUELTY TO IRELAND.-The rates actually mitted the general manageme
against the Spanish part of the island, for the purpose of collected at Westport in Ireland have been at the rate of whom she advanced from be
subjecting it to his rule, and on the 13th ult. an expedi- sd. in the pound, per annum, on the estimated rental of chief of her preachers, and t
tion was fitting out to proceed at once to the southward, the union, amounting to an aggregate of 2s. 4d. in the rest. He built himself a ham
LIST OF PASSENGERS.-From Bosion : Mr. 11. Witte, pound for the whole five years and a half; while, in the fluence. Her family had rnuc
Mn A. Cuvillier, Mr. J. H. Asgood, Capt. Grange, Mr. period of two years only, the sums brought in aid of the person was not worthy of he'
J. Potter. Sir. J. Astor, Mr. P. Kerman, Mr. J. Brodie, resources of the union by the British legislature and occasion to institute an unplet
Mr. S. Vonchond, Mr. F. Furnival. From Halifax: British benevolence have amounted to upwards of 68s. in The dissenting education whi
Mr. Finlay. the pound on the valuation. Is not that enough to knock received produced its effects.
NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOV. 27, 6 P.m. a man down ? Earl, was once fined, under th
The stock market opened heavy this morning, and quotations Three men, accused of a murder committed eight ing meetings for public worshi
for several of the fancies fell off a fraction. The demand for months since, have been arrested in the Duharrow moun- in Essex, a Dissenting preacho
exchange, for remittance by this packet, has thus far been mo- tains. The unhappy victim in this affair was a man named Noel's irregularities ma ay be i
derate, without any change in rates. We quote the best bills
on London at 84 to si per cent. premium. On Paris, sf. ').5 to Devitt.. He was returning from prayers on a Sunday, -Cornwall Gazette.
sf. 224; Amsterdam, 40 to 404; Hamburg;3s4 to 354; Bremen, and, being overtaken by rain, he directed his steps to a
emeseeseessaaeaa
78 to 784. The amount of specie exported from this port, from neighbouring house for shelter. This house was, it ap-
tile 3d to the 27th instant, was .8.274,142; previously this year, pears, at the moment in the hands of a party which had POLITICAL It/
.810,043,815 ' • making a total of 310,317,957 from January Ito attacked it. Their sentinels warned him not to approach, November 27, 1848.
but Devitt, not heeding the warning, went on, and was Parliament has been prorogi
Be EADSTUFFIour.-The sales in the aggregate reached
about 6 a 7000 barrels, including 4 a 5,000 bbls. this State and shot dead as he entered the house. The reformers of Mancheste
Oswego, at about 85 374, with some lots straight brands do. at IN RE CONCILIATION-HALL, BANKRUPT.-The Cork meeting in the Free Trade 11
45 44. About 1,003 bbls pure Genesee at 35 44 a .83 50 a 35 Examiner, most probably itself a creditor of the wretched discuss the questions of parlian
me ; 400 do. Troy, at .85 37i aB5 44; 300 do. Genesee (fancy) swindle on Burgh-quay, Dublin, has the following pathetic Lord Seymour, eldest son o
sold at .R 5 624 a .85 6sl. There was no change in Southern announcement-" Conciliation Hall has offered that por- not been appointed to succeed
brands. Sales 6,000 barrels Ohio, baker's brands, were made
at .85 75. Wheat-Sales of 3,000 bushes Illinois were made at tion of the Irish press to which it is indebted 4s. in the sident of the Poor Law Comm
pound, that dividend being all that it declares itself able
.81 12. Corn-The sales, including lots both old and new, WEST RIDING ELECTION.-
reached about 40 a 50,000 bushels; 7,500 Southern white, on to pay. Perhaps the provincial press fares worse than the Thursday and Friday, and the
private terms, 3 a 4,900 old round yellow, at 73c., and about metropolitan •, but these are the terms offered, and per- almost gradually throughout
20,000 bushels old and new Southern and Western white and force accepted by the provincial proprietors." " How are close the numbers were-Di
mixed, the latter at 61 a 624 c., and the former at 66 a 664 c. ; fallen the mighty !"
2,500 do. old mixed, on private terms, and 1,000 Southern MELANCHOLY- ACCIDENT.- On Thursday, S 11,246 ;-majority for Denison
ergeants It is stated on the best auth
enieed, on private terms, and 10,000 1-igh mixed at 66c., and
,
Rollins, Neilan, Kelly, Gibbons, and Corporal Mills left
6,000 New York yellow at 624 c. Meal-Sales of ICO a ing to the force of the represe
200 barrels of New Jersey were made at 33 124. Rye- the Ranalagh Harbour, near Athlone, about dusk, in a the commercial interests of the
The sales reached about 60e0 bushels, in lots at 62 to 624 c., with small boat. Unfortunately they had not proceeded far a secret committee of the Hou
a small lot of 800 bushels at 61c., which was no criterion of the when the boat struck against an embankment made across pointed next session to inquire
market. Rye Flour-Sales of 100 barrels were made at ,8"3 182. the river by the contractors under the Shannon Commis- suiting the responsibility of thi
Barley-Sales of 3000 bushels were made at 64c. Oats-Sales of
cargo were made at 34 to 35c. sioners, in carrying on the navigation improvement, over- banks.
FREIGHTS.-12,000 bushels corn were engaged to Liverpool turned, and the party were precipitated into the water. Dr. Bowring, whose eminen
at 74d. A vessel was chartered for Belfast, to load with corn, Sergeant Gibbons, however, was saved, having clung to are so well known, has been at
at 9d. in bulk, and flour at 2s. 6d. To Liverpool, 6,000 bbls. the boat until assistance reached from the shore. The sul at Canton, worth £lBOO
tour were engaged in a transient vessel at 25., and corn, in remaining party were drowned. gentleman has long been in a
bags and bulk, at 2s. A vessel was chartered for Cork and a
