The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-05-28 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

On Friday the Rev. H. James, vicar of Willingdon,
near Eastbourne, was descending the cliffs at Beechy
Head, vezen unfortunately he missed his footing, and fall-
ing on his head, was dead when found. He had been
strongly advised by a reverend companion not to descend,
as the cliffs are so steep.
A Welsh journal states that some of the labourers em-
ployed on tho Vale of Neath Railway have wantonly, by
the help of levers, overturned a celebrated logan, or
rocking stone, situated near Sewd Wladis waterfall. This
curious monument of British antiquity, which was sup.
posed to weigh about 20 tons, was so accurately balanced
that a mere touch sufficed to shake it.

On Tuesday week, James Jennings, four years of age,
fell into the canal, at Bilston, and was drowned before
assistance could be obtained. On the body being taken
out of the water, Mary Bagley, who lives not far from the
spot, was apprehensive that it was one of her children,
and directly she caught sight of the corpse she fell to the
ground, and died in a few minutes.
A young woman, who was on a visit to her sister, at
Worksop, was, last week, informed that a young man,
who had paid his addresses to her, and to whom she was
greatly attached, had suddenly left the village in which
her family resided, and gone to America. The poor girl
was so affected by the announcement that she had a suc-
cession of fainting fits, which terminated in her death.
THE WORSHIP OF JUGGERNAUT.—It was announced
in the report of the London Missionary Society, at the
annual meeting in Exeter Hall, that the East India
Directors had sent out positive instructions to withdraw
the payment to Juggernaut at an early date, and that they
had also instructed the supreme government in India to
abolish the law forfeiting the property of a native on his
change of religion.
INFIDELITY.—The Rev. H. Dobney, Baptist Minister
of Maidstone, speaking at the annual meeting of the Bap-
tist Missionary Society, referred to the diffusion of the
works of Strauss and Theodore Parker among the people;
predicted that the conflict which had so long distracted
Germany would extend itself to England ; and declared
that the evangelical body was not prepared to meet the
emergency.
Last week, a lady, while proceeding down Piccadilly,
dropped a small parcel containing a pair of gloves and a
quantity of lace collars. The parcel was picked up by a
lad, whose appearance denoted extreme poverty, and
returned to the owner, who acknowledged the honesty of
the boy by a present of a sovereign ; an amount that
evidently terrified him, for it was some time before he
could be induced to accept it.
The Sheffield Independent states that Mr. J. Locke,
M.P., the celebrated engineer, when a boy, drove a horse
and cart carrying coals into Barnsley. At that time the
boys used to tease him by calling him "Captain Locke,"
for which they have had very frequently to run out of his
way to escape chastisement. As Chantrey carried milk
into Sheffield, Locke carried coals into Barnsley.
A critic in the Literary Gazette, reviewing Southey's
Life, says, " There is a very affecting mention of Herbert
Knowles, whose early death deprived the world of a
youthful poet of exquisite tenderness and beauty. His
brother, now eminent at the bar, favoured the Literary
Gazette with the posthumous M.S. of a poem on a
churchyard, for beauty and pathos only second to Gray's
" Elegy." The brother alluded to is Mr. Knowles, Q.C.
On Sunday, Lieutenant John Allen, commander of the
Prince of Wales, revenue cutter, fell in with a vessel
called the Sea Flower, of Hull, engaged in the smuggling
trade. The smuggler was boarded about 100 yards off
Hasboro' light vessel, and upon searching her was found
to be laden with 122 bales of contraband tobacco of 501 b.
each, being above 6,0001 b. in all the duty upon which
would amount to upwards of £9OO.
MISS JANE PORTER.—The well-known authoress, of
the Scottish Chiefs and many other standard novels and
romances, expired at the residence of her brother, Dr. W.
Ogilvie Porter, Portland-square, Bristol, on Thursday
night, from a second attack of pulmonary apoplexy. Miss
Porter was in her 74th year, and maintained to the last
moment not only her intellectual faculties unimpaired, but
that cheerfulness of disposition for which she had been so
much admired during her long life.
A ROYAL COVE.—That class of chronologists of whom
Sir James-Clarke is princeps, have found out, in the
natural sequence of events, a reason, more satisfactory
to themselves than any supposed compliment to the
Dnke of Wellington, why the infant prince is named
Patrick. By a comparison of dates, they have arrived at
the gratifying conclusion that his royal highness is bona
fide a Paddy from Cork, and that all the water in the
Thames cannot wash the Iriah blood out of his veins.
EXHIBITION OF 1851.—At a meeting of the directors
of the Hull Dock Company, the following resolution has
been passed :—Resolved—That all goods coming to the
port of Hull, intended for the Exhibition of the Works of
Industry of all Nations, to be held in London in 1851,
and passing over the quays of this company, be admitted
free from wharfage rates, and that the secretary signify
the fact to the proper authorities of the exhibition in
London, as well as the owners of steam and other yessels
frequenting this port.
SECESSIONS TO ROME.—We regret to learn that two
estimable clergymen, highly beloved and respected for
their amiable character and the exemplary discharge of
their sacred duties, were received at Rome in Easter week
into the Roman Catholic church. Their names are the
Rev. John Henry Wynne, 8.C.L., Fellow of All Souls'
College, and the Rev. James Laird Patterson, M.A. of
Trinity College.—Times.—[There is a mistake as to the
place where this is said to have occurred. It was at Je-
rusalem, and not at Rome. They had been travelling
together for nearly a year, and had passed the winter in
Egypt.]
CONDITION OF THE SHIPPING INTEREST.—The fol-
lowing .report of the rate of freights at several foreign
ports affords a melancholy proof of the condition of our
shipping interests. At Montreal, ashes are taken on
board at 17s. 6d. per ton, and wheat at the rate of 4s. per
quarter. This latter item especially deserves attention,
as the free traders have generally assumed the rate of
freight was 2s. 6d. per cwt., or £2 10s. per ton. As a
finish, we have seen an account from New Orleans,
stating that cotton was taken on board at id. per lb.,
and that a number of vessels could not obtain cargoes
even at that unprecedentedly low rate.

