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THE NEW CHURCH IN CATHERINE-STREET.

This building now in progress of erection, bas become an
object of general interest and curiosity, not only from the
rich style of the architecture, and the splendour and costliness
of the masonry and interior decorations, bnt from the un-
certainty abroad as to the peculiar class of religionists for
whom it is to be appropriated, a wide scope having been left
for doubt and conjecture on this point, in the absence of
authentic and distinct information from those initiated in
the apparent mystery that has hung over it since the com-
mencement of the work in 1841. We may state, however,
as a probable means of so far satisfying the curiosity excited,
that (to use the words of a gentleman connected with the
works, who politely replied to our inquiry) it is to be " A
Catholic Apostolic Church, t hat it will be dedicated not to
any particular Saint, but to the whole of the Apostles; and
that all who have been baptized will have free admission within
its pile." A rumour has, amongst others, found pretty ge-
neral credence, that the doctrines to be promulgated at this
new place of worship will assimilate to those entertained by
the disciples of the late Edward Irving ; but our informant
would not undertake to say from his own knowledge whe-
ther this was the fact or not. Be this as it may, thes build-
ing itself, both in design and execution—so far as it has pro-
gressed—is highly creditable to those who originatsd it, who
appear to spare no trouble or expense in the general style and
purity of the architecture they have adopted, and in revising
and concentrating, in its elaborate details, the usages and ap.
pertenances of the ancient church ; and as we have visited
the building, a few particulars of its construction even in its
present state may be acceptable to those who take in interest
in the ecclesiastical architecture of the town :
The building is in the perpendicular decorated style of Go-
thic. The eastern portion only, enclosing the choir and altar,
is all that has yet been nearly !Nought to completion, and is
walled off and being fitted up for public worship. The re-
mainder, raised somewhat above the base, will, however, be
proceeded with so soon as the weather will permit. The
whole edifice will be crusiform,—about 21 feet longer than
St. Peter's Church, and about 40 feet in width, exclusive of
the transcepts. The building stands due east and west,-and,
as it is within a considerable area at the corner of two
wide streets, it will be seen to advantage from various points.
We can estimate its appearance as a whole only from that
part which is finished, from the fact that the nave will be of
corresponding richness of style, and that from between the
transcepts near the middle will rise a gothic tower, sur-
mounted by a handsome spire, the height to the top of which
will be about 200 feet. The whole is built of fine white
tooled free stone, from Bury, in this county. The east end
is quintagonal, nearly approaching, in appearance, from the
obtuseness of the angles and the number of buttresses, which
are continued all round the building, to the semicircular
form. On each side of the aisles (of the west end) there are
four handsome gothic windows, with pointed arches richly
moulded. In these—each between buttresses—there are
two perpendicular stone mullions in the same massive style
of moulding. The windows at the quintagonal altar end
are of the same height and style, but are placed two and two
together between the buttresses, with each one sentre stone
mullion only. The aisles round the choir are but of one
story in elevation, there being no interior gallery. They
are roofed with slate, and within them rises, all round, other
walls of fine stone, enriched with shafts, and perforated with
numerous Gothic windows, similar to those below at the east
end. These walls are supported interiorly on lofty Gothic
clustered columns and archwork round the choir, the roof of
which, pavilioned at its eastern end (to correspond with the
angular form of the masonry), rests upon them. The roof,
covered with a bluish green slate, has more than the usual
pitch, so that it rises, from its steepness, to a great height,
resembling the piqued roofs usual in the Elizabethan style
of building. Round the tops of the walls, and between the
summits of the buttresses, there will be a band of perforated
tracery in stone. All the buttresses and shafts, too, will be
surmounted by richly carved pinnacles, and from the former
spring light flying buttresses to the bases of the pinnacles of
the inner and higher wall. These together will go far to hide
from view the roof round the aisles, and a considerable por-
tion of the higher roof over the choir, which at present,
though in keeping with the ancient style of the whole, may
by some be deemed (as it now appears) somewhat unseemly.
The stone tracery within the arches of all the windows is
massive and elaborate, and what is rather remarkable, no
one window in the whole pile, above or below, is, in this
particular, alike in design, though all harmonising, from
the uniformity of the archwork, and size of the windows that
are intended to correspond. This tracery, indeed, com-
prises almost every pleasing variety of which the style is so
copiously susceptible--in quatre-foils, trefoils, and foliated
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ornamental work. On the south side, and leading into the
transcept, is a highly decorative doorway, forming a pointed
arch, the deep mouldings of which are enriched by square
projectingut app appearing
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arch terminates in a handsome fineal. Surmounting the end
of the roof on the east is an ornamented gilded cross, the
form of which was taken, we learn, from thatof the ,
dral of Boulogne. The whole of the •
windows are glazed
with stained glass of a variety of designs, wrought out chiefly
by minute pieces inserted ti! the lead work, and of the
brightest, most varied, and 1 P easing colours. The designs
are as varied as the colours, no one window being alike in this
respect, and all being more or less elaborate. Some of the
larger pieces of glass ate circular, and represent scriptural
subjects. Generally, however, the entire design is carried
out by means of numerous small pieces of self-colours and
of various shapes. We shall describe the interior of the
building in our next.

