The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-19 00:00:00

THE OUTRAGE IN DERRY CATHEDRAL.

A few weeks since, as we stated at the time, a number of
the congregation assembled in Derry Cathedral on the sun-
day arose from their seats and left the building during the
delivery of a sermon by the Rev. Mr. Henn. The doctrines
promulgated by this gentleman were so offensive to these
persons as to induce them to resort to so unusual, and in our
opinion, so reprehensible, a mode of manifesting their oppo-
sition to the sentiments of the preacher, who it appears is an
admirer of the system of Theology recently sprung up at
Oxford. The following correspondence has taken place be-
tween the Bishop and the Dean on the subject :

" Boom hall, May sth, 1843.
"My dear Mr. Dean,--I consider it my duty to call your
attention, and that of :he Churchwardens of the parish of
Templemore, through you, to an occurrence which took place
in the Cathedral on the morning of the 23rd of April, when a
number of persons, apparently by preconcerted arrangement,
left the Church during the performance of divine service, in
a manner calculated to cause embarrassment to the officiating
minister, and to give offence to the rest of the congregation.
I feel assured that it will be quite sufficient, in order to pre-
vent a repetition of the act, at least by the well-disposed
among them, to make it apparent to those persons, through
you and the Churchwardens, that, from whatever motive it
originated, it was an offence against the laws.'
" All Christian Men are bound to obey laws, whether of
the ecclesiastical or civil power. The laws both of our Church
and country prohibit such an act as I have conceived it my
duty now to refer to. They are very strict in protecting the
officiating minister during the performance of divine service.
Their language expresses that no one shall ' molest, vex,
disturb, or otherwise trouble' him ; and they further direct
that none shall depart out of the Church during the time of
service or sermon without some urgent or reasonable cause.'
" Were it intended, by the proceeding to which I have re-
ferred, to convey any personal reflection upon an individual,
the manner of doing so was in many additional ways objec-
tionable. Any departure from sound doctrine by a
pp preacher
is punishable in a legal manner ; and, if it was supposed that
such an offence had been committed, it was the duty of those
who thought so to seek the legal remedy, and not to risk the
disturbance of the peace of the congregation, and the incur-
ring the inconvenience of public scandal, by taking the judg-
ment of the presumed offence into their own hands.
" On this point I should wish to draw your attention to
the 39th (Irish) Canon, in which it is set forth that, ' if any
preacher in his sermon shall publish any doctrine, either
strange or disagreeing from the word of God, or from the
Articles of Religion generally received in the churches of
England and Ireland, they (the Minister and Churchwar-
dens) shall, by their letter subscribed with some of their
hands that heard him, so soon as may be, give notice to the
Bishop of the diocese, that he may determine the matter.
and take such order therein as he shall think convenient.'
My object in pointing the attention of the Minister and the
Churchwardens of the parish of Templemore to this Canon
is, that should they know or ascertain any just cause of com-
plaint on the part of any, especially of those persons who left
the congregation on the occasion referred to, they may for-
ward to me a specific statement in writing, (according to the
provisions of the Canon,) of the erroneous doctrine com-
plained of. and I shall put such complaint in process of im-
' mediate investigation.

Such a course is the legal one, and has obvious advan-
tages over that which incurs the risk of irreverence and pub-
lic scandal, inasmuch as it affords a patient hearing to all
parties, ensures that the charge shall be definite and well
weighed, not made hastily from prejudice or mistake ; and,
while it affords to the accused party an opportunity of de-
fence, (which the line hitherto adopted does not,) it provides
for all just ground of objection an effectual remedy.
" In the event of such a charge being specifically made, I
shall give it the most impartial attention. Should it, how-
ever, on inquiry, be found incapable of being sustained, the
impropriety of acting as though it were so, and making it
the subject of public accusation, or the occasion of personal
injury, will be obvious to all who are well disposed and dis-
passionate.
" In every case, and under all circumstances, the peace of
the congregation, and the protection of public worship from
interruption, must be considered a matter of exceeding im-
portance. I therefore rely on your conveying to the church-
wardens the expression of my anxious desire that they should
on all occasions carefully attend to the preservation of it.
" I remain, my dear Mr. Dean, very faithfully yours,

" R. DERRY ANDAIai:IOE
" To the Very Rev. the Dean of Derry.

