The Welshman

FUItEIGX IXTELMGEI^E, 1 PARTICULARS OF THE REVOLUTION AT I LISBON. Lisnox, Fr.n. J. 1.—We have had a revdliition without bloodshed, and which liAs terminated in the restoration of the Charter. On the 7th a meeting was held at the Septenibrista Club, at which it Wiis agreed that the Viscciunt Sa should accept office without any conditions, and on the same evening the new ministerial arrangcmcrtts were made, and Viacrtnnt Sa himself Minister of War, was the only decided Septembrist itt this ministry, but his nomination was alone sufficient to cause an explosion. On the same evening he dismissed the Governor of the Castle, and the commanders of several regiments, and Count Bomfim was ordered to march to Lisbon with all the forces lie could collect in the south; whilst the Minister of the Interior, on his part, dismissed the Administrator-General of Lisbon and his secretary, many administrators of districts, and their subordinate employes. A violent Septem- brista partisan, Grijo, was appointed Administra- tor-General of Lisbon. Viscount Sa also gave directions for fortifying the lines of Lisbon against the Oporto troops. Colonel Luna was named by him Governor of the Castle of?St. George, and on his going to take possession ?of his office on the night of the 7th, the explosion broke out. The garrison of the Castle consisted of the 12th infantry and 2d Cacadores, who rose in revolt and im- prisoned the new governor, who, however, was allowed to depart in the morning; they were strengthened by five companies of the 10th bat- talion of infantry, who marched in undc" Colonel Pimentel. The governor, with the troops, pro- ceeded then to prociaim the charter in due form, which they followed by a royal salute front the castle guns. Three companies of the 2d Cacado- res, who refused at first to adhere to the move- ment, were disarmed, but subsequently joined the rest. The firing took place between the and six on the morning of the 3th. A simultaneous demonstration was made by the troops quartered at Hclem and Compo d Oariqne. The 7th, 15th, and 17th infantry, compnanded by their old colo- nels, had declared for the same cause, and marched down from their baaacks at day-break on the 8th, taking up their position in front of the Necessidades Palace, accompanied by the 2d I Lancers. The new ministry, in the meantime, ) were not idle. Early in the morning the Muni- cipal Guards, with the Artillery, Naval Battalion, and other troops that adhered to the government, were marched to a position on an eminence near the centre of the city, occupying the St. Roques, the Loretto, tha Largo do Carmo, and neighbour- ing streets. Head-quarters were established at the Carmo Club. 'Ihe 4th Cavalry had been brought in from Torres Novas, and the 27th Cacadores from Mafra. At the same time the National Guards were called out, the Arsenal was thrown open, and the workmen and populace indiscriminately allowed to arm themselves, and, under the old Arsenal leaders, Mantai, Franca, and others, mustered in the Largo dc Quintella, Caes do Sodre, and neighbourhood, and subsequently took up positions on the high ground of the Chagas and Santa Catliarina, with pickets in the neighbouring .streets forming a continuation to the west of the position occupied by the regular troops of the I government. The shops were shut and business suspended. The state of affairs during the day tlierefor, this :-I'he castle, with the cast end of the city, together with the palace and all the west end of the city and Belem, were in the power of the Chartist troops while the govern- ment forces were in possesion of the centre, in which at a late hour they preceded to entrench themselves, as, during the night of the 8th, the streets leading from the eminences occupied by the National Guards to the north and west, were cut up, JjHiiiches dug, end barricades of carts and other vehicles formed so as to impede any attack that might be made on them from the Chartist troops at the palace the eastern side towards the castle is very precipitous, and there is a wide valley between, in which the best part of the town is situated, and they threw out pickets in every direction. The force in the castle was probably near 1,000 men. There were about 1,400 at the palace, but without artillery; while the govern- ment forces, consisting of the 27th and 30th Caca- dores, part of the 10th infantry, naval battalion, Municipal Guard, with the 4th Cavalry and a re- giment of artillery, misrht muster 2,500 regular troops, to which must be added some hundreds of sailors landed from the ships of war, and three thousand to four thousand of the armed populace and arsenal workmen. The intention was said to be to attack the castle early the next day. The Municipal Guards were Ordered to be formed into a brigade with