The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-22 00:00:00

2 23 1849, total etws. .re are 'utile s i n no fewer than 5,900 unoccupied dwelling bl-4verPool, of a rental of £3O and upwards.. 1/te erda "id . lf re. stationer, Castle-street, received the s t .. ,Y 423 as " conscience money." Tz,,Labouchere was burnt in effigy on Thursday, in _Uharlottc-street. Of4 e a s E lectric T e l egraph Company have taken large Itr eq a t the Royal Insurance Buildings, North John -I,h; and intend to remove there in a week or two. ltdlscod have contracted with Messrs. Cato and foq'a..,,r,nll\lr. Thomas Vernon, for two new steamers o ri T,'o, for Birkenhead Ferry. t i nt s t i l i es . d aY, John Napier, a child six years' old, son of d "V, in Back Rathbone-street, was so severely ? o e th , that be died on the follownig day. keket.er.Matiiew will sail for America to-day in the te tsel. still) Ashburton, Captain Bunting—a first-rate a }leir t eaded Hindoo is at present begging in Liverpool. dressed !ative of Wales, and has coloured his face and T he 'n C hintz, the b e tt er t o o bt a i n a l m s. tt. giant J elin, bound from this port to New York with Put into Cork on Tuesday, the cholera having Lad " out on board, and seven of the crew having died. I,4es:llE:timeline Stuart Wortley and Wortley ,‘• a llada .„_ f rem Liverpool by the royal !nail steamer ,c a , of •.r w York on their way to Niagara and a ,ag „„,"',ereat thl kiEotioE-STREET ACADEMY.—Yesterday morn 141(ires; D. D. Stewart, A M., delivered an admirable Ilt411 1 . :r ° t he pupils o f thi s * excellent and well-known O n ent, k4 d, w at ur,daY, the h ouse o f M r . Sh aw , i n Brunswick f'lrert:s c urglariously en t ere d, an d £l2, a watch, six 'nes e ; ."'P e nns, and oth er ar ti c l es carried off. The in ,j,,n er e et market a t th e t i me . tit a i j a Y Lind has declined with regret to accept the in dase°4 en te sing at the Saturday evening concerts,. in o 'N . the 'es a l, indisposition and fatigueshe l on - n "Pe that at some future period she may have p, th " a of appearing. hest te rli , of er Uathew, d ri g the last few days, has been the A,,,per anee t . one, ila u hb n- R. who has presented the advocate with £5OO, 'to enable him to pay a Po lieiCharged by the insurance . offices on his life At Llore ho can leave for America. tl aY al eeting of the West Derby rate-payers, on Thurs -4.14;Wa r esolved to memorialize the Poor Law Board tilait n e w te the appo i ntment by the P oor L aw G uar dians of ilv s ePse el . ns hiP of on e o f th e i r own b o dy as chief assi stant tb payees a nd Praying the commissioners to restore to e I ker their former privilege of nominating the over tlttwot AC C/DENT.—On Tuesday morning, about half : nuar,°' clock, as police-officer John Parry was going 0 1 dra" w ' xi s ,a,t . l.b_e . Nelson Dock, he fell into the water and C o :4er Zn_ s it is supposed that he was tripped by a Thar ,sl?i was heard at the time, but one half an was aware of the accident. 14(I deeeas : before asa4 a n ny e gl an. An inquest was held on aY ' a nd a verdict of "Found drowned" returned. :43:18,, METHODIST DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS. r,l Chap last, the Rev. Dr. Beaumont, of London. r e k La. ° Powerful and impressive sermons at Bruns -1:11.1;4411311ee 0 . n behalf of the above object. In the morn tie th autiful and spacious chapel was quite crowded, 4 4 ; 1 cl h a e e venito , the conoTegation was overwhelmning„ I . 4 er e adreds retiirned male to find room. It !wears l i ona 4re 8 - 1 x I undred and forty children receiving . re- hat e ofand secular instruction in connexion with this_ s w°l.s hiP The collections amounted to £52 10 • f 4 .13 • h e ' t the Rt rswlciK CLun.—The summer arrangements ow -!atli,„ant-door exercises in this rising club are used itic-C,n)Pleted. The extensive field, formerly for• • e r e i h a tnoe, is now being rendered applicable to many C• „rl3,cent but equally invigorating exercises. Arne- t • ef„,lting, quoits, skittles, &c., are among them, :oil gt nod noticing ' the novelties until the ground is tar 1n the interim, however, there can be no doubt I 11 as he has hitherto done, pro t.; be rn st an en w er i gies the intellectual as well as the t x r " n tuence s o f the Brunswick Club. mtiti klt ' A TlON OF MASTERS AND MATES. A ltt• it it g , 4 the Boa r d o f Examiners, held on the 15th a i stl kOtt r i e ' Ale. Richard John Reynolds, first officer of the of St. John, N. 8.. Mr. Alexander Stra!:lan, i'43nnuleer of the Royal Mail steamer Niagara, of tts *- r "' and Mr. Hugh Ross, first officer of the Man- Ast ' Ol York, were'all found qualified for second class r's Pta• cer tificates. And on Friday, the 18th instant, t: J dLjeri om an les Killick master of the John Dugdale, of ew t‘''' and Captain ' James Brown, late master of the •"'lle,f`anler Nautilus, of London, were found duly e- ter first class certificates as Masters. t 4.4t ik (l ati o Blll Ps.—lt is probable . that the repeal of the Len cif II laws will give a great impetus to the constiruc 11ion sai ling vessels of iron ,in the building of whic no f -41 secces f llv ompete with us. There sides aol e „ e s u ' ofwhile a coe. --ers ennctrne. PA wo o d. ofi 4 rOn '" sZa t' m u e7s " area;:p7e - se ' nibuilding on the 4, lditi"°" l // British Railway and Slapping Journal. - °II to this information as to the building of iron 10, 11 , P iv a s ,," the Clyde, we may state that only three or 4 de a ":"eti vessels are ' now being built in Liverpool, s u chT greater number of iron steamers are going t two Proportion of the latter to the former, over the t e k c , s 3 ' e ars, is perhaps seven to one. m a lE .lt HERMAN.—This distinguished conjuror has Irk,a4,ng his tricks every evening during the past h as b 'las also given morning performances repeatedly. r tw il g rat % e n well supported, and his dexterity has . always t' 4 in z to the spectators. On Saturday night the at eh °' the coffee and the inexhaustible bottle had t q a n r l T s B for those who occupied the body. We were en k •erve such a want of decorum amongst them dot lerman distributed the coffee and the liquor. t;:;teTitwere cups and saucsrs broken, but only four of keted l';four glasses employed by the artist could be fOla ss :'"en the bottle trick was concluded. Perhaps 0, 4 "0ti lv - r.were broken in the shameful disorder and con -40 i n 1 2 1 1 took place, and we hope that di.sap . ,Ted b .," any other way. The scene , to 4„'"a,s not very creditable to the operatives eulogiumresfnt . l efieally did not go to support the high r s atayor passed upon the working menh 'ettai erto et laY Lind, which was read at the close in of the nt aent. a -' 4 4 1/ j a SEACOMBE HOTEL, BOWLING GREEN, AND P 4 1 ,0 8•.---The growth of Liverpool, and the spread of h - go - long the Cheshire shore, have made sad . ..° to thl the rural privacy of most of our ferries. It is Q 1 11 14 ,1. 4 , 1 1 affair of only a few minutes sail to get out 102e - : l _,Nce and bustle of the town, to the fresh sea t%liet Ni*,! l a the enjoyment of country scenery andqu n , icitiooZodside southwards we are built up; . and eve theeri; os e !a ss fe t rries, Egremont and New Brighton, no to ti !lbhd a ,e . attrac r tions which they once offered to k m `le i r4l ,,Y seeking pub lc. There is but one exception the Seacombe, the nearest . ferry . to Liverpool, b% l qt• w est central, still maintains its rural character, vr t ated,s to visitors from our busy port a marine prc erell% of he tile gardens of its hotel, commanding the fiat r eilr noble river, docks, &c., accompanied by t e e LPir ed ec e sZry t . o comfort and enjoyment which can e 's t o h ne innovating hand of the speculating builder dib 9 ! l t aye spared this locality, its neat church being i e w which we have l ett' • the ast three years - ne will be seen by our noticec ad . erection It , 4 sr sbcolunniß, that arrangements have been made by Ito bt leti s t s 4 , 4 27 to render their establishment, during the top ,et)jo, a 'all, more conducive than ever to the comfort otaVjnollt of those who select Seacombe as a resort iir - e`i n i , or pleasure. Their gardens, bowling-green, °f of of excellent order ; and the popular American I,,,tli te a - Pins has been added to the usu . al attractions eilt Cuisine, and good fare for which the hotel 10,'''aYs been noted. q 11," ~t i' art . RENCONTRE.—A short time since a poor 4 4 1,"! th, t 4l ng in Manchester had the good fortune to l'GLa,legacy o f £2OO h a d b e e n left her by a deceased finding that it would be necessary that her Rd i aio;: e w ha was in America, should be present, before no ell h e ,Y. c ould be paid, wrote to him to come back, 16,0 14 and drew the money. The wife, conceiving hie cool ueY were in possession of so much money, that itj,withT.aot be any objection to her returning to Ame k,',4)n, ,' l ta, Proposed to eater to which he made no ob iii-xet, _ having the g part of the £2OO in his to, t %gh ~"L e managed to give her the slip. Wandering oa"titiork-o`f.n.e,s,treets in search of him, she attracted the at- fern 4 1)11e."