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The following is a distinction drawn between railway and
coach accidents by an old whip. " If," said he, " you gets
comfortably capsized by the road side, there you are ; but if
you gets blown up by an engine, run into a cutting, or off an
embankment, vere are you 7
" FULL DRESS !"—A French naval officer of distinction,
lately returning from a cruise in the Pacific, brought with
him n
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arprceesses on to hist the complete costume of an
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ncine sister,ofthe Sooiety Islands. It consisted
of a necklace only !

CORRESPONDENCE

THE ESSEX RING

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SIR,—In your journal of this day is a paragraph, extracted
from the Leeds Mercury, relative to the discovery of a valu-
able antique ring, in the neighbourhood of Bolton Castle,
Yorkshire, on which is an oval shield, bearing the figure of
a crowned female, &c.,with the inscription "pences de moy,"
and a suggestion is thrown out that the ring in question
might probably be the one given by Queen Elizabeth to Lord
Essex.

In reply to the above erroneous surmise, I beg to state
that Lady Nottingham, on her death-bed, restored the Essex
ring (as it is called) to the queen, from whom it passed into
the hands of her successor, King James, who, as a special
mark of royal favour, bestowed it on Sir Thomas Warner.
knight, lieutenant of the tower. a gallant soldier, who bad
accompanied Sir Waiter Raleigh in several of his expeditions,
and was himself the discoverer and founder of one of our
West Indian colonies, of which be was constituted governor
for life, by letters patent under the hand and seal of King
Charles I.

In this ancient family the Essex ring continued as an heir
loom (" Du roy je le tieu,s." in allusion to the gift, being the
family motto), and Colonel Edward Warner, half-pay 2(iih
regiment, is the possessor of the ring at the present moment.
I have only further to observe, for the information of the
curious in such matters, that tl e ring in question is merely
a diamond heart, set in gold, and bears neither motto nor
device of any sort.—l am, sir, your obedient servant,
10/h March, 1843. 111. A. J.

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MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Barque " Charles," of London,
Liverpool, March 13. 1843

. .
SlR,—The above ship, under my command, was lying in
Savanilla Bay, when the following accident happened on
board :—lt was on the 22nd of November last, the men were
at their suppers, and, as was their custom when the weather
was fine, they were all sitting on the forecastle under an
awning. They were laughing and joking amongst them-
selves, and all appeared to be very happy and in good spirits,
when one of the seamen, William Steele, decidedly the live-
lest man of the whole crew, being then in the act of eating
his supper, after some few acts of what sailors call " sky-
larking," suddenly rose from the deck, and, jumping over
the bows, swung himself overboard by the gear of the bow-
sprit, and so suddenly that he was in the water in an instant.
Every aid was given him from the ship, and, although it was
blowing fresh at the time, one of his inessmates, Peter Platt,
in a moment threw himself overboard, and endeavoured to
get hold of him, but without success, as the unfortunate
young man appeared to reject with determination all aid,
and, though known to be a swimmer, sunk immediately.
No reason can be assigned for the act. The united evidence
of the crew goes to prove that he was perfectly sober at the
time ; indeed he was habitually abstemious, seldom drinking
the quantity of spirits allowed him by the ship.
He was a very fine young man, a native of Liverpool, and
has left a widowed mother, who was, I believe, in a great
measure dependent upon his exertions for a subsistence.
He was not mote than three and twenty.
Every exertion was made for several hours after the acci-
dent, and on the two following days, to recover the body,
but it was needless, as there are vast numbers of sharks in
Savanilla Bay, and nothing was ever seen of his remains up
to the time of the Charles sailing for England, which was
four weeks after.

