The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-14 00:00:00

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Bishop of Chester will hold an Ordination on
December 17th, and not on December 21.
At the Church Missionary Jubilee, ',cid in Bristol, more
than £lOOO was raised.

The Rev. Dr. Cookson, Master of St. Peter's College,
has been elected Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge for the
Academical year of 1848-9.
The Very Rev. William H. Tighe, Dean of the Chapel
Royal, and the Rev. Francis Sadleir, Provost of Trinity
College, have both been spoken of as likely to succeed to
the vacant see of Down.

The Bishop of Oxford (Samuel Wilberforce, D.D.)
said at the jubilee meeting of the Church Missionary
Society. held in Exeter Hall, London, last week, that the
said society was founded at a time when the church was
in a frightful state of apathy, and when it showed its
semi-vitality, by the casting out of the great and good man,
John Wesley."
UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM.—Several scholarships in
this university bane just been filled up after a keenly con-
tested examination. The followin; are the successful
candidates :—The Open Scholarship. Mr. C. B. Hasle-
wood, commoner of Bishop Hatfield's Hall; Dr. Eller-
ton's Scholarship, Mr. 0. Sumner, of Bishop Hatfield's
Hall; the First and Second Year Scholarships, Mr. F.
Long and Mr. A. Dixon, of Bishop Hatfield's Hall.
These scholarships are tenable for three years.
THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.—King Edward VI.,
in the year 1548, issued a commission, consisting of thir-
teen English divines, with Archbishop Cranmer at t:leir
head, for the purpose of preparing a Book of Common
Prayer. The commission met at Windsor in 1548, and
drew up a Book of Common Prayer, which was approved
by Convocation, and finally ratified by an act of parliament
in the January following. This book, which is substan-
tially the same as our present Common Prayer Book, was
enjoined to be used for all Divine offices from the Feast of
Whitsunday, 1549. The Bishop of Gibraltar has pro-
posed, in a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, that
this 300th anniversary should be specially observed as a
day of thanksgiving and jubilee in our churches through-
out the whole extent of the British empire, on Whitsun-
day, 1849.—The Churchman's Almanack.

THE SURPLICE RIOT AT EXETER.—After an inquiry
before the Bishop into the late disgraceful proceedings at
the church of St. Sidwall's, it appears that the bishop
was satisfied with the statement of the Rev. Mr. Ingle,
that he had intimated some time previously, that, if he
preached in the church, he should wear the surplice.
His Lordship also referred to the behaviour of the laity
on the occasion alluded to, and said they had evinced
that tremendous spirit of Puritanism which, two centu-
ries ago, had levelled the church and the throne with the
dust, and to that feeling he would by no means advise
his clergymen to succumb. The Rev. Francis Courtenay,
the incumbent of the parish, intimated his intention to
close the church on a Sunday evening. As a reason for
so doing, he proceeded to describe a state of dissoluteness
and disorder, as the usual state of things at this church,
on a Sunday evening, which is hardly credible. At the
conclusion of the inquiry, the impression on the laymen
who • were present appeared to be, that the bishop had
acquitted Mr. Ingle, and tried the Mayor, who quelled
the disturbance, in his place.
JOHN WESLEY Arn THE CHURCH.—Few, if any of
our readers, will grudge the space which we devote to a
report of the Jubilee Meeting of the Church Missionary
Society, held at Exeter Hall on Thursday. We insert it
not merely as a token of the sympathy with all the Pro-
testant MiSSionary Institutions which we expressed last
week, but through an appreciation of the interesting and
Catholic character of the speeches. As Wesleyans, we
cannot but be gratified to find the Bishop of Oxford doing
so much justice to the venerable founder of our denomi-
nation, as he has now done. It will be seen that he bears
full testimony to the (spiritually) neglected and destitute
state of the country at the commencement of Mr. Wes-
ley's evangelistic labours, and to what he candidly and
truly describes as She utter coldness, darkness, and apathy
of the Church of England. That church, he frankly
declares, " allowed her influance at home to wither and
decay in her hand, leaving our increasing population to
grow up in Heathenism, and only showed her semi-vita-
lity, or anti-vitality, by casting out from her bosom that
great and good man—that saint of God—John Wesley."
Mr. Bickcrsteth, with his usual readiness and cordiality in
every word and work of Christian love, caught up the
acknowledgment, and spoke of it as " an expression of
repentance, by the Church of England, for the injustice
she did to John Wesley." These seem to us weighty
sayings& which suggest thoughts, on which, in the crowded
state of our columns to day, we cannot just now enlarge.—
The Watchman.