`. 4 - male standing at the door ' of a lodging-house, "Jing to await the arrival of a second party. The k it r i i t i o Pab vi ug her to be weary, in . vited her in, and asked kid Pk e of refreshments. saving that she had been 'ay - '"t3r, that her husband had - come from America s e ti al‘ l eet :l d lega cy of £2OO These,inAlan w cl i i t e h st n e t r h , e a r ndw fired t, in Liverpool. d the real wife's suspon, which wer . e soon con as particulars, tha t 414 )6 b y the husband entering the house . in a state of i llo litir ' cl a ti i °ll . A scene ensu . ed, th i e t t i w o o hn w s i b v s es nd a , ss b e ? r i t n ed g fi l th 0 ,. I ns, but the new wife an c t'Y badereonle by the superabundance of the good things t o . ' 4l i fe talien were helpless, and . soon fell asleep. The_ toe'''t ' w ho had merely partaken of moderate refresh 11,_etse:5°_11Y bethought herself of searching her husband's : R iled Pnd found there £l9O, with which the forthwith -11°Y their M anchester, leaving the drunken couple to e ti lit all' Meditations when they awoke. f°ltll 400 1. TOWN Mrssrow.—The committee of this d ,in etlt a i n a d useful society have made arrangements for oo cts wt,°.‘zaar at the Lyceum News-room, in aid of the t ("anti II " are now in a very depressed condition. The 1, (1 1 " °f the Athenwum and Exchange _News -e i s - , av k. - allow those members of t o -..vp„ ° kindly consented to Odt Nid .' tlr n, who wish to avail themselves of the privilege, 0, „Ili their rooms during the time that the_ bazaar . is 1 4 i ( e 1 1 the notice which the committee of the mission th lssi ot , Y Published they say,—" The Liverpool Town conse ttlet!tly,ZB.iestablished in the yeal. 1829, and is, ~ 11,i t !oll ode ink 20th year of its existence . . The obiect or *t al , l 4111 0 41 1 • rB, many of whom are still living, was the 11 1 oyfile Provement of the poor o . f . the town, by the 1., ‘. 41 ill th il e t tr of suitable persons to visit and converse with .n L ' 43 arid d own dwellings, and . to hold meetings i oi tiPto,„„ welling-houses for reading and expounding the i t N fi" and Prayer. The committee in the . first ye . ar cr e!n .,, - i 0 1 g45 v ; , e a ßents, and this number went on increasing tut, ' h a - tle ',,," atnounted to 21. Since that time, in conse i:ritsee-4 attedfati o lure of the funds, the number of agents l ey his devotee. to their The whole time ot the Itketihave Made 66 000 •'t held upwards of 4,.000 vc - -.g4 • - , visi s, ac w n. ork. During the past year 1,'., 442 i, Instructed 1,200 children and adults in reading, fi ° l l (l4 " .distributed 111,754 religious tracts. Though i . ectty a tl ot ,'Yi c h, ets Part of their work, they . have also, through ti.- a1t..4. ot friends, afforded relief in food , fuel,. and ,. " e 4 ri . ' ` 0 1,900 distressed families. Liberal grants of viv re Made t Toni 001 ..... 0 the mission, from time to time, by the Ote. tract Society • and the agents haye, from the_ art;eetnent, distribut' d more than 10,000 Bibles and ‘Verltusitsxv,_hi_ch .havepb:een granted gratuitously by the wo bOciety. THE TIMES ON THE CURRENCY v. HIMSELF A small pamphlet has just been placed in our hands, published for cost price by Mr. Wareing Webb, which exhibits a very remarkable change in the opinions of the Times with respect to the operation of a paper currency. We give the most striking portions of it, supplying briefly the portions omitted, in order to render it intelligible. " I have observed," says the writer, "that the Times paper has been one of the strongest advocates of those ex treme bullionist notions which are held by Sir Robert Peel and his disciples. It now appears that the French Revolu tion of last year, and the results of the new monetary mea sures which the French Rulers were compelled to adopt on the 15th March, 1848, have had the effect of producihg a re volution in the convictions on this subject expressed and advocated in that powerful journal. The Times paper of the 16th February, 1849, tells ns, that ' when the revolution of ow 9 4etu woa3 ,•sauv.if . fo suomput 97,g og paiunowv aouvad - fo quvg ay; uz spunf ay; 4pa.t.inaao 81-81 navnigag until the 15th of the following month this money was rapidly reduced. On the 15th of March alone, ten mil lions were paid out in cash in Paris, and on the evening of that day, the funds remaining did not exceed 59 mil lions,' or in English money, not two and a half millions sterling,—the wtal amount in all the branch banks being about the same sum : and it is added, In a few days more the run must have exhausted the whole resources of the establishment.' As a proof of this, the same autho rity says, that a few days later' the scarcity of the me tallic currency was so great. that out of a payment of 26,000,000 francs fallen due, only 47,00 J francs could be rec 9rer . ed in silver.' "Thus all the monetary transactions of the Bank of France, and with them those of the whole kingdom, were on the point of being totally stopped on the 15th March, 1848. Large sums were due from the Bank to one class of its customers, while still larger sums were due to the Bank from another class; and the suspension of payments on the one hand, must have inevitably stopped all receipts on the other. To aggravate the evil, those w'r) held any metallic money were of course most anxious to conceal and to hoard it . Under these circumstances the great bulk of the people, who were dependent for their daily subsistence on their daily pay, were maddened to despe ration to get a small share of the national circulation, at the very time when it was on the point of being totally stopped. Never was any nation in greater danger of being involved in a state of universal anarchy, than France was on the 15th March, 1848. " But in this extremity, a remedy was providentially found. That remedy is thus described by the same im portant witness. When the Bank alone retained any available sums of money, the Government came to the rescue, and on the night of the 16th March, the notes of the Bank were by a decree made a legal tender, the issue of these notes being limited to 350 millions, but the amount of tha lowest of them reduced to 100 francs," or about £4 of our money. This decree it appears proved quite efficient. It had all the virtue of the much-desired Philosopher's Stone. It immediately gave to these £4 notes all the essential money properties of gold or silver. In ten days,' continues the same witness, the amount issued in this form had reached 80 millions;' and to print these £4 notes fast enough for the public consump tion,' is stated to have been ' one of the great difficulties' which had to be surmounted. " This being the remedy, we must now notice the effects. After a year's trial it appears, on tile same satisfactory testimony, that the following effects were produced. ' No sooner was the Bank relieved from the necessity of paying away the remnant of its coin, than it made every exertion to increase its metallic rest.' These exertions were quite successful, for we further learn, on the same testimony, that the Bank was enabled— ` To purchase from abroad silver to the amount of To pass over to the treasury and executive departments in Paris, in dollars, more than 10,000,000 f. 100,000,000 f. And to throw into the circulation of the country, taking into account the co operation of the branch banks, be tween March 1848, and Feb. 1849, five franc pieces to the amount of .. 505,000,000 f. " These were some of the effects resulting from the de cree of the 15th March, 1848. But, besides these strictly monetary operations,' the same Times paper tells us, that the Bank of France found means to furnish a series of loans to the Government on Exchequer Bills, viz ' On the 31st March, 1848 On the sth May, 1848 And on the 3rd June, to be paid up be fore the end of March, 1849 150,000,000f.' 50.000,000 f. 30,000,000 f. " It seams, however, that the last sum was more than sufficient to meet the wants of the government, for. when the report of the bank, from which these statements were taken, was published in January, ] 849, only one-third of it had been required. But great as these operations were, they constitute only a part of the public benefit which this new monetary system conferred on the French nation. The hank, besides taking a most efficient part in the re newed French loan, and making (as the same authority in forms us) ' vast advances to the city of Paris, to Marseilles to 41 ' -- - R,2 ‘lie department of the seine, and to the hospitals, amounting in all to 260,000 f. more.' was enable to afford most timely and valuable aid to the manufacturing and commercial interests. On this point, the following most gratifying testimony is supplied by the same witness. 