I am, sir, yours obediently,
JOHN V. GILES

LANCASTER ASSIZES

THURSDAY.
THE CHARTIST TRIALS-VERDICT,

The Jury, after being in deliberation about twenty minutes,
at a quarter past seven o'clock delivered their verdict.
They found the following defendants guilty on the sth count
of the indictment, namely :—Feargus O'Connor, William
Aitkin, John Arran, William Beesley, Alexander Challenger,
George J. Harney, Wm. Hill, John Hoyle, John Norman,
Richard Ottley, Samuel Parkes, Thomas Railton, Robert
Ramsden, James Sherrington, and Wm. Woodruffe. This is
the count about which his Lordship has expressed some doubt
as to whether by law it is an offence, and as to whether any
judgment can pass. The following were found guilty on the
4th count :—F. A. Taylor, David Morrison, James Mooney,
B. M'Cartney, Dr. M'I)ouall, John ),each, James Leach,
James Fenton, Christopher Doyle, John Durham, George
Candelet, Thomas Cooper, John Campbell, Robert Brookes,
Jonathan Bairstow, and James Arthur.
___

The following were acquitted, Patrick M. Brophy, William
Booth, Joseph Clarke, James Chippendale, John Crossley,
John Fletcher, Thomas Fraser, James Grasby, John Lomax,
Robert Lees, John Lewis, John Massay, Thomas Mahon,
Richard Pilling, David Ross, James Scholefield, James Brown
Smith, William Stephenson, William Storah, James Taylor,
and Albert Wolfenden. The following were acquitted during
the progress of the trial, in consequence of the Attorney-
General abandoning the case against them :—John Allinson,
James Cartlege, George Johnson, Thomas Pitt, William
Scholefield, John Thornton, and John Wild.
The Court then adjourned, it being understood the defen-
dants would be called up tor judgment during the next term.

We subjoin a copy of the fourth and fifth counts of the
indictment on which the defendants have been found guilty—
The 'fourth count charges, that theretofore, on the Ist of
August, in the year aforesaid, and on divers other days and
times between that day and the Ist of October, in the year
aforesaid, and at divers places and with evil disposed persons,
tumultuously and unlawfully assembled together, and by vio-
lence, threats, and intimidation to divers other persons,
being then peaceable subjects of this realm, forced the said
last-mentioned subjects to leave their occupations and em-
ployments, and thereby impeded and stopped the labour em-
ployed in the lawful and peaceable carrying on by divers large
numbers of the subjects of this realm, of certain trades,
manufactures, and businesses, and thereby caused great con-
fusion, terror, and alarm in the minds of the peaceable sub-
jects of this realm ; and that afterwards. on the Ist of
August, in the year aforesaid, and on divers other days and
times between that day and the Ist of October, in the year
aforesaid, at the parish aforesaid, in the county aforesaid, the
said defendants, together with divers other evil disposed per-
sons to the jurors aforesaid as yet unknown, did unlawfully
aid, abet, assist, comfort, support, and encourage the said
evil disposed persons in this count first mentioned to con-
tinue and persist in the said unlawful assemblage, threats,
intimidations and violence in the said impeding and stopping
of the labour employed in the said trades, manufactures, and
businesses, with intent thereby to cause terror and alarm in
the minds of the peaceable subjects of this realm, and by
means of such terror and alarm violently and unlawfully to
cause and procure certain great changes to be made in the
constitution of this realm, as by law established, against the
peace of our Lady the Queen, her crown and dignity.
The sth count charges that the defendants, together with
divers other evil-disposed persons, to the jurors aforesaid as
yet unknown, afterwards, to wit on the Ist of August, in the
year aforesaid, and on divers other days between that day
and the Ist of October in the year aforesaid, together with
divers other evil-disposed persons to the jurors us yet un-
known, unlawfully did endeavour to excite her Majesty's
liege subjects to disaffection and hatred of her laws, and un-
lawfully did endeavour to persuade and encourage the said
liege subjects to unite, confederate, and agree to leave their
several and respective employments, and to produce a cessa
tion of labour throughout a large portion of this realm, with
intent and in order by so doing to brimy about and produce
a change in the laws and constitution of this realm, and
against the peace of our said Lady the Queen, her crown and
dignity.

