Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald and North and South Wales Independent

Spirit of the Contemporary Press. It is idle to declaim against the Catholic religion, and to exaggerate its mischievous influence on the people of Ire- land. No people were ever yet scolded out of their reli- gion and the ouly effect of such vituperation is to inflame the existing animosities of sects towards each other. The Catholic religion is professed by all but a mere fraction of the inhabitants of Europe. The French, Italians, Span- iards, Portuguese, three-fourths of the Germans and Swiss, the Belgians, Poles, Hungarians, See. are Catholics. It is insanity to maintain the natives of thes.e countries are incapacitated from being good subjects bv their religion. There is nothing in the Catholic religion which militates against the duty of a subject to his Sovereign. In all the wars of Italy, the Netherlands. Germany, France, and the Peninsula, we never heard that one man was influenced to adopt a course from that he would otherwise have taken hy considerations derived from the opinions of the Pope. It is possible that the influence of the Irish priest over the peasantry is greater at present than it ought to be. But that influence is unnatural. It is the resul; of the oppres- sion of both, and of the necessity for combining for mutual protection. When a continuance of just and impartial government has satisfied the Catholics that all are equal in the eye of the law, and held of equal account in the admi- nistration of the law, the influence of the priest will relax, as a matter of course. If we are to assume the incurable .depravity of the Catholics, and that the Protestants must be kept in a state of ascendancy, in order that, like so many bull-dogs, thejf may be let loose on them, when it is wished to recur to such an extremity, an improved admi- nistration of the law is out of the question. But we protest against such a horrible assumption. All subjects of the same state ought to be deemed equal in the eve uf the law. So long as one part of the population is treated with more favour than another, there must of necessity bo heart-burnings and disaffection. The law ought to k-now nothing of the particular religions of a community, but to consider all the inhabitants as citizens. It is observer ju private families that wherever the parents make favourites, the children are enemies for life, and never turn out well. In the State, to favour one class makas the rest disaffected. Justice is the cement of families and nations. Piiests of all religions partake of the general improvement. It would be as absurd to go to the times of Henry YIll. tjnd John Knox for the character of a Protestant Priest, as to the time of the Council of Trent for that of a Catholic Priest. The Catholics of the present day are imbued with the feel- ings and notions of the day. The intolerance and perse- cuting spirit with which the present Catholics are absurdly reproached, are nowhere countenanced in oar times, There is an admirable passage in a letter from the Marquis of Mirabeau to the Marquis Longo (Appendix to the third volume of Mirabeau's Memoirs, just published), on the manner in whic1, a government should act towards the clergy: —" Recollect," says the old chief of the Econo- mists, that the prudent Machiavel himself savs, that when religion weakens in a State, that State is very near its fall. What a wise Sovereign should obserye against the worst of abuses--that of power over consciences-is to promote the study of letters, and require that priests should be men of learning and information not in their own craft only, but in general literature and knowledge also. to pro- less a great respect for religion, and thereby rule the priests in their own sanctuary), also. to require that the priestg should instruct, instead of judging; also, to force the austere portion of them to be simplv cenobites, prohibiting their exercise of any social power; lastly, also, when those infallible means, by being followed up, have given the Sovereign his natural authority—inseparable from the mo- tive pursued, but not announced—to derive from the cano- nical books and ecclesiastical decisions the law reforming those accumulated and inveterate abuses bv which the priesthood have become usufructuary possessors of the pro- perty of which they were originally only the responsible stewards; to reduce each institutd to its original institu- tion; and to lay down, in the very instructions given by the priests, the barriers that must thenceforward conline them within their proper limits. The mask of hypocrisy will never yield to those who attack it iu front, for its strings are behind. A blinded people will always mistake it for a face." General instruction is the only security against the abuse of power, whether by priests or laymen. 