AN INFORMER OUTWITTED.—The driver of a coach
which journeys between a distant city and Bath, last week
received a hint from the ostler of an inn in the suburbs of
the latter city that a common informer was seated on the
roof of the coach. Conscious that he had exceeded his li-
censed number, the knight of the whip resigned the
ribands to the ostler, and hastened to the magistrates,
laid an information against himself, was fined £5, and
received back one-half (£2 10s.) as the informer's fee.
Great was the chagrin of the common informer on pre-
senting himself before the bench, for a summons, to find
that he had been forestalled.—Bristol Mercury.
ATROCIOUS CRUELTY.—On Wednesday Mr. and Mrs.
Boreham, residing at Billericay, who had been committed
to the Essex Sessions for most inhuman cruelty to Eliza
Walter, a union workhouse child, were placed at the bar
at the Town-hall, Chelmsford. Upon the indictment
being read over to them, contrary to general expectation,
both prisoners pleaded guilty. The facts related to the
flogging of the girl, who was compelled by the prisoners
to strip herself naked. The chairman, on the part of the
magistrates present, expressed their horror and detesta-
tion of the cruelty to which this poor helpless and inoffen-
sive child had been subjected, and should mark their
sense of it by fining them jointly in the penalty of £5O.
Messrs. Searle, boatbuilders to her Majesty, have pre-
sented a very fine boat, of a novel description, which has
been construct&l by them, to Lady Franklin. It is
similar in form to a whale boat, 23 feet long, 5 feet 8 inches
broad, 2 feet 2i inches deep, strongly framed with fir, the
external part, covering the ribs, being a perfect skin of
gutta percha. She will go out with the expedition under
the command of Captain C. C. Forsyth, now about to sail
for Regent's Inlet, in search of Sir John Franklin and
party; and as she is calculated to carry six or seven men
and 1,6001b5. of provisions, and,. moreover, possesses the
advantage of extreme portability as well as strength, there
is no doubt she will be found extremely useful.