FRIDAY

LIBEL ON A ROMISH PRIEST

This was an action preferred by the Rev. Thomas Sher-
borne, a Roman Catholic Priest, against Thomas Eastwood,
Esq., a magistrate of this county, and residing at Lancaster,
for writing certain false and defamatory libels, which had
been published in the Lancaster Gazette.
Mr. Sergeant Murphy and Mr. Segar were for the prose-
cution ; Mr. Eastwood defended himself.
Several numbers of the Lancaster Gazette having been
put in, containing articles reflecting on the conduct of the
prosecutor, by inducing persons on their death-beds to leave
their property to the church.
Mr. Eastwood addressed the jury on his own behalf. He
said the counsel for the prosecution had said the prosecutor
sought only the vindication of his character. If that were
so, he (Mr. Eastwood) was prepared with evidence to prove
all he had alleged, but that he was prevented by the form of
form of the present proceeding from doing so.
His lordship summed up briefly, and stated there could be
no doubt the libel was fully proved.
The jury, on understanding what the law of the case was,
returned a verdict of guilty, but under the circumstances re-
commended the defendant to the consideration of the court.
His lordship then required Mr. Eastwood to enter into his
own recognizances in £5OO, to appear when called on.
The assizes terminated on Satui clay.

IMPORTANT TO SALT MANUFACTURERS AND BOILERS
OF SUGAR, &C. IN OPEN PANS.—The following improve-
ment in the manufacture of salt has been tried and proved
available by Mr. Benjamin Smith, salt manufacturer, of
Droitwich, (although he has not claimed it in his patent for
the manufacture of salt,) and he wishes to make it known to
persons in the above business, as it will be a great saving
both of fuel and pans. Over the tire or fires, where the must
rapid boiling takes place, put a cover, made with anything
which can be removed on or off at pleasure; by so doing it
will be found to move the greatest part of the salt that would
form itself on or over the lire backwards, with the brine in
agitation, to the back part of the pan. It may be done by
having a number of boards nailed together, similar to a thor,
with a rim upon the top side about four inches high, over
each tire, with the front part of the boards a little lower than
the back ; and as the evaporation moves back ward train und,r
the cover, the greater part of the salt will move back w
also, and thereby, in a very great measure, save the pan from
burning. By adopting this method there will be very little
boiling observable, though, in reality, the boiling will be mere
maid. The brine will be in constant agitation trout the buil-
ing part being covered in part, and thereby cause the crystals
to fall more freely than under the old system of open pans.
We understand that persons wishing further informati.ni upon
the subject can obtain the same by applying to Mr. Benjamin
Smith, Droitwich ; so that such information required does
not relate to any part of the patent which he has had granted
to him for the manufacture of salt.