the naval battalion and the new arsenal battalion, the command being given to Cesar de Vasconcellos, a strong Septeiitbrista, and former commander of the Municipal corps. These latter, however, were Still under tlie immediate orders of their colonel, D. Carlos de Mascarenhas, and it was very doubtful how they wdiild act when the crisis canic. Pickets of them were placed round the castle in the evening, but sdme.df them took the Opportunity of marching in, and at nine 111 the evening they were all withdrawn. The Naval Battiili^n and 30th Cacadores, it was also currently reported, could not be relied on; and the former was said even to have declared that! they would not fight against their cpmrades. The arming of the at-seiial workmen and populace in- creased this feeling among the troops, and alarmed the citizens generally, very few of whom presanted themselves. Count das Antas was coiriniander of all the government forces; things continued in this state during the 8tli; The Chartist troops remained before the palace. Oil tHe Duke of Terceira making his appearance, about eleven o 'clock, a tremendous and universal shout was Yen for the (iueeii and the chat-ter, to the great dismay of the Duke of Palmellft, who was there at the time. The so!diers thr w up their caps in the air, and the enthusiasm was extieme; Colo- nel Marcelli, of the 17th, lectured them, however, on the fitness of being quiet, which they after- wards were. The Duke of Terceira used his efforts to keep them under control. The Duke's military command was virtually supersede d by Autas's appointment: he remained at the palace, in front of which the troops continued all dayi but preserving perfect order. A deputation from the Castle arrived at the Palace in the afternoon, and again returned. During the night of the 8th all parties remained under arms. The Castle folks being perfectly unmolested, supplied themselves with provisions, their friends sending them bags of rice, wine, and all sorts of stores, which they were also taking in during the early part of the next day. The Septembristas gave out on the morning of the 9th that the Castle was to be at. tacked at twelve o'clock. All the troops and National Guards took up position at an early hour, and things appeared in the same state as the preceding evening, with the exception that the troops before the palace had withdrawn to their barracks, and all the approaches from thence to the centre of the city were cut up or barricadoed against them. It had become known by both par- ties that the Oporto forces were fast approach- ing, and that, in fact, the 1st brigade had reached Leiria on the 7th, and that Santerem A brantes, B^ja, and Evora had also declared, and there was no pros- pect therefore, of inducing the Chartists to give way. The disinclination of the other troops to fight against them was also no secret. Many took an opportunity of joining those in the castle during the night, and a large picket of Cacadores, that was on duty at the Limoeiro prison, in the immediate neighbourhood of the Castle, on being relieved in the morning, marched with great formality into the Castle, without molestation. A council of the new ministers was held at the Palace late on the night of the 8th, at which all the ministers, exccpt Jervis d'Athouguia, were present. The impossi- bility of putting down the movement with the means at their command was the decided senti- ment of all; and a written declaration to that effect was forwarded to the Queen, the ministers at the same time tendering their resignations Senhor J. d'Athonguia signed it afterwards. Under these circumstances the Queen accepted their resigna- tions, and immediately charged the Duke of Ter- ceira to form a ministry, which was arranged, for the present, as follows:- Duke of Terceira, President of Council Minister of War, and ad interim of Foreign Affairs. Luiz Mousinho d'Albuquerque, Minister of Interior, and ad interim of Ju.-tice and Ecclesiastical Affairs. J. J. Loureiro, Minister of Marine, and ad interim of Finance. Tlie names 6f these Alone were a guarantee that the Charter was carried; the two latter had both refused seats in the Cortes because they would not acknowledge the constitution. The fact (If the Duke of Tefccira's nomination was soon made known to the troope ifr the castle, who were seen from the opposite hill &.t St. Pedro d'Alcantara drawn up in a line, And their cnthusi- astic vivas on the occasion were heard over the; wide valley between* as distinctly as possible, by I the crowds assembled there. Count das Antas shortly afterwards received orders to disband the forces collected at the Carmo, and to disarm the volunteer artisans, &c., while these who belonged to the former National Guards were allowed to take their arms home, but ordered to retire; all