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would have arisen from a struggle, separated, after pro-
testing against the violence to which they had been ex-
posed. In the evening they adjourned the meetings in
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the Oratoire, for the present at least
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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS

RAILWAY

INTELLIGBA CB.

The Rev. J. B. Bennett, of Macclesfield, has been ap-
pointed Head Mester of Blackburn Grammar School.
The Earl of Harrowby and Lord Sandon have contri-
buted liberally towards the new church at Northwood,
near Hanley.

The chimes belonging to St. Mary's Church Cathedral,
Carlisle, which have been silent for many years, have
just been restored by order of the Dean and Chapter.
The Right Hon. Henry Goulburn has been appointed
one of the I

siastical Commissioners for England, in
n the ro 0131 of the Right Hon. Sir Herbert Jenner Fast

resigned,

In conformity with the arrangements made
opening a special train consisting of fifteen carriages
drawn by two engines, one of which was driven by Mr.
See, left the Sheffield station, on Monday for Manchester.
The first carriage contained the excellent band of the
South West Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry, and the
remainder contained the Directors and their friends who
had been invited to the celebration, to the number of
about one hundred and fifty. The weather through-
out the day was exceedingly wet and uncomfortable,
which of course detracted considerably from the
pleasure of the proceedings. The train left the Sheffield
station in Bridghouses, at eight minutes past ten o'clock,
and after stopping at the Wortley and Penistone
stations, arrived at the mouth of the tunnel shortly before
eleven o'clock. After a brief delay the engine stationed
at the place with two immense lights at the head, was
attached to the train, and then entered upon its subter-
ranean journey, which occupied exactly ten minutes.
Upon their emerging into daylight the occupants of the
train gave a hearty huzza. After a stoppage at Wood-
head of twenty-five minutes the train was again in motion
at twenty-five minutes to twelve o'clock, and after several
short stoppages it reached the station in Store-street,
Manchester, at twenty-two minutes past twelve o'clock.
The time fixed for the starting of the train upon its
return to Sheffield, was a quarter past one, but it did not
leave Manchester until nineteen minutes beyond that
time. The number of passengers on returning was
considerably augmented. At Dinting the train stopped
for a few minutes and the greater portion of the passen-
gers alighted and walked a short distance from the line to
obtain a view of the immense viaduct with its thirteen
arches at that place. After being also slightly delayed at
several of the stations, the train reached the Woodhead
mouth of the tunnel at twenty-five minutes to three
-:- --
_.......Kccueors. . o'clock. At thirteen minutes to three it again entered
the tunnel,And reached the opposite end in exactly four-
teen minutes, when the passengers indulged in a second
Jest
hearty huzzah. The train having stopped for five ini-
gclia in person. the
2a th
'f
---'
::: ='"'
The Queen has commanded that in future no fee Su.. nutes at Dunford Bridge, was again set in motion, and
be taken for visiting the state apartments at Windsor. arrived at the Sheffield station at twenty-three minutes to
The Bight Hon. W. E. Gladstone and Mrs. Gladstone four o'clock, having travelled from Dunford Bridge in the
will spend the Christmas at Hawarden Castle, where short space of thirty-one minutes, and from Manchester
there will be a family party. a few minutes over two hours.
The Duke of Devonshire has left Devonshire House, The length of the tunnel is 5,300 yards or three miles
for Worsley Hall, on a visit to Lord and Lady Francis and twenty yards. It is fifteen feet wide and eighteen
Egerton, who are surrounded by a distinguished circle. feet six inches high. It is adapted for a single line of
Eir Robert Peel arrived at Birmingham on Wednesday, rails, and to prevent the possibility of accident the
on his way to Drayton Manor. When the Premier was trains will be taken through both ways by an engine to be
recognised in his carriage, be was loudly cheered, and kept entirely for the purpose. As an additional security
appeared much pleased by the hearty welcome. . an electric telegraph has been erected, for the conveyance
The Cologne Gazette of the 19th confirms the report of of signals thrrugh the tunnel at any time. The level of
the pregnancy of the reigning Duchess of Gotha. In the the rails at the eastern end of the tunnel is nearly or
event of there being no direct heir, says this jourual, the thousand feet above the level of the
duchy would become the property of Prince Albert. There are five shafts, C.e depth of the decpett being six
DWARRENAUTH TAGORE.—A case has recently ar- hundred feet. Active operations were commenced in the
rived from India for Dwarkenauth Tagore, containing year 1830, so that the tunnel has occupied :very nearly
ivory ornaments and other manufactures of Indian work- five years in its construction. For more than half of its
manship, imported by this celebrated Merchant Prince length it passes through solid rock, known to geologists
of India, for the purpose of presentation to the Queen. as the millstone grit of the lower bed of the coal forma-
Her Majesty's royal charities to upwards of 1000 poor tion. The remainder of the tunnel passes through shale
and aged people, were distributed in Whitehall on Mon- and coal, and is lined with solid and substantial masonry.
day and Tuesday last, under the immediate orders of the It is lined in every part but where it has been cut through
Archbishop of York, Lord High Almoner. The royal solid rock, and every effort has been used to render the
charities consisted of small donations of 58- and of 13s to work as complete as possible. The entire cost of the
each person who had been previously selected from re- tunnel, which may fairly be regarded as the greatest work
commendations of the clergy, nobility, and gentry. The of its kind, will we understand be about £200,000,
number of applications from blind and disabled persons The directors and their friends on their arrival at Shef-
exceeded all former precedents. field, sat down to a splendid collation in the Cutlers' Hall ;
and in the evening the gentlemen from the Manchester
and were conveyed home by a special train. The line i
now opened throughout for passengers and merchandise