INSANITY.—" The principle on which we are to proceed
in awarding punishment is very simple, if we do but steadily
keep in mind the end of human punishment—prevention. If
a man intends to do what he does and not otherwise, he is a
proper subject for punishment, because a person so circum-
stanced may be deterred (as is well known persons con-
fessedly insane often are) by the fear of punishment. If it
is clear that he did not intend the act, whether the absence
of intention be referable to insanity or to any other cause,
his punishment would answer no good purpose. If a man
for instance who raises a fire can be proved to have laboured
under such a kind of insanity as not to know that fire would
consume, he is properly exempted from punishment, on the
very same ground that another would he who should throw
a spark over gunpowder which he believed to be dust; be-
cause no punishment denounced against incendiaries could
operate on persons so circumstanced, viz., those who have no
design of the kind. But if a wan design to burn a house, or
to do any other act, we have nothing to do with the causes
which led to his entertaining such a design. We know, on
the one hand, that no one can be, strictly speaking, in a
sound state of mind who designs any crime ; and we know,
on the other hand, that many who have been impelled to
such designs by the strongest and most evidently morbid
aberrations of intellect have yet shewn by the precaution they
have taken for accomplishing their purpose undetected that
they were fully aware of the particular act they were engaged
in ; and consequently that they and others similarly circum-
stanced might be checked by apprehension of punishment.
In fact, although no one considers the brute animals as moral
agents, every one is well aware that it is possible to operate
on them through fear of punishment. It is not reckoned.o an
a z
useless cruelty or an absurdity to attempt to teachi
therefore by
beating to abstain from worrying sheep.
who well knowing that irrational animals may he hoenetrained by
fear of punishment to check their impulses, yetwould pro-
claim impunity to any man who may be partially or wholly
mal, such an one
reduced to the state of an irrationa
plainly shows that lie is allowing his asmto be influenced by
views
T a e yrs ThOughts
irrelevant consideration ."---ArchbiahoP
on Secondary Punishments, page 29.

CHARGE OF THREATENING TO SHOOT THE
' QUEEN AND SIR R. PEEL.

MANSION-HOUSE, LONDON, FRIDAY

To-day James Stevenson was brought before the Lord
Mayor by some officers of the city police, upon a charge of
threatening to shoot the Queen and Sir R. Peel.
Mr. Maule, the Solicitor to the Treasury, was in attend-

The priscr.er, wh
the 32d year of his

, according to his own statement, is in
age, is about five feet ten inches high ;
or an oval form, and his complexion rather of a
sallow hue; having a low forehead with matted hair hanging
over his brows, large and prominent light grey eyes, an
aquiline nose, a huge quantity of hair upon his upper lip, and
a thick yellow beard. He exhibited au aspect both singular
and forbidding. The expression of his countenance, how-
ever, was that of cool determination rather than that of wild
maniacal frenzy. He was dressed in a blue cloth coat with
brass buttons, a black waistcoat, and coloured trousers, and
wore a black neckcloth. He held a Scotch bonnet in his
hand. On being placed at the bar he betrayed no emotion
of surprise or fear. He spoke in a broad Scotch accent ex-
ceedingly puzzling to soot berns.
It appeared, from questions put to the prisoner by the
Lord NI ayor, and by the evidence of witnesses who had ac-
companied him from Hull, that he lived with his father in
Renfrewshire ; and, having wandered, by Glasgow, Liver-
pool, and Manchester to Hull, came up to London by the
steam-packet. While on board, he was heard to say, that it
was not proper for a woman to rule, and that " the woman
must be destroyed ;" and he said that he had business with
Sir Robert Peel, who `• must answer him, or be destroyed."
To the questions of the Lord Mayor he returned the most
incAerent and rambling answers. He had been a ser-
vant, and a weaver ; but for the last three years he bad
lived on his earnings, (430,) studying the Bible, the Greek
Testament, John Knox's History, and many books that he
could not name. If his wandering words are intelligible, he
conceived that there was a union (which seems to be a con-
fused idea between the union of the two kingdoms and a cle-
rical combination) to put out all truth from the Churches of
England and Scotland ; he wanted to see Sir Robert Peel to
break this union ; but when asked what he meant to do if he
did not succeed, he evaded the question. Afterwards, when
Mr. Hewitt, the clerk of the packet company, repeated his
declaration that Sir Robert Peel must be destroyed, and the
Lord Mayor asked, " Is that your idea?" he replied, " It is ; •
that every Minister who holds up Antichrist must be put
down." He adjudged that " man must reign, not the fe-
male ;" and he held, that if the Queen did not lay down her
office, she must be destroyed. Pistols being mentioned, he
exclaimed " I never intended the pistols." The Lord
Mayor remarked, that there was no law in the Bible that lie
should destroy a man who would not fulfil what he thought
proper ; on which he answered readily, " I think there is
such a thing . " Whosoever will not serve the Lord, shall be
put to death.' " He quoted other texts, and a paper was
produced in which he had joined " Such oppressors make
wise men mad" to " That very justly they should stab."
"The Bible does not teach you that," said the Lord Mayor.
" Yes," he answered, " you will see the passages in Judges:
Ahab the King was stabbed ; and he was a very fat man you
know." He does not appear to have heard of the assassina-
tion of Mr. Drummond; but he said that he first heard of
Sir Robert Peel's being in power " when the man shot at the
Queen ; that first drew my attention to the subject." He
had but 2s. 21d. in his pocket when taken. He did not ob-
ject to his father being written to ; but he said his father
thought him " bad beyond correction."