1 he government is busy in endeavouring to promote in- struction to Ireland. and the beneficial fruits will soon be seen. In fact. all accounts agree that improvement is now making rapid strides in the Sister Island. Let us hope that ere long it will be as easy to govern Ireland as Scot- 1.1 '1'1 I-I .1_[. r. ..u. attachment of a people to order, which always follows an impartial administration of the laws. Confidence in the law begets security, and security is the parent of property and the man who possesses property gives a pledge for his good conduct to the State.—Morning Chronicle. Every one must remember the decided, impassiored manner in which, during the progress of the Reform Rill, the Times,' day after day, made a point of speaking of the NN big Ministry. No term of praise was then too ex- travagant to be applied to them. They wete lauded en masse; they were lauded individually; nothing they said or did, but, in our contemporary's opinion, it was wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best." Their disinterestedness was particularly commended. Nothing like it had been known within" the memory of the oldest inhabitant" of the empire. It was more remarkable than the most re- markable strawberry that ever furnished a paragraph for a provincial newspaper. Such was the enthusiastic way in which, at the period referred to, the l imes' was in the constant habit of speaking of the Whig part,?. What is the language it now holds towards that same party ? Here it is; and we will venture to sav that language characte- rized by a spirit of more shameless and unadulterated apostacy, is not to be met with in the annals of political turpitude. The Whig partisan Ministers," observes our contemporary. who put tlemselves forward as authors both of the political Reform and the corporate, were little influenced by the tendency of either, to effect any particle of benefit for the nation, but looked to one exclusive object — viz., the working some grand change in the relative state of their own faction, and that of their opponents. For this one, this base and grovelling end, was an anxiety for re- form, political and municipal, assumed by the hig faction all coming into office." Whathave the Whigs done to deserve all this prodigious heaping up of coals of fire on their heads? Have they shrunk in 183.) from the principles which they upheld in 1830 ? Have they falsified any one of the great public pledges they made on taking office ? Have they loaded us with taxation, where they promised Retrenchment? Have they plunged us into war, where they promised Peace 1 Have they kept up old abuses, where they promised Reform? Not so. They have strictly kept faith with us in all the great leading features of their policy and if they have not been quite so success- ful on some few minor points, it is because they have been beset with difficulties, to which no other administration was ever exposed to a like extent. Why then, since the Whigs are the same now as they were when they first took office, is the language of our contemporary so changed towards them? Because tliev have preserved their con- sistency, and he has abandoned his. Because thev have stood firm to their creed, and he has apostatized. This, and no other, is the true secret of his present outrageous hostility to the Whig Cabinet. Mixed hate and remorse are the engines with which he works and these lash him into a state of all but madness. To wreak his spite on Ministers, he cares not what injuries he inflicts on himself. He is like some huge stranded whale, whose every struggle only recoils on himself, and embeds him still deeper among the sands nnd breakers. Few now care what the Times says on any subject. Even the Conservatives think no more of his "praise, than the Liberals of his blame. He is impotent alike for good or evil. Such id the fate that, sooner or later, never fails to attend those who sacrifice character to interest .—Sun. An address of condolence to the clergy of Ireland, signed on behalf of the episcopal Church of Scotland by Dr. Gleig, titular Bishop of Brechin, has just been published. We may be permitted to notice certain assertions of the reve- rend body, which, being untrue, are out of place in a cleri- cal performance. First, it is stated that the Scottish episcopal clergy are the descendants or successors of men who suffered long under unmerited persecution," and that "similar perse utions" are directed against the Irish Church. Now, in the first place the prelatists of Scotland merited their fate, and received nothing from the hands of the people but strict justice. Episcopalianism was abo- lished because it was the form of worship of the minority, and Presbyterianism was established because it was the religion of the majority. When