The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-12 00:00:00

LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL NEWS.

The steam-ship Britannia sailed hence, on Tuesday,
for Halifax and Boston, with 45 passengers.
Mr. A. Willink, son of D. Williuk, Esq., of this town,
and lately a pup'l of the ROyal Institution School, has
been elected a scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge.
The Rev. Moses Margolioth, (a converted Jew,) late. of
th;s town, has been appointed to the living of Glasnevin,
by the Lord Bishop of Kildare.
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The Recorder, Gilbert 'lender:.lon, Esq., has presented
the Sailors' Home with the munificent sum of one hun-
dred guineas.
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The British and North American royal mail steam-ship
Acadia, Captain Harrison, which would leave Boston and
Halifax on the Ist and 3rd instant, may be looked for
about Thursday next.

DEATH BY SCALDING,—On Tuesday, Lavinia Grogan,
aged 31 years, drank scalding tea from the mouth of a
teapot, which brought on an inflammation of the laryas,
from the Effects of which she died.

DECREASE OF CRIME.—On Wednesday last there was
only one person brought before Mr. Rushton for felony,
and the total number of prisoners in charge that day was
only 19 ; about half of them were beggars.

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SINGULAR DEATH.—On Wednesday week Mrs. Chap-
man, of Manchester, died from the effects of a scratch
on her hand inflicted a fortnight before. The part be-
came inflamed the day after and mortification ensued.
THE POLICE FORCE.—The temporary arrangements
for conducting the police are,—the town is divided into
north and south districts. Under Mr. Dowling, Mr.
Superintendent M`Donald has been appointed to the con-
trol of the north division, and Mr. Superintendent
Quick to the south division.

BEERSELLERS FINED ON FRIDAY.—Thomas Price,
Finch-street, £3 and costs ; George Thomas, Faulkner-
street, £3 and costs ; James Lysagbt, Portland-street,
1:2 10s. and costs ; William Draper, London-road, £2
10s. and costs; Thomas Kirkham, Upper Harrington-
street, £2 and costs ; Jessott, Old -Haymarket,
acquitted.
ROYAL ATHOL CAKE.—Mr. Gibbons, London-road,
has iutroduced into Liverpool the above favourite cake,
which, since the Queen's visit to Scotland, has had the
word " royal" prefixed to it, from its frequent use at the
royal table We certainly think her Majesty no bad judge
in euch matters; and, having tasted for ourselves, have
great pleasure in bearing testimony to its general excel-
lence, and recommend it to the patronage of our readers,
as well as the Edinburgh loaf bread—the quality of which
cannot be surpassed.
STEALING A GOLD RING.—OR Friday, Margaret John-
son was committed for stealing a gold ring, the property
of Jane Rainforth, 13, Peter-street. Thy prisoner called
to see the pros,Tutrix, and, after admiring her wedding
ring for some time, pet suaded her to pull it off for a closer
inspection. As soon as the golden circlet was put into
the prisoner's hands, she ran away with it, and pawned
it some hours afterwards at Mr. Mason's shop. The
prisoner, in her defence, said she was drunk at the time,
and did not mean to keep the ring.
GUANO.—There are numerous arrivals at Cork and
Falmouth for orders, but, owing to eastern winds, only
two at this port. On the spot, sellers £5 12s. 6J. to £5
15s. ; buyers £5 10s.: for positive delivery in the spring,
sellers £6. Peruvian is without change. There has,
latterly, been an immercantile system of puffing particu-
lar cargoes of this article, and statements have been made
calculated to mislead parties not intimate with it. Ex-
tensive adulteration is also spoken of. Purchasers, how-
ever, who place themselves in the hands of men of
character and standing have nothing to fear.
OBTAINING GOODS UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.-011
the 4th instant, a man, named Ralph Windle, went to the
shop of Thomas Trotter, tailor, 26, Sir Thomas's-build-
ings, and said that Mr. Ball had sent him for a pair of
trousers, and if they answered he would bring the money
for them. Trott, r, knowing that Windle had been in the
employ of Mr. Ball, green-grocer, Queen's-square, let
him have the trousers; but, on inquiry afterwards at Mr.
Ball's, found that the prisoner had left his service, and
that he had not sent him for the trousers. The prisoner
was apprehended some days after, and, on being brought
up on Friday at the Police-court, was committed for trial
at the sessions.
SALE OF THE MANORIAL RIGHTS OF BIRKENHEAD.
Wm. Jackson, Esq., has purchased from F. R. !'rice,
Esq., of Bryn-y-Pys, the Lord of the Manor, a consider-
able portion of property, together with the manorial
rights of Birkenhead and Claughton. Amongst the pro-
perty included in the purchase is St. Mary's Church, the
large and extensive premises known as Gleave's Hotel,
the Albion Hotel, and the house, lately the residence of
J. D. Case, Esq , near Woodside Ferry. The amount of
the purchase is about £150,000. Owing to business en-
gagements, Wm. Jackson, Esq., has taken a house in
Belgrave-square, London, where it is probable he may
remain for some time.

THEATRE ROYAL.-Mr. Charles Kean and his accom-
plished partner commenced an engagement at this theatre
on Alondav last, and have been delighting our playgoers
with their performance of some of the best of our national
dramas. It would be almost a work of supererogation on
our part to attempt anything like a detailed notice of ac-
tors whose talents and styles are so well known and ap •
predated. We may remark, however, upon the particu-
larly fine manner in which Mr. Kean played Hamlet on
Wednesday evening. It was a faultless representation,
and conveyed fully to those of the audience who can ap-
preciate the character, its peculiar heauties and intricacies.
The house on this evening was crowded to overflow except
in the dress circle.

EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT.—Yesterday, at the PO-
lice-court, a young man, named William Harrison, was
charged with this offence.—Mr. Charles Gibson, clerk to
Messrs. Musgrove and Vance, cotton-brokers, said that
he paid to the prisoner, on the 16th October, the sum of
£l3 Is. 7d., to be paid to his (the prisoner's) employer.—
Mr. M`Bride, merchant, said the prisoner had been in h's
employ, and was authorized to collect money, but required
to account for, or pay over, the same every day by three
o'clock. The sum stated (being payment of an account
produced) had not been accounted for by him.—Mr.
Do%ling stated that there were other sums, of a much
more serious amount, the embezzlement of which, he be-
lieved, could be traced to the prisoner, but these cases
would take some time sufficiently to investigate. The
prisoner was accordindy remanded, to give time for the
necessary evidence to be produced.
'MORTALITY IN LIVERPOOL, &C.—ln the official
quarterly table of the mortality in 150 districts of England,
ending 30th Sept., are the following particulars :—The
mortality in the districts of this town and West Derby,
on an average, was greater than the mean mortality, in
the same districts, in the same quarter, last year. In St.
Martin's district the number of deaths was above the
average,—consumption, diarrhea, and inflammation of the
lungs and bowels having prevailed. In Great Howard-
street district the increased number of deaths was, as
compared with the corresponding quarter last year, 88;
in Dale-street, 56; in St. Thomas's, 2; in Mount-pleasant,
23 less; in Islington, 20 more ; in St. George, below the
average. Small pox .is mentioned as having prevailed
in some of the districts. In West Derby, the mortality
did not exceed the general average ; in Crosby, a decrease
6 deaths as compared with the June quarter; and in
Toxteth-park, an increase of 58, so compared,—typhus,
scarlatina, and measles having been prevalent. Some
particulars as to the ueneral mortality of the country will
be found in a paragraph elsewhere.
BIRKENHEAD POLICE COURT, THURSDAY.—WiIIiam
Sanehes, a beerseller, was fined 10s. and costs for per-
mitting gaming with cards.—John Jones was charged
with stealing the carcase of a sheep from the premises of
Thomas Beddoes, butcher, Bridge-end. He was shortly
afterwards taken with The meat nn his shoulders, in Rus-
sell-street, and was committed for trial.—Sarah Barclay
was charged with stealing a £5 note from the coat pccket
of John Jones, a farmer, of Lower Bebbington, at home.
The complainant had been to Oxton's public-house there,
and on his return borne went to bed. It) the morning he
missed his money, and suspected the prisoner, who was
his servant. She admitted that she had removed the coat,
but had seen nothing of the money; and as it came out
that he had at the public-house taken off his coat to play
at skittles, and the girl had hitherto borne a good charac-
ter, the case was dismissed.

COMMISSIONERS RS OF II tORWAYS.—Mr. Aspinall called
the attention of the board to the disgraceful state in
which the gas companies left the macadam in the street
after opening tren hes for the pipes, and after a long dis-
cussion a resolution was passed, directing the law clerk to
write to the companies, and request them to separate the
stones from the soil, to put in the soil first, and if any
soil be left, to remove it after filling up the trenches.—
r. Procter, in reference to the annual statement of
accounts, which will be submitted to the vestry, to be
held that day fortnight, said he found the enormoas sum
of £2,212 15s. Gd. for law charges.—Mr. 13h kett—That
was for obtaining the act. There were two acts—one for
the second borough rate, and the other for the water rate;
and in consequence of the opposition of the water compa-
nies, the act cos,. nearly treble. Mr. Procter—l find the
rate collected is only £29,000, and that the law charges
amount to fii per cent. on the rate. The chairman said
they had been as careful as they could be. Mr. Procter
said it was an enormous sum, and he would sooner not
have gone to Parliament at all than have expended public
money in that way. Mr. Birkett said it ought to have
been put under a different head. They all knew the dif-
ficulty there was in obtaining the act, butif it had cost
five times the money, it was cheaply got.

