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which I deplored and combatted at my risk and peril, but
_ he never committed-any crimes. He was the object-of
omany crimes, but it is false that he ever committed any.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MoNDAr. I appeal in this respect to all honourable men and to his-
The House having resolved itself into a Committee, tory. ' M. Thiers-then went on to say that he would op-
Mr. Bernal in the chrir, the question was put that the pose the confiscation of the private property as an odious
duties charged on Muscovado or any other sugar not being ' act.
equal in quality to white clayed, should be charged 13s. M. DE GIEARDIN.—It appears from the version of
a cwt. from and after the 15th of July, 1848, to the sth of M. De Girardin, published by himself, of his late im-
July, 1849 inclusive. A discussion ensued, in which Mr. prisonment, and the seizure of his paper, LaTresse, that
Hume, Lord G. Bentinek, Lord J. Russell, and Mr. his detention was not suggested by his personal enemies,
Goulburn took part. 'The Committee then divided, and or by any serious suspicion of his being implicated in the
the numbers were; the amendment 124, against it ISO, Socialist conspiracy, but that it was simply a precautionary
—majority 56. measure taken by General Cavaignac in the discharge of
One or two other amendments were put and negatived, the arduous duties confided to him. Paris had been
and ultimately the second Government resolution was placed under martial law by the Assembly, and' General
agreed to. Cavaignac wasinvested with full military powers to carry
out their intentions. Nevertheless on the following morn-
HOUSE 'OF LORDS.—TIIESDAY. ing, Sunday, June 25, M. Girardin attacked tire-declare-
The Bishop of OXFORD moved the third reading of the tion of martial km!, with extreme virulence—he devounced
Protection of Females Bill, upon which question a dig- it as the despotism of the sword and the suspension of
cussion ensued, in the course of which the Law ILords all liberty. The consequence was that the General saw
present, including the Lord Chancellor, Lords Brougham, no way of restoring order unless that paper was suppressed.
Denman, and Campbell, though concurring in the con- POPISH BLASPHEMY ON THE DEATH-BED.—The au-
curring in the objects of the measure, expressed their thentic account of the last moments of the Archbishop of
belief that it would be impossible to carry out its provi- Paris in the Anti de la Religion contains the following
sions, and therefore thought it undesirable that it should statement of what took place on his being informed that
proceed further. his wound was mortal :—" My God, I offer Thee my life,
The Earls of Minto and Grey concurred in that opinion. accept it .in .expiation of my sins, and for stopping the
The right rev. Prelate, however, being supported by effusion of blood ,which is flowing." And further on,
Earl Nelson and the Bishop of Llandaff, persevered in his "He called to his aid Mary whom he called his mother."
motion, and on a division the third reading was negatived He recited alternately "Sub teem pravidium ;" the
by a majority of -7, the numbers 28 to 21. nrriver of St,

IRELAND.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY
The report on the Sugar Duties, after
fixing the imposition of th

duties on th

insteac

agreed to, and leave
them.

The Encumbered

tes (Ireland) Bill was.corns

pro forma.
Mr. G. THompso:
to the Rajah Sattara

cession, was negati

by 77 to 8

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WI
On the order for going on the Sui
being read,

Trading Till

Mr. B

WALL opposed the Bill, as did lir. Blaney

because they a

it was an uncalled

ference with4t

Mr. HINDLEI

fore gi

E. BUXTON

t no wort

on in his brewery on

t worl

The bill then passed throe
then resumed, and it was

recommitted on

are not av
Yuen moved the second reading of the •Catholic to the very bottom of their hearts
Qualification of Members Bill, -which may be shortly
described as a bill for the disqualifieation of all members
who were either unwilling or unable to pay their just

In-Spain the Carlists are winning battles and hearts
It will go hard with Narvaez and the poor Queen.
The armistice between Denmark and the Duchies has
actually been concluded.

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Mr. Hum(
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in which Sir G. Grey

as been disturbed

proposed to carry

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bill To Provide

all cases in which cOrrupt

practices were alleged to
noble lord shortly sketc
though in so subdued a tc
it he proposed to extend
with respect to charges of

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raised) io charges of corn
the original petition, or b
the election comr

