The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-01-30 00:00:00

Jan. 30, 1849. T UB FLYING POST -OFFICE ON THE NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. ui (Prom th e Q uarterly Review.) dohtl°llice, which every evening flies away from Lon bus.] Glasgow, and wherein government clerks are ter :: employed in receiving, delivering, and sorting let feet . 11 the way, is a narrow carpeted room, twenty-one f in length, and about seven in breadth, lighted by thaonuinrrtdh large reflecting lamps inserted in the roof, and by s ()nth: length for the guard. Along about two cloth ow e wall of this chamber there is affixed to the a narrow table or counter, covered with green and beneath which various letter bags are stowed away, abelauore which the space to the roof is divided into six .I t s, 14 feet in length, each containing 35 pigeon-holes bout the size of the little compartments in a dove At this table, and immediately fronting those Vo g s e r -b eles, there were standing as we flew along three th e ,; r el lice clerks intently occupied in snatching up from th e ;' cloth counter, and in dexterously inserting into for e ri,,°119 Pigeon-holes, a mash of letters which lay be repitteein), and which, when exhausted, were instantly Whi c h tk i nno bags which the senior clerk cut open, and ass ott „'",e guard who had presented them shook out for big ea — ent On the right of the chief clerk, the remain with lest ethird of the carriage was filled nearly to the roof b erii erbags of all sorts and sizes, and which an able j P st-office guard, dressed in his shirt sleeves and thei r rtvaistcoat, was hauling at and adjusting according to tio n the brass labels. At this laborious occupa a.haif.e clerks continue standing for about four hours and Lon don to i l that i s to say, the first set sort letters from Lon the third arnworth, th e secon d f rom T amwor th t o P res t on , frornfrom Preston t o C ar li s l e , an d th e f our th letters duty dorlisle t o Glasgow. The clerks employed in this tio n , °not Permanently reside at any of the above sta toetvrdiery ritn;lt are usually removed from one to the . other n in t;elnree months. As we sat reclining and .t r w um as in mr c ry nee, the scene was as interesting as extra were t • ' in consequence of the rapid rate . at which w g, the bags which were hanging from the it tn e er t , i t Y 7 i b it —s2 Pegs on the sides of the office had a tremulous rao rae -, which at every jerk of the train was changed for a ar two into a slight rolling or pendulous mov.e the. ke towels, &e., han ing in a cabin at sea. While -....fr'enard's face, besies glistening g with perspiration, was kite:l:he labour of stooins and auling at the large befor e red as his scarlet coat which was han ba i peaced‘ne.wall on a little peg, until at last his cheeks . p above t he they were shining at the lamp immediately them almost as ruddily as the lamp shone upon deateiitn hand. ,Lne three clerks were actively moving their right w tb all dire ctions, directi working vertically with the same ZentallY restoreprinting their typ e i n t o the v ar ious small compart was .'s! which eac h letter belongs. Sometimes a clerk zso ur v i ,,n to throw into various pigeon-holes a batf:l? of Ad e ;;,,4 letters, all directed in the same handwriting, I:Cgiste;".eantlY announcing some death ; then one or two urtie anothe r . '" ltters wrapped in green covers. For some t bagsr clerk was solely employed in stuffing iv the g out for various destinations. Occaponall, "cati tia , - ; ' ;caving his bags, was seen to poke . his burly f ile s% o enj;,?` a larse window ' behind him into p.itch sparksdar om tb,..;• e ned by the occasional passage of bright "ahi n ;.unnel pipe of the engine, to ascertain by the tie nt 0 11 3 ; the lamps as he passed them the . precise i t no- t nightioe train clearing certain stations, in order . that 01.0 record it in his " time-bill." Then again, a bas Tnell of burning sealing wax announced that he "ags, three u p and stamping with the Post-office seal for t i -t ee or four of which he firmly strapped together, e eired ve jY• All of a sudden, the flying chamber re nno sh" s uarP blow, which resounded exactly as if a can tout ot had struck it. This noise, however, merely an it:ed that a station-post we were at that moment pass safely w hich was already far behind us, had just been tin t h delivered of four leather bags, which, on putting far etl e ri a ll out of the window, we saw quietly lying in the si c radl e - of ,_a large strong iron-bound sort of landing-net or which the guard a few minutes before had by a But a-,,,llurrernent lowered on purpose to receive them. Tao no had we received four bags, but at the same llew ra k erit ' and apparently by the same blow, we had, a . s we P est -o dropped at the same station three bags which a The-b°,ffice authority had been waiting there to receive. rat e , le w that the pendant bags of letters, moving at the llyinlllat e l a eci ef 40 miles an hour, receives in being suddenly t nvay, must be rather greater than that which the ea thr on e receive s on b e i ng su dd en l y at t h at rate d roppe d p roj ert.road. Both operations, however, are effected by a Sltdd in aaratu from the flying ost-office c enly g itt pp Contact s with that protrudin P g from the postomin,.. THE LATE ROBERT CADELL td t r t t r • Robert Cadell, of Edinburgh, who for the last 4iad Y years h e l d a very prominent situation as bookseller Pohl' of Q. isher, but chiefly in connection with the works h da l s,. ar ca . E r e d e i r i ." a r Walter Scott, died on the 20th instant, at his seat, rnbinurgh.. We believe that Mr. Cadell commenced a different profession, but he married the tr3bter of the late eminent 1% r Constable, and was in re"..ureced into partnership wit i h . thatgentleman on the Nu„,,,tnent of Mr. Hunter, shortly after the publication of welter's first poems, the prodigious success . of which ...re sted ll t etile - ge a n n ia e ws a e n ra d in! the bookselling business, and gave of Sir Walter the stimulus of Pr ecodented pecuniary remuneration in addition to acc i u mulating literary tame. li s p e Constable was probably the most sanguine pub to °f the age, and he w a s induced to offer such sums o' from Walter as in al m ost a ll cases b ore awa y th e p r i ze Walter competitors. Sir Walter, however, paid dearly . 411 . the end for the flourish of his first issue ; his own esti icsiatettrilcug of the value of his works was . excited by n ebbo s ue e n e k, c l u o la up t l o nn o f the his publisher, with whom he be- This tookn ru " which ended a variety of transactions . concerned. teY or failure of all the parties t of th e P la ce at the time of the panic in the early par Scott Zeal' 18 26, and it is well known that Sir Walter stead of belt ed with his creditors to pay them in full in become ull ing a bankrupt—a result to which he had petite liable by I bu - . is partnership . with Ballantyne, the Si r - which he was most anxious to avoid. alter i that h. * . nclirred this great obligation under the idea t la continued industry and powers would enable o aehiev Life of 13 e the task by fresh productions, and the short t• °navarte and Woodstock, produced within h a Instal ins ' afterwards enabled him to pa sat handsome 4,44 the sub But a scheme of Mr. Cadell rned the than productions of Sir Walter's to far better account seouent novels and tales, and, in fact, to the h7scumplishment of the undertaking of Sir Walter, for all be e cr editors — whose claims were about £ll3,ooo—have iu Paid in full, and the whole domain of Abbotsford is iosession of his descendants. the " " ha s been mentioned that Mr. Cadell was married to le ss laughter of Mr. Constable, but that lady died child kisste; before 1825, and Mr. Cadell afterwards married therArYlne, who now survives him. There remained, tale- °re, no family tie between the partners at th Llllcruptcy of Constable and Co., and Mr.eCon thee oi led two or three years after that event. At the en or h bankruptcy it was found that there were echti o 4l° lls stocks of Sir Walter Scott's works on hand ir ° 4 l - d e h u s of various shapes and sizes, or in series of works, b less ~N'ere held either by Constable and Co., or by t he Hurst and Robinson who became bankrupts at t u bY s-r ti en t l i me ;and all these Robinson, peremptorily sold off • a t nil • n the course of 1827 . and 1828 ; and it is a fact 111 I mmense stock, which had cost above £IO,OOO 811 41,' and Print, sold for not much more than half tha_t sell e aild created an impression among the London book_ o tit r a that the value of the copyrights had been worked ° Pini A t% Cadell however, clung to a very differeil ow a IP , and having