The Welshman

I MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. I According to the Daily News the Protectionist have resolved on changing their leader. Lord George Ben- tinck is to be superseded by Mr. Harries in the unen- viable post of leader of the Opposition in the new par- liament. The marriage of the Marquis of Kildare and Lady Caroline Gower, which was stated to have taken place some time ago, was solemnized at Trentham, on Wed- nesday last, in the presence of a distinguished circle. Mr. Tuttle, a New York tradesman, manufacturers a maehine, the sale of which he pronounces so great, that his new invention jumps a baby 120,000 times a mi- nute The Newry Examiner says it has good grounds for believing that it is the intention of the government to co-operate with the landlords of Ireland in shortly es- tablishing reproductive works, and employing the super- abundant labour of the country. It is to the honour of his lordship that the Gateshead Observer pronounces the Bishop of Durham the most cheerful giver" in his diocese. The Earl of Besborough has forgiven the tenantry on his estates in Kilkenny and Leitrim a full year's rent, and reduced their rents ten per cent. A correspondent of the Bridgewater Times gives a timely hint. When last the cholera was in this country, its victims, he says, were chiefly those who were addicted to intemperance, especially in spirituous liquors. The Western Times gives the following account of the demeanour of the Exeter ladies at Jenny Lind's concert .-—" Some ladies burst into tears the moment she appeared others fainted away, but the most pru- dent stayed their feelings, and deferred their fainting till they had had their guinea's worth. Lord John Russell has announced his intention of being present at the opening of the University of Glas- gow on the 27th of this month, for the purpose of being formally installed as rector-an office to which he was appointed last session but from official duties the in- auguration was postponed. Captain George Smith, R.N., attended at the Board of Trade on Wednesday, to explain his invention for making any boat a life-boat when required. It consists of self-inflating tubes of trifling weight within which valuable property and documents may be placed and kept dry. The same principle was also shown to be ap- plicable as a life-preserver for the person. > Mr. Macdowell, a member of the Free Church, has been elected to the Hebrew chair in the Edinburgh University the votes were for Mr. Macdowell, 20 Mr. Liston (brother of the surgeon) 10. Since 1732 all the occupants of this chair have belonged to the established church. The New Orleans Mercury says that a late judge de- fined law and equity as differing only in time at com- mon law the client was done for at once, at equity the creature lingered just the difference between prussic acid and laudanum. The number of men required to work the guns in the navy, varies from three and a boy for the smallest, to eighteen and a boy for the heaviest. FIRES IN CHIMNEYS in France have been prevented by placing three frames of wirework, one foot above each other, near the base of the chimney no flame will pass through them, while the draught of the chimney will not be impaired, consequently no fire can ever happen in the chimney. The Norfolk Chronicle records a new feature in the annals of agriculture, namely, the introduction of steam-power threshing machines, one of which is at work in the county. An "inquirer has written to the morning papers, suggesting that if the railway companies would issue quarterly dividends it would let loose a great deal of money, and be of great service at the present moment to a hard-up public. At the last meeting of the Repeal Association Mr. Scully, M.P., spoke of the late Mr. Roe in terms of high praise, and feelingly declared that no man had a less right to be murdered What may be considered as entitling a man to that privilege ? The estimated value of the warehouses of Liverpool is said to be £ 3,000,000. This includes only those which have been built on private speculation. An American paper says that a gentleman residing on the shore of a river, near Baltimore, has trained a Newfoundland dog to Bwipfi to (^steamer, and bring to shore a bladder containing his master's newspapers,' which are forwarded by the steamer from Baltimore. A farmer in the Isle of Man, who had lost one or two cows by disease, burnt one of them in the high road for the purpose of discovering the evil eye. The first man who came up was declared to be the wizard, and it is stated that if he had not saved himself by flight he would have shared the fate of the cow. In the Sardinian States there are 408 convents, which are said to have received from the Government, during the last fifteen years, grants amounting to 100,000,000 francs ( £ 4,000,000.) The command of the troops at Malta has been con- ferred on Lieutenant-General Ellioe. Sir Patrick Stuart being a military man, the two offices of Governor and Commander-in-Chief were united in his person. This practice has been departed from in the late appointments in India and at the Cape, as well as in the present in- stance. Sir George Grey has granted the sum of f 10 each to four men—Cant, Debney, Lonsdale, and Williams—who have suffered each four years' imprisonment for crimes of which they were innocent: fifty shillings a year for an unjust incarceration The Perth Advertiser speaks of the intention to erect in that city a cathedral in connexion with the Episcopal Church of Scotland, whose scale and magnificence may be judged by the fact that it is to cost the sum of £ 60,000. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, says the Nation, is, in fact, the Chancellor of the Jews. It has been stated, that 107 parts of wheat, 111 of rye, 117 of oats, 130 of barley, 138 of Indian corn, 177 of rice, 895 of potatoes, 1,335 of turnips, are equal in nutritive power. We learn from the Stamford Mercury that the Mar- quis of Exeter (enlightened noDle!) has discharged some fifty tenants, because they, or some of their fami- lies, voted contrariwise to his landlordly wishes. We consider this very proper-, Lord Exeter and persons of his stamp are excellent promoters of Radical Reform. A correspondent of the Edinburgh Chronicle gives the following as the ratio pf taxation, taking the popu- lation, individually, as paying alike, in different coun- tries :-England, £ 2 12s. 6d.; Scotland, E2 3s. Ire- land, 12s. 6d.; France, 1;1 10s. 7d.; Holland, El 16s. 5d. Prussia, El 10s. 8d.; Denmark, 16s. 2d. The Trinidad Spectator gives as a rule for news- papers- A little nonsense now and then, Is relished by the wisest Illen." Were we not charitably given we could specify papers which follow the rule somewhat too closely. The first jubilee year to salmon ever known in Scotland is now begun. The Duke of Sutherland has issued orders that in all his fine rivers in Ross and Sutherland, of which his Grace is sole proprietor, no fish shall be taken above the influence of the tideway, either by net or the an- gler's rod, until the 1st. of February, 1849; thus giving the salmon undisturbed rest and possession for eighteen months of their own domain. This will, in a few years, solve a very interesting ptoblem—whether, by giving the inhabitants of the deep a jubilee now and then, when they enter our rivers from the sea, and are allowed to follow out their natural insticts undisturbed by the hand of man—whether they will increase with us, the same as the salmon in the uninhabited portions of the globe, to that almost incredible amount as in the Salmon River in North-west America, 9f which travellers who have visited it give such wonderful accounts as to the im- mense number of salmon seen there. Whatever may be the result, his Grace deserves thanks for this noble and costly experiment, by which he gives up a year's rent of all his rivers in the north in order that a large increase of wealth and food may be added to the country.

ELECTORAL QUALIFICATION.—LANDLORD AND TE- NANT.—An important decision was pronounced on Tuesday by Mr. M'Christie, the revising barrister for the city of London, in the case of a claimant named Toms, which was warmly disputed by the agents. The question at issue was whether a lodger who had a key to a common entrance of which the landlord had also a key, was entitled to vote. The learned barrister decided against the claim. Notice of appeal has been given from his decision to the Court of Queen's Bench. ALLEGED DEATH FROM ILL-TREATMENT.—Mrs. Fay, the unfortunate woman who was confined for se- veral months in a water-closet by her husband, died at the Town's hospital, Glasgow, on Thursday week. The husband was present at the funeral. The body of the deceased underwent a medical examination previous to interment, but, owing to the secrecy with which such inquiries are conducted in Scotland, the result has not transpired. The North British Mail states that Great surprise was manifested at the liberation of Fay, on a paltry bail-bond of E15, and the decease of the unfor- tunate woman has increased that feeling to a very uneasy extent." QUARANTINE REGULATIONS REGARDING CHOLERA. -The Board of Health at Malta, after two days' de- liberation, decided not to alter the present regulations until such time as a case of cholera should actually occur on board of a vessel coming to, or actually within the quarantine harbour. Genoa and Leghorn have each extended the period of quarantine against all arrivals from the Levant to fifteen days. This, allowing for the greater length of the voyage to those ports than to Malta, is equal to twenty-five days. The King of Naples has closed the ports of the Sicilies in toto, against all arrivals from the same quarter. Why was Hamlet so courageous in addressing his father's ghost ?—Because he was not particular to a shitcw.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. I SPAIN.