a young soldier who was areal " bite" in another sense.
Some months since, among a detachment of the 2nd
Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot, quartered at Lanes-
boro', was a soldier, by name Matthew Lally ; during his
stay there it is thought he made himself intimately ac-
quainted with the occurrences which had taken place
among the small farmers and landholders in a district
called the Callows, in the parish of Rathcline ; for on his
return to head-quarters he obtained a furlough and at
once proceeded to the Callows ; and entering the house
of a snug small farmer, named Lally, declared, to the
utter astonishment of the old couple, that he was their
son, whom they buried on a certain day, 16 years before.
On their expressing their credulity, he asked them if their
son, whom they supposed dead, had not a mark on him ?
They said he had on his breast, on which he opened his
clothes and showed them such a mark. Some of the neigh-
bours coming in, he called them by their names, and told
them of circumstances attending his mock funeral, and of
the exact " offerings" each of them gave for masses to be
said for the repose of his soul. But, to make assurance
doubly sure, he insisted on his grave been searched, and
his coffir taken out, which, when opened, contained not
" the remains of humanity crumbling into dust and ashes,"
but a log bf wood. He then informed them that he was
spirited away by " the good people," or fairies ; that he
remained for thirteen years among them, and though mar-
ried to a high-up lady, was sent on earth for a season,
with directions to go into the army and learn the new light
infantry exercise, and to effect this object he enlisted in
the 2nd or Queen's. He related to the assembled multi-
tude the fate of many of their friends and relatives whom
he had met "in the hours of fairy revel." Satisfied now
as to his being their son, he was treated as such by his
bewildered parents, and presents from all around were
showered upon him ; and all went on pleasant enough
till one morning his new mother asked him to assist his
father in the operation of planting cabbages. He willingly
assented, declaring that he did not know how long he
would be allowed to remain. After digging with his
father for some time, the old man went in for a moment to
light his pipe, And on his return the soldier had vanished
" in tenuem avanuit aerem," he was nowhere to be seen—
none saw him pass. Months rolled on, and the fairy man
was nearly forgotten, when, to the surprise and delight of
all, he again darkened his afflicted parents' door. He then
stated that he had gone a long journey over the seas, with
his patrons the fairies, and that to his great surprise he
found himself in Mexico, teaching the soldiers of that king-
dom the light infantry exercise, to resist the better the
Americans, then invading them ; for "it was told him he
should be rich by the fairies." So satisfied were the
Mexicans with his instructions, they loaded him with
riches, and that now he should return to his regiment with
money to purchase his discharge. He proceeded to Ath-
lone, and told the commanding officer that he was invo-
luntarily absent—that he could not depend on his not
being called away again, and, tendering the purchase of his
discharge, declared the Queen would get four better men
than him for £2O ; the rules of the service would not
allow this, so he was ordered to be tried by court martial.
Of the proceedings before the court we are not aware; but
this we have heard. that he brought several witnesses from
the ,Callows to prove the truth of the foregoing statement,
and to swear they saw him dead and buried, and had paid
the " offerings " over him. What the sentence was to be
has not transpired ; for on the minutes of the trial, and
the extraordinary tale being submitted to the Secretary of
War, he, believing the man to be insane, ordered him, on
paying for it, to be discharged ; and, though we consider
him " more knave than fool," still her Majesty was for-
tunate to get rid of one of her bad bargains. He returned
to the Callows, assuming the fairy-man, foretelling events,
and promising cures, thereby extracting money from the
credulous infatuated poor.
A tragic affair we have now to recount has added to his
notoriety :—Some short time since a very honest, respect-
able man in his station of life, named Corrigan, steward
to James Rorke, Esq., J.P., of Corina, county Longford,
married the widow of a publican of the name of Killian,
who had died suddenly some time ago, at the crossroads
of Lissglassick, three miles from Callymahon, on the road
to Longford. Corrigan proved an excellent husband, and,
what was most creditable to him, an exemplary stepfather,
for he lodged all the money he got with the widow of Kil-
lian, about £2OO, to the credit of her children by her first
husband, in the bank of Longford, and it was natural to
augur that many happy days were yet in stose for him,
had not the fairy-man crossed his path. On Saturday,
the lith of last month, he went to Mr. Rorke's farm, be-
yond the town of Longford, for a load of hay, leaving one
of his step-daughters to transact business in Lone.
narket ; on 1-. -oturn I<, heard will. ;.„i:

A romance of real life in its incidents and catastrophe,
far beyond the wonders of an average novel, was closed on
Thursday, in the Court of Queen's Bench, by a verdict
which appears to have been as gratifying to every listener
as it must needs have been to the parties immediately
concerned. There was no very great conflict of evidence
in the matter, as the case turned entirely upon a selection
between one of two probable stories, and we shall be best
enabled to present thejeader with an intelligible digest of
the three days' trial by assuming, as the jury did, that the
tale of the plaintiffs was strictly true, and by relating it in
the shape of such a continuous 9 whole as they be con-
structed from the minutes of the proceedings.
In the year 1763 there was born, at Badwell Ash, in the
county of Suffolk, Theophilus, the son of John and Eliza-
beth Turner, who were people in a humble rank of life,
the husband being gardener to the Rev. Dr. Ord, of Forn-
ham St. Martin, in the same parts. As the boy gave pro-
mise of quicker senses than ordinary, he was sent to a vil-
lage school where writing happened to be taught with
peculiar excellence, and subsequently, by the kindness of
Dr. Ord, to some seminary at Bury St. Edmund's—very
probably, as his classical proficiency is now mentioned, to
the admirable old grammar school of that ancient town.
It seems that the boy looked to the sea as his future pro-
fession, since Dr. Ord used familiarly to call him " Jack
the Sailor ;" out upon some quarrel between himself and
his patron he left Suffolk, and obtained, through the con-
tinued kindness of his friend, a situation in some school
near London. This was in his youth, and from that mo-
ment almost up to the present day none of the Suffolk
people ever heard or saw any more of their lost country-
man Theophilus Turner.

In the year 1842, on the last day of January, there died
at No. 13, Huntley-street, Brunswick-square, a gentle-
man of the name of John Turner, insane and intestate,
leaving behind him property exceeding the value of
£60,000. He had been an eccentric old gentleman, and
up to a year or two before his death had been not only in
possession of his faculties, but of faculties considerably
above the common run of such endowments. He had
been a clerk, first, in the Ordnance-office, and subse-
quently in the Sun Fire-office, in which establishment he
conducted himself so serviceably that in 1825 he was per-
mitted to retire upon a pension of £2OO per annum as the
reward of nearly forty years' work. He had gained prizes
not only in the lottery of life, but in that less manageable
lottery with which the government of those days encou-
raged the speculative propensities of the people, and a for-
tunate ticket was always understood to have blest him
with something like a comfortable independence. His
habits and appearance were as singular as those of wealthy
single gentlemen are invariably expected to be. He wore
pantaloons and powder, entered only periodically into
society, and had only once changed his landlady during a
space of 35 years. Though not commonly. talkative
respecting, his extraction, yet he now and then dropped
hints which were not forgotten, and he shewed some pre-
dilection for the county of Suffolk, by making an excur-
sion thither twice exery year for the sake of shooting, and
receiving from the same quarters occasional presents of
game, which were left for him at the old eastern counties
house, the White Horse, in Fetter-lane, and fetched from
the office with his own hands. At length, as we have said,
in 1842, John Turner departed this :life, after a goodly
lease of it, and, in default of any next of kin, Mr. Manic,
the solicitor to the Treasury, impounded his whole pro-
perty in behalf of the Crown.

