The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-08 00:00:00

SCHOOLBOY DAYS OF LORD ELDON.— -His lordship once said to Mr. Surtees, " When your fathe r and I were boys (and that is now a long time ago), I clew rIY remem ber our stealin g d own th e Sid e , an d a l ong t h e Sand-hill, ,ek, p.m. (Ne wcas tl e - upon -T yne ,) an d creep i ng i nto ev ery shop, where we blew out the candles. W e cre pt i n a long the counter, then popped our heads up, ou t wen t th e , •andles, LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—THIS D AY . and away went we. We escap e d detection." T, tie f ol - Our share market is to-day much as at the clos e o f y es t er d a y . lowing is quite delectable in it s wa y :—" B e t ween sk 11001- At the opening the re were symptoms of an advance but the hours" (Eldon is still the nar ra t or ) " we use d to a, muse , telegraph having brought news cons id ere d less peaceable from ourselves at playing at what we ca ll e d ' coc k- n ib s, '— that the continent, the rise was checked. Our private telegraph from was riding on the grave-stones in St. Paul's churchya rd, London reports "markets as at the close of last evening —but which, you know, vas close to the school. Well, one d, 3' little doing." The quot a tio ns h ere t o one o ' clock are as follow: one of the lads came shouting, ' Here comes Moises, '' —Birkenhead and Chester. 153; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 421; (the schoolmaster)—that was what we always called him, London new quarters. 34 pm ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 143 dis. ; Midland stock, 65 ; D o . £so's, 12k I; North Union B, 152 • Moises—so away we all r a n as h ar d as we could, and I 3 Dover 4, 6 1 3/ 9; N ewcast l e pre ference,l3/9 dis. ; Royal lost my hat. Now, if you remember, there were four or 1 Assurance much asked for, but no sellers. five steps going down to the school, a sort of passage. Unfortunately a servant was coming along with a pudding for the bakehouse; and in my hurry, when Moises was coming, I jumped these steps, and into the n , - -1 " What - q to be (' ? Il' THIRD EDITION. Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m lARKET, -TFIIS DAY the week, a he preva was . sorrowed another boy's great coat, and buttoned it on, over my own coat, waistcoat, pudding and all ; and so we went into school. Now when I came out. I was in an unforeseen dilemma; for this great coat bad stuck to my own : another boy's coat _ stickinv to me, anc' paratively 117 qrs. of )f the latter -6 to my own hat lost !—here was 'a situa tion ! With great difficulty the coat was pulled off; but my father was very angry at my losing my hat, and he made me go without one till the usual time of taking my best into every-day wear." Mrs. Forster states that the unlucky wight went no less than three months without his hat. at was only acted, a de- y week was SL AVERY IN AMERICA.—One of the first incidents of the bloodless struggle for freedom may serve as an exem plification of the whole. A young lady who k Miss Crandallwas - remonstrated with by the parents of her pupils, for admitting to her school a little girl of light mulatto complexion. Miss Crandall was struck with a sense of the tyranny of refusing educa tion to children on account of their colour; and she re solved to pay no heed to that sort of objection. She re ceived the pupils that offered, and allowed the whites to depart if they chose. They not only did so, but the pa rents called a town meeting, and the town meeting ob tained from the legislature a law, finally pronounced un constitutional, by which Miss Crandall's school of co loured pupils was to be put down. She had quietly pro ceeded, in the face of a town meeting, called to condemn her ; and she now quietly proceeded in the face of the new law, having sound legal assurance of its unconstitu tional character. When her neighbours had pulled down her fences she had built them up again. When they h a d filled up her well sh e sen t further for water. When the neighbouring tradesmen dared not deal with her. she nh . mnect now, when she was arrested under the new law, she went quietly to gaol. The sight of good Miss Crandall going to gaol did more for human rights than a city full of barricades, and the longest row of bayonets. A pro tracted series of prosecutions gave time for action else; where ; and by the time Miss Crandall was entirely ruined, there were twenty-six periodicals circulating in advocacy of the rights of the negro, and now, as was indeed needed, of the whites in regard to negro affairs. When Miss Crandall and her pupils were denied admission to any church— vhen her windows were nightly broken, and the lives of her pupils and herself placed in actual danger—the educational interprise was stopped per force. But the victory was fatal to the party of brute force. THE MOUNTAIN OF THE ARK.—The Great Ararat— which, for sublimite of traditional association and impos ing grandeur of form, has scarcely its equal in the world— stands as a mighty pillar on the frontier of three empires —those of Russia, Persia, and T ur k e y. " Al though, (says Dr. Wa gner ) not more than 16,000 feet high, it rises immediately 13,000 feet above the ring; and owing tr 'orn abroad are cot "lour, and 11, i portion of 'Wheal lemand for Whe e sales were eff ,he rates of this da towever, sellers di, mit 10,000 barrels c . ; but the trade good brands were at barely late rata mproved 6d. to Is I value. Pease un , were id. per bush( iteady in value. further yesterday iaintained the advg 'tening a little after I the market close( he currency of this per barrel, and LIVERPOOL C( Except a moderate at and from small as to be s lence of easter light, having m Indian Corn fn exported to Ire to 1,025 qrs. of of which are fr mod( dine parti rally rate, any' of Id. to flour imprc at 23E Bar Dyed ilittl, ice qualiti sere was v Dr prim, of ls 6 iart id. to 15: a Ire lan scarcely Arour When Broke From A morel Thou; Oh! s' Of bli, nit. y, LBED. BICKERSTETII e sun was sinking fast, wold the wintry northern len gusts still drifting on and on, 1 night would now be here ;pairing roved the eye, mped upon that stormy sky, the fragment given of light, far in the western •s came and went, and fainter, brighter er sky, so bed of on :ender and so true. who once had been dd, in the gloomy paths of a shade of beauty now, I too plainly on her brow. ire of guilt and tears— treams, and storms of guilty But, on a sud, The icy blast The world's 1 the midst of youth and pleasure's prime, ;een athwart that summer c!ime ; ents snrivell'd then, like leaves in wind .h blew l and frost, And all its lyi Earth trembl, wild, And Death ft child. Stay, list !—a cell : Idishments their sometime glory lost. I the sky was gloom, and all within was ickly now would claim its own unhappy a ray from heaven gleam'd in upon her The Saviour ;erly she canatt the accents as they fell, to save the lost—Jesus for sinners died." the worst am I of sinners," she replied. thy load of guilt—He bids thee come and I cannot, y " Lord, hear me, Lord, It was not pea , And pointing I It was not sun: Yet surely one One fragmenta And faintly prc was not light, nor was it all despair, Jesus still, I left her after prayer. nor the joy of heaven's own glorious bo' ittle gleam of mercy amid woe— pot that might grow brighter yet, r things before the sun was set. E WHIG'S BELIEF . 