The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-03-20 00:00:00

111 114 _ 1849. SPri ___ -.4 )OND EDITION. and, h e ai elll l 7 .l St -7---------------'--- ' - ' --- I uncle.— _.„4,'. anda d. . f ie bw" ,- r 0 e Eleven o'clock ar, the C t., a.m.ty o f viscera q i jATER -. —4ll ' l— ROM AMERICA. ir. Ca n fe d i llE 1) excellenrie a ItEQ cts of the le • taia T°rth American olDENT'S MESSAGE. i t4eiroasze,o,,,,ot.t, arrived in tile i royal mail steam ship Europa, morning a g n t a , b a o n u d t onorable til, N,eiv,la, N7e r r i k ve e r a this e as an FO P. liptoral d°l' A 6 trit ;patter i„ e left "Dk Hall, an oth o r made a splendid passage Mr. Jame. f e hiliii'iZers Port of only ing ten days. She has brougnt • il9 t'. . 1 tiro exposes ,os • ~_ ,pa . eke kind prae 'Me a alt erd out at New York on tbe 24th or 0. 0 •`'N? I°Peni, p„sa Session of less than fourteen days. r a re nn u Y a ; o for', , I,, a t Toyl o g of the icon is the P:;i kb/. , 4 2rh eri r t l . tor)k placeat by the new President, _,lngton, on the sth r, and the. 4 1 add re r t disatomish. d • otin a. The :-,, e individual delivered his himself l•gallant 'general met with a bril ig GoP ~ .di vh ich ; tl ' Tiler it over ;; ko l 'tit i r ' s, hap p ii , ;is little of moment in this docu re , 14, 1 ' 14 4 'Mate , much shorter than usual. The li .ty . p a ntie s that he shall . o f k th of ou s eminent endeavour to call to his Lens; this , i lt Ltr rhos ment for their talents, • integrity, and Noel tous"•ti L 7isq zal'd e; a nd that he w here' liisi led stri c t' f Yto welfare shall endeavour to govern ;nide, any of the whole country, as ie lion tt Ai' hi s f o r "' that of irinitolliericanreign Policy the class or party. With letition of the can P resident says :- 1 e' 'i lik ta 4, , xtad thfree4n, cNYve not but . sympathise in all . 243. t x „ e 1 , 0: to ne e blessings of civil a the di,;cour' . , eo. ~;, , in ,_e of , w , _ warned!, and political liberty; but history, 14 4 ' a c ii. our '2 l re n _ by the admonitions of ' )n among ° i f i isNi la nces s . v ‘y beloved Washington, to t minister a b ,. al l di Ith foreign nat . ' on , -li t tn o , B Plites b hose se ra ° ° , , 41 'sr ' less t b etween c inflict: ions. Governments, it is our it gentlerorrit'o. 10, 1) : 0 eo, ra „ I l i ?an our duty, to mg reTain strictly neutral ; the d . Ple, t y i 'cal position th Reli,ious + k,r , . .e gem . us of our institutions - IP , , 641 dictates e advancing , spirit of civilization, and, above Chum' ! ~,,, nth It,. f . GI of rev • to } nem, igoon • , direct us to the cultivation of nage of v)if, b... poi. .e h Y that sk : kt 'eh _ °pm ons with all other Powers f them , fu r 4 ''' h gill , N. N . ,,, p a go r _ no international question . can now in suc s o f , ati o. rot„ t `; oment, confident in its own strength and se electiq „• s k f rs um , and „ts own just rights, m a g y o v n e o m t settle like wise liph ekt ed on 'the morality and intelligencern t d if abbe at ReOth, , upi o , 1r affections t citizens, o . exhaust every resort of jects, .ty 4 4 ',vie - coad '"aeY before * tit , I ws, :it t of our fore arzealing . to ai ms. e abuses !O . relations . I shall conform to e Dissentag • ~„ rtie )P o _ believe them essential to the best interests ocleo "Nliter no pur of the country." es a pr 4,,1t I ,e di a l I m lic he shows will be of a paternal and '. -a -All -racte Y 16. 4 re t to he In r• He says : vrao, Co my study to recommend such c t . 's r gu s tional k i je t ti n t ri2'ent a lr a as may be necessary and pro o p n e 14 44; 1 0 re e, atid P m ro s t n ectlon to the great interests of agrefcnurle foru t atures ; to improve our rivers and 4,_iffi e , e bt; t P„rnvide extinguishment .. of the l e ozir t 0 enforce enforce a st e ric s t pe accountability ou u n t t w ab o i s l t ityonthe part of i ti ti „ . pe tidi ,_ overnment, and the economy in all r t a k io , ures. ,, V e ea g then oath g, ,„ Pitai , ?• of o ffi ce the President returned 74act ami dstth,_ prolonged and vociferous cheering Va N ": Yo i . k ~,v t ol. l owing distressing intelligence from . g4ta i ‘jo ii , i , ,t, .. !rang Sun of the 7th March : oo t 44, •4„'lr e id ge. 7:Y . ON SHIP-BOARD.—The ship Liv l 1. i o ti ;: e i ft wit h ived at quarantine last night, from Liver. 4 so of 4 'oya.). ." p .ssengers, 40 of whom sickened and , 1 1'4, ~,, e ra e , and many othe..s are at present sick. The aL7 4. 4 ''arit ." 1)°,1 board'no• li c e; , pronounced it to be the at n!ta Eldrido.e. l Iris ew. and passengers, are all ncl ei t came, n „ale ent of ao - , minister 01 al after hi g 'io !kilted la ° De i :muse: tla ,lO ite again` ua . Dry staL e bet 4; alreaui iP ws e a a zi n ne no; rgymen , ev ange ll% ; in the eP t y ne- tenth rtY Repeal 0; j g Itr as Aix. „ bi :e of the nion, 111 a. e litine. We have not learned positively that 0 menlra• Should it be so, proper precautions prevent it spreading. The steam propeller :Port s :taitimore, which touched at the Delaware break- Ts en 4 l lat over one hundred of the British ship Cam !fr2int Londonderry) ha died of the . ship I NT adZillbria is bound to Philadelphia. Ten children 'T Co he have died of the measles on board the ship th:T A e ki n , which arrived last night from Liverpool. 44 Cc QuEsTiorr.—We have received the report tilqket et rlttee of Ways and Means of the House of t l it tip a t w e e ve 3 at Washington on the subject of the ta kki,e'i of annot make room for it. In regard to mann th,:ledweotton from abroad, the committee think a lOy,Pti e 4.°f from tw en ty-five to thirty per cent. on the ebq t ,, e I s necessary ; and the duty on woollens ought th e 3 0 and 50 per cent. specific. The result to 1 11%! nth7nllnittee have arrived is, that medium duties, Yt i ;7' of provided by the present tariff and . those of %e t _ 4, should be imposed on all foreign importa riff report is the beginning of the agitation on 4% i alif • tion. 4 1 ,, -t 4 ac e. °rola there does not seem much definite in oftirice wit,The Henrica had left San Francisco for Wtt l '.'llib e .." 10 0,000 dollars in gold dust. On the 26th tyik ille _r, there arrived at Chagres, the first steamPr 4, ll 'can line with 160 passengers and 100 tons of Vet. "4 the passengers were General Smith, the ..„ t g 141.'414! California, his family, and suite. On the ki i i,ele ; •M. steamer Tay left Chagres with 8720,000 r i ti k ; s tri ved ° l l the 30th, the American barque John Ben- ;4..0 I t t f,and at Chasres with 60 passengers and 200 tons of ft, le t t am or a the 31st, there arrived at Panama H. B. M. 5 0 . !al ik 4 rop e fratn Mexico, with near 8300,000 in specie 5 .5 Thetai last steamer from San Francisco to ught 380,000 dollars, and there were are- ;-"A -mY in arrivals, 100 passengers „ and 8300,000 g' ol . l tvg 4h Rom Lever was still raging all along the west coast " I N: 4,', and all the best mechanics, and young men n or , ik tes 14,"eg Valpa ra i so f or C a lifornia. The Sandwich 6 9: 1 44 1 , Ro r i e ,quite deserted of all classes. The United 10atl i —su iP Lexington left San Francisco for Valpa -044 /, :4thi of December with 500,000 dollars in gold t he,... 4 sPr e cc ounts from California, received by the New sa a . rine, to Dec. 25, the date of our last advices, • F.' St r e sa k e ,—" Every article in the way of provisions 0 .4 1 Po% l ed at a much cheaper rate than they can be tt 1 :1 1 b y t he United States. Severe losses must be sus be Ot tie rnY who have ventured largely, expecting to ' 0 se Profits." The writer confirms the accounts kil ti P b e d w or r i e c adY published, as to fie miners having :Pt.' of In consequence of cold weather, the great tk ti g t t i' e l l ,"'itrants from Peru, Chili, China, Mexico, &c. k h . at Tg an.cdote shews something of tht I;4lkeeno n nterey:—Captain Sparrow, of the f o _i°n arriving at Monterey from San Francesco klt e ( l Governor Mason.'The house being pointed he entered, found two men sitting in the to eB.," th e e with , his . coat off, sleeves turned . up,. pealing t th„ other in the same dress, washing them, and q4,,: t 4 t o„' e t n in the pot; and who should these two men t pori t r 2 - larMa . son and the Collector of the Customs. d.. o .eoo nati said to Ciitam Sparrow,not my I tNntit ti ,._ ll to-day, - but I'm helping the Collector." 1 :111 1 _ You see, theyLare of servants—cook or --- sh a vro . r 4 9 - 00 - niil3_l It 15 °°ti tern have or, lie e late Y m asked nev for,,` e,04 5,( 0 , era so / 3 °,r;0 0 so a wfvo: wltll , wild an °O.' fl 3 equallY len rebolitooi lan, eventing iiaie re=' ~e~oinS r e positioncool rant of faithful s' ( IV arate,. oll / spirit ° t ell , t the cb.upe, Le Chu nd inc i whiell act it alr e $0! 