—Curiosity has been partially satisfied as to the means by which the late very sudden change of ministry was effected in Madrid. It is now known to have been the work of Serrano, who sold his services to Narvaez for a very high price paid partly in cash down, and partially in honours and dignities to be heaped without delay on his mast deserving head. Narvaez has begun by cancelling all the late measures of his predecessor, Salamanca. As to what he will do next and ultimately, that is a question about which rumour is very busy, but as we think to very little profit. All that can be predicted with any confidence is that he will use his political power to the utmost of his ability to serve-first himself, and next, as may be compatible with that design, his employers and pay- masters in the Tuileries and the Rue de Courcelles. Christina is supposed to be by this time in Spain, where her presence is likely to prove even more inauspicious than that of Narvaez. ITALY.—The intelligence from the north and middle of Italy continues favourable. The chief provisions of a liberal constitution have been agreed on in Tus- cany. The Grand-Duke is an honest and generous man, worthy to co-operate with Pius IX. in the great work of regenerating Italy. We may be assured that he will resolutely fulfil his engagements to his people to the utmost of his ability and it is even stated that he has pledged himself to his two new ministers, Marquis Ridolfi and Count Serristori, that in the event of an Austrian intervention, he will withdraw, with all the government, to the island of Elba, the better to resist. The rejoicings of the Romans at the anticipated evacu- ation of Ferrara on the 3d were premature the Austrian troops were still in that town on the 4th, but we presume their stay there will not be long protracted. The news from the kingdom of the Two Sicilles is exceedingly obscure and contradictory. The Govern- ment takes extraordinary pains to prevent the trans- mission of all intelligence from the kingdom except that which is supplied by itself, and which always bears on the face of it unequivocal marks of falsehood. This much appears certain, that the kingdom is in a state of extreme anarchy and confusion, that the Government has imitated the savage and treacherous policy of Austria in Galicia, that the King has delibe- rately entrapped his subjects by a promise broken almost as soon as made, and that he and his ministers are blindly pursuing a course tending to render all reconciliation between them and the people impossible. POISONING BY A SOMNAMBULIST.—The subject of animal magnetism is about to come before a criminal court of law in Belgium, in reference to a charge of manslaughter against a mesmeric practitioner, Madlle. W., who professed to discover by mesmerism inward diseases and their remedies. This woman prescribed, while in a mesmeric trance, a certain medicinal com- pound for one of her patients at Antwerp. The pre- scription was made up, and taken according to order, and the patient died very shortly afterwards, obviously from the effects of some very active poison. The woman is to be tried for the crime. It appears to be rather against clairvoyance that, while the mesmerist professed to have the power of detecting inward disease, she was unable to foresee that her medicine would infallibly destroy the life of her patient! RAILWAY PENAL LAW IN DENMARK.—A rich farmer of Valdbye (Denmark), named Steernersen, has just been tried at Copenhagen for having attempted, by dis- playing a red pocket-handkerchief at the end of a stick, to stop a train running on the railway from Copenhagen to Rothschild. He acknowledged that he had displayed the signal as stated, but affirmed that he did so in conse- quence of a wager entered into by him after a copious breakfast well seasoned with wine, that he should suc- ceed in stopping the first train that appeared. Know- ing that to display a red flag signified danger, he had waved his red handkerchief as mentioned in the indict- ment. The court, finding him guilty, sentenced him to ten years' hard labour in a house of correction, being the penalty laid down in the Danish law against any attempt to stop a railway train or impede its passage. Steenersen has appealed against this severe sentence. SWITZERLAND.—It will not be M. Guizot's fault if Switzerland escapes the calamity of civil war. He is labouring fertively and most assiduously to encourage and support the Catholic cantons in their threatened resistance to the federal government. The French representative in Switzerland, M. Bois le Comte, has all along been the avowed patron and instigator of the Sonderbund; and lately he has made a propagandist tour in the refractory cantons, preaching up rebellion, and promising it the countenance and aid of his Go- vernment. Occasionally, indeed, when he goes a little too fast, he is checked and snubbed by his chief, as in the case of his famous note presented to M. Oehesen- bein. To smooth over the effects of that untoward step, M. Guizot made an elaborate speech in the Chambers, disavowing all intention of interfering in the affairs of the confederacy, except for the preservation of inter-national rights, and admitting the right of Switzerland to revise the federal pact. But at the very moment he spoke thus, he was supplying the Sonderbund with field