OPENING OF THE TUNNEL ON THE SHEFFIELD AND
MANCHESTER RAILWAY.—On Monday (22nd inst,) the
Directors and a number of invited friends proceeded to
open the Tunnel on this important line of Railway, which
had been previously examined by General Paslev, of the
Board of Trade, and received his warmest commendation
as a work of unequalled engineering science and workman-
ship. General Pasley also went over the Ashton Branch
and particularly examined the Viaduct, whose fall a few
months ago, caused so grievous a sacrifice of life,:and ex-
pressed himself satisfied with the manner in which it is
now completed.

The important office of Rector of the High School of
Edinburgh, has been conferred upon Dr. Leonhard
Schmitz, well kcown to the classical scholars of England

for the

and the continent by his contributions to the .Claisica
Museum, (of which he is editor,) the Dictionary of Grei
and Roman Antiquities, and the Biographical Dirl

. .
of the Society of Useful Knowledge:
THE CHURHH or ENGLAND.—Some idea of the ex-
tent of the Church of England may be gathered from the
ordination on Sunday week. We have not seen the lists
of all the ordinations, but from those published we find
there were ordained—

Deacons. Priests

By the Archbishop of Canterbur
Do. York ....,

By the Bishop of Chester....
Do. Winchester
Do. Oxford ....

Worcester

6
11
24
11

... 12

Do. London
Do. Lichfield
Do. Hereford
Do. Peterborough
Do. Bath and Wells
Do. Lincoln .......
Do. Chichester ....
Do. Gloucester.....
so that by fourteen bishops only there were ordained 139
deacons (who now assume ministerial functions for the
first time), and 161 priests. The ordinations occur guar-

THE COURT 4- I

iIASHIONABLE WORLD,

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
royal family, will take their departure from the castle, for
Buckingham Palaee, according to present arrangements,
on Toe--' 90th of next month, two days before the

meetm
M

la will be opened by he

sea at low water.

FASHIONS FOR JANUARY

•om the " London and Paris Ladie

rte of Fashion."

The damas fashionable this season is veloutes, the
ad velvet stripe contrasting well with this rich descrip-
These dresses require no trimming, but are
tall and very long behind ; on other ma-

tion of silk
made extre

tunnel, 400 yards in length, through the Calton-hill,
Edinburgh, has just been completed. _ _

The promdters of the Chichester and Bognor announce
that the deposits will be returned free from deduction, if
the bill be not applied for in the ensuing session.
It may be mentioned, as a proof of the immense amount
of business now being carried on by manufacturers of
locomotives, that no firm in the trade will contract to
supply engines in less than three years.
The railway between Sheffield and Manchester was
opened throughout yesterday week, the tunnel which
pierces the chain of hills between Lancashire and York-
shire, which cost £200,000, and which has taken seven
yea a in execution, having been completed.
A case has just been decided in the law courts of Paris
on the legality of the sale of shares in the Amiens and
Boulogne Hallway before the Adjudication

encon, or point lace, are worn. Taf-
ie are fashionable for petites soirees, and are

was a time bargain, and was given-against the plaintiff,
who sought to recover the value of the shares.
The Old Town Hospital, in Cl) de-street, Glasgow, has
been purchased by the Caledonian Railway, for the cum of
£17,000. To show the great rise which has taken place ,
in the value of property, it may be stated that the same was
exposed for sale in 1844 for 12,000, but did not find a pur-

with the brokers on this exchange
Exchange has sent forth a similar notice

The Sheffield Stock I

AN EXAMF
shareholders

E WORTHY OF BEING FOLLOWED.—The
Pt' the West Midland, Manchester and

Southampton, and Swindon and Birmingham Junction,
received the welcome news stating that the failure
myment of the deposits having rendered it inex-

pedient to attempt the completion of this project, the
directors have resolved upon returning the entire amount
of subscriplions.

