Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald and North and South Wales Independent

It has been calculated that a pair of sparrows while rearing their young, destroy on an average 53G3'cater- pillars every week. 0 ea er- A Cemetary is about to be established near Chester. A proposal was in the first instance made to the M-tr quis of Westminster, to purchase, for the purpose of a burial place, the piece of land at Hough-green now used, in part, as a nursery garden, and containing somewhat less than nine acres. This land seemed to present the most eligible character for the purpose as well from its convenience of access from some of the most populous districts of the city, as from its natural capabilities with respect to the form, and position, and quality of the gronnd; and the result of a survey of the land has been made to confirm entirely the view of the committee, and to establish the eligibility of the site. The Marquis of Westminster at once met the views of the committee in the most liberal mallne" agreed to sell the lane and the houses thereon for 1,0001., being considerably less than the real value, and to receive the amount in shares in the company. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—Four Men Buried Alive. —On Suturday afternoon, the in labitants of Bacup and the neighbourhood were J.nto a state of great excitement, by a report that four men were buried alive by the new bridge (crossing some water- works) belonging to the new branch railway from Rawtenstall to Bacup, at Waterfoot. It appears the late floods had caused some of the props of the bridge to be loose, and when four of the men, named Samuel Bentley, James Halstead, John Dyson, and James Butterworth were repairing or fastening the loose props, the bridge fell. The men were under the ruins for several hours. Dyson and Butterworth were got out alive, but were much bruised, and in a dangerous state. Bentley and Halstead, who are both natives of Small-bridge, near Rochdale, were killed.—Liverpool Mercury. ANCIENT LETTER.—The following letter, written upwards of one hundred years ago, has been kindly sent us for insertion. It is written in a compact round hand, and though in good preservation, time has had its usual effects upon the ink and paper. The letter is thus addressed-" To my very good Friend, Mr. Humphrey Warren, at Stockport, in Cheshire:— DEAR Siit,-As we are now both growing in years, and may justly rank ourselves in the class of old men the remembrance of our intimacy and friendship in the time of our getting out in the world, gives one (methinks) a strange propensity to embrace every op- portunity of enq uiring after the wellare of so dear and old an acquaintance. And though a personal interview has been rendered impracticable, by reason of the great distance of place, and remote situation that is between us, yet Mrs. Osborn's coming once again into your parts, has induced me to trouble you with this epistle, and to send you my kindest greeting and most friendly salutations, as well under my own handwriting, as by word of mouth and I hope you will so far indulge my importunity, as to let me hear from you soon, by the hand of some friend, if you cannot so conveniently give me the pleasure of a line immediately from yourself. I can assure you that I often think of you, and con- dole your melancholy condition, with regard both to your want of sight, and the loss of your late dear and most agreeable companion and yoak-fellow. But God, I trust, has, in some measure, made up to you both these deficiencies, by affording you the satisfaction °'an agreeable neighbourhood, the peaceful enjoyment of your own innocent mind, and the blessed prospect of a glorious immortality, when the present scene ot things shall be no more. These thoughts are both natural and proper tor us, my dear friend, who are drawing near the confines of the grave and I pray God we may so wisely improve them, that when we can no longer con- verse together in this world, we may meet and rejoice in those happy regions where no troubles, no sorroivs Can approach. In this wish I am sure you will join with me, who am in all sincerity, Dear Sir, your most affectionate friend, And humble servant,^ Eltham, in Kent, April 7th, 1742. ^•B. I have lived so long in these parts, that I cannot find all house or family now existing1, either here or at Beckenham, that made a considerable figure when I first came amongst them so that I can experimen- tally say with the Apostle, that the Fashbn of this world passeth away or, with the poet, Sic tranfit gloria mundi."

