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DECREE

Art. 1. The law of Nov.
per cent the duty on consumption of foreign goods, _
main without effect from and after the day which ma,
designated by the Governors of the Departments, with the
assent of the Juntas. In the Department of Mexico, and in
every other in which the order of the Government, dated the
4th of September last, has been put into execution, the
designation of the day will not take place.
Art. 2. Consequently, the duties established by the laws
which were in force prior to the said 26th day of November,
1839, shall alone be collected hereafter.
Art. 3. The laws of December 27, 1839, and of April 23,
and June 9, 1810, relative to the same duties of consuintion.
bhall also be without effect.
Given at Tacubarga, Oct. IG, 1811.
ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA.

26th, 1839, increasing to fifteen
111 re-

ARE ROMANISTS CATHOLICS

• (From .Dr. Kennedy's Lefler.)
It was, is and ever will be. my principle in contr
to use those terms which, while they do not compron
own opinions, are least offensive to those of the °chi
Catholic, you know I cannot call you, without virtu/

flying my own Catholicity. Homan
you, if you were a subject of a country in
Rome. But, as long as you, being a British subjet
excommunicated from the one Catholic Church of England
I cannot regard you as a Catholic at all. I have, therefore
upon principle, and without the slightest wish to insult you
but rather with a strong desire to be as courteous as possible
spoken of your place of worship as Romisli--of yourselves a.,
Romanista—and of your faith 116 Romanism. In so doing, I
have followed the example of an eminent prelate, towards
whom you probably feel as much gratitude as you have
shewn to other persons, who have dune their best to place
you on a civil equality with your countrymen. Archbishop
Whateley, in his excellent work, entitled " The Errors of
liomanism traced to their origin in human nature," uses,
throughout, the terms I have used ; and I recommend the
note on the subject, in his appendix, to the serious consider-
ation of all Churchmen, who follow the loose and foolish
habit of calling those of your faith Catholics. Now, sir, do
you accuse Archbishop Whateley of contemptuous and in-
sulting language towards you ? And is your accusation sup-
ported by your Titular Archbishop, Dr. Murray, who sits at
the same Board of Education with the Lord Primate? Surely,
sir, it is no more contemptuous and insulting in me to refuse
you the title of " Catholic," and to deny the canonical vali-
dity of your mission, than it is in you to refuse me the same
title, and to deny the validity of my ordination. You very
well know the only question at issue between us is,—which
of us is a true Catholic? Which is the true member of that
one, holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, in which we
declare our belief in the apostles and Nicene Creed, and for
which we of the Church of England pray continually, in the
collect, " for all conditions of men"? It is therefore either
puerile or evasive in either of UP, to charge the other with
insult and contempt in using terms which are absolutely ne-
cessary for the expression of our respective opinions.

(From Archbishop Whaleley.)
The title of Catholics, the Romanists claim, and apply to
themselves, not merely as Le/ongino to them (and it is not
denied that they are a branch, though a corrupt one, of the
Universal or Catholic Church), but us distinctive, and pecu-
liar to the members of the Church of Rome ; and Protestants
have usually, in language, conceded this claim. But I think
that, in so doing, they manifest too exclusively the harmless-
ness of the dove, and leave the wisdom of the serpent entirely
with their opponents. it Is urged that these are offer ded at

being called Papists, considering that as a term of repr
from its being used only by their adversaries. That 1

not seem to seek it quarrel, I have generally avoided that
name ; but let us not be so weak as to imagine that " Roma-
nist," or any other title by which they can be properly de-
signated will ever fail, when it shall hare become common, to

be complained of as reproachful, or that they will ever acqui-
esce in any appellation which does not imply a reproach to
ourselves. Even the apparently neutral designation of
" Members of the Church of Rome." is one which we must
not too confidently expect them to adopt or acquiesce in;
nor is it unlikely that they may complain of it as reproachful,
should it ever become their customary appellation among
Protestants • for it implies that there are other Churches,
properly called Churches, besides the Church of Rome. We,
indeed, arc content to be designated as Members of the
Church of England, and we regard them as belonging to a
distinct Church, over which, though we censure it as corrupt,
we claim no supremacy ; but they do not take a correspond-
ing view of us ; they do not regard us as constituting any
distinct Church, but as actually members, though schisma-
tical and revolted members—subjects de jure, though rebel-
lious subjects—Of their Church, A name, therefore, which
implies that there are other Churches distinct from theirs,
contradicts one of their fundamental tenets, viz., that they,
and they only, are faithful members of the one true church ;
and this tenet they have embodied in the appellation they
have chosen for themselves, which consequently implies, as
I have said, a reproach to all other Christians. The title of
Catholic, when used as distinctive, implies the exclusion of
all others from the character of loyal members of the Society
which Christ founded—of " the holy Catholic Church, the
Communion of Saints," as it is expressed and explained in
the Apostles Creed; it implies, in short, that all others are
heretics or schismatics.

That the term Papist is a term of reproach, (though I do
not insist on its being employed,) I can never admit. 2
" term of reproach" is one which implies something dimarcee-
fid in the opinion of the party to whom it is applied. The%
Heretic (in its ordinary, not, perhaps, in its etyinologi:,
sense) implies the holding of some erroneous tenet ;ic,.,
consequently, a reproachful term. But Papist imphes oth
ply one who acknowledges the authority of the Feller!'
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versaries of the Romanists, and, therefore,
to complain of it. At this rate they may Ina'.et„ npply it to
will a term of reproach, by simply refusit:g_in do so with
themselves. And we may h-e assured the! "
to us. To call
every title which does not imply a reproisB;
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SOUTHWRAXIIALL BURGLARY.—JoIin Gough,
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taken at Southanipton on Friday last, is believed to
man who pointed the pistol at Miss Awdry's head.
akes the ninth of the party who has been apprehended.
,olice, whose exertions on this occasion deserve the
A praise, are inclose pursuit of one or two other sus-
parties.