secured among the members of his Bebeteaudly sufficient pecuniary support to carry out_ a first which he had quietly and privately m . atured, n h_ hediecatninunicated it to Ballantyne, the printer, d W4iad e g that he saw it in the same light, the two . together ater a S i°ll "neY to Abbotsford to propound it to Sir 'th e cott, li chen i Pu blic have long since seen the . working of this seri es e, which consisted of a republication of the whole with „°, f novels in small Bvo. 53. volumes, neatly got up, that r i tes and embellished title pages, and so arranged Was pre le novel oriwinally published at a guinea and a half tYpens%nted in 'a convenient form and handsome legible I'lart at -r 'Ms., with the additional recommendation ot alterex notes by "th e A u th or o f N . Vaverley." induced to enter into a fresh partner etulaiowtith Cadell for carrying out this scheme on Bet.effems, Mr. Cadell engaging to supply capital as a assi st ., L° Sir Walter's name, influence, and literary ttratie“ncei There were great difficulties in the concen ii.e in tl 4,` ; the copyrights, but that was at last effected by M,' "Letts plans of Mr. Cadell and the exertionL, ' lO d e I and influence of Sir Walter Scott ; and there to th e 1)4'1147. haunt scheme which has been exten ed t ealiq All of the wohs in other forms also, has I b29 , e m , since it began to be carried into effect in the year n ot lea s than a quarter of a million sterling. COLONY OF LABUAN. Tile f t elat i P oll OW in g letter has just been received by a near 14 lath e °f °lle of the officers of Sir Jas. Brooke's suite B ! „ 01 ~ Labuan, Nov. 2, 184 . h "ablyenchant ship sails to-day for Singapore '.)y which "ablb 11 , 41 t3r I write to say we are all well. You ' will pro u -._ thi s ' "ear miserable accounts of the unhealthy state f but settlement, and in fact there is a great deal of fever,. a kar s % l a, tnild intermittent kind. We are living 4 ain waieh for it. The EtFopeans in ar u e °P......heit lohneasiittehs fortheir bungalows on the high lands i interi ee ~,,,,°e• The Rajah's house is to be commenced at th e e, 11 ' -"" do üb t not in a few weeks we shall get out of Y Pot. We have just returned from Bruni Ntßost satisfactory visit. The Sultan built us a very ui ii4°,llse close to his palace. The Borneans have quite aad s° ec linder to us. Macota (the wily one) was as oily f riend, as if he had never been anything but our stanchest 1 Ot th ei 'Illi”, Promise to assist us at Labuan t the best _ lle Ra t i 1 1)41 4. and are to send us over workmen to build ;-,4_abuaem's house. I am myself very enthusiastic about '""ere - 1,: a nd very confident of its ultimate sircess ; till Tr e a ted °II disguising the fact that this sickness still a .'sguising the fact that this sickness has , a Panic Which magreatly retard our progre . in the ' A ssiral paid I l c visl y of g a few hours the other day t laiah 'Vleland, vis s it a ed the i Europeans, dined with the T .. "' lei' took a short ride on the road to the barracks. ,'lle AI Ils with an unfavourable impression of Labuan. l o b Meander is to be sent back here immediately, and 130 01 0 , -",vve shall be off to Sooloo next month. The olaut",,scnave again been committing piracies. One ac- Jilst ": a b o. attack adbythem on a Bornean boat has taDeUtr:lte.Therelmettemlisi• ul ai t a h m e au , tempted the crew on shore and they • we shall have fighting there delli 4411,,e Rajah t say, is not looking so 2t'll tlie s ; B4 al- lie ha a s al m s u o ch to harass him; the sickness g!vrn pittatid is a source of anxiety to him. One of our er et CY has been laid up with fever, but is now re- k in tap ur The ungenerous attacks made by the jealous ave weans are another annoyance to the J° Yed the best health, and the interes I n take in all that goes on in every little improvement prevents my feeling ennui. My life is a very regular one, and far from unpleasant. I get up every morning between seven and eight, bathe and dress, then read and write till ten ; we breakfast at eleven, read, write, study Malay, and chat till half-past four, when all sally out for a walk, or some times a pull or sail. Our walks are very circumscribed. We have a fine sandy beach for two miles in one direction ; in the other, the road to the barracks, which is progress ing rapidly ; it is cut for two miles through the heart of the jungle, and we . can now ride over it with ease; of course it will be a long time before it is macadamized. Our bungalows will be built near this road. The Rajah has chosen a spot close to a very pretty ravine with a waterfall. Our communications with Singapore are so uncertain you must never be surprised at not getting letters. I hope soon to be able to send you better ac counts of our progress. lam quite confident myself. We are most anxious that the Eastern Archipelago Company should commence operations here. The settlement is at a standstill for want of European enterprise and capital. Do not be surprised if you do not hear from us for the next month or two. We shall probably be at Sooloo." MR, LAURENCE HEYWORTH, THE "LIBERAL" MEMBER FOR DERBY (From the Derby Mercury.) We have been favoured by a correspondent with the following literal copy of a letter received from Laurence Heyworth, Esq., M.P. for the borough of Derby, in answer to an application for a subscription to the funds of the Young Men's Society. To comment upon the inflated vanity which could prompt the transmission of three tracts, written by him self, in lieu of something more sterling, or to dwell upon the absolute nonseme contained in the letter itself, would be an idle task ; but we must be permitted to congratulate Dr. Bent, Mr. Moss, and other " Liberals," through whose instrumentality Mr Laurence Heyworth's great abilities have been added to the collective wisdom of the nation. Havi 1g seen the original, we can vouch for the authen ticity of the copy _ " Yewtree Liverpool December Ist. 1848 " Sir,—There are no signs of the stirring times in which we live, that gives more lively or better founded hopes, for the intellectual advancement of man, in his temporal and spiritual existence than the extensive esta blishments of Young Men's Christian Associations, and kindred mental and religious mutual improvement so cieties. Amongst many other useful and valuable societies of which Derby may justly beast, I am glad to learn from yours of the 29th ult. that the young men of Derby, have laid the foundation of their Mental and Religious Society deep and strong, in the liberal and charitable ad mission of members from various Denominations. For on Scripture Authority, we know, that Charity is the greatest of Christian Virtues and, that all else, without Charity, are but as sounding brass. Although I hold it as a fixed principle that the onerous duties of a member of parliament, if faithfully discharged; and the enormous ikkrifice of domestic enjoyment and of pecuniary expense he must necessarily incur in the performance of them, not only exonerate him from any demand by his Consti tuents on his purse but, by the eternal principle of jus tice (a knowledge of which, is essentially, the first mental and religious acquisition) every representative of the people ought in common honesty and sound policy to be remunerated for his time and labour honestly devoted to the public service. Yet so excellent is the character of your institution that I regret that the fearful decline in the value of my railway property, renders it a prudent proceeding to curtail my subscriptions to local and general purposes ; and therefore puts me in the painful position of denying your request. " Believing that man from the beginning of time in his individual, but more especially in his aggregate capacity has been progressing through a transition State from a ' Natural Man' under the guidance of brute instinct; to become a Spiritual Man, imbued and guided, by an en lightened intellectual Knowledge of God's revealed Will and eternal Wisdom ; I venture to send through you, for your Society's perusal, the enclosed little Tract. " I am yours truly, ` .4 LAURENCE HEYWORTH. "Mr. J. C. Cornwel Esquire Derby. " P.S. As the study of the great science of political economy is essential to the practical development of Christian morality, I send in aid of such study two ac companying publications." The three publications alluded to in this almost unin telligible rigmarole—which were forwarded—are the fol lowing : Primitive Christianity, or what is Independent Method ism ? A Dialogue, with Correspondence. By Laurence Heyworth ! Paragraph from the Liverpool Albion. By Laurence Heyworth ! ! Report of a Speech delivered at the Liverpool Financial Association. By Laurence Heyworth !! ! Onitral Aitsrtilanv. A fatal case of Asiatic cholera has occurred at Hudders field. A few days since, several sheep were killed by the mail train on the Kendal and Windermere Railway. Mr. Frederick Dickens, brother of ' Boz,' has married a young lady of the name of Weller.' W. Mr. W. S. Dugdale has lost the sight of one eye owing to the recent lamentable gun accident. Extensive bonded warehouses are about to be built in Cardiff, where the projectors hope to establish an import trade in colonial produce. A Lincolnshire paper mentions that 154 wild ducks were lately taken by one closing of the net, at a decoy in Boro' Fen. Mr. Barker, who was recently unjustly transported for forgery, has given notice of his intention to apply for re admission as an attorney next term.