The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-18 00:00:00

Ls still left in the British (

iat as a mere statesman he wou

noughto see, that without the support of the Pro-

testan!s of the empire, he could never attain power, or
preserve it when attained. All the-e natural and justifia-
ble calculations, however, were based upon a mistaken
view of Sir Robert Peel's real character. In that charac-
ter, two ingredients are predominant,—Liberalism, or

tantism and Popery : nor can he bring himself to believe,
that he committed any error in 1829. He rather seems to
suppose, that the people of England. by again rallying
round him, hive evinced their regret for their desertion of
him in 1830 ;—totally impervious to the truth, that the
real hope of the people was, that he, not they, had repented
of the error of 1829.—Churchman's Monthly Review.
CITY OF SIOUT.—This city stands about a mile and a
half from the river, in one of the richest parts of the val-
ley. At the season of inundation, when the Nile rolls
down in all its majesty, the whole intermediate country ;s
overflowed ;and boats of the largestsize,steet ing their course
over the waste of waters by the projecting tops of the
palm-trees, come to anchor under the walls. A high

causeway, bordered by palms and sycamores, crosses the
plain from the river to the city, a comparatively unknown
and unnoticed, but stupendous work, which for more than
3000 years has resisted the headlong current of the Nile at
its highest, and now stands, like the pyramids, not so
striking, but an equally enduring, and perhaps more really
wonderful, monument of Egyptian labour. A short dis-
tance before reaching the city, on the right, are the hand-
some palace and gardens of Ibrahim Pasha. A stream
winds through the plain, crossed by a stone bridge, and
over this is the entrance-gate of the city. The governor's
palace, the most imposing and best structure 1 had seen
since the citadel at Cairo, standing first within the walls,
seen.ed like a warder at the door. Siout has streets wider
and cleaner than are commonly those of Egyptian towns,
and it contains many fine squares, bazaars, factories, and
mosques. In the centre is beheld a public bath, remark-
able for its beauty. It was constructed at the expense of
the Defterdar Bey, and the granite columns which adorn

its interi 3r were brought from Dendera. The profits of
this bath go to maintain a mosque, also constructed by the
Defterdar, and standing contiguous to it.—Library of
Travel.

THE NEW GRANT TO MAYNOOTH.—HOW can Pro-
tostant senators vote public money to Roman Catholics ?

How endow the priests of an anti-Christian surTerstitioTi?
Their hands have in other days been sta,ned with the hest
blood of Europe ; they rolled the Vaudois down their
rocks, spiked their young children, and devastated their
mountain homes ; they missacred Coligny, with thou-
: sands of the noblest, bravest men that France ever nur-
tured ; they were guilty of the blood of Huss and Jerome;
they murdered Cobham, and ruled the grave of Wick-
liffe; they filled the Low Countries with shulghter. By
their inqu'sition they expelled the Gospel from Spain and
Italy, to plant ungodliness and scepticism in its room.
Proscribing all independent thought, they incarcerated
the intellect of Europe, made war upon literature, for-
bade science, discountenanced education, and rednced
the faculties of men to dwarfish insignificance. They
have deprived the common people of the word of God,
and, profiting by the spiritual blindness which their
tyranny inflicts on their slaves, have substituted other
mediators for Christ, deified a wafer, and taught men to
bow down before dolls and pictures. Their bells and
candles, their incense and Latin recitation, their mut-
terings and genuflections, their legendary tales of saihts,
their impracticable bigotry and enormous pretens,ons,
their compelled celibacy and their demoralizing confes-
sional, have disgusted all men of sense, and have driven
more than halt the educated portion of Roman Catholic
communities into avowed or secret irreligion. Scarcely
less than the court and the Jacobins were they guilty of
the excesses of the French revolution. For if the court
maintained intolerable abuses till it, was too late to repent,
they were supported by the great body of the priests ; if
the people were ferocious, it was because the priests had
kept them in ignorance; and if the Jacobins were the
furious enemies of all religion, it was because priestly
irreligion and hypocrisy had made them so. All this it
is impossible for us to forget; and as the Homan religion
remains essentially what it ever was, and therefore to a
great extent inspires its priesthood from age to age with
the same dispositions, the love of our country, the spirit
of liberty, and the sense of religion, compel us to protest
against their encouragement.—Baptist Noel.

