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exaltation. With respect to preaching, his Lordship con- 
sidered that too much prominence was given to it by some 
persons. Its efficacy was undoubted, but as a human 
instrument it ought to be kept in subordination to the 
theditis of grace which had been given in the gospel and 
sacraments. The bishop dwelt at great length on the 
character and claims of the clergy, and concluded by 
urging upon them the duty of renewed energy and faith- 
fulness in the discharge of their ministerial labours. 
Hafod.—On Tuesday, Hafod, with its magnificent 
domain and mansion; and the estate and mansion of 
Cwihelan; on the banks of the Elam and Wye, with other 
properties in the counties of Cardigan and Radnor, be- 
longing to the Duke of Neweastle, were sold at the Auction 
art; the quantity of land to be disposed of consisting of 
about 30,000 acres. Hafod was formerly the property 
of Mr. Johnes, the translator of Froissart, and was for 
many years in Chancery, during which period it fell into 
considerable decay. About ten years ago it was purchased 
by the Duke of Newcastle. The property comprised, in 
addition to the land, several mines, farms, and sheep pas- 
tures, with the advowson of Eglws- Newydd. The estate of 
Hafod, as originally announced, was divided for sale into 
four lots; but, at the sale, the auctioneer stated that the 
entire property would be offered in one lot. This consisted 
of 13,500 acres, with the mines, pastures, advowsons, &c.; 
and 1,390 acres of woodland and plantation, of which 400 
acres was a Larch plantation. The rental from the estate 
was 1,979. [he auctioneer calculated the value of the 
estate to be about 135,000/.,, at thirty years purchase, 
taking the woodlands at a valuation of from 50/. to 100J. 
an acre ; and for the purchase of the annual income arising 
from the rental, with the profits from the mines, &c. One 
article for sale consisted of a monument in a niche in the 
church of Eglws Newydd, by Sir F. Chantrey, represent- 
ing Col. and Mrs. Johnes at the couch of their daughter, 
in her last moments. Another article was excepted from 
the sale, which was a chimney-piece in the dining-room of 
the mansion at Hafod, which cost 1,400/. ‘The first offer 
for this estate was 75,0004. ; the next, 80,0002; and it was 
knocked down eventually for 109,000/, It was said that 
the reserve sum was higher than the sum offered. The 
next estate was that called Cwmelan, which abounded 
with mines and sheep pastures, consisting of about 14,000 
acres. For this 24,000/. was offered. The reserve sum 
being stated to be higher, it was put up in lots, but relin- 
quished at the third lot. The same result took place with 
the Dolyclettwr estate, consisting of 176 acres, returning 
parental of 2371. 2s. 3d., for which 7950/. was offered. 
‘he toom was crowded during the sale, but there were 
few buyers. 
Isle of Man.—1t appears by the balance-sheet put 
forth by the directors of the Isle of Man Joint-stock 
Bank, that after deducting the doubtful and bad debts 
from the assets, the capital of the bank has been lost 
three and a half times over. It is said that one of the 
heaviest losses was a loan of 10,000/. advanced to 
Don Carlos, to be repaid on his entry into Madrid. 
—-On the morning of the 12th instant six crimina!s 
confined in Custle Rushen contrived to make their 
escape from their cells, and to let themselves down 
from the parapet into the fosse, a height of 60 feet, by 
means of blankets. They climbed the outer wall, and 
seized a boat on the beach, by which they reached a 
pleasure-boat at anchor in the bay. In this they imme- 
diately set sail, and are supposed to have gone to Ireland. 
Liverpool,—A man, named Henry Eastland, alias 
James ¥. Bentley, was apprehended in this town, 
on Tuesday, for obtaining money by forged letters of 
credit, purporting to be drawn on Messrs. Labbock’s 
Bank in favour of ‘‘ Mr, James F. Bentley’ by “ Edward 
Fiampton,” manager of the County of Gloucester Bank. 
The fraud was detected, and the prisoner was remanded 
for further inquiry. 
Manchester.—A young man named Tyler, cashier 
in the employ of Messrs. Reyner and Brothers, of 
Ashton-under-Lyne, whose warehouse is in this town, 
absconded last week, having received, in the course of the 
day, accounts to the amount of nearly 9002. It has since 
been ascertained that he sailed the same evening to New 
York, by the Caledonia steam-ship from Liverpool. 