3 too 1111'01,e, Liverri 115 book ° it a t tile, to the s /43 ; ri* the le 'l l one c" 11 L iked ' l9 NOV s t e r is adding is eve r c 'ol! c Ist, „ log, o pse! , • • s tet. be‘ rrion l e t ' ~s e of `woe t of /1 Ike th at goll a t ive.) r niaerio rid' )us ice e lf , n th e t he either t he'" nes s in tio/ ° to het I may gIIA have I I !, O r enters 1' n 011 a lo s be: e 4c all 'astor u ide i ft,V a 11:"Pg 1 oi B os toniN t , r4 ,,,,, Traveller gives a letter from a Captain ~,- 4 % %"x ' ,"(.1 arrived from California. He states that there lh Who 'leration in the accounts of the gold. As to the fit th vcere said to be averaging 150 dollars a day, be 4 1V ars ole who have done the best have not got above h,S e4 in during ls the entire digging season. Letters have 1 in e ,?e Papers from persons who never had nevertp„2here. 4.lfornia, and in respect to vesselewhich'had N. Par less disorder prevailed than_might have been CANADIAN AFFAIRS. ~Olgt .-8 from g paragraph frothe NeteYork Sun only ;lof, what we have long since predicted as the i_anadian th , a state of tremendous ferment. The Liberals 'of ti s „'lr great indemnity measure, and the ire of the it toots to the highest pitch. In the municipal elec r both parties would struggle for supremacy, ! ti Pu, r,4oTrals succeed on the back of their legislative k t 6 4a n a „ u a is no longer a loyal appendage to the English I'4 Of the Upper Canadians declare they - would of the United States doubtso that of a semi-French e gislature We . not every sensible Cana- Sllo),44l)trte.f_er, the rule of Union to any colonial govern -0 gibol.,o), what party admtered. We wait the e e a , the elections with interest, they will decide the ‘!lt e atiti` t as, or the peace and harmony of the Cana ;ll 0 11 0 , v . I.l t :pt an ':g s from the New:,,York H era ld is7equally k to lat el ,`,'„tartling the Canadian press, especially - the tory - portion rh a gl yenting its spleen on Yankeedom to its sa ithe'.yeta 4 , ‘ Tise about . the loyalty . of the . Cauttclians to t N s„r) t ." , t t ilt e most gracious sovereign, their inalienable onstitution, and swear that only for some btios loyal subjects of those provinces would 6 3 ; .1 e v lines and eat us up, head, tail and all. Re qin;Rreater change . has come over the , spirit of their 4 4 0 1 of this boasted loyalty and affection has St at ttl ultimate incorporation of Canada with . I ;..z th _by t r is not . only freely discussed,. and freely ,4te of e. Canadians themselves, but is virtually r,qAy 'nay a being accomplished. ernllre 4 PPear startling, but it is within the truth. Let NaN e 4t 4 t hat are now incon o t f eigt n io i n tec n ta tl t i e e s V , a e na f gian qii t ( l l by the Congress 1 0t t il e n l 2,p and community of interests between e e t c h; Ve t) , tr on Onited States will he at once established, West r _negotiating a treaty." 1N B. fire took place on the 26th ult. at k o:1 Every building on one side of King rlt,yoP p and 4s sßNTnEns —F Ne w York : E. H. Vv .4 , 44ervant. Mr. Nit; d ar i d am c m hi o ld n : i A a l n r d IN P. %.servan't, ad child • lady, N. it. F e v A l n and lady, Dr. J. L. Dur . an, Capt. Mlles, ka 4 l rit ! w est R. F. Fellowes, S. Baker, Steere, b, , P: b P. Penneman, A. H. Lissack, Chas. H. %`'tti„ 4 De,';,trreda, S. Dupont, T. Scheile, J. Stewart, A. Schepeter, Young, Person, A. 411Pik R's s h q Schondorff, A Thomas, F. Brissac, .4-,,,,a,pds,...._arpLes, P. Helgaero,. T. Jump, H. Scott, utflet,:c; Dot ttarzog, A. B. Strange, Woodbridge, 11` 1 104 4 j 1 , 1 „ A. Lehnaier, S. Pleasant, Piggott, Smith, Lewis, Bliss, Lloyd, 1 1 .1, lkt ur d Panes, Hanerkock, G. Speyer, 71);,1vi Andrean, C. A. Falviskie, C. 4 8, are; Brook, G. Potts, Parsons Rowse, Waters , Dumoalin, B. K. % t son Appleton. From Halifax: Mr. Kerr, 11 4,wi t '7. P. Smith, Mr. W. Johnson, and one and one ,private, (Royal Sappers and 3El'~ r C s, hand` - c op Ro 0, tvh l ' l D O do al. ,T. le te; d,v e 1, l aistrolou ,of the by Pl3cetl° toge,tiL fevr' f th e° f ° numbar 0,,11 t a bon i ,tr fined Fria"' 9 6 rged lroc ; 1 ; telentl9a ,00 06 3r, like all 1 wife' 1, ; gel tli' e I g ust P 05 . 05 4, you d lietjef3f4 ontb 9 ' r her br lif 1 rtber, $11) t 9° th A i l i k .ka tic N i K, ,/.4 - ,et fo, TUESDAY, March 6-6 p.m. It4 x Nteei;. ri olir - was again heavy to-day, and holders ~'13,„,N,4„14,tae1e. shippers demand continues to be confined to the k'A t 'N' i r 41 1 . 1 0 t th' e szt iPpers being out of the market. Southern .31 41 12 ,1 1 ' , Y oil is l e °N less' noltigna flour l a n n meald viriea t neewere l quiet, e w a e n r d e I k Ni r ,titi„,"all Parcel. denessee corn, owing to the N t li f Zer e s - eli. red dull ; sales of Barley were made at about Ilphs , h t e 'l , abl ed Mess P . ork there was a better fepling, and \ t billesterda° realize a slight advance; prime cohti- N% k s. few landing. Sugars generally were quiet, Noll:prip4 ,A,I , of' of , r ,„COTTON' TRADE. t ts 4; ti +l,; l ll,i jhe ,"' ,O ll at, and the shipments from, the prin t,Jt,,vk la, t ' °ll otry Up to the latest dates this season, 1, lit E N Ts vve r - ro„ho, s 'vs Op ,e as annexed tAiLiip, , s si, COTTON IN THE UNITED STATES. N t r ' (l atea c , e tent . 1, 1848 bales 1,762,461 1, rov, , i 4; 4 tr,,i te Year before 44 4:1 t t U llt 4 l States since Sept. I, 1848 hL I Do h r/ Gr" , la st Year tN.ek. -di eat h ~ ear before ..),, ti t ~ rit _ . tkri 4 ,, gat es I 'm since Sept. 1,1848 690,157 -, 0 % 41 1 ,1! ast year k h ~ ktt l „Dol t „ Year before ~ N t tr ,.. "z , 0 4t P e orts of receipt 1 1 c'i'll)t" las t Year k lt . ; - it t. D4 rt. 4 t th; Year before liNiljt i' t ls oo 's ; port since the Ist instant have been 3400 P '.,,, s 4 t ti tt t4tY u ns( T i cen by spinners, 2,900 ; on speculation, Nt 114 1 4 ; 1 t hiti 4 L Y t1 (1 ' 7010 W; amount on sale, 15,000. 5 t .1 4 , -) th_ Yea r 11. 1 . , s statement, that the exportation to 14, e t he sa,„_ been, so far, upwards of 30 per cent. ,: r et le,en ."4ce!lates the previous year, and that the ' I AN f _ l dy thirty per cent. greater. In the vr the remainder of the season continu- fee' er r ti d o r 30- 001' it 5 . (3 : 0 0e 1 ./i Pr`o 3 ` 3 g 0 011, 0 Il , 0 0 .. re i" 4 _ for " Der • bet s i; teY ) 1 11# s 7:441 ing at the same rate. the aggregate will amount to at least twenty-four hundred thousand bales. The exports have been greater this year, in proportion to the receipts, than in 1847-8. The most reliable estimates of the probable yield of the crop now coming to market, put down 2,500,000 bales in round numbers, and the movements thus far confirm that calculation. Should the Liverpool market continue to improve at the rate recently reported, it will give an impetus to receipts, and in duce the planters to cultivate as much land for this staple as possible. The planting season is just commencing, and the advance in prices abroad will have considerable influence upon the movements of producers. The closing quotations in this market were as annexed : LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION N. Orleans, Mobile, $. Uplands. Florida. Texas. Inferior . none. none. none. Ordinary 6* to 61 64 to 61 6/ to 61 Middling 61 to 61 61 to 7 7to 7* Good Middling .. 61 to 7* 7* to 7* 74 to 71 Middling Fair 7* to 71 71 to 7/ 74 to 7/ Fair . 71 to 74 74 to 7/ 7/ to 8 Fully Fair 71 to 8 _ nominal. nominal. Good Fair Fine _ nominal. nominal. nominal nominal. nominal. nominal The demand for foreign exchange by the steamship Europa which leaves this port to-morrow, (Wednesday) for Liverpool, has been active, and transactions to some extent have been made at our quotations. The supply of sterling bills upon the market is large, but drawers of the best are firm at our highest quotation. THIRD EDITION. Standard Office, Two o'clock, p.m. COUNCIL MEETING—To -D AY. At the Council Meeting to-day, Mr. R. Henderson was proposed as Alderman (in the place of Sir Thomas Brancker) by Mr. Parker, and seconded by Mr. Harbord. Mr. Francis Shand was proposed by Mr. Tinne, and seconded by Mr. David Hodgson. On a division Mr. Henderson was elected by a majority of 26 to 21. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE In this case, alluded to in our first edition, the jury returned a verdict of one farthing damages in favour of the plaintiff, an elderly gentleman. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET The Share market has rallied a little from the severe depres sion of yesterday, and a fair amount of business has been done at the following prices : East Lancashire, pref., 7i; G'asgow and Ayr, 50; Leeds sths, 3i, £3 16s. Bd. dis ; Lancaster and Preston 4-shares, 12 ; London stock, 130} buyers; Do. 4-shares, 4i £4 Bs. 9d. p. ; Midland stock, 76 buyers ; Ditto, i-shares, d. ; Dover, No. 4,7 i, 3/9 ; Newcastle pref., f, 11/3 d. ; Belfast and Ballymena, 20; Commercial Bank, lg. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—THis DAY The arrivals into this port since Tuesday last, furnish a tole rable supply of Oats but very little produce of any other kind either Coastwise or from Ireland; we have to note, however, partly from the near ports of the Continent, but chiefly from the Black Sea and Mediterranean, a good supply of Wheat and Beans ; and from the American States, a fair accession of Corn Meal and Flour, with 28,802 quarters of Indian Corn, against 10,738 quarter exported during the week to Ireland. Upon a pretty numerous attendance of home and country millers, the Wheat trade was more lively than for some weeks past, a good extent of business having been transacted in most qualities, at the decline of Friday, although in some instances Id. of that retrogression was recovered. _ _ _ . Flour was also - in good request, 15,000 to 20,000 brls. having been sold, chiefly to consumers, at 235. for good brands of Western, and 23s 6d. was required at the close, but not gene rally obtained. In Barley, Mal note t, Beans, and Pease we have little change to Good mealing this day week ; C Oats were held more firmly on the terms of )atmeal remaining in slow request at Friday's decline" Indian Cc rency of th :ontinued to be taken freely, at the full cur week, and Corn Meal was held more firmly at —Tins DAY ?. a, "o I OD si CA CA VARIE BOPPING TN !-Mr. Sheddan, now on a pleasure trip id the world, in his yacht of 140 tons burthen, has ed the Orkneys, the Brazils, the Cape, and Madagas and the other day he dropped in at Bombay on his to Japan and Kamschatka ! 3ETRAORDINARY TRIALS.—In 1814, a bull, having d a man by tossing him with his horns, was brought re the Judges in the province of Valois, and indicted criminal, and after several witnesses had given evi ;e, it was condemned to be hanged. This sentence confirmed by an order of the Parliament, and carried effect. And we are told that an unfortunate pig, ;11 chanced to kill a child in Burgundy, was in like ner solemnly tried in Court, and suffered the same punishment. A POLITE HINT.—The following gentle notice headed " Editorial," appears in the December numbers of " Sam Sly's African Journal," published at the Cape of Good Hope, The present number concludes the twenty second quarter of " Sam Sly's African Journal." And if it be the pleasure of the reader that it should com plete twenty-two more, the present season is one of the most favourable in the year to cancel old scores before commencing new ones. To Port Natal no more numbers will be sent without payment in advance. And the 'long winded' and forgetful there, will be immediately presented with a new year's gift, (as a broad hint) in the shape of a pocket edition of WALKER'S Dictionary. Defaulters nearer home, will also hove a flapper and reminder as a Christmas Box, in a little iaisiOry of King Thomas ; or Cousin John; or a personal acquaintance with `• Thompson's Seasons ;" or "Reid on the Mind."—The Sly Corner, December, 1848." THE BOOK OF BEAUTY AND EMBELLISHMENT ; OR, THE TOILET ASSISTANT.—Published by Claridge and Co., 12a, Gough Square, Fleet-street.—Mesdames Lafitte and Valliere have produced a little work of no ordinary interest. It instructs in the Science of Tasteful Dressing and Embellishment ; and professes to give Directions and Formulas for Heightening and Preserving Female Beauty ; and Preventing or Correcting the Natural or Incidental Defects and Imperfections to which the Female Form is liable. It also gives some excellent Instructions for restoring Faded or Fading Beauty, and warding off or retarding premature or accidental decay. It forms an in dispensable appendage to the toilet of every lady desirous of dressing tastefully and elegantly, and of investing her person with " a pomp of winning graces."—London and Paris Gazette of Fashions. PRETENDED VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.—The quackery of publishing pretended voyages and travels has prevailed at various times and places. Gemelli Careri, a Neaopoli tan nobleman, for many . years never quitted his chamber; confined by a tedious indisposition, he amused himself with writing a voyage . round the world, giving characters of men, and descriptions of the countries, as if he had really visited them. Du Halde, who has written so vo luminous an account of China, compiled it from the me moirs of the missionaries, and never travelled ten leagues from Paris in his life, though he appears from his writings to be very familiar with Chinese scenery. Dambergier's Travels, in the interior, from the Cape to the North of Africa, not long ago produced a great sensation, and the public were duped ; they proved to be the ideal voyages made by a member of the German Grub-street about hi s own garret. The travels of Gaudentio di Lucca, written by Bishop Berkeley, and those of Psalmanazar, in For mosa, were received with implicit credit on their first publication, though now known to be the works of pure invention. Travellers who fly rapidly through countries, practise a frequent quackery in publishing long accounts of various places and people, evidently collected from the idle reports and absurd traditions of the ignorant vulgar, from whom only they could have received those relations which we see accumulated with such undiscerning credit lity.—Duncan's Essays and Miscellanea. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. AN ORIGINAL VERDICT.—In a recent trial in the Court of Exchequer, respecting the price of some gas lamps and pipes laid down by an old gas company at New bury, and alleged to have been sold by them to a new company, the foreman of the jury delivered the following verdict : "My lord, you have put us rather in a queer street. We find for the plaintiffs for the sum claimed, though we think the valuation at £2ll ss. 4d. is a calcu lation and not a valuation ; but it will teach them not to make foolish bargains. They made no objection to the valuation of £525 for the Speenhamland works ; and, as they took the first part of the meat, they must take the shinbone." A MEMBER FOR LIFE, IF NOT A LIFE MEMBER.—The N. Y. Day-book is responsible for the following capital story :—A young gentleman who was more fond of ladies' society than good sermons, invited a daughter of one of our millionaries to attend church with him to hear a sermon, by a distinguished divine of the orthodox faith. It so happened that the eloquent preacher preached that after noon what is called a charity sermon ; and our young gentleman not having " come prepared" for such an occurrence, called upon his fair companion for a loan of the wherewith to respond to the call of the " contribution box." " Have you any money ?" said he to the miss, " and if so, will you lend me a trifle ?" " I have a bill," said the lady, offering him a bank note, which he suddenly took and dropped into the plate. The next day he called upon his fair creditor to pay up. " How large a bill was that you gave me yesterday ?" said he, as he drew a one dollar note from his wallet. " Fifty dollars," was the reply. Mr. H—'s hand fell upon his lap, and for about three minutes, he looked steadily into the lady's face without uttering a word. At length he gave a long low whistle—rose slowly from his seat—bid the lady good night—said he would call again —and left for home. Now fifty dollars to Mr. H— was no trifling sum, for he was " only a Clerk" on a small salary, but he " scratched round," raised the money, and paid it over. That was the last contribution he has ever made to any charitable fund, and as for charity sermons, they are his abhorrence. He considers himself a " life member" of every bencvo lent institution in the country. MORALITY OF THE PROFESSION, IN KNOWINGLY UNDERTAKING THE ADVOCACY OF A BAD CAUSE.