FATAL RAILWAY A

ENT.-Ou Wednesday a fea
Norwich railway. near T'hp

, .
ford, by which the engine-driver and stoker of the train
were The engine ran off the line, and running
down an embankment became imbedded in the earth. In
its grog e:s the chain which conne ted the tender with the
carriages snapped, and to this the passengers were indebted
for their safety.

MORE DEFAULTING DIRECTORR.—The Chairman of
the Great Leeds and London Itailway stated at a special
meeting held on Friday week, that 162 of the provisional
committee had applied for shares by letter, hut that out
of that number only 24 had paid the deposits! As a
specimen of the wide scope which engineers leave them-
selves, the two gentlemen employed on this line, whose
claims amounted to nearly 410,000, had consented to
knock off.£sooo (!) The advertising expenses were £3395,
and were disputed.

THE DEPOSIT DIFFICULTY SOLVED.—The deposits
may be paid by instalments, if it be desired. The speaker's
secretary, Mr. Leroy, has issued the following notice to
parliamentary agents :—" The Speaker will give orders at
any time for the deposit of money, on a written applica-
tion, in the usual form, sent by post, to C. E. Lefroy,
Esq., Ewshot House, Farnham, Surrey. The order for
depositing the money may be had, with the following
words added to the usual order, ' in two, three, four, or
five several instalments of £ each,' by which means
the money may be deposited by instalments, but under
one order as before."

Ilomis Yost Tug HOLIDAYS.--A scholastic monster
t'ain of 32 carriages, drawn by three engines, left the
Brighten Railway station at 10 o'clock on Wednesday
morning, containing upwards of 400 pupils from 14 of
the principal establishments in the town. It did not ar-
rive at the London terminus till 20 minutes after 12, and
the whole of the luggage was not cleared at the station by
half-past one, on the arrival of the next regular train
This was the heaviest passenger Inggage train ever known
on the line, there being not less than five luggage
boxes annexed.—Brighton Gazette.
RAILWAY SCALE GIB MANNERS.—We have often
been struck with the difference of manner i.lssumed by
railway officials towards different people. Shut your
eyes, and you can tell by the tone of their voices whom
they are addressing. The „ followin,, examples will best
_
illus `-te is

stratc our meaning. The Ifailvvay'Potelita,..
calling upon the passengers to get their tickets ready
He calls;—To the Third Class. Fortissimi>. " Tickets,
tickets. come, get your tickets ready."—To the Second
Class. Forte. " Tickets, Gents. ; get your tickets ready,
Gents."—To the First Class. Piuno. "Get your
tickets ready, Gentlemen, if yon please; tickets ready, if
you please, Gentlemen."—Punch.

1 Wu

GENERAL MISCELLANY,

Parliament is to assemble

The autumn plantir
.eneral in Furness.

n the 2nd of January.
g, of potatoes has become Ten

The Earl of Eldon has given a donation of £5OO to the
infirmary at Newcastle on Tyne.
The appointment of Mr. W. E. Gladstone, as one of
announced in the Gazette of

