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THE LIVERPOOL STANIAR&

ORANGEMEN-THEIR ORIGIN AND
PRINCIPLES.

(From the Quarterly Review.)

form a fair judgment of the Orange institution, it is
necessary to take a retrospective glance at its origin. It
isnot, as commonly supposed, a modern and partisan in-
vention. It is coeval with the principle of the revolution
of 1688—and has been ever since in more or less active
co-operation with it. That revolution—which we suppose
even the modern Whigs will not venture to deny to have
been the triumph of civil and religious liberty—was
brought about solely by the church and aristocracy of
England. The Papists, first and last, and without excep-
tion, adhered cordially and zealously to James ; and the
majority—at least at the outset—of Dissenters of all de-
nominations took the same line, and were ready to accept
the insidious and Jesuitical expedients under which he
hoped to introduce popery and despotism. It was to the
high, conscientious, and commanding attitude of the
Church of England that we owed the immediate success,
as well as all the subsequent advantages of the revolution;
it was because the revolution was made by her and the
Anglican aristocracy that it cost hardly a drop of blood—
nothing like a struggle—and was accomplished with the
least possible deviation from the ordinary course of the
succession and the legal traditions of the monarchy. In
fact, every man in England who was not a Romanist or
Presbyterian dissenter—and, eventually, most of the latter
class—felt that some kind of revolutionary obstruction of
James's despotism and bigotry had become inevitably ne-
cessary, though the shape and extent of the obstruction
was a subject of very discordant opinions, and at last de-
termined a little by the chapter of accidents—moreC by
some personal ambitions—most of all by the despair of
finding any secure resting-place but under the sword of
the Prince of Orange ; and that was to be had on no other
condition than giving him the title and constitutional
power of King.

- Thus the lievolution was accomplished in England—
many, no doubt, lamenting both the cause and conse-
quences, but—we might almost say neinine contradicente.
William landed at Torbay on the sth of November, 1688,
and King James abdicated on the 11th of December.
Five weeks (no doubt of great anxiety, but of marvellous
unanimity and good order) sufficed for the settlement of
England. Not so of Ireland ! There the Anglican church
—the real spring of the Revolution in England—was less
powerful; and there bigotry, tyranny, and foreign influ-
ence, found a stronghold ; there King James reappeared
with a French army; and it was not till after three cam-
paigns—the two glorious battles of the Boyne, Ist of
July, 1690, and of Aughrim, 12th of July, 1691, and three
memorable sieges, of Londonderry, 1689, Cork, 1690, and
Limerick, 1691—that the Protestant constitution was re-
estsblished in Ireland. If England—where there had
been so little struggle—so little delay—no suffering, no
danger—was yet enthusiastically proud of this reqult—if
she ordered a form of thanksgiving—enduring in our
liturgy even to this day—for that great deliverance—if we
are still commanded by the joint authority of the Church
and the Queen to sanctify the anniversary of the Gun-
powder Plot and King William's landing by thanks to
Almighty God,

"Who did on this day miraculously preserve our Church and
State from the secret contrivance and hellish malice of Popish
conspirators, and on this day did also begin to give us a mighty
deliverance from the open tyranny and oppression of the same
cruel and bloodthirsty enemies."—Form for sth November.
If we say these memories are cherished, celebrated, and
even sanctified in peaceful England, let us not wonder
that the Protestants of Ireland, who underwent a mortal
agony for three years—who suffered all the miseries and
massacres of a most barbarous warfare, and all, the pro-
scription and spoliation of a jealous and cruel tyranny—
should have had deeper and more lasting impressions of
danger from their enemies and of gratitude towards their
deliverer.

But not only had the original struggle been more se-
vere, and its immediate consequences more memorable,
but in fact the elements of danger, the smouldering embers
of rebellion, were never totally extinguished in Ireland;
the superior numbers—the bigotry, the turbulence, and
the inveterate hatred of the -British name, of the Irish
Papists, have kept the successive governments of that
country in a constant state of anxiety and frequent alarm :
and it is for this reason that, while the feeling of English-
men towards King William and the Revolution sobered
down inso a kind of historical gratitude, it continued to be
in Ireland an active principle, an habitual duty, kept alive
by the danger with which both the internal peace and ex-
ternal safety of the country were incessantly menaced and
frequently endangered by the Papist population. Hence
it was that the loyalists of Ireland hailed and commem-
morated with a peculiar enthusiasm the two most remark-
able events and epochs of their deliverance--the Battle of
the Boyne* and the relief of Londonderry—and that
thenceforward these anniversaries have been celebrated not
by a faction, section, or party, but until very recent times,
by the government, the constituted authorities, and all
the friends of British connexion and of the Protestant
religion ; nay, until the last fifty or sixty years, by the
better educated and more respectable of the Roman Ca-
tholics themselves. On the 4th of November in every
year, throughout the last and in the beginning of the pre-
sent century, the Lord-Lieutenant held a court in honour
of the birthday of King William, after which his Excel-
lency, in his state coach, followed by the Lord Chancellor
and the judges, the Lord Mayor, and all the nobility and
gentry who had attended the levee, went in procession
round the statues of King William in College Green, and
King George IL in St. Stephen's Green, at the close of
which the Park guns fired a royal salute, and the garrison
afeu de joie round the statue of King William. On such
occasions the loyal Roman Catholics, as Mr. O'Connell
himself stated before the committee of 1825, made no
scruple to attend, and, if we mistake not, he did so him-
self after his call to the bar, Ladies used on those occa-
sions to appear at the drawing room with orange ribbons,
and even those suspected of Jacobitism, and probably
Roman Catholics, seem to have had no scruples in wear-
ing that colour; witness Lord Chesterfield's jeu d'esprit
to a young lady at the Irish court :

ay, pretty traitor, where's the jest

Of wearing orange on your breast,
While that breast upheaving shews
The whiteness of the rebel rose ?"