—It is not in civil causes, where the rights of p .rties depend so much upon technical and conventional rules, but in cri minal cases that the chief odium is incurred by the pro fession. And if the license which we sometimes see boldly challenged on its behalf, to sacrifice every consideration to the one object of enabling a client to escape conviction, were necessary for its exercise, it is not easy to see how the odium could be repelled. Such a license all right thinking men must repudiate, and it tends only to the dishonour of a noble calling to represent it as requiring and justifying the use of trickery and falsehood. The principle is as clear as noon day, that no man ought to do for another, what that other cannot, without moral turpi tude, do for himself. The advocate stands before the tribunal to plead the cause and represent the person of his client, utimur enim fictione personarurn, et velut ore alieno loquimur, but he cannot possibly by virtue of his agency acquire rights greater than are possessed by his principal. He may not assert that which he knows to he a lie. He may not connive at it, much less attempt to substantiate, a fraud. He may not avail himself of the wretched sophistry of Paley, and say, " that there are falsehoods which are not lies, that is which are not crimi nal : as where no one is deceived, which is the case in * * * * a prisoner's pleading not guilty —an advocate asserting the justice, or his belief of the justice, of his client's cause. In such instances no confi dence is destroyed, because none was reposed ; no promise to speak the truth is violated, because none was given or understood to be given." Every man is under an obliga tion to speak the truth if he speaks at all, and virtually promises to do so every time that he opens his lips. " For there is in mankind," says Jeremy Taylor, " an universal contract implied in all their intercourses ; and words being instituted to declare the mind, and for no other end, he that hears me speak hath a right in justice to be done him, that, as far as I can, what I speak be true, for else he by words does not know your mind, and then as good and better not speak at all." If an advocate does not expect to be believed when he asserts his conviction of the inno cence of his client, why does he volunteer the assertion at all ? His only object must be to persuade the jury, by throwing into the balance the weight of his own assevera tion, in order to make it incline in favour of a verdict of acquittal.—Forsyth's Hortensius. A CHINESE FARM-HOUSE.—The farm, however small, is not so much the estate of an individual proprietor as the home of a family or seat of a clan, many generations of which, under one acknowledged head or patriarch, are often congregated in the same dwelling. As the farm houses in general differ but little from each other, except in size, I will endeavour to give the reader a description of one. In a small island, formed by a moat for the sup ply of water and the rearing of ducks and geese, well sheltered by bamboos and other trees, and nearly hid py from view, stands the house, consisting of one floor only, built, when possible, of stone, in other cases of brick (of so superior a quality as to become an article of commerce with this country, and to find its way to Liverpool), or of wood. In the centre is a large hall called the " Hall of Ancestors," common to all the family. In it are arranged the household gods (among which are invariably the Ta ouist divinities presiding over hearing and sight) and re lics, such as an ancestral picture, in the most conspicuous part of the wall, on each side of which is an aphorism of Confucius, and in front of a table bearing incense-burners and fruits, as offerings, and ornamental porcelain vases, &c. The hall also serves for a drying-room for their seeds, and a depository for the smaller implements of husbandry. It is the scene of their entertainments, many of their festivals, and the adoration of the gods, hut never used for culinary purposes. This forms the nucleus of the building, around it are the dwelling-rooms of the different divisions of the tribe, and as often as a marl iage takes place. an apartment is added for the newly-wedded couple, and, in time, the whole presents rather the ap pearance of a village than a single dwelling-house. The furniture of each family consists of a bed, highly orna mented, in many cases carved and richly inlaid with ivory ; a few high-backed chairs, often of bamboo ; a plain-polished round table, washing utensils of brass, and, in one corner of the room, cooking utensils, consist ing of a block fire-place, in which a few round pans are set with masonry, though in the larger establishments the kitchen is a separate building. Around the room are several red varnished cabinets, and in these apartments the females are employed in the household duties of needlework, spinning, &c. ; a spinning-wheel and loom forming necessary appendages to each farm-house in those parts where cotton is grown. Nearly everything for the use of the family is home-made : agricultural implements are home-made and repaired ; cotton is grown, and spun, and made into clothes; silk-worms are reared, and all the process of winding and weaving done by the family ; flour is ground, cakes are baked, and sam shoo is distilled from rice, and as much as required stored ; the rest, and whatever other produce not wanted for home consump tion, is either exchanged for other necessaries amongst the neighbours, or sent to some town in the vicinity to find a market. In Kiang-tsu, where that species of cloth better known under the name of nankin is made, the drapers, who are proprietors of large houses in the cities, hire stalls outside the walls, and meet the farmers on the road and buy their cloth, paying in bills drawn on their own houses. The live stock consists of a liberal supply of fowls, ducks, geese, goats, and pigs. and a dog or two (scarcely any family, however poor, is without one or more of the latter two), together with one or two bullocks and buffaloes, according to the labour required. The buffalo is almost an amphibious animal, being constantly in the water. The implements are very simple and pri mitive ; I may almost say barbarous.—Lieut. Forbes's Five Years in China. THE ORDINANCE OP BAPTISM.-It is base of Mr. Noel to accuse us vehemently on mere ex parte statements. Thus, he says we hold baptism to be actual regeneration. What says the Article ?—it calls baptism " a sign of re generation I" Till, then, a sign or symbol of a thing is the thing itself, and till Mr. Noel says the signs in the bread and wine are the actual Body and Blood, he has no reason to call that the substance which our Church calls merely " a means whereby we receive the same, and a pledge to assure us thereof." Nothing can be more bril liantly correct and scriptural than the twenty-seventh Article on baptism, saying, " The promises of forgive ness of sins, and of our adoption to be the sons of God by the Holy Ghost, are visibly signed and sealed : faith is confirmed and grace increased by virtue of prayer unto God." It also says, " They that receive baptism RIGHTLY are grafted into the Church." The word " rightly" is altogether emphatic, allowing that there might be a wrong and merely lifeless administration of the ordinance : such, however, would not be the Church's celebration. Will Mr. Noel deny that the baptism service first recognizes man's lost estate by sin ; then prays for the .child's de liverance from guilt; then recites the promise of Christ, " Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not;" then grasps and appropriates the promise in the prayer of faith : executes the ceremony of baptism with water; and then, in a triumph of realizing faith, declares that the gift of the Spirit is consigned to the child ? Will Mr. Noel say the prayers for the Spirit to come are all to go for nothing. If the prayers are true, the Church's triumph is " true and no lie !" Hence, afterwards a child is justifiably made to say of baptisM, " Wherein 1 was made a member of Christ ;" not whereby, but " wherein ;" i.e., instrumentally : for it is what the child ought to wish and trust for itself, as well as what we ongbt to wish for it, the exceptions against the good old words being as weak and vain as if one was to say that to make a child in a Sunday-school read the verse, " I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord," when the child would rather go home and play than go to a place of worship, would be putting a lie into the child's mouth ! Or like as we teach child ren to pray good prayers before they understand them, so we teach children to say that there was gained for them in baptism, through prayer, that which might have been the case, and ought to have been the case. The child's having had so much pains taken religiously with it, as for it to have been made to learn the very words, themselves, amounts to a partial proof the truth of the words, that God's Providence has begun to treat the child as His own, else it never should have enjoyed this means of grace. The acquisition supposed, we say, is a possible one. A child can have such a portion of the Holy Spirit : if it has any, it has begun a new life. A child needs this, If so, we may ask for it: if we ask, we shall have : if we have, WE MAY SAY WE HAVE. This is our Chinch's position :it is only beauteous faith Our Church formu laries certainly bear this sense without the least straining ; and it gives to the word "regeneration" the full and highest sense that it is capable of having in connexion with a child. There is no "opus operatum" in such a view. It is all faith, and prayer, and the Holy Ghost. This is, I think, the plain, obvious purpose of our Church in baptism. Ido not say that all Churchmen must take up my hypothesis ; but I say that many, if not most, do take such a view. Ido beg to affirm that the articles and baptism service can fairly bear the above Protestant, Scriptural, and eminently spiritual acceptation.