THE EDUCATION QUESTION AND TIIE CHURCH.—
Since our last notice of the differences between the Com-
mittee of Prissy Council and the National Society, meet-
ings of the diocesan societies have been held at Canterbury
and Wells, at which the subject was prominently brought
under discussion. At the Canterbury meeting, over
which the Archbishop presided, it was resolved—let, On
the motion of the Archdeacon of Maidstone, seconded by
Sir Brook Bridges, " That the board be empowered, if
they think fit, to make arrangements with the National
Society, or with any diocesan board, for the training of
schoolmasters and mistresses, and to apply such funds as
they may think necessary towards the promotion of the
general designs of the National Society." 2d. On the
motion of the Earl of Romney, seconded by the Hon. and
Fey. F. J. Noel. " That the _board be requested to com-
municate again with the National Society, with reference
to the relations existing between the National Society and
the diocesan boards." The Archbishop reminded his cle-
rical brethren, that, after all, they had an advantage which
nothing in the world could take from them. They were
the ministers of their respective parishes—they had a
congregation of people in their own parishes, they might
enter the schools when they pleased, and all religious
instruction was committed to them alone. Nothing else
could give them equal advantages, and they were advan-
tages which nobody could take from them. Convinced
that the clergyman really took an interest in his school,
no other management would have effect—he must be the
superintendent—he must be as it were the mainspring by
which all the works would operate. Formerly their diffi-
culty consisted in so much requiring to be done that they
could hardly find adequate means—now there was so little
that some persons thought it hardly worth their energies.
Enjoining the endeavours of all to aid in the appointment
of masters and mistresses for schools in small parishes,
his Grace concluded with a declaration of his determina-
tion to render all the co-operation he could to carry out
the noble work in which they were engaged, and sat down
amid loud applause.
SCRIPTURAL AUTHORITY FOR CHURCH ESTABLISH-
MENTS.—Abraham, one of the highest examples in Holy
Writ, who was himself a " mighty prince " among the
shepherd tribes, established the worship of God among
his people. Melchisedec, his contemporary, was both a
prince and a priest, exhibiting in the fullest degree that
union of church and state which has been so severely
censured. Nor was he, any more than Abraham, con-
nected with the now abolished Levitical dispensatioo,
but was of that " order" to which Christ himself was
declared by St. Paul to belong. Following the history of
God's chosen people, we find that every one of their
rulers, whose conduct met with the approval of God,
employed his influence and authority in establishing Di-
vine worship. Moses and Joshua, David and Solomon,
Jehoshaphat, Hezekiah, and Josiah, are all thus described
in the Word of God. And it is difficult to conceive how
the Scriptures are to be used to any profitable purpose,
if we are to conclude that with all these examples we
have either nothing to do, or that the use we ought to
make of them is to shun and not to follow their footsteps.
It is recorded, for instance, of Jehoshaphat (2 Chro. xvii.
7) that " in the third year of his reign, he sent his princes
to teach in the cities of Judah ; and with them he sent
Levites and priests. And they taught in Judah, and had
th, book of the law of the Lord with them, and went
about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught the
