The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-03-13 00:00:00

6 Tlt E 1, 1 V 1 7 , 11111111110*.m.u....K. ‘41.1M-1, - 4,31174 , SECOND EDITION. I WHERE DID THE CHURCH PROPERTY COME FROM ? Pressive of unab a t e d l oya lt y t o th e Q ueen, sa id ____ : farmers had been bet ra y e d b y one Itrirne Minister a suited by another, u n til th ey h a d d eterm i ne d to try (From Gilmor's Reply to the Rev. B. Noel.) ther by their own right hand and their mighty am Standard Office, Two o'clock, p.m. To the same source alone can be traced Mr. Noel's ab- could not gain for themselves the victory. The si the meeting e m e m n i t g s h . -.so- isaurrgdo jargon, statementsagaiagainst ti t hes about an d ` compulsory-rateschu rch the duty of a ' t e xSpuecch proceeded to urge upont effective organisation, and recommended the farm LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—THIS DAY, from certain Dissenters; but not from a clergyman impress upon the traders of towns that they would Our Share Market this morning is in the same state of qui- who, _ I presume did not ask hi s f r i en d s London, or el sew h ere, f or t h e i r commodities unlea escence in which it has been f or th e l ast few days. Our Lon- . sort' payment of pew rents at St. Johns Chapel, Bedford- returned right men to the House of Commons. don telegrh o reports a quiet market there, without change, row. His headlong objections are levelled against a point agriculturists combined with the shipping and the co except for sorre l of Mr. Hudson's stock, which are firmer. We which is inherent in the nature of things. Property re- interests nothing could long deprive them of their r annex quotations to one o'clock : tamed becomes property that can be enforced. It is only The following resolution was then agreed to : " Leeds sths, 2i dis. • Preston, &37 10s. shares, 84 p. ; ditto, common justice that it should be so. It is so with his 4-shares, Ili p.; London' Stock, 136; 4-shares, 55, 115. 3d. p.; the Committee of the Central Society be directed to Midland, 81, .eso.shares, 74, 4 dis. ; North Staffords, 58s. 9d. proteges, the Dissenters th emse l ves . S uppose M r. N oel municate with the country societies, and to reest th, dis. ; Dover, No. 4, 74, lls. 3d. ; Newcastle pref. i p. has made £lOOO already by his " Essay :" suppose he goe 'under th s take measures for calling county meetings, and purchases £lOOO stock, and invests it in the names of __...........—____ thority of the high-sheriffs, and to originate petitic LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—T HIS D AY . trustees in favour of the mini s t er o f some B apt i st or In- both Houses of Parliament, in accordance with the dependent Ebenezer—many dissenting chapels possess lutions now passed." Of English and Irish Produce received into this Port since such funds and endowments : then, as regularly as the A vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was b Tuesday last, the supplies in the agg rega t e are very moderate; year comes round, the £3O interest is drawn for the bene- responded to by his Grace, t erm i na t e d the meeting. and beyond 8124 qrs. Wheat, chiefly from Odessa a n d Egypt, f i t of one of the flamens of dissent; but Mr. Noel's argu with 2422 qrs. Beans from the latter source, and 11,771 barrels ment would go to say th a t thi s wou ld be uuscriptural, be of Flour from the America n S tates , t h e i m p orts from abroad are trivial, being little more th an 905 qrs . o f I n di an C orn, cause it would be " compu l sory !" W hen the trustees THE DISSENTERS AND THE CHURCH against 18,556 qrs. export e d t o I re l an d. came for the dividend, the bank clerks ought to say, " No, If Lord Ashley s motion needed further just y s We have had a good attendance of millers and dealers at our gentlemen, we are churchmen, and we conscientiously ob tion, the conduct of the Dissenters and their frieni market to-day; hut although sales to a moderate extent have ject to our being forced to make a compulsory payment of been effected, prices have again receded, and we quote a reduc- this money across our counter on behalf of your religion : the House of Commons would furnish it. His Lon Lion from Tuesday last of 3d. per 7eib. whether generalplan wishes to try some we impound it on the strength of such and such texts of Flour was exceedingly dull, and fully Is. per barrel lower for . be divided be devised, whereby large parishes may . American : sack Flour being altogether unsaleable to-day.and keep it for ourselves !" This is re scripture, we p - parishes of manageable size, without involving, in I In Barley and Malt we have no change to note. cisely Mr. Noel's plea against our church property, ex case, the trouble and the cost of a private bill. 1 Egyptian Beans have declined Is. per quarter; and other cept merely (which is immaterial) that it is often in our that trouble and cost may be, has been shown withii kinds barely sustained former prices. case tithe instead of consols • while in the case of the . Oats dull, at the rerduced terms of Friday ; Oatmeal already church the possession reaches 'further back from the pre- last seven days. Mr. W. Page Wood, in supporting having declined to very low price, holders to-day refused to Ashley 's motion, observed, that the expense currs sent time—and antiquity is generally supposed to improve make any further concession, and we therefore retain our:last . bill for dividing the parishof Leeds, the unopposed quotations. a title ! But by Mr. Noel's plan, all support of ministers Indian Corn continui n g to m e e t a f a i r d eman d f o f I re l an d i s to b e strictly from hand to mouth—they are never to £l4oo. all kinds supp or t e d l ate pr i ces , have a proposition that lasts longer than five minutes :as Now, on Tuesday last, one o f th e mos t exce ll en t c i s men in the wholemetropolis, the Rector of Whitech Corn Meal stagnant. soon as it gets to be six minutes old, then it is property : applied for an act to settle some disputed, parochial q it can be enforced, and therefore it is unscriptural ! ! The CJ 1r" ; tr. tt 7 .... lions. The Radicals and Dissenters mustered all I 9...1 Y 1 Ht 4 ppt - A assumption of these weak rambling Noelites, that our sys and defeated the bill. So that, in this case, t 4 4 Ma Ir . I ' 3 0;01! , 0 °.l ... = m'2. o tern is ccimpulsory and their's " voluntary," is not sup_ R..Y g '4'; . 1 — 0 ei. o go COI 0 , ~ was forces,robably an expense of £3OO or £4OO alto ported by truth. Our church property, being a secure el , c) cm <, c' ' F 2 ..i.91,2.. '-. thrown away. d' , .ts . '-3 n` possession, is freed from the danger of being " grudged." t 9 lmZi ? i''''t ~1 ° 2f0:4 9 J % P It is paid by the mass of people unhesitatingly ; but in On Friday another case of the same kind occurred. rs 6 . 1 , , , -i. ..i , i 2 1:s? rfigi: - ; - . 8 the dissenting system the screw is painfully driven home , one example of the strange anomalies still existing, - = = •, IQ .... 0 ,, it, ,-, e. 0 9.."". :M Cr, ....3 ...- ..... ' 8- ,e . large town of • Richmond, in Surrey, is only a cur DR t-i =I n 'ila z. ~ciA the boast of "VOLUNTARY" support is a fiction. Take a held under the • Vicar of Kingston, another •i -, o'tDa , o "e; ,S; f 4 - case that came under my own knowledge: a few gentle- - . town, gi r l l gl ''F; ' i . . w Li. men speculate in building a dissenting chapel—they lend miles distant. A bill was introduced to divide these I P aces into separate and independent parishes. And 2.0 ''''- i - o — p, 7:: ;, = la. their money, £lOOO or so, each, to the cause, which costs 15. t li ElcS. - -: 4 6 ; some £7OOO, and they are to get good interest for their “ n „ , „„,„:,.., 4,....,... was the sort of reception it met with : ... •- - - I a- " r,l ,-, XON'S A.t the meeting of t the other proceedin, column,) Mr. M'CLENA GU street,) on the part of tl ratus, read a paper descx ventilator. The lectur meeting by a few pre which existed in this ag, ventilation, not only in manufactories, but also regretted that sufficient to this important subjec town. It was a fact known to the authoritie tention has been paid to t houses, and certain graft W VENTILATOR soon as it gets to be six minutes old, then it is property it can be enforced, and therefore it is unscriptural ! ! The assumption of these weak rambling Noelites, that our sys tem is compulsory and their's " voluntary," is not sup ported by truth. Our church property, being a secure possession, is freed from the danger of being " grudged." It is paid by the mass of people unhesitatingly ; but in the dissenting system the screw is painfully driven home ; the boast of " VOLUNTARY" support is a fiction. Take a case that came under my own knowledge: a few gentle men speculate in building a dissenting chapel—they lend their money, £lOOO or so, each, to the cause, which costs some £7OOO, and they are to get good interest for their money. They are all manufacturers : they have also rows of cottages for their workmen. A workman comes to the master and tells the awful despot his simple tale that he wants to rent No. 12, in Green-street. The man is " not particular" in " religion." The rent is agreed on at £6 10s. ; and then the master says, ' You know there is a seat in the chapel that goes with the house." The man scratches his head and says, " Very well, sir." The mas ter asks, " How many seats do you want ?