artillery and other materials of war, and he has gone on doing so up to the present time. The Federalists have just effected the seizure of four waggons loaded with arms and ammunition, sent clandestinely from the arsenals of the French Government at Besancon and Strasburg to the sepa- ratist canton of Friburg. It is to be feared that the exasperation caused by this incident will accelerate the outbreak of hostilities between the two parties that now divide Switzerland. The French Opposition papers express extreme disgust at the conduct of the Govern- ment in this matter. How says the National, we are in a state of complete peice with the Helvetian Republic, and without speaking of treaties, the safety of our frontiers commands us to preserve with care the precious alliance of our neighbours, and here is an odious violation of the law of nations. M. Guizot puts the match to the fire of civil war in that country and encourages the rebels by sending them arms from our arsenals." Such is the conduct of the minister who would only interfere in defence of international rights THE WEST INDIAN COLONirs.-The last West India steamer has brought home advices of a serious nature concerning the present condition and future prospects of our colonies. We have it from high authority that merchants at home have at length refused to furnish the supplies necessary to carry on the cultivation of the estates, and that bills drawn upon England have been returned protested to the West Indies. Since the in. troduction of the produce of the Brazils and the Ha- vannah, sugars have fallen full 50 per cent., and we are informed by one of the first Jamaica houses that their last sales of good quality sugar from Jamaica brought only 39s. per cwt. Deduct from which-duty, 14s. freight, 5s.; three per cent. for commission, and broker- age, Is. Id. and for insurance, dock dues, &c. &c., at least lld.-in all 21s.—consequently but 18s. remain to the planter which, as it does not cover the cost of cultivation and manufacture, has obliged the British merchant to refuse any further supplies for the cultiva- tion of the estates. In such a state of affairs we can easily understand that there must necessarily exist a considerable degree of irritation among the colonists, and that under the momentary influence of such feel- ings they should have proceeded so far as even to threaten a separation from the mother country. The threat may be pardoned. Any attempt to carry it into execution would be nothing short of insanity. The West India colonists are not in the position of the North Americans prior to their war of independence. No essential differences existed among the Americans. They were all, or nearly all, combined in a common struggle against the unconstitutional proceedings of the Crown. The slaves of America passively looked on during the contest; they had no interest in the result; for them the victory of either party was a matter of in- difference whoever gained the day was to be their master; and Englishmen and Americans were alike united upon the legality of slavery. In the West In- dies, on the contrary, a totally different state of things exists. The white colonists are depressed and dissatis- fied, but the negro has been freed. Slavery has been abolished, and the black parent teache's his children to bless the name of the distant Englishman, who, at so vast an expense, and with so much toil, purchased for them the blessings of liberty. Is it for a moment to be supposed that these very negroes, among whose virtues may safely be enumerated those of generosity and gra- titude, are disposed to join their former white masters a«ainst their white benefactors at home; or is, it likely that they would permit any annexation of their free I island to the United States of America, where, as they are well aware, slavery in its worst forms still exists ? But they must vindicate themselves from the suspicion. I Let them take for their motto, "Aide toi, et le ciel t'aidera." Reform must bedn at home before they can look to England for assistance. Their enormous es- tablishments must be cut down; nor does it look well that while clamouring about their distresses they should have taxed themselves during the last four years to the amount of upwards of £400,000 per annum. Besides the great salary of L6,500, together with other emolu- ments, to their Governor-General, they furnish him with a private secretary at an annual income of £ 1,800 for services which any bank clerk would gladly dis- charge for a fifth of the amount. At home, where we are sometimes rather impatient of taxation, the secre- tary to the Prime Minister of Great Britain receives only tl,200 per annum. The people of Jamaica must, therefore, show a spirit of domestic improvement before they can reasonably appeal to the, sympathy of the mother country. COTTON NOT WAR —Lord Dalhousie, the newly appointed Governor-General, is reported to have said that his business in India would be, Not to carry on war there, but to send home colton;" a sentiment worthy of the representative of a great commercial nation.