Dr. Gleig calls the Irish establishment a pure branch of Christ's holy church," we find it difficult, with the largest allowance for civil words, to divest ourselves of the idea that the reverend gentleman is doing anything more than sneering at the object of his panegyric. Has Dr. Gleig ever heard of the Revs. Messrs. O'Sullivan and McGhee, the political mountebanks of the estahlishment 1-of the Christian dispositions of the Rev. Marcus Beresford, or of the tender mercies of Archdeacon Hyder of Rathcorniac, or of Dean Carter? Has Dr. GIeig ever read the evidence on Orange Lodges? Did he never hear of armed parties of Orangemen, headed by clergymen of the Established Church, with pistols in their hands? Perhaps not; otherwise he would have been more chary of eulogies which there is not an uncontaminated or deserv- ing minister of the Church but must feel ^re sheer mockery and dirision.-Globe.

IHsastsus Conflagration at New York. W« reeled last week from the North and South American Offae-house a file of New York pa pers of the 22d ultimo, brcght by the London line of packet-ship Toronto, Captain Gswold, which arrived at Portsmouth after a short passaft of 15 days. These papers contains the most paiflful detJs of an appalling conflagration, which broke out in New York on the night of the 15th ult., and which destroyed i the fifteen hours (iurina: wLich it rnt;ed, with the most,truetidous furv,'upwards of six bundled houses, and propetf stated bv some accounts to be worth nearly thirty m U>ns of dollars. Thw Exchange, the Post-office, and an iinomse number of stores, have been totally eon- sumed ev. the shipping along the line of wharfs took fite, and sef-tl vessels are stated to be destroyed. We subjoin fronthe New York Mercantile Advertiser full particulars ¡ tUts heart-rending event, which has fiJieJ the city wit!} }{t}entation and mourning, not only for the pro- perty, btft fer the lives that have been lost :— A little beore nine o'clock in the evening, of tbe'l6th, a fire hroke outin the store of Corn stock and Andrews, in Mer- ciiajit-rtneet, Pvhich threatened exteneive destruction. The street is narrrtv, and built on both sides with high stores, principally octupied by dry goods, jobbers, and importers. The wind bloving a gale at N.W., the thermotueter at or below XWfy tLe hydrants mostly frozen, and the engines al- most ui^rm^r service jn consequence of the freezing of the a,; bose frt serher exposure the preceding night, great fears of exten^'J^ damage were expressed at the commencement of the these fears l*uve been mote than resized. Never hagrsuch a conflagration been witnessed in this city. The am of property destroyed must be many njiUioms of dollars^ In the course of twenty minutes from the commencement eftbe fire, not only the building in which it originated, but the whole on boih sides of the street to Pearl-street were jn a bla-P. Never was a more rapid extension of the Bames. The stores in Pearl-steet, and on each side of Me reliant-street were soon enveloped in the devouring ele- ment. Soonthe flames extended across to the south pide of Pearl-str/^St, and at this time, eleven o'clock, have de- stroyed nearly the whole Hock on that side of the street, from and including the store of Arthur Thppan and Co., to WaJl-street. Thence they have already extended to Water- street, increasing in strength and violence, and now threaten the destruction of all the property in Water, Front, and South-street, from Pearl-street to the river, and from the west side of \V all-street nearly to the Oldslip. Some ves- sels in Coffee-house-slip are already on fire. The night is intensely cold, and the scene of destruction is most sublime and awful! It is just reported that the stores in Exchange. place, in the rear of the Exchange, have takeu fire. There is now a loud explosion of powder or the bursting of casks of spirituous liquors, in a store in Water or Front-street. The engines can do nothing to stop the progress of the flames. Half-past Eleftn,- The flames are still raging. All the buildings in Exchange-street, below the Exchange, are destroyed—thre« or four of the buildings in Exchange- place are on fire, and the whole block to William-street, as well as the Exchange, is iu danger. The wind has some- what subsided. It is impossible to calculate the amount of damage al- ready sustained such goods as could be hastily saved are strewed in the streets. We shall annex a list of such of the occupants of the stores and sufferers as we can gather it, the confusion that prevails. Many of immense stocks of goods are consumed. It is believed that more than one hundred stores and warehouses, including many of the most valuable in the city, are already destroyed. Tuehe o'Cloch.