The Welshman

CLERICAL AND RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. It appears by a parliamentary paper printed last week that the gross revenues of the six bishoprics which have become vacant since the establishment of the Ecclesias- tical Commission amount to E29,415 lis. 10d. And that the gross revenues of the 630 benefices that have become vacant in the same time amount to £ 196,611 9s. 3. THE BISHOP OF ST. DAVID.—THE WELSH ME- TROPOLITAN CHurtcii.-The Bishop of St. David's preached in the Welsh Metropolitan Church, Ely-place, Holborn, last Sunday evening, in the Welsh language, to a very crowded congregation; the prayers were read by the Rev. J. R. Williams. His Lordship took for his text-" The wages of sin is death and preached in the ancient British language an eloquent and im- pressive discourse of an hour's duration, to the astonish- ment and delight of all. A breathless silence pervaded the Church, all naturally wondering at the correctness and fluency with which his Lordship spoke a language whose pronunciation is supposed to be so difficult to an Englishman; but his Lordship appeared to be quite at home in it, particularly when he became warmed with his subject, and appears to be as enamoured with the pecular and expressive beauties of the language, as he is reputed to be with the romantic scenery of the country to which he cannot fail to be a great benefactor. The above is from the Times. The Globe mentions the circumstance in the following terms :-The natives of the principality resident in London, had the high satisfaction on Sunday of hearing an able discourse preached in the Welsh language, at the Welsh Metropolitan church, Ely-place, Holborn, by the Lord Bishop of St. David's. We are informed that in arrangement, composition, matter and delivery, a more able or effective sermon never was preached even by a native and one and all of his hearers exclaimed how the interests of the Established Church, and the spiritual welfare of the people of Wales, would be promoted by such a rare example being emulated and followed by the other prelates of the principality. OXFORD, MAY 15.—-Mr. Macmuller again applied for his Degree, and was again refused by the Vice- Chancellor. It is expected that the question relative to this gentleman's Degree will cause a great contention between the two parties in the University. The Trac- tarians know pretty well that they are the strongest in numbers, and when the question is brought regularly before convocation they will muster almost to a man to support Mr. Macmuller. OXFORD, MAY 18.—The Rev. O. Leach, has been preferred to the rectory of Hubberstone, Pembrokeshire. A correspondent of the Times writes as follows :— In Congregation on Wednesday the Vice-Chancellor put his absolute veto upon Mr. Macmullen's degree. The ground upon which he does this is, that the Regius Professor has informed him that Mr. Macmullen has not performed his exercises. The Vice-Chancellor, upon this information of the Professor, professes to doubt the fact whether the exercises which Mr. Mac- mullen performed in open day in the schools, in the presence of the University, and in the way in which all exercises are performed, were actually so performed. The ground upon which the Regius Professor avowedly goes, on the other hand, is not any deficiency whatever as to the fact of the performance of the exercises the Regius Professor cannot deny that the exercises have, as a matter of fact, been informed; he objects to a cer- tain doctrine contained in one of them. It is upon a doctrinal objection simply and solely that the Vice- Vice-Chancellor vetoes Mr. Macmullen's degree. It is perfectly well known that the Regius Professor has no power whatever, according either to university statute or custom, of testing the doctrinal opinions of candidates for the B. D. and therefore the Vice-Chancellor was under no obligation whatever to listen to his objection upon such a ground. The present veto of the -Vice- Chancellor, therefore, is simply his own optional, abso- lute veto—a veto from the power of which no single member of the University is safe, if the Vice-Chancellor goes on exercising it in this way, and refusing degrees upon every doctrinal objection which Dr. Hampden chooses to raise against the orthodoxy of members of the University. The Vicc-Chancellor has gone to the very extremity of his theoretical absolute power of stopping University degrees. It is literally the first case within the memory of man of the exercise of such a veto. I question whether the annals of the Univer- sity exhibit such another instance. It is well known that the state of things in Oxford depends altogether for its practical flow and working upon the different authorities in the University confining themselves within