people." And (observe!) a proof of the Divine approba-
tion is immediately added—for it is said, " the fear of the
Lord fell upon all the kingdoms of the land that were
round about Judah, so that they made no war against
Jehoshaphat." Now, here is no mere Levitical rite or
observance, but a plain acting out of the broad moral
principle of the responsibility of a ruler towards God and
towards his people. And, in like manner, when even a
heathen king, Artaxerxes, issues a decree for the rebuild-
ing of the temple from the public funds, and the re-
establishment of the worship of God—the exclamation of
Ezra (that inspired servant of the Lord) is thus recorded
—" Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, who bath
nut such a thing as this into the king's heart, to beautify
the house of the Lord !"—Rev. C. Alford's Sermon.
IMPORTANT CHANGE AT CAMBRIDGE.—A change was
made last week in the curriculum of Cambridge educa-
tion which seems to have taken every body by surprise,
and which will revolutionize the system adopted in that
University. A congregation was holden for the purpose
of presenting for acceptance by the Senate graces confir-
matory of the adoption of the report of the Syndicate
appointed to consider of the best means of affording en-
couragement to those studies for the pursuit of which
professorships have been founded in the university. The
report in question commenced thus :—" The Syndicate,
admitting the superiority of the study of mathematics
and classics over all others, as the basis of general educa-
tion, and acknowledging therefore the wisdom of adhering
to our present system in its main features, are neverthe-
less of opinion that much good would result from afford-
ing greater encouragement to the pursuit of various other
branches of science and learning which are daily acquir-
ing more importance and a higher estimation in the
world, and for the teaching of which the university already
possesses the necessary means In accordance with this
the Syndicate made five recommendations, which occupy
too much space to be given at length in a weekly paper at
a period like the present. They recommend, 1, That,
at the beginning of each academical year, the Vice-Chan-
cellor shall issue a programme of the subjects, places, and
times of the several professors' lectures for the year then
to ensue."-2. " That a new honour tripes be established,
to be called the Moral Sciences Tripos, the places in
which shall be determined by an examination in the fol-
lowing subjects :—Moral Philosophy, Political Economy,
Modern History, General Jurisprudence, the Laws of
England. That all students who shall have passed the
examinations and kept the exercises required for the
Degree of Bachelor of Civil Law, of Bachelor of Physic,
or who shall have passed the examinations entitling to
admission ad respondendum queslioni, may be candidates
for honours in the Moral Sciences Tripos next succeeding
such examinations."-3. " That a New Honour Tripos
be established, to be called the Natural Sciences Tripos,
the places in which shall be determined by an examina-
tion in the following subjects e—Anatomy, Comparative
Anatomy, Physiology, Chemistry, Botany, Geology."
This Tripos is ou the same footing as the Moral Science
Tripos.—The 4th recommendation has been framed " with
a view to encourage attendance at lectures of the mathe-
matical examinations of the university."-5. " The Syn-
dicate, having respect to the great importance of the
study of theology, and with the view of giving increased
efficiciency to the regulations already established for the
( promotion of it, further recommend—' That all persons

