The Welshman

FOHEIG iXTJtiSLijIGEiXClS- Fit %CE.rlie French, who fire always fond of speculations, have been indulging in some Yaue hopes with respect to the renewal of the neirocia- tions for a commercial treaty between their conn- try and Great Britain but until they can bring themselves to understand and feel that all treaties must be reciprocal, there will be little chance of coming to any arrangements with oil- neighbours. Since Lord Cowley and Mr. H. Bulwer have both been absent from their posts, of course no great progress has been made in this matter. The French papers generally express strong opposition to the proposal for a commercial treaty with England, for which negotiations are said to be on foot between the two Governments. We (Post) think the subject hardly worth notice, as we see no possibility of any good resultin g from it; being convinced that the French manufacturers will never suffer their Ministers to remove any of the restrictions which protect them from compe- tition with British goods, and therefore that we cannot expect any reciprocal advantages from them in return for our concessions or reduction of duties on French produce. SPAIN.— A decree of the Regent extends the benefit of the amnesty of the 30th of November, IS 10, to the Carlists, subalterns and privates, still confined in the presirfh s who were not included in the convention of Bergara. All the Moderado | journals loudly complained that the Christino j exiles should be excluded from the act of mercy. HOLLAND.—The opening of the session took place on the 17th inst., in the usual manner. The King left his palace, accompanied by the Princess and a brilliant statl, and the inhabitants, who, crowded the streets through which he passed, j received him with the loudest acclamations. The I speech of the King represents that country in a condition somewhat like our own. The taxes arc falling off, and the imposts are to be iU(Tcascd falling on. an d the iillpr). arc to he increase d The indigent do not diminish, and trade docs not flourish. To compensate for the national distress the people are told of happy marriages in the i R^val family, and of the reciprocal love between the and his subjects. The Augsburg of the 12th inst., states that letters from Belgrade the new Government as having established a system of terror throughout Servia. Arrests continue to be made, and amongst others the Bisuop Shabacz had been incarcerated. The persons arrested on suspicion of having conspired to poison Prince Michael are Peter Miioskovitch, Gloseha Tersi- paeha, and Stevasa Tersia. TREATY WITH NAPLES.—-The Aitjshurg Gazette of the 11th inst., states, that a commercial treaty with Great Britain had been concluded at Naples. Under this arrangement British produce would pay 15 per cent, less than under the present tariff. It was not known what concessions had been made by the British Government. *A BCTTON EJIICTCD FROM THE NOSTRIL.—For the last three years, a little girl belonging to Cape Coo, has suffered from what was supposed to be a polypus of the nose. All the while a portion of it has been in sight just within the margin of the left nasal cavity. A fetid, purulent discharge, offensive to sight, as well as to smell, has all the while been kept up, besides a diffusive inflamma- tion in the neighbourhood. Before submitting to surgical operation, it Wa, sucrsxestea that the child had better try the effects of powerful sternu- tation, which she did by snuffing up pulverized baybcrrv bark. She was thus made to sneeze several times a day vigorously, and in one of these regular trials for dislodging the polypus last week, a covered, vest- button was ejected. Thus, after a tedious unnecessary period of suffering for three years, the patient was relieved in the manner described, and is now entirely well. She might, of course, have been relieved in ten seconds, with a pair of forceps, at any time.—Boston Medical and Sinrjicai Journal.

