The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-02-20 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION. Standard Office, Two o'clock, p.m. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET. .-THIS DAY Our Share market this morning opened exceedingly flat, but towards the close of the morning's business several good buyers appeared. We annex quotations :—Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 11 d; Liverpool and Bury, 81 d; London new i's, p; Sheffield preference, £ll 6s. 3d. ; Grimsby Docks, 13i d; Mid land stock, 89; Do. £so's, 6 6i d ; Shropshire Union, .R 2 Ss. 9d. ; Newcastle preference, p; York and Berwick No. 2,1 p; Dutch Rhen: d; Rouen and Havre, 13 LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET. -THIS DAY The receipts into thi ay, include a moderi port, during the week ending yester e quantity of Grain and Flour, with a coastwise and from Ireland; the im_ accession of Oatlmes •ts of Foreign produc within the same period, forming a Sod supply of Wheat Corn, and Be ans, and 4,954 'rels of Flour, as sr I our market this r n and country miller: was disposed of t morning s, and IN to a mod in had a good al Itendance of lour cont zriday. arley am ied our la of this Vheat, though not in lively re lerate amount, at a decline of day week. lull sale, on the reduced terms ats bein price of !ly any inquiry, hardly main- _yptians not exceeding noticed at the foregoing de- were the turn cheaper ; the 235. per load. n Corn to-day, and not much :. , ded 2s. per qr. ; and Indian f 6d. per barrel. 0 is wit In the f there are And the of a water The U 1 TINT T of wine CHARAC in the higt s of Sc labours to penses. 1 what it was persecution of dun unsatisfied ithin the pale ST ATTEMPT Olt forty wer ged and tattere appearance, and would painters penc , ss in the wish to get t competition worthy locomotive steam-engir pieces to be put togethe Itely adjusted as the worl ;he retreat of Shere Singh the force with which it of the arm that dr 3m a cross bow, which of princes (observes St imation to royalty not to us incense of adu- to that 'nch call noblesse, and the His family was at one time ice of the house of Orleans. ;ed, sufficient for indepen lore from his uncle than his , however, with an English lady ,une. But, alas ! for him, not all Lnd capital, nor from his literary T been sufficient to meet his ex aste for display, and all the wild 1 seigneur, he has never known imanhood down to his pre- Not a red in o humiliations from t not for the fear of descend gossip, we could relate some ry embarrassments which uld cause sarcasm on what he calls T A RAGGED SCHOOI —After pennec the matte It of whom reached by men face, h e mud-cove I clothes, and feet, is an apology It a fine sut :et for the taking the names, and even in this v difficulties. Beginn in as done that afternoon besides io had to encounter the first bench, a boy was '" He answered, " They ." " Where do you live ?" " I lives iii 'own the way, at Mother M—'s rag-shop ; " , but lam older than he." Th e id his name was Dick. next boy was ten yc :Pecimen of t " No, the calls m .eets, and live in that n to questions re- John Mark Larmenio they were to Lssociation—which w kept in ignorar Templars, Grand A him to signs of woros e knights into durin of the object o to preserve the order, to re- age the death of aster and the Knights who perished with ,e qualities of the new member were per- Iwn the grand secret was to be confided to 'he seer signs were precaution against admitting into the order iism during the persecution sed to Wand, and r :d the orde mi was IN legithr. nowledge 'uted by ifter this the new chief I his succe Di secre I founded an establishment, in 1314, under the protection of Robert Bruce ; their objects and measures were the same, and they were concealed under the title of Architects. This THE BEST RIDDLE EVER MADE.--.We are fond of rid dles, mysteries, conundrums, and puzzles of all Ands, and flatter ourselves that we are rather clever in guessing +horn 1 - We have been fairly beaten. We are not ashamed of our defeat, for there never was, and never will be again, a riddle like it. It stands alone; and perhaps it is as well that it does ; for we are sure if there were many riddles of the same sort, the country would be ruined in Lunatic Asylums. We devoted a whole day to it—took it to bed with us—and began it again first thing in the morning, but all to no purpose; rot a word of it could we under stand. It is certainly the best Riddle ever invented. The most genuine Yankee would give it up. Of all the Mysteries of London, there is not one that comes at all near it. It beats all the Chinese puzzles in the world, and we are still lost in wonder, however it was put together. Should any ingenious reader wish to try his hand at it, we do not mind to tell him what it is, leaving it entirely ,to his generosity to let us into the secret, provided he should succeed in making anything out of it. We cannot Imagine a greater Riddle than a man sitting down to read the Debates in the Fonetic Nuz ! We call that the hardest Riddle that has ever appeared in print. We should like *to see Lord Brougham with a copy in his hand. He would never guess that he was the original of Brum ! Jim disgusted he would be too, to find himself so little ! What notion of greatness could you connect with a name like Bruin ? ,inued to meet a very cult of 1 rere littl deman aaining id Malt, with ast quotation! re very cliff in limited w inquiri 1 IS . tto- °4 - ; ; r, • . " 4 ' : ' an essential any one. b himself ormation of no fewer thai require to be `er Gazette " His lords I And, no d( made f 'ends on th vent is like to wear rour R OF LA ler branch of t rty which ht never large, c y his mariiag With a great t dance of a gr from his litors. NV ays of t p of Goi urn Sher IW, after 1 by tl dARTIN THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE CALIFORNIAN GOLD AND THE BULLIONISTS. (FROM THE SUN.) The accounts from California, respecting the gold dis coveries, and the enormous quantities of the precious me tal that may literally be picked up by all who choose to do so, which at first were looked upon as gross exaggera tions, receive additional confirmation day by day. Every new mail brings further intelligence, proving clearly and satisfactorily that the wonderful rumours that were circu iated were fully justified by the facts—that the produce of the diggings more than justify Um most sanguine expec tations that had been entertained by the treasure-seekers. The letter from Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby, the flag officer in command on the Pacific station, however, fur nishes additional evidence, which cannot be controverted or denied. When we find a British officer, of undoubted character, who has risen to the hig:iest rank in the service of his country, and who has been selected to fiill the situa tion of admiral in command on a very important station, offering his unsolicited and gratuitous testimony on a point in which he can have no personal interest, we can no lon ger refuse the most implicit credence to his assertions, more particularly when those assertions are fully borne out by the further evidence of a distinguished post-captain in the British navy. Tne paper, the truth of which is more than confirmed by Capt. Courtenay, of the Constance, just arrived from California, " states that, at the lower mines, the miners count the success of the day in dollars, at the upper mine, near the mill, in ounces, and here in pounds.' And it also speaks of a piece being found " weighing 13 tbs. !" and of five loads of earth " which yielded after washings 16,000-B'," and that " instances have occurred where men have carried the earth on their backs, and collected from 800 to 1,500 dollars a day ! !" If such extraordinary results can be obtained by unskilled labour. aided, perhaps, only by " a butcher's knife, for which 40 dollars was refused," or " a pick, spoon, or shovel," by year in university buSiness ; fd - ur months, a the very least, he generally has it in his power to expatiate where he will, from May Fair to Mesopotamia; he has no household ties to detain him, and if he does not shake off the lexographic rust, and the mathematical mouldi ness, which he may have