Oxford.—The Rev. James Norris, whose name stands 
the third in the list of Fellows of Corpus Christi College, 
was on Saturday elected President of that Society, in the 
room of Dr. Bridges. As the late President did not hold 
any College living, his death has occasioned no vacancy. 
Portsmouth.—A court-martial was held on Tuesday, on 
board H.M.S. Victory, Rear-Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, 
President, to inquire into the circumstances attending the 
loss of H.M.’s steam-vessel Lizard, off Carthagena, on the 
24th July, in consequence of the French steam-vessel 
Veloce running foul, and nearly cutiing her in two, and 
to try Lieut. Postle, the officers and ship’s company, for 
their conduct on that occasion. The Deputy Judge 
Advocate having read Lieut. Postle’s narrative of the cir- 
cumstances, addressed to the senior officer at Gibraltar, 
Mr. Hoskins, on the part of that officer, read a statement 
describing the loss of the vessel. The Officers of the 
Lizard were then called as witnesses; and having sub- 
stantiated the statement of the Lieutenant, the Court de- 
livered sentence as follows :—“ That the loss of H.M.’s 
steam-vessel Lizard was occasioned by the French man- 
of-war steamer Veloce running fouljof her,{on the morning 
of the 24th July, by which the Lizard was sunk ; that no 
blame was imputable to Lieut. Postle for his conduct on 
the occasion ; that Mr. Slaughter, a supernumerary mid- 
shipman, serving on board her, was highly blameable for 
having left the deck before he was regularly relieved; and 
that no blame was imputable to any other of the officers, 
or of the ship’s company; and the court adjudged the 
said Mr. Slaughter‘to lose two years’ time of service as a 
midshipman ; and adjudged Lieut: Postle and the re- 
mainder of the officers to be fully acquitted.” 
Reading.—Extensive repairs are in progress in St. 
Mary’s church, in this town. uring the course of last 
week three ancient sedilia, of early English architecture, 
were discovered in ruins behind the wainscotting on the 
south side of the chancel; the fresco painting at the back 
of them, and the encaustic tiles, being still in excellent 
preservation. 
Southumpton.—In accordance with the new regulations, 
making this port the station for the Royal mail packets, 
the first mails arrived on Monday by railroad. They con- 
sisted of 54 bags, weighing upwards of two tons, for 
various islands in the West Indies, and were immediately 
shipped on board the mail-packet Teviot. A numerous 
assemblage of persons collected on the pier, to witness 
the first embarkation of mails from this port. The Teviot, 
on passing the town, was saluted from the platform and 
from the Royal Yacht Squadron’s house. All the esta- 
blishment formerly belonging to the Falmouth station 
have arrived here to superintend the packets. 
Windsor.—On Saturday Capt. Fernyhough was 
installed in St. George’s Chapel, with the usual cere- 
monies, as Governor of the Military Knights of Windsor, 
in the room of the late Capt. Cummings, and on Monday 
Capt. Cochrane was installed one of the Military Knights, 
a vacancy having been occasioned by the appointment of 
zrnyhough to the Governorship. 
ilways.—The following are the receipts for the past 
week :—Birmingham and Derby, 1,413/. ; Birmingham 
and Glocester, 2,141/.; Eastern Counties, 2,988/. ; Edin- 
burgh and Glasgow, 2,629/.; Great Western, 15,053/.; 
rand Junction, 8,459/.; Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayrshire, 
1,597/.; Great North of England, 1,552/; Hull and 
Selby, 1,0902. ; London and Birmingham, 17,4841. ; South- 
Western, 7,614/.; Blackwall, 1,120/. ; Greenwich, 7634. ; 
Brighton, 5,558/. ; Croydon, 304/. ; Liverpool and Man- 
chester, 4,993/. ; Manchester and Leeds, 5,611/, ; Midland 
Counties, 2,663/,; Manchester and Birmingham, 3,255/. ; 
Northern and Eastern, 1,711/.; North Midland, 5,024. ; 
South-Eastern and Dover, 4,393/.; Sheffield and Man- 
chester, 5697.3; York and North Midland, 1,968.—A 
special meeting of the North Midland Company was held 
at. Derby on Monday, for the purpose of considering pro- 
posals for the amalgamation into one concern of the capi- 
tal stock, shares, and property of the North Midland 
Company, with the Midland Counties and Birmingham 
and Derby Companies respectively, and upon other 
business touching the future management of the traffic. 
