The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-04-17 00:00:00

A well-written at abow tterature. CES hylaxis cted to ent from their ess this port e torpor: a not yet anh of nnl 1 filthy pi 3 even , whict ose of e I is to t CLOSE CUTTING ON THE GREAT • WESTERN.—The company, says the Liverpool Times, " have effected a saving of lls. per annum by wafering instead of seal ing their letters. What an anomaly ! their income is increased by waxing less !" If the waterer, however, get no more a week than the saving per annum, he will be apt to reduce the r 7 the wafers—a cir- by eatir,, cumstance which oug though he will not we lit to be tak Ix so fat, we nto consideration— •, even in such a way faring, as to justify The Builde in the D/ nhical sketch of Pct ine, we have a bi " worthi of his u I extren id phantom dismay, , me from ch !' ex• f - e, come 3 share address from the gob- he farmer, r his courags ;hostly vi t, discovered the fair Henri excessively foolish. It is sai the girl's trick, has had the !tte B d that the bans pub- with he rEItFECT ourite liquc WIFE.—A perfect wife resembles that of the male sex, punch. Well-made too strong nor too wel udicious compound of E k, too sweet, nor sour, but a 11 contradictions. constitutions, are suited by every on be considered as repre- I knowledge of important ost ger. therefore, is a strong efolks don't like at all, ions. The water cor- y chat about the passing occurrences itself, is insipid, and only serves to 1 intercourse—for talk- e feel fo: id hearing : I it is also a good vehicle for some ess, end rv. A e . The sugar, of course, represents its of every sort, and, not least, al of it, by itself, is cloying to the .ceptable addition to the rs to op- but it is a most he lemon - juice an: contradiction, reproach, sarcasm, scolding, and that gives a pungent acidity to one's inter . ad takes off the flatness of it WOMAN'S OPINION OF t men have, by nature, a superio - rity in fables them to go through labours and et, win from whi, or pro On the oth, n are ene ►f the graces and ity of quick he every-day a:ld delicate c .In allthese, _ther ng the husband " endov d clings to him for as a hop-plant climbs on its pol ticks t( as the v►m e poets. " t a swee in Ita arried , or an el you would tell tlier, D more Lisa mere c: NASTIC LIBRART tainea the litu menos 1 Married 31110 put to igno- let, boring the .ome, people 'vice to a I —The coni us. In ma ion had been much excifei e Auzourr os, or superior, no library what hey had and no i) alaia an had 3theii for many he was of a dream his guest to enter with the monks aal church service shouting away at the chorus on, Christe eleison," which occurs almost ,e in the ritual of the Greek Church. Each .Luing, to save his bare legs from the p of the marble floor, upon a great folio volume, :11 had been removed from the conventual library, applied to purposes of practical utility in the way which I have described. The traveller, on examining these ponderous tomes, found them to be of the greatest value ; one was in uncial letters, and others were full of illuminations of the earliest date ; all these he was allowed to carry away in exchange for some footstools or hassocks. which he presented in their stead to the old monks were co•Dfortabiy covered with " ketche," or felt, - and were in many respects more convenient to the inhabitants of the monastery than the manuscripts had been, for of the :I the toes of ated congregation who stood upon them or so many hours in the day. I must add r halves of the manuscripts were imperfect, p of the floor of the church baying corroded ay their vellum leaves.—Hon. R. Curzon. ES OF not yet had due med 10KIN( wide-spread and its c iequences. It is only by two or , that Dr. Laycock has become the gre I in the systen 3f the N n as they 3 of t to which especially excessive smoking le proceeded to state s with in t s memo lungs, the ;s from half an ounce to twelve ounces per wee 1 quantity from two to three ounces per week. I consume f four to five dc ming dr meanderin of mucus ion about is observed to ng is also experienced of the lips and tc Lon of tot If the thorax swollen, with trosing feel to it. Th, and irregular [de than the diminish and congestec .her reds ndy, wl vexatto THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. criminal is condemned to death for murder, he will at times threaten the judge that he will next assume the form of a wild beast or venomous reptile, for the purpose of being revenged. A Cingalese was found guilty of a hei nous murder, and condemned to die ; before passing sen tence of death upon the criminal, Sir Anthony Oliphant, the Chief Justice of Ceylon (who is as honest and benevo lent a man as ever held a responsible office), asked if he had anything to say. " Yes," said the culprit, " I have. You can make me die as a man, if you choose ; but if you do,. I shall assume, in one moment, the shape of a cobra capello, and will return and sting you to death ; Queen's advocate, his wit dren—not one shall es the jury, their wive my vengeance. So now con- .nd chil- One of the magistrates for Cheltenham, a Sunday or two ago, with the assistance of his livery servant, tum bled a magistrate for Dorgetshire out of his pew at church, although he went into it very peaceably after standing a long time in the aisle. These magisterial gentlemen have gone before the magistrates, but the case is not yet de- Cided. • GUTTA PERCHA.