contracted during his labours of the term, he must be possessed of a local attachment almost vegetable : some few instances of which secluded existence still linger in quiet nooks of our halls and col leges, but which are no more the types of their class than Parson Trulliber is a representative of the country clergy, or the stage Diggory of the English yeoman. But the self-complacency of Cockneyism is the most unshaken thing in this revolutionary age. It is perfectly ready to lecture the person on the teaching of Greek, or the York shire farmer on the fattening of7bullocks. All the dis tributive machinery in the world does not diminish, it would seem, the absorption of intelligence by the Ward of Cheap. eriirral zfflisrellanv. The subscription for the widows and orphans of the persons who lost their lives in the Darley Main 'pit now reaches near £l3OO. Madlle. Alboni left Covent-garden mainly on a differ ence of terms. She demanded £6,000, and the manage ment would only offer £4,000. Her Majesty has commuted the sentence of death passed upon John Thompson, for attempting to assassi nate the town clerk of Greenock, into transportation for life. London was visited by a dense fog on Monday, during which a policeman at the Euston-square station of the North-Western Railway was run over by an engine and crushed to death. merely subjecting the auriferous soil to repeated washings in plain water, what may be expected when extensive ma chinery, and all the improved appliances of modern art, are introduced ? Quicksilver, too, the most important agent in separating and purifying the gold may be obtained in the greatest abundance, and in the very localities where it will be required. There is no drawback whatsoever, no lack of space to restrict the operations of the gold seekers. The metal is scattered over a vast extent of territory, and on the very surface of the earth, " admitting of simulta neous labour being applied to an almost indefinite extent, and labourers ready to proceed thither at their own ex- . . therefore, impossible to assign any fixed limits or to offer more than a mere conjecture as to the amount that may ultimately be obtained. Of this only we may be assured, that its value will be very great, and far beyond anything that has hertofore been known. Even the fabled splen dours of El Dorado scarcely exceed the magnificent reality. The large building in Threadneedle-street, built a few years ago by Mr. Moxhay, the biscuit-maker, and known as the " Hall of Commerce," has been closed, after re maining open to the public for six years. The undertak ing of the projector has turned out a hopeless failure. The sale of the Stowe Library, after having extended over twenty-four days, was brought to a close on Satur day. The total amount realised was £10,355 is. 6d. The important and celebrated collection of manuscripts will be sold in the course of the ensuing month. The Metropolitan Sewage Company have already laid down their apparatus for irrigating nearly 1,000 acres of land, and a memorial was lately presented to the Corn - their favour, signed by the holders Under such circumstances it is by no means surprising that multitudes should hasten to the land of promise to gather the glittering treasure. Thousands are already busily engaged, and tens of thousands are proceeding thither with all possible expedition. Emigrant vessels are starting from almost every port, crowded with eager ex pectants, and probably within the present year one hun dred thousand adventurers will be fully occupied. If each of these persons collect but half an ounce a day (a quan tity far short of the lowest estimate that has been formed) we shall find that gold to thevalue of more than £70,000,000 sterling will be extracted from the soil, the greater por tion of which will be brought into acti v e c i rcu l a ti on . _ _ . On the 15th ult. we pointed out the extraordinary results that followed the discovery of the mines of Mexico, of Peru, and of the Brazils in the latter end of the 15th century, and the consequent alteration in the value of the precious metals. We also considered the probable con consequences of an increase of gold to the value of eight or ten millions of pounds per annum. We showed that a similar depreciation to that which was witnessed in the 16th century, when the average price of wheat, the most important article of food for the people, had increased fivefold within little more than forty years, must again take place. What an extraordinary revolution in society will occur if 'even £50,000,000 sterling be ob:dned. How soon will the relative value of things be changed. We shall not hear of a Legislator asking triumphantly, " What is a Pound ?" and conceiving that every moral obligation will be fulfilled by paying to the national credi tor, to the landed proprietor, to the annuitant, 5 dvits 3gs. of gold, then a comparatively worthless metal, for every pound sterling which he is entitled to demand. The word of promise, indeed, may be kept, " to the ear, but it will be broken to the hope." The gold will be there, but the " purchasing power," that which alone constitutes its utility, will be absolutely wanting. What melancholy and heartrending statements may be made to the then Chancellor of the Exchequer of blighted prospects and melancholy reverses ! Helpless widows and orphans may be stripped of the inheritance provided for them by the providence of the husband and the father. Each sove reign in which the dividends would be paid or the jointure satisfied would undoubtedly be of full weight, and of the illidard fineness. No complaint could be made on that score ; but there would lie its excha ngea bl e va l ue ? _ - Whe 00 acres The Rev. John Andrew, incumbent, Worsbro', has received a cheque from the Queen Dowager for £25, and one from the Archbishop of York. for £2O, in aid of the subscription for the relatives of the persons killed by the late colliery explosion. It is said, that an association of gentlemen will be speedily formed in London, for the purpose of returning the visit of the French national guards, and that in less than a month several thousand Englishmen will proceed in a body to Paris and remain there for a week. Mr. W. Page Wood, the member for Oxford, has made donations of £5OO stock to the Magdalen Asylum, and 2,000 guineas to the Infirmary at Gloucester. He is re lated to the late wealthy and eccentric banker of that city, from whom he acquired a considerable sum. It is said to be in contemplation to open some coal fields in the neighbourhood of Bristol, well known t h o contain immense beds of superior coal, and which, as it can be conveyed into tha port by water, will, no doubt, be in demand for export. JENNY LlND.—This most charming vocalist appeared in Huddersfield on Tuesday last, and sang at a concert in the Philosophical-hall. The hall was tastefully fitted up for the occasion—and never was seen within four walls in the town such a galaxy of beauty. The man who so dexterously escaped a week or two since from Wakefield prison has sent a letter, stating that he is thankful for the loan of the prison dress, and that he is now on the wide ocean, where the authorities may catch him, if they can. The sale of the library of the late Princess Sophia was commenced on Wednesday by Messrs. Christie and Man son. The sale will occupy four days, and the catalogue contains a list of 1,147 lots of books, 24 lots of prints bound, and 22 lots of drawings—making in the whole 1,193 lots. vould be the command over the necessaries and comforts of life that was conveyed by the possession of a sovereign, or even of the much condemned one-pound note, in the average of transactions in which it was em ployed ? " Echo may, indeed, answer where ?" The unfortuate fundholder would speedily discover to his cost how fULile the expectations he had formerly cherished, how delusive the theories of the bullionists ! He gladly listened to their voice, when there was a scarcity of gold, and a great appreciation of the value of money, when from want of a circulating medium—a currency adequate to the wants and exigencies of the country, induqry the working classes were reduced to the utmost extremity of distress, owing to an over-strict adhe rence t o the theo they could ries of the currency mongers Then, inc - - . - weight -- of the contract being to pay a certain of gold of 44.0.........,:5.:4-, ..,.