. ae heard with indignation th-at his
step-daughter, hearing of the fame of the fairy soldier
(then in the town of Longford), and impelled by a curi-
osity innate to her sex, had given the fairy half-a-crown
to know the fate of her father. Lally told her that he had
met him in " Fairy Land," and promised to restore him
to her and to life; but before he could do b.

Now comes the romance of the-story. Few readers of
discreet age and average observation can have failed to
zemark that the memory of a relative lost when young,
and supposed to be revelling in riches in some mvsteriang

ATMOSPHERIC

Temperature

,m,llUtt,
quarter of the globe, is invariably cherished by every
branch, sprig, and bud of the whole family, with .a reve-
rence and tenacity, compared to which the affection of a
Roman for his household gods, or of a Chinese for his
ancestral sacrifices, vanishes absolutely into nothing.
Two whole generations had passed away, and yet the
name and fortunes of the missing Theophilus were still
a favourite topic with_ the Turners of Livermere, and ex-
_

in
Pressure at 1 shade by self-

snouta
send her stepfather in his place. On CorridanHe bearing
this, he denounced Lally as an impostor, and abused him
for obtaining money in such a manner. But, nothing
abashed or ashamed, the fairy soldier told him he had
revelations to make to him, and, struck by his manner,
they went into a public-house, where they remained clo-
seted. After Corrigan came out, he stretched himself on
the load of hay. was driven _

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July 18, IB4B'.