—Gill mor's reply to Noel. etneral liatOrtllanv. Sir Charles Napier, the new Commander of the Forces in India, left London for Portsmouth on Thursday. . The steamer Bombay, engaged to carry out troops and stores for the insurgents at Palermo, was on Friday seized by the custom-house authorities at Blackwall. Lord Gough has held the office of chief in command in India since March 15th, 1843, so that he has occupied it for a period of six years exactly. The wooden beacon erected on the sand banks near the mouth of the river Esk, below Ravenglass, was blown down during one of the recent heavy gales. A fever, said to be of a typhoid character, prevails in the Lincoln gaol to such an extent as almost to make it necessary to postpone the assizes. An act has just been passed which dispenses with the obnoxious term of Exciseman. They are to be distin guished for the future as "Inland Revenue Ofcers•" A few vessels have been freighted at Sunderland to bring wheat from the Baltic ports to the east coast at rates from three shillings to three shillings and sixpence per quarter. A subscription has been commenced at Glasgow, for the purpose of awarding prizes to the poor of that city and its suburbs, who whitewash their houses and keep them in the cleanest state. A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.-At Fnlwood, Wm. Rankin, a private of the 53d, has been married to Miss Maclaurin, heiress to £15,000, who was given away by her father. The bride is 26, and the bridegroom 30 years of age. An infant, with two full-sized teeth in front of the lower jaw, was born on Wednesday, at Leicester, and five of its mother's seven children are said to have been born with the same dental appendages. It is intended to station a squadron of reserve steamers at Greenhithe, where they will be advantageously posted for the defence of the river Thames, and will be ready to proceed to sea at a moment's notice. Gecrge Butcher, formerly employed as a collector for the Waghorn Testimonial, and other public objects of the same kind, has been committed to prison for three months for having obtained money under false pretences for the former testimonial. Since the fall of oak trees last spring, English bark has risen at least 100 per cent. in price—holders refusing even to sell at that immense advance. It is expected that more oak trees will be cut down this year than has been known in any previous years since the termination of the last European mar. BANK OF ENGLAND.—At the meeting of Bank proprie tors, on Thursday, the directors proposed the half-years' dividend at 5} per cent., clear of income-tax. The pro posal was received with acclamation, and was immediately carried. The " rest," after payment of the dividend of 5i per cent., will be .Z 3,430.000. _ IMPORTANT TO ODD FELLOWS.—The members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows will be interested to learn that the Government have ordered the evidence taken before the committee of the House of Lords, with Lord Beaumont's report thereon, to be published, and issued to the public. John Remington and Charles Remington, brothers, the former 24 and the latter 20 years of age, whose family connexions are highly respectable, have been committed for trial, in London, charged with having broken open several trunks belonging to a lady named Indell, who lodged in the same house as the prisoners did, and stolen therefrom a quantity of wearing apparel, bed linen, &c. A HARDENED WOMAN.—On Saturday, at the Salis bury assizes, Mr. Justice Williams sentenced a woman to a month's imprisonment for stealing, on which she stooped down, took off her shoe, and then said, " Thank you, my lord, take that;" and threw her shoe at the learned Judge's head. It, however, fortunately fell short of the bench, and did no mischief. There has been a riot at Leicester. It originated with the frame-knitters, who we mentioned some time ago as having struck for an advance of wages. One of the fra ternity accepted the reduced rates ; he was maltreated, his effigy shot at and burnt, and his windows smashed, and other atrocities committed. Thirteen of the offenders were committed for trial. At Salisbury, Samuel Stratton was sentenced to ten years' transportation for breaking into the dwelling-house of the Rev. Mr. Briscoe, at Coombe Bissett, and stealing a quantity of plate. John May and Robert Woodford received a like sentence for stealing a quantity of silver articles from an iron chest at the Swindon station on the Great Western Railway. At York, George Home was tried for the murder of his child, Eliza Amelia Howe, whom he killed at Yam by the administration of oxalic acid. The motive for the crime, it will be remembered, was stated at the time of his com mittal to be, that he might marry a widow with £3OO, who would have objected to take charge of his infant. He was found guilty and sentenced to die. THE HEIRESS AND THE ELDER.—The Scotsman con firms the statement which . appeared in our last of a wealthy young lady having married a poor man, and adds that the lady is heiress of a large estate and beautiful seat in Selkirkshire. The young lady is twenty-three, the other party about double that age. The first bond of connexion between them was of an ecclesiastical char- 4 the lady being somewhat of a religious re-' ject of her affections a Free Kirk elder SUPPOSED REMAINS OF MARTYRS IN SMITHFIELD.— On Wednesday. during the progress of excavations in Smithfield Market, opposite the entrance to the church of St. Bartholomew the Great, for the formation of a sewer, when about three feet below the surface the workmen came upon a heap of unhewn stones, blackened as if by fire, and covered with ashes and human bones charred and par tially consumed. The remains thus discovered are sup posed to be those of martyrs burnt at the stake bones were carried away as relic On Monday, Lord Denman, at Salisbury, sentenced to death John Smith for the murder of Eleanor Lawrence, a poor woman, who was killed on her way to take their dinner to some labourers by the brute, who knocked her down with a large stone and then kicked her. He was subsequently taken prisoner for assaulting the Rev. Mr. Hadow, at Everleigh, by throwing stones at him, because he refused to relieve him. Prisoner's counsel contended that Smith must be insane, as there was no attributable reason for the murder. The jury, however, paid no atten. tion to the suggestion. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NOVEL COMPLIMENT TO A JUDGE.-Mr. Macdonald, marble-mason, Monkwearmouth, who was acquitted on a charge of feleny, preferred against him at the recent Dur ham assizes, for blowing up an erection with gunpowder which the prosecutor, Mr. Allison, the brewer, claimed as his, but which Macdonald contended was built upon his ground, took a novel way of manifesting his gratitude to Baron Alderson for directing the jury to acquit him. On his arrival at his own home, where his triumph was greeted by a great number of his friends, he had a large flag stretched across the front of his house, bearing the following inscription :—`• Long life to Judge Alderson, the friend to truth and justice." The exhibition attracted hundreds of spectators. FAITH IN FORTUNE-TELLERS.-At West Looe, Corn wall, on Thursday, a woman named Mary Vincent, died at an advanced age. This woman had for a long time carried on a very lucrative business, in that town, in "tel ling fortunes." Great numbers have, for the last 30 years or more, from near home and from long distances, applied to this impostor, believing she could reveal their future destinies ; and to " get rid of the witchcraft." Such was the request for the old woman's services, that on the day she died two young ladies, from the neighbourhood of Fowey, called at her house to have their fortunes told ; and on the following d,y two well-dressed middle-aged females, from the neighbourhood of Herodsfoot, called to have advice relative to a bewitching case. Both parties left the house rather crestfallen on finding they were too late. THE BRISTOL MURDER.