—The vessel Duke of Bronte, arrived from Singapore, has brought the very l arge quan tity of 36 bags, 112 bales, 11,347 blocks, and 1,934 other pack ages of this peculiar article of merchandize, as a portion of her cargo, consigned to order; and the vessel Anne Watson, also arrived from Singapore on the following dsy, has brought 7, 402 packages, 120 blocks, and 3 baskets ned to order. Hon emn me to death if votidar THE BISHOP, 'I We do not hout the whole of thi to the nrpqpnt. tiny ,ut of court simpl r has published a letter to the Pri mug a simple documentar ratement of Mr le morn with his these!" ice that " Oh ! ,oved six !Es the am Augt THE SECEDER to . the Duke o Cot less. His g , ell as a The Bishop of acted th judgment and t man is to be pi ineret, was added to the borou tly much improved th d for it an cool id just fi is too he bishop on the subject of con hat disappointed at the bishop's patronage vested in himself, and n. H icated with i The duke had - ,.onsecrated, t the minister left wholly dependent on pew-rents or on the ducal bounty. It was explained to him that he could not have everything, and that in order to 'consecration he T make it a district church wi ,th an endowment of £5O a-year, or a chapel of ease, leaving the patronage eumbent of Berry Pomei:oy The duke made it a sine qua non that he should have the patronage : still, as he had previously sold the next presentation of Berry Pomeroy, and was now about to cut off the most impor tant part of the parish to the injury of the purchaser, and as also he had thereby acknowledged the rights of the patron, he ought to have been prepared at least to pay for his hobby. The duke and his man of business settled at last to petition the bishop to license the build ing as a temporary matter, and with the intention, as ex pressed in the petition, of applying for consecration as soon as the endowment could be agreed on. The bishop acceded to this proposal, and, with the consent of the incumbent, licensed Mr. Shore to the chapel. The con chiding words of the petition, signed Somerset," on which this arrangement was made, were—" I hereby engage that, if your . lordship shall think tit to grant such and appropriated exclusively for that purpose" " religious worship according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England and Ireland." This state of things, intended to be only' temporary, was inconvenient and painful to the incumbent of Berry Pomeroy, who though charged with the cure of Bridge town, was, in fact, ousted by the stranger. The incum bent however died in 1834, and was succeeded by the gentleman to whose friends the duke had sold the next Presentation. - VIZ., The new incumbent soon found Mr. Sh s side, and felt a special grievance in the duke, having first sold the living, had subsequently got the most important part of it back into his hands again, leaving the purchaser that much minus that he had bargained for, But, rather than have Bridgetown still included in his spiritual cure, but actually under what he considered erroneous teaching, he was ready to make any sacrifice. He offered to alienate all the t Bridgetown, amouting to £BO per annum, to find with thing: pus error not legally e lies in cure of that district separated. The duk at this offer, and asked the bishop to consecrate the church on that endowment, giving the patronage to the duke. _ The bishop, however, did not think this fair, and certainly it was not fair. If the vicar gay went he had a right to all the patronage. all the eudo on the otF hand, the duke was to be r in a greater proportion that 3, he ought to contribute vicar. The bishop made his effect, Tha truth w ay real . ep towards an endowment. Mr. Iridgetown, let all the seats, got £ ..... lore took 0 a-year, That the sorted, not only in I , that the Duke of Si ,erset had built a church, nt of Be tempts to get_ridof Bri 471 1832. when 1e had no would have no peace in his n was in his parish and Mr. :into in the chapel made many desperate at a for doing out th e, had converted it into and Mr. Shore each thought the other in seri- The. vicar, therefore, refused to grant Mr. renewed nomination without which he could ue to Ipts to continue where he v .If, indeed, in playing off t , ar, and the vicar again: t the bishop, an ainst both. He protested to the last tablished Church and hi at the duk, :fened to of beyond the du is devotion to the 3 its articles and suggestion .ded, eventually agent to the the building rho had I, but a tin' worship, and Mr. Shore, dissenter at Duke of Somerset, took ou place of c bef he was rough adherent of the Established Church, officiated in it. This is not the case of a conscientious dissenter, or a dissenter at all, persecuted for his dissent. It is the case of the clergyman, who declares he is no dissenter, publicly officiating without and in defiance of the diocesan's author ity, and doing this in a building which bad been built and licensed for the services of the church, and which its builder and his patron had express be applied to any other purpose Times ouki never n those se: encra silqisrEllant Tho duty on hops of the gr nounted altogether to the sum of A redbreast has built its nest i Lnging with the door open, in An English brig is about to le th about forty Malts A. fire occurred at Devor s sent very la lg, building, i iss Julia I froth t I have resol convicted befo: twelve o'clock nguish i efore th ttle won) could b, ARY Po in love from ... his looks, gave I Derby Mere A. NEW