e the lady in search of her long lost kinsman. Even before brain caused his spirit to depart, and on Wednesday he
4 Mr. Turner's death some glimmerings of gratulation were was buried quietly without an inquest, as the fairy m
him, me
The Cork Constitution says that the prospect of an The traffic for the week ended Bth July, on the Chetter directed towards him, but, when the amount and disposal stated if any operation should be performed on
abundant harvest is everywhere presented. Potatoes are and Holyhead Railway, amounted to £1044 12s. 41d. of his property became known, no further hesitation was could not return Mr. Killian the original.
plentiful.
SPEED.—An express train on Friday, on the Great felt, and the kinship and goods of the deceased gentle- The authorities ought to interfere with this imposter,
At a meeting of one of the Cork "clubs' on Thursday Western Railway, went from Paddington to 'Swindon, a man were boldly claimed by the thirteen surviving Tur- as he is obtaining money under falsepretences, and re
,vl,l-
- vehement cheers were given for the'Parisian lady distance of seventy-seven miles in seventy-four minutes- ners of the Suffolk stock, The result has rewarded their ing in the country an almost exploded superstition, !o";
who boasted that she had cut off the heads.of•three of the and-a-half.
fidelily and justified their claims, for were tho- for centuries held possession of the mind of the ion e
Garde Mobile. The number of waggons, &c. (exclusive,.of course, of roughly satisfied by the evidence of thewitnesses and the orders of the people of Ireland.— Westmeath Guardia
Mr: Justice Crampton, whilst entering the Court-house, passenger carriages,) on the London and North-Western eloquence of Sir Frederick Thesiger of the identity of
at Cavan, last week, to preside at the assizes, fell down in exceeds, 11,500; which, if estimated at only £5O each, Theophilus the schoolboy and John the gentleman; and .
a 'fit. Medical assistance being at hand, 'his 'lordship represent a capital of nearly £600,000:! and to this num- that the crown has now to refund the £60,400 at stake MISCELLANEOUS.
slowly recovered; and is now considered out- of danger. her daily additions are making. for the benefit and disposal of the plaintiffs at large.
were arrested in Dublin, on a charge of sedition. Bail was Western to Yeovil and Exeter has just received the sanc- less than the
On Thursday, two men, named M`Gee, and Hollywood, The narrow-gauge railway, in extension of the South-
Considering that the p required ved " empire of Hell." identificationroof of a gentlemaninvol who diednothing The New York papers speak of Great Britain as the
six THE KEMBLE FAMILY.—The maternal grandparents
accepted. The parties make nine that•the Atto'rnev- tion of the' ords' Committee. There is to be a narrow years back in London with a lad who left Suffolk 70 years of Mrs. Siddons and the Kembles were residents of Leo-
General for Ireland is now prosecuting. gauge railway direct from London to Exeter, in competi- ago, it must be admitted that Sir Frederick spun his minster, and lie buried in the churchyard of that town.
On Friday, a few of Mr. John O'Connell's friends met tion with the Great Western, and by many miles shorter. threads of evidence into a yarn of wonderful neatness Recently, subscriptions have been raised by a few of the
"in committee," and resolved that the half dead Repeal The Gazette of Friday contains an official notice from and likelihood. It was proved by the concurring testimo- ,
binehaaubtiiftyainotgs,anaddmreisretorsrinogf
tthhoeirdhruammablefotorauthsoelopourorp.ose of
Association has still the confidence of the public, and it the Commissioners of Railways, that the period of time ny of witnesses altogether unconnected with the family,
The Liverpool Mercury is, we know, a great authority
'would be, therefore, inexpedient to break it up. limited by the Manchester, Liverpool, and Newcastle that the deceased had spoken of himself as the son of a
A woman near Cork, being shown some potatoes in -Railway Act of 1846, for the completion of the railway gardener, as born in uffolk, as emcee teacher in a school, in a small way ; but great authorities are not infallible.
which the disease was apparent, crossed herself. vigorously shall be extended for a further period of two years, from and as having had assistr named Sarah. He was also The Literary Gazette and the Glasgow Chronicle are iii
and exclaimed, "Jesus preserve us! we must be quiet the expiration of the period so limited by the act. proved,.by the evidence of a surviving schoolfellow, to the right. The " first two', and the e last two," not the
now'!" rail amount of traffic for the last week, on 3,916 miles have been at school at Bury, and a coincidence more " two first" and " two last," are correct, the MercurY
SLlGo.—Owing to the interest of Lord Palmerston, ofway, was £205,620, thus accounted for :—X111,824 really curious than such analogies usually are was exposed and the Parish Clerks notwithstanding.—Gateshead Ob
Mr. Somers (repealer) was, on Friday, returned for Sligo, for the conveyance of passengers only, £45,068 for the in the fact, that he used to call a lad to whom he had server.
is .a' SLEEPS
so
ape I RErsaooToe.
by a small majority, but we have not learned the exact carriage of goods, and a remainder of £48,728 for passen- taken a fancy by that identical sobriquet of " Jack thge
ButpAalou rs ptehhoeefus
usa,ppipseogsai erroneouslytiSing-top,
tiosp:rrwoshnueepooptiol
tss:e sr:.
ootrtoatthbo be
er
y hm derivedotimotion
o fromis
at theitl
numbers. At half-past three, Mr. Hartley was.below Mr. gers and goods together, not respectively apportioned ; Sailor," which had once been his own. His handwriting
Ball, who was also below Mr. Somers. being an increase of £16,468 over the corresponding week was peculiarly good, and answered to the notorious excel-
It is said that Dr. Murray, has forwarded to the seve- of last year, when the mileage was 3,070. The average lence of the school at which he acquired it. The mostcompletely"— T ATOP,"—This i s
underfam i 1 itahre
influence phrase, which,
of
ral deaneries of his diocese a pastoral address, earnestly earnings per mile were £53, whilst in 1847 they were £6l. knotty point was the convertibility to be proved of the height, or, as schoolboys call it, " when it is asleep.'
..einem tier, t.) most pious I, ir- exhorting the clergy to avoid all connection with-the clubs, One of the hardest-fought battles of the present par- names John and Theophilus. But, after starting with the
gin-mary, &c,,, and ille words "Pray for us, poor sinners, and to exercise their influence in preventing their docks liarnentarY session has been the contest of the Manchester, Probable supposition that a lad who had cut his kinsfolk from the Italian word to p°, which signifies a mouse, and
Sheffield and Lincolnshire with the Hull Corporation and adrift to seek his fortune in the world would rid himself is applied as the generic name of the common eeid_mousei
now and in the hour of death." He invoked the angels, from joining such confederacies.
_ .
DANGER OF BEING TOO NEAR ROYALTY.—The Tirane.
