The Welshman

I MORALITY OF THE TURF. On Wednesday, Iguatius Francis Coyle, a person who has for a long time been extensively connected with turf transac- tions. and whose name was mixed up with the celebrated Running Hfin case, surrendered to take hia trial upon a charge of feloniously forging and uttering a promissory note fcr fl.loO, with intent to defray Henry Viscount Clifden. In an'uher count the prisoner wae charged with the intent to defraud Alexander M'Eachy Alleyne. Mr. Humffcy, Q C., <vas specially retained, with Mr. Clarkaon and Mr Huddlestone, to conduct the prosecution. Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., was also specially retained, with Mr. BaMau- tine and Mr. Hawkins, for the defence. The prosecutor of the indictment is a young gentleman of family and for- tune, who came from Canada to thi< country with his regi. ment in 1847. In the course of the following year he became acquainted with the prisoner, who, he was instructed, was a discounter of biHt, and also the keeper of a betting estab!ishrnpnt in the neighbourhood of Leicester Square, and it would appear that he waa not only induced to enter into betting transaet?onN with the prioner, but also to ad- vance him very large sums of money, tunoaming altogether to many thousand pounds, not one farthing of which he could ever hope to rpcehe back. Upon the occasion of the Derby race in 1850, Captain AUeyne teat a very considerable sum of mDney, not only upon bets of hit own, but upon bets that he had made on behalf and with the Mnction of the prisoner, and being desirous to obtain tome money tfter the race from the prisoner on account of hit debt, he applied to him upon the subject. The instrument which formed the ground of the present inquiry had bten handed over by the prisoner to the prosecutor in the banning of January. 1850, as security for the money he ha&lltready advanced. an4 ahto as eecurity for a further sum of money which the prose- cutor advanced to him at that period. It was in the form of a promissory note, dated the 30th December, 1849, at aix months' date, and in due course would become due upon the 3rd June, 1850. Shortly before the promissory note arrived at maturity, the prosecutor, in consequence of the heavy loss he had sustained at Eptom, was preMing the prisoner for payment. The latter made an appointment with the prosecutor at FurnivaFs Inn, and on that occasion. in the presence of the brother of the prosecutor, admitted that the signature of Viscount Clifden was a forgery, and entreated the prosecutor not to take proceedings against him. Captain Alleyne was unwilling to prosecute a person with whom he had been on such intimate terms, and being only desirous to get his money back, he agreed to take a promis- sory note from the prisoner for what he considered to be the amount of money due to him, and the prisoner at the same time gave a memorandum in which he admitted, in effect, that the promissory note was a forgery. After the prosecutor and his brother had been examined and cross-examined. Mr. James addressed the jury for the defence. He commented upon the conduct of the prose- cutor and his brother in reference to a trotting match referred to in their evidenee by which, he said, it was clear they defrauded a Mr. Kennedy of a very targe sum of money. It was apparent that the only motive for instituting this prosecution was to prevent the prisoner fromgiving evidence in support ')f the indictment that had been preferred against them by Mr. Kennedy in reference to that transaction. Upon their own showing they had brought a celebrated American trotting horse to this country, and the name of the horse had been changed for the purpose of doing the nedglinga." The teamed counsel then went on to say that he would not attempt to deny that the signature wa* a forgery, but his case was that the prisoner knew nothing of the fact at the time he gave the promi!lsory n"te to the prosecutor, and that his own letter to the prosecutor wa< the true account of the matter. Mr. Justice Cresswell said, in summing up, that a« a good dea) had been urged upon their consideration with regard to the motives that had induced the prosecutor to come forward and prefer the present charge, he thought it right to inform them that they had nothing to do with such matters, except so far as. if it should appear that there was any motive for the prosecution of an unworthy charac- ter clearly made out, it would then be their duty to watch such a case much more narrowly than one in which no such motive appeared. Even in that case, however, if the evi- dence satisfied them of the truth of the charge, they had no right to look at all at the motives that had induced the pro- secutor to prefer it; but, if the evidence was conclusive, they were bound to say that the accused person was guilty. The learned Judge then called their attention to the principal points in the case, concluding by leaving it to the jury to say whether the evidence satisned them of the guilt of the prisoner or not. The jury, after a Tery brief deliberation, returned their verdict, Ending the pri- soner Guilty of uttering the instrument, knowing it to be forged. Sentence was deferred; but on Saturday, Coyle was brought up for judgment. The prisoner begged the Court to respite the judgment until next Session, as he said be should be in a position to bring forward evidence that would place the case in a very diHerent light, and would contradict in many essential par- ticulars the statements that were made by the prosecutor. Mr. Justice Cresswell said that after the verdict of the jury evidence of this kiad could not be entertained by the Court, and therefore it would be perfectly uselesa to respite the sentence on that ground, If he was in a position to prove what he had stated, be muat lay the matter before the Secretary of State, who if he thought fit to do ao would re- commead a remission or commutation of the sentence. The prisoner was then called up for