THE NEW BANKRUPTCY COURTS.—The extensive
premises, situate in South John-street, at the corner of
Cable-street, a portion of which is to be appropriated as
Courts of-Bankruptcy, are now nearly completed. The
courts will occupy the second floor of the building, that
in the north wing being intended for Mr. Commissioner
Phillips, and the other for Mr. Sergeant Ludlow. Each
room is about thirty feet square, well ventilated, and
lighted with plate glass windows, and every arrangement
has been made for the convenience of the officers, and
other parties attending the courts, so as to facilitate the
discharge of the public business. Adjoining is a fire-
proof apartment fur depositing records, and other valua-
ble documents, and advantage has been taken of every
modern improvement, with the view of giving the most
perfect security in thv.t important department. The upper
part of the building is being fitted uo in a suitable man-
ner, with all the requirements for offices, &c., which will
be let off for the purposes of general business, and under-
neath the court-roores there will be a range of handsome
shops, one of which will be adopted to the purposes of a
restaurant. The front of the premises is cemented, to
resemble stone, and is tasteully finished, a figure of
in ins-
lice placed, which occupies a niche the centre, acidity,
much to the gereral effect. The work (which is, uncle;
the direction of Mess,s. S. and J. Holme) will be com-
pleted very shortly, when the courts will to immediately
oompied.

INQUESTS BEFORE MR. CURRY, BOROUGH CORO-
NER.-0,1 Saturday, on view of the body of William
Green, formerly an excise-office:. On Thursday night,
the deceased fell into the Clarence Dock, and was drowned.
The body was not found until Friday night. Verdict—
" Accidental death." Same day, on the body of Thomas
Walker, who resided in York Buildings, Dryden-street.
The deceased, who was of eccentric character, but of good
connexion, was last seen alive on Thursday , night. Not
making his appearance next day, his room was broken
open at ten at night, and he was found quite dead, with
his head on the grate, and his face a good deal burned, he
having, it is supposed, fallen. The surgeon who examined
the body gave it as his opinion that the cause of death
was water on the chest. and that it was probable
he 'lied before he fell on the fire. Verdict accordingly.
Yesterday, on the body of a man unknown, which was
picked up in the river by four boatmen on Sunday after-
noon. It was supposed that he was one of the men
drowned by the collision of the steamer Iron Duke with
two boats some weeks ago ; but of this there was no cer-
tainty, as the flesh on the heeds and face was so wa'hed
off or decayed that recognition was scarcely possible.
The verdict was to the effect that the deceased, who was
"unknown," was " found droweed."
CHILD DE SERTION.—On Thursday evening, a male
child, apparently about a year old, was left at the door of
the convent, Mount Vernon. street. The infant was wel
clothed, and was wrapped up in a diaper table cloth.
There were marks of violence upon the body. A reward
of £5 has been offered for the discovery of the un:mural
person who deserted the child. In consequence of a
public announce ten nt of this circumstance, Margaret
Kelly, who resit'ed in cellar No. 47, Pitt-street, was ap—
prehended by Police-officer Ilrey, No. 418, on Friday
night. The case was brought before Mr. Rushton on
Saturday. It appeared, from the evidence of Mrs.
O'Donnell, in whose cellar the priioner ludged, that the
child produced in court was taken from home by the pri—
sorter last Thursday week, and, on the latter returning to
her lodgings without it, she was interrogated respecting
it, when she stated that she had placed it out at nurse.
Witness said that the blue cloth cap then worn by the child
was made by herself, and that the dress generally corres—
ponded with that she had seen worn by the child previous.
to its being taken from the cellar. Patrick O'Donnell
informed Way that he suspected the prisoner could give
some in'ormation about the child, as, from the descrip-
tion given in the advertisement, he had no doubt it be-
longed to her. The mother, on a question being put to
her by Mr. Rushton, said she could say nothing.
Police-efficer 327 proved the finding of the child and its-
conveyance to the West Derby Union Workhouse on the
31st ult. The prisoner was committed for trial at the
sessions.

COWARDLY ASS A ULT.—On Friday, at the Police-
court, Thomas Baden end George liolden were charged
with assaulting Lewis Marie, second mate of the Ameri-
can ship Berwick. The complainant stated that, about
half-past eight o'clock on Thursday night, he was going
on board the vessel, and when near the Vietthia Dock
gate, a stone was thrown at him. It being very dark, he -
did not see who threw it ; but immediately after the pri-
soners came' up, one 'on either side, and knocked him
down, and beat him most severely. A man named Jones,
who was standing on the quay, heard the two men say,
" there goes the second mate," and they went after him.
Another witness, who was unacquainted with all the par-
ties, confirmed the testimony of the mate. Mr. Rush-
ton said that of late there had been a number of most
disgraceful assaults committed, such as were cot formerly
known in Liverpool, by American sailers. It was but a
few days ago since a gentleman, the captain of an Ameri-
can vessel, was murderously assaulted by one of his men
with a stone or bullet plared in the end of a stocking.
Providentially, however, in that case, Captain Woodhouse
bad recovered from the injuries he received, and was able
yesterday to sail for America. In the case now.before
him, the prisoners had attacked the mate without any al-
leged provocation, on a dark night, which gave them
ample opportunity to effect their foul purpose, and as-
saulted him in a most cowardly and brutal manner. He,
therefore, sentenced each of them to be fined £5 for the
assault, and to be imprisoned two Months ; at the end of
that period they must find bail to keep the peace, two
sureties in ie.;2o each, themselves in £4O, or in default
thereof to be imprisoned two months longer.
WESLEYAN FOREIGN ssures.—On Wednesday
evening last, a public meeting of the subscribers and
friends in the two Liverpool circuits was held in Bruns-
wick Chapel, Moi.s-street, on wbreh occasion the Rev.
Thomas B. Freeman attended for the purpose of making
communications respecting the progress of missionary
operations nn the Gold Coast and in the kingdom of
Ashanti. Tile meeting was very numerously attended,
and the chair was taken, amid loud chef rs, by the Mayor.
—The Rev. G. Osborn, of Manchester, proposed a vote
of thanksgiving to God forthe success of the society. This
was seconded by the Rev. W. C. Milne, M.A. missionary
from China, who explained she operations of the London
Society in that empire.—The Rev. T. B. Freeman follow-
ed in a long and deeply interesting address. lie had, he
said, taken the banner of the cross, and unfurled it in dis-
tant lands, amidst the perishing sons o: men. One of the
most painful things that had arisen in his mind while tra-
velling there, was the comparison between the beauties of
nature, and the awful condition of the unfortunate natives.
In Ashanti, and other parts of Western Africa where he
had visited, the traveller passed through an almost unbro-
ken scene of the most wild and extraordinary luxuriance
—the poor native was the only growth that dwindled.
Nature triumphed in all her majesty and fertility, but man
Was ignorant of the God that made him. Human sacrifi-
ces were of every day occurrence. In by-gone days, when
a monarch died, thousands were sacrificed; when a chief-
tain, hundreds ; and when a subordinate, five to ten vic-
tims perished. The natives, on these horrid occasions,
became excited with ardent spirits, and danced furiously
round the bodies—proceeding from one degree of wretch-
edness and vice to a greater. They supposed it necessary
to send into she other world a certain number of sieves to
attend on their deceased friends. The effect of these
scenes led the natives to imbibe tastes so extraordinary
that their very instruments of music were decorated with
scull bones of human victims. Man not only on the one
hand murdered his brother, but sold him-also into foreign
slavery ;—and they not only bowed down to idols, but they
worshipped the very reptiles that crawled over the face of
the earth. This was a specimen of the greater part of the
nations and triber of Arica. It %yes about ten years since
the first Wesleyan missionary had gone out to Cape Coast
Castle; and what wonders had they seen during the last
seven years. He bad the happiness of reporting, that they
now occupied a district extending over 400 miles along
the western coast of Africa, and reaching 200 miles into
the interior. It contained 21 stations,and there were be-
tween 700 and 800 members in Society, and upwards of
500 children in the schools. There was an institution for
training native agents, with nine promising youths un,ler-
going instruction, and between fifty and sixty native
agents were now actively employed in carrying out the
views of the missionaries. There were a number of cha-
pels erected, in which the true God was worshipped, and
he rejoiced to say that on every hand they had a most
pleasing and delightful prospect of still greater success.
The reverend gentleman enlarged on these topics. and sat
down amidst much applause. A collection was made at
the close, which amounted to the liberal sum of £265.
DocK COMAUTTEE.—Present, Messrs. Moore, Barclay,
Smith, Bullet', Evans Bold, Borden, Tobin, Kendall,
Sandbach, Moon, Aikin, Chilton, and Ripley.—The
tender of John Horrocks to erect the boundary wall
round the new docks was accepted.—A letter from the
Surveyor, complaining that police officers were never to
be found when required, was referred to the Harbour
Master's Sub-Committee.—One stage berth was appro-
priated for the Philadelphia line of packets in the Water-
loo Deck, as an experiment, far six months.—Brick huts
with stoves or grates, were ordered to be erected for the
pier-masters of George's and Prince's Docks.--Mr. C. S.
Middleton sent a letter stating that as he had heenelected
a member of the Council for Exchange Ward, he .must -
resign his seat in the Dock Committee as a member of the
rate-payers.—Mr. Evans : That is the first announce-
ment of the kind I have ever known.—The Chairman,
after speaking in the highest terms of the manner in
which the treasurer, secretary, and marine surveyor
performed their important duties, stated that he consi-
dered them much under paid, and suggested that Mr.
Withers the treasurer should have a salary of £1,060, in-
stead of £750 ; that the salary of Mr. Mason should be
£730, instead of £5OO ; and that Lieut. Lord should have
his salary increased from £5OO ta £6OO. Mr. Evans ob-
jected to any advance being made, on the ground that
they were till sufficiently paid for their services, and
that were the situations vacant, they would get gentle-
men to perform them at even less salaries. lie argued
also that if the duties of these officers had increased, the
proper way would be to give increased assistance. Mr.
Hulsey said he was not aware that any such proposition
would have been made ; but his intention was before he
came into the room, to take that opportunity of express-
ing his sentiments as to the abilities of the secretary
and marine surveyor, and his opinion was, that
they could scarcely be over paid. Mr.Bulley
then returned thanks to his colleagues of the marine
surveyor's department for their uniform kindness
to him ; he also thanked the chairman and oilier mem-
bers for their courtesy, and added that his only regret in
leaving the Council and Vie Dock Committee, was that he
should be leaving the members of the marine department.
Mr. Barclay spoke in high terms of the treasurer and se-
cretary, and said he believed there would be great diffi-
culty in finding persons to fill their situations, provided
they were vacant. Mr. Aikin said he had great regard for
thesesoiffin cae rpsr,o andpo aa
no
nseart,i wt fled that
atsliteayt pfo
ther samerme
he d theirtime,
convinced the salaries paid were ample. Mr. Bold, se-
conded by Mr. Ripley, then proposed that the salary of
Mr. Withers should be increased to £l,OOO. Upon
a division the numbers were seven and seven, and
of course the motion we s negatived for the day. The
voting was as follows :—For the increase, Messrs. Ken-
dall, Ripley, Chilton, Bold, Smith, Royden, and the
chairman. Against it, Messrs. Moon, Atkin, Barclay,.
Evans, Tobin. Sandbach, nod Bulky. In voting, some
of these gentlemen having stated that their only objection
was to the large Amount of increase, Mr. Tobin, seconded
by Mr. Sandbach, proposed that en addition of £lOO a-
. year should be made to the treasurer's salary. This was-
;Treed to withent a division, Mr. Evans only dissenting.
Mr. Barclay, seconded by Mr. Aikin, then movedthat the
secretary should have an increase of £lOO. Mr. Ripley,
Feconcled by Mr. Bold, moved as an amendment that the
increase should be £l5O. On a division, the amendment
was carried, Messrs. Aikin, Barclay, Evans and Tobin,
being the only parties woo voted against it. The salary
of Mr. Lord wt,s then increased from ,14500 to £6OO, and
, the committee adjourned.