'airs Edinburgh Magazine.) I do believe fo hat to live in overtiment was made, i intended for their trade— uite their right, which cannot me tha That to ru And never y doubted by a Whig, sirs, a Whig— s doubted by a Whig. No, nevei yet NI I do believe in every And always my opin my Lord John can believe, And am for ever for As always is the ,ns, ski, and pay frum him receive, r 'gainst all things as I've his leave y of a Whiz, sirs, a Whig— duty of a Whig. Yes, always is tl I do believe in all thi Whether, out, sirs, f Xll times believed by Greys, dal rights their clamourings they Or, in, deny the very For to doubt them No, to doubt the torm'd for in old days ; in a Whig, sirs, a Whig— never yet was in a Whig. thins t If I've to choose I Not to creep as fa That never rain( r;" hut hold it a disgrace 'een it and the loss of pay and place creep I must, for that, sirs, is a cast doubt yet in a Whig, sirs, a Whig— a doubt yet in a Whig. No, never raised Our, I believe retrenc But, in, it's very men For friends and youn .hment right, as then my speeches show; ition sets my anger in a glow— ;er brothers, wiiy we must provide, you Which never yet as doubted . by a Whig, sirs, a Whig— ye, is proper quite, and right, • mil rule and pay the Tories out would fright turned ag sirs, it's abhorrent to my sigh t— 'ent to a Whig, sirs, a Whig— Nothing can be r went to a Whig, he people ought to win, and nlwnvs aken ns in ant farther, sirs, that And never can be s No never can be, this to go is anarchy and sin, nctioned by a Whig, sirs, a Whig— anctioned by a Whig. In short, I always wi That all but Whigs a I believe—believe with all my might— .e always wrong, and none but Whigs are That Whig's alone sh, For this was never , uld office hold, of that I'm certain, quite, loubted by a Whig, sirs, by a Whig— doubted by a Whig. No this wait NOTICES Canada as it is; or, the Emigrant's Friend and Guide. By the Rev. G. W. Warr, Inc um b ent o f St. Saviour ' s, Liverpool. Dublin : John Robe r t son . A . Newling , Liverpool. Third Edition, with App en di x . We are glad to see a third edition of this emigrant's hand-book. It is just the thing he wants, and the cost is so trifling as to put it within the reach of every one re quiring it. It is a senssble, matter-of-fact production, giving all the most important information regarding Upper Canada, and this is done in so few word s as to make the contents not only to be easily understood, but also easily remembered by the reader. We strongly ad. vise all emigrants to buy the book, as they will find th e facts in it an excellent safeguard against imposition, and bitter disappointment. We would suggest to the pub lishers to have agents about the docks to sell copies of the work, as we are sure they would not only be eagerly, but thankfully, bought up. To the present edition is added an appendix, showing the routes through the Ca ludas, and the distances between the principal towns, &C. k of sw 1 death [re!) , lif hted h, Agitatic When t ite ra POET THE DEAI REV. E. H 'er wood her to shine, true try rail TUE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. RESULT OF OUR POLICY TOWARDS CANADA. So that,, I tariff, sun, ley cannot pro_ 'They now talk of duties averaging 18 per cent. on manufactures ; 11 per cent. may be the rate next season, although it is uncertain what rates must be paid on goods now at sea for spring trade. Hats, boots, shoes, some kinds of straw bonnets, coarse West of E ng l an d tweeds. castings in iron, &c., are practically prohibited. So muc' for retaliation or free trade, as the Canadians facetiousl call it. * Imports of goods paying ad valorem duty :- 1845 £2,185,349 1846 2,241,154 1847 We have mislaid the returns for 1848, but remember dis• tinctly that they are not less, but rather over those of 1847. general I+llsrellann. The Stowe manuscripts have been bought by Lord Ashburnham for the sum of £B.OOO. Mrs. Mitchel and her five children are going to the Cape of Good Hope to live near her husband. A New Orange Lodge was formally' opened at the house of Mr. John Rudd, the King's Head Inn, Great Horton, • _ coun- near Bradford, on Monday. try ; while Chiniborazo, according to Humboldt, exceeds A SECESSION FROM ROME.—The Rev. Pierre COnnolly, the elevated plain of Quito by not more than 10,878. chaplain to the Earl of Shrewsbury, who was last year What an overpowering effect a monolith of su c h s i ze an d sent on a mission to the Pope, has renounced the Romish isolation as ' Noah' s Mountain' produces on the spectator faith.—Hereford Journal. must be left in some measure to the imagination of the Mr. George Barrow, about 55 years of age, and who reader. Towards the north, south, and east, it stands has been more than 25 years in the Excise, committed completely alone, rearing itself like Etna and Vesuvius suicide on Thursday morning, at Nottingham, by placing immediately from the plain. On the west it is connected himself on the railway until a train passed over his head. with theAgridag chain ,stretching from thecentreof Turkish THE LATE EXECUTION IN BRISTOL.—Mr. Calcraft's Armenia to the plateau of the Araxes ; and its height fee was twelve guineas ; he brought his own rope, and de would be still more striking than it is were it not for the dared the unhappy woman who was put to death to be the vast lateral extent of its terraces and declivities. It is most " refractory subject" he had ever met with. rather singular that the Agridag, which before reaching Among a variety of articles displayed at the Mayor's the Ararat sinks gradually lower and lower till it almost soiree, at the Assembly-rooms, Boston, was a volume reaches the plain, should thus suddenly rise again into (1715) of the Stamford Mercury. That year wheat was this enormous pile of rocks, glaciers, and peaks, covered 38s. per quarter, and coffee ss. 2d. per lb. with everlasting snow and piercing far into the region of It was stated at a public meeting in Cornwall last week clouds. It is as if the great volcanic forces in which the that all the vessels which had landed foreign corn in the mountain system of Armenia originated had suddenly ports of Falmouth and Fowey had taken away the whole exerted their whole energies to rear that marvellous edi- proceeds in gold—carefully avoiding to buy one farthing's flee of the mountain of the deluge At the end of worth of our manufactures. the month of May, the Ararat was free from snow about A few days since, a lady who had taken her seat in the halfway up—that is, 8,000 feet. A little further the black train which left Edinburgh for Glasgow, was suddenly delivered of a child in the carriage. Her husband (a corn merchant in Leith) was present at the time. The lady sud infant were removed. Mr. Martin Ausell, editor of the Satirist, and a Miss Mills, have been committed to Newgate for trial on a charge of attempting to extort money from a gentleman named Bevan, under a threat of charging him in the above disreputable publication with an offence against morality. PHRENOLOGICALLY INQUISITIVE.—A disciple of Gall and Spurzheim, residing in Shields, was lately trying his hand upon the cranium of a newly-married lady, and came to a large development of philoprogenitiveness. " You are passio na t e ly f on d o f children," said he. As quick as thought she exclaimed, anxious to peep into futurity, " How many ?"—Gateshead Observer. On Friday morning last, at Inverness, a married woman, , named Brown, who had been living apart from her hus band, a weaver, destroyed herself by cutting her throat with a razor. So determined was the wretched woman to effect her object, that she had forced her two hands into the wounds she had made, with a view to the more complete accomplishment of her purpose. STRIKE IN THE HOSIERY MANUFACTURE.—We learn from the Nottingham Journal, that large numbers of the stockingers of that town and neighbourhood, both male and female, have struck for an advance of wages. The hands meets with much commiseration, many of the farmers and tradesme n o f th e t own an d villages declaring " that they had as lief maintain the stockingers without work, as maintain them as they now do with work." RETURNING FROM EPSOM.