• White Conduit House, at Pentonville, London, with its large room and pleasure grounds is about to be demo lished to make room for a new street. An infant at Birmingham was poisoned last week by the administration of a teaspoonful of muriate of morphia, in mistake for castor oil. The Oxford Chronicle says that so slippery were the Witney roads on Friday se'nnight, that the assistant postmaster went on skates to deliver the letters. _ A quo warranto has been issued against Mr. Dickson, the present Mayor of Carlisle, on the ground that his name does not appear on the burgess list. The omission seems to have been accidental. Large numbers of the operatives of Merthyr district are preparing to visit California for the double purpose of obtaining gold in abundance, and of settling in the Canaan of the Mormon prophet. Miss Smith, plaintiff in the notorious case of breach of promise against the Earl Ferrers, is about to appear be fore the public as the authoress of a poem in the Spenser ian stanza, entitled " Mosca Lamberti." STRINGENCY OF THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—Of 199 corn-laden vessels that have discharged their cargoes at this port during the past year, 117 were foreigners.— Gloucester Chronicle. A daughter of the postmaster at Carmarthen has been committed for trial for stealing money letters. The members of her family are relieved from all suspicion of any guilty knowledge of the crime of the prisoner. A fire, believed to have been caused by an incendiary, occurred on Sunday, at Mr. J. Teesdale's, Frampton Fenn, Lincolnshire, which destroyed nearly £lOOO worth of property. A fine female infant, the daughter of a joiner living near Sheffield, was choked, last week, with a screw, which was lying in her cradle, and which she attempted to swal low. On Wednesday, as three men were raising a steam boiler, at Northfleet, the guy rope of the shears broke, and by their fall two men were killed and another se riously injured. On Monday a man at Glasgow returned home intoxi cated with a woman ; and because his daughter, a girl 10 years of age, remonstrated with him, he threw her out of the window. She fell on the pavement with great force, and there is much reason, to fear that her spine is in. jured. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION.—We regret to announce, by accounts from Mazatlan, under date Nov. 29, that her Majesty's surveying ship Herald, 22, Captain Kellett, had arrived at that port from Behrin,g's Straights, without having been able to obtain any intelligence of the expedition under Sir John Franklin. The son of a reverend gentleman living in this town havir , purchased pickaxes, spades. and other tools, has left Brighton for the purpose of seeking his fortune in the gold mines of California. Another of tie reverend gentleman's sons has emigrated to Australia.—Brighton Paper, The whole of the foreign wheat in bond in the United Kingdom, which amounts to many hundred thousand quarters, will on Thursday next be admitted to consump tion in this country on the payment of one shilling per quarter duty, which will be the rate in future on all im portations of wheat from abroad into this kingdom. Glasgow is flooded with copper money to such an extent that it is supposed half that kind of coin now in circula tion is base. There are regular manufactories for its fabrication, and as many pence as represent a pound are sold for Ils. 6d. The matter has been brought before the town council, which has referred it to the magistrates. MARCH OF REFINEMENT,—At the lasc quarter sessions held at Cardiff, a chimney-sweeper from Swansea gave evidence against an accomplice for geese stealing. When asked his trade or calling, he said he was an upright-man. It turned out that he was upright for soot, but downright for geese. AN INCENDIARY WOUNDED.—On the night of the 4th instant, a fire was caused on the premises of Lord Vaux, at Cobham, Surrey, and his lordship, going out with his double-barrelled gun, called upon a man named Stevens, who was running away, to stop, but he declined to do so. His lordship consequently fired twice, first at the heels and next at the upper part of the body, where he was wounded. Stevens and another man named Smith were taken into custody, and the former has acknowledged himself to be the perpetrator of several fires in that neighbourhood. ILL-USED AnTnons.—What; a scandalous shame it is that the governments of Europe do not take measures to put an end to literary piracy in their respective states ! Nothing on earth would be easier ; a few hours' negotia tion, resulting in the signing of a few treaties, would do it. The loss which this want occasions to authors and publishers is incalculable. As an example, Guizot's book, just published in Paris for three francs, is reprin;,ed by tens of thousands in Belgium for fifty centimes, ( half-a franc) and Macaulay's magnificent History is to be brought out in Paris for between fiye and six shillings ! Is not this abominable ?—Paris correspondent of the Literary Gazette. [We learn from the United States, that an American newspaper is about to publish Macau lay's History of England in two numbers of the paper, at the cost of 3d. The book is published here at 325.] 30,11411 100 e obtaining nf o l a the pike to tuff t u ff that on I have seen ro but I never w ell-watern in streams, i t ck and gra ve i fut d no wonder, ly risk and reft e % the differne ct o ; and cholens,,,, later as anY tPl o ? hed a reeel?tsbe necessity h foul gase s i s ig in soap y Br of attentleu 4 deterrninatur; I around be s atisfact or oe , iners onIY• ba t their waY; o t the opininnse ne before us' ip for e° l °g o tblin k feet :he science ° nder no ki cl o: impreslion m s 1 d town, ' ; know, e t i ed with sor e orate treatis, e _ e s 1 I believe D.,4 od the first 9.0 for the aPP II I ilierv, an d I back water i° ler anonymous ,itt th no more s pa ntees facts, I rem nin,. )NBAV:O ~v S NATIOO L STAND'" Liverpool 111 o il roreigners o ce 'hick have Ile at. console , '11 ss circulate .1 lank of Eng l ' Div proposed „ ( f ) canno t be, , i )ur present g ig ; rid at other s ? g to the r t y 3verned by r their prod ti or when it ig i exchange , value so long Jo Trace our C and sc' perli3pst, vants th e rew,l i 4 t of their P I O for theirs. dirt ndW?st 10 1 # reign portsle, sover e ;f: at thereto , :4 ntleman ag pass the B rig tures ivariably re tu' f or preferrety of gold Uy it enact 69 ' ation woul d Klholders, a will, ere t o h o onsol note lig be the sten* sufficient au c l new sou rc e i rb, that ge l tad. Hee cel s difficultie!, b may be m ; but, 0- 0 inconven l f4 change, ' l 9 )eratione 5 dwts. or each 7j o bo l the weight , t bal. him ; 'for •s 0 of his rez . ; 1r they .w9 e fang r alculatiOnS bp i not show 11 1 han any ‘c e f, mots of fooDts other—for,o), IMMOdItY , rely as we n Lk notes. _ ai d fly ;o comma!' , c y i in the 16 ;0 , 1 PerfeCtil ed of a 5 0° tnn, the s i ; of one pro,io,l sternal y, s' e r oducts or O eo English !Si uire or pr 5 )roceeds oinglited• 4 fenior's st, the balatiaj currency r - preseni r, lmercial cry the world' ellow-roen , not rep„ death a," n ti . , then, :sl e id 'd be the ic. pl der note t, m easure„t w seem , ' " states, o f) g power, Of e value -able." ( 0 :! 1 et be faithe ssa y e d to c le r ave discov e Lsing Po cer d ch notes 0 0 0 n per tin i ly anything . .04 las not B'7V a comult )c t i ) d cannon land, retail" asini 241 ro ducts 0 f., l l P e go ld ; 13.c.i' i j which g° t ) ey will 14 soLvvio' LYDA!!: , !, fC.' , I cation pity of VI agesinnii° -o'i , CE, JO di 1,1 ketiNeX t e . di N e %t ve p li i due • • ; ern' Nett 171 , 1 0 • Next Fe 2:ciue • • te ts , Next peP ain IL" fel/ . i. 6 A IV eriP tare a VI, talwart image jig g hair, 5 ath the_pod petals ? 