these arrangements, of course, took most by surprise, and while the crowd of spectators were looking for some movement against the Castle, the troops began to break up from the Carmo (about three P.M.), forming in the Loreto and neighbourhood, whence Count das Antas pro- ceeded, accompanied by Senhor Estevao, to the armed multitudes assembled at the Chagas and Santa Catharina, and told them that they must retire; this service was one of some danger, but was steadily performed; shouts of traidor," and "morras," were heard from some, by whom the name of the Queen, as well as of Antas and Estevao, were not spared; some shots were also fired, whether accidentally, or as some say de- signedly, at Das Antas, the accounts are con- tradictory they were fired off to create confusion, and perhaps to commence a row, as in 183S in the Rocio. By six o'clock in the evening every body went peaceably away. A good many of the new volunteers are said to have secured to themselves an adequate remuneration for their two days' services by disposing of the guns and ammunition at the best price they could get; so that a musket got down to 3s. 6d., and the ball cartridges, of which 50,000 are said to have been distributed, were, no doubt, disposed of to some extent. It is supposed that 4,000 to 5,000 muskets were dis- tributed altogether, of which, probably, half will find their way bock. Whatever hesitation there might have remained as to retiring, must have been dispelled by the deluge of rain that came on about this time, and which was positively quite i tremendous. The Belem troops had occupied the j roads leading to the westward, and many volunteers were disarmed by them going home, but no violence was used. In fact the night passed over in perfect quiet. The barricades were soon re- moved, the trenches fi led up, and the next day few traces were left. In the morning of the 10th groups of well-dressed persons collected in the Praca do Comniercio, before the hall of the municipal corporation, and it was said to be the general wish of those favourable to the charter, that the corporation of Lisbon should proceed to the Queen to represent the sentiments of the city on the subject. "Vivas" were given by the people assembled in lie square, and the corpora- tion conceding to the general wish, proceeded to the palace about one. P.N[,, and were admitted to the presence of the Queen, who replied to them that s he had already come to the conclusion desired by them, and the following royal decree was communicated to them. I 11 Seeing the report of my council of ministers, and convinced that the moment is arrived to provide for the public safety, I ;un pleast-d to declare in vigour the constitutional charter of 1 S'2f>, as the fundamental law of the monarchy and in conformity with the same charter. I ordain that Extraordinary Congress shall meet on the 10th day of June, in the present year, the deputies elected to them coming provided with the most ample powers. The ministers, secretaries of state for all the departments, will thus understand it, and cause it to be executed. Palace of Necessidades, this 10th of Feb., 1842 (Signed) "THE QCEEN. (Countersigned) Duke of TERCEIRA. LLIZ DA SILVA Mousisuo I>'AI.IU:QUEK«LE. Jose JORGE LOUREIRO." The members of the corporation returned to their hall soon after 3 p.m. where a large crowd had assembled, and the President read the Royal decree to the assemblage from a window of the building, which was responded to by the hearty vivas of the crowd, and soon afterwards by a Royal salute fr-im the Castle and ships of war. The Queen afterwards rode through the city in an open carriage, with the infant Princes, attended only by two outriders. The King also rode through on horseback. The revolution, or counter-revolution (says the Globe) that has just taken place in Portugal is said to have been brought about entirely by Court intrigue; and the desire of the Queen to substi- tute the Charter of DON PEDRO for the Constitu- tion of 1838, which imposed great restrictions on the power of her husband, is alleged to have been the real cause of the movement. Twice has DOXNA MARIA appointed her consort to the com- mand-in-chief of the army, and twice have the Cortes annulled the nomination, as being contrary to the Constitution of 1838, which allowed to FER- DINAND of Saxe Coburg no other position in Por- tugal than that of husband of the Queen," while the Charter of 182G imposes no restrictions on the Sovereign to prevent her from bestowing on the Prince whatever title or iriflueilce she may feel disposed to invest with him. FRANCE.