THE NEW ROYAL STABLES and riihng-liouse at I Windsor, for the expense of which Par- liament voted the sum of £ 70,000, shortly after her Majesty's accession to the throne, have just been completed, according to the original designs of the late Sir Jeffrey Wyatville, under the imme- diate superintendence cf Mr. Ashton, tLe late Sir Jeffrey's successor. Lord Ffrench, a Roman Catholic Peer, has avowed himself a Repealer. He is, we believe, the only member of the Peerage who has done so. THE LATE LXHOLY ALLIANCE.—Bodies and par- ties often do that from which their individual mem- bers would recoil with disgust. A corporate con- science is not apt to be nice. Yet we think that the history of parly offers few parallel instances to the hollow fraternization, the treacherous alliance, and the bitter conclusion, that characterise the conne\ion which Toryism sought with (hnjsD1 I and the working classes, and which it htsjust finished off by the special commission and its ,?iiiislied off I)Vrtiic special coii,i-rissio, ,.n d its LORD FRANKFORT AND ALICF. LOWE.—Anotner member of the peerage has figured most dis- gracefully this week, in a case of scandalous immorality and heartless cruelty just, we sup- pose, to show how safely British interests may be confided to the hands of men who violate without vemorse every dictate of honour, every principle of humanity, and every law of religion. We allude to Lord Frankfort, whose public prose- cution of Alice Lowe, the woman whom he had taken, to use the suing term of aristocratic circles, under his protection," for retaining, alter he had cast her off, the jewels with which he had sub- orned her innocence, has put another nail into the coflin of ol'reli ical rule. olifol-lizist. "WHO IS LORD FRANKFORT?"—ANSWER.—This Peer, as our readers must be aware, has been figuring in a discreditable manner before one of the London police offices. Properly his stylcnan.d title is Lord I rankfort De Montmorency, fie is an Irish Peer; and as such, God knows, is a great credit to his country. He is one of a class —a base degenerate class an Irish Peer but not of Ireland; one whose honours are Irish—whose vices are foreign. An absentee of the best kind he is a patriot in this, that he spares his country ) the contamination of his ii I ;l[cJ1IitoJ". THE CONVICT BEAN.—Several statements hav- ing tatelv appeared in the morning papers respect- ing the above named lad, inquiries were made yesterday at the Penitentiary, Millbank, relative to hir.i. The governor and the chaplain stated that he had not been seriousl y ill, but having written a letter to his friends a feii- days ago, he merely mentioned that he had been unwell. This was construed into a serious illness. It is not known at the prison whether government is to be applied to for a remission of the sentence.— Giobr. Forty-live children, under the age of live years. have died in the town of Wisbech s ince the 1st of September. Nearly half were earned off by scarlet fever. 1 THE ATLAS PRIZE ESSAY. — [t w')U be ren.oin- bere? that the proprietor of the ATLAS newspaper recen'Iv offered premiums of ?loo, ?.50, and £ 25, lor the three best Essays on the Causes of, and tliI c?,I Remedies for, the Distress existing in the country. At the time the announcement was made, a doubt was suggested whether, on a subject which might be supposed to embrace so many and so impor- ) tant political considerations, it would be possible to find a tribunal sufficiently free from a natural bias to be able to give a decision on the intrinsic merit ofthe Essays offered, independent altogether of the principles on which their arguments might he based. That doubt will in a great measure be dispelled by a at the names of four out of five of the adjudicators of the proposed rewards. They are—Sir David Brewster, D.C.L., F.R.S.. Vice-President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Principal of the United Colleges of St. Stl- vator's, Sr. Leonard's, and St. Andrew's Mr. Herman Merivale, M.A., of BalliolCollege, Oxford late Professor of Political Economy in lh.it Uni- versity; Mr. George Pnme, M.A., Professor of Political Economy, and late Fellow of Trinity College, in the University of Cambridge; and Mr. John Wilson, Professor of Moral Philosophy and of Political Economy, in the University of Edin- burgh. The formal consent of the fifth adjudicator has not vet been obtained, but when hi.s name is published lie will be found to be of equally hig-h reputation with gentlemen,— Tin,en. I CHANCERY REFORMS. — It