Tetaries of state was

chaser. A most disgraceful fight took place in the Roman Ca-
A stone, ten ounces in weight, was thrown through the tholic Chapel, Cardiff, on Christmas Eve, during the per-
window of a carriage on the Glasgow and Edinburgh formance of the service.
Railway, and James Oswald, Esq., M.P. for Glasgow, TRANSPORTATION oFCoNvicrs.—TheJosephSoames,
had a narrow escape, the stone having been afterwards hired convict-ship, left Woolwich on Menday last, with
found deeply embedded in the cushion immediately be- 286 convicts for Van Diemen's Land. - •
hind where he had been seated. The new break watk r at Harwich Is expected to he
THE COLLISION ON THE NORTH UNION RAILWAY.-- commenced in a very short time. A contract for 50,000
It appears that this unfortunate occurrence was occasioned tons of Kentish ragatone has been already made.
by the watchman at a coal station called Spring Branch, The Leeds lnlelligencer calls upon the electors of the
having neglected to turn the scotch on the branch rail, and West Riding not to promise their votes as a truly good
the wind being strong, the waggons were blown ont cf the Conservative will be announced.
main line, which caused the accident. Since her conviction, Martha Browning has confessed
The Brighton and Cheltenham, at a recent meeting, to the murder of the old lady with whom she lived. Ste
announced their intention of returning the deposits, less will be executed on Monday, January 5.
10s. per share; but they on Saturday evening issued a The number of cattle and sheep annually sold at
notice, stating that they could not fulfil their engage- Smithfield has doubled within the last century, whilst
ments, in consequence of a bill in Chancery having been the weight has also more than doubled in that interval.
filed against them. Captain Huish has, in the Times, contradicted the
There seems no end to the admirable illustrations report of there having been a special train on the morning
which railways are giving of the principle of co-operation. of the 4th when the Halifax mail sailed.
The Great Western have very recently provided baths, at A young woman, 21 years of age, in destitute circum-
one halfpenny, for their numerous workmen at the stances, was, early on Monday morning last, delivered of
Swindon station. A laundry is in progress, and will an infant in the streets of Greenwich.
shortly be opened. A Elliot Lockhart, Esq., of Borthwickbrae, has come
REPORTING BY THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The forward as a candidate for the representation of Selkirk-
North American, Philadelphia journal, announces that shire, vacant by the resignation of A. Pringle, Esq.
arrangements have been made to have full reports of each The Lincolnshire Chronicle says that the quantity of
day's proceedings in Congress at Washington, up to eight potatoes in that county fit for use will be nearly equal to
o'clock in the evening, forwarded to them by the magne- former years.
tic telegraph, in time to appear in the paper the following A dividend has at length been declared in the rather
morning. memorable bankruptcy of. Clarke and Mitchell, of Lei-
On Tuesday, Frances Burnaud, one of the guards on cester. The amount in the hands of the Official Assignee
the Blackwell Railway, having got on the wrong side of is £121,440, which affords a dividend of 4s. in the pound.
the line, was about to cross, when seeing a carriage com- The Times denies, on authority, that her Majesty ever
ing up, be became confused, and in endeavouring to make wished Prince Albert to take command of the army, and
his escape, fell, and the carriage going over him, his legs that his Royal Highncsi ever had any such false ambition
were so severely crushed that he had to undergo amputa- as to desire the post.
tion, and is not expected to survive. On Thursday morning, a man named Thomas Walsh,
THE BROAD AND NARROW GAUGE.—The boisterous of Mellor, aged 40, committed suicide by hanging himself
weather of Monday and Tuesday last prevented the in- to a beam in his house. It is supposed he was prompted
tended experiments on the engines of the Manchester and to do the act in consequence of some family differences.
Birmingham Railway (a narrow gauge line), ordered by The Duke of Sutherland is suffering from what is pro-
the Railway Gauge Commissioners from taking place. fessionally called ramollissemeta of the brain—one of the
The next place fixed for those experiments is, we under- most intractable to medical skill of all the ills that flesh
stand, York. is heir to.
THE LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE. —The Committee
of this Exohange have put the following notice upon
their daily share-list :—" tar NOTICE.—II is intended
to publish on this list the names of DEFAULTERS and RE-
PUDIATORS unless they immediately settle their

On Tuesday, during a heavy equal], the schoor
of Bristol, Collins master, was capsized, and
Cromwell's Rock in the Waterford river, and four hands
perished.

sunk under

- Edmund Thomas Yeakell has been sentenced to two
years' imprisJnment and hard labour, for forging another
party's name to the Parliamentary deed of a Railway
Company.

The Speaker of the House of Commons has given no-
tice that he will, on demand, issue his warrant, authorising
the payment to the Accountant-General 'of deposits of
railway bills, at such times and in such instalments as

parties may require.
Accounts have been received by the Admiralty of the
Polar expedition under Sir John Franklin up to the 16th
of August. It was on the north coast of Greenland,
above Gilbert's Sound, and would probably winter near

e JersT 7'imes gives a humourous account of the

olpture of a ghost. The apparition turned out to be a
Lund fide woman, who had viaited a lady, and endeavoured
to frighten her to death, in consequence of having been
recently discharged from her service for theft.

The Free Ch-urehmen have held a great meeting in
Edinburgh for their manse scheme—the Hon. Fox Alaule
in the chair. £lOO,OOO or £150,000 are wanted ; and
from the different Synods £BO,OOO are already announced
as subscribed.

forsake

Dec. 30, 1845.