HORSVACI:;S I(usr‘is.:-It will be seen by an advertise-
ment iu another column, Oat these celebrated articles of
fool, fur invalids and chillren, are now considerably
reduced in price.- -The of these buns but faintly
describes the': u:teraiess, but w. feel assured that those
who have tried them will c:-,lltinne to u'e•them• One
great advantage they cossess is, tlpt they are particularly
adapted to parties going to eta, and ciit keep auy Itugth
of time.

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Etteraturr.

POETRY.

MAY YOU DIE AMONG YOUR KINDRED,

DV MRS. ADDY.
(From the Church of England Magazine.)
" Flow much is expressed by tile form of oriental benediction
May you die among your kindred :' "—GREENWOOD.
"May you die among your kindred;" may you 'rest your part.
ing gaze
On the loved familiar faces of your young and happy days :
May the voices whose kind greeting to your infancy was dear
Pour loving'y, while lire declines, their tousle in your ear.

"May you die among your I:indred," may the friends you love
the b st,
List to you: fainting accents, and receive your last request.
Read your miutlered ~Ishes on your changeful features dwell,
And mingled sighs of sorrow with your festering faint farz•.well,

"May you die among your kindred;" may your peaceful grave
be made
In the quiet, cool recesscF, of the churchyard's hallowed shade;
There may our lov,d ones wo.ridc,r at the silent close of day,
Fair buds a::d fragrant blossoms on the verdant ttuf to lay.

'Tis a tender benediction ; yet methinks it lacks the power
To cast a true serenity o'er life's last solemn hour.
Ye whom I love. I may not thus love's Christian ! art fulfil ;
List, while I ask for you a boon more dear, more precious sti

So may you die that, though afar from all your cherished ties,
Thougn strangers hear your dying words and close your dyiN
eyes,
Ye shall nt-t know desertion. since your Saviour shall be near,
To fill your fainting spirit with the .• love that casts out fear,"

So may you die. so willingly submit your soul to God,
That evermore your kindred, as they tread the path you trod,
Way picture your existence on a far-of; heavenly shore,
And speak of you as one not " lost," but only " gone before.

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So may yon die that, when your death to pious friends is known
Each shall devoutly, meekly wish such lot may he their own :
Not heeding if you died in want, in exile, or in pain,
Rut feeling that you died in faith, and thus " die is gain."
St. John's Rectory, Southwark.

COMFORT.

On, ELIZABETH B. BARRETT.)
" Speak low to me, my Saviour—low and sweet
From out the halle ujahs, sweet and low,
Lest I should fear and tall, and miss thee so
Who art not miss'd by any that entreat.
Speak to me as to Mary at thy feet—
And if no precious gums my hands bestow,
Let my tears drop I,ke amber, while I go
In reach of thy divinest voice complete
In humanest affection—thus, in south
To lose the sense of losing ! As a child,
Whose song bird seeks the wood for evermore,
Is sung to hi its stead by mother's mouth'
Till, sinking on her breast, love-reconciled
He sleeps the faster that he wept before."

NOTICES.

BTckw•ood's Magazine.
The number for the present month is replete with arti-
cles of deep interest to the reader of the sound and argu-
mentative, as well as to those who delight in the literary
and amusing. On the mortifying issue of the Irish State
trials there is a clever and learned paper, showing that
both in reason and in commo❑ law the traversers ought
not to have escaped the punishment due to their offences ;
'but the writer imputes no unworthy motives to those few
members of the House of Lords who SD hastily pro-
nounced the opinions of the judges who were called to ad-
vise them to be " clearly erroneous." "My College
Friend" is a light and pleasing exposition of College life
—yet to be concluded. " The Tombless Man," a poetical
drama, by Delta, has all the vigour and depth of mind so
often exhibited by that writer. It is an extraordinary
picture which he draws, of a succession of visions of
sepulchral desolation and horror, with occasional touches
of the sublime, but ending in an escapement of the sole
narrator,'_

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To sights and sounds familiar—to the birds
S:nging alone—and the bright vale beneath,
With cottages and trees—and the blue sky—
And the glad waters murmuring to the sun."
An exposition of socialism, under the head " French So-
cialists," is, we think, a masterly view of all those utopian
and debasing syttems of communities in common. The
" Memoirs of a Statesman" are continued, with unabated
powers of description and knowledge of character—in-
cluding the dreadful siege of Valenciennes, during the
French revolutionary wars. There is a long review of
recently published " Poems, by Elizabeth Barrett," with
numerous extracts. Some of the pieces are certainly
very beautiful; but we think the reviewer has shown a
degree of partiality to others which their merits scarcely
warrant. We admit the lady to have great poetical
powers. but scarcely fewer faults, especially in diction,
which last she may be the less inclined to amend, when
they are treated with reproval so delicate. The review of
" Lirnartine's Travels' will be read with much gratifica-
tion. The extracts are extremely beautiful and graphic,
and a tone of generous feeling and moral reflections per-
vade the whole. We fnrnihed some extracts from this
number of Blackwood in our last publication, and other-4
will be found in the literary page of our present sheet.

Dublin University Magazine. Curry, Dublin.
The present number of this magazine fully sustains its
usual high standard of merit. Amongst the articles of a
purely literary character, Glimpses in the Mountains—,
No. 2," is a beautiful piece of poetical extravagance, and
well worthy of perusal. The most important article in
the number, however, is the article headed " The National
System of Education and the Established Church," in
which we have placed before us the present critical posi-
tion of the education question in Ireland. We have given
elsewhere some extracts from this article which will show
the spirit in which it is written ; and we recommend its
attentive perusal to all who are interested in the important
question of which it treats.

The Illuminated Magazine. London : No. 2, Crane

court, Fleet street.
The present number commences the fourth volume, and
is under a new editorship, Mr. Douslas Jerrold having
retired from his position as editor. We certainly cannot
discern, so far, any falling off either in literary matter or
illustrations. On the contrary, some new contributors
have been added, and several valuable articles from their
pen grace this month's publication. The poetical contents
are especially excellent.
Fraser's Magazine. London : G. W. Nickisson, 215,

Regent-street.
Fraser this month contains a number of more than
usually lively articles, amongst which we may particularise
" A fine day at Stratford-upon-Avon," "The Stnitbs,"
and the conclusion of "The State Murder." The paper
entitled " Hints on the Modern Governess System" con-
tains some excellent and just strictures upon the unwor-
thy treatment to which that useful and deserving class of
females are subjected, and should be read in every family
of which the governess is a member.

