The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-13 00:00:00

CAPTURI OF A GANG OF ROBBERS. (From the _Halifax Guardian) We are happy this weak to announce the capture of four of that gent- of thieves which hail lately infested this neighbour ) ood. They were first apprehended at Dublin, and our en terprising deputy-masts - Ws krazer having received notice of their capture get off thitleer last week. He returned; on tfuesdey ; but two of the nem had nearly altogether escaped et the hew Inn, on this tide of Blackstone-edge. The coach eame opt vith the ether two Fri:macre, in custody of an Jn epector of the, Dublin police; and a crowd of 2000 to 3000 rrsons was an/wattled to witness their arri va l. O ne of 'the inctiened villeins cheered on the conch stopping, and it was en:di great clitecutte the pricer:ere were conveyed to the pri t ca. A cleeise wee irsereedistely dispatched for Mr. Fraser teal the other two prime:re, who shortly afterwards arrived. In order to prevent the possibility of any further dieturb ence, the deposittons *ere taken on Thursday before Joliet nt , AI - ERE - lOUS*, Even, in an upper room in the police-office. The names of the villein& were Robert Titeerington, William llerber, Micheal Dawson, and Joshua Wilson ; all natives of this neighbourhood. Mr. Thornee Cockcroft, wcolstapler, of Halifax, (one oi the went/el:len robbed,) feet deposed to the manner of the rob bery in Godley Lane, ca the morning of the 6th of August; perticulars of which we tee at the time. He identified Tit terington and Dawson, as the two men who robbed him. He resisted, on which the said, " D—n thee, if thou makes the least noise, we'll stick them" After having robbed hien of six k 5 notes, a bill for £B2 123. 6c1., and his watch; and watch-guard, they left him, end he crawled to a farm-hhuse adjoining, and stayed in the Iteld of the robbery till morning. ile sVrOte distinctly to the persons of Titteringeon and Dew eon ; and also to a watch end gutted produced being the erti cn:n stolen by the two prieeners. Some notes were also pro tieced, which, however, !tr. Cockcroft could not swear to. Ic knew the watch by the maker's name and number on it— " J. de J. Jackson, No. 7044." Mr. Robert Crossley, worsted spinner, Halifax, (who had Levu rohhel at the same time with the previous witness, they being on their return from Derucieeter wool fair, in a gig), de pesed that the prisoner Wilson and another man named Rueleworth (already committed for the offence) first came up and reined the reins, and then came to assist another man in robbing him (Crossley.) They took his watch and guard. and he made a straggle to get free, when one of them said, " D—n him, let us have him on hit back," and while they were pull lag him down, he recognized the prisoner, Barber. Two or three of them then said that if be stirred or made the least noise, they would kill him directly. He then said, " take my money beet spare my lire," on which prisoner Barber jumped on him with his knees and sw or e h e w o u ld kill hi m . Whil e V the teSt were throttfing him. Barber robbed him of 2s. in silverea knife, £6 10s. in gold, and two five-pound notes of the Halifax and Htddeinflel4 Union Bank. Barber then re newed his violence, and said to one of the other thieves, " D—n thee , now Ito and do the gig." The man went and slim returned saying there we e nothing in the gig. Barber t..ld him to go setain ; lie did so, and returned with the same answer. Barber, seeing Mr. Crossley look at him, jumped up and swore he world kill him ; but the others dissuaded him. Thee then went off in the direction of Hipperholme, - and Mr. Croreley got in thi gig and drove to Halifax as speedily as he could. MORRIS Prendeville, inspector of the Dublin police, swore to having capttired prisoners Lerner and Wilson on Mon . day, August 26th, at Debit*. He found on Barber a loaded ,pistol, sand-paper, and knife; and on Wilma a purse, tobacco-box and 2e. 34., (which were produced.) In bring ing them to Halifax, Barber attempted to escape, but Wilson said ft was of no tise. John Murgatreeyd, ferret, of Mannt-street, in Halifax, who had been robbed in Godley-lane a few minutes before the robbery of AIDINPO. Oreseloy and Cockcroft, testified to prisoner Barber belie one of she men who robbed him. As the thieves were gores away, after ill-using hint, Mfr. M. begged to have his pocket-book returned, when two of the thieves turneddesek and kicked biga severely. The prisoner Dawson was one of Mesh - two. Mrs. Ann petiole elf_ fturalay , otood Howse. near Burnley, was then swore stet riatile-O'er Nada? Morning, August 18, alenOt three o'clock, I wee, awaked by the noise otthe cellar door opening. I irnmedtately got up and Went to the land ing of the stairs, Called Imit On a girl I had in service, and re ceiving no ansiver called ti *coed time. I sew a light down stairs at the cellar-dote' end as my calling the second time the light went out. I Mesa went into the servant's room and told her to get np and go hneo my bed-morn, and stop with my little girl. I then want into nay son's bed-room, which is very near, and took Ittai into my room, arid then went agaitt into the servant's nem, and stepped with as heavy a foot as I could, and celled oat John as if I were calling to a servant, And opened the casement which looks out into the back yard, and there saw throe wren leaving the kitchen. I called out John, they era here, ere !" on which the men ran away to the end of the house. I then went down stairs, and on my way to the kitchen 1 found the cellar-door open. I stint it and fastened it with a nail. I went into the kitchen and found the back-door open. I shut it end bolted it. I then got a tinder-box and some matches. I went up stairs into my bed-room and street a lig h t, and lighted a candle, but ending it wits 'tot long enough, I went down stairs into the kitchen for another, bat found that they had taken all the candles otit of the candle-bark. I then went into the store roona, and got a mould and one rush-light. I took the mould up stairs and lighted it. I divided the rnahlight and placed half in my bon's room and half in the servant's room for protection. f locked Out of the window into the yard and saw two men looking front the off corner of the house. I droned myself, called my , daughter, who as well as the servant dressed herself, and we looked under the blinds in different memo, and maw sometimes two, three, and• at one time four men together, lurking about the house. I then went down stairs der a pistol, powder and shot. I found the pietot in the corner of the chimney-piece in the kitchen ; but both the Masks were gone. We then walked about the moms, and looked out occasionally under the blinds; and rill taw them sauntering about. In a little while after that I went into the back room and opened the casement reran, and saw one man standing on the 'kitchen door step. I called out to him and asked him what he wanted there; ha ae d, " If you make any alarm, I will blow your brains out," at the same time holding up his arm and a pistol in his hand. He repeated this, and 1 shut the easement and went into my own bedroom to my children, and shut an-i bolted the door of the bedroom. In a little while afar four rhea came upstairs ; they called out, " Open the door and deliver your enoaay, or we'll blow your brains out." I made no EASFwer. I had hold of the door handle, but lea hold on feeling that they were prising the door open. They instantly rushed into the room, and swore that if I did trot defiler my matey, they would blow all our brains out dicectly. I told thew 1 had not much. They said, " Money we krrow rift have —money we want—and money we will have." They said this twice. The children made as elann—the men ensiled towards them and pushed my deaeliter against the bed, and swore again that if they made the least so* they would blow their brains out. I stepped forward, took hold dam daughter, and pushed the big man a little aide, saying, " Have mercy upon us—have mercy upon ye sad spare our lives, and she shall not make any noise." They demanded reoacy again. I gave them a purse coined-I-dee ten dd. in sixpenees ; they went on to the landing of the kites till they took it oat, and then turned back and d---(1 nay soul to hell, and said, " If you do not give us mere, we will blow your brains out." I said, " For God's sake have mercy !Ilion us and spare our lives, and you shall have what money I have." I gave them four sovereigns; one of the men then rifled my pocket, and took out of it a bead purse containing seven 3overtipis and a half. I begged for the puree itacs . , and when the thief had taken out the money he threw it dawn. He got among other things from my pocket, a watch ; which I begged to have back because it woe a favourite opf and had iaelonged to a child that was dead. He threw it on the drawers, and it was left there. They then =sacked the rooms up stairs, but took nothing away from up staira. They broke into the store room and took a ham, a seed cake, a bottle of port wine, and some new Irish linen. They also stole my son's pencil from the front psrleur ; and atter goiii into other parts of the house, it wee getting daylight, mid they left. After they had gone, I discovered that twelve table spoons, twelve tea spoons, and three salt spoons had been taken from the kitchen cupboard. The table spoons now produeed are some of those which were gone. The prisoners are four of the same men who robbed me as I have uow stated. lam sure they are the same. They are the four men who were in nay bedroom. Elizabeth Parker, daughter of the preceding witness, cor roborated her evidence. She said the prisoner Titterington had a pistol in his hand, and stood at the door ; the prisoner, Dawson, was the one who rifled her mother's pocket. The prisoners, who throughout the examination bad behaved in .a moat reckless and hardened manner; were committed to take their trials for these offences at the ensuing York assizes. They started off at five o'clock yesterday morning, , in a chaise; and we hope arrived safe. Barker was heard to declare that he will yet escape; and, indeed, death would more probably have itteneri their capture, had it not been for the stratagems of fee Dahlia police. . The remain-nig portion of the evidence necessary to com plete these enlarge* had previously been taken before H. 0. Calleehan, Eaq. one of the magistrates of the C or Rotunda Division, Dublin; and were to the following effect Hugh Shepherd, pawnbroker, deposed that prisoner Thomas Thompson (Barber) pawned a silver watch made by B. Joseph, Liverpool, No. 39," for the sum of .£2 10s, on the 21st of August. This vetch Mr. Crossley afterwards identified. John Murphy, inspector of police, and Patrick Kennedy, police-constable. C Divicien, deposed that they arrested pri soner Michael Dawson in a brothel ; and tumid in his pos session a snag pocket-pistol and two powder-flasks, which flasks are claimed as having been stolen from Mrs. Parker's, Burnley-Wood. tharlela Hovenden, police ssrjeant, deposed that on the 24th of August he arrested the prisoner Thomas Thompson (Barber,) on whose person he found a gold watch, No. 7024, one £5 note of the Joint Stock Bank, Halifax ' • three notes of the Bank of I r el a nd, f o r one p oun d s t er li ng ; 17s. in silver, and fourpeece in copper; also two duplicates, one of a gold and one of a silver watch. That he subsequently produced three silver table-spoons hnoel on the person of a woman named Eliza Mph, which prisoner claimed as his property, and odd he gave them to the said Eliza Ralph to pawn ; and the serjesnt also found a penknife, fife, and some shot on the person of prisoner. (Mr. Cockcroft identified the gold watch first mentioned.) Lawrence Richmoed, pawnbroker, also deposed that pri miter Thome.; Thompson (Barber) had on the 22nd of Au ; aet pawned a geld watch, with a steel chain and a seal for X 5. The winch was tatunhated 911. (No owner of this watch has yet appeared.) STATE OF TRADE. A.NC assriza.—Tlmir• wet a fair demand for yarn yester day, arid a coasideraLle amourit of business was done, chiefly, Nee beLeve, for anssian account, at about thn prices current week ago. Some descriptions of goods, however, were in demand., an 4 rather lower than last week.—Afanchester Guardiaa. RCCUTIALY FLASINtL MAB.KIT, MONDAY, SEPT., D.