The Lord Mayor 'asked whether Major Shaw had not
found some documents of a singular character in the posses-
sion of the prisoner? Mr. Superintendent Shaw immedi-
ately produced some papers, of which the following are the
principal extracts :

" Madam, in Christ's name I do thee
Address, because they have put me.
Where, by law, I can never stand,
Because it would sink any land.
Intolerable it must be
To make a woman head of me.
And if besides me there's a man,
I'll speak a word unto the clan.
For Scotchmen has all abjured thee, •
And sworn no prelate shall rule me,
And I am no more bound unto her
Than if I had married my sister.
And though her Ministers should bless,
God's law will curse, nevertheless,
And shall sweep off those that join her's,
Both commoners and state ministers.
For all such men do turn God's law
As if it were a pile of straw.
With mole ease might her foolish men
Make earth to pass and the heaven,
Tha❑ make the woman's reign lawful ;
To men bless such is awful.
Perhaps she'll cry—Treason, treason,
As one did once without a reason ;
But Jehoida's voice is plain,
Let such as follow her be slain,
And God shall certainly him hear,
And thrust them through as with a spear;
So she that can two faiths prescribe,
Had ne'er a right the throne to side."

" Sirs—Do not look so much upon
The outside of the cup,
As to the wine contained therein,
Lest lotbingly you sup.
And, as you read, consider well
The unlearned state of
The writer of the letter rude
Lest you should at it scuff.
But Scotchmen look the union up,
And see if I mistake,
When I hold you are bound, this day,
The Prelates to forsake."
" A Letter to Sir Robert Peel, England
" Robert, I am a Scotsman born,
And yet this day I sit forlorn ;
And, though I am near thirty-one,
:My minority's scarcely done,
Because a woman is made head,
Which 1 must neither fear nor dread;
Such oppressors make wire men mad,
That very justly they would stab
With Chad, thou•zh he had few men.
Whose success we may shortly ken;
Or Jehoida, good and plain,
That would have Ethalia slain—
Now God commands as he did then,
Let such as follow her be slain.
When God sets them below woman,
Their lowness tell I never can ;
And if in earnest they can pray,
That God may lead them lung astray
By a eurst woman, they must he
Low to an awful great degree."
Upon the suggestion of Mr. Maule, the prisoner was
remanded till next Friday.
Before he left the bar, he anxiously requested that a pocket
Bible which had been taken from him by the constable should
be returned. As it was handed about the court, his eyes
eagerly watched it, and when given him, he, with much ap-
parent pleasure, thrust it into his bosom.

A CLAIMANT FOR THE CROWN.---The London papers
of Wed.iesday last glee the following as a copy of a placard,
partly in M.S. and partly in print, left at the office by a fe-
male who has of late been giving considerable trouble by her
vagaries to magistrates and newspaper proprietors :—[IN
MANUSCRIPT.] " British soldiers !—Act like free men.
The power you possess will he required, and when I need
your aid—protect me." [IN PRINT.] " VICTORY !
' Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace ; good will
towards men.'—Luke ii., v. xiv. Jesus Christ, when on
Earth in the form of Man' asserted that God was his Father,
and for that was persecuted by his own people, the Jews; I,
with as much confidence, assert that He, Jesus Christ, is
my Husband. I have been persecuted by my people, and may
still be more so for maintaining this glorious truth. I will
nevertheless maintain at ; for I have a right so to do. Christ
lived, suffered, died, was buried, and rose from the dead for
the salvation of mankind. I was permitted to be born, to
suffer, to die, to he re-animated, and to lire, for the same
purpose. Bigoted Christians. who are as blind as the Jews
were, will assert that I speak blasphemy. Can they prove it?
No. 1 wish they would make the attempt. SARAH
NEWELL. Feb. 17, 1843. The above is an extract from
a letter written by S. N., Nov. 9, 1831." [IN MANU-
SCRIPT.] "Who is now your Queen? I am. :March 7,
1843. S. N." There can be no mistake as to the state of
this female's mind; the only question is, as to the propriety
of allowing such persons to be at large. A gentleman in-
forms us that this woman is in the habit of frequenting the
lobby of the House of Commons.

