The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-28 00:00:00

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The quotations up to one o'clock a e-Great Northern preference, 11 d. ; Leeds sths, 31 d.; Lancaster and Preston it-shares, 15 pm.; London Stock, 128; Ditto New Quarters, ..,62 6s. 3d. 21 pm.; Midland .€so'Shares, .4'15 6s. 3d. dis. ; Newcastle preference, 44 i 6/3 dis.; Royal Assurance, 2} prem. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.-Tuts DAY. The receipt of English and Irish Grain into this port during the week, are still very small, but are expected shortly to in crease; meanwhile, with several arrivals since Friday, we have to note a fair importation of W..eat and Indian Corn from the American States and Europe, and from the former including Canada a good supply of Flour as specified below. At our market to-day there was a very limited sale for all kinds of Wheat, at a decline of 3d. per 70Ib. from the rates of this day week. Flour was also dull ; American 6d. per barrel, and sack flour Is., lower. In Barley, Malt, Beans, and Pease we have no change to note. 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Rejoice! for overflowing le each abundant fle4l; The Lord has blest the sowing. The Lord has blest the yield; The mower has mown double, The reaper doubly reap'd, And from the shining stubble Her head the gleaner heap'd., Albury, Guildford. :OVERBIAL PH ILOSOPH Y." Rejoice! for mercy blesses, And judgment smites no more; The God of grace possesses Araumh's threshing-floor: The gains of honest labour . Are showered from above, And neighbour looks on neigh- In happiness and love. [boor. O men of all conditions, The high or humbly born, — sway with low seditious! Away with lofty scorn ! Mix kindly with each other, — For God has given to all The common name of brother, And gladdens great and small. And Erin! thou that starvest So patient on thy sod, — To thee, to thee, this harvest I Is come, the gift of Gad ! (Cheer up, though woes onpress Be diligent, and true; [thee; And, with thy Queen to bless thee, HER KING SHALL BLESS THEE TOOI M. F. T, VARIETIES. SAID.—A wealthy farmer in Kentucky says, " I would rather be taxed for the education of the boy, than the ignorance of the man. For one or the other lam compelled to be." A POSER.—What is that which, if a man has, he would not wish to lose ?—lf he has not, he would not wish to have ?—And which, when he has gained it, he has no longer.? D'ye give it up ? [A law-suit.] TAICING THINGS COOLLY.—A paper " out west" makes the following announcement to its numerous subscribers: —" In order to enable us to get through with some job work on hand, there will be no paper issued from this office next week." A POPE'S BENEDICTION.—" The Pope is to visit Al bano," says the Times, " and give his benediction there to the French army." We thought the disgrace of the French army was complete, but there seems no end to its degradation.—Punch. KIND, VERY.—A. " gentleman," advertising in the Waterford Mail for a wife, says, " it would be well if the lady were possessed of a coinpct—ney sufficient to se cure her against the effects of c.ce ;sive grief in case of accident occurring to her companion." Amiable fore thought! WORTH KNOWING.—As a general rule, noisy women do much less than they seem to do, and very much less than they believe, and quiet women often do more. But it does not follow that all quiet women are active ; on the contrary, six out of ten are indolent, and work only on compulsion. Among the amusing incidents which attended ber Ma jesty's visit to Ireland, may be enumerated the exclama tion of an old lady, as the Royal party were entering Dublin. " Och, Queen dear," said the lady, " call one of them (the Royal children) Prince Patrick, and all Ire land will die for you." A TOUGH Jos.—A fellow writing from somewhere out West says—" We started from some little town in the vicinity of Holstein ; I would not undertake to spell or pronounce the name ; but if you would take Kickapoo and Ojibbeway, mix them up with Passamaquoddy, and pronounce the whole backwards, you will get within about six miles of the name." EFFECT OF CALVINISTIC TEACHING.—Sir Jas. Macin tosh says, in his journal, " The Calvinistic people of Scotland, of Switzerland, of Holland, and of New Eng land, have been more moral than the same classes among other nations. Those who preached faith, or, in other wordi, a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good works, or the mere regulation of outward acts." LADY H AMI LTOW. —This remarkable individual—as re markable for her sufferings and great sorrows as her great -errors'—who was in a certain degree the cause of breaking up the indifferent home which Nelson found in the com panionship of his wife, may be said to have been the last of a race proverbial for bewitching and irresistible beauty, viz., the Lancashire witches. She was born at Preston, in 1764 ; her father's name was Lyons, and her parents were of menial condition. The child, named Emma, was, on the early death of her father, taken by her mother to Hawarden, in Flintshire, where ter remaining parent sought to support both by industry, and where Emma grew every day in beauty and ignorance. When old enough she was sent forth to earn her own livelihood. She commenced life in the humble position of a nursery maid in a family at Hawarden ; subsequently she was en gaged in the same capacity in