COURAGEOUS CONDUCT OF A CLERGYMAN.—AS the
Rev. Thomas Bull, of Corby, was driving between Har-
borough and Farndon, last week, he observed in a field
adjoining the road a ring formed and two men engaged in a
pitched battle. Leaving his horse and gig under the care
of a person in the road, he made his way alone up to the
assembled crowd, rushed through the ring formed, and
separated the combatants, keeping them from each other
at arm's length, and calling upon them to desist from
such a disgraceful proceeding. The mob, seeing how
determined the rev. gentleman was, immediately dis-
persed, some of those who had been most violent in their
threats and abuse declaring that he was a brave fellow,
and that no one should touch or molest him.—Northamp-
ton Herald.

SOUND SLEEPING.—A robbery was perpetrated on
Monday night week at the house of Mrs. Eden, College-
street, Stratford-on-Avon, under very singular circum-
stances. On Mrs. Eden rising in the morning she die-
covered that thieves had entered her bedroom, and taken
from under her pillow her pocket, containing a purse,
money, &c., but had very fortunately missed a few valu-
able articles that were in some drawers in the room. The
money stolen amounted to rather more than £5. They
had removed a watch from under the pillow, but finding
it of little value, left it lying on the chest of drawers.
They also stole from out of the servant's room some linen
and wearing apparel, after which they went down stairs
and regaled themselves with rook pie, and drank a bottle
of wine before taking their departure ; the door they left
unfastened. It is supposed that the thieves by some
means obtained an entrance into the premises on the pre-
vious night, as no external marks of violence were per-
ceptible.—Birmingham Journal.
SUDDEN DEATH.—In Monk-Wearmouth, on Sunday,
the Rev. Charles Johnstone, a minister of the United
Presbyterian Church, conducted the religious services as
usual in the chapel of that denomination in Hamilton-
street. In the afternoon he assisted his three brethren of
the same religious body to cispense the sacrament of the
Lord's Supper in Smyrna Chapel. In the evening Mr.
Johnstone had ascended the pulpit of his own place of
worship to officiate as usual. Having given out the
psalm (part of the 145th,) which had been sung, he was
engaged in reading the 7th chapter of Matthew, and had
reached the 22d verse, when, becoming suddenly ill, he
beckoned to one of the elders, sitting in the vicinity of
the pulpit, who immediately answered the summons, and
on entering the pulpit was desired by the dying minister
to " read till"—the meaning being apparently that he
should " read till" he should recover. But scarcely had
the words been uttered before the sudden faintness which
had led him to call assistance was followed by a stroke of
paralysis, and he was only prevented from falling by the
gentleman beside him. Other individuals, including his
wife, immediately hastened to the pulpit. The service
was, of course, at an end, and the rev. gentleman WES .
conveyed in a cab to his residence, Dundas-street,
where medical aid was promptly obtained, but without
avail ; consciousness never apparently returned, and death
ensued in about two hours from the time of the attack,
leaving a widow and two souse the elder about (=teen.—
Neweasae lourna',