who present themselves for examination at the theological
examination, established by grace of the Senate, May 11,
1842, be required to produce a certificate of having at-
tended the lectures delivered during one term at least by
two of the three theological professors—viz., the Regius
Professor of Divinity, the Margaret Professor of Divinity,
and the Norrisian Professor of Divinity. That the re-
gulation now proposed shall first come into operation at
the theological examination in the Michaelmas term of
the year ]830.'"

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

4,

In the Vice-Chancellor's Court on Wednesday, it was
decided that on the death of a partner, a joint debt may
be treated as a separate one.
In the London Bankruptcy Court, last week, in the
matter of Allan Gilmore, described as a Calcutta mer-
chant, a claim was made on his estate on behalf of the
Union Bank of Calcutta for the sum of £242,000. The
consideration of the claim was adjourned to the certificate
meeting.
UNCERTAINTY OF THE LAW.—At the recent Here-
fordshire Quarter Sessions a man was acquitted upon a
charge of felony, because he was indicted for stealing
" bank notes," instead of naming the bank to which they
belonged, as the term " bank notes" only applies to Bank
of England notes.
In the Bail Court, on Tuesday, the Attorney-General
obtained a rule to file a criminal information against Mr.
J. J. Hadley, the proprietor and publisher of the Chel-
tenham Journal, a Conservative paper, for a libel upon
the magistrates of Cheltenham. The alleged libel was
contained in a report of a speech delivered by Mr. Ling-
wo od, an attorney of that borough.
In the Court of Exchequer, on Monday, a case of
family squabbling was brought before the public relating
to the piece of plate, a valuable cup and salver, presented
to Holmes, the driver of the (Oxford) Blenheim coach for
twenty years without an accident. It appears that in a
fit of generosity Mr. Holmes had presented the plate as a
wedding present to his son, a surgeon at Kidlington,
Oxon, but which gift he now repented of, and wished to
obtain back. He therefore brought an action to recover
it, asserting that it had only been given into the safe cus-
tody of the defendant for want of a place to keep it him-
self. Witness, however, proved they were present when
he have the plate to his son as a wedding present, and the
bride acknowledged the present by giving her father-in-
law a kiss. This evidence was considered conclusive by
the-jury, and they gave a verdict for the defendant.
PRINCE ALBERT IN CHANCERY.—We gave our readers,
a week or two ago, an account of an injunction obtained
by Prince Albert in Chancery, forbidding Mr. William
Strange to publish some etchings done by the Queen and
the Prince, and supposed to have been surreptitiously
abstracted from the pri-ate apartments at Windsor. We
see by the London papers, that on Monday, before the
Vice-Chancellor, application was made by the Solicitor-
General to have this injunction exteneed to two other
persons, called Judge (father and son), who appear to
have got possession of the drawings, and to have com-
piled a descriptive catalogue for him to publish. The
affidavit of the Prince on the former occasion, to the
effect that her Majesty and himself never authorised the
publication of the etchings, was read.—Mr. J. B. Brown,
the copperplate printer employed by the Prince to take
impressions of the plates etched by him and the Queen,
deposed to his having entrusted them to his servant to
work them off. About a week ago, he heard that the
man had been in the habit of taking copies for himself.—
Another witness, also a printer, stated that he knew the
pressman employed by Mr. Brown, and that he had often
shown him copies of these drawings, taken by him for his
own use, on card or common paper. The deponent had
himself thirteen of them now.—This cleared up the mys-
tery hanging over the affair.—The Vice-Chancellor ex-
tended the injunction to the two defendants.

RAILWAY AFFJJRS.

It is said that the portion of the Liverpool and Bury
railway between the former town and Wigan, will be
opened on the 20th instant.
It is said that Mr. Hudson has bought equal to one
thousand Midland shares in stock sun the half shares
during the present account, and that Mr. Glyn has also
invested a considerable sum in the same line.

Owing to the declaration of the London and North-
Western that it is their intention to enter upon no new
works, the intended new line between Bangor and Car-
narvon, from the Bangor station of the Chester and Holy-
head. has been abandoned.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY COMPANY.—
Traffic for the week ending November 4, 1848:—Coaching
traffic, £961 ss. 3d. ; parcels, £59 ls. 10.1. ; goods and
cattle, £2BB 12s. Id. ; steam-boats, £l5B 18s. 6d.: total,
£1,467 17s. Bd.

The proprietors of the Colchester and Stour Valley
have specially approved of the lease of their line to the
Eastern Union, at a rate of 5 per cent. from the comple-
tion of the line between Hythe and Sudbury, to increase
with the Eastern Union dividend to 6 per cent.
The shareholders of the Caledonian have authorised the
directors to admit the Edinburgh and Glasgow to a par-
ticipation in the agreement for the leases or the Scottish
Central, the Dundee, Perth and Aberdeen Junction, and
to join the first-named company in an agreement for leas-
ing the Scottish Midland Junction.
From offioial rotwonfir it arpearo that the amount of traf-
fie for the last week, on 4,167 mites of railway, was
£199,440, thus accounted for :—.£93,456 for the convey-
ance of passengers only, £55,406 for the carriage of goods,
ar d a remainder of £50,428, for passengers and goods to-
ge:her, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase of
£21,580 over the corresponding week of last year, when
the mileage was 3,309. The average earnings per mile
were £4B, whilst in 1847 they were £53. _

LIVERPOOL, ORMSKIRK, AND PRESTON RAILWAY.—
The works on this line of railway have been very much
retarded, during the last few days, owing to the frequent
slipping of the embankment, at llufford. One part of the
embankment has slipped three or four times at the same
place, as often as it has been filled up again. Only one
side has given way, which appears to be owing to the soil
having ben moved from that side to form the embank.
ment. An engine has been for some time engaged in
conveying ballast from the cutting at Aughton Moss, a:3cl
was making very rapid progress previous to the slipping of
the embankment.