—yourself and wife, of course : and you have four children, I believe."— " 0, sir (responds the poor man), my children are quite young." " Then you'll send them to our school ; and you will take two seats ?" " Yes, sir." " Very well— they are 4s. each ; then your rent will be £6 18s." I I have myself known of such cases, related to me by the sufferers themselves ; and if, in general, matters may not be managed so indecently and abruptly, still the same compulsion is painfully prevalent throughout dissent. Compare , such mock voluntary payments with our recog • • - nized and honest " compulsory" ones ; and which is the better—which is the more equitable, scriptural, and righteous ? than the following circular, endured by voluntaries in Bristol:— oenclose your pew rent, as tuna paper, aim atop it into tne box winch Will be handed to you at your pew on Sabbath morning next, conform ably with the arrangements adopted at a meeting of the church and congregation. One qr., ending December 21, 1848 s. d Do. do. March 25, 184 Do. do. Sept. 29, 184 " n The idea of a man being forced to pay his seat rent while a " box" is held up for the cash, on a Sunday, in a " house of prayer," is disgusting in the extreme ! It is r , the most monstrous and revolting tyranny, and it is but a sample of the system. But the victims are too blind to see their own degradation. Like us, in the above circu lar, the parties concerned do not see that their chosen quarter-days are the Church festivals of St. Thomas's day, Lady-day, St. John the Baptist's Day, and Michael mas Day ! Thus the rabid " Protestant Dissenters' Al manack" gives " Epiphany," "Easter," " Sundays after Trinity," &c. Their attempt to do away with our church resembles the impotent malice of the American revolu tionists, who proposed to do away with the English lan guage, which was the only languagethey themselves could speak ! How were they to begin ? hallo Society, last night, IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE CENTRAL PRO TECTION SOCIETY. vin 'Tuesday, a general meeting of parties interested in agriculture, convened by the Central Society for the Pro- Office for Patents, Lord- tection of Agriculture and British Industry, was held at or of this ingenious appa- Willis's Rooms, St. James-street, London, to take into Mr. Dixon's new window consideration the present depressed state of agriculture, duced his subject to the and to adopt measures to impress upon Parliament the marks on the necessity grievances under which they at present labour. The story reform for improved meeting was attended by the leading agricultural gentry d extensive buildings and I and tenant-farmers from all parts of the country, includ and private houses. He i ing deputations from Huntington; Cambridgeshire, Essex, m had not vet been paid Surrey, Warwickshire, Wilts, Northamptonshire, Hert- Health Committee of the fordshire, &c. of notice, and one well The Duke of Richmond, having been called to the whilst great care and at- chair, very briefly introduced the object of the meeting nsinr of private lodging and called on ,r of their occupants to a Mr. W, Bennett (a tenant-farme-` Ltever has been paid to the I resolution :—" That, i n th e op i n i on c nvention +' he tory re of sana xp.:e am t shops .ttentio artily 4 that v meeting hen before t_ and for that v er , reason he wished the inventor e v e r y success; for many o f the modern improvements were so complicated in their details, and consequently so extravagant in their price, that they were altogether beyond the attainment of the middling and poorer classes of society : they were luxu ries for the rich only. This ventilator is fixed in a pane of the window—the nearer the top the better, for it is there that ventilation is most required. The ventilator, when closed, forms a pane of the casement, only distin guishable from the other panes by a slight line across it. This pane is fixed in a metallic frame, which is hinged at the top, and which opens to the outside of the sash. There is a part or portion of a pane inside of this, and of the same width, and this is secured in the lower part of the sash, which it fills up. The outside pane works upon an Archimedean screw. The head of this screw forms a pulley, by turning which, the ventilating pane may be projected from the bottom, or drawn in, to any requisite angle from the perpendicular of the window, so as to re gulate the draught; the pane when sent out forming an inclined plane, or slope, more or less steep. The outer end of the screw is protected by a washer, which prevents the ventilating pane from bein g d e t a chedfrom it, and the longer the screw the higher may the pane be raised, or, in other words, the more it may be opened. The screw is fastened to t" part of the sash by a plate and boxing, by which the necessary play is allowed the screw to accommodate itself to the arc or segment described by the ventilating pane when it is projected, or drawn in. The pane will stop in whatever position it is left without catch or fastener. There is a nut inserted in the lower Part of the frame of the ventilating pane, and in this the screw works. In the bore or interior of the nut there is a tooth, which is the hold for the screw. and which alsn to move the first distress experienced, and still impending over the farmers of the United Kingdom is fraught with the most disas trous consequences, and has been mainly occasioned by recent legislative enactments, bringing them into unequal and unjust competition with the growers of foreign corn, and, unless speedily arrested, must overwhelm the whole agricultural community in ruin ; and, although they re pudiate the idea that that any practicable reduction of taxation can be regarded as an equivalent for protection, still, in order to mitigate the evils as far as possible, they feel it to be incumbent upon them to impress upon Par liament the necessity not only of the total repeal of the malt tax, but also the immediate revision of all general and local taxation which presses with unequal severity upon the cultivators of the soil." Before he said a word to the resolution, he would state that he did not appear there for any party purposes—but as a plain plodding British farmer, bred and brought up to the cultivation of the soil, and having a family depending upon his exertions for their future success in the world. He stood there before them finding his property frittered away by what he had almost called a dishonest Parliament. (Loud cheers.) During the first 20 years of the present century corn—that was, wheat—maintained the price of 80s. a quarter. For the last 28 years it had averaged 565. a quarter —a price not very ruinous, or indicating anything in the shape of famine. And when he proved to them that not not more than 7s. a bushel had prevailed during a period of 28 years, he showed that prices had not been extravagant, and that there was no immediate call for the sacrifices the farmers of England had been compelled to make. (Hear, hear.) If, then, a law had passed which took away 25 per cent. as near as possible (and he ought to have said the price of land, rents, and the varied ar rangements in the rural districts must pretty well adjust themselves to the scale of prices)—if they had been de _ serves to el of dust or tar the spiral indenture of all accumulations dirt, which might otherwise affect its free working. Over the pulley forming the head of the screw a small cord is passed. This cord leads right and left along the crossbar of the window through eyes or small pulleys in the stiles of the sash, and falling down the casing of the window, with a weighted tassel at each end. By pulling the cord at either side of the window, the ven tilator is opened or shut at pleasure. In large ventilators there are two springs fastened in the rabbit of the sash within which the ventilator is placed. The ends of these a metal frame enclosing the eject of these is to keep the weather. Amongst the !