is understood that the Lord Chancellor and the othr judges ofthe Court of Chancery have had it in contemplation for some time past, in addition to the extensive alter- ations which will come into operation on th; 2-th inst., to remodel many of the subordinate branches of their respective courts, with a view of placing them on such a footing as cannot fail to insure tneir practical utility. The functions of the six clerks and sworn clerks, or, in common language, the clerks in court, will cease on the day in ques- tion, and their successors are to he officers desig- nated clerks of the records and taxing masters, who will perform at, it is said. one-third of the cost at present charged to the suitors. Amongst the departments expected to be improved are the Accountant-General and Registrar's oilices. Miss MARTINF.AU AND THE CIVIL LIST.—We learn, from a correspondence between Mr. Charles Buller and Miss Martineau, which has now been published, that Lord Melbourne, previous to his going out of his office, was desirous of placing (his lady's name on the Civil List, with a pension of £ 150 a-year, as a proof of his respect for her writings and her character; and accordingly made such offer to her through Mr. Buller. Miss Mar- tineau, in reply, declines the offer, and does so in a manner highly creditable to her head and heart. Among her reasons for declining, the folhuvimr stands prominently forward. Speaking of the working classes, she says:—" Such services as may have rendered them are unconsciously re- ceived by them; but I cannot accept reward at any expense to them. If this provision be not designed as recompense, but as aid, as a purCf/ift, [ cannot take it; for they who provide the means have no voice in the appropriation of it to me personally. Whenever we obtain a just system of taxation, the time may, perhaps, follow, when, among- other considerations, some p!a:i may be discovered by which the people's representat ives may exercise the power of encouraging anI re- warding merit and services, working through the press, and even then the most scrupulous, with no better view of their own claims than I have, may be happy to receive, in their time of need, aid from the public purse. Meanwhile. I seriouslv and truly feel that I had rather, if need were (to put an extreme case), receive aid from the parish, and in the workhouse, Niiici-e I could clearly read my chilli, than in the very agreeable manner pro- posed, wilc-i; I can see no excuse for my own indulgence. If it be true that, in the ease of <7 we do not nicely measure the grounds of claia:, siireIN, there is an exception °C" C l-' C -j;. gifts from the public purse." Last week, at Kendal, the frost set xa so severely that the canals were frozen over. WINTER ASSIZES.—It was stated on gool autho- rity during the late special commisslo1 at Stafford, that it is intended by government to have a gene- ral winter assizes throughout the kingdom, to commence in the early part of December. SCRVEY OF THE SKIKS. — A survey of the skies was made on Monday in all parts of the kingdom, on a plan arranged at the last meeting of the British Royal Society of Agriculture, for the pur- pose of ascertaining tlil form of position of the clouds in the morning, at noon, and in the evening, together with a great variety of otherfacts respect- ing the force and direction of the wind, the state of the thermometer and barometer, and other ,es and p -Ienonioi,,a. I 'l meteorological appearances and phenomena. Tlie object of this extensive survey was to collect facts respecting the weather, for the guidance of prac- tical agriculturists. THE CII.; TIST PRISONERS. — A meeting was held on Tuesday night, at thcIIaJl of Science, H!ack-! friars-road, in behalf of the wives and families of the Government victims and in support of the principles of the Charter, for which those victims have suffered. Mr. Drou was called to the chair, and severat resolutions in support of the objects of the meeting were unanimously passed, after wlrioh collodion n «« mafia in ;i ul rti' thn Inni-lnw of those now under sentence. NOTTINGHAM Cu RTI;;T "Tn County Sessions have this week been almost wholly occupied IN-itli the trials of the Chartists arrested during the late