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ng last. It is supposed that two men who were film-
MI Thursday had thrown something from the outside
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T could not have been made aware of their escape until
3 the morning, when all hopes of a successful pursuit
have been very doubtful. As it is, only five have been
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that by far the greater part of our crimina

munity

totally or very imperfectly acquainted with the elements o 1
Id hence it is that we hear exhortations from the

s, to devise the means of removing.or di

ance and vice perva,

the minds

sses of our populous towns and cities.
The sentiments of Lord Denman have already been referred

report, and it was only at the Liver Pool sessions iii

October that we find the Recorder coinciding with the views
of the Lord Chief Justice. The Recorder, in addressing the
grand jury, regretted the heaviness of the calendar, and ob-
served that imprisonment was quite ineffective for the pre-
of crime, and did not seem to arrest the evil in the
slightest degree. Of the prisoners awaiting their trials, one-

The only ef-

half had been convicted over and over agali
fective remedy was the improvement of the people, by giving
them sound moral and religious education.

And when we reflect on the condition of a large portion of
the working population, unable to read the address of a let-
ter, or even the words descriptive of a place of business, dead
to the thousand instances of information inviting attention
on every hand, prompted to relieve the tedium of life by re-
course to sensual and pernicious stimulants, how listless and
dreary, how comparatively profitless to others and themselves
must such a life be passed. Considering, further, that books
record the accumulated observations and experience of ages,
how powerfully should our sympathies be excited in behalf of
those unable to draw for themselves any supplies from these
inexhaustible sources of intellectual and moral wealth.

Passing over the numerous advantages arising from ability
to write, the committee would just refer to the extended ra-
mifications of our colonization and commerce, and to the

show how exceedingly desirable and important is the ability
to correspond by letter, in order to keep alive and cherish
those kindly -affections, on the exercise of which depend so
essentially the comfort and happiness of life.
But it is also on behalf of the working classes, as mechanics
and artisans, that the committee would enlist public sympa-

thy and support, assured that a knowledge diffused amongst
them of those principles of natural philosophy and chemistry
applicable to the arts and ordinary occupations of life, and of
which they are in the daily application, would prove of incal-
culable benefit both to the employed and their employers. It
is thus that a cultivated understanding becomes a well spring

of life to him that hath it. The word:philosophy is by many
erroneously and unhappily applied to subjects remote from
common life, unconscious that it is by its agency we are com-
manded to replenish the earth and subdue it; that its truths
are intimately and essentially blended with all our interests
and pursuits, personal and domestic, manufacturing and com-
mercial; that we are everywhere surrounded by its results,
daily and hourly enjoying its benefits, or suffering from the
non-application and extension of its principles ; that, through
its universally applied agency, our country has risen to its

present height of power and splendour, every fresh acquisi-
tion enabling us to advance still further in the career of na-
tional greatness and of individual comfort and enjoyment, at
each successive step brightening our hopes, and strengthening
our convictions that its resources are equally inexhausted and
Kil- I inexhaustible.
.

Again, whether viewed in reference to the practical appli-
cation of the principles and truths of natural philosophy ; to
its supply of materials for thought, pure, pleasant, and ele-
vating to the soul ; to the relative facility, with proper appa-
ratus, of making interesting and profitable progress ; or to its
adaptation to the wants of the classes frequenting mechanics'
institutions,--the sentiments of the following writers of esta-
blished reputation and celebrity will evince that its impor-
tance and fitness cannot easily be over estimated :
" Nothing can be more serviceable and beneficial in life
than experimental philosophy. To the want of proper ex-
periments. and the taste for reading and making them, must
be attributed all our ignorance in natural things. There is
no employment wherein mankind is so much and so generally
concerned as in the study of natural philosophy. 'Twas a
truly great saying of Plato, "rhe world is God's epistle to
mankind ;' for God, accordingly by Solomon, sends the
sluggard to learn industry of the ant, and Christ commands
his disciples to learn prudence and inoffensiveness from ser-
pents and doves ; he bids them also consider the lilies of the
field, in order to acquire a firm reliance on God ; and the
Psalmist grows humble by contemplating the highest works
of native. Methinks 'tis plain that to hinder the progress
of natural knowledge detracts from God's glory, as well as
obstructs man's felicity."—See Boyle's Usefulness of Natu-
ral Philosophy, and his Works, by Dr. Sham, 1725.
Thus the sciences of the present day all prove to be con-
venial to the word e God, and

of the wisest of men in all ages
bear testimony to the same. " Nothing, then, can be more
unfounded than the objection which has been taken, in limine,

by persons, well meaning perhaps, but certainly not well in-
formed, against the study of natural philosophy, and, indeed,
against all science, that it fosters in its cultivators an undue
and overweening self-conceit, leads them to doubt the im-
mortality of the soul, and to scoff at revealed religion. Its
natural effect, we may confidently assert, on every well con-
stituted mind, is and must be the direct contrary ; en-
couraging rather than suppressing every thing that can offer
a prospect or a hope beyond the present obscure and unsatis-
factory state."

