The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-01 00:00:00

:70REIGN 6- COLONIAL INTELLIGENC

THE STEAM-SHIP 'WASHINGTON.

AMERICA. (From the 'Halifax Morning Post.)
The Caledonia steam-ship, which arrived here on Sa- Our commercial circles were startled yesterday morn-
turday, brings advices from New York to the 14th ult., • ing by the report of a large steamer, bearing American
Boston to the 15th, and Halifax to the 17th ult., and has colours, being off the harbour. She came to Cunard's
brought £37,000 on freight. Wharf at half-past nine o'clock, and proved to be the
The intelligence from the various States is unimportant. United States' steamer, Washington.
From Mexico we learn that President Anaya had ordered ' The Washington left Southampton the day after the
that.no election should be held in any part of the republic Caledonia, (which vessel arrived here on Monday morn-
vecumed by the United States troops. ing• week, in fifteen-and-a-half -days, and sailed at eight
The New Orleans Picayune states that a report was o'clock the same morning for Boston.) The Washington
circulating in that city to the effect, that commissioners, encountered a series of very heavy gales, which dislocated
empowered by Anaya, had actually arrived there. The some of her machinery, stove her wheel-house, and thus
Picayune says that they believe the report to be correct. protracted her passage even to this • port to twenty-one
It also says that the commissioners appeared afraid to and-a-half days. She put in to refit and take a fresh
prOceed to Washington as long as Santa Anna remained supply of coals, and starts this evening or to-morrow.
in the country. ABSTRACT FROM THE LOG.
It is further stated that commissioners, authorized by Sunday, Dec. 12th : left Southampton this afternoon
President Anaya, were in the city of Mexico charged with and, ran down Channel ; set in rain and gale from the
instructions to enter into negotiations for peace. south. Monday, 20th : Heavy gales from south. At
General Scott had issaed an order announcing that the, ten, pan., the Start Point bore north at twelve miles dis-
'United States army is about to spread over and occupy tance. Tuesday, 21st : Blowing a heavy gale and head
the whole republic of Mexico, and that it will hold pos- sea from N.W. Wednesday, 22d.: Ditto. Thursday,
session until Mexico sues for peace, upon acceptable terms, 23d : Light winds and pleasant. Friday, 24th : Set in
to the United States. All fines heretofore payable to the with heavy gale from N.W., and heavy head sea. Satur-
Mexican government are demanded to aunnort the Tinitpd -n_

h breeze

Fresh breeze

Monday

o, wher

Necchia

Feb. 1, 1848.