'To enable the manufacturing interests to weather the storm, at a moment when all sales were interrupted, a decree of the National Assembly had directed warehouses to be opened for the reception of all kinds of goods, and pro vided that the registered invoice of these goods, so depo sited, should be made negotiable by endorsement. The Bank of France discounted these receipts. In Havre alone, 18 millions were thus advanced on colonial produce, and in Paris, 14 millions on merchandise—in all, 60 mil lions were thus made available for the purposes of trade. Thus this great institution had placed itself, as it were, in direct contact with every interest of the community, from the minister of the treasury down to the trader in a dis tant outport. Like a huge hydraulic machine, it employed its colossal powers to pump a fresh stream into the ex hausted arteries of trade, to sustain credit, and to preserve the circulation from complete collapse. The private debtors to the bank amounted to many thousands ; yet so leniently did it proceed, even against defaulters, that it only caused a fiat in bankruptcy to issue in a few cases of evident fraud, and favoured every species of amicable arrangement " Beneficial as these operations were in their progress, the final issue of them promises to be equally beneficial to all the industrious classes, and most satisfactory to the Bank and the Government. To establish this, it is only necessary to quote the further testimony of the same witness, who, alluding to these extraordinary operations, says—' To complete this marvellous sum mary, it must be added, that the Bank. after all these exertions, has completely recovered the ground it had at one time almost lost. At one moment, the amount of bills overdue and doubtful was no less than 77,700,000 f. ; that sum is now reduced to 14,340,000 f., and it is confidently anticipated that the actual loss of the Bank of France by these risks will not exceed the comparatively trifling sum of four million francs.' And then be adds, in conclusion—' We cannot do more than present our readers with this very brief outline of these masterly operations, but when it is remembered that they were conducted in all the gloom and terror of an unparalleled Revolution, when the Government lay prostrate before the mob, and property itself was openly assailed, this narrative of dry financial entries assumes the importance and the dignity of an heroic resistance to adverse circum stances, a - ad in the very first rank of those who rescued France from the jaws of bankruptcy, and society itself from dissolution, we place without hE and able conductors of the Bank of I awe."' After quoting some of the predictions of ruin made by the Times, whilst the experiment of the French Govern ment was in its infancy, the writer quotes the following very contrary opinion, enunciated after its policy was proved to be successful, and proceeds " ' THE ONLY PASSAGE IN THE HISTORY OF THE PAST YEAR OF WHICH THE FRENCH HAVE REASON TO BE PROUD,' 19 that DECREE by which the Governors and Managers of the Bank of France were enabled to float their• establishment ' LIKE AN ARK ABOVE THE WATERS OF DISCORD ;' and to RESCUE their country FROM THE JAWS OF BANKRUPTCY, and SOCIETY ITSELF FROM DIS SOLUTION. " In addition to this satisfactory testimony which has been adduced in favour of this new monetary system in France, it appears, by the report of the French Bank of the Bth of March, 1849, that while. all the channels of industry have been freely supplied with an efficient cir culation, the metallic treasure of that establishment, which was so nearly exhausted on the 15th of March, 1848, had accumulated to an amount exceeding 312 mil lions of francs, which is since considerably increased ; and we also find by the public papers that this new system has net beeh attended with the least permanent deprecia .. non or the meeauzc wine or ri repo). bank notes,—but, on the contrary, that the larger notes of the Bank of France have actually borne a premium of one or two per cent. above the value of French metallic money in the neighbouring continental states. " Much, therefore, as we have heard of the extraordi nary Gold Mines of California, the accumulation of treasure produced from that source has not by any means been so great, or so rapid, as that which has been by the DECREE OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF PRANCE of the 15th of March, 1848. " To those who had paid due attention to the national relief atained from our own monetary measures of Feb. 1797—0 f December 1825—and of October 1847—the further information supplied by the experience of the Bank of France during the last year was unnecessary, though any one might well have doubted whether a bank note system of money could by any possibility have been sustained in the midst of such political convulsions as those which France has encountered since February 1848. But the Bank of France, under the judicious superin tendence of Count d'Argout, has now satisfactorily re moved this doubt, and for the practical lesson thus afforded the whole world will have cause to rejoice if our Rulers know how to avail themselves of the instruction w hich it gives us, and of the valuable aid which the high credit of our national Bank is capable of affording. " The lesson to be learned is simply this,—that the way to secure a plentiful supply of the precious metals at all times for a nation far advanced in civilization, and where extensive credit engagements exist, is—not to compel or even encourage the people to adopt the use of metallic money only, but—to provide them with an effi cient substitute for the precious metals, so as to enable the people in any case of extreme emergency to carry on all the greater works of domestic industry through the instrumentality of that substitute, without any other aid from metallic money than that required for smaller opera tions and the fractional portions of large transactions. No one can fail to see how absurd it would have been, in the recent Potato Famine in Ireland, to have deprived the people of a substitute, under the idea that it would com pel them to keep up a supply of that useful root; but it is equally absurd to expect, when a scarcity of bread , food in England causes AN EXPORT AND SCARCITY OF GOLD, that the scarcity of gold can be counteracted,b.y.a legal enactment compelling the people to make all pay ments of two pound's and upwards in that metal', and depriving them of the privilege of providing a substitute for it. For want of perceiving this simple truth—so obvious to any unprejudiced mind—the people of this nation have been kicking against the pricks for the last thirty years." , y ~,~, l ~!~, l •,r,p. est t h e gir o m an iql e Yet i t 4 dep ,founJe s side. 'another, v 5.1,00 ; 1 rnin° aC 4 7 it tV rly a" • b aural f a n , tre ip without 1 It 3 pu l b f l z. ll ..clay a re 0 a : , Uexico h e swaY o ok u p l co "A nosh) .. . C —this is 09; it upon a , t he rain uole_00:,- ds blown been the ed t is thre ate t P te#. an tha t 1, 9 d 3 a a 0 ( 0) r the Ij' Q ttil' 4 8.0 a for cen they reco:lfii robbed aoin,st,,,,, ET .r fru. )me ont, ainder• be ibition, fr, )nd sa"" the P frog', n joil re be l r ebel n perial next ? be bed and t fag itt ead iS a OP , the pre y re , ora l sso. . c , e ntan":„o God f°r 6uf spirit ?of the wo r , ,„ o o f Goa; true ae goctlitra r e is fi ° which t ° pt interP'eril h • on e 'i -I'eati to 10.51:-, Listen t0,g,.; . c oncile I. of CI) I thor o it t i tit ter cannui lionclutfor! authority D Dl'ltsify)l o'ci° c° OS' . rJQ o ) - e b“ ) ; o 7er itusocha _Till' eitr' o it s ian fa ir s air, a road o("i ,iera o t . 4 of ti'c terd a)' 'DC /Vt' es l: ' th e rut Ci • 011 7 den3l any alter,' Coo J AI l ' . e •d coo p, : j ~.% , resVi: er '7c`T, e o joi P r il :t TIEE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Dtstritt P.MS. Manchester was visited by a terrific thunder storm on Thursday. Several buildings were struck by .the electric fluid, and respectively sustained considerable damage. DEATH FROM A SHOT AT CHESTER RAcr,so,--A gdtitle man from London received in his eye a ball discharged by a man who was practising rifle-shooting at Chester Races. The gentleman applied for medical relief and was advised to return home, as the case would require long and care ful attention. He has since died from the effects of the wound. • GOOD COLLECTIONS.—On Sunday week, after sermons at St. Ann's Church, Manchester, by the- Rev. H. W. M'Grath, the sum of £l9O was collected in aid of the schools. On the same day, at Christ Church, Salford, £290 was obtained after sermons by the Rev, Stowell, for the schoolsOf his church. What practical proofs that the evangelical members of the church are deeplT alive to the importance of Christian education. ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.