" A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific in-
quiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles
readily to the causes which occur, has within itself an inex-
haustible source of pure and exciting contemplations ; lassi-
tude is excluded from his life, and that craving after artifi-
cial excitement and dissipation of mind whic:i leads so many
into frivolous, unworthy, and destructive pursuits, is alto-
gether eradicated from his bosom. These pleasures are to be
enjoyed in every situation in which a man can be placed in
life ; in the intervals of the most active business ; and the
calm and dispassionate interest with which they fill the mind
renders them a most delightful retreat from the agitations
~om and dissensions of the world, an from the conflict of passions,
and int
" In her prejudices,

sts in which the man of business finds
malty involved."—Sir John Herschell's Dis-
course on the study of Natural Philosophy.
" Physics, or natural philosophy, is fundamental to the
other sciences, and is, therefore, that of which a knowledge
is indispensable. Lord Bacon truly calls it " the root of the
sciences and arts." If the study of physics be so easy as
now appears, there can be no excuse for neglecting it. The
greatest sum of knowledge acquired with the least trouble is,
perhaps, that which conies with the study of the few simple
truths of physics. A man reading a thousand volumes of
ordinary books as agreeable pastime will receive only vague
1 impressions, but he who studies the methodised book of na-

ture converts the great universe into a simple and sublime
history, which tells of God, and may worthily occupy his
attention to the end of his days ; " for the works of the Lord
are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein."
" The laws of physics govern the great natural phenomena
of astronomy, the tides, winds, currents, &c. Some of the
artificial purposes to which man's ingenuity has made the
same laws subservient, are, in civil engineering—canals,

docks, harbours, bridges, common roads,l;ilroadsi in archi-
tecture—temples, pyramids, domes, and palaces ; in machi-
nery—the steam engine, weaving, spinning, and moulding
machines. windmills, water-mills, and wheel carriages, im-
plements of husbandry and of warfare, the balloon, the div-
ing bell ; the implements of the intellectual arts, of printing,
drawing, painting, sculpture, &c. ; musical instruments, and
a thousand others. Reverting to the importance of natural
philosophy as a general study, it may be remarked that there
is no occupation which so much strengthens and quickens
the judgment."

.
" From contemplating the beauty of creation with the wis-
dom and benevolent design manifested in all its parts, there
spring up in every undepraved mind those feelings of admi-
ration and gratitude which constitute the adoration of the
Great Jehovah, the maker an i governor of the universe, and
which form, as shown by many estimable writers on natural
theology, a tit foundation for the sublime doctrine of immor-
tality. There have been, however, at various times, even
among Christians, sincere, but weak-minded or ill-informed
men, who decried the study of the natural sciences as inimi-
cal to true religion, as if god's ever visible and magnificent
revelation of his attributes in the structure of the universe
could be at variance with any other revelation. But such
prejudices are now quickly passing away.”--Introduction to
Dr. Arnott's Elements of Physics.
" It is just because we wish so well to colleges that we hail
the prosperity of mechanics' institutions. The latter will
never outrun the former, but so stimulate them onwards that
the literature of our higher classes shall hold the same rela-
tive advancement as before over the literature of our arti
" Coffee," a translation sans

It will cause no derangement and no disproportion.
The light which shall then overspread the floor of the social
edifice will only cause the lustres which are in the higher
apartments to blaze more gorgeously. The basement of the
fabric will be greatly more elevated, yet without violence to
the symmetry of the whole architecture, for the pinnacles
and upper stories of the building will rise as proudly and as
gracefully as ever above the platform which sustains them.
There is indefinite room in truth and science for an-ascend-
ing movement, and the taking up of higher positions, and if,
in virtue of a popular philosophy now taught in schools of
art, we are to have more lettered mechanics, this will in-

stantly be followed up by a higher philosophy in colleges than
heretofore, and in virtue of which we shall have a more ac-

complished gentry, a more intelligent parliament, a more
erudite clergy, and altogether a greater force and fullness of
mind throughout all the departments of the commonwealth.
The whole of society will ascend together, and therefore

without disturbance to the relation of its parts. But in every
stage of this progress the endowed colleges will continue to
be the highest places of intellect, the country's richest lore ;
and its most solid and severest philosophy will always be
found in thew."—Dr. liner's Use and Abuse of the Ec-
clesiastical Endowments.
In the report of the meeting held at Leeds in October last,
on the occasion of founding a new mechanics' hall, and which
was attended by gentlemen of all political parties, including
several magistrates and the members of parliament for the
borough, the liev. Dr. Drury, after detailing an interesting
interview with Prince Albert, whilst exhibiting, in company
with the Rev. Dr. Scoresby, some ingenious mechanical im-
provement by a member. observed that he thought a great
increase of human happiness might take place, by spreading
amongst all classes of society a love of science, the increase
of national power and strength being dependent on its dif-
fusion. This sentiment was most liberally responded to by
\\Tm. Aldam, jun., Esq., M.P., presenting for the use of tie
members a splendid apparatus, chemical, electrical,_ galvanic,

Lated at

several hundred pounds

But whilst such are the authorities on which the committee
rest their claims on behalf of the working classes, it is obvi-
ous there must be appropriate means for bringing the infor-
mation needed prominently and attractively before the notice
both of the young and of those more advanced in years.
Now, it is well known that the initiatory departments of
learning are usually dry and uninviting, but the various ex-
emplifications of the principles and results of • physics, or na-
tural philosophy, tend to rouse the dormant energies, stimu-
late curiosity, and prepare the mind to submit to the preli-
minary labour requisite for its practical application. As ad-
ditional inducements and facilities towards useful acquire-
ment, " suitable apartments should be supplied with books,
sketches, diagrams, views, maps, instruments, implements,
specimens, &c., so that the pupil may, as it were, breathe
the atmosphere of the required knowledge."—Mr. J. Smith's
Suggestions on Natural
In the belief that tb