No Lord Lieutenant was ever more tolerant, more in-
dulgent to the Roman Catholics as regarded their religion,
than Lord Chesterfield—but he knew both their political
disaffection, and how to deal with it, In 1745
" One Roman Catholic, who had an estate in the neighbour-
hood of Dublin, and was looked upon as an agent to the Pre-
tender, was privately sent for to the Castle. Sir,' said Lord
Chesterfield, ' I do not wish to inquire whether you have any
particular employment in this kingdom, but I know that you
have a great interest amongst those of your own persuasion.
I have sent for you to exhort them to be peaceable and quiet.
If they behave like faithful subjects they shall be treated as
such, but if they act in a different manner I *hall be worse to
them than Cromwell."—Chesterfield's Works and Men, 5-c., by
Maty, vol. i. p. 267.

Still more germane to the matter in hand are the mea-
sures that this Whig of the old school took on the landing
of the Pretender in Scotland—he, as we may say, armed
and called out the Orangemen. Maty's account of it is
curious. Some great men advised the increase of the
regular army by raising regiments—this Lord Chester-
field declined, as expensive, ineffective, and liable to
jobbing. Bat,

"On a very different footing were the associations formed by
the Protestants of different provinces, and especially of those
which might have been most exposed to insurrections from
within, or attempts from abroad. To be armed, and ready for
defence, could at no time be improper; and those who, sensi-
ble of the blessings they enjoyed under a settled government,
put themselves in a condition to fight for what is most dear to
men, their laws, liberty, and religion, must at all times be an
overmatch against private incendiaries or audacious invaders.
This laudable spirit displayed itself, and was encouraged in a
particular manner, in different parts of the kingdom. The
county of Antrim alone furnished upwards of thirty thousand
men."—lb. p. 267.

As Antrim would do ag

in the same cause.

ain if their services were required

The state procession of the 4th of November continued
down to 1806, when it was given up by the Duke of Bed-
ford, as a step to the closer alliance between whiggery
and popery which " All the Talents" were then forming.
Similar, though not so solemn and authoritative demon-
strations, were made in other parts of Ireland, on that
and the other Williarnite anniversaries; and for above a
hundred years no one ever supposed that these tradi-
tional solemnities could be illegal, or considered as offen-
sive to any but to the (if any such should exist) secret
enemies of the constitution. For instance, we find in a
work called Derric:.a—a contemporary account of the
centenary commemoration of the raising the siege of
Derry, on the 7th of December (0.5.) 1788—that the
mayor, corporation, county magistrates, and all the civil
authorities, the Lord Bishop and his clergy, the Roman
Catholic clergy, his Majesty's troops in garrison, one of
his Majesty's ships, which was brought up the harbour
for the occasion, took their respective parts. The festi-
vity concluded with a dinner of nearly one thousand per-
sons, and the account concludes with tl '

" Religious dissentions in particular seemed to be buried in
oblivion, and Roman Catholics vied with Protestants in ex-
pressing, by every possible mark, their sense of the blessings
secured to them by our happy constitution, and the cordial
part they took in the celebration of this joyful day.'—Derrana:
Appendix.

It was not, in fact, until the abusive creation of the
lower class of voters had thrown so much political power
into the hands of the Romish priesthood, that these con-
stitutional commemorations of the revolution were corn-
plahied of by the Romanists as insults to them and their
religion, and that a party grew up which, strange to say,
combined the old traditions of Jacobite bigotry with the
infidel and anarchical projects of the French Jacobins.

A PAINFUL STORY

The London Commissioner for tne Morning Chronicle
gives
the following report of one of the cases he investi-
gated
gated in the Asylum for the Houseless :
Then came a tailor, a young man only 21 years old,
habited in a black frock coat, with a plaid shawl twisted
round his neck. His eyes were full and expressive, and he
had a look of intelligence superior to any that I had yet
seen. He told a story which my inquiries into the slop
trade taught me was " ower true."
" I have been knocking about for near upon six weeks,"
he replied, in answer to my inquiries. " I was working
at the slop trade at the West-end. I am a native of Scot-
land. I was living with a sweater. I used to board and
lodge with him entirely. At the week's end I was almost
always in debt with him—at least he made it out so. 1
had very often to work all night, but let me slave as I
might I never could ;et out of debt with the sweater.
There were often as many as six of us there, and we slept
two together in each bed. The work had been slack for
some time, and he gave me employment till I worked my-
self out of debt, and then he turned me into the streets.
I had a few clothes remaining, and these were soon sold to
get me food and lodging. I lived on my other coat and
shirts for a week or two, and at last all was gone, and I
was left entirely destitute. Then I had to pace the streets
all day and night. The two nights before I came here I
never tasted food nor lay me down to rest. I had been in