turn-outs. An application had been made by the prisoners to the Government to get their cases tried at the assizes, and not before Col. Rolleston, M. P., at the sessions, as he was the magistrate who apprehended them, committed them, and said he was determined to make a severe example of them. The jury found about fifty Guilty, and punishments of 6, 4, and 2 calendar months' hard labour were given, according as the parties had been more or less active. All the prisoners con- victed were ordered to find sureties at the end of their terms of imprisonment. Several were ac- quitted on giving sureties for good behaviour. The trials occupied three whole days, and excited great interest. TitF. SPECIAL COMMISSIONS HAVE TERMINATED, and the various punishments inuicted upon those who have been found gudfy "f riot and insubordi- nation, are somewhat milder than we had reason to anticipate. The laNN- has now been vindicated, and it remains to be seen whether justice is to be done to an oppressed and indigent people. N'i he- ther it lie that the interests at home which stand in the way of a conciliatory and lenient policy are more sturdy and important than those existing elsewhere it so happens that the best deeds of our present government relate to foreign or colo- nial affairs. In Canada, Sir Charles Bagot has appointed Lafontaine, whom the Whigs designated as a rebel and a traitor, to the office of attorney- I eneral; thus conceding to the extreme radical party a triumph which will probably be pi odue- tive of the most important results. Tne aristo- cratic hireling press of this country is, of course, indignant at this surrender of what they call British interests," that is, of the interest of that large party, who live and fatten upon the mis- government of our colonial possessions — who have hitherto regarded office as their own exclu- sive pasture ground, and who have been content to purchase lucrative employment at the expense I h e rei,,n o l of all liberal and salutary policy. The reign of this class is, happily, in the extremities ot our great empire, coming to a close and the termina- tion of their ascendency may he regarded as the knell of doom to the monopolists nearer home- Xon conformist. F HEALTH OF MN PF.OFLE.— The Town Council of Liverpool has lately, in the most praiseworthy manner, instituted an inquiry into the condition of the poor of that town. It is proposed to erect baths for the a commodation of the poor, and to establish public walks and places of recreation for the public, a.t an expense of £ 100,000. PRICE OF WHEAT.—The highest quotation o- white wheat of the first quality at Hamburg is 126 rix dollars current the last, which answers to 41s. 3d. the quarter. The highest quotation of white wheat of the first quality in London is C h. the quarter. It appears, therefore, that wheat is 4,51 2 per cent, dearer in London than at Hamburg, and that with the sum of £ 3 a man may buy 1 § bushels ol white wheat at Hamburg, whereas with the same sum he can buy only 8 bushels in Lon- doti.-Tlie highe-st quotation of Zealand white j wheat of the first quality at Amsterdam is 200 florins the last, which equals 46s. 9d. the quarter; and the highest price of white wheat of the first .quality in London being 60s. the quarter, it fol- lows that wheat is 22t per cent. dearer in London than at Amsterdam.—The b'ghest quotation of Polish wheat of the first quality at Stettin is 52 doiiars current the wispel ot 21 schefieis, which is j equivalent to 35s. 5d. the quarter; and the high- est quotation of wheat in London bein GO. the quarter, it follows that wheat is 69% per cent, dearer in London than atSteft-n, and that with the sum of £ 3 a man may buy l .H bushels of wheat at Stettin, whereas as with the same sum he can buy only eight bushels in Loud >n.— The mean or averages of the prices of wheat of the first qua- lity at Hamburgh, Amsterdam, and Stettin, is 41. Id. per quarter, and the price in London beingGOs. per quarter, it follows that the price is 46 per cent. higher than the average ofthe three above- mentioned places.