EFFECTS OF COMPETITION.-111 ancient works, such
as binges, locks, bolts, rivets, railings, or screens, the
greatest ingenuity to produce beauty, in addition to skill
to render the work sound and fit for its purpose is appa-
rent. You see that the man was an artist as well as a
smith, that he understood the material on which he was
working, and knew how an effect was to be obtained by it.
The beauty of the foliage in some works of the sixteenth
century formed out of thin iron plates, simply twisted up
by a tool, is marvellous. Trai ery was produced by plates
differently pie ced, laid one over the other, without any
attempt at disguise, and flat bars were rivetted together,
and made ornamental by the very rivets. These men, as
we said before, were artists as well as smiths : one of them
indeed, Quentin Matsys, shows himself so to the world in
another material ; but his reputation as the worker of the
iron screen of King Edward the Fourth's tomb in St.
George's Chapel. at Windsor, is as great as it is for his
well-known picture of " the Misers," at Windsor Castle.
That extraordinary piece of ironwork is now under repair
at Messrs. Bramah's, and must be considered one of the
finest specimens in the country, presenting panelling and
tracery, crockets, finials, and minute ornaments, wrought
in the most perfect and artistic manner. inquiring of one
of the firm whether he would be able to produce a similar
work, his reply was, " Certainly ; but not by contract, or
under limitation of time ;" and these, there is no doubt,
are the great 'bars against the improvement of our own
mechanics and artisans. The master cannot afford to de-
velop a man's ability ; what he is obliged to seek for is,
the greatest quantity of work in the smallest space of time :
excellent work won't do ; work that will pass is all that he
can hope to give. And the result, as might have been ex-
pected, is a lamentable decline in many of the construc-
tive arts.—The Builder.

CONSEQUENCES OF THE INCREASED GRANT TO MAY-
NOOTH.-It is well known that the idea of connecting the
Irish priesthood with the government has been long a fa-
vourite one with many statesmen. Especially has it shown
itself among the class termed "liberal conservatives,"
to which, we apprehend. the rresent prime minister may
be supposed to belong. Lord Francis Egerton, more than
a dozen years since, offered such a proposition to parlia-
ment ; and the present Irish chancellor, Sir Edward Sug-
den, has repea edgy advocated the principle. Now if, as
the Record lately remarked, such a plan be still cherished
in high quarters, what more adroit or prudent plan could
be devised, than first to test the public mind, by offering
a proposition for the better endowment of Maynooth. By
the reception given to this, the framers of it might be ena-
bled to ascertain with some degree of accuracy, the
amount of popular feeling on the side of Protestantism
which still exists. If the ,augmented grant to Maynooth
were to pass with only trivial opposition, its propounders
might safely reckon on success in asking, on a future day,
for a grant to the Romish church in Ireland itself. This
is the only safe and practical way of viewing the matter.
The fact is beyond dispute,—that several of our leading
statesmen are in favour of taking the Irish priests into the
pay of the state; and hale been deterred from proposing
such a scheme. merely by an apprehension of popular op-
posiiion. Let their fears on this held be quieted, and we
shall have such a proposition laid before parliament before
another twelvemonth has elapsed. The only reasonable
and proper moment, then, for making a stand, is, NOW.
The real, vital question, is now before the country. Up