CONVICT eretary for the Coloi t numl th of the year 1848 ~ which was .n out house at Halifax ive Malta for Californi .go of wi on Sunday, by which e is esti- ice, and £5 for the secon both were dr tng ins ;, a fine 'sday a g man t two our .1 nna h; ;ented to tt -,. ,utli Wales, He neverthel to in ti when the threat that step of the artiel PRICE OF H. Stanley, in his address to the electors of Lynn, whilst speaking of the supply of wheat from the western states of America, •• I. have visited that country, and I knowledge of its agricultural resourc ow that I lion of every western when I tell' you that in a - jfew rmer and mer they will be rice below 40 send wheat into this country a quarter, and probably belo DEATH OF SIR ANDREW AGNEW, BA Agnew died at his residence, It burgh, On Thursd: was attacked by fe, ', from which City which followed. in 1793, and succeeded to the baron, succeeded in the title and estates by 'Sir Andrew was born Agnew, R.N., who of Gainsboroueh. THE CHANNEL ISLAND PRESS.—The f to the public, and instructions to all postmasters, and letter receivers, has order of the Postmaster-General:- newspapers printed or published in al Islands, or in the Isle of 11 )flowing notice stmast bed by [an, and s , nt by the post be and Great Britain or Ireland, tween any of such islanct, will be liable to the full letter rates of posta to the scale for charging inland letters by the exception of such of the newspapers al' be printed in the French language." TAKING THE VEIL.—On Tuesday 44 eight; with to as may le ceremony of . the ar of the Sisters of , st Holy Trinity reception of a young lady into the ordc Mercy took place in the chapel of the JV Parker's-row, Bermondsey. The chapel was with fashionably -attired ladies, and several noble lords members of the Roman Catholic Church, were also pre sent. The postulant on this occasion was a Miss Bar the daughter of highly-connected r-- I from India, after a len s vho is said to possess a i ed fortune all to the service of the orde I herself. recently L._ The young lady, her own right, devotes it with which she has connect& THE CONVICT SARAH GUILT.—This wretched girl has at 1 Rev. Dr. Swete, chaplain to the gao sole perpetrator of the murder of he last night not the sl of the probability of a reprieve will be the day on which she will sufT nalty of the law in front of the city g THOMAS.—CONFESSION 01 ed hc ntirnation had be conduct has been most extraordinary during the week; on some nights she will sit up, but when sl to bed she sleeps soundl eating very heartily, an yard for airing. She is i ri walks with a f cuous when present at the .coron Journal. ILLEGAL INOCULATION Matthew S uires Samuel E by inoculating I The prisoner, at the expr deceased, a child of ti a time when the smallpox The prisoner pleaded guil e Years of a, said he was very preferred, and he hoped i name to impns :h ensued he A' anslaughte it might I and the punishment he he might be justified in would be i A CAT I risonment for two day a consequence of a Su made a post. mortem exam daurzlit At length the t tion it proved to b It, which was been left on the ble at the inn where the inq it had been given by the beat al student, who, pool. The beadle, who was s impropriety of his con de to recover t s her meals regularly, —Bristol setshire :s of ti him at libourho nt bad been icrally pub- i the sir md, and the a his opinion should be communicated to him geon coul &TROCIOUS ATTEMPT AT PARRICIDE.—The town of them was thrown into a state of intense excitement John Bland, the d high consta- report that superintendent constable of Rotherham ble of that dis nated by his peared that the young man, who was o and vindictive, temper, had placed a los drawer in such a position that it would explode on the drawer being opened, he anticipating that his father would probably search for money which he had • abstract ed; and that Mr. Bland did in fact go to the drawer to make the search, and narrowly escaped with his life. The young man was kept in durance until arrangements could be made ; and on Friday evening his father intrust ed him to the care of a friend, who accompanied bin London by the mail train, in order to enrol him in on her Majesty's regin ents o Here the affair ends, STANFIELD HALL of the Peerage," speaki the ill-fated Amy Robsart, says, Parkin makes no mention of Robsa speaks of him as being styled after his sart, late of Wyndham, in Norfolk, Stanfield, in the parish of Wyrno therefore, possible that the scene nrxrders may have been the birthpl ref the west-r An investigat pistol in his —A note in of Sir John wile of the great Earl o Herald.—A Sunday paper has obtained an unenv to beano vanced, he ,conishment, however, the individual, in stead of going by, impudently imitated his minutest ac tion, and placed himself in a position precisely similar to his own on the same side of the room. Thinking the gentleman might prefer passing in that direction, our dreadful friend reeled over to the opposit e t a bl e t o g i ve hi m an of she unfortunate opportunity of doing so; but indi gna ti on qu i c kl y sur mounted every other feeling. when th e gentleman, renew- i remarkable that 8 knighthood ; he squire, alias of Tt seems, Vorthampto, ossed simultaneously The co With him. Unable tO .. pit up )Ie notoriety in tl. ith this _insolence any 3, however, now dire( confronted him in his path, and appeared to beputtit !ountenance through a variety of con bad. " Will you permit ;ions