—The present duty on the im- portation of foreign wheat into England is 18s. the quarter, which is pCjual to the following rates: To a rate of 43} per cent, on the nrime cost ol wheat at Hamburg: t? a rate of ?S? per c"t. on the prune cost of wheat at Amsterdam to a rate of 50? per cent. on llw pr.me cost of wheat at I Stettin and to a rate of 43J percent. on the mean price of hc ab;jve-mcntioned ?!aces. I Ti.MiT.it DtTirs. — American timber, which formerly paid 10- per load, is now cleared at I Ili. In con-eq lence of this reduction, so important to the tinner trade, large quantities have, within these last few days, be-en taken from bond ;,t tl low rate.— f aledo/ihu Ju'r(,lIr.l'bere is an immense falling off- this year in the shipping employed in the timber trade between Liverpool and the North American colonies. The amount so I h employed in the year ending on the 1st of Feb. 1842, was 174,948 tons; whilst the amount which has arrived since that time is only 49,035 teiis.- IAvcrpool 7imes. THE LtTt-ROY.— A correspondent suggests, that as the Church is beginning to direct its attention to all subjects of improvements, alter itions, pews, I &c., a great improvement might he made by substituting others than many of the present first lessons, which are disrjt^tiuo/if indccent. It is painful to hear them read publicly before voting | persons, and the minister generally blushes for shame.— Time-. THE LIBERAL PARTY in Westminster have ob- i tained a great accession of strength on the regis- tration of the present year. Last Fr d iy, being the anniversary of the victory of Trafalgar, was chosen for the launch of the Cumberland, ill-gnn ship, at Chatham dockyard. The approach of winter has b^en heralded by a ) sharp frost, which covered all the small ponds in the vicinity ofthe metropolis with a coating of ice nearl" v a quarter of an inch in thickness. SINKING OF A VESSEL. — A dread.u] colli"iDJ) lately happened off the eastern coast, between Whicbv an 1 Stockton, which unlrinoilv terminated in the total destruction of a vessel and the loss of two lives. The vessels were the D spitch, a schooner belonging to London, and the sloop Margaret and Ellen of L -i'h. The accident took' place between seven and eight o'clock. Upon the vessels 11 earing, those on board of the Despatch exerted every nerve to avoid coaling in contact. I They altered the co'tr- ;md shouted to the eretv 1 of the Margaret nn-l EH en to do the same instea 1 of which—no doubt cosif ised—"h-'y brought h *r into direct oppu-ii'ion. The result was, that in the next moment the sloop ran upon the schooner j with tremendous violence, and the sroop went down, carrying with her two of the crew. I he rest miraculously saved themselves by springing to a rope that was hanging over the bolls of the Desp'dc'i at the moment of their vessel sinking. THIRD OUTBREAK OF THE LIVERPOOL FIRE.— 1 Tuesday evening, the property which had ignited had beem ever since the fire, covered with the bricks and timbers of the late surrounding build- ings, and during the last fortnight workmen have been actively employed in clearing away the rubbish, and excavating the barrels of turpentine and the cotton buried underneath. They had just finished their day's work last evening and left the premises when the property took fire. All the buildings which surrounded the scene, ot this con- Ion having been previously destroyed, no further damage but that of the destruction of the salvage property could be sustained excepting by the sparks: and the firemen playing on the ruins had only to observe the fury of the fire expend itself in the open space. A large quantity of the turpentine and cotton, however, was destroyed, SorreiiiineredF of barrels of turpentine were saved. It is now three weeks since the first outbreak. '1 he hop duty is backed at 155,000/. There ar ■ many Wll:) Lay it at a higher amount, but the sum we have is the general favourite. —Ke.i is Gtizete. THE FI.OVTING ISI -R>—This curious formation has nearly all sunk be'ow the surface of I)erwen;- water, although the lake is unusually low at th time. BOILER XIU.OSION.