-_.L. _ a A . . White hares are increasing immensely in the Grampian Hills. It is no uncommon occurrence to see five or six hundred of them during a single day's sport. A gentle man who was shooting on the Marquis of Airlie's pro perty in two hours shot twenty-eight, and, if inclined might have easily trebled the number. tile requisite sranaara ana nneness—_ —/er, although twice the amount of labour might be required, and that gold, or rather, we should say, the currency was of double the value that it had been at the time the obligation was contracted. The full pound of flesh should be returned ; less would be accepted. Now, indeed, circum- nothin he spirit anc stances will altogether be a sense of the agreement will be considered—the intrinsic value, the purchasing power is all that which will be de sired. And we would give it. Ground down as we have been, overwhelmed with the burden that was so ruth lessly cast upon us, we would still, as Englishmen, desire to deal fairly with all; to satisfy the claims, the just and equitable claims, that the public creditor undoubtedly possesses ; but let him be wise in due season—let him, while there is yet time, be satisfied with an equitable set tlement. Let a currency be introduced that will not be A deputation from the Quakers had an interview last week with Mr. Macaulay, upon the subject of his notice of William Penn, thinking that justice was not done to him. After a long conversation the deputation failed in proving any of Mr. Macauley's statements to be incor rect. subject to those violent alternations that have led to such A nationa hirty years by the Liverpool Currency Reform Association—will do justice to all; and to that we must come at last. It may as well be done speedily, and with a good grace. *" Reflections on the manner in which property in Great Britain may be affected by a large influx of Gold from Califor nia, and Suggestions as to the means by which such effects may be neutralised, and any material disturbance in the Cur rency prevented." By a Merchant. London : Effingham Wilson. ENGLISH AND FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES (From Blackwood's Magazine.) during the asting commotions in Europe, the attention cf the public should have been so much occupied by the condition of our English universi ties. Still more curious is it, perhaps, that so large a portion of the attention thus directed should have assunied an objurgatory tone, as if Oxford and Cambridge were not duly performing their functions, as if they were of a character suited only to bygone ages, as if, in short, they were doing nothing. True enough, in one sense, they " doing nothing." There was no academical legion ed—none at least that we heard of—in C' meadows or Trinity walks aris, aurcu no body of sympathising stu- le view of hp 1 Oth n SHERlFFS. — Cumberland—Andrew Fleming Hudleston, Esq., of Hutton-John. Cheshire—Thomas William Tat ton, Esq., of Withenshaw, (son-in-law of R. Townley Parker, Esq., of Cuerden Hall.) Derbyshire—Jedediah Strutt, Esq., of Belper. Yorkshire—OctaviuS Vernon Harcourt, Esq.. of Swinton-park. ESCAPE OF A CRIMINAL LUNATIC.—At the latter end of last month, Thomas Cross, who was fifteen months since tried at the Derby assizes on a charge of having murdered two females, and acquitted on the ground of insanity, and who had since been confined in Camberwell house Lunatic Asylum, effected his escape from that esta blishment, and has not as yet been traced. The Home Secretary has addressed a letter to the Lord- Lieutenants of the different counties, intimating that it is not intended to place any of the yeomanry cavalry on permanent dut or caus;., them to be inspected, during the present year ; but such corps as may wish to be trained and exercised according to the provisions of the Volunteer Act will be allowed to assemble, subject to cer tain regulations as to their remuneration. A furious warfare has sprung up between Gilfillan and Charles Dickens. The latter had declined, in somewhat disparaging terms, to cubaciibc fin a monument, w coo,- per, which provoked the other to tomahawk and scalp him in this ferocious manner :—" The ` Task' will outlive the ` Haunted Man.' Dickens is - but a ` Cricket on the Hearth.' Cowper was an eagle of God ; and his memory shall be cherished, and his poems read, after the ` wick Papers' are forgotten At Inverness, the effects of the flood upon the poorer class of people have been very calamitous. Forced to forsake their homes in the low-lying parts of the town by water, they have taken refuge in churches and empty buildings, in a destitute condition.. It is feared that in fectious diseases may spring up among them. The local authorities have done all they could to relieve the dis tress of the poor people • and the Provost has applied for aid from the Highlan Destitution Fund and to the Government. AN EAGLE AND CROW FIGHT.—A b;rci of an enormous size was observed by several ladies and gentlemen, on Wednesday, soaring majestically over the village of Carlton, accompanied by two crows, by which it was alternately attacked. Their attention was first directed by the peculiar croaking of the crows, and their strange manoeuvring threw no little interest over the scene. The rara avis flew steadily on, without seeming to heed their )ver the Scaw's Plantation, and Lons- dale's Beacon, when the wood prevented any further view —Carlisle Journal. A case of felony of a novel character has been preferred at Sheffield against a bull-terrier dog and his owner, George Stacey. A man observed Stacey and his dog near a shoe-shop on Sheffield Moor, and soon afterwards he saw master " Pompey" walk carefully into the shop, and emerge thence with a pair of shoes in his mouth, which the dog's master put into his pocket, and ran away with. A policeman having been informed of the affair pursued and captured both thief and receiver. The biped was com mitted for trial, and the quadruped was sentenced to death without further trial. EXTRAORDINARY INCIDENT.—On Thursday, as a man named Smith was walking along a ditch, Le saw a rat swimming along the side of it. Happening to have a stick i❑ his hand, armed with a spike at the point, he launched it at the rat, and succeeded, by a fortunate aim, in transfixing the animal to the bank. This was rare sport ; but the best of it is to come. On withdrawing the stick, the body of the rat was turned over, and Smith was surprised to see something glittering among its en trails, which, on taking it out, proved to be a Queen Anne's sixpence.— Canzbridge Advertiser. A. SAG sous DOG.-011 Saturday as Mr. Ezra Flet through Dark Cliff, on his way home from cher was goin Barnsley to goyland; he heard some persons making to wards him, who, he thought, intended to rob him, and having only a few pence and his watch on his person, he took the latter out of his fob, and gave it to a little dog he had with him, which had been taught to carry articles home when it was told to do so. He had no sooner done this than he was pounced upon by some highwaymen, who beat him very ill, and took the few pence from him. On his arrival at home, his faithful little dog and his watch were there all right.—Leeds Mercury. A very extraordinary degree of excitement has been occasioned at Epsom during the past week, owing to the apprehension of a gentleman practising as a solicitor in that place, on the charge of committing a criminal assault in on a young lady holding the situation of companion to press the ey portions lead nr. ,l - I his wife. The complainant's name is Maria .o'Grady, daughter of Lieutenant O'Grady, who was shot in a duel about twelve years since by Captain Smith, brother of the Princess of Canna. The alleged offender is a married man, who received Miss O'Grady into his house from motives of kindness, and the assault is said to have oc curred in November last, after which the complainant was sent away to Liverpool. The accused has been ad mitted to bail, and the further hearing postponed for a week. A PERILOUS LEAP.