THE QUEENS OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. I [From the Daily ivews.] I The Queens both of Spain and Portugal are per- plexed at the present moment and driven here and there by the tides and influence of contending parties, partly from the necessity, under which both their Majesties are placed, of what we call going to the country," and having a new election for the Cortes. Donna Maria has promised it. Isabella is forced to it by the circumstance that no party, in the present Cortes or out of it, can command a majority. Similar counsels, from similarly placed and antagonistic parties, are poured into the royal ears. Fling yourself upon public opinion, and into the arms of the liberals, who represent it, is one species of advice, which England is considered to approve. Beware of the revolutionary party, whispers another v(,ice, uttered "or seconded by France; liberal interests and views are opposed to those of royalty. Queen Maria of Portugal cordially sym- pathises with the latter view of the 0 question. Queen Isabella has not the same horror of liberals, and she loves popularity. But it is, moreover, whispered into her ear, do not fling yourself into the party of the exaltados, for in that case we the moderados, will conspire. We command the army, and are supported by France; both enemies, madam, and would shake you from your throne, and dismiss those whom you love into shame and exile. Isabella of Spain seems a woman capable of defying such threats. But she is embarrassed by a husband who might prove a for- midable instrument of annoyance in the hands of her foes. This husband she must either pacify or divorce. She would much prefer the latter. And we have little doubt that her Majesty frankly asked of the liberal party, and of England, to undertake and carry through the measure of divorce. England, no doubt, held back from any such engagement nor would the liberal party undertake to carry it boldly and successfully. Upon this Queen Isabella bowed graciously to the liberal party, but declared that she would not be con- tented with cautious zeal or half devotion; and that since they would not deliver her from her husband, she must turn to France and the moderados, and ask them at least to pacify, and protect her from that ogre, her husband. We have little doubt that such is the true cause of the installation of Narvaez. But whether this has been done in despite, or from serious calcula- tion whether it is but playing with the pretensions of an ambitious man; or whether power is permanently entrusted to him remains to be seen. If the Queen has really and definitely given herself up to a Narvaez ministry, she must have given him, at the same time, a power to dissolve the Cortes. For with the present Cortes he cannot stand. If he have the power to dissolve, he will manage the elections at the point of the bayonet, just indeed as they were managed before. The circumstance of Narvaez being so empowered and employed will tempt Donna Maria of Portugal to do the same, such being her predilection and if so, we shall have once more in the two constitutional kingdoms of the peninsula two Cortes chosen under military in- fluence and assembled chiefly for the purpose of per- petuating and raising funds for military domination. It is premature, however, to suppose that the Queen has given Narvaez power of life and death over the existing Cortes. He may have been commissioned merely to try and form an alliance with some one of the constitutional parties, or a reconciliation with Mon. But this requires time, as well as power and Narvaez may have been permitted to form a temporary ministry for this purpose. His cabinet indeed, looks like an interim one! his home minister the ex-editor of the Heraldo; his finance minister nobody; his other ministers stop-gaps. Ros de Olano's case is curious, This gentleman, as one of the colleagues of Salamanca, had just issued an ordinance, and a most important one, for superseding the military governors of provinces, and appointing civilians to be governors pari passu with the captains general. The ink was not dry on the decree when its promulgator became the colleague of Narvaez, the upholder of military supremacy, and one who will make as light of Ros de Olano's cedant arma togce as of a cobweb. It is with more than regret one sees, that whilst the French King has so successfully plotted against Queen Isabella's happiness, French writers, even those opposed to. that King, are as merciless towards her Majesty's reputation. Thus the Presse and National both join in attributing the recent changes at Madrid to causes which have never existed at a court save at the time of Catharine the Second. The jealousy entertained by General Serrano of a certain Colonel Gandera is said to be the great cause of ministerial revolutions. There is not a peg of truth or probability on which to hang this scandalous calumny. But it completes the work of Louis Philippe in destroying a princess whose sole substantial support must lie in her character and ia popular rcapeet.