——It appears by the Frericli papers that every member of the opposition voted on Monday aarainst the ministry, on the motion of Ducos, and yet their majority was 41. This analysis goes to prove mdrc strength than the most sanguine of their supporters ventured to anticipate. It is positively stated that General Cass, the American Minister at Paris, has addressed to M. Guizot a remonstrance against the European treaty in- tended to sanction the right of search, and that in this document he declares that America will consider as equally guilty with the chief offending power (Great Britain) any government that signs that treaty, which he considers as an overt attack upon the independence of the United States. It is said that M. Guizot's hesitation, we may also say refusal, to sign the treaty, has been induced by this decided remonstrance. SPAi-In the Snanish Cortes, during the de- bate on the address, all went against the ministers until what is called a sub-amendment in their favour, moved by M. Montanes, was carried by 80 to 66 and a second motion, to exonerate them from the accusations brought during the debate, was agreed to by 77 to 67, so that the result is the re-establishment of the ministry of Gonzales. MADRID, FEB. 10.—Spain being bound by treaty to defend the Queen and Constitution of Portugal with 30,000 men, troops are marching from vari- ous quarters for the Portuguese frontiers. ANIERICA.-The "South America," reached Liver- pool on Thursday night, after a rapid passage of seventeen days. A meeting of delegates from the Philadelphia banks, had been held on the 31st nit., at which arrangements for their mutual support were entered into. The Caledonia, which has suf- fered severely in her efforts to make a passage at her regular period to Halifax, has returned much damaged to Liverpool, and her packets and pas- sengers have already, we presume, departed in the Acadia, which was ready to sail last Friday.

THE MILITIA.—A bill will be submitted to Par- liament at an early period of the present session, to remodel and place on the most efficient estab- lishment the militia, so as to make that force the depot for the standing army. EXCHEQUER OFFICE.—The report of the com- missioners may be briefly described as a bill of in- dictment against the persons who filled the high offices of heads of the Treasury at the time when the Exchequer Office was remodelled. If snch a solecism in language might be permitted, we should call the report an apologetical bill of in- dictment but considering that the act for remo- delling the Exchequer Office, by giving authority to the Treasury to makn new regulations, indi- cated," to use the gentle language of the report, "that something might be required," or, to speak more distinctly and correctly, imposed upon the Lords of the Treasury of that day the duty of re- vising the entire system. Sir Robert Peel brought forward his measure on, one of the greatest fasts in the year,—an appro- priate day for sustaining the starvation laws THE NEW GOLD COINAGE.—A nefarious system: has been carried on for some time, of defrauding the public by pltfsfging the gold coin of the realm, which is effected in the following manner :—From the rim towards the centre of a sovereign several holes are drilled with a very fine instrument, and the vacancies filled up with an inferior metal, so. as to deceive the most experienced jttdges. By this process a sovereign is rendered, in many instances, hot worth more than 17s., and a half- sovereign not more than S8. 6d. or Ds. Govern- ment has been obliged, in order to put a stop to this fraud, to direct a new coinage to be issued, with a view to prevent the abstraction of the gold taking place without immediate detection. The expense will be very great. The system alluded to has much injured the credit and confidence in the value of our gold, not only at home, but on the continent. At the Middlesex sessions, on Saturday, seve- ral shopkeepers were fined in sums varying from 20s. to 40s., for cheating their customers by the use of false weights and measures. As IT SHOULD EE.— When the Duke of Welling ton reached St. Margaret's Church yesterday, on his way to the Uouse'of Lords, on horseback, and attended by a single servant, he was saluted with a tremendous groan, and immediately checked his horse, walking and bowing as respectfully as if loudly cheered. He was immediately surrounded by a guard of volunteers, who, delighted with the veteran's conifdence, turned their censure to ap- plause, in the very spirit of the English people. CH ARTISTS.