The attendance of proprietors from Manchester, Liver- 
pool, York, and London, was more numerous than on any 
previous occasion. The Chairman explained the recent 
negotiations between the directors of the three companies, 
with reference to an amalgamation of the three companies 
into one, and which had resulted in a mutual determination 
to consolidate a measure which now only required the 
formal ratification of the proprietors. He believed it 
would benefit not only the railway, but the public gene- 
rally—in the one case, it would economise the working, 
and enhance the value of the shares ; and in the other, it 
would enable passengers to pass through to the north 
without those obstructions and loss of time now incident 
to the present system. The propositions were to the 
effect that, in future, the three lines, with their lands, 
buildings, capital, &c., should be consolidated into one 
company, which should be liable for the mortgages, bonds, 
&c. of the other companies, to the amount of 1,855,0002,; 
the united company to be also liable for all the contracts 
of the other companies prior to the union; the aggregate 
share capital to amount to 5,158,000/.; each holder to be 
allotted the amount of stock in the united company, equal 
to his amount in the other companies, the North Midland 
and Midland Counties holders receiving an equal amount 
of dividend, but the Birmingham and Derby receiving 
27s. Gd. less per share. The number of directors not to 
exceed nineteen, three to form a provisional committee; 
and finally, that an Act of Parliament be obtained in the 
ensuing session, the three companies, in the meanwhile, 
using their united efforts for the efficient conduct of the 
traffic. A long debate ensued on the various propositions, 
which were ultimately carried unanimously. The Birming- 
ham and Derby Company have since met and agreed to the 
proposals.— On Wednesday a special general meeting of the 
Northern and Eastern Company took place, in order to 
authorize the directors to raise a sum, not exceeding 
67,822/. ds. 5d., for the purposes of the undertaking. A 
resolution to that effect was submitted, and passed unani- 
mously. Mr. Masterman, a director, said he had the satis- 
faction to report that they had the offer of the whole of the 
money at 4 per cent. for five years. In reply to a pro~ 
prietor, the chairman said the Hertford branch was ex- 
pected to be opened by the first week in November, and as 
soon as they arrived at the proper information in respect 
to carrying the line northward, a special meeting would 
be called. 
IRELAND, 
Dublin.—The weekly meeting of the Repeal Associa- 
tion took place on Monday. Mr. Connor, the well-known 
advocate of fixity of tenure, rose, as he said, to give 
notice that on the next day of meeting he would move the 
adoption of a resolution to the following effect :—‘‘ That 
until our national rights of self-legislation, in the pos- 
session of our own Parliament, and of a valuation and 
perpetuity of his farm to the tenant, we Repealers shall 
pay no rent, county cess, rent-charge, tithe, poor-rate, or 
any other charge out of land.” This notice having been 
read with great emphasis, was applauded vociferously by 
the galleries, but it was received with great surprise by | 
the rest of the meeting, Mr. Connor, appearing to get 
heated by the commotion he had raised, spoke a few 
abrupt sentences.’ He said that humbug had been going 
on long enough. It was time now to do something for 
the people. There was much talk in this room about 
pounds, shillings, and pence, but in the meanwhile the 
millions were starving. ‘The resolution was one which he 
would never give up; he would sooner part with his life. 
Mr. John O’Connell called on Mr. Connor to desist. 
Such a notice as he had read could not be received by the 
Association. It would at once endanger their cause. 
It was not treating the Association fairly to introduce 
such a matter there. The effect of such a motion, if 
adopted, would be to divert the public mind from the 
peaceable progress they were making, and to bring them 
in direct collision with the law authorities of the land. 
