The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-11 00:00:00

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE,

The personal estate of the late Archbishop of York is
sworn under £BO,OOO.
The address of the clergy and laity to Dr. Hampden
has now upwards of 1500 signatures. _ .

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The English Church at Jerusalem is expected to be
consecrated at Easter. A new house is building for the
bishop.
By the death of Dr. Crotch, the Professorship of Music
at Oxford is vacant. The appointment belongs to the two
proctors.

Congratulatory addresses from the clergy are now pour-
ing in from every direction, upon the bishop elect of
Hereford !

The Dean of Carlisle has written to Dr. Hampden, to
say that he will ever consider the vote he gave against
him (Dr. H.), in 1836, as the most unsatisfactory vote he
ever recorded as a member of tthe Hebdomadal Board.

Manchester is only delayed in consequence of the appoint-
ment of the Archbishopric of York not having been quite

complete

Thirty-three clergymen of the Archdeaconry of Ely met
on Wednesday, to thank their bishop for remonstrating
against the appointment of Dr. Hampden; they also
agreed on a petition against removing the disabilities of
the Jews.

The Bishop has issued a circular to the clergy of the
Diocese, requesting them to invite their congregations to
contribute to the, funds of the Chester Diocesan Board of

of the Training College at Chester, and of another for fe-
males at Warrington. _ _ .

THE SEE OFMEREFORD.—The confirmation of the
Rev. Dr. Hampden, as Bishop of Hereford, will take
place at Bow Church, Cheapside, this day (Tuesday).

The annua

ue of t

Le see is £4,200 per annum, wit

the patronage of the arc

eaconries, treasurers

aips, non-

resident canonries, ark

)enefices.

The Cambridge Advertiser' , which has hitherto strongly
opposed the appointment of Dr. Hampden, says,—" We
are not ashamed to own, that in common with a large
number of her Majesty's subjects—in common with the
Bishops of Oxford and Salisbury—we have very consider-
ably modified our opinion on the'subject of Dr. Hamp-
den's orthodoxy."

THE DEAN OF HEREFORD.—There is one act in Dr.
Merewether's very amusing farce of " a Dean begging for
a Bishopric," which has not yet come before the public.
Before the Bishopric was vacant, the Dean's own curate
went round his parish to procure signatures to an address
to Lord John Russell, humbly imploring his Lordship to
appoint the Dean.—Morning Chronicle.
ST. JAMES'S CHAPEL, LEEDS.—On the last day of the
The service began at
'salm was then sung,
ministered to more
ien preached by the

twelve o'clocek at night. The 100th

than 21

persons

sermon was t

ksoti, on the duties of the
new year. The service was not over till two o'clock in
the morning. The congregation was of the working
classes, many of them had been Methodists. The per-
mission of the ordinary for this new exhibition had been
obtained.

Incum

Thivtn 4 ‘a. -r t.--- an
address to the Bishop of Chester, on being withdrawn
from his lordship's pastoral care to the see of Manchester;
to which his lordship has feelingly replied, thanking them
for their cordiality, and advising them that—" The times
on which we have fallen make it more than ever necessary
for each and all of us, in our separate departments, to
' take heed to ourselves and to the doctrine ;' to ' watch in
all things ;' to 'do the work of Evangelists ;' to ' make
full proof of our ministry.' Nothing short of the most
determined zeal and the most abundant labours can over-
take the spiritual destitution of the population with which
you are chiefly conversant; and, if my attempts to bring
their increasing numbers within reach of the institutions
of the church have been in any degree successful, it must
be greatly ascribed to the co-operation of the clergy them-
selves, by whom the burthen and heat of the day is borne."
TRACTARIANISM v. POPERY.—The Rev. A. Percival,
one of the Queen's chaplains, has published a letter to the
prelates of the Church of England, calling their attention
to the arrival of Mr. Newman with a mission from the
Pope. He then says—" It has seemed good to me, a
Presbyter of the Catholic Church in Britain, of the pro-
vince of Canterbury, of twenty-four years standing in the
Presbytery ; and also one of the chaplains in Ordinary of
three successive Sovereigns of Britain, since the year 1826,
to declare my readiness, before any tribunal of Britain, of
Europe, of Christendom, or of the world, to prove beyond
denial the unscriptural and uncanonical position occupied
by all persons exercising the functions of the Episcopate,
Presbytery, or Diaconate, under obedience to the Bishop
of Rome, or any other foreign Bishop whatsoever, within
the British provinces, except under license first had and
obtained of the Canonical Bishops of the Catholic Church
in Britain." _ _

that I shall have the help and comfort of your prayers in
my behalf. For these, especially, would most earnestly
desire ever to live in your affectionate remembrance.—
May, then, the.gracious Lord, of his infinite mercy, bring
to perfection the good <eeed sown, in your hearts by his
Spirit, and so effectually keep us all in his faith and love,
that we may meet hereafter in his more immediate pre-
sence, never more to be separated, as one flock in the fold
of one great Shepherd, Jesus Christ. our Lord."

R.= .
(Enteral AraOttllanp.

The Peterborough theatre is about to be converted into
a commodious market for merchants, millers, &c.