ME GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The official state-
ment of the finances of this concern seems much more fa-
vourable than had been expected. They at once abandon
works to the amount of £2,680,000. Their borrowed ca-
pital amounts only to £4,486,827, in place of £6,000,000,
as has been usually represented ; while the actual paid-up
capital amounts to £6,070,450, in place of £5,500,000, as
has been stated. The statement appears very full and
clear, and gives great satisfaction. The result is, that they
anticipate the payment of a dividend of 61 per cent. on the
present amount of traffic, and liabilities. The whole ca-
pital raised by loans and calls amounts to £11,457,277.
This year's November has not received many notices of
intended application to Parliament on the part of railway
companies, as compared with the past session, when there
were 140 new bills before Parliament. The only one of
the great companies that has yet given notification of an
intention to proceed to Parliament, is the Lancashire and
Yorkshire, who will apply, under the enlarged title of the
" Lancashire and Yorkshire and London and North-
Western," for a transfer of interest in the Preston and
Wyre Harbour and Dock Company, and for regulating
the management of the undertaking. Another company,
the Lancaster and Carlisle, a subsidiary line to the London
and North-Western, and in which the latter are interested
by subscription to the amount of £487,874, apply for a
railway from their own at Lancaster to Preston, and to
Use a portion of the existing Lancaster and Preston which
it is said nobody owns.

The f nancialstatement issued by the Directors of the
South Western Railway is, in some important respects,
less full and explicit than the statements issued by the
directors of the other two great companies. They only
inform the proprietors parenthetically that the lines from
Basingstoke to Salisbury, from Salisbury to Exeter, and
from Farnham to Alton, together with the works between
Waterloo and London Bridges, are to be suspended.
They do not state the amounts authorised to be raised by
the issue of shares, or by loans for these undertakings, or
the sums that have been already expended on them.
They indicate in a similar allusive manner that they hold
lands, houses, &c., to the value of £250,000, and " sur-
plus rails," worth £50,000 ; " all of which," they add,
•` may be realised as proper opportunities offer, and the
proceeds made available for the reduction of the, bonded
debt." They also allude, in passing, to " rents hereafter
derivable from the 264 arches of the viaduct from Nine
Elms to the Waterloo-road."
EXTENSION OF TIME FOR MAKING RAILWAYS.—The
Gazette of Tuesday, contains the formal certificate of the
Railway Commissioners in favour of the Cornwall Rail-
way, and of the Delabole and York Railways, for an ex-
tention of time in carrying out their works. By an Act
passed last session, entitled " An Act to give further time.
for making certain railways," this important power
conferred on the Commissioners, and the specific object
of the Act is to relieve the pressure on the money-market
occasioned by calls on railway shares, and likewise to
put the railway companies in possession of more expedi-
tious and less expensive mode of proceeding than is in-
volved in an application to Parliament. A large number
of railway companies have availed themselves of this
relief : 125 applications have been received and considered ;
of these, 121 have been entertained, and in most of the
applications the extension of time asked for has been for
the full additional term of two years allowed by the act.
The greater number include the whole of the railway, and
also of the lands to be taken. Four applications were
refused, on the ground that there were special provisions
in the act making the completion of the railway compul-
sory.
THE THREE GREAT RAILWAY COMPANIES.—The pro-
posed amalgamation of the London and North-Western,
Great Western, and South-Western Railways will, if ef-
fected, create the most powerful combination ever known
in this country, and bring to one undertaking an amount
of capital larger than any of our great national undertak-
ings. The total amount of the capital of the amalgamated
company will be £42,371,239. divided as under :—London
and North-Western capital, raised by shares, £14,044,573 ;
by loans, £9,186,672 ; total, £23,231,245. The capital of
the Great Western is £11,457,277 ; £6,478,221 being
raised by shares, and £4,079,056 by loan. The South-
Western Company has raised from shares, £6,075,387, and
by loans, £1,609,350; or a total of £7,684,737. The
amalgamated companies will, by their present powers, be
entitled to call up, within the time allowed by the act for
doing so, the sum of £8,812,20165. 8d• The entire weekly
receipt of the three companies, should they not exceed
their present average, will be £70,000 per week, or
£3,640,000 per annum. The number of miles of railway
over which the company would have control will be nearly
2,000, upwards of 1,000 of which they will have in their
absolute possession. The great company will, by means
of their own and other lines, in which they are beneficially
interested, have the entire traffic from Plymouth to
Perth.