the limits which the custom and practice of the place have sanctioned and laid down for them. If ore party outsteps the usage of the University, another will, in self-defence, or to preserve the equilibrium of things, ba obliged to do the same. The Proctors, e. g., have the power of stopping all degrees, the same as the Vice- Chancellor, and could during their year of office, if they chose to assert such a right, absolutely put a stop to the whole proceedings of the University, which would remain all that time a mere dead machine, without power of performing a single corporate act. Again, any private member of Congregation may pluck any de- gree three successive times and if this right were really revived and brought into practice, the confusion, delay, and difficulty which it would create are indescribable. I can only say, that if such a use of statute powers were recurred to, one party at any rate could not complain- that, viz., which has itself set such an example of re- currence to absolutism and obsolctism as the present proceeding exhibits.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. The General Assembly commenced its sittings at Edinburgh on Thursday in the new assembly-hall on the Castle-hill. Previous to the meeting of the As- sembly a levee was held in Holy rood Palace by the Lord High Commissioners to the General Assembly (the Marquis of Bute), which was remarkably well attended. There were present, among others, the Lord Provost, the Earl of Selkirk, the Earl of Strathmore, Lord Ruthven, Baron Charles Dembrowski, Major- General Ogilvie, Rear-Admirals Stodart, &c. A detachment of the Carabineers and a company of the 28th Regiment formed the guard in the palace- yard, which was thronged by a large number of specta- tors. At 12 o'clock the cavalcade having been formed, his Grace entered his carriage, and proceeded by Regent-road, Waterloo-place, Northbridge, and High- street, to the High Church. The High-street was lined with a detachment of Carabineers, Scots Greys, and Camcronians, and presented a very animated scene. The sermon in the High Church was preached by the Very Rev. Principal Macfarlan, Moderator of the last General Assembly. His text was from II. Corinthians, chap. 4, v. 1,—" Therefore, seeing we have this minis- try as we have received mercy, we faint not." THE FREE CHURCH. THURSDAY.— This assembly also met to-day in the Canonmills-hall- At 12 o'clock the large hall was filled to overflowing, there being at that time about 4,000 persons present. The Rev. Dr. Brown, the Moderator of the last Assembly entered the pulpit, and, having gone through the usual preliminary devotional exercises, took his text from Psalms exxii. 6, Pray for the peace of Jerusalem." The sermon, which was delivered with great solemnity by the venerable preacher, seemed to make a deep impression upon the audience. The Assembly was then constituted by prayer, and the roll of members read by the clerk. Dr. Brown, after a short address, proposed that Mr. H. Grey, of St Mary's Free Church, Edinburgh, should be chosen Moderator, which was unanimously agreed to. Mr. Grey was then introduced, and having taken his seat as Moderator, proceeded to address the Assembly at great length. Some formal busincss ha ving been gone through, the Assembly adjourned till to-morrow FRIDAY.—The Assembly spent the forenoon in devo- tional exercises, and in the evening the principal business was the statement of the collections, Ac., in behalf of the schemes of the church, after which it was adjourned till Saturday,

THE CHRISTIAN OBLIGATION TO THE POOR j OF A SACRAMENTAL CHARACTER. Such is the title of a sermon preached at Chelmsford last assizes by Thomas John Hussey, D.D., chaplain to the High Sheriff of the county, S. n. Brocket, Esq., and published at his desire. This is a short sermon; but it is the concentration (absit verbo invidia)—-it is the brief and [jure con- centration-of the duties imposed upon Christians, whether in their legislative or personal capacity, in their conduct to the poor. It is not optional with man to treat his poorer brother with harshness or humanity, as the temper of the more rich may be kindness, not in words, but in substantial relief, is a duty bound upon all wild worship a God, and believe in a Sav iour. And the sacred word of revelation imparts to the poor a right not only to sustenance and shelter or covering, but to healthy and comfortable support, more uiulefeasible than any law of man can bestow. Dr. Hussey puts this doctrine oil its right foundation in the excellent dis- course addressed to the iuhabitants of Essex, the Judges of Assize, and the juries, we presume, of the county, assembled at Chelmsford. We never read a discourse 011 such an occasion more clear, convincing, and authn- ritative-tli,-tt