ANY ONE RITE ?—The Railway Chron4le THE- LEAGUE AND THE PROPOSED WHIG MINISTRY
I states that a new preliminary announcement of a new —The Earl of Clarendon, elder brother of the Hon.
I Great Independent London, Birmingham, Manchester, P. Villiers, was to have been President of the Board
and Liverpool Direct Railway, was a curiosity hardly.to Trade in Lord John Russell's administration ; and t°
be looked for, as an addition to the customary mirth rf vice-presidecy was offered to Mr. Cobden.
this merry season. At the moment, of all others, when On Saturday a maiden lady named Galen, aged
the battered wrecks of former schemes, with the like in years, residing in Baham-street, Camden-town, cote
posing titles, are being scattered about in all directions, mitted suicide by stabbing herself in the body and eV
it will hardly he credited that any one should come for- from fear of becoming blind. She had been treublei
ward, in sober earnest, to launch a new venture of the with sore eyes for some years, and was an eccentri'
kind. It is, however, no joke of ours, at least. The ad- character.
vertisement, signed by "A. Wennell, secretary ; offices, On Friday week, an appalling explosion of fire data'
32, Ely-place, Holborn." literally appeared in the Herald, took place at Toftshaw Bottom Pit, at Hunsworth, ,
-.1-ristmas Day. "The names of an influential Dirac- property of the Bowling Company, by which no awe'
Lion" are promised as forthcoming shortly ; "in the than five individuals, including a father and his two Boos
mean time" (delicious hint)! " application for shares, one a child only six years old, have lost their lives. 11'
&c.," may be made to Mr. Wennell, as aforesaid. accident resulted from one of the deceased having Son.
" Capital, Four Millions. Deposit, £2 2s !!" trary to orders used a candle instead of a Davy lamp.
ENGINEERING.—On the exploded Rugby, Derby, and Mr. Polk, the American president, is the descendo,
Manchester line, Mr. Blunt, the engineer, in thirty-nine of a Scotchman named Pollock. In Scotland the peoPl'
miles, between Macclesfield and Derby, perpetrated nine in low life pronounce this word short, the sound r
miles of tunnelling, being about one quarter of the which we cannot give more accurately than by the foe'
length. As Mr. Blunt could not conveniently tunnel letters that compose the President's name. Hence th'
throughout, he has provided two miles of arching, 90 to new and uncouth name of the present President of,tiv
100 feet high, and two cuttings, three-and-a-half miles United States.
long, and from 40 to 90 feet in depth, the chief part of At the Strand sessions, the other day, application vat
which must go to spoil. He has among his intended made on the part of a person named Harris, a house
'prentice deeds in railway engineering, half a mile of cut- keeper living in Holywell-street, for a remission of tbE
tine, 111 feet deep, and 422 yards of arching, 110 feet parish-rates, on the ground of extreme old age—a handrer
high, in one run. On his plans he made up for these and five years. The Collector of St. Clement's Dane
colossal works by providing t•venty-five bridges, from 10 stated, that, on account of the great age of the applicaOt
to 12 feet high, chiefly 10 feet, all of them too low to he was relieved every quarter. The Chairman said, Oa+
pass locomotive engines. For these surprising and unex- he could not think of taking a rate from such a person.
envied labours, Mr. Blunt has only received £7,000, SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—The other day, while
and only claims £6,000 more, making a gross total of Mr. Leith was walking over a field of turnips, he starter
£l3,ooo.—Railway Herald, a number of hares, one of which tan into a furrow if
THE MAGNETIC NEEDLE TELEGRAPH.—On Friday which was another hare running in an opposite direction
last a number of persons attended the Telegraph Room, Both continued running with swiftness towards earl
at the terminus of the Great Western Railway, at Pad- other, until they came in contact. Head met head witt
dington, to see the experiments with the Magnetic Needle such violence that death was the instantaneous con.
Telegraph, and learn by occular demonstration and by sequence to both.—John 0' Groat's Journal.
personal examination of the machinery and process the MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS.—The changes in tin
method by which communications are made between I'ad- constitution of the Ministry which its recent return t(
dington and Slough, with almost miraculous rapidity, and power will occasion, will be. few, and not of very gra
with a precision to oral converse between two persons in importance. Mr. Gladstone bas succeeded Lord Stanle
the same room. Whilst they were there a message came in the Colonial Office. Lord Dalhousie will be
from Slough that a lady had left her purse at the Telegraph occupy a seat in the Cabinet, Lord St. Germal
Room of the Station there, and proceeded to London. appointed Postmaster-General, also probably wi.
Au answer was instantaneously returned, directing what in the Cabinete and, for the present at least, them
was to be done with it, and means taken to apprise the little probability of further change. The Lord Chanceile
owner on her arrival at Paddington, that it was secure. will retire on account of ill health.
All was done as easily as if she had dropped her purse in EXPLOSIONe—An explosion of a steam engine boiler
her own house, and it had been found immediately, and attended with loss of life, injury to 16 or 'l7 persons, sad
given to her by one of the inmates. considerable damage to property, took place, we regret te
YORK BUT (not) lIONEST.—REPUDIATION MADE state, at a colliery belonging to Messrs. G. C. Thorne!'