The name of Lord William. Paget is omitted from the
official list of captains in the navy.
On Christmas Day a. fire broke out in the rural church
at Croft Castle, near Leominster. The greater part of
the roof and the tower have been destroyed.
WHAT IsTsxr !—The Exeter Gazette states that on
Thursday a " soiree de,Feargus O'Connor" was given at
the Barnstaple Theatre.
The veteran Earl of Dundonald has accepted the naval
command of the North American and West Indian
Stations, at the solicitation of the admiralty.
On Tuesday, Mrs. Hannah. Halsman, the postmistress
of Belper, lost her life through endeavouring to cross the
railway, when a train came up and: ran over her.
The aggregate import of grain from June, 1846, to No-
vember, 1847, was 13,945,760 quarters. The quantity
entered for home consumption was 16,341,282 quarters.
A FACT FOR FORESTERS.—It is said that Mr. Christo-
pher Macrae, manager of the Applecross woods and
forests, planted 140,000 trees at .a cost to his constituent
of only £5B. _ _

A few years ago, a painting, by. Rubens, " The Wise
Men of the East," was sold at a sale at Ilford, in Essex,
for £2 ; but subsequently it was sold for £5,000, and is
now at Arundel Castle.

The Globe states that the London police have received
orders to call upon all the publicans at whose houses
Derby Clubs are held, and caution them against continu••
ing them for the future. _

The Exeter Gazette excuses itself from;publishing Gen.
Poik's Message, on the ground that "it measures fifteen
feet three inches in length of an ordinary newspaper
column."

The mortality in the metropolis increased last week.
The total deaths were 1,522, or 553 above the usual aver-
age: 497 have died of disease of the lungs and other or-
gans of respiration.
.

The Orkney Islands have again been the scene of some
disastrous shipwrecks. Amongst other vessels a French
brig was lost; and the inhabitants of South Ronaldshay
inhumanly plundered right and left, in the very face of a
justice and other respectable persons.
MEETING OF IRONMASTERS.—A large meeting of iron-
masters took place at Dudley on Wednesday, when a re-
duction in the various prices of iron was agreed to. The
manufacturing operations have been all behind, and the
workmen must now submit to a reduction of their wages.
It is calculated that more than £65,000,000 sterling are

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eating drink !—ten times the usual amount of the English
poor-rates !—more, by £3,000,000, that the declared value
of our exports !
THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—It is now rumoured
in Cheltenham that the Evangelical Alliance has passed a
vote of censure upon a talented Dissenting minister, who
took an active part in the recent agitation of the George
Dawson and 'WilKinion affair.
THE EPIDEMIC.—Our obituary again comprises nume-
rous aged persons, viz.-3 between 90 and 100 years of
age ; Zbetween 80 and 90 ; 6 between 70 and SO; and 2
aged respectively 67 and 69. Many of these deaths may
be traced to the prevailing epidemic.—Hereford Journal.
A few days since a young woman living at Dovesland,
near Paisley, was sent by her mother to purchase some
refreshment for her lover, who was to accompany her to
a party. In going along the canal she missed her way, on
account of the darkness, fell in and was drowned.
V ''.bratee it. - fisl-*

-r. Wesley, the ceie,,_ organist, was dung the
week before last at the preserves of Lord Feversham, at
Hemsley, when ;he fell down an embankment and frac-
tured his leg. As Dr. Wesley was alone, and the place
solitary, he lay in a helpless state for several hours. As
the fracture is a compound one, his recovery will be slow.
At Chelmsford. on Thursday, a lady of respectable
family was sentenced to six months imprisonment for
fraudulently obtaining silk from a shop. Her friends
showed that she occasionally laboured under aberration of
mind, but the court did not consider the proof as suffi-
cient.
An inquest was held on Wednesday, in East Smithfield.
on a thief, killed while committing a robbery. He was a
labourer, about 30. He had got upon a new building on
Friday night to steal lead,—had fallen through a skylight
aperture down a well staircase,—and was found with his
neck and legs broken.
ANOTHER, OF THEM !—Doctor Hale, Archdeacon of
London, has received a gracious permission from St. Jar-
lath's College, Tuam, to assume the prefix of " Mac" to
his patronymic surname; in token that he is henceforth
worthy to be regarded as a true " Son" of the Mother
Church.

THE MURDER OF MR. BELLCHAMBERS.—A respite
has been forwarded by the Secretary of State for M'Coy,
one of the parties under sentence of death for the murder
of Mr. Bellchambers. With respect to Sale, the law will
take its course. The execution was fixed for Monday
(yesterday.)
LIBERALITY OF WORKING MEN.—The committee of
the " Artisans' Penny Subscription Movement" origi-
maptLentirerlv bv_the.working men of Birmingham, have
presentea tne magnincent sum of .ZU24 Ins. ua. as a ileW
year's offering towards the funcis of the Queen's Hospital
in that town. The medical and surgical officers have also
paid over the sum of £2.12, fees from pupils.
The Rev. Dr. Newman and the Rev. F. Oakeley, having
arrived in town from Rome, have each publicly celebrated
mass in the Romish chapels of the metropolis. The former
gentleman performed that ceremony according to the rites
of the Romish faith a few days since at the chapel in Ca-
dogan-terrace, Chelsea, and the latter at the chapel in
Somers Town. _

