The Welshman

FARMING OPERATIONS.—FEBRUARY. This is perhaps the last month of the season, when plantation of trees can be successfully accomplished. We have often had to contend against the overcrowding of timber in the hedge rows of small fields; we are equally opposed, however, to the neglected and exposed state in which many a wild district is allowed to remain. Mr. J. Grigor, of Forres, has shewn, in a valuable paper on planting within the influence of the sea, or on exposed barren tracts." (T. A. S., 1848, p. 183), that even on the bleak blowing sands of the shores of Morayshire, properly prepared Scotch and other firs may be successfully reared he recommends, however, transplanted trees from a nursery to be used rather than seedlings, and that these should be planted in the sands in the month of August. Of the different kinds of plants tried, none were found to take more readily with the soil at this season than the Norway spruce; this (he adds) has been found to take root and establish itself when the plants were removed in the middle of August and inserted on the top of a hill of pure sand, in the vicinity of the sea, and about 70 feet above its level. It is always satisfactory to understand the chemistry of an operation like this. Liebig (Organic Chem p. 151), remarks: It is not mere accident that only trees of the fir tribe grow on the sandstone and limestone of the Carpathian mountains and the Jura, whilst we find on soils of gneiss, mica, slate, and clay-slate of Ger- many the finest forests of other trees which cannot be produced on the sandy or calcarous soils on which pines thrive. It is explained by the fact that trees, the leaves of which are removed annually, require for their leaves six to ten times more alkalies than the fir tree or the pine and hence, when placed on soils in which alkalies are contained in very small quantity, they do not attain maturity. When we see such trees growing on a sandy or calcareous soil, the red beech, the service tree, and the wild cherry, for example, thriving luxuriantly on limestone, we may be assured that al- kalies are present in the soil, for they are necessary to their existence." This is a good month to plant osiers and willows, to finish the cutting of timber and underwood, and for making improvements in the timber plantations and hedgerows of the farm. In many districts the hedge- rows are far too thick and too frequent; in small en- closures their injurious shade and shelter are alone, equal to the rent of the field, saying nothing of the slower and more expensive tillage of which they are the occasion. In case you have to plant hedge-rows it is a good plan to place a little compost or earth under the young plants and the same remark applies to young timber plantations. The ground should be get- ting forward for oats and barley. Early sown corn is less ap to lodge, and yields the finest samples. The Essex and Kent farmers begin to sow their barley the end of this month. Vetches, peas, and beans, Talavera and other spring wheat may, in open weather, be sown, and rye also, where it missed plant in the autumn. Hop grounds can be d'lg and manured. For thefze, many powerful fertilizers may be had recourse to; there is perhaps no plant which delights more in those of an oily nature than the hop. Have ready a copious supply of fertilizers adapted for the drill. It is satis- factory to find that the use of this kind of portable manure is extending on all sides, and that the supply appears to keep pace with the demand. Look to your wheat, and if the worm or the grub are at work, apply the salt, as directed in the calendar for last month, and dibble in spring wheat in vacant places. Look care- fully to your live sto-l- they very commonly suffer more severely in this month and the next, by the wea- ther, than during any others. Give your sheep oil cake when feeding on turnips the benefit will not be confined to the stock the increased richness of the ground, where sheep fed on oil cake have been folded, may blV in some instances, discerned for three or four years. The fair calculation is, that the manure is improved to the extent of half the value of the oil-cake consumed. Stock ewes are now commonly beginning to lamb look carefully to their cleanliness and warmth, but beware of keeping them too much in wet yards. The lambs will bear a dry cold better than wet warm lying. On turnips, all sheep now require hay or other dry food; they will well reward the most unre- mitting attention. Some recent experiments of Mr. G. Shaokel, of Reading (J. R. A. S., vol. viii., p. 487), were upon the comparative advantages of various sized sheep, says, The lambs I wintered last year were fed at the same time on the same food, and penned on the same ground, but kept separate from the commence- ment. I allowed each lot when on turnips (because we did not slice the turnips, only the Swedes) the same sized piece of turnips per day; and when on Swedes, which we began about Christmas, 33 bushels of slized Swedes, and 18 bushels of excellent clover chaff per