—In reply to petitions for the libera- tion of Frost, & Sir J. Graham always states that he sees no grounds whatever for complying with that prayer. The Pitt Scholarship, the highest classical ho- nour in the Lniversity of Cambridge, has been ad- judged to Mr. Giftord, of St. John's College. Among many other candidates, the second best was Mr. Druce. of St, Peter's. Hoth of these gen- tlemen were educated at Shrewsbury School. FOUNTAINS, —The square of the Kelson column, which cannot soar for want of Haytor granite, is to have basins for the occasional dis- play of fountains. There is a new for,ir.in at Kensington-gardens, and there are to b": fountains in the Tower Hamlets' Park, which is to be laid out this soring. Trafalgar-square, to e;id where we begun, might be opened immediately, and, if the now Standing plinth of the Nelson monument had the bas-relief inscription, the column, or "candlestick with a man on it," might be pended. Mu. EI TON.—Mr- Edmund Elton, late midship- man of the Cambruhjp, whose case has excited a good deal of attention, is released from the Mar- shalsea by order of the Lords of the Admiralty. WINES.—The consumption of wine has fallen off within the last year upwards of 300,000 gallons. A very remarkable change has taken place in the use of Port, which fifty years ago constituted 70 per cent. of all wines consumed, but has fallen to little more than 32 per cent. Sherry, on the cdrt-1 trary, has risen from 16 to upwards of 40 per ccnt. French wines are gradually becoming bet- ter known, and last year there was an increase of 7 per cent. Madeira has fallen, Rhenish has fallen 1.'), and Marsala risen G pr cent. Cilpc has fallen 5 per cent., and it was oniy the temptation of paving half the duty of any other wine that in- duced the importation of a single pipe. Of the half- million gallons that paid duty, a large pr< por- tion was sold as Sherry. TIIE CALEDONIA."—"The British and North American Royal mail steamer Caledonia, whiah sailed from Liverpool on the 4th ult., for Halifax and Boston, put into the Cove of Cork on Tuesday disabled. She had, in lat. 49 20, long. 29, encoun- tered tremendous weather, which lasted for three days. Her bulwarks had been carried away, her paddle-boxes stove in, and her decks swept. The rudder was completely twisted, and the damage was so serious that she was unable to proceed oh her voyage, and returned to Cork to repair. No lives were, happily, lost. The demonstration at Birmingham last Friday, against Sir R. Peel's corn law was attended by 6,000 persons, and the resolutions were of the most decided character. We hear from all quar- ters of the strong excitement of the people against the ministerial plan, of the burning of Sir Robert Peel in effigy, and, we regret to add, of riots in consequence of magisterial interference in this last amusement. NEW ZEALAND COPTER.—A specirhen of the cop- per ore brought from New Zealand by Dr. Dieen- bach has been analysed by Mr. Oxhmd, of I?v- mouth, with the following results. Nearly one- half of the luirip is silica; the remainder; copper pyrites, is found to contain ctfpper, sulphur, and iron in the following proporti(,ns -Copper 2D, iron 31, sulphur 37, silica 3. These proportion are as nearly correct as the sniallness of the sample would allow, and will afford a sufficiently accurate idea of ita value. It is of the same character as the richest ores of copper.—Plymouth Journal. A Lnrn lkRIED IN THE SNOW 19 DAYS.—A one- year old lamb, belonging to Messrs. Sutton and Co., of the Truhsbaw Farm, was missed on the 13th of January, during a heavy fall of snow, and was not found again until the 1st of the present month, when it was discovered in a ditch, standing > in an upright position; havitig been 19 days enve- loped in asnmvdrift, by which it had been reduced to a mere skeleton. Whcn brought into the fresh air, it could neither stand nor walk; but by the judicious care and treatment of Messrs. Sutton' s old shepherd, Joseph Jenkinsnn, it has now quite recovered the effects of so long a deprivation of nutrin-,eiit.-Statoed Advertiser. Frnr. AT WHITBCROSS STREET PRISON.—About half-past two o'clock last Friday morning the pri- soners in one of the sleeping wards, immediately over the day-ward, in Whitecross street prison, were alarmed by the smell of fire, and shortly after it was discovered that the ward immediately under them was in flames. The alarm was in- stantly given but, as the turnkeys sleep in ano- ther portion of the building, some time elapsed before thev entered the yard. The wards are se- parated from each other by iron gates, which arc locked at night, while the windows are barred with iron, thus preventing all egress. Tlie pros- pect was of being either smothered or bun^ but the gates were unlocked, and water being at hand, the prisoners, before the arrival of the fire- men, extinguished the fire. AN OLD PmsoxEK.