1 amendment and among the saints especially St. Denis, his patron saint, At the county of Clare assizes, Michael Healy,wras con- Docks, for the right of erecting a station and Pier on the of so disinctive a mark as a euadrisyllabie Christian from which the Italian proverb ~ Ei dorm,. come to
10th ;of July and that of the church of Paris. Again, having asked for victed of the murder and robbery of Michael M Namara, Hull side of the Humber. The Lords' Committee, after name, het learned counsel proceeded to show at Mr. topo,"is derived ; Anglice, "He sleeps like a top.e
—e resolutions, was the viaticum he said to his Vicar-General; " Help me, on the enth of May last, at Ennistimon, and sentenced to
,sever.al. days' sitting, decided the
question on. Wednesday,. Turner,,.wa,s, actually addressed,, by certain intimate friends
too ouTrui
oronsera"l" In
complicationfu ll p rop proportions.
chancesons. O ntoe thyethcohsaergweh
oosfeP,Fsperhi
vieilreag,e thus u
its
isd describes be
aro
bring in a bbl upon talk to me oethe-Holy Sacrament." And, as the pain be hanged on the sth of August next.
ofile murder was ey giving the railway the Privilege of making a station as The, or Theo, and that in one of his books was correspondent in the camp of Charles Albert, speaking 9.:
increased, he exclaimed :My God, how I suffer; I offer discovered by the accidental finding the murdered
rahnedlaeopgiethr atof Hthuellp;iebru, tbyatfotrhbeiddsaiomgeittsimeaetetohseioyucubretyaoilnedd
iworio•itdteeont 'is'
es the penalty and
_.:.ted Thee my sufferings." These sentiments of the dying man's shoes on his murderer.
Archbishop are adopted by his brethren. The Archbishop THE :IRISH LEAGUE.—The first meeting was held in a certain usual boundary.
be omitted. Thomas Turner Dersley, a son of a sister of of the King :—" The King daily visits the heights f San
r Theophiluseal 1).
o ,
ird a motion resting of Tours, in his Mandement, writes, "Let us above all, Dublin on Tuesday, and was merely remarkable because RAILWAY
.TO SOUTHPORT.—Theo opening !of the. Live- Theophilus, was a potboy at Leicester, and was sent uP Lorenzo, from which any part of the attack and defence'
long and tedious rots- render thanks and homage to the great victim which has the-company was almost wholly composed of Persons un- Poll' Cro.s,h,y; and So,uthPort Railway' so far as at ls al- to town some few years back to see after some horses can be admirably seen. He is generally saluted by a dis-
been sacrificed in these days of sad memory. May the connected with the Irish confederation or the repeal asso- ready avanalne, namely, from 'Waterloo to Southport, a which had been stolen from his employer- After catching charge of two or three pieces ; but Charles Albert is
blood of that august Pontiff cry and obtain May ciation. The repeaters are becoming dissatisfied with length of thirteen miles, will take place this week. This one of the thieves, he dined with his companion at the brave even to temerity, and he never flinches from the
p rase is derived
• that took place before talkers and letter writers, and want ' words not deed." is the railway that has been constructed without a call inn where Mr. Turner used to call for his parcels—an front, though affording such an excellentunmdatrhke
Among the superstitious practices
and at his funerah•the following
will show the use made The opening of the league caused no excitement out of being made upon the proprietors, after the original one of errand on which the old gentleman presented himself at general uniform, and with a brilliant staff about him.
by the Romish Church of the Archbishop's death : Four doors. £2 per share, for obtaining the act and other prelimina- that identical minute. Derslay heard the Parcel inquired San Lorenzo is generally the place whence I overlook the
young yardes mobzles• approached
• . the funeral bed of state, MORE ARRESTS.—On Wednesday, Mr. Meagher was ties ! Five or six months' traffic will have been had on for as due from Suffolk, and remarked that he himself siege. lam very sorry when his Majesty arrives, as the
and having sprinkled holy water on it and engaged in arrested at Waterford, and brought up at the police-office, the line before the first instalment for the works will be came from that neighbourhood. Mr. Turner took him IT point of honour is rather difficult to be and lam
2.-
placed the bl d fth D bl• 'He as afterwards admitted to ail, the charge due to the contratrs. This, in such monetary period at the oment, ascertained the connection between them, at a loss to know whether I should stand resolved,
•
raye, tey spew their swords, ea es eni u in. w
nd to be shot at in
under the Felon as we have been passing through, bespeaks excellent ma- and gave the lad three half-crowns, which he joyfull
e the on the body of the deceased, and taking them up again, being for a misdemeanor only, and not
so exposed a position, or retire to a safe distance whilst
nt.
kissed them reverently :" " The body the Archbishop," Act. On the same day Mr. Michael Doheny was awes- nageme
pocketed, but said nothing about the discovery, thinking the King
sup-
is there. I see by the faces of all the other
ect. says the Ami de la 'Religion, "has been exposed during ted at Cashel in his own house for sedition, and was after- WEST RIDING UNION.—The opening of a link only of that by keeping his secret he would monopolise the whole curious assembled on the' of
same that the vicinity
a whole week for the .veneration of the faithful: every wards committed to gaol for sedition. An attempt at a that extensive scale of railways in connection with the forthcoming advantage. Such are the particulars and royalty is as little agreeable tospot,
them as to me, and I find
ed off hy day numberless crowds succeeded each other in this pious rescue was made, but it was unsuccessful. Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, known as the West catastrophe of this singular narrative; and, if the result that many absolutelthe Ic
to Riditee n.
y cut Kin on such and
' •
pilgrimage,passing in order and in silent prayer through OPPRESSED.—Why don't embarrassed gentry go
~ U !on, took pla.ce on Wednesday. The portion carries no other moral with it, it may be at least remem- AN AMERICAN FOREST.—I had never till this moment
pposite to
writer in the New Monthly of the line just o ened is one which leaves the main line tiered as exhibitin ehat little favour in this country is
it that the the chapel where these :precious relics were deposited. ' Ireland to economize ? A in the in P . •
~, ,
and , .g e anything like an adequate conception of the grandeur and
n the pro- The Unmet's,
• after giving a full account of the funeral Magazine says,—" There are no assessedlreland
taxes
stillness is perfectly
• I procession, in which the'ady of the Archbishop was car- whatever.; no tax on lands and tenements ; no tax on picturesque valley of Cleckheaton, to Low Moor, a dis- humblest subjects.
present bill
..
appalling; not a bough creaks, not a leaf stirs, not a dew.
that " Ibricksh t h duties, &c. •no window tance of about seven and a half miles. It is