—A few nights since a respectably dressed woman having booked herself at Nottingham to keeping alive ancient prejudices," cleaving pertinaciously go to Langley Mill, when she got to the Lenton-gate to obsolete forms," following a monastic rule," forget- fancied she had got into the wrong train, and, under that in the world outside their college walls,' and multifarious impression, opened the door, and jumped out while the twaddle of this sort, till the Pope fled from Rome, or train was proceeding at full speed. A gentleman in the some other little revolution occurred to withdraw the at- next compartment observed the act, but was unable to tention of the public from this set of phrases to another, communicate with the guard till the train arrived at Long no doubt no less forcible than original. Others, again, Eaton. The engine was then detached, and ran gently took a friendly tone and spoke apolegetically : it was a down the line, and at a short distance from Lenton the woman was found walking towards Nottingham, not hav great thing to get any move whatever from the university : . those who the lead in her management were not men mg sustained any injury. She refused to alter her deter who mixed with the world at large , and allowance must mination, saying she had been going to the wrong place. be made if they did not altogether march with the times. After walking on the line to Nottingham, she took a cab h The world at large' is an expression of very doubtful to er residence.—Notts Mercury. import ' all think their little set mankind : but when AN EFFECTUAL CURE OF A SEVERE COUGH AND the resident Fellows of colleges are charged with not d u l y ASTHMA BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—Mr. John Davies. of mixing with the world at large, we cannot help thinking Lion•street, Milford, was afflicted for more than seven that those who use the phrase are ignoring the existence years with a most inveterate asthmatical cough, which of the Didcot Junction and Eastern Counties Railway, several eminent surgeons, under whose care he had been and borrowing their ideas from the time when Hobson at various times , could not erad i c ate ; he then resolve d travelled betwixt Cambridge and the Bull.' As far as upon trying Holloway's Pills, and fortunately he did, for our observation goes, we should say that there is no class this superior medicine has effected a perfect cure. The of persons who have better opportunities of taking an cough has ceased, the asthma is removed, and his respire extended view of different places of social being, who are tion is as free as that of the healthiest person. Old more disposed to take advantage of those opportunities. coughs, recent cold, wheezings on the chest, and short- A Fellow of a college is not engaged more than half the ness of the breath, may also be cared by Holloway's Pills. At the sale of the Stow library by Messrs. Sotheby, last week, the first three volumes of " Prynne's Records," a very Scarce work, sold for £l4O. The fourth volume of the same book, supposed to be unique, having been the only one that escaped the great fire of London, brought £335 ; it was bought for the libra r y o f Li nc oln's Inn. which possesses Prynne's own copy of the other volumes. JENNY LIND.—The Weekly Dispatch states that Jenny Lind's determination to retire, hot merely from the stage, but from public performance altogether, after the comple tion of her existing engagement to Mr. Lumley, has been instigated by a daughter of the Bishop of Norwich, who has great influence over the fair syren. It is added that a Mr. - has still greater influence, and will shortly marry her. The name of the future husband, as confi dently given by other papers, is Harris. The gentleman is said to be an officer in the Madras army, and son of a London Banker. IMPORTANT TO CALICO PRINTERS.—NEW INVENTION. A very great improvement in calico and delaine printing has just been effected by Mr. Berry, a very ingenious operative in this town. We have seen specimens of work in both produced by the inventor, Mr. Berry, who has carried the principle out so far that any number of colours can be printed by blocks at one and the same time, with less cost, greater neatness, and more exact fitting than by the present method. We doubt not but as this invention becomes understood, it will vastly facilitate and increase block printing, on account of the advantages it possesses of increasing quantity and quality. The system is such that one, two, three, or more colours are so arranged, that they can be separately or collectively worked together as the design may require.--Glasgow Post. LADY FRANKLIN AND THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. — This most estimable lady, with all the fervour of a de voted wife, is at present engaged in a pious pilgrimage to the ports whence the whale-ships are likely to proceed to Davis's Straits, with a view to plead her anxieties and distresses, and to animate the daring and generous com manders of these ships in her cause. Lady Franklin has already visited Hull, and here we believe that her lady ship has been received with much enthusiasm, and that the strongest desire has been manifested by the masters and others connected with the whale-ships; not only to carry out any instructions or wishes that may be con veyed to them from Government, but are also themselves disposed to undertake certain measures in connection with the usual objects of their voyage, for affording suc cour or gaining information respecting the missing ships. ATTACKS BY HIGHWAYMEN IN BUCKS.-011 Saturday evening, when returning home from Buckingham market, Mr. Lines, of Water Stratford, was pulled from his horse by three men, and robbed of his watch, about £7 in gold and silver, and a cheque for £5O on the London and County Bank at Buckingham. On pulling Mr. Lines to the ground, the thieves forced mud into his mouth. He resisted, and knocked down one of the men twice ; but by the combined strength and aid of bludgeons, they com pletely overpowered him.—Mr. Treadwell, miller and farmer, of Westbury, was, on the same evening (when on his way home from the above market), stopped near the turn to Shalestone, by two men, who, fortunately, did not succeed in pulling him from his horse. After striking one of the fellows a violent blow across the face with his stick, Mr. Treadwell rode off with the loss of his hat and stick only, which were subsequently found in the road. STOCKTON-UPON-TEES.—Some genius or other, want ing something to do, has—it is supposed by way of joke— performed the following feat :—Letters professing to come from Mr. Emerson, of Stokesley, were received here on Saturday last, by several influential inhabitants, amongst which were a lawyer, doctor,:auctioneer, and several trades men, summoning them on business at Stokesley; the landlord of the Vane Arms Inn had an order for his best carriage and four greys and postilions, and at another town a hearse and mourning coaches were ordered for the same place, so that Stokesley was crowded with visitors and men of business from all parts, to experience, when they arrived, the mortification of finding that they were duped by some mischievous person or other. Any one guilty of such an action would be quite capable of sending false statements, as we sometimes read of, to newspapers. We understand a reward will be offered for the perpetration of this mischievous act. DEATH OF MR. DROTJET.—At a meeting of the St. Pancras Vestry, on Wednesday, a question was put to the chairman, as to the reported death of Mr. Drouet, the proprietor of the now celebrated establishment at Tooting. The chairman said he had no doubt, from what he had heard from Mr. Howell, a vestryman, that such a deplorable event had taken place. He had understood that Mr. Drouet bad for some years been subject to an affection of the heart, and the excitement produced by the late lamentable occurrence in his establishment, and the severe verdicts of the coroners' juries, and attacks of the public press upon him, had so increased the disease as to place the unfortunate man's life in imminent dan ger. Mr. Morris said the poor man lost his wife but a few months back, and that tended greatly to destroy the order and regulation which had previously prevailed in his establishment.—[This turns out incorrect. Mr. Drouet has been extremely ill, but it is still living.] PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.