the family of Dr. Budd, Chatham-place, Blackfriars. The good doctor little sus pected that he possessed two servants in the house des tined to achieve celebrity for themselves, and thus lend something of perpetuity to his own name. The nursemaid was Emma Lyons ; the housemaid was Jane Powell, who, in her after career, as an actress, was a fine interpreter of Shakspere, could give interest to the bombast of Nat. Lee, and make endurable the platitudes of Rowe—just as Ra chel, in our own days, interprets Racine and endows with life the metrical dulness of Aferope and Chimene. From Budd's to the family of a dealer in James's Market was a change from the east to the court end of the town, and it had its consequences. She attracted the attention and - won the good-will of a lady of fashion, who withdrew her -from servitude, and elevated her to what is often more de grading and worse paid, the dignity of a companion. The education she received i.ere was such as might be expected from the hands of a fine lady of the last century. She read all the stilted and not too delicate romances of the day— a course of reading which not only kills time, but which generally destroys the student. It at least did not im prove the spelling of the now " young lady," for to the last, though' she talked like Aspasia, she spelled as badly as Caroline of Brunswick—a light fault in a day when countesses spelt physician with an f, and thought G was the first letter of Augustus! The house of Emma's pa troness was the resort of all the great players, poets, and literati of the day. It was the " Gore House" of its time; perhaps its glories ended as ignobly. As a home and an asylum for a young girl full of beauty, and given to im pulses which she knew not'how to'govern, it deserved not the name. The poor thing was made the Cynthia of the minute; the Tressolins dedicated sonnets to her; her beauty was deified : incense was daily offered to her by fools and knaves, and even by those who were neither: but yesterday she was toiling for wages, and perhaps com placently receiving the coarse compliments of liveried worshippers : to-day she was tended on by delicate hands, her smiles eagerly sought after, her presence acknowledged by a buzz of admiration, her wit celebrated by the ecstatic praises of the witty, and her intellect directed to every thing save the study of divine things. She loved the re finement which concealed the vice yet unknown to her: what was so pleasant could hardly be sinful, for it brought no remorse. The foolish virgin lacked a man at hand to tell her that she was neglecting her lamp ; and it was only in after life, when intellt ct was superseded by cleverness, and reflection made matured beauty all the more radiant. that she sorrowingly acknowledged that to her first patro ness had been sacrificed the morning of her youth, and that every opportunity neglected had been fruitful in a multitude of after sorrows.—Church of England Quar terly Review. A MIDSHIP FROLIC.—Two of the officers in the m'd shipmen's berth had, like myself, been enjoying the no velty of our night's ascent of the river, and instead of re tiring, like my lazy self, to a hammock, had arranged to have a sumptuous supper at one a.m., off a cold tongue and a bottle of brandy. The unfortunate berth-boy (for all midshipmen's boys are unfortunate) turned out of his bed sleepy and careless, borrowed the sentry's lantern, spread the supper, nodded his head, and slept as he leant against the cupboard. My worthy shipmates ate a little, and drank more; descanted in glowing terms on the plea sure of the trip ; and whilst deep in their argument, which I was inwardly cursing, the purser's cat stole into the berth, and favoured by the glimmering light of his mas ter's lantern, jumped on the table and abstracted the re maining portion of the tongue. Suddenly the argument ceased, and one proposed to go on deck and fetch " old somebody" down to ]lave some supper ; which having been done, a scene somewhat as follows occurred : " Why, what infernal nonsense! why have you hid the tongue ? Come, out with it."—" Oh ! that won't do, my friend ! I thought I heard you humbugging the dish about. I'm shot if you shall not pay for the supper." —" I take the tongue ? the devil a bit ! I've not touched it."—" Well, then, somebody must. I'm shot if we do not find the thief out !"—The door of the lantern was then opened, and its solitary pencil of rays, as Dr. would call it, sent shimmering about the steerage and berth--when, lo and behold, the unlucky boy was found leaning against the cupboard ! "Ah ! you d—d young thief, so you steal tongue, eh ?" cried one. No answer beyond a snore. "Oh ! he is asleep," replied the other, "it could not be him." " Well, then," said the first speaker, " he ought to have seen that no one else robbed us"—a piece of reasoning that allowed of no argument, and accordingly it was decided that summary punishment was to be inflicted on the unconscious culprit. Whereon, with that fertility of conception for which young naval of ficers are so remarkable, the hair was quietly removed froth the crown of the boy's head, and his face carefully blackened, which being done, the light Was'throwninto his eyes, and, with mock gravity, one said, " Well! you ungrateful scoundrel, so after living all day on the fat of the land you must steal tongue at night, eh ? But Providence has punished you, sir : all the hair has