From the London Gazette. FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7. BANKRUPTS. W. S. Smith, Readinjr, scrivener, Jan. 20, at 11, and Feb. 17, at the Bankrupts' Court. J. H. Theobald, Colchester, coal merchant, Jan. 14, at 2, and Feb. 11,at 18, at 12, at the Bankrupts' Court. T. C. Medwin, Holland -street, Haymarket, fishmonger, Jan. 13, at half-past 1, and Feb. 15, at 12, at the Bankrupts' Court. H. Turner, Coventry-street, Haymarket, engineer, Jan. 14, at half-past 11, and Feb. 18, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court. G. Graves, Norton Falgate, cheesemonger, Jan. 19, at 11, and Feb. 19, at half-past 12, at the Bankrupts Court. R. Foxley, Herne, Kent, brickmaker, January 19, at 12, and February 19, at half-past II, at the Bank- rupts' Court. H. Hill, Gray's-inn-lane, brewer, January 19. at half- past 11, and February 19,at half-past 1, at the Bank- rupts' Court. M. Lumley, Gibson-square, Islington, commission agent, January 20, at 2, and February 15, at U, at the Bankrupts' Court. J. 1. Grylls, \V. Stubbs, and R. B. Cousens, Llanelly, engineers, January 20, at 2, and February 21, at II, at the Bankrupts' Court. Maria Ham, otherwise Baker, Wells, milliner, January 25 and February 22, at 12, at the Bankrupts' Court. M. S. Synnot, Liverpool, merchant, January 20, at 12, and February 10, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Liverpool. W. Gregory, Liverpool, hosier, January 21 and Feb. 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Liverpocl. T. Mathews. Shrewsbury, millwright, January 18 and February 22, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Liver- pool. R. Porritt, now or late of Iluddersfield, banker, Jan. 18 and February 3, at 12, at the Bankrupts' Court, Leeds. W. Barns, Milnrow, flannel manufacturer, January 19 and February 10, at 12, at the Bankrupts' Court, Manchester. W. Sliiers, Manchester, paper hanger, January 17 and February 6, at i2, at the Bankrupts' Court, Man- chester. Catharine Barclay, Birkenhead, confectioner, January 1J and February 14, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Liverpool. W. Nicholson, Leeds, innkeeper, January 22 and Feb. 12, at 12, at the Bankrupts' Court, Leeds. T. Carter, Leeds, currier, January 18 and February 8, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Leeds. J. Napier, jun., Sheffield, oil merchant, January 21 and February 13, at it, at the Bankrupts' Court, Sheffield. II. Barton, Bradford, grocer, January 24 and February 17, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Leeds. W, Waycott, Buckfas leigh, innkeeper, January 17, at 11, and February 10, at 1, at the Bankrupts' Coart, Exeter. 1 T7 V S. Paul, Bodmin, arocor, January 17, at 11, and Feb. 10, at 1, at the Bankrupts' Court, Exeter.

DIVIDENDS. T. Arnold, Paternoster-row, bookseller, any VI e.lnes- day. W. Chappelow, jun., Jermyn-street, St James's, wholesale saddler, January 23. J. White, East Cowes, Isle of Wi,Iit, ship builder, January 28. T' G. Pile and W. J. B. Staunton, Bishopsgate-street, Without, wine merchants, January 28. J. Cann, Woolwich, brick- layer, January 31. T. Bennett, of the New City-cham- bers, Bishopsgate-street Within, timber merchant, Jan. 28. J. Goulty, Stangate, Lambeth, mast maker, Jan. 28. H. Drysdale, Lamb's Conduit-street, auctioneer, January 23. G. Baker, Ludgate-hill, grocer, January 2R. H. Wills, Tottenham-court New-road, mason. Jan. 28. J, V. Barber, Walsall, banker, Feb. I. J. Waiii- wright, Birmingham, draper, Januaiy 29. I. Robin- son, Iluddersfield, woolstapler, January 31. > Ihonip- son, Rawden, merchant, January 31. G. Morton, Leeds, paper, stainer, February 3. W. Hirst, Leeds, merchant, January 31. G. II, Lupton, Leeds, flax spinner, January 31. W. Reynolds and J. 1. Fair- bank, late of Sheffield, builders, Febrbaiy 4. I. Robinson, Kendal, Westmoreland, grocer, January 28. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day of meeting. J. Parrish, High-street, Newington, Surrey, dealer, January 29. W. Newson. St. J^ary-axe, commission agent, January 28. W. F. Merrett, Greenwich, draper, January 31. W. Astill, Lenton, Nottinghamshire, iron- monger, January 28. F. Rippingale, Thrumpton, Not- tinghamshire, auctioneer, January 28. S. Sherratt and G. Sherratt, Hilton, Derbyshire, blacksmiths, February 11. fn CERTIFICATES to be granted by the Court of Review, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on or before Jan. "28. J. H. Southam, and G. Southam, Ashton-under- Lyne, cotton spinners. C. Bone, Millbank-street, Westminster, licensed victualler. T and J. Ridehough, Mytholm Royd, Yorkshire, worsted spinners. J. Sharpies, jun., Blackburn, cotton spinner. G. Guster- son. Paradise-walk, Qneen's-road West, Chelsea, builder. TUESDAY EVENING, JlN. 11. BANKRUPTS. J. Miller, Ispwieli, licensed victualler, Jan. 20, at half- past I, and Feb. 25, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court. E. D. Welbank, Brighton, boarding house keeper, Jan. 19, at half-past 12, and Feb. 22, at 12, at the