The Medical Times. No. 263-266. Carpae, Essex-
street, London. alto. A weekly medical journal.
This periodical of medical science was wanted in the
profession of the healing art, or it could not have risen so
rapidly into favour as appears to have done, even though
its talent in editorial and original matter be great, which,
as far as we can presume to judge of such matters, is most
undoubtedly the case. Of course we are not competent
to discuss the full merits of a periodical on departmental
science—this must long ago have been judged by those
who are capable of estimating its deserts; and also its
demerits, if there be any—prominent ones they can hardly
be, though, when tes'ed by " subtler fires" than ours,
some caput mortuutn of rubbish may be detected in its
• containing vessel—very possibly. The articles seem to be
full of interesting and new matter; its reports of distin-
guished medical bodies—its valuable groups of cases—its
record of series of lectures by some of the most eminent
physicians and surgeons—its bibliographical and gossip
corners—its reviews—its leading articles, temperate yet
energetic—all must render it a publication worthy of large
support, we should infer, by the republic of medicine.
We venture no more; but close with an extract from its
leader of October 12, which has reference to present
times, and present things, and the present place, which
must be gratifying to the medical practitioners of our
town, as alluding to an aggregate meeting they held to
memorialize Sir J. Graham on his new bill of medical
reform :—" The most important meetings we have had,
appear to have been those of Gloucester, Worcester,
Leeds, Norwich, Birmingham. and Liverpool, some of
the largest towns in the empire. In Birmingham and
Liverpool, the very proper precaution was adopted of
discussing in committee the clauses of :the bill seriatim,
before pronouncing on them an opinion in public meeting.
Our readers are acquainted with the result : the report of
the Liverpool meeting, this day published, shows how
entirely the opinions we so early expressed on this mea-
sure, art the opinions of some of the most enlightened
practitioners in the empire. We own to a strong hope
that a short time will reveal the profession acting in a si-
milarly cautious manner, speaking in a similarly judicious
way, and equally unanimous in giving the bill a general
support, while enforcing on it the great improvements
that are on all hands admitted as essential." We are
glad to find that our respected townsmen have won for
themselves such a highly creditable position—to have dis-
cussed temperately, and therefore wisely, legislational
measures touching directly their own professional inter-
ests, argues a state of most respectable mental, and, above,
all, moral attainments; and in so doing, we repeat, and
that advisedly, when their own rights are to them con-
cerned, in the first place, and the public health, in the
next, renders them an example to our senators themselves,
whose principles often swerve before the brazen face of
expediency, or become too frequently obedient to that
ventriloquist, self-interest, whose projected voice in the
distance often spoils all.

Punch.—Part 40.
Continues to Pour forth his inexhaustible wit and drol-
lery, and, in his 0
The
felicitous style, to convey many a
useful moral lesson 7 loss of this periodical would be
an event to call for a no •
tlonal mourning.
Chambers' Edinturph Jour 1
The new series of this popular publication .—Part 10.
is very much
superior in the value and variety of itsl
ilVt contribu-
those which have preceded it. We observe contents to
tions from several popular writers, amongst whom
mention Miss Camilla Toulmin, who haswproems 7e,may
with a very beautiful tale of " The Neglected Child." us

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Eleven o'clock.

ANOTHER DREADFUL COLLISION. --
Sinking of the Brig Blundell, off the
Magazines.

It is with exceeding sorrow that we have again to record
one of those casualties which have of late been of but too
frequent occurrence, and which it would almost appear
no human aid can avert. The Blundell, a fine brig, bound
to Trinidad, started from this port on Saturday—and on
putting back came in contact with the American ship
Ferouia and sunk almost immediately. The following
particulars communicated by the captain, Mr. Townsend,
of the Blundell, will, we doubt not, be found interest-
ing.

The brig Blundell sailed from Liverpool for Trinidad
on Saturday, at half-ebb, with wind about N.N.W. At
midnight the pilot left her, the N.W. Light-ship bearing
at the time S. by W. Stood on for two hours, and then
stood towards the light. At two o'clock tacked ship, arid
stood four hours heading W. and W. S. At 8 o'clock
made the Great Ormsbead ; wind light.
About 8 o'clock on Sunday night a breeze sprung up
from the northward and westward, which freshened till
midnight, when a sudden gust carried away the jibboom.
The hands were at the time reefing the maiutor-
sail. At four o'clock made Lynas light, broad on
the lee bow, distance about 8 miles. Wore ship, and
at half-past eight o'clock, the sea running tremendously
high, and the ship labouring and straining dreadfully,
carried away the foretopmaststay and foretopmast, which,
with all the gear, hooked the foreyard, and split the fore-
sail to pieces.
To save the vessel, the wreck was immediately cut
away, when it was found necessary to keep the pumps
constantly going. Stood on till twelve o'clock, heading
N.E., the wind still blowing tremendously in heavy gusts,
when they spoke the fishing-boat Eliza and Betsey, which
stopped by them.
At ten o'clock passed the Rock Light ; saw a ship to
the eastward, (the American ship Feronia,) and a collision
took place before there was time to clear her. The brig
had a light up, and a watch was, we learn, on the deck of
the Feronia. The Feronia's bowsprit hooked the main-
mast of the brig, and her cutwater struck her just abaft
the main rigging with such a tremendous crash that it
carried away a great portion of her side. At half-past ten
the brig was cleared from the ship, and almost imme-
diately went down, head foremost, in 91 fathoms at low
water.
At this time the vessel was drifting bodily to leeward.
About four o'clock a man came on board as pilot, the
N.W. Light-ship bearing about S., distant about twenty
miles. Got the ship to wear at 8 a.m., and ran her
through the Victoria Channel.
The Feronia was inward bound from Quebec, and was
anchored off the Magazines. The hands had barely time
to save themselves. The Blundell belonged to Messrs.
Barton, Irlam, and Higeinson, and is, we learn, fully in-
sured in the Marine Insurance-office.

The John and Mary, of Dublin, from Quebec for Li-
verpool, out 57 days, was spoken on the 24th ult., with 4
feet 10 inches of water in her hold, making 2 fet.t 6 inches
of water per hour. The master feared she would not get
home.—The Eliza and Ann, reported yesterday at Cove
of Cork-, picked up the crew of the John and Mary on
the 28th.
The England, from Liverpool. for Ichaboe, at Cork—
haring been in contact with a wreck and stove her bow.
The Raw, from Ichaboe, for orders at Falmouth ; left
about 400 sail of vessels at Ichaboe.
BEAUMARIS, Nov. 11.—Put in, Sisters, Smith, from
Liverpool to Penzance, with jibboom and foremast gone,
and sails split; and the Margaret, Hughes, from Dublin
to Liverpool, with part of her bulwarks washed away.
A flat went down at her anchors in Conway Bay ; par-
ticulars not known.
The Oriental, steamer, from Alexandria, arrived at the
Motherbank, Cowes, Nov. 10th.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—This body held their weekly
meeting as usual. A long letter was read from Daniel,
in which he says he will make his reappearance at their
meetings on the 25th, and in the meantime the " Repeal
cause is to be fo►warded as if this interlude (Federalism)
had not occurred." The rent for the week, including £5OO
from New York, was upwards of £BOO.