EASY.—The committee of the Leeds Stock Exchange , croft and Co., near Willenhall, on Monday last. Mr.
have just passed resolutions repudiating all contracts "in Thorneycroft was badly scalded and bruised, and Edwd•
the mime of the Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford Hood, an engineer, was found dead •, John Reece, the
Union," and of the "Manchester, Liverpool, and Great engineer, had both his legs broken. All the persons in-
North of England" railways, or in any schemes where
lured are going on favourably.— Wolverhampton Ultra-
the projectors, " without having constituted the proposed nicle.
company, enter into new arrangements essentially vary- Loss of A SHIP BY STRIKING ON THE SUNKEN
ing either in constitution or design, from the scheme ori. WRECK OF THE " MANCHESTER."—The merchants o'
ginally published and involving the virtual abandonment Heide have suffered a severe loss in a singular way, Oc
of such scheme in its original integrity." The members the 7th inst. durfng a heavy fog, one of their vessels laden
of the Manchester Stock Exchange deny the right to de- with coffee, sugar, and dried fruits, struck on the wreck
Clare aly such contracts void, and pledge themselves to of the Manchester, Hull and Hamburgh steamer (which
have no dealings with the members of the Leeds Ex- sunk last year in a gale), and immediately upset. The
change until the resolutions in question are rescinded, cargo, which unfortunately is not insured, will,it is feared,
and those members honourably fulfil their engagements. prove a total loss, as the deck is said to have broken up,
Manchester is right for once. Were business conducted and the goods either floated out or became irretrievably
on the Leeds principle shareholding must have an end, damaged.
Even a Yorkshireman would admit that if all bets were EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF MURDER.—Last week,
void unless the whole list of horses entered started, "in at Dagenham, Essex, a respectable tradesman, named
all its original integrity," there would be few Derbys or Dunsdon, was committed for the murder of his wife.
St. Legers. She was affected with a spinal complaint, which made her
STOCKTON AS IT WAS, AND AS IT IS.—EFFECTS OF occasionally distracted. In October last, the husband
THR RAILWAY SYSTEM.—In 1788, Stockton imported
ran down from her bed-room, with a razor in his hand,
coals for the consumption of the town—the duty on coals saying that she had cat her throat. Sbe was found dead,
brought coastwise, ss. fid. per chaldron, having amounted and a coroner's jury pronounced a verdict of temporary
in that year to £ll7 18s. lid. Last year (1t,?44), the port insanity. Last week, the case was brought before the
of Stockton exported coals, coastwise and foreign, to the bench of magistrates. They committed Dunsdon, but
extent of 1,621,227 tons; besides supplying the wants of admitted him to bail.
a large surrounding agricultural neighbourhood, whose LORD STANLEY AND MR. GLADSTONE.—It may per-
coals had, previously to the opening of the Stockton and haps, be remembered by our readers, that when Mr.
Darlington railroad, to be carted 30 or 'lO miles to the Gladstone so mysteriously quitted office at the beginning
places of consumption. Whitehaven and Berwick are of the last session, we stated our belief, founded on what
now coal-exporting places; yet in 1788 the former paid seemed a credible source of information, that the event
duty £43 95., and the latter £94 17s. 10d., on coals im- was to be attributed, not to Sir Robert Peel's Irish policy,
ported for home consumption. The Whole of this largely- but to his differences with Lord Stanley, and to his lord-
increased supply of coal is derived from a field of coal of ship's having declared the incompatibility of their both
the best quality in the west of the county of Durham, sitting together in the Cabinet. This statement seems
which twenty years ago was inaccessible, and which is now to derive confirmation from Lord Stanley's retire"
now producing an incredible amount of wealth to those ment being followed by the accession to office of Mr
who have had the foresight or the good fortune to become Gladstone.—Record.
its proprietors. What, then, may we not expect to be THE PARRICIDE IN N
the vast developement of the mineral wealth of the king- roner's investigation into this extraordinary cast
dom, when pod working railways are carried into the sumed on Monday. The evidence against the female
hundreds of districts where coal, iron, lime, and other prisoners was very slight; it appeared that the daughter
valuable minerals are now locked up by impassable hills had threatened to poison her father, that no doctor bad
and wretched roads ! been calied, and that the old man had been otherwise neg-
lected. The jury found that there was nothing to crimi-
nate the wife and daughter of deceased ; but the son who
had confessed his crime was of course committed for
trial. The son, as may be remembered, whose name was
Joicey, was a hind in the employ of the Duke of Portland.
Lance. PARISHES.—The parish of Halifax covers all
a 'a of 92 square miles (76,000 acres), divided into 22
townships; Preatbury (Cheshire), 88 square miles (60,0°0
acres), 32 townships ; Aysgarth (York), 125 square miles
(80,000 acres), and 12 hamlets; Allendale (Northumber-
land). 70 square miles ; Alston (Cumberland), 74 ; Mere
Tydvit (Glamorgan), 77; Gunton (York), 78;
(York), 78 - Ecclesfield, 80; Kirkby Malside (York),
82; Minahull (Northumberland), 83; llomaldkirk (York-
, shire), ; Falatone (N ,rthumberland), 89; Roch,lol3
(Late ;shire), 90; the average extent of each of the eleven
-t-named parishes being 80 square miles, or 51,000