--In our obituary of this day we record the death of an old inhabitantof this town, Mrs. Kemp, of Church-street, the circumstances of whose birth and descent forcibly illustrate the old adage, that " truth is stranger than fiction." Mrs. Kemp was the daughter of Mr, Bradley, a tailor and draper, ,in Preston, by the eldest daughter of the Hon. Francis North, after wards Lord North, and subsequently created Earl of Guilford, and, of course, sister of Frederick, Lord North, for many years prime minister to King George the Third, and on the death of his father, the first earl; the second peer of that title. Frederick, Lord North, and his sister, the heroine of our story, were both deprived of maternal care when they most required it, and both were consigned to the same foster-mother during their infancy. The early days of the high born lady to whom,we have alluded were spent under the roof of her mother's immediate relatives, near Grosvenor-square, London,. where she re ceived an education suitable to the position in society she appeared designed to fill. At twelve or fourteen years of age she became an inmate of Bushy-house, Middlesex, the then residence of the Earl of Halifax, whose daugh ters, the Ladies Montague, watched over her young wo manhood with anxious solicitude. The Earl of Halifax being at that time (1748) one of the Lords of the Admi ralty, was in the habit of being waited upon in matters appertaining to his office, by a young man named Brett, nephew of Sir William Smith, a London merchant, who offered her his hand. Mr. Brett, though respectably con nected, and having good worldly prospects before him, was, nevertheless, not considered of suitable station to espouse the daughter of a peer,. and she was therefore sent down to Preston, to break off the acquaintance. After remaining here some weeks, under the care of two ladies, named Astley, whose father was mayor at that time, and lived at the entrance to Chapel-walks, Fisher gate, she received an intimation that Mr. Brett, supposing she had gone to France, had set out in quest of her, and had been drowned in crossing from Dover to Calais. Believing the statement, and much distressed in her mind at the supposed sad event, she immediately returned to London, and related her trouble to her foster-mother, observing, at the same time, that as her friends had de prived her of the object of her warmest affections, she would accept the first offer that was made to her. Her foster-mother having a nephew then lodging with her, from Preston, with a view to improvement in his business, she communicated to him what the unhappy lady had stated. He made- her an offer accordingly, and in three days they were married at Keith's Chapel, May-fair. This nephew was Mr. Bradley, tailor and draper, of this town ; and the daughter of one of the proudest aristo cratic families:of the empire :became the wife of a Pres ton tradesman ! A few months afterwards the young couple quitted London, and she became the mistress of the identical house in Fishergate, formerly occupied, far many years, by the late Mr. Taylor, seedsman, which de scended to her husband on the death of his father, and where she gave birth to twelve children, six of whom (daughters) have died within the last sixteen years, the last of them this very week, in Preston. Harsh and un forgiving as it may appear, it is yet the fact, that this marriage (imprudent, certainly, under the circumstances) for ever cut her off from her former friends and connec tions, not one of whom ever exchanged a single word and who accidentally met her in London Lord titrar father of the late Earl of Derby, who then represented the county, and resided occasionally at the family man sion, in Church:street, also recognised her after she had become a resident in Preston. He had known her when a girl, living with her relatives, near his own residence, when in London, and evinced his sympathy at her altered . . position by becoming a customer to her husband, and re commending his friends to follow his example. With these exceptions, and now and then a small present, sent Strange, she was completely severed from and neglected by her own noble relatives, and sank into the grave about 1790, at the age of sixty-two, having, about five years bofore, lost her husband by death, and, subsequently, be come so reduced in circumstances as to be compelled to part with her jewellery, among which was a valuable ring, given her by Charles Spencer, Duke of Marlborough, who married ter cousin. Her ashes were consigned to their last resting-place in the burial ground of the Preston Parish Church. Mr. Brett, her "first-love," it mcty be added, rose to eminence in point of position, having be- io one o the Admiralty, during the coalition ministry of ' Lord North and Mr. Fox, in 1783, but, it is understood, died unmarried,—probably out of respect for the lady, whom an affectionate regard on the part of her well-meaning friends had deprived him of, owing to his then inferior station in life.—Preston Chronicle. iginrra I illfilttiiAltD. There is at present a large group of spots on the sun's They will be visible for some days. The Times newsp2per of Monday (two double sheets) contains upwards of two thousand advertisements! Jenny Lind arrived at Dover on Tuesday, and sailed for Calais on Wednesday, en route for Paris. The shares of the York Union Bank, of which Mr. Hudson is managing director, have declined from £l9 to under £l3, since the railway investigations commenced. During afire which occurred on Saturday last at Bas singbourne, Cambridgeshire, nearly 300 fowls were burned to death. Mary Ann Geering, of Guestling, near Hastings. has been committed for trial charged with having poisoned her husband and two of her children. _ _ A woman at Nottingham has been taken into custody, iarged with attempting to poison an illegitimate child of her husband's, The Town Council of Doncaster, at a meeting held on Wednesday week, voted 1,000 sovs. to the race fund for the next meeting. Mr. Baillie Barrie, one of the magistrates for Forfar, has committed suicide by drowning himself. He wa; walking out with his sister when he leaped into the water, and could not be-rescued before life was extinct. At the recent distribution of Mrs. Parke's Bowyer Gallery Collection of Works of Art, the Bowyer bible valued at £3,000. fell to the lot of Mr. John Saxon, of Greenscombe, Somersetshire. The infant'child of a cabinet maker living at Canter bury, died last week, in consequence of its parents per sisting in trying hydropathy as a cure for an affection of the lungs, under which it laboured. Two Hull whalers, the William Ward, 295 tons, and The Pledge, 31 tons, have been wrecked. The crews, after suffering greatly, were saved. Many of the ships engaged in the Greenland trade are stove in by the ice. Charles James Monk, Esq., son of the Bishop of Glou cester and Bristol, arrived at Southampton on Wednes day last, from his travels in Greece, Egypt, and Syria, after an absence from England of above a year and a half. A POLICEMAN KILLED AT BRISTOL.—On Friday a coroner's inquest was held at Bristol on the body of a policeman named Pym, who met his death in consequence of an attack made upon him by two soldiers of the 15th Regiment, on the 3d instant. STRANGE FIELD SPORTSMEN. — On Friday, the Bos jesmen were sent. into a field opposite Mr. Pott's house, Park-lane, Manchester. They enjoyed themselves in feet, and gazitig atthe.buildings An extraordinary attack has been made by a cat in a house a few miles from Moffat. An infant was left in a cradle with a large cat ; no sooner had the mother quitted the house than the cat sprang upon the child and tore it in such a way that it died soon after. The town of Dudley is likely to have a good free school through the liberality of the late Mr. D. Parsons of that town. That gentleman bequeathed £lO,OOO, to be paid after the death of his sister, for establishing and support ing a school for the education of poor boys and girls. A few days ago a young woman, after suffering from cholera 24 bours, apparently died at Brokeboy. He; friends placed her in the coffin, and they were on the point of carrying the body to the churchyard, w:ien she rose from her narrow tenement, burst asunder her cere ments, and formed one of the living assemblage. On Monday week, while a railway train was proceeding to Perth, a person was seen on the line making the ffsaal signal to stop, which was instantly obeyed by the engine- driver. On being eagerly askec. what was wrong, the person who caused the delay coolly answered, •` Nothing," as he merely wanted a lift into the town. From the hour of six, a.m., of Saturday, the engines and firemen of the London Brigade were kept in conti nued movement, there being, during that period, not fewer than nine alarming fires in various parts of the metropolitan district. There were no lives lost. The damage done to property is very considerable. A severe and fatal epidemic, supposed to be the cholera, has broken out amongst the paupers of the Keynsham union, Somerset, and up to Wednesday last no less than ten deaths occurred, irrespective of cases which have been successfully treated by the medical officers, or are still in course of treatment. On Monday, a brutal fight between two navvies, after the Lancashire fashion, took plac3 at Bowling, near Bradford. One of them was kicked in the belly by his assailant,- and, when both were down, again kicked in'the breast and on the head. He died next day. The sur vivor has been committed for manslaughter. A Brighton beggar lately quarrelled with his begging letter writer respecting the division of 15s. which the for mer had obtained by means of the latter's moving epistles ; and the writer became so furiously enraged that he smashed"all the furniture of the lodging-house where they lived. The police interfered, and conveyed the fellow be fore the magistrates, who committed him to' the house of .correction. At the thirteenth anniversary of the Fistula Infirmary, it was announced that Mr. B. Bond Cabbel(who was ab sent from illness), on hearing that the society could not 'meet - with a suitable site for an intended{ new' erection of their hospital, had offered them for the-purpose a gift of land worth nearly £4,000 in the parish of St. Andrew's, Holborn. The new building will be•named the St. An-- I ilrerea Hospital for Diseases of Lower:lntestines. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE.—The vessel, Success, arrived in London, from Adelaide, Australia, has brought 2,53 9 bags of wheat,. the production of that distant colony. The same vessel brought 10',116 bags of copper ore, 127 casks of tallow, and a general. cargo of Australian pro duce. The town. and neighbourhood of Doncaster were visited by a short but severe storm of thunder and lightning, between siz and: seven on Monday evening last. At Rossington, Mr. R. V. Jennings, farmer, had two valu able cart horses killed. Two of the farming lads who were in the stable at the time, were knocked down by the concussion of the air. EXTRAVAGANCE AT OXFORM - A conference was held at Oxford, on Monday week, between a deputation of the Oxford Trailing Association and the leading college tutors, on the subject of the long credit given to undergraduates, and the means of checking their extravagance. The tradesmen seemed disinclined to adopt the - ready money system recommended by the tutors, and, in fact, there seems to be a strollg feeling amongst them in favour of long credits, and, oecourse, high prices. Two men:have been taken into custody at Rotherham, for selling what purported to be " An Account of the dreadful Assassination of Emily Sandford, by Rush's son James."' The paper purported to have been copied from a telegraphic dispatch, and stated that youn g Rush had invited his victi m t o th e new res id ence o f his family, and that her brains had been beaten out with a poker, and that she died instantaneously. The whole story was false, and the two." flying stationers" will be punished. A NEW INGENUITY IN SMUGGLING. -An unusual A, eaSe of Dutch butter, in the usual size ro: was entered for duty, and the officers of the Customs opened . it to ascertain the contents, which to all appearance was_ satisfactory ; but upon piercing one of the rolls the instrument was obstructed by some hard substance, and., on, the -officers cutting into the butter, found a small tin canister of tobacco embedded in each roll. There were in all about lOCt rolls. On Monday, during a tempest which passed over Cam bridgeshire and Suffolk, while a flock of sheep, containing about 14 score, near Bury St. Edmund' were returning to the fold they rested under an ash tree during the rain. 21 of the animals were killed on the spot by the electric fluid, and one was nearly dead ; the others got away, and appeared to have received little injury, thongh some. of them had their coats singed.. The tree received only partial damage, its trunk having about six inches of bark all the way down stripped off, and a few of the arms slightly barked. AN ELECTRIC WATCHMAN.—Mr. Petrie's ingenious mode of protecting premises by the aid of electric shocks, as first suggested in The Builder, is about to be applied, it appears, to an extensive factory at West Ham. The battery will be a very powerful one, and will effect the two-fold object of ringing a large alarm-bell, and prostrat ing all who may attempt to enter the premises.. The ap plication of such an apparatus is suitable for banking houses, or the mansions of the nobility and gentry, and may be applied to ono room or the whole dwelling.— The Builder. ARMY INTELLIGENCE.—WC are informed that Major- General Brotherton will receive the cclonelcy of the 15th Hussars, rendered vacant by the death of Sir Robert Thomas Wilson. We understand that bent—General Sir George Anson is to succeed the late Six Edward Paget as Governor of Chelsea Hospital. We hear that Major- General Sir Joseph Thackwell, who , commanded the cavalry at Chillianwallah, is to be appointed a Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. Major-General Whish, who also distinguished himself in the recent Indian cam paign, is to be appointed a Knight Companion of the Bath, and Colonel Colin Campbell, of the 98th Regiment, is to receive the same appointment as the last-mentioned officer. The 59th Regiment of Foot has received orders to embark for China; 5 officers and 130 men are to em bark in a few days for Hong Kong.—Globe. POTATO GROWING.—It may interest the experimenta lists in potato growing to know that Count Le Lieur, of Ville sur Acre, a French gentleman of great horticultural eiperience, has hit upon a plan of stopping the disease, which he assures us has produced the best results. He plants in a greenhouse the soundest potatoes he can find; with a ball of earth, and transfer red to the open ground, not later if possible than the month of June. These plants produce, he says, perfectly sound tubers in the course of the autumn ; and the Count assures us that such tubers, if used for seed in the following year, produce a crop entirely free from disease. This is ono of the few Chronicle, RAGGED SCHOOL UNION.—On Tuesday evening, the annual general meeting of this society was held at Exeter- was numerously a .ev occu nd feeling manner. He trusted the Ragged SChool Union was about to take its place among the best and greatest religious societies of that vast metropolis. In spite of the difficulties and obstacles that had stood in the way, while only four years ago they numbered their now maintained 82 schools, the greater number of them in connection with the union. Of these 30 were held in the day, and 50 in the evening; and 15,000 poor neglected children partook of their benefits. But they must not stop there, but proceed vigorously. He ended by a most appeal in behalf of the furtherance of the great work, The report was most favourable. Many of the children had been sent at their own desire to our colonies at the public expense, and were likely to be in life. The report was agreed t affecting prosperous 'OPISU dinne LAOYA LTV stating that given after the recant consecration of fig nf R;l1 CfP4l "!hp Ant. the second, " tLe King and Queen," 'makes the following observations :—" In Belgium it seems—the Catholics of LOCAL MEETINGS. BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE. AND CHESHIRE' JUNC TION RAILWAY.—On Saturday afternoon a special meet ing of the shareholders of this company was held in the Town-hall, Birkenhead, Alderman James Bancroft, chief director, in the chair. There would, as advertised, be two bills submitted,—first, a bill to authorise the company to abandon part of their line, to form a new line to join the London and North Western, to make some alterations in construction, tolls, &c.; and, secondly, a bill to enable the company to sell or leave their undertaking to the London and North Western, the Chester and Holyhead, or the Shrewsbury and Chester companies. The attendance was but small. The solicitor read the marginal explanation of the first bill. The chairman then detailed the history of the steps taken for the revision of capital, &c. The bill had been strongly opposed, but the objects justified them in pressing it, if possible, to a successful issue: He would move that the meeting, after a full conversation on the subject, should be adjourned for a fortnight, to afford parties time to decide how to proceed. He then entered into various details relative to the opposition they had met with from the Birkenhead Dock Company, who insisted on expensive works being done there, to which this company was adverse, and also explained several other new arrangements relating to the traffic between Walton and Manchester. He concluded by moving that the meeting, at its rising, should adjourn to Saturday, the 2d of June. Mr. Brown, hanker, of Glasgow, seconded the motion.—Mr. H. Winch protested against sacrificing the property of one section of the proprietors for the benefit of another, and moved an amendment to the effect that as the bill was unjust in principle it be not approved of, and that there be introduced into it clauses to prevent the application of money raised from £3l shares, to the purposes of the Chester and Birkenhead acts.