5 ,4 •osial vim aspe ct "; 0 0 ,pital, e"1011 g: tic v ;ton t ic P , be-P e ol ficientlY Till LIVICIPOOL STANDARD, A new interest has been given to the subject of the poisoned water at Claremont Palace. Dr. Thomson, of Stratford-on-Avon, reports to the Medical Times that on analysing one pint of the water from the reservoir which supplied tbe pSlace, that quantity yielded one-tenth of a grain of sulphuret of lead. In other respects the water is good and pure. On Sunday week, an extensive, fall of the chalk rock from Shakspeare's Cliff, Dover, took place. The fall occurred near No. 4, shaft at Shakspeare s Tunnel, on the South Eastern Railway, and left an indentation in the crown of this classic cliff of something like an acre. The quantity of chalk detached may be estimated at about 100,000 tons. Little more than fcur years ago there lived in affluence at Marton-in-Cleveland, a gentleman, the owner of two freehold farms and other property to the value of £lO,OOO or £12,000. Owing to some unsuccessful business trans actions, he was in a short time divested of the whole of his valuable property. He is now working as a clay labourer! The calculation upon which such an establishment as that of Mr. Drouet is based cannot cease to affect us with wonder. It appears that the sum of £l3 4s. annually is necessary to maintain a pauper child in a Tooting cholera house. On the other hand, the payment of £7 will trans port an emigrant from our shores to the Australian colo nies. JENNY LIND IN NORWICH.—The two concerts at which Mademoiselle Lind assisted during the week in this ciry produced the sum of £1,859 Ils., and above £1,250 will remain for the charities when the expenses are paid. This will make an aggregate of more than £12,000 contri bu'ecl to charitable purposes through the agency of Jenny Lind within the last two months. There is now growing at Seggleden. Perthshire, an oak tree, of which the trunk is 20 feet long. from the ground to the lowest branch, and contains 190 solid feet of tim ber, while the large boughs ramify in every direction to the extent of 45 feet, thus giving its shade a circumference of 270 feet, and covering an area of not less than 4,9C0 feet. At the Paley Green cutting of the North-Western Railway, in the neighbourhood of Settle, some of the la bourers lately found a pair of deer horns, which measured one yard two inches in length, and had three branches each, near the skull. These horns are conjectured by an tiquaries to have been buried six hundred years, and to have belonged to an individual of a now extinct species of deer. AN UNSOCIAL PLACE.—The beautiful valley of Winster is situate in Westmoreland. It is remarkable, but true, only four marriages have been sclemnized at this chapel under the ministry of three incumbents, a period of forty six years. The present incumbent, the Rev. C. B. Har ris, has had already three marriages within the last three weeks (not a resident more than two years) : it seems likely the spell is broken. CURIOUS IF TRITE.—A curious accident has happened at Kempsey. A boy fell off the top of a high ladder, but alighted on his feet. He sprang up with a rebound which carried him backwards, and he tumbled into a deep well. He was given up for lost, but was presently heard moving in the water : he had clung to the rough walls, and was ultimately got out quite unhurt by either fall. ONE OF THE ADVANTAGES OF TRAVEL.'--One of the gentlemen of the Derby Town Council forming a depu tation to inquire as to the utility of a corn exchange, when at Newark, went up to one of the dealers in grain, and taking a small portion of corn in his hand out of one of the samples, observed, " This seems nice wheat, what is this worth ?" Whereupon the dealer replied, " That 'ere wheat is rye." THE SLAVE TRADE.—Mr. Grantley Berkeley, in a letter just published, states that—" Advices have just reached me from the coast of Africa, that steamers of a large size, capable of carrying from sixteen hundred to two thousand slaves, are now driving the horrid traffic, in spite of the efforts of our cruisers ; and that one steamer lately succeeded in carrying off 900 slaves—there not being slaves enough at that moment in the market to give her full freight of two thousand souls." The failure of two Wrexham banks was officially stated on Monday last; and from the various accounts received it appears great distress is likely to be created by the event. Fortunately one of these establishments, that conducted by Messrs. Kenrick, will, it is believed, pay 14s. in the pound ; but the other, known as Lloyd's bank, possesses assets which cannot yield more than 2s. in the pound. It is asserted that the latter was the favourite establishment, and that its liabilities amount to at least £50,000. ACCIDENT WITH FIRE-ARMS.—An accident which terminated fatally occurred on the 24th inst., at Bicester, to Master Elliott, aged 17, son of Sir Charles Elliott, Bart. The unfortunate youth, who was a pupil under the Rev. J. W. Watts, at the Vicarage, was out in the fields near the town shooting, in company with Master Edward Watts. On firing at a blackbird the gun burst, and the breech struck him on the eye, entered the head, and scattered his brains on and about his clothes. DEATH FROM LIGHTNING.—On Sunday week, Rees Jones, chief mate of the schooner Margaret and Rachel, of Limerick, was struck dead by lightning. The deceased was engaged in clewing up the topsail, and stood by the chain, when a flash of lightning struck the vessel, ran along the chain and coming in contact with the deceased, knocked him dead upon the spot. A boy, named Evan Jones, who was standing near the deceased, had his hand severely burnt by the lightning. CALIFORNIA.—We understand that a respectable seeds man, from near Coggeshall, Essex, who was in this town last week, and who had just collected nearly £4OO in Lon don, and in addition received £45 from one firm here, not having returned to his home, inquiries were set on foot, and it was discovered that he had proceeded hence to Southampton, and had there embarked in the steam packet which had just sailed to South America. The intention of the poor weak-minded man was to reach Cali fornia.—Berkshire Chronicle. THE MAYOR OF DURHAM'S INAUGURATION 1,/INNER. —On Tuesday, W. Henderson, Esq., the presen Mayor of Durham, gave one of the most splendid civic feasts in the Assembly-rooms, which has ever taken place in that city. About 118 gentlemen sat down to dinner. The Mayor occupied the chair; and on his right and left were placed H. J. Spearman, Esq., M.P., Rev. J. Raine, (Chaplain to the Corporation,) Rev. D. Melville, (Prin cipal of Bishop Hatfield's Hall,) Rev. Dr. Townsend, Rev. Dr. Gilly, W. L. Wharton, Esq., J. F. Elliot, Esq., A. Wilkinson, Esq., W. Scruton, Esq., &c., &c. CALIFORNIA GOLD.—We have seen a specimen of the gold as it is found in this region, which Messrs. Sanderson and Son, the well-known lapidaries of this city, have pro cured for the inspection of their friends. The gold is encrusted round a piece of quartz, which, although no larger than an ordinary walnut, contains the precious metal to the value of five sovereigns. The gold is pure and beautifully bright, and as easily discernible when found in this rude state as when it is"ues from the mint, so that the most ignorant and unskilful can have no diffi culty in gathering in the treasure wherever it appears.— Edinburgh Mercury. MURDER AND SUICIDE.—On Tuesday, the body of a woman, with that of a child clasped firmly to her breast, who had been observed begging on the previous evening, were found lifeless in the mud at Bankside, near Barclay's Brewery, London. They were found to be Hannah Kerry, of Mint-street, Southwark, and her daughter. She had been cohabiting with a young man, by whom she had had the deceased infant, and he having forsaken her, she was reduced to extreme distress. Nothing was found upon her, and the general belief is, that the unfortunate crea ture has sacrificed herself and the life of her babe rather than wander the streets in a starving condition. WOLVERTON REFRESHMENT ROOMS.—It appears from the books that the annual consumption at the Wolverton refreshment rooms averages 182,500 Banbury cakes, 56,940 Queen's cakes ; 29,200 pates • 36,5001b5. of flour, 13,140 of butter, 2920 of coffee, 43,800 of meat, 5110 of currants, 1277 of tea, 5840 cf loaf sugar, 5110 of moist sugar ; 16,425 quarts of milk, 1096 of cream ; 17,520 bottles of lemonade, 35,040 of soda-water, 70,080 of stout, 35,040 of ale, 17,520 of ginger beer, 730 of port, 3650 of sherry, and, we regret to add, 730 of gin, 731 of rum, 3660 of brandy. To the eatables are to be added, or driven, the 85 pigs, who, after having been from their birth most kindly treated and most luxuriously fed, are impartially promoted, by seniority, one after another, into an infinite number of pork pies.