Bank- rupts' Court. T. Masterson, Lansdown-terrace, South Lambeth, ware- houseman, Jan. 19, at 12, and Feb. 22, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court. A. Woolf, Crooked-lane-chambers, Crooked-lane, wine merchant, Jan. 18, at 1, and Feb. 22, at 12, at the Bankrupts' Court. W. Norley, Paradise-street, Finsbury, dealer in cattle, Jan. 11, at half-past 12, and Feb. 21, at 12, at the Bankrupts' Court. O. Ginder, Canterbury, licensed victualler, Jan. 17 and Feb. 21, at half-past I, at the Bankrupts' Court. W. T. Rickard, Regent's-street, Mile-end-road, manu- facturing1 chemist, Jan. 19, at half-past 11, and Feb. 23, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court. J. Robertson, Grove-place, North Brixton, baker, Jan. 19, at half-past 1, and Feb. 23, at 11, at the Bank- rupts' Court. T. Fard 11, High-street, Poplar, omnibus proprietor, Jan. 21, at 12, and Feb. 19, at half-past 11, at the Bankrupts' Court. G. and P Lungley, Latymer-road, Hammersmith, house joiners, Jan. 20, at half-past 2, and Feb. 18, at 12, at the Bankrupts' Court. W. Sheppard, Manchester, spirit dealer, Jan. 19 and Feb. 11, at 12, at the Bankrupts' Court, Manchester. J. Keon, Ashton-under-Lyne, cap manufacturer, Jan. 24 and Feb 29, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Man- chester. J. Goodwin, Cheltenham, currier, Jan. 25 and Feb. 22, at 12, at the Bankrupts' Court, Bristol. T. C. Dauncey, Stonehouse, boot maker, Jan. 25 and Feb. 2'2, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Bristol. W. Day, Uxbridg-e, farmer, Jan. 27, at 11, and Feb. 22, at 12, at the Bankrupts' Court, Bristol. J. Wooler, Stockton-on-Tees, draper, Jan. 25, at 11, and Feb. "22, at 12, at the Bankrupts' Court, Newcastle- upon-Tyne. T. T. Clarke, Sunderland, baker, Jan- 21, at half-past II, and Fab. 24, at 1, at the Bankrupts' Court, New- castle-upon-Tyne. J. E. Motley, Boston, tailor, Jan. 21 and Feb. 25, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Nottingham. J. Cullen, Nottingham, grocer, Jan. 21 and Feb. 25, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Nottingham. W. T. Morgan, Neath, draper, Jan. 25 and Feb. 22, at half-past 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Bristol. C. Faint, Blackpool, hotel keeper. Jan. 26 and Feb. 18, at 12, at the Bankrupts' Court, Liverpool. R. Murray, Liverpool, woollen draper. Jan. 21 and Feb. II, at 12, at the Bankrupts' Court, Liverpool. W. D. Scnrfield, Liverpool, shawlman, Jan. 26 and Feb. 18.. at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Liverpool. J. Tite, Netlierby, flax spinner, Jan. 25 and Feb. 15, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Liverpool. J. D. Blake, Honiton, innkeeper, Jan. 24 and Feb. 16, at t I, at the Bankrupts' Court, Exeter. W. H. Pine, Honiton, maltster, Jan. 23 and Feb. 16, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Exeter- I J. Wilkins, Bridport, marble mason, Jan. 24, at 1, and Feb. 15, at 11, at the Bankrupts' Court, Exeter.

DIVIDES DS. W. Temple, Motcombe-street, Belgrave-square,turner, S. Strong, Wsitling-street, City, cigar manufacturer. J. M" ^TTRSON' Brunswick-place, City-road, vinegar dealer. T. Priestley, Bedford, grocer. F. L. Cole, Fenchurch- street, wine merchant, any Wednesday. G. Heath and OR. Dann, Canterbury, drapers, any Saturday. I. C. laylor. Change-alley, Cornhill, Jan. 20. J. Humphrey, North Walsham, grocer, Jan. 20. R. Wade, Cheapside, tailor, Jan. 20. II. Sword, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, dra- per, any Saturday. W. B. and C. G. Brodie, Salisbury, bankers, Feb. 4. H. Knapp, Abingdon, banker, Feb. T • H. Cleeve, Rettenden, cowkeeper, Feb. 2. J. Jones, Birkenhead, chemist, Feb. 2. K. Kettlewell, VU O' S''VERSTR|ith, Feb 3. J. Winn, Bramhom, joiner, ^NIITH, Bramham, brickmaker, Feb. 3 J. "• Gillett, Bradford, dyer, Feb. 10. G. Baker, New- Port, Monmouthshire, grocer, Feb. 3. S- R. Toms, Bo^v-churchyard, Cheapside, commission agent, Feb. 2. L. Roberts and II. P. Freeman, Manchester, and PPW YORK, merchants, Feb. 4. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day of meeting. Y • H- Ford, Burford, innkeeper. J. Johnson, Lang- Commercial-road East, leather seller, Feb. 2. Wiillingtoi), Stockport, carpenter, Feb. 1. II. D. E-MAIL, Manchester, laceman, Feb- 3. D. Green- wood and J. Bateman, Bury, joiners, Feb. 3. S. Rigg, AN(^ Sal ford, cotton spinner, Feb. 1. Y IFICATES to be g-ranted B}' the Court of Review, Jan 05CAUSE S'LOWN T0 contrary, on or before T- Bushell, Bristol, mason. A. S., H. R. and A. 'pper, Upper Tnames-street, wholesale stationers M. J-*ewis, Oxford-street, linen draper. J. Andrew, Prest- ury> calico printer. T. Pilbeain, Parker-street, Drury- ane, and Hanover-court, Hart-street, Covent-garden, coachsmith. A. S. M'Laurin, Bradford, warehouseman. • -TIVANS, Bristol, carpenter. T. Halstead, Arundel- street, publican.

A>ESSEL arrived in the London Dock from Odessa with 1,700 quarters of wheat and other merchandise, had on board 4,945 old iron shells and balls, consigned to order.