FLIGHT FOR LIFE.--A few days ago, as a flock of geese
were being driven down the High-street Edinburgh, about
40 of them suddenly soared in the air, and pursued their
course, at various altitudes, towards the Canongate.
Many of them, from their great weight, were soon com-
pelled to descend, and were secured, but a few of the more
active birds were speedily lost in the distance.
Captain Hambly, R.N., has been killed, in the avenue
of his own residence, at Elfordtown, by the running away
of a horse with a phaeton containing Captain Hambly and
his wife. The phaeton came in collision with a cart, and
the lady and gentleman were pitched out. Captain Ham-
bly was killed on the spot, but Mrs. Hambly escaped with
a few bruises.
The extensive premises of Messrs. A. Fullerton and
Co., Leith Walk, Edinburgh, were partially destroyed by
fire, early on Saturday morning week. The damage is
estimated at several thousand pounds, but it is covered
by insurance,—On the same morning, the premises of
Messrs. Hay and Addis, plumbers, &c., in Hill-street-
lane were burnt to the ground.
A Nottingham paper states that, on Friday week, a
young man residing in that town had the misfortune to
make a slight puncture in his thumb by picking a small
piece of skin from the side of the nail. This trifling
wound caused his hand and arm to swell, and it became
so inflamed, that mortification ensued, and occasioned his
death on Wednesday last.
In Glasgow, the number of bankrupts during 1847, ex-
ceeded 100. In the Grain Trade, the liabilities were
reckoned at £400,000; in Manufactures at £1,328,000;
in East Indian Shipping and Colonial Interests at
£1 ,20 8,000 ; which, with the Ayrshire Iron Comaany,
made a total of £3,156,000. Numerically, the whole
bankruptcies in Scotland, in 1847, were 523 ; and in Eng-
land, 1,626.
RESULTS OF INDUSTRY.—Died, at his residence,
Waterinbury, Kent, on Sunday, of the prevailing epi-
demic, after a very short illness, Alderman Lucas, M.P.,
in the eighty-eighth year of his age. The deceased was a
native of London, and served his time to his father as
a lighterman, and for a number of years toiled as hard
as any member of the class to which he belonged. Through
his industrial habits and success in business lie realized an
immense fortune. It is stated that he has left landed and
funded property to the amount of between £300,000 and
£400,000.
On Wednesday, a butler appeared at the Marlborough-
street police office, London, for the purpose of complain-
ing of the gross ill treatment which he had experienced
from his master, who had pushed him out of the drawing
room because he had refused to squeeze some lemons, on
the ground that such drudgery ought to be performed by
some of the inferior servants, and who had dismissed him
on the following morning, without allowing a footman to
carry away his luggage, so that the insulted butler was
unworthily compelled to carry his own portmanteau and
carpet bag more than a mile.
FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH.—On Friday se'nnight, Mr.

CONFIRMATION OF THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER.
The ceremony of confirming the Rev. James Prince Lee,
as Bishop of Manchester, took place on Saturday, at St.
James', London. The proceedings excited great interest,
in consequence of the charges brought against Mr. Lee,
by Mr. Gutteridge. The ceremony was conducted by
Sir John Dobson, Queen's Advocate in the Ecclesiastical
Court. The Dean of Manchester was present, and after
the citatory letter had been read, the bishop elect took
the usual oaths. On the opposers being called. Mr.
Gutteridge rose and said, I am an opposer, and object to
these proceedings, on the ground that it is unlawful to
confirm the bishop anywhere but in the province of York.
Sir John Dobson.—We cannot entertain that. . Mr.
Gutteridge.—And on account of his immoral conduct.
Sir John Dobson.—Any one so opposing, risks the
penalty of preemunire. We therefore refuse to hear you
in this case. Mr. Gutteridge solemnly protested against
the appointment, and handed in certain papers, but they
were refused. The confirmation was therefore allowed.
TRACTARIAN, INTOLERANCE.—The Warden of the
Puseyite Trinity College near Perth, the Rev. C. Words-
worth, who left Winchester College, where he was second
master, some time since, under an imputation of having
enforced confession and absolution on some of the boys
there, has recently excommunicated a gentleman of for-
tune resident in his neighbourhood, and a member of the
English Episcopal Church, because he had attended an.
English chapel in Perth, served by a clergyman in Eng-
lish orders! This act of priestly_ tyranny was accom-
panied by an intimation, that the gentleman in question
was an evil liver in the eyes of the Church, , openly and
notoriously so. It should be mentioned that the Lord
Lieutenant of the county of Perth, and many of the most
distinguished families, are members of the Church which
is thus unceremoniously proscribed, by a person whose
conscience enables him thus to harmonise his subscription
to the Thirty-nine Articles with the duty of a teacher in
the Scotch Episcopal Church. The excommunicated
gentleman is a person of unblemished character, and a
brother of a distinguished dignitary of our Church, the
head of an important collegiate institution.—Standard.
DR. HAMPDEN'S ORTHODOXY.—The Bishop (elect) of.
Hereford has published a reply to an address from his late
parishioners at Ewelme, which breathes throughout a
truly Christian spirit. He says :—" I bless God, my dear
friends, that you join with this memorial of your affection
a remembrance of the lessons of Gospel truth, which I have
sedulously endeavoured, through God's grace, to inculcate
on you. Unspeakable, indeed, will be the blessings both
to you and to me, if I shall have left fully and deeply im-
pressed on your hearts the saying doctrines of the Gospel
—if this alone shall be chicly recollected by each of you,
that I ' determined,' with the Apostle Paul, ' not to know
anything among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified.'
I led you to him, your great God and Saviour—the Lord
your Righteousness—for pardon and justification, and for
the sanctifying grace of his holy Spirit, to enable you to
walk worthily in your holy calling, and to bring you finally
to everlasting life. The Lord, the divine head of the
church, is about to send me, my dear brethren, from you
to labour elsewhere in a wider field of ministerial duty.—
But, never can I expect happier days than those I have
spent among you. Greatly, indeed, have I been indebted
for any success that may have attended my ministry in the
parish, to yourselves, and to that kindness and respect—
that support and encouragement, which I have received
from you all—and in particular from the good example of
those possessing influence among you. You have rendered
my ministry truly a labour of love by your kindness and
confidence. But, thongh absent in person, I shall not
cease to be with you in spirit. Often shall I be thinking
' of you, especially at. the stated times of public prayer,
when you will be assembled in your beautiful church.
Then shall I be lifting up my heart with you often in your
prayers and hymns of praise, though I hear them not, as
I have ever delighted to do when present in times past.
Often, too, shall I be praying for you. Nor cau I doubt