—Quarterly Review. ' _ THE MEN WHO WILL NOT WORK. - 1 - An inspired apostle, and withal a very sensible man, tells us that such persons ought not to live. We think so too, and only mitigate the severity of the maxim so far as to let them live in prison —but nowhere else, for Heaven's sake. There is no interval between an able-bodied person re fusing to work for his bread and a robber. Of course we are putting the really and destitute out of the question. When a man cannot work, we will overlook his want of will—not so when a man can work. The idle ruffians who molest our streets, whether they be male or female, old or young, well-dressed or in rags, are nothing more or less than freebooters, whose plan is to live by lying, terrifying, bullying, obstructing, and every other form of petty mis chief. They thrive like vermin by wasting the substance, the time, and the pains of the industrious, and can only be regarded in the light in which the English law, and all other good good laws, have ever regarded them, viz., as thieves.— Times. to force WELCOME THE FAMILY FRIEND.—Under the appro priate Title of The Family Friend, a new, cheap, and really useful publication commenced with the present yeay, to be continued Monthly. Nearly One Hundred Papers have already reviewed this work, speaking of it in terms of the highest praise. The Gateshead Observer says :—" The Boys and Girls will like it, for it contains Good Stories ; the Young Ladies will like it, for the sake of its Pretty Poetry, and its Receipts for various kinds of Fancy Work; the Young Men will like it, for it smacks of Science; the Women will like it, for it abounds in Useful Household Receipts ; the Men will like it, for it treats of Gardening and Natural History—and advises Wives to be kind to their Husbands ; those who love Amusement will like it, for it swarms with Conundrums ; Everybody will like it, for it has a Corner for Everybody : and Nobody will be afraid of finding any harm in it, for it is Published by HOULSTON and STONEMAN." The Jan uary and February Numbers are now ready, price Two pence each, containing together sixty-four pages of beau tifully-printed matter, stitched in neat Magazine form. The readers of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, by ordering these numbers at once, may secure them by the first of the ensuing month. They will, indeed, " Welcome the Family Friend," when they discover the rare interest and utility which distinguish its numerous pages. A BAD BREAST OF SEVEN YEARS' . STANDING CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT.—Mrs. Davies, residing near the Barracks at Cardiff, had a bad breast, which seven years ago, (by a bruise) commenced swel ling, and ultimately five abscesses formed, discharging large quantities of humour which no treatment could cure. She was much debilitated in her health ; indeed, her constitution seemed to be breaking up very fast. By chance she called on a neighbour who was using Hol loway's Pills and Ointment, and who advised her to try them, which she did, and the result was, that in nine weeks her breast became as well as ever it was in. her life. —See advt. EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.—TWINS A LA SIAMESE. — Mr. John Sherwill, surgeon. of Ivy Bridge, was called on Friday week to attend Ann Horton; wife of a labourer at Lutton, in the parish of Cornworthy. The woman was safely delivered of twins, two fine girls—perfectly united from the chest to the umbilicus. The children died in the delivery, as severe measures were adopted to save the mo ther's life.—The little creatures were perfect at every point, and of pleasing countenance. —Bristol Journal. THE STATESMAN TURNED SCHOOLMASTER.—We learn from the Birmingham Gazette that Sir R. Peel has it in contemplation to remodel and considerably extend the benefits of the school established and endowed by the late Sir R. Peel in Tamworth, so as to make it available for the sons of tradesmen and others in the middle class of society. The rights hon. baronet has consulted with some of the leading inhabitants of the town, and is taking steps for carrying out his plan, which, when completod, will enable a large body of his constituents to secure for their sons an education every way suitable for their condition, and at a very moderate expense. RESULT OF IMPROPER READING.—At the Mansion House, London, on Thursday, a young man was charged with seriously injuring his sweetheart by firing a pistol at her. The prisoner wrs in deep affliction ; and after evi dence had been adduced to show that the prisoner was urged to the act by jealousy. he was committed for trial. The superintendent of the Wesleyan school in the neigh bourhood said that he beard of the occurrence with great surprise, as the prisoner had been always known in the school as a mild lad, of very kindly disposition, and there was good reason for believing that he had been excited by the romantic trash which filled the penny publications abcut town. BEGGING.—The Times of Thursday says, "The plague of beggars is beginning to abate. It is possible now for a middle-aged gentleman of portly form and benignant ex pression to walk abroad without a retinue of mendicants. Even elderly ladies are allowed an occasional respite. Lucifer-matches, pocket-books, bouquets, lead pencils, penknives, and key-rings are no longer forced on the re luctant public. Artificial flowers and pincushions are left to the laws of supply or demand and supply. By the operation of the same laws we have no doubt that little children have fallen in the market, and may be hired for less than 9d. a day by such as are willing to brave the policeman. Beggars' hotels, coffee-houses, and ordin aries cannot now be in so thriving a condition as they were a few months since. Where the poor creatures go we can hardly divine.—[We fancy many of them have arrived in this town, for there is an unusual quantity of them here at present.] . _ _ CHILD MURDER AT SHIPSTON.ON-STOUR.—A shock ing case of this description occurred at the house of Mr. Baughan, a carrier, residing in Shipston-on-Stour, early on Sunday morning week. It appeared that the servant girl, who was suspected to be enciente, but who, when taxed by her mistress, denied the fact, on coming down stairs was observed to look dreadfully pale and ill, and the inmates of the house, immediately suspecting that she had been confined, proceeded up stairs, and saw from the state of the room that their surmises were correct; but on looking under the bed they were horrified to find the body of a newly-born infant rolled up in some clothes with its throat cat. The girl was immediately taken into custody, and information of the distressing occurrence forwarded to the police. An inquest was held upon the body on Tuesday, when a verdict of " Wilful murder" against Hesther Partington, the mother, was returned. SHOCKING DEPRAVITY.—A writer, who signs himself " A Magistrate," has written a letter to The Times, which appeared in that journal on Friday, headed " Pro vincial Morality." The letter commences with the fol lowing sickening statement :—" An appalling case of in fanticide has just occurred in this parish. A girl of eighteen strangled her infant, and having thrown it into a brook which ran past the cottage, endeavoured in vain to conceal the fact from her friends. The surgeon who at tended her told me, that about three months before he had been called in to see this very girl, who at that time lay ill of a fever. He found her sleeping in the same room with her father and mother, and two grown-up brothers. There was no curtain or any other division between the beds. Who can wonder that this utter want of all possibi lity of decency should brutalise and degrade the mind ?" THE MORMON IMPOSTURE IN WALES.—On December the 31st and New Year's-day, the "Latter-day Saints" held their half-yearly association in the Hall of the White Lion, Merthyr. It was soon found that the hall, then containing 1500 persons, was inadequate for many who were outside seeking admittance, officers were therefore sent to meet those who were not able to get in at the Alfred's Arms Hall, George Town. The platform con tained from 60 to 100 " officers." The chair was taken by Captain D. Jones, when the following particulars relative to the society in Wales were stated :-10 confe rences • baptized during the last six months, 1001 ; total baptized in the year, Id4B (very few excluded) ; 70 branches, 156 elders, 180 priests, 147 teachers, 67 deacons —in all, 550 officers. The Swansea Herald, which re ports the meeting, adds :—" The thousands of Mormons in Wales appear to have great affection for, and confidence in, Captain D. Jones, who intends returning in February to the Valley of the Salt Lake, in California. About 350 saints intend emigrating with him. It appears that 300 large ships could scarcely carry the hosts of saints who are now anxiously desiring to emigrate from this island to, as they say, their future home." A HIGHWAYMAN SHOT.