—The rear of the Exchange is now on fire, n-hich is extending into the Post-Ofiice. A strone force of firemen is placed there, and hopes are entertained that this building will be saved. The lire is still extending to South-street-sollle of the vessels between Coffee house and Old slip have taken fire. One o'clock. — The Exchange is still on fire in the rear. The letters have been removed from the Post-office. There is now no knowing where the fl.imes will be stayed — the hydrants are exhausted-the hose of the many ot the engines are frozen snd useless, and the flames extending. Never was a more awful sight than is now presented. The fire is yet extending west in Pearl-strpet-aiid will probably ex- tend to Old slip, and sweep off all the valuable buildings on the three *1 uares bounded by Pearl, South., and Wall- streets and Old slip. The buildings on the west side of Wall-street, between the Exchange and Pearl-street, are y, t standing, some of them nitoh dumaged in the rears. >- 1. "1U\ \i> J J!Ioc. v-a" -'I. *»„ change-place, William-street, and Pearl-street, an immensa pile of new and valuable warehouses, is now Oil fire, and many of them already reduced to ashes. The scene grows worse and worse—the Exchange, it is said, cannot be saved. If this is destroyed, all Wall-street below William-street must share the same fate, and expose to destruction the buildings east to an.incalculable extent. The stores of Howland and Aspinwall, Moses Tavlor, Smith and Town, Osborn and Young, and the whole in South-street, Front-street, Water-street, and Pearl-street, between Coffee-house and Old-slips are rapidly consuming. Fears are now entertained that the fire will extend in Pearl-street, below Old slip. I The Gazette office, and many of the merchants are clearing out. The Exchange, it is now said, cannot bei saved, and we are preparing to move our publishing office from the opposite side of the street. Three o'clock.—The Exchange is in ruins it is reported that several persons have been killed, or several wounded by the falling of one of the walls. The fire has now ex- tended north from the Exchange to William-street, on bo h sides, and threatens to continue through Broad-street. The Garden-street Church is reported to be on fire. The east side of Wall-street is yet safe. The scene of desola- tion from Pearl-street to the East-river is awful. A mes- senger has just been dispatched to the Navy yard for a supply of powder to blow up buildings in order to stop the progress of the flames. The wind continues high, and there is yet no favourable prospect of any cessation of the flames-tbey have now reached the rear of Broad-street. Pearl-street, from Wall-street to Old-slip, on both sides, all is destroyed. Water-street, from Wall-street to Old-slip, all destroyed. Front-street, from Wall-street to Old-slip, all destroyed. South-street, from Wall-street to Old-slip, all destroyed. Alerchant-street, all destroyed. i Exchange-place to William-street, all destroyed. William-street, from Wall-street nearly to Uld-slip- destroyed. Four o'Clock.—There is hope that the fire in Wall-street will be stopped by the American Insurance Company, and that that building, and those below to Pearl-street, will be saved. The buildings ahove the American Insurance Office on the west side of Wall-street to William-street, including the Exchange, are all destroyed, and two or three above William-street. The fire is still rnging to- wards Broad-street, in the rear of Wall-street, and may extend to the buildings on the latter. The east side of Wall-st reet is yet safe. The flames aie yet extending down William-street the buildings in that street and fronting Hanover-square, in- cluding the Gazette office, are burnt down. This is a terrible calamity to New York. It is believed that more than two hundred valuable stores and ware- houses are destroyed, with the principal part of their con- tents. No estimate of the amount of damage can be made -some individual stocks of g-oods are estimated as hisih as two, three, and four hundred thousand dollars. The loss cannot fall much short of twenty millions of dollars -and many are of opinion that it will exceed thirty millions We have just heard the Mayor say that an attempt would be made to arrest the flames before reaching Broad- street, by blowing up one or more of Mr. Lord's stores with powder. Nearly the whole of Lord's elegant row of stores in Ex- change-place, and the Church opposite are in ruins, and the flames extending rapidly towards Broad-street. The Daily Advertiser' and the American newspaper offices are destroyed, with all the machine presses of the establishments. Fire o'Clork.- W e go to press while the fire is still raging- It is said to have extended below Old-slip, in Pearl-street, and there is no calculating where its ravages will be bounded. Half-past Five.