sy an application to that Court for a mandamus. H • DENSE FOG AT: GLASGOW.—During the early part el
third objection was, that if opposition had been made to last week Glasgow was visited with a fog so dense that e°
the proceedings of the Court at the confirmation, and if object could be seen at the distance of more than a fell
it was to be contended that the Court had not competent feet. The inhabitants do not recollect its equal for twenty
jurisdiction to refuse to hear the opposers, remedy might years past. On Monday and Tuesday so dark was theek
have been obtained under the provisions of the Church mosphere that no steamers ventured up or down the
Discipline Act. Certainly the Court of Queen's Bench Clyde. The frost was at the same time excessively keel!'
had no more right or authority to inquire into and try the thermometer being below zero. On Wednesday, we
this case than it had to try offences which clearly came air was again clear.
under the decision of the Ecclesiastical Courts. And SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.—The public will learn Wi
his fourth and last objection was, that under the whole great satisfaction that the admiralty have lost no time in
of the circumstances of the present case there was no meeting the wishes of the government and the public'
ground whatever to justify that Court in granting a generally, by providing superior ships, and selecting ues
mandamus.
efficient officer to command the perilous enterprise el
The Solicitor-General followed on the same side, as searching for this gallant officer—the distinguished Coe'
did also Mr. M. D. Hill • the latter quoted the opinion of Sir James Clark Ross, who returned about four
that
Blackstone, that the statute of Henry the Eighth vested since upon a polar voyage—and who is the nephew of that
the election of a bishop in the Crown. other celebrated arctic voyager, Captain Sir John RuE'''
On Tuesday, Mr- M. D. Cr Dr. Bayford, and Mr.
Waddington, were heard against the rule and in support C. 8., in whom the most unanimous confidence will be
reposed as a most experienced navigator.
of the argument that the Court of Queen's Bench had GOVERNESSES.—At the last selection of annuitants
,Y,
no jurisdiction in the matter. Dr. Addams spoke at great the Governesses Institution, in London, there were N
length in support of the rule, contending that the Dean candidates for three annuities of £l5 each-84 ladle,
and Chapter were not bound to elect the person named many reared in affluence, and all accustomed to the coo'
in the letters missive, under the penalty of prtemunire, the forts and luxuries of at least our middle ranks, all seeldt
only penalty attaching to the act of the Dean and Chap- an annuity of £l5 ! Of these, 70 were unmarried, all
ter-in the election of any other person being that of the of this number 7 had incomes above £2O, two deriveu
appointment by the crown, by letters patent, of such from public institutions ; 16 had incomes varying five
person as they might name. If the Dean and Chapter 365. to £l4 ; and 47 had absolutely nothing ! It will be
had elected some other person instead of Dr. Hampden recollected (say the committee) that all these ladies are
to the see of Hereford, could it be maintained that they above 50 years of age; and of the utterly destitute 0
would be liable to prxmunire ? Would not the person were above 60.
so elected have been bishop to all intents and purposes? AWFUL EVENT AND Loss or Lira.—On Saturday, fit
The learned doctor then proceeded to read, at considerable Stirchley, a company of men and boys were being let down
length, several authorities, for the purpose of showing into one of the pits, when one of those destructive and
that
bishop the authority of
was the
not sovereign,
extensivea" as was con- a " runner"--that is the chain flew off the arrel, au',
tended for by the counsel about making the rule absolute. precipitated them all, to the bottom ;by whicbh
dreadful
The learned counsel had not concluded the citin of these
g occurrence three poor boys have been killed in a moment.
authorities when the court rose at half-past four o'clock. There were about sixteen men anbos in the hains, and
On Wednesday, Mr. Addams resumed his argument.
several of them have been more or less injured c .
The three
and in answer to the argument on the other side, that 1 boys were in the centre of the group upon whom the
the proceedings of the election, confirmation, &c., were 1 chains fell, and they were killed almost instateneouslys.-