—SOIIIe months ago public attention was drawn to a series of ex periments on the floating properties of shredded cork. when used for the stuffing of seamen's beds, bolsters, and every other kind of squab or cushion in ordinary use on board ship, and applied as a means of preserving life in cases of shipwreck or sudden casualty. The extended application of this most important invention has, how ever, been retarded by practical difficulties of a mecha nical nature, which prevented the fibre from being pro duced in marketable quantities, and in sufficient abun dance to meet the orders received by the patentees. It appears, however, that these mechanical difficulties have now been entirely overcome, and that machinery has been constructed so as to•mannfucture any quantity of the fibre that may be required The applicaien of the buoya principle of cork to purposes of saving• life in shipwreck is no novelty, but the bulk of the material has hitherto been fatal to the hope of bringing it out for general use. But by converting the cork into fibre stuffing, and using it for beds on board ship, a ready means is offered to passengers and crew of saving life in sudden emergency. THE FAMILY 14 RIEND 11. A. TWENTY THOUSAND HOMES.—Amid the lIDIS mtrPT.COMED TO S Of Clitaep literature now flowing from the press, it required more than common skill to produce a Magazine which should raise itself to a high position. The success of the Family Friend is attributable to this,—that its pages are unmis takably useful and interesrinx to everybody. Those por tions which are devoted to Gardening, Natural History, Domestic Economy, &c., are of real value. Mrs. Warren, the celebrated artist in fancy work, has undertaken her appropriate department, and will henceforth be the " Work-Table Friend" of the fair patrons of the Maga zine. The " Useful Receipts" will undergo careful revi sion by a skilful physician, and a practical chemist. Not withstanding all these important features, the work costs only two-pence monthly,. and is beautifully got up. Three numbers, for January, February, and March, are now ready, and furnish together ninety-six pages of close mat ter for six-pence! The readers of the Liverpool Standard should order those numbers immediately of any book seller. Published by Houlston and Stoneman, Pater noster-row, London. THE ASSASSINATIONS AT STANFIELD-HALL. The late housekeeper of the accused murderer Rush, who is known as the widow James, but whose real name is Emily Sandford, a single woman, was on Thursday night con fined of a female child in the bridewell prison of Wymond ham, where she has been kept since the committal of Rush, to ensure her attendance at the trial. In the event of her recovery Rush's trial will in all probability take place at the latter end of next month, at the ensuing assizes. Rush occasions considerable uneasiness amongst the authorities at Norwich Castle by his restless conduct and the singular requests he is constantly making. He has instructed a solicitor to retain a leading counsel of the Norfolk Circuit to assist him in points of law that may arise in the course of his trial, but it is understood that he has been unable to obtain one on the conditions imposed, Rush intending to conduct his own case through out the trial, which, on account of the number of the witnesses, is likely to extend over two or three days. The prosecution will be conducted by Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. Prendergast. We regret to state that Mrs. Jermy has not yet recovered from her wounds. Portions of the elbow bone have been found to have been shot away She continues at Stanfield-hall. EMIGRATION FROM DORSETSHIRI a very large sided, was 1 —On Tuesday last hich the • High Sheriff pre e, for the ion, a The Riv.C. - Binghain pro- posed a resolution (after some observations on the inade quacy of the labourers' wages for their support) in sup port of the plan of emigration about to be adopted, which was seconded in a speech of considerable length by the Hon. and Rev. S. G. Osborne, in explanation of the ge neral principle of colonization, and the benefits likely to accrue from it to many in the south of England, who were in a most pitiable condition. The hon. and rev. gentleman having concluded amidst great applause, the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Scott, the Rev. H. F. Yeatman, and other gentlemen, addressed the meeting. The resolution having been carried, the High Sheriff announced himself a convert to the principle of emigration. It was intimated that the Lord-Lieutenant of the county had that day given his countenance to the local society. The Govern ment agent was busily engaged during the evening with applicants for free passages. ASYLUM Iron INVALID GENTLEWOMEN.—It is proposed to make an appeal to the benevolence of the public for the establishment of an asylum •for a class of persons for whose wants no public hospitals, as such places are at pre sent constituted, aro adapted.. This class consists of gen tlewomen of moderate means, or who are dependent for support on their own exertions, and more especially of those in the country who find it necessary to visit the Me tropolis for medical treatment. Such persons are, unfor tunately, too frequently unable to bear the expense of me-' dical advice, or even of such comforts as invalids cannot do without. The proposition for this asylum is at present in its infancy, and it is therefere unnecessary to enter into a detail of the plan. It will be necessary to raise a sum of money to enable the proposers of it to carry out their very praiseworthy object, and for this purpose the sympa thies of the philanthropicand affluent must be awakened. When the expenses necessary for obtaining proper pre mises and for furnishit , them are defrayed, it may be hoped and expected that the institution will become to a great degree a self-supporting one. The first step has been taken, and a temporary committee of ladies has been formed, amongst whom are Ladies Ashley, Canning, Erle, and Rolfe, Lady Caroline Stirling, and several others of rank and fashion. The names of several very influential supporters of public institutions have also been subscribed as a committee for managing the affairs of the institution, and as far as the design has hitherto progressed there is a prospect of a favourable result. Such an institution has been long wanted, and in these days, when public provi sion is made for almost every kind of want, it would be strange if an institution of this character could not be founded, and rendered most admirable in affording relief and ameliorating misery.— Timee. FREE TRADERS THE OREATESf MONOPOLISTS.—A nice quarrel between two free traders, al to a snug bit of monopoly, has lately occupied the' attention of the Poor law Board, as to whether Messrg. Shaw and Sons, of Fetter-lane, printers and booksellers, who have for years supplied union workhouses and union schools with maps, books, and stationery, shall continue to do so any longer, under the sanction of the P oor -l aw B oar d ; whether Mr. Charles Knight, a double-distill e d f ree t ra d e r, shall be endowed with the monopoly from Somerset-hous, l of supplying the unions under the exclusive patronage of th. 9 board, it having decided to transfer the monopoly from Messrs. Shaw and Sons to Mr. Charles Knight. Upon this determination, the former gentlemen have issued a remonstrance—" that it is a return to the exploded job bery of ancient days, and to that system they enter their solemn protest." What a sorry piece of humbug is the profession of " free trade" ! Messrs. Shaw and Sons, up to the present moment, prided themselves in the title of free traders, an the word monopoly was as odious to their free-trade sensitiveness as it was to Mr. Knight before he was the sole agent to the Board of Commis sioners ; but now that their positions are altered, and they have changed opinions, the public will judge between them. SAGACITY OF THE RAVEN.