— The ruz..rigt to-dey has -not been so brisk as that of la:ot M onAty, yet that.* 'est been a fair quantity of business done i''...)rrocr prices. In wr)ol there hal been but little doing, p.na it StPLl:ii :0 be tba general opinion among manufacturers that vices will be isistr. Tliero has uot, however, been any cilarigs xi , :co the last niarket. HnnnanaFtzLn likaazaT, Ss PT. 10.—This 'market was r-!7:11 , ani!r,etrd to-tley &an last -week, and 111)1e1;;;enier tains,.1 tact the autumn - trade will he better than was antici paled ; stocks bsiug low, and orders pretty numerous and xtervaivo. i ncii dep4nds en gathering the remaining crops, to that shonid we be favoured with fine weather, the pros pects for the what4r ritl improve. The principal demand is in he...ivy fancy woolline, and pl a i ns - of. a middle quality. Prices are eriAl ire new gooas . Wools remain much th e same . :tore activity is diAierveble ire tha warehouses generally. Gt 4 o.o.ow.—th's state, with mush regret, that one of the expen4ive spiaaing anti weaving establishments near hsa this day commenced to work short time ; the l'''-)vszers on Saturday having been told that th e i r serv i ces _ rog , ii in fut , zr• euly rsquirad for four days in the week. —C-lasgav atrovaisle. BLACBUIt2I.—Wo have so improvement to notice in the attars of trade since our last ; the operations of tke week have ()ten unusually limited and canitioue.—Blackburn Standard. VALy ABVE INSTITIITION.—A flag-officer, distinguished vs well for benevolence and humanity, as for valour in the :,,r-rics of his country, has lately expressed his determination to coatribu'e 4:3G0 towards fiending an institution for pro fc-r thads th ters of naval officers a superio r e d uca ti on , .c bifhttd relqffout instruction in the tenets of the church 4;! . 3 . o}!Lld. ; Whereby they may be quailed, not only to fill-. proprl.ty the La. - Tort= ch2ties of wives and mothers, I. also to Utcoine coulpetknt instructors of the youth a their own sex, in families of respectability and distinction; THE BRITISH AGRICULTURISTS' AND GRAZIERS' JOINT STOCK BANKING COMPANY. (From the Mining Journal.) The principle of an agricultural bank is one which has been long recognised in this country, although-but little has keen done to realise such a plan. An institution of this kind, called the Land Bank, was formed at the same time as the Bank of England, and incorporated with similar pri vileges, being intended to afford those facilities to the landed interest which the latter institution was to give to the trading classes of the community. The jealousy of the Bank of England found means not only to crush its twin-brother, but to get a clause introduced into its own charter, by which it was secured in the sole monopoly of a state institution. The principle is therefore one which has been long recog nised ; and one of the latest confirmations of it in the- pre sent day was the establishment, in the lonian Islands, of a government fund for the relief of the currant growers. They had been accustomed to borrow money of the Jews, at ex orbitant rates, on the security of their crops, to such an. ex tent as seriously to affect their profits, and the English go vernment found it necessary to adopt this measure to alievi ate the distress which ensued. It is similarly, by the ad vances of the joint stock banks that the state of Irish agricul ture is being so much ameliorated, and that the prosperity of that country is so rapidly advancing. The British Agriculturists' Joint Stock Banking Com pany proposes to be simply whet its - name denotes, and it is formed on such a plan as to offer every facility for its be coming a popular institution. Its capital is divided into shares of £5 each, upon the excellent principle of small shares being one of the most certain to contribute to the stability and..respectability of -the undertaking. The pro spectus does not under-rate the amount passing through the agricultural banking houses. when calculating them at ten millions sterling per annum. The Smithfield banks form one of the great and peculiar divisions of London banking, and it seems strange that in the general progress -of joint stock banking no attempt should hitherto have been made to extend it to this branch. We know, indeed, that it was proposed by some influential parties to form an institution of this kind, in the same locality, before the late panic; but the unfortunate state of affairs prevented it. The pro spectus, while stating the progress of joint stock banking, says truly, that the average amount of dividends of those paying interest is £8 per cent.—a fact which was first com municated in the columns of our magazine, which, we are happy to see, has rendered some service, having been adopted into numerous works and prospectuses. Among the other patrons of the British Agriculturists' Bank, we are happy to see the names of the Duke of Rut land, Earls Fitzwilliam and Leicester, and Lord Western, whose examples must have great influence on a body, the interests of which they have done so much to support. INQUEST ON THE BODIES. DROWNED BY THE WRECK or THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE PASSAGE BOAT. MIST-PASSAGE, MONDAY EVENING.—The messenger who, as I informed you yesterday, was sent off express to communicate to the coroner, W. Joyner Ellis, Esq., the finding of the bodies of William Crawshay, Esq., and Mr. Christopher, of Redwick, having made the required commu nication, that officer. with his usual promptitude, immedi ately issued his warrants for the holding of inquests on such of the bodies as had been then picked up ; and accordingly the first inquest was held at half-past ten o'clock this morn ing, at the Star Tavern, Lyttleton, on the body of Mr. Christopher, that being the first which was picked up The jury was judiciously selected from amongst the farmers and other respectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood, which arrangement greatly facilitated the inquiry, as every gentle man, from the circumstance of his residing near the scene of the accident, and necessarily having frequently to cross the ferry in the course of the year, brought with him much local and practical information, not only with respect to the navi gation of the passage at particular periods of tide, but as to the construction of the boat employed, and the skill and character of the boatmen. The jury, after they had been sworn, proceeded, accom panied by the coroner, to view the remains of the deceased, which lay in a coach-house at a short distance from the tavern. The whole of the body, from the neck downwards, had been closely enveloped in a sheet, but the head pre sented a most painful appearance, being in an advanced stage of decomposition, and presenting appearances of having been beaten violently by the action of the sea against some rock or other hard substance. After this melancholy duty had been performed, the jury again returned to the inquest room, where the inquiry was proceeded with. Mr. John Christopher deposed that he was brother to the deceased, who had lived at Redwick. On Sunday morning he left home for the purpose of going to Bristol by way of the Aust.passage, in order to buy some cattle and transact other business. He never returned home since. Had no doubt deceased was his brother ; knew as well by his general appearance as by his clothes and the name on his shirt. Thomas Pearce deposed, that at about seven o'clock on Sunday morning he was looking out from the shore, and saw the body floating on the surface of the tide at Littleton Pill. Witness called to another man, who put his boat off, and having got into it, they followed the body 200 yards and picked it up. James Jenkins deposed that he resided at Aust, and was one of the passage boatmen. Had been so for seven or eight years. Was present on the pier at Beechy, on Sunday, Sept. 1. It blew very heavily, and was a squally day. Witness was there when the boat began to load. She took in eight or nine passengers and four horses, and then at the request of the commander of the boat, another horse was brought down to the pier, and put in. The captain said it would do the boat good-and make her sail better, which in witnesses' opinion it would. Two gentlemen then came down and got into the boat. Just before she went, Mr Gardener, the company's boat inspector, said to Whitchurch that he had better stay till the squall was over, to which he replied that that would oc cupy some time, as it would be squally- all day. He then cried out to witness "Jenki ns , cas t th e ro p e o ff,' and witness did so. The boat then put off from the shore, and continued on her way till she got about half way, at a place called the Benches, where there is a dangerous chopping tide; a sea then took her, and she seemed to ship water, and soon after other seas took her, and she went down. The boat was not heavily laden. Witness had seen it that day with a larger cargo and one more horse. Had seen it repeatedly with a greater cargo, and in as bad or worse weather than that. Witness considered that she, was a good, safe boat, and never heard anything to the contrary. Persons seemed to like her and the captain, William Whitchurch, very well. The wit ness was examined at gr ea t l eng th b y the jury, with a view to ascertain whether any blame could attach to the proprietors of the boat, but his replies were very satisfactory. She was a very good boat, and her master was a very steady and skilful man, and had been in the employ of the company for 25 years. Mr. John York, a farmer, who was examined at the request of one of the jurors, gave a different opinion with respect to the seaworthiness of the boat, which he said he did not con sider as safe as the old Despatch ; but upon testing the value of his opinion, it appeared that he only knew the boat from the circumstance of his having once crossed in her. Mr. C. C. Garner, inspector to the company, came for ward and fatted that the lost boat was a foot and a half longer than the Dispatch, wider and deeper, and was ordered to be built after the model of that boat. The only difference was that she was a little finer fore and aft. The witness further stated, as his opinion, that she was quite as safe a boat as the old one, and had crossed in worse weather than that of the Ist of September. If the steam-boat had been used that day she could not have been hung on to the pier to land her passengers without danger. Witness saw the boat just before the accident. She doused her mizen-sail peak, and witness thought, from that and other circumstances; that she had met with an accident, by dropping young Whitchurch, who was standing on the locker holding the mizen-haulyards, overboard, and that in trying to regain him she shipped a sea. Mr. Taylor, secretary to the proprietary of the ferry, who was present during the inquiry, expressed the deepest con cern at the accident. The boat had always been considered as safe a boat as any in the employ, and Whitchurch was an excellent seaman and steady man. The company had now determined to use the steam-boat on Sundays, and another boat had been ordered, and was in preparation at Bristol. The jury expressed themselves satisfied with the evidence which had been afforded, a feeling in which the father and brother of the deceased, who were present and seemed much affected, appeared to participate. The room was then cleared of such persons as were not on the jury, and, after the lapse of about ten minutes, the jury returned a verdict of •` Acci dental Death," with a deodand of 20s. on the boat. After the conclusion of this inquest the coroner and wit nesses crossed the water, in the mail-boat, to Beechy Hotel, where another jury was empannelled to hold an inquest on the body of William Crawshay, jun., Esq. of Cyfartha Castle, near Merthyr Tydvil. Th e jury in ;his - inquiry, as also upon two others at the Aust Hotel, on the bodies of two of the boatmen, Taylor and Giles, returned a verdict of " Accidental Death. Whilst these inquests were being holden some of the nu merous boatmen, who are on the look-out, picked up the body of Henry Whitchurch, the son of the commander of the boat. The remains of this poor fellow were found on a sand-bank at Arr, about 12 miles distant from Aust, and they now lie at that place awaiting a coroner's in,quest. In formation has also been received that