Had that notice come from anybody else but him, it would 
not matter so much, and at amoment,too, when they were 
informed that opposition to rent had began in the 
county Carlow, and that it had even reached portions 
of Tipperary. He was not surprised at this uncon- 
stitutional violence—this traitorism to repeal and the 
country spreading in Carlow, because that country 
was the blank in the repeal map of Ireland, Several 
other members expressed their disapprobation of. the 
motion, and after considerable interruption, the fol- 
lowing resolutions were passed :—1. That this Association 
has heard with horror and indignation the doctrines pro- 
pounded by Mr. Connor respecting the payment of rents, 
county cess, tithes, poor-rate, or rent-charge, this day, in 
the attempt he made to put upon the books a notice plainly 
and grossly illegal, and directly tending to create and 
encourage criminal outrage and violence throughout the 
country.—2. That if anything can add to these feelings, 
it is the consideration of the time Mr. Connor has chosen 
for making such remarks—a time when, in the county of 
Carlow, where Repeal has as yet made little progress, a 
violent and. criminal opposition to rents has, according to 
the public prints, already began to manifest itself.—3. That 
this Association indignantly rejects, and refuses to insert 
on its books, or to allow to be for a moment entertained, 
Mr. Connor’s notice ; and that they declare that all who 
put forward such doctrines, and offer such advice to the 
people as is contained in that notice, are either madmen 
or traitors to the glorious cause of Repeal, to the noble 
people who support that cause, and Old Ireland.’’ The 
repeal rent for the week was 1,462/, J7s. 8d.—A gunner 
of the Royal Artillery, at Ballincollig, has been sent away 
prisoner to Woolwich for trial by court-martial. His 
name is O’Brien, a native of France, but the son of Irish 
parents. He was heard to give a warm expression to his 
sentiments upon the question of repeal, and treated with 
contempt the barrack fortifications now in progress. 
—Father Mathew arrived in Kingston from England on 
Saturday, in excellent health. The mail packet reached 
the jetty soon after seven o’clock, but even at that early 
hour there was a large crowd assembled, who warml: 
cheered Father Mathew on his landing.—The Dublin 
papers state that the account of Lord Cardigan having 
placed one of his officers under arrest was exaggerated in 
all the material points ; that the officer was reprimanded 
for lounging when on duty, and was told to consider him- 
self under arrest until the circumstance was reported to 
the Li ant-G il ding, who was then on 
another part of the field, and who, on being made ac- 
quainted with the case, rode down, and after severely 
reprimanding the officer removed the arrest.—Dr. Prior, 
Vice Provost of Trinity College, died _on Saturday, aged 
79. The lucrative appointment of First Clerk in the 
Chief Secretary’s office, vacated by the promotion of Mr. 
Hamilton to the Second Remembrancership, has been 
conferred on Mr. J. Pennefather, eldest son of Baron 
Pennefather. 
Clifden.—The Repeal agitation has extended to the 
*« far west?’ of Ireland, amidst the wilds of Connemara. A 
meeting was held on Sunday, at what may be called the 
extreme western point of Ireland, Clifden, which is 145 
miles distant from Dublin, being a new town, not having 
been built thirty years. Mr. M. J. Ffrench presided, 
supported by Dr. M’Hale, Mr. D. Browne, M.P., anda 
large number of i The dings, which 
were greatly interrupted by heavy rain, commenced with 
resolutions expressing allegiance to the Queen, and con- 
demning the Act of Union. O’Connell then 
addressed the meeting at great length on the usual topics. 
He stated that as soon as the repeal of the union should 
take place the tithe, rent-charge, and county cess would be 
abolished, the franchise extended to every householder 
and father of a family, vote by ballot established, 
absentee rents spent in Ireland, and equity of tenure 
enforced; the land would be drained, population would 
increase, there would be good wages for everybody, and 
plenty and prosperity:would spread over the country. 
Lisburn.—On Wednesday week, an anti-Repeal de- 
monstration took place in this town. The meeting was 
called for the purpose of addressing the Queen, and of 
tendering to her Majesty the best thanks of the inhabit- 
ants of Lisburn and its neighbourhood, for the especial 
reference which, in the Royal speech delivered at the 
close of the last session, she was pleased to make to the 
Repeal agitation. 
Carlow.—On the night of the 8th inst., about fifty men 
assembled on the lands of Coolmanna, in this county, and 
cut down about two acres of oats under seizure for rent 
due to the landlord, whose attorney, having received inti- 
mation of the proceedings, collected some people in the 
vicinity, who came up in sufficient time to prevent the 
property being carried off the land. Informations have 
been sworn against sixteen of the persons concerned. 
Cork.—The fortifications of Cork, garrison are proceod- 