Education

majority of the working classes arc
not in a condition to supply themselves
materials for their due improvement, the with the requisite
ie
o Ie thatortion
committee submit
the present address to the respectful consideerratil°t'liier of the in-
tellectually cultivated, the benevolent, the weal
of the community.' They also indulge the ho
Town Council, as trustees for the public weal, may be the
in-
duced to appropriate any available funds in providing suita-
ble rooms, apparatus, &c., for illustrating the principles of
natural philosophy and chemistry, with their application to
the various arts and pursuits of life.
This appeal, the committee feel assured, might justly be
made even on the grounds of financial economy, for in pro-
portion to the diffusion of such information amongst the
people, ignorance; improvidence; recklessness, and waste
• •

would disappear, and oecome suppouneu uy itsLuiii*cuLt-,
frugality, forethought, and improved national production of
every useful kind, the county rates and poor rates would be

d, r

itirin:, tn.t

ci►leulably augmented, and her pre.
tions of the world be maintained to

MISCELLANEOUS

WEST Co

L ELECTION

Mr. Basset

the con-

put forward by

the libet al

The Rev. T '
pointed to

vl'Donnell, late of Birmingham, has been ap-
Roman catholic mission at Torquay.

We have reason to believe that Dr. Gilbert, the Principal
of Brasenose College, Oxford, will be the new bishop.—

London Times

Bristol Standard.

PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAGE QIIESTION.—It is said that
the Attorney-General has given instructions to Sir Thomas
Staples, Q.C., and other law officers of the crown, to prepare

have been solemnised by Presbyterian clergymen between
horn was not of that persuasion. It seems

parties, one or
that it will not be prospective

—A correspondent informs us, with
f Mr. Jones, that he was an Inde-
pendent Minister who, with his wife and three small chil-
dren, were proceeding from Oswestry to Kerry, near New-
town, where he intended carrying on his ministerial labours.
The Royal Oak Welshpool coach, in which they travelled,

COACH ACCIDENT

reference to the death of

was upset by coming in contact with a heap of stones left on
the road, there not being a lamp on that side of the coach.
Mr. Jones, with his wile, (who was also injured,) and chil-
dren. were taken into the Nag's Head Inn, where Dr. Johnes
promptly and benevolently attended hint. He died, how-
ever, on Thursday.—Salopian Journal.
AVARICE REWARDED. —M. Blainville, the naturalist,
and M. Gervais, a distinguished anatomist, went last week
to Abbeville, with the intention of purchasing the carcase of
the whale thrown on the shore a short time since (as we men-
tioned), at Berck, not far from the mouth of the Somme.
The persons who owned the carcase refused to part with it
except at an enormous price, and were at length fortunate
enough to find a buyer for 1,7001 r., who thought to realise
a considerable profit by the blubber and oil. When the
whale was cut up, the blubber was found all spoiled from the
length of time which had elapsed since its death, and in fact
the animal was worth scarcely anything at all.—Galignanet
Messenger.

THREE LIVES LOST BY DROWNING.—On Saturday night
the western coast was visited by a storm, accompanied by
thunder and lightning. The rain fell in torrents until about
midnight, when the gale was at its height. At this moment
two of the water guards, who had just conveyed, from the
Squintz side to Castletowniend, a man ofM r. Thomas So-
merville's, were returning, when their boat was upset and
themselves drowned, together with a boy by whom they were
accompanied. One of the water guards was a good-swimmer,
but the sea was so high at the time that skill was of no as-flit
to him. The bodies of the men had been washed ashore, but
that of the boy had not been found.—Southern Reporter.
ANOTHER BURGLARY.—Yesterday week about six o'clock,
last after S. L. Behrens, Esquire, of Catteral, had returned
home to dinner, three men forced their way into the house,
and deliberately locked the door, after which they proceeded
to their work of plunder. From the person of Mr. Behrens
they took a blue and red striped purse, containing three or
four pounds in gold, one half sovereign, and some silver ;
also a flat gold horizontal watch, with gold chain. The au-
dacious intruders, having committed this robbery, locked up
Mr. Behrens and the two women servants, at the same time
threatening to murder them if they gave any alarm. They
then pursued their search for plunder, but do not seem to
have obtained much other valuable property.—Preston Chro-
nicle.

MR. AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE—A MONTHLY MIS-
CELLANY, ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.—
Mr Harrison Ainsworth, author of " Rookwood," " The
Tower of London," and other productions of great celebrity,
is about to start a monthly miscellany of romance, general
literature, and art, of which he will be the sole editor. In
this periodical work, Mr. Ainsworth will commence a new
story of the time of Hogarth, to be called " The Miser's
Daughter," a subject which will enable him to represent the
curious and most distinguishing features of that most inte-
resting epoch. The illustrations of this story will be designed
and etched on the fullest scale, consistent with the page, by
Mr. George Cruikshank, whose rare genius enables him,
more than any living artist, to give, with the truth and spirit
of actual life, the manners and humours of the Hogarthian
period. That he might concentrate the whole of his powers
on " Ainsworth's Magazine," Mr. Cruikshank has discon-
tinued his " Omnibus," as a monthly publication. Inde-
pendently of the steel plates, the pages of the magazine will
be embellished by numerous wood cuts, also by Mr. Cruik-
shank. The editor's story will extend each month to about
the same quantity as was given every number of "The
Tower of London." Mr. Ainsworth, desirous bestowing,
onhis magazine the utmost variety, has been fortunate in en-
gaging, as contributors, the most celebrated writers of the
day. The first number of the work will appear on the 29th
of January, and be continued every month.
FATHER M ATHEW—A POPISH MIRACLE.—The follow-
ing extraordinary statement is from the Limerick Chronicle