- The flames are progressing down Pearl- street on tie south side, and have enveloped all the build- ings to and including the Pearl-street house, X 0.88. This information is brought to us by a person just from the im- mediate mighbourhood. Thursdaj Morning, Ten o'Clock.—We resume with heavy hearts the continuation of the particulars of the awful calamity flat has befallen our city. The flames are yet raging, and are now principally confined to the square bounded hy the south side of Pearl-street, Coenties-slip, South-street, and Old-slip. Nearly the whole of this extensive square is already in ruins. A number of build- ings have been blown up to arrest the progress of the flames. One o'Clock.-It is believed the flames are now arrested, so that they will not extend below Coenties-slip. Some four to five hundred holdings are destroyed. It is a fortunate circumstance, that at this season the stocks of goods in the stores and warehouses are much less than at other periods of the year, and the aggregate amount of loss, it is now hoped, will not reach the sum supposed yesterday morning. We are glad to state that Messrs. Bailey, Keeler, and Ramsden, saved all their books and papers, with a large portion of their goods. Their loss is much less than was stated this morning. Part of their property was insured out of the city. The awful conflagration of the other niffht before last has filled every heart in our citv with the deepest sorrow -no man knows the extent of the loss; perhaps a fire in no district of the same space in our city could by any pos- sibility have destroyed more property. Any attempt at this moment to give an estimate of the loss must prove vague and uncertain. A general consternation prevails, and for the moment all business is suspended. The ques tion now is, what should be done to alleviate the effects of this awful dispensation of Providence. This city is the immediate sufferer, but the effects wiil be felt far and near. The ramifications of trade are so extensive, that the catas- trophe may be considered as a national one. The parties whose places of business have been destroyed were but the trustees of thousands who were remote from the scene of destruction. We think a general meeting of the mer- chants should be immediately held, and a committee ap- pointed to take into consideration what measures should be adopted. the Legislature of the State will meet in a few days—would it not be well to memoralize them to make a loan to sustain the public credit of the city? Many. no doubt, are irretrievably ruined, but much loss may be pre- vented by measures for the relief of public credit. The annihilation of twenty or thirty millions of propertyjnwist, for a time, cause great commercial embarrassment. Should not Congress be irnmeuiatel v memoralized to sus- pend for a time the bonds due for duties ? We make these suggestions as some which have occurred to us. The credit of this city is of immense value, not only to the citv itself, but the whole country; and every measure should be taken that prudence can devise to render the loss to it as small as the nature of the case will admit. The Post-office is removed to the rear cf the Custom- bouse on Cedar-street, where every effort is making to facilitate the business, but there must necessarily be a derangement for some days. We understand that all the mails were dispatched vesterdav; but those which arrived were not assorted till the afternoon, and it was impossible to assort the newspapers so that we are without any from abroad. The whole cargo of the ship Paris, from Canton, which was in store, ready for auction, was amt>ng the property destroyed. The naval store-houses at Brooklyn, across the river, caught fire several times, but the flames were promptly subdued. The sales of the schooner Alonzo, lying at the wharf at Brooklyn, were burnt. The large warehouses of Howland and Aspinwall con- tained but a sin.dl portion of the amount of property usu- ally stored in it, in consequence of the arrangements that they have been making for some time for screwing up the centre girders which had settled. About 11 yesterday morning, an attempt was made to fire the third story of the First Ward Hotel in Bro^id-street the person supposed to have set it on fire was arrested, but before his c.:se was investigated he made his escape. Had this fire got beyond the control of the firemen, no doubt all that part of the ci'y below it would have been destroyed. Many other similar attempts of incendiaries are reported, and a number of j ersons have been arrested. The Mayor called a meeting at his office this afternoon of such citizens as were willing to volunteer as a city patrol for the night, when Colonel Sandford offered the service of his brigade of militia, and thev were accepted. A horse patrol is also on duty to protect the property exposed from