judgment, and the learned judge, addressing him, said that he had been con victed of uttering a forged promissory note, and after the discussion that had taken place upon the subject, he thought it right to say that he at the time entirely concurred in the verdict that had been delivered by the jury. It was a forgery to a considerable amount, but certainly he did not thiuk it should be looked upon like an ordinary cotnmercial instra ment, and he had no doubt that the prisoner never intended that the bill should be paid away, or that Lord Clifden should be held responsible upon it, but that he had merely placed it in the hands of Captain Alleyne as security for the money he owed him, an d that the transaction partook more of the character of obtaining credit by false pretences than the uttering of a forged instrument with the intention to defraud. It appeared also to be perfectly clear, that the note had been given in the course of transactions which he could not, without sorrow, see persons in the position of the Messrs. Alleyne concerned in. He should abstain from making observations he, perhaps, otherwise should have done upon th)s subject, because sume of these matters would have to be inquired into in a court of justice; but be could not help observing that the whole course of these transac- tions was calculated to dull the moral sentiments of all parties connected with them, and that this, to some extent, offered a palliation for the conduct of the prisoner. The learned Judge concluded by stating that it appeared to him that the justice of the case would be satisfied by sentencing the prisoner to be confined in Newgate for twelve months.

PR'KCE ALBERT'S NEW PaojECT.—It isrumonred, that after the brilliant success that has attended the Exhibition, Prince Albert intends to apply his abilities and inauence to a subject, on which, if he succeed he deserves something more than a statue. It is nothing less than the regeneration of Iretand." The plan that is spoken of is the purchase of large extents of land, partly waste, but reclaimable and the locating upon them persons professing various kinds of industry, incited from all the seats of industry in the world. Liverpool Standard. OFFtctAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.—Mr. W. Corrie is appointed police magistrate for the district of the metropotis. Mr. Corrie was deputy steward of the Palace Court at the period of its abolttion; and the annual compensation then awarded to him is saved to the public, and is to be deducted from his present salary according to the decision of the Treasury Mr. Wiltiam Folett Synge, of the Foreign oCce, has proceeded to Washington as &M<tcAe to Her Majesty's mission in the United States.- Observer. MELANCHOLY AcciDBtfT.—A building in the vicinity of St. Peter's Church. Nottingham, has been for some time undergoing certain repairs under the snpetiatendenceofMr. Mason, a hinhly.respectable joiner, builder, Ac. It appears that Mr. Mason was in possession of a ladder of great length, which had been in use a number of years. On Wed nesday afternoon he determined, for his better satisfaction as to how the work* were proceeding, to go to the summit of the buitding. When Mr. Mason was in the act of getting on to the ladder a bricklayer at work near intimated that it was exceedingly unsafe, and refused to go up. Hereupon Mr. Mason mounted it, and was very injudiciously followed by another person. When Mr. Mason had reached the summit, and the man bad got about 10 staves up, the tadder snapped in two pieces in the centre, in consequence of which they were both hurled to the ground, Mr. Mason from a terrinc height, and, his head coming in contact with a hard stone pavement, was completely smashed in pieces. Death was, of course, instantaneous. The other unfortunate man was seriously injured. SAD CONSEQUENCES OF A FoOUSH JEST.—The New York journals describe an occurrence which receotty happened at one of our female seminaries, which, if accurately related, affords powerful warning to those who are in the habit of in- dulging in the practice of attempting to frighten others. i wo of the young ladies were conversing upon anatomy. "hen another of the inmates entered with aaiow and solemn tread, having a white sheet wrapt about her form, and her face powdered to a perfect whiteness, her jet-black ht!r, eyes, and brows presenting a contrast which gate a <tarUing lividness to her countenance. So sudden w&s the approach of the figure, just at the moment when the young lady first alluded to was leawt ptepared for anything associated with thoughts of the dead, that she fell senseless to the &oor, and awoke on)) to show her attendants that reason had tied. Everything that profasional okiU cou!d suggest for the relief of the sufferer was tried, but during 48 hours a few Moments of intelligenc was all that offered hope to her friends. At those thimes she spoke of familiar name*. rec<tlinn them by strong mental efforts, which seemed to exaast her shattered powers and, her reason again wandering, she exclaimed, But I can't see it again don't let me see it it is to horrible and hours elapsed before the return of a lucid interval and the reeurance of the paroxysm. The young lady whose thoughtlessness led to such terrible mischief is spokeu of as a most amiable girl, and one of the warmest friends of the sufferer. Her distress and despair at the consequences of her playful folly can be better imagined than described. At last accounts no change was discoverable ia the distressing symptoms of the unfortunate girt, and there is little encouragement to hope that reMoa will ever resume its seat. -New yot'A B.rprcM. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable con- sciousness. A peasant has not a capacity for having equat happiness with a philosopher. They may be 'equally satit- ned, but not equally happy. A smatt dnnkiag glass and a large one may be equally full, but the larger one holds more than the smaller.—Dr. J()hnlorJ.

t MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. The Queen has commanded a detailed list of the Sunday- schools assembled in Peel Park on the occasion of her Ma- jesty's visit to Lancashire, specifying the numbers, names, and denominations of the schools, together with the names of the clergymen and ministers to whose congregation they respectively belong. The King of Hanover is getting better again, having over- come the attack under which he has been suSering, and daily surmounting the weakness left behind. It is said that Lord Fitza!an Howard, who lately married Miss Talbot, is about to follow the example of his father, the Duke of Norfolk, and embrace Protestantism. The accession of Mr. Frederick Peel to the Russell Mi- nistry is regarded with feelings of no slight satisfaction by the Roman Catholic party in Dublin. The appointment is looked upon as one foreshadowing coming events; and Mr. Peel's acceptance of omce under the Cabinet which carried the Eectesiastical Titles Act ie very naturally considered to be an assurance that that Act will not be enforced with any great degree of severity. The constituents of Viscount Duncan, M.P., at Bath, are contemplating the presentation of a piece of plate to their representative, as a memorial of their appreciation of his in- defatigable and successful services in procuring the abolition of the window-tax.-Suri. Several packages have recently arrived in this country from France belonging to her Majesty Mary Amelie, the ex- Queen of the Fr<nch, the whole being restored property belonging to the ex-Queen, and whieh have been forwarded to,this;country by order of the Government of the French Republic. The restored property belonging ta the exiles at Claremont have, by apecial permission, been <or<wded direct to their destination on amvAl Mt thi*«MHttry. An award has been made by Mr. Peacock, Q C., the umpire between two of the metropolitan cemeteries and the Board of Health in the matter of compensation due to the companies for the Brompton Cemetery and the Nunhead Cemetery. For the Brompton Cemetery, .Et6S,762 WM claimed, E42,836 was onerpd,and E75,912 was awarded. For the Nunhead Ce- E42,1 l, ?99,3?9 was claimed, ?39,871 was ouered, and f42,la3 was awarded. A few days ago, on the snow at the top of Snowdon was written, in a well-known hand, the following memorandum, with the date attached-" J. Russell, F. Russell, and party." A subsequent visitor to the high places of the earth" had added-" Heaven bless your lordship, and may you give us a good Reform Bill." The Westminster a't<< FQreign QM<!r<fWy ReptCM' has passed into the hands of M r. John Chapman, the publisher; and Mr. Hickson announces that his connexion with that periodical, which is about to appear under new editorial ma- nagement has ceased. The GMe states, that on Wednesday week orders were issued for the conveyance forthwith to Bermuda of the re- maining convicts now lying at the Folkestone convict depot, the Government having resolved to discontinue that depot as a convict station. There are 6,464 miles of English railways constructed, at the cost of JE205,160,000 the number of engines working on them is 2,436 the average distance run per day being 110.333 miles the profits on the traffic paying from f 10,000,000 to JE 11,500,000 to the shareholders. The Grand Jury of Devonshire, at the late Quarter Sessions, presented a written request to the magistrates, to use their influence to procure the abolition of that institu- tion, as being of no utility in the administration of justice. Mr. Thomas Ainsworth, of Cleator, has, with great li- berality, offered a prize, or scholarship, of ttOO to those students of the college who shall hereafter, in the University of London, obtain a gold medal. The consumption of gas by the people of Manchester, in their late illumination, was 2,316,000 cubic feet; and the cost, at 4s. 6d. per thousand feet, more than £521. The earth (says a German astrologer) will be destroyed by a comet in 22,000,000 years. It will last our time," then. In the year 1253, at Tewkesbury, a certain Jew. one Satur. day, fell into a cesspool, and would not allow himself to be drawn out, on account of his reverence for his sabbath. Ri- chard de Clew, Earl of Gloucester, would not allow him to be drawn out on the following day, being Sunday, because of his reverence for An sabbath. And so the Jew died.—CAp'o. nicks of London. Six individuals, all belonging to one family, have recently died in Pesth from Asiatic cholera. The Cologm Gazette intimates that the state of affairs In France has determined Germany to prepare armaments and concentrate troops on the frontiers, so as to remain on her guard against any military propaganda. Three Christians in Hanover have gone over to Judaism —two in order to be married to Jewesses; the third is a j minor. After the 31st of March next no steam-vessel is to proceed to sea or to steam upon the rivers of the United Kingdom without having a safety-valve upon each boiler, free from the care of the engineer, The Presbyterians of Ulster are said to be contemplating the establishment of an exclusively Presbyterian College in Belfast. A luggage-train has met with an accident near Crewe, which probably would have been a very sad atfair had it hap- pened to a passenger-train. During the night, the train came in contact with a wheel which had broken from a train on the other line of rails; the shock was terrific; on the line a mass of wreck was piled up twenty-nve feet lligh, while several carriages went down an embankment. The people in charge of the train seemed to have escaped uahart. 