THIRD EDITION.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR, SHEIL, AND MIME...-.
Everybody must rerneulher the " eWel eiing venom" sesth
which Mr. Sheil, Mr. " Success-to- fox•glove " Sheil,
some time ago revived against our excellent Lord Chan-
cellor the oft-refuted falsehood with respect to the im-
puted alien speech. 'Will it be believed that what Mr.
Sheil, with a " rhetorical artifice," attributed to the
Chancellor as applied to the. Roman Catholics of Ireland,
was actually applied by a co-joint of the " tail "—no less
a person than the veritable Joseph Hume—to the Protes.
tants of that country ? O❑ referring to the debate on the
King's speech in 1833, as reported in a generally-recog.
nised journal of the proceedings, we find Joseph thus
unbosoming himself :=" Why, I would ask, is it that
Catholics are carefully excluded from the list of twenty.
six stipendiary magistrates recently appointed by Lord
Anglesey, in lreland ? Why are they carefully excluded
from such situations, arid twenty-six FOREIGNERS at:_
pointed to them ?" (Several members—" Hear, hear !")
" Yes, I contend that they are foreigners—they are per-
sons foreign in their habits and religion to the hulk of the
people. I say, then, that foreigners were appointed to
these offices." Mr. Sheil heard +this. The man who
thus dared to malign the loyal Protesiant population of
Ireland was a Scotchtnan—yet,
,foreigner as he was, an
Irish member—the Kilkenny joint of " the tail;" an ex-
conservative, and then radical! Verily, the " rhetorical
artificers" who calumniate Lord Lyndhurst had better
look at home•. At this time, however, the poor " tail"
had scarcely a home to look to.—Herald.
WHAT IS THE CHURCH DOING ?—Tractarianisrn has
seen its zenith. It was true that a few had gone over to
Rome. Let Rome have her own. We could afford her
a few traitors from the camp. He only prayed that, like
the sincere-minded Sibthorp, they might discover their
error. He was happy to say that he knew several clergy-
men who had held Tractarian opinions, who had wholly
renounced them, and now preached sound Evangelical
doctrine. The Church of England, though troubled, was
not perplexed ; although persecuted, she was not forsaken.
If Rome had built fifty mass-houses within the last ten
years, the Church of England had built 600 new churches.
If Rome had built twenty or thirty schools and colleges,
the Church of England had built and opened between 300
and 400 daily schools. Rome had applied for aid to build
one or two schools ; the Methodists two schools ; the Bri-
tish and Foreign School Society son thirty or forty; but
the Church of England had applied and received grants
for 500 new schools. This did not look as if the Church
of England was heartless in the cause of education. He
wished, however, for no amalgamated system of educa-
tion. The Church of England was strong enough to
stand by herself, and as it was a glorious English Queen
who nursed and cherished the Reformation, in a compa-
ratively weak state, so he hoped it would be a British
Queen under whose fostering care and protecting hand
the Church would be rescued in the time of her peril. Of
this her Majesty had given some pledge when she went to
worship in a church which bad been branded as Samaria.
—Speech of the .Rev. flugh Stowell.
INVENTION OF GUNPOWDER.—Datens has selected
many passages from Greek and Latin authors, favourable
to the opinion that gunpowder was known to the ancients.
He mentions the attempt of Salmoneus to imitate thun-
der, of the Brahmins to do the same thing; but his most
remarkable quotation is from the life of Apollonius Tya-
riceus. written by Philostratus ; showing that Alexander
was prevented extending his conquests in India, because
of the use of gunpowder; by a people called Oxydracm.
The passage to which we have alluded is so curious, that
we make no apology for giving it. " These truly wise
men (the Oxydracee) dwell between the rivers Hypharis
and Ganges ; their country Alexander never entered, de-
terred not by fear of the inhabitants, but as I suppose by
religious motives, for had he passed the Hypharis, he
might doubtless have made himself master of all the
country round them ; but their cities he never could have
taken, though he had led a thousand as brave as Achilles,
or three thousand such as Ajax, to the assault; for they
come not out to the field to fight those who attack them,
but these holy men, beloved by the gods, overthrew their
enemies with tempests and thunderbolts shot from their
walls. It is said that the Egyptian Hercules and Bacchus,
when they overran India, invaded this people also, and,
having prepared warlike engines, attempted to conquer
them ; they in the mean time made no show of resistance,
appearing perfectly quiet and secure, but upon the enemy's
near approach they were repulsei with storms of light-
ning and thunderbolts hurled upon them from above."—
Polytechnic Review.
EFFECTS OF SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND.
When the scheme of Scriptural education was decided on,
about six or seven and twenty years ago, confident predic-
tions were hazarded of its certain and speedy failure. The
Roman Catholics, it was said, would not read the Bible—
would not accept secular instruction, on condition of re-
ceiving Scriptural also. Notwithstanding the discourage-
ment of such insinuations, the system was tried—and was
found to prove successful, to the utmost extent to which
the parsimony of public grants, made for its support, ad-
mitted of its being carried out. It is unnecessary, and
would be tedious, to repeat the arguments by which this
truth has been unanswerably proved—but there is one form
of the aqui:dent which has not yet received the notice it
merits, and to which we beg the reader's attention. The
experiment of Scriptural education was a trial whether,
and how far, the Irish people could be influenced to re-
ceive the Bible. It was proposed first in the form of a
test, whether their hostility to Scripture was such, as that
they would not accept of secular education, if accompanied
by Scriptural; it gave, at the same time, to the people at
large, an opporturety of showing what they thought, (whe-
ther favourably, or otherwise,) of the propriety of making
children acquainted with God's word. The result was very
remarkable, Before the end of thirteen years, exclusive
of the Sunday schools, amounting to considerably more
than a thousand—perhaps, to nineteen hundred, in which
' two hundred thousand children were instructed, there were
found one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven
schools, under societies, in which Scripture was read—and
of daily schools, not under societies, four thousand one.
hundred and seventy-nine were avowedly Scriptural. We
say avowedly, because a large proportion of schools bad
declined sending an answer to the query which demanded
if Scripture were read in them. It is not, perhaps, too
much to say, that nearly two thousand of these schools
should be added to the amount of the Scriptural. But,
further, Scripture was read in 2,667 schools, under Roman
Catholic roasters—and was read in many schools under the
roofs of Roman Catholic chapels, and under the govern-
ment of their priests. Such was the result, when the state
demanded of Ireland that the education of the people
should be Scriptural. In the year ]Bl2, there were in Ire-
, land six hundred schools, no doubt all Protestant, in which
j Scripture was read—the attention of the people at large
was aroused to the question which the state propounded ;
and in about thirteen years after the experiment was in-
stituted, the judgment of the people was expressed in the
existence of wore than eleven thousand schools in which
the Bible was read. Within that period, surely, secular
schools had not increased in number—nay, notwithstand-
ing the great increase in the population, they appear .to
have diminished ; while Scriptural schools, to which so
fierce and effective an opposition was anticipated, had been
welcomed by all classes and communions, and had increased
more than thirteen-fold. Such was the issue which a
Whig government regarded as a failure—let .t be com-
pared with that which a Tory government exalt and en-
dow, as a great success.—Dublin University Magazine.
FORMATION OF RAIN.—The opinion of Professor Ste-
velly and Mr. Bovsall is, that each particle of vapour
rising through the air carries with it its portion of electric
fluid according to its expanded surface ; that if it remains
within the electrical attraction of the earth, the vapour is
condensed, and forms dew; but, if it rises beyond the
electrical attraction of the earth, and is there condensed,
the electricity, being insulated, forms an atmosphere
round each particle of vapour, and on the removal (by
any cause) of the electricity, including the vaporous par-
ticles, the repulsion is removed, and they then attract
each other, and form rain. Having observed that there
was more rain and less thunder at Belfast than in Lon-
don, I was led to examine into the cause of the peculi-
arity, and especially on account of the electric fluid being
less abundant in the atmosphere at the latter than at the
former place, and found the above hypothesis to agree
most perfectly with the peculiarities of the neighbourhood
of Belfast, which is surrounded by hills. The highest of
these is to the north of the town, and one of them, named
Devis, twelve miles from it, is nearly 400 feet above the
level of the sea. Whenever any mist or cloud descends
upon the top of this mountain, it is a sure sign of rain
and I have never observed it rain without some previous
indication of the kind, which frequently takes place fur
hours before the rain comes on. The cause of this ap-
peers to be, that Devis, which is conical, acts as a con-
ductor to draw the electric fluid from the cloud, that a
portion of the clouds descends with it, and, as the fluid is
drawn off, the watery particles in the atmosphere unite
and descend as rain. On the 6th of May last, I had the
good fortune to observe a remarkable instance of the
drawing off the electric fluid from the clouds by this
mountain. The weather, in the early part of the day,
has clear and warm. Between 1 and 2 p.m. clouds ga-
thered ; they became gradually more dense, and were
strongly charged with electric fluid. When I first ob-
served them, they were moving from Devis to the west ;
but the wind, along the surface of the ground, was mov-
ing in the opposite direction, namely, towards that moun-
tain. This was before the clouds presented any signs of
a strong electric charge • after they assumed this appear-
ance, a slight shower fell, and the clouds and wind at the
surface reversed their direction, the clouds moving from
Devis, and the wind at the surface towards it. When
this shower ceased, the clouds became stationary, and the
wind at the surface of the ground ceased, the smoke from
the factory chimneys, which had moved in the direction
of the surface wind, rising perpendicularly. At this
juncture a pea! of thunder ensued, and a heavy shower
fell; the clouds then remained stationary, and the wind
began to blow at right angles to its former direction. It
then gradually veered round until it blew direct towards
Devis, and the clouds began to move to the same point.
In four minutes the shower became very heavy, but in a
short time the weather cleared up. I was so situated that
I could not see .Devis during the time of this phenome-
non, but at 6 p.m. it was repeated, when I was able to
attend particularly to it, and watch that mountain. At a
quarter-past six the clouds had gathered again, and were
much charged with the electric fluid. After the occur-
rence of similar movements to those mentioned above,
the clouds became stationary, the wind moving from De-
vis, the clouds overhanging the mountains became denser
and denser, but they appeared to be kept by some influ-
ence from touching it, assuming the form of a mould in
which the mountains had been cast. After they had re-
mained stationary some time, the wind still blowing from
Devis, some fragments of them began gradually to de-
scend to the top of that mountain, a peal of thunder
scarcely perceptible ensued, and a body of c'oud, sufficient
to cover the summit, descended with rapidity and rested
upon it, whilst the other clouds began to ascend. Within
two minutes after the thunder and descent of the cloud
upon Devis, a very heavy rain cameeen, accompanied by
violent gusts of wind. " At 8 p m. the rain had ceased,
and the clouds reposed in streaks of white and black, on
lines from north-east to south-west.—Polytechnicßeview.