fallen off the top of your head, and you will be a negro for the rest of your days !" "Oh Lord, sir !" blubbered the boy, putting one hand to the crown of his head, and squinting at his nose, which shone of lamp-black. "Oh ! I never stole never no tongue, sir! somebody else tuked it. Perhaps it was that cat, sir! I gets all her thrashings !" A hunt at once commenced for the pilfering Tommy, who was soon found, still purring over the remnants—caught, and condemned to be converted into a lion. This novel pro cess was executed by shearing and shaving the hair from the underneath part of the neck, and from the shoulders within three inches of the tip of the tail. Puss was tied securely down, and, amid much mewing, biting, and roars of laughter from a numerous audience. (who, not being able to sleep, joined in the m id n i g ht p ran k,) an d the sen try's " Not so much noise, if you please, gentlemen," the operation was successfully performed, and puss liberated to fly about quite frantic with fear, whilst I almost cried with laughter at his appearance, so totally was it changed —even the lady cat did not know her better half, and, in her astonishment at the transmogrification, curled up her tail, spat, and grinned in a very unmatrimonial man ner. The robber finding himself the subject of general contempt, flew up the ladder and bolted into the coal bunkers to conceal his shame. Old Gregory, the quarter _master, assured me, with a very demure face, that no doubt Tommy would commit suicide, " for he is a wery high-minded cat, sir, and never disgraced himself before !" —Walpole's Four Fears in the Pacific. A DAY OF HUMILIATION. TO 7'HE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Snt,—lf you think the following worthy the attention of those whom it may concern, I think you will do well to give it a place in your excellent journal. ' Much has been said and written, but nothing done in ,the matter of a special day for prayer to God to avert the judgments which are pending over our beloved nation. Can we wonder at this awful visitation when we think of the enormous profanation of the Sabbath day ? Is it kept as " a day unto the Lord?" No! The sanctuaries of the Lord are nearly forsaken, and the masses repair to their various places of amusement—profligacy seems ram pant—licentiousness is crowned, as it were, with laurels —murders, clandestine and open, are innumerable—reli gious hypocrisy quite fashionable—and wickedness of all sorts perpetrated in the most daring manner. Now, Sir, is not this enough to vex a Holy God ? Does he not now speak to us with a voice mere terrible than thunder ? Death is commissioned, and he quietly applies his deadly lance. Thus we can hear the Almighty saying, "Be still, and know that I am God." How highly exalted has this nation been by privileges, but to what depths of suffering has it reduced itself by its ini quities ! Of those whose prerogative it is to call the attention of the nation to an universal humiliation " beneath the mighty hand of God," I would inquire how much longer will you procrastinate? Has not death mowed down enough yet ? Are not the sins of the nation what we re present them to be ? And is not this disease a judgment from God ? If not, what is it ? If we appeal to our me dical bodies, they confess their inability to cure, and, in most cases, even to touch it. Their skill is baffled, and their conferences a " confusion of tongues." Scripture here is applicable to us. "Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous, thou hast no healing medicines." —Jer. xxx.. 12, 13. Surely the charge against the " nine lepers" would apply to us. At our last special day of ge neral humiliation we prayed, and were answered, but no special day of thanksgiving followed (a Sunday was sub stituted ;) can we say it was not even for this act of ingra titude that we are now suffering ? Notwithstanding, we can truly exclaim, " All this evil is come upon us, yet made we not our prayer before God."—Dan. ix., 13. Let us one and all bow down before the Lord and confess our sins, and God will hear us as he did Daniel, when he cried " 0 my God, incline thine ear, and hear ; open thine eyes and behold our desolation."—Dan. ix., 18. And if we repent and believe, mercy will come as Gabriel to Daniel, and say, " At the beginning of thy supplications the co►n mandment came forth, and I am come to show thee," &c. 0 come, then, let us worship and fall down before God. It is high time. Let travelling by railroad and water be suspended for one day, that all, both employer and em ployed, may have the opportunity to worship. Let ma chinery keep silence—counting-houses be forsaken—and trade of all sorts be laid aside, and the silence of a justly suffering nation be broken only by the cries of the people. " 0 Dirci hear, 0 Lord forgive, 0 Lord hearken, and do, defer not."