to this time, all that has taken place has been, the annual
vote of a few thousands, annually protested against, and
passed mainly under the impression that " the tail h of the
nation was pledged to it." But in Sir Robert Peril's pre-
sent scheme, all this is thrown aside, and the state is to
come boldly forward, to take Maynooth into its own hands,
and to engage even to keep the building in repair, as a na-
tional establishment. Thus, the Unbitten will be effec-
tually passed,—the connexion between the state and the
Romish church will be publicly owned and cemented ; and
the future and larger steps will be merely a carrying out
of the great principle now adopted. Hence, all who dread

the idea of an union with Rome,—all who would contend
earnestly against making the hi-h priests the stipendia-
ries of the st .te, ought to begin their opposition now.
Let Maynooth be once deliherat, ly adopted, and opposi-
tion to the wider applteation of the same principle will
come too late I—Churchman's Monthly Review.
THE REVOLUTION OF 1688.—Although the change of
government in 1688 is usually called " the revolution,"

and although it cc•rvainly was a most decisive overthrow
so far as the reigning f,irnilv was concerned, yet it was by
no means a revolution in the sense in which we now un-

derstand the word. It made no change in the basis of
power in the state, though it altered the dynasty which sat
on the throne, and for seventy years fixed the reign of
power in the hands of the whig party, who had been most
instrumental in placing William and Mary on it. But
'tructure of - unchanged ; or ra-

the st, pvernment remainen
ther, it was changed only to be rendered more t•table and
powerful. We owe to the revolution many of our greatest
blessings; but not the least of these has been the removal
of the causes of wealine•.s which had so often before, in
English history, proved fatal to he throne. It gave us a
national debt, a standing army, and a stable foreign po-
licy. The sum annually raised by kNAli,im in taxes, in
five years after he obtained the throne, was triple what had
been so much the snhj,ct of complaint in the time of

Charles I.; but the r-ff,-ct of this was to give us a firm go-
vernment and t.teady policy. De Witt had said. in the

that the changes of English pol"cy hml now become so fre-
that no man could rely on any system being conti.

onether. The continental in-
terests and connexions of William, and subszquently of
the Hanover family, gave us a durable system of foreign
policy, and imprinted, for an hundred and forty years,
that steadiness in our colt ells, without which neither in-
dividuals nor nations ever attained either lasting fame or
greatness. Nor was it the least blessing consequent upon
such a ,:hange of external policy, and of the wars which it
necessarily induced, that it gave government the lasting
support of a standing army, and thus prevented that ru-
inous prostration of the executive before the burst of po-
pular passion, which had so often induced the most dread-
ful disorders in English history. After 1688, the stand-
ing army, though inconsiderable compared with what it
has since become, was always respectable, and adequate,
as the result of the rebellions in 1715 and 1745 demon-

TOWN EDITION.

LONDON

MARK-LANE CORN EXCHANGE

At this day's

and the stands well cleared

Rye, old .
New

Barley, Grinding
Maltinx

Chevalier
Malt, Suffolk and Norfolk
Brown

A similar im

Kingston and Ware
hevalier
Oats, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, feed,
Potatoe
Youghall and Cork, black
Cork, white
Scotch, feed

Beans, tick. :.
Pigeons

Pease. Grey
.N 1 aple
White
Boilers

Flour, town made
Suffolk
Stockton and Norfolk

TATTERSALL'S.

32 0
31 0 -

- 36 0

Last Night, Six o'clock.

CHESTER CIIP.-12 to 1 agst Semiseria, 12 to 1 agst
Era, 12 to 1 agst Obscurity, 13 to 1 agst Cataract, 25 to 1
agst St. Lawrence, 25 to 1 agst Strathspey, 28 to 1 agst
Celeste, 33 to 1 agst Trueboy, 40 to 1 agst Fitz-Allan, 66
to 1 agst Portrait, 66 to 1 agst Foig-a-ballagh, 66 to 1 agst
Cour sellor.