all " a show and a shadow," the appointment actually I Shrewsbury Journal.
I
vesting in the Crown, suggested that the Solicitor-General PRICE OF WHEAT.—It was precisely at this time last
should bring
to be in a bill t
con ti o abolish such
that useless ce d
remonies ; year that wheat made a sudden jump of 12s. on the er'
or, they were nued,woulbring in a The price of wheat is at present less by 20s. than it 1%1'4
bill fixing future confirmations for the first of April, so in the corresponding week of 1847. The Cambridge
that the old story of making April fools might be carried returns for Saturday last gave it at 49s.per quarter • far
out to the letter.—Mr. H. S. Stephens, Mr. Peacock, and the same week in 1847 it was 725. havingp
'n the pr'evi-
Mr. Baddely followed on the same side, and the further ous week of that year, been only. 60s. Evi en then the
consideration of the case was adjourned to Thursday. foundations were being laid of the recent tumble dovre
On Thursday, Mr. Baddely again appeared in support panic. The bubble was already swelling out into those
of the rule for a mandamus. Sir F. Kelly then followed overstrained proportions which eventually yielded to the
on the same side; after which the Attorney-General re- first breath of disappointment, and burst
with a loud ex-
plied at some length to the arguments of the counsel in PI FATAL
paper.
support of the rule, and concluded by imploring their lord- FATAL EXCURSIoN.—A very sudden event occurred on
ships, as early as was consistent with the importance of the Humber on Monday. The deceased are two young,
the ouestion, to intimate the opinion of the court upon it. men'
ra
both clerks in the office of Mr. George Camel!, of
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The Queen Dowager has sent £lOO for the relief of the
Spitalfields weavers. tbwere
The other night a fisherman off Maryport caught no ment they ran foul of a schooner off the Citadel, their boar
fewer than 6700 herrings. filled with water, and sunk with them in it. The/ never
A steam-ship arrived last week from Boulogne has rose to the surface.
brought a cage of live foxes, consigned to order. WALES.—By the great outcry in letters and leaders, in
An anniversary festival is about to be held at Dundee the liberal press of the Principality, we assure, e that the
in honour of James Watt. Lord Kinnaird will preside. Dissenters begin to have some fear of losing their hold of
It is said that the Postmaster-General intends to close this paradise of sectarian doctrines. The London
the Post-office on a Sunday, in such towns as a majority Examiner has called it the British Bceotia, though it has
of the inhabitants shall declare a wish to that effect. never produced a Pindar or a Plutarch. The only excuse
In the London Gazette on Tuesday last, no less than for this nickname is the silly replies of scholars and school-
thirty-six bankruptcies were named ; and in the Friday's, masters to the questions of the Education Commissioners;
ys, one twenty-six more; making sixty-two in one week. but let them put the same questions to the schoolmasters
---,an o. A few days since, a number of boys were skating on a of the rural districts and villages of Northamptonshire,
' mill dam near Halifax, when the ice gave way, and four Gloucestershire, and a dozen other counties, and they will
of them were drowned. find the same abundance of wiseacres. The Whigs have
It is stated that the celebrated Whitfield was born in been the chief aids of the Dissenters, in extending their
the house, the Bell Inn, at Gloucester, in which the pre- influence in Wales ; and now they complain of the igno-
sent Bishop of Exeter first saw the light. ranee they helped to propogate and extend.
On Saturday week, a man and two boys were descend- BURGLARIES AND MURDEROUS ATTACR.—Recentlyy,.
ing a colliery, in Parr, when the rope broke and the three the rectory of Lea was broken into, and plate, amounting
fell to the bottom of the shaft, and were instantly killed, to upwards of £3O in value, taken therefrom. The par-,
Mr. Nunn, who was prosecuted by the Society for the sonage houses of Laughton and Blyton have, also, been
prevention of cruelty to animals, for riding his horse, for plundered ; and the vicarage of South Leverton has been
a wager, from Leamington to London, gave £5O to the ransacked, and the whole of the plate packed up, but for--
Sinceoey, afr deducting the fine. tunately the burglars were disturbed before they had
the general flag promotion in November, 1846, no opportunity of taking it away. We have now to record