BOATS LOST AND LOSS OF LIFE.—A boat which left
Lerwick on the 10th instant for Dunrossness way lost
when going round Sumburgh Head, by which seven men
met with a watery grave. Three of them were brothers,
and all were connected_—On the 6th instant, while
Michael Georgeson and his wife were passing the high
land called Whitnesshead, near Veils, Zetland, the sail
backfilled and upset their small boat. They were seen on
the keel of the boat for some time, but beford aid could
reach them they had sunk to rise no more.—Edinburgh
Post.
Captain Henry Whittingham, of the merchant service,
for a long period in the service of the General Steam Na-
vigation Company, met with his death in Bermondsey,
on Monday, by falling under a heavily-laden waggon, the
wheels having passed over his body. The deceased was
in his 67th year. Most of the shipping in the river, as
well as the vessels of the General Steam Navigation Com-
pany, had their colours hoisted half mast high, as a mark
of regret at Captain Whittingham's melancholy death.
Baron Rothschild has most humanely headed a subscrip-
tion for the bereaved widow and family.
EXCLUSIVE DEALING.—At a meeting of the Ledbury
Protection Society, on Monday, the following resolution
was proposed by Mr. France, and seconded by Captain
Webb, and carried without a dissentient voice :—" That
this meeting deems it expedient in the present distressed
state of the agricultural interest to establish a system of
reciprocal dealing, and that this meeting pledges itself from
henceforward to deal only with such tradesmen as are well
known to be friendly to the landed interest and of Protection-
ist principles." On the resolution being handed to the
chairman, he earnestly entreated the meeting to recon-
sider this subject. This appeal met with a decided oppo-
sition, and was received with strong murmurs of disap-
probation from various parts of the room. Mr. France
immediately stated that as the feeling of the meeting was
evidently so strong in its favour, he could not consent to
withdraw it, which being acquiesced in by Capt. Webb, it
was put and carried unanimously.
STAMP DUTIES PAID BY INSURANCE OFFICES.—A
curious parliamentary return, just issued, gives the stamp
dut;es paid by each of the London and country fire insu-
rance offices during 1849. The three London offices which
stand for the largest sums are the Sun, the Phoenix, and
the Royal Exchange. who respectively paid £180,802,
£120,194, and £74,297 in duties. The country offices
who stand the highest in the list are the Norwich
Union, the West of England, the Manchester, the
Yorkshire, the Leeds and Yorkshire, the Liverpool,
the Kent, the Birmingham, and the Royal of Liver-
pool—the first paying £72,240, and the last £11,664.
The same return gives the sum insured by each on farm-
ing stock exempt from duty. The largest amount insured
is in the Norwich Union, which stands for £9,722.490 ;
and the next considerable office is the Sun (London),
which stands for £8,075,123. The Royal of Liverpool
stands for £80,767 ; the Liverpool and London for
£73,870. The Manchester stands for £372,885. The
Yorkshire stands for £3,037,553.
THE EXTRAORDINARY TRANCE AT FARRINGTON.—
On Saturday se'nnight, in consequence of a paragraph
which appeared in this paper, and which was copied into
several of the London journals, two medical gentlemen
from the neighbourhood of Colchester arrived at Farring-
ton Gurney, in order to investigate, personally, the facts
relating to the mysterious illness under which Ann Cromer
has for the last thirteen years been labouring, and the
particulars of which were fully related in the paragraph to
which we have referred. They found the poor creature
in much the same state as we described, suffering from
lock-jaw, and quite unable to speak, or move in the bed,
or, indeed, able to assist herself in any way. The suppo-
sition of the medical gentlemen was that the lock-jaw had
been produced from a severe attack of rheumatism, which
caused a suppression of the nerves, and prevented general
circulation, thus paralysing the whole system. Could
the system be brought into action, the gentlemen consi-
dered that the jaw would, mast probably, become un-
locked. To effect this they recommended giving of sti-
mulants and the application of warm bathing.—Bristol
Mirror.