—There is now residing in the Fleet Pris,on a man named Jeremiah Board, who has been a prisoner ever since 1815—no less than twenty-seven years." Board was committed by the Court of Chancery for contempt, and no pro- ceedings under the Insol vent Debtors' Act could be prosecuted until the present act came into ope- ration, when a provision was made, enabling creditors to adopt compulsory proceedings against debtors. A vesting order was obtained against Board, and a seizure made of property, by which money and securities were found on his person, some of which was secreted in his shoes. The matter remained some time. and a recent applica- tion was made respecting about £1,600 which was in the hands of the assignee who had obtained the vesting order, and which sum it was thought had better be paid into court. Thccommissioner or- dered, from the extraordinary nature of the case, that creditors should be sought after and adver- tisements have appeared in the new spapers, call- ing on persons who have any claim to come for- ward, before further orders were given respecting the money. VOLUNTARY ATTEMPT AT STARVATION.—A girl named Saville, living at Felsted, Essex, had beer missing for twelve days prior to the 9th inst. On that day some. men found her nearly in a dyinLr state. She gives no satisfactory account of why she voluntarily attempted starvation, but she savs she was in the wood ten days and nights, with no other covering than the clothes she had on, nor any protection from the inclemency of the season than a few leaves she had collected together to lie on. She had seen no one during the time, nor had she eaten anything whatever or took any sus- tenance further than sucking swne water from the brook through a reed. She is still in a very pre I carious statc.BlIrg Post. On Tuesday the four peers who sat during the day ifi the House of Lords to hear appeals (tlie tirst time their lordships have sat this session) had all been lord chancellors. They were Lords Lyndharst, Brougham, Cottenham, and Campbell. A requisition is, we understand, in course of signature in the city, calling on the Lord MayAr to call on an early day a public meeting of the live- rymen, citieens, and householders, to take into con. sideratiCn the necessity of a petition to the Queen or to either house of parliament relative to the proposed measure, of Sir Robert Peel on the Corn-laws. The requisition has already received nearly a thousand signatures. An action was tried in the Common Picas Jast Monday brought by a plaintiff against the Time* newspaper, to recover for the materials of a lead- ing article supplied to that paper, in which defen- dant had paid what he considered a sufficient sura into Court.—Verdict for defendant. NOVEL BAPTISM.—Saturday morningTrmch curi- osity was created at the church of St. Mary Ab- bott's, Kensington, bv the baptism of a lady be- tween twenty and tliirtv years of age, named Blisson, residing in ^fottinghiir-square. The ceremony was performed by the Bishop ofSodor and Man. and Miss Blisson. who it Was understood is a Manx lady, received the name of Adela. The Duke of XofthiYrtrberland has lately pur- chased, at an enormous price, certain lands close to Berwick-upon-Tweed, which will place, it is said, that borough entirely under his control. CONVERT TO CATHOLICISM.— The Rev. Mr. 'Sib- thorp, whose conversion has been loudly sounded, was yesterday ordained a Catholic priest at Oscott College, near Birmingham. OXFORD, Feb. ?0.—The Rev. Mr. Garbett, the new Professor of Poetry, delivered the first BaAip- ton Lecture for the present year, at St. Mary's Church, this morning. Tiie Church was crowded in every part. Mr. Grant, CotnuiouerofSt. John's CoHcge, has iinuouncfd his secession from the es- t.;t l ) l -ieiit, I?ti d his tablishment, and has followed tlie example of Mr. Sibthorp. Several of the junior members of the university are expected to join the Roman Catho- lic communion shortly. The total anv.>unt subscribed rp to this date for the restoration o'f Ilerctord Cathedral is £ 11,074 16s., being somewhat more than hall' the sum re- qn¡rc(L- ,f h'f't'r .!lIurwu. A female pauper in the Union Workhouse at Olneywas the ot her day proved to be the owner of a fortune of ;j001. As soon as she received the money she sent a blind man who bad been Wind to her in the workhouse, and married him immediately. AN \NCIKNT MAEINT.I!.—The Dlxeoverv. the ship in which Captain Clarke accompanied Captain Cook on his last voyage of discovery in 1776, sailed from Cowes-road on Tuesday last for Ant- werp. She is now under the Belgian fatr. and her name 1Hs been changed to the Rolens. She cer- tainly c.aiinCt lie much less than seventy years old, but has the appeiiranee of a fine brig, aud draws seventeen feet M ater. ANTI-CORN-LAW MOVEMENT.Great Meetings to petition against S:r Robert Peel's new sliding- sc.ale have been again Jleld in Manchester, Bir- mingham, Wigan, Bradford, I-cicester, Sheffield, and many other places in the country, as we'l as in most of the large metropolitan and su- burban parishes in town, at all of which the strongest objectinns have been urged against the perpetuation of the taxes on food by the new of tle ta%cs oil f(-)o d bi- illi e new I THE MA^c:n:Srr.K MEMORIAL.