— An occurrence of -t,,i description took place at Middlesborough, near Stockton, on Tuesday. The "telm boiler, balonjr- ing to the iron manufactory ol Messrs. Bulcho nnd LO", exp.oamg. niew the roof of the building up, and the principal part fell upon the men a: work, where they had just arrived from breakfast. About 100 men are employed, but by the late*; information it could not be stated how many were on the premises at the moment. Two hours after the accident a respectable gentleman had seen about 14 bodies taken out most sadly mutilated and scalded. The same manufactory had an c\ plosion about six nwnthssitiep, when one life on'v was lost. It is the general opinion that the engine was working beyond its power. AN OLD BIRLE.—There has been reeentlv found, j sivs a Belgian Journal, amongst a heap of old books, purchased at St. Trond, the sixth known j copy of the first Bible printed at Mentz. ()>! • copy N a,.i purchased in IBIG, by L ) als XYIII., for 20,000f. I SIGN 01 THE TIMES.— Two extensive estates, consisting of mills and other property, the ejects of bankrupt-manufacti:rers, and a large landed property, are advertised to be sold by auction at or near Holmfirth. Three such extensive proper- ties were never at the same time, an- nounced for public sale in that d:stric?. no,,itic?,d for piil)',Ic s;ile i-,i that man, examined as a witness in an inquiry non pendin in this borough, deposed that he had as- sessed the dim age likely to accrue to the Cburen. from the shadow that wo a Id he cast upon her estate bv a railway viaduct, carried across a ravine on wooden gearing Counsellor Hdvard, amusing himself in a cross-examination of this mmu'e calculator, made a searching inquiry into the amount of sunshine that would be abstracted from the ecclesiastical herbage, and concluded by wag- gishly asking if the surveyor's learned labours had also extended to movnshinp.—Gatcsh ad Q:> ere r. TIIF. STAFFORD SCECI YL COMMISSION.— The gene- ral result mav he briefly stated thus — Prisoners to be transported for li e 11, for 21 years, 13, for to be transported 51. To be lmprisoneu lor yar;ous terms, to hard labour, 116; to be imprisoned in the common 7 discharged on Inil, 1 traversed to next assizes, 2; discharged on entering into re 'ognizances, 2 discharged by proclamation, 6. 2,4. Q'-EF.R GEESE. —On Wednesday last, in Stock- ton market, a person purchased two geese—one of which had two necks and three ,-izz.a-rds-atid the other, two heads and two h¿arrl" "Two heads." they say, "are better than one;" hut it was found in the present instance, that the favoured biped, in spite of his two heaas, was still a goose. [Does our Editor take his readers to he such 1, as not to guess that the "monsters I were dead when sold, and had been supplied with snpernnmerar; he-.ds, hearts, f.nd ??xards, by some careless country wench1. ] — Gateshead 0?- so iiie cIrC'iess cc)?iii,r y BRISTOL REGISTR ATION.—The revising barr.sters have completed the revision of the parliamentary burgess lists, and the results are decidedly favour- able to the Liberal cause. The business of the Ilast two or three days tended to exhibit the vex- atious character of the Tory obiecttons to 890 freemen. Voter after voter was dragged from his business into the hall, simply to be told that there was no real objection to his name, and that it would be retained on the list. The revising bar- risters repeatedly expressed their strong diasppro- hatioll cf tbe course pursued. In one instance, that of Mr. Joseph Reynolds, ii-o. being an invalid (tame into court on crutches, the barristers said. nothing could be more scanda!ous than to objec: to respectable persons without the least, possible ,o resi)ectt l )le person. lv reason. It was the most indecent proceeding they had ever witnessed. The leading Tory agents having been shv of their appearance in court during the Inst few l';Ltzliet-)ert said he dur .n? the I?sti.w davs, Mr. Fitzherbert said he did not at aM wonder at their reluctance to show themselves, after the vexatious course of proceed- ing that had be 11 ad ipted. Mr. Gilbert asked !),irristei,s if there was no legislative enactment ;h it would prevent the recurrence o< such a course in future; as, otherwise, he ahould he compelled, in defence of his party, to adopt, similar measures. Mr. Stuck, in reply, said, the barristers could not 'nore strongly express their disgust at the pro- ceeding than they had done He had no doubt hat some provis on would be made by the legis- lature on the subject. What follows is the re- in!t :-L;ht>ral m\Ïul'irv Oil Objections—House holders and lS2; Freemen. 