plunderers. The Common Council was convened this evening to de- vise wavs and means for the preservation of the city, and protecting exposed property in its present predicament. The flames have now subsided, and it is believed will not further extend. It i^ estimated that uot less than 630 buildings are destroyed, comprising perhaps the most va- luable district of the city. Of these, it is supposed the number in Pearl-street is nearly Jon; in Water-street about 80; in Front-street about 80; and in South-street about 40. It is impossible yet to give a correct or minuti account of this conflagration — it would fill a volume. The particu- lars of the individual losses which momentarily reach us, are heart-sickening and overwhelming. We dare not attempt the recital. The whole city is in deep grief. LANGT11KH ACCOLNL.J New York- bas been for fifteen hours in flames They are not yet extinguished. A large section, and the oldest and the most wealthy portion of the citv, is in ruins and whether the progress of the destroyer is yet completely arrested, we cannot tell. Since the conflagration of Mos- cow, no calamity by fire, so extensive and so dreadful, has befallen any city in the world. The fire broke out in Mer- chant-street, in the triangular block formed by Wail, Will iam, and Pearl-streets, at about nine o'clock last night. A fierce wind was blowing from the north-west, and the weather so intensely cold as to render the efficient working of the engines impossible. The consequence was that the fire held the mastery through the night, spreading with great and destructive rapidity. It was an awful night fcr New York and for the country. But we can neither de- scribe the grandeur of the spectacle nor its terrors, nor the desolation brought more distinctly to view by the morning light. The arm of man was powerless; and many of our fellow-citizens who retired to their pillows in affluence, were bankrupts on awaking. Seventeen blocks of buildings, of the largest and most costly description, are totally destroyed; the large block between Wall-street and Exchange-place, bounded on the west by Broad-street, that between Exchange-place and Beaver-street, fronting on Broad-street, and that between Beaver and Mill-streets, also fronting on Broad-street, are greatly injured, and may almost be said to be destroyed- except the single rauge of stores fronting on Broad-street. The number ot buildings it is impossible to ascertain, but it is estimated between 700 and 1,OOJ. The amount of property destroyed is incalculable. 1 hose acquainted with our citv will perceive that nearly the entire seat of its greatest commercial transactions has been destroyed. It is not prob ib'e that the destruction of any given section of any other city in the world, (If equal extent, W oulù have involved a greater destruction of capital or ruined the foitunes of a greater number of men. The destruction of goods of every description that can be enu- merated, has been immense and what yet further magni- fies the calamity is the fact, that the portion of the city thus destroyed is one whi. h has been almost entirely re- built within the last fite or six years, and was covered on every hand with the most noble and substantial ranges of mercantile edifices in the world. Before the gunpowder was used in blowing up houses, there were many loud reports from occasional explosions of powder and casks of spirits. During the whole night, the scene was one of awful terror and indescribable grandeur. The drought of the season had contributed to the combusti- bility of the matter, and the rapidity with which bouse after house, and range after range, were wra: ped in flames, was truly astonishing. The wind being high, large flakes of fire were borne whirling aloft through the dark vault of heaven with fearful splendour. From the direction of the wind—to which, under Providence, the salvation of per- haps the whole city is owing- the citv of Brooklyn was considered in dang-er • and the flakes of fife were borne aJong- in quantities beyond Flatbush. The buildings in Exchange-place havinghecome involved in the conflagration, the flames communicated to the Mer- chants' Exchange itself, the exemption of which had been so strongly confided in, that a large amount of goods was deposited there for safety. Before these could be removed, and the numerous tenants of that edifice could remove their private property, the fire communicated to the rcof, and this soon falling in, carried with it the wall at the east end of the building, beneath which several persons are said to have been buried alive. The splendid dome of the Ex- change, after sending columns of flame to an immense height for about half an hour, until it was reduced to a body of fire, fell in with a tremendous crash, burying the elegant statue of Hamilton