—Dan. ix., 19. August 24. J. T. L. A Working Man. LAW INTHLLIGENCE. COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—On Tuesday, at the Sheriff's Court, London, a commission de lunatico inquiretzdo was opened for the purpose of ascertaining the state of mind of Mr. Edward Vicars, who has long been a partner in the firm of Moore, Vicars, and Co., carrying on an extensive distillery business in-Liverpool. The petitioner was Miss Anne Vicars, the alleged lunatic's sister, and carrying on business in Liverpool as a licensed victualler. The learned counsel (Mr. Rult) then gave a brief outline of the life of Arr. Vicars, commencing with his birth, in Cumberland, in the year 1803, and concluding with his joining the firm above mentioned in the year 1835. It appears that he was a man given to habits of intemperance. Amongst many strange hallucinations by which his mind became possessed was one that he had no stomach, and that consequently he required no sustenance, refusing at that time to eat any food. He protested that his cranium was devoid of brains, and asserted that it was in the power of man, by tneans of electricity, to deprive human beings of their rational senses. After hearing the evidence of several medical men, among others Dr. Formby, the jury stated that they were all satisfied that Mr. Vicars was not of unsound mind. The announcement was received in court with much cheering. The result of this verdict will be to give to Mr. Vicars the management of his person and his pro perty, and to set him at liberty. ENORMOUS DAMAGES.—At the Croydon Assizes, Messrs. Harris and Co., of the Naval B ink, Plymouth, brought an action against Mr. G. Sackville Lane Fox, the son of Colonel Fox, M.P.. to recover the amount of cer tain bills of exchange, some of which purported to he drawn by the Colonel, and accepted by his son, others to have been drawn by Leon Solomons, and accepted by the defendant, and the whole of which bore the endorsements of Solomons, and a person named Benjamin Joseph, and also to have been endorsed by the latter to the plaintiffs' bank. The defendant was an extremely young man, an officer in the Royal Horse Guards, and it happened on an evil day that he became connected with Joseph and Solo mons, and, having some expectations, it appeared that Solomons resolved to make a terrific example of him. The fact was. that whereas the defendant, a cornet in the Royal Horse Guards, had only come of age in the begin ning of the present year, the total amount of the bills for which he was now sued was £14,720, and not more than £2OOO had been advanced upon them. The bills had been obtained from him upon the representation that a larger sum should be advanced, but he had never received one farthing. The evidence bore out the imputation that Joseph and Solomons had not given the value for the bills, but it was proved that the bank had discounted the bills, and given the full value for them.—The Chief Baron, in summing up, said the jury was bound to find a verdict for the plaintiffs, as they sued as bona fide holders of the bills ; but he would add, that if respectable parties did not lend their assistance in this manner, persons would not be able to scramble through dishonest transactions so easily as they often did, by such means. A verdict was then recorded for £14,470, the jury refusing to give any interest for the period the bills had been over due. A verdict, with £6788 damages, was also obtained by the same parties against Colonel Fox, M.P., on bills. THE FRIGHTFUL MURDER AT BERMONDSEY. The' Tifiiis says that the.interest attached to this fearful occurrence - exceeds that of any similar atrocity of the last century. • Mr. Odling, the surgeon, has completed his post mortem examination of the body of the deceased. On examining the head over the right eye, he found a one-inch bullet had entered the skull, supposed to have been fired from an air-gun, and had shattered that part into sixteen splinters, but he was of opinion that the bullet did not cause death, as lie found upon examining the back of the head that the deceased had been fearfully beaten, and, from the nature of the wound, he believed the instrument used was what is called a plasterer's hammer, - at one end of which there is a sort of chopper. Mr. Odling has ascertained that poison had been administered to the deceased previously. The shovel with which the grave of the mnrdered man was in all probability dug was, it seems, purchased by Mrs. Manning, on Wednesday, the sth instant, from Mr. Langley, ironmonger in Tooley-street. She told the shop man that she wanted an iron shovel, and that it must be a strong one. lie asked her if she wanted a regular shovel, and she replied that she would make a short handled one do. The price was Is. 2d., which she paid, and had the shovel sent to No. 3, Minerva-place. With reference to the boxes discovered yesterday at the South- Eastern Railway terminus, they furnish one of those curi ous incidents which are perpetually occurring in the his tory of great crimes. When brought to Scotland-yard one of the heads of the detective force immediately re cognised them. " I've seen these boxes before," said he, "We searched them at the time of the Bristol mail rob bery." The apprehension of Mrs. Manning took place through the active agency of the police, who succeeded in tracing her in a cab in which she left Minerva-place the Monday after the murder. She drove to the South-Eastern sta tion, and there left two boxes, one directed to " Mrs. Sniith, passenger to Paris; to be left till called for;" and the other, " Mrs. Smith, passenger ; to be left till called' for." She then drove to the North-Western station, and there dismissed the cab. The boxes had not since been called for, and on being forced open by the police were found to contain a quantity of female, wearing apparel, which, upon examination, proved to be marked with the name of " Maria Rue," the maiden name of Mrs. Man ning. A further examination discovered a quantity