is, with the iiithorit3 derived by the preacher from his Divine Master. The Text is— The poor slull never cease out of the land there- fore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy in tl,,(, xN- 11): The preacher, amongst other things, shows that the injunctions of the author of our religion, of Jesus the Saviour of rich and poor, arc equally precise and ob- ligatory and the breach of them criminal. He closes this part of his argument with the following shrewd and cutting reniark Poverty is certainly an object of well-considered le- gislature, but it is virtually treated as a crime. It is kindly secluded from the observation of the world: vir- tually imprisoned; carefully subjected to senafory dis- cipline virtually starved: art, science, learning, hy- pothesis, experiment, are exhausted to frame means for its support; and to partaking such philosophical mercy, it prefers to die. I am not drawing upon my imagination for affecting pictures of distress to the existing morbid appetite for excitement, mere fictitious narrative would be deficient in interest compared with the horrors recorded in the official documents of the realm nor shall I endeavour to stimulate your sensibility in behalf of your duties: it is dishonouring religion when the passions she is bound to control are enlisted in her service. We may be betrayed into false sympathy by the better parts of our nature, or misled by the pernicious tendency of the worse parts, but, when we coldly calculate the precise extent of God's commands, we are already prepared to transgress them when we make exceptions in our own favour, the principle of obedience is dead within us. Let not a nation call itself Christian which finds it it expedient to modify the laws of God Such as those laws are, the nature of them is immutable, as the obli- gation to them is paramount." We cannot conclude without expressing our wish that the example of Dr. Hussey may be widely followed by the clergy of the land. They may be assured that they are never more perfectly within the sphere of their duty than when they are advocating the causc of the poor.— Times. RESIST TEMPTATION IN Timr.i perfect know- ledge of human nature was in the prayer, Lead us not into temptation. No man ever resists temptation, after it has begun to be temptation. It is in the out- works of the habits that the defance must lie. No ap- prentice ever refrained from his master's gold, after his eye had once begun to gloat upon it, and he had got over the habitual feeling which made any approach to its appropriation an impossibility. No Joseph ever resisted, except through the impulse of pure fear, after he had once begun to revolve the possibility of giving way.— Westminster Review. CHRISTIAN CIIARITY.—To expect that all sects should formally and ostensibly pull down the barriers of sepa- ration and combine in one common mass, under the Christian name, seems hopeless, if we are to judge from what is known of human nature. But may not that gentle, and enlightened, and spiritual toleration of dissenting opinions, which consists not of a mere allow- ance of profession (the bare due of every one at our hands), but of a charitable, religious judgment, that thinks no evil, that is willing to bid God speed to every one that names the name of Christ in sincerity—may not, I say, such a toleration as this insensibly work a blessed change in the minds and hearts of those who are now estranged from us ? Look at the wisdom of Rome, which combined, in one mass, the natives of so many different countries, and discordant tongues, under the one name of Roman citizens and let us do that out of charity which Rome did out of policy.—Dr. Hampden.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.— The fifth annual meeting of this Society was held last Friday at Exeter Hall, London. In the absence of Lord Brougham, (who was to have presided, but wrote to say that he could not be spared from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council,) Mr. Samuel Gurney was called to the chair. A number of leading Abo- litionists were on the platform, and the attendance, especially of ladies, was numerous. A long report was read, and several resolutions were passed but the pro- ceedings were not quite unruffled. As an amendment on the motion for printing and circulating the report, Mr. George Thompson moved an instruction to the Committee, to abstain from acting in their official capacity on that part of the constitution which pledges the Society to promote the adoption of fiscal regulations in favour of free labour, until a special meeting has been held to reconsider the articles as they bear on that question." The Reverend Mr. Hinton, one of the Committee, pledged them to consult their constituents on the subject; on which