MIRACULOUS CLAY.—A correspondent informs us that
some months back a priest, named Kelleher, residing in the
neighbourhood of Mallow, died and was buried in the church-
yard of Ktlshannick. After his interment, an old woman
afflicted with sore eyes had a dream that if she went to the
grave of Father Kelleher, and drank a portion of the clay,
mixed with water, her eyes would be cured. She acted on
the dream and journeyed to the burial- place, where she par-
took of a portion of the clay diluted in water. The old woman
returned home, and. as report states, was perfectly cured.
The rumour of the miracle ran through the country, and the
consequence is, that numbers of cripples and sickly people
have since daily visited the grave-yard, with the hope of be;ng
relieved from the diseases under which they labour. To such
an extent has this been carried on that, from the numbers
who have visited the. grave, the clay has been eaten down, if
the expression may be used, to ttic coffin. The scene is alto-
gether most disgusting, hundreds of those ignorant people,
under the idea of obtaining a cure, mixing the clay with water
in blacking pots and similar vessels, and quaffing off the con-
tents with as great a relish as if it was the most delightful
beverage. Besides this, the " blessed clay," as they call it,
draws the poor from the most distant parts of the country.
and, many of them bring unable to return home, are obliged
to beg from the residents in the district of the church-yard
for something to keep them from starving. Altogether the
;nuisance has become intolerable, that ateps should be taken
by those whose du; y is to prevent it, by impressing on the
Moor and ignorant people the folly of relying on the clay of a
church-yard for effecting a cure, notwithstanding that it sur-
rounded the coffin of a priest.—Cork Constitution.
THE EASTERN STYLE.—In the course of tine debate in
the House of Commons on Thursday, on the motion of Mr.
Vernon Smith, reprehensive of Lord Ellenborough's procla-
mation as to the gates of Sornnauth, Mr. Emerson Tenant
read one or two existing, styles of some of the princes to
whom that document was addressed. The following is from
Ameer Dust Mahorned Khan to Lord Auckland, and dated
My 31, 1836 :—" As I have been long attached to the
British Government by the ties of friendship and affection,
the late intelligence of your lordship's arrival, enlightening
with your presence the seat of government, and diffusing
over Hindustan the brightness of your countenance, has
afforded me extreme gratification, and the field of my hopes
(which had before been chilled by the cold blast of the times)
has, by the happy tidings of your lordship's arrival, become
the envy of the garden of Paradise." The subjoined is a
letter from Runjeat Sinch, addressed to Lord Glenelg :
" At a happy moment, when the balmy zephyrs of the spring
were blowing from the garden of friendship, and wafting to
my senses the grateful perfume of its flowers, your excellency's
epistle, every letter of which is a new-blown rose on the
branch of regar'l, and every word a blooming fruit on the
tree of esteem, was delivered to me by Mr. Burnes and Mr.
John Leckie, who were appointed to convey to me some
form,
and of superior quality, of singular beauty, of alpine t
and elephantine stature, admirable even in their own counr
Majesty
which had been sent as a present to me by his
King of Great Britain, together with
carriage. These presents, owing to
thea claarrgeeoafntdheel e
abovea n t
sgaefnettlie,maetn,
d, hhaavveearbreievned
delivered
d to ne
wayrercof ther,iv:e r Sint yoperfeucrt
togetherci nde ,
~h
excellency's letter, which breathes the spirit of friendship,
by that nightingale of the garden of eloquence, that bird of
the winged words of sweet discourse, Mr. Burnes; and the
receipt of which has caused a thousand emotions of pleasure
and delight to arise in my breast. By the favour of Sur
Akal Poorukh See (God) there are in my stables valuable
and high-bred horses from the different districts of Hin7
doatan, from Turkiston, and Persia, but none of them will
bear comparison with those presented to me by the King,
through your excellency ; for these animals, in beauty,
stature, and disposition, surpass the horses of every city and
every country in the world. On beholding their shoes the
new moon turned pale with envy, and nearly disappeared
r
from the sky. Such horses the eye of the sun has never
before beheld in his course through the universe. Unable to
bestow upon them in writing the praises that they merit. I_
am compelled to throw the reins on the neck of the steed of
description, and relinquish the pursuit." He read these
letters to show that the oriental style was not at all similar
to the eold rules of English composition.