day, to each lot; and on the 20th of February, 1817, we gave them lib. of oil cake a day on an average until they were sold out. The following table gives their cost and their produce. They were bought in October, 3816, and sold out from March 28 to May 10, 1817 j (see ante, vol. iii., p. 46):— 100 large cost 41s. each sold for 61s. 3d. I 100 small" 35s. 11 49s. Od. In favour of large lambs 12s. 3d. Such trials as these are very important, for, as Mr. Pusey remarks in a note to Mr. Shackel's letter, they throw a light upon the question, whether large or small animals, of the same race, do or do not consume food in proportion to their respective bulk. Turn up your fallows in dd>{cs for the frost, to ame- liorate, and pulverize, and kill the insects; do not believe, however, that snow has any enriching qualities in it, as the old farmers were wont to dream neither does it contain any nitre; it protects crops from sudden transitions in the temperature of the atmosphere, and when it melts, kills some of the smaller vermin of the soil, for snow-water is totally free from vital air (oxygen gas) and other gases which common water contains; 111 consequence, even fish cannot exist in snow-water. Look to your fish-ponds, and break holes in the ice, not only to let in the air, but to let out the noxious gases, such as carburretted and sulphuretted hydrogen, which are always generated in stagnant water. You may now sow caè!)¡,ge srell for planting out in May and June. The value of this plant for feed is too little understood they may be employed to make good the deficiencies in the tumip fields where the plant has missed. Plough and subsoil your lands for carrots and parsnips sow the seeds dress your grass lands open the trenches, in meadows crop pollard trees for firewood, and other farm purposes. Sow sainfoin, and dress it with gypsum II ewt. per acre is sufficient. Sow as early as the season admits, and by the drill. The waters are now commonly out-the ditches are full-neither frost nor evaporation diminishes its quality; the land is therefore thoroughly saturated, and if vegetation be- comes actives active, the injury to your crops from standing water increases; closely examine, therefore, your drains.

THE POTATO DISEASE. I The Gardener's Chronicle, of Saturday, contains an interesting and valuable analysis of the information obtained in answer to inquiries into the circumstances connected with the occurrence of the Blight last year. Printed circulars were distributed extensively in October and November last, with a request that the gentlemen to whom they were addressed would fill up a printed form with such information as they possessed or could procure, authenticating it with their signature. Of these returns 999 were filled up and transmitted to London, from which it appears that January is the best month for planting, February not quite so well, March very hazardous, and late in the season probable de- struction—in fact, that after January, or perhaps the middle of February, the danger progressively and greatly increase. The general conclusion is, to plant in dry and light soils, and if possible in January or February to avoid rank and stimulating manures; and to choose those sorts which experience has shewn to possess the greatest power to resist the disease.

CAUTION TO YEW TREE PLANTERS.—Instances of fatal results to horses and cattle from eating the leaves and young branches of yew trees are by no means un- common and within the last few days, we regret to state another case, also of a fatal character, has occur- red. Mr. Cotterill, of Donnington. had a young horse, rising four years old, which cost him f35 in April last; the horse was put into a field where a young yew tree was growing, on the Thursday evening, and on the fol- lowing Sunday was found dead under the tree. Mr. Howel, veterinary surgeon on opening the animal, found as much as two handfuls of the yew blossom in its stomach, and also some small sprigs of the yew, and quite a full handful in the mouth and throat. In the year 1847 Mr. Spencer also lost a valuable young horse, which had been turned into the field only three hours, in consequence of its eating of the same tree. Mr. Cotterill, has since been authorised by his landlord, G. Jones, Esq., to cut down the tree. FoitcF.n WOKK.—I once passed a coloured woman at work on a plantation, and whose general manners would have led me to set her down as the happiest of the gang. I said to her, "Your work seems pleasant to you?" She replied, No, massa." Supposing that she refer- red to something particularly disagreeable in her im- mediate occupation, I said to her, Tell me, then, what part of your work is most unpleasant?" She an- swered, with much emphasi s No part pleasant: we forced to do it." These few tvords let me into the heart of the slave.- Clia?i?i iizg. A poor man once came to a miser and said-" I have a loan to ask." So have I," said the miser; grant mine first, then I will comply with thine." Agreed." My request is," said the miser, that you ask me for nothing."

J MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. I Lord John Russell has been elected one of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House, in the room of Viscount Melbourne. The whole of the ex-Royal family of France, who have been staying for several months at the Star and Garter Hotel. Richmond, have taken their departure, and retnrned to Claremont, with the intention of per- manently taking up their abode at that Royal residence. The Countess de Neuilly has considerably improved in health since her sojourn at Richmond, and the ex-King himself, and the rest of the family, are in good health. It is stated that M. Guizot is in such straitened cir- cumstances that he has accepted a situation connected with a library belonging to the Bedford family. < The Mastership of Christ's College, Cambridge, which was recently resigned by the Right Rev. Dr. Graham, appointed to the Bishopric of Chester, has been con- ferred on the Rev. Joseph Shåw, Senior Fellow and for- merly Tutor of the College. The dividend of the London and North-Western Rail- way (to be declared at the next meeting), will be, we hear, at the rate of 7 per cent. leaving a surplus of £ 80,000. A Financial Reform Association has been formed at Norwich. Another is about being formed at Plymouth. Both will co-operate with the Liverpool Society. An information at the suit of the Attorney-General has been prepared, and is ready to be filed, praying a sale of the Dublin corporation estates, to make good E187,260 alleged to be misappropriated by that body out of the pipe-water estates, of which they are the trustees, and for a receiver over the same. At the last Staffordshire sessions, it was formally decided that a widow is not a single woman, and a thief got off in consequence of such a misdescription. In New Orleans a man is not at liberty to emancipate his own slaves without having first obtained permission of the municipal council. There is a vast copper mine in Bristol, Connecticut, which is now worked by two hundred operatives. In the month of August eighty-two thousand barrels of ore were shipped to the great metropolis. Upwards of ES,500 in donations, and of JE.500 in yearly subscriptions have been received for establishing a Church of England Metropolitan Training Institution for eighty masters and eighty mistresses. In the list of the names and residences of persons who have given notice of their intention to apply to the Court of Queen's Bench on the last day of Hilary Term for renewal of their certificates as attorneys of that court, appears the name of William Henry Barber, described as of Howard-street, Strand. The Hon. John Elliott, long employed in the civil service in India, has been appointed one of the Secreta- ries of the Board of Control, in the place of Mr. Wyse, who has resigned. In excavating the foundation for the bridge at rur- ton Pill, on the South Wales railway, in the county of Gloucester, the workmen of Mr. Sharpe, railway con- tractor, discovered the skeleton of a man, four feet under the surface, measuring in length from the heel bone to the skull five feet eleven inches, and buried in solid red clay. Over the skull were placed two square stones, nearly two feet wide, and each four inches thick. Gutta percha, instead of wax, is now used in all do- cuments to which the great seal of Ireland is attached. It is reported that the Admiralty are about to make Trincomalee the regular head quarters of the naval forces in China and the East Indies, and that a residence for the Commander-in-Chief will be kept up there. The apparatus for converting salt water into fresh, fitted to II.M.S. Reynard, by Mr. Grant, of Portsmouth dock-yard, has answered admirably. The apparatus distilled in the month of December upwards of 2000 gallons of water, and the ship carried into Lisbon, after great waste, 8 tuns. The apparatus yielded an average quantity of five gallons per day per man. The American trotting horse, Trussee, lately trotted twenty miles in fifty nine minutes and thirty- nine seconds, for a wager of 1500 dollars. A service of plate, valued at £ 500, was presented to Mr. Win. Chadwick, by the shareholders in the Rich- mond Railway, at a dinner given to him on Friday evening, at the London Tavern. The American Baptist Home Mission Society have appointed the Rev. O. C. Wheeler, of Jersey City, San Francisco, as missionary at California. In the Sheriff's Court, London, the other day, the Judge said that money lent to a married woman, with- out the husband's knowledge, was not recoverable from the husband by law. The two concerts at which Mademoiselle Lind assisted during the week in Manchester produced the sum of CI,859 lls., and above £ 1.250 will remain for the charities when the expenses are paid. This will make an aggregate of more than £12,000 contributed to charitable purposes through the agency of Jenny Lind within the last two months. According to the Manchester Guardian, the colliers in that neighbourhood are tr-kmc- steps to reconstruct the extensive union which existed two or three years ago. The total sum collected on the occasion of the Jubilee of the