6ume sheep were killed. Two men were killed at Mickleton Tunnel, on the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, on Thursday last, by the falling in of a mass of earth under which they were excavating. A bull, long the terror of the parish of Normanton, seeing a train coming at night on the Loughborough and Derby line, got on the rail, and, charging impetuously at the engine, was dashed to atoms, though the shock threw several of the carriages, which happened to be empty, off the line. A Donegal paper publishes a short paragraph descriptive of the Earl of Ennis' visit to his estates in that quarter. His lordship, it seems, addressed his tenants as great length but, says the Ballyshalul011 Het-ald, "As his lordship never had sumclent patriotism to subscribe to his county paper, we shall not occupy our columns in publishing his speech." The Tipperary Free Presti announces that Captain James Power, who lately became the purchaser, under the En- cumbered Estates Court, of the Kilmore property, has, after a careful review of its condition, come to the conclusion that the rents were allotted far beyond what the altered circum- stances of the country rendered it possible to pay, and ac- cordingly he reduced the rent of the tenants who paid JE2 os. to £1 5s., and those who held at fl 16s. to fl per acre, at the same time informing his tenantry, that of the year's rent due in November, he would only demand one-half. To those due in November, he woul d oul t*b =ly pron-Lise d assistance, who desired to emigrate, he liberally promised assistance, and in some few instances his offer was accepted. A gentleman named LIndsay, a major in the army, resi- dent at Windsor-terrace, in Taunton, has been committed for trial on the charge of obtaining JEM by false pretences, from a lady named Williams, who also resides at Windsor-terrace. It appeared that the money was obtained by using a series of threats against the lady referred to, to the enect that an information should be laid against her for using a crest with- out paying the duty for an armorial bearing. Mrs. Wil- liams having subsequently communicated the afLir to some of her friends, they persuaded her that there were no grounds for such a complaint, and advised her to have the case in- vestigated before the magistrates, which she accordingly did. The accused had for some time been on terms of close inti. macy with the daughter of Mrs. Williams, at which the latter was much annoyed, he being a married man, sixty years of age, and the young lady scarcely twenty. At the petty ses- sions on Wednesday, it was announced that some arrange- ment had been come to between the complainant and the accused, and the counsel for the former stated that he did not wish to press the charge, but would be satisfied with the prisoner's pleading guilty, and by his entering into his own recognisance to come up for judgment when called on. The prisoner accordingly pleaded guitty, when the Chairman (C. A. Moody. Esq., M.P.,) after consulting his brother magis- trates, announced that the court would not countenance the arrangement proposed, and left it to the prisoner to retract his plea of guilty, which he did, and was sent back to prison to await his trial. Major Lindsay was placed at the bar on Thursday, to answer the above charge. The prisoner was found guilty, and the Chairman (W. Miles, Esq., M.P.,) sentenced him to be imprisoned with hard labour for nine months. The drivers of the up-mail train enjoyed an exoiting chase on Monday morning. Just as the tramapproached Tiverton, a hare started from her scat on the side of the line and took to the iron way for her life. The thundering of the engine only heightened the fright of the animal, and increased her speed, and though unable to outstrip the iron horse" at her heels, she managed to keep a head of it. Thus the run continued till the suburbs of the city were reached, when, electrined by the shriek of the signal whistle, the animal turned aside, darted precipitately over the parapet of the embankment, and feM into Wood-street. A policeman who happened to be near, witnessing the animal's descent, rushed up as it was limping off with a broken leg, and made the most pleasant capture that has faU<n to his lot for a long time.-Bath Chronick. An almost nuracttlous escape from destruction by a railway train occurred a few evenings since, upon the South York- shire line, near Doncaster. Mr. Cartmell, a cierk in the employ of the company, was engaged near the little Moor outgang crossing in assisting the driver of a coal engine to shunt" his locomotive into one of the sidings. The night being quite dark he was beckoning the driver forward in the usual manner with his hand.lam?, and for this purpose was standing upon the main line, when the Barnsley train come upon him unawares, and before he could escape he was struck by the buffer of the tender, and his right arm caught the draw hook, which fastened itself betwen the shoulder and the elbow. At first he was so stunned as to be momentarily unconscious of his dangerous position, but on recovering he found himself suspended in the coupling chain, with the train going at the rate of from Sfteen to sixteen miles an hour. His cries, drowned by the whistle, were not heard either by the driver or the guard, and in this way hanging between me ana ueam, aim expecting every moment to be dashed to pieces, he was carried for nearly haif-a-mite. For- tunately, his voice was heard by Samuel fortune, the gate- keeper at, the Cherry-lane junction, which the train was then approaching, and believing from the cries that some one had got entangled among the machinery, this individual with great presence of mind exhibited the danger signal, and the driver at once reversed the engine and brought the train to a stand. Mr. Cartmell was immediately extricated from his perilous position, and being, with the exception of the shock and an incised wound upon one of his arms, but little the worse for the accident, he waa enabled in a day or two to resume his duties. The Star Spangled Bontter says that, not long eince in South Carolina, a clergyman who was preaching on the dis- obedience of Jonah when commanded to go and preach to the Ninevites, exclaimed in a voice of thunder, that passed through the congregation like an electric shock, and are there any Jonahs here ?" There was a negro present whose name waa Jonah, who, thinking himself c-ifl?;$el't whose o n imme- diately aroM, and turning np his white eye, with hia broadest plu, 'epUed, Here be one, Maata." At the mce'.mg of the Bible Society held hst week at Man- chester, the Rev R. BIekersteth stated that MitcheU, the notorious Irish rebellionist, had become cmverted since hit- expatriation, in consequence of reading t BMe, which s minister of Christ presented to him in piIIe Ithmd. M. Soyer has commenced legal proceeding's against Mr. Pownall, a magistrate of the Middlesex tensions, for an attack made by him from the bench upon the Symposmm at the last meeting of magistrates for granting music licenses. A farmer near Inverness has rid his premises of rats by chaining a fox outside the building. The Manchester Council have resolved te havt beUt placed in the hackney carriages ef that city. The St. George's Hall Committee of the Liverpool Towr Council have recommended that a contract be entered intfj with Mr. Henry Willis for the construction and erection of an organ for St. George's Hall, according to the plan and specification eubmitted, for the sum of jM,2oO, exclusive ot the case. An actresa, named Eliza Deane, aged 21, wMt of a comedian now performing at Manchester, received such injurit-e on Saturday night, by setting Are to her night-clothes whilst reading in bed, that she died on the tallowing evening. She lodged in Borough-road, Southwark, at the time of the accident. The CounteM of EHesmpre hax ?!veQ a Cat contradictioit to & story whiett had gone the n'und of the Mnnehpfter pa- pers, that upon the Queen &ud tuite eutering the Exchankit,, Manchester, to receive the corpora itdd) CM, <)!re "f Couocit rushed up to the Coutitc't and *hobk hnndtt with ht': under the unprestiun that he was greeting the Queen. The Directors of the South EMtern Railway Company have, thrnuxh their chairman, Mr. M'Gregor, pretented << free pass to Sir Jo<!€ph Faxton to trA*«t ntt their lii&e, as a. slight tMtimony of the ebli%ation ..pi.Ã they taill C.I the assistance which his happy conception of the Crystal Pit- iMce hae given to the development of continental trame witt, thii' country. A magnificent f'Ce1.eiut¡c;\1 now in of erection in G<u'don.squ.<r' hack of the London University. for the disciples of the Rev. Rdward Irvintr, who 11. Ot. from rigid Presbyterian worship to a ritual vergini: on the Romish. The building is to be cruciform, ofthf Borid gothic-, with nave and tr:n]sept, the height of which w:]t be within twelve feet of that of Westminster Abbey. The estimated cost of erection is jESO.OOO. No little excitetn"nt has been created in the porthJg world and fashionable CM-clet, by the abiiipt ret'reinent t,! Sir Joseph Hawley, whose suecese this year has bet'n al<no<i' without a parallel, haviug won the Metropolitan Handicap, die Derby, the Ascot Stakes, the Great Ycrkshire Handicap, the Doncaster C«p, the Park Hill, and run second for the St. Leger. Various motives are assigned for this step, but the chief one we believe to be the defeat of Breba in ih(- Cambridgeshire Stakes, at Newmttrket, on Tuesday. The stud will, it is said, come to the hammer ou the 17th, at Tattersall's. Joseph Nichols, a fine looking sailor, has been committed for trial at Southampton, charged with the murder of Charles Phillips, a black sailor belonging to Jamaica in the bay of Monte Video, on the night of July 21st. The men were more or less tipsy, and had quarrelled. Phillips struct Nichols on the face, on which they closed and fell. the struggle ending by Phillips calling out that he had btft stabbed. He cued in about five minutes. There were tw: wounds, one in the neck, and one under the shoulder. The prisoner denied that he had any weapon in his hands during the fray. The electors of Athlone entertained their representative, Mr. W. Keogh, at dinner on Tuesday evening. In a large space adjoining the principal hotel was erected, for the pur- pose of the banquet, an extensive pavilion, which was thronged by clergymen and gentlemen from various parts of the county. But that which more than al! gave importance to the proceedings was the presence of the following members of the hierarchy of the Irish Church:—His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Tnam, the Lord Bishop of Meath, the Lord Bishop of EIphin, and the Lord Bishop of Clonfert. The chair was occupied by the Very Rev. Archdeacon O'ReiIly, P.P. To the right of the Rev. Chairman sat the guest of the evening, Mr. Keogh; also Mr. G. H. Moore, M.P., Mr. A.O'Flaherty.M.P., Mr. J. Sadleir, M.P., Mr. 0. D. J. Grace. M.P., Mr. J. T. Devereux, M.P.. Mr. M. Sullivan, M.P., the Very Rev. Mr. Roche, P.P. and V.G., Galwav; and Mr. Edmund O'Flaherty. To the left were seated the Prelates; Mr. John Reynolds, M.P., Mr. Francis Seullv, M.P., Sir Timothy O'Brien, Bart., M.P.. Mr. James Fagan, M.P., and Mr. J. H. Doyle. The following is the list «f toasts The Pope," the Queen," The Memory of O'ConneII," William Keogh, kscy The Catholic Hierarchy and Clergy," "The.{;atholic befence Association," 'the People," The Irish brigade," The Tenant League," Prosperity to the Town of Athlone," The Press," The Vice-chairman," The Ladies," The Stewards." DOCTOR WiSBMAK A BAKKEtt.—The M<MMMUthshire and Glamorganshire Bank which ad just failed. was origi- ntlly founded on a bank of which the proprietors were Me**rs. Blewitt and Jt,nt's, both eminfut Roman Catholics. On the converting their concern into a Joint Stock Bank. many of the leading Roman Catholic families and ecclesias- tics in England took shares, and amongst them Dr. Wixe- man, Dr. Ullathorne, and seveta! Roman Catholic families in Clifton and the neighbourhood of Bristol. Doctor Wise- man retired about a year since, but by the act he M assaw- ith!e for three year" after his tetiremcitt, Md it thereforf ztill responsible. Dr. Udathotne it, at this moment a shareholder. .SUDDRS DBATH OF A MAYOR WH!LB OFFICLATING.