IRELAND. SPECIAL COMMISSION.—The Special Commission appointed by the Lord-Lieutenant for the trial of pri- soners in the disturbed districts was opened at Lime- rick, on Wednesday last, by the Lord Chief Justice and the Lord Chief-Baron. It appears that the state of the calendar in Clare is almost as heavy as in Limerick. The total number of prisoners is 104, of whom eleven are chargeable with murder, 20 robbery of arms, 20 housebreaking, 10 shooting, 20 attacks on dwellings, 4 arson, with other less serious offences. It is sup- posed a large balance will remain over for the spring assizes after the termination of the commission in both counties. The government have determined to extend the Spe- cial Commission to the county of Tipperary, and the necessary official document has been issued, appointing Monday, the 24th inst., for the opening of the commis- sion at Clonmel, the assize town of the South Riding of that county. One of the principal cases with which the Crown are prepared to proceed is the trial of Lo- nergan, who was recently arrested, charged with the murder of Mr. Roe. No commission will be held in the North Riding at present. On the 12th instant (Wednesday next), the judges proceed to Ennis. After closing the commission there, they will return to hold an adjourned commission at Limerick, and from thence they proceed to Clonmel. The Limerick Reporter' contains the following ac- count of an attempt to murder in that city, where the special commission is now in progress :—" On Tuesday evening, as an artillery sergeant was returning to his barracks, he was met by a man who asked him was he to be the witness in Hill's murder ? The Serjeant an- swered yes,' though he was not the man, when im- mediately the fellow snapped a pistol at him, and the Serjeant retreated to inform his comrades, but the bird had flown." Tli 7 COUNTY KILKENNY.—Threatening Notices.—A no- tice, threatening him with death, lias been forwarded, through the post-office of Ballyragget, to Henry Ryan, Esq., the worthy and respected agent of Viscount Clif- den's property in Kilmacar, within a mile of Costleco- mer. The neighbourhood where this offence has been committed, has heretofore, even in the most disturbed times, been remarkable for its peaceable character. The tenantry on the Clifden estates have held a meet- ing, and subscriptions to a large amount have been en- tered into for the purpose of oiferiug a reward for the discovery of the offenders.—Carlvw Sentinel. DEATH OF REAR ADMIRAL SlIt THOMAS USSHER. —The demise of this distinguished veteran officer took place at the Admiralty House, (5ove, on the morning of the 7th inst. He has left three sons and two daughters. His eldest son is Post Captain in the Navy, the second Captain of Marines, and the youngest is in the Com- missary Department, serving in Canada. COUNTY OF CLARE.—A conspiracy to murder Mr. Boland, at Callaghan's mills, was fortunately discovered within the last week. The demon hired to execute the bloody deed resided at Ardatagle, and was to receive 31. 10,F. for the doing; but being disappointed in pro- curing pistols from those by whom he was employed, he went to Mr. O'Brien, R.M., sold the pass, and gave such private information as led to the arrest of three conspirators, who have been committed to Ennis gaol, and will be tried at the ensuing special commission for Clare.—Limerick Chronicle. FATHER M'DEUJIOTT.—The case of the parish priest of Strokestown appears again on the stage, and with strong claims on public attention. A memorial has appeared signed by nearly forty inhabitants of the town, all traders with the exception of a Mr. Cruise, who is described as a private gentleman." They stated that they have been in the constant habit of at- tending at chapel on Sundays and holidays, and have one and all a distinct recollection of "All Saints' day," to which the Irish Peer" so significantly alluded. On that day they said that the Rev. Mr. M'Dermott did not open his lips or address a single word to his flock." It will be remembered that the Irish Peer" charged the Rev. Mr. M'Dermott with a quality peculiar to his order, and th t he jesuitically passed over the Mon- day" on which the denunciation took place. Further, they state, and are ready to corroborate what they say upon oath, that the Rev. Mr. M'Dermott never used the words attributed to him by either Lord Farnham or the Irish Peer and furthermore, that he never used words of a similar import or meaning." THE MURDERER RYAN.—William Ryan (Puck) convicted on the 5tli instant, at the special commission, of murder, is also charged with the murder of James Watson, Esq., of Millview. The conspirators who con- cocted his assassination are happily discovered. Two men have been arrested on private information received by Sub-Inspector Carey, of Bruff, and fully identified as principals in the murder of the late Michael Mur- phy, near Hospital. The prisoners will be tried at the special commission now holding. Monday evening after dark, six armed men, with their faces blackened, attacked the house of a man named M'Mahon, at Car- huemore, near Six Mile-bridge, county Clare, in search of arms, but being gallantly resisted by M'Mahon and his sons, they were obliged to decamp, not, however, without giving some of the family a most unmerciful beating. Fortunately the Six Mile-bridge police were on patrol, and seeing two men running away they pur- sued and captured them, and found their faces black- ened. Just at the same moment a boy came up from the house that had been attacked, and the police went at once to the spot, when the M'Mahons told them who the party were, and without losing a moment they arrested three more of the fellows, who are fully iden- tified, lodged in gaol, and will be tried at the commis- sion in Ennis. DARING OUTRAGE AND ROBBERY IN THE COUNTY OF GALWAY—On last Monday evening, between six and seven o'clock, three fellows entered the dwelling of a poor man, named Coen, a tenant of Lord Clon- brock s living AT a place called Coolagunane. Coen was from home at the time, and a man named Coghlan and his wife were in the house. Immediately on the fel- lows entering it they struck and knocked down Coghlan 0 with a blow of a loaded whip, and then demanded of the wife all the money she had in the house. She said there was none, upon which one of them struck her with a whip, and cut her dreadfully over the eye, from the effects of which she is still confined to bed. TBE rumans then took a little girl, partly stripped her, and held her over the fire, in order, as they said, to compel her to inform them where the money was kept. Finding the threat of burning the child useless, they searched the house and took 7s. 6d. in money, together with several papers of importance to the poor man. Several robberies have taken place in the neighbour- hood. 0 MELANCHOLY CONDITION.—A Roman Catholic far- MEJA- LE'AN^> writing to his landlord in Dublin, says: —">_ir, I HAVE but one large pistol, and if the country vvho aie all IN 01LE combine, find I will have to send it into the police, the villians will murder and rob me that night.—They don't know but I have more fire- arms than that. Sir, there is nothing but badness going in these parts. They take your property amost before your face, and you have to bear it, for it is sure deth to peach. The man that pays his rent is an in- nemy to the country. There is nothing but card-play. ing, and tay-drinking, and plotting in the heads of the youngsters, besides every kind of divilment, with scampers going here and there, night and day, snatch- ing at all they can reach. They say the countrys their own now to do as they plase without the Repeal or a haporth. I am shockingly envied on account or my little improvements. Its no less than what business has the blackgard to be quicking ditches, and making dranes."