in the ruins. At the time the fire in Pearl-street reached Hanover- square, the large space of ground was filled with piece goods, promiscuously piled together, and much oi this was of the most valuable kind. So unexpectedly and r ipidly did the 11 noes extend on both sides of the square, that an unsuccessful attempt was made to remove it, for much of it was destroyed in the street, and the residue, though de- posited at a still greater distance in stores than otherwise, was shortly afterwards consumed. Dr. Mattbews'schurch had been made a depository for goods in the early part of the fire, which were of course entirely consumed with the building, leaving nothing but the bars walls. With the Exchange the public has sustained a loss in the fine arts, which is greatly to be regretted. V\ e refer to the statue of Hamilton, erected by the munificence of our merchants during the present year, in the centre of the rotunda of that building. That, which was intended to remain for ages, is in eight months precipitated from its pedestal, and is mixed with the ruins of the ill-fated struc- ture it was erected to adorn. Public meetings have been held to devise measures for the safety of the citv, and a subscription has been eton foot to relieve the immediate wants of the families who I have lost their all by this appalling calamity.

I Miscellaneous Domestic lEtelligence. Hi; Majesty's first Levee for the season will be held at St James's Palace on Tuesday the 53d of February, the second on Wednesday the 2d of March, and on every succeeding Wednesday till further orders. Their Majesties largesses at Windsor Castle and the festiv.ties of the Royal Household there were under the superintendence of Sir Jeffrey W yatville. His Majesty has, oil one or two occassions, expressed a wish that Buckingham Palace should be called St. George's Palace. The new barracks near it are called St. George's barracks. The Duke of Sussex intends to remain at Kensington Palace during the winter. His Royal Highness confines himself to select parties at home, and enjoys excellent health, Ti e Duke of Devonshire was accompanied to Paris by the Lieutenant Ca\endish Clifiord. of the Grenadier Guards, son of Sir Augustus, whose official duties as Usher of the Black Rod prevented him from leaving England so shortly before the meeting of Parliament. His Grace expected to arrive in Paris on Monday, at the Rue faubourg St. Honore, the British Embassy and reside) ce of his noble relatives the Earl and Countess Granville. Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Wilson returned to Fen'on's Hotel, St. James's-3'.reel, on Wednesday, from Brighton, he had an audience of Iris Majesty, rela- j ting, it is understood, to his rumoured appointment to the Colonelcy of the 15th Hussars, in the room of the Lieutenant-General Sir Colquhoun Grant. Lord Brougham's health was in an extremely delicate state when he left town for the north. His lordship had been attended for some time previously by Mr. Brodie, under whose care he had improved, and since his arrival at Brougham-hall his lordship is said to be convalescent. Ca ptain Lord W. Paget embarked from Lyrniniitoa on Wednesday se'nmght, on board the General Kcuns cutter, for Santander, his lordship having volunteered to serve under General Evans on his personal staff. Capt. Arbuthnot, R.N., is also in the Queen of Spain's Artil- lery service, with the rank of Lieut.-Colonel. The Duke and Duchess of Buecleugh have left Dal- kieth-palace on a visit to the Larl and Countess of Had- dington, at Tyningham-house, near Dunbar, North Lri- tain. Tory leaders having had circulars sent to all the Lords and Commoners who vote with them, and support their politics, however rahid, or ill advised, pressing those who are absent from town to return some days before the meeting of parliament, shews that they are determined to commence their opposition to ministers early in the Ses- sion. We understand that the necessary arrangements, pre- viously to the appointment of a Lord Chancellor, are now III the way of being completed,and that the appoint- ment will very shortly be announced. In the Marquis of Londonderry's collieries alone there are nearly 900 Davy lamps in daily use. Lord "Ward has" arrived at Mivart's from his seat at Dudley. This vcung nobleman, who has recently come to the title, possessed estates of the value of 150,000/. per annum, HIs Lordship is in his 19th year. We bjlieve the Duke of Leinster is to propose the Ad- dress in the House of Peers on the opening of the ses- sion.