la! cost

The very etev. Mr. Mathew arrived in this city last even-
ing by the Cork mail en route to Loughrea, and put up at
Moore's hotel. Immediately after his arrival became known,
hundreds of persons visited him at the hotel, where he ad-
ministered the pledge. One circumstance which came within
public observation we may mention here, as illustrative of
the effects of breaking the temperance pledge. A man named
Moneyham, a tetotaller, who worked at the Butter Weigh-
house, got drunk on Christmas-eve, and next day became
paralysed—his left arm, side, and thigh being perfectly inani-
mate. He was removed to Barrington's Hospital, and re-
mained there under the care of the surgeons without im-
provement, until last evening, when his friends having heard
of Father Mathew's arrival in town, went to the hospital and
brought him out on a man's back to where the Rev. Mr.
Mathew was staying; a crowd had collected round the door,
when the unhappy invalid was carried into his presence, and
the reverend gentleman administered tohim the pledge again
in a kind and impressive manner, and the man instantly
stood up, was assisted by his friends to dress, and to the as-
tonishment of all, m alked up William-street to his home, fol-
lowed by a crowd of people." (L)

NOVEL OCCURRENCE IN THE TOWN OF MALLOW.—On
Monday week a circumstance occurred, which might well
find a place among the most amusing anecdotes of sporting.
A hare was seen scampering through the town of Mallow,
from one end to the other of the main street. As she passed
along it seemed as if, accustomed to a solitary existence, she
had taken an opportunity of paying "a flying visit" to the
crowded haunts of men, and was determined to produce a
sensation in the town. But the interest created by her ap-
pearance was very soon succeeded by feelings of a more ex-
citing nature, when that admirable and skilfully hunted pack
of beagles belonging to N. Webb Ware, of Woodfort, Esq.,
dashed through the street in full pursuit, closely followed by
their proprietor and his youthful son—Primes et Ascanius,
cursus, ut latus equestres Ducebat—with other gentlemen.
The busy inhabitants of this populous little town fora few
moments resigned their various avocations, and hurrying to
their doors, witnessed an incident which they will, no doubt,
hereafter hand down at their firesides as an amusing tradition
to their grand-children. As for the countrymen in town,
they were beside themselves with delight. The highest
interest was manifested as to the fate of poor puss, and all
were delighted to learn that she was ultimately safe in the
arms of the gentlemanlike and popular owner of as gallant a
pack as ever they were in the good times, when Henry Brad-
dell, Esq., with a jocund heart (and we may indeed add with
as good a heart as ever beat) cheered them along " right
merrily."—Cork Constitution.

SAVAGE ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—On last Monday there
was a savage and daring attempt made to murder Edward
Gaynor, a respectable and innoffensive young man, in the
vicinity of this town. It seems he was ploughing in a field
opposite his father's house, at Ballina9lough, when four mis-
ceants, three of whom were armed with pistols, came up to
him, and compelled him to kneel in the " scrape ;" while in
this posture, two of them discharged their pistols close to the
lower region of the belly, and lodged three balls in that nart
of his body. One of the balls passed from the left hip across
to the right thigh, doing severe and serious injury in its
course. The third pistol was then discharged at the horses,
but without any other effect than that of causing them to
plunge madly through the field. Supposing their victim to
be lifeless, the sanguinary and brutal wretches retired in the
direction of Kilcarey, in the burial-ground of which place
they made a pause, as if to hold a consultation before they
separated. Gaynor still survives—having received prompt
surgical aid, hopes are entertained of his recovery.—Nenagh
Guardian.

STATE OF TRADE.-At this season of the year the trade
of Leice?ter is generally flat ; but, at the present time, com-
pared with former years, it is rather better, and a consider-
able improvement is expected during the year. Cotton and
wool are now come in, and another clip will be inhand in about
five months ; this added to the large stocks in the hands of
the growers, must prevent higher prices ; neither is it desire-
able a greater price should be given for wool, as it would only
lead to larger importations or the substitution of cotton.
Much is said about the importation of cotton stockings from
Saxony dyed black, superseding the worsted black so gene-
rally worn by females—cold feet and coughs will probably
cause a return to the comfort of English manufacture. We
have often been surprised that more attention has not been
given to the making an elegant worsted stocking, such as
ladies would like to wear. The last Nottingham news-paper
states, that an increasing trade is carrying on in coats and
trowsers wove in tae stocking frame; and if the hosiers and
masters begin to manufacture large articles of apparel, our
stocking-makers will again see good times, and frames and
mills be fully employed.—Leicester Journal.