an-
fewer than twenty admirals have died, and three retired another attempton the rectoryof Saundby,which had partly
rear-admirals. Nine admirals on the active list have died succeeded ; but through the determined spirit of Mr. Hud--
within the last three weeks. son, and his capital defence of his house and person, the'
MURDER.—A small farmer, named William Howell, burglars have not been successful, but on the contrary, one-
living at Llanellen, has died from arsenic being adminis_ of the guilty party, at least, was captured. He turns out
tered, and a verdict of wilful murder has been returned to be a returned convict, named Joseph Palmer, alite‘'
against his wife, and against James Price as an accomplice. " Duddy Palmer," a native of Clarborough, with
whom/
A very numerous meeting was held in Newcastle-on- from all we can learn, were three other guilty associates,
Tyne, on Wednesday, with a view to prevent that port who are still at large. Palmer was brought up on Wcd-
being deprived of Custom-house facilities, and brought ' nesday week at Redford, when, after a long examination,
within the range of North Shields. he was remanded. Mr. Hudson, whose face was covered.
SOAP TRADE.—In the 'Excise Covrt, on Thursday, with blood, was well enough to give evidence before his
John Renton, of Walworth, was convicted of fraud in his brother magistrates. The shirt he had on whilst engaged
business as a soap manufacturer, was fined £lOOO, and all in the affray was exhibited, and presented one mass of
his stock was condemned.—Sophia Bertram, convicted of blood. A gun, the stock of which had been broken into
making soap without a license, was fined £4OO. three pieces ; a life-preserver, heavily charged with lead ;-
ORANGE PEEL.—FATAL ACCIDENT.—On the 9th inst., and a bludgeon, partially covered with blood, which the
a female named Sophia Martin, slipped at Clifton through burglars had left on the premises, were also produced.---,
treading on some orange peel; and sustained a compound Hull Packet.
dislocation of the thumb. Lock jaw set in, and she soon EAST INDIA SHIPPING.—The East India and China'
died.
Association have published their annual compa"tfvei
Last week, knownaboils_at Smith Shiolda_oinilo sa qtatement nf the aurn6or vf British-shim -wise- their)
poor idiot mu, as " Billy Cowans," drunk, and tonnage, which have entered inwards and cleared out-
filled his pockets with squibs. They went off and set him wards from and to places within the limits of the East
on fire, burning hire in a severe manner. The offenders India Company's Charter in the years 1846 and 1847•
in parish pries, earned divine then have not been found out.
The return of shipping entered inwards shows a total
goes on to state, that in the time of Henry VIII., the On Saturday, the directors of the new South-Western increase, in favour of 1847, of 150 vessels, with 66,543,
monasteries were dissolved, and the then existing revenues Steam Navigation Company made a trial of their ship the I tonnage, the respective numbers being 852 vessels, with
of these bodies were transferred chiefly into the hands of Dispatch, to the Nore and back. The engines made forty 360,039 tonnage, in 1846, against 1,002 vessels, with
rapacious laymen ;—and he then gives a table of what the revolutions per minute, attaining a speed of eighteen 426,582 tonnage, in 1847. Of this increase the port of
Russells and Howards derived from such transfer, naming statute miles per hour. London received 107 vessels, with 47,830 tonnage; Lis
the Abbeys, &c., apportioned to each, and by which table On Friday week a servant girl employed by a family verpool, 32 vessels, with 16,523 tonnage ; and Bristol and
we see the Duke of Bedford gained £150,000 per annum, residing at Birmingham. was suffocated by a piece of Hull, 9 vessels, with 3,173 tonnage. The most numerous
and the Duke of Norfolk £25,000 per annum! That tripe, an inch and three-quarters, square, which she had aarivals this year have been from Madras, Bombay,_
many lay impropriators are now deriving large incomes endeavoured to swallow while she was carrying down stairs Singapore, and Penang, the Mauritius and the South
from Church revenues there can be no doubt. We hope the remains of a lodger's supper.
Seas. The return of shipping cleared outwards shows a
for the sake of the country, success may attend the exer- An animated discussion took place at a recent meeting total decrease of 16 vessels in the year 1847 compared