—On Friday evening, Mr. Steel, spirit-merchant, who had collected a large sum of money at Wakefield market, left for home, and on his return to Ferrybridge was attacked by two men, who tried to seize the horse, but did not succeed. He had previously heard one of them say " He 's coming," and put his pistol on full cock to be prepared. After gallop . _ ing to the rise of a bill, which is - near home, he agin pulled up his horse, and proceeded leisurely up the road, when another villain rushed upon him, and with a heavy bludgeon struck him on the shoulder, which dismounted him, and he fell to the ground, with the bridle rein over his arm. When laid on his back, the villain went round the horse to him, and was just in the act of dealing a deadly blow over his head, when Mr. Steel pulled the trigger of his pistol, and shot the villain in the shoulder. The bludgeon fell, he staggered and moaned, but Mr. Steel did not see him fall. Upon looking round, he ob served the former two men coming up within a few yards of him, when he immediately jumped upon his horse, and made the best of his way home.—Yorkshire Gazette. BORDER MARRIAGES.—The Kelso Chronicle, in no ticing the death of Gollins, the celebrater of border mar riages for more than twenty years, says " that taking as an average 300 marriages per annum, he had united the goodly number of 6,00 - 0 couples. It then adds, — following questions could be answered, what a curious piece of statistical information would they furnish ! How many of these 6,000 were married without their parents' consent ? How many of these had never seen each other previous to the day of marriage ? How many of these lived happily afterwards ? To these many might be added. For instance, how often was the " priest" drunk at the performance of the ceremonies ? How many of the par ties themselves were drunk at the ceremony ? and many others, if properly answered, which would equally interest and startle. The fees paid for his services were generally left to the happy couple's own discression. For a navvie the general charge is 7s. 6d., while some runaway heir esses give £5, but taking as an average 103. per couple (below the usual average)the fees realized woutd amount to £l5O per annum. During the year 1848 the marriages celebrated were 330.' " BURGLARY. — On Friday night, the offices of Mr. Wil kinson, solicitor, Peterborough, were entered by thieves, If the trance. They appeared to have 'first forced open a drawer of the table in Mr. Wilkinson's office, whence they ab stracted a few halfpence, and several keys belonginz to and cupboards. From one cleric's' desk about ss. in silver was taken, and a quantity of receipts belonging to the Phcenix Fire-office, most likely mistaken for other paper. Returning to Mr. Wilkinson's office, the thieves ransacked the drawers, cupboards, tin boxes, and two portable desks, the contents of which they strewed over the floor. The chief point seems to have been a large iron chest in Mr. Wilkinson's office; this at the time contained a considerable amount in cash notes, gold, and silver, which had been omitted to be paid into the bank during the day. The chest was one of Chubb's celebrated make; in this the burglars broke their picklocks, which were abstracted by means of a magnet the following Having - . failed with the lock, they next tried here again they NI metal was too tough to break, and too solid to be wrenched or cut, and the thieves were balked of their in tended prize.—Stamford Mercury. POPULATION AND CURRENCY.L-We find in the Bristol papers the outline of a lecture on these subjects, delivered in that city by Mr. Robert Shaw, who discloses new and original views. On the subject f population, he cites the yet unexhausted resources of the earth, and the great improvements lately discovered in agriculture, in proof that we have not, for many generations to come, any rea son to fear a pressure of population upon subsistence ; and beyond this, he observes very justly, that as that Power, who has commanded man to " increase and mul- tiply," can at pleasure increase the fertility of the earth, there is no reason ever to entertain such a fear. But it is on the currency question, that his views are most deserv ing of consideration. We at present suffer from being cramped in this particular. Mr. Shaw affirms that mo ney, being an instrument for the exchange of goods, ought always to bear the same proportion to the value of the goods to be exchanged ; and the index to this value, he says, may be always found in population, according to the number of whom is the quantity of the goods, and whose labour constitutes their value. Upon this princi ple he proposes that the currency of this country be fixed ; and, as there are now many thousands out of employ ment, that notes, upon security deposited, be issued in just proportion, to provide for their employment. THE BITER BIT.-AN AWKWARD PREDICAMENT. — The following ludicrous scene lately took place in the village of Clent :—A speculative matchmaker became enamoured of the charms of a lady residing not a hundred miles from Adam's Hill, paid his court, and was gra ciously received. A day was appointed for the wedding, and matters were arranged for tying the indissoluble knot, which would defy the sword of Alexander to sever, when, lo ! the lady discovered that her suitor was a married man. The wife being sent for, came in " weeds," she having been deceived into the belief that her husband was dead. The gentleman, being confronted with his wife and his intended bride, could say nothing for himself ; the latter, like sly Airs. Page, in "The Merry Wi v e s o f Windsor," determined to " burn him, and pinch him, and turn him about." The ladies accordingly gave battle ; the knight fled, but at the gate he was encountered by o other Amazons, who did all in their power to give him a cold bath in a pond hard by. Not succeeding in their attempt, they flogged the wicked wight through the village with a rope they had brought for the purpose of drawing him through the pool. The women of the village rose en masse, and arming themselves with brooms, saucepans, and other feminine munitions of war, joined in the pursuit. After a long skirmish, he escaped through the fields, minus the skirt of his coa t, one o f the h ero i nes bearing back this trophy in triumph.—Bristol Mirror. appalling colliery accid PETTY SPITE.—The Manchester Courier states that a I T Mr. G. W. Anthony, of that city has intimated his i n t e ntion TITp 4., • of no looter advertising in that paper because some criti cal remarks had been made in it upon some contributions of his to the last Exhibition of Paintings at the Royal Institution. The Editor very properly and spiritedly re plies. " no threats of the kind will deter us from expres sing an unbiassed opinion, favourable or otherwise, how ever pleasing, or the reverse."—Only a short time ago we lost a subscriber, because in a list of persons present at a public meeting, which did not at all profess to be com plete, his name was accidentally omitted !—Hereford Journal, LOSS OF THE STEAM-SHIP UNICORN.—The steam ship Rob Roy, Capt. Knowles, arrived at this port on Wednesday, from Antwerp, bringing the melancholy intel. ligence of the total loss of the steamer Unicorn, Capt. Dickinson, belonging to Messrs. Brownlow, Pearson and Co. The Rob Roy left Antwerp on Sunday morning, and about eleven o'clock that evening, whin about thirty I LIVER miles from West Cape, during a heavy gale from W.N.W., came into collision with the Unicorn, which in a few m;nutes foundered. The crew was saved in the life boat of that steamer. The Rob Roy was very much damaged, having lost bowsprit, figure-head, cutwater, &c. The Our Sh t an expense of UnicOim was a new iron vessel, built .E 15.000. At the time of this melancholy occurrence, she had half a cargo on board valued at £15,000, £lO,OOO of which was shipped by Messrs. Sanderson and Co., and the remainder by Mr. T. B: Morley, and Messrs. Gee and Co.—Hull Packet. ATROCIOUS MURDER OF THE DUKE OF CLEVELAND'S GAME WATCHER.