THE CHOLERA.—A DisiNFECTANT.-In a letter to the Times, Mr. Herapath of Bristol, says: The ob- ject of the present communication is merely to give the public opinion a right direction so as to help the future boards of health to combat this insidious and powerful enemy, I must at once state that the two most popular disinfectants of the day-the chloride of zinc and the nitrate of lead, known as Sir W. Burnet's and Ledoyen's, will be of no avail, although they will promptly remove ordinary putrid effluvia. The only chemical preventive I depended upon in my numerous exposures to the virus was choleric gas, and this I believe to be a per- fect one if the fumigation is complete. I invariably passed through an atmosphere of it on my return home, and kept it escaping in my residence during the con- tinuance of the disease in the city. I also placed large quantities of the substance necessary for the evolution of this "as in the hands of a Bristol druggist, who was kind enough to distribute 1,292 quantities of it gra- tuitously to applicants during three days with instruc- tions for the use, and am happy to say that during that time the deaths fell from ten to one per day, and I have but very little doubt that if every ship arriving in Eng- land from an infected place, should be exposed to a per- fect fumigation with chlorine, we shall be preserved from the infection." FATAL PANic.-A fearful accident took place at Ba- cup, on Sunday evening, in the Wesleyan Chapel. Mr. Jackson, well-known as a temperance advocate, was announced to preach, and about 1,500 persons were pre- sent. While the services were proceeding, a false alarm was spread that the gallery had given way. A simultaneous rush took place to the doors-the pressure was intense,—numbers were thrown down and trampled upon, a woman and a boy were crushed to death, a young man expired next morning, and several persons are seriously injured. Men, women, boys, and girls tram- pled upon and bruised each other in the most shocking manner. The dresses of some were torn off their body, the clothes of many of the women and girls literally hanging in tatters; and all over were scattered hats, caps, bonnets, shawls, shoes, umbrellas, parasols, hymn- books, bibles, trodden under foot and destroyed. Be- sides the three who have died two other persons are in so dangerous a state that their recovery is not looked for. A great many more, men, women, and children, have been seriously injured, but are expected to recover. Immediately on the alarm being raised, the Rev. Mr. Newton, minister of the chapel, called out that there was no danger, and earnestly entreated the congrega- tion to remain quiet in their seats. But the screams of the women and the groans from every side prevented his voice being heard. It appears that a kind of hold- fast or staple, for suspending the iron pipe of the stOYC, came out of the wall, knocked against the pipe, and made a slight noise. The woman who first screamed was sitting close to the pipe, and, hearing the fall of the staple, imagined some of the props of the building had given way, and instantly cried, she would be out, for the chapel was falling." From this trifling circum- stance has occurred a lamentable loss of human life. Since the accident the chapel has been inspected, and its strength and security found unexceptionable. EDUCATION OF IDIOTS.—On this important subject, to which public attention is beginning to be directed, Mr. Millard writes: On reference to a return made by order of the House of Commons, it appears that there were no fewer that 7,936 pauper idiots in England and Wales, on the 1st of January, 1847, whilst the number of pauper lunatics was 10,429, showing that idiocy is almost as prevalent as lunacy. It is not less surprising, that whilst every care has been used to improve the faculties and ameliorate the condition of the lunatic, no attention whatever has been paid to the hapless idiot. There are various degrees of idiocy, from the slightly -imbecile to the perfect cretin but, however varied the leading features, all may, perhaps, be traceable to one definite cause, viz., an incapacity of the brain to perform its functions. This state generally exists from infancy, but may be afterwards produced by many causes, such as local injuries, or violent mental emotions. Reason approves, and experience confirms the opinion, that all idiots can be educated-that the imperfectly deve- loped brain may be roused into action, and thus be made a more fitting instrument for the performance of its important functions. Enfeebled health, and con- sequently great distaste for exertion, are common to idiots; it is therefore primarily important that the general health be improved and it has been shown that this can be effected by careful attention to diet, cleanliness, exercise, the slight use of medicines, &c. The imitative rather than inventive faculties of idiots must be cultivated. By these means, their dormant powers may be aroused, and their minds rendered capable of instruction. They can be fitted to occupy subordinate spheres in the common duties of life, and become at last suspectible of religious impressions." PRIESTLY EXPRESSIONS !