18; Li- on Claims— llouseholdeis ano Freeholders, 10- Freemen, 2 totai, 301. Briitd Mercury. I NATIONAL LUCCA-ION can never fail to he a sub- ject ofthe most momentous interest. On their moral culture, clo juently and tr.i.y observes the Morning Advertiser, much more than upon their means oi acquiring material wealth, di pends the happiness and progress of a people. Develops the mind ofthe rising generation—endue it with a I lofty consciousness of the dignity of the human ri iie, i ple-icad it on from the prison of narrow 10 the universe of expanded thought—elevate it from -i-oi-elling to it w ith warm and kindly sympathies—allow it a repose :n t lie conviction of the existence of ï rllth, and i by consequence in a belief of the sovereignty of j justice—make it self-thinking, rather than a iiiaelilne capable of working only at the instance j of some extraneous alreziz-educe its powers ac- cording tc the right meaning and legitimate intent of the itlea of educating—cherish its faculties to natural growth, rather than bend them into cc ta;n Jireäioll,< of artiticial developement in | let genius and character become individualised nther than sectarian let each one be taught TO think and feel as a distinct atom in the social cir- cumstances; and then, what is possible to be done towards the educational advancement of a people, we may be sure is done, and that the attempt of accomplishing more would end in its o\n discom fiture. The Bil. for the examination of masters and mares in the merchant service, has been under- | going a stormv discussion at Liverpool this week, the meeting having been more than once adjourn- ed. The nature of the debate, and its probable, result, may be gathered from the following ob- servations of the reporter of the Shipping Gazette —" The arguments were all in lavour ol the Bill, while' nine tenths of tlie persons present were j against it. The Chairman had a difficult task to perform in keeping the combustible mater al s over j which he presided from exploding. Tlie few ship- masters who addressed ihe meeting appeared II- I t It i II I I I ;i I j ,11 11 1 a I I e Bill. They regard aire trim,ml fur test ing their professional fitness with hatred and horror: and it is (1111(lstl()Il:i.,I?? 'I L?1i?t'))? disp!Ryed a:IN 1; ,'1" ?c?, !1 11 their assumer n]fa!tib;nty. is not the best reason «h\ some such j measure as the Bill in question is imp'-ra' ivelv needed. Men coiiM'.iou> of knowing heir duties, dread no inquiry. Not --olhc Liverpuen sh;p- I masters, Tils Times, last w?ek, f.-li foul of the address presented to Viscount Paim 'rston ')N- ti-i Counctl of the British and foreign Anti-Slavery Society. The Patriot c i'ls its artic! a vulgar tirade ag-inst the Aiiti-SlavTv Society for presuming to meddle iii -rich matters without "a constitutional com. mission The opinion is maintained by the leading philanthropists on the Committee of that Soeietv, that, so long as Shivery exists, the Slave- trade can never be entirely and per naromtly sun- Dressed and 111 eir efforts are 1 hen tore mainly directed to the THE BOY J:[:s AOAIX. — The boy Jones, who, on several occas.ons intruded h'mseif into Buek- •ngham Palace, has agan made his appearance in London. It was stared some timp sua e dial lie had been sent out to S,)i-,tli Aiisti-,il a, su b, how- ever, it now seems was '-or the f-mt. Alter his last examination at t he-Ti ome-<itif-"r'. '^e boyv.w sent to Portsmouth, where, we und"rstan he was apprenticed, or at ail events. li.(- t, s(,io (in board'the W u inte man-of-war. wlvh ip earrH out Lo.'o Ashour'on to the L nited States. On "he return of the Warsoite to Portsmouth, aliojit three weeks since, he was allowed occasionally 10 ro 011 shore. Inform it ion was sent to ;he station- iious-e in (Jar hner's-Hne. on Monday evening, information was communicated to the T,i-()I), r authorities, an instructions wer" g ven to take him into custody, whb-h instructions were prompt- 'v oheyed, and on Wednesday morning he was \J. liiiivrs' I York-street. Westminster. Notice ot the pr son: r being in custodv was sent to the puoiic offices, and in the course ofthe afternoon a govrmu.