—On Saturday, a party were returning from Epsom races in a brougham, when the horse suddenly took fright, and, the reins breaking, two ladies who were seated in the vehicle threw themselves out, fell upon their heads, and were taken up insensible. One of them is in a fair way of recovery, but the second, Mrs. Bignold, wife of a dan c i ng - mas t er i n M ar yl e bone-str e et, died within 24 hours after the accident, from concussion of the brain. A body snatcher has been shot at Norfolk. A groom was watching the grave of a little boy, recently interred, when he observed two or three men come to the grave and commence digging. He requested them to desist, when one of the party fired at him, but without effect. The groom, who had a double-barrelled gun, fired in re turn at the aggressor, and then ran off for assistance. On colour of the lava was streaked with broad white stripes : and some thousand feet higher the snow had gained the Snow fields. of enormous pytput victory the western fertile( s; and on the highest the radiant dazzling white was undisturbed by a Single Spot, although the black rock again broke forth on the central and high est peak How )ften, during my stay at Erivan, when I have returned from my excursions into the sur rounding country, worn out with heat, fatigue, and thirst, did the sight of this scenery strengthen and console we ! How often, sitting on a block of basalt on the Sanga Shore, have I feasted my eyes on the glorious spectacle it presented in the rays of the setting sun, and thought with impatience of the day when I was to tread its wondrous soil !" Westminster Review. THE UNREFORMED PAST, AND THE CHEAP AND CHANGEFUL PRESENT.—The following is the estimate, lin Blackwood, of Mr. Macauley's reformed moderns, as a set off to his depreciation of the worthies of bye-gone times :—The British empire, from 1815 to 1848, exhibited the most extraordinary social and political features that the world has ever seen. No former period had presented so complete a commentary on the maxim, "extremes meet." It immediately succeeded the termination of a desperate and costly war, in the course of which the most Herculean efforts for the national defence and the interests of the empire had been made, and it witnessed the aban donment of them all. Twenty years of desperate hostility had bequeathed to it untouched a sinking fund of fifteen millions annually : thirty-five years of unbroken peace saw that sinking fund extinguished. Protection to indus try—support to the colonies—upholding of the navy, had been the watchwords of the nation during the war: free trade—disregard of the colonies—cheap freights, became the ruling maxims during the peace which it had purcha sed. The only intelligible principle of action in the people seemed to be to change everything, and undo all that had been done. The different classes of society, during this divergence, became as far separated in station and condition as in opinion. The rich were every day growing richer—the poor poorer. The wealth of London, and of a few great houses in the country, exceeded all that the imagination of the East had conceived in the Arabian Nights: the misery of Ireland, and of the manufacturing towns, outstripped all thrt the imagination of Dante had figured of the terrible. The first daily exhibited, during the season, all the marvels of Aladdin's palace : the last, during the same period, presented all the horrors of Ugolino's prison. Undeniable statistics proved the reality and universality of this extraordinary state of things, which had become so common as to cease to attract atten tion. The income-tax returns established the existence of £200,000,000 annual income above £l5O, in Great Britain alone, by far the greater portion of which was the produce of realised wealth ; whilst the poor-law returns exhibited, in the two islands, four millions of paupers—or a full seventh of the population subsisting on public cha rity. The burden of the poor-rates in the two islands rose, before the close of the period, to £,8000,000 a year, besides £1.300,000 for county rates. Population had increased fast, but crime far faster: it had, during forty years, advanc people. ( his return the party had decamped, but there were traces of blood for a considerable distance. On Monday, at Lambeth Police-office, T. Sutton, a young man, twenty-one years of age, was committed to gaol for three months for stealing three sovereigns from his employer, a coal dealer, on purpose that he might go and see Rush hung. Having satisfied his curiosity and all his money being spent, he gave himself up into the hands of the police; but three of the Norwich police, one after the other, refused to take him, and he was obliged to re turn to town before he could find a policeman that would receive the charge. On Tuesday morning, between eight and nine o'clock, the greatest excitement was created on the river side at pievisueu auring the period among the working classes, interrupted only by occasional and deceptive gleams of sunshine. So acute did it become in 1847 that a noble grant of £10,000,000 from the British parliament alone prevented two millions of Irish dying of famine; as it was, 250,000 in that single year perished from starvation, and as many, in that year and next, were driven into exile from the United Kingdom. The people in Liverpool returned thanks to God when the inundation of Irish paupers sank to 2000 a week. Glasgow, for two years, suffered under an infliction of above a thousand weekly, which in that short time raised its poor-rates from £20,000 to £200,000 a year. During this protracted period of suffering, the feelings of the different classes of society became as much alienated as their interests had been. Rebellion broke out in Ireland, the West Indies were ruined, and the Chartists numbered their millions in England. The treasury shared in the general distress. It had become impossible to raise funds from the nation adequate to its necessary expenses; and, at length, so pressing did the clamour for a reduction of taxation be come, that it was seriously proposed, and loudly approved by a large and influential portion of the community, to sel' Limehouse, in consequence of a most desperate attempt having been made by a man named George Holm to mur der a young woman named Martha Brider, by cutting her throat with a razor, and then endeavouring to destroy his own life by similar means. Holm and the wounded wo man were instantly removed to the London Hospital ; they remain in a very precarious state, but hopes are en tertained of the recovery of the woman. SAWDUST BREAD.—the Lancet reports that Dr. Percy of Birmingham recommends the use, in certain cases, of bread made of wood. Dr. Percy finds physiological rea sons to support his views in advocating the use of the comparative innutritious materials as an article of diet in the disease for which he he has proposed the sub stitute for bread. In the treatment of some diseases it has long been a desideratum with many practitioners to obtain the means of administering a diet which shall con tain little albumen, or any materials capable of ready con version into sugar in the system. SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. HORACE TWISS.—We regret to learn the death of Mr. Horace Twiss. It appears that at a meeting on Friday of the Rock Life Assur ance Company, held at Radley's Hotel, New Bridge street, Blackfriars, the persons assembled were addressed in a most luminous speech, by the above gentleman. After having spoken for full half an hour, he suddenly stopped, fainted, and instantly expired. Under these cir cumstances, the proceedings of the meeting were imme diately adjourned. Mr. Twiss, who held the office of Chan&llor for the Duchy of Lancaster, will be remem bered as the author of the Life of Lord Eldon, and for his literary contributions to the Quarterly Review. A WOMAN FROZEN TO DEATH.—A poor woman named Dinah Fishlock, who resided at Heddington, near Devizes, left home about 9 o'clock in the morning of the 19th ult., for Devizes market ; and nothing more was heard or seen of her until between 5 and 6 o'clock in the afternoon, when, as a labouring man, named Willian Hand, from the same parish, was returning home over the down, he found the deceased near the old castle, alone, and lying dead, with two baskets of eggs over her right arm, and an umbrella by her side. It seems she had not proceeded more than a mile and a half on her way to market when she was overcome by the inclemency of the weather and perished on the spot. —Salisbury Gazette. CHARGE UNDER THE FOREIGN ENLISTMENT ACT.