mould there- tied with the face uncovered, states at tle totes- soap,, ops, pos - orse
------ drop falls; and when I got up a shout just now, to try
„
' e • nointendedth thatbranchshall• dby w ultimately
'hold of the temple the esrage was forced to stop ; the tax, or taxes on servants, horses, carriages, &• , pro.a this be carne forward, ay POLITICAL MISCELLANY, ' the effect of it, it absolutely startled myself, and induced
was carried people were anxious to have whatever they most valued petty or income tax ant Bull cannot be such a bad of Bradford, to Leeds, (with a fork stretching backwards
—* a sort of presentment that the grave old trees were quite
ofabsolutebrought into contact (the Popish manner of blessing by fellow, or he would grumble vastly at this one-sidedness. from Low Moor also to Halifax, to which town there is
.s
The Lords' Committee on the Bank Charter Act, corn- shocked at my faarity. A young squirrel, too, put hit
pinershoir:
relics) with the body of the Pontiff; the officers and A curious circumstance lately occurred in one of the already a branch from the main line,) and thus become monly called Peel's Bill, have carried the most important head noiselessly fore his hole in a rotten cedar, and re-
-majority in its soldiers their swords. A bishop took them from their carriages of the Cashel Railway. A Romish clergyman, the main line, in fact, from Manchester to Leeds. The divisions.against the attempt of the Government to sup- garded me with an air of such unqualified disgust, that I
_hands, and placed them on .the venerated body. It was the Rev. Mr. Vaughan, travelled with a gentleman whose distance from the present terminus of the line at Low port the act of 1844, and the majority of the committee would not dream of attempting a disturbance of the kind
.ttee. The House no longer a funeral procession; it might rather have been insurrectionary language induced him to believe that he Moor to Bradford, is only a little over two miles, the
The Times says, that if the various questions now growth turies. Some huge old fellows are reduced
are now forming their report condemnatory of the act. again. finny of these stately pines must have been the
pending can be wound up in time, the session of parlia- to touchwood. Some, perhaps tired of their existence
the bill should be called a translation of the relics. "The French," adds was in company with a detective. on reaching Tipperary works on which a. re in an. advancing state; a.nd when the
the -Univers. "even those who ni”- —ire of it, are he handed over the simulated incendiary to the police. whole ltne by this route is completed, considered in con-
But great was his astonishment to find that the offender nection with the Liverpool and Bury, very soon to be ment is to end at its usual terminus within the second and bent upon suicide, have kicked up their thousane heels
was a well-known attorney, who has already commenced opened, the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway will be week of August, and that amongst the measures likely to into the air and dived head foremost into the St. Maurice
legal proceedings for the false imprisonment. An apology the shortest route yet projected between Liverpool and be postponed for another year, is the proposed alteration (upon a small branch of which I have unexpectedly struck)
—s*Amongst the members who voted comfortably of water on the brain. Some (probably -a
was offered in Limerick and accepted. Leeds.
Gladstone,3 Hindley,W. T. where, in the course of time, I presume, they will expire
half their
bloyiirn go 0 fullo r a
dleesn,gltoho
ka Ilona
etroheelsyhaosti ltdheoros
golf
tee on Wednesday on the bill for freak of the late hurricane) have been lifted completely oft
]raw it for
1 MORE MISTAKES.—Two of the Irish repealers M'Gee DUTCH RHENISH RAILWAY.—A metting of the share-
foofrsgu theoNi
nogA SUNDAY
Navigationrrt
oacommittee
TRADING.—Amon
oai
tw.
te,
and Holywood, whose arrest by the Government we have holders in this undertaking, living in this neighbourhood,
fr.
already announced, were charged with an offence on July took place on Tuesday. It transpired that the Dutch di-
nd
2d, whilst the information against them was not filed HII- rectors intended forthwith to make another call, and to Bthreotshuoprptoroes,siEonarlofofSAunrodoaydel,w. tradingEw. were, ii-
til the 12th. They were then sent post haste to Wicklow, proceed with the forfeiture of the shares of those who had Egerton, Mr. T. Baines, R. Spooner, Colonel Thompson, they were being carried away for interment. Others,
CT
where the assizes were being held, and on their arrival , not paid the last calls, and that Mr. Stitt, the commissary Lord J. Manners, Sir J. Graham, and Sir G. Grey. In stripped of every branch and twig, and tapering beauti-
they found that the grand jury had been dismissed the named from the Liverpool shareholders, was refused ad- the minority against the motion, were T. Thorneley, Lord fully to a point, protrude far over the bank of the river
previous day. They are therefore at liberty until the mittance by the directors. Resolutions were carried for C. S. Manners, W. Brown, R. Cobden, J. Hume, and and assume all the air and appearance of deserted fishing
spring of 1849. If this is not child's play, it is something the appointment of a committee to confer with the com- F. O'Connor.
rods, of a girth and capacity quite suitable to the taste
IT
very nearly akin to it. rnissaries for the purpose of considering the best line of ARE WE TO HAVE NEW TAXES ?—ln answer to Mr. and requirements of that famed angler is said have
who
The Times announces, apparently on official authority, policy to be pursued at the adjourned meeting to be held Gladstone, Lord John Russell said, on Tuesday, that if " sat upon a rock and bobbed for whale." So closely in-
that the rumoured visit of the Queen to Ireland will not next month in Holland. That committee were also re- at the beginning of the year the state of Europe were deed do they resemble the implements alluded to, that for
take place this year. It is stated, however, that a royal quested to inquire into the position of the concessionaires peaceable, he should not propose any new taxes; but if it the last few minutes I have been in momentary expects-
.
visit to Cork, Dublin, and Belfast, was in serious contem- in relation to the company, and were fully empowered to were at all threatening at the commencement of next sex- tion of meeting some gentleman of comes cl. 1 • -
pon ing y man
plation, but that the intention has been abandoned till a employ what legal assistance might be deemed necessary. I
sion, he should not think it advisable to allow the expen- tic proportions, sitting calmly on the bank, with eyes in-
more favourable opportunity. The Times contends that After a reference to the fund which the shareholders were diture of the country to exceed the income, but should tently fastened upon his float, and a bait -can resting on
however much the delay may be lamented, it is impossible already liberally subscribing to defray the expences, thanks propose to make up the deficiency by increased taxation. his knees. Among the many curious and-csatir ' hts