of articles belonging to the deceased Patrick O'Connor, and several letters written by him to the supposed murderess. At the North-Western Railway it was found that she had taken 11:..r place right through to Edinburgh, and the tele • graph being used, within an hour an answer was returned communicating her arrest. She was found at a respecta ble lodging-house, under the name of Smith, reading the Times with an account of the murder in it. She denied her identity, but upon being taken into custody, after a search of her person and luggage the following property was found upon her : —seventy-three sovereigns in gold, one £5O note and six £lO notes—five of these latter bear. ing the numbers advertised as having been paid to Man ning on Saturday, the 11th instant, on the presentation of one of the deceased's checks. In addition to this money, there was also found in the woman's possession all the missing scrip of the Sombre and Meuse and Ihulogne and Amiens Railways, known to have been in the possession of the deceased, and some articles of wearing apparel be longing to him. Two bottles have been found containing laudanum, leaving no doubt that the deceased was drug ged before the brutal murder was committed. - The Caledonian mail-train, which arrived at the Euston station on Friday brought Maria Manning to London. Inspectors Darkin and Sheppey, of the A division, were in attendance at the railway terminus to receive the pri soner, and upon the train drawing up alongside the plat form the accused was hurried into a cab. Mr. Moxhay, the chief of the Edinburgh constabulary, in whose cus tody the-prisoner arrived, with the two inspectors, accom panied her in the vehicle, which drove off at a rapid rate to the Southwark Police-station, at Stone's-end. On arriving at the Police-station, she was taken into the prisoners' room, when Mr. Superintendent Evans took the charge. The prisoner, before he commenced to do so, complained of being faint, and requested that some coffee might be procured for her. This was obtained, and the accused having partaken of two or three cups, was accommodated with a chair while Mr. Evans entered the charge. In reply to the questions of the officer she stated that her name was Maria Manning, that her age was thirty, and that she resided at No. 3, Minerva-place, New Weston-street. When the latter question was proposed to her she hesi tated, and appeared to affect not to hear what the super intendent said ; but upon the question being repeated by Inspector Darkin, she acknowledged that her residence was correctly described as No. 3, Minerva-place, New 'Weston-street. In reply to the last question, as to whe ther she was a married woman, she replied firmly "Yes." She has been wrongly described as a tine-looking woman. She wore a black figured satin dress and visite, with a plaid shawl and plain straw bonnet. As soon as she en tered the Police-station she threw up her veil, and tied it over her bonnet with great sangfroid. A very strong impression prevails among the police au thorities that Maria Manning intended to " do " her male companion—that having packed off the murdered man's valuables in her boxes, and finding the officers on her track, she decamped while Manning was at the broker's, with the full purpose of leaving him to his fate. It has been ascertained almost to a certainty that except what he received for his furniture, he had no money when she fled, and the principal grounds for the hope which is en tertained that he will soon be arrested are, that he has no means to reach a foreign country, and that he drinks to excess. To show the extraordinary nerve of the Mannings, par ticularly the female, she on Sunday prepared her dinner in the back kitchen. where she roasted a goose over the spot where her murdered paramour was lying, and when the police called at the house on the following Monday, to inquire after the deceased, she coolly asked them in, bade them take a seat, and answered all questions with the greatest composure; but a nephew of the deceased who was with the police, fancying he saw a slight tremor, said to Mrs. Manning, " Why you appear to be ill." She said, " No, no ; I had an attack of illness about six weeks ago, and I have not quite recovered yet." Her coolness, quite threw the police off their guard ; and although the nephew said he was convinced some foul play had been practised, and that he should like the police to take Mrs. Manning, they refused, as there was no charge against her. Almost immediately after the police left the place a cab drove up to the door, and Mrs. Manning put into it three boxes lightly packed up, and drove off, the woman putting her head out of the window, and saying, " Be quick, drive fast." From one fact which occurred after Manning left the house, it would appear that he does not possess half the nerve exhibited by his wife. On proceed ing with the broker to whom he bad sold the furniture in Minerva-place, he objected to enter the house, saying he would not do so for £2O, and waited at the Leather-mar ket public-house, opposite, until Bainbridge's return. The police are now of opinion that Mrs. Manning has made off with the booty on her own account, giving her husband the slip as she did on a former occasion, when they kept a public-house at Kingsland. Ho inquired eagerly after she had left amongst the neighbours, and seemed surprised at her departure. The following particulars