tions of the Committee we have named, and that proper of the governors of Heriot's Hospital, in Edinburgh, as with the preceding twelve months though with respect to
regard will be shewn to the wants of the really pious to whether it was desirable to substitute steel pens for the gross amount of tonnage an increase of 17,782, in
working clergy.
quills in the hospital and out-door schools; but, in con_ measurement, is established for the same period. These
sideration of the "importance" of the subject, it was results are thus arrived at :—ln 1846 the clearances in-
resolved to defer it till the next meeting. eluded 979 vessels, with 413,849 tonnage, while in 1847
LAW IN7'ELLIGENCE.
So many infants have lately died at Loughborough, they included 963 vessels, with 431,631 tonnage. The
The trial of Mr. Gutteridge
.
, for libelling the Bishop of from the effects of laudanum administered to them by port of London in this respect was in decrease 1 vessel,
Manchester, will take place at Warwick, in March. their mothers or nurses, that the coroner has intimated but the tonnage showed an increase of 8,207 in measure
Arule nisi for
Bench, criminal
e -
his intention of recommending-the jury to return aver- meat; Liverpool was in decrease to the extent of 21
by the be
the Dublin Pilot, for charging Lord Clanricarde, through
dict of manslaughter if another case of the kind should
_vessels, with 2,492 tonnage increase, while Bristol, an
Queen'seb,
Dublin,
against
the has been
ir° p r
ietor granted
of
Occur. Hull, and the Clyde, and other ports contributed, on the
his " cruel, unrelenting, and ironhearted agent," with Mrs. Hannah Thomas, aged 45, a lady respectably con- other hand, an increase—in the former case to the extent fleeted, who was committed from Bow-street, on °atur- of 2 vessels, with 829 tonnage, and in the latter case 5,
exterminating his starving tenantry.
re flunse day, for giving a false character to a servant, died on vessels, with 6,254 tonnage. The chief clearances wits
ceased wh tonnage have been for Calcutta, Madras, SinMy in Tothill-Fields prison. The di
thof here"
tdhetoVdiciess-oClhveantcheelloirn'
jsuCncotuiortnoangTaiunesstdpayu,blhisishiHngonotre
taken into custody, said it " would be the ea
A MELANCHOLY STORY. —A singular instance of mit-
raßitsehofoprmof.HeDrerf.oHrdal Lpdifeenof
wroteTh rt afos
for the if she were sent to prison.
ternal affection, and melancholy misery, occurred in this
Metropolitans, and declined to allow it to be published
A •cl 1 f t tl fr
city aew ays since. wi ow, w so, un or una ey o
as a distinct work.
and felt no pain during the oerationwhen she re- them, was the mother of six children, found refuge in a
THE ASSIZES.—The following days have been arranged isince,le
.a
dentist a 1 a lady y .
was residing
drawing
sdt i
ans
discovered
vo, r
_oeShields,r
unsoundedd t
iola i
Id e rdtinhaled
orhaoowtrbn.
tooth,
.f d .
covered from her insensibility, she
dilapidated dwelling in one of the lanes. The youngest
with regard to the Northern Circuit :—Before Mr. Baron
ror that the dentist had made a
chAlorofefwormdawy_hs
Hants
letter of her children fell ill, and died. The whole family were
Alderson and Mr. Baron Rolfe :—Lancaster.—Saturday,
in a state of the utmost destitution, and the disease rapidly
February 19 ; Appleby.—Wednesd ay, February 23 ; Car-
lisle.—Friday,A LONG TIME C0M1NG.—.....
mastered the young orphan's energies. A coffin was be
February 25 ; Newcastle.—Tuesday, Feb. her soundest tooth instead ofAthfeewdedcaayyesds?inneee.
a red. Coffin and corpse would have been borne, perhaps,
s. .
29; Durham.—Saturday, March 4 ; York.—Thursday,
which was posted at Tewkes- ' •
says time
without the mother s assistance, to some graveyard near-
March 9 ; Liverpool.—Monday, March 20.coIntltdaepineningde:tLaecigueel:tleman at Romsey' received
But she had lived at a distance of many miles from this
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—In the Court
of Exchequer on Thursday, a young lady, named Caster, its way to Rome ! where it has been lying till the present
bury in 1846 : from a misreading of he address it found
city, and in the burial ground of her native place her
time.
friends were interred. The distance was far, and as few
the daughter of a retired victualler, obtained a verdict,
coffin, containing would consent to carry a
£lOO damages, against her false swain, Charles Clare, a
trialat the Hereford A •
has been committed for Assizes far unnecessarily, the poor mother resolved to bear it her-
gr grocer in the Kingsland-road, near London.—ln the FATAL ASSAULT ON A &W.—A man, named Jenkins,