a body has been picked up between Cardiff and Newport, but whether it is that of one of the sufferers by this calamity has not as yet been ascertained. THE VAMPIRE BAT AT THE SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The vampire bat, which has lately been received at the Surrey Gardens, from Sumatra, is a young male. Its body is covered with an integument resembling \ black kid leather, and the position in which it usually places itself is that of being suspended from the bars of the cage, with the head downwards. Its wings are capable of being extended about two feet. Its tongue is long and pointed, and this is the only external peculiarity which would prompt the belief that it possesses the sanguinary.. attributes. At. to the fact, whether or not it possesses those attributes, authorities differ. Cuvier says, The truth appears to be, that the vampire inflicts only small wounds, which may probably become inflammatory and gangrenous, from the influence of the climate." Oa the other hand, Captain Stedman, who travelled in Surinam, relates that he himself lost about fourteen ounces of blood from the bites of a vampire in one night; and he further says of the animal, " It is said to perform the ope ration by inserting its aculeated tongue into the vein of a sleeping person, with so muc h d exter i ty as not to b e felt ; at the same time fanning the air with its large wings, and thus producing a sensation so delightfully cool that the sleep is rendered still more profound, and the 4nfortunate person is reduced almost to death before he awakes." Bishop Heber again says, " The vampire bat 'of India is a very harmless creature, of habits entirely different from the idea entertained of it in England. - It only eats fruits and vegetables, and indeed its teeth are not indicative of carnivorous habits, and from blood it turns away when offered to it." me vampire of South America appears to be of a more sanguinary nature than that of India, to which country the vampire of the Surrey Gardens belongs. Mr. Waterton, a living traveller, says of the South American vampire, " The vampire is a species of bat which sucks the blood of man and every other unprotected animal. There are two species in Demerara, both of which suck living animals. One is rather larger than the common bat. The other measures about two feet from wing to wing extended. So ge n tly d oes this nocturnal surgeon draw the blood, that instead of being roused, the patient is lulled into a still profpunder sleep." Mr. Waterton relates an instance of the destructive habit of the South American vampire :--" A gentleman, by name Walcott, lived high up the river Demerara. While I was passing a day or two at his house, the vampires sucked his son, a boy about ten or eleven years old, some of his fowls, and his jackass. The youth showed me his forehead at day break ; the wound was still bleeding apace, and I examined it with minute attention. The poor ass was doomed to be a prey to those imps of the night. I saw, by the numerous sores upon his body, and by his apparent debility, that he would sink under his afflictions. Mr. Walcott told me that it was with great difficulty he could keep a few fowls, on ac counts of the smaller vampires, and that the" large kind was killing his poor ass by inches. It was the only quadruped he had brought up with him into the forest." RAVAGES OF INSECTS ON TEEES.—Owing to the ravages of the oak moth on the trees in Epping and Hainanit forests, the entire foliage of the trees has in many instances, been destroyed ; they may be seen falling off, by the agitation of the wind, as thick as the flakes from a snow storm. , The trees have not been able to develope any new branches, as all the.vital energies have been exhausted in producing a second crop of leaves. PERILOUS ADVENTURE AT THE FALLS OF NIAGARA. (From the.commercial 7 Advertiser.) An occrence`of the most thrilling i nterest took place at Niagara Falls yesterday afternoon,-attended with imminent peril to the lives of two individuals, but resulting in a most happy and providential deliverance. The new bridge to Iris Island is planted in a frightful rapid where the current is from twenty to thirty miles an hour, and is only about 100 or 150 yaMs above the brow of the great precipice or perpendicular fall. A carpenter of the name of Chapin was engaged with others in covering the bridge, and while at work upon a staging about 100 feet from Iris Island, accidentally lost his footing and was precipitated into the rapids, and in the twinkling of an eye swept away towards the great cataract. Speedy and inevitable destruction seemed to await him ; but fortunately he was uninjured hy_the fall, and even in this hopeless condition retained perfect self-posses sion. Turning his eye towards the only point of hope above the fearful precipice, he succeeded, by great dexterity in swimming, in effecting a landing upon a little island some twenty feet in width and length, the outermost of the group of little cedar islands situated some thirty or forty yards above the falls and about equidistant from * Goat Island and the American shore. There is a man in the village of the Falls by the narre of Robinson, of extraordinary muscular power, great intrepidity, and withal an admirable boatman—and be was probably the only one that could have been found within fifty miles—who generously volunteered his services, to attempt reaching the island in a boat and bring Chapin off. A light boat of two oars, similar in construction to the Whitehall race boats, was soon procured and he embarked. He proceeded with great deliberation of consummate skill, darting his little boat across the rapid channels, and at the intervening eddies holding up to survey his situation and recruit his strength for the next trial. In a few minutes he neared the island, but a rapid channel still intervened, sweep ing close to the island, and rendering the attempt to land very difficult. He paused for a moment, and then with all his strength. darted across and sprang from his boat—his foot slipped, and he fell backward into the rapid current. With the spectators it was a moment of thrilling interest and breathless silence ; his boat seemed inevitably lost, and himself in fearful jeopardy. Retaining, however, his grasp on the boat he sprang in, and again seizing his oars brought up under the lee of the little island. All again felt a momen tary relief, but still the great labour and hazard of the enter prise remained to be o v e rcome . A cool head and a strong arm only could effect it—Robinson proved equal to the task. Taking his companion on board, in the same careful and de liberate manner, though at infinitely greater hazard and labour, they effected a safe landing at Goat Island. There the spectators assembled to • give them a cordial greeting. A scene of great excitement ensued—the boat was drawn up the .bank, and it was moved and carried by accla mation that a collection be taken up on the spot for Chapin, and his noble-hearted deliverer Robinson. It was a generous one, and was thankfully received • but the reflection to Ro binson that he had rescued a fellow being under such cir cumstances will be to his generous heart a much richer one. After the collection, Robinson and Chapin took their seats in the boat, and were carried in triumph on the shoulders of their neighbours to the village. The intense interest of the whole scene was heightened by the presence of Chapin's wife and children, who stood on the shore watching with unavailing horror and agony what seemed his inevitrble and fearful fate. With what devout and heart felt gratitude must they have thanked God, when the husband and patent once more stood by their side safe and sound. NEWFOUNDLAND AND BRITISH NORTH AME RICAN SOCIETY FOR EDUCATING THE POOR. At a recent general meeting of the Bristol and Clifton As sociation in aid of the above society, the following interesting report was read : The committee of the Bristol and Clifton Association in aid of the Newfoundland and British North American So ciety for Educating the Poor submit to their friends the fol lowing statement respecting it. " This society was instituted in the year 1823, in conse quence of representations made in this country of the de plorable state to which the colony of Newfoundland, the oldest colony of the British Crown, was reduced in a moral and religious point of view, on account of the uneducated state of its inhabitants, and the inadequacy of the public means of grace. It has since extended its aid to the British colonies of North America. " The society has established principal branch schools in Newfoundland as follows : viz: 39 daily, 41 Sunday, and 15 adult schools, in which many thousands have received in struction, and there were on the books at the last return 3061 scholars. His Excellency the Governor, the Secretary, and seve ral highly respectable persons, have visited the schools, and expressed their admiration of the whole institution in its present improved state. " The scholars repeat daily portions of Scripture, and on Sundays frequently whole chapters, which they have learned during the previous week. The society has circulated nu merous copies of the Holy Scriptures, and the Book of Common Prayer, also a large number of religious publica tions, and this has sown the precious seed of eternal life in places which were entirely destitute of religious privileges. " There are only ten Episcopal clergymen for the whole island, four of whom are resident in St. John's, the capital ; though there are not less than forty Episcopal places of wor ship, some of which are visited by a minister not more than once or twice in the year. The schoolmasters of this society have therefare been requested by the Archdeacon to supply some of these de serted churches, by reading in them a portion of the Liturgy, and some approved sermon or religious work ; by means of which about thirty services have been performed on the Lord's day, in places which must otherwise have remained destitute of the means of grace. " The receipts of the society during the past year have amounted to £3,103 13s. 2d., including £1,055 65., raised in Newfoundland. The payments during the same period have been £3,475 Os. l ld., so that there is a balance due to the treasurer of £371 7s. 9d. " The liabilities of the society cannot be estimated at less than £3,000 for the current year, in addition to the amount raised in the colonies. " A schoolmaster and his wife have been located in a school already built by the Lower Canada Land Company at Shee brook ' • and there are other schoolro oms now unoccup i e d which have been offered to the, use of your Society on sup plying Teachers. The Bishop ,of Montreal kindly offered his valuable sanction and support to the furtherance of the object. " It is deeply to be deplored that nearly half of the inha bitants of Newfoundland are Roman Catholics, vast num bers, in consequence of being deprived of Protestant instruc tion, have gone over to Popery. The majority of the churches are closed for want of pastors. There are hundreds of the population who never see a minister of Christ. Whole districts are without a school or a teacher, while immortal souls are passing into eternity in ignorance and vice. " Scarcely less appalling is the condition of thousands in the Canadas, into which every year is pouring forth its thou sands, for whose spiritual necessities no adequate provision is made. " It is hoped that this plain statement of facts will not be in vain. The inhabitants of these Colonies are our poor countrymen and fellow-subjects. Emigrants from the west ern parts of England, of Scotland, and of Ireland, are re sorting to them incessantly. Can there be any surer method of retaining their attachment to their mother country, than by showing them that we are not neglectful of their best in terests, and disregardful of their most important wants? Is it not the sacred duty of a parent to provide for her own off spring, and especially for their moral and spiritual welfare? Let not British Christians then forget their poor countrymen in the Colonies ; who are separated from all the religious pri vileges and advantrges of their native land, but let the bless ing of them that are ready to perish come upon you, and cause their hearts to sing for joy, by the assistance which you render