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was reduced to 300 f, by the Tednction of two-thirds of the POLITICAL MISCELLANY. A brigantine named the Despatch, laden with deals, and
national debt by the law of the 9th Vencle niaire, the work —.— bound to Clovelly, from Prince Edward's Island was
UNITED STATES. of the great financiere Carnhon, so much admired by M. It is odd enough that the meeting arliament is fixed driven ashore on Thursday at Lynny Head, on the Welsh
The. British and North American mail steamer Cambria L dru Rollin, and for this sum o 300 f. he now receives, for the first day of February, for the despatch of busi- coast ; and four out of the five men who formed her crew
arrived at. Liverpool on Wednesday. She left New York at end has continued to do so for several years past, an an- ness,—being the exact day that the repeal of the corn- were drowned, as their boat, to which they had betaken
noon on the 6th instant. The cholera had made its ap- null income of 30,000 f. (41,200) from the Tontine La- laws comes into operation. - themselves, was swamped among the breakers.
pearance on hoard the packet New York from Havre on Large. On Tuesday evening a meeting of electors was held in A few days since, a baker living at Boston, in Lincoln-
her passage to- New York. She had been placed in qua- the Town Hall, Little Bolton, to afford an opportunity to shire, pulled up the floor of his warehouse, in order to de-
rantine. Out of eighteen cases fourteen were fatal ; it THE BISHOP OF CAPE TOWN AND THE KAFIR Sir Joshua WalmsleY to explain his political opinions to stroy the rats which infested the place ; and to his astse,
was centined, however, to the steerage passengers of that CHIEFS. the electors generally.
nishment he discovered that the vermine had accumulated
ship. The New York canals were to be closed on tht At an interview held lately between Sir Harry Smith A CHRISTMAS Box.—The reformers of Bradford have a winter's store of no less than six pecks of potatoes, came
9th instaet. Congress met on the 4th, and the Presi- and the chiefs of the Kafirs, his excellency, after other presented Mr. Roebuck with the pattern of a-coat, of true fully packed in rows, and mixed alternately with earth.
dent's Mesenee was sent in next day. It is very long, business had been transacted, said to them : blue, dyed in the wool, as a compensation for "his manly EVADING PAYMENT OF TOLL.—A respectable farmer.
and contains hut little of Europ, an interest. The Post- " Here is the Bishop of Cape Town, who rode nineteen conduct in the House of Commons." A more suitable residing not a hundred miles from the town of Cambridge.
master-General's Report. says nothing of postal arrange- miles yesterday on purpose to De at this meeting. He has gift could scarcely be offered to a seedy patriot. has recently introduced a neat band-cart, which can be
merits with Great Britain. He recommends a uniform been sent out Ly the good people of England to teach you The Globe states that Mr. Talbot Baines, Q.C., is to used for various agricultural purposes. It was seen dur-
rate of domestic postage of five cents and of fifteen cents Cie religion of the Queen of England. This is the man succeed Mr. Buller as chairman of the Poor-law Board. ing the past week, heavily laden with wheat straw, and
per eall ounce for foreign letters, the franking privileges that teaches me the way to salvation, and has come to see Mr. Baines is brother to Mr. Edward Baines, of the drawn by two of his sturdy labourers, to pass through the
to be abolished. Official papers confirm the report of what he can do for you in teaching you the way to he Leeds Mercury, but has no sympathy in that gentleman's pike toll free, to the astonishment of the gate-keeper.
discoveries of gold in California. Late accounts from Christians. This is the great chief of teachers, yet still anti-education crotchets. A clergyman in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, having refused
Porto Rico :represent that island to be in constant fear of a regards the smallest child and the meanest man, who is The Hon. E. H. Stanley was on Friday elected for baptism to the child of a schoolmaster, the case went the
servile revolt. . good and is a Christian, with the same regard as the ' In- Lynn. The hon. gentleman was opposed by a Chartist run of the Church Courts, and ended in the baptism of
kosi Inkulu.' He wishes to establish schools for the edu- named Dixon ; but, at the last moment, the latter declined the child. The schoolmaster then instituted a civil an-
INDIA. cation of your children. Can none of you assist any way ? to go to the poll, although the mayor announced the show tion : and, in absence, the Lord Ordinary found the de-
The overland mail reached London on Tuesday. Can none give a calf or a little corn ? Shall your daugh- of hands in his favour. Mr. Stanley is at present travel- fendant liable to £5OO damages personally, and £l5OO in
On the Ist there had been some sharp skirmishing he- ters go about naked, and lie about in idleness in the ling in America. conjunction with his Kirk-Session. In the mean time,