— On Friday, at the Thames-street Police-office, London, Mr. Bodkin, barrister, accompanied by the Minister Ple nipotentiary to the King of the Two Sicilies, applied for a summons against Captain Moody, of the steam-ship Bombay, for an infraction of this act, which prohibits any British subject from fitting-out (without leave) any vessel to be used in a hostile manner against any other government. Mr. Moody, it was stated, did fit out the Bombay, of 1200 tons, for parties calling themselves the provisional government, to make war against the King of the Two Sicilies, with whom this country was at peace. A vessel called the Victor, had previously gone from Lon don on the same illegal mission, but she did not reach her destination, and was captured by the authorities at Mar seilles, where she had put in. The Bombay was equipped for the purpose • had guns for a battery on board ; and had already made trips to try her powers. The magistrate granted the summons sought, and the case will be heard on Friday. The vessel will, of course, be detained. our ships of war, disband our troops, and surrender ourselves unarmed to the tender mercies of the adjoining nations, when war with unwonted fierceness was raging both on the continent of Europe and in our Eastern dominions. Nor was the aspect more satisfactory in its social condition—the manners of the higher, or the habits of the lower orders. Intoxication, seemingly purposely encouraged by government by a large reduction of the duties on spirits, spread the most frightful demoralization through our great towns. Licentiousness spread to an unparalleled extent in the metropolis, and all the principal towns ; and the amount of female corruption in the streets, and the theatres, exceeded anything ever witnessed since the days of Messalina or Theodora. The drama was ruined : it was supplanted-, as always occurs in the decay of nations, by the melodrama—the theatre by the amphi theatre. Drury Lane was turned into an arena for wild 'ieasts—Covent Garden into an Italian 0- pera. he magnificent attractions of the opera exceeded anything ever witnessed before : the warmth of its scenes, and the liberal display of the charms of the danseuses, did not prevent it from being nightly crowded by the whole rank and fashion of the metropolis. A universal thirst for gain or excitement had seized the nation. No danger, however great, no immorality, however crying, was able to stop them, when there was a prospect of a good divi dend. At one period, a hundred and fifty millions were wasted in loans to " healthy young republics," as the Foreign Secretary himself admitted in parliament : at another, a still larger sum was laid out on domestic rail ways, not one-half of which could ever produce anything. Three guineas a night were habitually given for a single stall-seat at the opera, to hear a Swedish singer, during the railway mania ; but then the occupant was indiffe rent—he put it down to the railway, and came there reel ing from the champagne and hock drunk at a neighbour ing hotel, at its expense. Most of these railways were mere bubbles, never meant to go on : when the fortunate projectors had got the shares landed at a premium in the hands of the widow and the orphan, they let it go to the bottom. (From Tait' Maazine. Since the change of tariff, the e xport s from Great Bri tain have greatly diminished. We beg the attention of those parties who assert that our trade would be improved by declaring our colonies independent. We have demon strated that, in so far as mere commercial relations are concerned, Canada is, practically, independent. Yes, and Canada, in this transition state, affords the best opportunity that ever occurred, or ever will occur, for testing the truth or falsity of the assertion, that indepen dent states are better customers than our own colonies. Canada is still in form, and politically, dependent, a co lony; but in trade, in all her commercial relations, quite independent. We have already shown that the check of " royal assent," held by the Colonial Office, is, in the hands of the present Government, no check, but a snare nd a delusion. The imports of manufactures at Mon -.al, from Great Britain, during the last five years, were under : 1844 £1,803,226 sterling. 1845 1,990,864 „ 1846 1,734,760 „ 1847 1,491,877 ~ 1848 1 , 062,948 ~ the £1,734,760 o f 1846 , the year prior to the new k in 1848 to £1,062,948 a decline of 39 per cent., i; ls i o ;d , of i he increase which some credulous people pro fess to ems! et as the result o f i n d epen d ence o f t h e cold. „ t i es. W e ivise such to collect facts, and think for th emse l ves, am i not to he duped by visionaries. The decline ,of sea-borne goods, paying ad valorem duty to the colon, v, Las been very great. Last year's ex ports from Britain . are little more than half of the amount four years ago, but the amount of imports consumed in the colony has not ch'minished.* English goods are now superseded by Amerimin, and American ships and canal heats now divide the fre.ights, which formerly went to the British and colonial ship owner. In heavy cotton fabrics and coarse woollens, the English maker is beaten by the American, who not only eaves the freight and insurance across the Atlantic. but gets his goods passed at the same, or a lower rate of duty ; besides, he may smu gg l e a littl e . Boston blue pri n ts an d Lowel shirtings, colonial or States' heavy woollen cloths, are preferred to those of Yorkshire. Nearly all the groceries consumed in Canada West are bought, or carried from New York ; the trade and the sympathies of the people are rapidly leaving the mother country, and in course of transference to the United States. Protectionist colonial meetings are now the fa shion in Canada. Driven from the protection of England, the colonists have resolved to take care of themselves, to foster—nay, to force—manufactures among themselves, by prohibitions on every article they can make for them selves, and by heavy duties on such as t at in other obtained rice at the MURDER or A SCHOOL BOY.—An extraordinary cir cumstance has transpired at Ashton-under-Lyne. Three boys, whilst going to school along the canal side, it ap pears, quarrelled, and one of them threw the cap of The public of Liverpool, we are glad to observe, are within another into the canal. The third boy laid hold of the eagerly availing themselves of the opportunity, afforded ments made to test the efficiency of an . 46 1 bl one who had thrown the cap into the canal, and pushed them by Mr. Beard's establishment, of procuring really double nature, (improved breaks and init a gra him in after it. The two children on terra fi rma then left faithful, and, at the same time, most beautifully-finished recently invented by our respected towns it tu t r en oiw o their companion to perish, quite unconcernedly, and went portraits. The improvements which the science and en- Lane, the celebrated brewer, for the P re " ale 1 1 1 ,e e re wa h l i l g s h o l f y i g si r i a n t g ifi to e n d mo n ark S: t t , urda s T er h ies ::: t f i, to school. The finding of the dead body of the.boy who tererise of the Patentee have effected in this process, have accidents. There were present a consider i an dia was drowned is said to have elicited this statement from now for the first time brought the acquirement of a like- our commercial and scientific townsmen , n''' ~ the survivors. ness within the reach of thousands, to whom anything members of the Town Council. r to rO., "Down CORN, DOWN HORN."