A MINIMUM OF WAGES.—We often observe, in this
country, an inclination manifested to regulate by law the
rate of wages, not with the view of instituting. any such
naturally equitable partition, but of establishing a mini-
mum below which life cannot be comfortably supported.
These reasoners proceed, it will at once be admitted, not
on the rights of man, hut on the claims of humanity. To
such a project there is but one objection ; it will assuredly
fail of its humane intention. It is presumed that the come
petition amongst the workmen to obtain employment has
so far advanced, that these cease to obtain a sufficient re-
muneration for their labour. The thousand men whom
a great capitalist employs, are inadequately paid. The le-
gislature requires that they should be paid more liberally.
But the amount which the capitalist has to expend in wages
is limited. The same amount which sustained a thou-
sanJ men, can, under the new scale of remuneration, sus-
tain only nine hundred. The nine hundred are better fed,
but there is one hundred without any food whatever. Our
well-intentioned humanity looks round aghast at the con-
fusion she is making. Suppose, it may be said, that a law
of this description should be passed at so fortunate a con-
juncture, that it should not interfere with the existing re-
lations between the capitalist and the workman, but have
for its object to arrest the tendency which wages have to
fall; suppose that the legislature, satisfied with the exist-
ing state of things, should pronounce it a punishable of-
fence to offer or accept a lower rate of remuneration, would
not such a law be wise? The answer is obvious. If there
is a tendency at any time in wages to fall, it is because
there is a tendency in population to increase, or in capital
to diminish ; circumstances, both of them, which it is not
in the power of criminal jurisprudence to grapple with.—
Bleckwood's Magazine.
EASTERN Wives.--The daughter of a king of Persia
having conceived an aversion towards her father's vizir,
said one day to her mother, " if I could destroy that vizir,
1 would do it with pleasure, for he is a man whose inaus-
picious presence disturbs me." "Be composed, my dear
child," said her mother, I will manage the matter."
Having said this, she wrote a letter, in the king's name,
to the wife of the vizir, to the following effect . " Kill
your husband, for I have an affection for you, and wish
that you should be mine ; but as you have an attachment
to your husband, who is my vizir, it would be rather a
disgraceful thing if I were to tear you from his arms, and
make you my wife whilst he is alive." When the vizir's
spouse read this letter, ambitious thoughts took posses-
sion of her heart, and she became intent upon finding
some stratagem to rid herself of the obstacle. One night
her husband being in a state of inebriation, she seized the
happy occasion, killed him without compunction, and
sent his head to the king by the hands of a young damsel,
" Whose head is this !" inquired the king with great anx-
iety. "It is the head of your vizir," replied the damsel ;
"his wife has sent it; you know why." The king insti-
tuted inquiries into the matter, and discovering the truth,
took off the heads of the vizar's wife, his own wife, his
daughter, and the young damsel. He then summoned the
principal officers of his army, and said to them : " I want
you all to give me your wives ;" but they unanimously
refused. "We will surrender to you our property, nay,
sacrifice our lives for you," said they, but we cannot part
with our dear wives." After this, the king went secretly
to the wives of those officers, and said to each of them
apart, " I wish to make you my wife, if you can contrive
to get rid of ycur husband." That very night, each of
the ladies, by some stratagem, succeeded in cutting off the
head of her husband, and in the morning, the king saw
his generals' heads in his possession, sent by their wives.
He was horror-struck at the spectacle. " What!" ex-
claimed he, " I asked these men to give me their wives,
and with one accord they refused ; yet when I propose to
their wives to commit a barbarous act of infidelity, they
all consent, and kill their husbands!" His majesty, after
this ejaculation, ordered all the expectant widows to be
put to death without mercy.—New Asiatic Journal.
LORD ELDON'S SUCCESSORS.—The Chancery Com-
mission recommended in 1826 a great variety of alterati-
ons in the practice of the court ; but early in 1827, before
there had been time to make the necessary measures for
effecting them, Lord Eldon quitted the Court of Chan-
cery. Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, in 1828, put forth a
series of orders, which accomplished some of the objects
recommended by the commission, and the great combina-
tion of faculties which he brought into the administration
of the great seal, induced an expectation that, if any hu-
man strength could accomplish it, Lord Lyndhurst would
be able to overcome the arrears, of his court. But those
arrears continuing to accumulate, he was constrained, in
1829, to propose a measure for the constitution of an ad-
ditional judge. It was renewed in 1830, but strenuously
combated by the Whigs, who still maintained the notion
that the work was not too much for those already ap-
pointed to perform it : and the demise of the Crown
having brought the sessions prematurely to a close, the
measure did not ripen into law during that Chancellorship.
Lord Brougham next grasped the seals. He had been
the most formidable of Lord Eldon's assailants. But,
observed Lord Langdale in the House of Lords, on the
13th of June, 1836, when he himself (Lord Brougham)
became possessed of the great seal, at first be was so far
from supposing that the appointment of a new judge was
necessary, that he seems to have thought the Court
stronger than enough, and he actually expressed his opi-
nion that by the changes he was to bring about he should
be able to dispense with the office of Vice-Chancellor.
This was in February, 1831. In July, 1833, further ex-
perience had so far altered his lordship's views, that he
laid on the table of the house a bill, entitled, 'An Act
for appointing a Chief Judge in Chancery, and for esta-
blishing a Court of Appeal in Chancery.' Yet the busi-
ness had not become greater since the time of Lord El-
don ; on the contrary, the number of bills filed on the
three preceding years, 1830, 1831, 1832, had been only
6.510; whereas during three years 1819, 1820, 1821,
which for the reasons before-mentioned have been selected
as the tests of Lord Eldon's judicature, the number of
bills filed was 6,654 ; and in the years 1821, 1822, 1823,
the last of which was the period when the war upon Lord
Eldon was at its hottest, the number was 6,988. It was,
therefore, under a pressure rather diminished than in-
creased since Lord Ehlon's time, that Lord Brougham,
the great impugner of Lord Eldon, found himself com-
pelled in 1833 to 1834 to call upon the Legislature for ad-
ditional aTd. Now, however, the criticisms of lawyers
may differ upon the judicial merits of Lord Brougham,
merits which probably will be more highly estimated here-
after than political causes have suffered them to be in his
own generation—uric cnim fulgore suo—none will deny
him to be unsurpassed in vigour and in speed. And yet,
with all that speed, and with all that vigour, he was una-
ble to accomplish that feat, which, in the time of Lord
Eldon, he had conceived to be so easy, and which he had
rated Lord Eldon so roundly for failing to achieve. The
sanction of Parliament having been withheld from Lord
Brougham's measure, Lord Cottenham, the succeeding
Chancellor, though justly held in high estimation as en
equity judge, found it as little practicable as any of his
predecessors, to keep down the business of his court
without additional assistance. And thus, year after year,
the evil continued and grew, until at length a bill for the
creation of two additional judges was introduced by that
party in politics who, during Lord-Eldon's time and un-
der an equal or greater pressure of business in the court.
had ever protested against any such increase as being
useless and profligate.—Lord Eldon's Life.
POPISH PERSECUTIONS.—The claim of infallibility, the
grand principle of Romanism, has led the church profess-
ing its tenets to the belief that heretics (all, that is, who
differ from her unscrietural doctrines) ought to he cut off
from the church, delivered over, as they term it, to the
secular arm, and put to death. Ido not speak of indivi-
dual Romanists—some assert that they do not hold with
this persecuting spirit—but I affirm, that to this very day
the cutting out of heretics is authorised by the decrees of
the council of Trent, which contain the standard doc-
trines of popery. If the church of Rome had the power,
and if the present age of religious toleration did not pre-
vent open persecutions, we might yet hear of such deeds
of cruelty as stain the history of the middle ages. We
have the clearest proof that Romanisra is the same as
ever, in that it is seen to show itself in acts of persecu-
tion and treachery, even now, as far as it may. It is very
observable that, whether popery has been in an oppressed
or dominant condition, the same spirit has actuated her.
If heretics are to be destroyed in the palmy days of po-
pery, the reign of Queen Mary, the flames of Smithfield
are to soar up to heaven in the open light of day. If he-
retics are to be destroyed in the days of the first James
then is there the secret plot instead of the open persecu-
tion ; then, instead of the stake and the faggot, there is
the calm and stealthy deliberation of conspiral ors, and the
deed of darkness which, unless providentially frustrated,
would have sent suddenly into the presence of the judge
of quick and dead the king, the princes, and the nobles of
our land. Yes, the same persecuting spirit of popery
which in the thirteenth century (for I will not go further
hack) spieke to the brave Albigenses by the lips of Simon
de Montfort, " lieturn to the Catholic faith, or ascend
that pile and die!" which, in the beginning of the fifteenth
century, excited Henry IV. to " pass the law for the
burning of heretics, which (says Blackstone) was the dis-
grace of our statute-book for two and a half centuries;"
which' in the sixteenth century, condemned Cranmer and
Ridley and Latimer to the flames ; and which (such are
its tender mercies) has consigned many to the stake after
they had recanted and returned to their apostate church—
it is the same persecuting spirit which, in our own day,
excites Cle Irish peasant (taught by his priest that by any
means he may advance the welfare of the church) to per-
petrate the deed of bloodshed; and which would, if it
might—which may God, of his infinite mercy, forbid!—
destroy the Protestant religion in that unhappy country.
Let us think with deg) and fervent gratitude, rind at the
same time with serious self-examination, of our present
privileges. And here it should be observed that on the
fifth of November we praise and bless God, not only for
the deliverance of the king and nobles from the deep laid
plot of the Romanists, but also for the " arrival of King
William 111. as on this day, for the deliverance of our
church and nation." We may well render thanksgivings
to our God for the happy results of the revolution in 1688.
For, however men may differ as to the question whether,
in any case, the succession to the throne should be altered,
and although some may be of opinion that James 11.
might have been induced to have ceased from his favour-
ing the interests of the Romanists bad less summary mea-
sures been adopted, still we must all praise and bless the
goodness and the wisdom of God, who, " from the seem-
ing," yea, perchance the real evil of these political con-
flicts " educed good," for, assuredly, our religion and our
liberties were preserved by the accession of a Protestant
king to the throne. Let us heartily, than, unite in the
prayer that we may have "a spirit of fet vent zeal for our
holy religion, which the Lord has so wonderfully rescued
and established, so blessing to us and our posterity." Let
us be truly grateful for our present religious privileges,
privileges not granted to our forefathers in those dark days
of which our subject has led me to speak; permission to
read the bible, the services of our church conducted in
our own language, and the doctrine of salvation through a
Saviour's merits rescued from the " wood, hay, and stub-
ble" of Popery. Let us never suppose that the mere name
of Protestant and a loud condemnation of the errors of
the Romanist, will be of any benefit to our souls, unless
we become true Christians.—Church of England Mag.