Nov. 14, 1848.

WHAT THE IRISH REBELS HAD INTENDED

TO DO.

For the last few days, the inhabitants of Dublin have
been entertained with a plan, on paper, of the way in
which the revolution of Ireland was to have been achieved,
beginning with Dublin. The mode of operation has been
revealed through the American press, by a Mr. Darcy
Magee, one of the confederates, who escaped to the land
of liberty. The nzodue operandi was to be introduce('
also into the towns of Cork, Limerick, Waterford, Kil-
kenny, Galway, &c., and the insurrection effected accord-
ing to the following arrangement :—About the first weel‘
in September, if all had been allowed to go on smoothlY,
a particular evening at about nine o'clock, was to be fixed
for the insurrection. It was to be managed by the clubs.
The city was then (early in July) marked out in sections
or military divisions, on maps supplied by a gentleman
connected with the üblin corporation. To each of these
sections there was a club attached. For instance, the
" Dr. Doyle" was to head the rising from its own quartets
in Dolier-street, down Townsend-street, Great Bruns'
wick-street, and the Coal Quays, to the Grand Canal-
Beyond that boundary the " Henry Jackson" and the
" St. Ruth" Clubs were to barricade and burn—to shoot,
pike, and plunder, all Her Majesty's soldiery and loyal
subjeets. Great things were expected from the " Grattan
Club at the opposite side of the Liffey, while the " MA'
newt" (Brennan's), the " Merchant's Club" (Darcy Ma;
gee's own), and " The Oliver Bond," under Richard
O'Gorman, jun., were to do the real Parisian " three
glorious days."
The hour of nine or ten o'clock being fixed, the clubs
were to issue forth simultaneously, and set fire to houses
here and there—by way of signals to their friends—to eldl
out the people, and to distract the authorities. The worl,
of barricading was then to commence ; and as the streets
of Dublin are, generally speaking, fully double the width
of those of Paris, and instead of the broad stone pavement
of the French capital, are smooth as M'Adam's shingle
can make them, the paved crossings would contribute bat
little towards the desired object ; particular attention was
then directed to the area railings and to the lamp-posts.
These failing to raise proper barriers, the grocers' shops
were ,ccurately noted down for the information of the,
patriots, as places where counters, casks, tea-chests, and
other bulky articles could be obtained. The barricade
made, the adjoining houses which commanded it where to
be taken possession of, for and in the name of the Irish
Republic. Communications were to be broken into the
adjoining houses—the doors and windows barricaded with
mattresses, beds, furniture, and anything that could ob-
struct the entrance of a soldier. When all the barricades
were formed, then the gas pipes were to be cut, and the
city reduced to utter darkness. Public buildings were to
be burned ; and, in short, the city also, if deemed neces-
sary for the safety of the rebels.
Gavan Duffy, John Martin, Keven O'Doherty, and.
Dalton Williams, were to be released from New-gate, Etna
that odious building burned to the ground—of course the
robbers therein confined being first enlarged and enrolled.
in the patriotic ranks. The council of five—that is, or
was—Messrs. Meagher, Deviii Reilly, Dillon, Magee, end
another, were to he a provisional government until order
was restored in Dublin. O'Gorman was to be one of the
military leaders, and a variety of other situations Wee
equally well provided for. Such is an outline of the PIO
actually adopted at one of the clubs, and recommended to
the chief club—the " Dr. Doyle," of which Mr. Charles
Gavan Duffy was president.