-Mr. R. Ball communi cates the following anecdote of this species :—When a boy at school, a tame raven was very attentive in watching our cribs or bird traps; and when a bird was taken, he endeavoured to catch it by turning up the crib ; but in so doing the bird always escaped, as the raven could not let go the crib in time to seize it. After several vain attempts of this kind, the raven, seeing another bird caught, instead of going at once to the crib, went to another tame raven, and induced it to accompany him, when the one lifted up the crib, and the other bore the poor captive off in triumph. It was a common prac tice, in a spacious yard in Belfast, to lay trains of corn for sparrows, and to shoot them from a window, which was only so far open as to afford room for the muzzle of the gun ; neither the instrument of destruction nor the shooter being visible from the outside, A tame raven, which was a nestling when brought to the yard, and pro bably never saw a shot fired, afforded evidence that it understood the whole affair. When any one appeared carrying a gun across the yard towards the house from from which the sparrows were fired at, the raven exhibited the utmost alarm, by hurrying off with all possible speed, but in a ludicrously awkward gait, to hide itself, scream ing loudly the while. Though alarmed for its own safety, this bird always concealed itself near to and within view of the field of action ; the shot was hardly fired, when it dashed out from its retreat, and seizing one of the dead or wounded sparrows, hurried back to its hiding place. I have repeatedly witnessed the whole scene. —Thompson's Irish Birds. TERRIFIC LEAP.--The absence of fear on the part of the British sailor was never perhaps more fully exempli fied than on Saturday, whilst the third-class train was proceeding from London to Bristol. It appears that on arriving between the Wallingford road and Didcot sta tions, and whilst the train was at the speed of about 30 miles an hour, the cap of the sailor alluded to, whose head was protruding through one of the carriage windows, suddenly flew off. On the instant Jack was perceived to vault through the aperture, with all the skill of a harle quin, to the great consternation of his brother passengers and the guards, who observed him rolling down the em bankment with the utmost velocity, and who imagined that he was killed outright. Our hero was presently espied crawling up the embankment, and hastening towards the train, which he knew would stop at Didcot, a distance of three miles, for the purpose of enabling the express train to pass on the same line, and which he soon heard coming towards him at a fearful rate ; he, however, fortunately got on to another line in time, and thus again escaped instant death. On the arrival of the express train at Didcot, where it stopped a minute or two, Lord War. rington, who is a director of the line, and was one of the passengers, on being informed of the particulars of the particulars of the circumstance, smiled at the temerity of the sailor, and gave some kind directions respecting him. Jack now made his appearance, but minus his cap and stick, and his face so disfigured that he was scarcely re cognised; add to this his arm was severely injured.— Bath Chronicle. EMIGRATION OF WELSH MORMONITES TO CALIFOR NIA.—There was quite a sensation created in Swansea, on Tuesday, by the arrival of a large number of laden wag gons and carts, accompanied by two or three hundred country people, who came to Swansea, for the purpose of embarking by the Troubadour steamer for Liverpool. From that port they purpose sailing for New Orleans, . . thence to the regions of California. From New Orleans; their route is to St. Louis, on the Missouri, thence to Council Bluffs, a Mormonite settlement, and thence to Salt Lake, in California. They do not go in quest of gold, but for the purpose of cultivating the land. This extra ordinary expedition formed the general topic of discussion 'and conversation amongst all classes during the whole day. These people were all auherents of the sect called "Latter-day Saints," or" Monmonites," whose doctrines caused so much religious excitement, and, eventually, bloodshed, in the United States, some time since. Their tenets have made rapid progress within the last year or two, among the peasantry of this and the adjoining Welsh counties, especially in parts of Carmarthenshire and Car diganshire. Nearly all are monoglot Welsh, there being but very few with whom we have conversed that can speak English with any degree of facility. Indeed, the majority can hardly speak a word. Like alt the Welsh peasantry, they are exceedingly simple and artless, and the feeling excited in the minds of most people, in witnessing them, was that of pity. Many of them were substantial farmers, whohad sold all their possessions ; one or two were deemed of thirty c scheme as emselyes. We heard of one or forty of the needy. Th aring the pas look upon their positively disclaim being fortune-seekers, or that they are in the slightest degree influenced by the intelligence of the unprecedented wealth of this modern El Dorao. It is expected that an immense number of the " saints" from North Wales and other districts, will meet them at Liver pool. One of their body, known as " Captain Jones," an '• .mong them, appears to be the manager of the expedition from this district. This individual delivered a kind of valedictory discourso to his disciples, at theTrades' Hall, on Tuesday evening. —Swansea Herald. THE SISTERS 01 , MERCY.—During the last six months some ladies, hearing of the spiritual destitution which pre vailed at Devonport, came from a distance and established the nucleus of an Orphans' Home there. This establish-, ment was patronised by the Queen Dowager, and sup ported by the Bishop of Exeter and several of the local clergy. The ladies, who style themselves Sisters of Mercy, possess ample private funds, which have been considera bly increased by voluntary contributions from all parts, and they were soon enabled to clothe, feed, and educate several orphans, some of whom were selected from the Devonport workhouse. It was very soon rumoured abroad that the religious practices of the ladies tended more to Romanism than to Protestantism, and hereupon a religious conflict ensued, the most exaggerated reports being industriously promulgated, both by the supporters and opponents of the - establishment. The subject length brought under the notice of the Queen Dowager, when her Majesty sent the Hon. W. Ashley to Devonport to make inquires. That gentleman, accompanied by Mr. Briggs, chaplain of the dock-yard church, visited the Or phans' Home, and made such representations as induced the Queen Dowager to withdraw her patronage. This significant fact was followed on Saturday morning by the appearance in the Devonport Telegraph of the alleged vo- Intary statements of three of the girls who had.been in- If the Orpi P TT was at mates o. -rphan's riome. _aese pigs say that a cross has been erected, that the ladies bow to it, and wish the inmates to do the same ; that a picture of 'thi. Mary and infant Jesus is held in reverence; t many other observances usual in Roman Catholic soc ties are practised in the Orphans' Home. In consequent of this publication the Lord Bishop of the diocese hat written to Mr. St. Aubyn, the vicar of the parish, stating Virgin zd that his intention to be in Devonport on Thursday to make - a public inquiry into the important subject. The inquiry was crowded to excess on the occasion. TI examined were three girls, named Sarah Ann Clark, Mary Pochetty, and Selina Jones, who bad resided in the Orphans' Home, and detailed the nature of the religious observance which they had evidence on some points was denied, but the "Orphans' Home" contained an c proved that 'as an altar, ornamented with a cross, flowersnd paint igs of the Virgin and Child, and of Christ blessing little 1 that Dr. Pusev, who visited the They st Sisters of Mercy, -was called " father" by tl one of them, named Miss Sellon, was called the Lady Superior ; and that they all bowed on entering or leaving the oratory. Miss Sellon gave evidence as to the character of the institution which she and her sisters intended to found. They did not wish it to be similar to the convents or nunneries of Roman Catholic countries, but to resem ble Protestant societies bearing similar titles which existed in some of the. cantons of Switzerland. Miss Sellon. after al ; tha