ACCIDENTAL POISONING.—A farmer's wife, at Felt-
well, the other day, sent to the mill a sack of wheat, in
which was a quantity of corn which had been prepared
with arsenic for'seed. A quantity of arsenic was left in
the stones of the mill, which poisoned two ether lots of
flour. 'By this accident three families were poisoned, but
only cne member, a young woman, died, Fortunately,
the means whereby the poison had been administered were
discovered, or the loss of life might have been frightful.
Col. Peebles, who lately succeeded as second in com-
mand of the marines at 'Woolwich, died very suddenly on
Monday. A lamentable accident occurred in connexion
with this event. His son (an officer of the 59th). who was
visiting his parents, ran out, in great excitement, for me-
dical assistance, rushing past the sentry at the gate, with-
out answering his challenge. The sentinel, imagining it
was some run-away soldier, charged with his bayonet, in-
flicting a serious wound on Mr. Peebles' neck.
Too TRUE A THoucirr.—Mr. Ralph Smith, of Foun-
tain's Head, between Bowes and Cotherston, was return-
ing home on Christmas-day from the Catholic chapel at
Darlington, and met two men on the road with bundles.
The 4` thought" struck that one of the men had his
(Mr. Smith's) " new trousers " on • but he dismissed it
from his mind as an idle fancy. On reaching bis farm,
however, he found that his house had been entered, and
stripped of a variety of articles, including the new
trousers. _ _ _ _

The Plymouth Journal relates a fact of a Mrs. North-
way, of the Queen's Head Inn, Tavistock, being awakened
on the morning of Christmas-day by a dream that the
house-was on fire. After some persuasion her husband
got up. and proceeding down stairs discovered a ser-
vant's bed on fire, which had caught from a candle, in a
back room ; a man was asleep in it: The timely presence
of Mr. Northway prevented the fire getting the mastery,
and, perhaps, the whole premises were thus saved. All
the man's clothes were burnt. _

The subject of the duties on foreign copper and ore is
likely to be again before the Legislature early in the ses-
sion. The smelters are beginning to see that it is for the
general interest that foreign copper as well as the ore
should be admitted free of duty. All parties are much
discouraged by the effect of this impolitic imposition ; and
the Birmingham manufacturers should bestir themselves
to get rid of a tax which, while it encourages foreign ma-
nufactures, directly hinder the export of our own, besides
the loss to the shipping interest in the declining freights.
FREE TRAnE.-7Free trade was always paraded before
the country as a great blessing, and we were told that
when we got it bread was to be cheap, employment abun-
dant, trade brisk, commerce prosperous, and the only
difficulty apprehended was that men would not know how
to employ their spare cash. This was the promise—this
was the bait held out to catch the gudgeons. The reali-
zation of the promise is written in two lines in the journal
(the Times) which was foremost of all in the crusade
against the industrial interests of England :—" Probably
in no one year teas there ever SO GREAT an amount of
domestic calamity pervading ALL classes o/ men,"

THE DOUBLE SUICIDE IN MARYLEBONE.—Mr. Wak-
ley, on Monday, held an inquest at the Fitzrny Arms,
Clipston-street, on the bodies of Alexander Thomas Wil-
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proprie

Star Coffee-house, in Cleveland-street, Fitzroy-square.
The facts of the case oppeared in our last publication. and
after evidence had been taken, the jury found that "Alex-
ander Williams died by suicide, but that there was no
evidence to show the state of his mind at the time—but
that the wife in committing the act was in a state of de-
lirium, occasioned by the shock of seeing her husband