Mr. Thompson was induced to withdraw his amendment. Subsequently, however, Mr. O'Connell spoke in favour of differential duties for Anti-Slavery purposes; that called up Mr. Bright against all restrictive duties a warm discussion grew to be an angry altercation lr. Thompson once more rose, indignant, and moved his amendment again and it was carried! A deputation from the Joint-Stock Banks had an in- terview with Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Goulburn last Friday to urge modifications of the Government banking measure. They wished that the average of their issue should be taken on one instead of two years or if taken on two years, that the average should be, not the maxi- mum but the average of future years with some other suggestions. Sir Robert Peel was courteous, but stuck to his plan; stating that the average would be taken on the two years ending on the 4th May 1844; and point- ing out advantages in the plan for the proprietors of joint-stock banks. DISPROPORTIONATE CosTs.-In the case of a man, in the employ of Reid and Co., brewers, of Windsor, who was charged before the Eton bench of magistrates with riding on a dray without reins, the defendant was fined 6d. The costs (which he was ordered to pay) amounted to just 31 times more than the fine, viz., 15s 6d. On the same day a man named Fowiew, charged with riding on the shafts of a waggon, was likewise fined Cd. for the offence, and also mulct in 16s. 6d. for costs. MODESTY AND PIETY.-Tlie following advertisement appears in a Manchester paper:—"To Drapers, Haber- dashers, Warehousemen, &c.—Wanted, towards the latter end of April, by an eminently pious young man of Scotland, who has been regularly bred to the above branches, and considerably experienced generally, a si- tuation as assistant clerk, manager, salesman, or tra- veller. The advertiser 24 years of age, possessed of excellent health, an amiable disposition, good ability, extensive knowledge of the great Scriptural doctrines, strictly Evangelical, and would be found of immense advantage in assisting to advance the claim and reign of the Messiah's kingdom, amidst all the civil and eccle- siastical opposition so prevalent amongst the nations of the earth in these latter agitating times. Testimonials and references to several eminent Evangelical Dissenting Ministers and members of the Gospel, as well as to former and present employers, of the most strict and satisfactory tendency as to character and ability, with portrait, may be had on application. No objections to town or country, and would be willing to conform to the rules of a liberal church or Dissenting family holding Evangelical principles, and make himself generally use- ful. A house favourable to Evangelical, Presbyterian, or Independent Church principles, affording permanent employment and progressive advancement of salary, preferred." FERMENTATION IN MANURE HEAPS.—When a piece of paper, moistened with muriatic acid, held over the steam arising from a dunghill, gives dense fumes, it is a certain test that decomposition is going too far; for this indicates that ammonia is not only formed, but is escaping.—Smith's Productive Farming. HEAVY TAX ON MOUTALITY.-The Gateshead Observer says that the following bill of charges, paid in the city of Kingston, in Jamaica, in consequence of the short illness and eventual death of the captain of a British merchant-vessel, (which had entered that port for assistance, on account of the sickness of her crew,) would form a very nice appendix to the late exposure by the Secretary of the Poor Law Commissioners of the cost of funerals The late Capt. Huntley, of the Skipton, Dr. to Jane Edwards. Dec. 1843.—To six days' lodging, nourishment, and attendance, at 40s. per day £ 12 0 0 Metlieiul's, leeches, & blisters 7 12 0 Shaving head for blister 0 12 0 Vittoafterdeath 2 0 0 Pantaloons 12s. vest 8s. 1 0 0 Gloves and stockings 0 18 0 Two pieces of 2 8 0 One ditto ribbon, 8s., crape, 8s. 0 16 0 One gallon brandy 1 12 0 Three 1)(,ttles witic at 5s 015 0 Seven suppers to Mr. Russell, the mate, at:2s 014 0 Seven cups coffee at 6d 0 3 6 3 4 0 Churching and sexton 1 6 0 Under-bcarers 0 8 0 Hearth and chaises 3 12 0 Coffin 10 0 0 Dead body lying in the house. 5 0 0 Dr. De Leon's bill, "iz. £5-! 0 6 Dec. 27th.—To medical attendance ..Ll 12 0 28th.—To ditto 1 12 0 29th.—To ditto 112 0 30th.—To ditto 1 12 0 31st.-To ditto 112 0 Jan. Ist.-To ditto. 112 0 ————— 9 12 0 ;C63 12 6 This appalling" course" ot leeching, blistering, and shaving, ought to make British captains careful in their choice of" lodging, nourishment, and attendance." A RECUI.AU BRICK !Mr. Roebuck having so successfully laboured to take ell the rwl from the rc- putations of his friends, has earned for himself the flattering title of the—Bath Brick!—Punch.