—We regret to have to record another atrocious murder supposed to have been committed on Sunday morning last, at the Trundie Mire Plantations, on Bolam Gartte's Farm, about two miles distant from West Auckland. when George May, a game watcher in the ser vice of the Duke of Cleveland, fell a victim to the brutal ferocity of some party or parties unknown. The unfor tunate man left his house at Raby Folly, about six o'clock that morning, to walk over some of the grounds. Not returning, fears began to be entertained for his safety, as threats had been uttered by certain parties against him. Search was made in different places, and on Tuesday af . from Pai quotatio telegrapl ternoon, while his brother and another man were search ing the plantation above-mentioned, they found the body of paor May in a thicket lying in a pool of blood, and his head nearly blown off. His stick was lying by his side, and a loaded pistol in his pocket. He appeared to have been shot dead without any resistance or struggle. Marks of shot were found in a tree opposite, and the footmarks of the deceased were traced into the thicket, and the footmarks of two persons were traced out of the thicket towards Hummerbeck. The keeper of Evenwood toll bar had heard several shots fired in the direction of the plantation during the Saturday night and Sunday morn ing. It is a rather remarkable circumstance that the Raby fox-hounds had been ranging through the plantation on the Monday, without any one having seen the body.— Durham Advertiser. SINGULAR PRESERVATION.-011 Monday last an in quest was held at Clydach on view of the body of John Jenkins, collier, aged twenty-eight. It appeared that deceased and a young lad were employed together at the Garth Colliery, and were working in a heading at some distance from the other colliers. On Friday a sudden slip of coal and rubbish took place, covering both the deceased and the lad, the latter of whom was about two yards nearer the mouth of the heading than the for mer. With respect to the boy, it fortunately happened that a large7stone fell partly on the waggon, in such a way as to form a cave sufficiently large for the boy's body. He said that he breathed freely, was not hurt by pressure, but he could not move. He heard deceased ask witness if he could get out, and whether the pressure upon him was great. Witness said that he could not get out, but that he was free from pressure. Deceased then said there was great weight on his head. No further conver sation took place, but he heard the deceased pray. A second fall of earth took place, subsequently to which he did not hear the deceased's voice. Witness remained in this position until about 4 o'clock next morning, when Thomas Francis, the man who worked the " day turn" in the same heading, came to his work. He, with the assis tance of other colliers, cleared away the rubbish and re leased the boy. About two yards further on they found the deceased, who had evidently been dead for some time, probably by suffocation, the only perceptible injury being a slight bruise on the face.— Cambrian. GIVING FALSE CIIARACTERS.—In reference to the charges which have recently been established, at the police-court in London, over which Mr. Hardwick pre sides, of giving false characters to parties, who have thereby obtained places, that magistrate has received a letter which asserts that the system is practised to a great extent, and cautions families to be on their guard. The writer supplies a number of cases in point. A woman was brought before the court on Saturday week who had been successful in deceiving numerous parties for twenty years past by false characters. She had been living suc cessively in five houses, which she has filled with goods, obtained by false characters, to the injury of tradesmen and others ; and she has kept her door closed night and day to secure the property from the bailiffs. She formerly lived in a wretched cottage in St. John's Wood, from which she emerged, and commenced by the means stated, and a lady-like appearance, though devoid of education, a career of wide-spread plunder. She gave false characters to numerous parties, including even returned convicts, who obtained situations only to rob their employers. Her fee varied from 355. to £5 for this disgraceful service. The writer concludes by saying : " The woman has been very successful in supplying ladies given to change, who are all down in her list. It is most astonishing that the higher orders of society have been so long duped by the „ . wo - man, who is uneducated, and who transacts all her own correspondence. It is hard for a servant to lose his bread for ozle indiscretion ; but nothing can justify the too ready access into families of rank and wealth of felons and bad characters by the system of giving false characters.” EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF FELONY AT BATH.— An extraordinary degree of excitement has prevailed in Bath for some days past, in consequence of its being understood that Messrs. Warren and Fuller, two of the largest, if not the largest silversmiths and goldsmiths in the city, had been apprehended on a charge of forging the hall-mark of the Goldsmiths' Comn.ny upon articles of plate. The respectability and wealth of the parties char ged is such that bfiil for their appearance was tendered by a leading banking firm of the city to the extent of £lO,OOO, but the Magistrates before whom the charge was made (at the instance of the Goldsmiths' Company, by whom the prosecution has been undertaken) did not feel them selves in a position to accept it. An examination of the prisoners took place on Monday at the Guildhall. The charge against the accused was for having, on the 9th of January, feloniously, and without lawful excuse, had in their possession two silver ladles having thereon the mark 'l' Gol.l- hs' C T • • • of the ompany, London, which marks have been removed or transferred thereto from some other wares of silver, they knowing the same to have been so transferred contrary to the form of the statute. The first witness examined was Mr. Thomas Hough, a weigher in the essay office of the Goldsmiths' Company, who deposed to having, on the 30th of December and 6th of January, gone to the shop of Messrs. Warren and Fuller, in West gate-street, where he purchased on the first occasion eleven, and on the second occasion 34 articles of silver ware, none of which were stamped as required by law. On the last occasion saw a silver soup-ladle and a great quantity of articles which were not marked. Saw at once that the mark on the soup-ladle and one upon a gilt ser vice-spoon had been transposed. Reported to the war dens of the Goldsmiths' Comnanv. and on the 9th Jan- nary went armed with a warrant and seized articles office, and found that the hall-mark On the service-spoon had been soldered in. The loss of duty to the Govern ment on the soup-ladle and service spoon was LI 7s. 9d. The mark on the soup-ladle had also been soldered in. The witness was cross-examined at considerable length for the prisoners, and adhered to his statements. Other witnesses were examined, whose evidence went to sub- stantiate the charge. On the conclusion of the evidence the Magistrates decided upon committing both prison for trial. Bail to the enormous amount of £20,000 v tendered and refused. FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSIOI from tha Wakefield .Inurnal_ —We lament to learn, a at the 11 75 persons met with an instantaneous and untimely death. The colliery is situated about two miles on the Sheffield side of Barnsley, and is called the Darley Maine ay morning, wal stated) met " by rude but literal funeral process - inns, fol lowing each other in rapid succession from the pit at Darley, surrounded by frantic widows and childless parents, who had succeeded, not without some difficulty, in recognising their own kindred from among the heaps of fearfully-mangled bodies from time to time sent up from the pit's mouth." On arriving at the works, he found a further crowd of spectators anxiously waiting to know the fate of missing husbands, sons, and brothers ; and ever and anon the shrieks of the females indicated that some fresh sufferer's fate had been made manifest by the recognition of the body by its friends. The colliery is about 111 yards in length, and has been regularly worked for the last ten or twelve years—latterly by Messrs. Jarratt and Jeffcock. It had not, however, been worked for three weeks previous to Wednesday. On the morning of that day the workmen went down, and all went well till twenty minutes before noon, when a violent explosion took place, which was distinctly heard above ground. The alarm spread, and in about fifty minutes the air became sufficiently purified to admit of some par ties going down the shaft. The mouth of the pit was soon surroanded by numbers, some insensible, others quite dead, and a few who still survived were fearfully burned, and survived only a few hours. The work of extraction was continued all Wednesday and Thursday, but the number of persons in the pit at the time was not precisely known. Parts of the works that were broken down were repaired, and numbers of bodies