Church Missionary Society amounts, so far as is ascertained up to the present time, to £ 29,852 10s. In the Times of Saturday a London tailor ad vertises the birth of a thirteenth child-adding (as a significant hint we presume to his customers) that they are all living, and entirely dependent on parental exertions." In the formation of a single locomotive steam-engine there are not less than 5416 pieces to be put together and these require to be as accurately adj usted as the works of a watch. On Wednesday se'nnight, Miss Taffe, daughter of a wealthy gentleman at Kells, Samuel Brutnerd, a police constable, with whom she had eloped, and a servant girl, were arrested in Dublin, on board one of the steamers, just about to sail for Liverpool, charged with stealing JE67 from Mr. Taffe. The police Lothairo had engaged berths for America for all three. An application is now before the Court of Queen's Bench for the issue of a writ to enable the Archbishop of Canterbury to hear the case of the Rev. Mr. Gorham whom the Bishop of Exeter refused to allow to preach in his diocese, upon the ground that he does not hold the doctrine of baptismal regeneration. The Galway Vindicator states that an ex-member of the late Parliament belonging to the south of Ireland, is in a state of beggary in the metropolis. The Bucks Chronicle says that certain gentlemen of the long robe are already retained in a case of crim. con., the details of which will create surprise. The plaintiff resides in London, and the defendant is an in- dividual who, at one period, ranked very high in the county. The steamboats from London-bridge and Folkestone are daily conveying horses to Boulogne. These horses are being shipped by Mr. Burford, who has taken the contract to supply the Neapolitan Government with the number they require. A prodigious sea eagle (ijaiiabtus) measuring seven feet from wing to wing, and weighing upwards of nine pounds, was killed with an ordinary gun, a few days since, whilst wending its rapid flight over a wood in the neighbourhood of High Ham, near Langport, Somerset. The total issues of the British and Foreign Bible Society since the commencement of its operations on the 7th of March, 1804 have been 7,932,590 bibles, & 18,933,247 testaments, making a grand total of 26,865,837. A Mr. Forbes, from Aberdeen, has become possessed of one of the richest quicksilver mines in the world, in California. 1,500 flasks, 751bs. each, have been got in a very short time, at an expense of ten to twelve dollars per 1001b. The vessel Madagascar has brought from Calcutta two boxes of rupees, consigned to order, and twelve cases of rupees, consigned to an eminent commercial firm in the metropolis from Madras, one box of specie, consigned to order and from the Cape, seven boxes of specie, consigned to different firms in the metropolis. The vessel Carnatic, from Madras, Bimlipatam, Pon- dicherry, Cuddalau, and the Cape of Good Hope, I respectively, has brought from the first-mentioned place 167 boxes of rupees, consigned to the East India Corn. pany and from the Cape, four boxes of specie, con- signed to order. Lord Palmerston has attached Mr. Wolff, son of the Rev. Dr. Wolff, to the regular staft of clerks employed at the Foreign office, that gentleman having previously been an assistant to the head clerk.-Globe. Two Irishmen, imprisoned for theft in Dumfries pri- son, simulated, or were actually seized with cholera, and were sent by the medical men to the hospital. Here extreme unction was administered to them by a Romish priest, after which the prisoners broke out of gaol and escaped. Early on Friday morning last the extensive premises occupied by Messrs. Augus, coach-rnamifacturers, New- castle-upon-Tyne, wee destroyed by fire, together with several houses adjoining. The damage is estimated at ESOOO and £ 10,000. Messrs. Angus, the principal sufferers, are well insured. At, as nearly as possible, the same hour, on a Friday morning, and also in the month of January, 1830, the same manufactory was destroyed by a similar calamity; and in 1839 the extensive establishment of Messrs. Atkinson, also coach-builders, fell a prey to flames, on a Friday morning likewise. Necessity," says the Coventry Herald, is 'he best ally of th.' Reformer. Scarcity of potatoes in Ireland precipitated the Repeal of Ihe Corn Laws abundance of gold in California may aid in abolishing the Money Laws." People who endeavour to attract chat attention by dress which they cannot obtain by their intrinsic worth, resemble the soap balloons blown by children; the thinnest bubbles are invested with the brigh teat coloiars. A burglary, attended with a loss of about £120, was lately perpetrated at a public-house in Dale-end, Bir- mingham, occupied by Mr. John Matthews. It ap- pears that a money sweep, or crown-piece lottery, is held at the above house, and when one thousand crowns are deposited the whole are balloted for. Up to Saturday about four hundred and fifty crowns were paid into the hands of the landlord, who was the treasurer of the fund. The house was closed at twelve o'clock on Saturday night, and Mr. Matthews, having locked