"TO THE HON. AND RIGHT REV. THR LORD BISHOP OF

DERRY

"MT DaAR Loan BISHOP,—I did hope that the earnest
request I made to your Lordship might have spared me the
very painful obligation of appearing as a newspaper corres-
pondent with the Bishop of my diocese, but the publication
of your letter of the sth instant, in the last Journal, has
placed me in a position, both with my parishioners and my
clerical brethren, in which I cannot suffer myself to remain,
as my character has been unsparingly assailed by imputations
cast upon it of having acted in contradiction to my well-
known religious opinions, through unworthy and interested
motives ; and further, the very fact of your Lordship's ad-
dressing rise in the newspapers may leave an impression on
the public mind that you conceive me at least favourable to
the grievous commotions which have lately taken place in my
congregation. I can scarcely imagine that you entertain such
an idea. I should hope the long acquaintance which has
subsisted between us must have proved to your Lordship
that I am much more disposed to be a messenger of peace
than the author of discord. The high respect I entertain for
your Lordship, induces me thus publicly to come forward—
a communication from any inferior quarter should have
passed unnoticed. I trust you will believe that I earnestly
disclaim the slightest intention of stating anything in the
most remote degree disrespeetful to your Lordship, from
whom I have received much of courtesy and kindness, or of
wounding the feelings of Mr. Henn, whose many good qua-
lities I esteem and admire.

•' Your lordship desires to draw my attention to the 39th
canon, entitled " Strangers not admitted to preach without
license ;" and I will now ask you, is it reasonable to place
on me the painful duty therei❑ imposed, after the repeated
assurances I have received from your lordship, both verbally
and by letter, that you would take on yourself all the respon-
sibility of Mr. Henn'a occupying the pulpit of the Cathedral?
I have never opposed your lordship's wishes on this subject,
or hitherto questioned your authority even before you deemed
It necessary to take a legal opinion, by which it appears
doubtful whether I have the power, even should I have the
disposition, to exclude Mr. Henn from the privilege of ad-
dressing the congregation, against which measure I took the
liberty of remonstrating, solely from my desire to maintain
that peace and good feeling which ought to characterize a
Christian community, and having so done, I trust I may
justly be deemed irresponsible as respects its past or future
consequences.
. _

" Your lordship calls on me, also, to convey to the church-
wardens, (as I understand, in my official capacity,) the ex-
pression of your feelings as to preserving the peace of the con-
gregation. Now, my lord, I beg leave to assure you of my
anxious wish that peace and good order should be observed
in the strictest sense during public worship, but the enforce-
ment of this I consider as purely the duty of the churchwar-
dens (who, I make no doubt, are well disposed to perform it,)
in proof of which assertion, I heg leave to call your lordship's
notice to the 91st canon, which appears to me very explicit
on this subject, and take the liberty of suggesting that your
letter should have been addressed to those officers instead of
the minister of the parish ; and here I will again ask you, is
it reasonable to include me in any way in the execution of so
painful a duty, after repeating to me those assurance of which
I have already made mention, as regards the effects of Mr.
Henn's addressin; my congregation.

And now, my dear lord, permit me to draw your atten-
tion, not only to my own wounded feelings, but to the grie-
vously distracted state of that congregation, whose peace and
spiritual welfare must be so near to the heart of one who has
for so long a period of years stood with regard to it in the en-
dearing relation of pastor.
" My Lord, I have been spared to see a large proportion
of its members advance from childhood to youth, as well as
from youth to age. I have not been insensible to their
respect for, and attachment to, both myself and the able, the
faithful, and the laborious brother clergymen, whom, from
time to time, it has been my privilege to have associated with
me in my ministerial charge. And now, my Lord, I will
leave it to your dispassionate sod kindly feeling to estimate
how painful it must be for the heart of one so circumstanced
to perceive his congregation, Sabbath after Sabbath, dimi-
nishing in numbers ; to see them absent themselves in hun-
dreds from the Sanctuary where they and their fathers have
worshipped, or so breaking through all restraint, as to leave
the House of God in crowds while His Holy Services are
being celebrated. Your Lordship's letter seems to me to
imply that personal feelings exist on the part of those in
question. So far as lam acquainted with their sentiments,
they rest their objections on other grounds; whether such
objections he well founded or not, I decline giving any opi-
nion. But surely it cannot be matter of surprise that objec-
tions be made to doctrines which they conceive have been
promulgated, and which are diverse from the teaching of
ministers so beloved by them, and who, in times past, have
laboured with such zeal for the spiritual interests of those
committed to their charge. It is impossible that the feelings
of those who absent themselves can be personal : Mr. Henn's
well known amiability of character and courtesy of deport-
ment would preclude such an idea. No, my Lord, they are
dying from an apprehension of the influence of that wither-
ing blight with which the Almighty has been pleased to visit
His Church—from the contagion of that wide spreading pea-
tilense which would paralyze all vitality in religion. Such
being the state of my parish, I would beseech you, my dear
Lord, to take these momentous matters into your calm and
unbiassed consideration, and thus endeavour to heal the
wounds inflicted on the peace of my distracted congregation,
and spare the feelings of one who can now number nearly
forty-five
years in the ministry, whose " grey hairs" must,
under
the continuation of such afflicting circumstances,
descend " with sorrow to the grave."-1 remain, my dear
Lord Bishop, your faithful and obedient servant,
" THOMAS B. GOUGU.
" The Deanery House, Derry, May 12, 1843."