THE DERBY.-10 to 1 agst Alarm, 15 to 1 agst Has
(taken), 16 to 1 agst Cobweb colt, 16 to 1 agst Kedger, 16
to 1 agst Clear-the-Way (taken), 20 to 1 agst Pam. 25 to
1 agst Newsmonger, 25 to 1 agst Miss Whip colt, 30 to 1
agst Ironmaster (all in), 30 to 1 agst Mentor, 30 to 1 agst
Pantasa, 33 to 1 agst Weatherbit, 40 to 1 agst Annandale,
40 to 1 agst Old England, 50 to 1 agst Young Eclipse.

THE ROYAL AMPHITH FATRE.—The performances last
week, prior to the close during passion week, were highly
interesting, and drew good audiences, especially on the
bent fit nights. On Thursday the audience, in addition to
a series of excellent stage and ring performances by the
whole strength of the company, were highly gratified by
the extraordinary equestrian fetes of Mr. Edward Hickin,
from another establishment. This gentleman was prin-
cipal horseman to the late Mr. Ducrow, and the only
equestrian ever permitted by that unrivalled master of the
art to appear in his peculiar and unequalled dct. of horse-
manship. Mr. Hickin appeated as the Sprite in a mag-
nificent fairy scene of equestrianism, entitled " The
Evening Star," and exhibited such powers of agility and
mastery in the difficult and somewhat dangerous science,
as at once astonished and delighted all who witnessed
them. This gentleman would in himself be a great acqui-
sition to any equestrian theatre. The other pieces were
most creditably performed throughout. Great prepara-
tions are being made for novelties of a striking and
" sporting" character for next week.

GENERAL MISCELLANY,

The report that Sir E. Knatchbull was to be raised to
the peerage is denied.

Mr. W. H. Carpenter has been appointed keeper of the
prints &c., at the British Museum.
Mr. Wombwell's famous elephant, " Chuney," died on
Tuesday. He cost £BOO, nineteen years ago.
The political friends and admirers of the late Lord Hol-
land have subscribed £5.000 for a monument to his me-
mory, to be placed in Westminster Abbey.
The Great Western Steam-ship Company have resolved
to raise an additional sum for the completion of the Great
Britain.

On Friday week a box, containing two bars of gold.
value £1,600. was stolen from the luggage train station of
the Dover railroad at the Bricklayers' Arms.

The London meeting to petition against the grant to
Mavnooth will be held to-day, J. P. Plumptre, Esq.,
M.P., in the chair.

The House of Commons will ajourn fox the Easter ho-
lidays on '1 hursday next, the 20th instant, until Monday,
the 31st.

A return to the nonce of Lords shows that the balances
due by Mr. Abbott, the official assignee, at the time of
his default, amounted to £82,196.

A flock of eighty sheep were drowned in a large pit at
Uldale, Cumberland, last week. They were frightened
by a dog. and, to escape from their pursuer, went on the
ice, which, giving way, they were all drowned.
On the 9,h instant three persons were drowned in at-
tempting, in a small boat, to board the Alert steamer,
then on her passage down the river from Calstock to De-
vonport market.

EFFECTS OF STEEPLE CHASING.—On Thursday week
Lieut. Tyi,te, of the 4th Dragoon Guards, died from in-
juries received by a fall, NNhilst engaged in a steeple chase
near Kilkenny.

The entire cost of the new Houses of Pdrliment will
not, it is said, greatly increase the estimate. The whole
amount is expected to be £928,213. Both houses will be
ready for occupation by the session of 1847.
Joseph Lind, a substantial farmer at Cockfield, Dur-
ham, being liable, by a change of owners, to expulsion
from his farm, on which he had expended considerable
sums, w,thout compensation, committed suicide by hang-
ing a few days since. _ _

Thomas Winter, ticket-clerk on the Stockton and Dar-
lington Railway, committed suicide the other day by
shooting himself through the head. On the door was
' Farewdl ; I must away to heaven

