The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-11 00:00:00

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over.— Punch

A FARMER'S NOTION OP THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
—A worthy old farmer, who resides near the bne of the
York and Midland Railway, having been told a few days
ago, that a communication had been made, from York in

two or thri

minutes, s :id, " Bla

me how t'felier rides'upon them there w
ries enewr !"

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PROPER PRIDE.—In a fairy tale by the Danish author
Auntersen, the.e is a leather ball of so aristocratical a

character, that when proposals are made to her by a peg-
top, because they happen to have been companions in the
same drawer, she indignantly asks him whether he is
aware that her " father and mother wore morocco slip-
pers," and that she has " cork in her body."
A. WOULD-BF. WIDOW. A physician, going down
Regent-street with a triend, said to him, " Let us avoid
that pretty little woman you see on the left; she knows
me again, and casts upon me looks of indignation. 1
attended her husband, and—" " I understand—
pon had the misfortune to ' despatch him." "On
contrary," replied the doctor, " 1
neither she nor her lover has ever forgiven in(

saved ' Ilio); and

AN UNHAPPY EDlTOR.—Nearly bereft of all patienre
with the atrocious scribbling of certain of his correspon-
dents, the editor of the Manx Liberal hoists a flag of

distress
of " births, teßrriii
write inteilieihlV ;

„prat to the senders of noticrs
, and dea'hs,” he implores them to
for " " our education was

In a touching

says he,

somewhat neglected in the wafter of Egyptian hierogly-
phics. Neither hlve we an over and above clear know-
ledge of the language of birds, as conveyed by the graphic
mode of dipping their feet in ink and then making them
walk over a ghee► of ahite paper."
ORIGIN OF THE WORD `. II UNIBUG."—It is not gene-

rally known that this woid, at present so much, in ♦ogue,
is of Scottish orgin. There was in olden time a race,
now extinct, called Bogue or bag, of that Ilk, in Ber-
wickshire. A daughtt r of this family married a son of
Hume or Home, also of that Ilk. In process of time, by
-default of male issue, the Bogue property devolved on m.e
Geordie Home or Hume. who was popularly styled Hume
or H me o' the B•>g. This worthy was somewhat l!
dined to the marvellous, and had 'a vast int.lintitiOn.t
"exalt hims'lf, his wife; Ittnily,.brother, and his ancestot
on both sides. His tales, however, did not pass current
and at last. when any one made any very extr

staten3ent in the Mearns, the hearers would siting up
their shoulders and style it " just-a Hum the Bog."
This was soon shortened into Humbug, and in a few years
the word spread like wildfire over the whole kingdato.—
Sedieritan.
DOG BREA KING.—A lady had a favourite large fat pet
spaniel: this dog a ould not have been prevented jumpvg

on any chair he liked, but he took a fancy to a very splen.:
did one, covered with very beautifully worked
, Fat; n : he
could not be kept out of this, if left tor a moment in the
room by him-elt : he was off in a moment if be •Beard any
one coming, but on their leaving, up he was again. This

chair was generally covered with a 'white net. I under-
took to cure him of this, promising not to beat him.
took away the satin cushion, and under the w

seen : up my gentleman was in a moment, but down he
was much quicker, and set up a yelping that I knew
woull bring his mistress down in a minute. " Poor
Lover !" said I. " I think another lesson w it about do for
you so I gave him a toss on his side on my newly in•
vented patent an,i-comfortable cushion : he bolted off,
out of the room, nearly knocking down his mi.tresa at
the door, who then flew after him into the garden. 1
made my escape, having first taken the preciution to de-
sire the servant to tell his thistr. with my comp! mews,
not to sit on Rover's chair. She passed my nons• the
next day. and shook her finger at me, showed me Rover's
bead at the carriage window. He would not even lo(.k Ht
,the anti.comfortable chair again.—Slabie Talk and Table
Talk. •

SINGULAR CURE FOR BIBULOUS
PROPENSITIES.
(From Sharpe'' London MogazinP.)
Once upon a time. there dwelt in one of the little streets
which run down to the bottom of the Mane, a c.,13h1 r
named Hans Fuchs, or as we should say, Jack Pox. lie
was a good-hearted merry little fellow, a favourite with
every one, and so good a workman that he must have
thriven had it not been for one unfortunate failing which
threatened to be his ruin. Hans was a great deal too fond
of good beer, and many a customer he lost and many a
pair of boots he spaed in convequence. In vain did his
mot her scold and his wife entreat, Hans could not get over
this weakness.