_zhtlyupon th yentilatiag_pa lid the of in appear r closed or 'roken, or thrown out privet! of 25 percent., they proved what no man could deny, that the farmers must be in imminent peril of ruin. What, then, were they to expect when there should be favoura ble seasons on the Continent, and when there was a good supply of wheat ? He thought that, instead of taking the reduction at 25 per cent., they might very well st a t e it at 30 to 35 pe r cen t. T e reduction of 25 per cent. just about covered the rental of the country. The annual value of the produce of this country, independent of Ire land, had been estimated at £200,000,000 a-year. Now, if they took the rental at one-fourth of that, they would at once perceive that the whole rental was sacrificed in some shape or form. It was not to be presumed for a mnmant thnf +h. , ssession of of order (as all the foul form when o rain outwardly even in violent weatlie] I that the landlords bore their fair share e that had taken place, and that they came its exclusion of soot or dust, none of which can come through ; th e f ac ility w ith w hi c h it can be cleaned or repai re d ; — a d van t ages, ta k en a l together, which hisvo rva4-1.,--n- .e.timisvoa—Uy_ w o, ......ta...tow kithaw in use. But, above all, it throws the draught clear up to the ceiling, by which means parties in the vicinity of the ventilator are protected from the injurious effects of cold draughts in a, warm room. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE MANCHESTER GRAND SEEPLE CHASE, MARCH Bth. — Watch—Mr. Cowell's L. H. beat Mr. Howard's Miller's Sweepstakes—Ada Mary beat Hector and Dids- Grand Steeple Chase—Won by Fanny Gray ; econd. Corinthian Steeple Chase—The Cap- Sellina Stakes— twin be - at Fanny Gray by half a mil Won by Mr. Fowler's Wiseac in four heat BAD NEWS FOR THE SLAVE-HOLDERS. — The people of New Mexico declare that all the slaves brought among them shall be made free ; and as to California, that is filling up mostly with non-slave-holders, drawn thither by the splendid accounts of deposits of gold.—Letterfrom W. E. Whiting, dated New York, 30th January, 1849. v , r A DVERTISEMENT.] THE YOUNG IFE'S MEDICAL COMPANION, AND HAND-BOOK OF HEALTH ; AND THE FEMALE MEDICAL COMPANION, OR EVERY WOMAN'S HAND-BOOK OF HEALTH. — Published by Claridge and Co., 12a, Gough Square, Fleet-street.--No works of the present age are so well calculated to conduce to the preservation of the health, and the pleasureable enjoyment of existence, of the Female Portion of the Community as these two little works. Every female who wishes to enjoy unimpaired health, and to preserve her constitution from the ravages of disease, should possess herself of them. We are sure the whole Sex will thank us for introducing them to their notice. Their author has conferred an invaluable boon on the Female portion of the community. —Medical Gazette. These little works are admirably calculated to enable females to have their health in their own keeping, and protect them from the frequent and often fatal mis chiefs of incompetent practitioners. Their contents should be known to every woman who wishes for health and happiness. Every kind and loving husband should make a present of them to his wife, and every affectionate father should discharge the same duty to his daughter on hex marriage. —Journal Ilealths let it be adiit of the cha; the tenant-farmers had to bear were too great—so great indeed that they could not bear up against them. Let them take a farm rented at £4OO a-year. They reduced the saleable produce of that farm from £1,600 to £1,200 .a-sear..___That makenl where a farm was well cultivated, for they milda east - Tarr - rents upon arai.i. they wished to live. Suppose, then, the difficulty alluded to were got over, they would still have to squeeze out of the poor tenants and labourers of that farm the sum of £3OO a-year. He would ask how it was possible that the country could be enriched by such means ? He would ask how the nation at large was to be benefited by such a sacrifice ? There never was a grosser delusion than re presenting free-trade as beneficial to the labouring classes of the kingdom. (Cheers.) He had made rather a strong statement at the outset of his remarks, that he was dis posed to regard the proceedings towards the agricultural interest as the work of a dishonest Parliament. He ad mitted it was a strong term to use, but he thought it was one he was perfectly justified, under the circumstances, in using. He regarded the fact of the reduction of one fourth of the produce of the farmers to be equal to a man's coming—let them suppose Sir R. Peel at the head of a body of marauders—to carry away every fourth stack of hay, and to drive off one-fourth of the cattle. It was tantamount to that ; indeed, it was worse than that, for that difficulty might be got over, and the person plundered might start again. He held such a proceeding to be tan tamount to blasting every fourth field in the country. The resolution was passed unanimously. Mr. Cheetham moved the next resolution,--" That this society has long recorded its opinion that the malt-tax presses with undue severity upon the skill and energy of the British farmer, and is alike injurious to the health, comfort, and morals of the entire labouring community, and under the repeal of the Corn-laws has become most oppressive and unjust. Entertaining this opinion, this meeting pledges itself to use its utmost exertions to ob tain its immediate and total repeal." Mr. J. Ellman (Sussex), in seconding the resolution, mentioned the following important facts :--From the 7th of October the number of quarters of foreign wheat im ported into London was 462,000, whilst that from Eng land, Ireland, and Scotland together only amounted to 57,000 quarters ; in flour, 149,000 quarters of foreign and 77,000 of E ng li s h ; b ar l e y, f or eign, 23,000 quarters, Eng lish, 99,000, and that, too, at a period when four-fifths of the barley was required for malting. In oats the foreign supply was 253,000 and the English 166,000 quarters. With all these facts staring them in the face, he did not think it required much determination to find out that, in stead of things getting better, they must get worse. Iliilbam • of Suffolk, in seconding a resolution; t - ettteral .11itOrellanp. in London there are now 851 private schools. 178 vessels with 11,160 passengers have sailed from America with passengers for California. A fishing boat was upset at Pittenween on the 27th ult., and seven men were drowned. It is said that the Bishop of Oxford is about to lead to the altar the daughter of Baron Alderson. The female giraffe in the London Zoological Gardens has produced a young one. The 75th and 87th Regiments are ordered to proceed at once to India. Sir Charles Napier has been appointed to the chief command in India. Sir Charles will leave England for the scene of war in India immediately. In future, regiments are to be stationed in each place two years instead of one. By this plan a saving of £lOO,OOO a-year will be effected in the three kingdoms. Sir Robert Peel has written to the Univesrity Club, of which he was one of the trustees, to withdraw his name from that society.—Standard. At Chelmsford assizes, Wm. Wass, a farm servant, under notice to quit, was convicted of setting fire to a rick of wheat, and sentenced to 15 years' transportation. A maimed soldier, who was refused! re li e f b y a sur l y overseer, because he did not belong to that particular parish, said, " Ah ! sir, I lost my limb fighing for all the parishes." The Ocean Mail steamer Hermann arrived at Southam ton on Friday night. She left New York on the 20th Feb., the day on which the Niagara took her departure, and which arrived on Tuesday. The Hermann, therefore, brings no later news. The Morning Herald says that a Club called " the Sterling Club," founded in honour of an unbeliever in Christianity, is patronised, amongst others, by " two bishops, three archdeacons, four or five sceptics or infidels, and three writers in Punch !" In the case of S arpe v. Arbutbnott,—an injunction against an action at law,—Mr. Rolt, on Friday, applied to the Lord Chaneellor to have the cotton which was the subject of dispute sold, and the proceeds paid into court. The Lord Chancellor refused. TEN THOUSAND AN HOUR.—Mr. Moreton, an Ameri can printer, died lately in Paris. He has bequeathed £40,000 to be given as a premium to any body who shall succeed in constructing a machine capable of striking off 10,000 copies of a newspaper within an hour. The shipping interest is very much depressed, especially in the coal trade, and there are universal complaints among the tradesmen of small trade and very reduced re ceipts. The prospects of a revival in spring are thought to be very gloomy. John Jones, the druggist, who caused the death of the wife of Captain Smith, Jermv House. near Romsey, by sending her home strychnine instead of salicine, was tried for manslaughter at Winchester assizes on Monday, and acquitted. FEMALE EMIGRANTS.