THE LIVERPOOL

8TAN1)4(1)

wrated, to.the defence of government against the most se- At the Chelmsford assizes on Wednesday, Miss Rich-
r;ous domestic dangers. Tint of itself was an incalcula- ardson, the daughter of a gentleman residing at Brent-
ble blessing, and cheaply purchas-d by the national debt wood, indicted for stealing some silk, the property of a
and all the bloodshed of our f wars. I lad Charles tradesman at that place, and whose trial had been twice
I. possessed five thousand guards, he would at once have postponed on account of illness, did not surrender, and
crushed the great rebellion; and the wotul oppression of the recognizances were entreated.
the long parliament, which, during the eleven years that it In consequence of the decease of Lord Wynford and Sir
sat, extorted tighty millions, equal to two hundred mil- J. Gurney, pensioos to the amount of nearly £7,000 a-year
lions at this time, from an itnpoveri.hed and bleeding na- revert to the public, Lord Wynford having received a
tion, would have been prevented.—Rackwoo'l. pension of £3,500 a-year as late Chief Justice of the Com-
mon Plea., and Sir J. Gurney had just been panted £3,250
a•year as a retired Baron of the Exchequer.
A sermon was preached on Sunday week, at the Chap 31
of the Scottish Hospital. London, to a congregation of
deaf and dumb people. It was rendered intelligible to
MARKETS OF YESTERIMY. them by a Mr. Banks, a gentleman who is conversant
with the modes of signs used by the deaf and dumb, in-
terpreting every word as it was uttered by the preacher,
wheat, and the rapidity of his motions in effecting this was truly
astonishing.