ORTHUISIBERLAND

th a seal

was re'

acres.
GAF; EXPLOSION.— e n explosion from the ignition Li
gas took place in London Row, Edinburgh, on Saturday
night week. The flooring of the house was splintered and,
torn up in many places, the outer-door blown out and
a:livered to pieces, the plaster and lathing of the roof
broken and dislodged, and the window in the adjoining
apartment entirely destroyed. The stair which led to thu
upper rooms was rent down and shaken from the walla,
and parts of the door and windows violently projected to,
and breaking the windows of the houses on the other
side of the street. Several persons were severely
injured.

ANTE•OFFICIAL DINNER.—We understand that the
Lord Advocate—we beg his pardon, Mr. Rutherford,
M.P. for Leith—entertained his political friends at din-
ner on Saturday, to celebrate the return of himself and
friends to office ! Whether this proceeding was justified
by the circumstances is a question which we need not
now discuss ; but it is right to mention, as in some de-
gree excusing Mr. R., that the honourable and learned
gentleman is understood to have received a despatch
during the forenoon prom head-quarters, which fully en-
titled him to expect his official commission on Monday et
latest. It was no fault of his, therefore, that his weapon
missed fire on this occasion.—Edinburgh Paper.
Mr. BUSFIELD FERRAND, M.P.—On Tuesday evening
last, the Hon. Member for Knaresborough addressed !,
large assembly of his constituents in a spacious room at
the Royal Oak Inn. Although there was a considerable
sprinkling of those electors who are opposed to Mr. Fer;
rand, yet they permitted him to proceed with his hailing!
without much interruption. A hack or two of the Ana-
Corn Law League endeavoured more than once to get uPd
a dust, but the electors had no sympathy with them. 01,3,,
they failed miserably in their opposition. Mr. Ferranal
address was as usual emphatic and straight forward, al'
consisted of a review of several of the principal measures
of last session, and the line of conduct he had adopted
respecting them.

INCOME TAX AND VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTTONsi

It will be remembered that a statement has gone. ICU
rot nd of the papers, that clergymen and dissenting muil
ters, who derive their incomewholly from the
contribution of their hearers, were nut liable to make' 00,
any return of their incomes for the purposes of the r_.
perty tax act, which statement was made upon the autptit
rite of Mr. Pressly, of the Stamps and Tax Office' not
now, however, appears that the commissioners do. -di,
consider such an opinion a valid one; and that the inted
victuals whose cases were alluded to, are not ese"
from Lhe liability of making a return of the
their incomes, from whatever source they IT
be derived.
CONCILIATION AND GRATITUDE.--The VORIDIEIt