— Courier. We understand that General John Vincent will get the 69th reumient now vacant. He is also Lieutenant-Go- vernor of Duncannon Fort. Lieutenant-General Vin- cent served in the 66th and 49th regiments, was at the taking of St. Domingo, served in the expedition to Copenhagen, and commanded the 49th in Canada dur- ing the lus, American war. "T']é M .che<ter Chronicle of Saturday says that an application has been made to Lord John Russell to stand a coyest for South Lancashire, in the event of a dissolution of parliament; but that his Lordship has de- clined acTeUing to the request, on the ground of his duties as a Cabinet Minister precluding him from giving that attention to local business, deputations, &x., which might be required of him. -v>rf>hased the r»ott.on of the Glengarry estate whmh has for. a<l«rt.wl 1 It is of great extent, and with his Lordships previous' purchases in Lochabar, renders him a considerable pro- prietor in In vein ss-shire.— Inverness Journal. A special Envoy from the court of Nepaul, who is one of the ablest members of the Cabinet of tire Sovereign of Nepaul, is shortly expected in this country to make his own personal observations on the people, the government, the manners, and the resources of England, for the iu- fo. mation of his Court. The Rev. Dr. Penfold, rector of Trinity Church, New- road, has determined, to put the whole of the vestrymen of Mary-le-bone in the Ecclesiastical Court, for attempt- ing to light his pulpit with gas The Rev. Archdeacon Broughton, who has resided for some vears in that capacity in New South Wales, is about to be consecrated Bishop of Australia; he is to embark witii his lady and family, and several other persons who go out with h m. OxroRD-Congregatiolls will be holden for the purpose of granting graces, and conferring degrees, on tne following days in the ensuing term; viz.—January Thursday, 14; Thursday, 2S. February: Thursday, 4; Thursday 11; Thursday 18; Thursday, 25. March: Thursday, 3; Thursday, 10; Thursday 17; and Satur- day, 26. Mr. M'Leav, the Colonial Secretary at New South ales, has, it is understood, resigned his office, which was worth nearly 2,000/. per annum. The following Packets lying in ordinary a-e to be examined as to their fitness for sea service and reported on :—Hope, Jlognct, Zephyr, and Swuilov. A few nights since a villainous attempt was made to destroy the Triumph schooner, at the Custom-house quay, Cork, by perforating her larboard-quarter in several parts with a large augur or spike, and had she erone to sea in that state, no doubt she must have foundered. Preparations are making tor a grand dinner, which is to take place at the Town Hall, Pontefract, on the 28th inst. at which time two costly pieces of plate, in the form of wine-coolers, each weighing 130 ounces, will be presented to the Earl of in token of the esteem in which that nobleman is held by the inhabitants of Pontefract.—Done aster Gazette. A young lady from Galway, who entered the Convent at Emus a few mouths since a Protestant, and remained on a visit to some female acquaintance, has recently conformed to the R man Catholic Church, and, despite the remonstrances of her family, has avowed her resolu- tion to take the veil.— Limeriek Chronicle. All the accounts from the West Indies agree in describing the Sus-ar crop as in a very favourable state, but they aiso mention the fears entertained respecting the labour, which they say will be deficient, and which rumed the preceding crop, which had also the snme favourable appearance of the present one. We regret to state that Baron Smith was taken suddenly ill on Sunday night. The amiable and Learned Judge is now, the public will hear with pleasure, declared out of dans:cr -Dublin Post. All private negociations with influential persons in England to succeed Mr. Colin Dunlop having failed, there is talk of .several of our own citizens being proposed. Besides Mr. Douglas, we have heard mentioned Mr. W. Stirling, Mr. Johnston and Mr. Dixon.— Glasgow Chronicle. Mr. Frewen Turner, one of the members for South Leicestershil e, has given notice that he means to resign his seat for the county. Mr. C. W. Packe,of Ravenstone Hall, is a candidate to succeed him. Mr. O'Connell has fixed the 18th inst. as the day upon which lie will be able to meet his Queen's County friends at the dinner at Stradbally. A letter is in town, stating his intention of arriving in Dublin on the 19th instant. Intelligence has been received at Berlin, from St. Petersburgh, that the Empress of Russia is again in the family way. We have much pleasure in stating that the son of Rammohun Roy, who has been for some time employed as a clerk in the Board of Controul, has just been ap- pointed to a writership in India by Sir. John Hobhouse. Charles Kean, the young tragedian, has recently re- ceived a flattering compliment. On the completion an engagement at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, during the course of which his success was most complete, he was honoured with at, invitation from the Lord Lieutenani to the vice-regal dinner.