in reference to Maria Man ning will probably be read with interest :—Her maiden name is not " Rue," as has been erroneously stated, but " De Roux." She is a native of Lausanne, in Switzer land, and inherited some small patrimony from her pa rents, both of whom are deceased. About six years since she served in the family of Sir Lawrence Palk, at Haldon house, Devonshire, as maid to Lady Palk, and while travelling to and fro with his family she appears to have made the acquaintance of Manning, who was at that time a guard on the Great Western Railway. At Lady Palk's decease, in 1846, she obtained a situation as maid to Lady Blantyre, second daughter of the Duchess of Sutherland. She came to reside with her Ladyship at Stafford-house in July, 1846, and accompanied her to Scotland in the autumn of the same year. While attending her Lady ship on a brief continental tour, before proceeding to Scotland, she met with the deceased, O'Connor, who seems to have been struck with her appearance and man ners—so much so as to have offered her marriage. In the early part of the season, 1847, she returned to town with Lady Blantyre, and it appears was frequently visited at Stafford-house by both Manning and Mr. O'Connor, the latter of whom appeared to entertain a very warm affection for, her. Manning, however, seems to have been the most favoured suitor, and on the 6th of August, 1847, she left Stafford-house with the avowed intention of marrying him. Whether the ceremony was ever per formed is not known at present, but it is certain that she urged an old nurse in the establishment to be present —a request, however, which was not acceded to. As an 1 illustration of the woman's finesse it may be mentioned that upon her leaving Stafford-house handsome presents were made to her ; and not only was this kindly interest in her own welfare displayed, but a relative of her sup posed husband, Manning, recently received a public appointment. After her marriage she accompanied Manning into Devonshire for a week or ten days, and then, returning to Stafford-house, went with Lady Blantyre to the Continent a second time, one motive for her doing so being, as it is alleged, the oppor tunity it afforded of arranging her own affairs abroad previously to settling down to married life in Eng land. All this time she had been deceiving Patrick O'Connor as to her marriage with Manning; and when O'Connor ascertained that she really was married. he manifested the greatest distress of mind, tore the hair from his head, and conducted himself altogether in a most extraordinary manner. On her return from the continent she went to reside with her husband in lodgings at No. 2, Church-street, Paddington, Manning at this time still filling the situation of guard on the Great Western Rail way. We should here state that it is believed Manning in prosecuting his addresses succeeded in persuading Maria de Roux that he was entitled to property under his mother's will, amounting to between £6OO and £7OO. This was of course only a fiction ; but so deeply did he lay his schemes that he actually drew up a will, which has been found among the papers in his wife's possession, by which lie bequeathed his property to his " very dear and beloved wife," to the exclusion of all other claimants, appointing her executrix, conjointly with Henry Poole, recently convicted of the mail robberies on the Great Western Railway, who is one of the subscribing witnesses to the deed. There does not appear to be the least reason to believe that Manning had any property himself, but with the money he obtained from his wife, very shortly after their marriage, he took a public house or hotel at Taunton, which promised at first to do well; but partly owing to the bad associates with whom he became con nected, and partly to the unfitness of his wife to play the hostess, the business soon fell off. While they lived toge ther here Mrs. Manning, on one occasion, left her hus band, pretending that she had to go to the continent to receive some money. She remained absent about five weeks without communicating with her husband, and Manning finding that the business of his house was falling off, made over the lease to another party, and left Taunton. At length Mrs. Manning returned, and pre sented herself at her former house, and was of course re fused admission. She then hastened to London, and found her husband living- with his brother in Francis street, Newington. She remained with him only a short time and then decamped again, and was at length disco vered living with O'Connor. A second time their differ ences were healed, and they next appeared as the host and hostess of the Old King John's Head, in the Kingsland road, where they remained only a vc,ry short period, and on leaving Kingsland they went to live at Minerva-place, the scene of their diabolical crime. Some say it was at Boulogne, whither the deceased used to go frequently during his annual month's holiday, where he first made the fatal acquaintance of Maria de Roux, who, it is rumoured, is cousin to Courvoisier, the well-remembered assassin of Lord W. Russell. It is cer tain that he used to visit her at Stafford House. Mr. O'Connor was excessively fond of money, and en deavoured at all times to increase his store, yet he was not penurious, and had for years paid for the education of a niece at Thurles, in Ireland. His brother, the Rev. Dr. O'Connor, a highly-respectable Roman