market, to load in Baltimore with corn, at 9s. in bulk 10 000
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF Two CHILDREN.-On Fri- quired his residence in a warms
bushels corn were engaged for Glasgow, in bulk, at Sd.; ,
day se'nnight two children, a brother and sister of the will try to succeed Dr. Bowrin
COTTON MARKET.-The tendency of prices to favour the name of M'Grath, he being 14 and she 16 years of age, Bolton.
asesettrehaveben as uninterruptedly uniform since the 14th inst. were returning, between nine and ten o'clock at night, Four other seats in Parliamen
he preceding fortnight to favour the buyer. The from Dergbridge market ; their way, for two miles, lay Liskeard, Leominster, and
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sales t 5 were
to-day are reported at 500 bales. Prices not quite so stiff, across the bleak mountains of Tiernan, where there was filled by Sir R. Lopes without
although no actual decline has been announced. Closing quo- neither road nor dwelling. There, it seems, the storm Mr. Crowder on the Liberal is
miens:-
LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION, and cold of that tempestuous night became too much for two candidates, Conservative a
N.Orleans,Mo- their physical powers. In the morning they were found Mr. F. Peel, the second son
Uplands. Florida. bier Texas. dead by each other's side. The girl, on leaving home, Bulwer.
inferior
Ordinary 54 a 54 54 a 54 54 a 52
of a Conservative Society that
lliddlinn• 6a ik 6a 64 6a it was found wrapped round the brother's feet and legs, and e
Good middling 64 aii 64 a 64 64 a 63 the other round his head and neck, while his two hands sort a Protectionist manifesto,
Middling fair 6tl a 64 64 a 64 64 a 64 were folded in her bosom ; she, it seems, was trying to the term " Conservative," he s
Fair - Whigs and Peelites. Again-
Fully fair.
Covncrt.sm mt,' a, Ei n At.rrs.--I as.w at the North-wall existing institutions in Church
P,EW ORLEANS, Is OV. 2s, 1848. m. The cotton market continues arm-sales of 2000 bls. Sales a number of pauper female orphans from Cavan Union, with my usual frankness, 4Th, 1
of the week reach 22.000 bales. We quote fair, 6c. ; flour re- on their way to Plymouth, for embarkation by the Go- hope of their being long maint
mains steady at .44 75; the sales are 3,000 bbls. • corn is dull vernment for Australia, and I was surprised at the neat, which are now pursued should
and prices less firm; sales of 15,C00 bushels at 4'Sc. for mixed, healthy, handsome, nay elegant appearance of these poor others should be adopted to F.
and 53c. for yellow • mess pork has advanced, and now corn- girls. The relieving officer and the matron informed me reasonable expectations of the
mends 810 50. Of' lard there were sales of 120 kegs at 6 elxe.. that the ages of the girls average from fifteen to eighteen attachment for institutions ca
Sales of 310 bbls. molasses at 20c. In freights and sterlin
change we have no change to notice, g years-that they can all read, and all write but two, some without any faults of their o'
ROSTON, Nov. 28. of them superiorly, both as to style and penmanship, employment and the means of
FLOUR.-The general operations have been to meet the usual and that in general they do most kinds of needlework. and have been confined like
trade demand, Genesee .85 75 to .85 87, and Michigan and simi- The impression left on my mind is, that they are quite houses ? It is the bounden du
lan descriptions, .85 62 to a 5 75 per bbl.
accomplished young women ; and I must add that, enter- defend, not only existing instit
GRAIN.-The sales indicate less firmness in prices, with re- Wising hitherto uncompromising hostility to the Poor- labour in their utmost extent.'
ceipts greater than the demand. Yellow flat Corn, new, 65cand old 67c, white 63c to 64c per bu ; other grains the same af's law, I must confess that it has some redeeming features. reimpose the corn laws, an opi
previously reported. The girls, with others from Boyle, Loughrea, &c., in all and free trade is persevered t
ALBANY, Nov. 27,1848. above 100, sailed by the Duke of Cornwall at one o'clock have the right to demand thi
Receipts by canal since Saturday-Flour, 98,000 bbls.; wheat, on Saturday.-Correspondent of &under' s News Letter, land tax, malt tax, and hop du
2,600 bushels ; corn, 3,500 do.; barley, 11,000 do. Ihe flour
market is dull, while quotations remain about the same; sales EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.-At the Kilkee petty sea- poor, highway, and county rt of 2,500 bushels of rye at 60c. Of barley there were sales of lions, whilst the magistrates were delivering their judg- tithe commutation act, no los
9,000 bushels at 614 a 66c., according to quality. In oats we meat in a case of Curtin v. O'Donnell, Mr. Studdert, one legislative enactment empoweri
notice sales of 6,000 bushels at 33 a 34c. A lot of 100 bbls. of the magistrates, was understood to make some obser- term of years, to be given up c
prime mess pork were taken at private bargain. vation to the effect that there had been some unhandsome every payment by contract to I
. • conduct relative tothe case, when another magistrate, Col. different average price of wh
There were alarming riots at Memel on the 4th inst., Vandeleur, caught up the remark and said, "Do you authorised cultivation of tobacc
the town being completely in the hands of the populace mean to say that I acted unhandsomely, as you insinuated the repeal of the duties on soap
during four or five hours. Great excesses were committed. on former occasions ? If you do, 1 say your conduct is and the minor sorts of tea and.
The French brig-of-war Pandour was wrecked in the unhandsome and ungentlemanlike." He then rose from jag classes'
the bench, and rushed at Mr. Studdert, whom he violently
Rive, „River Plate during the month of September last. and __,,_ , . .