ENGLISH SPECIMENS" FOR THE PACHA OF EGYPT.
By the Indus, which left Southampton on Monday, for
Alexandria, were twelve horses, eight ponies, five dogs,
about twenty pheasants, four swans, half-a-dozen rabbits,
and as many barn-door fowls, all of which were purchased
in this country at an enormous expense for the Pacha of
Egypt. The whole of the united kingdom has been ran-
sacked to get the choicest specimens of the various animals,
which the Pacha required. The horses were of the race-
horse breed, one of which cost eight hundred guineas.
The ponies were Shetland. The swans were black ; the
pheasants were great curosities, on account of the variety
and beauty of the plumage ; the rabbits were high bred.
The greatest curiosity, however, in the whole collection,
were two bulldogs. They were thorough-bred, and so
fierce and ugly that scores of persons who went to look at
them recoiled for a moment with surprise and fear. The
bulldogs were fastened to the deck with massive chains,
but one of them broke his chain easily, and killed some
poultry in the hen-coop before he could be secured. Two
tigers would scarcely be more dangerous to encounter.
TIIE TIMES AND ITS CIRCULATION.—SOIIIe interesting
statistics relative to the printing of the Times were men-
tinned at a recent meeting of the London Polytechnic
Society, from which it appeared that on the 7th of May,
1850, the Times and supplement contained 72 columns,
or 17,500 lines, made up of upwards of a million of pieces
of type, of which matter about two-fifths were written,
composed, and corrected after seven o'clock in the evening.
The supplement was sent to press at 7.50 p.m., the first
form of the paper at 4.15 a.m., and the second form at
4.45 a.m. ; on this occasion, 7,000 papers were published
before 6.15 a.m., 21,000 papers before 7.30 a.m., and
34,000 before 8.45 a.m., or in about four hours. The
greatest number of copies ever printed in one day was
54,000, and the greatest quantity of printing in one day's
publication was on the Ist of March, 1848, when the
paper used weighed 7 tons, the weight usually required
being 41 tons ; the surface to be printed every night,
including the supplement, was 30 acres ; the weight of
the fount of type in constant use was 7 tons, and 110
compositors and 25 pressmen were constantly employed.
The whole of the printing at the Times office was actually
performed by three of Applegarth and Cowper's four-
cylinder machines, and two of Applegarth's new vertical
cylinder machines.
THE SAVINGS BANKS MEASURE.—There are in the
United Kingdom very nearly 600 district institutions
called savings banks. They have accounts open with more
than one million of depositors, and the gross sum of the
small accumulations entrusted to them amounts to no less
than £28,000,000. Government proposes that the trea-
surer of every savings bank shall be appointed by the
commissioners of the national debt—that each treasurer
shall give security—that moneys shall only be paid to and
by the treasurer—that for all moneys not so paid or re-
ceived the Government shall incur no liability—and that,
as a check on the conduct of treasurers, a more rigid and
formal system of accounts between them and the national
debt office shall be introduced. It is further proposed
that the national debt office shall have the power of ap-
pointing inspectors from time to time, to proceed in per-
son to any savings bank, and to examine into its affairs.
Approving the general principle of legal responsibility
here conceded, the Morning Chronicle states various ob-
jections on points of detail. It suggests an extension of
the plan of inspection. As the clause now stands, an in-
spector will be merely a corrective, not a preventive
officer. "It seems to us that if, instead of nominating
six hundred treasurers, the Chancellor of the Exchequer
would appoint ten or twenty inspectors—practical, zealous,
and active men, expert at accounts, and not afraid of hard
work—and would turn them loose upon the United King-
dom, to move about from one savings bank to another, he
would obtain a far more effectual check upon the manage-
ment of those institutions than by the plan of procedure
which he has embodied in his bill."
THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA AND DELAPIELD'S
BANKRUPTCY.—This case was again opened before Com-
missioner Fane, in London, on Monday, on the question
of certificate. The disclosures were again extremely inte-
resting. The bankrupt is now only twenty-four years old.
His father and uncle were partners in the great brewing
concern of Combos, Delafield and Co. He inherited a
partnership which yielded him in one year, as his share of
the profits, £5,000 Nevertheless, at twenty-two years
old, he retired from the firm, receiving £lOO,OOO as his
share of the capital. He was fond of theatricals and
music. and, as it appears, profusely generous. He lost on
all sides by theatrical people, anti at length, allowing him-
self to be lured into the expensive concern at Covent-
garden, he quickly lost all his property, and got ruinously
into debt. The balance-sheet and every interesting item
in the "proceedings" have been published, but a sum-
mary of the leading figures may prove interesting :—The
gross amount of debts and liabilities is £30,309 ; the capi-
tal possessed by the bankrupt when he engaged in the
opera, £79,200; sums paid for decoration and architec-
tural improvements in the theatre, £21,144 ; present
assets for distribution, £1,063 ; domestic expenditure.
£22,228 ; gross receipts of the opera, (£44,008 12s. 11d.,
in 1848. and £29,047 Os. 10d., in 1849,) £73,415 13s. 9d. ;
the gross expenditure in connexion with the opera was (in
1848, £78,765, in 1849, £54,862), £133,627 ; the debts
due under the former management, and paid by Mr. Dela-
field, were £21,144 ; the loss by the opera, in the season
1848, under Mr. Delafield's management, was £34,756;
ditto, 1849, £25,455. The total loss was £81,355, Judg-
ment was deferred.