a fourpenny lodging before then, but I couldn't even raise
that, and I knew it was' no good going there without
the money. You must pay before you go to bed at those
places. Several times I got into a doorway to shelter
from the wind and cold, and twice I was roused by the
policeman, for I was so tired that I fell asleep standing
against a shop near the Bank. What with hunger and
cold I was in a half stupid state. I didn't know what to
do. I was far from home and my mother. I have not
liked to let her know how badly I was off. [The poor
lad's eyes flooded with tears at the recollection of his
parent.] I thought I had better steal something, and
then at least I should have a roof over my head. Then I
thought I'd make away with myself. I can't say how—it
was a sort of desperation—and I was so stupid with cold
and want that I can hardly remember what I thought.
All I wanted was to be allowed to sit down on some door
step, and die ; but the police did not allow this. In the
day time I went up and lay about the parks most part of
the day, but I could'nt sleep then ; I hardly know why,
hut I'd been so long without food, that I couldn't rest. I
have purposely kept from writing to my mother. It would
break her heart to know my sufferings. She has been a
widow this ten years' past. She keeps a lodging-house in
Leith, and has two children to support. I have been away
eight months from her. I came to London from a desire
to see the place, and thinking I could better my situation.
In Edinburgh I had made my £1 a week regularly, often
more, and seldom less. When I came to London a woman
met me in the street, and asked me if I wasn't a tailor.
On my replying in the affirmative, she told me if I would
come and work for her husband, I should have good wages,
and live with her and her husband, arid they would make
me quite comfortable. I didn't know she was the wife of
a sweater at that time. It was a thing I had never heard
of in Edinburgh. After that time I kept getting worse
and worse off, working day and night and all Sunday, and
still always being in debt to them that I worked for.
Indeed I wish I had never left home. If I could get back
I'd go in a moment. I have worked early and late, in the ,
hope of obtaining money enough to take me home again,
but I could not even get out of debt, much more save,
work as hard as I would."

I asked if he would allow me to see some letters of his
mother's, as vouchers for the truth of his story, and he
produced a small packet from which, with his permission,
I copied the following :
"My dear Son—l have this moment received your letter. I
was happy to hear from you, and trust you are well. Think of
that God who has carried you in safety over the mighty deep.
We are all much as you left us. I hope you will soon write.—
Ever believe me, "Your affectionate mother,

This was the first letter written after his absence from
home. Since then his mother, who is aged and rheumatic
(his letters vouched for this), had been unable to write a
line. His brother, a lad of sixteen, says in one of the
letters—

" I am getting on with my Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and French,
only I am terribly off for want of books.
"My mother was saying that you would be bringing me a
first rate present from London. I think the most appropriate
present you can bring me will be a Greek and English, or a
Hebrew and English Lexicon—or some Hebrew, Greek, or Latin

A letter from his sister, a girl of eighteen, ran as
follows :

"My dear brother,—l take this opportunity of writing to you,
as you wrote that you should like to have a letter from me. lam
very sorry that you have been ill, but I hope you are keeping
better. I trust also that affliction will be the means of leading
you more closely to the only source of happiness. Oh, my dear
brother, you are still young, and God has told us in his word
that those who seek him early shall find him. ➢ly dear brother,
we get many a sad and solemn warning to prepare to meet our
God; and oh, my dear brother, what is a man profitted, if he
shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul."

The last letter was dated the sth December last, and
from his brother :

"We received your kind letter,' it ran, "this instant, and
we hasten to answer it. It has given my mother and me great
relief to hear from you, as my mother and I were very miser-
able about you, thinking you were ill. We trust you will take
care of yourself, and not get any more cold. We hope you
will be able to write on the receipt of this, and let us know how
you are, and when we may expect you home, as we have daily
expected you since the month of October."

Calera! 3lisrtilaiw.

Sir Charles Forbes has left X5OO in aid of the Asylum
for Idiots.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851.—The Queen has
contributed £l,OOO, and Prince Albert £5OO, to the funds.
Llandudno, on the Great Ormsbead, is fast assuming
an animated aspect. Several buildings are being erected.
On Friday morning Cavershetn-park-house, the seat of
Mr. W. Crawshay, the ironmaster, was destroyed by fire.
The premises of Messrs. Christian, drapers, Ramsey,
were destroyed by fire on Tuesday.
A vessel called the Tycho Wring, of Wisbeach, from
Galatz, laden with preserved meats, was wrecked off the
Lizard Point, on Monday.
A divorce has been granted against the Duke of Buck-
ingham, on the grcund of adultery at the suit of the
Duchess. The Duke offered no opposition to the suit.
It is calculated that no fewer than 1,000,000 flower-pots
are annually required for the supply of the London market

alone.
The Secretary-at-war has notified to regiments having
savings' banks, that Government is responsible to the
several military depositors for their respective amounts.
A game of cricket was played on the ice at Carlisle,
last week, the place selected being the canal reservoir.
The contest lasted three hours.
SHIP BUILDING AT H HTLEPOOL .—An agent of a large
ship builder at Hartlepool has visited Sunderland last
week for the purpose of engaging thirty shipwrights for
two years at the current wages.
Mr. Henry Russell gave his promised concert at York
on Monday evening last, in aid of the public charities.
The concert passed off well. On the following evening
Mr. R. redeemed his promise at Hull.
At a sale in London, on Monday, of the library of the
late Mr. Poynder, a- book containing an autograph of
Milton, with autograph annotations sold for £4O Ios.,
and a first edition of Shakspeare's plays for £35 10s.
Bassenthwaite Lake was frozen last week, and was
visited by great numbers of skaters and sight-seers, for
whom the landlady of the Pell Nyke Inn provided tea,
coffee, and other refreshments upon the ice.
A farmer, of the name of Bird, and his wife, have been
committed, at Exeter, for the murder and mutilation,
by brutal treatment, of a female parish girl, of the name
of Parsons, in their service.