The Plymouth Journal' relates a fact of a Mrs. Northway, of the Queen's Head Inn, Tavistock, being awakened on the morning of Christmas-day by a dream that the house was on fire. After some persuasion her husband got up, and proceeded down stairs, discovered a servant's bed on fire, which had caught from a candle, in a back room a man was asleep in it. The timely presence of Mr. Northway prevented the fire getting the mastery, and, perhaps, the whole premises were thus saved. All the man's clothes were burnt. POST-OFFICE SALARIES.—The Post-office subordi- nates, who have applied for an increase of salary, have been informed that their case will receive due consideration when a general revision which the Post- master-General contemplates making of the salaries of those belonging to the post-office department throug ou the kingdom shall be carried into effect. The wages of some letter-carriers are as low as seven shillings a week, and the salaries of letter receivers do not amoun to more, in some instances, than two pounds a year. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The improve- ment in the public health during the week which closed the year 1847, after a season unusually fatal, is not e^qual to tiie expectation which the previous report of t e egis lar-General tended to create. There were registered in last week 1,559 deaths, showing all increase above the preceding week of 352, and an excess on the average of 553. It must be observed, however, that in the mortality from epidemic influenza, properly so called, there is a decrease of 15, the deaths from this cause being 127, whilst in the pre- vious week they were 142. In the last week typhus caused 74 deaths; m the former week 83. The diseases to whose increased activity the mortality of last week 18 principally ascribed, are measles, phthisis, inflamatum of the lungs and air passages. Deaths from all diseases of the respiratory orgaM were 497, about 100 more than in the former week. This in- crease is partly accounted for by the great full of tem- l'era ure, which occurred on Wednesday the 29th ult.

Flogging- a Governess. The Times' of Thursday, publishes the following, under date Bucharest, December 10: In the month of September a young lady from Hanover, of the age of twenty-five years, was engaged as under-governess to instruct the family of the Hos- podar of Wullacbia, at the very modest salary of 201. a-year. For some time after she was installed in her authority and appointment all went well; but three days ago, (on the 7th of the present month) having observed her with tears in her eyes, and evidently dis- tressed, the princess inquired the reason. The young lady said that she was annoyed by the nurse in atten- dance on the youngest infant, who was immediately called and asked to explain. The nurse at once denied the accusation, and told the princess, tout bonnement, that the young lady lied. A disgraceful scene of violence ensHed, in which the princess declared that she did not believe one word said by the unhappy governess, but gave full credit to the nurse. The young lady was overwhelmed with the turn the affair was taking, and the princess observing that she was pale and trembling, exclaimed, 'You are guilty, for you tremble.' Upon which the governess calmly replied, I tremble only before God.' This pious sentiment was too much for the patience of a princess who has the honour of partaking the throne of the Ilospodar of Wallachia. She vowed that she was insulted and would be avenged. Indeed, she not only pronounced judgment on the lady and declared she should be punished, but was on the eve of execut- ing the sentence with her own fair hands when the Ilospodar entered. "The Hospodar received the version of the story which the princess chose to give him, and, without further inquiry or delay, he called one of his aides- de-camp, to whom he gave orders that he should at once see twenty-five lashes (ditto fatto) administered to the young lady, The governess was, consequently, seized and dragged into a neighbouring room, where she received from the hands of a valet dc chambre, in presence of the aide-de-camp, the full amount of the punishment ordered. The unfortunate lady in vain implored the pity of the officer. Tiie only reply she received was a peremptory order to the lacquey to pro- ceed. At length she fainted under the torture, and was carried in a deplerable state to an hotel, where she abandoned, alone, degraded, and ruined. It so happened that in the hotel to which this un- happy young woman was carried a French traveller was residing, who, hearing the moans and cries of dis- tress which proceeded from the neighbouring room, entered, and discovered her in a state ef frightful agi- tation and despair. She requested to be brought to the Catholic archbishop, who was her only acquaint- ance at Bucharest, at whose recommendations she ap- plied for protection to the consular authorities. She was accordingly conducted to the residence of the Bri- tish Consul-General; but that functionary being no longer as formerly, the protector of the subjects of the kingdom of Hanover (his Majesty King Ernest having chosen to place them under the protection of a power which acts upon principles more in accordance with his own than those of Englishmen), could do nothing but send a statement of the case to the Austrian con- sul, who acts as Hanoverian consul also, accompanied by a strong recommendation of his o\vn in her favour. "The following day the head of the police (a Frenchman by the by, whom I remembered at the Tuileries, and