—The coroner's inquiry into the barbarous murder of the old lady, Mrs. Jefferies, at Bristol, has closed. Sarah Thomas, the girl who lived with the deceased, and in whose possession, at her mother's house, some money, plate, and trinkets, belong ing to the deceased were found, states that she was not the murderer, but that the inhuman deed was done by a girl who lately lived with the deceased, out of revenge for the deceased not giving her a character. Thomas, how ever, admits having received 30 sovereigns from the other girl, after the murder, the money having been taken from some of the desks or drawers belonging to the deceased. Her story seems unfounded, and she has been committed for trial for •' Wilful murder." MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Saturday week, a gentleman named Robertson, a student at St. Bartholo mew's Hospital, and residing in Upper-terrace, Islington, and a fellow student, Mr. T. W. Hairby, in company with a young woman, Hannah Murray, living as domestic at Robertson's lodgings, went to the River Lea. They hired a pleasure-boat at the Jolly Anglers, and had pro ceeded as far as the horseshoe point, when Hairby leaned over the boat to secure the rudder lines. The woman fearing his precipitation into the water, suddenly left her seat, which caused the boat to turn keel uppermost, when all three were immersed in the water. While in the act of sinking, Hairby clung to Murray. The melancholy catastrophe was witnessed by a bargeman, who promptly used his hitcher, and brought up the body of the woman, when animation was restored : but half an hour elapsed before the body of the two young men were got out. PAPISTS AND QUAKERS AT CHURCH MEETINGS.—We notice An unjustifiable interference of a Roman Catholic priest and a Quaker at a church meeting lately held at Hereford. The parish of St. John the Baptist in that city, consisting of 1300 souls, has had no place of worship since the restoration of the cathedral at Hereford was begun—that is, for seven or eight years past. The pa rishioners hare, in the mean time, and for many years, occupied a portion of the cathedral which served as their church. They have, in fact, been for the time specified without church or minister—there being no curate ap pointed to the parish, and the incumbent being also the incumbent of another parish in Hereford, which he serves without any assistant in the duties. And yet when an attempt is made to increase the efficiency of the church, even under circumstances of such spiritual destitution as this, the parties alluded to oppose the attempt. SHOCKING DISCOVERY. — On Friday, the workmen em ployed pulling down the houses for the formation of the new street from Walbrook to Queen-street, Southwark bridge, London, on entering the house No. 1, Castle court, for that purpose, to their horror, found in one of the upper rooms the corpse of a woman, with three chil dren crouched around it, the eldest apparently not ten years, all seeming on the point of death; the fetid odour that issued from the apartment for the moment compelled the men to retire; on returning they questioned the chil dren, but all they could glean from them was, that they were starving. Information was immediately forwarded to the Police-station in Bow-lane, and the children who had scarcely a vestige of clothing, and were literally co vered with vermin, were removed to the city workhouse in Cannon-street, where they received every attention, but from the dreadful state of exhaustion of the two youngest they are not expected to survive. The corpse of the un fortunate woman is merely covered with a ragged gown, no clothing, furniture, nor bedding was in the room, and it is supposed, that finding the house empty, she, with her children, crept in for shelter, and they are believed to have betn there for some days, totally without food., Mr. Alfred Smee, the surgeon to the Bank of England, has announced, that by a test, which he terms electro voltaic, he has discovered that the termination of the censor nerves are a positive pole of a voltaic circuit, whilst the muscular substance is the negative pole. The sensor nerves are the telegraphs which carry the sensation to the brain, and the motor nerves carry back the volition to the muscles, The brain he infers to consist of five distinct voltaic circles, which, upon theoretical grounds, he be lieves to be sufficient to account for mental phenomena. Should these researches be fully confirmed by other inves tigators, they must be regarded as most important phy siological discoveries. EXTRAORDINARY LEAP.—On'Monday, a man in the employ of Mr. William Parke, of the Feathers Inn, Holt, went into a turnip field, with a ware in a tumbrel, which he loaded with turnips. When he got into the pen where the stock was he left the mare, to close the hurdle he had removed to pass through, when something frightened her, and she started off in a gallop towards the gate next the road (the field inclining down towards the same), which she cleared, covering a space of 26 feet, carrying the cart and turnips over with her. She took the gate rather obliquely, which caused one of the wheels to go o❑ the fence side of the post, and the axletree of the cart went over it, it being about 4 feet 6 inches out of the ground. The velocity with which the cart came over caused it to upset, and when the mare was taken out she got up with out a scratch. Incredible as the story may appear, the occurrence was witnessed by others.—Norfolk Chronicle. AWFUL DEATIL—On Friday, an inquest was held at Kenilworth, near Leamington, on the body of Miss Ann Stewart, aged 16, a daughter of General Stewart. It ap peared that John Pugh, coachman to the General, heard one of his master's horses making a strange noise in the stable, and on going to the spot he found Miss Stewart under the horse. The animal was standing close by the side of the stall, and the deceased was doubled up under it. The blood was issuing from the deceased's head, and there was a large pool of blood in the stable. The de ceased used to caress and feed the horse occasionally, and it was remarkably quiet, and seemed sensible of her atten tion. In the opinion of the witness the deceased was feeding the horse, when he, in play, knocked her bonnet off, and it fell on the ground ; that he then became fright ened, and knocking her down, kicked her on the head, as he found her bonnet on the floor of the stable, and the off hind heel of the horse was covered with blood. When he extricated deceased, life was quite extinct. _ MOTHER AND SON DROWNED.—Considerable excite ment has been caused in the neighbourhood of Martock, Somerset, in consequence of Mrs. Rakes, of Clithorne, and her son having been found drowned. She had been visiting her relatives on Wednesday week, and was re turning in a vehicle drawn by one horse along the road from South Pentherton towards Martock, when the brook which runs alongside the road was swollen by the heavy rains which had fallen in the morning, and, it is supposed, by some accident they got into the brook, which is very deep in that part, and were drowned. The body of Mrs. Rakes was found at some distance from the spot, her clothes having been caught by some roots in the bank ; the body of the lad was found about three-quarters of a mile from the place where the accident occurred. The most singular and unaccountable part of the circum stance is the fact that the horse was found loose, and the harness in the waggon. How this could have happened is not known. zeal of the official, but the enthusimm of the student thrown into their labours. The last visitation of cholera had cost the city £lO,OOO, when the malady lingered on for nine months amongst a much smaller population than at present. He believed the expenses would now be much le3s ; but at the same time they trust remember the vast number of cases which had been hunted out, and the virulence of which was checked before it reached an advanced stage. On this occasion cholera seemed to have exhausted itself in one great burst." MR. EMERSON ON ENGLAND WHEAT AVERAGES.-Mr. Bright has obtained showing the average prices of wheat in 15 principal agri cultural and 15 manufacturing towns in the three last weeks of April, August, and December, in each year since 1841. Taking the three last weeks of April in each year as a fair criterion of the annual average, we find that in 1842 the price of wheat was £3 Os. 2d. per quarter in the agricultural, and £3 in the manufacturing and commer cial districts; in April, 1843, £2 6s. 11d. in the agricultu ral, and £2 ss. 4d. in the other districts; in April, 1844, £2 153. 4d. in the agricultural, and £2 15s. 3d. in the other districts; in April, 1845, £2 6s. 10d. in the agricul tural, and £2 15s. Bd. in the other districts; in April, 1847, £3 15s. in the agricultural, and £3 13s. 3d. in the other districts ; and in April, 1848, £2 10s. 4d. in the agricultural, and £2 10s. in the other districts. During the last week of December, 1848, the average price of wheat was £2 7s. ld. in the agricultural, and £2 Bs. 4d in the other districts. THE STANFIELD HALL MURDERS.