The Lincolnshire Chronicle relate a curious dream con-
nected with the Kirton murder reported in our last. A
person named Whelpton twice dreamt that Copeman (the
murdered man) was killed in the place where he was
attacked and murdered. On telling Copeman of it the
first time he laughed at it. The second time the repe-
tition of the dream evidently affected the unfortunate
gentleman, and he solemnly pronSised his kind monitor
never to be again so late in returning home from Kirton
as had been his practice. That promise lie faithfully kept

le met

until the day when the dream was fulfilled, am
with the awful fate with which the country is familiar
Among the usual Christmas pieces at the various places
of amusement in London, the Golden Branch "at the
Lyceum bears the palm. It is put on the stage with all
that resplendant scenery of fairy land, which has obtained
for Madame Vestris so great a name as manager; and is
worthy of the elegant house that is so tastefully decorated
as to eclipse in splendour all its competitors, and make
the Lyceum the drawing-room of theatres. The parodies
on the pipular airs of the day are admirably given—se.
veral of them by a debutante Miss Fitzwilliam—the fresh-
ness of whose voice and manner of singing is quite charm-
ing. The introduction of the favourite old air of " Cherry-
ripe," by Madame herself, is a resuscitation in admirable
taste, and its nightly encore proclaims its popularity to be
undiminished.
A SEVERE DISAPPOINTMENT.—At the meeting of the
British Association at Oxford, the geological section made
an excursion. The natives of the explored region were
very much at a loss to conjecture what it all meant.
The vehicles, the number and sturdy appearance of some
of the excursionists, and, so far as they could see, the
absence of all motive for the gathering, puzzled the

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country people exceedingly. At fast, when a party, who
had formed a circle round Dr. Buckland to hear his ex
planation of the conformation of the surrounding country,
had broken up, and was leaving the ground, one wonder-
ing native was heard to remark to another, in a tone of
severe disappointment, "I say, Roger, why, dang me, if
it ar'nt all over. They've broke up the ring, and there
arn'nt going to be no fight arter all."
tad.n"iiireeirtt'ANt t 6ailagh. f".Tte-OV;lallont aIV
Cale-
donian Railway, in that neighbourhood, having been com-
pleted, an extensive discharge of workmen took place, but,
before leaving, the Irish portion resolved on inflicting
punishment on the English and Scotch labourers in the
village. Accordingly the belligerents, to the number of
between 300 and 400, entered West Calder and attacked
the inhabitants indiscriminately, but the latter, accus-
tomed of late to guerilla warfare, confronted the invaders,
and although with the aid of friendly " navvies," the de-
fensive was only half of the opposing force, the assailants