towards the promotion of their present and eternal felicity. A religiously-educated people is the stability and glory of a nation. Let the Bible be taught, and the fabric of the commonwealth. is secure. Let that be neglected, and it may soon be said, England was the first of nations, but her latter end shall be that she perish for ever. " It may be regarded as a fact worthy of remembrance that Sir John Cabot and his son Sebastian sailed from Bristol in the year 1497 and discovered Newfoundland, three years after Columbus had discovered America. The land they made was Cape Bonavista, where there is now a school of this society, attended by 170 children. THE LATE ELECTIONS. (From the Morning Herald.) The late elections have caused great dissatisfaction. -They have given a heavy blow and much discouragement to the cause of pure whiggery. Our contemporary of the Chronicle called the result of the Cambridge election " melancholy;" and, no doubt, he only expressed what he felt. It is one of the most melancholy signs of the times for whiggery, or whig-radicalism, or tory apostacy, that has hitherto been manifested. Mr. Gibson was a decent wrangler of his year, by no means unpopular personally, a pupil of Mr. George Peacock's, the tutor of Trinity, and also had enlisted in his favour a certain esprit du corps, remarkably infectious amongst us Cambridge men ; but there was a desertion of principle—a mere sacrifice of political principle to personal pique by Mr. Gibson, which at once decided a class of men who have more influence at Cambridge than all the Trinity tutors together. The esprit is this—a man must not prosti tute however much or however little talent he may possess to the ministry of the day. If an ambitious man, he must also wait for his opportunity. Mr. Gibson's mistake was not understanding this. If Mr. Gibson is the clever man he is supposed to be by himself and his Cambridge friends, he would have been found out by the party to which he first attached himself. He had, moreover, the silly impertinence to think, at the outset of his career, that he ought to be offended because the great party on the right hand of the speaker rather preferred to hear Sir Robert Peel than himself. He should have remembered that Sir Robert Peel is an older, we will not say a better, man than himself, lest we might hurt a cause we- have at heart} by provoking a man so ex tremely sensitive to his own merits ; still we say that he should have remembered that Sir Robert Peel is an older man, more experienced, and very likely more wished to be heard than himself. Canning did not speak much for some years ; Praed (worth a thousand Gibsons for mental acquire ments and business talent) spoke very rarely; Macaulay, when he was in parliament before, spoke more rarely still; Bulwer does not speak at all; and it is an excellent evidence of a good taste in them all. And yet, Mr. Gibson, because the tories wished to hear their most influential men in preference to him, must feel affronted and turn whig. There are hardly, we confess, few better men than a real old, whig ; but a sham young whig is the most contemptible creature on earth ; and Mr. Gibson has found it so at Cambridge. But a whig ministry, which is only so in name, can make much of a Gibson ; that is, they think that they can. Of the Perth election little need be said, except that, in the voluntary acceptation of Mr. Greg, a most welcome and gratifying proof has been afforded that Scotchmen are becom ing canny again. Lord Panmure's (the Fox Maule) family are drilled out there, and in the county of Perth too. Of the other (the Manchester) Greg, we have a few more words to say.. Mr. Brotherton congratulated the working men of Manchester upon the form of returning a merchant, and it was likewise stated that it was false that Mr. Greg was over in Geneva, in order to establish our staple manufactories on the continent. It may possibly turn out that Mr. Greg never had any such intention ; but we ask the question of Mr. Cob den, was he not sent over to. Russia by an association to which Mr. Greg was a subscriber (and let it be remembered that Mr. Cobden is at Manchester, the first and the foremost for Mr. Greg, though he did want the representation for himself)—was not this Mr. Cobden sent over to establish manufactures there —to teach the mechanical skill—to in troduce machinery—to arrange about the capital, and even to write books, and establish banks, to supply which banks the capital was to come from the Brothertons and the Gregs? Making money is all our manufacturers think about at the present day. Of national credit and honour they think no thing, until it pinches them severely ; and then they cry out, and ask our workmen " to send us to parliament because we are merchants !" Their workmen are coming round to know their interests are different from the interests of the selfish "merchants." In two years we shall probably have a dif ferent class of " merchants." RETIREMENT OF LORD HILL.—The report iS again rife that the Marquis of Anglesey is to succeed Lord Hill at the Horse Guards. We confess that we should be sorry to see this distinguished soldier and most estimable nobleman re linquish a post, in which he has to his utmost done justice to the army ; but if a change is to take place, the service will be best reconciled by the appointment of the Marquis, - or Sir Hussey Vivian, two officers universally respected,—Nava and Military Gazette. 1 WESTMINSTER COURT OF REQUESTS. CATCHING IT OVER THE HEAD AND EARS.—Augustus Traughton, a tall mustachioed striping, redolent of eau de Cologne and sweet-scented bear'sgrease, appeared to answer the claim of Mrs. Dorothy Jbnes for 4s 6d, the• value of a pail of milk'which Dorothy averred had been rendered unfit for a Christian's stomach, by the accidental and unfortunate dipping of Augustus's ambrosial curls and mustachios therein. - Commissioner.—Po yoti admit this claim, Mr. Augustus Traughton ? Mr. Augustus Traughton (in a drawling tone)—No, cer tainly not; I admit nothing. Let the woman—a—a—state her case. And Mr. Augustus Traughton played with his moustache, lifted his chin out of a silk stock in which he - had suffered it to lie half buried, and looking round" the court with his vision 10_degrees above the vulgar horizon of the various plaintiffs and defendants in attendance. " Let the woman state, and I'll see if there's a—a—a—anything worth replying to. Where is the woman ?" turning round leisurely and giving an extra elevation to his nose, which nose was a perfect " bowsprit." " Bless my soul, Mr. Marjorum," said Dorothy, who had been " hanging on tender hooks," while Mr. Augustus Traughton had been addressing the court. " Bless my soul, though you are so sweet-scented, Pm' worth . half-a-dozen civil words from you night or morning. Pooh, pooh, don't turn - up your nose at me: mud's as good as mud all the world over!.' Commissioner.—State your case, Mrs. Jones. Dorothy.—So I will, sir. Woman indeed! Mr. Bear's grease (looking contemptuously at Mr. Augustus Traughton.) Commissioner.—Will you have the goodness, Mrs. Jones, to state your case ? Dorothy proceeded to do so. After i n f o r m i ng the court that she kept a dairy of her own, and had two cows, " a brindled and a pole) one," she went on to relate that, early on the morning of the 31st ult. she had placed her milk pails against the new church in the New. road, and had gone across the road for the purpose of letting down by a long string half a pint of cream, into the area of one of her customers, when she heard a very awful scream as if coming from her pails. She immediately turned round, and to her astonish ment and alarm, she saw a man bard at work ducking the head - of Mr. Augustus Traughtun into one of her milk pails. It appeared that Augustus being very thirsty from the:pre vious night's debauch, had found his way to the milk pail in question, into which, without asking " By your leave, Mrs. Dorothy ?" be had thrust his head, with the sober determi nation of having a draught of her sky-blue. Another " early" gentleman happening to be passing at the time Augustus was peering into the " milky way," and being, it is presumed, of mischief-loving mind, and judging that Au gustus was about to commit a felony upon the milk, he straightway soused him in over head and ears, and treated him in such a manner as to occasion the awful cries heahl by Mrs. Jones, when she was 16tting down the half pint of cream into the area. This sousing, averred Mrs. Jones, had ab stracted 4 rom Mr. Augustus Traughton's hair, mutton fat, and oil, " a villanous compound," which had rendered the entire pail of milk altogether unfit for use. She now claimed the value of the milk. Commissioner (to defendant)=What have you to say why you should not pay for this milk ? Mr. Augustus Traughton said it was preposterous to call upon him to pay for the milk—he brad not spilt it, inasmuch as he did not souse his own head in the pail. Commissioner—You were committing an illegal act, and are responsible for any injury which that illegal act occasioned. And I take it that you were purloining Mrs. Jones's milk. Mr. Augustus Traughton—Purloining !—oh, no, quite dif derent—quite different—a — Commissioner—lt is sufficient that you poked your per fumed head into the pail without her permission. Mr. Augustus Traughton—True ; oh, yes, certainly, but— I submit—a—a—a—she had fro right to absent herself from her pails. The law lays it down that negligence—. Commissioner—The law is that if you will get tipsy and suffer your dell-pomatumed locks to be made a mop of and trundled in a pail of milk, you must pay the damage done. Mr. Augustus Traughton—l most a—a—a—most emphati cally asseverate that—a—a my locks, as you are pleased to term them, are never—a—a—promatumed. It is an absolute —a—impossibility that my hair (running his fingers through it) could injure Commissioner—Was your hair as it now is, when it was " soused" in Mrs. Jones's milk ? Mr. Augustus Traughton—Yes. I had—a—a—been out —a—a—to a party, Commissioner—Really, then I must say that if your head was rinsed in the manner described in the pail, the good wo man was quite right in not selling the milk. Mr. Augustus Traughton—l should—a—a—like to know how—a—the milk could be rendered useless by the—a—a— scent from my hair—a--- Commissioner—Scent—do you call it ? Do you mean to tell me that the sousing in a pail of milk of a head of hair having on it half a pound of mutton fat and lard, would not spoil it? _ _ . Mr. Augustus Traughton most solemnly declared that the bear's grease used by him was " pure Russia,"' and that it was so innocent that it would not offend the most delicate stomach. " Oh! mercy me," exclaimed Mrs. Dorothy Jones, " our very pigs turned up their noses at the milk, and we were obliged to throw it into the sink-hole." Commissioner—What do i-ciu say to that, Mr. Traughton? " Pigs have very fine noses, " said Augustus. Commissioner — And stomachs too, it appears. It was ultimately decided that Augustus should pay the amount claimed. Augustus asked for " time" in order to pay the 4s. 6d ; and, upon the commissioner putting a few home questions to the perfumed gentleman, it, turned out that he was an ex ifestminiter grenadier, and that he occasionally assisted his mother, who was—a laundress. The Commissioner said he was sure that if Mr. Augustus Traughton left off using genuine bear's grease he might pay the money in a week, which he ordered him to do, and Au gustus marched out as if he had been ordered towards Coventry. THE COBURG LOCUSTS AT COURT. (From the Age.) So long since as the 28th of Julp we announced the in tended visit of King Leopold to this country—his arrival proves that our information was correct. As usual, his Ma jesty's visit is paid after theyrorogation of Parliament, an arrangement which adds much to the comfort of his sojourn here, and proves highly convenient to Lord Melbourne, whose attendance in the House of Lords sadly interfered with his dinner-homage at the Palace. We have frequently stated the reasons which induce Leo pold to honour us with his presence—they are purely do mestic ; the arrangement of family differences, the settle ment of family alliances, and the adjustment f the several plans for quartering a few more Coburgs upon England, which is now regarded as a sort of family estate, will doubt less occupy