One night the little cobbler wa• returning from a tre-
mendous jollification ; it was his Saint's festival, and he
thought he was in honour bound to be merry oo that day;
not that he was thoroughly drunk, for, as he kept reps st-
ing to himself, it was impossible it should be so, since he
was perfectly aware that he was anything but sober. How-
ever he staggered along, with some difficulty keeping out
of the river, till to came to the bridge. The moon was
shilling brightly, and the old statue of the Emperor stood
out in strong relief against the dark houses on the o.her
side. Somehow the idea struck Hans that he would go
and have a look at the figure bet', :re finally returning home.
Accordingly he walked over to the centre of the bridge,
and leaning against the parapet, stor.d gazing intently at
the statue. He was quite alone, anti might have rfAsnained
there a few minutes, when the cathedral clock solemnly
struck the hour of twelve. Scarcely had the last stroke died
away in the air, when. to the cobbler's aston,shment, the
stone Emperor nodded, as if beckoning to him ; he could
not believe his eyes; but the motinn•was distinctly re-
peated. Hans, however, could not lease the friendly wall
which supported him : there were more rea-ins than one
for this. What was his horror when the statue, gradu-
ally swayed itself to and fro, at lengta descended trim its
pedestal, and triov,d across the bridge to where he stood
paralysed with terror._

" Who art thou, fellow ?" asked the figure in a hollow
voice, which cuplied the cobbler's blood.
" A poor cobbler, Hans Fuchs, please your Majesty,"
was the tremulous reply.
" Art thou a native of Frankfurt?" •
" Yes."
" And a good Catholic?"
" Yes."

" Good. Bear up our train and follow me." So say-
ing, the statue turned, and made as it it would proceed to-
wards the city.

Hans hardly knew how to act,
stone was a thing which scarcely ren

A train carved out of
wred to he borne up ;

on the other haod, the comm,nds of a root.,

speaking statue were not to be despised. So, stooping
down, he took hold of the train arid tillowed the Empe-
ror; the stiffness of this arlic:e of dress lacing at 'vast
this advantage, that Ham, by leaning against it, made a
shift to pr ,ceed cruel more steadily than he could other-

wise have done. They 'crossed the bridge, and entered
t'.e city. the cobbler wondering all the tine what had be.
come of the o%n-watch. not one of wi om was to be seen :
the streets, too. were quit, deserted,—there was not even
a light in any one window. Thus they passed
silence and solitude till they stood beside tile S

along
4,1h00f

that huge. gloomy building erected on the site of the °lir
Carlovingian Palace. Here they stopped, and the statue

spoke again.
'• Mortal." it said, "know that here lies a n-iebty trea-
sure, bound ❑nder a tremendous spell, which I alone can
loose. The counter s,ell can be taught only to one who
meets me alone at midnight on the bridge, and who must
he a ',wive of this town, a good Catholic. and free from
faint of drunkenness. Thou art all these three ?''

Now, had this question been put to honest Ilans on the
bridge. be would at once have confessed the st.ire he knew
himself to be in. and been glad to have got t-ff so cheap,
but he had not urAl courage enon:li, to ssy nothing of the
Dutch ar joie, and his walk had timiliarised tom with the
statue; he,iiles. the treasure—sl ould he give 'bat no tor
a pardonable fib? Thoughts of Floekhrimer and Johan-
nisberg, i. stead of washy beer, pasted through his mind,
and he answered at once,--
" wohl "
" Good, then," replied the statue. " Repeat the verses
after me—

When the nig' t bird shriel eth dread,
Arid the gray, s give up their dead.".

But the adtiv Lola! et unite which Hans now felt had
one evil e ff ct.—so long as Le say in extremity of t rrnr.
he was comp natively sober; bat his so'n.i.-ty fled with his
tear, and he. now could scarcely mute' rout with a hiccup—
" When the dead bird.—what is i ? Donnerwetter !"
" Wieteit, thou ait (intuit!" cried the statue
h•deous fr an.
". Not drunk, your .11sjesty ; only jIlly," replied Hans
•_ •

with a

)1e man

swerer the Emperor; and, raising his heavy stone seen
tre, he struck the et bider such a stunning blow on the
head, that he reeled and fell senseless to the ground. As
he awoke from his insensibility he felt a sensaion of in-
tense pain in the head—ten thousand lights danced around
—and a rou.:h voice called out—
" lkoz tau-end, the drunken sehehn has fallen against
the 1c: I.h-stone and cut his head open."
He was lying on t -e bridge. opposite the old statue,
which sto,d grim and motionless. Around him were
some of the city guard, who took him to the watchhouse,
where his head was hound tip
Next morning Hans went home to his wife, a sadder
L but a wiser man ; tor, from that day, he never was inroxi-
-- cated again. Drink, he said, had hren the cause of his
losing the spit- bound treastoe, and that was an injury
wh ch must tart the best of friends. trans' wife said no•
thing ; bu , in her own mind, she thought he had got afar
greater treseure, for he hail go, —sober.
So 'here, is my story of the statue on the bridge of
Frankto,t ; mat I dare swear ii is as genuine a legend as

THE COUNTRY SAFFIR WITH RUSSELL THAN WITH
PEEL.-11 ell. tne new ministry hay- been installed. We
have Lord J. Ruse l and the Whigs, sopportrd by
O'Connell and the Roinish factions, again occupying the

the chief places in administration ; while the materials of
an effective opposivon hare, as yet, to be gathered to-
gether. and no min k,ows in whom to put trust or con-
fidence for the nisinteriance of the views and principles
according to which the country might be wisely governed,
and we might he saved from the further inroads of revo-
lution. Many fondly entertain the hope, that Lord John,
as he is an older, so he is a wiser and abetter man than
he was when he was las' compelled to relinquish power.
He bears amongst his friends the character of a man of
generosity wit' honour; and, contrasted with the unprin-
cipled minister whom he succeeds rather than supplants,
there is all air of respectability, and even of chivalry about
him, which raises him far above the unbearable and un-
English baseness of deserting his colours and betraying
his hiends. Lord John may seek to moderate the more
fiery and violent of bis own partizans; or, should the cur-

rent prove too strong for hitn, he may relintoisb the helm
to other hands ; but to the principles to which he has
pledged himself he will never prove false ; and his par! y
may confidently rely upon bin for trinkly and boldly
carrying out their views, or promptly arid honestly sur-
rendering his trust, should his supporters press him be.:
yond whet 11,-. judgi s to be the limits of a sound discretion.