_ncompromising hostility to the Poor-
law, I must confess that it has some redeeming features.
The girls, with others from Boyle, Loughrea, &c., in all
above 100, sailed by the Duke of Cornwall at one o'clock
on Saturday.—Correspondent of Saunder's News Letter.
EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.-At the Kilkee petty ses-
, whilst the magistrates were delivering their judg-
-Int in a case of Curtin v. O'Donnell, Mr. Studdert, one
of the magistrates, was understood to make some ob.
nation to the effect that there had been some unhandsome
conduct relative tothe case, when another magistrate, Col.
Vandeleur, caught up the remark and said, " Do you
mean to say that I acted unhandsomely, as you insinuated
on former occasions ? If you do, 1 say your conduct is
unhandsome and ungentletnanlike." He then rose from
the bench, and rushed at Mr. Studdert, whom he violently
collared. A struggle ensued, until the belligerents were
parted by Mr. Little, by the chief of police, and other
gentlemen. They then addressed each other in violent
language, which is not reported. Colonel Vandeleur left
the court, but was requested to return by Mr. Little, who
then mildly rebuked both his brother justices for their
undignified conduct. Both gentlemen seemed to feel the
force of this reproof ; and, after an explanation on the
part of each, shook hands and parted apparently on friendly
terms.

There were alarming riots at Memel on the 4th inst.,
the town being completely in the hands of the populace
during four or five hours. Great excesses were committed.
The French brig-of-war Pandour was wrecked in the
River Plate during the month of September last, and
nearly all her crew unhappily perished.
Prince Louis Napoleon is to inaugurate his advent to
,The Presidency by a ..eneral ernnesty, from which will be,
'excepted, however, the prisoners at Vincennes, who are to
be tried.