Catholic clergy man at Thurles, arrived in London on Friday. His pro perty could not be less than between £7OOO and £BOOO. Singular enough, there were found in one of the boxes of Mrs. Manning, conveying away the property of the murdered man, the Psalms of David, in French, a collec tion of sacred poems, and.a werk entitled, " Family de votion for every day in the Year." This little incident is nearly on a par with Rush's family worship. Among other matters found in the prisoner's boxes were letters of recommendation for situations in or near London, given by two distinguished personages, and in which she is described as being kind, affectionate, and piously in clined. Among the letters found in Mrs. Manning's luggage is one in the hand-writing of Mr. O'Connor, the con tents of which are curious. It covers three sides of a large sheet of letter paper, and seems to have been written about that period of their connexion when O'Conner discovered to his surprise that Mrs. Manning was married. It is dated "Custom -house, St. Katharine's Docks," and commences, `• My dearest Maria." After reproaching the accused with her faithlessness to him, the writer proceeds in a lachrymose strain to bewail his fate in having lost "an angel who might have been his guiding star through life." In one part of the letter his own deceptive character creeps out in a remark to the effect, that if he were a rich man, and could afford to pay for the journey, he would hasten to Erskine-house, (Lord Blantyre's seat, in Scotland) where Mrs. Manning was then staying, and upbraid her, personally, with her cruelty to him. The signature to this letter, which was written in the corner of the third page, has been neatly cut out, but of the identity of the handwriting, there is not the slightest doubt. T he letter is directed to 1 • Mrs. Manning, care of Lady Blantyre, Erskine-house, N. B." Some curious mistakes have been made in the endea vour to apprehend the male accused. The governor of Bath gaol fancied he saw Manning pass Basingstoke in a third-class up-train to London. The fact was telegraphed to London, and information forwarded to the commis sioners of police, who sent Inspector Haynes to the Wa terloo station immediately with two or three officers, to whom Manning's person was known. Mr. Stovin, the manager of the railway, pla' ed a special engine at the dis posal of the officers and accompanied them to Wimble ton, where the up-train was stopped and examined. The suspected party, who had been not a little alarmed at the observation his presence excited at all the stations where the train stopped, was at once ascertained not to be Man ning, and the officers returned to town. In the evening another individual was taken into custody at a leer-shop in the Caledonian-road, Islington, on suspicion of being the supposed murderer, but this also proved to be a mis take. On Friday afternoon a man somewhat answering the description of Manning was observed entering a wood in the neighbourhood of Carshalton. One or two persons instantly gave chase, and were speedily joined by others equally anxious to share in the capture. The individual, ascertaining from the cries of the crowd the nature of their suspicion against him, led his pursuers a run of two or three miles, and then turned round and laughed at them. MANNING'S WHEREABOUTS DISCOVERED. Intelligence reached London, on Thursday morning, that Manning had made his escape via Southamtiton and Jersey. The police are now put on the right track, and although he has many days the start of his pursuers, yet, unless Manning be a good French scholar. he will have much difficulty in eluding the vigilance of our detectives in whatever part of France he may have escaped to—for thither he has in all likelihood secreted himself. The French police.will be furnished with a correct description of his person, and that added to his English tongue and appearance, will, doubtless, before long, place him in the hands of the law. If Manning had not furnished himself with a French passport before leaving this country, he could have got one at. Jersey. Tli I,IIEXPOOL STANDARD. ernerat Ifltutilanp, Colonel Sibthorp is dangerously ill. Mrs. Peel, of the Lion and Pheasant Inn, Shrewsbury, was thrown from her gig on Monday, and killed. Some of the leading confectioners of Bath haveapplied to the magistrates for spirit licences, but the bench declined to grant them. Among the many victims to the cholera, we record the name of Henry Hetherington, the well-known publisher and newsvender, London. It is proposed to establish " soldiers' gardens" in con nection with the several barracks for the recreation of the men. An effort is again making at Leeds to induce the Lords of the Treasury to confer on that town the privileges of a bonding port. On Tuesday the Lord Mayor of London entertained the Count and Countess of Neuilly, and a select party at the Mansion-house, London. Sir Aston Key, the eminent surgeon, died at his Londan residence early on Wednesday, of cholera ; he was taken ill about noon on the previous day. On 11Ionday a trout was caught in Windermere Lake, which measured no less than 25 inches in length, was 153 in girth, and weighed upwards of 8 pounds and a half. The Duke of Richmond has applied, under the new act, for authority to disentail the Huntley, Glenlivat, and Kin rara estates, and others in the counties of Aberdeen, Banff, Moray, and Inverness. The