-In a communication sent to the Tablet (a Roman Catholic Newspaper,) by Father Flanagan, of Coleraine, a few months ago, he stated I that, "all bell appeared to be let loose against his flock in the shape of soup tickets, blankets, and Bibles! ;tJ.).. — THE EARL OF ELLESMERE AND THE WESLEYANS. —The school now building by the Wesleyans in Church- fields, Runcorn, on the educational principle, is finished externally all but the roof. It contains ten windows in front, three feet by eight, and ten at the back, and is two stories high. When Mr. Rippon, the late agent, wrote to the Earl of Ellesmere, to ask him for the grant of ground it is now built upon, with the out-premises belonging to it, the rent of which would be about eight guineas per year, his Lordship answered that he must refuse the request, as it would interfere with the ac- counts of the trustees, but at the same time he begged the Wesleyans to accept £ 10 per annum, as a free gift, to be paid out of his Lordship's personal property.— Globe. CAPTAIN WILLIAM NUGENT GLASCOCK, RN.-On Sunday week this distinguished officer died very suddenly in the county of Wicklow. He was in perfect health on entering his carriage, but was soon afterwards struck with apoplexy, and expired in a few hours. While in the command of the Orestes" he displayed admirable judgment and firmness on the coast of Spain during the Carlist war, and very lately commanded the Tyne" frigate in the Mediterranean. As inspector of one of the relief districts under the late system, his energy and skill won him great applause, and a splendid gold snuff-box was, a few days since, presented to him by the gentry with whom he was acting. His merits, as the author of the Naval Sketch Book," and other works, also entitle him to notice, and in him the country has lost one of its excellent sons. His sister was married to General Ross, the captor of Washington, and who was" killed during the last American war by a rifleman. Captain Glascock has left behind him a widow and two daughters, the elder of whom is an accomplished musician. MAJOR-GENERAL T. P. HOWARD, K.H.—We have to record the demise of this gallant general, who died on Thursday last, at his residence inWeymouth, at an ad- vanced age. The deceased entered the army in 1793, and during that and the succeeding year served with his regiment on the continent. From 1795 to 1799 he took part in the operations of the British troops at St. Domingo and the West India Islands. He subsequently served with distinction in the Peninsula under the Duke of Wellington, and at the battle of Talavera he was severely wounded and taken prisoner by the French. The gallant general continued in the 3d Dragoons up to 1818, when he retired on half-pay. His commissions were dated as follows:—Lieut. 25th Sept., 1794; capt., 4th June, 1798 major, 15th March, 1810 lieut.-col., 12th Aug., 1819; col., 10th Jan., 1837; and major- general at the general promotion in the army last No- vember. He was nominated a knight of the order of the Guelphs of Hanover in 1837. CAPTAIN JAMES BOXER, R.N.—Capt. Boxer ex- pired at his residence, Snargate-street, Dover, on Tues- day morning last, aged 69. He had seen much hard fighting in early life. He entered the navy about the year 1791, and retired from it on half-pay at the close of the late French war. He was made a post captain in the year 1813, and was one of the retired Captains whose pay was lately increased to 20s. per diem. When a boy Capt. Boxer sailed with Sir Sydney Smith, and was taken prisoner by the French along with that gal- lant officer. lie was mate of the" Tigre," and com- manded a gun-boat at the siege of St. Jean d'Acre (by Bonaparte), and in the expedition to Egypt; was lieu- tenant of the Pompeii" at Copenhagen commanded the Skylark" at Walcheren and, in company with the Locust," engaged a flotilla near Calais, destroyed one vessel and captured another, in 1811. MURDER.—On Friday the 8th inst., about 8 o'clock, Ii a man named Timothy Reynolds, labourer, was return- ing to his residence, at Fardrummin, from Newtown- forbes, about nine miles north of this town, in company with a man named Cassiday, when two men armed with bludgeons came up to him, knocked him down, battered and broke his skull, and left his brains scattered on the road. Whilst the two ruffians were beating him, two armed men appeared behind the ditch, and threatened his companion Cassiday, if he made any resistance, they would blow his brains out. Immediately after the occurrence, word went to the police party at Ballina- muck, about a mile off, when constable Rice with the police were on the spot in about 20 minutes, but only to find the mangled body of Reynolds, as above de- scribed, lying on the road quite dead, his assailants having fled. It is supposed that a man of bad character, named Flynn, residing in that locality, had something to do in the affair, as well as with many other outrages in that part of the country. There is one circumstance connected with this murder in which it differs from those which have preceded it about Ballinamuck, namely that it had no connexion with land. Reynolds got married to a widow woman three weeks after the death of his first wife, and had only been a few days married when he was murdered and it is a remarkable circum- stance that the former husband of the widow whom he married was murdered some time previous. This mur- ?er is truly appalling and admits not of the slightest 'palliation, if anything could palliate murder. Nothing appears to have dictated the act but feelings of the greatest atrocity and inhumanity. An inquest was held before Mr. Thomas Gregory, coroner, and Mr. Thomas Itenehy, resident magistrate, on Saturday, the 9th inst., when the following verdict was returned :—" That the said Timothy Reynolds was wilfully murdered at Far- drummin, parish of Killae, barony and county of Long- ford, on Friday, the 8th of October inst., by persons at present unknown."