been Whig government had a pleasant prospect bew:a,
them in the way of conciliation, concession, Peace4i, ft
j titude, and so forth, from the Romish portion of -00.
Peel's chief difficulty. They have declined the ho_ °roe
of the post, indeed, at present, but the following
of promise to them in the last Dublin Nationis pro'
of being recorded. It occurs in an address to t"'sse
testants of Ireland, and thus compliments their old, u.be
bloody, and brutal friends :—" Agitation, indeed, u,
shall have—agitation in plenty. They shall Yieatent
' hoops,' and we will take them as rights, and mak,eso no
of them against themselves. They shall concede 'srve
compromise' for us—we will use them whil6 theYsd o
our turn, and abuse them afterwards ; for, be assurese vo
Fowl, TRANSACTION.—Mr. Robert Fuller, a poulterer, it, you do not abhor these men more thoroughly tom
of Boston, killed last week for the London Christmas despise them."
market, 2,4t)0 geese, 1,000 ducks, and 1)00 turkeys, GORGED LEECHES.—Considerable excitement Ingoti-ii
which altogether weighed upwards of twenty tons.— , late prevailed amongst the professional and unprofess. ver
Lincolnshire Chronicle.
The French are about to construct three forts upon the pourbeliigefitbyyetahres,
island of Chausey, between Jersey and France, and also in France have been previously gorged with the Wu' !kJ,
discovery coivmemryen of
se thema
jfaacrtit, y thotatlfeoerehtlere s g
to replace their three revenue cutters by a steamer. The animals, in order to increase their weight and Price'. so`,
authorities are placing all the fortifications in Jersey in a Chevalier, Professor of the School of Pharhorigeta of
proper state. member of the Academy of Medicine, has puu. e
The Perth Courier states, as a caution, that the arms this subject an interesting pamphlet, from whic,hforraerl
of three parties, who happened to get their fingers tract the following'pasaages :—" The ponds which
_e ha/'
scratched whilst working amongst diseased potatoes, had furnished, in France, an abundant supply of leeches' by tiv:
inflamed and swollen to such an extent, that amputation now been for some time completely exhausted th'
of the limbs, it was feared, would be necessary. avidity of the persons engaged in the traffic, who ists°etioF
Copious SUPERSTITION.—The following is a literal youngest leeches, and thus leftnochancc of repro:
obtse
copy of the address of a letter which passed through the France has been, for the last 18 years, obliged t bas'
Darlington Post-office, a few days since :—" benchemen from foreigh countries what her own fens voiegb`is, tto'
flas kepet wever hues pale nie penny Keseler." The given her; and it is from Egypt, Turkey, *Wallas i"osper,t,
proper address is supposed to be--Benjamin Plass, carpet more particularly Hungary and Russia that sb; ea of
weaver, I3owes, near Barnard Castle. leeches. The extent of the trade may be .iu" 027 tC
Two Norwegians, Knute 8011, described as an artist, the statement of the fact, that from the year
eels tm
and Peter Schmidt, a merchant, were tried on Friday at 1844, no less than 500,000,000 leeches have "niece
the Central Criminal Court, on the charge of nulawfully ported into France ; and, at the same time tVelekal
having in their possession a block of brass bearing a leeches has increased from 15 to 40e. a-piece• to ll'
forged engraving of a Norwegian bank-note, They were dealers purchase them by the weight, and in oretebe woo
convicted, and sentenced to fourteen years' transportation crease their own profits, gorge the leeches with the 05;
A short time ago, two young surveyors in South Wales lof mammiferons animals—the sheep, the calf,is leeches,
src induced by the tempting offers made to them, to ' for increase, so that a thousand middle-sizsufiged,
_ their ordinary occupation of mapping fur the weight two pounds and a half, value 75f., are e"",. /che'
lucrative duties of railway surveyors, in which capacity the addition of two pounds of blood, into large issf. c.
they measured five miles of railway a week, at £3U weighing four pounds arid a half. and sold at Freo`l'
a miles. full
Mr, Harrison, farmer, St. Helen's, Barnsley, having
had his cows regularly milked in what he conceived to be concur with M. Chevalier in deprecating the in Ltb.
2faoeoaf.l't'y Mhaanv ye oatilsreor distinguished
investigated
the membersgabiec°l: tl'efer,
rather a mysterious way, was not a little surprised, upon stating that the origin of the blood containbecowe t
going into a farm-yard the other day, to find two of his bodies of gorged leeches being unknowneroaY aninsia.l,lo.
pigs, 16 weeks old, standing on their hind legs, and source of contagious diseases transmitted from ;f1005,5„,,,
sucking one of the cows, which stood as quietly as if one man, and in warning the public against a" yeti"
of the domestics had been performing the operation in the alike injurious to commerce and to health'
usual way. Times.