—This ancient agricul a worthy of the possession of a man or woman of any taste A length of railway was laid ,from tu rner hew 11 wor F o turd proverb, which has not yet proved so correct as our has long been a gratification denied. The wealthy classes the area of the old market, and a sma ll w ork u :4 ancestors found it, of late is again vindicating its claim to might well enough afford to pay the high price charged by motive, " The Dreadnought," was set tu._,, to and truth. Stock of every kind is much depreciated in price, the eminent artist, and decorate their walls with a large fitted up with all the apparatus constitar eg eg; and the stock farmers, who have sometimes escaped and work in oil or a miniature on ivory ; but the humbler tion, and with a small train of proporti en de T a ils. ' 3 'l even prospered when the corn growers upon the strong tradesman, the clerk—the classes of limited means—have the rear, the whole constructed, even in a r o, it° lands have suffered severely, now complain. A return only been enabled to procure. for an outlay double that of and compact manner, with the fittings in u $ from one of the London salesmen before us shows, upon the best finished photographic portrait, meagre daubs, that belong to a real travellieg train. d its lit t , ll o , a sale of Herefords, fattened in the most careful manner, a and in many cases caricatures of humanity. Under these The steam being up, the locamotive and its loss of £6 per head for fatning, and in a lot of fat Down circumstances we propose to offer to our readers, who der were set in motion by a conducting en/_, t hep , sheep, which were brought in lean at more than 40s. are no doubt preparing to avail themselves of the first • in the latter. The first operation was to r" each, and sold thoroughly fat a few days ago, some were moment of Mr. Beard's leisure, a few hints upon sitting ful and immediate effect of the new break ,, er e t gt efl: 2 at 255., the rest at 255. per head. If such results as for portraits generally, and for photographic portraits in which by a mere pull at a lever handle, r h os" these, with a short crop of wheat, sole at 455. per qr., is particular. locked a pair of wheels in each carriage tht, palo not a rapid " road to ruin," we should like to know what In the first place, avoid affectation of every description, speed they came to an almost instant is. —Berkshire Chronicle. We have seen hundreds of good likenesses quite ruined as the absence of diagrams we can but statlei• a ~ p , r aree e o i t e ANOTHER STORE OF HIDDEN GOLD FOUND AT bins - pictures, by the introduction of conceits in attitude, dress, locks simultaneous ly the wheels of all - ;en s co ,1 elm', NEAR ROTHERHAM. ---A short time since, a man, &c. A gentleman learned in the law often chooses to be may follow the first, by means of an i ns 5, 0 04 nearly 90 years of age, named John Nicholson, died in taken with Blackstone, er Coke upon Lyttleton, in his tion or arrangement of piston rods, sPrln i g eo seq°,, Masbro', possessed of several thousands accumulated by hand. A doctor delights to be painted with an unsightly machinery, all simple in construction, aan r,sk his own exertions. At his funeral £2OO were found in an skull, or some other fragment of mortality, on his table. not liable to be thrown out of order. The 00:1 old box in hard cash, which was equally divided by the This is in bad taste, and smells of the shop. Young la. when in operation, clips round a drum in t ripe ',lo relatives. A sate has since taken place of his household dies will be painted with a flower in their hands ; and the arletree of the two wheels in each a, v. r e , • ae ue-- 7 property, &c., under the hammer of Mr. Thomas Crookes, older matrons with a baby, or some other sugzestive of stopped. All is placed under the carria., in /0A of Rotherham, and on bringing down another old box connubial felicity. These, too, might be well dispensed single operation of pulling the break han dle fer eric4 which was lotted for sale, something was heard to chink with. Many sitters, both male and female, overdress the individual stoppage—in like manner -0 ...i a ; e at the bottom, and although the box was previously themselves, display an inordinate quantity of ruffLd shirt, in the train, so that there is no over-straw , 0 searched, a secret slide was discovered, and this being studs, lace, or jewellery ; and V ery few can refrain from one pair of the wheels. lope drawn, £59 10s. in sovereigns and half sovereigns presen- exhibiting an unnecessary attention to elegance of atti- The effect of' the buffer apparatus was n v al ted their glittering appearance, and of course were claimed tude. A likeness ought to give us a faithful representation we take this to be the major portion of the vi ab °V. , by the before-mentioned relatives. This sum appears to of the original in the general phases of his daily life and decidedly superior to the common buffer e - , oh' have been the wife's savings, who died two years previous looks ; not of the individual disguised, dressed for a ball, In front of the locomotive, or eneine carriaLn w o to the husband, as the box, when searched in the first or fresh released from a bandbox. We ought not to there is a projected piston or rod: with an beilj instance, contained her wearing apparel. see, when looking at it, that he, or she, had been con- round bulb at the end, which last is the bu ffer.„ be F o io ONE or FORTUNE' S FAroultrags.— Some years ago, a scions that an artist was present. There should be no at- first strikes the object with which contact E n p o) ,- ,0 youth, named Scholic, was hired as footman by the late tempt to look irresistible or profound, merry or thought- In a regular locomotive, two- of these rods a r e ne is Rev. Dr. Stonard. This youth was th e son of poor ful ; but, on the contrary, a total absence of constraint or one on each side—but in the model engine ;i5 11 ",,0 Re v . who till lately, gained a living as common carriers. study, both in attitude and countenance. dent to show the practicability of the plan. the rty: t ", Young Schcdick was soon elevated to a seat at his master's To the talented artist, painting in oil or otherwise, these jects forward about one-half the length of , t h a t k r g el table, and he became the daily companion of his kind besetting sins of sitters give some trouble, although it will and maintains its elastic power through° n `i, of 'el patron. His leisure hours were devoted to study, in order be strange if be does not catch their real and habitual ex- when pushed back by contact, while the ° l. ‘" -- o .:itio ° , o i that he might become a fitting companion to his bene- pression and person, in some forgetful moment • but for can scarcely spring back, and redeem their P het ryo factor. His parents ceased their toilso me occupation and the sitter for a photographic portrait a natural ' manner stretch of more than a foot. This rocl, " he O f p were comfortably located in Oak Bank Cottage. This is indispensible to • secure a good likeness. The process, placed, is encased in a cylinder with pac kinil aocif ° 4 winter Dr. Stonard was attacked by influenza. It pleased remember, is almost instantaneous. There can be no horizontal, and fixed out of the way under the m t o the Almighty to close his earthly career on Sunday week snbsequent touching up, no pencilling of eyebrows, no carriage. The buffer rod also projects - behind hg e.,ao at the age of eighty-one. His protege' - finds himself left straightening of disturbed curls, no paring of superabun- act upon the buffer-head rod of the next r„ a starat sole master of .£30,000, and the reversionary right to dant shirt collar, or smoothing of oursed-up mouths. As cylinderis.filled with water, upon which a P'''''7ii about £l,OOO a-year more, in addition to the liberal gifts you look at the instant, smirking or frowning, like your to the rod acts when it is pressed back bY:euiro he has already received. Along with this liberal fortune natural self or like somebody else, so you will be im- On the top of this cylinder, made in one P, 1 0 01;1 1 ,4 he has left him an excellent mansion, valuable furniture, pressed on the imperishable metal. The wonderful artist, and communicating thereby by means 0 ,„,f a ",„ ii teh o oi plate, left and a library, valued some years since at £3OOO. light, cannot flatter or distort. If you are represented bore, is another cylinder filled with air. '" e " e 'n 1 0 MURDER IN NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE. —A most cruel either handsomer or plainer than you•conceived yourselves strongly pressed when the buffer-rod core ir i , 0,1 murder was perpetrated, on Thursday last, at an extra- to be, depend upon it that you actually looked so when with an object, is thus forced against the e„, ts fir, parochial place ca ll ed the Cottams, in the immediate seated or standing before Mr. Beard's wonder-working compressible properties of the two eleniZ t ya%o neighbourhood of Brocklesby, the seat of the Earl of apparatus. spring, as it were , of great strength and elas" o n, 'l O 4 Yarborough. The unfortunate victim of this atrocity There is one circumstance which it would be well for