—Longford Journal. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ABDUCTION.—On Friday last a serious charge was brought at the instance of the Mayor of Worcester (Mr. F. T. Elgie) against the Inspector of Police of that city (Mr. Phillips) and two of the sergeants in the police force, named Cripp and Bateman. The charge was for having assisted a gentleman named Smith, who resides at Wooton-under- Edge, in Gloucestershire, in forcibly carrying away his wife, a lady 65 years of age, from her lodgings at the house of a Mr. Heywood, at Boughton-street, St. John's, near Worcester. The charge was publicly made before the watch committee of the Worcester Town Council, in whose hands the police regulation of the city are placed. From the statement of the several parties made before the committee, it appeared that Mrs. Smith and her husband, having disagreed on family affairs, separated some years since, and Mrs. Smith had lived for the last six years in lodgings at Mr. Hey- wood s. Latterly, for some reasons which need not here be alluded to, Mr. Smith was desirous of obtaining possession of his wife, and accordingly his solicitor, having obtained the aid of the two serjeants of police, proceeded to Mr. Heywood's residence, where, having got into the house, Mr. Smith carried off his wife in his arms to a carriage which was waiting for her in the street. Mr. Heywood interposed, and attempted to prevent her being carried off, as Mrs. Smith called to him to come to her aid but the police held him fast, and would not permit him to interfere. The wife was, therefore, carried off screaming in a shocking manner, and was taken directly to the residence of her husband in Gloucestershire. The committee considered the conduct of the serjeants in interfering at all in the matter as most improper, but their defence was that they acted under the direction of Mr. Phillips, their inspector, by whom they were instructed to accompany the attorney (Mr. Knipe) to Mr. Heywood's house,— whence a man was going, as they had been informed, to fetch his wife—to see that no breach of the peace was committed, and they said that in observing the orders of their superior officer they did not consider they were acting illegally, or doing more than their duty. They had no remuneration for what they had done, neither did they expect any. Inspector Phillips at once admitted that his instructions to the sergeants were to the effect already stated by them, and what blame there was in the matter attached to himself. He was applied to by the attorney of Mr. Smith for the presence of two of the police as an endeavour was to be made by a person to obtain possession of his wife. He inquired if it was legal, and the attorney assured him that it was, and that all he had to do was to see that no breach of the peace was committed. After hearing the whole of the facts the committee passed a severe censure upon the inspector and two sergeants of police, intimating that they should have dismissed the latter, had they not acted entirely under the control of their superior officer, the inspector. STRANGE ELOTEMENT.—At Aughnacloy, Ireland, a beautiful girl, aged fourteen, whose parents are wealthy, and move in the highest circles, ran away last week with a common clodhopper who was old enough to be her father. Before her flight she robbed her father of a large sum of money, and attempted to force open a private desk with the view of increasing her bootv. An active pursuit was commenced, and a hue and c;y raised through the country, which resulted in the cap- ture of the fugitives. As a large quantity of the money stolen from the youni; girl's father was found upon her intended, he was arrested and committed to gaol, where he will be left to chew the bitter cud of disappointment instead of enjoying a happy honeymoon. Pus IN THE KIDNEY.—AN ATTORNEY.—Last week we gave an account of an outrage at Sheffield under the head of Soldiers charged with Murder." In reporting the evidence, the Sheffield it-is gives the following statement of Mr. Branson's (an attorney, we presume) mode of cross-examination. Whether ignorance or flippancy it is most reprehensible. Mr. Gregory, the the surgeon, describing the post mortem. examination said-The left kidney containing a small quantity of pu,v.-Alr. Branson I beg pardon, Mr. Gregory, but am I correct in understanding you to say, that you found a kitten in the deceased's kidneys ? (Laughter, in which Mr. Gregory joined. )—Mr. Gregory; I never said so.—Mr. Branson You said you found a little pus —did you by that mean a kitten ? (Laugliter.)-Nir. Gregory Certainly not. COACH V. RAIL.-The Cambridge people announce that their coach, in opposition to the Eastern Counties, will commence running on Monday next.-—Her<tf>ath < Journal.