who has been presented to the Ilospodar by M. Guizot, for what purpose you inay guess) came to Mr. Colijuhoun, the English Consul-General, and demanded that the lady should be forthwith sent out of the province, his highness, however, offering to pay her expenses as far as Vienna. The French Aga of the V allachian janissaries, who had expected to have a difficult affair to manage, was delighted to find that it was out of the hands of the English consul, who, in such a case, would not be easily pacified. He went to the Austrian consul, who, though not anxious to push matters very far, and who promised to arrange the affair, nevertheless could not help pointing out the rough ill-usage to which the young lady had been subjected, and the insult offered to a Hanoverian subject contrary to the faith of treaties, &c. The short and long of the affair is, that it has been arranged that the young governess shall leave Bucharest in a few days from this time; and, as re- paration for his gross conduct, the Hospodar has deigned to express his regret that his aide-de-camp should have been so maladroit as to execute his orders to the very letter. He further, on llCaring from the Austrian agent that an idemnity of 100 ducats (.">5/.) would be required, promised that that sum should be paid to the lady on her arrival at Vienna. It appears from this that the Austrian official in question estimates the blows inflicted upon this un- fortunate and friendless lady at the rate of four ducats per lash. It is well, however, for the young lady that the matter is not e\ en worse. Had th,, Aga been aware, in the first instance, that Hanoverian subjects were no longer under the protection of the British consul, she would probably have received no- thing. It is to the British consul's interference that she owes even the small meed of justice that has been accorded to her, and it is to be regretted that he could not do more. "What will the King of Hanover say to the protec- tion bestowed on his subjects by the representative of Prince Metternieh ? Here, I can tell you, the affair has created universal indignation, and iiotl among foreigners alone, but the W allachians themselves."

CALAMITOUS RESULT OF THE MEXICAN WAR.— The war that has been made on poor, helpless Mexico, by this country, is productive of evil, and no- thing but evil. Our wicked government took such an extravagant position on the Oregon question with Eng- land, that they wrought the people up to war heat and finding that England was not to be trifled with, they changed their destination from Oregon to Mex- ico supposing that Mexico would be easy game, they eagerly sallied upon that unhappy republic, knowing nothing of the geography of the country, or the capa- city of their prey to defend itself. This war has al- ready cost us nearly 100,000,000 of dollars, and the lives of 50,000 Americans by sword and pestilence, and no nearer gaining a peace than at the beginning. The war has had the effect of raising the price of articles consumed by the poor and not only so, but it is fill- ing the land with widows and orphans it is opening a flood-^ate through which to introduce a thousand paupers "that will have to be supported by oppressing the poor to raise revenue to pay pensions. Its etlects on Mexico are still worse, because she is poor and ig- norant and, compared with us, weak. Her peaceful villages and walled cities are battered down by our heavy artillery, and their helpless women and children slaughtered by hundreds, and left to seek shelter among the wild beasts of the forest. Shall not I be avenged on such a nation as thIs: saith God.—Letter J'rom llios Tan L'ensselaer, an escaped slave, dated Xcw York, Nov. 28th, 1847. POISONING OF THE LIYlXG BY EXHALATIONS FROM THE DEAD.—In the latter part of the year 1841, and beginning of 1842, fever raged violently amongst the European troops quartered at Port Royal, Fort Augusta, up Park Camp and Stony Hill, situated on the southern side of the island of Jamaica. Stony Ilill, situated nine miles from the town of Kingston, up the mountain, had, up to the period of the breaking out of the fever, being considered particularly healthy. The military labourers (natives) could not be induced to make graves in the burial-place the stench was so overpewering, that they affirmed they would drop dead themselves. They made, however, merely shallow graves, close to the public road, under the drunken excitement of I brandy and rum. The lady who furnished me with this account states, that she has seen, during the rainy season, (when the mortality occurred), the earth crack under the influence of the sun's heat, and a smoke issue therefrom, thicker than a London fog. During' such periods it was impossible to pass the church-yard in consequence of the intolerable steiicli indeed, many persons would go miles out of their way in order to avoid it. There was a forge in the immediate vicinity of this burial-ground, and it was well known that every person who worked, or was in any way employed therein (at that time) were seised wii h fever, and the majority died So fatal were the consequences of this proximity to the grave-yard that the forge was shut up.—From Mr. G. A, talker s Fourth Lecture on the Metropolitan Grave-Yards. SALE OF A YOUNG IEUALE SLAVE AT CLINTON, GEORGIA.