were repelled. and retired with a view of returning to the
charge at night, with a reinforcement of the undischarged,
who would then be off work. But in the interim a de-
tachment of cavalry was procured from Edinburgh, and
peace restored.
ANTI-BEEF EATING —Among the follies which came
in with 1847, and will we suspect, go out before the year
1848:is much older, was the establishment of a " Vegetarian
Society ;" that is, an Association of persons determined
to live upon vegetables ! Franklin tried this plan, but
the smell of some delicious fish put to flight his resolve
and showed him the absurdity of the plan. At the head
of this strange movement is Mr. Brotherton, the member
of Parliament, who has " vegetited" for eighteen years,
and the poorness of whose diet may account for the
meagreness and mistaken nature of his political ideas.
If that gentleman had been acquainted with physiology
he would have known that man was intended by his
Maker for a carnivorous as well as grarnnivorous animal.
The construction of his teeth shows this, and if he had
been adapted to live upon vegetables, he would, like the
ruminating animals, have been supplied with three
stomachs instead of one. Not, however, to proceed on
this point, we would ask Mr. Brotherton how, the roast-
beef of England being banished, he can expect a cabbage
fed population to stand against the French who are com-
ing over in such numbers to attack us ?
ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.-One of those extraordi-
nary events which now and then occur, as if to exemplify
the adage of truth being stronger than fiction, has this
week taken place at Gravesend, the facts, as communi-
cated to us by a private correspondent, being as follows.
On Monday, an old " man-of-wars' man," the boatswain
of a yacht belonging to a gentleman, ho was about to
having obtained a brief leave
wentu up
Mediterranean,to
London in one of the steamers
which ply to and fro, for the purpose of transacting some
private business. In the boat he met with a young man,
a servant to one of the officers at Tilbury fort, whom he
had never seen before, but he did not then take much
sailof for
absence, the
notice of his fellow-passenger. Upon returning the next
day, however, he found the same man on board, and
" Jack," having scraped acquaintance, they entered into
conversation. The officer's servant soon became exceed-
ingly communicative, observing, amongst other matters,
that he was to start for China in ten days, and that he
had been to town to see a lawyer respecting some leases
of property to which he believed he was heir; but, upon
referring to the will, it had been discovered that he was
only to inherit the property in the event of an uncle, sup-
posed to be drowned some years since, not coming for-
ward to claim it. The name of Lord Glanville being
, mentioned, the sailor observed, " Whv, messmate, I have
heard and know that name well." Aintual explanations
took place, when it turned out that the boatswain was the
very missing uncle, and will now inherit the property,
, worth in all about £5OOO. Notwithstanding this unex-
I petted acquisition to his fortune, the son of Neptune, ‘
1 tar-like," seems inclined to stick to the ship of which
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Mills held an inquest at Marylebone on Louis aiittridge, he is now the boatswain, observing that " shiver his tim-
aged 79, and Louisa, his wife, aged 78. The deceased bers" if he cares about the money, he'd just as soon sail
were paupers, in the receipt of ss. a week from the parish. round the world with his new master.
The wife died suddenly, and her death so afflicted her
JESUITISM AND THE CONFESSIONAL.—It has some-
husband, to whom she had been fifty years married, that
times been urged
he declared he could not survive her. As he was not seen in favour of auricular confession that it
tends to keep people honest, and in numerous cases has
to leave the room, the neighbours became alarmed for his I secured the return of stolen property. That there are so
safety, and entered his apartment, when they beheld him many persons of predatory habits belonging to that system,
suspended by the neck from the post of the bed upon rather tends to cast discredit on the general view of the
which the body of his ancient partner lay. case, and we much fear that only a part of what is pilfered
Three men and a boy have perished at the mouth of by Romanists is returned under ghostly auspices. We
the Tay, through being too much alarmed for their safety. had some few years back a good deal to say on this point,
They formed the crew of the bark favourite, which had and do nothere enter into the argument. But Popery, fruit-
left Dundee a few days before ; as they lay at anchor, the ful in devices, has turned to good account its reputation
breakers set strongly against the vessel ; the crew took for causing robbers to disgorge their prey. Some curious
fright and got into a boat ; the master of the vessel, Court, disclosures of this kind are to be found in a work entitled
said he would not leave her. In a few moments he saw " Auricular Confession," &c., by William Hoggan, author
all his crew perish, by the capsizing of the boat, while he of " Popery as it was, and as it is," formerly a Roman
could'render no assistance. When the tide set in, Court, Catholic priest. Mr. Hoggan states that some Jesuits,
single-handed, managed to get the vessel into the river, after ascertaining the circumstance of Protestant families,
and eventually obtained assistance to take her to Dumdee. call upon the head of the family, and hand either the lady
GAOL FEVER.—It is impossible now to ascertain the or gentleman some money, giving no further explanation
extent to which the gaol. distemper prevailed among us at the time. It is further made to appear that the party
dthuaritn, gevtehne
ilnashteacelnthtuyryy.ear 1-51,owara's estimate of as many was robbed of this money, and that it was restored by
deaths as happened under the noose of the executioner is, means of the confessional. The ei-derant Jesuit then
doubtless, much below the mark ; but it is well for us describes as the result of this artifice, that " the husband
16,000 lives are sacrificed to tells his wife to throw no obstacles in the way of her do-
typhus fever in England and Wales alone, in addition to mestics going to confession. . . . . . He calls upon
some 200,000 or so prostrated on loathsome beds of sick- the Jesuit priest; touches his hat for him should he meet
ness ; it is well for us that the reports of the poor-law him in the street ; tells him he would be happy to see
commission have revealed the orphanage and widowhood hirmastsh,
doeshouse;isareverend
an d thus,
Jesuitby thispriest
pteeislt gain histhoughious,
d.,
e n sure,
it occasions, and the intolerable fever-tax that it leviesl process,
upon us ; it is well for us, that what cannot be brought With Mr. Hoggan such plots were not matter of testimony
about by an appeal to feelings or conscience, may yet oe but of personal experience, and he very candidly con-
accomplished by arguments addressed to our selfishness. fesses, 66 OFTEN DAVE I DONE THIS WHILE A ROMAN
" The fever-tax is the heaviest of our burdens," is our PRIEST." At the present time when the emissaries of
appeal to the rate-Payer. "Typhus-fever is the Most
Popery are so active and indefatigable, a trick like that
atrocious of our manifold cruelties," is our argument with deserves exposure. The craft of the Romanists is all but
the philanthropist. '! Health ig the poor man's property," infinite, and it ought to be carefully guarded against,
is our remonstrance with the government. " Prevention especially by those weak in faith—wavering in mind—or
is the spirit of almsgiving," is our humble suggestion to lill informed as to the nature of the religion of which they
the clergy.—Frafer's Mapa:ine. . are nominally professors.

DECAY OF LITERATURE.—Among other causes of
regret at the condition of our native country is the decaY
of those commercially-engaged in the pursuits of respect
able literature. In the list of bankrupts from November
6, 1846, to Nov. 2, 1847, there were 17 booksellers ;.r.T
bookbinders ; 3 newspaper proprietors ; 2 newsvenders
7 pap Pr-makers ; 5 print and music sellers ; 15 printers
and publishers ; and 10 stationers. To these we may add'
2 booksellers in the last Gazette, and the highly respect-
able house of Curry and üblin, which has had $
docket struck against it. Co.,Why do we, enter into this
enumeration ? Not with any feeling of satisfaction as-
suredly, but to show how, with the betrayal of good prin-
ciples, the nation has retrograded in all respects, for it is
a fact that with the decline of useful literature has in-
creased the circulation of cheap pernicious and infidel
publicationsiamong the masses of the people.—Hereford
Journal.