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. j Admiral Bowles has accepted the seat at the Admiralty vacated by the appointment of Sir G, Seymour to the Pacific. -Tire Queen Dowager will leave England for Germany on the 2d of June, on a visit to her illustrious relatives. Her Majesty's birthday will be celebrated at Clarcmont. It is believed that Mr. Frankland Lewis is preparing, by the direction of the Government, a bill for regulating Turnpike Trusts in Wales, in con- formity with the Commissioners' Report. -The royal aasent has been given to the Dean Forest Enroachments bill, the Great Western Railway bill, the Severn Navigation bill, and the Birmingham Canal bill. Lieut. Payne, of the 53d Regiment, being backed for a small sum of money to walk six English miles in one hour, performed the task with four minutes and eight seconds to spare. Upwards of £ 200,000 has been expended in the past and present repairs of Westmin- ster since the year 1810. The Heraldo, of Madrid, states that the Spanish capital will soon be lighted with gas by the company which has erected gas-works at Barcelona and Valencia. Last Saturday night's Gazette states that the Queen has appointed Sir Thomas Fremantle to be Secretary at War. The King of the French has postponed, for the present, his visit to this country. It is, however, his intention, should no unforeseen obstacle intervene, to arrive here in Septem- ber next. He will visit her Majesty at her marine residence.— Times. The King of Saxony is expected to arrive in England about the beginning of June. Van Amburgh, the famous lion tamer, will open his pavilion in Gloucester, on Whit-Monday. The Bath season, just over, has been one of the best experienced for many years. The Earl Fitzwilliam has intimated to his tenants that he will pay half the expense of pro- viding tanks for containing liquid manure, on the several farms held under his lordship. At his last audit, Edward Foley, Esq. of Stoke Edith Park, Herefordshire, allowed his tenants ten per cent, for extra draining.- The further progress of Lord Worsley's Inclosure Bill is now suspended until Wed- nesday, 5th of June. It is rumoured that his lordship has determined upon submitting to the consideration of the house certain provisions for the protection of the recreation grounds of populous places, and of village greens, which may possibly, by some individuals, be considered as being more stringent and efficacious than those already to be found in his bill.-In the Customs bill the duty of tallow-grieves or dog's-meat is reduced from forty shillings to one shilling per ton. In manufacturing Lancashire, according to an official report, the number of illegitimate children, chargeable to the parish, is only one in every 425 of the population, in agricultural Wales, one in 59 !-The experiment of an atmospheric railway is about to be made on a line 21 miles in length, from London to Croydon. It is stated in Herapath's Railway Magazine, that an inven- tion is about to be tried to make boats go on canals at some thirty miles an hour.-Tlic Government have ordered the new garrison church at Portsmouth to be covered with india rubber pavement, to prevent the soldiers from suffering from rheumatism, &c., brought on by sitting with their feet on the cold stones. The ordinary punishment at the Boston House of Correction is a shower bath. The offender is placed in a very narrow box, with a collar round his neck, and three or four barrels of ice-cold water are poured over him in succession it is said that it cows and subdues the most refractory. A curious astronomical pheno- menon has been observable during the recent brilliant weather. The planet Venus is visable to the naked eve at midday. Her position is nearly due east, and about 60 degrees above the horizon. As an instance of the productive powers of guano there is now in a field at Llandaff some Italian rye grass, which measures 34 inches in height. A compost of coal ashes and guano was strewn over the spot early in March. A warrant has been received at the Custom-house from the Lords of the Treasury, constituting Carnarvon an independent port. Among the 178,000,000 individuals who in- habit Europe, there are said to be 17,000,000 beggars, or persons who subsist at the expense of the community without contributing to its resources. Mr. Wellesley Pole used to say that it was impossible to live like a gentleman in England under £ 40,000 a-vcar ? and Beau Brummell told a lady, who asked him how much she ought to allow her son a-year for dress, that it might be done for £ S00, with strict economy !On the occasion of the opening of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, Mr. Brunei travelled per railway 537 miles in 25 hours, including stoppages of five hours at Exeter, and various shorter periods at Bristol and elsewhere. A portion of the distance was traversed at the rate of 56 miles an hour. -More than thirty