A young man, named Webb, was married on Christmas
day at the parish church of Newington, near London, was
seized with illness on the same afternoon, and died on the
following Friday.

Two young females, named Elizabeth Pawson and Ann

Healey, are in custody at Leeds, charged with forging and
uttering a check upon Messrs. Tew, Leatham, and Co.'s
bank at Wakefield.

Earl Grey, Secretary for the Colonies, has removed
from his mansion in Beigrave-square to his new residence
on Carlton-house-terrace, lately in the occupation of the
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone.

THE PRICE OF FARMING STOCK. -Nearly 1,000
Southdown ewes were this week sold by auction at Blen-
heim Park, for the Duke of Marlborough, and they ave-
raged £2 ss. each.

A woman, at Edinburgh, has been tried and sentenced
to a month's imprisonment, for the most heinous offence
of having hoaxed a medical gentleman, by informing him
that his services were required instantly at a certain
place, where it turned out that he was not wanted.

A reward of two hundred guineas, with her Majesty's
free pardon to an accomplice, has been offered for such
information as will lead to the discovery of the mur-
derers of either of the three men whose recent sudden
disappearance has excited such intense interest in Lynn.
BRANDY AFLOAT.—OR Tuesday night the officers
attached to the quarantine-ship, at the Motherbank,
picked up floating 102 balf-ankers, containing about 350
gallons of foreign smuggled brandy, which was delivered
over to the Customs at Portsmouth.

In London, Mary Glennon, a girl fourteen years of age,
has been committed for trial for setting fire to the house
in which she resided. She assigned as a reason that her
father and mother having sent her out to service, she set
fire to the house in order that she might be allowed to go
home again.

CORN PRICES AT NEWCASTLE.—In our market last
Saturday, good wheat, weighing 9it. 101 b. the boll, was
sold for 7s. 6d., or 30s. a quarter, and first rate oats at
from 4s. to 4d. 4d. per boll. This is a price which cannot
remunerate the cultivator, or leave anything for payment
of rent and taxes.—Newcastle Journal.

THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—Queen Adelaide's invalid
chair was brought by Mr. Thomas Poole, Brighton, and
by the time he got it home, it cost between £4O and £5O.
It is a very handsome vehicle, built on eight springs,
instead of the usual number, four—with a head, and,
when put up, it excited the admiration of all. It is the
intention of Mr. Poole to let this carriage out on hire.
As Mr. Frederick Hardy Jewitt, of West Ham, Essex,
was passing through Whitechapel-road, London, on Sun-
day last, a woman jostled against him, pressed a hand-
kerchief containing chloroform over his mouth, and,
during the stupor which supervened, took him to a low
lodging-house, and robbed him of his watch and nearly
all his clothes.

On Saturday last, his ex-Majesty Louis Philippe and
family visited Banvard's panorama of the Ohio River.
At the conclusion of the exhibition, his Majesty expressed
himself to the lecturer as highly pleased with the correct-
ness of the scenery pourtrayed ; and, although many
years had passed since he was there, yet many of the
scenes were familiar to his eye.

►SLIPPING IN FROSTY WEATHER.—It is important, at
this period, to know that by heating iron filings, rough
emery powder, &c., on a shovel over the fire, and then
gently standing upon the same, so as to imbed the grans
into gutta percha soles, a roughness of surface will be
produced which will afford the utmost protection, even on
the most slippery roads.
ANOTHER CHANGE IN THE DUBLIN MAILS.—On and
after the Ist of February, the English mail which is
despatched from Dublin at twenty minutes after twelve
noon, will be despatched at fifty minutes after eleven
o'clock, a.m. It is supposed the extra half-hour thus to
be gained will enable the mail packets to save the express
train at Holyhead with more certainty.

A DIMINUTIVE AND ANTIQUE LOAF.—We were shown,
the other day, a Lilliputian loaf, made in the year 1801,
and sold for sixpence, being not quite so large as those
now sold for a penny. It was very ingeniously enclosed
hermetically under a glass bell in the year named, by an
aged resident, at whose decease it came into the posses-
sion of a relative, Mr. W. Rowlett, jun., by whom it will
be presented to the town museum.—Leicester Mercury.
A Goon OLD AGE.—There is now living at Norton,
near this city, an old woman, named Ann Finch, who has
very nearly attained the age of 108 years. She is blind,
almost deaf, and has been bedridden for the last few
months, but she still eats heartily, and drinks a quantity
of cider each day. Ann Burrow, her eldest daughter,
who is living at Croome d'Abitot, and regularly attends
Worcester market, is 69 years of age.—Worcester Herald.