—One hundred and sixty-eight young women, selected by Lieutenant Henry, R.N., from the various poor law unions in Ireland, sailed in the Lime rick steamer, for Plymouth, on their way to Australia, under government instructions. A few days since, a stackOf'straw was blown down at Woodborough, Notts, and fell on a little girl about ten years old, who remained under the fallen stack until the following morning, when she was extricated with no hurt, save some bruises on her bead. The Queen, Prince Albert, and the Queen Dowager, have respectively contributed a donation of £25 to the fund for the relief of the widows, orphans, and families of the sufferers by the late explosion at Darley Main Colliery. Mr. - T. P. Cooke, the actor, has received the naval medal for his share in the battle of St. Vincent. He is the only survivor of the crew of the schooner Raven, em ployed in that memorable engagement. An expert angler, while fishing at Cockermouth, on Tuesday, with two flies, hooked a fine trout with one, and a water-hen (by the skin of the leg) with the other, and succeeded in landing both fish and fowl. Sir Robert Peel's sch - ooliii Tamworth was opened on Thursday, and in order that parents may have the oppor tunity of testing the system, tickets of gratuitous admis sion for boys not on the foundation have been issued. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE..-.The opening night will be Thursday. Alboni, Belletti, F. Lablache, and Gar doni will appear in the Cenerentola, and Carlotta Grisi, Marie Taglioni, and Rosati, with Paul Taglioni and Louis D'Or, in the ballet of the Diable a Quatre. THE NUNNERY AT PECKHAM AND THE QUEEN.—A correspondent of the Tablet states, on the authority of the Lady Abbess of the new Nunnery at Peckham, that the nuns have embroidered a most splendid pocket hand kerchief, as a present for the Queen, and have received the neeessary instructions for forwarding it to her Majesty. EFFECTS OF THE STORM LAS T W EEK IN S T . J AMES ' S PARK.—On Wednesday week, three large elm-trees were uprnntArl by th. oioloroo car ti . storm. One, in falling, smashed the iron railings oppo site the steps of the Duke of York's column ; another fell across the iron gate close to the lodge facing the Horse Guards. The trees which have been torn up are all sound. SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.—Two sister steam-ships, belonging to the West Indian Mail Packet Company, the Severn and the Avon, built at Bristol, lately broke their engine -shafts on the same side and in the same place ; both vessels have been performing Atlantic voyages for the last six years, without the slightest sign of weakness in that part of the machinery. A young woman in service at Falsgrave, adjoining Scarborough, recently obtained some poison for destroy ing vermin, but judging it not safe in her possession, she was ordered to destroy it. She accordingly burnt it, but accidentally inhaling the vapour emitted by the burning substance, she soon exhibited all the symptoms of ordi nary poisoning, and it was only by the prompt assistance of medical skill that she was placed in a fair way for re covery. EXTRAORDINARY INVESTMENT.—The following " spe culative lot" was put up to auction at Mr. Marsh's sale, in London, on the Ist inst. :—" The important and valu able reversion in and to a moiety of £12,000 Consols, receivable on the decease of a lady, now aged 57, provided she shall have no more children ; the youngest child is 19 years of age, the husband is still living, and is now aged 59 years." The lot sold for £2,180. SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—On Wednesday, a fishing boat of the larger kind came into Scarborough, having in tow a coble, and on board three men, taken out of the coble. The oldest man, upwards of 60, was starved to death, and the other two, when removed from the yawl, could only walk with some difficulty. The sufferers sailed on Tuesday morning, at one o'clock, and the weather becoming boisterous, they were driven off, and picked up by the yawl. The hang or lasso, so long practised by a gang of ruf fians in this town, is becoming famous. No less than four of the scoundrels were sentenced to transportation for ten years at the assizes, last week, for practising the art upon various individuals and robbing them. The robbery is committed by means of a hang or lasso, like the lass o used in South America to capture wild animals, the gag being thrown over the victim so as to render him power 102,—.Artnfiiaf lomat, TUE LIVERPOOL STANDAR& Pressive of unabated loyalty to the Queen, said :—The farmers had been betrayed by one Prirne Minister and in sulted by another, until they had determined to try whe ther by their own right hand and their mighty arm they could not gain for themselves the victory. The speaker proceeded to urge upon the meeting the duty of a more effective organisation, and recommended the farmers to impress upon the traders of towns that they would go to London, or elsewhere, for their commodities unless they returned right men to the House of Commons. If the agriculturists combined with the shipping and the colonial interests nothing could long deprive them of their rights. The following resolution was then agreed to : " That the Committee of the Central Society be directed to com municate with the country societies, and to request them to take measures for calling county meetings, under the au thority of the high-sheriffs, and to originate petitions to both Houses of Parliament, in accordance with the reso lutions now passed." A vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was briefly responded to by his Grace, terminated the meeting. If Lord Ashley's motion needed any further justifica tion, the conduct of the Dissenters and their friends in the House of Commons would furnish it. His Lordship wishes to try whether some general plan or system cannot be devised, whereby large parishes may be divided into parishes of manageable size, without involving, in every case, the trouble and the cost of a private bill. What that trouble and cost may be, has been shown within the last seven days. Mr. W. Page Wood, in supporting Lord Ashley's motion, observed, that the expense incurred by the unopposed bill for dividing the parish of Leeds, was £l4OO. Now, on Tuesday last, one of the most excellent clergy men in the whole metropolis, the Rector of Whitechapel, Ipplied for an act to settle some disputed , parochial ques tions. The Radicals and Dissenters mustered all their forces, and defeated the bill. So that, in this case, there was probably an expense of £3OO or £4OO altogether thrown away. On Friday another case of the same kind occurred. As one example of the strange anomalies still existing,—the large town of Richmond, in Surrey, is only a curacy, held under the Vicar of Kingston, another town, four miles distant. A bill was introduced to divide these two places into separate and independent parishes. And this was the sort of reception it met with : " On the motion for the second reading of the bill, " Mr. C. Lushington said he was wholly unconnected with the parties supporting or opposing this bill, but believing the bill to be a gross job, and a similar bill to that of Whitecaapel, the one being a job promoted by Brasenose College, Oxford, and the other by King's College, Cambridge, he would move that the bill be read a second time that day six months. " Mr. Kershaw seconded the amendment. " Mr. Goulbum hoped the bill would not be thrown out, as those who promoted it were not present. The object of it was only to divide the living, and to appropriate the pew-rents for the maintenance of the incumbent. " Mr. Locke King did not understand there was any oppo sition to the bill on the part of the inhabitants in the neigh bourhood. " The house then divided, when there appeared— For the second reading Against the second reading Majority for the second reading _ 9 ,, Now here was one of the most natural and most unob jectionable measures that could be conceived,—promoted, as it ought to be, by the patrons, King's College, Cam bridge, —yet attempted to be defeated, without notice, by Mr. Lushington, the nominee of the Dissenters, and by Mr. Kershaw, himself a Dissenter, on no other grounds than that " it must be a gross job, inasmuch as it was promoted by King's College, Cambridge !" This dirty attempt failed ; the bill obtained its second reading by a narrow majority. But surely, if the foes of the Church wished to prove the absolute necessity of some measure like that proposed by Lord Ashley, they could not easily take a better course. The Lords of the Admiralty have sanctioned an altera tion in the contract of the Royal West India Mail Steam Packet Company, by allowing the Honduras and Central American mails to be conveyed direct from Honduras to Jamaica, instead of being conveyed to the latter place by way of Havana. MYSTERIOUS CASE OF BURGLARY.—Op Friday week, some ruffians entered a house in the Lower Parade, Lea mington, which had been left in charge of a widow named Ladnor, and after compelling her to accompany them from room to room, while they ransacked the house, they used her with great barbarity, and left the premises with out obtaining anything of consequence. JENNY LINE'S MOVEMENTS.