twixt Moolrej's men and ours. The brigades of Colonels bushes, like calves? [The Governor here addressed him- THE DAILY NEWS.—It is said that Mr. Bright, M.P., the clergyman has commenced a new suit against the
Godby and Eckford, and the cavalry under Brigadier"- self to Jan Tzatzoe.] Have you nothing to say !—Yon and two or three other persons, have bought the Daily schoolmaster's wife, for non-attendance at church.
General Cureton, have been ordered up from Ferozepore have been in England, seen the great world there, and News. Mr. George Wilson, the chairman of the late SUICIDIK OF A BOY.—A boy of the name of Keen, aged
and pushed across the Ravt e just above Lahore. The you saw that no man there eats the bread of idleness? Anti-Corn-Law League, is to be manager in conjunction sixteen, committed self-murder by hanging on Tuesday.
force musters in all 7,000 men with 24 guns-3,000 cavalry And yet, fool ! you dared to join with the Kafirs against with Mr. Dilcke, the present editor. The paper is to be It appears that he bad offered, on the previous day, some
and 4,000 ittlanrry. Brigadier 'Wheeler was about to cress the power of the Queen. Have you anything to say to made the full size of the London morning journals, and old iron for sale to a blacksmith, who, suspecting it to be
about twenty miles higher up the river. The enemy the bishop for furtherance of education among your coon- the price is to be advanced from 31d. to sd, stol6, refused to buy it until he had seem, the boy's mas
evactiated both the forts he was sent to capture, and they trymen ?" Many of our readers must remember that at the time of ter. The boy went in the morning as usual to tend his
were accordingly occupied and destroyed by us. Troops Jan Tzatzoe.—" The bishop is a great and wise man. the absurd and insane expedition to Boulogne, the Times master's cows, and not coming home at the usual time
have been seat up from Perez, pore to take the place of and the great chief has already remarked that lam a fool. sneered, jeered, and scoffed at Louis Napoleon, and set at night, his father went to seek him, and found him sus-
those advanced—the Lahore garrison remains untouched. How, therefore, can I give any advice upon this subject ? him
,down as a drivelling idiot; and upon the occasion of
pended from a beam in the barn.— Worcester Journal. The Jamoo contingent, despatched by Goolab Singh, But we certainly require teaching to remove our igno- this election the Times has all along ridiculed his preten- As in 1832, the cholera seems to be more malignant in
under Colonel Steiebech, was moving on the Jhelum, ranee. The bishop will best know 'how to accomplish sions, until it became manifest that his success was cer- Dumfries than in any other part of Scotland. Perhaps
the peculiar sanatory state of the town may account for
about twenty miles north-west of the fort of Rhotas, this." min ; and then, hey ! presto ! the Times all at once pros-
some,lso mites from Peshawur, and about as much from The Governor.—" The bishop wishes to speak a few Crates itself before the rising sun, and discovers that Louis this. The river Nith runs through it on one side, and
Lahore. We have at present nearly 28.000 troops within words." Napoleon is " a marvellous proper man." on the other, but at a greater distance, is the large swamp
the territories of Dhuleep Singh, and shall, before this The Bishop.—" Chieftains, lam glad to meet you all The long promised consolidation of the Boards of Ex- Locher Moss ;whilst, worse than either, there is no water
reaches England, have at least 36'.000 beyond the Satlej here this day. As the great chief has told you, I rode cise and Stamps and Taxes into one Board of Internal brought into the town except by carts. The disease is
and Betas, with about 30,000 auxiliaries. Some 30,000 yesterday all the way from Graham's Town, that I might Revenue has just been completed ; though an act of Par- , said to be prevalent amongst others than the lower ranks,
regulars are on our not th-west frontier. The total nuts- he present at this meeting, of which I only heard the day hament will be required to carry out the new arrangement. and many have deserted the place. The medical officer
her of Sikh 'malcontents egaiest whom this vast army has before. I am, as you have been told, the bishop of the The Commissioners will be reduced from 12 to 7, though of the Board of Health has lett Edinburgh for Dumfries.
been caibti our, cannot, at time highest estimate, exceed English Church in this part of the world—of that Church for the present, and till a vacancy occurs, there will be-8. A prisoner in the Brixton House of Co.rection made a
33,000. Sciatic continues healthy and quiet. to which our Queen belongs, and I with now to assure It is unnecessary to observe Lunt money will be saved .by daring attempt. to escape lust Friday. Assisted by a
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tination on the 28th, and immediately set about making
preparations for attacking the fort. However, the rebels
surrendered at discretion. Lord Dalhousie was expected
at Behares on the 6,h, front which place his lordship was
to proceed to Meerut and Urn hall.