—The rheinorial to the Queen, praying her Majesty to dismiss her ministers, received, during two d.tys, 24,000 sig- natures. The petition against the Corn-laws, from Pres- ton, has received nearly 17,000 si-matures; and the memorial to the Queen from -the female inhabi- tants has appended to it 9,000 names. The venerable church of Okehampton was des- troyed by fire Oil Saturday last. SEIZURE FOR CHURCH-RATES AT BEAMINSTER.— Mr. Joseph Tite has issued a printed cireUlat1 tb the inhabitants of Deaminstcr, stating that the law has "robbed him of the following articles, for 4s. 7d. Church-rate; viz:, one mahogany table, one couch, four mahogany chairs, one copper coal- scuttle. and 3 dozen of wine. SHOCKING ACCIDENT IN LEWES.—O.i Wednesday evening, about six o'clock, a little boy, w ho had been into the mill of Mr. John Siekelmore, Lewes, to lodk for the grinder, came to a man working near the mill and said he could not find him. on Which it crossed the mind of the person spoken to that he had noticed that the mill had not run with its usual cvenheSs for some time, and on going into the nÜll he found the poor fellow en- tangled in the mill-wot'k, and quite dead. It was supposed that as he was passing in a narrow part of the drill, his round frock caught the cogs of a wheel, and he was drawn in amongst the machi- nery. The unfortunate man has left a wife and ten children to lament his ]a5. ExiM.osnix.—l ets OF LIFE.—One of the exten- sive pdwder-mills belonging to Messrs. Curtis ftnd Harvr.r; gunpowder manufacturers, situated on Hounslo4*- Heath, exploded on Sattirday fore- noon, and occasioned the loss of two lives and the infliction of serious injuries on three other per- sons. The explosion took place a few minutes after ten o'clock, and the tremendous report caused thereby was heard for many miles round the neighbourhood, and occasioned the greatest con- sternation and alarm. Of the cause of the accident nothing positive can ever be known, neither of the unfortunate men surviving to tell the tale, and the building itself is levelled with the grcnind. Three otber men have sustained serious injuries irom the effects of the explosion. The bodies of Finch and Woolman were frightfully disfigured and mutilated. Both men have left widows and families. On Friday last, during the sitting of the Rev. Thomas Airev and the Hey. John Sedgwick, ma- gistrates for Sedberg, in the West Riding of the county of York, the case under hearing had ex- cited a sensation in the neighbourhood, and had brought together a lare concourse of hearers to listen to the result of the investigation. The office was of large dimensions, alld was eoifs dered in every respect substantial. The crowd to hear the sentence havins pushed forward to the centre of ilie off-ice, the middle beam gave way with a crash. Terror and alarm prevailed. The shrieks of the vast multitude were heartrending, every One ex- pecting: to be launched into eternity. Happily, however, help was obtained, and. without the sacrifice of human life, the terrified crowd, pri- soners, judges, officers of the court, and audience, were all rescued. The Edinburgh and Glasgow railway was opened throughout on Friday. THE Gus TRICK AT MONTROSE.—Ah accident of a rather serious nature occurred on Saturday evening at Montrose. Mr. Ryalls, a necroman- cer, who has been amusing the lieges here for the last few days, after the rest of the performance was over, intimated to his audience that be would conclude with a gun trick; and, having produced a gun, desired one of the company to load it. The person, it seems, ha i put too much Wad in the ptn, and having fired it, the forage lodged ill Mr. Ryalls's hand, mutilating it so dreadfully that it passed through, and landed ultimately in the wall of the room. The performer bore it with the greatest possible fortitude; and a medical man being called, it was dressed, and he is now get- ting better. The amount of the Repeal rent received in Dub- lin last week a-s £24::3 13s. 7d. of which up- wards of £ 200 were contributions received from America. At the meeting of the Association on Friday, the Lord Mayor, afier a very long address, moved, "That a committee do prepare forthwith a petition to Parliament for the furtherance of re- form. First-For manhood suffrage. Secondly —For vote fry ballot. Thirdly—For short parlia-' ments. Fourthly-No property qualification. Fifthl"For the equalisation oi voting districts. He would move in addition, "That Mr. Ray be authorised to send the petition to the repeal war- Jcns throughout Ireland, in order to obtain as many signatures as possible, as a pledge to show ,110\\ they would join the reformers of England ia .'verv constitutional struggle. —Carried. I