--7 Mr. Webster seconded this, in a speech complaining of the principle sought to be carried out.—The Chairman replied, and submitted details of the matters under consideration.—Mr. Everill said that the directors would accede that the £3l shares should be reduced to £2O, all other difficulties were minor. 3e also complained of the recent call of £loon the Cheshire Junction sharer, which might have been spread over twelve months.—The Chairman said the money could not come in faster than it was wanted ; for they had now 1500 men at work on the line, which, in a few days, would pro bably be augmented to 2500.—Mr. Webster thought that by reducing the £3l shares to £2O the board would ob tain more money from the call.—Mr. sharebroker, of Liverpool, was also in favour of the reduction of these shares. He remarked that with the adjustment of capital he proposed the £3l shares should be reduced to £24 10s., the £27 103. to £22, and the £22 ahares to £l7 10s.— The motion for an adjournment, as proposed by the chair man, was then carried by a large majority, only seven hands being shown against it. SPECIAL MEETING OF THE TOWN COUNCIL A special meeting of the Council was held on Wednes day, for the purpose of considering the sewer-rate, paving rate, water-rate, and general rate for the year 18-19-50, submitted by the Health Committee. A memorial was read from 300 inhabitants of Toxteth park, within the borough, asking the Council not to levy the proposed rates on that township for the coming year, on account of the heavy parochial burdens which they had to bear. Mr. TINNE, in rising to bring the subject of confirming the rates before the Council, said the Health Committee bad made many reductions, and hod also excluded from their calculations everything of an extraneous character, and nothing had been included but what was actually needful. He then stated to the meeting the total amounts of the proposed rates for the ensuing year for the several townships, as compared with last year. In Liver pool the rate was Is. sd. against is. 7d. last year; in Kirkdale it was 2s. 4d. against 2s. 91 last year ; in Ever ton ls. 91, last year 2s. 6d.; in West Derby ls. lld., last year 2s. Bd. ; and in Toxteth-park 2s. 9d., last year 2s. 10d. The rates'would have been still less but for two or three circumstances. One of these was the reduced per centage of rates likely to be collected this year. The total number of unoccOied houses was 9613. On the motion of Mr. TINNE, the sewer rate for Liver pool, for the ensuing year, was fixed at Id. • • TINNE then proposed, seconded by Mr. Honsow, that the paving rate for Liverpool, for the year, be 9J. in the pound. Mr. THOMSON, seconded by Mr. WoonnuFr, moved as an amendment, that the rate be 6d. in the pound. He urged that the mode of paving was expensive, and that the . • - • with its staff cf surveyers and other officers, unjustly fell upon the warehouse-owners and shopkeepers. Mr. KAYE, referring to the practice named by Mr. Tinne, of certain landlords misleading their tenants and telling them they were not liable to the rates, said it was a well-known fact that all property was liable to the rates. He said they ought at this time to study economy, and if eightpence in the pound could be considered as sufficient, he should be glad to support it, but he could not support a rate of Gd., because he knew more was required. (Ap- plause.) The rate of 91. in the round was, after two atnend inents had been negatived, carried, 17 voting for it, and 9 against it - The water rate of ld. in the pound was next put and carried. Mr. TTNNE was proceeding with the general rates, dur ing which several members retired from the Council; and, on the motion of Mr. TuoassoN, there was a count out. The consideration of the whole of the rates for the out townships, and the general rate for Liverpool, conse quently stands over to the next monthly meeting. MEETINGS OF THE SELECT VESTRY. The usual fortnightly meeting was held on Tuesday, the Rev. Rector Campbell in the chair. There were present the Rev. Archdeacon Brooks and twenty-four other mem bers. A letter was read from Mr. Brown, Government Inspector of Schools, highly approving of the Kirkc:ale schools as a seminary for training teachers, and making some suggestions.—Mr. Hart read the report of the spe cial committee appointed to inquire into the charges brought by Mr. Callis against Mr. Riding, the late chair man of the Workhouse Committee. One of the main charges was, that while he was churchwarden (three years ago) he pocketed 20s. of discount received by him from Mr. Bewsher on paying him a bill for organ tunicg. Mr. Riding did not deny having pocketted the money, which he considered was an usual perquisite of churchwardens. Other items of a similar nature were also alluded to in the report, showing carelessness in Mr. Riding as regarded the parish contracts, (none having, in some cases, been made,) and favouritism in giving orders to his friends for workhouse supplies.—Mr. Earle moved that the report be entered on the minutes, which was seconded by Mr. Denton.—Mr. Riding said he was unconscious of having done anything wrong, and denied having received any dis count or commission on goods supplied to the parish.— Mr. Ferguson said, in reference to the 20s. received by Mr. Riding from Mr. Bewsher, that when he discovered the fact he called upon Mr. Riding to pay the money back, as he believed it to belong to the parish, but Mr. Riding refused to do so.—Mr. Earle said that Mr. Riding, as a member of a public board, and employed by the pa rish, had no business with any beneficial employment, because it was the parish money they were dealing with and not their own. As to the report, it very properly contained the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.— Archdeacon Brooks said that, excepting in one case, and that a most unfortunate one, it could not be said that Mr. Riding had obtained money from the parish.—Mr.Rieing said,—l beg to tender my resignation as a member of the board from this day. I cannot but feel that lam quite innocent, and that I have not been fairly used by the committee.—The Chairman regretted , with the Arch deacon, that Mr. Riding should have committed the in discretion of receiving the money from Mr. Bewsher. He said at the time that it ought not to have been received ; but it was treating. Mr. Riding rather hardly in bringing it forward now.---The meeting then adjourned. On Thursday, a special meeting was held at the parish offices, Lime-street, to receive a report relative to the evils arising from Irish Pauper immigration, and the crowding of persons together without proper accomoda tion on board the L•ish steamers.—The Rev. Rector Campbell occupied the chair, and stated what had been done. They had made attempts, but in vain, to induce the Home-office and the legislature to abate the evil. A deputation had waited on the President of the Board of Trade, who declined to interfere, on the ground that it would be an interference with the liberty of the subject to prevent Irish labourers from seeking work as cheat they could, and as numerously as they pleased. I represented to him that it was not the immigration of labourers of which they complained, but of those only who came to beg and steal—and of decrepit men and womei in a state of famine and disease—also helpless children, &c. On discovering, however, that by the 4th George IV., c. 83, and other acts, steamers were restricted from carry ing over a certain number of passengers, without a cus tom-house license, Mr. Labouchere decided to send down Lieutenant Denham to make inquiries, and that gentle man had expressed a hope that the practice of exporting paupers from Ireland to Liverpool like pigs, without proper acccommodation, would be at least restricted, if not prohibited. He adduced some evidence showing the horrors on board the steamers which carried so many passengers without the least shelter. He referred to the recent cases in which several persons had perished from cold and exposure. Liverpool had been made, by its im ports of the wretched and diseased from these vessels, the hospital and cemetery of Ireland, because the Irish steam boats, according to the testimonies of our medical officers, eve-witnesses, have imported into our town the dying and the dead, women brought to bed on the passage, and wretched creatures in every stage of exhaustion, from drunkenness, hunger, and disease. He had obtained an audience with Sir G. Grey and Mr. Baines, but the re sult as not very promising. If the paupers arriving were even dealt with as vagrants, it was no check, for it was no punishment to commit them to an English gaol. He con cluded by saying, that with every wish to be charitable to the Irish, it was not just to make Liverpool an Irish poor house and an Irish gaol, and they had a right to legisla tive protection. Rather than the present system should continue, it would be better that we should contribute to a rate in aid to support them at home.