No less than four hundred and five members of the
National Assembly have been to inscribe their names at
the residence of the new President of the Republic.
People worship the rising sun in France as well as else-
where.

The Portuguese war steamer Mindelho, was despatched
on the 10th inst. for Naples in search of the Pope, to
offer him an asylum in Portugal, should be think fit to
accept it. The Queen's Chamberlain, Count de Penafiel,
is charged with the mission. Maffra is being prepared for
his reception.

PROTESTANT AND ROMAN CATHOLIC JURORS.—The
complainers about the rejection of Roman Catholic jurors
from the state trials in Ireland, have ignored such particu-
lars as did not suit their end quite as freely as they pre-
tend the officials have shut out Roman Catholic jurors.
They have totally omitted all allusion to the setting aside
of Protestants, whether by the Crown or the accused, so
that a foreigner—and these documents are fabricated with
a special view to foreigners—might naturally imagine that
this practice of challenging was an instrument of tyranny
in the hands of the Crown, and not a constitutional gua-
rantee of fairness open to the accused, and used by him
as freely as by the prosecutor. Much less have they allu-
ded to the fact that the Crown set aside very nearly twice
as many Protestants as Roman Cut holies, viz , of the for-
mer 71, and of the latter 37. On Mitchel's trial 42 per-
sons were set aside by the Crown, of whom 28 were
Protestants and 14 Roman Catholics. On O'Doherty's
first trial 6 were set aside by the Crown, of whom 3 were
Protestants and 3 Roman Catholics. On his second trial,
18 were set aside by the Crown, of whom 10 were Pro-
testants and 8 Roman Catholics. On his third trial, 22
were set aside by the Crown, of whom 16 were Protestants
and 6 Roman Catholics. On Martin's trial, 20 were set
aside by the Crown, of whom 14 were Protestants and 6
Roman Catholics. Thus, on all the five trials, including
the two which did not lead to conviction, there were, as
we have said, 71 Protestants set aside and only 37 Roman
Catholics. The memorialists have industriously suppres-
sed this fact ; not because the Lord-Lieutenant knows it,
but because others possibly do not. Such unfairness
would be scandalous if it were not habitual in this quarter.

AUSTRIA.—The accounts from various parts of the
Austrian dominions testify the general approval of the
people at the abdication of Ferdinand and the accession
,of Francis Joseph. The latter, it appears, wishes to act
with much independence. The young Emperor always
appears in public in military uniform, and also when he
gives audiences to deputations.
Some Russian saints in the catacombs at Kiev, with
their own hands built themselves into the niches of a
atone wall, leaving only a small crevice open, through
which to receive food, and having remained there till
death, they one by one expired in the conviction probably
that by this meritorious sacrifice they had entitled them-
selves to a place in heaven.
Letters from Rome of the 4th inst. announce that on
the 3d inst., one of the Cardinals remaining in Rome
having received a rescript from the Pope, annulling all
the acts of the new Ministry, and commanding the dis-
solution of the Chambers, he communicated it to the
Chamber of Deputies, who convoked an extraordinary
meeting of that Assembly. The House met at midnight,
and, after a discussion which lasted until morning, it was
determined that the rescript of his Holiness should be
regarded as of no value, as it was not signed by any re-
sponsible Minister. The Assembly resolved further, that
a deputation from the two Chambers should wait upon
His Holiness to pray him to return to Rome.