FASTING.—In the first report of the inspectors of prisons
is to be found a singular instance of long abstinence from
food, terminated, however, at last by death, as Cavannah's
would have been had he carried out his system of fasting to
the last extreme. Under the head of " Ipswich Borough
Gaol" the following anecdote is recorded :—" There has
been one death in the present year under such extraordinary
circumstances, that I venture to cite the case, although not
immediately in connexion with the subject of the report.
Wiliam Casey, a native of Ireland, was tried March 9, 1835,
for the murder of his child, and was acquitted on the ground
of insanity. He then manifested a determination to destroy
himself, and every care was taken to prevent him. He then
resolved to effect it by starvation, and refused all food. The
first ten days he was without a drop of water. On the
eleventh day he drank a quart. Then he went for several
days without food, and drank a quantity of water again.
Food in every enticing variety was placed and left before him.
and carpets were laid in the approaches to his cell, in order
that he might be watched. He was frequently seen to crawl
out of bed and smell the food, and then return. His wife
once attempted to put a strawberry into his mouth, and he
would have strangled her had he not been prevented. He
lived on in this way, taking nothing but water, except on one
occasion, during the last five days of his life, when he took'a
little rum. lie died on the Ist of August. During the
whole period of his confinement he always stood, and was
never known to sit down when not in bed. His violence was
so great as to preclude the possibility of the surgeon's admi-
nistering nutriment to him otherwise than by the natural
channel."

CHILD MURDER.-41:e deeply regret being under the
necessity of giving the details of another.brutal act, by which
a human being has been deprived of life on its very threshold.
The accused is a single woman, of loose character, named
Elizabeth Poole, residing with her uncle at Lee Bridge, be-
tween this town and Market Drayton, and who had formerly
given birth to two illegitimate children. On Sunday night
last, her uncle turned her out of doors, and she proceeded to
the residence of an aunt at some distance, named Maddox,
from whom she entreated a night's lodging, which was re-
luctantly granted. In the morning the husband of Maddox
got up, and made a fire previous to going out to his work ;
and Elizabeth Poole was then observed to get out and into
bed twice or thrice, which induced her aunt to ask if she was
unwell, to which she replied that she felt sick and very
poorly. Maddox having left, the prisoner went down into
kitchen, and presently Mrs. Maddox and a niece sleeping
in the same room thought they heard an infant cry, and on
the niece hastening down stairs she saw an infant, and told
her aunt. The aunt then came down stairs, and both fol-
lowed the prisoner to an outhouse, where they found her,
and on looking under the seat, they saw the body of an infant
amongst the filth. Terrified at the sight, they went off for
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DEATH OF LADY FItANCL'S PHILLOTT.—Her layship died
at Bath on Sunday last. The deceased. who was the youngest
daughter of Thomas, first Earl of Howth, and aunt of the
present earl, was relict of the late venerable Dr. James
Phillott, Archdeacon of Bath, and was upwards of 80 years
of age.
GIGANTIC HADDOCK.—On the 14th ult. a haddock, of the
following extraordinary dimensions, was caught off Findlaorn
and brought for sale at Forres fish-market :—lt measured 3
feet long, 19 inches in circumference at the thickest part of
its body, and weighed 131 b. It was bought by a thrifty host-
ess in town for 3d.—Porres,Gazette.

CRUEL ROBBERY.—On Saturday night last the cottage of
a poor industrious widow, in the village of Tredington, was
broken open during her temporary absence attending on a
sick neighbour, and a chest of drawers carried away which
was found in an adjoining field broken open and rifled of a
sovereign, a half sovereign, and a quantity of silver, the hard
earnings of a life of toll, together with a silver watch, and all
the wearing apparel she possessed.—Gloucestershire Chro-
nicle.

On Monday last Humphrey Ovenden, a fine young man,
of great promise, son of Charles Ovenden, Esq., J.P., went
into an island in Lough Erne, opposite Rossfad-house, to
shoot rabbits, where he had killed two, and on his return was
shot dead by his fowling-piece having accidentally discharged.
The boat was discovered floating with the current, and some
persons on the shore supposing it had been carried from its
moorings, and that the unfortunate young man had been left
on the island, pushed from the land to secure it, when he was
discovered lying in the bottom.—Enniskillen Reporter.
EXTRAORDINARY RECOVERY FROM DROPSY! !—Mrs.
Pickering, fifty-nine years of age, and wife to a pensioner re-
siding near Castledawson, laboured under abdominal dropsy
for more than two years, during which period the operation
of tapping was performed seventy-three times, by Mr. Mac-
lean, of the above place—takink away at each time from ten
to twelve quarts of fluid! She is now so far recovered as to
be able to attend to her usual household business—not hav-
ing had occasion for a repetition of the operation for the last
five months.—Ulster Times.

The following are the receipts.of the principal railways for
the last week, that is to say; up to the date to which the 're::
spective returns are made :—Blackwall, £505 ; Great North
of England, £1085; Hull and Selby, £545; Eastern Coun-
ties, £635 ; Birmingham, £12,408 ; Great Western, £9319 ;
Northern and Eastern, £778 ; South-Wester o, £3768;
North Midland, £325; Manchester and Birmingham, £305;
Midland Counties, £2138 ; Manchester and Leeds, £3784 ;
Birmingham and Derby, £1325 ; and York and North Mid-
land, £1145.

RAILWAY BETWEEN DUBLIN AND CORK.—A numerous
meeting of noblemen and gentlemen was held in Cork on
Thursday last. when resolutions were passed that a railway
from Cork to Dublin would be of great advantage to the in-
terests of the south of Ireland, and that the extension to
Cork of the proposed railway from Dublin to Kilkenny would
not only open a direct communication between the metropolis
and Cork, along with the existing stream of traffic, but would
also provide for the cities and towns of Carlow, Kilkenny,
Clonmel, Waterford, Wexford, and Ross, a more ready means
of intercourse than any other line could give, while, at the
same time, such main line would admit of easy extension to
Limerick.