rrovefnent took At a meeting of proprietors of the Bristol Steam Nevi-
place in the price of free foreign. with a much better demand. gation Company, held at their office on the Quay, on
All descriptions of barley were in better request, and our ve-
Monday. a report was read, by which it appeared that the
%nous curie,rcy well supported
original stock of £135,000, notwithstanding the heavy
CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. losses formerly incurred, had been all re-invested with
Wheat, Essex and Kent. s. d. S. d-
Red
White
Norfolk and Lincoln, red as o— 43 0 of a balance in hand of £4OOO odd.
White..
lIYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS.—The hydrographic sur-
Irish, red
White
from Lenbighshire to Cumberland, including the naviga-
tion of Chester, Liverpool, Fleetwood, Morecombe Bay,
Peel Harbour, the Dudden, Ravengiass, Whitehaven,
Harrington, and Nlaryport, having been completed by
C immander Denham, R.N.. F.R.S.. this officer is pre-
paring to proceed and complete the charts of the western
coast of Africa.
The members of Government belonging to the upper
branch of the legislature, however strong their heads may
be, exhibit the weakness of their bodies by not appearing
in the House of Lords: Lord Wharncliffe is sick—Earl
of Haddington ill—Earl of Ripon very bad—Lord Stan-
ley on crutches—all at home. The Duke is always in his
place—and though one sentiment of universal sympathy
fur his attenuated appearance pervades all classes, he is
ever ready at his post, and always fit for duty.
There is nothing in the history of farming so extraordi-
nary as the consumption of " guano," which is steadily
and rapidly increasing, in spite of all the frauds and tricks
that have tended to bring it into disrepute. Our readers
' will, we think, be surprised when we state—as we do upon
the best authority—that the great houses of Gibbs, Myers,
and Bright, have actually sold 18,000 tons of Peruvian
guano within the last five weeks ; and that there will be
in this country, ready for delivery, in the course of a
month or six weeks, at least 200,000 tons of Peruvian and
African guano !—Gardeaers' Chronicle.
SUGAR Dungs.—When Sir Robert Peel announced
his intention of reducing the sugar duties, he stated that
SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET. the consumer would be benefitted to the extent of lid.
The Beasts were dis osed of at from 10s. to £l9 ; per pound. He surely must have meant that this reduc-
-
Sheep, 295. to 375. per head. From our own grazing counties tion of price might be expected in the course of time, say
the arr'vals of Beasts fresh up to-day were seaSOnabl exten- next year, when we should be in the receipt of large sup-
sive. The rimest Scots and homebreds mostly found purcha- plies to meet the increased demand, for the reduction of
sers at lest week's ()notations. or from 3s 1. d to 4s. per 51bs., duty pt °posed by him is not quite five farthings per pound.
but the value of all other breeds was with difficulty supported The importers have already obtained an advance of 4s. to
in fact, in some instances towards the cl se of the market, a
slight abatement was submitted to by the salesmen for such ss. per cwt. from the lowest point of the market, so that
qualities, without effecting a clearance. The Lamb trade was when the reduced duty comes into operation the consu-
inactive. and we cannot give prices with any degree of accu- mere will nest be able for a considerable time to buy sugar
racy. Upwards of 4,000 of the Sheep were out of their wool, more than a halfpenny per pound cheaper.—Correapond-
With Calves we were scantily supplied; yet the Veal trade ent of Daily Paper.
was inactive at previous figures. Prime small Porkers sold
steadily; other kinds of Pigs slowly, at last week's quotations. DIFFERENTIAL DUTIES.—If we were to write a li-
fer Sibs. to sink the offal. brary, we could not better answer Mr. Cobden's absurd
s. d. s. d.' s. d. a. d, proposition, that differential duties always cause a rise
Inferior Beasts.... 2 6 2 8 Second quality do. 3 6 3 8 in price, exactly to the amount of the duty levied, than it
Second quality do. 2 In— 3 4 Coarse do. 3 10— 4 3 was answered by Sir Robert Peel. We will, therefore,
Prime large Oxen. 3 6 3 B,SouthdownWethers4 4 4 6 repeat the premier's answer, changing merely the mate-
Prime Scots, &c... 3 10— 4 m Do. out of the wool --
Coarse Calve5.... 3 5 4 8 Large 11. gs
'
Small do.
Suckling do. each.;B 0-30 filQr. old Pigs, each 16 0-20 0 sell his printed cottons thirty per cent., or nearly four-
Inferior Sheep
SUPPLY AT MA REFL. repealed ? If Mr. Cobden says no, where is his argu-
Beasts, 3,'36 Sheep, 2!,840.... Calves, 64 .... Pigs, 320 meat ? If he says yes, he must be making a good thing
of his trade, inasmuch as he has by his own confession a
LONDON SHARE MARKET. clear profit of thirty per cent. from the differential duty,
The Share market has been a good deal agitated with trans-
plus all other profits.—Stendard.
actions for the adjustmer t of the account ; but prices. upon the CROWDED STATE OF THE HULL Doc KS.—The weather
whole. have vari d less th• n was expected. The most marked during the last few days has been almost hourly of the
fluctuation is in the shares of the Sou h Eastern Railway, wh ch most changeable description. The state of the barometer,
were last done at 45, Eastern Counti s at 22i. Cambri, ge and
Lincoln 61, Direct Northern 4/, London and York 3i. Birming-
but still more of the wind, upon which more than any-
ham and Gloucester 133, Brist 1 and Exeter ci. Caledonian oil, thing the breaking-up of the ice in the Elbe will depend,
Churnet Valley 7, Edinburgh and Glasgow 62, Great Southern is becoming a subject of intense interest, and well it may
and Western (Ireland) 12, Great North of England 189. Brighton when it is considered that bale goods, estimated at from
654, South Western 79, Midland 139, Manchester and Leeds £1,000.000 to £2,000.000 in value, are now in this port,
144, North British 174, Rugby 4, Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton the greater part of which are under contract for delivery
and Dudley 54, South Wales 64, Trent Valley 161 ex new, great continential fairs which commence in Easter
Boulogne and Amiens 114, Toulouse and Cette 21. Great Nor- at the
thorn of France 6, Orleans and Vierzon ;8. Orleans and Hour- I week. For Hamburgh alone we have five of the largest
deaux 10, Paris and Rouen 44k. Paris and Strasbu. gtl2t. I eta-8 of steamers and upwards of 20 sailing vessels loaded,
and the sheds on the dock sides contain sufficient goods
to load 10 more sailing vessels. The cargo of one of the
steamers is estimated at £6o,ooo.—Hull Herald.
A CHILD POISONED BY ITS FATHER.—A short time
ago a husbandman residing at Bradninch, near Exeter,
lost his wife in childbed. Ott the day of the wife's funeral
the infant during the performance of the ceremony was
left in the care of its father, who ban been indisposed, and
was receiving sick-pay from his club, being confined to
his bed. He had previou-ly provided himself with a bot-
tle of spirits of hertshorn, unknown to his nurse, by
sending a casual visitor for it during her absence. He
took the child into bed with him, whil-t the funeral of his
wife was going on, and administered the bottle of harts-
horn to it, hiding the bottle in a crevice of the floor. The
female relative, on returning from the funeral, found it
foaming at the mouth, and it died shortly afterwards. The
father has been committed for wilful murder.
Amidst the various projects suggested for the benefit of
the rural population, we hail with satisfaction the an-
nouncement from the Zoological Society of London, of
the intention of the council to encourage an exhibition of
domestic poultry at the Gardens in Regent's Park, in the
course of the ensuing summer. The little attention at
present paid to the rearing of poultry in England is too
plainly shown by the fact that wore than two hundred and
fifty millions of eggs were imported from the Continent in
1841.2, and 3; and, moreover, that in the two latter
years duty was paid on the importation of live and dead
poultry to the value of £600,000! Surely this ought to
stimulate us to he stirring, and if possible to promote the
rearing of poultry, one of the modes of doing which may
be anticivated to be the improvements of their breeds.—
Gardeners' Chronicle

ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO SHOOT PRINCE ALBERT.—
The Times of Friday, in a paragraph headed, " The al-
leged attempt to shoot Prince Albert " states that when
the prince left the palace on horseback on Thursdi, a
man who was standing on the pathway, presented a pistol
at his royal highness. There appeared- to be no attempt
made to discharge it, and the action was unobserved both
by the Prince and his Equerry, but Colonel Knight, of 29,
St. James's-place, and a Mr. Arnold, were on the apt
at the time, and having noticed what passed nceified the
same to Sir Edward Bowater. The man who had the
pistol walked on towards Buckingham Palace, as d d a
man who was with him. He could not be found when
the police went in search of him. The opinion of those
acquainted with the fact is, that even supposing that a
man did present a real pistol at the prince, it was done
without any evil motive.
THE CROOME CASES,—At the Worcester assizes, last
week, Francis Dinghy, Samuel Turvey, Joseph Turvey,
Thomas Hooper, John Cook, Joseph Tandy, George
Brant. Thomas Collins, William Cosnett, and William
Bromfield, who have been long known as poachers, were
triee for having, on the 19th of December last, at Severn-
stoke, murdered Thomas Staite. The deceased was a
gamekeeper at Croorne, and he met his death in conse-
quence of an attack on himself and party from the above
gang when he was watching in the fields. The jury found
all the prisoners guilty of manslaughter. The Lord Chief
Baron sentenced Dingley. Joseph Turvey, Samuel Tur-
vey, and Joseph Dandy, the principals in the affray, to
transportation for life; Hooper, Collins, and Brumfield,
far ten years; George Brant, in consideration of his
youth, to seven years transportation; and Cosne- t and
Collins, on account of their previous good character, to
two years' hard labour in the House of Correction.