—An Englishman, parsing through Clinton, observed, opposite his hotel, a sale of negroes, and, on approaching the auctioneer s stand, discovered a young female negro for sale, who had just been married to a young man, a slave in the same town. The reason of 'her being sold was to pay her master's debts, who was then in embarrassed circumstances. The poor creature seemed in the wildest gnef,; her hysterical screams and sobs were most heart-rending; in fact, so exciting was the scene, that it seemed to affect even the ca?lou hearted slave holders around, who were accustomed to such exhibitions The young man, her husband, was not to be sold. The party who wished to buy his wife, was a trader from the far south, and in all probability she would be separated from him for ever, many hundreds of miles. A person in the town, with more humanity than the rest, wishing to prevent this separation, bought her in, much to the satisfaction of the by-standers. Thus, by a mere accident, was the nearest and dearest tie of life prevented being a sundered. The thanks, how- ever, to the inhuman System of slavery. The screams of extasy uttered by the yonng woman, as she rushed into the arms of her husband, who was standing near, were affecting to all who. witnessed tluxa.—Report (if (l reol)ectaille Engluh Trm-tih-r. ANGER.—Passion is the drunkenness of the mind and therefore, in its present influence, not controllable by reason; forasmuch as the proper effect of it is, for the time, to supersede the operations of reason.— Poyndcr. The verb to build" has been much degraded among us, and has lost its full signification. Our English word, to build," says Home Tooke, is the Anglo- Saxon byldan, to confirm, to establish, to make firm and sure and fast, to considate, to strengthen and is applicable to all other things as well as dwelling places." In Germany the word retains its frul mean- ing.— The Builder. TESTIMONIAL TO MR. "W. ILLIAMS.—On Mon- day a splendid testimonial, consisting of a massive candelabrum, with an epergne and saher, was pre- sented by the Liberal electors of Coventry to their late representative, Mr. William Williams, who was so un- expectedly beaten at the late election. In the evening a public dinner took place, and the events of the day created considerable interest. Too TRUE A THOUGHT.—Mr. Ralph Smith, of Fountain's Head, between Bowes and Cotherston, was returning home on Christmas-day from the Catholic chapel at Darlington, and met two men on the road with bundles. The thought" struck him that one of the men had his (Mr. Smith's) "new trousers" on; but he dismissed it from his mind as an idle fancy. On reaching his farm, however, he found that the house had been entered, and stripped of variety of articles, including the new trousers. FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH.—On Friday se'nnight, Mr. Mills held an inquest at Marylebone on Louis Guttridge, aged 79, and Louisa, his wife, aged 78. The deceased were paupers, in the receipt of 5s. a week from the parish. The wife died suddenly, and her death so afflicted her husband, to whom she had been fifty years married, that lie declared he could not sur- vive her. As he was not seen to leave the room, the neighbours became alarmed for his safety, and entered his apartment, when they beheld him suspended by the neck from the post of the bed upon which the body of his ancient partner lay. GENERAL POSTOFFICE MISMANAGEMENT.—We have so many complaints of the mismanagement of the GentTal Post office with respect to newspapers that we must request the attention of the authorities to the sub- ject. It is not simply that newspapers are delayed, but that they often never reach their destination. An oc- casional delay might be excusable but, when the same person in a country town has to complain that about once a week on an average his paper does not arrive, and the fact of its having been regularly entrusted to the care of her Majesty's Postmaster-General is ascer- tained, it is difficult not to suspect that his losses are attributable to something beyond mere carelessness.— Times. FUNERAL OF THE LATE COLONEL PEEBLES—This melancholy ceremony took place on Saturday last, the remains of the lamented colonel having been conveyed with due military pomp from Woolwich to Charlton Churchyard and there deposited in the tomb. The death of Colonel Mercer promotes Lieutenant-Colonel Powell to be colonel and second in command at Ports- mouth, Vice M'Callum, who succeeds Colonel Mercer in the command at Plymouth, and Lieutenant-Colonel Abraham Henry Gordon, from Chatham, succeeds the late Colonel Peebles as colonel and second in command at Woolwich. APPLICATION OF CHLOROFORM IN TETANUS.—A man-servant in the household of Lady Dorothy Eliza- beth Palk, the rectory, Enfield, cut off the tip of his thumb. In ten days trismus (locked jaw) came on, attended with difficulty of swallowing, resembling hydrophobia; in three days more tetanus set in, affect- ing all the muscles of the body, with painful spasmodic contractions and extreme rigidity, the head, neck, and lower extremities being bent backwards. In this case Mr. Asbury, her Ladyship's medical attendant, saw that death must take place in a few hours, unless some powerful remedy were applied with success. Mr. Asbury determined on chloroform, with purgatives. The first application was on the second day of tetanus, when sleep was procured for IS minutes; the third day it was applied twice, and procured sleep for 20 minutes each time. The chloroform has since been adminis- tered daily with the same success for 24 days. The young man can now walk alone, and masticate food. The chloroform vapour was also applied to the wound, when, in two minutes, the thumb (being stiff and ex- tended) dropped into the palm of the hand. The vapour was also applied to blistered surfaces on the back with equal success. TRACTARIAN INTRIGUES.