We cannot I

the urhettl d institution+ of the country are far safrr in
hands, than they were in those of Sir Rubert Peel.
Tne conatt•utwonal party are now fairly warned of their
danger. they know what they may hope, and what they
Nut so when the late tmnistry were in power,

may fear,

pirit of assatiation has been nurtured in Ireland. un-

til it has attain( d its present enormous magnitude, when
it defies the ordinary powers of the law ; and by whose
direct rod ostentatious patronage and enc•wragernent

to Seell.g. within a short stage. of the ascendancy
at Which it aiuis. When this shall have bred attained.
then, indeed. we say to the Protestant coninrunities of
all denominations, " Let them which be in Judea flee unto

the mountains." But we trust that a rally may yet b-
made, by which a calamity so signal, and a curse so

bequeathed to his successors the completion of his Irish
pokey; and the outline of that policy which he sketched,
left scarcely any [Ling to be desired by Mr. O'Connell
and the Popish and Radical party. Possibly he only de.
sired to phee Lord John in a difficulty, by this premature

disclosure of views which the new minister might fiinl
himself hard set to realize. lie knew that his Iri,h mew.

sures, both in act and in prospect, constituted the rock
upon which he himself had foundered ; and he kindly and
c onsiderately directed lus succeitoir upon it, proffering
the aid of his experience and ability to enable him to ride
over it with safety. ,We know riot whether the new pre-
mier will read the passage—" faa est ab ho.te doceri," as
signifying, the advice which your enemy gives you, do not
take; or whether he. may or may not think it to be
tirected by hiS counsel than Warned by .his counsel. But
this we know, that we prefer fighting the battle for our
Protestunt in-titutions ogai),st Lord John. rather than
with Sir Robert Peel ; we apprehend Lisa from the ho.ti-
lity of the one, against which we are on our guard, than
from the friends.hip of the other, by which a false ,ecurity
might be produced : and if we are only Gus to ourselves.
and take every fisting means to inform our countrymen of
the perils which beset our most valuable establishments
our most glorious privileees, we may yet find a happy de-
liverance from open enemies. as well as from hollow
friends.—Publin Voiversily Magazine.
OUR ARISTOCRACY ONE.IIDTHDF RANK AND TALENT.
—Fortunately,.the aristocracy of this country are in no

danger of decay. In this respect they are unlike the
aristocracy• of almost every other cowry in Europe.
Though they may be in some of their private and social

relations exclusive—and in this they but exercise the
natural privilege of every man to choose his own society
—they are not politically an exclusive body. In other
countries the gulf between the aristocracy and the people
is much wider t Ilan it is in England. They have distinct
privileges, distinct associations, distinct pursuits, and
although there rosy be more personal affability and free-
dom in their public intercourse with the people, they do
not so essentially mix themselves up in their affairs as
they do in England. Here not a single movement takes
place, political or charitable, of any significance, that has
not some nobleman or member of a patrician house at its
head, or taking an active part in its support. In all

places and in all circumstances they identify themselves
with the people, anal, as they constitute themselves their
friends, they naturally become their leaders. But their
leader ship is not the result of their rank alone. It is a
popular idea that people of the middle class run after a
lord to lend the sanction of his name to their undertak-
ings merely because be is a lord. John Bull, according
tot hese thit.ke*, is an inveterate tuft-hunter, and no good
will be done for the country till he is taught to believe
that so far from any intellectual influence being associated
with the possession of a coronet, on the contrary, the
peerage is but a collection of incapa' les, to put trust or
confidence in whom is to weer a badge of poltieal sla-
very. A more false notion could not be instilled into the
national mind. In the cases of some few members of the