in t then, to pass, .sir mantled our now ex ), bowing with as much )nly a Tile demnd ving been the some of the most notorious murder, brought to trial. In addition to Rush terminated, Thurtell acre, th orderer of H annah Brown ; Yarl: n. tour years ago, for t , who, about twelve mont at the Guildhall C Smith being inhabitants of THE UNFORTUNATE EMILY SANDFORD nobility and gentry of the county o members of the grand jury who rem; the assizes, feeling anxious to save thi 3or destitute woman Emily ruin, have, we understand tion, as the only me of averting the calamity. On Thursday she was released from custody, and proceeded to the Bell Inn. Here we were informed she had a con ference with some of the gentlemen connected with the ..cution to whom she expressed her conviction that Ae had heard, when the prisoner entered he _ at three o'clock, on the morn' after the murders, it was his intention to have assassi,- from w -room trerc by the her with U ,ent that she, under th MODERN VANDALISM.—The palace of John o'Gaunt, in Lincoln, has been sold by auction, and it is reported that the building is to be pulled down, and the ma t er i a l s sold. It was atone of the windows of this guildhall that Lord Hussey was beheaded for taking part in the rebel lion against the reformation ; and the citizens are reputed to have so far favoured the catholic movement which brought several to the block and the axe as to resist as a presumptuous innovation the injunction that the church services should be read in a language they could under stand ! The doomed palace is generally considered to have been built by John o'Gaunt for the summer residence of Katherine Swinford, the sister of Chau cer , th e p oe t. Th e • remains of this I. are interred in the cathedral near those of Henry of Huttingdon, the 1 aistorian.—Lincoln Igns we . of money as that they no A PILL FOR. PRIDE. -2 ad ever posses equally inherit, s that wer hose tr Weare; Green- ; all were Some of the 'orfolk and those !d till the end of a sum of money to ford from utter termined to rai a subscrip- most provoking imitation of the salute was repeated, with 1 „,,.,,euess—the bow being omit -but with more energy than before. Still no answer; ..d the gentleman stood as firm, but no firmer, than his questioner. This was a climax, and our friend, advancing a step—the gentleman making a corresponding move— exclaimed, in a voice thick with emotion, ” Sir, this con duct reflects great disgrace upon you," and was about testifying his displeasure in a manner that would have used a striking effect upon his tormentor, had not a come up, and, touew irked, s arm, gently r -glass !" He apolugi " mistake, :ely as t brok nong the ►tPd a. hal hat a fool a s too much makes of INARY STOr theWorshif police-c ffect, that v April 17, Sit NEW MOTIVE POWER. The following are extracts from the interesting P t ql i e read by Mr. Rowett, who wa s invited to explain' 1/w of last meetin g o f th e P o lyt ec h n i c S oc iety, the feattlre'dit the important invention patented by Mr. Al e Gordon, the eminent engineer : bed I ts "We shall now observe, that what cannot I ts of steam can be done by hot air, or by the hot Po nt ! 0 06 combustion, currents of which may be dischareedloi or under water back war d t o i m p e l the vessel forwaru'ea, forward when th e vesse l i s t o b e impelled bae l loe These currents, being permanently elastic, do not 0" the as steam does; and being tenacious of their he 3 . l :', bet necessary impact cart be had to move the ship 1 " 0 411 course without the aid of any complicated an (l ,„ e rf• machinery. Rockets are impelled without any nT The locomotive power of rockets is had by the dire c l t ea de hot products of combustion theel` t the ~...tting these bodies i n a i r or in water, with, tho intervention of machinery ; and let it be o bserve a ll t h e it is by making us e o f a ll th e h ea t gen erated, an d 3 011 heated bodies put in motion. It is i m possible te i o fe that heat is the source o f p ower i n a ll the ease s i o vie referred to. Mr. Gordon does, however, use sortie 5 ,,d for machinery ; but it will be seen th a t it is not arratig'.o, the delicate operations of the marine condensing e n g i o• but mainly to produce a reciprocating motion for P that ing air into the fire, an d it w ill b e seen in this ea se igeci „t• h.... , . t55.• tilt , fi re is en tt at plication of t for and none wasted. Even - the large amount of - 10 14 the top of the steamboat chimney is saved and einPol by Mr. Gordon's impeller, and this saving of P('''' er pir' not be looked at as a mi nor cons id era ti on , for , ray, the chief engineer of Portsmouth Dock-Yar"' s tate'' ee paper, read before the instit u ti on o f c i v il engineer 6 ' (tbo that 500 of the 1000 d egrees o f h ea t i n the furns te j at is, one-half of the po wer o f th e h ea t) are now ." .8 ! tbi s the top of the chi m ni e s o f s t eam b oa t s . Besw e ' o the great loss of heat in the power of the fire, there are at!, losses of the incondensed steam, the friction of tbe the weight of the machinery, and the numerous roe of resistance in the ma r i ne s t eam - eng i n e, 21-r ' seems to my mind no doubt but this invention re ° t oo Gordon's will save and e m pl o y advantageously ml,„1101° half the heat now lost—in other words, less than LS, the fuel now used by the marine steam-engine would u t ; t he same work by Mr. Gordon's invention. Eve n erroneous su pro pposition that the