innocent persons. it appears, have been transported from King's county, Ireland, within the last two or three years, on the evi- dence of perjured policemen and their tools, who had villanously contrived to place written documents in the pockets of their victims. The Lcinster Express, a Tory paper, calls upon the government to punish the wrong- doers, and restore that public confidence in the channels of justice which the liberal journals are endea- vouring to bring into disrepute, certainly not upon slight or isolated groudns." Mr. Coode, surveyor of taxes, Leicester, has absconded, a defaulter. Mr. Moon, of Lancaster, has just paid a second dividend of a quarter of a farthing in the pound! Whether a third and fourth quarter of the Moon" may be expected, is a matter of controversy among the creditors. Mr. Mayhew, of Camberwell, has paid a half.penny in the pound; and in another case the creditors have received five-eighths of a penny The Gateshead Observer of last Saturday says the Coal Returns, moved-for months ago, and presented on the 18th of April, were only ordered to be printed on Saturday morning last. Thus the evidence of the injurious tendency of the export-duty has been disgracefully kept out of sight, until its appearance could, comparatively, do no harm. -An essay on the distribution of wealth, by G. Ramsay, B. M. Trin. Coll. Cambridge shows that short hours tend to raise the rate of wages. Lord Talbot is to have the Garter, vacant by the death of the late Earl of Lonsdale. Lord Granville Somerset has a seat in the Cabinet, retaining his present appointment of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. -Sir Thomas Fremantle succeeds Sir Henry Hardinge as Secretary at War, without a seat in the Cabinet. John Young, Esq., M.P. for the county of Cavan, and oue of the Lords of the Treasury, succeeds Sir Thomas Fcemantle as Secretary to the Treasury. Mr. Brunei has stated that the railway from Oxford to Didcot will positively be opened, as originally intended, on Monday, the 10th of June; thus bringing the University within a drive of two hours and a half from the metropolis. The Colliers strike continues. Zampa was played on Saturday, at the special desire" of Her Majesty, who honoured the Opera with her presence for the first time this season. Last Sunday morning a fire broke out in the farm yard of Mr. E. Tattersall, near W ellesden. Two large stacks of hay were to a great extent destroyed, and the total loss is estimated at nearly £ 400. The annual match between the Marylobone Club and the University of Cambridge was played at the latter place, on Thursday and Friday last, in the presence of an immense assemblage of spectators. The former eleven won in one innings and 17 runs, whilst last year, the victory was gained by the Univer- sity with 37 runs to spare. Mrs. Dorey has formally confessed her participation in the Will Forgeries.- Incendiarism in Suffolk and Essex continues. It appears, by a return made to the House of Commons, that, in 1838, the Lords of the Treasury limited Mr. Barry's remuneration, as architect of the houses of Par- liament, to t25,000 to be paid at intervals in proportion to the advance of the works.

How TO DREW A STonm.-Tell your wife you hava Been the sweetest young lady in the world, and that you wished it was legal to have two wives. A COMMERCIAL COUNTRY.—Chimney-sweeper (in a cart.)—I say, cabman, cut avay, vill you, there's a good un: or let me afore you ? Cabman (looking behind, and driving more. shiwly.J—Certainly you're in a urry, no doubt? Got bills, I 'spose, to take up in the City.— Punch. QUESTIONS FOR NEWSPATKUS READERS.—Did you ever read of a horrible coach accident, without an addi- tion that" no blame attached to the driver ?" Did you ever know of the decease of an old woman at upwards of a hundred years of age, who did not" retain her facul ties to the last," and" re-ad the smallest print without the aid of spectacles ?" nid you f:1'cr hear of a defeated candidate at a contested election, who did not assert that his party had achieved a triumph ?" WEEKLY COST TO JOIIN BULL OF THE SUGAR AND CORN MONOPOLIES.—The Economist newspaper shows l- 'eo)?o)??l st iiewspal)er s h o%b that-—■ The extra cost of corn and sugar to the nation, It arising from protection, from Jazi.*I, to April 20, was Extra cost of sugar f(.,r the i-c-ek April 27 70,003 Extra cost of bread 288,460 Total extra cost from Jan. 1 to April 27 £ 6,793,872 I At Toole, a middle-agrd man, was charged with sending letters to Sir Robert Peel and Lord Eliot, complaining of distress, and unequivocally hinting that he would assassinate them. He admitted the offence pleaded that he was maddened by distress and produced let- tors from Mr. Recorder Shaw and other most respcc- table persons in Ireland, testifying to his good character while in the rolice force of that country. In default of bail for twelve months, he was committed to prison.