SNOW STOIIIII IN SCOTLAND.—The snow storm continued
till Friday evening, being an onfall of nearly 48 hours. On
the last day it was accompanied by a keen frost, which har-
dened the particles as they fell and rendered locomotion par-
ticularly difficult. Most of ,the coaches were more or less
behind their time, and from Thursday till Sunday night the
English mail has been from four to five hours due before her
arrival, from which we learn that there has also been a heavy
fall to the south. Saturday continued to be a day of severe
frost, but Sunday opened with a mild thaw, and in the, course
of it a good deal of the'snow found its way from the streets
to the river in a melted state. We need scarcely say that an
embargo has been laid on all field labour.—Glaspow Herald.

STATISTICS OF MIIRDER.—The murders which have been
registered and noted in the abstracts (in Mr. Parr's letter to
the Registrar-General) on the authority of the verdicts of
coroners' juries, amounted two years to Is6—males 103;
females, 53. The proportion to the population is five to a
million annually, or lin 200,000. Of 148 persons murdered,
whose ages were abstracted, 78 were aged 20 and upwards.
If we assume that half the population is above 20 years of
age, about 53 in a million adults were murdered annually.
The number of cases in which verdicts of murder were
brought in was above the average in the south-western coun-
ties, in Lancashire and Cheshire, the south-eastern counties,
the north midland counties, and the metropolis. If infants
be excluded, the greatest proportion of murders occurred in
Lancashire and Cheshire; the smallest proportion in Essex,
Suffolk, and Norfolk.

INFAMOUS FABRICATION.—The Dublin Monitor has
earned most equivocal notoriety of late by putting forward
revolting fabrications, charging the comm►ss►on of horrible
outrages upon " English officers " and '• Orange miscreants"
and other very inhuman parties, who exist in very large num-
bers in the imagination of the aforesaid Monitor. Not con-
tent ‘‘ ich a floating capital of falsehood on the subject of an
imaginary " fracas" between the Archbishop of Dublin and
the Lord Chancellor, the Monitor contained, a week ago,
a shocking detail of some English officers and a tory justice
of peace roasting an idiot boy at Ph►lipstown, after bedaubing
him with oil of turpentine or some other application to make
their " Orange " gratification the more complete. Unfortu-
nately it seems that a coroner and twelve jurors upon oath
stated that the person to have come by his death "by the
visitarion of God ; " and the heartless profligacy, which
could for the purposes of faction invent such a story, has been
fully exposed.
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ELECTION OF A. SCOTTISH PEER.—On Wednesday the
peers of Scotland met in the picture gallery in the palace of
Holyrood-house, Edinburgh, to elect one of their number to
sit and vote in the House of Lords, in the room of the Earl
of Elgin, deceased. There were only eight peers present,
viz., the Dukes of Buccleuch and Argyle, the Earls of Home,
Lauderdale, Leven and Melville, Hopetoun, and Dalhousie,
and Lord Polwarth. The proceedings of the day were opened
by prayer by Principal Lee, one of the deans of the chapel
royal, after which the royal warrant for the meeting was read
by Mr. Ferguson, clerk of session. The oaths of abjuration
and allegianc^ having been administered to the peers present,
the Duke of Buccleucli voted for the Earl of Home as the
new representative peer,
as did all the others, with the ex-
ception of the Earl of Home, who declined to vote. There
were also read signed lists from the following peers, all voting
for the Earl of Home
—Earls of Morton, Wemyss and
:
March, Selkirk, Seafield, Glasgow, and Bute, Viscount Ar-
buthnot, and Lord Rollo.
HINTS TO CONSERVATIVES.—The 31st of January is the
very last day on which a conveyance should be executed to
entitle a county voter for it to send in his claim to be regis-
tered next year. An occupier to the amount of £5O per an-
num must have been in the occupation of his qualification
on the 31st of July last. Any person, however, who may
come into possession of a qualification by descent, succession,
marriage, devise, or promotion to any benefice in a church,
or by promotion to any office, at any. time within such re-
spective periods, will be entitled in respect thereof to have
his name inserted in the list then to he made out by the over-
seers. Besides freeholders and £5O tenants, the following
may claim—viz., owners of copyhold, leasehold for lives, or
leasehold for any time originally created for. not less than
sixty years, to the amount of £lO per annum in each case,
or leasehold for any term originally created for not less than
twenty years, of the annual value of £5O. There are also
other ways in which an interest derivable from real property
may confer a vote, as in cases of mortgages in possession,
and annuities, &c.

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LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—CURIOUS Accc-
DENP.—On Tuesday a singular accident happened to one of
the passenger trains. It appears that a gentleman engaged
for the conveyance of his carriage to Brighton, and the truck
on which it was placed was in the last train. The owner,
although advised to the contrary, persisted in riding in his
own carriage. On the train reaching Balcome tunnel (the
largest on the line) by some means the truck became disen-
gaged and left the carriage in the middle of the tunnel. The
unfortunate occupant perceiving the train leaving him called
after them but in vain, and finding they proceeded on their
journey, he became dreadfully alarmed, being afraid to alizht
and not knowing weather in a few minutes he might not be
dashed to pieces by the next train. He had not been long in
this suspense when an engine entered the tunnel puffingaway,
and the whistle screaming, he now considered his fate sealed ;
but the engine proved to be a pilot one, sent to look after him
the track and carriage fortunately been missed on the train
arriving at the next station. The carriage and occupant were
conveyed to Brighton, where they arrived soon after the train,
and the only damage was the great fright the gentleman sus-
tained. The accident ought to be a warning to the servants
of the company, as the consequences would be fearful to con-
template had a train come in collision with the truck.