RAILWAY

,
A GALLANT YOUNG WOMAN.—A letter, dated Madras,
18th October, has been addressed to the editor of the
Madras Spectator, by Captain Eiden. detailing the in-
trepid conduct of a Miss Arnold. It appears that the
Rainbow, from Southampton to Aden, arrived there on
the 16th ult.' Captain Arnold had died ten days before,
and the chief mate was incapacitated from drunkenness.
The Captain's daughter, about 16 years of age, was on
board. After her father's death the second mate made
an attempt to entice the young lady to run away with
the ship. She indignantly repelled his attempts, and
though in deep grief for her bereavement she rushed on
the quarter deck and made a public appeal to the crew as
British seamen—throwing herself upon their protection.
They all, but two who had been led away by the second
mate, said they would protect her, and intimated to the
rest of the crew that if any one injured her they would
throw him overboard. She then suggested as a further
means of safety that all the spirits should be thrown over-
board, and they instantly did so. The young lady after-
wards slept and remained constantly on the quarter deck,
guarded by three faithful tars, and attended by an English
female. She represented the case on the arrival of the
ship, and the second mate and the disaffected men were
arrested and put in prison. Miss Arnold, who is a well-
educated and amiable young lady, became the welcome
guest at Aden of Captain Thomas. The remains of her
father, which at her request had been preserved in a cask
ofspirits, were buried at Aden the day after the ship's ar-
rival. She had always kept his accounts ; the second
mate navigated the ship, hut several of the crew knew the
course to Men, and watched his proceedings.
An American editor thus logically nudges his delinquent
subscribers—" We don't want money desperately bad,
but our creditors do, and no doubt they owe you. If
you pay us, we 11 pay them, and they'll pay you."
Mr. Catlin states that one of the most violent causes
of the Indian's hatred of white men is, that nearly every
Indian grave is opened by them on the frontier, for their
skulls, or for the weapons and trinkets buried with them.

was a strong muster of the inhabitants determined to sup-
port him by chanting the responses. The cathedral was
crowded, but it appears that some compromise had been
entered into. The Rev. Canon Sartis read the service
without chanting, but the choristers appeared in their
gowns and chanted the responses as usual. The inhabi-
tants generally are very averse to having this old custom
abolished.

EMIGRATION AS A CHURCH MOVEMENT.-Why
should not the Church of England, which ought to be
united in the holy cause of propagating the Gospel in
every corner of the British empire, organise an association
for assisting, wholly or in part, under rule and regulation,
poor Church people of good character, to remove from a
precarious competition for subsistence, which rages in
many of our overpeopled districts and villages, to those
more genial latitudes where industrious habits will not
fail to ensure to themselves and their offspring, at no dis-
tant period, an honest and easy independence ? As it is,
Churchmen do combine with members of other commu-
nions for the promotion of emigration. We see Lord
Ashley and his friends urging on our Christian sympathy
the claims of the " ragged." In another direction Lord
Harrowby is at the head of a Society of kindred spirit;
while the City Mission and its agent, Mr. Jackson, are at
work among the convicted law-breakers. In all this,
however, where is the poor Churchman and his children ?
Who is considering the distressed of the " household of
faith ?"

THE REV. BAPTIST NOEL'S FAMILY.-Mr. Noel's
grandfather was made First Lord of the Admiralty on the
impeachment of Lord Melville in 1805, being then an
aged man. We have been informed by an intimate friend

ie family, that on accepting office, he stipulated that
he should not be expected to attend any Sunday Cabinet
dinner, or in any way to violate the Sabbath. He was
created Lord Barham, and as he had only a daughter, the
succession was extended to the female line, a favour which
Lord Coßingwood. who was similarly circumstanced, so-

licited in vain. His only daughter and 51712;c.;;;;,' the
Baroness Barham, was married to Sir Gerard Noel, for
very many years M.P. for Rutlandshire, by whom she had
several children, the present peer, created Earl of Gains..
borough by the Whigs, being the eldest. The marriage
not happy, Sir Gerard Noel being, according to the