charged with beating a boy, named IVlaib, to death. Both
self. She actually did so. She had it placed on her back,
Sheriff' Court, on the same day. a Miss Rogers brought
parties were in the employ of a butcher at Hay, and on and slowly and wearily she bore it away, reached the
an action against a railway clerk, named Batchelor, for
the 29th December, Jenkins beat the boy so severely
graves of her kindred, scratched a trench, we have heard,
breach of promise. Judgment had gone by default, and
with a stick that one of the blood-vessels of his head was ' with her hands, and thus consigned to the earth where
the jury awarded the fair spinster £64 for the loss of her
has recently she wished they should rest the remains of her offspring-
Batchelor.
CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.--The Times.
She returned to the orphans. A second took sick, died
broken, and he died a few days afterwards.
NEWSPAPERS CANNOT BE LEGALLY LENT ON HIRE,
been rich in these eccentricities. Take the following quickly, like the other ; like the other, was placed in a
—At the Bloomsbury County Court, on Wednesday, a
notice as au example :—Rodolph B. acknowledges the charity coffin, and conveyed in the same way, by the un-
news-vendor named Miller, sought to recover from a Mr.
receipt of a slice of part pudding, sent him by post to- fortunate mother, to the same place of burial, and buried
Chem ion, a'retired tradesman, the sum of 6s. for news-
The wholey enjoyed it uncommonly at in like manner by her own hands. She returned ag
luncheon, it being as rich as the idea.—Belgravia, New A third child took sick, died speedily also, was stretched
papersplent to him to read. Theplaintiff baying proved day'
his case, the defendantadmittedthe debt, but doubted
Year's Day, 1841.
in a coffin procured from the charitable, borne away as
whether he could be compelled to pay. The judge ob-
ed that such a remark from him he considered dis-POSTAGE.—In Rowland
ffeet o
fHi
hisll before by the sorrowing mother, and interred near to the
other two by the hapless poor creature's almost excoriated
graceful ; but still he could not entertain the claim, as the expressedPENNY
c on fiPTesnit
increase
39ttb,
the
et
number
hands. She returned a third time. A fourth child was
law now stood the same as years ago, when it had been penny postage would be to plant
transmitted by post five-fold within a very few years.
mebeer of letters
ill ; fell a victim as quickly as each of the others, was cof-
d uld t
decided that persons lending newspapers to rea co no
This prophecy is already all but verified. The number r
fined by charity, and carried off and laid Isgsseessesalie
recoeer,but ss -ere liable for so dointo a penalt of £5O,
of chargeable letters transmitted by post in 1839 was 76 beside her three children. She came back to her wretched
suchtrafficking in stam syto be de-
it being considered by . . p .
Milllons_, in 1817 it amounted to 322 millions. _ s,-, stmsnt A fifth eliild was seized by the malady, a
r.-- -vl-.. ,1-- -----, " r"."--.`"-`-'"" '''''."' ". '`''''''' There was -e a esp rate attray between a party 01 potiefietS-,- fifth coffin procured, a fifth wearisome journey made alone
He therefore must dismiss the plaint.—Judgment for de- .
number, and the keepers and
upwards of twenty in by the mother, and a fifth body consigned to the earth,
fendant.
watchers at Chillingham Castle, a few days ago. One of
there, at all events, no longer to feel the pangs of disease,
EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.—In the Court of Arches, on
the keepers was dangerously wounded and is not expected or the slow wasting progress of unalleviated hunger.—'
Saturday week, Dr. Addams finished his reply in the case
to live. Both parties fired at each other, and it is stated Limerick Examiner.
of Geils v. Geils, which has been so long before the Court,
that the poachers were seen carrying off one of the
by trusting that the Court would speedily deliver its sea- I
OUR DEFENCES.---The Glob
wounded of their party.
tense, in order that if any one point were decided adverse
a very good article, in the wf
There is now on view at the
to Mrs. Geils the case might be taken to the Privy Coun-
Atheneum,• Cornish Olympus, under the
"The Ship-
Birmingham, a large painting, entitled
ofL.___,_ . . ss, „ ,
cif. There was, however, he said, another tribunal to
builder," which is iiistended to form one t
which the cause must be taken—the bar of public opinion
wonfil ..,;t1,,,.- urize,4 of t T 4 —and he was satisfied that in that case they