his Royal and avuncular consideration. That worthy and useful person, who so mysteriously journeyed' over here last Christmas, M. Von Praet, accompanies his Ma jesty, and will, of course, take care to be diligent and watch ful in his master's service. We have no fewer than five of the Coburg family visiting this country. " Where the carcases are, there will the ea gles be gathered together." We shall keep close watch upon their practices. It cannot, however, be denied that her Majesty is now sur rounded by a right goodly set. It must rejoice the Pro testants of England to know that the honoured guests of their Sovereign are the Papist Queen of the Belgians, the Papist Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg with his two Papist sons and one Papist daughter, the Papist Earl of Surrey, the Papist Earl of Fingal!, the Papist Count Mensdorff, the Pa pist M. Von Praet ! Perhaps we ought ma to lay much stress upon this, because we ought to calcuhtte that the high Pro testant feeling and religion-founded morality of Lords Mel bourne and Headfort will counteract the evil influences of the above accidental combination. Well, well ! We only ask the thinking people of England to mark these things. They can form their own conclusions without our aid, and thence may they gather. without our suggestions, what it is probable a year or two may bring forth. THE BOUNDARY QUESTION. (From a Halifax Paper, of the 6111 August.) The following resolutions were lately passed at a conven tion holden at Augusta, state of Maine, on the subject of the northeastern boundary : " Resolved,—That our northeast boundary question is one of primary and all absorbing interest to our people ; and while we highly approve the energetic measures resorted to by cur state last winter to capture or drive off the ruthless band of nglish marauders, who were plundering our property, laying waste our public lands, and setting our laws at defiance, we cannot consent to stop where we now are. No ! the line must be run—the metes and bounds mast be established—and the British told, thus far shalt thou come, but no further.' " Resolved,—That the recent attempt which is understood to have been made by Great Britain to involve the question in new difficulty by proposing a survey under such circum stances and conditions as are to render it morally impossible to settle the question, is in perfect keeping with the procrasti nating policy hitherto pursued by that government, and an insult to the United States, and to Blaine. " Resolved,—That unless this vexedquestion be speedily settled by the governments of the United States and Great Britain, it will become the imperative duty of the United States to extend their jurisdiction ever the whole territory ; and if they fail to do, Maine would be recreant to her inter ests, her rights, and her honour, if she did not take the bus iness into her own hand, and establish there her undivided sovereignty, 'peaceably if she can—forcibly if she must.' " REASONS WHY MR. GREG'S RETURN MUST BE VOID. The act 1 and 2 Victoria, ch. 48, requires that every can didate shall, upon a reasonable request made to him at the time of the election, by two or more registered electors, make and subscribe a'aeciaratioii*Of the nature of his qualifi cation. And the return of any person who, upon such re quest as aforesaid, shall wilfully refuse or neglect to make and subscribe the said declaration within 24 hours after such request shall have been so made, is void. _ Seven electors made request on the hustlngs to be informed of the nature of Mr. Greg's ,qualification, and no answer is had thereto within 24 hours, for the reason that Mr. Greg is at Geneva or elsewhere out of the realm, and has neglected to subscribe and forward any declarationwhereby compliance can be had with the direction of the statute. If it be argued that ;•;;;t has not been made to Mr. Greg, it is because Mr. Greg is at Geneva, and the electors are not bound to go to Geneva to make request to him. The intent of the statute is clearly that no man shall be elected without the electors having the power of knowing the na ture of his qualification, by subscription under his hand, within 24 hours of demand made. The electors did not know that Mr. Greg was to be a candidate, till he was pro posed upon the hustings : for there are innumerable candidates talked of at elections, who are never proposed at all. The electors were not bound to go to Geneva, upon a mere ru mour that Mr. Greg was to be a candidate. If Mr. Greg knew of the intention of proposing him as a candidate, the absence of a declaration of his qualification is his own neglect. If Mr. Greg's friends have had time to write to him for a declaration and have not, it is the neglect of his friends and agents, and the electors are not to suffer for it. If Mr. Greg's friends have not had time to write to Mr. Greg for declaration, it is plainly the intent of the sta tute that no man should be elected without the electors ha ving the opportunity of knowing what his qualification is, within 24 hours of demand made. The electors are not to lose their right, for any man's neglect or any man's conve nience. It is evident that the statute was intended jealously to guard the right of the electors upon this point. And not only must a statute be construed strictly, but in the case of a can= didate absent in a foreign country, instead of any reason for less caution, there is reason for more. Before or after going to a foreign country he may have transferred his property in this. The electors, therefore, have a right to, at all events, such security as can be given by a declaration subscribed by the candidate, which makes him guilty of a misdemeanour if such declaration is untrue in any material particular. The absence of a written declaration, then, which Mr. Greg ought to have sent, and has not, makes his election and return void, in the case of being returned.—Manchester Chronicle. The Gazette de Picardie states that a woman of Barwhein, in Belgium, who had contracted habits of intoxication, perished last week by spontaneous combustion. Persons who were present, says this journal, declare that the fire commenced in the mouth, and then extended tos . the breast and arms. MISCELLANEOUS. A Berlin letter of the 31st ult. says, that a disease strongly resembling the Asiatic cholera had prevailed for several days, both in that city and at Potsdam, from which several persons had died after an illness of only a few hours. CAUTION TO GONLERS AND TURNKEYS. - Mr. Justice Matteson has directed the removal of the gaoler at Ludlaw, and a turnkey at Newport, • for questioning prisoners with " the view to the obtaining" of evidence for their conviction. —Bristol Mirror. A gentleman was at his banker's last week, when he ob served a little boy present a check at the counter. The clerk put the usual question to him—" How will you take it ?" to which the boy innocently answered, " In my pocket, Sir." Mr. Burgess, of the midland circuit, has received the appointment of commissioner of the new police force to be established in Birmingham, at a salary of £7OO a year; and will enter upon his duties as speedily as the preliminary arrangements will allow. An immense conflagration has taken place at Koninsberg, in Prussia, originating in the spontaneous combustion of a quantity of damp hemp. The fire has destroyed 20;000 quarters of corn, besides 7,000 barrels of tar, and large quantities of hemp, flax, pitch, and spirits. Ten large ware houses have been destroyed, and the loss is estimated at £lOO,OOO. To RECOIPER DAMAGED HAY.—Let every stack sus pected of injury be immediately opened for fresh air, and restacked with clean agricultural salt, sprinkled regularly over every layer in its progress, at the rate of from 10 to 251 b. per ton. By this means hay is infinitely increased in its value—the benefit to the stack amply repaying the ex pense and trouble.—Leicester Journal. BANQUET IN THE THAMES TUNNEL. Friday after noon the directors of the Thames Tunnel Company gave an elegant dinner in the tunnel to the persons employed in that undertaking, to celebrate their having reached low water mark. Mr. Hawes, M.P. was in the chair, and 280 persons sat down to table. On a raised platform, about 500 visitors -the- majority of whom were ladies—were provided with places, to view the gratifying scene. THE LATE RIOTS AT BIRMINGHAM.—A letter has been received from the home-office, by direction of the Marquis of Normanby, stating that he is prepared to send down Mr. Dundas to Birmingham, for the purpose of making full inquiry into the matter, and receiving the proofs the com plaining parties may have to produce on the subject of the late riots. A similar communication has also been made to the mayor.—Aries Gazette. The friends of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts will be gratified to hear that the mis sion of the Rev. S. Wilberforce, on behalf of this society, has been attended hitherto with a greater measure of success than its most sanguine supporters could have anticipated. Additional subscriptions and donationS have, we understand, been received by the Rev. R. Luney, the local secretary here, almost daily since our anniversary meeting. Similar results have also followed the meetings which have been held in other parts of the diocese--at Lisceard, Callington, Lif ton, Tavistock, Milton, Bodmin, and many other places.— At the Lisceard meeting the Bishop, in the course of a very forcible address, stated it to be his earnest wish and desire that every clergyman in his diocese should form his own flock into a parochial association, for the support of this venerable society.—Plymouth Herald. NEW DRAMAS.—Sheridan Knowles is returned from a two months' residence in Scotland, where he has been occu pied in writing a play for Covent Garden Theatre, which, since his return, he has read to Madame Vestris and her hus band, Mr. Charles Mathews. Madame Vestris will perform the principal character in the drama, with the entire con struction and interest of which both Madame Vestris and her husband expressed unqualified gratification. Mr. Dou glas Jerrold has written a new drama, which is said to in volve, a peculiar and very, original catastrophe, for Mr. Hammond, the new lessee of Drury-lane theatre, and it will be one of the early novelties of the ensuing season. James Wallack, the manager of the national theatre, in New York, is engaged by Mr. Hammond, to p ersona t e the most promi nent character in Jerrold's new play.—London Herald. THUNDER-STORM.—On Sabbath morning last, the baro meter suddenly fell a number of degrees, indicating great weight of atmosphere, and heavy showers prevailed during the day. In the afternoon several claps of thunder, accom panied by flashes of lightning, were heard in Dundee, but the storm speedily passed away to the north-east. Accounts received from Perth next day, describe the storm a.- being terrific, in that quarter. It came on at four o'clock, and lasted about an hour. A tremendous shower of hail pre ceded the thunder, and continued throughout the storm. The lightning was uncommonly vivid, and the thunder awfully loud. Considerable damage appears to have been done in the neighbourhood of the city, and reports of loss of life by the lightning are prevalent. The only well authen ticated accident which has reached us, is that which befel a boy named Dowie, son of a weaver, at North Clay Holes, who was deprived of sight. The lightning struck the gable of the house, and unfortunately passed so near the boy, that it totally deprived him of sight.—Dundee Courier. SHOCKING ACCIDENT. - On Thursday morning last, about half-past ten o'clock,_ an accident occurred in New town of a shocking nature, inasmuch as that a woman caused the death of her own child, through a mistake. The de ceased, James Crook, son of Francis Crook, was playing about the house, and from curiosity was unfortunately led to creep under the mangle which was then at work, under the management of his mother. She was not aware that her child was in any danger, (in fact bad not noticed him creep ing under the mangle,) until some obstruction was offered to the progress of the machine, when, on examination, she found to her astonishment that the child's head had got fas tened between the mangle, which was of considerable weight, and the table upon which it moves. It appeared that the child must have been watching the progress of the rollers under the mangle, and when the motion was reversed, that end of the mangle under which he was looking lowered upon his head. He was extricated as soon as possible, and surgi cal assistance'procured, but it was unavailing, as the injuries were mortal,' and he died in about a quarter of an hour afterwards.