—Mr. M`Knight considered they were greatly indebted to Mr. Rushton for his admirable letter to Sir George Grey. He moved the thanks of the Vestry to that gentleman, which was adopted unanimously.—Mr. Ferguson complained that the Go vernment might restrict the number of pauper immi grants, but would not do so. He moved that the report be received and adopted.—Agreed to.—A general opinion was expressed; that when the report became known, other large towns would assist this in gaining the object•they desired.—A•-motion was agreed to, to the effe , ,-1-that other towns should.be solicited to cooperate.—Thsmeeting then adjpurned.. peing Christians—loyalty to God and F. rintal ln”oltar to +ha i nto ;a 1-11. 3eigiu m istianity and half of cowardice, a different practice prevails. We forsooth always drink the health of the Queen first •, then the Royal family at home ; then the Royal family abroad • then (in our hearts at least if not orally) all the Royal imusehold and trappings down to the the Church made up of '( when due homage has been paid to every vestige of royalty and state supremacy, we then honour the Pope. We mention this with an eye to the coming dej' diners and dinners of the present spring. We mean to keep a sharp look out on these matters, and see which set of stewards prefer Church to State, and which, on the other hand, prefer State to Church." BRADSHAW'S (METROPOLIS) DIRECT CONVEYANCE GUIDE.--In the same form as his now universally useful railway guide, Mr. George Bradshaw has published a guide by_rail, road, and steam, to and from the metropo- London and all parts of the kingdom, with the distanc from London and the nearest railway station 1 an alpha hniirfal inaPT of the Railinv of all the London cab tares to and from the railway stations, post office arrangements, museums, exhibitions, and p!ams of amusement. The number for this month contains the May meetings of the various religious and benevolent associations in London ; a list of all the churches and the independent and baptist chapels in and near London, with their ministers, Sunday and weekly services, tke. But the distinguishing feature of this guide is a splendid and aecurate map of London, 27 by 15 inches, which is alone worth double the price of the whole guide. Alto gether the Metropolitan Guide is the most cheap and useful little "go-with-me," for a stranger in the metro- ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE QUEEN. — On Saturday evening, between five and six o'clock, as her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Prin cess Royal, and the Princess Helena, was returning from a drive in Hyde-park, a pistol shot was fired at theni at the lower end of Constitution-hill, by a man dressed in the garb of a labourer, who stood within the railings of the park. The fellow was instantly arrested, and the royal carriage proceeded to the palace as if nothing had hap pened, her Majesty retaining throughout the utmost com posure, and doing all she could to calm the fears of the royal children. The man's name is John Hamilton, from Limerick. He has resided in this country about five years, in the house of a bricklayer, at Pimlico, for whom he at one time worked. He was not in actual want, for, though he has been out of employment for some time, Yet his landlord lodged him gratuitously, and the other necessaries of life were supplied by the labourers who lodged at the same house. Every effort has been made to find whether the pistol was loaded, but the search so far has been fruitless, and there is no mark on the carriage or elsewhere. Had the weapon been charged with lead, or any substitute, the whistle of it past the carriage would have at once been noticed. A loud report was heard, which is not to be wondered at, as it is * ascertained that the man used the bowl of a tobacco pipe as his powder measure in charging the pistol. The prisoner is of a sulky sullen disposition, and gave his name, residence, &c., with great reluctance. At the time of the occur rence, the heads of her Majesty's Ministry were entertain ing select parties in honour of the royal birthday, and the utmost consternation was excited amongst them. On Sunday, the Home Secretary, Attorney-General, and Mr. Hall, the Bow-street magistrate, assembled at the Home office, to investigate the affair. The prisoner was fully committed to Newgate for "firing at her Majesty with intent to alarm," &c., and will be tried next month. This decision was founded on the grOund that he did not appear to entertain any hostile feeling towards her Ma jesty, that he had no accomplices, that he had not com municated to any one what he was about to do, and that the pistol was not loaded ; but there certainly are two circumstances which furnish some ground for suspecting this - conclusion. The first of these is the evidence of a constable of the B division, who stated his confident be -t habit att ,- 10, An.. .ne prisoner was in the 01 _..uing a . Chartist club in Pimlico. The second is an observation dropped by the prisoner himself to the inspector who was in charge of him. It was to the effect that he had been confined in Paris, for having taken part in the insurrec tion of June, and that the cells there were not nearly so clean as that in which he then was. Evidence was also adduced to show that he had worked on the Belgium and Nantes Railway, and that he went over to France at the time of Prince Louis Napoleon's escape from Ham. It is worthy of notice that Hamilton took his stand within less that 100 yards of the spot where Oxford committed a similar offence. He has, however, miscalculated con siderably if he fancies that he is to receive a similar penalty. By the course adopted the ceremony of an ex amination before the magistrate in the usual mode is en tirely omitted, and this unlucky Irishman will find that instead of being well fed, well clothed, and well housed for the rest of his life, he has subjected himself to the certain prospect of hard labour in the House of Correc tion, and to public appearances that are not at all likely to foster a passion for notoriety, viz., the first at the bar of the Oid Bailey, the next at the cart-tail. Commtrrsai. ow A. RAMICATJ Pr.—A bankrupt, mane& Beadle, a publican at Sydenham, whose debts were about £4OO or £5OO, with an. inconsiderable amount of assets,. having on his last examination given a very unsati4actorr account of a sum of £194, part of a sum of £950 which he admitted himsall to have received from the sale of pro-. perty, a subdivision, court was held on Thursday, when, after a further searching inquiry and the examination of nwitness,.whose evidence clearly inculpated the bankrupt, the court committed him to Ncwgate, with an intitnation that there would be no , liberation for life unless the money Was.forthcoming,.or a satisfactory account afforded of its. appropriation. dvertis -relates EQUINE SAGAOITY.—The Durham a.remarkable case of preservation from the horse. A Mr. Kilburn. of West Auckl an d, was in.; down Fore Bonduate, on his way through Bishop Auckland, with his wife and one of their children in his Big, the horse slipped and fell, when he with Mrs, Kilburn and his child were thrown out of the gig, the shafts. of whim , were broken. Fortunately they escaped without any serious injury. One remarkable circumst curred,udding to the many which have been re prove the affection and sagacity of the h :Icy :of a !roceed.. lated, to, ben t.ll child was thrown from the gig it fell in among the hor feet •• the poor animal, though u na bl e t o extr i cate its gently with the only foot it had at liberty contrived to and push the child - till it got clear of Clar fallen vehiel. from the We announce in another column that the days for the .performances at the approaching_ Birmingham Musicat Festival definitively fixed for 1L also enahled.to announce that this great rat - 1,724n, from its rare quality and high patronage, will, without dolf6t, prove the principal musical event of the present year.. The committee of management are, we woderstand,,inde fatigable in_ making engagements that fully justify these expectations-. The band, selected by the conductor,.Mr. Costa, will be, for number and talent, superior tonn•tkat has ever yet appeared in England ; and,,in order to- give accommodation and effect to its numbers, the present extensive orchestra in the Town-hall is-now being enlarged and completely re-modelled. The choir,. though: so nu merically- great, is also stated to be chosen with. unusual care. The instrumental and vocal. ensemble, g.ukled by the baton of the above-named chief,, cannot fail ter• produce the finest effects. We hope shortly,to,be detail of the engagements of the great arils appear on this interesting occasion .1.41 to give a :es who will AN AWKWARD MISTAKE.