ring sig
for any sound-minded and se lam
Englishman were unanimously Toted to the deputation who proceeded SUNDAY TRADING.—Mr. Hindley's bill, which has been this rude scramble has exhibited to me, is one which, for
not to be sensible of its prudence on account of the incon- to Holland, for their services ;to Mr. Reed for his attend- read a second time prohibits the crying or exposing for originality and eccentricity, stands • quite unrivall ' et
ed
Queen dance and explanations ; and to the chairman, when the 1
venience and annoyance to which it is feared the . y g
colossal p
sale an oods on Sundays. The goods of hawkers so me describe a scene so singular, if I can.Le,
and her ministers might be sdbjected by a small portion meeting separated.
defying the law to be confiscated for the benefit of the the tallest and most stupendous tree I ever beheld, ac-
-1 orates of an excitable people. THE STEAM-BOAT AND RAILWAY QUESTION• 7 poor of the parish. The sale of milk, fruit, pastry, and tuated by some unaccountable and never-before-heard-of
1 e—es to 7- • AGRARIAN OUTRAGES.—We regret to find the e
that agra- BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—On Friday, Biighton Rail- beverages before nine o'clock, a.m., and after one o'clock freak, has wrenched itself, together with a few dozen tone
e _ el the re
Ireland, defeat ii the Lords'
rian disturbances are again becoming prevalent in way Company sustained a l,Commi- p.m., of cooked meat, tea, coffee, &c., within coffee- of earth, from the spot where it grew, and taken up a pe.
of the Earl of
On the sth inst. a farmer named Comerford Swing, at tee. The committee consisted St. Ger-
,. ovule fn” '
shops, cook-shops, or eating-houses, before ten o'clock sition diametrically adverse to that which nature intended
Cabra near Thurles, was killed by a shot fired through mains (Chairman), Marquis of 'Westminster, Lord A.,
P , across the •
the window of his house as he lay on the bed.—On the Hawarden, Earl of Warwick, and Earl Morton. They •, and one o clock p.m., the sale of meat or fish before it to occupy. Its world of green foliage rests exactly
_.Le followie
nine o'clock a.m. (from the 31st of May to the Ist of where its roots should be, and its roots, which are a forest
same day a man named Sadleir, near Cashel, was so btu- have entirely reversed the decisions of the four great
ition 1 Souther same
in each year), and the vending of drugs and in themselves, flourish precisely where its branches ought
tally kicked and beaten by some ruffians, that he died the authorities who recommended, in their report, the bill to medicines will not be interfered with by this act. The to be; at an elevation, too, far out-topping the loftiest
1 next morning. Threatening notices are once more be- be passed ; and have completely set at nought the strong act is not to extend to steam-boats or licensed houses. twig of its most aspiring contemporary. Whether this
coming frequent. On the 30th ult., some fellows entered recommendation which was offered by Sir Robert Peel, The penalties for infringement of the above provisions pine has misconducted itself and been placed thus by way of
the house of John Murphy, gamekeeper, to Lord Dunalley, on public grounds only, in favour of the proposition. are fines varyinq from ss. to 40s. Persons resisting the punishment, or whether the effort was a private pastime
near Nenagh, and after beating him most cruelly, they The committee have not yet decided upon the South- officers employed in enforcing the act will-be liable to a and conceit it was anxious to indulge in, ands übsequently
obtained possession of above £7O, and decamped. Two Western Bill, but there seems every probability of their fine of £lO. The operation of the act is limited to Lou- failed to recover from, lam equally at a loss to say; but
of them have fortunately been arrested, throwing it out. They have granted the Furness Railway don. The Ist of October is fixed for the commencement. here it is, and here it riust remain, until it rots and crurn-
SOIREE TO Mr. O'BRIEN.—The soiree at Cork, given Company's Bill, because it was for a mere ferry ; and they
__2_-- tiles into powder. The question is, how did it get into
in honour of Mr. O'Brien, came off on Monday night have also granted the Chester and Holyhead Company's
EXTRAORDINARY CREDULITY, such a position, (a problem not rendered any the more
last, at which 500 persons were assembled. The utmost Bill, because they consider Dublin to be the natural ter-
_eaSy of solution by the fact of there not bein " • 'eat -
, . , g..Mlßg.te '
enthusiasm prevailed. Nothing daunted by the recent minus of the Holyhead Railway. The committee have
The old proverb.says, An old soldier is an oldhite"-- ot' the surrounding trees in the'slighteet degree injured or
arrests, the speeches were highly seditious, and will afford refused the Brighton Company's Bill, because they con-
whether this refers to biting the end off the cartridge we discomposed) but as there is little probability of any hu-
much food for a state prosecution. Mr. Smith O'Brien sidered that Dieppe was not the natural terminus of the
cannot divine—but it falls to us to record some of the - , man foot treading these solitudes again perhaps for ages,
said :—" lam ready, if necessary, to offer myself as a railway. They took no notice of the arguments in favour
..
that question is most likely to rest unanswered, and the
,
sacrifice, but lam not prepared to offer myself as a snot- of the exception ground set forth in the Railway Corn- :-
mystery unelucidated, throughout all succeeding genera-
present, to an abortive attempt. Jam ready to avow that at missioners' Report ; but gave a willing ear to the share- mystery
Having spent half an hour in the contemplation
present, and until - holders' petition against the bill. That petition was sup-
of this natural curiosity, I begin to move leisurely on ;
tinuance of queen, lords, and commons. I avow that lam ported by shareholders representing one-sixteenth of the
of opinion that the Irish people would be fully justified in whole capital only ; while the bill was supported by 1,073
and presently, glancing accidentally downward, catch
an appeal to arms, if they were fully prepared. I say, if shareholders, representing £1,673,000, or one-fourth of glimpse of an enormous rat at his dinner, who, the r°°lnen:
he becomes conscious of my presence, gives vent to sue
they were confident of success, and I say if on every mo- the whole capital of the company.
a shrill and prolonged yell, that I am compelled, in fuercY
ears,
ral ground, a case for resistance has been established. I
to the animal, and out of consideration for my own ea-
_
*r-
appeal to Junket, to Swann, and the men who took part
CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE, to effect as hasty and precipitate a retreat as existing el
in the union discussions, and I say a case has been made
cumstances render it possible for me to do.—Whittliaga
—4,—
out by the manner in which the union was carried."
from the West.
CURACY WITH A TITLE WANTED.—The Advertiser is