—Bolton Chronicle. The accounts which we receive of the proceedings of the sportsmen in this county are of a somewhat varied character. In some parts the birds are described as being numerous and healthy, whilst in other districts we hear of much injury to the coveys having been done by the wetness of the season ; and on the whole, perhaps, birds may be regarded as defici ent in numbers and weak, rather than otherwise.—Dorset Chivnicie. The Queen, now building in Portsmouth dock- yard, is the finest and largest ship in the British navy. Her burden is 3,100 tons. She has an elliptical stern. She will mount 120 guns-84-pounders on her lower decks, with hollow shot ; 68's on her gun decks ; 48's and 32's on her upper deck. This vessel is 220 feet long, 60 feet wide, and six feet be tween decks (in the clear.) The expense to the nation, for the build and outfit of such a ship as this, is about £l,OOO a gun, or £120,000. AN AWKWARD CUSTOMER.—On Wednesday last, a horse which had been left standing in Castle-street, very de liberately walked into the shop of Mr. Fisher, hair-dresser, and having looked quietly around proceeded in the most or derly manner into the back parlour. Here its attention was taken by a large looking-glass against the wall, before which it stood surveying itself with evident satisfaction for some time—shaking its head and neighing as if in an extacy of de light at the figure it cut. Mr. Fisher, though a first-rate tonsor, was by no means inclined to operate upon such a cus tomer, and quietly led him out again with as much politeness as if he had paid him the largest fee.—Carlisle Journal. CARTLON H ALL.—There is at present a violet Hative nec tarine tree in the garden of Miles Stapleton, Esq. planted in 'the year 1824, against a ten-feet wall, consisting of 40 princi pal branches, trained upon the system of Mr. Seymour, the gardener, and extending 38 feet in length. The thinning in the month of May exceeded 1,000 fruits, 490 being left to ri pen, and which are now in maturity, measuring on an ave rage several inches in circumference, and presenting a rich and beautiful appearance. This is the same tree that was figured in the Gardener's Record, published by Mr. Harrison, in 1833, and is a striking proof of the superiority of the new mode of training over the old system. From the same gar den a melon of the netted sort was cut on the 23d of August, measuring 31i inches in circumference, and weighing 151bs. and in beauty exciting the admiration of every beholder.— Doncaster Gazette. THE HERRING FISHERIES.—It appears that the protec tion said to have been given to the Fishermen on the English and Scotch coasts, by placing an armed vessel on the station, turns out to be a mere farce. The " Etna," the vessel allu ded to, is scarcely ever to be seen upon the coast, where she is most wanted. On Sunday she was seen in the offing at Tynemouth, bearing south, in which direction she disap peared. The fishermen in the north have at length resolved on carrying fire-arms with them to sea, so that should any of the depredators be discovered, a serious conflict may be expected. Would any other government, but the one we have, witness the outrages committed on British subjects and afford them neither protection nor redress ?—Newcastle Journal. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A YOUTH.—The fa mily of the Rev. Mr. Warner, of Rochester, have been plun ged into great grief owing to the sudden and mysterious dis appearance of a little boy, named Daniel Warner, son of the Rev. Gentleman alluded to. It appears from information communicated yesterday to the police that he was suddenly missed from his home on the 3d inst., and that, from inqui ries subsequently made, he arrived on the same evening in London, by. the Mercury, steam-boat, from Gravesend ; since then no tidings whatever have been gained respecting him, and, in consequence of his tender years and the fact of his never having been in town before, the worst fears are enter tained, more especially as it is supposed he had no companion in his flight. He is described as being short for his age, and having light hair. He had on a blue cloth jacket, blue cap, and a Macintosh cloak.—Sun of Monday. THE ARMY.—The 20th regiment, we learn from the Naval and Military Gazette, will remain in England during the winter, but in the spring will embark for Dublin. Head quarters, two, compames, Stockport; six, Ashton-under- Lyne; two, Rochdale.—Ensign W. Baring is appointed ex tra aide-de-camp to the new governor-general of Canada. Ensign Baring, who entered the army in February last, is nephew of Mr. Poulett Thornson.-79th regiment, head quarters six companies, Manchester ; two, Halifax ; two, Newcastle, Staffordshire.-86th regiment, Manchester.- 96th, head quarters, three companies, Bolton ; two, Hay dock ; three, Wigan, two, Liverpool. LORD WESTERN.—His Lordship has written a letter to Lord Rayleigh, showing the result of his system of drilling, in which he says—" I am of opinion that my increased pro duce the last three years is in some degree attributable to the system I have pursued, and I strongly recommend pretty extensive trials of it, if not its immediate adoption. But the main causes of increased, and I flatter myself, still in creasing produce, have been the seasons and high farming ; the first we cannot command, the second we can. If you ask me to say what is high farming, in two words I say, animal manure. Mr. John Brindley resigned his situation on Wednesday last as head-master of the Oldswinford Hospital; and Mr. Dixon, an assistant-master in the Corporation School, Coventry, has been appointed as Mr. Brindley's successor. A purse containing 20 guineas, subscribed by the clergy and other inhabitants of Dudley, was presented to Mr. Brindley a few days since, in acknowledgment of their gratitude " for the noble and successful stand he has long made, and con tinues to be making, against the wick e d and blasphemous doctrines of Robert Owen and his emissaries.”—Barrotv's Worcester Journal. THE WRELTON oAlC.—This majestic oak, whose age is supposed. to number upwards of 300 years, was cut down on the 17th of August. The length of the trunk was 20 feet, and the girth 12 feet. It stood upon the estate of Mr. Jacob Marshall, who has sold it to Mr. George Grayson, of Pickering. The cutting down of this venerable tree was celebrated as a festival by the inhabitants of Wrelton, and its surrounding neighbourhood. A numerous party dined upon the tree,under the presidency of Dr. Cole, and among the substantials served were a rump of beef of two stone weight, given by Mr. Marshall, and a pie weighing three s t on e, given by Mr. Grayson. After the cloth was drawn, the health of the Queen; and many other loyal and social toasts were drank, and heartily responded to by the com pany. The scene was further enlivened by a band of music which was in attendance ; and the day being fine, dancing, and races among the villagers, with other rustic sports, oc cupied .the time until the evening,' when the company ad journed to the village inn, and the social glass, the song, the glee, and other convivialities detained the guests for some time longer. The roots of this noble tree are of a beautifully variegated kind, adapted for snuff-boxes and other trifles, for which, no doubt, they will be in great requisition, as many will be desirous to possess a relic of a tree so well known and so much celebrated.--York Courant. QUICK WORE.--Mr. Gough, of Broseley, malster, had a field of wheat standing on his farm, at Bridge Walton, near Bridgnorth, on Saturday morning last, which was carried, thrashed, and partly winnowed, and 30 bags of the same sold the - same day in Bridgnorth market.—lbid. TALL WINDOWS.—A waggish neighbour of ours, speak ing of windows which he saw in Boston, the other day, said the squares of glass were so big that it took four men to look out of them !—he saw three men try and they could not do it.—N. H. Telegraph. A STAUNCH POINTER.—" We go into a field of standing corn," said the colonel, " when Sancho was missed. Neither calling nor whistling had any effect, and we went home with out him, wondering what had become of the dog. When the corn was cut, however, the mystery was explained, for there stood Sancho in the attitude of p o i n ti n g, and a covey of bi r d s some few feet in advance of him, all, both dog and birds, perfect skeletons.—American, of course. THE WEATHER. —Two days of the brightest and most bracing weather have restored the confidence of the farmer, and given to the stack and haggard the produce of a generous harvest. This morning was overcast and grey—but the clouds have since noon given way to the lively breeze and a vigorous sun, and the barometer gives gradual indication of a steady improvement in the weather. The country has great reason to be thankful for the favourable change.—Dublin Evening Mail. RAPERISED CLOTH.-Mr. Raper's invention for water proofing. every description of cloth, even of the finest possi ble fabric, has been subjected to the ordeal of repeated expe riments by a committee of scientific gentlemen, and the re sult has been, in every instance, such as to demonstrate its superiority over all articles purporting to be of a similar de scription. After the severest tests, the cloth has been found to give a free passage to vapour without permitting the smallest portion of water to penetrate it. Thus the great desideratum, in a humid climate like ours, has been obtained, of preparing garments in such a manner as completely to ex clude the wet, while health is preserved by allowing perspira tion to evaporate. For further particulars we refer to the report of the experiments, and to our advertising columns. — Cork Standard. RUSSIAN ARMIES.—The France gives the following ac count of the armies of Russia in the Caucasus, on the coast of the Black Sea, and in Armenia, from a letter dated St. Pe tersburgh, 24th ult. :—" The army of the Caucasus, com manded by General Golowine, at Tiflis, is composed of 3.000 infantry, 800 dragoons, 1,500 Cossacks, and a half brigade of artillery. General Fest, at Derbent Boujnedki, occupies the coast of the Caspian Sea as far as Bacon, with 12,000 men and 36 pieces of artillery. In the fortresses of Cabashdah there are 15,000 men in garrison with their artillery. Upon the lines of Tereko and the outposts there are 2,500 Cossacks of the line. The army of the Black Sea consists of 8,000 men and 24 pieces of artillery at Anapa, un,der Gen. Grabbe; 12,000 men and 48 pieces of artillery on the line of Kouban, under General Rajewski ; 9,000 men and 36 pieces of artil lery on the coast and the lines of Sundja, under General So boleoski, and 3,500 Cossacks of the line in the plains of Ala zan, under the tletrnan Wierzouline. The army of Armenia is composed of 20,000 men and 60 pieces of artillery, under General Ratzowski, at Divan, and upon the line of Udaxes." This account does not include the irregular and native troops, which are calculated at from 45,000 to 20,000 cavalry. IMPROVED DAVY LAM P.