AGGRAVATED CASE OF ROBBERY.—In a lane leading
from Wisbeach to Peterborough, near to Thorney toll-
bar, in Wisbeach Fen, there is situated a retail beer-house,
the sign of Speed the Plough, occupied by William Foster
and his aged partner, and this house was early on the
morning of Sunday last the scene of a daring robber/.
About two o'clock on that morning, the inmates were
aroused by a loud knocking at the door. Thinking it was
a neighbour, the old man descended by the ladder from s
trap-door in the floor of the bed-chamber, and on his
opening the door, three excavators rushed in,• and im-
mediately commenced an attack on Foster, forcing hint
up into the chamber. where they secured the aged couple
by tying them to the bedstead with ropes. After securing
the trap-door above alluded to, the thieves ransacked the
premises, taking possession of £7, a silver watch, and s
large hoard of farthings. The villains then regaled them-
selves with the viands in the house, and then decamped.
Leeds Mercury.
Mr. SAMUEL WARREN AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT:"
We learn from a letter addressed to the 'editor of the
Times, inserted on Monday last, that the distinguished
author and barrister, Mr. Samuel Warren, is opposed to
the abolition of capital punishment. He says—“ There is
no stronger opponent in the kingdom than I am of Of
abolition of capital punishment in cases of murder; and
while endeavouring in the work referred to (but only as
a minor object) to illustrate the glorious contrast between
our criminal law of now and then, I endeavoured studi-
ously to guard myself against being misunderstood upon
topic of such gravity as that which has called forth this
letter. I have long doubted, indeed, whether the aboli-
tion of capital punishment has not been already carried to
a great extent. I concur, in short, in the opinions upon
this subject which have been from time to time so power-
fully urged in the Times, and should deeply regret being
suspected of countenancing, for one moment, notions
based upon unsound principles of legislation and spurious
philanthropy."

- APPLICATION OF CHLOROFORM IN TETANUS.-A man
servant in the household of Lady Dorothy Elizabeth Palk,
the rectory. Enfield, cut off the tip of his thumb. In 10
days trismus (locked jaw) came on, attended with diffi-
culty of swallowing, resembling hydrophobia; in three
days more tetanus set in, affecting all the muscles of the
body with painful spasmodic cortractions and extreme
rigidity, the head, neck, and lower extremities being bent
backwards. in this case Mr. Asbury, her ladyship's me-
dical attendant, saw that death must take place in a fey(
hours, unless some powerful remedy were applied with
success. Mr. Asbury determined on chloroform, with
purgatives. The first application was on the second dal
of tetanus, when sleep was procured for 18 minutes ; the
third day it was applied twice, mid procured sleep for
20 minutes each time. The chloroform vapour was also
applied to the wound, when, in two minutes, the thumb
(being stiff and extended) dropped into the palm of the
hand, The vapour was also applied to blistered surfaces'
on the hack with equal success.

Loss OF HER IVIAJESTY'S STEAM-FRIGATE AVENGER.
—This first-class war steamer, built at Devonport in 1845,
of 1.440 tons and 600 horse power, has been totallf
wrecked. She left Gibraltar for Malta on the 19th Dec.,
and it is supposed must have fallen in with a strong cur-
rent (spoken to by other vessels) and gone full speed on
to the Sorelle rocks, near Gallia Island, off the regenci
of Tunis, and become a total wreck. It is said that the
loss of life consists of 270 persons, but this number, it is
hoped, is exaggerated, as it seems inconsistent with the
complement generally on board a ship of similar size to
the Avenger. The only survivors (eight in number), con-
sisting of three of the officers and five seamen, reached
Tunis in a boat in a state of great destitution. Two"
steamers proceeded to the rocks to see if any assistance
could be rendered, but no traces of the wreck were there
discoverable though the shore was strewed with frag-
ments of the vessel. Among the officers, were Captain
C. E. Napier, Lieutenants Kinsman, Marryatt, and Fran-
cis Rooke ; Master W. Archer, Second Master W. Betts.
[Subsequent accounts state that the boat upset, and that
only one officer and three seamen reached the shore.]

WHAT ONE MAN MAY DO.—The Fife Herald contains
an interesting narrative of the reformation effected in St.
Andrew's, within the last three or four years, by Major
Playfair, the provost of the city. He was elected to the
office of chief magistrate in 1842, and instantly took ie
hand the work of improvement. He has amended the
pavement—enlarged and reformed the churchyard—re-
modelled the wells—induced landlords to rebuild ticket,'
houses—provided public rooms, reading rooms, and
schools—corrected the morals of the vicious and the
temperate—and, in short, revolutionised St. Andrew's.
When he first took office he found every one of his owe
opinion that improvement was needed, but all said it was
hopeless to try, for the town had no funds. " But the
naubi.ftna:t.f,,,lel.avtirSufli.l.‘trindrs;:xpsapidliet!i..ehnimiatrii.
iseAttuidnghtet:
mteset
rte,Oc
example. By his energy and perseverance lie infected all
classes with public spirit and liberality—funds were never
wanting—and, notwithstanding he had acts of parliament
to back him, he overcame all obstacles. His dictionary,
like Napoleon's, contained not the word " impossible."
THE MONEY MAnKET.--Consols have risen 1 per cent.
this week, but the greatestadvance was observable
as o s
a ;
as it was ascertained that the revenuereturnsdigdr
not
hibit the enormous deficiency calculated upon. At onci
prices went up per cent., having previously du e
1l
improved on small and continuous purchases, and on Fri-
day the advance was well sustained, considering that after
all is said and done the Whig tables of finance make but S
sorry figure in these times of national distress. The
highest quotation attained on Thursday was 861 to I for
consols for the account; on Friday they closed about 861;
on Saturday they were again 861 to s, Since cash accom-
modation has become so easy at the Stock Exchange, ex-
chequer
bank
k billsacquiredreturheasveferthek
we
eaprem ending h
premium
tofe
firstl7s. January
establish T:y
establish a favourable compariSon with those previously
published. The great feature of their contents is the
steady improvement in the stock of bullion, which not
stands at £12.404,250, or £167,724 in excess of what it
what it last was. There has also been an increase ie
notes issued of £121,745; an increase in the rest of
£21,214; while there has been a decrease in public de-
posits of £224,410 ; a decrease in seven days' and other
bills of £1,834, and a small decrease in Government
securities. •