THE NILE HippopoTAmus.--The Ripon takes to the
Zoological Society the hippopotamus which has been
waiting in Cairo for the hot season, and a collection of
animals and birds, among which aro an ibex from Mount
Sinai, a lion, a leopard, two lynxes, an ichneumon, some
civit cats, and a variety of serpents, lizards, and desert
rats. A young giraffe was also to have formed part of the
collection ; but it was unfortunately drowned in the canal,
after reaching Alexandria. The hippopotamus, being only
eighteen months old, is comparatively small, and lives
exclusively on milk ; its daily consumption being about
eighty pints, for the furnishing of which several cows have
to be kept on board. It is very tame, and allows itself to
be freely handled by its Arab attendant, whom it follows,
and answers to the name of Ghebbaysch, an island on the
blue Nile, near the seventh cataract, between Senaar and
Fazoglu, where it was caught. It is a male specimen ;
and Abbas Pacha, the viceroy, has issued orders to procure
a female, which is expected to arrive here after the rise of
the Nile, in about three months time, and will also be
sent to England. Preparations for the conveyance of the
hippopotamus had been made at Southampton, on board
the Ripon, with a convenient iron tank, holding about 400
gallons of fresh water, which it will require to be renewed
every other day, to bathe in. This is the first hippopo-
tamus that is taken to Europe alive.—. Alexandria Corres-
pondent of the Times.—[The Ripon arrived at South-
ampton on Saturday with many remarkable specimens of
animals from Egypt, the principal of which is the hippo-
potamus, the great behemoth of Scripture. In appear-
ance it is like a gigantic hog, with the exception of the
head, which is surpassingly ugly, and unlike anything we
have ever seen in this country. It is in perfect health,
and when seen by the writer the keeper was sitting in the
cage with it. There were also on board the Ripon some
venomous serpents, accompanied by an African snake
charmer.]

THE DEATH OF THE EMPEROR OF CHINA.

" Pious country !" exclaims the ingenious and patriotic
Lien Chi Altangi of his native land—" pious country !
where, if we do not grieve at the departure of our friends
for their sakes, at least we are taught to regret them for
their own" The Citizen of the World's exulting tri-
bute to the Agours of a' Chinese mourning, has, we la.
ment to say, lately received a notable illustration in the
fate of no less a person than Tao-Kwang (the Lustre of
Reason (himself. "Upon the 14th of the first moon,"
says the official announcement, " his Majesty departed
upon the great journey, mounting upwards on the Dragon
to be a guest on high !" In homelier phrase, we have to
announce that the Emperor of China died on the 24th of
February—a victim, it is said, to the severity of the rites
with which he celebrated the decease of his mother-in-
law, the late Empress Dowager, who preceded him by
thirty-one days. Among his more personal antecedents,
we may mention three. In 1828 be murdered a Ma-
homedan Tartar Prince, by name Jehangie, who had
surrendered himself on the faith of the royal promise. In
1832, he killed his eldest son by a hasty blow. Later
still, when he became involved in hostilities with this
country, he is said to have suggested the brilliant notion
of crippling the power of the English by cutting off their
tea, and thus destroying them by constipation ?
If Tao-Kwang's last catastrophe was of a piece with
the prudence of his antecedents—if he died a victim to
a barbarous devotion to barbarous ceremonies—if his
offer to sleep in straw in the garden, with the corpse of
his mother-in-law, be deemed neither dignified nor wise—
it is also certain that he has found in his son and succes-
sor, Yih Chu, a mourner no wit less fantastical and extra-
vagant. In order to insure the due sympathy of his
officers—they are imperatively required to assist at a
solemn banquet of the dead. Meats were to be offered,
and tea to be served, to the defunct sovereign; and, in
anticipation, it may be, of these dainty offerings being
declined by their august object, the ministers and officers
of the court were to beat their heads against the ground
periodically during the ceremony, and to howl and groan
in chorus. These deadly-lively festivities were to last
three days. For a hundred more the Flowery People
were commanded to walk in the white garments of grief,
their caps undecorated by tassel or button, their beards
unshorn, their tails untrimmed, their eye-brows growing
wild, in barbarous immunity from tweezers. As a climax
to the whole, and " to satisfy in some degree, his babe-
like affection," the Emperor was pleased to extend the
mourning appointed for his subjects, by his predecessor,
from twenty-seven days to three years. Well, who knows,
after all, whether there may not be a grain of sly meaning
in all these monstrous mummeries ? It is certain thatlby
their means our celestial neighbours are enabled to secure
a spirit of loyalty within their borders, which is quite
irrespective of the reigning prince. His decease is ren-
dered so formidable by the rites with which it is celebrated,
that, be his rule what it may, its continuance cannot fail
of being regarded by his subjects as a minor nuisance
compared with its close. To leave this portion of our
news, and to descend from the elevation to which the
Vermilion Pencil has for a while transported us, we ob-
serve, with prosaic satisfaction, that the accession of the
new sovereign, by bringing the able Keying into office, is
considered likely to hasten the legalising of the opium
trade; and that the Chinese authorities are evincing a
growing desire to avail themselves of British aid, in their
endeavours to put down piracy.