royal family, it is no doubt true that their support or
te,tronage is asked without reerence to any personal fit.
ness or association with the particular objects which are
sought to be obtained. But this is a part of the official
homage paid to royalty, and it is because the people are
known to be loyal, and to set a high value on the support
of the throne or its immediate connexions, that those il-
lustriceis personages are so much sought after. But we
altogether deny that when the active support of particular
members of the peerage or the aristocracy is sought for,
it is in the spirit of tuft-hunting ; that when members of
the mercantile or the general middle classes have some
benevolent or national object in view, and seek the aid of
those who occupy the first rank in society. it is merely
because they are peers. We deny that the Lord Ashleys
or Le rd Robert Grosvenors, the Lord Kenyans or the
Broughams and the Morpeths, are assocta'ed in such
undertakings for any other reason than that they are
deemed the most fit, by their ta!ents and information,
and moral and intellectual worth, for their position. We
are almost ashamed to find ourselves engaged in enfor-
cing a position which must appear so natural and true,
but that the contrary is so often said and written, and
has in.ensibly produced an effect on thq unreasoning
portion of the public. A pride of class hrl' been by this
means generated among the middle and lower orders of
the state, and a conceit that they are by far more firtd
for the task of government than those n whose culture
such pains have been bestowed, who have been trained to
statesmanship and legislation, and on whom the noblest
moral and religious considerations act, inducing them to
Abandon that retirement and indolent enjirytnent of life
which the law guarantees them as the hold-re of iiide.
Pendent property, and which the nobles of other countries
too °len greedily seize up, n, in total obliviousness of
their duties to their fellow countrymen. The aristocracy
of these three kingdoins are, we rnaintein, with one or
two brilliant exceptions of men who have sprung from
the people, the real leaders of public opinion in this
country. They are so, not on account of their rank but
of their talents. They are not the effete and inactive
class, useless and not mere ornamental, which they are
represented to be, but are deep thinkers, earnest, reli-
,ioes-mitided men; their principles deeply engrafted in
their minds; and their general knowledge improved by a
practical experience of mankind in general. not often
enjoyed by the cla.ses below them, who have less leisure,
and look at life from a more confined point of view; and
sith frolics and powers as highly cultivated and as
readily brought to ,bear pract'cally on Dunne affairs as
those of the most active and energetic of the bourgeois
Wiih the latter. such qualifications are almost the
exception to the rule; with the former, they are nearly
univer.al.—Fraser's Magazine.
MERE LITERATURE NOT ENOUGH FOR A MAN.—
The literary marl ie impatient of b-iiig set apart. lie feels
that monks and troubadours, though in a similar position,
were brought into more healthy connection with man arid
nature than he who is supposed to lank at them merely to
a rite them down. Sb he rebels; an] Sir Walter Scott
was prouder of being a good slier ff and farmer, than of
his reputatioe as the Great Unknown. Byron piqued
himself on hi. skill of shooting and swimming. Sir 11.
Davy and Schlegel would be admired as dandies, and
Goethe, who had received an order from a puhlisl,er "for
a dozen more dramas in the same style as Go. tz von Ber-
linchingen," and ;helth (in sadder Booth) he had already

Faust in his head asking to be written out. thought it no
1.-gractition to become Premier in the little duchy of
We'mar.—The Dial.

WAR ADVENTURE IN THE MARQUESAS.—Toornova
was commander-in-chief. I was TO remain by him where.
ever we moved, and Nlate's nephew was also to be with
us, as he wou!d not leave me. The wind increased con-
siderably, and swept up our valley and it) the face of the
enemy. Tt,ere %as a vast quantity of thudl cane growing
`rout the brea.t.works, a good way into the enemy's coun-
ty, wt• formed good for te

.11101. though 11 cover .11'111 to ad-
vdnee through, was dangerous in other tespects. Our
whole tribe %ere now at their posts—the men in front, the
women and children at some distance in the rear, singing
From the rock we could s e the reeds

away as U,11,111

rn, anc

here and

eeou'epop up. Ar it a shot 'ass sure to be fi,ed by our
uarly. By-and-by the cr,ver appeared to be in motion,
and frill of men. We now got down off the rock, and
went to the centre of the defence with about three hur,
died men. I raw bundles of dry grass scattered all along
inside the defences, in case they were hard set ti tire the
cover. This evening was peculiarly favourable for a pur-
t,o•e of the kind, and I suggested to Toomova to do so at
once, and hunt them out of it; but he said no, it would
retard their ruching on them in a body, but if they came
too strong. I should then see fire. The enemy came

crawling through the reeds. and were endeavouring to
muster up for a rush, when a rattle film our nitit.kets
made them lie down .gain. In number they evidently

made the expected rush. and numbers actuallv got in on
us. when there ensued a terrific rotatebt with clubs, spears,
and n.u-ket. buts, the women yelling all the time ; others
suf•ceeded thme who got in, and it now was evident that
it required the bold. united effort of the whole tribe to
_ .

save themselves. Every man fought, and had to fight ;
no rvan dare for his life he idle.; it he did not act on
the off nstve, he was obliged to defend himself. This
hand to band business gradually ceased ; then the mus-
kets. spears, and slings began again, and as there were
plenty r f rocks, trees, and long canes all round, each man
sought concealmept to save his person, occasionAly only
appearing to fire and advance. or retreat to another shel.
ter; in fact, this part of the fight was what is commonly
called " dodge and fire." Night was fast approaching ;
the di•tance we- all gloom ; the battle ground, which ex-
tended for about two miles (for there was constant shift-
ing of position), was partially illumined by the dry grass
and canes taking fine here and there, from the falling of
the ignited gun wadding.. Tnert, vu,s al.o a full moon at
the tine, so that we bad very Lair light to see each other

raid ev, ry man to tie a pirce of white cl,,th about his
neck. Tills made all our'A known to each other at any
fair di.tance. It was a very judicious plan, considering
that night was on. Tnis tribe of ours were better shots
than any I •1,..

nad seen at the .arquesas. hey were also
eey quick at watching the cover; and equally qu•ck %nth