OBJECTIONS TO THE PASTORAL AID SOCISTY.—Is there
no cause for the Church Pastoral Aid Society ? You, my
Lord, have lifted one veil—a mysterious veil—and shown us
a dreary and deadly prospect. (Hear.) You have shown us
what ought to be dons ; you have cast a ray of light upon
that darkness, and God Almighty bless you for it. (Hear,
and applause.) Here, indeed, is ample room for a Society
like ours. We have sixteen millions of people in this great
country, and I believe 12,000 clergymen. " What are these
among so many ?" (Hear.) We require of every one who
knows what it is to be an Englishman, who feels what it is
to be a Christian, to raise his hand and enlist his heart, and
every power God has given him, in order to convey light and
succour in these perilous times of ignorance and profligacy to
our fellow-countrymen. (Hear, hear.) We are accused not
alone of enlisting clergymen in this cause, but of employing
lay-agency. Lay-agency ! I glory in the charge. (Cheers.)
Lay-agency is what the Church of England wants. It is, I
may almost say, all and everything. The clergy are not the
church, but the servants of the church. (Applause.) I see
before me in every great assembly like the present the church
itself. Lay-agency not wanted! Look at the chair. (Re-
newed cheering.) You respond to my feeling, and your
applause does you credit. (Renewed cheers.) It always
gives me pleasure to see a layman sitting in what is called
an ecclesiastical chair. He is in his proper place, setting us
an example, and giving us his sanction, his character, and
influence. And where shall we find one whom we more
esteem as a layman, or whom we should be more anxious to
follow than the excellent nobleman (Lord Ashley) who now
presides over this meeting ? (Applause.) I rejoice to find
by the Report that you consider this Society a missionary
establishment. It is so. It is a misfortune that when people
talk of a missionary establishment they do not then take, not
pic, but a telescopic view of things, and look far
bae7icorir"°
dwc-hat is immediately and glaringly within their view.
The meeting of the Church Missionary Society, the other
day, was thronged ; there was not a bench vacant; every
heart was enlisted in favour of Hong Kong and the distant
and unknown regions of the East. The motto of some peo-
ple seems to be " Ignotum pro magnifico." (Hear, hear.)
Mistake me not; 1 do not mean that the ignolum, the re-
gions of Pagan darkness, should. not be penetrated with
Christian light ; or that magnz.fico ought not to be applied to
every attempt at the conversion cf the Heathen. But who
will say that the Church Pastoral Aid Society ought not to
assume a missionary character in dealing with the ignorance
that is to be found at home? So far from wishing in the
slightest degree to counteract the efforts of those who deal
with foreign and Pagan countries, I would support and aid
them, and rejoice to see my countrymen supporting Missions
to the Heathens. But this I would say, that while I give
one guinea for foreign exportation, 1 think it my duty as an
Englishman to give two guineas for home cpaimmrtj9B,
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Standard-office, Six o'clock

DREADFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.

This morning, at a quarter before three o'clock, an alarm I
of Fire in Jackson's-lane, between Union-street and Queen-
street, (a short distance to the N. E. of the Exchange),
reached the fire station; and in a few minutes a number of
fire engines and water carts reached the ground. The fire
originated in a warehouse on the east side of Jackson's-lane,
known as "Jackson's," and near the south end of the lane,
there being but one house, occupying the corner between it
and Union-street, that next to the Government Emigration
Office. The warehouse contained cotton in the cellar, and
here, it is believed the fire originated (from what cause is
not yet known). It blazed up with great fury and rapidity,
and Jackson's-lane, which is very narrow, soon became
filled with a dense black smoke, which completely darkened
the air, and opposed the efforts of the firemen. Mr. Rush-
ton, the police magistrate, Mr. Leverett, and many other
superintendents, were immediately on the ground, with a
considerable force of fire and ordinary police ; but, as usual,
half an hour elapsed before water could be got in any effec-
tive quantity from the mains, and in the mean time the fire
progressed. In a short time the second story of the ware-
house had caught fire, and from its containing a large quantity
of saltpetre, the worst apprehensions were entertained, and
great caution was necessary. Luckily, however, a series
of slight shocks, resembling a cannonading, preceded a grand
explosion, which last may be said to have blown up
the greater part of the warehouse, the ruins of which fell
partly into the street and partly, the north wall, upon an
adjoining shed, also containing saltpetre, which it effectually
and luckily crushed in, so that the material is now
scarcely combustible. A high part of the N. W. corner of
the warehouse alone remained standing. The explosion
shook all the neighbouring buildings, and even found its way
down the soughs andj water pipes in the street, causing a
noise like a continued bombardment. The opposite ware-
house—" Frights"—on the west side of the, lane, soon
caught fire—first at the top—and being six stories in height
the engines could not effectually reach it, and by half-past
four o'clock the three upper stories blazedout from the doors
and windows in the two fronts to Union-street and the Lane.
It is lamentable to state, that though numbers of idle
strong men were about, none of them could be prevailed
upon, though offered good pay, to work the engines ! and the
police officers had to be sent for from various distant pada of
the town. This is a frightful account of the moral state of
the poorer classes, but it is nevertheless deplorably true.
Water was conveyed as rapidly as possible from the Fire•
station and elsewhere by the water carts, in the default of
that from the water company's pipes.
Shortly before, and about four o'clock, the blaze, together
with the successive explosions was terrific, and we may add,
sublime. About five o'clock all hopeEof saving Wright's
warehouse being at an end, after every possible exertion and
great danger to those employed near it from the falling of
materials, the cat-head coverings in Union-street, &c. ; an
attempt was made to cut off the progress of the fire in- the
range of valuable warehouses adjoining on the north, and
running all the way (six stories in height) into Queen-street;
but this was found to be impossible of accomplishment in the
next warehouse, and the firemen directed their efforts towards
this object on the warehouses further north, in which it
is to be hoped they will succeed.