,ertions of his lady's friends, a gay and even dissipated
man, while Lady Barham was a weak and fanatical zealot.
They separated, and while Sir Gerard remained in Rut-
landshire, Lady Barham went to reside at Fairy Hill,
near Swansea. The children, we bolieve without excep-
tion, their mother, and were eduoc.ted by
and under her eye and direction. In Wales, Lady
%zt= occupied herself in building and directin.- car*Pil
ises in the several village
o of ouvver, a aistrict
-;ne was that of the Calvinis-

.riends and advisers were
ministers of that persuasion. She associated little, if at
all, with the neighbouring country families. She com-
mitted the general management of her affairs to a person
whom she advanced from being her footman to be the
chief of ho' and the superintendent of all the
-est - ''ev 'come villa. and lived

aLIU 111 CIA in af-
fluence. Her family had much reason to believe that this

her confidence, and they saw

.dsion to institute an unpleasant inquiry after her death.
rhe dissenting education which Lady Barham's children
received produced its effects. Her eldest son, the present
Earl, was once fined, under the Conventicle Act, for hold-
.

ais mansion, we think,

ating preacher officiating. Mr. Baptist
Noel's irregularities may be referred to the same course.

MISCELLANY.

Parliament has been proro'gued to the Ist February.
The reformers of Manchester are going to hold a great
meeting in the Free Trade Hall, on the 4th January, to
discuss the questions of parliamentary and financial reform
Lord Seymour, eldest son of the Duke of Somerset, has
not been appointed to succeed Mr. Charles Buller as Pre-
sident of the Poor Law Commission, as stated.

ST RIDING ELECTION.—The polling took place on
Thursday and Friday, and the majority for Mr. Denison

lost gradually throughout kepi increasing. At the
close the numbers were—Denison, 14,255; Eardley,
11,246 ;—majority for Denison, 3,009.
It is stated on the best authority that Ministers, yield-
ing to the force of the representations made to them by
the commercial interests of the north, have consented that
a secret committee of the House of Commons shall be ap-
pointed next session to inquire into the expediency of li-
miting the responsibility of the proprietors of joint-stock
banks.

Dr. Bowring, whose eminent qualifications as a linguist
are so well known, has been appointed her Majesty's Con-
sul at Canton, worth £lBOO per annum. The learned
gentleman has long been in a state of health which re-
quired his residence in a warmer climate. Sir J. Walmsley
will try to succeed Dr. Bowring in the representation of
Bolton.

Four other seats in Parliament are vacant—South Devon,
keard, Leominster, and Truro. The first will be
filled by Sir R. Lopes without a contest. The second by
Mr. Crowder on the Liberal interest ; the third boasts of
two candidates, Conservative and Whig, in the persons of
Mr. F. Peel, the second son of Sir Robert, and Sir L.
lulwer.

Earl Stanhope has addressed a letter to the chairman
of a Conservative Society that may be considered in some
sort a Protectionist manifesto. He says, in considering
the term " Conservative," he sees little difference between
Whigs and Peelites. Again—" If by the term
Conser-
vative' you designate those who wish to preserve the
ezictiag institutions in Church and Stat,!., I must observe,
with my usual frankness, Church_
I cannot entertain any
hope of their being long maintained, unless the measures
which are now pursued should be abandoned, and unless
others should be adopted to satisfy the just claims and
reasonable expectations of the people." He asks what
attachment for institutions can be felt by paupers, who,
without any faults of their own, have been deprived of
employment and the means of subsistence by free trade,
and have been confined like criminals in union work-
houses ? It is the bounden duty of every Conservative to
defend, not only existing institutions, but the "rights of
labour in their utmost extent." If it is impracticable to
reimpose the corn laws, an opinion he does not agree in,
and free trade is persevered then, then will the people
have the right to demand the immediate repeal of the
land tax, malt tax, and hop duty ; the equalization of the
poor, highway, and county rates ; an alteration of the
tithe commutation act, no longer just or applicable; a
legislative enactment empowering leases for an unconfined
term of years, to be given up on six months' notice; and
every payment by contract to be reduced.according to the
different average price of wheat, now and then ; the
authorised cultivation of tobacco and sugar without duty ;
the repeal of the duties on soap ,colonial sugar and coffee,
and the minor sorts of tea and tobacco used by the labor-
ing classes.