A ROYAL MINER.—Our readers will doubtless learn
with interest the fact, that there is now employed at the
Mount Savage Iron• Works, near Cumb,rland (U.S.), as
a common workman, a son of one of the English Royal
Dukes, if not of the late King l—wh-r, after having served
as a naval c fficer, and been in the employ of the govern-
ment as an engineer of public works, ws.:, through some
unfortunate occurrence, obliged to take refuge in America,
some years since, under an assirmtd name:: he has
married a respectable lady of Alltghany, and has a large
family. The accuracy of this statement is pl reed beyond
doubt, by the individual having been recently recognised
by a gentleman who was his classmate at Eton, where
he is said to have been known as the young Count de la
Zonch. IA hat the circumstances may be which occa-
sioned his proceeding to the United States incognito, we
have not heard, hut it is there believed to be some offence
given to the Duke of Cumberland.—!dining Journal.

MIN ISTERIAL PROSPECTS. —As yet all has gone
" merry as a marriage bell" with Sir Robert Peel ; but,
nevertheless, a storm is brewing which may probably
wreck his government. The His-enters in all parts of
England and Scotland are in arras against the proposed
increase to the Maynooth College. The Globe of Wed-
nesday sounds the tocsin, and calls upon those who deem
the tenets of the Church of Rome unscriptural, and,
written, in ~.
or hell." consequently, idolatrous, to resist the payment of the
proposed grant out of the taxes of the country. Lord
Sarah Freeman, the woman charged with the frightful John Russell has Sir Robert Peel at his mercy upon this
atrocities at Shapwick, and now in the gaol of Taunton, question. He can as surely defeat him now as he lid in
is not li,ely to live until the approaching assizes, a series 1835, upon the appropriation of the Irish church revenu s
of epileptic fits having led to the expectation of her disso- to secular purposes. Lord John has but to adopt this
lotion. course, and he must succeed—viz., when the grant is first
Mrs. Elizabeth Farmer, an elegantly-attired widow, proposed, to laud Sir Robert Peel to the highest for his
residing in Brunswiek•place, City-road, was charged on moral courage in proposing the increased grant, contrary,
Saturday week, at Worship-street Police-court, with as it is Known to be. to the feelings of the majority of the
having stolen a piece of salted beef from a shop at Hox- government supporters. A division taking place upon
ton, and committed for trial. She is a lady of property. the simple question of the increase of the grant, it will
At Chelmsford, on Friday, Thomas Crush and Thomas most probab:y be carried by a large majority. But if the
Bartick were convicted of poachirg on the property of amount is proposed to be provided for out of the consoli-
Lord Petre. When discovered, Crush made a desperate dated fund, as of course it will be. then should Lord
resistance, and attempted to shoot one of the keepers. He John, following the line taken by the Glabe, say that
was sentenced to ten years' transportation, and Bartick to other resources are open to the minister besides taxing
nine months' imprisonment and hard labour. the people of England, and divide upon the question,
" At Dumfries there is an institution for the reception of Aye or No," whether the grant is to be levied off the
fund—all the Tories and all the Dissenters
insane persons, where the treatment differs materially from
who o.bjewecnitii,oguosgn. principle, to the propagation of Popish
that usually pursued. The inmates are admitted to balls,
doctrines, at the expense of a Protestant state, would, of
soirees, &c , and they are even called upon to exercise
bl oey
largein e'
cours
their faculties occasionally in literary compositions, which I oppose the government ; and if to these be added
- .ord John Russell, Lord Palmerston, and the place-
are published in a new periodical work.
An unfortunate creature named Mary Ann Thompson
was found at her lodgings, in Hopkins-street, London, inhth,rtmo apjoursihtyttgeaminsftrotmhetchoevirersntomo.elsnynaut:dt
that is all Lord John and the place loving Whigs ca'e a
such a wretched state of destitution that on being removed
.farthing about.
to the workhouse she expired. A coroner's jury, who in
vestigated the circumstances, declare by their verdict that Four wild swans of great size were shot at the mouth of
she died from want of the, necessaries of life. the Tees last week.