Great part of the warehouse first burnt, fell upon the back
of the houses, on the south side of it, in Union-street,
crushing in the yard walls, and filling many of the rooms
with smoke and flame. The inhabitants made:tbeir escape
as they could, in great alarm, and the furniture, fixtures,
books, &c. were carried out, or thrown out by the windows,
piecemeal. I considerable quantity of books, and papers,
loose and in drawers were also got out blithe police, whose
exertions were great. It is now 6 o'clock, and we shall
hereafter report further progrese. Wright's warehouse is
now nearly all in a blaze. It stands partly isolated at the
end to Union-street, and as there is also saltpetre in the
cellars, apprehensions are entertained of another explosion,
and a falling of the walls.

EIGHT o'CLocK.—Soon after six o'clock we found the
Mayor, Mr. Councillor Sheppard, and several other gentle-
men in authority, who had joined Mr. Rushton. " Wright's"
warehouse, before noticed, was burned down half its height,
or three stories, and the smoke and flame had begun to issue
in volumes from some of the lower doors in Union-
street, and the windows in Jackson's-lane. As it was

understood that there was a quantity of saltpetre and
spirits in the cellars, (which are, however, fortunately
vaulted,) while great exertions were made to arrest the
progress of the fire from above, equal, or greater efforts
were exerted to prevent an explosion from below, which,
from the narrowness of the two streets on its angle, on
the east and:!south, and the !great height of the building,
must have been attended with serious consequences to all
engaged at the engines, as well as to the neighbouring houses.
Up to half-past 7 o'clock, the walls still stood nearly erect, and
being well built, gave no indication of a fall, beyond a
very slight projection of the lofty pediment, surmounting
the end fronting to Union-street, which may have arisen
in the original building. The police were exceedingly active
i❑ throwing water into the highest windows and doors which
they could reach, and for this purpose hose pipes were taken
up to the opposite third story windows of Union-street, and
also to the top of the corner premises—a lodging house—in
the corner opposite that street and the lane. Water was
also copiously poured into the cellars of the warehouse
by such appertures as could be found intthe first floor,
and also by the cellar doors—the waste water being dammed
up by damaged cotton in the street, so that it fuund its way
into them. The water thrown in from the elevated branch
pipes (from the windows and roofs) must have been most
effective, as every drop of it went within the walls. The
warehouse and its contents were before doomed ; and the
great danger became the probability of the heavy masses of
cotton, &c., some of it half consumed, falling with the floors,
and from its weight and swelling, with the water thrown upon
it, bursting out the lower part of the walls, and thus pro-
jecting the' whole pile into the streets. No danger was at
this time apprehended from an explosion in the cellars, which
appeared to be effectually flooded. It became evident, at
length, that the efforts:of the firemen and others were no
longer available, either to save the premises or the property
(nearly the whole) that was stored!within ; and Mr. Hewitt,
of the fire-police, foreseeing this probability beforehand,
had sometime before got, with several of his men, and
at great peril, upon the top of the neat extensive
warehouse, of equal height, on the north the wind
being unluckily from the southward and eastward. blowing the
fire in the direction of the whole range northward, which con-
tained a vast quantity of valuable raw material. Notwith-
standing the great exertionslof the parties:on the roof to cut
off the fire, it caught the nest warehouse, the flames first
bursting out at the top window. The cat-head was but a
short distance from it to the north, and caught fire soon
after. A very short time before, we saw Mr. Hewitt on the
very outer peak of the cat-head roof, looking " how the Jiro
blew", and directing bis men.
The street (Jaekson's-lane) a little to the south of it, was
piled with the ruins of the warehottoe opposite, in:which the
fire broke out, to the height of 15 to 20 feet. We have
awed that in the latter warehouse a succession of explosions
from saltpetre took place. The great :explosion (which was
soon succeeded by another almost as terrific) had a most
alarming and destructive effect on the houses adjoining,
and particularly on Mr. Chalk's at the corner, and the
more contiguous. The out-houses behind it were
thrown down by the united blast and the falling
of the materials ; the hack apartments ruined by the
explosion, as if by gunpowder : the glass blown in, and
the window frames smashed and burned. Even the cellar
window, under the front parlour, was similarly dealt with,
and the shutter fixed upon it outside blown into the street
like a tompion from a gun. The ceilings and plaster-work
were also torn off, and the house partly on fire, though still
standing, is a complete wreck. The fire is here and there
smouldering in it. but it is so drenched with water that'ithe
cellars were nearly afoot deep.
Mr. Rushton and other gentlemen, perceiving that the
fire was extending to the north part of the range of ware-
houses on the west aide of Jackson's-lane, went round about
half-past seven o'clock into Queen-street, to direct opera-
tions in that quarter. Here we found the whole street filled
with a suffocating timber-smoke. The third warehouse had
effectually caught fire, though holes had been made in the
roofs, and engines were at work in all directions, all
those available in the town being put into requisition.
Next to the shed, adjoining the warehouse on the east side,
which had first ignited, and from which the explosions had
proceeded, was another shed, also filled with a large quantity
of saltpetre in bags, and such men as could be got on the
emergency, were employed to carry it out into a yard in
Queen-street. A quantity of cotton in small bales was also
carried out of the lower story of the third warehouse, now
on fire at the top, and each bale was carried on the back of
a single man, who staggered beneath the load.
Mr. M`Guffie, druggist, Oldhall-street, was amongst