permanently eie s ' f ': r tP ducts of combustion would require as much fuel production of an equal dynamic effect as water doe'' tta I)! " Mr. Gordon's intention is to use two f u rnaces , ' opening the top-bonnets one b e f ore th e o ther, t l e i g hf three hours and 44 minutes, a sack of fuel 224 lbs. tigh t could be shot into each ; the furnace bonnet lute, and again, to remain so for three h ours an d 44 miou te i r the by this mode of arrangement, Mr. Gordon c onteo 100 consumption of fuel would not exceed 3 lbs. Per 4 1 0 power in practice—thus effecting a saving of fu e ; o loP: of itself must recommend and ensure its eg nazi. tion. But this is only one ite m i n it s econ o my — f? r ia ora an apparatus of 20-horse power would not COs' than £350 to £4OO. I nee d no t s t op to coniPa' , f itli outlay with the expense of a marine steam engin e ' 03i its chimney and paddles, or screw propeller, the P,.. 03 0 3 almost ruinous cost of whi c h, coup l e d w i t h t h e eni leg wear and tear, you are we ll acqua i nte d with, anassit4 ready to acknowledge th a t i n p o i nt o f econom y of Li vet no very consider a bl e a d van t age h as b een ye t gain ed : o sailing ships, notwithstanding the large amount of at 0 1 , science that have been appli e d t o it. B u t let I.l ' take a glance at th e a pp ara t us as it i s rePre se A in the drawing, which is an e l eva ti on o f one L f A 01 Gordon's proposed en g in e s. With t wo c l o se nr s bi9 60 horse power—suppos e d t o b e seen on boar'A to looking aft ; and unless our objector is bold eno h ul the say the fire will not burn under pressure, and til%tbef hot products of combustion have no power —le 4 00 words, that heat -is not the source o f power in the engine —he must admit th a t th ere i s a rush of 'Ju l i e t! along the discharge pipe, and it i s t h a t power so °P I) of which Mr. Gordon proposes to use under the quar to tot bilges of a ship. The stea m , w hi c h r i ses f rom the tiO surrounding the close fires, drives the simple recifoc" c ting steam engine, and th a t eng i ne wor k s the d ou ble ' a cold air pumps, and also the alimentary pumps f°r ,,,;iol plying the water to th e b o il er . Th e co ld a i r , in PI it' through the fire, parts with the whole or part g o oxygen to support th e com b us ti on. Th ere h ea t is °,l imparted to the water which surrounds the fire, su ,bef , whole produ c t s of com b ust i on, m i xe d w i th smoke, 51 &c., rush out aga i ns t th e water to i mpel the co g ' Gill That the rush of the hot products of combustion too propel the vessel is not a mere speculation depeod, eri r doo theory. It has been practically illustrated by Mr- ' on the Thames, and M r . G or d on says o gel persons have tried to b r i ng th e theoretical adv. 3l :, tbe, of heated air into practi ca l o p era ti on t o obvi expenditure of se steal,' ch attempts have failed for practical purposes , l''l . tlo employed some_ modification or imitation 2„, the ket Gordon, instead of imital Qv...c.•••• vas,asa,, 1.1.104. ,LVJG 1 111114,C. I, 171.111111.." and then made an experiment in a vessel of twen,,:hbe feet in length, and four and a h a lf f ee t b roa d, in o'2'll o o fitted a close furnace, (and a common small forge, u , e bor fitted to the furnace) in which a fi re was go t u p: t''',4o , l3i' nets of the furnace were then heated and fitted each stroke of the bellows p a s se d a i r t h roug h the cl!ic-01; for the hot products of combustion to rush °"" against and under the water at the stern of the v e t Z The vessel thus tri e d we i g h e d i n a ll 4.375 lb s. ; anAdto" course, that weight o f wa t er was d i splace d b y the Poi tion. Each stroke of th e b e ll ows, I repeat, sen t et l ', l o 4 into the close furnace ; th e appropr i ation o f oxlg i e n g support combustion was immedi a t e , an d t h e hea ts Rg g all the teriform body which passed off under wß' e ito4 lo ' equally so. The products of combustio n a lmost j c eo ther Ee riform, but also occasionally mixed with 51 ' 3 ,0 dust, and ashes, rushed out under and against the 0 00, at a very high velocity, at a temperature of 80 0 o r to and impelled the vessel in her course at a speed e, 4 „00° ' the power, he says, of two men rowing, though nu,,ery man was employed at the forge bellows. In this MO ment, it must be remembered the heat of the furnac e , ple not applied to the production of stea m th a t would of rendered the man at the bellows unnecessary ; bu t l e as ril consider the experiment of much more v a l ue than - ve rb had been applied, because the p ower o f on e man ° o w vessel of such dimensions was much m o r e easy 0 1 parison." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. A C l7llll DEFICIENT WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.-- At 00, held before the Mayor, on Friday, there were no,„', c teo than 106 cases of this class heard. The penalties ja i ' ranged from ss. to £5. Ite ) BEGGARS.—A number of this fraternity were corolliiciA to gaol on Tuesday by the magistrates for periods' i t a o , from twenty-one days to a month. They consist ° 0 10 ; possible variety of the beggar species, includingof 1- I of that best of begg,ars, a sailor, in a red shirt and aat. with a bass voice. MAKING THE DUMB SPEAK.