COMMITTAL OF A BARONESS FOR FELONY'

At the Worship-street (London) Police-office on Frids°
the Portuguese baroness, Maria Calota Alves Cabral, es'
her servant Maria Rosa, were placed at the bar for fills/
examination before Mr. Arnold, charged with havitl
stolen a silver brooch, a quantity of linen, wearing appal'
and other articles, the property of her landlady Mrs. Esther
Pitman, the proprietress of a boarding establishment tbr
distinguished foreigners in Finsbury-square.
Since the former examination, which appeared in ear
last paper, the police have been engaged in unremittin%
efforts to trace the missing portion of the property, co
prising a gold watch and various other valuables, whiev
the prosecutrix had lost since the prisoners had resided in
her house ; but it was intimated that the only article re;
covered was a diamond ring, which was accidentally found'
since the prisoners had been liberated upon bail, secreted
beneath some papers at the bottom of a drawer in the
butler's pantry.
Mr. France, a solicitor, addressed the magistrate urg
behalf of the prisoners, and said that he wished to offer r‘
few explanatory observations respecting the property
found in the possession of the accused lady at the time
her apprehension. The magistrate would recollect that
the articles in question consisted of a silver brooch, be,:
longing to Mrs. Pitman, which had been taken from the
hand of the baroness, and two towels and some pieces 0.
soap, which were
found concealed beneath the upper Par'
of her dress. regard to the brooch, it was positiveli
asserted by the lady that she had received it from her ser-
vant Rosa, who alleged that she had picked it up the
passage, and was now ready to testify to that fact ; and
was instructed to assure the magistrate that she bad been
furnished with the soap and towels, according to the cue'
tom of the establishment, for her personal use. Although
it might appear somewhat remarkable for a lady to deposit
such things in her bosom, the suspicion naturally attach"
ing to such an act would be at once obliterated when he
mentioned that she was a person of most singular and ec-
centric habits, and was suffering from mental weakness
approaching to imbecility.
The prosecutrix was here recalled by the magistrate'
and stated, in answer to his questions, that she had never
observed any marked peculiarity in the habits of the elder
prisoner, nor anything in her conduct and manner to indi-
cate that she was labouring under mental aberration.
Serjeant Brannan also reminded the magistrate that, ill
addition to the two towels discovered upon the lady S
person. he found another in the room, which was the one
left for her use, and a fourth concealed in her wardrobe.
The prisoner's solicitor, in continuation, said that
although the unhappy condition of the baaoness ruigb
not have attracted the notice of her landlady it was, never-
theless, the fact, in confirmation of which he might well;
tion that a letter had been placed in his hands from
gentleman at St. Michael's, in the Azores, where she
tiesformerly
formally
the r brought
e,resided,who weur intimating
nndtseiorm
satisfied
tei thatinsgfiednotice
of
ohtfhetrehemsujebunjdetiaceltiaillinaac:dpthshoceFi;
that they had appointed trustees for the management
her extensive estates in that island.
Mr. Arnold said that the observations of the learner/
gentlemen were strictly for the consideration of a jury'
and, although there appeared some circumstances in the
case of the elder prisoner which might tell in her favo10:
he felt it his duty to commit them both for trial. P
had no objection, however, to allow the bail which list
already been put in to be extended for her appearance S'
the sessions.
The Solicitor, however, intimated that the Conse.il"
General of Portugal, le Commandeur Vanzeller, who bt;
before been bail for the baroness, was not now in a'
tendance, and as he understood that he declined, in CO
sequence of his official capacity, interfering any furtb,„
in the reatter, the unfortunate lady had no hope of euj,
taming any other sureties, as she had no personal frier
v"
in this country.
The depositions of the witnesses were then read of:
by Mr. Harlstone, the clerk, and explained, through the
medium of an interpreter, to the prisoners, who were re;
moved to the cells in an evident state of extreme dejecti,s.,t
and mental suffering, which was also acutely manifesn
by the husband of the elder prisoner (to whom he 1°I;
only been recently married) when his wife was islo"
away in the van.