- Wednesday night.—The serious apprehens Wy mondham upon the recent assassinations at S ...dity which hat. to some extent subsided, have been revived within the last few days, in consequence of too well founded rumours that the life of Mrs. Jermy is despaired of, and that there is little or no hope of the recovery of her servant-maid, Eliza Chestney. It will be recollected that Mrs. Jermy tanfielc was wounded by the assassin in the elbow joint of her right arm. Owing, however, to the judicious medical treatment she received there appeared to be no reason to fear that unfavourable results would ensue. On Monday morning, however, the symptoms took an adverse turn, and the limb has now been amputated. Although the operation was performed with considerable skill under the direction of Mr. Nicholls, of Norwich, and Mr. Tunneley, of Wymondham, the shock which has been sustained by the unfortunate lady is so severe that there is not the slightest hope that she will survive. The life of Eliza Chestney, Mrs. Jermy's servant-maid, and one of the Principal witnesses at the forthcoming trial, is also des paired of. THE WREXHAM BANK FAILURE. -In re Richard Middleton Lloyd.—The affairs of this bankrupt, formerly carrying on hilliness as a banker, came before Mr. Com missioner Perry on Wednesday. The court was much crowded with creditors and otl , which seemed to excite consider ' solicitor, of this town, appeared for th quil waters Mr. Evans, Lownde solicitor, f rupt was supported by Mr. Bardswell, solicitor. Further proofs, to the amount of £5,127 17s. 2d, were admitted. From statements made by the opposing solicitors, it ap peared that the bankrupt's balance-sheet was dated from the Ist of January, 1841, at which period he was insolvent, and owed money to the amount of £20,000 18s. 4d. The amount at present due to his creditors is £51,375 10s. 2d., and the assets will be exceedingly small in proportion to the amount owing.—Mr. Evans objected to the balance sheet filed by the bankrupt. He said that the attention of the assignees had been directed to the insertion in the balance-sheet of a sum of £20,000 18s. 4d., which it was stated was owing by the bankrupt in January, 1841. Mr. Blease, the accountant employed by the assignees, had ) contended that for, and that a that sum was not and aciently accoun the period when the bankrupt was first insolvent, which it was clear was before 1841.—Considerable discussion took place between the respective solicitors; after which, his honour ruled that a new balance-sheet should be drawn out, commencing in the year 1824.—The bankrupt was then subjected to a long and scrutinising examination by Mr. Evans as to the affairs of the bank for several years past; after which, the further hearing of the case was ad. journed to the 18th of May. THE CHOLERA IN SUNDERLAND.—This epidemic within the last week has prevailed rather extensively in Sunderland, but by no means to the extent which rumour has represented. The first case, that of a navigator, occurred in Love-lane on Sunday week, and terminated in death the same day. On the following Wednesday, Mrs. Taylor and her child, in the Low Street, were taken ill ; which was followed on Friday by the illness of Mrs. Taylor's mother, who died on the same day ; the child died on the 10th, and Mrs. Taylor on Sunday the 11th, on the night of which day Mrs. Jennings, sister of Mrs. Taylor, and who had attended to the afflicted family from the outset with true female devotedness, also fell before the disease after a few hours illness—making thus four cases and as many deaths in one house. Meanwhile the epidemic had been spreading. Including the above there • . had occurred from Wednesday week to Sunday last at noon 44 cases and 20 deaths—the burials in Sunderland Churchyard on Sunday being 13. From noon on Sunday to noon on Tuesday the additional cases were 28 ; deaths 13. From Tuesday to noon yesterday there have been several new cases, and about 8 deaths. The epidemic has been confined to the lanes and alleys on both sides of High-street, extending from Church-street downwards. Meanwhile all that could be done by medical skill has been supplied by the surgeons of the town. The Poor Law Guardians on Monday last met and passed various resolutions to meet the emergency. Of course also inti mation was at once given by the Board of Health officers in this town to head quarters in London of the epidemic having broken out here; and in consequence of the intel ligence forwarded on Sunday Dr. Sutherland, who was at Glasgow, was acquainted by telegraph on Monday that he must immediately proceed to Sunderland, which he accordingly did and reached here on Tuesday, where he has since been actively engaged in carrying out in con junction with the Poor Law Union authorities, and medi cal gentlemen of the town, the necessary measures for the alleviat ion and prevention of tt disease, ped will which is no ptisiderably mitigate in a few days subside altOgethei d, and it is Sunderland Times d from Ed es having CHOLERA.- burgh to Sund -Dr. Sutherland has been calico erland in consequence of 40 fatal Aberdeen occurred in the latter town in two days Prior to his de- held parture fro- ..inburgh a public meeting wt.. -, at which many important details connected with this terrible disease were given. It appears that there have been in Edinburgh 2,234 cholera cases, of which 856 were fatal. The town was divided into districts under Dr. Sutherland's superintendence, and in most of these student visitors were employed ; but in one district—Bridgeton—a rather different plan was adopted, which is thus described by D- I :—" It -nd t -f us. " if we nerlam. occurred to some of , that i. could get a number of intelligent working men or shop keepers, well acquainted with the localities, and to be ployed as visitors within the district. They might hunt out these premonitory cases, and report them to the medical officer, who, in his turn would promptly treat them. This plan was followed. I went to Bridgeton and explained the plan to be pursued, and the local committee acted upon it with energy. I watched the operations of these new visitors; and I wenMotn a short time since to ascertain the result, and aund it to be of the most satisfactory kind. I have not the details here before me; but, when published, they will he of great importance to places similarly situated. The visitations by these work ing people were entirely successful. They visited the whole district : they reported every house that was in want of cleaning; they promptly reported a vast number of incipient cases of cholera; and by their means many lives were saved. As the general result, Bridgeton was never known to be so clean and healthy as it is at the present moment. There is not a case of epidemic in it." Many of the gentlemen present expressed themselves ex tremely grateful for Dr. Sutherland's services, which, they said, had been of the greatest service in the town. Dr. J. Adams stated " that on the former visitation of cholera to this country, a great deal of money had been uselessly thrown away. The presence of Dr. Sutherland at this juncture, however, had been of great advantage to the city. He ably combined his personal services with his position as the organ of the General Board of Health. His presence secured the zealous exertions of the medical men of so much experience. There was not only the However we may differ from Mr. Emerson in opinion, and consider his theological doctrines very dangerous, he is yet capable of forming a judgment on the practical every-day matters he saw around him during his recent visit to England. A New York paper says : " Ralph Waldo Emerson lectured before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, Dec. 27th, on England, giving the results of his observations during his recent vi sit. He appears to have derived st r on g ly favourableim pressions of the English character. He spoke of the steady balance of the qualities of their nature as their character istic, and the secret of their success. Everything in Eng land betokens life. The land and climate are favourable to the production and preservation of good men. Mr. Emerson facetiously remarked that it was aaainst his theory to travel—he did not like it, and in most cases he considered it disadvantageous to the literary man. Run ning up hills and over valleys he believed the office of a wheel, not of a man. But he had profited by his trip to England. He referred to the elements of that power which the English now hold, and have held for centuries. After looking at her manufactories, scattered all other the land, her commerce, her agriculture, her arts, and witnessing the stupendous results which have been wrought out, one is convinced that if