THE BISHOP OF EXETER IN 1833 AND 1850.

(From the Rev. W. Goode's Letter.)

My lord, there is yet one more testimony which I
must be permitted to bring under your notice before I
conclude this letter. And that shall be an extract from
the-charge of a bishop of our Church. not many years
since, to the clergy of his diocese. The spirit which it
breathes is one which, under present circumstances, it is
indeed as " refreshing" to contemplate as " the noble
statements of catholic truth" you have given us from
Hooker. Youi lordship will not, I hope, be too much
offended with the liberal tone displayed in it towards the
Independent and Wesleyan Dissenters, and the admis-
sion it contains of their agreement with us in all essential
poipts of doctrines, to listen to it with patience. When
I tell you the name of the author, I am sure you will
feel that it deserves attention. I quote the passage with.
out abridgment, precisely as it stands in the charge,
forming its concluding remarks :
" Of dissenters of some other denominations, especially of
Independents, there is a larger number; but these, I rejoice to
think, are commonly of a much more evangelical description.
In one signal instance, where an independent minister and
almost the whole of his large congregation have returned to
the bosom of the Church, it appeared on inquiry (and I felt it
my duty to make very close inquiry) that their doctrines and
worship were, before their reunion with us, sound and irre-
proachable. I have heard the same of some other instances,
into which I have had an opportunity of inquiring; and I
hope, therefore, that the same might be affirmed of man's of
the rest. But the great mass of dissenters amongst us (espe-
cially in the western part of the diocese) are Methodists, and
of these the far greater proportion are Wesleyans, a class of
christians whom I grieve to call separatists—for separatists,
I am bound to say, is but another word for schismatics—how-
ever those to whom it applies may think of it, and however we
may, and ought in charity to hope, that the guilt of wilful
schism belongs but to few of them. Be this as it may, dis-
senters they scarcely are. They agree with us almost entirely
in doctrine—CERTAINLY IN ALL WHICH THE MOST RIGIDLY
ORTHODOX AMONG US WOULD DEEM ESSENTIAL PARTS OF
THE CHRISTIAN COVENANT; AND THEY DIFFER FROM US
IN NO DOCTRINE WHICH THB ARTICLES OF OUR CHURCH
CONDEMN. Would to God that THE NARROW PARTITION
which divides them from us could be broken down."

Thus spoke Dr. Henry Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter, at
his Primary Visitation in 1833. My lord, the catholic
spirit which that passage breathes, the solemn words that
form its conclusion—alas ! what a contrast do they pre-
sent to the sounds that are now escaping from the same
lips I Talk you of change, my lord, in our venerated
Primate ? of the teaching of his later contradicting the
sounder -teaching of his earlier years! Alas! what a
change is here !