FIRE.—DEATH BY SUFFOCATION—On Wednestlsl
night a fire broke out on the premises of -
tr
Charles Beasley, linen-draper, Redcliff-pit, BristoB
The men and engines of the various fire-offices so',
speedily on the spot, and having a good supply of water
from the plugs of the Water Works Company, they 0, e•
enabled to prevent the flames extending beyond the sill
to which the damage, as regards the stock, was entire,,
confined. We are sorry to add, however, that a fe030.1,
servant in the employ of Mr. Beasley, met with her death
in consequence of the fire ; her name is Phoebe Carter'
aged 22 years.
PIUNCE ALBERT AND THE CORNISII MINES.--1A?)
Basset's court for her tenantry of the Barron of Penwell
was held at Selley's hotel, Falmouth, this week, on whici
occasion Mr. Muria, her Ladyship's steward, announcec!
that Prince Albert, at his own risk, had set to work !
mine in St. Ann's parish. Though these operations were
its istat understood they are to be carriedpersonaledtobeundeakenatthe on b
ofrisky
thethe D
Pruienbc;
over which his Royal Highness presides as guardian ,e 0
the Duke of Cornwall. The employment thus given
the mines promises to make the Prince very popw".
amongst them. 5
BENEFITS OF EARLY CLOSING.—The Young Mel 2
Christian Association, which has for its object the i,
t::
provernent of the moral and spiritual condition of cel:1
mercial young men, recently announced their proposi,
course of twelve lectures, to be delivered during the eke
suing season in the great room, Exeter-hall. Before tis
notice had been issued three weeks, three thousand tick to
for the course were sold—the vast majority of thetno
young men, who thus manifestly refute the charge t ets
"if time be given it will be abused." Many bitter regr,d
are often expressed by young men who are anxious to qilt
themselves of such opportunities of improvement,
who are utterly prevented by the unreasonable and fliv,
Christian late-hour-system, which still so widely peol
EXTRACT FROM ADMIRAL BARRINGTON'S Wal',:ot
" Many testimonials of my friendship and regard I 01,e:i0
to leave, would time admit of it ; but the enemy 3'4)
sight, and I trust, with the assistance of my gracious 7011
good God, to make a gallant defence and to save ori
with my country." •

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Direct.
I d LATEST DATES AT LIVERPOOLrect. I. ...,cp
t. nirect.' Dinaii—/
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Australia .. .. July 181 Lima i Sept.
Bahia .. Sept. 2 Maranham.. Sept.l2 • • :1!"
Barbadoes
Bombay .. .. 3 Mobile Oct. 1
B. Ayres .. .. Aug. 26 ,Monte Video .. Aug.
Calcutta .. .. Sept. 21:New Orleans .. Oct. V
C. G. Hope. .. .. 6'New York.... ..
Charleston . .. Ozl. 21 Pernambuco. Sept.3o • • 0
China Aug. 30 Rio Janeiro.. .. Sept. ;?0
Demerara
Havana ...... .. 10 St. Helena •.•.! .. SePt• 4
Jamaica..... .. .. ;Valparaiso ..1 .. Aug' I'
La Guavra I .. .. 71Vera Cruz .. ' .. Oct
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TIDE TABLE. . wre!,,,
DAYS. MORN. EVENO.' HOHT. 1 HOLYDAY,,
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Nov.l h. m. h. m. ft. in. i
Tuesday....l4 054 117 20 2
Wednesday.ls\ 142 2 8 18 6 .
Thursday .. 16 232 258 j 16 7
Friday ....17 325 354 114 8
Saturday ..18 427 5 3 113 3 jili
Sunday ....19 540 6191 12 9 22d Sund aft.l"-
Monday.... 20 657 632 il2 7

Nov. 1

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