EXI RAORDINARY SUPERSTITION.—On Saturday Louisa,
wife of J. Stebbings, was examined before the mayor and
magistrates of Yarmouth, charged with having robbed the
house of William J. Presant of a dressing-case, containing
GO/. ih money, and a silver watch. A witness stated that the
prisoner was detected by the Bible and key. On being ques-
tioned by the mayor, witness etated that Airs. Presant having
made known her loss a number of neighbours were summoned
to meet together, when the ceremony took place, which she
described. A Bible is procured, and the wards of a key,
being placed in or about the middle, the book is tied so that
the key, on being suspended by the bow, will sustain the
weight of the book ; a thread is fastened to the bow of the key,
and each party in succession places the thread on his or her
finger, thus suspending the book therefrom. Some incanta-
tion is pronounced, and the Bible is expected to revolve if
the party be guilty, and remain stationary if innocent. Wit-
ness went on to state, that the ceremony having been perfor-
med on several, and no effect produced, it was at last prac-
tised upon nrisoner, when to her consternation, the Bible
twirled rapidly, and she uttered an exclamation of surprise
and terror, and confessed her guilt. The detail excited much
mirth ,in court. A police officer proceeded to her house,
where he found her, and took from her five 51. notes of the
bank of Gurney and Co , five sovereigns, and two half sove-
reigns. She fetched the. silver watch, and said she had bought
furniture and clothes with the remaining 291. The hox, she
stated, she threw into the river, whence it has since been re-
covered, and is in possession of an officer. She was commit-
ted for trial.—Essex Herald.
MEETING OF SHIP-OWNERS.—An important, numerous,
and most influential meeting of the ship-owners of the Tyne.
Wear, and Tees, was held in Newcastle-on-Tyne, on Tues-
day last. The striking feature of the meeting was the utter
rout and defeat of the anti-English faction of free-traders—
the political allies of the selfish millocrats, and the grovelling
panderers to the factious designs of the prostrate whig-radi-
cats personated by the •' small" statesman Lord John Rus-
sell, and such " enlightened " patriots of the nineteenth
century as are honoured with the management of the stul-
tified Newcastle and Gateshead Ship-Owners' Society.
These parties, with all the peculiar craft and subtlety of whig-
gery, concocted the meeting for the purpose of bolstering
up the free-trade dogmas of the defunct ministry, and
covered the artful design under the, specious trick of pe-
titioning parliament to inquire into ,the causes of the de-
pression of the shipping interests.: To accomplish this
purpose the rejected motion of Mr. Sheriff Carr, to the
effect " that great difference of opinion existed among
ship-owners as to the true cause of the admitted depres-
sion" was contrived, and had it been suffered to pass as the
affirmed opinion of the meeting, a victory would have been
achievedby the clique which would have been appealed to in
the House of Commons as a strong testimony that the ship-
owners were undecided in their opinions, as to the cause of
the gradual declension in shippinr, prosperity. And what is
of as much moment, the ship-owilers' real sentiments would
have been disguised, and henceforward their petitions re-
garded as inconsistent and wavering. Thanks to the tem-
perate reasoning and sound practical views of Mr. Robt.
Anderson, this design was unmasked and the truth made
manifest, and despite the frothy spoutings of Mr. Lockey
Harle, the solemn moethings of Alderman Justice Brockett,
and the insiduous reasonings of Justice Philipson, and Mr.
Hutt, M, P. truth and consistency triumphed, and an inval-
uable victory was gained for the benefit of native industry.
—Newcastle Journal.

LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY REPORT

January 22, 1810

DISCHARGED ADNI ITTED.
In-patients cured
Relieved and at own request 7 ) Out-patients ...
Made Out-patients ....• ... 3 Casuals during the last week 4
Irregular
Dead

Consulting Surgeons, Mr. Forshaw and Mr. Dawson.
Chaplain Rev. R. Davies. '
House Visiters, W. T. Tomlinson, Esq. and Rev. J. B. Monk.
Apothecary, Mr. W. Burgess.
House Surgeon. Mr. Brandreth.
E W. JACKSON. Treasurer

NORTHERN HOSPITAL, JANUARY 22
ADMITTED. DISCHARGED.

Accidents 6 Cured
Medical and Surgical cases Attending as Out Patients
Upon'recommendation ..... 15 Irregular
- Died
21 /
Remaining in the Hospital . . . 81

House Visiters, John Rigby and G. J. Wainwright, Esqrs.
Treasurer, R. W. Bateson, Esq.
Chaplain. Rev. E. -Maginnis.-1-lowie Surgeon, Mr. Parker

arcL.

LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, JAN. 24

We do not discover that speculative activity in our Butter
market, which is usually evinced at this period of the year; and
the continued severity of the weather renders the circumstance
rather extraordinary. Holders, (of good Butter particularly,)
steadily required extreme quotations, and we should be wrong in
stating the currency of Belfast, Kilkenny. &c. lower than 98s to
lons. Other kinds range down to 86s, according to quality, fresh-
ness and character. It is difficult to obtain more than 85s for
pickled seconds ;—and we believe 84s has been refused for a very
large quantity. Beef, Pork, and Bacon, remain without alteration
in price, and the demand limited.