A VETERAN.—Our readers may not be aware that Mr.
Thomas Rendel, who steered the Victory during the
battle of Trafalgar, on the 21st of October, 1805, in which
Lord Nelson fell, is actually living on the Strand, at
Topsham, and has lately received a medal for that action.
Lord Nelson's family had given him a medal shortly after
the battle.—Exeter Post.
MYSTERIOUS PARCEL.—A few days ago, a parcel, ad-
dressed " Mrs. Smith," which had come from Padding-
ton station by rail, was, delivered at the house of Mrs.
Smith, at Reading, Berkshire, who, on opening it, found
it to contain the body of a newly-born female infant,
showing traces of violence on its face and head. The in-
quiry which took place was adjourned for a fortnight.
LADY THIEFTAKER.-0O Thursday morning week,
Miss Macadam, of the Postoffiee, Douglas, Isle of Man,
made a gallant capture of a huge burglar, who had dared
to violate the sanctity of the postal depository. The ruf-
fian escaped from the house, but was pursued and over-
taken by the daring fair one. A scuffle ensued, in which
Miss Macadam was thrown to the ground; but she bravely
held her prize until assistance was procured.
An old man committed suicide by cutting his throat
in his bed-room, at Salcombe, Devonshire, on Monday
week; and a neighbouring surgeon named Gillard was
summoned irstantly, though life was extinct when the
body was discovered. On entering the room, Mr. Gillard
was so shocked at the appearance of the corpse, that he
swooned, was carried home in a state of insensibility, and
died on the following day,
ELIZA CHESTNEY.—This intrepid young woman, who
is now residing at Wymondham, where she carries on the
business of a milliner and dressmaker, is now so far re-
covered as to be able to walk up stairs and down without
the assistance of either a crutch or stick. It must be
gratifying to those who have taken such deep interest in
this young woman to learn that this sufferer is at length
restored to the use of her limbs.—Norfolk News.
Sarah Garth, an old woman, descended from the author
of "The Dispensary," on her return from Darlington to
her house at Islington, was found lying against a hedge,
quite stiff and cold ; she was not dead ; the warmth of a
fire and other restoratives revived her a little, but she died
next day. She had been to receive a pension ; she was
fond of drink ; a bottle with brandy in it was lying near
her, and she appeared to have spent a good deal of money.
A LITERARY MADMAN.—A correspondent of the
Glasgow Daily Mail says, " Some wild, mystical goose,
or reckless comedian, has announced a book, showing that
the locomotive is a symbol of God's presence, and chosen
for his motto, Make his paths straight,' in allusion, I
suppose, to railways. Whether this be blasphemy or in-
sanity I cannot decide: but it looks very much like Ger-
man philosophy, which is very often a compound of the
two."

DOMESTIC TRAGEDIES.—The following appeared in the
Times of Saturday :—" Dear Charles,—lf you would re-
turn to me immediately all would be well in the quarter
dearest to your heart, exceeding your most sanguine ex-
pectations. If you knew what I could tell you vied voce
you would not delay an instant. You took your carpet
bag and portmanteau on Thursday morning, the 3rd inst.,
at two o'clock, and was known to be at Mr. Heitzman's
on Saturday last. Inserted by your broken-hearted
father."

DANGEROUS PROPERTY OF NAPTHA.—On Friday, the
4th instant, a fire broke out in the premises of Messrs.
Alder, Dunn, and Co., Newcastle. A young man was
lighting the gas burners in the windows with a naptha
torch, when the naptha was accidentally spilled upon
some muslin collars, which instantly ignited, and pre-
sented a most alarminc, appearance. The flames were ex-
tinguished, but most of' the goods were injured, and three
of the large plate glass panes were cracked by the intense
heat.

DESPERATE CHARACTER.—At the Somerset Quarter
Sessions, held at Wells last week, a prisoner, indicted for
stealing ducks at Wick Champflower, was sentenced, after
two former convictions, to ten years' transportation. Im-
mediately after the sentence was given, the prisoner took
from his pocket half a loaf of bread and hurled it at the
prosecutor, exclaiming at the same time, " There, take
that you ." The prosecutor, however, avoided
the blow, and the loaf met one of the witnesses on his
arm.— Cheltenham Journal.
A HORSE FRIGHTENED TO9DEATH.-011 Thursday
morning as a waggon, laden with coals, and drawn by
three horses, was waiting for passage at the Bobbers Mill
Gate whilst the great up-train of coal waggons to Mans-
field passed by, the middle animal of the team became so
much alarmed, though without displaying any extraordi-
nary violence of manner, that before the whole train,
which consisted of upwarde of thirty carriages, bad passed
by, he dropped down and instantly expired.—Notts Mer-
cury.