the first at the fire, and rendered most active assistance

Capt. Bouiiker, and Lieut. the Honourable Frederick Fitz-
roy, of the 15th Infantry, came to the ground at half-past
five o'clock, and with 40 of their men were most active in
keeping off the idlers at the several street ends. The fire
broke out about three o'clock—not yet known how. Mr.
Maxwell, the Insurance offices' salvage agent, was, as usual,
at his post, and was most energetic. The warehouses in
the range alluded to are all called "Wright's," and are all yr t

in danger.
Police-fireman 255 Armstrong, and 355 Dixon, where the
first who got on the top of the warehouse next to that consu-
med. One police-officer was severely, but not dangerously
wounded by a brick in the warehouse in Union-street falling
and cutting him in the forehead. We have heard of no other

(accident.
A policeman (whose name we shall hereafter find) was
most active in breaking open the doors and windows of tl e
warehouses to admit the throwing in of the water. The
whole of the police indeed, officers and men, did that which
England expects every man to do in the hour of peri'.
At a quarter past eight the front of the large wa►ehonse
came down with a great crash into Union-street, struck a
house opposite, and carrying part of the corner of the house
elotirs with it, it cisught fire, but the engitio being brought
to be ttriTh it; it "1141stutt el Hndsr. i

MISCELLANEOUS.

In the recent lettings of the grass parks in Scotland, a re-
duction of from 10 to 15 per cent has been generally ac-
ceded to.

The harvest has a most promising appearance in the neigh-
bourhood of Paris.

Almost every door in the city has chalked upon it " Repeal
or Blood !"—Cork Constitution.

Fanny Elssler has gone on a provincial tour, and was to
commence an engagement at Bath this week.
ExTuAvAGANcE.—The papers say that Fanny Elssler
received £lOO for dancing one night last week at the Briotol
Theatre.

Father Mathew is expected to arrive in England inlthe
course of a short time, and is to visit Cambridge, Wisbech,
Norwich, Ipswich, and other places.

The murderer of Mr. Gatchell has been fully committed
to Tullamore gaol, on what is understood to be the clearest
evidence.

For the second time Mr. C. Landseer has been fortunate
enough to have his picture selected by the holder of the £4OO
prize in the London Art Union,
The Lord Chamberlain has issued a notice that her Ma-
jesty's birthday will not be celebrated on the 24th instant,
but on a later day to be announced hereafter.
Alexander Ross, Esq., the surveyor-general of the cus-
toms, is at present on a tour of inspection in the northern
counties.