MENTAL EXERCISE.—The great means by which the
mental, moral, and physical powers are to Ise improved is
by exercise. This has been well set forth in a modern
work on education, with an extract from which, and an
earnest prayer for the divine blessing, cn your labours, I
shall close these rema ks :—" The law of exercise is of
universal application. It is a fundamental law of nature,
that all the capacities of man are enlarged and strength-
ened by being used. From the energies Of a muscle up to
the highest faculty, intellectual or moral, repeated exer-
cise of the function increases its intensity. Inseparable
from the very idea of exercising the faculties,and of course
from the practice of that exercise, is the requisition of ex-
ercising each faculty upon the objects which nature points
out as related to it. Muscular strength is to be gained
by familiarizing the muscles with the resistance of eater-
nal forces, and by the habit of conquering mechanical
difficulties, varied to exercise all the muscles, which
amount to several hundreds in the human frame. The
senses are improved by long and particular training, ap-
plying each to its object—sight, by habitual looking at
distant or minute objects ; hearing, by accurate practice
in the perception of sounds ; taste, in the discriminating
use of the palate. In the same manner. the observing fa-
culties are rendered acute and diversified by the constant
practice of observation of details in existing objects, their
qualities, end of passing events. The same law extends
to the moral world. For the exercise of justice, the child
must be made aware of his own and his neighbour's right,
and be habituated practically to respect them in all con-
tingencies. For the exercise of benevolence, the habit of
repressing the selfish feelings, and of actually doing good,
kind, compassionate, and generous things, not by fits, hut
as a steady unvarying principle of action, will be found
indispensable."—Miss Mayo.
LORD ELDON'S DESPATCH OF BUSINESS.—Through
the only 10 years of Lord Hardwicke's Chancellorship
whereof we have any exact records, the annual average of
the matters despatched in the Court of Chancery was
4,220 ; while through the first ten years of the present
century, the annual average of the matters despatched was
6,081, being an excess of almost one-half. And this in-
crease of business and of despatch in Lord Eldon's time
was a progressive one. The last three of the 10 before-
mentioned years of Lord Hardwicke give an average of
4,230, or 14 beyond the average of the seven years by
which they were preceded; but the last three of the
before-mentioned years of Lord Eldon's give an average
of 6,948, being 1,238 beyond the average of the seven
years preceding them, and 2,718 beyond the average of
the lett three of the 10 recorded years of Lord Hard-
wicke. Again, comparing the years 1752 3-4 with the
years 1819, 1820.1, we find the result of the tables as
between Lord Hardwicke and Lord Eldon to be, that—
Lord Hard wicke despatched business equal() 2,390 heavy
matters ; and that Lord Eldon, in a like space, despatched
business equal to 2,598 like matters, being an excess of
209 in Lord Ekton's favour. And, further, Mr. Twiss
proceeds,—lt results, that Lord Eldon not only despatched
in the Court of Chancery, during his three years, an
amount of 2,598 heavy matters, being 208 more than were
despatched in the same length of time by Lord Hard-
wicke, but moreover that Lord E:don effected this in only
455 days—or, if 61 days be deducted as before for politi-
cal and other duties, only 394 days—while his predecessor,
in clearing the smaller amount of 2,390 like matters in
the Court of Chancery, consumed 508 days—or, 61 days
being equally deducted, as in Lord Eldon's time, 447 days
—and Lord Eldon's real superiority, therefore, when cal-
culated, as it ought to be, with reference to the number
of days actually available for the Court of Chancery in
the course of each respective period of three years, is not
merely to the amount of 208 heavy matters beyond Lord
Hardwicke, but at the rate of 348 such matters, which
would be a superiority in Lord Eldon's favour of about
14 per cent.—Lfe of Lord Eldon.
WRONGS OF THE LABOURING CLASSES.—An extra-
ordinary degree of public attention is at present drawn to
the state of the labouring classes. The whole press of
the country, in every phase of political opinion, joins in
proclaiming their wrongs and the necessity for some re-
medies. "It were needless," says the Morning Chroni-
cle, " to adduce examples of the pressing nature of these
evils. Bishops furnish them in their charges ; country
gentlemen quote them in their speeches ; city orators cite
them at their public meetings; newspapers give them at
full length from day to day. Such a state of things can-
not go on. Commerce is prosperous ; trade is thriving;
the revenue flourishes ; yet look at the condition of our
labouring people." What a throng of deeds of cruelty
and injustice has even the last ten days produced! In
the metropolis, and in our great towns, we see, almost
every day, coroners' inquests on men and women, either
dying of want, or committing suicide out of mere despe-
ration. At this instant, in the wealthy parish of Mary-
lebone, such an investigation is going on. Meanwhile,
our slopsellers persist in giving theirfireforthings for the
work of a shirt, and sixpence for embroidering a shawl
with eighty flowers ! And if we turn to the country, what
meets us there ? In one county, we find a poor fellow
who had brought up thirteen children, and inhabited one
cottage for twenty years, sent to gaol, under a sentence
which almost amounts to perpetual imprisonment, because
found with a hare, In the next county, we see another
man quietly sentenced to three months' hard labour, for
being found with a gun; though whether he was intend-
ing to shoot crows or rabbits, no one could tell ! In a
third case, a poor man was sentenced to ten years' trans-
portation, having confessed, that, when almost starved,
he was tempted by a neighbour to assist in stealing a
sheep. Now we are not arguing for impunity in such
cases as these. No offence ought to pass without notice.
But what we press upon our readers' attention is this.—
that here are three men, in the adjoining counties of
Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxford,—all tempted
into crime by want and wretchedness, and all instantly
punished with rigour, though in each case it was a first
offence, and though in each case the cost of maintaining
them and their families, at the public cost, in prisons and
workhouses, would inevitably-amount to a far larger sum
than would have rendered them all happy and,comfortable
in honest industry. But, in truth, the manner in which
the game-laws are now carried out, looks like infatuation.
Sir Harry Verney declared, a few days back, at a meeting
of the magistrates of Buckinghamshire, his conviction,
that the game of that county consumed one-fourth of the
produce of the soil. And a correspondent of the Globe
declares, that " a few weeks back the principal occupier
in an adjoining parish declared to me that the game cost
the occupiers of the parish more than the poor did, and
they were numerous." In fact, if we were to take the
average consumption of the fruits of the earth by the game
at less than half what Sir Harry Verney estimates it at,
it would still be true, of the whole kingdom, that the
landed proprietors actually bestow more upon their hares
and partridges, than they do upon their poor !—Church-
man's Monthly Review.

SHIPWRECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE.

(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)
The late storm has been extremely disastrous on the
Irish coast, chiefly between Dublin and Drogheda. The
brig Shannon, of Whitehaven, struck on a reef of sharp.
pointed rocks, about two miles north of Balbriggan. Four
of the men took to the boat, and though it was swamped
the men were drifted ashore alive. Five men remained on
board the vessel, which was at length c tpsized by the vio-
lence of the waves, and the men for a few minutes were
seen clinging to the keel—the next wave swept three of
them away, and they were drowned ; a fourth caught hold
of a spar, and was saved. The fifth held on to the keel,
but when reached the vital spark had fled.
A large brig, name unknown, laden with wheat, sup-
posed to be from Wexford, and bound to Liverpool, was
totally wrecked, at Clogherabont, and all hands supposed
to be lost, es there was no account of any of them.
Another wreck took place at Annagasson, near the same
place. Name of the vessel unknown. She was dashed
into pieces. A large vessel, about 700 tons burthen,
named the Rose, of Belfast, Montgomery, master, was
driven violently on shore at Skerries, but most fortunately
the crew, consisting of fourteen men and one woman, a
passenger, were all got oft' safely from the wreck. She
was timber laden, and left Quebec this day five weeks.
She was bound for Belfast. A lare quantity of timber,
and other things belonging to ships, were picked up be-
tween Balbriggan and Drogheda: ; the figure head of a
ship and a piece of board with the name " Fairy Queen"
was found at Balbriggan. Several small craft were more
or less injured at Baldoyle,- Malahide, and along the
coast. A large vessel, supposed to be an Indiamari—but
all inquiry proved unsucce,sful to ascertain anything
about her—was seen in a wrecked conditio❑ off Ireland's
Eye.

At Kingstown Harbour, a timber-vessel, the William
and Isabella, of Sunderland, was disrrasted close to the
quay, against which the surge of the waves drove her
with violence: beyond her was a coal-vessel,•which had
completely settled down, her masts standing above water.
At the entrance of the inner harbour laythe Kingston, of
Liverpool, bound to Africa, which hail put in for shelter
at the commencement of the storm ; she was secured by
a hawser to the far side of the harbour, and by a cable to
the quay, end had every appearance of riding out the
storm in safety, when a cry was heard that another vessel
was dragging her anchors ; this proved to be the Capri-
corn, of Liverpool, a West Indian vessel, from San Do-
mingo, with a valuable cargo of rum and sugars on board.
She had been anchored at a distance of about 400 yards
ahead of the Kinaston; it was about ten hainutes•to three
o'clock when shjbegan to drag her anchor ; it was fully
half-past three before she reached the devoted Kingston.
As soon as it was perceived that the collision was inevita-
ble, directions were given to cut away the cable of this
though uvgehsseitls
to wereo on a.
lesslatterre
svessel,istanc e ;
and
bteofogree t
thislier round,wao
oe manoeuvre
thate o
could
o thereid
b emai
!hoot
nib e_
plished the stern of the Capricorn had dashed against the
bows of the Kingston, the head of which went crashing
and grinding right through the bulwarks of the former;
at every gust of wind this scene of destruction was re-
peated, the enormous bowsprit of the Kingston spring-
liontgh.anldt
wassta nowrting from itst n
etinue in this regard to each other, both would be speedily
dashed to atoms. The crew on board the Capricorn had
done nothing ; it was reported they had been ill, and were
unable to move. The greater part of the crew of the
Kingston leaped on board, and commenced cutting away
that seat,were as
at the rigging to the windward. Whilst doing this the
remainder of the crew got on shore, with the exception of
one man, who, with great foolhardiness, remained on
bruised,r
d
Kingston. not broken.
A opinion generally
board. As soon as the rigging was cut away, the masts
snapped across and tumbled over on the Kingston ; to all
appearance one tell right on the man who remained on
board, but he with much presence of mind contrived to
give a leap away, and his arm only was might. We be-
lieveAt eleven o'clock on Saturday night an alarm of fire
w
prevailed that there was a great quantity
An
v of gunpowder on
board, and this naturally had the effect of preventing the
as giitve wnas on orbiloya
necessary exertions to extinguish the fire. The conse-
quence was, that the devouring element got a-head ;it
burned during the entire night, and on Sunday the vessel
appeared completely consumed to the water's edge. The
Capricorn, which lay near, had the side next the fire con-
siderably injured—the burning mast and rigging of the •

Nov.