am ready to assist you in this good work, for I feel that
by education your own peace and happiness will be greatly

SIR JOSHUA WALMSLEY'S' POLITICS.-Sir Joshua is,
notwithstanding his affected refusal on Tuesday night to
promise to vote for " the Charter," a thorough-going
Chartist. Universal Suffrage—Vote by Ballot—Trien-
nial Parliaments—Electoral Districts,—there we have all

here lie was observed by the officers, and
was hemmed in. On the top of the wall are loose bricks;
these he began to hurl at the turnkeys. As he refused to
yield, a musket charged with powder only was fired several
times; this had no effect in terrifying him ; so the musket
was loaded with small shot, and the charge lndged in hic,

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promoted. I am also most anxious to send amongst you
ministers of God, who may teach you the way of life, and
bring you to the knowledge of the true God, and Jesus

the points of the Charter, but one (paid members), and
Sir Joshua considers them all " indispensable." True
it is that there is also a rather irreconcilable declaration
that he believes " a return to those constitutional rights
of which time, apathy, and misrule have been permitted
to deprive us, is the only means calculated to give stability
to the throne, and peace and contentment to the people,"
and which declaration will bear reading by the light of
the highest Toryism. But Sir Joshua intends it for quite
a different signification. He means to be a Chartist.
He thinks as a Chartist—speaks as a Chartist—feels, and
will act as a Chartist. And he goes further, for he
adds the impossible penuriousness of Hume, the imprac-
ticabilities of Cobden, and the " retrenchment" folly of
Bright, to the dangerous theories of the Charter.—Bol-
ton Chronicle.

was carried to the

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THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
PROCLAMATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THI

way to promote your own happiness in this world, and in
that which is to come, is by becoming Christians—by re-
ceiving as your Lord and your God that blessed Saviour

• • •
TiE HAUNTED • CHAMBER !—ln the house at Ham-
green belonging to Philip Miles, Esq., is an apartment
which has long had the reputation of being haunted,—
noises, &c., proceeding, as alleged, therefrom. It has
been hitherto locked, but on Mr. Miles lately taking pos-
session the door was forced, and on exploring a secret
recess in one corner, the ghost or ghosts (for there were
two) appeared in the shape of two old boxes, which on
being touched fell to pieces, and there emerged to the
light two massive pieces of plate, videlicet, a solid silver
candelabra and a salver of the same metal. Nobody
knows anything about them.—Hereford Journal.
GAS METER FOR THE HOUSES OF PARLIA.4ENT.—
This machine, which is to be placed in the New Palace
at WestmitArter, is an almost stupendous piece of mecha-
nism, being upwards of 10 feet in height and 20 feet in
circumference or girth ; it is in form a hexagon, the de-
signs are in the Gothic manner, and in exact keeping with
the interior of the new Houses of Parliament, so that it
is an ornamental as well as a useful addition to them, and
ought to be placed so as to be seen by the public. The
machine weighs four tons, and is of capacity to pass 10,000
feet of gas per hour, and of supplying 2,000 lights with,
according to calculation, the loss of only half a tenth of
pressure ; at which pressure it will work with the greatest
ease.