—On Wednesday. - do o' was placed at the bar, having been seen in Smith 40 1 lane soliciting alms by means of making strange o igt accompanied by howling and other unseemly ° pit' When placed in the dock, he assumed to be both de", - ; 0 0 dumb, and a person was sent for from the Deaf and ".10 1 Institution to communicate with him, but to all the "die signs the prisoner took no notice. The prisoner w 3 ; 5 00 1 charged, and two officers in plain clothes, s e nt to i cl „ r ,i s him. The prisoner, on leaving court, p r O cee d e d tow;of Waterloo-road, and upon meeting with a young 6 d asked him a question. The o ffi cers t h en wen t UP' 0 40' inquired the way to Prince's Dock, and the stligille, mute replied that he did not know. being ast anoer• re° r nrje prisone to be sc The magistrate told him t -office, and orde'o, 'n refused to Ofoi, ie should not hayeo me. This produc ed Ivo mute immediately . a I l teS desired effect, and t 1 Smith," amidst roars from the court VALUABLE AIDS TO THE Po. .1 0 —On SaturdaY 0 Fd as suspi.ioti:(o,o, Howell and John Miller were-c krniay night, at an tins vauxua. , — a nd, being 1 ' l r"n to 3 bride 0 . 0 4 rPeel.o) to give a sati The prisoners Letory al s, in t It IP 7 fi ifr 00" et, men who w:Te su, ought to mak( t his own mac qorfoll " Romance )bsart, father of the gao onteness, s To h ging that from of the ( !et, London, on M .ted annlient ,ce, which Of her deceased led the body to as the hea At the 1) ed for the Lord Denman, in y effort had been The but without succ€ ;frate di effort to demnat the eve of going abroad Mr. Craik's Mercury A 13}1OGAR'S CRUTCH AND GREAT COAT.—A short , says the Birmingham Mercury, an old beggar, 1 coil," and time al with it an olt k and a great coat, which he left to his ger the old man's decease, the cast-off two dough 'racfory cow which had broken when, lo ! the 1 tened home, and left by the old man, when, mut ilar number a lig nu, a ed in c in the ce ised such a sum trio of singular incidents oc- ind preferring a hac,, by his "javelin men," proceedea accompany the Lord Chief Justice with the wonted state -s : his Lordship, as in other places declined 'offered ho"- -- h a fly to the ley coach! aby the A._ _ The Sheriff, attended • 'on to away st to his lodiin nd proceeded ly Lord Denrna Judges _ speedily to pay the price of his affected n be did not i destination without ms to the flvr led to G tle n Having given di Castle, the man told this was not the ( to Patterson's " Casa so his Lordship infor Ome diffi-culty .n to drive him to the Castle Hotel, btv - was it : thence he was driven " but here was another mistake ; )ed the Hyman and the flyman's thered round the vehicle to offer advice rho had lost his way, that he was Lord England, and wanted to go to the ugh and Town of Taunton where he soon afte rived without any new adventures.—ln the course of Sat urday night, or early on Sunday morning, I the armorial bearings an some person panels of Lot THEFT BY is carriage, in the castle-yai:d. —On Tuesday Miss Lydia Dixon, waibrot of some eminence, now deceased, he Richmond magistrates charged ht before E,r3r. A policeman, on the 6, with rob ...,urday night pre eat from a draper's door a roll of very large shawl which -live 'ds in length. On se, she ci '•red to detach a sixty-five y front I which it w to resemble nd six lace c of vari aund to contain C.CI•./1114. 41," s colours, and of very ❑t of the re. The piece w her to the statiol awls and cloaks having capacious pockets ehrnond four years, she has a pupil, and is supposed to )pkeepers. The pri . of the s ?nee, but entr ,ted _she might assuredly kill her finer should have thought of that manded her, that further inquiries URDERE ER.-T ['he con shed his 'has finis 1. After never been Known to I at althougt have liv of be sent to prison, 1 . Reeve said the pi EXECUT quently adverte the age of 13 he had constantly practised theft, sometimes attended with the grave offence of house-breaking. In the exercise of his apparent calling, that of a travelling tinker, 1 marl ted his ituation of premises on which he rcupastanc connected with t 3, if ever, en, for his only occasionally f of the law. He had, hots ithin the powe Taunton and Lol where y trequ ing trampers' 1 anday, at twelve o'clock, in front of enormous c , wd bad gathered to witness 'sting spectacle. He died admitting that he put and the chair upon the old woman, but he per saying Woods, the approver. was the murderer, ressed himself glad that Mills had go t c l ear , be- led into it by him cause he was ..eAi and Woods ignorant., There had not been an execution in the county of Devon for nearly 13 years before, the last having been on the 12th of August, 1836, when Thomas Oliver, alias Buck ingham Joe, was hung for murdering Mr. Jonathan May, a farmer of Dunsford. It is said that Woods, the appro -- ' , resent, with some women, to witness a scene - ---.wlv escaped being a principal from whiel Lted that 27,000 childrer A. " PERSONAL REFI y dress ci man into the lower r i - of a well-kn a restaurant near the centre of tt was rather a bibulous ly in that happy con- in various figures of speech, as muzzy," &c., and though " not very far ie might be correctly described as " half-seas Ards a state of complete mental obfuscation. , and erratic course up the middle of the room z the endeavour to reac' gone, over" t He pursued a deviating h what he conceived ng into another apartment. As he ad a person coming towards him. and, with on one sid him to sion, which only ion ; but he indull his sentence knowled iifhe • Apt Ser titiB. ,ator 4 : 4 9 tet ; a0n i; ,1)1 l oo l , Maur ', f: TYk r , i l Ei tP 'sP to r i s . r l t rlittor'bu J Joh n 4, l l E n~lan, ' l4 :Tki "" kraiL't Chi " 10, A;ar' a a t r , tl i ar a v iZ Von`„ man Cat acting t fact, i itself :he nart in the CI that eon] not in a pie that his w down rules for I to that publi ith a co tant ref ill, and by maintaining those rules. Nc rant a traitor to his sovereign, if that soy< has ordained that he shall be paid for his work, a receives from the public a stipulated remuneration ki pulated services. national a I of the kidn , may be trt mntry, and v dyspepsia,"- t of int TIES. re.