. _ .
aim. We gained well and fast on the enemy. hunted
them from reek ro rock, arid from tree to tree, mail (with
the aid of the blazd from the, fires) we could see their
brown and well-oded bodies fl,ing post and over what had
been defences in the forenoon, but were now ruins, with
many passes through it. We had new only an occasional
shot after any of the natives who had kept t ► our cover
too long, and were trying to escape, but coulu not. if
they missed the shot, they were sure of the spear or chin.
Tue rime now arrived for Too nova's fitnel revenge. The
binidles of dry grass along the entire line was ignited, and
thrown into the dried cane-brake; the fresh breeze as-
s'sted, and carried the blaze onwards ; and very soon there
was two miles wide of roaring fire in smart chase of the
retreating enemy. It was a terrific sight—a sad sight;
scores of wretches must be scorched alive; they could not
clear the canes or grass in time to save them-elves. The
hills on either side of the pass were too steep to clamber
up. In fact, they were in a bed of fire, from which there
was no escape. Tue ►ushing and crackling noise of the
lotion:, flame as it swept away front us—the wiki and tri-
umphant shouts of our people—their mad-looking dance,

Piot (tor every nosh and plot of ground arotoni us was km
fire), gave the wh,,l,- scene a downright picture of hell.—
Dr. Coulter's Adventures in the Pacific.
POPERY AS A POLITICAL. AND AS A RELIGIOUS SYS-
TEM.—The Rocnish system. as a eel:.

institure. is ri

he peop

appears in a hundred unmistakeable instances. The better
and purer faith—the faith more in accordance with scrip-

tural truth—is daily evidencing its power to engage the
minds and win the heat ts of those who are led to tiistin-
zui,h between its rituals and a reasonable service. Sudh
is the indifference with which the more wealthy of the
ltom.n Catholic community regard their Church, that
they have no-ver het been led AO !ar to tax themselves as to
make a suitable provision for the maintenance and the
education of their clergy. Left to itseil, the system must.
fall to the around, from sheer iii:;ifferetic,- on the part of
its nominal sunporters ; who would very soon console
themselves fir its loss, by commingling with the Protest.

ant r:ommun►ty ►n any of the various denominations under
which it exists, or becoming incorporated with the Estah-
linht d Church. But if almost defunct as a religion, what
is it as a political system ? IA it not the great bond of
union by which the masses ate held rogethe,. and ani-
mated by the spirit and directed according to the purpose's
of (hose whose end and aim is a repeal of the legi,litive
union? The coming of Christ wat never regarded by the

their deliverance from the Romans, than the rtilargecnent
of the borders of the Rothi,h Church in Ireland, by the
more ardent repealers, as the ius•rurneht which is best
capable of working the deliverance of their country from
the tyranny of the Saxon rule. And what has been Sir
Robert Peet's policv,—bis favourite mistruin for ihe tran-
qulization of Ireland? augne-nt this power, in the
hope ot changing its nature, and takont it. into an alliance
with the British governmen,, by which it night be ren-
dered, not a stimulus to, but a cult, upon, the rebellious
tendencies ot the people. We believe a more unfounded
expectation never was entertained. h e believe that every
addition made to this power ( more especially when it pro•
ceeds from conce=sious to violence), will but iuerease the
turbulence vi hteh it was intended' to allay, and aug-ment
our dangers. We believe that the Rotnish priesthood are
irrevocably pledged to courses from which, by the miser-
able truckling policy which would play their interests:
personal or, professional, against their passions and their
principles, they net er ran he divtrt, d. Talk of the en-
dowment of nlynoi,th ! '1 he brit is carefully nibbled off,
but the hook is rejected• They will take good care that

shall be " lather of the man ;" and whatever
e wls, in spirit and in prineinle, in the days
of its poverty, such and no other it will combine when in-
creased wealth enables it to enlarge its numbers, and

" the boy "

that inwitut

when the luxury and effluence of its proie,s
orsfionffdeir.-
stronger inducements to the Aspiring sons of our peasant
pooulation to be admitted wi,hin it. walls. No one is
ab-urd enough to suppose, that a d.fferent class
viduals will become candid Ates for the uffi..e of Ronni,h
priests, because of the higher star lard of living to Which
that body, in their educational progress, may now bedome

be dispensed with. and the Runtish Church would be sup.
plied cv:th clergy as the Establithed Church is supplied,
by individuals•educated at their own expense, and for
e h.,se preparation for 'holy orders a large outlay is made.
either by themselves or their parents It remains, there.
fore, that no policy of our rulers can exercise soy ben,fi_

cial influence upon the character end the spirit of the
Chutch of Rome in Ireland. Upon that character and
spirit we have freely offered our opinion; but we must
add, that we think it Positively respec able in compari,on
with the despicable and unprincipled course of policy
wh.ch was adopted towards it by our la►e rulers; a policy,
whiten those it was intended to cajole. or c mei!' +te, esti-
mated at its real value ; and which, so far from s►lencing
the clamours it was expected to allay, if it only be consip•-
tently carried out, must lead to the separation of Great
Britain and Ireland.—Dublin University Magazine.