—It has transpired that the promoters of the suit against Dr. Hampden in the Court of Arches, which the llisliop of Oxford has brought to an untimely end, were the Rev. W. H. Rid- \1 ley, rector of Hambledon, in this diocese; the Ilev. E. Dean, vicar of Lewknor the Rev. T. Stevens, rector of Bradfield and the Rev. W. T. Youne-, incumbent oi Stoken Church. Mr. Ridley was formerly a well- linown diiioipl« of Dr. Pusey, in the university, and received from him a student-ship of Christ Church. Mr. Dean is of the ultra-Tractarian party, and Mr. Stevens is intimately connected by marriage with the Rev. Mr. Marriott, of Oriel College, who, with the Rev. John Keble and Dr. Pusey, constitute the per- manent Tractarian Committee at Oxford. Dr. Mere- weathere's legal advisers undoubtedly sent to the re- gistrar's office for a copy of the statute against Dr. IIr.mpden, in 1836. The Bishop of Oxford's letter has completed the prostration of the party. The im- pression is that the Bishop was mistaken in his state- ment of the interview with the common friend," but this leaves his whitewashing the Professor as great a fact as ever. It is certain that the promoters had re- lied on the present state of the unrevised edition of the Observations on Dissent," at a Tractarian book- seller's, as enabling them, under the Church Discipline Bill, to put in articles founded on that work against Dr. Hampden,. and it is observable that the Bishop be^an to see light as soon as a common friend in- formed hirn that Dr. Hampden was not a party to the sale of a book which had been superseded by a second edition. It is an amusing circumstance that, by way of making the quarter from which the prosecution pro- ceeded, the promoters, whom the Rev. Mr. Marriott had persuaded to undertake the office, afterwards ap- plied to members of the Evangelical party to stand in their shoes, though without effect. GAOL FEVER.—It is impossible now to ascertain the extent to which the gaol distemper prevailed amoii"- us during the last century. Howard's estimate of as many deaths as happened under the noose of the executioner is, doubtless, much below the mark but it is well for us that, even in healthy years, 10,000 lives are sacri- fic< d to typhus fever in England and Wales alone in addit on to some 200,000 or so prostrated on loathsome be s of sickness it is well for us that the reports of ths pooi-law commission have revealed the orphanage and widowhood it occasions, and the intolerable fever- tax that it levies upon us it is well for us, that what cannot be brought about by an appeal to feelings or conscience, may yet be accomplished by arguments ad- dressed to our selfishness. "The fever-tax is the heaviest of cur burdens," is our appeal to the rate- payer. Typhus-fever is the most atrocious of our manifold cruelties," is our argument with the philan- thropist. "Health is the poor man's property," is our remon tr.ince with the government. Prevention is the spirit of almsgiving," is our humble suggestion to the clergy.—Eraser's Magazin WHAT ONE MAN MAY Do.-In the • Fife Herald' of the 16th ult., there is all interesting narrative of the reformation effected in St. Andrew's, within the last three or four years, by Major Playfwir, the provost of the citv. He was-elteted to the office of chief magis- trate in 1842, and instantly took in hand the work of improvement. He has amended the pavement—en- larged and reformed the churchyard—improved the public walks and playground—remodelled the wells- induced landlords to rebuild ricketty houses—provided public-rooiils, reading rooms, and schools—corrected the morals of the vicious and intemperate—and, in short, revolutionised St. Andiews. When he first took office he found every one of his own opinion that im- provement was nt ede 1, but all 8 'id it was hopeless to try, for the town had no funds. "But the inhabitants have funds," said the major, and he set to work to raise voluntary supplies—himself setting a liberal example. By his energy and perseverance he infected all classes with public spirit and liberality—funds were never wanting and, notwithstanding lie had no act of parlia- ment to back him, he overcame all obstacles. THE BAILIE AND A QUADRUPED.—The following singular case is said to have occurred a short time ago in a bailie court, not above a hundred miles from mo- dern Athens :—A servant girl having occasion to sum- mon her mistress for non-payment of wages, the pre- siding magistrate, who had but recently been invested with judicial power and dignity, after attentively hear- ing the girl's plain unvarnished tale called upon the lady for her defence, xhich was in substance nearly AS follows My lord, owing to the inexcusable negli- gence of this girl, I have sustained a serious loss; to her care was entrusted a favourite squirrel, on which I put Teat value, which she has suffered to escape from its CA"E, and that is the reason, and a sufficient one it surely is, why I withhold her wages." I'm afraid ma'am," observed the worthy bailie (obviously but little acquainted with natural history), "that will no' do you should hae clippit the wings o' the creature, squirrel as ye ca' it, and then he could no' hae made his escape."—" Clippit the wings of it, my lord tx- claimed the astonished lady, It was a quadruped Quadruped here or quadruped there," continued the sapient and determined bailie, "you should just hae clippit the wings o' it; and, accordingly, I maun e'n decern for the lassie's wages und expense's ."—Glasgow Constitutional.