—MdIe. Lind has during the past week sung at concerts at Wakefield, Sheffield, and Nottingham, which have been attended by crowded, enthusiastic, and brilliant audiences. We understand that this delightful songstress is about to make arrange ments to give a series of concerts, principally in the pro vinces, during the next few weeks, which will be the last that she will give previously to leaving this country for some months. We are informed, on the best authority, that Mdle. Lind has finally determined not to re-appear again at the Opera House. THE WORKING CLASSES.—A very large meeting of the working classes was held on Wednesday night, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, at which nearly 2,000 persons were present. Mr. L. J. Hansard was voted to the chair, and resolutions were moved to the effect that the government, aided by the legislature, should adopt means for establishing a system of home colonisa tion, self-supporting, agricultural, manufacturing, an.d educational. It was also proposed that a " Trade a n d Labour Protecting Board" should be established to regu late the price of labour, and prevent ruinous competition. CHARGE OF POISONING.—At the Gloucester Assizes, Hannah Southgate, 29, was indicted for the wilful mur der of Thomas Ham, at the parish of Wix, by administer ing to him white arsenic. Various witnesses proved that the prisoner and the deceased lived very unhappily, and that the former had said she wished the latter was dead, and that she wanted John Southgate, her present hus band, whose little finger she liked better than her hus band's whole body. The principal witness against the prisoner was her tervant, but as she did not bear a good character, the jury discredited her testimony, and acquit ted the prisoner. - - MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS.—The late Countess ofßridge water has left the following bequests, all free of legacy duty :—To the Society for promoting Christian Know ledge, £2,000; to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, £2,000; to the Clergy Widows and Orphans Society, £2,000 ; to the County Infirmary at Shrewsbury, £l,OOO ' • to the St. George's H os pit a l, £1,000; to the Charing Cross Hospital, £1,000; to the West Herts Infirmary, £1,000; to the Bucks Infirmary, £l,OOO ; to the St. Ann's School, £500: to the Madras School at Ellesmere, £200; to the Madras School at Whitchurch, £250 ; besides endowments to numerous Sunday and National Schools situated on her Estates, varying in sums of £5 to £2O per annum, to the amount of £175. FORGERY.—On Thursday, Mr. J. Cutts, a solicitor, of Little Bardfield, Essex, and W. E vans , hi s clerk, under went a long re-examination, charged with forgery. The facts of the case relate, among other matters, to the pur chase of an estate by Cutts of his own client, when a boy, under circumstances of great suspicion ; and not having, up to the present moment, paid one shilling for deposit, rent, interest, or the purchase-money, which was £2,510. although he had been in possession of the estate nearly four years. The prisoners were ultimately discharged on bail, themselves in £5,000 each, and two sureties for each prisoner in £2,500, the counsel for the prosecution (Mr. Wilkin) intimating that he was afraid, if bail were taken, the ends of justice would be defeated. ALLEGED MURDERS AT STONELEIGH ABBEY.—At the Leamington Petty Sessiions, on Wednesday last, an ap plication, was made by Mr. C. Griffin, of that town, to the magistrates to grant a warrant for the apprehension of a man, named John Wilcox, upon the charge of having committed murders at Stoneleigh Abbey. The applica tion was made on behalf of James Leigh, of Preston, one of the claimants to the Stoneleigh Abbey estates. The features of the case were similar to those disclosed on the investigation at the Warwick County Petty Sessions in May last, and reported in this paper at that time. Mr. Russell (one of the sitting magistrates) expressed his dis belief in these alleged murders. There might have been some death in the neighbourhood by accident. Mr. Griffin then charged Wilcox with cutting the throat of a person name unknown, in 1815. The bench refused the applica tion for a warrant against Wilcox, and said Mr. Griffin had better go before the grand jury. Mr. Griffin com plained of injustice, observing that he had plenty more witnesses to prove the alleged murders at the Abbey. He should renew his application on a future occasion. A QUIET COMPANION.—At Clerkenwell, on Wednes day, a gentleman applied to the magistrate. He said that for some time past the neighbourhood of Tunbridge-street, St. Pancras, had been in a state of excitemant in conse quence of a nuisance being discovered in the house of a Mrs. Parry residing there. A month ago, a middle-aged lady, a companion of Mrs. Parry, who is a person of con siderable property and of most eccentric habits, died sud denly, and a coroner's inquest-jury returned a verdict that she had died from natural causes. Mrs. Parry had formed a very strong attachment to the deceased ; and, labouring under a delusion that she was not dead, she washed the corpse, and, after bathing it with brandy, she dressed it in her best clothes, and seated it beside the fire, where she had since talked to it and treated it as a living object. The nuisance had become so great from the decomposition of the body, that it was necessary measures should be adopted to compel the interment of the deceased to pre vent contagion. Mr. Combe said he could not afford any redress, and referred to the parish authorities, who alone could act in this remarkable matter THE COST OF REDUCTION !-It is calculated that since the fiat for reducing the rank and file of the army has gone forth, about 3,000 men have been discharged in En gland, Ireland, and Scotland. If this number should have to be recruited, and it is not at all unlikely, the bare expense will be about £20,000, to say nothing of the per manent charge on the pension list for eligible men who have been discharged, and the re-establishment of the recruiting stations, and parties which have been called in ; and so with respect to seamen for the Royal Navy. The number of seamen that has been reduced is about 5,000 and 3,000 more are to turned adrift. At the present moment there would be no difficulty in manning ships to the extent of 1,500, for the regular going " man of war's man" returns in a naval port until he has spent his last farthing, or retires to it after his shore cruise to seek another ship; but if an emergency should demand the raising of an additional number of 3,000 seamen, the cost of getting them together would be equal to at least half a year's wages. Now ships can be manned almost imme diately ; for we have been reducing for the last two years ; it will be a totally different affair should the country demand an increase. MR. DYCE SOMBRE.—On Wednesday the celebrated Dyce Sombre case was again argued before the Lord Chancellor. In the course of the proceedings his lordship observing Mr. Bothwell to be in court, handed down a letter which had been received by Lady Cotter ham from Mr. Sombre, in 1847. Mr. Bethell read the letter. It bore the post mark of the 3d of March, 1847, was ad dressed to Lady Cottenham, and contained Mr. Sombre's card, on which was written in the lunatic's band, " au allowance of £1,500 a-year fcr life, if the judgment is for the superseding the commission, and for a divorce." That letter, the learned counsel thought to be conclusive of the insanity. If it was not the act of an insane man it deserved more serious notice. His lordship said that insanity was the best excuse for it. It was shewn that communications had also been addressed by Mr. Sombre to Mr. Bright, the surgeon, on the 3d of March, 1847 — the date of the letter to Lady Cottenbam ; and in it there was the lunatic's card, with an offer of £250 a year for life. Another was addressed to Mrs. Southey, wife of Dr. Southey, with a card, containing an offer of the same sum ; and a third was addressed to Lord John Russell. having appended to it a paper with the sum of £l,OOO marked in pencil, evidently intended to be an offer of that sum as remuneration for the service required from his lordship. Counsel were heard on Friday, in reply, and in support of the lunatic's petition. TRADE OF THE KINGDOM.