were found embedded amongst the materials. The _majority of the sufferers were fearfully mutilated, so much so that it was totally impossible for many of the relatives to recognise the mangled corpses, unless by some peculiarity in the deceased's dress. Nearly all the bodies last brought out were dreadfully mutilated, and in several instances the head literally scalped, the hair burned off, and the viscera obtruding from the lower portion of the body. A more horrible scene could not possibly be conceived ; and as cart loads one after another were taken away to surround ing houses, numbers of maddened and anxious parents and wives ran after the vehicles, and threw on one side the blankets in the dreadful anticipation of recognising some one dear to them. The accident arose from an explosion of fire-damp. The number of hands, of all descriptions, in the pit at the time was about 100. Of these twenty-seven were got out alive, three of whom afterwards died. By the latest and apparently best ascer tained particulars : the number of lives lost was seventy five or seventy-six, probably the former, as one name appeared in the hst to be duplicated. POOL SIT 1 pref., 1 LIVER Do. yin L CO > tt _1 i i. ric B EDITIO'T . , zdard-office, Two o'clock, p.m. ARE MARKET, TIIIS DAY. this morning rallied in soin • measure ' ' by the unfavourable news all morning at the am also by private Our quotations to •oe pref., 20/ 20; Clydesdale cent., 21 ; Great Northern, :Hugs, 4 d; London new i's, rid stock, 94 5 ; N. &affords, • 4's, n ; York and Berwick ; Bank of L'pool, Dcl buyers el. We 1, A.RKET —Tins DAY. our market TO-DAV, in fair demand at an per bar :ind. 1. to Id. held 6d. -I . ,ILABLE ACCIDENT.—FIVE LIVES LOST. OIL ay, the Bth instant, a most melancholy accident place in Loch Bracadale, Isle of Skye, by which five 'ideals were suddenly deprived of life. It would. ar that a vessel from Russia, laden with hemp and ow, had been driven by stress of weather into Loch cadale, where she anchored. A boat from the shore t out to the vessel, in which were the assistant para. I teacher, two sons and a grand-daughter of Mr. mod, innkeeper at Struan, and a young man named _.toner, son of the parish miller. After passing soma time in the vessel, t" - the same individuals, accompanied by the captain, rowed for the shore. It is said that the boat was a crazy fabric, and that, in consequence, one of the planks started. by which the luckless boat was suddenly filled, and of course sunk, instantly immersing the six ob. nr•lrs 4-n esnel ♦t- -1- a 1.1 v .• • deplorable circumstance happened only a small distance from the shore, yet all met with a watery grave, except one of the young men, 111`Leod, who succeeded in swim_ ming to the beach. It is said that all the bodies have been found, and have been decently interred in the parish burying-place of Bracadale.—Perth Courier. - - , , THE CHELTENHAM VICTIMIZERS AT BATH.—In our paper a fortnight since we gave an account of the doings of Mr. Cross and his so-called "sister," Mrs. Green, who had victimised the tradesmen of Cheltenham to a con siderable extent by ordering goods which were never paid for : and we have now to record the proceedings of the same parties at Bath. Tt appears that, after their preci pitate; flight from Cheltenham, Mr. Cross, and Mrs. Green, with a man servant and female cook, arrived in Bath, and commenced " housekeeping"—that is, they entered on possession of a ready and richly furnished house, No. 19, Rivers-street, and began to "patronise" various tradesmen with unsparing liberality. Tile trades men sent in their goods with a readiness that betokened an anxiety for future favours. The butcher, baker, wine mercer, grocer, silk-mercer, coal. merchant, m ilk man , and many others, all contrib uted to the support and com fort of the lady and gentleman at 19, Rivers street. Matters went on smoothly until the proceedings of the parties at Cheltenham got bruited about through the Gloucestershire papers, and the suspicions of the trades men began to be excited. Suspicion at length amounted to certainty ; and, after a short stay of twenty-one days, the whole party, finding the place too hot for them, sud denly decamped by an early train on Monday morning ; but not before they had been compelled to disgorge some portion of the property. The parties were traced from. Cheltenham to Bath, and on Tuesday a messenger from. the County Court went down with a summons against them, but the birds had flown. !ATTEMPT OF A HUSBAND TO POISON HIS WIFE.—OIL Henry Evans, a carpenter and undertaker, was brought up before the magistrates, at Bristol, charged with administerinc , poison to his wife, Hann a h E vans . It appeared that about' six weeks since the prisoner's wife Parker. Two days afterwards she was seized with a vio lent vomiting and purging in the middle of the Eight.. Mr. Parker was sent for, and by prompt and proper atten tion she recovered, and at that time no suspicion of any unfair play was excited. She was repeatedly attacked in the same manner, howover, until she became completely bedridden. On Sunday they had some roast pork for din ner, and the prisoner hav;nmr cut some slip- - it .ices oil the joint, was observed by a little girl who assisted in keeping the place tidy to take the plate to a cupboard, where he sprin kled something over it, and then took it to his wife. The little girl followed, and heard the prisoner's wife ask him if he hadn't been sprinkling something over the meat, and she asked if it was arrowroot. The prisoner replied that some arrowroot might perhaps have got on it, but it was not of any consequence. The little girl exclaimed, "It can't be the arrowroot, for I put the paper of arrowroot away myself, behind a dish." The prisoner then went down, and the poor woman commenced eating the meat, but finding a peculiarly disagreeable taste with it, after one or two mouthfuls she fortunately desisted and put the rest away. About two hours afterwards she was attacked with a violent retching, and her suspicions having been communicated the contents of the plate were analysed by Mr. Herapath, when the substance sprinkled ove r th o meat was found to be a corrosive salt of mercury, sold in chemists' shops under the turtle of white precipitate. At or woman deposed to having been on several occasions similarly attacked, and to ob: serving white powder at times on her meat. The prisoner was committed. DESTRUCTIVE EXPLOSION AND FIRE.— About three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon last, an explosion took place at the Gas Company's works, in Edinburgh, which almost entirely destroyed the splendid new gasometer lately erected in the North Back of Caningate. The gas-holder was 100 feet in diameter, and 40 in depth, and was fortu nately isolated from the surrounding buildings, and encir cled by a wall. At the time stated, the inhabitants of the district experienced a severe shock, as if from a convulsion of nature, though without any great explosive noise. The houses were shaken to their foundations, and persons staggered. while household utensils were thrown from their places. The glass in the windows was nearly all demolished, and great alarm naturally prevailed. The cause was soon ascertained, and crowds were drawn to the spot by the appearance of a sheet of white flame arising from the gas-holder, which told that the immense quan tity of gas it contained had by some means caught fire. In another moment the whole was one sheet of flame — the immense crowds which lined the Calton Hill, Regent Road, and the adjoinin g p o i n t s , f rom w hi c h a v i ew o f t h e burning mass could be obtained, forming, as it were, an immense amphitheatre in the distance. The fire conti nued to blaze with great fury until gradually, as the gas was consumed, the gas-holder immerged in the tank amongst the water beneath, and the conflagration was ultimately extinguished by means of wet blankets and coarse sacking being spread over the shattered remains of the gas-holder. The origin of the explosion is not yet known. The gasometer was examined ten minutes before, by a competent person, and all seemed right. The only conjecture which can be hazarded is that the late high winds with which we have been visited must have strained the pillars and framing of the structure, and thus caused a friction of the chains and guide rope, which occasioned the catastrophe. There were in the holder, at the time, 300,000 cubic feet of gas, and the estimated damage is re £2,000, but it may be more . including the damage to the neighbouring property, and the destruction of a portion of the surrounding wall. No one was personally injured. 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