sist damage, and-of such rapidly-reversing a d d Ifi t I was a poor woman named Catharine Farrow, the wife of sitters to bear in mind. The light of the apartment in compressed, that the engine is not only stopP ho ed John Farrow, a co tt ager , rss idi ng on the Brocklesby w hi ch the process is carried on is ne c e ssar il y somewhat i njury, but rebounds back with an ease a° a estate. About half-p as t t en o ' c l oc k i n the morning of strong, from the circumstance that the roof is composed shock which is truly surprising. ,y e ",(0 Thursday, Mrs. Farrow left her hou se f or th e purpose of of g l ass ; an d t h e expression of the portrait may be marred This experiment was tried several times w i t h tileol proceeding to the adjoini ng v ill age o f K ee lb y, to purchase b y t h e party shrinking from its effect, or frowning. This. and tender alone, an d a ft erwar d s with a train, e d e Pi e some articles at a grocer and draper's shop there, having should be particularly guarded against; and it can easily great success. A strong balk of timber was gelri with her two sove re i gns , t wo shillings, a sixpence, and a be done, from the ver y short period, not mo re th an a ang l e o f the wall which formed theterminus 0 far .0 penny. She took the foot road over the fields leading to quarter to half a minute, which the sitting occupies. rary railway, and the Mounted passengers' we'd 9 Keelby, and when she had got about a mile from her own —-- door was either met or overtaken by her assassin, and left STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY, only a gentle shake without being unseated, an , 0 oto a corpse upon the path she had so lately trod full of life ON THE IST OF MAY, 1849. gently backwards with the machines. One P nr f: - cse t .,o and hope. She was struck down in the broad day by ---- invention comprises a simple plan by which eae, e iley a means of some heavy weapon, probably an axe, wielded (From Colburn'a United Service Magazine.) has its buffer similar.to the locomotive itself, an u t he to [Where two places are mentioned,. the last-named is that at upon simultaneously and effectively through 4 . l „a e'r, a • by a strong hand ; her skull was dreadfully fractured by he regiment is stationed.] the blows, and death must have been almost instantaneous. We could not perceive, so well contrived is ~.,`,io of self-acting buffers carried through the i 'l - bs 56th—(1st batt.) Cephalonia Certain circumstances tending to fix suspicion upon a (24 batt.) Corfu. labouring man named Charles Overton led to his appre- k 37th—Ceylon, Chatham even the last carriage underwent the l ea st 51 0 P l y tension. 38th—Halifax, N.S., Castlebar. incommode the passengers, or tend in th e 0 0 0 39th—Preston degree to- unsettle the wheels from the rails. f t he, 40th—Dublin buffer striking the obstacle, the oompressi°n 3:ere?'o' 41st—Charles Fort and water in the double cylinder produces a ne,'"„aer a 42d—Bermuda—Isle of Wight. bling the explosion of a gun or pistol, but 1 10 u `i•o ° .' Reserve batt., Bermuda. — R ea es P . e 434—Kilkenny. 44th—(1st batt.) Malta tive, each with its rod, communicating with the Pr of g 9! sults. There are three of these cylinders to theleledi b G a . t H t. r Cea,ple.oGnyHigohpte; whole of the carriages are so contrived in the ..,,,,- has o (Reserve batt.) Malta buffer rod, and worked simultaneously with,... l a elf 45th and springs on which they rest that the en t "',P s l 46th—Liverpool , djO t • 47th—Buttevant buffers and their respective rods can be so a ~,e),,,) 48th—Dublin form a horizontal line from end to end of the t `i - ber i I. 49th—Kilkenny that the end of one rod hits the head-of the net t te%l 1- 50th—Dover it, and so on through the whole length of th e hr er, 51st—Madras, Chatham strong contact of that of the foremost carriage h ula 32d—Preston s into operation the respective buffe r o f eac h of the ' ist a 53d—Bengal, Chatham 54 th — Antigua, Jersey The plan may briefly be d enom i nate d a cont i n uens r s 55th—Dublin of highly elastic and easy springs, formed bythe ct Or l i 1 56th—(1st batt.) Gib ra lt ar bili ty of the water and air. There is a safety ve"b e ursey Reserve batt., G ospor t extremity of the air cylinder, to preserve it from re" ; 57th—Enniskillen in the event o f very s t rong contact ; but th is is e 58th—New S. Wales, Chatham , . 59th—Fermoy requ i re d. . lie d or, 60th—Ost bt.)Bombay,Chathns • Mr. Lane's invention has not yet been aPP ant i 5.,, (2d bt.) Dublin gular railroad carriages ; but its practicability ~,n O F,I 61st—Bengal, Chatham tation for the prevention of accidents are unqueSt_',ol" 62d—Bury and we hope he will ere long succeed in affecting it' " 63 d — Newcastle-on-Tyne adoption. 65th—New S. Wales, Ch a th am IRISH CONSUMPTION OF INDIA.,- 64th—Bombay, Chatham 7 ,,T C O - al, 66th—Barbadoes, Tralee tv: 67th—Gibraltar, Isle of Wight or 3 ', . 68th—Galway V a st as h ave b een our imports of Indian C lo g ~i, 69th—Malta, Gospo r t b are l y k eep pace with the incessant demand for I.s 70th—Bengal—Chatham. de in the Irish markets, and although the 014)1e lei e 7let—Naas, Res. batt., Canada they from this port amounted to 30,423 qrs. for t . yfi cl Ol 7 ter 724—Barbadoes, Sheerness ending April 30, and 21 ,125 for the s ues-- - WA 734—C. G. Hope, Templemore days,informed qrs. is in ee 74th—Limerick we are that there a scarc it y - 0 le 75th—Cork ford, and that should• the arrivals of this grain t, 0 h i, 76th—Zante, Gosport continue on the same restricted scale as at prese n . 0 10? 1 77th—Portsmouth ther advance is certain to occur in its value. Th e ,nr ~ 78th—Bombay, Chatham tants of the sister country seem to have becora o ,l e (bar 79th—Canada, Nenagh maize -eaters, andahe habit grows with them, o 'lo o , 80th—Beng al, Chatham sands of acres of their own fertile country lie une air 81st — Hul l teo' 82d—Devonport and almost uncared for. And notwithstanding dwel l,t, 834—Bombay—Chatham ness of the consumption of an entirely foreign Pro Ain e ' 84th—Madras, Chatham famine still stalks throughout the land, weal' e i 85th—Waterford solution and death with almost unabated severitYaoga 86th—Bombay, Chatham ten t We observe, as characterising the peculiar te 0 $ 87th—Betiai, Chatham ror ' :o' l 88th—Trinidad, Kinsale the Corn trade with respeA to Indian a hie o- e 89th—Birr although prices have been subject to consider tea si to 90th—Ashton-under-Lyre nation since the Ist of February, they have nev e f ee of p 91st—Portsmonth Goods. batt., in anything like the same degree as other artie, n er 4 ,) Cape of butt., in and stand now at an advance 4/ @ 5 / r se • 92d—Clonmel were — y ell 934—Stirling Castle The quotations on the 2d of February r 41 9 :0 94th—Madras, Chatham @ 31/, white 28/6 @ 29/, and mixed 29/ @ 30/ P& r t a 95th—China, Londonderry Yesterday the prices per 480th were, for '7, i t s . ,: i , 96th—Bengal, Chatham yellow 35/6 @ 36/, white 33/, and Southern about li r lt 97th—Halifax,NS.1sle ofWight these quotations, which are 1/6 higher than OA at` Reserve batt, Jamaica. 98th—Bengal, Chatham Meal is also 6d. d earer , an d may now b e q uot ' 0 , e 5 99th—N. S. Wales, Chathamper barrel, with a very b r i s k d eman d f or b o th a rty Rifle Brigade— scarcely any of either on the market. (Ist batt.) Cape of G. Hope, . Bristol (2d batt.) Canada, I.of Wight Reserve batt., Quebec. HINTS TO SITTERS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS. ..••../.• I which the depOt of tt Ist Life Guards—Hyde Park 2d Ditto—Windsor Royal H. Guards—Regent's Pi Ist Drag.Guards—Cahir 2d—Piershill 3d—Not tinghani 4th—Manchester sth—Birmingham 6th—Dublin 7th—Brighton Ist Dragoons—York 2d—Longford 3d—Bengal, Maidstone 40—Athlone 6th—Dublin 7th Hussars—Newbridge Bth—Newbridge 9th Lancers—Bengal, Maidatn 10th H ussars—Bombay, Maid. stone llth Hussars—Hounslow 12th Lancers—Cork 13th Lt. Dragoons—Dundalk 14th—Bengal, Maidstone 15th Huss.—Madras, 51aidston 16th Lancers—Norwich 17th—Dublin Grenadier Guards— (lst batt.) Portman-st. Bar. (2d batt.) Windsor (3d batt.) Wellington Bar. Coldstream Guards— (lst batt.) St. George's Bar. (2d batt.) The Tower Scotch Fusilier Guards— (lst batt.) St. John's Wood (2d batt.) Chichester Ist Foot— ((2ldstbbaatttt..)