On Monday forenoon the Irish Felon and the Irish
DISEASE AND THE REMEDY
the say it with deliber-
a Divinity Student. He is married, and has had much
Tribune published extra editions, containing accounts of
ation and firm conviction. that the intelligent physician'
experience as a District Visitor. He wishes to be use-
the new arrests under the Treason Felony Act. In con-
can, in the immense majority of cases of disease which have
fully employed, and does not object to any amount of
of this renewed attempt at publication, crowds
sequence
come to a successful termination under the treatment oft.
necessary duty. He would not object to a stipend of
collected in Trinity-street, in front of the offices of those £so.—Address
hydropaths, homeeopaths, and the like, clearly distinguisa
B. A., Bootle Post-office, Liverpool.
journals. The newsvenders were selling the papers very
which of the three—the tendency to a spontaneous favour-
In the Court of Arches, on Tuesday, Mr. Toiler stated
rapidly amongst the crowd, when the police interposed,
able termination, the effect of diet and regimen, or the ha
he authorised, the partof the Bishop of
that was on
and deprived some of the venders of the papers they car-
fluence of the imagination—bas been the cause of cure.
Exeter, togive an absolute appearance to the monition,
tied. In some instances, it is stated, persons who had . .
It may perhaps be said, if the imagination have so povver-
directed to the Bishop, at tote suit
purchased copies of the Tribune or Felon were compelled
ful a control over disease, and if, as is undoubtedly the
institute him to the account of his lordship's refusal to
to give them up, the police writing the names of the
case, the quack can influence it (for he holds out hope of
Vicarage of Bramford Speke.
•of the papers. Loud remonstran
owners on the margin -
cos were made against the proceedings of the police, who
certaine former after all a benefit to society. Teis is, how-
sequently a large number of copies of the Tribune were relief to all) more than the regular physician, then
endeavoured to clear the footways of the streets. Sub- EXTRAORDINARY NARRATIVE.
ii t
ever a very superficial saying. The quack holds out hope
distributed gratuitously amongst the crowd. The police
to all, and a minority recover. But what becomes of the
again interposed, but many of the crowd succeeded in
many, whose expectations have been raised but to be
running off with the papers.
crushed, when they find that they have bartered the pos-
sibility of a recovery, and the undoubted assurance of re-
stion, , __,
_.
~,„,e,„ ,e„e, „, d nerformed by lof yesterday, has a biting article on THE IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY
the present The Times
position
lief from pain, or at any rate comparative ease, for the'
impossible boastings of a charlatan ? Is not the dejec-
tion and the misery they and their friends now expert'
ence far greater than the temporary hopes they inconsi-
derately cherished ? Nor is this all the evil. If, as many
learned and cautious men who have had every opportunity
of forming an opinion believe, and if, as men similarly
situated have believed for centuries, regular medicine pos-
sesses the power of prolonging life,
of shortening disease,
and of alleviating pain,—if this, we say, be true, 1101
cruel is it to depi ive those whose lives are in danger, whose
strength is prostrated by sickness, or whose bodies are
racked by pain, of the remedies provided for them ? And
yet this is what every system of quackery does. We had
proposed to make a few remarks upon animal magnetism•
The tales that have been and are told about clairvoyance,
prophesying, and the like, are just so many falsehoods.
But that by its practices so many per cent. of ordinal%
people can be thrown into a state of insensibility, or, if
numbers be present, be made unconsciously to do very
extraordinary things, is true enough. We purposed, how-
ever, showing that this ordinary somnambulism, the state
described in some religious books as reverie, spectral illu-
sions, and many other extraordinary mental phenomena'
are in accordance with known general principles of mental
philosophy. Want of space, however, forbids this. 011
the many melancholy disasters produced in this world bY
quackery—the mourning mother, the curtailed domestic
circle, the young widow, the starving orphan, and the like •
—we will not dwell. We began by saying that the two
great causes of quackery are ignorance and presumption;
Both are surely great crimes. A man who is ignorant or
that which he ought to know—the ploughman how t.°
make his furrows, the railway-driver how to manage his
engine, the statesman how to rule (at least in those hal
countries where rule is still committed to statesmen), an
every one how to conduct himself in the stateof life to which
he is called, as a man of common sense, of honesty !lr
e
honour, and as a moralist and a Christian—has deserted!:
great trust committed to him, and has incurred a deePllf
sponsibility. But there is a crime greater than that
_.
ignorance, and that is presumption. A landsman will t
venture to steer a ship, nor does a man unacquainted with..
otiv,o
mechanics presume to govern an engine or a locom '
Yet thousands who know nothing of medicine rush Into
the arena of medical strife as judges—for it is notorionre
that the grand promoters of various forms of quackell%e
lay-admirers, busy-bodies who know nothing of mediclic
—and we may safely say that these individuals commit
more havoc, destroy more human happiness, and crush
more of that singular bounty, human life, than if of the
ship in the navy were committed to the mercies 0-
every
waves with only lunatics at the helm or than if of
railway were driven by the wildest of the inhabitants e,
Bedlam. When we think of the conduct of such Pro
sumptuous people, let us hope that either their ale
caon,
constitution is originally so feeble. or that vanity and
ar
ceit have so unconsciously crept upon them, that they.sb,e not morally answerable for all the misery, and angal 1
and woe that they cause.—Fraser's Magazine. ' _ '

METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER,
BY MR. C. H. CHADBURN 71, LORD-STREE.•--4

Daily Direc-
tion
of
nd

Humidity all Fall

I registering Difference -:---e
of °f I ----;7:
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N N•W 2,5

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ft-L..0 ~,w Litmus to
j ),,, •.wi—i
within a short distance of his own house, rolled off the 16 I —s
hay, and fell with violence to the ground, and was carried 17s 30'24 30•21 ' 1 -71....L::2-----
discover that relative, who was presumed by all to be in-
Mtl
fallibly stwviving in unbounded wealth and grandeur.
~ —14111:
but the fairy .ratan sent word that "his doom was sealed.
home insensible. On Sunday "he was himself again ;" 71'n E WEATIIIM—it th : bright.-12th : ditt0.—c.0......0th.
cloud and sun : night, rain.-15th : tizi
One woman, with the constancy of her ser, actually dc-
soted her life' to the search, and was known in London es ,,,- , -
Alight rain, bright,—)7th : cloud and sun.
On A'uolloa.Y.. ue 10th, an effusion of the serum of the