-nr order was received directing that he shon'd be at to Portsmouth, as it v. as not consideredjH.eie-sary that any inquiry onio oe instituted in town. Accordingly Jones wa- con-- veved, in the custodv of a nol-ce otfh-er of the d'-vision, by the astern ica.troaJ, to Portsmouth. METHODISM.—The P.I.'ri,,¡ s.n' there nre three interesting letters m the A. w ) ork Christian Adoo- cate, fro in the Rev. Dr. Durbiii, witten durin g the .Ses-ion of the F.nghsh Conference. In them, he s-us a good deal of the Church o* Kngbmd and Pus?visiT\ end of the present attitude of Metho- distn'inre?r?'!?etn both. Oi the eilect ot the I ()PP'Jsition he is now receiving from them, he thns spaks \Y:t11 the>e forces a.r'.in? upon Methodism in Knglar. will it not be obliged to take different ground, and, insteHd of pr?ossin? to I)e i S:) v.hntho (hur??.ot-.at least, auxiliarv to iu'viili th"y not find it necessary to assume th? ground t?tt they to a'?l, intent,, and purposes, a true and complete Church (f i hrist, having within themselves everything ne- cessarv to t'),? r,tilort, atid sa]N-at;oii of the'people ? To this result, it seems to me, the 'de t b eiii. present elements in motion tend to guide them." GEF.SE.— flock of wild geese were seer, at Had nock on Mondav last, flying in a south- erly direction. We believe it to be a very unusual circumstance at this period ofthe year. Snow fell at Monmouth and its neighbourhood on Y\ ednes- dav evening. —Ihrejord Times. I Dr;OTTI. CAI.AMITY—BURSTING or A BOILER. —On Tussdav last, early in tlie forenoon, the I boiler of a high-pressure steam-engine exploded at the ?i" or-workat es. Two persons were killed, and about 20 others more or less inuired. One pour lad, w hose arm was blown off, ran home to his mother after tlj(, e\- olosion in great lerror, and altogether unconsci- ous ofthe loss he li,iI'l 'I'lle t%io ineii killed on the spot were Phi'.ip Kelli-, labourei-, (leaving a wile and child.) and Michael Macgowan (a single Macgowan, at the moment of the eclosion. was removing the ashes from the fur- nacc. lie was forced under the ?''ehyaportion of the b')!'cr.ar.d  d?ath'. he ofthe bo i to (Ivai h he did not It%(, 1.,o. or Ili o I.t?r lie was taken out. There was art explosion int?e SRm iron-works low rvu 'lis ago, when one person was killed and several wounded. At the inquest 011 Wednesday, a veruict of Accidental i)-ath" ex- tending over se\ on hours. !)"euand on the boner. 3 0 ii-c stand. escaped ouuijured; air: the damage sus- tained by the boiler and hoiier-house will he repaired at an L xpeu.se of ah .< siu-ad, Ol vcrrcr■ EXTRAOKIUN CE SI-FCIM'-N OF YIRWIVN.— We have recentlv hid an opportunity oi inspecting \v1iar?f?''t"<'?<? be the most extraordinary specimen of the textile art that lias yet been seen in this country. produced at the work- of Messrs. James and Abraham Meyer and Co., of Branden- burgh near Berlin It coiitiiii,, a medallion por- trait of the late K;ng of Prussia, supported by four emblematic female figures, representing Wis- dom, P0wer. ,1 u-stiee. and Mercy, and als0 a 001 y ofthe will oi that monarch, and of his well-known address to his son and successor. The vi hole is i e, V, I .1( ) !e 11 executed in In the manner of the portrait of M..lacqiard. The produce of the Prussian loom, however, appears greary superior in delicacy (,f execution to the French and some ofthe figures, with their draneries, are equal in effect to the iinest oi me engiaver.—Mau hc* er G u/i: d 7K. THE O'CONNELI. COMI»ENS*T:oN. — THecc.irseness of' those who assail Mr. O ( or ne'l having been adopted bv Lord ShrpYvsh.ry—Mr. OCunn?Ur? Jub1í"ueJ a !<)n?a))d eloqe- nt reply in justinc.tr.?n 'f receivmg compensation. H conc.ude> thm. this have done and vuffered lor Ireland. Viid let li,.i- I),- or )r "nsoivent — he who insults me for taking he! pav vants the vulgar e'ements of morality which teacn ii,it Lhe, latiotirer is x, of* ltis hire he wants he higher sensations of the soul, which wid enable me to perceive that there are services which bear to money, and can never he re- om p ru se d h y pccuntar y rpwar d s. Yes lam—! ompeused bv pecuniary rewards. Y es 1 am 1 ay it proudly—1 am the hired servant of Ireland, .and I glory in my servitude.