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR CLEARED UP.—A rumour hav-
ing been extensively circulated in Wakefield that a gen-
tleman had kept his daughter immured in a cellar for
eleven years, inquiries were lately instituted by a Magis-
trate, when it appeared that about eleven years ago the
girl had an illegitimate child, and under a deep sense of
shame had voluntarily, and with the concurrence of her
parents secluded herself from society, and was neither
confined in a cellar, nor affected in her intellect, as was
also alleged, but enjoyed perfect liberty, and had no de-
sire to leave her parents roof.—Leeds Intelligencer.
LAUNCHES ON THE WEAR.—Messrs. Booth and Blake-
lick launched a brig on the 9th instant; Mr. William
Pile, jun., a brig on the 10th ; Messrs. Hall, a schooner,
and Mr. Hardy, a brig, on the 12th ; Messrs. Hall, a
barque, Mr. Crown, a barque, Messrs. Doxford and Crone,
a brig, Mr. Simpson, a brig, Messrs. Robinson, a barque,
and Mr. Wilkinson, a barque, on the 14th. And so the
Sunderland shipbuilders go on, and so their ships go off,
there being a palpable conspiracy on the Wear to convict
the repeal of the Navigation Laws of having ruined the
shipping interest !—Gateshead Observer.
EXTRAORDINARY RECOVERY OF LOST MONEY.—Last
week, a gentleman resident in the neighbourhood of Had-
dington visited that town for the annual collection of his
accounts. Having received about £5OO, he entered a shop
there, and, upon examing his money, he missed the sum
of £lOO. He immediately retraced his steps, and chanced
to encounter a group of children in the street engaged in
the examination of what seemed to be pictures, but which,
upon a more narrow inspection, he found to be his missing
notes, each of £2O value. They were of course recovered
from the children, who received in return a small gratuity.
ANNOYING A LADY.—At Marylebone Police-office, on
Wednesday, Mr. Michael Elijah Impey, a gentleman of
property, residing in Duchess-street. Portland-place,
London, was charged on a warrant with having assaulted
Mr. James Shives, a schoolmaster. It appeared that
Miss Impey, a young lady of 18, was annoyed by the
complainant addressing her in the street ; she told her
father, who, having the fellow pointed out to him, seized
him by the collar and shook him well. Mr. Impey was
ordered to pay the costs, and the schoolmaster promised
not to annoy the young lady again,—a very unsatisfactory
deci
THE BITERS BIT.—On Saturday three persons were
charged at Canterbury with defrauding the South-eastern
Railway Company by travelling in a second-class carriage
with third-class tickets. It appeared that a guard on the
line was travelling down on duty, when his fellow-passen-
gers, the three prisoners, became over communicative, and
exulted how easy it was to take one class ticket and travel
by another. The guard, having his lantern with him,
threw a new light on the discussion, by showing his com-
panion who he was, and causing them to be summoned
for the fraud. They were mulcted in penalties of 20s.
each.

A SUFFOLK BAvruE.—ln the preserves of Sir Edward
Kerrison, Bart., Oakley Park, Suffolk, last week, the
Hon. Colonel Finch, Lieutenant. Colonel Smythe, Sir
Charles Hotham, Major Archer, Captain Warrener, and
Mr. French, with six double-barrelled guns, accomplished
the following amount of slaughter :—First day, 130 hares,
154 pheasants, 2 woodcocks, 34 rabbits ; total, 320 head.
Second day, 69 hares, 294 pheasants, 2 partridges, 17
rabbits, 6 woodcocks ; total, 388 head. Third day, 189
hares, 205 pheasants, 54 rabbits, 4 wild ducks; total, 452
head. Picked up on the following day, 40. Grand total,
1200 head.
SUPPOSED MURDER OF THREE MEN.—For some time
past the greatest excitement has prevailed in Lynn, in
consequence of the sudden and mysterious disappearance
of two male persons, and, from the inquiries made by the
magistrates and police, no doubt is entertained of the
missing persons having been murdered. A reward of
£220 has been offered by the government for the appre-
hension of the murderers, and a pardon to any accom-
plice, not being the actual perpetrator of the murder, in
either case, who shall give such evidence as will lead to
the same result. One of the missing persons, named
John Bell, eighty-one years of age, is missing since the
13th of November last.
SEVEN FISHING-SMACKS AND THIRTY-SEVEN FISHER.
MEN LOST.—We have to record a calamity of a most
afflicting nature, involving, as it is feared, a loss of life
unequalled for many years by any event in connection
with this port. Seven fine fishing-smacks, whose crews
numbered in the aggregate thirty-seven men and boys,
which left Hull prior to Christmas Day, in 1849, and
which should have returned a fortnight ago, have not
since been heard of. It is supposed that the vessels
perished during the gales of the 27th and 28th of Decem-
ber. Various causes of this fearful loss of life and pro-
perty are stated, but the most probable is that they
foundered on the Lemon-oar sand, in consequence of the
floating light drifting from her moorings.—HullAdvertiser.
SHARSPEARE'S WILL.—Mr. J. C. Halliwell has ad-
dressed to the Times a letter, in which he deplores the
gradual destruction of this valuable document, in conse-
quence of the strict rules in force at the Prerogative
Office, an exception to which he pleads for in the case of
Shakspeare's last testamentary papers. They form, it
seems, three sheets of foolscap, and being tied together
at the top by a bond of parchment or whipcord, they can-
not be examined without injury to the handwriting, in con-
sequence of which manipulation the final e in Shakspeare
has (he asserts) disappeared. The officials look on the
connecting with such scrupulous awe that they neccessa-
rily will bring about the ultimate wasting away of the
relic, and he suggests that some authority be obtained for
placing the three separate sheets under plate glass, whereby
they may be inspected without being handled.
ANOTHER POST OFFICE MOVE.—The warm energetic
opposition of the press and the public to the post-office
Sabbath desecration has driven Mr. Rowland Hill on to
the railways. About the middle of February nearly the
whole of the Sunday work is to be given up in London,
and the sorting the letters which leave the country offices
for transit through London is to be effected in railway
post-offices, which are to be established on the principal
lines on Sunday. Twenty-four London clerks will be
sent from St. Martin's-le- Grand, who are to be paid 20s.
per journey. These men have " volunteered" to give
their services for this extra salary, which in the aggregate
will amount to £1248 per annum, and the total expense of
these railway offices and attendant charges will amount to
some thousands more. This new move is evidently in.
tended to soothe the public mind on the subject of the
present post-office agitation, but every practical person is
aware that, with the mere shifting the work on Sunday
from the central office to the railway lines, no relief worth
mentioning will be afforded to the post•office establish-
meat.