- Ou l' 1oIf'liday Uttt.as R. Cuff. Esq.,<Myor of Cnard,.w.As atttndlhg t«hM datice in th< j(MtM< ro<Mn in that ttnxn, tit" t« taken fe<Meniy ill and feU <f«m hit MX'. A"w!ttancl; I <m immediately render«i. but htexr'irfdth'Mth aftt'rwöLrds. The decvafed, whu <<tgh!y re'peoteJ, and h<n tiiic-d tli,, emceaetMal time*, WM about 60 year< cf age. Apoplexy is Mppexed to be the caaae of hi* deatt. THB Nsw LAW OF EvtDENCK AcT.—Oo Saturday th" new Law of Evidence Act comee into force. In all coMrttt in the united kingdom, with the excetttion of ScotU,lIJ. plaintiSs and defendtnta are now competent and compettabte <hnpMe<. In the enduing term the principle will be carried out, and the operation of the act tnoouaty watched. The worda of the statute ate rery comprthenMve,—" On the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or queatioo, or on any inquiry arMing in any Buit, action, or other proceeding in any court of justice, or before any person having by!aw or by consent ofpartie* authority to hear, reeeiTe, aad examine etidenee, the partie* tLereto, and the persons in whoae be- half any such suit, action, or other proceeding may be brought or defended, r.hl!. except as hereinafter excepted, be competent and compellable to give evidence, eithef viva coce or by deposition, according to the practice of the court, on behalf of either or any of the parties to the aaid suit. action, or other proceeding." The exception is in criminal ca<es, and to proceedings instituted in eoMequenee of adoi. tery, and to any action for breach of promise of marriage. In all other actions, assault, slander. Ac., the parties can be examined, as wet! as in mattets relating to bill discounting. The act extends the admixsion of documentary evidence. More than ordinary interest will be attached to the trials in the superiors courts in the next term, commencing on Monday. DEATHS OF NoTE.—Ia St. James's palace, the Hon. Mrs. Lee, sister to the late Lord Byron, of whom he always pre. served the tenderest recollection. He often alludes to her in his letters and writing, as in the following Terse :— From the wreck of the past which hath perished This much I at least may reca!), t That which I mo&t tenderly cherished Deserved to be dearest of all. In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still 's a tree, And a bird in my solitude singing Which speaks to my spirit of thee. -23rd October, in Grosrenor-sqaare, Katherine Elizabeth Countess Dowagfr of Mornington, aged 99—24th Vice Admiral James Noble, at a ripe old age. He was one of Nelson's lieutenants, and is noticed !a his despatches as oee of those fine fellows, Hardy, Gage, and Noble."—20th, at Florence, aged 18, Lady Maria Howard, youngest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Wieklow.—Aug. 29, at the Hankey institution, in the Cape territory, aged 76. the R<T. Dr. Philip, for 32 years superintendent of the African mis- sions, and author of a wclt.known relume, Researches ia South Africa."—Ou the 29th ult.. at Brighton, Wm. Wyon, R A chief engraver of her Majesty's miat. ABLOOMBttBALL.—An attempt was made on Wednes day evening to inaugurate the, introduction of B!oomerism into English society, by abati at the Hanover-square Rooms. The result was of an unexpected character. Crowds assem- bled outside tte rooms and coarsely ridiculed all comers with vexatious pertinacity. Intide. the immense majority were of the mate sex. The peerage wa< well repre'pMted. and the Lower House had eont'ibtned a respectable deputa- tion. The ctubs mast have been emptied—" at ewery ttrn Y" came upon faces so familiar to every gpera-goer--guardsmen, dandies, artiste, authors, and the tjke—that one Migkt have fancied oneself in the crtMh room. All for the Mi«, if th'' account in the C)iranicle be true; the less that is e*id. either of themaet'es or their drcMes, the better. The jttter werf very generally utterly ga<dy and tastelesa—the prolaioent points of Btoomerism copied, but in very few eaaee with My. thing like grace of detstt. Some of the girls wore mere ordinary polka jackets: others had horrible affairs, glaring with unmatched colours, and not a few presented shabby makes up from faded old materials. Some wore loose and wide Turkish trousers; others drawers, or whatever they may be ca!)ed. Stting a* etose!y to the limb as common pan- taloons. The majority sported beaver hats theatriemUy perched on one side of the head, and decorated with alarm ing plumes of feathers. In fact, as a general rule, the cohered dresses were gaudy and flaunting to a degree; those in which white predominated were dingy and dirty the whole tone and style of the thing, in fact, smacking un. mistakingty of VauxhAU at a late hour on a cheap night." The nerer-failin4; effects of Btair's Goat tad RhetHnatic PiUs in curing every description of Gout and RheMMHato have secured to them <t celebrity unequalled by any medieioe of past or present times. They not only gi-re relief in a few hours, where the patient has been driven nearly to mad- ness by the excruciating tortures of this disetue, but retire to perfect health in an inconceiv&WY -Bhwl space of timw They are equally speedy and certain in fhemMtism, either chronic or acute, lumbago, sciatica, pains in the head or f<tce, and indeed for every rheumatic or Nfouty anecuon; i't fact, such has been the tepidity, perfect ease, and complete safety of this medicine, that it has Mtonished a wno have t*ken it: and there is acMeety t city, town, or village in the king* dom but contains maxy grateful evidences of its beoiga inneence. Sold by all medicine venders. Price 2s. 9d. per box. Observe the Mme "ThornM Front, 229, Strand, London," on the government stamp. iNTZREBTtKO DH'covMT.—Baron Atexsnder de Htm- botdt has. says n Berlin joumat, announced the discovery st Athens of the edi&ce in which the Council ef Four HnodMd was accustomed to assemble. Upwards of one hundred inscription* have alre&4 neee brMgHt ? lights M w<U M t. number of colMaM, stttmw, &<. NttW TRA:K!KG Cf)LLBC<t Ja'" II"UIKE.