—E ion bei :encies of P format II.: lesiastic the Ste Tie Chun lists vies the fat" It differ ted by a tremt of temper. Su, So are blackne recondary r .tion, a want of E ho do not d Doctor Wri on to th© a oth agree tin is, and inflatotn short, is v )n on the memory, leaving a great sus. of the hands and of teeth, and gun ink, a tendc ht, of Birmi ior, fully corral], at smoking produ, c Literary - rom the e t, and Burmah, acknowlk :nd energy, and in to pul any, in a ates his ory affections of the e heart and lowness of iurious to cannot trace back, nor history len Buddhism fir3t asserted its of the human raceibitiiiicer: - " -- t ages, Ceylon, China, India, ' - ed the yol of the elision, and deeply is it to be deplored that, t day, millions prostrate themselves before noes of the world befor f morality --ibed b land. o he tirr t-govern it, the CI a un adnnis In K 1 19 till e , ard or uttered a human sound, sp o t '• The Buddl amrnencement of the creation. _ spoke it—it is Magadhi." The Buddt in the existence of a Creator, but ting that al are absolute ,11 created things are formed r gods, de —eding from the same source. They believe _.asmigration of souls ; that a good man may be a god, a bad man a demon, and that man may be a • , nimal, or reptile, in various stages of exist , that when death seizes on one body, the principle of .0 immediately enters another form ; that when a man or ;od has become perfection, the principle of life is totally annihilated, which, with Buddhists, is the highest altitude of bliss. The belief in the transmigration of souls is fre quently curiously illustrated-in the present day, for when a emon , two of them so 0, that w of th Times of Thursday contained, i columns of a report of the spe( Cobden, at Wakefield, t The report was tr h. The assembly did not disper. .nd by three o'clock on the followir sturdy, 'roan for the boroug magistr in 1846, committed upon his throat wit xbled to undergo tl !at of ( otier s we are dispose n miles from We T BOSTON ger, of to filled It clear 3 extrao: I that he .On Satur Pointed It is a ;an, on the truth of ivhat we are going to assert,—that not five per cent. of the whole po pulation have had the forecast to perform the most im portant duty that devolves upon all men, but more espe cially those who marry wives," namely, assuring their lives. Scarcely two per cent. of the population of the en tire kingdom have done so. This is the more remarkable and unaccountable, since the death of every 1,000 persons in the middle and lower ranks of life, who have not assu red their lives, leaves at least 4,000 women and children in poverty, if not absolute penury, who might otherwise be left in comparative affiuence.—The Reporter and 48- curance Chronicle. lha, in the port in the code of _ h life. "monism rds, was first promulgated ii called Magadha, and tho en, now termed med to have been the language of the people " language is looked upon as being of ng that it is the root of grammar of Pali, w •" There is a lanzuag ro uct I lang men and Bra at guilty, Rush woul r. Jermy the younger, when, in the even !my would be called on to give evidence as to the identity ok the murder Df her recovery complain , The da NEWSPAPER REPORTING of the loquacity of Parliament, as a serious imp( to business. The steady, yemedy is, " cease to report the nonsense that is spoken, and the members will talk less." The Spectator, remarking on the threat of the Times, Honourable members often speak less to be to be reported, and by subserving to those Li space, the daily j lacity, until ti disg u A style of reporting, aipordc tis en courap rather than minis, would please reader members to be in truth more read, and hasten the flow of eloquence." licable to the provincial press rators. The practice of reportin 1. to. ideas would tend to The hint is eqi—" ally ttp of local thot is and ti . fools as well as by Mons, may be run mad." The highest style of that which Column after ass of rubbish, ity it flatters. stance of all things . spoken and column of "full reports" form literally a m ;ratifying to nobody but him whose van Ile exceptions to this rule are but few.—Sd DISTURBANCE IN A CHURCH.