PROBABLE EFFECTS OF THE NEW CUR- RENCY SCHEME UPON THE FARMERS. A correspondent of the Mark Lane Express, in the course of his cries of alarm last Monday, lets fall the following expressions :-Farmers, says he, this scheme will injure or endanger you much more seriously than you have been led to imagine. If there be a bad har- vest—and who can ensure a good one ?—foreign corn will come in, which must be paid. and doubtless will be paid for as heretofore, in hard cash. The subtraction of gold will go on lessening and lessening the amount in the Bank the Bank must contract, and continue to contract, it* paper accordingly; all other Banks must follow their leader just when the farmer is most suf- fering by bad crops and competitors—just when he has most occasion for the aid of his local banker—just at that moment comes the double crash upon him. The Bank dare not accommodate, and the scarcity of money produces (after the foreigners have sold their corn) a rapid and ruinous reduction of prices. This is no merely imaginary or theoretical appre- hension. What has been, may be. The bank had not two millions of gold in its coffers when it was com- pelled to borrow from the bank of France, only tho other day. Then came the "screw;" but the "screw" was nothing then, compared to what it will be should the like event occur again. What assurance have wc that it will not occur again again ? What mine has the Minister found—what El Dorado has he discovered to replenish the coffers of the Bank, should they again be similarly circumstanced ? Nothing but Ion prices tempting foreigners to send the gold back again low prices, forced by the law-compelled scarcity of money, to the injury, to the ruin, of all the producing classes in the country. What can the farmers do ? Nothing literally nothing They are like sheep without a shepherd. They have no leaders those who should be their lead- ers, and who promised on the hustings to be their lead- ers, find it more advantageous, as they imagine, to follow than to lead. Perhaps they may be mistaken; perhaps rents cannot be maintained with a contracted and contracting currency perhaps low prices, produced by the scarcity and increased value of money, may utterly disable the farmer from meeting his engage- ments, and terrify others from being ruined upon the same terms. Perhaps mortgages, finding they can get no interest from landlords who get no rents, may foreclose, and then what will county members say ? Thanks to the Canada Bill, the Currency Bill, and the Budget of 1843, benefiting every class but the farmer, and injuring him alone.

LABOURERS' IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY.—Of this so- ciety, on which some observations were made in our last number, the Times says- The society is to stir up individual landowners and itself to build cottages, grant allotments, lend money, cart off dunghills, white- wash lanes, and clean drains. So far so good. But the socicty is only a body of private individuals, and can do no more than what private individuals may do. It will be met and thwarted at every turn by the general sys- tem. Give your labourer a sufficient cottage, the next landlord asks a higher rent, and the labourer himself defeats your kindness by filling his rooms with lodgers give allotments, and the farmer takes them into account in his wages. You cannot fight single-handed against the system. The present system is to strip the labourer of every shadow of right, protection, and property-to make him a labourer and nothing else. Thus naked and helpness, he is beaten down by a tremendous com- petition for work and wages. He has lost all claim to work, and is forced to get it in a scramble. How is this to be itiended ? Restore to the labourer his rights, or give him at least some fair equivalent. Whatever other boon you give to the labourer now is wasted, for it is given to a man who is practically incapable of holding property, and who may any moment, at the will of his masters, be compelled to surrender all he has in the world, and be shut up in the workhouse. A MURDERER AT LARGE.—The public will be asto- nished and alarmed to learn that William Delany, who participated in the murder of Hoyne, and who prose- cuted to conviction his own associates, Downey & Mul- lins, is now at large. This monster, who also acknow- ledged to having been at the murder of Mortimer-who prosecuted the Dowlings, who were acquitted for that murder at the last Assizes-and to have been at fifty robberies, is from the neighbourhood of Roscrea. He complains of being only paid £ 10 for his services, and actually applied to an attorney here to sue the govern- ment for compensation. It would have been well if the authorities who had him in charge, and who let him. loose, had his likeness lithographed, and circulated for the protection of society, which is endanger- ed by his very prescnce.-Kilkenny Journal, A SERIES OF MURDERS.