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND THE GREAT BARRIER
AGAINST RoME.-Of all the different Protestant uou.es,
there is none but our Church. and the Churches in com-
munion with her. that can make a permanent and power-
ful resistance against Popery, because she alone, with her
sister Churches, takes her stand upon the original consti-
tution and the ancient faith of the Church Catholic; she
about. opposes to the corruptions and usurpations of Po-
pery, a complete system of pure, primitive, apostolic
Christianity. This the Romish Church knows right well;
and, therefore, it is, that she concentrates her efforts more
and more upon this favourite object of her ambitious
hopes—the overthrow of the Church, and the subjugation
of the State of England. The Protestant communions of
the continent give her little uneasiness, they are so divided
among themselves ; and each one within itself so void of
fixed principles, of either doctrine or discipline, that they
can never present any compact front of opposition to the
aggressions of the Papacy. They would fall an easy prey
to the machinations of the Church of Rome, if once that
church could succeed in sweeping away from the face of
Christendom our church, whose very existence, founded
as it is on the primitive and apostolic constitution of the
Church of Christ, is a standing testimony against the
Papal usurpation ; even as her learning, her pure worship,
and her orthodox faith, is a standing witness against the
ignorance, the abominable superstitions, and soul-destroy-
ing errors of the Church of Rome.—Dr. Biber's Speech
at the National Club.

THE CITY OF CHESTER.—At the Conquest, the whole
of Cheshire (with the exception of the Bish-ip's property)
was granted to a near relation of the Conqueror, Hugh of
Avranche, commonly called Hugh Lupus, on account of
his favourite device of a wolfe's head. Cheshire then
became a county palatine, with courts peculiar to itself ;
so that any offence against " the sword of Chester" was
visited with as severe penalties as a similar offence against
the crown at Westminster. Hugh resided in the castle at
Chester, where be held his courts and parliaments, in
which sat the superiors of the religious houses of the
country, together with his eight great sub-infeudatoties.
The succeeding earls maintained the same state down to
the reign of Henry 111., when the earldom of Chester
was se zed and united to the crown ; the large tenures
created by the Conqueror having, for the most part, re-
verted to the crown by forfeiture or martiage. The an-
ci: nt earls of Chester had the power of granting privilege
or sanctuary to criminals, a power which is venerally
supposed to have been exercised by the church alone.
Our space will not allow us to do more than select a few
historical events, of which Chester has been the scene.
It was in this city that the Welsh, in 1300, acknowledged
the sovereignty of the English, the homage of the free-
holders being received by the infant Prince of Wales,
Ed ward of Carnarvon. In the year 1506 Chet.ter was
afflicted with that remarkable disease, the sweating sick-
ness, which citified tiff ninety-one householders in three
daps; and a few Nears afterwards a pestilence made such
ravages, that the streets of the city were overgrown with
grass. In 1558 oc .urred in Chester an event trifling in
itself, hut of the greatest importance to the Pret- scants of
those days. Dr. Henry Cole, Dean of St. Paul's, is said
to have been e, trusted with the commission issued by
Mary to empower the Lord Deputy of Ireland to prose-
cute those who refused to observe the ceremonies of the
Roman Catholic religion. The doctor, on his way to
Ireland, stopped at Chester, and having put up at the

Blue Posts Inn, in Bridge-street, was visited by the
mayor, to whom he communicated the business in which
he was engaged ; opening his cloak bag, be took out a
leathern box, observing. with exul►ation. " I e had that
whim] which would lash the heretics of Ireland." The
ho•tess, Mrs. Elizabeth Mottetshed, overheard this by
accident, and having a brother in Ireland, who was a
Protes'ant, she' became al.irmed for his safety, and
took the opportunity, while the doctor was attending
the mayor down stairs, to open the leathern box
tak" and 1---- '

- out the commission, .rave in its place a
pack of cards with tbe knave of clubs placed the
upp, rmost. Ihe dean arrived in Ireland on the 17th De-
cember, 1558. Bring introduced to the Dfputy Lord
Fitzwaller and the Privy Council, he explained tle natnre
of his embassy at more length, and then presented the
box, containing, as he thought, the main i-sion ; his
I,rdship to ok it, and having opened it, behe d. with con-
siderable surprise, the park of cards with the knave on
the top. The doctor was thunderstruck ; and in much
c,,nfusion affirmed that he certainly had a commission,
and that some artful person oust have made the ex.

change. " Then, said his lord,hip, " you have nothing
to do but to return to Londr,n and get it renewed ; mean-
while. we'll shuffle the cards " The doctor was obliged
to follow this unwelcome advice, although in such a disa-
greeable season of the year ; but before he could reach
Ireland a second tim-, the queen died, and her sangui-
nary commission became useless. The woman, whose
presence of mind and dexterity had thus providentially in-
terprsed, was rewarded by Elizabeth with a pen-ion of
forty rounds a-year. During the civil war in the reign of
Charles 1., Chester stood several s .iges, which la•ted
about three years. The inhabitants who had sided with
the king endured great privations ; but, at last, when the
seige was converted into a blockade, they surrendered on
honourable terms to the parliamentary army, on the 3d
February, 1645. A century afterwards. (1745,) Chester
was fortified against the Pretender. In the reign of
William 111. Chester was one of the six cities permitted
to issue a silver coinage.—Sharpe's .london Magazine.