._) N D . u S b c i n in tia, Abrdn. 2d—Dublin 3d—Limerick 4th—Winchester. THE POISONING CASE AT BATH.—Since the apprehen sion of the wife of the deceased Marchant and her present husband (Harris), the bridesmaid and bridesman at their wedding (a man and his wife named Shalor) have also been apprehended as accessories to the murder. On Monday the jury re-assembled, when Mr. Herapath proved the finding of arsenic in the stomach of the de ceased. The inquiry was again adjourned. A number of witnesses were examined, whose evidence went to show the following facts :—First, that meetings took place between Harris, Mrs. Merchant, and Hannah Shaylor previous to the death of Merchant ; second, that Harris and Mrs. Mer chant were seen together before, and immediately after, her husband's decease, and that on being told she had been a married woman and had just buried her husband, Harris denied all knowledge of either circumstance; third. that Harris acknowledged he was preparing to go off to America, and had a sale of his effects for that purpose. but alleged that a £4O check which he had received from his son had induced him to alter his mind ; fourth, that he repeatedly expressed a wish to have the marriage with Mrs. Merchant performed as quietly as possible ; lastly, that Mrs. Merchant had given different and contradictory accounts of her husband's illness and death, and that im mediately after his deatltshe had conducted herself in the most unfeeling manner. It is understood that an appli cation will be made for leave to exhume another body, with respect to which suspicions of foul play exist. DREADFUL FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE IN LONDON.—On Thursday night, about a quarter to ten o'clock, a calami tous fire broke out in the lofty range of buildings called the Royal Hat Depot, No. 57, King William -street, Lon don Bridge, and which were jointly tenanted by Mr. De vereaux, hatter, and Mr. Davey, t a il or . At th e t i me t h e wife of the former, and four of her children were in the place. A glare of light was first observed through the fan-light over the shop door. An officer raised an alarm, and sent for the escapes and engines. Whilst knocking at the door to rouse the inmates, Mrs. D. and one of her daughters made their appearance at the third floor front, bewailing in a half frantic tone their impend ing fate. The serjeant told them to remain for a minute or two, for the fire-escape was arriving, and would be on the spot directly. The poor creatures, however, ventured to spring from the window; the elder female fell on her herd upon the flag -stones in front of the house, blood streaming at the time from the wounds inflicted by the fall. Her daughter followed, and striking in her descent the leaden gutter over the door she broke her thigh, and was otherwise most fearfully injured. She was removed to the hospital, and there were no hopes of her recovery. Another of the children was drawn through a lower win dow after being much burned. The firemen, the moment they could enter searched for the other missing parties. In one of the rooms they found the blackened remains of a young woman, about 18 years of age, and near her the body of a child. They were conveyed in shells to the dead-house. Mrs. Devereaux afterwards died in the hos pital, from the injuries she received by jumping out. How the disaster originated was not known sth—Mauritius, Isle of Wight 6th—Cape G. Hope 7th—Halifax, N.S., Youghal Bth—Bombay, Chatham 9th—Newry 10th—Bengal, Chatham llth—N. S. Wales, Chatham 12th—Weedon Reserve batt., Mauritius 13th—Belfast 14th—Newport 15th—Ceylon, Brecon 16th—Cephalonia, Guernsey 17th—Canterbury 18th—Bengal, Chatham 19th—Montreal, Mul!ingar 20th—Canada, Isle of Wight Reserve batt., Canada 21st—Edinburgh 22d—Bombay, Chatham 23d—Winchester Reserve batt., Canada 24th—Madras, Chatham 25th—Bengal, Chatham 26t h—Co rk 27th—Glasgow 28th—Devon port 29th—Bengal, Chatham 30th—Manchester 31st—Athlone 32d—Bengal, Chatham 33d—Berwick 34th—Gibraltar, Boyle 35th—Mullingar MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, & DEATHS IN ENG JENNY LIND AT HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The house, when Mademoiselle Jenny Lind played Maria, in La Figlia del Reggimento, was even more full than on the preceding Thursday. and, as on the two previous oc casions of Mademoiselle Lind's appearance, her Majesty honoured the performance with her presence. The cha racter of Maria is perhaps even more identified with Jenny Lind than that of Amina. It is the part in which she is represented by her most popular portraits, and if we would call to mind a statuette of Jenny Lind, it invariably comes accompanied with the military hat and jacket. Moreover, she was the first to make Donizetti's opera of La Figlia known to the London public. Dramatic ve sions of the libretto had already been played at some of the English theatres, but these were without the music, and the " rataplan" came with all the charm of perfect novelty. As the voice of Jenny Lind seems even better than ever this year, so does her Maria come forth with re newed freshness. She treats the character with a playful grace that prevents anything like an approach to vulgarity. The marching movements and the innocent familiarity with the soldiers have an affectionate vivacity about them with which no other histrionic representation can com pare. The change from Cuffarielli's bravura to the old rataplan" in the second act is, as usual, one of her best achievements. In the song which she is supposed to de test, she still displays all her power of execution, and the uneasy looks and gestures with which she prepares the way for the abandonment of the artificial style and the resumption of her original nature are given with admira ble point. The cabballetta, " Eviva la patria." comes like - an outbreak of transcendant joy after the playfulness and fretfulness that have preceded it, and the delicious voice seems to gain new power from the enthusiasm of the moment. Mademoiselle Jenny Lind was called three times after the fall of the curtain.— Times. COLONIAL CORPS. Ist West India Regiment—Jamaica 2d Ditto—Windward and Leeward Islands. 3d Ditto—Demerara, Sierra Leone, &c. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Ceylon and China Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Canada Cape Mounted Riflemen—Cape of Good Hope Royal Newfoundland Companies—Newfoundland Royal Malta Fencibles—Malta St. Helena Regiment—St. Helena. The number of a record of the marriag s k 0 and deaths, in the whol e 2189 su b-di s t r i c t s In „ 9 , England is divided, du r i ng 1848, an d t h e fi r st 9:, o 1 1849. has reached us, as published by author Registrar-General. e ivS The marriages in 1848 we r e a b ou t 137,135, ",,,,ag than in 1847, but 8529 less th an i n 1846 . Th e retu'or that " the fewest people marry in the first, tbs,, the last quarter, which f o ll ows h arvest, inc l u de mac', and is the marryi ng season i n England." 9111 " From an exami na ti on o f t h e marriages in the ,0!* 1756-1846, it is she wn th at the returns serve as 5 barometer of the p rosper i ty of the country. 1 0 A go on at all seasons, and at all times ; but Pies o ' makes them fluctuate, so that the more and tiro dicate the feelings with which the great body T o . bi ple regard their prospects in the world. Judg' ° ;,, • marriage test, the dep ress i on o f th e country w3l"'co'' in the three l as t quarters o f 1842 : a sudden an/ ep t made in the last quarter of 1843, and things !het ) an accelerated p ace up t o t h e w i nter of 1846, " e t gradually declin e d, an d i n th e w i nter of 1847 alr°-olit still. Among man y concurr i ng causes in ope ra as destruction of the potato crop, the state of trail L ife great political events, will be recollected." M ~ the marriages4.--ted • An explosion of fire damp took place on Monday morn! ing at the Agecroft Colliery, near Pendlebury. A young man named Jacob Barker was killed, and two others were dreadfully injured. THE EXPENSES OF SPECIAL CONSTABLES WHEN ON DUTY.