her oral examination, read a very long piper in defence 01 herself and the other Sisters of Mercy, and which waE listened to with much attention. The witnesses were interrogated not only by the bishop and the clergy in his diocese who support his views, but by the Rev. J. Hatchard and others. The following little sample of the style in which the inquiry was conducted is instructive Mr. Elworthy—ls there a Complete History of the Fathers of the Church in Miss Sellon's library ? Miss Sellon— There is. The Bishop—l rejoice to hear it, and I hope the clergy of this neighbourhood will avail themselves of these books. In' pronouncing judgment on the result of his investigation, the right reverend prelate said, " I came here with a feeling as impartial as it was possible for a man to feel; I do not say that T came absolutely impar tial,—l should blame myself if I had ; I came with a feeling of veneration for the young ladies. Igo from this meeting feeling I know not how to express the admiration which I have for their conduct. I know I may be con demned for expressing that opinion,—as a Papist, a favourer of Papists, encouraging Popery. in my diocese, because I stand forward ; and while I am blessed by, God's mercies to preside over this diocese, never shall I. cease to express my regard for the conduct of that wise and virtuous—l had almost said that angelic woman. (Cheers, hisses, and laughter.) I wish that some things had never occurred ; I wish that the crosses and flowers had never been placed there. (" Oh! oh !" and cheers.) But I won't treat that as a subject of censure. 1 venture to hope that they w ill b e remove d, an d th a t they will no'c be allowed to remain there after the scandal that has beenraised by it. (Miss Sello n he r e bowed acquiescence.) F or one, I re j o i ce th a t i n E ng l an d there is establv,hed a Sisterhood of Mercy. I hope they will not give up that of Sig ' title, however it may be attempted either by tb'e press o r t a e n r y s other efme r p e o y w . e r Miss hope t n h v r e y in w o l f r r e e t m a retain h the i title sroom not as a Sister of Mercy, but as a Martyr of Mercy ;. 'she rises before us—she makes us feel what poor Inisera),le things we are compared with that lady who sits tb'ere. Misses and laughter.) I consider it an honour tr, have the reproach of those who can express reproach . on m y attempting to do justice to that esselleut ladz‘7, in the democratic exhibitic Cuffey i ) be President of the British Republic, he the body-guard of democracy elsewhere the Cam and the Isis. No doubt t search for t on the banks to those of t and Mends. But when, in so many other instances, see the academic population taking the lead in the wol of revolution, beyond any spirit which exists among the kindred, and urged on by a democratic madness of pure academic growth, we cannot help holding that some cre dit on behalf of the loyalty of English students is due to the institutions by the influence of which they are surrounded. We are inclined to think that the public have Tie been sufficiently alive to this not unimportant difference between Oxford and Heidelberg—Cambridge and Vienm Certes. but little account was taken of the peaceful beat population. On the cot supercilious wordiness has been lavished less to the discredit of cap and gown, of the London press in the lead, and sequence, by provincial journalis, taik, current now : for some gears, wa. , mor ad libi its to of the University of Cambridge itself. TliepeOPlevl;Co stop your way by talking of progress,' and deal out dark rhodomontade on the subject of enlightenment.' were capitu tion in the strongholds of the Ancient becile friends, the cant phr All our old im ;0, started up as fresh Ises of twenty and thirty years paint, ready to go through all Feb, %O p 140( , OK' PADPERISM AND EMIGRATION.—It COS.. l or , litan parishes £l3 per year for every pauPel tailed at Tooting, but about half that sum w , ce , him - to the pastoral employment of watching. sh e 1 tending cattle in Australia. However, there is Lor;', e f t a o r. tra sp h o y rt s t e te d workhouse to th pensioner d antipodes l a told the Peers on Friday evening, that " an eligw:„4o of settlement might be found to which the c t `ifi could be conducted for £3 or £4 a head, and tha t d . in Ireland £3 ss. annually for the m aintena:g t , pauper ; accordingly, " for only one year's pe rch %lie might be relieved f rom the b ur den." - 4 pu r, T H ,7, GROCERS OF LINCOLN.—The foolish COd r amongst :he n to an extent as grocers of Lincoln is carried o reduced his car v i than the sum for w,Ych candles were soid Pe 'hal ° er. other grocers. The next day another grocer to rbeol, s to On s r d r . i d p a e y r last being L n i e n g of a o b u ai rti e 7 bnl i price to sd. ; the same day' another party, not w ad e done, reduced the price to 4iel. per lb., and on '; o i night large boards were carried about the street s 'iad cing the prices of the several grocers' candles. co), market was over on Saturday night, tap grocers Stonebow waited for each other to close their silo! declaring he would no t c l ose un til t h e ot h er bad ptr, Eleven o'clock came, the shops were still open',o o'clock came, and still th e s h o p gas li g ht s c ast th e if into the dull street s . Th e severa l h ours of on e, three, and four came, and still each individualsto e " but finally the younger of the two gave in, the (51 declaring he would have kept op en a ll S un day rat." 4 ,• 0 1 , be beaten. To see tradesmen engaged in the ri!Ji iit y , task of forcing up on cus t omers the articles in wh le • 11 111 deal at an actual l oss , an d t o h ear t h em comP lai bad times, is really pitiable.—Lincoln Herald. a 0 TIIALBERG'S CONCERT AT BRIGHTON.—AnI43° artistes was the "great" b asso , L a bl ac h e . He 4 11 , lion of the conce r t : it i s a rare t hi ng to h ea r hi" concert room ; and the treat was therefore the first appearance was in the duet, " Se fiatO avete," from II Matrimonio Segreto, which be s ar n 'i g t his son, N. Labl a che, w h o was a l so new t o a P r i; ) o. 4 audience. The elder Labla c he di s pl a y e d his acee s o ril and inimitable humour; and his son, who has a l'2 o iP baritone voice, also acquitted himself well. It >s. ry vaaLmelcsaere accompanied l tms a esa c xp: h tage e annnhi se that ivreewb ye his swoeipvi rse v bar o seni iollcoyinee -in benooei-flicuol voice; she et, b shh e Tieet h h.fi e war sal was s d eetr above m b iw. g o eah v .siv fl e y 3 bas w i in Rossini's duet, " Per piacere." The oaden,i s si taf . executed with neatness and evenness of tone. l u however, reserved all his powers of execution for piece, a fantasia of his own on Jenny Lind's airs fO t Figlia del Reggimento, in which his g reat tal e f j p' fully demonstrated. There was a c a ll f or it s repet''' Brighton Paper. GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. — ANNIVERSARY.-- e m hers of this society celebrated their anniversary ear evening at the Th a t c h e d H ouse T avern . Sir ‘-' 4 ,0 Lyall, Bart., the pr es id en t f or th e ensu i ng year , °Cl:b i e,! the chair, supported by the Archbishop of Caet r a ' r ei, Sir R. Peel, th e B e l g i an Mi n i ster , t h e M arqu i s of J! 1 albane, the Ea r l of E nn i s kill en , t h e D ean of WestrettV Sir Roderick Murchison, and many other distiage;-s persons._--The Chairman proposed Success to the t ioi logical Society," coupling with it the name of the rf oe i president Sir Henry de la Bache, on whom be Pt . er) high eulogium, describing hi m as one o f th e h e st 'r / and patrons the science of g e o l og y h a d ever b oa stecb d l' Henry de la ,Bache r e tu rne d th an k s , and conclud e d , proposing the " Health o f th e Ch a i rman," whicb,oo. Sir Charles Lyall briefly acknowledged.—The Cite next gave the " British Museum," w ith w hi c h he e" - f ,, the health of the Lord Primate. His grace, third 4! ago, was the author of a work very f am ili ar to W . ' them—" The Records of Creation." If some of the ries it embraced were, in the present advanced sr / 00 science, a little out of d a t e , th a t b oo k s till containeeoje notes and observations whi c h mus t a l ways b e e se vii geological students.