Kingston fell across be deck, set fire to everything.
which it came in contact, find were it not for the smell
assistance afforded, she would, no doubt, have shared t?.
fate of the other. Opinion is contradictory as regards t?_:
origin of the fire ; however, the prevailing supposition is,
that some persons contrived to get on board with disbar:
intentions, and that having made rather too free co,:
rum, of which there was a large quantity in the vessel.
the fire took place by accident. This idea is strengthetril
by the fact that a boy, in a deep state of inebriation, 46
found concealed between the rocks were the brig lay.
Kingston was the property of Charles Horsfalt and S.
Tlnbeasdodeietieosisi
~t,ofrot hole
japeomveer,
of Liverpool, bin we have not been able to ascertain LI"
vessel or cargo were insured.
experienced a heavy sea and violent gale on Saturday
evening, at five o'clock. She had her main top-Pa ai35,;
reef fore-sail blown away, and the couseqnence gas, ate
she was thrown on her beams, and was filling with Will,
when assistance was afforded ; she was brought into 00
bour without sustaining any additional injury. A lahret
portion of the cargo is much damaged, and part of
ground tier of sugar was wholly washed away.
At Bally brack, midway between Killiner and Brat'',
seaman's hat was picked up, in the lining OT whicullpirb;
joaigthabei
osmt
coil-vesseleache a carried
dh earhy, oa.
dry t,
hhaeenrdqbululaelywr walls.arks
arwaetolaDveubalsiene,rt4nhedsatebsr,t,
r
was written—" John Trant, Liverpool, SePtemu-
16:h, 1843, three." •ther
In the river some vessels were injured by dashing °sof
f
astashieltsAhteuorntßuanatoina,sptoiefßeeHosa.arrington, which had her bowsprit;
her telf;
re sunk at either - ore
the river rdSevbeoraatlsfl_awtse—more comrntoliedrykind:
and opposite Ringsend, and a great ma" °be'
broken against the walls. A number of row boats,
longing to private persons, met with the like ne%;:th
and some that were moored off the island at the
Bull were carried away altogether.
bulk-headstove Amongst
idaala ani rd et hd
s e

COST OF MAINTAINING THE ROYAL FAMILY

We have frequently (says the Birmingham Advedivseefr;
felt it oar duty to correct a misunder,tandini,
generally prevails, especially among the working c
is
as to the expense of the maintenance of the lioyal Flooki
and every time we have done it, have received the th4en,
too readily lost'sight of. Indeed, among the
of some or other of our subscribers for recalling " if
tion to that which, though we had mentioned it before, to
motive,stko
disloyalty, which demagogues and the mis-leaders moo
people urge, few, if any, have a more telling effect `l,ich
those which bear upon " the vast sums of money :",,41
the people have to pay for the maintenance of the
Family." We deem this, therefore, a fitting oPotttluro•
when the Queen of England is brought with unusaa!P ko
minenee before her subjects, AGAIN to correct a nili!tegara
into which so many fall, especially as we have ijdote
the remark being made at the time of her Majesty .„
taro."
confinement—" there is another young one for us to teal"
eg
The hereditary revenues of the royal house, ar''
from the crown lands, were, as we have more O,' 1), i4O
s4l,
intimated, given up by George the Third to the cood,;by
on condition of a suitable provision being always ma
the country for the Members of the Royal Fats!!
George the Third, it is well known, had not a verY s";cio
family, and it might be consequently thought had p 1 pl*
a good bargain ; but how stand the facts and figm—
the case?

The averyge annual amount received by Gavern-
ment from the Crown Lands, and are applied
to public purposes for seventy years, from :306
1760 to 1830, was..
The average of the annual payments to the Sove-
reign and Royal Family
9-1,97
Leaving a balance annually of ..
savings out of the question, the country ,saves ne the
£400,000 a-year, by " KEEPING,' as it is called,
Royal Family.
Let us, however, see what this matter comes to, wlie:
interest is taken into account; for we cannot b0(...-s,
money off other parties without interest ; and this
light in which we have never clearly viewed it before. be,
When last year Sir R. Inglis brought this subjecttbat
fore the House of Commons, it was shown that uP t° ons
time the government had received £47,000,000 caore fto
the crown lands than it had paid to the royal family' ire
interest upon £47,000,000 at three per cent. would c?her
annually to about £1,410,000. Let us then draw an°l
table to illustrate this matter.
Annual interest upon the balance due to the 000
crown in 1843
Average annual payment to the royal family.. 940'335
£469.6:'
Annual balance..
tlie
The interest then alone of the money received by
country and applied to public purposes, beyond the er"t;rie
paid to the royal family from the time that George ',
Third gave up his hereditary revenues to 1843, not ositiY_
pays all the expenses of the royal family, but lea 5
annuale
matter
h y balanceye
ta
another
h.Ce 4r 6 9
tab1e.,665 !
The
et us
countrythen
nually, on an average,
x 1,335,306
From the crown lands
From the interest of the sum already saved, after
making all annual payments to thp royal family 469,665
£1,804,971
illustratereeeivevse leaves as

Making an annual balance of:

CONVERTS TO POPERY.

(From Me Record.)
The intelligence Of the Rev. Mr. Penny's conversion to
Popery is confirmed, and we now state it as a tact that
Mr. Newman has written to the Rev. Isaac Williams (the
competitor with Mr. Garbett for the Chair of Poetry) an-
nouncing that it is impossible for him to continue in so
fallen a Church as that of England. Mr. Williams, we
understand, wishes this to be known ; and he has, in con;
sequence, broken off all connexion with Mr. Newman, ao°
the Romish section-of the party.
We are now, in all probability, on the verge of a coo'
siderable secession from our venerable Establishment'
The fact, we believe to be that Mr. Newman would have
gone over to Rome a year ago, could he have carried ir)!.;
Pusey with him. But Dr. Pusey was not ready, and his
secession, without Dr. Posey, would have had compare"
tively little effect. From the intelligence we have re:
ceived, we think it probable that about thirty Masters of
Arts, in Oxford, will accompany Mr. Newman, 11 kr;
Pusey secedes also; and we have heard it computed. q
those well qualified to form a just opinion of the case, ,
in Oxford, Cambridge, and over the country at tan
there will be, in all, about 100 of the Tractarians, who sviof
' secede to their appropriate place within the bosom
Rome, if Mr. Newman is accompanied by Dr. Pusek d,
Such a consummation is most devoutly to be wis„,u'his
as it regards the highest interests of our Church. i"d
perilous matter has too long lain at her very vitals, of.
the extent of the evil arising from its continuance thFdrel
it were impossible adequately to estimate. And besides
this, the secession will afford a new proof of the just :6icl
of those principles which, amidst much contemP":•ce
obloquy, we have been pointing at for many succe,le.
years, and will, we trust, also introduce a more tl
some fear in regard to them throughout the Church
oa,ba
the country. Even as it regards the unhappy men
„,her
apostatise it is to be desired. For in error, as in int
things, it is better to be honest than dishonest,—t° a;b3a
conformity with specified or understood obligations,
in opposition to them.
„t to
[Since the above was in type, a letter has been seze
The Times, from Mr. Williams, denying that Mr' `bol•
man has written to him,—Mr. G. Ticket], of Bailin' ilia
lege, who recently apostatised to popery whilst travel
in Belgium, has written to The Times also, and saslbe
" Now that I have the blessing of being a Cathelic'ana
result is perfect peace of mind and restored health;is
my,heartfelt wish is, that the many dear friends I hacolV
t ri e
England may one day share the same blessings
that
enjoy." Alas ! alas ! for poor fallen human nature
men can thus be lead astray.]

SUICIDE OF MR. AND MRS. BARKER, 111

KILMARNTak.

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fior,sotoOwi;
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ote, also died when 21 years of mor.sS,
iv .
ars ago he
entered the service of Mr. S age. ''
n7floor-cloth
manufacturer, Constitution amuel Kernel remained a!
-hill, where n
wl n he entered
chief clerk and tra •l ‘e ler until May 'att. le bad also
into partnership with M Archer, wh° ' •
been with Mr. Kempson,l
r. James was opened a
Su and the firm ma-
table-cloth
Summer-lane, as James and Co., Archer
nufacturers no It
disturb •
In the arranements there was t
per.
the equanimity of his proverbially even ern ins
He ad ' PPeared. on excellent terms with all around him;
when, two months ago he left home, as he alleged to i!.
partner, on a visit to' Manchester, there was nothing to
ro'
indicate the fearful resolve to which subsequent circa
stances lead us to suppose he had made up his mind.
then'
On.leavino• their house they told the servant girl.,.
were going a see a relation at a distance, and shound..,".
back in eight or nine days. When he
Archer he shook hands heartily, saying,
Archer ;" and it was observed by Mr." God bless ) ;`,
mfeefrdoiraedt litet
btoimaredialisof4:.
turned away and seemed affected. It was aftertya fd
found that he had, previous to his departure, called olc
discharged every tradesman's bill against the firme- ,_,,
was supposed that he had about £4O on him when 11 I!..`"s
'Birmingham. In a pecuniary point of view theree.w_v'e
not, as we can ascertain, any embarrassment, and w heir
partedArehe
Arches
hma
tA,
orl_ii
neArsi,r'
met with no satisfactory solution to the mystery of tpc
self-destruction.
languages; and of kindly disposition, creating regard a;
love in those with whom he associated in business and...,
aenrleyn
French, and
da and
enrirtalaini
private life. Mrs. Barker was a woman of much awl;
bilitv and suavity of manner, highly accomplished, and
speakingßar ker
fluentlywa s o
most
Italian,gentlem
proficient in music.
The gold watch found upon Mr. Barker was an olcl7.
n,'
fashioned family relic, and the knife was a present iro
a young and esteemed' friend, in Mr. Kempson's employ'
The description of the knife led to the identity of the 0°-
happy deceased. On seeing the London papers, M.;
;
Archer sent his foreman over to Kilmarnock, to ideatifr
the parties.
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f the

Captain Mc. Arthur, formerly commander of hag
Princess Royal. Liverpool and Glasgow steamer,
been appointed harbour master at Fleetwood.