THE PAST AND THE PRESENT.—If we can survey
Europe and its mighty convulsions with an equanimity
worthy the Red Indian, who moves not. a muscle whilst

3im in agony, it will scarc.dy be supposed
,at the small changes which occur from day to day at home
can produce even an ordinary excitement in our severely
schooled minds. A year ago friend Bright appeared on
the hustings in the West-Riding of Yorkshire, and so
vociferously cheered was the gentleman that you would
have thought the spirit of Bedlam was moved to do the
Quaker honour. He shows himself on the same place to-
day to be screamed at like a dog on a race-course. En-
gland has had its revolution, though not accompanied,
thank God, with loss of blood, or life, or throne. We
should like to see the man who would have had the pluck
to oppose Mr. Richard Cobden in 1847, upon the ground
that tree• trade, as carried on at present, may be nothing
better than a delusion and a sham, and that protection,
under given circumstances; is a principle founded in equity
and reason. This was before our revolution; after it we
have Air. Denison not only telling Radicals that he will
stand no more free-trade till he can get something like
reciprocity from our neighbours, but asserting downright
Toryism with deafening acclamations. The West-Riding
scared opposition in 1847, and won the election of Mr.
Richard Cobden by a coup de main. _ In 1848, opposition
not only

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A HOUSEKEEPING CLUB.—AU association of individuals,
consisting chiefly of attorneys, clerks in government offi-
ces, professional men, officers on half-pay, &c., is now
being formed in the metropolis, to obviate the necessity of
purchasing articles of food or other domestic necessaries
from shopkeepers. They propose to establish a common
larder and store, managed by servants in a similar way to
the large club houses, with a manager to purchase for
the common stock at sales and wholesale houses, each
member to be supplied at cost price. It is calculated that
in addition to a pure and wholesome article, members
will effect a saving of X5O per cent. (;) in household ex-
penses. Great numbers of persons have already joined
this novel club.

..,spears, but carries everything before it. Mr.
Denison won't cut off a single pension," he " won't
vote against the Queen Dowager's £lOO,OOO ;" he "won't
vote against the King of Hanover's pension." He is
" not in favour of a more equalised system of taxation ;"
he •` will not abolish Church-rates ;" he " will not vote
for the abolition of the Navigation-laws ;" he " will not
support a Bill for the Emancipation of the Jews ;" he
" willpopose the endowment of the Romish clergy," on
" the ground of the errors of their faith and doctrine ;"
yet he is received with open arms, is the popular candi-
date, and what is more, whilst we write, is making his
way as fast as he can, to the top of the poll, leaving a
free-trade rival, and an out-and-out Liberal, hundreds or
behind him.—John Bull.

UNFOUNDED CHARGE.—Baron de Sanlier and Marie
Delonie have been in custody, in London, on a charge of
being possessed of about £4,000 worth of jewellery and
other valuable property , which belonged to the Count de
Ncuilly, when king. Amongst the articles were some
valuable shawls, one of which was on the point of being
sold for £5OO The prisoners declared that the property
had been legally purchased in Paris. The case was ad-
journed, and the accused liberated on bail. On Satur-
day the case was again brought forward, when the whole
charge was withdrawn, it having been satisfactorily shown
that the articles, though resembling some formerly pos-
sessed by Louis Philippe,i were not his property. A
custom-house-officer, however, seized all the goods as not
-having pain attry.