—The returns of the Board of Trade for the month ending the sth January last were issued this morning. As regards imports, their most remarkable feature is the large arrival of grain which was held in bond ; the total of wheat, barley, and oats being 887,084 quarters, against 330,242 in the corresponding month in the preceding year. The consumption of sugar, tea, cocoa, and coffee has continued steady, but the im portations of the latter article were only 2,733,745 lbs. against 11,711,894 lbs. in January, 1848. In dried fruits there had been a considerable increase of importation, but not of consumption. In silk manufactures of. Europe_ there has been a large Increase in both respects. Hides of all descriptions, oils, and seeds, cotton, wool, and raw silks, have also been largely received. In timber there is a decrease of importation, and again a decrease in the consumption of British description, with an increase of foreign. With respect to exports, the return is again strikingly favourable, and such as to confirm the highest expectations expressed at the commencement of the pre sent year. As compared with the month ending the sth January, 1848, they present an increase of not less than £589,301. The increase in cotton, woollen, and linen manufactures is very striking, and the continued falling off in the exportation of machinery still shows the check which has been given to foreign production. THE OEFICERS SLAIN IN INDIA.—As the deepest inte rest will be felt to learn the military history of the British officers killed in the action with the Sikhs, we subjoin a few particulars respecting some of their number :—Briga dier Pennycuick. G. 8., K.H., entered the service in 1805, and was formerly connected with the 17th Foot. He served in the expedition to Java, and was in five actions, and twice wounded. In 1814 he served at the capture of Balli, and Macassar; in 1825-6 in the Burmese war. He also served In the Affghanistan campaign ; was at Ghuz nee, Khelat, &c. In 1841 he destroyed the Arab posts in Abahia. Lieut.-Col. Robert Brookes, of the 24th Foot, also slain, was formerly in the 69th ; he was an old Penin sular officer, and entered the service in 1811. From the latter year down to the end of the war he served in the Peninsula, including the actions at Badajoz, Salamanca, and, in all, 12 engag emen ts ; he w as wounded three times. During the siege of San Sebastian he was acting engineer. he accompanied a body of volunteers in the night attack upon the island of Santa Clova. He proceeded to North America with the force that embarked from Bordeaux, and served there until the termination of the American war. He was subsequently with the occupation army in France. Major Harris was alsoa gallant veteran officer. He served in America, the West Indies, and other quarters of the globe. During his progress across the seas he several times took part in encounters with French vessels. His mother, we believe, resides in Liverpool. The Hon. H., M. Monckton, of the 29th Foot, was brother to Lord Gal, way, M.P. for East Retford, Notts. He entered the ser vice in 1841. One of his eldest brothers held a Commis sion in the 80th Foot, and Was assasiusted wigie on, duty at cOdu, 18.31 q DESTRVOTIVE STORM.—During the recent gales great havoc was done among the woods in Scotland. Upwards of 2,000 trees were blown down at Darnaway Castle, near Forres, one of the seats of the Earl of Moray. A Letter just received from the same quarter informs us that, since that time, there has been a succession of hurricanes, and that 3,000 more trees have been blown down on Lord Moray's grounds ; that on one estate alone, that of the Earl of Seafield, near Inverness, upwards of 12,000 have been thrown down. THE DESPAIRING TAILOR.—An inebriated tailor, of Nottingham, fearful of a curtain lecture from his wife, resolved to escape the dreaded infliction by taking arsenic. He purchased a dose and swallowed it, but some of his friends, to whom he communicated the dreadful intelli gence, forced him off to the infirmary, where the stomach pump brought away, mixed with quart after quart of the previously imbibed beer, a nuantity of white powder, which, on examination, turned out to be flour; the wily druggist having sold him the wholesome farina instead of the deadly dose, which would probably soon have ter minated his existence. THE NAPIERS.—At this moment the acting chiefs of our Mediterranean fleet and of our Indian army are both Napiers. Sir Charles leads the one, and his cousin Sir Charles has accepted the command of the other. A. Napier is just the man for a dilemma. The family ac quired their name from the circumstance that one of its old members was a man unequalled for his dexterity and courage in helping the State when the latter was in diffi culty and danger. Of such a man an old Scottish K;ng was wont to say that he had " nae peer." The ancient reputation still holds, with a difference ; for, if the Napiers have their equals, it must at least be acknowledged that they have not their superiors. EMBEZZLEMENT.—The following case of extensive embezzlement was finally investigated at Bow-street, on Tuesday. The delinquent, named Russell, has been a clerk in the service of the directors of the Westminster Fire and L;fe Insurance Office, and stood charged with embezzling divers sums of money, amounting to £BOO, received by him on account of his employers. The pri soner also held the situation of collector of the paving rates for the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster. Mr. Hatcher(' stated that on the 6th of December, last year, he went to the Westminster Fire-office for the purpose of paying the sum of £l6 45., being the amount of a policy of insurance and the duty. The person to whom he paid the money signed the receipt produced, in his presence, and handed it to him ; but he could not identify the pri soner. —Mr. J. Padmore, chief clerk, said that on refer ring to the private cash-book, and also the office cash book, neither of them contained any entry of the amount in question.—Other parties deposed to sums that had been paid by them to the prisoner, entries of which did not appear in the books. The prisoner was fully committed to Newgate for trial. NEW PRINTING TELEGRAPH.—We yesterday had the pleasure of privately examining a new printing telegraph, on the hydraulic principle, the invention of Mr. W. H. French, of Cardiff, which, for simplicity and certainty, is far superior to any other, either hydraulic or electric, that has yet come under our notice. The invention being as yet unpatented, we cannot, of course, go into any de scription of it; but we may state that, without the use of any arbitrary signs, or the necessity of receiving answers from the various stations as to whether or not a message can be understood, a communication can be made, at the will of the operator, to one, two, three, or a dozen sta tions on the main line or branches of a given district of country. which will be legibly printed on a slip of paper, something like the column of a newspaper, to any length, or a conversation can be carried on on the same paper between two points—the intermediate stations, by a sim ple contrivance, being thrown out of the line of commu nication. One advantage of this system is, that the tele graph becomes the registrar of communication, and pre vents any dispute as to its real import; while another, and perhaps the most important, is, that should an at tendant at any station be absent from his duty, he will, should any message be given in the meantime, find it on his return legibly printed in the ordinary character, a bell continuing to ring from the commencement of the com munication being made, until observed by the attendant, and, to use a familiar expression, thrown by him out of gear. Morning Post. PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—On Wednesday Lord Ernest Vane, youngest son of the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, a remarkably fine youth, scarcely 12 years of age, had a most providential escape from instant death while riding with his tutor in the vicinity of Bath, where his noble parents are at present sojourning. Lord Ernest left the stables, mounted on his pony, the tutor selecting for himself a high-spirited animal from Lord London derry's stud. After riding some distance, the tutor al lowed Lord Ernest to mount the larger horse, which, as soon as he felt the lighter weight, dashed off at full speed, and galloped four miles beyond the turnpike at Beckford's Folly, on the downs above the city. The courageous boy all this time kept his feet in the stirrups, and clung to the neck of the animal, which successively cleared all the ditches and low walls that intervened, until it arrived at one of those deep rocky declivities with which the vicinity abounds. No power on earth could here have saved the life of the youth had not the horse slipped up, and, com ing in contact with a sharp projecting stone, cut his hind thigh to the bone, and thus disabled him from proceeding further. Lord Ernest was thrown violently by the fall of the horse; and, on recovering sensibility, his lordship discovered the horse at some yards' distance, moaning and unable to rise. Although suffering from great pain, and nearly covered with bruises, Lord Ernest went to the spot, and, taking the bridle, the horse, after many plunges, got up. The gallant youth then led the mutilated and wounded animal five miles back to the stables, where it arrived only to be shot. Lord Ernest was found to have sustained no very material injury. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.—At Aylesbury assizes, on Wednesday, Benjamin Isaacs was charged with having feloniously received thirteen watches, one hundred brooches; one hundred seals, one hundred keys, and other articles, to the value of £2OO, the property of Edwin Re vell, of Slough, well knowing the same to have been stolen. In December 1847 the shop of the prosecutor was broken into, and the property stated in the indictment was stolen. No clue was found to the robbery until about six months after, when two notorious thieves, the one at Wakefield Gaol and the other at Milibank, both under sentence of transportation, confessed that they had been concerned in a very great number of the worst burglaries in the country, and that they returned to town and disposed of the property to Isaacs, who always managed to make the best of the bargain, and encouraged them to go forth on their depredations, even promising to send money to them into the country, if they would convey their pickings to him in Petticoat-lane, London. He had given them only £l5 for the produce of the Slough robbery, although the property was worth £2OO. Their evidence entirely coin cided (although unheard by each other) even in the mi nutest particular. His lordship, during the opening ad dress of the learned counsel for the prosecution, observed on the fact that none of the stolen property was found in the possession of the prisoner ; for unless there was strong corroborative evidence to bear out the evidence of con victed thieves, no London tradesman would be safe a single day. For the defence a number of London trades men were called to testify to the previous good character of the prisoner. The jury retired, and after half an hour's consultation, gave a verdict of not guilty. The prisoner, however, was detained, having forfeited his recognizance of £5OO. TRADING WITHOUT A LICENSE.—At Northampton, oa the 20th ult., Charles Saint, who is one of the peram bulating parties with numerous stocks of silks, shawls, &c., was summoned before the justices, and charged with l t i r e a e d u ig s n u. contraryA lengthened i t uu a n a ensued, ns s u a e l d d l allowed bs sequel his q ue l being the imposition of a fine of £lO upon the defendant. Another information was then laid against Saint, for that, on the 11th of Feb., under colour of his license, he pub lished a certain handbill, in which his name, number, and such other particulars as were contained in his license were not set forth in distinct. and legible roman capitals, according to sec. l au l mn . dae o ws f ukb t pe h er e i Hawkers h a aj wunadmk setrol jumbled Licensing p( hand-bill was produced, and was certainly a curiosity in its words y s w te a r y , y: mystery, sh Licensed riet e wno describe it) without any spaces between the words, or any attention to punctuation. The attorney on behalf of the prosecution put it to the bench whether this was a com pliance with the act of parliament. The bench affirmed that it was not, and accordingly Saint was mulcted in another £lO penalty. An appeal was once over talked of, to which of course the magistrates did not object, pro viding Saint could enter into recognizances himself, and find two sufficient sureties in respect of the appeal. This was a poser for the man possessed of property which he could find " no shop in Northampton sufficiently large to contain," and being unable to find bail, the penalties _were_ on__tha ,Il* *ha "assignees, with t eir immense stock," quitted a town in which they had met with nothing but disasters. Saint is described as " a youngish man, dressed elabor ately, and with mustaches carefully cultivated down either side of the mouth a la Chinoise." At the Durham Assizes William Henry Gibson was sentenced to ten years' transportation, having pleaded guilty to a forgery upon Sir John Kirkland and Co., the army agents in Pall Mall, under the following extraordi nary circumstances :—The prisoner was originally an ap prentice to a surgeon, in Union-street, Spitalfields, and is a married man, with three children. In June last the daughter of the prosecutor was st av i ng w ith a lady at Scarborough. The pr iso ner was like w i se s t ay i ng at Scar borough, passing as Lieutenant Gordon, of the 16th Lancers, and wore ribbons on his left breast, which he called " Indian honours." H e was introduced to the lady by her lover, whom, h owever, the prisoner sup planted, after paying his addresses for two weeks. On the 20th of July he p reva il e d on Miss Wright to go to York with him, under pret ence o f gett i ng a license ; this she did, Miss Steabler, a cousin of the lady's, accompa nying them. They went to th e Bl ac k S wan, at York ; there they dined, and after dinner the prisoner went out, and returned, saying that the license was all right, and that as it was a special license, the usual marriage cere mony was dispensed with, and the consequence was that he effected the ruin of the lady, Miss Steabler having left them previously. The prisoner, becoming short of cash, took Miss Wright to see her friends at Sunderland, and in the mean time had the following inserted in the York Herald :—" On Thursday, the 20th, at York, W. H. Gordon, Esq., Lieutenant Wallallajab Light Dragoons, (one of th e th ree off i cers of that corps who survived the fearful slaughte r a t Bh ur tp oor ), son o f Lieut.-Colonel Gordon, of Danesbury-park, to Frances, youngest daugh ter of Thomas Wright, Esq., of Sunderland." The day after they arrived in Sunderland the prisoner called upon t t u h n e e p , r a o n s d e cu t h t a o t r , s a i r n d j o r h e p n r e K s r n k t l ed an d that dhe Co, h a w d e r e a i a s r large e n fo t r s: A few days after he persuaded the prosecutor to cash a cheque upon Kirkland and Co., for £3O, which, of course, when presented for payment, was dishonoured. As soon d victim t o Hull, that t he check l and thenc e had been se n t t t o Antwer p, but a s he o London , off hto his Sandwich he was taken by th e po li ce , he s set t e r d i scovered g u and committed for trial. March 13, d I THE WRECK OF THE FORTIT' The following interesting extract is frt ;is r i letter, received at S ou th amp t on last we ek' rica, from Campeachy, dated the 19th Januarf., pose you will have heard before this reaches I°7 gallant old Forth has gone down. Thank likely to see yo u aga i n sa f e l y. Sh e s t ru ck °n t, east side of th e Al acranes on t h e 14t h ofJanua rr. were 136 persons on board at the time. Wh en the heavy s ur f was b rea ki ng so v i o l en tly ove r that we all expected to go to the bottom• were soon gone, and the Forth began rapidly It ! A couple of our boats were swamped as soon as the others were immediately i crowded with side , who were a ll huddled together under the lee r t wreck. Just as we were about to make en eff° through the breakers into smooth water, tl sell near the island of Perez. The rejoicing nin cl ,;,, ng very great, I can assure you, at this wew - s i Lieut. Molesworth, a gallant fellow, who ,s r . , voyage to join his ship, the Wellesley, voluct... four men to go over the dangerous reef and e(7, with the vessel that was seen. This be e d. ° after encountering great di ffi culties, in firs t- The The sail proved to be a small schooner. She ea, as she could to us, and as many as possible g,t of her, and she then started for Perez. making a clean breach over the wreck at this tip left it about on e o ' c l oc k i n t h e day. E ver ythinf could save we did ; b u t a ll was near l y s pciled quence of being so thoroughly soaked in salt W had a tremend ous an d d angerous pul l o f seven reach the island. Th an k h eaven we a ll r each When we arrived, w hi c h was not t ill even ing, we had very little water and provisions for so ' I , binson Crusoes, so we set to work, and after,P s . our boats we b egan pu lli ng to and fro from th e the wreck for the next two days, picking oP,, visions and water we could get at. Fortunatei!he with a brigantine at Perez, and on the 17th, ri ' o t ing, we left that island for this place. We d u e l iS here until the afternoon of the 18th. A vess a p being chartered, I believe, to convey the roei ls ,,, r o and passengers to Vera Cruz, and I trust to-m - ' I shall leave this villainous place." Lieutenant Molesworth (who is a son of tr e Rochdale) has written to his friends. We m e lowing most interesting and thrilling extract " To see the decks opening and shutting, ef l 0 sengers crying t o G o d f or ass i stance and f or gl , see the mothers holding their children, and ho' r e wives taki ng l eave of each other, uis a sight ta a e imagined tha n d escr ib e d ; I felt that we must • I especially as I had seen the chart, and disco v , e there was no land w ithi n 70 miles, but still I t hd spair. I ende avoure d to console the ladies and by telling them there was no immediate danger to give way to d espa i r , an d I managed to ge t them aft, out of th e way o f t h e mainmast. v"1".0g, inclined to co me d own b y t h e run ; and in ele l 1 experienced many heavy th umps on the dec k :ty went to the capt a i n , an d po i nte d out the necessity ting some of the people into the boats: and be 7 to take command of the large boat; which accepted. The difficulty now was to get tho,'" t i the boat, whi c h was not so easy a matter, for a' ' was 20 feet below, and the next moment close t e ', was a stout rope made fast from the deck, 50 , :the lady round th e wa i st w i,h one arm, and w i t h holding the rope, I swung myself from the so,'Yto boat alongside. In thi s way I put every lady Ibeo besides four childre n , sa f e l y i nto t h e boat. 