CHARITY IN PARISi--The donations and legacies made
to hospitals and other charitable institutions during the year
1842, amounted to tire millions of francs.—Galignani.
THE TEA TRADE. MAY 15.—The deliveries last week in-
creased ❑early 50,0001b5., being 546,8041b5. The trade has
been inactive, but prices are much the same.
The Horticultural Society has sent a plant collector t
China. The Society's income last year was £7,292, its ea
penses £7,009: the debt now due by the Society is £12,505

RATHER. PRECOCIOUS.--A husband and wife attende
Kendal market last Saturday, whose united ages, at the birt n
of their first child, amounted to only twenty-seven years !
A Parisian florist, famed for his camellias, sells £5OO wort
of that flower alone during the Parisians season, for ladies
bouquets.

The Premier has accepted the office of patron of a society
in Staffordshire " For the Diffusion of Agricultural Know-
ledge, and the Protection of Ayriculture."—British Lion.
A youth only sixteen years of age was transported for seven
years at the Aberdeen Circuit Court, for forging some bank
notes, which he executed very neatly with a common pen !
His sister helped him, and was imprisoned for two years.
Mr. Thomas Hartley, of the Hare and Hounds Inn, Hip-
perholme, has an orange tree at present in full bloom. It
has also four beautiful oranges, of the St. Michael kind, on
its branches.—Halifax Guardian.
WALKING THE STREETS.—The Prefect of Police has again
issued an ordonnance, inviting persons walking on the trot-
toirs to keep to the right, less pressure taking place, and
consequently fewer accidents being likely to occur.—Gally-
nani.

The last relic of the " wall " of London was sold by the
corporation of the city on Thursday week, to be pulled down.
Had it been knocked down at an antiquarian valuation, the
fragments would have been worth lifting up. It was founded
in the time of Constantine.

A HINT TO MAGNETISERS.—Mr. Richard, professor of
magnetism, and Mlle. Virginie Plain, somnambulist, have
been condemned to six months' imprisonment by the police
magistrates at Niort (France), under an accusation of swin-
dling.—Medical Provincial Journal.

His Excellency the Earl De Grey has it in contemplation
to convert the long drawing-room of Dublin Castle into a
picture gallery, and for this purpose is making a collection
of portraits of the several lords-lieutenant-who have held
office in Ireland since the year 1800.

The subscribers to the " Affghaun Testimonial" have de.
termined on the erection of a church at Colabah, as the most
appropriate and durable monument that can be selected.
The names of those who. perished in the war are to be in-
scribed on tablets in the interior of the sacred edifice.
DESTROYING THE SHIP " NATIVE."-At the Central
Criminal Court, London, on Monday, White and Young-
husband, the captain and mate of the ship Native, were sen-
tenced to transportation for life, for maliciously destroying
that vessel.

FORGERY.-Hugh Frazer pleaded guilty at the Central
Criminal Court, on Monday, to a charge of feloniously
forging and uttering a power of attorney to transfer
£1779 18s. 4d., bank annuities, to defraud the Bank of
England. He was sentenced to transportation for life.

LONGEVITY.—There is an old gentleman residing on the
Little Annamessex, in Somerset county, Maryland, named
Hance Lawson, aged 110. The Republican states that he
walked a considerable distance, a few days since, to pay a
visit to his youngest son, a lad of about 70 years of age.—
American paper.

It is rather a singular fact, that three persons residing
within a very short distance of each other, in Bishopwear-
mouth, have died during the last three weeks in consequence
of lock-jaw, arising from injuries received from trifling acci-
dents. which, in other respects, appeared not to be attended
with danger.

THE SPERNALL MURDER.—It is now stated, upon the
authority of a manufacturing house at Redditch, who have
recently received a communication from their agent in Ame-
rica, that Crowley, charged with shooting his tather's man-
servant upon his farm of Spernall, near Redditch, has been
apprehended by an English police-officer in the Uuited States,
and is now on his passage to this country.

At a meeting of the states held in the island of Guernsey
last week, the following, among many other subjects, was
proposed for consideration, viz.:—" Whether there shall be
granted the sum of X7O. per anuum for the destruction of
sparrows for two years." After a grave and lengthened dis-
cussion the proposition was rejected by a majority of 17 to
12.

FLAXSEED.—The Flaxseed season appears partly over,
very little having been done in the way of sales for the last
two days.—Prices underwent a further decline since our
last—the stock on hands, however, is very small. We quote
Riga 27s to 30s per barrel; Dutch, 15s per hhd; American,
635. per do.—Derry paper.