up the premises, proceeded to his lodgings at the Lozells, leaving the money in the bar. At an early hour on Sunday morning some thieves, evidently well acquainted with the house, and aware of the valuable deposit in the bar, scaled the walls at the rear of the premises, and, having effected an entrance into the rear of the house, carried off the whole of the booty. On Friday night, between seven and eight o'clock, a fire, involving a destruction of property valued at some thousands of pounds, broke out at Irongate-wharf, Praed-street, Paddington, which, for a period of nearly four hours, continued to illuminate the western portion of the metropolis. The premises in which the disastrous event occurred were in the occupation of Mr. William Buddie, and were known as the steam sawdDills and marble-works. The timber proved such a powerful auxiliary to the flames that, in the space of a few minutes, the entire mill, from end to end, was wrapped in one immense body of fire. The firemen laboured without the least intermission until nearly eleven o'clock, when the flames were at length subdued. The damage done is very great. The machinery, which cost a short time since upwards of £5000, was insured for only £1000, and the insurances effected upon the stock-in- trade is not one-titbe of the loss. A charge of attempting to poison a wife was heard on Thursday before the magistrates at Bristol. The accused, Henry Evans, is a carpenter by trade, but with his wife, and a policeman and his wife, had been latterly taking charge of the new poor-house in Clifton Wood. About six week's ago the wife was confined, since which I time she has been repeatedly seized with attacks of vomiting and purging. She was confined to her bed, and her husband usually took her food. On Sunday he cut her some slices of roast poik, but on looking at them she perceived that they were sprinkled over with a white powder. rpon tasting the meat, she did not like the iiavour, and left it, and afterwards hearing from a little gill that her husband had taken the meat to a cupboard, where he appeared to be sprinkling some- thing over it, she mentioned the fact to the policeman's wife, who informed her husband, and the remains of the slices were taken for examination to Mr. Herapath, the analytical-chemist, who, on applying the proper :.t8, found that the white powder was a corrosive salt of mercury, commonly sold as white precipitate. On searching the prisoner's room some sugar of lead was found, and he has been remanded for further exa- j mination. A HIGHWAYMAN SHOT.—On Friday last Mr. Stee. spirit-merchant, of Elmshall, near Ferrybridge, attended Wakefield market, and had collected a large sum of money. As usual, he left very early in the afternoon, seldom arriving at home later than four or five o'clock, but on this occasion, having to call on the road, he was pressed upon to stay to tea, and consequently accepted the invitation. He afterwards set off home, it being then between six and seven o'clock, but when coming near home he slackened his pace and let his horse walk slowly on. Two men made their appearance on the road a little before him, one of whom he heard say, "he's coming," and the other answered, "d—him, we have him now, this is him." Upon hearing tnis Mr. Steel seemed to take no notice, but he put his pistol at full cock, and walked slowly on until coming very near the men, when he immediately put spurs to his horse, and passed them at full gallop. They made an attempt to seize the horse by the bridle, but did not succeed. After galloping to the rise of a hill, near to his home, he again pulled up his horse, and proceeded leisurely up the road, when another villain rushed upon him, and "with a heavy bludgeon struck him on the shoulder, which dismounted him, and he fell to the ground, with the bridle reins over his arm. When laid on his back, the villain went round the horse to him, and was just in the act of dealing a deadly blow over his head, when Mr. Steel pulled the trigger of his pistol, and shot the villain in the shoulder. The bludgeon fell, he staggered and moaned, but Mr. Steel did not see him fall. Upon looking round, he observed the former two men coming up with a few yards of him, when he immediately jumped upon his horse, and made the best of his way home. D 1SCOVEUY OF AN ALJ.EGED CE-RII OF ClIOLERA. The Observer of Sunday says, that to Mr. Howell, sur- geon, of Wandsworth, the world is indebted for a recent discovery which will, it is fervently hoped, henceforth cause this malady to be one of the least dreaded. The hitherto unknown •principle which has been adopted by Mr. Howell has been communicated to our reporter by that gentleman, with his full authority to publish the same. In arresting the collapse, which is the last and fatal stage of the disease, Mr. Howel sponges the whole body, and particularly the spine, with turpentine of boiling heat. This powerful stimulant at once produces reaction over the whole body, removing the coldness of the skin, disperses the cramps, averts the sickness, and enables the stomach to receive medicine and food. In five recent cases c f