FRAUDULENT ADVERTISEMENTS OF LONDON NEWS-
PAPERS.-At Guildhall, London, on Friday, Sir Peter
Laurie called the attention of the sitting alderman to a
letter which he had received from a gentleman in Rich-
mond, in Yorkshire, complaining of a new species of fraud
practised upon country people and parties residing at a
distance from London, by means of newspaper advertise-
ments. The advertisement had appeared in a Durham
paper, offering to supply the London papers at certain
prices for pre-payment. The complainant had remitted.
Bs. for a quarter's Innstrated News, not a single copy of
which he had ever received. The address was " Joseph
Scott, 75, Farringdon-street." No such person could be
found, the answer at 75, Farringdon-street, being that he
only called there occasionally for his letters. Sir Peter
directed Mr. Roe, the officer, to make further inquiries
respecting Joseph Scott, and to endeavour to ascertain
who and what he really was, in order that something
might be done to protect the public from similar imposi-
tions.

NOTHING LIKE LEATHER.—F. M. the Duke of Wel-
lington has discovered that it is not to the inherent sound-
ness of the British constitution, nor to the absence of
just causes of discontent, nor to the tranouilising
influence of beef and beer, that the security of England
during the last two eventful years is to be attributed, but
to the bayonets and pipe-clay of the household brigade :
" Gentlemen, (said the Duke, at the dinner of the
Coldstream Guards, on Wednesday,) I know it is im..
possible to see troops equal in efficiency to the Guards,
Look at your every-day occurrences in foreign countries.
What, gentlemen, shall it be said that in England the
people are less courageous than in other countries ? Is
not an English mob as brave as that of any other coun-
try, whether French or German ?- (Hear, hear.) Well,
just look at the handful of men who in this metropolis,
and in the great towns of England, have maintained
peace and order under very difficult circumstances, and
compare them with the enormous armies quartered in
foreign countries. (Cheers,) Gentlemen, you have all
seen what has passed both here and elsewhere, and I.
need not enter upon it in this place. You are aware of
the difficult position and trying circumstances which have
occurred, but you must also have observed that while
with ourselves anarchy has never had a chance of success,.
other countries, after months of raplq& and misfortune,.
have only been extricated from thelF difficulties after
severe and fatal contests. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen,
I want to know how it happens, and I believe it is attri-
butable in a great measure to the principle of bravery
and good discipline which animates the corps of Guards,
and which has its example and effect among all classes of
the people. (Cheers.)"' , Truly there is nothing like
leather.

GREAT MEETING OF'SILIPWRIGHTS.—The shipwrights
of the counties of Durham and Northumberland held an
aggregate meeting in Newcastle, on Whit-Monday. It
was the largest assembly of working men that has been
held in this town for some time, upwards of two thousand
taking part in it. Early in the morning the shipwrights
of South Shields met in'the Market-place, and proceeded
to the head of Wescoe-lane, where they met their fellow-
workmen from Sunderland. There they formed them-
selves into joint procession, and with bands playing and
flags flying, marched through the principal streets to the
high end of the town, where a number of steam-boats
were lying to convey them to Newcastle. As soon as they
had all got on board, they were joined by the men of
North Shields, Hartley, Blyth, Howdon, and other. places.
They landed at Ouseburn, where the} were joined by
three hundred of the Newcastle shipwrights. The whole
body then formed into marching order, and preceded by
eight bands of music and banners innumerable, flying in
the wind, proceeded along the Quayside, up Dean-street,
by Pilgrim-street, Blacket-street, Grey-street, Market-
street, and Grainger-street, to the Lecture-room, Nelson-
street, where it was found that the spacious hall would
not contain one-half of the men ; those that could get in
did so, the others had to remain outside.„ One of the
Newcastle shipwrights was called to the chair, and de-
livered an excellent speech on the benevolent purposes of
the Shipwrights' Society. The meeting was afterwards
addressed by Mr. John Ferguson, Secretary of the Wear
Shipwrights' Benevolent Society, who read an interesting
report of that society, showing that the total number of
members on the Wear is 1,389, and during the last year
they have paid to friends of deceased members the sum, of
£226, and for aiding old and disabled members the sum
of £2lO 2s. 4d., making a total of £436 2s. 4d. spent
during the last year on benevolent purposes. The meet-
ing was afterwards addressed by several of the members,
on the benefits arising from this excellent society. The
whole of the proceedings were conducted with the greatest
order and regularity.
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