—Shortly after the recentlament able catastrophe at the St. Hilda Pit, in South Shields, a committee was appointed to investigate the subject of ex plosions in Coal Mines, with a view to the introduction of means for preventing, or obviating the effects of, these calamitous events. Nothing, that we are aware of, has yet transpired as to the degree of success with which their la bours have been prosecuted. It is not, of course, to be ex pected that they should all at once discover that which has hitherto eluded the careful research of practical and scientific individuals, who have devoted many years to its consideration, but it would be well for the committee to report at as early a period as possible, in order that the result of their exertions, whether successful or otherwise, might be known. The principal objection which the men have to the Davy Lamp, arises, as we understand, to the insuffi, ciency of the light, which is in general so obscured by the wire gauze, as greatly to retard their labour. For the sake of obtaining a good light, therefore, they prefer candles, and even venture to remove the wire gauze from their lamps with that view. To prevent this, the lamps-in some col lieries are locked ; and in those of Lord Ravensworth and Partners, a glass tube is fitted within' the gauze so as com pletely to prevent another dangerous practice—that of draw ing the flame through the interstices for the purpose of lighting their pipes, by which accidents not unfrequently occur. A valuable improvement on the Davy Lamp has been suggested by Mr. Price, of Gateshead, who has had one fitted up according to his plan, and forwarded to the com mittee, above alluded to, for their inspection. The improve ment consists in placing what is called a " Bull's eye," in the side of the wire gauze, and surrounding it by a metallic reflector, by which the light is concentrated, and its effect increased, according to Mr. Price's calculation, nearly six fold. The lamp may either be suspended from the roof of the Mine, or placed upon the ground ; and, in order to guard it effectively from accident, it may be fitted into an iron box; with an open side, when it could be placed in any part of the Mine where it could be most convenient. For ob viating the great and acknowledged defect of the Davy Lamp, namely, the insufficiency of light, and still preserving its important advantages, Mr. Price's Lamp seems exceed ingly well adapted, and is, therefore, entitled to the con sideration of the committee, as well as ofgentlemen engaged in mining operations generally.—Newcastle Journal. HERRING FISHING.—The fishing continues at different northern stations, Helmsdale still maintaining its superiority as to the average quantity taken per boat. Some of the boats, however, have left this station and proceeded to An struther, where they are reaping a second harvest. Macduff has proved the most successful of the stations on the Banff or Morayshire coast, as the average here is as high as 125 crans, and some of the boats are within six or eight crans of their stipulated quantity of 200 boat. The average hitherto, as far as we have seen them calculated, appears to be as fol lows :—Helmsdale, average per boat, 140: Anstruther, 130 ; Macduff, 125 ; Burghead, 100 ; Pete r h ea d, 97 ; Wick, 94 ; Aberdeen, 85. The number of boats at Wick far transcends that at any of the other stations mentioned above, being about treble the number at Helmsdale. Formerly, it was calculated that about a thousand boats frequented this sta tion, and when the whole put out to sea on a calm evening, the spectacle is said to have been one in the highest degree striking and picturesque. The number this year has been 624, which is an increase of more than a sixth over that of last year. At Wick, the price last week was 13s. per cran 20s. for cured fish. At the Latheron district, several pur chases of cured fish were made at 19s. 3d. per barrel. The number of herrings in a barrel varies materially at the dif ferent stations. Mr. Mitchell, merchant, Leith, calculates that the general size of the Lochfine herring is about 600 or 800 to a barrel ; at Wick, 660 to 700 ; in the neighbourhood of Helmsdale, about 700 to 800, and at Lossiemouth the herrings, he says, are generally larger than at Wick. At the upper end of the Moray Firth they have been frequently caught of such a small size as to require from 1,000 to 1,200 to fill a barrel. Along the south side of the Moray Firth, including Morayshire, Banffshire, and part of Aberdeen shire, herrings are caught about the same time as on the north side ; the quality is similar to those caught at Wick, and they are also of a good medium size.—Glasgow Mail. APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.—The Hon. Thomas Vesey is about to lead to the hymeneal altar the Lady Emma Herbert. the youngest daughter of the Dowager Countess of Pembroke.—Edward Shenlock Gooch, Esq., eldest son of Sir Thomas Shenlock Gooch, Bart., of Ben acre Hall, Suffolk, i s s h or tly t o l ea d t o the altar Miss Harriette Hope Vere, daughter of Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Hope Vere.—Lord Kilmaine, of the Neale, county M a y o , Ireland, will sh or tly l ea d t o th e altar the youthful and lovely daughter of the Hon. Charles Law, M.P., Recorder of Lon don.—The approaching marriage of Mr. Cotes and Lady Louisa Jenkinson is expected to take place early in Septem ber. Preparations on a large scale are making at Fife House, Whitehall, for a grand d6eune on the occasion.—lt is also said that Mr. Lockhart, of literary celebrity, is to lead to the altar Miss Angela Coutts Burdett, the wealthy daughter of Sir Francis Burdett.—.Alliances are also about to take place between Daniel Higford Burr, Esq., M.P. for Hereford, and Miss Mary Scobell ; and between Mr. Edmund Lyall, son of the late M.P. for London, and the beautiful Miss Darner, of Portland-place.—Alliances are also spoken of be tween Mr. William Bolland, son of the late Baron Bolland, and Miss Ellen Crosbie ; and l'etween Captain Maynard, of the Blues, and a lady of great beauty and accomplishments. EARTHQUAKE AT MARTINIQUE.—The following letter from Mr. Philip A. de Creby, U. S. Consul at St. Pierre, Martinique, under date of the 2d instant, has been received at Baltimore, and contains the particulars of an earthquake, with which that island has again been visited.—" I hasten to inform you that this morning at 25 minutes past two o'clock, the inhabitants of this town were awakened by two very se vere shocks of an earthquake, each of which lasted about 40 seconds. A gentleman from Baltimore occupied the cham ber with me ; — we immediately rushed into the street, w hi c h we found aready filled with men, women, and children, flying in all directions, others on their knees, calling on God to preserve them. It is impossible to describe the sensations caused by such an occurence ; houses rocking to and fro, tiles, small stones, and mortar falling all around, women and children screaming, and with the expectation of seeing the houses fall upon you, I assure you our situation is far from being envious. Rumours have just reached us, of several houses having fallen down at Port Royal, of the truth of which there can be no doubt, as many houses were in a very precarious position ; and the shock was of such force as to have thrown down those of more solidity. We have not heard of any deaths, but several persons were much hurt, in jumping from the windows," &c. BUSHWOMEN : SOUTH AFRICAN BEAUTIES.—The wo men, who were much less shy, and who never failed to follow the tracks of our waggons, when they happened to come upon them, with the hope of obtaining tobacco in exchange for ostrich eggs, are of small and delicate proportions, with hands and feet of truly Lilliputian dimensions. Their foot prints reminded us of Gulliver's adventures, and are not larger than_ those. of - a child. When young, they have a pleasing expression-of countenance, which they take care to render as captivating as possible, by bedaubing their flat noses and prominent cheek-bones with a mixture of red ochre and fat. The toilets of many were made with scrupulous atten tion, the effect of the p a i n t b e i ng en h ance d b y necklaces coin posed of the fresh entrails of wild beasts—a few cowry shells, old bones, and buttons being always interwoven with their matted hair ; but the life they lead, their frequent long abstinence, and constant expose to the wind and glare of light, in a dry open country, soon inducing the habit of keep ing their naturally small eyes more than half closed, their comeliness is very ephemeral, and never extends beyond youth. The females possess much greater volubility and animation of gesture than the men ; but the sounds they ut ter are a succession of claps of the tongue, produced by forc ing that unruly member against different parts of the teeth and palate ; and, whilst the enunciation is thus rendered troublesome and full of impediment, it resembles rather the chattering of monkeys than the language of human beings.— Harris's Expedition. POISONING BY COPPER.—A very curious and important discovery has recently been made in connection with crimi nal jurisprudence. A man was charged with having poisoned a person with whom he was drinking, by putting verdigris in his glass ; and death having ensued, the stomach and entrails were submitted to what has hitherto been considered an une quivocal process. A certain quantity of copper was disco vered, and no doubt was entertained that verdigris had been administered. Some unexpected results in this process hav ing, however, led one of the chemists engaged in the investi gation to believe that copper and lead were to be discovered by this process in cases where none had been taken, he per formed the same experiment upon several persons who had died a natural death, and ascertained the existence of either lead or copper in every case ; but by another process no such -results were obtained. It does not appear that any experi ment has yet been made with the new process upon persons who had died from the effects of poison by one of these sub stances ; but sufficient has been ascertained to show, that the discovery of copper or lead by the process hitherto employed is no proof that the party had been poisoned. When it is considered that in several cases where , the poison was not present in the stomach, from the length of time which had transpired between the perpetration of the supposed crime and the death of the person, the presence of the poison by chemical analysis, under the presumption that it had been absorbed, has been taken as a conclusive proof of guilt, deep regret must be felt that so much importance was attached to a minute process of chemistry which is now shown to have been founded in error. The mention of this discovery, which is very recent, will, I trust, induce such of your scientific men in England as are acquainted with the process hitherto employed in Franee, to make similar experiments in cases of natural death, not for the purpose of confirming the fact, which admits of no doubt, but with a view to arrive at fur ther knowledge of a subject of such deep importance.— Letter,from Paris. The number of medical graduates at Edinb e amounted to 119, being twenty-one more than las /be el- A NEW WAY OF DEFEATING AN INFORlggiVit;cheter' ters on the line of road between Liverpf ol andh iosesei • having been recently caught " napping , 1 1;„ le eb sPe s and in consequence ad to ` iny the PiPert t fi t,, sundry penalties, fo r t iding their carts withl__ have recently set up as musicians, on their ;u rn, essr o Each carter has provided himself with a isfr they ° le is thing like those in use on canal boats, sln l ib e 910' sound on sight of the informer, and then go e nit ], signal, from one end of the road to,the 0ther..,.4 the week,to the P ing OPIUM SEISURE AT SIAM. -Singapo re cler'„ sirs May bring the following --Accounts have re,acheess,„lS, which, taken together with the ticed in our number of the 4th April last, show,tra'g de plainly enough that the government of Siam is acting the influence of that of China. It appears that 0 001, t _n . packet, which sailed from this, having 19 cheats o f al board, besides a large amount in terels, wag seised a c° ll `s mouth of the Meinarn by a government boat, a th o in which 6 men on board the packet were killed,weis.s,, believed, or chose to believe, that the Siam th e Siam: letter 01; pirate, and resisted in consequence, although This lo, o t Siamese laws prohibits the importation of OPi,ll3)*_f as first instance which has come under our n otice 0 _,,„ 0 50 having been made by Siamese cruisers on vessels bur have opium." no t t° FRENCH BOBBIN NET TRADE.---It ma y • e a tte•-' s uninteresting to our readers to know, that the..„biaerY,o establish the manufacture of bobbin net by 0 1 " 3. 07 0 Lyons, is considered a failure in that country. g the arose some time since concerning wages betweencoosequeidle workmen in that city and their masters. Th e los iaii!g le to 6 has been that the greater part of the machine' LI have become rusty, and they ar e now rem oving. s ic be set to work, by Englishmen drawn f rom this _s e P r ' Nottingham Journal. LONGEVITY.