PROROGATION OP PARLIAMENT.—It 1$ DOW the ge-
nera! opinion that Parliament wilt be prorogued on Tues-
day, the 25th instant, or Thursday, the 27th, but of
course the precise day,cannot at present be known.—
Stant:bird.
On Wednesday and Thursday the drawing sketches,
&c., of the late Mr. B. R. Haydon were sold by auction.
The Duke of Wellington purchased a portrait of his
charger, and the auctioneer bought in the large picture
of Alfred and the Brir)sh Jury for £2OO, it was under-
stood, for Sir Robert Peel. The other articles sold fur
rather small sums.
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The communicati
between Portsmouth and London, by the electric tele-
graph, is stopped for the present, the lightning having
taken such effect upon the aires as to preclude the possi-
bility of working the telegraph. The dial in the Gosport
terminus is rendered useless by the electric fluid having
passed into it, and deranged all the machinery.
A BOY ON FIRE IN THE STREET.—On Thursday
afternoon, a boy named Edward Rose was carrying a jar
of vitriol through Holborn, slang by a strap over his
shoulder, when he struck it against a lamp-post, and
broke it ; the liquid poured down his back, burnt his
clothes, and injured the flesh. A quantity of water
(lime would have been better, had it been at hand), was
thrown over him. He is considered in a dangerous state.

On Monday morning, the Lord Mayor of the City of
London, while waiting at the Blackwell Railway termi-
nus, Fenchurch-street, was robbed of a told watch and
three gold seals, of the value of at lea-t 60 guineas. Ills
lordship, we understand, is much chagrined at his loss,
not so much for its pecuniary value, as from the fact that
the watch was the very last which had been finished by a
much-esteemed deceased friend.
COMMITTAL OF A SHAREBROKER AT HUDDERSFIELD
FOR EMBEZZLEMENT.—On Friday last Mr. George
North, a sharebroktr, at Huddersfield, was committed for
trial for embezzling a sum of money entrumed to him for
the payment of the price of thirty-five We,t Yorkshire
Railway shares, purchased by him, as broker, from Messrs.
W. Moore and Co., in who.e office he had previously been
as clerk and cashier. Bail was admitted for his appear-
ance.

Mr. Chandler, a celebrated grower of camellia Jaroni-
cas, in the Wandsworth-road, London, died on Sunday
lest from the effects of grief at the great loss of property
he sustained by the storm of the preceding day ; and on
Monday, his son, a fine young man, in partnership whit
his father, Pas found to be raving mad. It is supposed
that the mind of the unfortunate gentleman was affected
by the sudden death of his father, and the circumstances
attendant thereon.

At a quarter-past eleven, on Sunday night we k, an
alarming occurrence happened in Middle-row, Holborn•
bars, London. Two houses, 22 and 23, almost suddenly
fell in with a loud crash. Happily, just before, a police-
constable was passing, and. hearing the noise of the break-
ing of window panes. looked towards the houses, and saw
them tottering and bulging. Ile warned the passers-by
of the impending danger, and, a hilt sod. ing, the inmates
of the houses, to the number of 10 or 12, rushed out and
escaped.

SINGULAR FATAL FALL FROM A WINDOW —On
Wednesday Mr. Bedford held an inquest at +he Black
Horse, Bedfordbury, on the body of Emma Redman,

whose parents reside at No. 10. L.-ingley-cnurt. Long-

On the evening of Sun,lay Ltst deceased's starer,
aged nine years, was carrying her down the third flight of
stairs, when the newly-na led shoes she wore, ea'ehir g in
one of the steps, caned her to •tumble on to tt,e landing-
place, and the child which she held was plehed through
the lower part of a window, opening to the stai,case, iut
the back yard, from a height of 40 fret. Verdict, "Ac-
cidental death."
NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING OF THE EARL
OF LEICESTER AND F. A wri.tot, ESQ.—A very melan-
choly ai.cidi,nt happened on Wednesday night, b tween
eight and nine o'clock. on Ho!khan, Sands. The Earl of
Leicester. accompanied by F. Astley, E-q., were amns tog
themselves at dratightsea, when the tide, which was flow-
ing fast, surrounded them before they were awa•e of it.
The Earl and Mr. Astley, both being able swimmers, ma-
naged to reach the shore in safety, although much ex-
hausied—having endeavoured to save a young m•tn (ser-
vant to Mr. Astley) who was with them, tut unfortu-
nately wi hut surcess.

SERIOUS AFFRAY AT SUNDER!. AN D.-A serious
affray took place in this town, on yure.daynight last.

tion for its results. It war originated by three drunken
soldiers, who, being arrested by a pnlic mur in their dis-
orderly conduct, commenled severely beating him. Tne
in,,b 1,4 i-tiered, and took part wilt' the aggressors; and,
atter a scene of general disorder, peace was only at length
secured, by the military being driven into barrack by a
picket of men with fixed bayonets. The policeman was,
et one time, looked upon as dead, and is will in a very
precarious state, from the brutal injuries which he has
sustained.