THE LAKES.—Derwent Lake, Keswick, is at this mo-
ment completely frozen over, from end to end, and in the
course of the past week many hundreds of persons amused
themselves daily upon the ice. On Saturday last, a tea-
party assembled upon Bassenthwaite lake, and afterwards
the company joined in several sportive exercises. We
understand that a deer, which has been presented by Sir
Harry Vane, Bart., is to be roasted on the ice, and an in-
vitation has been sent to the Whitehaven and Workington
Cricket Clubs, to play the Cockerrnouth cricketers for a
rumpsteak and a dozen.—Cumberland Pacquet.
SINGULAR APPLICATION OF CHLOROFORM.--A few
days since, one of the keepers in Windsor Great Park ob-
served a man very busy, under suspicious circumstances,
in the midst of some fern. Being satisfied that all was
not right, be made up to him, and on searching a bag he
had in his possession, found it contained five rabbits, not
dead, but apparently stupified. His attention was then
drawn to several pieces of fern, which bad been cut and
stuck upright in the ground, having pieces of paper at-
tached to them, and which, it was afterwards discovered,
had been steeped in chloroform, and been the means by
which the fellow had secured his game. This is the first
instance in which we have heard of the application of
chloroform to the p urposes of poaching.—Reading Mer-
cury.

FORGERY OF A BILL OF EXCIIANGE.—At the' Central
Criminal Court, on Friday week, Lewis Joel, a jeweller,
was indicted for forging an acceptance to a bill of exchange
for £lOOO, with intent to defraud John Marcus Clements,
an officer of the 13th Light Dragoons, and who had had
money transactions with the prisoner in Dublin, while his
regiment was stationed there. The evidence adduced
consisted of two affidavits made by the prisoner on pre-
vious occasions, to the effect that the prosecutor had in
July, 1847, when under age, accepted a blank bill on a
stamp sufficient to cover the amount of £lOOO, which bill
he ( the prisoner) was authorised to fill up when the pro-
secutor attained his majority. The jury found the pri-
soner guilty of uttering the acceptance, knowing it to have
been forged. Mr. Justice Talfourd sentenced the pri-
soner to ten years' transportation.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AT ABERDARE.—Late on Wed-
nesday night, a diabolical attempt at murder was made at
Aberdare. It appears that for some time past the greater
number of the sea-coal men at Cadlys and other works
have struck for an advance of wages. Some, who thought
better of the matter, continued to work, despite the
threats of the others. On Wednesday night, the house
of William Jenkins, Mill-street, was visited by, it is sup-
posed, a gang of the " strikers." The first notice given
of there being any one outside was a stone thrown with
considerable violence at the door, evidently for the pur-
pose of attracting the attention of Jenkins, who was then
in bed, and getting him to the window. Immediately
afterwards a shot was fired through the window, luckily
escaping the intended victim. The miscreants, thinking,
from the silence maintained in the house, that their deed
was accomplished, decamped.—Cambrian.
MURDER AND THEFT.—Margaret Lennox, or Hamil-
ton, was tried before the Justiciary Court of Scotland, on
the 9th inst., for stealing a blank deposit receipt for £2O,
in favour of the daughter of Jean Hamilton, with the lat-
ter of whom she lodged ' • and with having afterwards
murdered Jean Hamilton, by administering to her a quan-
tity of arsenic, or other poison, in her food. The jury
found the prisoner guilty of the murder, but by a majority
recommended her to mercy. She was sentenced to be
hanged at Glasgow on the 31st inst. Since her condem-
nation the unhappy woman has remained in a very dejec-
ted condition. Her infant was removed from her, and
the separation appeared to be acutely felt by the wretched
mother. By the permission of the proper authorities, her
husband and near relatives procured an interview ; but
she has not as yet made any acknowledgment of her
guilt.

EVERY ONE TO MS TASTE.-0/1 Monday last, at a
public house at Gotham, a party of " wise men" sat down
to supper, the dainty dishes set before them being two
large rat pies. The "game" was caught and supplied by
William Dring, the Gotham rat-catcher, and the trim-
mings were found by the landlady and a worthy farmer
in the neighbourhood. Among this party of epicures
were three butchers from Nottingham. At the conclusion
of the repast, there was not even a bone left for the cat
to pick. Mr. Powdrill, one of the company, composed a
song. which was sung on the occasion. The following is
the first stanza :
" Rats, kind friends, are now in season,
Let's drive them from their thatched thrones;
To destroy them is no treason—
Then we'll suck their precious bones!"
A few days ago, one of the same party, having his hands
tied behind him, worried a large rat in two minutes. for
the small sum of sixpence I—Correspondent of the Not-
tingham Journal.
BANK OF ENGLAND.—The return of the movement of
the Bank of England for the week ending the 12th Jan.,
gives the following changes compared with the week end-
ing sth instant :—ln the department of issue the notes in
circulation had decreased £191,790, which had been pro-
duced by a decrease in the gold coin or bullion of
£191,790 ; the silver bullion remaining unaltered. On
the debit side of the banking department the rest bad in.
creased £62.984, the public deposits had decreased
£4,346,613, the private deposits had decreased £1,505,890,
and the seven day and other post bills had increased
£71,240, making the total of the liabilities £36,124,148.
On the credit side the government securities had decreased
£79,127, the other securities had decreased £1,591,975,
the notes had decreased £1,020,790, and the gold and sil-
ver coin bad decreased £14,647, which equalised the ac-
count. The bullion in both departments of the bank had
decreased from £17,020,480 to £16,814,043, being a dif-
ference of £206,437. The paper in actual circulation had
increased from £19,341,669 to £20,241,909, being a dif-
ference of £900,240.