he would see the best development of common sense (the standard sense), he must go to Eng land to witness it. The land, in every part so like a gar den, shows the triumph of labour ; the fields look as if finished with the pencil, not the plough. Every arable spot has been cultivated, and everything turned to the best possible use. " England, indeed, is a huge mill, a grand hotel, where everything is provided to one's mind. On the railroads we ride twice as fast, and with one-half the shaking that we do upon our roads. All England is a machine—every body moves on a railway —no Englishman ever touches the ground. England has the best working climate in the world ; it is never hot or cold ; their winter days are like our November days in the early part of the month. The only drawback which Mr. Emerson mentioned was the dark gray colour of the sky, which renders day and night too nearly alike, and makes it painful at times to read and write. To this must be added the dark, dense smoke of many of the manufacturing towns ; this smoke pervad ing and completely enveloping at times every surrounding object. _ _ England has all the materials for a working country— iron, coal, &c., excepting wood. " The Englishman enjoys great health and vigour of body. They are larger than Americans. One hundred Englishmen taken at random, would probably weigh one quarter more than the same number of Americans, taken in the same manner; and yet the skeleton is said not to weigh more. The Englishman is plump, round, and full, and presents a stout, respectable, grandfatherly figure. The women, even, have thick-set forms, and seldom a tall, spare Englishman is seen. The figures of the days of chivalry carved in stone, some of them nine hundred years old, which adorn the churches all over England, the same types which characterise the present rac joying vigorous health, they last well, and 01 powers are strongly developed. They are great eaters, and claim that a zood supply of food is essential to health. They have more constitutional energy and vigogr than we have. Pluck is the national characteristic—the cabman, the porter, the nobleman, the bishop, and even the women have it ; the press runs over with it. " An Englishman speaks with his whole body ; his elo cution is stomachy—an American's is labial. He may growl at the petty annoyances of an hotel, but he has abundance of self-command. But the axes of his eyes' are united to his backbone, and only move with his trunk. Whoever else may fail, the Englishman will not. He has existed for a thousand years, and will continue to exist, as )n ! consequent his character possesses as much energy as ever. 1.--Jent En na. animal " London and England are now in full groxth. Bir kenhead, opposite Liverpool, grows as fast as South Bos ton, ow Brooklyn, opposite New York. London is en larging at an alarming rate, even to the swallowing up of Middlesex. The British Museum is not yet arranged; western colleges. Everything in England betokens life. " Be sure the Englishman does not build castles and abbeys, but what the nineteenth century demands, he builds; docks, wha-fs, warehouses, &c., without number. In all that the Englishman does,. even to the noise of clearing his throat, he gives evidence of strength. It is not the land for faint hearts. " One thing is very noticeable among the people, and that is their total neglect of each other. Each matt shaves, dresses, eats, walks, and runs just as he pleases, and his neighbour pays no attention to him, so long as he is not interfered with ; and this is not because English men are trained to neglect, but because each man is trained to mind his own business. Personal eccentricities are allowed here, and no one observes them. Each Islander is an Island himself, reposing in quiet and trail- " It is very certain that the Englishman h confidence in the power of his nation that he ca so much s very Lt any other Swede frequently during the last century, and an Ital who wrote in 1500, were both quoted in this connexion. The Englishman is handsome, and has always been so. If a handsome foreigner comes among them, the people declare that it is a pity he is not an Englishman. This arrogance is his birthright. His praise is to tell you it is so English' in character, and his highest praise is to say to an acquaintance, I should not know you from an Englishman.' Now this is admirable in some respects. " The English surpass all others in general culture— none are so harmoniously developed. They are quick to perceive any meanness in an individual. And.it is reason able that they should have all those fastidious views which wealth and power are wont to generate. But it is not to be disguised that there is much in English culture that will not bear analysis. It is material, built solely upon wealth, cockneyism, and is most fully exemplified in box- n author, ing, racing, gUnning, &c., what re called true English sports. They are neat, oraeriy, ana respectable, and have the nicest care of their wines, politices, guns, &c. But these are trifles. The manly forms are attributed to the exercises, such as boating, boxing, and riding, in which they indulge from early youth. The attachment to horses among them is almost universal—they are always on horse back—the hotels are crowded with pictures of races. Bet ting, not without its uses, causes them to be very exact in their data, and settles everything as a fact." EPITAPH UPON FOUR INFANTS, Beneath this stone four sleeping infants lie Say were they lost or saved? If death's by sin, they sinned, for they lie here, If heaven's by works, in heaven they can't appear Reason, ah, how depraved! Revere the Bible's sacred page, the knot's untied,• They died, for Adam sinned, they live, for Jesus ;lied A HINT FOR HOOSEKEEPERS.-But few persons are aware of the advantages which may be obtained by sim ply lining the back and sides of an ordinary fire-place with fire-brick. Every body must have noticed that when a fire goes out, the coals at the sides of the fire are left un burnt, whilst the centre is consumed. This arises from the cooling powers of the iron at the sides, and hence arises the complaint that " you mu s t h ave a large fire, or none at all." With fire-brick, the whole of the fire, how ever small, will - be kept alight, an object of great conside- ration in spring and autumn ; and - even after the fire is extinguished, the fire-brick lining will continue to diffuse warmth for some time. Ano less important advantage is, that less smoke is produced, and we may here remark on the absurdity of putting down smoke in factory chimneys. and leaving house chimneys untouched. If the smoke from all the chimneys, say in Russell-square, were com bined and poured forth from one huge chimney, it would be voted an intolerable nuisance. As it is, it passes un noticed. We have only to add that the expense of the alteration is a mere trifle.—Artisan. RAILWAY I ELECEIPTS The following are the receipts c that is to say, up to the date to are made : Df railways for the pas which the respective Amiens and Boulogne Belfast and Ballymena Birkenhead, Lan. and Cheshire Bolton, Blackburn, C. and W. Y Caledonian 0 0 0 1309 0 0 482 0 0 710 0 0 Chester and Holyhead Cockermouth and Workington Dublin and Drogheda Dublin and Kingstown Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen East Anglian Edinburgh and Glasgow F.dinhiirvb and Northern 380 0 0 4496 0 0 105 0 0 0 0 0 687 0 0 596 0 0 1001 0 0 709 0 0 3291 0 0 1689 0 0 .4MM/A 811 daasva a. va 1..,1 as E. Counties, N. Eastern, and N. East Lancashire Eastern Union 13313 0 0 2003 0 0 1202 0 0 2550 0 0 and Ayr Glasgow and Greenock Great Northern and East. Linc. Great Southern and Western Great Western Kendal and Windermere Lancashire and Yorkshire Lancaster and Carlisle Liverpool, Crosby, & Southport. Londonderry - and Enniskillen London and North-Western London and Blackwall London, Brighton & South Coast London and South-Westeni M'chester, Sheffield, a n d Lincoln' Ma port and Carlisle Midland, Bristol, and Birming ham Midland Great Western (Ireland) Monklands Newcastle and Carlisle Norfolk North British Paris and Rouen Rouen and Havre Scottish Central Shrewsbury and Chester South-Eastern South Devon Taff Vale Ulster Waterford and Limerick Whitehaven Junction York, Newcastle, and Berwick York and North Midland, &c., •eturne 17926 0 0 O 0 0 11317 0 0 1865 0 0 71 0 0 O 0 0 38210 0 0 433 0 0 7109 0 0 8239 0 0 3154 0 0 O 0 0 -- 10 i 20186 0 0 -- 11 1061 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -- 10 2698 0 0 -- 10 5517 0 0 -- 10 2979 0 0 -- 10 858 0 0 -- It 1237 0 0 -- 10 6782 0 0 - 9 1412 0 0 -10 i 1842 0 0 -- 11 i 713 0 0 -- 3 255 0 0 0 0 0 --- 10 11376 6 0 -- 10 1 6981 0 684 5929 6296 2145 6587 744 1901 864