—The following appears in a Spanish journal; it appears to us, however, too impro- bable for belief:—A terrible crime has just taken place in the neighbourhood of Igualda. A woman having lain in in an isolated country house, took the child to the next village to have it baptised, leaving a woman behind, who had offered to remain by the patient during their ab- sence. When they had all departed, this woman, drawing forth a knife, commanded the patient to rise, and show her where her money was placed. The latter obeyed, and taking her into another room, contrived to lock her in. She then called to her two children, who had been left behind, and sent them for help; but a man, who was eonccrned in the affair, was prowling about outside, and stopping the children, he learned their errand, and returned with them, saying to the mother that if she did not at once open the door, he would put them to death. The poor woman not paying any attention to this threat, he stabbed one with a knife, and knocked out the brains of the other against a stone. He then proceeded to force the door, and had nearly succeeded, when the people returned from the baptism, and the assassin took to flight. The mother related what had taken place, and fell down in an expiring state. The alcalde, who had been invited to the baptism, entered first into the room where the prisoner was locked up. She stabbed him, and then killed a second, and escaped. The mother died in the course of the day, and her husband is not expected to sunin:(Jalignani's Jlessenyc¡'. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE ON THE THAMES.— Last night, about 8 o'clock, a most melancholy oc- currence took place off London-bridge-wharf. Owing to the intense excitement which prevailed it was impossible to ascertain full particulars, but the following facts may be relied upon :—During the whole of the day cargoes of boys and girls were taken down the river from London-bridge to the Tower stairs in boats of a most crazy description, without name or number, but rowed, it was alleged, by watermen. The fare was Id. each person. These boats, it was frequently remarked during the day, were shamefully crowded, and in consequent danger of being upset. At the hour abovenamed, it is said that about 13 young persons ventured on board one of them. Two of these were girls, one of whom had a young child with her. Upon leaving the stairs on the eastern side of the bridge, and before they had reached the current opposite the second arch from the shore one of the Diamond steam-packets came up. The swell from the steamer rocked the small craft most fearfully, and, unable to contend against it, the oarsman was drawn into the sturge and in another moment the boat was upset and went down, all in her being thrown overboard. One of the lads, who, it appears, could swim, instantly struck out and succeeded in buoying himself up until he was picked up; another, in at- temping to save a young girl 16 years of age, whose name was said to be Emma Smith, was overwhelmed, the girl's bonnet came off in his hand, and both of them sank immediately—the child in her charge was also drowned with them. The other girl's name is Julia Lane; she also went down. The man who had charge of the boat escaped, and we cannot hear that he has since been heard of. Exertions were immediately made to recover the bodies by the watermen and others upon the spot, and the were discovered one, that of a fine lad named Leicester now lies at the Castle, on Fish- street-hill, and fuur others have been taken to the Thames Police-station. THE UNFORTUNATE STUARTS.—The Stuarts were a race as steadily unfortunate as any one in history. Their misfortunes continued with unabated succession during 390 years. Robert III. broke his heart because his eldest son, Robert, was starved to death, and his youngest son, James, made a captive. James 1. was assassinated in a monastery near Perth. James II. was killed by the bursting of a piece of ordnance near Rox- burgh. James III., when flying from the field of battle, was thrown from his horse, and murdered in a cottage into which he had been carried for assitance. J amcs IV. fell in Flodden Field. James V. died of grief for the wilful ruin of his army at Solway Moss. Henry Stuart (Lord Darnley) was assassinated and blown up in his palace. Mary Stuart was beheaded in England, after an imprisonment of seventeen years. Charles I. was beheaded at Whitehall. Charles II. was exiled for many years. James I L lost his crown and died in banishment. Anne, after a reign which, though glorious, was rendered unhappy by party disputes, died of a broken heart, occasioned by the quarrels of her favourite servants. The posterity of James II. remained wretched wanderers in a foreign land, and the race is now extinct. "Slow rises worth by poverty depressed;" but what are we to think, when worth does not rise," as it is termed, at all ? Think ?—why, that it is not worth," says the wcild, otherwise it would have risen at soino time or other." We however, think dif- feiently.