cholera where collapse baa set in, this remedy has been employed by Mr. Howell and his son with triumphant success. STATISTICS OF UNLETTERED CRDtlNALS. The Rev. John Clay, Chaplain of the Preston House of Cor- rection, has just completed his 2.5th annual report on prison discipline. It is a lengthy document, but inva- luahle for the instructive facts and intelligent remark s with which it abounds. In an appendix, containing illustrations of the working of our penal system, we are presented with the following appalling analvsi., of the degree of ignorance among prisoners, or the in- direct acquaintance with demoralising literature. I'h e total number of cases analysed in this table, is 1,383 of which 338 were sessions, and 1,045 summary cases. Of the 338 parties tried at the sessions, 156 males and 53 females were unable to name the months 154 males and 46 females were ignorant of the name of the reigning sovereign; 157 males and 51 females were ignoran of the word "virtue," "vice," &c.; 8 males and 15 females were unable to count a hundred 146 males and 32 females had read, or heard read, books about Dick Turpin and Jack Sheppard. Of the 1,045 j parties summarily convicted, 486 males and 147 females were unable to name the months 489 males and 129 females were ignorant of the name of the reigning so- vereinrn 479 males and 132 females were ignorant of the ords virtue," vice," Rc. 103 males and 31 females were nnable to count a hundred; and 392 males and 68 females had read, or heard read, books about Dick Turpin and Jack Sheppard. The remarks on the causes of crime are mainly a more detailed exposition of the table we have described above. Ignorance appears to be the field, and drunkenness most frequently the seed, on and from which crime is reared. Do You TAKB A NEWSPAPER ?-If you don't I will mention some of the advantages that will certainly accrue from your tukmg one. First, you will have a great superiority over your neighbour, who is too fond of his money, or foolish enough not to take one. Then you can become possessed of knowledge of every kind —you can acquire accurate and useful information of everything that passes around you-you need not listen to the reports uf slander in regard to the es- tablishment of facts, for you will find in your newspaper a true and accurate state of things, without prejudice or partiality, without addition to the truth or detraction from it. Local, foreign, domestic, colonial-all sorts of news from Greenland to India-from China to America. How foreign states are governed—how nations rise and fall-how the petty intrigues of Mi- nisters, and the open villany of others meet their re- reward. How justice, though hidden by the fraud of designing men for a time, is sure one day to T, :nisi, with unerring hand those who thought to build their fortunes on the ruin of others, and reap the harvest of dishonest gain, when they could not acquire it by fair means. And you will know, too, by taking a newt- paper how your own country is governed-how trade increases our relaxes-laow duties are imposed or di- minished-how laws are passed or annulled—how the nation prospers—how private speculation flourishes- how great discoveries are made in science—and how knowledge and literature are spreading throughout the globe. All that interests you as a man placed in a world of deceit and treachery, as an immortal being, or as a useful member of society, you will find here. Po- litics—poetry—history—literature—are now laid here before you. You ar? here warned how to beware of accidents—of fraud and imposition—hnw to conduct yourself in society-and here you can obtain an accurate knowledge of manners and morals—principles and facts —and how cheap is a newspaper. YOll will sometimes spend in the most trifling amusement W;la' iright obtain useful information, and amusing entertainment. A WASHING PLANT.-In California there grows a plant which is used for washing every description of clothing in cold running water. In using it as soap, the women cut the roots from the bulbs, and rub them on the clothes, when a strong lather is formed. To propagate the plant, the bulbs are set in a rich moist soil, and grow most luxuriantly in soft bottoms of valleys, or on the borders of running streams. A CLERGYMAN OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCHANH HOT- LOWAY'S OINTMENT.—A benevolent pastor, residing iu Belfast, (whose najlie is withheld by his desire) was an phed to by a poor woman of his parish, who had been nfflietcd for four years with an awfully bad leg, with six- teen wounds, and so extremely painful that she could not plaCf' he fo?t on the ground. Fec)in"f..r hprpr vertn, iiici this humane gentleman nrpscn rd her wit,i i suppiv of HoUo-.vay-s Oin?m.nt ?h ,h sound? healed her leg in abou five weeks, althou-h she h--4 b:?n the Dublm Hosp.tal for seven months, and ^had  ?- In(>{!Jcal men in Belf t h- Tl Wi"1 °th" RECRUITING PARTlrs.-TVie whole of the infantry recruiting parties in London have been ordered to re join their respective depots and regiments, with -the exception of the Rifle Brigade. Recruiting for the cavalry is to continue. This measure is supposed to be preparatory to some reduction in the strength of the line.