PRovistoss IN TUB PRINCIPALITY.—Fresh eggs are now
selling at 7 for 251., or 42 for Is. ; salmon trout, 9 for 6d. ;
best fresh butter, retail, 10d. per lb.; potatoes, 61b. for Id. ;
a quarter of veal costs only 2s. 6d. Rent is at the same low
rate as living, and clothes of the native manufacture cost next
to nothing.— Ir'elehman.
POST-OFFICE ROBBERIES.—At the Central Criminal
Court, London, on Monday, Edward Heylin, 17, a youth of
genteel appearance, was sentenced to transportation for life,
for stealing a number of letters containing money, the pro-
perty of the Postmaster-General; and George Davis was
sentenced to transportation for seven years, for stealing a
sovereign from a letter.
THE MURRAIN AMONGST CATTLE.—This disease,. by
which thousands of cattle have been destroyed in the three
kingdoms, still continues to rage in several districts, and is
not extinct in Lancashire, though less destructive here at
present than it was during the winter months, when some of
the Lancashire farmers lost the greater part of their stock.
It is at present raging with very great violence in the south
of Scotland.

The unobtrusive manner in which care is taken for the in-
tellectual as well as the material wants of the domestics in
the royal residence is perhaps not generally known. No less
than two libraries ars at this moment being formed in Wind-
sor Castle, one for the inferior, and the other for the upper
servants. Copies of the " Pictorial History of England,"
the " Penny Cycloptedia," and other works of the same kind
have been ordered for both.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET. MAY 13.—We have still to
report a brisk demand for raw sugars, and prices are again
rather higher. The sales since our last consist of about 700
hogsheads and tierces West India, at from 575. to 685.;
1000 mats 'Mauritius at 595. to 665.; and 2500 bags Bengals
(the entire cargo per Argyle), which have brought prices
varying from 60s. to 68s. In rice 1000 bags Bengali have
been disposed of at an average of about Ils. Average price
of sugar, week ending May 9, is 345. 41. per cwt.
THE BRITISH LEGlON.—According to the Standard, the
Spanish government have been for the last month actively
negociating with the banking house of O'Shea, of Madrid,
with reference to the arrears of pay, and the safest method
of satisfying the claims-of the disbanded array. All the ar-
rangements are nearly completed, and the claims are not only
to be paid up in full, but the government, to mark their high
opinion of the bravery of the men, are to add to each man's
share a liberal gratuity.
THE IRON TRADE.—The total number of blast furnaces
in Great Britain, for the year ending January 1843, was in
blast 339, and out of blast 190, whilst the annual produce,
taken at 50 weeks, amounted to 1,210,000 tons of crude iron.
There were made 8,000 tons at the Forest of Dean ; in South
Wales, 457.350 ; in North Wales, 19,750 ; in Northumber-
land, 25,750; in Yorkshire, 42,000; in Derbyshire, 25,750;
in North Staffordshire, 21,750; in South Staffordshire,
300,250; in Shropshire, 76,200; and in Scotland, 238,550.
We/chi/ion.

At the Ballinnsloe May fair, on Monday, there were sold
3141 oxen ; 202 heifer• ; 90 calves ; 991 sheep ; 16 horses ;
20 lambs. The cattle came in better condition to the fair
than usual. The sale was brisk, and for store stock the
prices better than expected. The feeders from Clare sold
and realised within 3s. a head of the price they calculated.
There was 300 head more of stock from Clare than for
many previous years. Some of the stock of John Mac-
donnell, Esq., Newhall, two years old half-bred heifers,
brought £7 ; two years old Durham Bullocks, £7 10s. ; a dry
Durham, £l2 17s. 6d.

We regret to state that three cottages were nearly destroyed
by fire, on Wednesday night, at Conwil, and there is no doubt
it was the work of an incendiary. Had it not been for the
great exertion of the neighbours, the inmates would have
been burnt to death. The houses are the property of Mr.
Howell Davies, who has given some imaginary offence to
Rebecca—hence the tire. We foretold how it would be;—
first turnpike gates were destroyed, next plantations, and
now cottages. Let not those in authority imagine Rebecca
will stop short at her work. She will ere long aspire to
higher game unless put down by the strong arm of the law.
—Carmarthen Journal.

RETORT COURTEOUS.—(From the American Burlington
Free Press.)—Edward Everett, our minister to England,
delivered an oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at
Cambridge, at their annual celebration, a few years ago, and
after the public exercises were over, the society had a din-
ner, as is usual on such occasions- Judge Storey, who pre-
sided at the tables, is said to have proposed the following
sentiment, after the cloth was removed, in compliment to
the orator :—" The Orator of the Day—Applause follows
the footsteps of fame wherever it (Everett) goes." This di-
rected the attention of the whole company to Mr. Everett,
who immediately arose and made the following very happy
retort :—" The Members of the Legal Profession—however
lofty their aspirations may be, they can never rise higher
than one story."