CHURCH INTELLIGENCE,

(From the Oxford Herald.)

In a Convocation holden on I'llorsday last, the Rev. Ed-
ward John Speck, M.A. of,Triuity College, Dublin, was ad-
mitted ad eundem.

Ina Congregation.holden at the same time, the following
Degrees were conferred :

MASTER. OF ARTS

Rev. Nathaniel Morgan, Brazennose College

BACHELOR OF ARTS.
Richard Howell Taylor, Trinity College

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

An Election to Four Scholarships, now vacant in this Col-
lege, will be holden on Monday, the 20th of March next.
Two, on Sir Simon Bennett's Foundation, are open to per-
sons born in the province of Canterbury.
One, on Dr. Browne's Foundation, is open to persona
born in the county of York ; and
One is open, without any restriction as to the place of
birth.
On Saturday last, Mr. Henry Edward Moberly, Scholar
of New College, was admitted Actual Fellow of that Society.
On Monday last, Mr. Thomas Davies, Commoner of Jesus
College, was elected Scholar of that Society.
The Rev. Spencer Rodney Drummond, M.A., formerly of
Christ Church, has been presented to the Perpetual Curacy
of St. John the Evangelist, Brighton.
The Rev. Nicholas Brooking, 8.A.. formerly of Wadham
College, has been presented to the Vicarage of Ipplepen,
Devon, vacant by the death of the Rev. R. Marriott ; patrons,
the Dean and Chapter of Windsor.
The Rev. John Hawkins Hext, M.A., formerly of Exeter
College, has been presented to the Vicarage of Morval,
Cornwall, vacant by the death of the Rev. S. Puddicombe ;
patron, the. Lord Chancellor.
The Rev. Eyre Stuart Bathurst, M.A., Fellow of Merton
College, bas been presented to the Perpetual Curacy of
Bo
E. in this city, vacant by the resignation of the Rey.
B. E. Bridges ; patrons, the Warden and Fellows of Merton
College.
The Rev. William Lockwood, M.A., of University Col-
lege, has been presented to the Vicarage of Kirkby Fleetham,
Yorkshire, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. W. Glaister ;
patron, the Lord Chancellor.
The Rev. William Gresley, M.A., formerly Student of
Christ Church, Prebendary of Lichfield, is appoint ed Chap
lain to the High Sheriff of Warwickshire.
The Rev. Thomas ,Nash Stephenson, M. A., formerly of
Worcester College, has been presented to the Curacy
of St.
James's Chapel, Solihull, Warwickshire.
The Rev. William Cecil Fowle, M.A., of Wadham College,
has been presented to the Curacy of Ilinington,Warwickshire.
The Rev. John Marsh Lakin, 8.A., formerly of Worcester
College, has been presented to the Curacy of Polesworth.
Warwickshire.
The Rev. Richard Hopkins Harrison, M.A., formerly of
Trinity College, has been presented to the Curacy of All
Saints, Worcester.
The Rev. Francis Henry Romney, M.A., of Worcester
College, has been presented to the Curacy of the Chapel of
Whittington, Worcestershire.
The Rev. Charles Dolben, 8.A., of Trinity College, has
been presented to the Rectory of Spernall, 'Warwickshirr :
patron' C. Chambers, Esq.
The Rev. Charles Eden Peake, M.A.. of Magdalene Hall,
has bees presented to the Perpetual Curacy of Ruishton,
Somerset, on his own petition, vacent by the death of the
Rev. R. Winsloe.
The Rev. S. L. Nogan, M.A., of St. Edmund Hall, has
been presented to the Vicarage of Walberton, Sussex, vacant
by the death of the Rev. R. Hardy: patron, the Bishop of
Chichester.