—A. few days ago, 9 clerical gentleman of Ipswich visited the house of a,medical friend, known for his devotion to the study, of phrenology, for the purpose of inspecting certain busts of celebrated cha racters in the possession of tke said phrenologist. Three specimens were presented to his view - by the assistant in the establishment, when the ecclesiastic, was requested, carefully to examine them for himself, and pronounce his unbiassed verdict as to which was the worst head of the three. His spectacles were carefully adjusted—a minute examination of the whole was made—the various organs described by phrenologists were described seriatim—the proportions of the intellectual and animal regions were rigidly determined in each—and dmibtless a grave deci. sion arrived at, according to the most exact rules of ma, thematical precision. Whether the examiner supposqd, that all the three busts whose phrenological developments he was called to examine, were equally distinguished_ for e are not exactly informed ht they were none of them ordin much only, however, he was told t1 7 .4t onek he bust of the murderer Rush, an ermine which of the three was the bust of deeds of blood bably he thou: of them was asked to det most pro.. he was gists, the worst head in the EVoup. Judge wild the awk ward feelings of both must have been, when thoecclesias tic gravely pronounced his verdict by selecting as the worst head of the three, the bust of his friend, in whose house he was standing.—lpswich Express. SECRETS OF THE MILK TRADE.—At the public-office, Wolverhampton, Benjamin Farmer, (remanded from Wed nesbury) was charged with embezzling £4 Is. 10;1., the property of his master, Mr. Richard Evans, of Sedgley. The prisoner, it appeared from Mr. Evans's statement. was hired at is. a week to take out and sell milk, and was to hand over the proceeds day hr day. Arrears of pay- ment, however, accrued, and ultimately the deficienev reached the amount mentioned. The prisoner then sconded, but was taken into custody in the neighbour hood a few days afterwards. The prisoner, in his defence, tight the milk, and in reply to questions cer, Mr. Evans said the milk was reckoned for with the prisoner at the rate of 21d. per quart ; he t sell at 3d. per quart or• any other mice, but was not from M charged nnre; nor did he (Mr: Evans) know to whom the prisoner sold the milk. The bench was of opinion that under the circumstances the charge of embezzlement 'ipported. " Well then."saia AT- -- nut ten c exclaimed the prison 11." inquired Mr. RI " no—that I ' how much. ruarts of water into the milk. him for that ?"—(Laughter.) " Ten quarts' never did " did you put in ?" " Wily, two quarts for my master, and two quartS for myself."—(Loud laughter.) "Was it warm or cold water ?" "Why, cold water to be sure." milk is a very religions girl, and she would not allow water to be put in, I'm sure." " Oh, don't she ? she{ does though, and you know it too," said the prisoner ; a hich seemed to satisfy the auditory that piety rejoinde connected as s desired them to be cousid r. Barker informed the prosecutor, that the bench V 110.7 w by twang ct the, County Court. if it's a :I well, _ The prisoner, a tolerably confident, if not impudent, in diyithlel, was dischrirged.—Wolverhqmplon Chronicle, WHOLESALE DESTRUCTION OF BIRDS.—Mr. Bree, of Stowmarket, finding that In his district a system has been ensively in [uced o the farmers of this country will be unable to grow corn, crops at all ! You must not be startled at a supposition so bold as this. I will preface my explanation by a short tement made in works upon natural history upon the Many years ago the coffee plants in. sear were attacked by the grakle, a very best authority well-known bird on the African coast. The grakle is'an insect-feeder, hut having used up the supply, it betook it— self in pure necessity to coffee. An edict was spcedil sued and carried into effect, for the annihilation of gra kles, and every bird on the island was destroyed. All went on ver3 well for a year or two ; when, lo and be hold, the insects and their larva having the field to them selves began to make sad havoc with the coffee plants. What was to be done ? There was no alternative but that of bringing back the grakle, which was in due season im— ported. The coffee planters had, however, gained some - and they resolved to prosper by the ihing by experience, . . .. . same • they managed to keep the grakle within bounds, and same; well knew that lie would do the same by the in sects. And they were right. By preserving a lieu doctrine between the" two, they were enabled to grow. Now I apprehend the farmers in the present day are much in the same position as the coffee planters of Madagascar. There has been for some time a system practised in this neighbourhood of poisoning birds by wholesale ; thousands upon thousands have thus been de stroyed, and the system continues. Can anything, I ask, be more absurd and irrational, I bad almost said stupid, than this abominable practice ? I will say nothing about _ per a syllable of the goodness, and beneficence, and wis dom of its great Author, for I know from experience that against prejudice in agricultural districts such arguments have no weight; neither will I attempt to picture the horror with which I have witnessed this familiarity with poison spreading like an evil pestilence among the beauti ful of God's works. But this I will say, ghat if the far- mers of England run blindly and wilfully' into the prove& and fatal error of the coffee planters of Madagascar, if they permit the grub and the wire-worm to destroy the redly if they annihilate insect feeders—then they will not only effect their own ruin, but they will inevitably cause a great national calamity." THE RELAY SYSTEM PUT DOWN IN YORKSHIRE.— Thanks to the good sense, and to the impregnable impar•- tiality, of the Yorkshire magistracy, the rela system is _ put down in Yorkshire. It is a fact highly cieditable to the millowners of Yorkshire that Mr. Saunders, the in spector of the district, could only find two firms persisting in employing young persons or women, eil her by relays or shifts of any kind. Those two firms he brought before the Dewsbury bench of magistrates last week. The cases were postponed at the request of the defendants, in the apparent hope of getting a more favourable bench of ma gistrates. But at the hearing on Monday last, the bench were unanimous in declaring the illegality of the relay system. We wonder not at the unanimity. The law is as clear as it is possible 1( clause of the Ten Hours' to work more than ten } he seconc Bill no young person is allowed ours a day. By a subsequent persons;" and by another clause the act is to be inter- preted in connection with the previous Factory Acts. The provisions of these acts show the carefulness of the Legis lature to secure uniformity of working in a mill : without which, factory inspection would be useless. The 26th. section of the 7th Vict. c. 15, provides, " that the hours of work of young persons shall be reckoned from the the time when any child or young person. shall first begin to work in the morning in such factory." By the 521 section "the time of beginning work in the morning, which shall be stated in any notice fixed-up in the factory, signed by the occupier or his agent, shall be taken to be the time when all persons in the factory, except children. [who are allowed to work shifts] begin to work on any day subsequent to the date of such notice." And by section 36, the hours of working are deemed to be conti nuous in the mill, with the e3ception of such meal hours s are common to all young persons working in the mill. What more, we would ask, could the legislature have done to ensure uniformity of working ? The argumentura ad absurdam vainly employed in the defence of the cases on Monday last, was a very specious one. 13ut it was nothing more. It was said the young were only worked ten hours, and could not therefore be convicted of work ing more than ten. But the Factory Acts not only pre scribe a limit of ten hours' work, but also enact when that work shall be given, and how it shall be calculated. It is to be reckoned to begin when the first worker begins to work ; or when the mill-owner's own notice says that that worker began. And the millowner is liable to a penalty if that notice be a false one. All acts of parliament thus prescribe the forms of their own observance and enforce ment. The Beershop Act requires a signboard in black and white ' • a beerseller having a blue and gold sign would be brought up for having no signboard. By a sub sequent Beer Act a license is to be granted only to parties living in houses of a prescribed rateability. If a man whose premises are below this sum procure a license, and sell beer under it. he is brought up for selling beer with out a license.—Halifax Guardian.