'a fei my friend, Mr.-, who from infi rm ity sf s bor , nearly lost his self-p ossess i on . H e we i g hed stone, and could not get into the boat, so I sai d , P hold of me, and hold on, and do as I tell Ye e ' caught me tightly round the neck with bother% I said, 'jump w h en I te ll you, ' wbich he did vengeance, for he took a sp r i ng th a t might lie/'', fol the boat altogether ; and as I could not well beat t o htheehbaosate.ineFeotretludnamteelythfoetr he n ever weight and his, we came down about 10 feet tog e t h, ev l er w w as en u tably . into a boat in all his life. I then took cf : r et but just as we were starting, a boat managed to v s ol into the breakers, and was turned over and over , „ol bare rocks could be discovered after the wave passengers in my boat became terribly fright e s the captain called to me not to go on. A 5133 ,b1 was now discovered, and hailed with three cheti o despairing passengers ; but no one could tell 10. 10 was approaching or going away. I, thereforeta. boat, and went and spoke to the captain, and sa i d tlis not try the reef ? The wind is increasing, an d getting heavier ; and if the worst comes to the only chance must be the reef. I will volunte er boat, and if I succeed I will go for assistanepef vessel.' To which he answered, If you attecoh. will be dashed to pieces, for no boat can live sea, and the rocks are hardly under water.' So I can get volunteers, you will let me try ?' to t he replied, Very well.' At this I jumped up 00 0 (' warks, and at the top of my voice asked for O bo e , teers. Some who were in the boat got out, an4„t t nd in er e n r e e s ol , pause for a moment ; at last one said, ' then another. I got my four men. So, taking o i r re t and giving it to a man to t a ke care o f f or me if nle I swung myself into the bo a t, w i s h e d a ll th e Pe n v r, e 6 bye, and told the m t o k ee p th e i r sp i r i ts up . 1 0 to the men, and with a l ou d h urra h d as h e d i n to tP ,O O ers, which follo we d hi g h an d f as t, b ut t h e me n just whe n we were over t h e worst ; she groun d e d a towering sea was about to break, which 00 0 ,je.. swamped us, when she fortunately rose a little: c l o g sent her a-head ; th e sea b roke just astern, all,OO, me on the back, p reven t e d th e f orce of its cotOlos, boat ; we ther e f ore on ly s hip pe d a li tt l e water, 30:oe'' three more strokes cleared the b rea k ers al" bot which all the people on board gave three cheerf,eta;; noise of the breakers prevented our hearing t, l , e se i waving my cap t o th em , we p u ll e d awa y 0 th e Finding we did not near her much, I rigged one of our oars, and away we went most g lorio 4 K; about an hour I discovered th ree sma ll b o ats tl.`,ll;tlf.„ which turned out to be cairCes7WndVeTantovv, , h a r `s ! and getting into one of the c anoes , p u t on e of into the.boat, an d sen t th ree f or assistance, It t g it 7, turned to the wreck to tell the m o f an i s l a nd au" to P, miles from the ship, which the men in the boalocl of. I was very much astonished, and you nlaY a little delighted at the joyful news." Sf P lOO RELIEF TO THE P OPE .—A f ur th er co llectio n , on Sunday at the Roman Catholic churches The cite; in the metropolis for the relief of the Pope. 1100 0 ,,r from the Bishop was read to the congregation s „ ft) pulpit, in which it was urged that the Sovereig7A required assistance in his present deposed state' the., it was the wish and intention of the church that r oi., man Catholic community in this country go u t,. te" l , large sum of money as a manif es t a ti on o f the' c o t and regard for the spiritual head of the Roma die c 0 i church in his present temporal deb asemen t. I t hef, tions made are of a very liberal character, an d ddriv it is understood, be forwarded with a suitable 3 an early opportunity to His Holiness, at Gaeta' t' DREADFUL MURDER.—The city of Bristol wr - i .u9 c ,,, into considerable excitement, on Wednesday b en discovery that a most horrible mur d er he lady,, 10" if mitted, the victim being an elderly maiden oo,4 Jeffries, who resided at No. 6, Trenchard-street• at was possessed of property to the amoun t nt , resL, £ll,OOO. Her servant, the only o th er person w A ",: o ° in the house, has been taken i n t o custody urtho:tl suspicions. It was observed, on Friday wee' OP shutters of the house were closed, and, as they yio; re-opened until Wednesday, the circumstane e to ol. e ',/ marked, and the re l a ti ves o f the lady were in'thor"d the matter. They consu l te d w i th the police Obis and an officer was despatched to th e h ous e. 11 1,, 0,1 an entrance by cli m bi ng over a wa ll at th e bae v r then found the back door open. On proceeding he saw in one of th e b e d- rooms th e corps e oflloil which bore marks of great violen ce . H e fount' body was that of Miss Jeffries, and that the '7,01 , been ransacked, it being known that s he gene 00 large sums of money in the place. Her Pe n to marks of great violence, and her head appearwro been completely beaten in with some blunt 0,, Suspicion alighted on her servant, and after ~'" search she was found at home, a t H or field,4vo about two and a-half miles from B r i s tol. ' 4 police entered the house, to which at first thelo l P, fused admittance by the girl's moth er , thel accused party hid in the coal cellar, and on see'' they discovered a quantity of silver s poong "E. J.," together with some other ar ticles, 0 0 0 twenty-eight pounds in cash. She was l',ef o 0 / 1 _Bristol. At the inquest, o n T u esd a y, a bro I deceased deposed to the abstracti on o f a variety ° d i,l s o f, property, part of which was subsequently foll_1 1 . 0 :j possession of the prisone r . T wo neighbours ''OlF that early on Sat ur d a y morn i ng, they were e'tbe strange noises, and screams, proceeding from to y room of the deceased, which were attempted counted for by the servant, who said, " it was a jO r 4 had jumped upon the bed and frightened her o .'", The surgeon, who m a d e a p os t mortem exacalo;. the murdered body, depos e d t o th e i n j ur i e s he' 0 1 '1 inflicted by some blunt instrument, and that the irj4 death was concussion and compression of the V% 17 * , inquiry was adjourned till to-day. It is stet,/ stone has been found in a fire-place i n the w o rP) which is stained with blood, and has grey hair s Or d . to it, and which, upon being compared with.th e e t ijoj was found to correspond precisely with one 01 ir the forehead. The prisoner, who was presents I: 1(1 ° 1 1 the same indifferent appearance until near the ef,diti surgeon's evidence, when she b urs t i n t o t e ars bitterly for some time. She has made a confel t iOi c i, effect that she was not the actu a l p erpe t ra t o r 0 ,, e e ft' r i atrocious act, but that it was comm it te d w ith tY a girl whose name it would be imprudent to al do' who was formerly a fellow-servant of hers, e li be6": not borne the best of characters, she having or; for felony. The stone has been found to c °, l ,/, exactly with the ind en t a ti ons i n th e s k u ll of ' nate deceased. It appears, too, that on Thal., f , 1/ 4 ins, whilst, as was natural, some converseoty, subject was going on at a public-house in . 13 ,0 0 ,4 two men of somewhat suspicions appearance to get up suddenly and quit the house. Tir i idr/f did not attract much attention at th e ti m e, ttl o l / house was about to be closed the p ar typ ~ ters up found an obstruction in the groove i• which, on examination, turned out to boa ha% o' o c, which, it has since been shown, fit the land Jefferies's doors. The servant-girl abo v e alli?,h o ,,V t well known to be a frequenter of the puhY de sf gt y 4 question. The parties, too, must h ave ev ceeded in their murderous work with the and deliberation, as it appears, in order to Pr e pi , " which was in the house, from lor giving any e „y• thrown down the ndcessary, where the de ll- 00; 1 " since been found. 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