EXTRAORDINARY ELOPEMENT TO GRETNA-GREEN.—
Numer*ous have been the Gretna-green elopements, and sin-
gular the circumstances connected with them ; but the most
remarkable that we are acquainted with is the following, the
particulars of which have been furnished by a Cumberlivid
correspondent .—Thomas Sawyer, Esq. of Kirby Stephen,
Westmorland, is a gentleman of fortune, and has passed the
allotted span of human life—" three score years and ten" by
about six years. Mary Abrams, of the same place, is the
daughter of poor parents, and was servant girl to Mr. Leo-
nard Hodgson, of the budding age of 16 years. It appears
that a second flow of the most ardent of all the passions had
arisen in the breast of old Mr. Sawyer ; he paid his addres-
ses to the said Mary
Abrams, and won her heart ; for true, it
it, that she in return
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gave her first " young love;" and, inrder to consummate their happiness,
a Gretna-green mar-
riage was resolved upon between the parties, contrary to the
wishes of the relatives and friends of the old gentleman and
those of the girl, although her parents are poor, and she by
the marriage would become affluent and independent. Sun-
day morning last, however, Mr. Sawyer's flame of love in-
creased to such a pitch, and Ins patience becoming exhausted,
he, unknown to his friends, eloped to Brough, where he or
dared a post-chaise and two of the best and fleetest horses
in Mr. Kilvington's stables, which were put to in the twink-
ling of an eye, and away the loving pair flew on the wings of
love. But, " the course of true love never did run smooth"
for on the road the chaise partially broke down. This little
mishap was, however, overcome at Penrith, and they were
speedily on the road again ; and they arrived at their desti-
nation) t distance of upwards of
hatsen tle44 f;0 mile,' sod triirri,tge

DAMAGE TO THE STONE PIER AT GREENIVICTL—On
Tuesday morning, between nine and ten, the inhabitants in
the vicinity of the stone pier at Greenwich, were alarmed by
a loud report, like the explosion of a piece of artillery, suc-
ceeded within a few seconds by the announcement that the
pier was falling. Several persons were on the pier as it gave
way, and others were on the barge which is moored in front.
The damage has extended itself to at least three-fifths of the
entire length, which is 320 feet, and in dept, from the bottom
of the piles, 80 feet. The crash which created the alarm oc-
curred through the springing of one of the immense piles
which are in front of the pier, and support the brickwork and
masonry, to which they are clasped by bars of iro❑ let into
the stonework. A previous breaking away of a part of the
pier took place at four o'clock in the morning, but it was
then hoped that the damage would not go further. At that
time two men were at work cleaning the steps, which cracked
under them ; the subsequent damage appears, as it were, the
result of an earthquake; the immense slabs of stone for the
landings having caacked, and in parts literally crumbled ; the
heavy masses, which are on the top of the brickwork, into
which the massive iron railings and posts are sunk, have
cracked, burst, and stink in every direction, whilst the greater
part of the parade presents many large fissures, the stone
pavement, &c., having also sunk in curves. The front wall
bulges out in many parts even above the high-water mark,
implying too clearly that the lower part is also extensively
damaged. To guard against accident on the parade, the
great part is roped off. The cost of the erection of the pier,
which is called the permanent pier, was about £30,000, and
it was only completed about three years ago. It is estimated
that the repairs will cost at least half that sum, which, it is
said, wiil fall on Messrs. Grissell and Peto, the contractors,
it having been admitted that the disruption has occurred
through an error in not having formed a coffer-dam at first,
and formed a solid foundation. —Times of Wednesday.—
The prediction that this erection would crumble to pieces in
a short time from the return of the spring tide, after the in-
jury detailed in our paper of yesterday, unfortunately proved
correct. At about eleven o'clock on Tuesday night, just as
the tide was rising, another crash was heard, which was at
once attributed to the bursting of the piles in front of the pier.
As soon as daylight appeared, persons in boats went to see
the extent of damage. Pile after pile, of ponderous timber,
bound with iron, and fixed at the foundation in massive plates
of iron, had been split and shivered, some falling inwards,
and others outwards, whilst the parade gave way i❑ every di-
rection, the fissures extending nearly the whole length, and
the plates of iron being shivered like glass. It is now, there-
fore, scarcely safe for any person to go on the pier, as the
only remaining stairs leading to the floating barges have ex-
hibited symptoms of downfall. The eastern end, near Ship
Dock and the Royal Hospital, is opening to fissures, and is
likely to burst away in that direction. It is quite impossible
to stay the damage, but the whole must be left to its fate,
and be washed down by the tides, when the greater part of
at least 10,000 tons of earth, &c., which had been laid in be-
tween the wall and the road to form the parade, will also be
washed away. The only safe public accommodation now is
the Watermen's-pier.— Times of Thursday.