glected in the bishopric of Tuam, what is the answer to
that grave charge ? Simply, that the neglect is altogether
to be attributed to the obstinacy of the governMent in re-
fusing to place the entire control of the national schools,
property and all, in the hands of the priests ! "Is your
lordship aware," he asks, " that it was the instruction of
his Holiness that the property of the national schools, re-
sorted to chiefly by Catholics, should be. vested in the
Catholic pastors ?" The instruction, however, not hav-
ing been complied with, though proceeding from what is
audaciously called the supreme authority of the Pope"—
supreme in Ireland !—Dr. WHale would have no connec-
tion whatever with the national system, and accordingly
lost no time in establishing seminaries of his own.

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE

e of Monday came forth
ay of ridicule, against the
auspices of the pacific Si'

ie principal
--on for 1848.
The picture is said to be the work of Rembrandt, and will
no doubt, therefore, attract the attention both of the dil-
letanti and of the general public of this town.
AN UNREASONABLE WANT.—A person advertises for a
regular supply of a daily threepenny London newspaper at
half-price !—that is, at barely the cost of the stamp and
white paper, leaving labour, talent, wages. rent, taxes,
wear and tear of materials, rent, anxiety of mind, risk of

W. Molesworrn, .u. wie Birmingham Peace Club, of
f argument. There is now another chance for
Cobden and Sturges fraternization. The subject does
mieteol
on his to follow the guide of the " unadorned elo-
quence"of the designer of print patterns, and his serfs
nsoirt
R ad.
P piece prices. Cobden argues that there
there are no longer any national antipathies in France
towards England ; and beyond the clubs, &c., none in
England towards France. The Globe instances the fol-
lowing effects of disarming :—We saw this reduction,
which bad been devised by a Tory, carried into effect by a
Whig Ministry according to the usual influence on each
starving
others' measures of British parties. And we saw the
consequences, in the state of the British Mediterranean
squadron in 1839 and early in 1810, and in the effect
which that comparative condition to the improvements
the French had been making produced on French opinion,
and indeed on European opinion generally.—Captaia
Plunkett observes, (Past and Future of the British
Navy) :—" In 1839, and early in 1840, our ships in the
Mediterranean were, generally speaking, small, and under-
manned, and with very indifferent crews ; our flag ship,
although a three-decker, was smaller, and of less force
in men and guns, than the French two-decked ships.
Our squadron was also numerically weaker ; and though
a subsequent increase of complement, by means of drafts
from England, inspired confidence and improved the
morale of our fleet, there certainly was a time when its
situation was very precarious."—lncidentally, in his
famous " Note," the Prince de Joinville remarks on the
same point—" We had at that moment the advantage over.
the British squadron in organisation and in numbers.
Our sailors, commanded by an able and active chief, were exercised, and all promised a victory. Ido not here
rely on my own recollection, but upon that of one of the
most skilful officers of the British navy."—To the ques-
tion why we have wanted increased armaments since 1840,
we should have thought it enough to answer—because
our force was then dangerously low; and because nothing
but a " happy accident," and a " petty fortress," sawed
our fame in the sight of Europe.

affirm the sentence nor remit the cause. Dr. Curtei;;;;
to fellow Dr. Addams, but the learned Judge said, I will
hear no more to-day after what 1 have heard. It is dis-
graceful to the Court, disgraceful to the public, and dis-
graceful to the profession. The way in which the cause
has been argued has been most disgraceful. The learned
Judge then rose to leave the chair, and as he was doing
so, Dr. Addams, with great warmth, said, I protest against
your observations, sir, and I treat them with contempt
and disgust.

he ven-

rs of newspapers meet with a sorry return for giving UP
.sonable profit.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH
(Sittings in Banco)
THE QUEEN V. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

MONDAY

SUPPER IN A CASK.—On Wednesday, a respectable
party were invited to supper in a large oak cask, made by
Mr. Isaac Aulton, of Dudley, at the house of Jr. John
Hughes, Five Ways Inn, Tipton. After the cloth was
drawn, the usual loyal toasts were drank, and several
excellent songs were introduced on the occasion. Many
persons attended out of courtesy to witness the novel
scene.

HAMPDEN'S CASE.-MANDAMUS.
Shortly after ten o'clock, Lord Chief Justice Denman,
Mr. Justice Patteson. Mr. Justice Coleridge, and Mr.
Justice Erle, took their seats, when the case of the
Queen v. the Archbishop of Canterbury was called on.
The Attorney-General then said he was instructed by
her Majesty's government, with the full sanction of his
Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, to oppose the rule
obtained by his learned friend Sir F . Kelly, for a manda-
mus in this case ; and the objections which it would be
his duty to urge were so numerous that he hardly knew
where to begin, and what course he ought to adopt. He
then proceeded to state the following as the order of his
principal objections, and cited a vast mass of antique laws
in support of them. He said that at the confirmation of
bishops it was usual to make proclamation requiring op-
posers to come forward, but he should be able to prove
that at alltimes that part of the ceremony had been treated
as a form, and throughout the ceremony of confirmation
the Archbishop or his Vicar-General only acted minis-
terially not judicially ; that was his first objection to the
rule. He should secondly contend, however, that whe-
ther the act of the archbishop was ministerial or judicial,
if wrong was done the remedy was got by appeal, and not

SALE OF THREE OF E. LANDSEER'S PICTURES.—
Three early pictures by Edwin Landseer, were sold on
Wednesday week. The first was a small picture repre-
senting " A thorough-bred Scotch terrier with a dead rat
in its mouth." It fetched 68 guineas. The next was
called ".Waiting for orders," and was a portrait of a
coachman ; 32 guineas was given for it. The last was
called The Paddock," and representing an old chesnut
horse and a white Scotch terrier. Sold for 100 guineas.
A few days since a tradesmen residing near Stratford-
lc-Bow, Essex, who had suffered several heavy losses,
resolved to sell some freehold property which he inherited
from his father. He consequently went to fetch the title
deeds from an iron safe, into which he had thrust them
soon after his father's death. fourteen or fifteen years
before, and which had never since been opened, when he
discovered a sum of £4OO in Bank of England notes,
which are supposed to have been placed there by his
father.