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday, Mr. Justice Patteson delivered the judgment of the court in the case of " The Queen v. Hulton." The question was whether the magistrates of Manchester had power to charge the expenses attendant upon calling out special constables to suppress riots within the borough upon the county rate. In 1842 special constables were called out, and expenses incurred to an amount of £2,500, and the magistrates of the borough made an order for the payment of that sum on the treasurer of the county of Lancaster. ••• wa Llagll".10VGI. • The magistrates for the county objected to this payment being made, upon which a mandamus was issued. A return was made, which was demurred to. The court considered, upon looking at the different statutes, that there must be judgment for the Crown. ..ges iluctuaL . : they were fewer in tu ber 6, quarter of 1848 than in 1845, more than in 1 001 Chester has recovered from th e d epress i on of 'OO marriages were 1381, 1425, 1322, 1086, 1370. fil l p riages increased in York, and in Newcastle-uP° ° ; f er, The births in each of the years 1847 and 180 numerous than in 1846, when the high nu rnber. ° l .` 4 were registered. The bi r th s i n th e quarter endirch 1849 were 153.705, o r 8597 more th an i n th e lif B e $ . ter of 1846. The population increased, by the t births over deaths, 47,639. The deaths in the quarter ending March .P`, were 106,066. Upo n correct i ng for increase cube tion, the mortality of this quarter is found t° rate of 2,443 per cent. per annum. Were th e 43 to remain at th e same rate through a year, 2' The would die to every 100,000 of the population. tality in England is highest in the winter (I' lB ' e t prising January, Februa r y, an d M arc h ; 4. 0 summer quarter, July, August, September. o ber epidemic cholera has been i n E ng l an d since 49c o t t i o and has prevailed more or l ess u p t o th e prese_ be parts of the country, the genera l mor t a lity h °s o o is considerably below th e average . Thi s is o l io to' and should stimulate all san'a t ory impro-lei% summer is the season in w hi c h th e ep id e mic ' be dreaded. fin d t Taking the north-west ern division, we f deaths decreased in Cheshi re , an d th e decline y a p was considerable in nea r ly a ll th e di s t r icts Of . v it tic The deaths during the w i n t ers 1847 - 8-9 inQ . i 0050 were 2182, 2079, and 1849. At Liverpool 2°. cholera are mentioned by th e reg i strars, 8 cd • trio'o o c ? workhouse. Diarrhoea was fatal in several di s o, Liverpool (with a p o p u l a ti on o f 223 , 003 i n 184 r i a g° 3 1 the quarter ended 31 s t M arc h l ast, the n' a te t, ' 973, births 2552, d ea th s 2441 ; i n Manche" er tively, 1370, 2217, and 1849. 5 01 7 , Some statistics relative to the weather 10' 1°1 6 We extract the following as taken at the f Li ti orfil, servatory:—Mean of the barometer, in J,Littc ° A yi 40.0 ; in February, 43.4 ; in March, 42.2. in January, 2.4 ; February, 0.9 ; March, Mi l e P 1 For the quart er en di ng 31 s t M arc h last, bit ch registrars give the following as the number ° deaths in their respective districts : APPALLING MURDERS.—On Tuesday morning, a man of the name of Thomas Davies, a small farmer, livinc , at Cefurtiyddlanisea, Cardi g anshi re , w hil e i n b e d with' his wife and child (the latter nine months old) attacked them with a razor, and, having first nearly severed the infant's hoad from its body, he attempted the destruction of his wife. He first cut her across the wrist, severing com pletely all the arteries, and next gassed her throat and face in the most frightful manner. Not content with this, he cut her across the abdomen, ripping it completely open, and causing the intestines t o p ro t ru d e . L eav i ng the house he rushed into the Tivy, for the purpose, it is imagined, of drowning himself, but, finding the water too shallow for his purpose, he returned to the house, and attempted to cut his own throat. Failing, however, to sever the jugular vein, he ripped open his own abdomen with the razor, which caused a similar protrusion to that which his unfortunate wife experienced. The wife, Mary Davies, escaped from the house, and, having proceeded about a field's breadth on the south side, fell down. When found, she was still alive, but lying exhausted on her right side, in a ditch, with her intestines visibly pro truding, and her throat, wrist, and face cut in a most fearful manner. On a further search being made on the north side of the residence, at the bottom of a field, the husband was found lying on his left side in his shirt sleeves, having his throat lacerated, and his abdomen cut open from side to side about an inch below the navel, with his intestines also protruding. He was still alive, and could speak more distinctly than could his ill-fated part ner. He acknowledged that he had killed the child, and that he had cut his own and his wife's throat with his razor. A surgeon was speedily sent for, who dressed the various wounds, but at once pronounced each case to be mortal. His prediction was verified by the death of Thomas Davies, at 11 o'clock that night, while the de cease of the wife happened at 9 'o'clock on Wednesday PENANCE IN A CHURCH.—In the parish church of Fen Ditton, near Cambridge, on Sunday morning, the scene of a man doing penance, in consequence of the sen tence of Sir H. Jenner Fust, was performed in the pre sence of a crowded congregation, assembled from all parts of the neighbourhood, the majority of whom were of the lower orders. Some persons of more respectable position had evinced great anxiety to secure pews and seats, and, on the opening of the church doors, a rush took place, and every part of the church was instantly filled. The screen was occupied by " bargees," who sat astride, the capitals of the columns had human occupants, and in other parts of the sacred edifice struggling and fighting arose for a good view of the penitent Edward Smith, a gardener and fiddler, whose offence was having slandered Mrs. Martha James, wife of the Rev. Rector of the parish, with an accusation of adultery. The Rev. Rector and the lady slandered occupied the Rector's pew. The officiating minister (Mr. Small), on commencing the ser vice, was saluted with a shout, " Speak up. old boy," accompanied by a chorus of laughter. The sermon was interrupted by the breaking of windows by the mob out side the church, by cat-calls, whistling, and other un seemly noises, and a dog fight within the building divided the attention of the congregation with the ceremony of the penance. The arrival of Smith, the fiddler, was at length announced by a tremendous uproar, which put an end to the sermon. He was received with three hearty cheers, and the most discordant applause of his friends, many of whom were smoking tobacco, &c. ; the press was so great that he was obliged to be lifted into the churchwardens' pew. He waved over his head the paper containing his recantation, and was welcomed with •• one cheer more," after which a broom, hassocks, pieces of the pews, &c., were thrown in all directions, aimed at th e head of Mr. mall. It was, of course, impossible to h ear a word of the recantation. Mr. Small was struck with a hassock. Smith, at the conclusion of the business, was carried on the shoulders of several of the mob to the Plough public-house, where he addressed his admirers in a short speech, and the day was concluded in smoking and drinking. The Rector and his wife were followed to the rectory by a mob of people, hissing and hooting, and some of the windows of the rectory were broken with stones. A more disgraceful scene was never witnessed. morning, ANOTHER CURE OF DROPSY BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.— Mr. Duncan, an extensive farmer, residing at the Elms, near Boston, had been for years in a bad state of health; the disease assumed a swelling in the feet and ankles which gradually ascended until the whole of his body was affected. Convinced, from advice, that he was labouring under a confirmed case of dropsy, he consulted many of the most eminent of the faculty, and used their remedies, from which he derived no benefit, but became worse. 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