-t-nited Service Guzette. REDUCTION OF THE ARMY. -We are informed that the contemplated reduction in the army will be to the amount of ten thousand men. The proposed diminu- tion will take place chiefly in that portion of our forces, which is now on home service.-Clironicle. THE FINANCIAL REFORM AssomATION.-So greatly has the business of the Liverpool Financial Reform Association increased, owing to communications pouring in from all parts of the kingdom, that the council have resolved on removing their offices from Hargrave's Buildings to more commodious rooms in the Harrington Chambers, North John-street From men of all sects and parties, including the civil and military classes alike, the strongest expressions of sympathy and offers of co-operation are daily received 1 while masses of evidence in proof of lavish expenditure are transmitted from the most intelligent sources far and near.-Liver- pool Mercury DEATH OF LADY C. MA HO,Lady Charlotte Mabolt died on Tuesday night at her residence in Stephen's- Green, Dublin. Her ladyship was in her 85th year. She was the youngest daughter of Peter, Earl of Alta- mont, and sister of the Marquis of Sligo, the Right Hon. Denis Browne, and Anne Countess of Desart. Lady Charlotte married John Mahon, Esq., who died in 1834. DEATH OF GENERAL SIR THOMAS ARBUTHNOT.— On Friday morning, at one o'clock, after a short illness, the above aged and distinguished General breathed hi* last at his residence in Salford, Manchester. For some time past the General had enjoyed unusnally good health, and on Thursday week spent most of the day in hunting. It is supposed that his illness was brought on by taking cold on that occasion, which resulted in infl .mmation of the lungs. The deceased was about 72 years of age. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION. Accounts from Mazatlan, under date Nov. 29, give the dis- couraging intelligence that her Majesty's surveying ship Herald, 22, Capt. Kellett, had arrived at that port from Behring's Straits, without having been able to ob- tain any intelligence of the expedition under Sir John Franklin. TESTIMONIAL TO MR. HAWES.—A dinner was given on Thursday evening, at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, to Benjamin Hawes, Esq., M.P., by his friends in the borough of Lambeth, for the purpose of presenting a grand salver from his constituents, to record their acknowledgment of his labours whilst the guardian of their new-born electoral rights, and their sense of his public services as their tried and faithful representative during four successive parliaments. WOODS AND FORESTS.—The public has not much reason to congratulate itself on the pr: nt from its pos- sessions in this quarter. It appears from a report of the Liverpool Financial Association, that of the four great forests, the revenue last year from Whittlewood Forest was one pound three shillings and one farthing, that from Whychwood E123 Is. 7d., from Valtham £ 352 7s. 6d., while from the New Forest the loss was £ 3,266. Without entering into any calculation as to the actual value, or what ought to be its actual returns, we would simply ask what would be the feelings of any proprietor of a huge estate, if his steward should hand him in an account like this. We know tolerably well what ours would be.—Atlas. ANIMATE AND INANIMATE CHURCH" BRICKS. Our Torquay correspondent says :-The New Church, it is thought, will be opened in about a month, but as Bishop Philpotts refuses to consecrate it until every debt is paid off, and as there is not yet a sufficient amount subscribed to finish it, the probability is that it will not be open so soon. [Douglas Jerrold's newspaper says that if no young fellow was ever cotist-er-,ted till his debts were paid, there would be fewer holy ministers, than there are. Why does the old gentle- man make one rule for bricks' and another for bricks and mortar ?"] — Western Times. SACRILEOE AT NEW COLLEGE CHAPEL, OXFORD.— Early on Thursday morning, it is believed abnut two o'clock, a daring act of sacrilege was cornmitt-d in New College Chapel, which was broken into, the candle- sticks (of silver gilt) stolen from the altar The thieves entered the college by means of a rope-ladder thrown over the wall of St. Peter's churchyard. In the,- retreat they left the ladder behind them, together with skeleton- keys, a jemmy, anti a pair 01 woollen snj pers, lor | wearing over the shoes. The thieves made an attempt to break open the closet containing the c< lebrated crosier of William of Wvkeham, the founder of New College, but were fortunately unsuccessful in their efforts. It is supposed they were alarmed by some of the college servants, who had risen at an early hour to clean the rooms. The viUains are suspected to be taccomplished London practitioners, and it is hoped they may be brought to justice. Three men were observed to leave Oxford that morning for London, by the three o'clock train, with a large bundle, and suspi- cion has fallen upon them. The University Marshal has gone in pursuit. COURT or CHANCERY. — Strange v: Prinec Alherf- This appeal from the decision of the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce came on Friday before the Chancellor. It will be recollected that the plaintiff proposed pub- lishing a catalogue of certain etchings executed by her Majesty and his- Royal Highness Prince Albert, and that an injunction was obtained restraining the publica- tion of the same. In the course of the proceedings it was elicited that the catalogue had been printed, but not circulated. For the plaintiff, Mr. Russell, Mr. Warren, and Mr. Smith for the defendant, the Attor- ney-General, the Solicitor-General, Sergeant Talfourd, and Mr. James. Mr. Russell opened the arguments, which will probably last several days. QUEEN'S BENCH, FRIDAY.