—The Lord Primate, in ackneloe ing the toast, remarked that it mi g ht almost be sai d logical science had now gone beyond th e R e cce;r s Creation," and enlarged upon th e b ene fit s o f the sr:i ;: THE WIDOWER IN SEARCH OF A WlFE. — A',ct r i contemporary has been amusin g hi s readers witt!,lo4' cumstantial story of the ad v ent ures o f a cer t a i n %ITO living in a market town in the western division of p o tlr cestershire, in search of a wife. It seems that 3g,;110 man advertised in a Bristol p a p er f or a p ar t ne r re' rtf !, and the advertisement h av i ng b een seen b y a Ir . ( iP r ' young people possessing a grea t er fu n d o f m i s chief of wit, they set a trap f or th e w id ower — no t t h e or', trick of making an appointment with him by a sa t , inamorata, but they determined that the appoie ec of should be kept, and accordingly a young woman--' c i e re not call her a'lady—who possessed more spirit thew", nine delicacy, wrote to the widower, appointing!tir, signation in Tyndall's-park, Bristol, at half-Ps', o'clock at night. The parties who got up this sea 4 joke would appear to be persons of good educatiCi o whom better things might have been expected. i„ 0 1/ lowing extract from a letter concocted by the paro sent to the widower, shows this : p t i " It is with a trembling band, fearing I should excee d limits of modesty and female decorum which a lady CO%0; pass without danger to herself, that I guide my pen on oe l , casion. And though many will blame me, condemn !IL hastily, nor conclude that my present conduct evince s e:p due precipitancy to engage in the most serious and el" epoch of a life. lam a widow, aged 38, without encunl,,stl private income about .135 per anmim, enough to secur e d times the comforts and a few of the luxuries of life in age. And while freed from all sources of sorrow and 0* tent am still willing, by contributing to the haprine ss other, to promote my own. With regard to pereon s3 l o!'; 't would ill become me to expatiate on, and f LIPP' th t e r ibo e all tionate care of judi early in forming ions and fond id 1 trust to i domesticl37 derivedl t " Cin other language, true lasifrom, 0, , stant intercourse of congenial feelings- and aspiratio., n o only be secured by seeking it from the one source of lu i r and joy." . tl The parties met in pursuance of the assignatr Ti k uti " lady' a ft " being accompanied by her servant, an , few minutes dalliance the pair were interrupted Iy lady's brother; who played the part of an enrage t ic band at the supposed infidelity of his wife. Ex afterwards took place, but we are inclined to- think 70 1 , the affairinvolves reprehmsion anywhere, a jull e ° Irons would lay it upon the soi disant f a ithless wit r all events; were we a bachelor in se arc h of a wlO 4 should avoid the society of the he ro i ne o f Tyndall' o " and her coterie. CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE Mr. Horsman has elicited from Lordl;l;lßuss e . s i,i i , fact that the living of Bishopwearrnonth has been d i y, The gross yearly revenue of the late rector was ' t the net income, £2,223. £1,200 a-year is set sPe r j the future rector : and the residue is to be divide tween the four district incumbents. COURT IND FASHION. The Court remains at Buckingham Palace, the week her Majesty and Prince Albert have partO i r t in the.amusements of the metropolis and taken til e v bitual out-door exercise. i f ' Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, attended uf mited suite. are expected to honour the Dal‘`t) , Duchess of Sutherland with a visit shortly at Tre ° Hall. ,0 /1 „, Her Majesty has a bracelet, ornamented with fo'llf, nificent diamonds, formerly the property of ro yalo - o di;" n the death of each of whoiri timely._ One of them belong as been unhappy 6° lo to the Princess Olt, I.ntoinette, and the fourth tc Queen of Scots. The venerable Countess of Bridgwater expired s on Sunday, at Ashbridge Castle, near Berkhaist i , Herts. The countess h a d comp l a i ne d o f s li g ht / o 'l tion some days si nce , b u t did d o t s i gn if y any mark easiness, and while conversing with her female coisfSoi expired in her chair, at three o'clock in the hu',' without a sigh or convulsion, and a t. th e advanced Sti years DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT GLAaurs.- —About a 41 ) 4. ire was given in til: Dunlop-street, wil l ' crowded in at eitement in 54 3, in lamentable '" le indelo; GLASGOW, SATURDAY NIGHT eight this evening, an ala gallery of the Theatre-,t ver nd the alarm caused ulting, as will be sE to the occupants the in other parts of the house, the r f tire w 0 ',7,, I the cause of thejOß audience dispersed at leisure given in front of the gallery, leak in the gas pipe, the gas . lluctfer match used by some one to light his pipe' It was soon apparent to_ the manager that tlie,.g4 been occasioned by an explosion of g with the members of his cm and he, Nany, used their 1 1 t ec c. in which they partially Sued s 4 been conveY'V - ve'A ertions to restore orde Meanwhile,.however, tir central police offices, and the fire brigade were :..4 at the theatre, and immediately commenced o P7pe which had the effect of increasing the fears of th e and a general rush was made to the door, il l 1, escape from the fire, which had in fact been P extinguished. Despite all remonstrance, the i l:i would be out, and the result was the p r ematurg 0 sixty-four individuals, besides four more or le° . 01/ It would be vain to attempt to convey BOW the awful scene which the theat r e p resen ted a„ A of the accident; that can be better imagined than e :,.' o ,ri The authorities were very soon at the then is while assistance was being procured, the gallery 01 0/ ascended, when at one of the landing places. 4 covered a scene of the most, horrifying descriPt i l° , o women, and children, huddled together, trodu,' cr a i foot, dead, and dying. The poor creatures we'' fr a to di to houses adjoining, and every exertion use vr't animation, but, unfortunately, these exertione, o 3' l but few instances s uccess f u l. Si xty - one we re , 'e', three sent to the R o y a l I n fi rmar ; two died O. way, and one shortly after. : Eleven persone' o ei'l bruised., were able to be removed to their M o te , , others are still in the infirmary in a dangerous 5 e , `,l sixty-one dead bodies were, in the course of the yet r_er,ioved to the Clyde-street Hospital, and ther e ~/ "f3unday morning for identification. Irt,' About ten o'clock the authorities were at thii , o o ,l and it was arranged, to satisfy the relatives 0 .!,. 0 0 0 1 / creatures who had been waiting in hundreds '7 1 .10, 1 hospital during the night, to admit them. , " 0 14,f' were spread out on the floor of the large sheul:,,p9 each relative, father, mother. wife, or other 1 7 4 recognized, their shrieks rent the air. One %ter three as her own. Without scarcely a site: di , the sufferers belong to the lower class of soda; 0 1 1 0 , i for the most part lads between 14 and 17 Ye ar e ggiol only female amongst the dead was a girl three Yf e 66 A gloom has been cast over the city by the,„ ill ' % currence which it will require some t u ne n io Vi The theatre has sustained no damage from bu r flames of the gas-pipe were almost iwittnittY •I'' 11 , 41 ). to RS AR D AY r — va n ' s Al guard, Go , „„apies ED ,re I PI gn )11. 111Z__ItCrir lit rt en i" n avtioannit nri ti ~antiWith GSS of s alnar y, Knig 'ditto e , ITtitroel tit , Duti: 2 ath j r4 of o a k - tglary ' this Lo y , san. • 11 41 13 0 rt f, A at , foHot ma r . 81i718,, n : Ti ast her, and kArlakvorriBon", ti b a , z i. t u j ort, 4 !g ( ?tt 6 ' ar e r TriT BI; war ra ' r acht, tA tilti i : n t ) Vine Petil re , s , in u si e ' nt ' The i s j, .Ip. sm a t ' n 1 0t11 9 11ua ry g to fit a 4 R ,„ Lkilooliurj;o--re—oTIII AII i PTUR -- D) Hitll, Plvre,,t°,,nl aloe of .zaloliica , tbe bv‘ t ru o a tli h sa :\ y ia f r stll lli vrp. eh arary hoer ii n la ,,ranbln : pi, I , 4 bOw sr t tleB 'att !day 1 ' l ad e ) !"..'lch Sc 'll, tii. m ~alit- , e (. 3 l <se,.r ia r IZ' tie ' ll °re ne et,i,! , , and it is o ,Atn t i s Pnol life 'lli* Fluolii , 'ea lait Er 'head'D; ~.4b,,3 . , a 4 pk a i t c , with ~, Th t e ti e l up th vol t , 4 inore, 2oth J., Ormerod. tia c Zulary. 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