IMPORTANT TO MANUFACTURERS.—A case of much
importance, as affecting the rights of individuals manu-
facturing peculiar articles, in cases where the same are
not insured by patent right, was heard at the Wakefield
County Court, on Thursday se'nnight. It appeared that
Mr. Seal is a scythe and whetstone manufacturer, and
had placed a libel upon his scythe-stones, similar to that
used by Messrs. Woodwards, lessees of the Talacre Stone
Quarries, Wales, thereby depreciating the price of the
company's stones. A verdict for the plaintiff was found
damages, £5 and costs. The judge considered this
amount very slight, and gave leave for the plaintiffs to
take out a new trial, which was accepted.
A CHURCH STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.—A remarkable
instance of escape from the storm occurred on Wednesday
week. Pelynt Church, near Exeter, stands in the centre
of its village green, and is almost surrounded by houses.
At four o'clock a flood of rain drove the various labourers
employed in the neighbourhood of the church within their
dwellings, and in one instant the pinnacle of the church,
on which was fixed the vane, was struck by lightning,
and large masses of granite were violently projected in
every direction. One mass struck the handle of the
shovel that the labourer had that instant dropped. An-
other glanced by him as he was entering his door, and
some idea may be formed of the danger to which the
neighbours were exposed from the fact that one teas of
granite, forming half the base of the pinnac'e, and weigh-
ing 7511 b., wag thrown against the wall of a cottage,
while a part weighing 3016. just cleared the roof, and fell,
at a distance of 276 feet, in an adjoining field. Another
mass fell close to the national school, in which were sixty
children, and broke through the wall of the garden.
Another weighing 2471 b. fell in quite an opposite direc-
tion' at a distance of 247 feet, ploughing up the ground,
and bounding 50 feet from the place where it fell.
THE NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT.—The second public ex-
perimental exhibition of the new electric light took place
on Tuesday night, upon the raised steps forming the
entrance to the National Gallery and the Royal Acade-
my. There was a large attendance of scientific gentle-
men. Upon the summit of the steps a kind of easel was
raised, beneath which were placed the battery and a small
lamp. About A foot above the battery was the light pro-
duced burning upon two pieces of charcoal, backed by a
single tin reflector, and the light enclosed within a glass
case. The light produced was of a most powerful cha-
racter. The easel on which the machinery was suspended
admitted of being turned about, and as its position was
altered, objects within several hundred yards' distance
were rendered as clearly visible as in the light of day,
and persons at a considerable distance beyond the Nelson
column were enabled to read a newspaper distinctly. The
patentee stated that the light would be particularly appli-
cable for lighthouses, and added that the light then ex-
hibiting (the expense of which would not exceed a half-
penny an hour), if placed at an altitude with the reflector
above it, would perfectly illuminate an area of ten miles
in circumference, and that it would be possible b produce
a light which w/Juld illuminate an area of 100 miles.
EXTRAORDINARY ACCOUCIIEMENT.—Last Friday night,
between 11 and 12 o'clock, as a man and his wife, vendors
of salt, were on their way home, through Hanbury
Forest-lane, the poor woman was taken in labour. There
was no shelter near, the night was very inclement, rain
falling in torrents, and in,these circumstances there was
no other course left to the man than to lay his suffering
wife by the road side, and to proceed two miles to Feckenham
for surgical aid. Accordingly he hastened there, and
returned with a surgeon, by whose assistance the poor
woman was safely delivered about 1 o'clock. To add to
the indescribable misery of the occurrence, the wretched
mother had not a rag of clothing for her babe—thus born
in the damp grass, with a tempestuous wintry sky for its
only covering. It was between 9 and 10 o'clock the next
morning before any nourishment was procured for the
poor woman ; and, strange to say, no effort to remove
her seems to have been made. A farmer in the neigh-
bourhood sent some straw for her to lie upon, and there
she remained till a brook rising, four days afterwards,
threatened to wash this miserable bed from under her !
This was the poor creature's first child, and she had once
seen better days. After paying for medical assistance,
the unfortunate couple were left with sixpence, their sole
pecuniary resource.—Worcester Herald.
SEVERE GALE AND Loss OF LIFE.—The effects of the
heavy gale of wind on Friday have been very destructive
to property in various parts of the city, and several narrow
escapes appear to have been made by different parties
from imminent danger by the fall of chimney-cans, &c.
In West Register-street a large signboard fell with great
violence upon the street, having been detached by the
wind, and a boy who was passing at the time escaped most
serious injury by a hairbreadth, the corner of the signboard
having knocked off the heel of his shoe, without othe: wise
hurting him. The debris of chimney cans, slates, and
lime, which lay on the streets on Saturday morning,
showed the destructive nature of the gale ; and in the
High-street the night-watchman near the cross made a
narrow escape from a chimney-can which fell at his feet.
The destruction of window-glass is very extensive ; in
almost every house exposed to the fury of the gale, nu-
merous panes were broken, and the cupolas and windows
on the roofs of houses were so shattered and broken, that
it was found efficult to obtain glaziers in the course of
Saturday to replace them. In St. Bernard's-crescent
two large trees were blown down, by one of which sixteen
Panes of glass were broken, and the other having block-
aded the door of the house against which it fell, all com-
munication was prevented till some sawyers and labourers
were procured to cut a passage through the branches. A
young girl, between four and five years of age, while
amusing herself in Rose-street, was instantaneously killed
by the falling of a tile from the roof of one of the houses.
—Edinburgh Post.

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