GIGANTIC RAILWAY GIRDERS.-Within the last fe(
days some interest has been excited at Witham by the
arrival of some extraordinary-sized cast-iron girders, for
two of the bridges on the line. These girders, cast at
Derby, are the largest single girders which have ever been
cast, with one exception; they are 53 feet 44 inches in
length, and weigh about 13. tons each. On the 25th,ult.,
the first of the girders was moved from the WithaM sta-
tion on two very strongly built stone-trucks, drawn by 19
powerful horses. It was generally thought that the girder
which was intended for one of the Langford bridges would
turn the corner in the centre of the town, and proceed
along the Maiden-road; but, owing to the inconvenience
of turning anything of so great a length in such a narrol,
part of the street, and the apprehensions which some of
the engineers appeared to entertain as to the strength of
the iron bridge in the Maiden-road, it proceeded straight
down the town, and reached its place of destination safe,
On Tuesday another of the girders was removed from the
station, and the engineer determined to try the Maiden-
road in preference to the circuitous route before traversed,
and he succeeded in turning the corner, and passing over
the iron bridge above referred to, amidst the gaze of 0
large concourse of persons who assembled to witness it,
and who added their further testimony to the well-knowo
skill of Mr. Jackson, the contractor, and his staff of ell:,
gin eers.--Essex Standard.
•

COLDS; COUGHS, AND ASTHMAS EASILY CURED elf
HOLLOWAY'S Pmts.—Let no person suffering frott;
asthma consider himself as past all cure, .Jj so bad
as to be unable to lie down in be out trying the
effect of these celebrated pills, a few doses will sow;
carry off the phlegm and o ssion from he chest, ono
produce a healthy actio - lie lungs. A-proper course
yield to the like treatment.
of this famed med. ' e will ensure a cure.
mode a giving Inveterate
colds and cough i I soon
The testimo of the Rev. David Williams, Wesleyan
minister eaumaris, is to this effect most astonishing'
a keen lasting (edge—to that most wefts'
See Advertisement.
HYDE'S RAZOR Rrnoio.—For years gone by the rtieot
tion of multitudes of talent has been directed to the bet,
instrument razor. We have had a thousand and oie.
prescriptions, and about an equal number of failures, atle
though some have aimed at and assisted in attaining elv
cellence, few have yet attained the object. Amongst tbe,
best we have seen is a quadrangle razor sharpener, called
the XL, which certainly excels anything we have previ:
ously tried On one side is a hone, the next is coated
with a coarse paste, a third with a finer, and the last witb
a piece of fine leather; the consecutive using of which'
produces the aimed at perfection. It is a neat and port'
able affair, and worthy the attention of those who suffer
from strong beards, or ill-set implements for theft
removal.

CULTIVATION OF THE BEAUTIFUL.—It has been Os
fashion with prudes and pedants, time immemorial, to rufr
down the advantages of external appearance—thus the,
phrases " Outside show," and " Skin-deep beauty," ha'
obtained a sort of currency which gave them, and °the!'
of similar import, an appearance of grave authority. TV
present age is bold enough to quit this dictu ud eve"'
to go as far as to extol the study of e a s as a duty to
society, which should have prese to it agreeable ob'

jects, and now contends that t . cultivation of the beau'
ifful holds a place second i. portance only to the pro'
motion of the good. T.'. it is which holds out encow
ragement to those w s.. abour to put the public in pos'
session of means t. its end. Oldridge's Balm of CO',
lumbia, as the m• . effective preservative or renovator of
that most bea 1 ornament the Human Hair, takes firf
rank, and a- . ng as its valuable properties continue to V
known an. appreciated, must take the precedence of evert
produc • .n intended for exterior improvement in this di^
rection. C. and A. OLDRIDGE'S BALM OF CO:
LUMBIA causes the Hair to curl beautifully, frees iti
from scurf, and stops it from falling off, and a few bottles
ton-street,
Perfumers,Strand, London.anti
generally restore it again; it also prevents greyness.--"3s. Gd., Gs., and lls. per bottle. No other prices are
genuine. Ask for OLDRIDGE'S BALM, 1, Welling;
thld by all respeetabi
Chemists, Stationers,