-A Woman of colour, naive- welt Neuilly, querite Charles, died, two days ago, at l og es 0 tamed her one hundred and twelfth year witho she s sl eleti perienced any infirmity during her long life', do Coeb h de African by birth, was purchased by the Maren' t e d tlei and taken to St. Domingo, where she was entrltee to e () Jo care of his children, and came to France at t n f her 11 '1 1 ° 0 revolution in that island. Here her master gav e rat s !b e and a pension for life. During the last Mb T ars , , ) , e lived at Neuilly, much respected by her neighb° nets to r ii ' t STATISTICS OF RUSSIA.-By some recent reP,,rio; kte theh minister of the interior, in Russia, it appeal . oo is year 1938 there were in the Russian empire, no t 992 birth Caucasian and trans-Caucasian countries 2,'',.otalrOt, 1,963,733 deaths, and 492,424 marriages. ' To e t he i 6 4, 10 of the population is estimated to have been 01 : t.s , e st . January, 1839, about 60,000,000. The raortut7.o,slll'o give numerous examples of extraordinary ban,g„l,7l/011°,45; sons attained the age of 100 to 105 years; "'Tit to ty l so o 115 years ; 150, from 116 to 120 ; 111' 3 d from f r o be s from 126 to 130 ; 5, from 131 to 140 ; 1, 1 4 - ; it tb°,ssce 155 ; attained 160 years, and 1 reached 16 5 • t itt'ws observe that since the keeing of registers of h e i ti r ts te ell es bb e f exist in d Russia until lately, p there are no verY a c tea t sg tha t of ascertaining the correctness of such a staten te° the extreme ages just mentioned. se° re taken prO In the case of Howell and Roberts, now to l , of death in Warwick gaoh-evidence • has been morta l bee t s ' l it an alibi in favour of the prisoners. A. nie inc hiobs o presented to Lord John Russell on behalf of 1 4 , 0 • whose case the evidence seems certainly con eoses is most likely that if he could have paid the e e P eo witnesses at Warwick, he would not have the cre s .i dcso The evidence in Howell's case is decis ive, et Bre rte to ss of the witnesses can be established ; but 00, Vin , theitor'' in Thomas-street, perhaps- th e lowest street e,,aocoosbs There is, however, one circumstance rather. The man so busy in the riot was deSeribell ea p er P wooden leg, and it is attested that fic' we tr ac t wooden leg.-Birminghatn Advertiser . be oil - . re' 4e ir EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY• T 4 to t' on the above line of railway are proceedi n g sfo tal a 4 spective contracts in a manner highly saq ici o f , t directors. The tremendous tunnel at the 'r ev s re ' stb street is getting on rapidly, and the woric' t m in dere e „ tbf f : present time excavating the solid rock:„ ebo,,itig,e Lunatic Asylum. It is said the tunnel wi" vo n op miles in length. There are a number of " .°r ,oal; AO' largehole or " eye," in a field below th e "` t he i" men at this place will meet the other set as Scottish Guardian. is vir o ( sea is tbe ENGLISH APPLES.-The home crop Ws d d i st , general average favourable. It was beli e ' e ta aeb b : e ssci e and other counties the growth of apples was vo t average crop, and it was feared it would be ' se inio blighting season. It now that in te •esre' of? appears Som e c o , t v don the crop has not been surpassed for ot her. , o f 1 , 1 Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire, an d _adee.oi there is a very good supply. Considerable q u r setesi f t • the n ' s i ° early apples have already appeared en an den' le low prices ; and it is quite certain that the a ce for the foreign apple will be very small, cool , M rP season. u t of o e• t be A copy of the Sidne Standard of the si g e t of rot come to hand. It cont ains the gratifying 1,„"0g.D7‘,0101d the party supposed to have been lost in the c o d , ila t 'het barque Despatch, which, it will be relu ° A rea chf le ee 3 00 about six hundred miles from SydneY , h a s se a. bot°,, Island, after having been eleven (Mrs al lSo ° P t teei, • tt i had remained two days, when they were tar' sties 11- the ire Woodlark whaler, Ca ptain Grimes, w 1 - ea ' olt Newcastle, whence they arrived at Sid lle ) wee' Aor March. Their sufferin g s, from cold and s gs, e t, 1( 1' ,11,; sions are described as having been very gr e ssiv At 'ioe SHEEP.-The present year has been re l9 t a se Pr e , able to the productiveness of sheep stock i s do , '" ,or s li . tricts of Northumberland, being more than p rodf` h to the year 1837. The following is the aver Bg r s e , lambs. produced during the last three Ye a , selise' l ,tisi; shearing time :-On the year 1837, there o ,;e n c !nit l ° al' the score of ewes ; 1838, 11 ditto : great increase in this year is owing to the , w ( ea sti i tbe n ea season, and the absence of distemper. -Aw , ' 600,g 1 0 THE BIRMINGHAM RIOTS.-At the I TI ,LOSIeI t , - t i e mingham town council on Tuesday, Aln er 7 t '',itt;so o6 ; that the following gentlemen be appoint!, do PIS -tie inquire into the cause of the late riots, ari , : ts , coy cult of their investigation:-Aldermen B,"' g as , s ting' te'' Harrold, Sturge, and Jenkins ; and le- Ilie' Clowes, Lucas, Weston,, Pare, MiddleseolVer. ler, Hardman, B. Redfern, Martin, an ci f c 1; 116 tion was carried unanimously. Apo A i . the 1 , 11 1 .. 0 EXTRAORDINARY CASE. -- SWALLO ea rl " P The following extraordinary case was s‘•otis,gsOli coo rs'Who' Police-o ffi ce, Henry-street, last week 5 "; 0 4 1) ,;,'d named Rathbone, charged Anne Lynch t" . EO ll ` iii % his watch. Complainant said lie was Pass-the Pr' Pe ri borough-street when he was followed bY ...c.r sets ce se eo snatched the watch out of his waistcoat r a pol' bo to e t ij her on the spot, and had her given up t° , t atie ° ,s f j , was passing. She was brought to she o de 100 bb ri t , although the most rigorous search was, „of b e sot° e tf ct l is who was there for the purpose, it conk' e ata lS l t he all hopes of recovering it were given uP , f o tcli 11 , c is t , t l concluded that the prisoner dropped the e " bees!'" th s , h efr e , In the course of the night, however, ab re seu e ,: s t rs o t:4 station-house, and without the aid of 10., ss „stl ts t se r g j t i was forthcoming, although she acknowiTiconitreo ribto4 completely swallowed it when she toolt po ce j o ele be t!,`( man's pocket. • What made the eas e bet Of oCh' ril e was, that there were six or eight ine ol ds' tbe 11 4 0 4 , attached to it. It was a thin fashionable-I tha t . s ot Ire °l ; at all a small one. The magistrates Sa c i o '' o rll o l 3 - 0 1 101' should be committed for trial. Th e s re ° le vo ul would not prosecute her, as he was s u re tbe s eir r o i suffered sufficiently. The magistrates o' 4 . Cut e ° fi could not get his watch unless be prose sc a ,V, O e rau EXTRAORDINARY RHUDARD.---Aar h o or b, o t o day morning last, in the garden of Hug h (3", 1 ,. 5 ig Ribby-hall, a stalk of Dulley's t ei l a n t be weighed entire as it came from the P t the di 4 s !Ad Ps" of et‘, ounces, and when diveste of tee -- „ D es h r ell 21b. 14 oz., or 46 ounces; the circualst i c agt oe fe e ply feet 7 inches, diameter, 3 feet 9 ins he s s e ' s , ciece salon rib, 3 feet, lenth of stalk, 2 feet 2 ine' so s tb ill 01°4 stalk, (or girth , 64 inches. There is O f tlj e other six stalks eually as large ; 0 9e , sr s of '' , 1 three inches in the q stalk and three-euar'ld of - n oV ef girth. It was planted in the latter el at se tseitoSt, Preston Pilot. t jle sen • ,ef THE DOVER BANQUET.-Thedirlller_criptlO 010-00) table was of the most magnificent de' s s tb e e ot b ite d having handles of gold. The service 'l°r p r . be ta hen h e lb [W e ll was used at the civic banquet, ws - !los s-se honoured the city of London with et to ter° 0 e ‘l e • illi te the company were laid out in a `.eel. o bit,. 0 the following is the bill of fare :- 2b ' table's boodirt`' ditto, 23 each • 1 ditto, 124 ; Duke boh e eM of lamb, 56 dishes roast veal, 46 dittorkey v o ,i3o ir tas i roasted ditto, 120 couple chickens, 4 0 tu tato, sa c , ison ds , 17' 56 tongues, 120 pigeon pies, 240 ven „so salt, ‘,/ 160 custard puddings, 200 lobsters' - .',, ses c , s p s ,,e• pickles, &c. Dessert, &c.-Kentih vu' „„ 1 -411. 4 ,' „., „ SHIPS OF WAR STRUCK BY C rt , hay t he s , c,e the parliamentary papers, that there t eb oi damage by the electric fl uid to vessels ,‘,, o f b 0! b o ut r ott e cthe alone since 1793. It appears, in f u ll y 0 , t be which the particulars have been fulll ro ptw e of e rP:O,, sixth of the ships were set on fire inca s es soll:',etsejo.l4,l sails, or rigging; in one half these , s , „ o reu vs, ey were killed, wounded, or both ; the Wi t T i ocd., being 60 seamen killed, and 114 wn, so f team et 4 al oe , ,i c , , , 0 include one instance in which the ntl Loup esa e l j 5 is mentioned as " several ; and otil, 4 e c o p e cr e is, frigate of 44 guns (the Resistance' ) er e seenee jb e i t; of war, and the York, of 64 we and - be re • viously to a severe storm of lightning;vbich t he set, and I after. There are also tuelve cases i ' n 'd e d aB e sis return, though the killed and w°°, o l " several." Independent of th' " t e tteet i--sn' gad life, there is another bad effect pro( Lino , tiali .pc ksoey e oF 4 panic, and fearful- impressiots-niad° ,i;nen ' jo g; v ceily as took place in the Theseus, a 4 'b,.ligh t Francois, when that ship was strue si th t s rushed up th e hatchways, an d were s ; tile C t he . o es o ' f from jumping into the sea. Likew' fb ietoe, i ; e s taf s isi li e r ; mouth ; the lightning struck the oit hit' t se" t ele, i tii by the topsail-sheet to the bits, whe r e a long„ o acle:ie k tor,, wounded many others ;it then swe,le's b e e u A •lig o ' ship , striking down all in its waY nsie'oit b e je e f, taken below ; many of theni vvere s tr re Oli a suit occurred on board the Reri lse tn en i ve 01444 sfer,,c; in the Mediterranedh, when eleve n .. . co ded so.so iA 0,40:1,c wounded, and the greatest alarm I , '; there sl' t e s t, men for a long time after, whenev er: s o dr ~ste t of ance of lightning; and its effects we t,..„1.0 ret . ' .r eer, under Lord Exmouth, off Toulon, 7 00 1 p u ee 4 4 , visitation, that his lordship gal e 8 b ) 04 31e eel ° • tile the men being sent aloft durtn e m ergency. s ° 4 49 (17 : except in cases of the greatestDs .. t he . 0 , Loss ° !,cti DREADFUL COLLISION AND a , c eceo -s ot -On Wednesday intelligence sv, e , wit h 10%,00,0if.tic4,, most unfortunate disaster, attena. ten ded perty, to the extent of several ter;„o3l;trosslitVisiily:;,,i, cursed during the dreadful gal" ° ", ~.-10`o l se t o ri,,440 The particulars are briefly as 1 0 " 0% e „ a vvel:i. b so rt e / o'clock on Sunday night, the lar s g the r isrie lb e geO t te! Royal Adelaide, the property oi th c t ovage n e ' y o onet' o jelnce t j 1 ,1 Packet Company, on her . gel C ) v l e. „ A o r to Belfast, came in collision witurndou.sst on ees o i S Bias, of London, with such ire Ing;ert;etlir;l9, latter sunk almost immediately. said, w o o , ol l ' ieo s o c dark, and a good look-out, it is r a as t br 0° tble , Royal Adelaide, but the schoonensoasefis to stostee,,s within a few yards of her bow T he c. 9 hocq oo pe r ; o r!i i .',„p4Pi could prevent the collision. nd the scotter/ b y Plye s ir 4l of the steamer was driven in, an d Of the c oves itt cic be almost cut in two. The cre a w ,„l the w. 12 4 ,, e . 0 11,, , ,, the time were on deck, and s ss'eeptionifelo, "Vgoiiooo24e4 board the steamer, sviib the N per 5 ,e ,i , 0 0 4 5 , „tity, was asleep in the fore cabin , n po' o ccVcod: the Royal Adelaide, fearing t e ln;_, a ge ! ,; t beY _ o s not knowing the extent oft w s l en t s e o , , s a r l ss „ helm, and steered her to Cowes,,4..tioa n_ froi 5 ,o !, 1 IleX38”11' n o t 51° ' 0) 4' 1 t B ri l Gi rfr gaining in a few hours. A I had so t s oot it was discovered that the vesae, :ss . 0 0 t be, o e., l as to prevent her from channel. A great many oe ins r roe G uidon . d 01 ' j 0 ,00 , r there , and came back to L L j 113 300 to Captain Herbert, and the ClA t t rio , e lepli b vessel was from the coast 0 0 1, dl e w ort i, cargo, consisting of chests 1 orted t ° droo" u e arafi lre palm oil. The cargo is reP, Ite Tee _ d u , id t rib° err is the property of Mr. ; erY g rea a i er."" 3 6° ls city. Her loss, if true, i L s s ' adog• iselrs are insured at Lloyd's. „ o ne by found, dismasted, next day, carried her into Ostend. Thi ' kfte, e %pe kr e 14 ri bear vtv e li ro , I t) j *to o thi s qißt n ay att4