— 4t the D Meld Times Easter Sessions last week Joseph Way was charged with having wilfully disquieted and troubled the divine service in the church of Whitechurch Canonicorum, and was or dered to be imprisoned for three months; and, at the ex piration of the said three months, to the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, to be holden in and for the county of Dorset. The Rev. Mr. Palmer attended before the ourt, and explained the nature of the prisoner's offence, ld regretted exceedingly that he had been compelled, for rder, to take the step he had done against him. The Chairman said that the court and the public must feel much indebted to Mr. Palmer for having performed a painful public duty. The prisoner expressed his sorrow for what had happened, and pro mised not to offend in a like manner again. The Court then, with a suitable admonition, discharged him. Not the least remarkable part of this case is the circumstance that the prisoner was indicted under an act passed in the reign of Queen Mary, for the protection of the Popish Church, instead of under a later statute of William and Mary, for the protection of the Protestant Church. The law, however, is stringent and effectual, and should be generally known. tially stated that-he thief in question in the ought rightly to be in got a him into'ci occurrec court ap lhappened to get into igly inq d with ttiu me pau fore know wh, as much astonished at meeting the street, at a time when he knew he 71 prison, and that he had therefore 3, that while ffenders, he nother man term he had erity cf ?nths gave he himself had The thief, who 15 that the latter was only a or tvrenty-one days for vio ne anxious to know how it omparativel " I've been n pri id as both the lu to is much are in the work. the best and am on )f the other bbery. 0 as a description of her, they ping st means of iSCCO it to their mutual satisfaction, and it was ultimately agr upon, that when they reached the prison. a. --' tell one from the other, each should an name, and have and put up with the advantages resulting from their The consequence was, that wh' expired, the thi e f wasdiqnlip- ,e other's and dis espective the three the MIMS situations. weeks had supposition of his being the Wu - per, while the latter as he (the inspector) was informed, was still in prison, and, much to his own gratification, quietly and willingly serv ing out the balance of the sentence that properly belonged to the thief. What he (the inspector) wanted to know was, whether he would not be perfectly justified in retaking the thief, but before he did so he felt it his duty to apprise the magistrate of the information so given him, that the necessary inquiries might be made into the matter, re specting the accuracy of which he himself, however, enter tained very little doubt. Mr. Hammill expressed some surprise at the ingenuity of the trick which had been practised, and requested . the inspector to renew his appli cation in a few days, that time might be afforded to the officers to make the necessary inquiry. been corn m of deep re not got a punishment of equal du was pathetically lamenting the E vent to a: fence - , was very much his companion, and on 1 refractc lent© in the workhouse, was that he was dissatis better and light sorry I shall have to go back to t ce of each exactly rr The sen and as both were wi, ling to'cl consulted tog been were not t their inquiries, as they were two of the r characters in the town. It was stated thw paper produced had not been given by any it had only been written by the prisoners in c after admonishing the priso‘ to - be Careiiii villilt were about, ordered their discharge. ----- ALLEGED FRAUD BY AN EX-PASSENGER BO ° Ali On Thursday, a po or em i grant , name d R o b ert Afo r r peared to make a complaint against George Sherla ,e 0; Waterloo-road, l a t e a p assenger b ro k er , b u t at Prf r e& acting without a license. The complainant said lie t tw' s hif with Mr. Sherlock for a passage to New York M'Donald. He p a id him 30s. i n cas h, an d a llowe „t`2.' to take his box, in which was property worth ab`!.; guineas, as security for the remainder until the si , il to ol‘ rived at New York. The defendant and his cler4boota the goods into their care, and they were placed °„, 9 Itf t " the ship with a direction card on them. " -ly t ber e „ . Russell, of New York." the defendant's agent When he (complainant) went on board the ve s3 "' 0 0 ; could not obtain a passenger ticket ; his name wro•Ilr: placed by the defendant on the passenger list ; sn'prr the roll was called over, he was sent on shore. Pt e perty was forwarded to New York in the ship to rei fendant's agent. The defendant said th a t he ee' e 4 e 4 ceived any money from Mann, no r ma d e a ny agr i e` o oli with him, and that the compl a i nan t was s towed g ev with three others, and that was the reason be , c" 0 1 ' back. A clerk to the defendant, named Brerete l -fori:j some reluctance, admitted directing a box to Ne w A i r eet, which he thought mi g ht b e l ong t o M ann . He t, 137 order of Sherl oc k, t o a person name d Russell , re gte 'k s Mr. Rushton strongly expressed hi 6. OW 0, that he could not i n fli c t an y p un i s h men t, i s iO h e fendant was n o t a p assenger b ro k er . If th e cowP ce ti!`' d could have produced a ticket, he would have troll!' 00 11 ,5 defendant to the utmost limits of the law, and 0 i' n ,' to could yet be done, he w o u ld a s s i s t a ll i n hi s pow' justice to the injured man. p, The Essex Standard states that Mr. Peto, 3 1 ' :0 9 taken the splendid building at the Colchester ter l9l o the Eastern Counties Railway, originally built, e ), i o hotel (but which proved in that way a total the purpose of converting it into an asylum idiots. It is to be called " Essex Hail." Thebr said to have cost from £12,000 to £15,000., an"- , sum is being out in alterations. most lib produced a piece or v - 00 some person wanted . I V ii et 4 am said that the pri 3° ,, )ns to assist the P° . ' lL t ioill no st net°' o f • f•e , C he P. ° ,611 r to P I ° or kesh.ll,el Thn 1 0th F n eh. -eh. fe , M us!an riti. vat, p -ebe I 1 1, I i t th Japi4l4 AN 1.11 A tm , ere $41.: (1 1 "4tter ey At A 1 10; he ad Ott , tin. 7