-On "iI- doy. the Biahop of Oxford Itud the tr<t ztnne of a TrAtOtnt: College and Chapel in the pad." of Culhoin, and wHtm a 'ltrter of a mile of the Abingdon-rea roiwit) xmneti. The ,"timatecl cnst of the bui)dut« i< d 2,000. towaris wbieb. ;&Tge subiteriptioiis h<we beeu made in the diocot.Mj tibeTa! grants h*re been netde bv the Committee <f Citutwit CM EdtMttion and the Nstional St)ciety. The style of ard'¡tft- 'ure of thf buiidinKs ie the early decorated G«'htc "f the )ater period c< the foorkttith century :hpy wit! extead otp" tn area of ei(tht Mre<t, and tiU *ecumtn"J«M one httttdred etndentt, four of 6'e assistant- rnsistws, and t ptinciptt DEATH or StR ED"ARO CROMWELL DtOBKOWt. G.C.H. —We regret to learn that <eefut)« reaclit-d i<oud.n on 'urdty evening. announeing titt devaiat ofthii distinguir-hod diplomatist. The me!)mett«!y event tnok plaor,-ti the 29th. a!timo at the HIe, where Sir Ed"wrd on 'tie ateredi" En'oy E)ttr*ord!uary and Mitmtet Pteotpotectmry &om the Coott of Great Brttain. The deeewted <teut:etn"n WM awn of C<tlone! Diabrowe, the repretentttre of an old Derbtthirt fttmily, by the daughter of the fmtfth Eft of Buckinghata- thire. He married, in 1822. the Aaugbteir of the Hon. Rn- bert Kennedy, and the gratiddavoter of the cleveiitia Earl of C*Mi!is Sir Edwtrd't !i<e has h«a Bpent ic the dtptc- qiatic MfTice of hit counlry. He boa represetitel hix S01'l"r¡.i1I at the Coatt« of. Rmwia, Wttrftohnre;. Swedfn. and the Netherlandi,. H'" hettth hai1 \'«,n tt'r Dast derlityiitg. It) 1831 the dec-o,-ased rct¡Hd t*ie hon 'm of knighthuod, Hcwa<<d<utt )4''u!«mi'' <'f 'he of Dfrbv. "tiere t' lanÙ(, h<tVt b.t¥h f.e<Ktd mtcc I4M, t'n 1t4d in (;1- tepually. Sir EA<far4 WM dftcebidvd trotM the !<tnt)y of Ct'«a<td!. Mt. Bo<«B<, JJ.P., A.<tU Hf LATE SfLfCU —M'. mAk"- II 6w tt, (be t!7nd.n,â, "It his ..ul- .00IIr 8pet-(ii .t: Hffeford. !< at, tht ]fm"t'l.¡., ('1,(. remarkra. sisf,%vx lie is 1a()t f1" E t':n &. lull este¡,t ",nd true c!Jaliictcr (If h¡ ,i.:IJrC>'lIHI "H 'rdinary df-cencih of c¡dl¡"t-å iiir. audient, and a.ccOfnplirt>8 in the i:I!lrU- pr:e!y, and in6ill)atf'O thai be was tra,ted by 'he te;'or«-rf., who (as h{ 'mstif adm'ts) with !aera)accurMC)r. th;thfsaid. 8n far." hett.tvt, from any one of the express'or.s f had tt<c\! btving g; ven oà, or dir&gust to any one i"Jt\i¿ual wht' "eai d th(ra. and wit-* ncstted the tone and manner in -icii ttiev feli from me. t*ey elicited no reproof nnr Cl)mU1Pn' of )tny kind. except a hearty laugh at what was mfrely in'endcd to erea'e a little mirth among much despondenfy." He !gs to etpress his Teglet for the tng,,Aarded etpreaxionsittquettionaxdtoadd 'hat be II neYer dreaoH'd (.f bein" j;(uilt)' of auy disrespect towards the illustrious Prioce, 'he Consort o< my Sovereign, tor whose person and exempliiry character I believe few bate exprcstted grater aduiiraHon or devotion than I ever have, nor towards any portion of my countrywomen, who'<e socia) condition few have laboured more earnestly to ameliorate." Ms. W. J. Fox, M.P., AKDHISCoXSTtTtJENTS.—Mr. Fox received a very hearty wetconte from hi)' cou<'ti!uen't )Mt week, and a resolution approving of hit parliamentary f'ndoet, and pledging the voters to support him at a<iy i:ure election, was adopted unanimously. The hon. Mefu- t.er ftttid be looked with hope on the proceeding <'f the ses ''ion with renard to the question of education, and he re- ferred with peculiar plt'&ur.. to ohot he conceived t" be the altered tone ofthe discusbit)ij whfn lii*; Bitl'"a<bef"rpt'i'' House. The pirii which had been sanctioned by the Bisho;* of A-Ianchester and his clery to be tn 'he opposite plan, because it included the religious basis He denied <hat he had ever said that a ehitd oujtht not to he religiously eduea'ed he only denied the riglit of the State to interfere with the parental rit<ht and duty to teach re)it;ion. The new Manchester scheme, though it made some protiion for religious teaching, made none for the improvement of education, or for raising it to a higher standard. He eulogised the Irish system of education. given under saiiction, as producillg enccts, such at were not ptc<tented in this country. The in which did in f8: tli- secular slid the religious part o., the training t,, hands. raised up that barrier against crime, which the ftxte of Englith Raoix ahowed, was not set up by education a< ci'en in Ecgtaad. In this country, the per centtLge of criminals who had been educated, was increasing, but in Iretand it was decreasing, and he held that to be a fact dit- tinctiy proving hit rifw of the co'nparatiTe tneritt of tne two <y<te<ns; for more chitd'en were being educated in En<t!aHd, yet more got into ga'tt. He objected to the Man- chester new teheme that it did not provide for graduated inottructioti, and Ùlat, therefore, it wouid be inellicleiii, while the <choot rate would bfc«tne littlc- tHnrf t'i.m a ¡'I:e and addiUTna! endowment t" th<' Chtrch, which h.-I "ió,<i, .ra1 a year for ,-1i¡(Í(HI tl. .1.1, nn,i "t'Ii\ye¡ght per cent. of the n.mun.n grant fur e du- ettion. SoEKCE AtfO THE ExHtBtTtOt—Among the fit)riuv ''uht'itutes for hemp and 8st< in the Indian department "f raw produce WM exhihi'cd a tpecnnen which the tilt,sl t..n- nent natur*!i«t< pronomn't; t" b<' idfn'iod -;tl, C'¡"1i gra. It Iø.a ;naHpar'<t'f'ne .11) l.'I.iri(!I, l."t' C; h,t)agtit int<'our 'narttt:<< in laritt- <jt&L.m< it a <I<'t! jt:! e<:tteT for it A'$, d"M not eo"'e to tind m 'he it,)urcr whet.Cf tt.ey h"'t" bf*<-u 1I.C("41"t(fQ\'¡ 'r: ChiiK graM, the mfrehantf attd b."k:.rs "n not <tK'!t At it, wi.ile, at the Mmf time. they <t')d £MJ f«f the n,YlUiAtp.rialw¡,i!' ..l¡;ch i' otatp,; o b<;)d''ntie<<t. Attain, in the rottpc'i'tn of fattt ft" from l..dia I- «M "f grext ixitereott, fft'tn tb'* -red at the !<.t!toia, which i)t alMMt fery t.ar< of th<* pfBtu$&!