COURT AND FASHION.

Her Majesty will return to Windsor Castle on the 22nd
instant, and the Court will pass the Christmas holidays
at the Castle.

The Bishop of London has addressed a circular letter
to his clergy, requesting their assistance on behalf of the
Additional Curates' Fund, which will be compelled to
withhold a number of its grants at Easter, unless the
funds be augmented by £2OOO.
The Royal family are still in the Isle of Wight. On
Tuesday Prince Albert attended by Major General
Wemyss embarked on board the Fairy, and proceeded to
the Ajax steam-vessel, to witness the experiments with
the new steam propeller fitted in that vessel.. His Serene
Highness Prince Victor Hohenlohe Lansenbourg paid a
visit on Wednesday to the Queen and Prince Albert.

The marriage of Si: Henry Lytton Buliver, the late
British minister at the Court of Madrid, and the Hon.
Georgiana Charlotte Mary Wellesley, youngest daughter
of the late Lord Cowley, and niece of the Duke of 'Wel-
lington, was solemnised on Saturday evening, by special
license, at Hatfield House, the Marquis of Salisbury's
beautiful Elizabethan seat in Herefordshire. Among the
distinguished company present were, the Duke of Wel-
lington, the Marquis of Douro, Sir Edward Bulvrer Lyt-
ton, brother of the bridegroom, and candidate for the re-
presentation of Leominster, &c. A grand banquet for 30
guests was given on the occasion.

AFFAIRS.

The discontinuance of the " Return-tickets," is found
to operate injuriously on railway interests, in the dimi-
nished amount of traffic.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for
the week ending the 9th instant—Coaching traffic, £727
11d.: parcels, £43 2s. 4d. ; goods and cattle, £164 Bd. ;
steam boats, £lO5 16s. 6d.; total, £lO4O sd.

The directors of the Caledonian Railway announce that
the temporary interruption of the traffic occasined by'l the
recent floods on the Clyde, has been overcome, and that
the trains are again running as usual.
An entire stoppage has been put to the further progress
of the railway bridge over the Tweed at Berwick, in con-
sequence of the men in a body having refused to work
any longer for the contractors without wages. On Satur-
day night the arrears amounted to nineteen weeks.
Captain Laws, who lately resigned the management of
the Great Northern, has been re-appointed managing
director of the Lancashire and Yorkshire, which he left
to join the Great Northern, at a salary of £1,500 per
annum.

-
On Saturday evening, a timekeeper, employed on the
Oswestry branch of the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway.
got drunk, and lay down on the rails near the Rednal
Station. The evening train from Chester soon afterwards
arrived, passed over the body and killed him on the spot.

SHREWSBURY AND CIIESTER RAILWAY.—OPENING
OF TIIE BRANCH TO OSWESTRY.—The branch from the
main line to the town of Oswestry being completed, it is
intended to open it for traffic on Saturday, the 23d inst.
The directors of the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway
contemplate starting a pleasure train on some day, not
yet fixed, during the Christmas holidays, at a cheap rate,
starting at an early hour froth Shrewsbury, so as to allow
the passengers ample time to view the ancient city of
Chester. It is stated that Mr. Ormsby Gore has resigned
the office of Chairman of the Shrewsbury and Chester
Railway.—Shretegury Chronicle.
LANCASTER AND PRESTON JUNCTION RAILWAY.-"-
A meeting of this company was held on Wednesday at
Lancaster, for the purpoSe of Considering an agreement
entered into with the Lancaster Canal Company respect-
ing the lease of the above railway, Mr. Bushell in the
chair. It was stated that the Lancaster Canal Company
had agreed to surrender the lease of the railway to the
Lancaster and Preston Railway Company, on considera-
tion of receiving an annual compensation of £4,780 for
the 15 years yet unexpired of the lease, the railway corn=
puny having the option of purchasing the annuity within
18 months after the ratification of the agreement. Reso,
Wilms were passed confirming the agreement.