A recent trait of gend feeling among a class little un-
derstood, and often harshly condemned, deserves. we

think, passing record at our hands. The clergyman of
Kirton had a portion of his glehe this year in *heat.
When nearly ripe, a body of labourers working on a
neighbouring farm sent him Vis message:—" We see.
sir, that your corn is nearly ready, and we are glad to see
it looks sell ; hut we don't hear who is to cut it. Now
we should like to cut it; and, if you'll give us leave, we
we will some down some evening. after hours, and when
the day's work is done, and reap it for you." Assent was
readily given ; and on two evenings—" after houis"—a
band of ten or twelve labourers, true to their word, came
down to the glebe, set to work with a will, and very
speedily put the crop in sheaf. infrich Journal.
CONTINENTAL PRODUCE.—The fullowiitg supplies of
cattle, provisions, and fruit from the cottinent took place
on one <lay in the early part of last week :—The steam-
ship Princess Rush from Hamburg, brought casks
of butter, 4 hampers and 32 baskets of cucumbers, 14
sieves of plums and 16 oxen ; the steamship Ocean. from
Rotterdam, 2,880 cheeses, 57 baskets of yea,t, 199 bas-
kets of entrants, 24 baskets of apricots, 77 baskets Cf
plums, 56 baskets of pears. 12 baskets of cucumbers, 974
ba•.kers or various kinds of fruits. 26 casks of pickb-s. and
206 sheep, with other articles. the produce re Hoil ti :
the Rapid, from Harlingen.- 552 casks of batter. 100
cheeses, 73 cows, 124 sheep, 3 bulls, 4 calves, 8 packages
of poultry, end 234 bags of oats; the Wilberforce. from
Antwerp, )8 baskets of fruit; the stertril-sh;p Loch Ity.in.
from Harlingen, specially des►t tehed for the pin pose. 76
cows, a quantity of you t►y. 61 lambs, and 178 sheep ;
the sail rig packet Jonj. Char le•, from Rushing. 198 sheep ;
and the Cite of London, from Rotterdam, 25 904 cheeses.
266 sheep, 53 oxen and cows, 53 lambs, 23 calves. 42
casks of butter, and 301 baskets of fruit, the whole the
produce of Holland.

.THE YORKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: AN-
NUAL MEETING AT WAKEFIELD.—TheInth. annual
meeting or the Yorkshire Agrieulturel Seciety, was
held at Wakefield, during the past week. Though
an excellent meeting in many respeets, it has not been FO
brilliant as on former occasions. Tim entries of stock is
the ordinary cla=ses have been as large as in any previous
year, but there is a falling off •n the extra stock, as com-
pared with last year. Tce number of eompany, however,
that has a tended the show has been very large, especially
on Thursday. when the town of Wakefield seemed to have
all the animation of a parliamentary election. The pat i.-11
church bells rang merrily during the nay, and up to noon
the arrival of visitors was constant and numerous. Mon-
day and Tuesday were devoted to the trial 01 implements,
and Wednesday and Thursday to discussions, the exhibi-
tion, and other more special nhjeets of the society A
public breakfast took place at the Strafford Arms Hotel,
at ten for half-past nine o'clock, on Wednesday mim-
ing. The party numbered about eighty of the leading
agriculturists in the county, Lord Wenlock, president of
030 society, occuoing the chair.

SUICIDE OF AN ANTI-PREDESTINARIAN.—An in-
quet.t was h4l on Saturday week, at the West London
Union Workhouse, West-stret t, Smitl 6- Id. before Mr.
.1 Payne, the deputy coroner, on the body of George
Clayton, aged 62, a butcher. According. to the evidence
of tt e w'tnesses, the deceaaed was very fond of metanhy-
...

t. lea' or philosophical argument. and not long ago, while
engaged in a eantroverAy of th;s kiwi. one of Cie eom-
pany2?rgned in support of the doctrine of •1 predestina-

with the principle of " free will." The'disen‘sion grow-
ing warm, and the deceased becoming excite►l, he pulled
out his butcher's kni►'e a d st,labed himself in the
side, in order to gain his point that a m in was a " tree
agent." He had been for a 1-.), g time past living with a
woman of had character, the wife of his n' phew, and on
Saturday week stabbed himself in the same place as b
v fore. in consequence. as he said. of the woman rnbb

him of his goods and running away

He remained locked

up it. his room until Tuesday without Ilia food. and was
then taken to the worichou•e, where he died on Thurs-
day. Verdict. temporary insunity.—Daily News.
PRICE OF BREAD AND FLOUR.—A provincial paper
(the Lincidn Standard) contains the following :—lf

flour is to remain at its present price, the repeal of the
corn.lass will have no effect upon the price of bread, anti
of course cannot in that respect be stir benefit to the
working classes. While the price of wheat has fallen
2s. per quarter. floor has only fal'en 4,1 I,er stone The
profit on a quarter of wheat may be easels? estimated :-
1 qr. of red wheat for good seconds flour (36 s. d.
stone), present price 2 4 0

Ground into 28 stone of flour, selling at 2s. per

2 16 0

18 stone of aborts, bran, &c , at is. per stone

average

0 8 0

3 4 0
Leaving 20s. profit to the miller on 1 quarter of wheat !
This does not include extra weight for potatoes, salt,
water, been meal, bones, plaster of Paris, Diachylon
plasters, and other ingredients which are often found in
the bread when made up.

1 .
THE LATESToRm--At Corwen, about eleven miles
from Llangollen,. the tempest, which has been so general

•$. anc

;entlanil. broke with

fearful violence about tour o'clock on Monday afternoon
last, continuing till about ten o'cl,.ck on Tuesday morn-
ipg. The rain fell in torrents, and cataracts of water
rushed from the neighbouring mountain, bearing down
mud, earth, and stones wiib such terrible violence as to