« Fr'lfll thi<: '*fe ,g, a< wi-t! a< a spirit "I¡'Y, ..I. wege'a b!e oit in qMMtion, are aH emrafeJ The abundant aupply and the otbtr ta!uabte protwr:ieo «f the tree would enabte the ('i! to be imported on the mnet fafMrabte tertno. fof the m<Ttafartare of candtp«, <oap, &:1" yet, beca'Me it i* not kno" in the markft." w w .xtti probabty at once be put down af. of no Tt!«e." Takt the eat.e of gutta percha, and we 6nd it q<iite rceentty brought irfto notice by a paper of Professor Sotty'e on the euhject, read before the Society of Afta. He h«d been requeeted by Dr. Royte to analyze it. and Dr. Roy!e, in bio turn. had had his attention drawn to the aubject by Mr. WHkinoon, an intelligent broker. But for this the material might still ha*e remained titidiscovered, and we cannot imagine a more direct and forcible iHustra- tion of the advantage* to be derived from an at<ociation of practical and acientime men in connexion with a collection of aubatances and proceaMS to which their inquirie* might he dtrected. India furnishes many example* of a aimilar dMeripttoa to those quoted. The eoloora tent by her to the Exhibition haTe. for the nritt time, attracted the attention of the artMt. Her aucceMful enorta in the cultivation o< the tea plant have reeeited < pubiicity which, io the ordinary confae of trad., mMtt haTe takep a long time to achieve, and from the interestin<r paper upon that aubject aupplied by Dr. Royle to the Illustrated Catalogue, we learn that the inferior qualitie* are now actually carried acroM the Britiah frontier, and meet the teM of China in Thibet. Looking at the Indian collection of mw produce generally, and, indeed, at the tpecimens sent from all parts of the world, incomplete as these are, one cannot help being struck with the number of apparently uaefal eubstaDeea of which we know nothing and, tTen when the question nf utiHty has been satisfactority proved, the cheapness Md the abundance of the supply remain doubtful. Are we< after the Great "Edtibitjon has repeated to us so many new points of intereat, and ftill fur- ther discloted to us a maM of objfcts about which we re'na'n in comrjete tgnarance—are we to relapse into the old jog. trot system", of shall we provide our industrial progress with fresh guarantees by placing it under the guardianship of an association in the working of which science and prac- tice may be happily combined ? Every one admits that we have reached an eventful and most critical period in (he history of production. In mechanical invention we easily lead the world, and oar supremacy is undoubted. Any one who hM a doubt upon this point need only refer to the a.w<trds. and those who have studied the Exhibition carefnUy need not be reminded that in many casea where prizes have been won by foreign countries the MceHecce so rewarded has seldom risen to the level of our contrt&utio'is ie the same department. Further, it will be recollected to"t in 'he display of engineers' machine tools which t!e at thf rout of *11 mechanism we have the Sold almost entirely tf our- sel'es. If, therefore, everything turned upon the qwstion of nsachiacry, we might rest orith tolerable comfort upon the resells of the Exhibition. But what is actuary the ettM- ? The applied sciences are loulId In&uenciag T'roctujon to au eztent no-,er before dreamt of. The aoalyticat eh<'mi& mineralogitt. and the n"tura)ist are founii in cimtcr with th* manufacturer on't with the it-ilautri-il cletiw. raHy thatt they ever hav<* been httherto. New pr,)eerstji, purely teienti&c in th-ir chitracter. arp witil the economical objects, and over a syeLem of cheap p'ducuon by machinery rise the evtdencex cf new ne!J< nf indu-ftry cpened up by a ':uocessra) study of .mu by the results which ezperimentat philosophy T.t' :s. Le' us recatt "n tbM point a few u{ ¡¡i1p;tral.iolfli whicn the jury awards teadily supply. Tckt fóJT instaMce, the case of arti. 6cial ultramarine, for which a council medat has been given to M. Guimet. Pormerty ultramarine sold at 80 guineas pef pound now an equaMy good subttitnte for it CM be supplied at 3<4d. per pound. TAke. again, Gail Bordea, of the Uoi'ed States,—meat biM-uit prepared without salt or any other substance usually <mployed in the preservation of animal food. Here is a discovery which readers failabte the immense supplies of food aBOMat!y )ost m Australia and South America, which reduces vrithina manageable bulk the commissariat of an ar<ny. which would ee invaluable at the Cape ju<t now, and ten ounces of which grated and mixed with boiling water is an ample day's supply of proviei.ms for a trooper on active service. Let the improvements which the French have ettected in the manufacture of their beet soot sugar be for a moment considered, *nd especially the barytie process, by which t saving of nearly 40 per cent. has beeR piff-cted from the beet-root molasses which <vere formerly valueless. We would also qaote the invention of Mercer for improving the nbre of cotton, and incretsing its dyeing properties by the action of caustic alksti; Shrotter's dis- covery of amorphous phosphorus rendering h portable and easily adapted for manufacturing purposes; Young's solid gas. Claussen's Bax cotton, -the new Tatbctype process, tbw application of magneto electricity to the tetegraph. the ory. dation of silver, and many other novelties strikingly illus- traJUve of the increasin g connexion between the Mailed scMneet and the practice of the <aduwtrMl world. Oa a CMeM swrvey of the jury awards, it will be found that Eng. land potteseet no undoubted superiority over other tonntriM m the path af discovery just pointed eat, M <a< does ia machtnery. Let her look to it, therefore, white she bM time to do so. Some contend that M entire revolution in her educational system is requisite, and perhaps it may lie so bnt, at letst, her <ead.ng manuMM'tur<-rs. merchants, and MpOM. brought togpther by the Great Exh!bttion, need ftW. hasten to separate and stand &10" from each other, wbt-n occasional interchanges of thought <nty cerrwet the eatra. wagmnces of mert theory en oaw tide, *ad eDlarJe the nMrow-miadtd prejadMtt of. pMCtMt en UM etlaer.-T.