NOVEL EXPORTATION.—A novelty in exportation has
just been completed by Messrs. Winsland and Holland,
the eminent builders, of Duke-street, Bloomsbury. This
consists of an entire church, capable of accommodating
three hundred persons, which is intended to be erected
on the rock of St. Helena, for the accommodation of the
English residents on that island. The edifice is in the
early English style of architecture, from the design of
Mr. Benjamin Ferrey. It is composed of stone, all of
which has been hewn into form on Messrs. Holland's
premises. This portion of the material is already on its
way to St. Helena, in the barque Glentanner. The roof
and other wood-work of the building, the iron-work,
paving slates, &c., are all completed, and will be shipped
on board the Juliana in a few days. The dimensions are
as follows :—The body of the church is 75 feet long by 30
feet wide ; the chancel, 25 feet by 18 feet ; the vestry.
10 feet by 10 feet; and a muniment room of the same
size. The design includes a belfry and a porch. The
pulpit is of carved stone, and the seats of stained pine.
THE TAILORING TRADE.—A public meeting of persons
connected with the tailoring trade in the metropolis was
held in the large room at Exeter-hall on Thursday evening.
The object of the meeting, which consisted of upwards of
2,000 persons, was to consider the propriety of petitioning
parliament in reference to the present slop and middle"
system, which, it was stated, injured the fair trader as
well as the working people. Several working tailors ad-
dressed the meeting, one of whom stated that he had been
employed by Moses and Son for several years past as a
confidential man at the rate of one penny per hour, and
expressed his regret that with £400,000 per annum the
Marquis of Westminster dealt with that establishment.
Another speaker observed that it was very well known the
working men engaged in making the clothing for the go-
vernment establishments, the post-office, the custom-
house, and for the soldiers and police, did not get more
than ls., or at most Is. 6d. a day ; and a third speaker de-
clared that for making a coat for a first-rate master tailor,
patronised by the Duke of Wellington and other aristo-
cratic customers, he had only received 55., out of which
sum he had to pay for candle-light and trimmings.
SHOCKING STORY.—A fine interesting girl, aged seven
years, the eldest daughter of Mr. James Lockwood, of
Gully Hole, having been left alone in the house with Mr.
John Wortley, bar-keeper, her grandfather, at Snittle-
gate, near Holmfirth, on Tuesday week, received such
injuries at his hands as to leave no probable hopes of her
recovery. It appears that Wortley has, for some time
past, exhibited symptoms of derangement of mind, and
had more than once attempted suicide. On the day above-
mentioned, his wife, having occasion to be absent from
home for a short time, left Wortley and the grandchild in
the house together. The presumption is, from all that
can be ascertained relative to the tragedy, that shortly
after his wife's departure the poor desponding wretch
again essayed self-destruction, and that, being checked by
the little girl, as on a former occasion, he at once deter-
mined to silence her. For this purpose (having first locked
the door) he armed himself with the poker, and with this
weapon he struck the poor unoffending girl repeated and
savage strokes over the head. This continued until a cart-
driver, passing by, heard screams, and the sound of heavy
blows, which induced him to pause and listen at the bar-
house door. Being convinced that foul work was being
enacted, Ile at once hurried to an adjoining house (the
Junction Inn), and assistance having been procured, the
doors were promptly burst open. A shocking spectacle
presented itself. The old man, with an insane glare, stood
brandishing the bloody weapon of his cruelty over the now
almost lifeless body of his victim. Medical assistance,
however, was immediately sought and procured, and up
to Friday morning the poor little innocent still lived. Of
her ultimate recovery, however, no reasonable hope can
be entertained. Wortley seemed to be decidedly insane.—
HaUfax Guardian.

POISONING A RAILWAY PASSENGER.—On theday be-
fore Christmas Day a young man, named George Lam-
bert, who resides near Sheffield, was on. his way to pay a
visit to a relative who resides in this town. When at the
Masborough Station he was accosted by some men, who
gave him a lozenge, and said that as he was coming to
Doncaster, they would all travel together. They accord-
ingly got him into a carriage along with them, and at the
same time gave him another lozenge to suck, He, how-
ever, put it into his pocket, and did not make any further
use of it. He then gradually became unconscious, and
remembered nothing hut that he at one time heard a cry
of " Liverpool!' At length he was seized at a station
some distance beyond that town, and was dragged out by
the porters under a supposition that he was intoxicated.
Here he was charged ss. for extra fare; but, to his sur-
prise, he found that he had been robbed of every farthing
of his money, amounting to nearly £5. He was about to
be locked up, but a gentleman who saw the proceedings
had compassion on him, paid his fare, and took him to
his own house where the young man was put to bed, and
confined to his chamber for about a week, suffering from
the effects of the drug which had been administered to
him, and his friends in the meantime quite unconscious of
what had become of him. The medical gentleman who
attended him stated that if he had sucked the second lo-
zenge his life would have been in great danger. As it
was, he had some difficulty in preserving his eyesight.
When sufficiently recovered, the kind gentleman who had
befriended him supplied him with money to pay his jour-
ney home, and thus he was restored to his friends. It is
only right to observe that the young man is a person of
steady and sober habits, and that there is no ground what-
ever for supposing that he was in a state of intoxication,
except from the effects of the drugs administered to him.
—Doncaster Gazette.