— T1.? Queen v. Drury and Others.—In this case, the defendants, who were tried before Mr. Baron Rolfe, at York, for conspiracy, and found gulty, were sentenced to transportation for ten years. After the sentence was passed it was dis- covered that the sentence exceeded that prescribed by law for the crime, and it was therefore commuted by the Secretary of State to transportation for seven years. The defendants now contended that as the original sentence was illegal, the subsequent correction of it by the Secre- tary of State, reducing the term of banishme- t, could not remedy that illegality, and they were therefore entitled to their liberation.—The Lord Chief Justice decided that as the original sentence exceeded the term prescribed by law, the whole proceedings were bad, and the prisoners must therefore be discharged COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. 25.-The Attorney- General v. Wilson.—This suit has given rise to nearly 20 years' litigation b('seeri Protestant Dissenters in England and Wales as to who are entitled, under certain deeds executed by Lady Hewley, who died in the yeat 1704. The deeds m question gave large estates in Yorkshire to trustees upon trust in their discretion to. apply portions of the income of the property to poor and godly preacoers of Christ's holy gospel, o-ther portions to the widows of the like poor and godly preachers of Christ's holy gospel, other portions to the establishing of e-hibitions for bringing up young men to the minis- try of Christ's holy gospel, and with the residue to relieve such poor persons as came under the denomina- tun before-mentioned. Dame Sarah Hewley also con- veyed an hospital or almshouse to the trustees for certain other purposes. The prime object of the suit was to exclude Unitarians from being trustees of the charity or participating in the benetits of it, and in the year 1833 the Vice-Chancellor made a decree in accord- ance with such object. An appeal was next had to Lord Chancellor Brougham, in 1834, but his lordship resigned the great seal without giving any judgment. In April 1835 the appeal was re-argued before Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, who affirmed the decree of the Vice-Chancellor. The Unitarians then carried the matter to the ultimate court of appeal, the House of Lords, who again affirmed the Vice-Chancellor's deci- sion. The litigation so far only determined that Unitarians were excluded under the terms of the deeds but did not decide what class of Protestant DisGenters were entitled to participate in the cha-ity. The present proceedings were accordingly instituted by the Scotch Presbyterians and Independents to come in and share with the English Protestant Dissenters, but the Vice Chancellor held that the English Orthodox Protestant Dissenters were alone entitled to the benefit of the charity. From this decision the Scotch Presbyterians aid Independents in England appealed to the Lord Chancellor. Mr. Bethell, this morning, said that the matter had at length been brought to a close by means or a compromise. The terms of it were that, at the request of L,e defendants, and with the consent of the Attorney-General. the decree of the Vice-Chancellor i should be reversed, and a declaration made to the effect, that by the words poor and godly preachers of Christ's holy gosppi" were meant all poor and orthodox minis- ters of dissenting congregations in England and Wales, within the protection of the act of toleration of the 1st William and Mary, of any of the denominations, namely Independents, or Congregationalists, or Baptists. The declaration respecting these deeds of 170-i and 1707 further provided that a preference should be given to Ynrk. Yorkshire, and other northern counties, but as between the ciissenters themselves who came within the above description there was to be no order of preference. It was agreed that the costs of all parties, as between solicitor and client, should be raid out of the fund in court, arising from the dividends on the sum of £ 21,425 3s. 3d. consols, standing in the name of the Accountant- General to the credit of the cause, and that the divi- dends on the residue of the said sum of consols, after payment of the costs, be from time to tim" paid by the .z-r,p? (? f tie cbarit Acceuntant-General to the said trustpes cf the charitj- t for purposes mentioned in the decree