Kendal Mercury claims for that town the honour of having given birth to the celebrated Charles Dickens, who first knew the world he has learned to know so well in a house situated upon the Beast Banks. A man who was lately ploughing in a field near North allerton, turned up a•silver coin rather larger than a shil ling, but somewhat thinner, which proved to be a coin of King Alfred, in a fair state of preservation. On Saturday a stem of peas was pulled up in the garden of Mr. Tinkler, of Northallerton. having 61 pods upon it, and containing no less than 346 peas, in fine condition, and all fit for use, the proc:uce of one pea. A conviction was obtained at th, County Court, Pet worth, on Friday last, against William Morris, for prac tising as an apothecary without the certificate of the Apothecaries' Company. Penalty £2O and costs. A boy was found hanging dead in a joiner's shop at Halifax. It would seem that death was accidental ;as the boy and his companions had recently been making foolish experiments on hanging. A man, named Hughes, residing in Dundalk, was, on Sunday week, in a quarrel, stabbed by his wife with a butcher's knife, and killed. She has been committed for trial. Mr. Macready has entered into an engagement for four months at the Haymarket Theatre, and bound himself finally to leave the stage at the end of it. So says the London Standard, _ ST. SwiTHll4.—Friday was the fortieth morning after St. Swithin's Day. The old saying has not held true this year. The 15th of July was a remarkably fine day, but there has been scarcely one since quite free from rain. A FACT.—It is scarcely within the verge of probabi lity, but it is nevertheless nn indisputable fact, that on Tuesday last twelve hundred and a half of fresh herrings were bought in Douglas for one shilling.—Mona's Herald. The Duke of Sutherland has found that the closing of the fishing in his river in Sutherlandshire has increased amazingly the numbers of salmon, grilse, &c. The pools are teeming with fish. On Saturday night a fearful affray took place between some smugglers and two coast-guardsmen. One of the latter was so frightfully beaten with sticks t hat his life is despaired of. Lient. Halkett, R.N., has projected a plan for saving the fuel of large steam men-of-war, by drawing the fires instead of banking them up. The plan is ordered by the Admiralty to be tested. The late blockade has caused such an accumulation of goods at Hamburgh and Hull, that fifteen steamers are intended to be kept fully employed on that station during the remainder of the season. A fine little boy, two years and a-half old, living at Saxby, Lincolnshire, lost his life last week through drink ing some laudanum which his mother had incautiously left on a table. Another dreadful murder has been perpetrated in Lon don, by a man named Ward. The victim was his wife ; and it appears that, at the time of the fatal deed, they were quarrelling. Joseph Fellows, a sweep, pleaded guilty at the Kidder minster Police-court, last week, to trespassing in a planta tion belonging to Mr. F. W. Knight, M.P., at Wolverley, with the intention of taking firewood, and was fined one penny, and 12s. Gd. costs. The Sun of Tuesday, devotes another leader, its first, and occupying upwards of a column, to the defence of Mrs. James, alias Lola Mantes, alias the Countess of Lqnsfeldt, alias Mrs. Heald,—against the charge of bigamy. Hotel-keepers, shopkeepers, &c., in London and other places, are being victimised by scoundrels who pass forged £5 and £lO notes. The notes are well executed, but the signatures are printed with the rest of the engraving, and not written. At Trowbridge, on Friday last, the morning up to nine o'clock, and the_ evening after six, were devoted to reli gious services at the several places of worship " for the purpose of entreating the mercy of God under the exist ing prevalence of cholera." On Tuesday, whilst shooting on the moors at Abergel die with a party, the Hon. Mr. Portman, eldest son of Lord Portman, was unfortunately struck in the eye by a shot from one of the party. There is reason to hope that he is going on favourably. On Saturday week an idiot-boy named David James, seized a child, Richard Warner, four years old, on the banks of the canal from Brecon to Newport, in the parish of Llanvigan, and threw him into the water, where he was drowned. R. Coates completed the arduous task of walking 1,000 half-miles in 1000 successive half-hours on Monday week, at Birmingham, in the presence of at least 2,000 specta tors. lie did not appear much distressed, his feet only having failed him. A boy, crossing a footpath near Nottingham, last week, was pursued by a horse, which knocked him down, hit him severely in the back, took him up in its teeth, shook him, and carried him about as a dog would do a rat. The boy was rescued by some persons who hastened to his assistance. He was severely hurt. SCHISM IN THE WESLEYAN BODY.—The three mi nisters expelled by the late Conference, have given notice that it is their purpose, at the earliest possible period, to lay the whole affair before the religious world, by holding a public meeting in London. Great dissatisfaction ap pears to exist in the "circuits" of the expelled ministers. THE HARVEST IN ENGLAND.—The weather has been remarkably fine throughout England during the major part of the week, and great progress has been made in reaping; in fact, farmers are so busy with harvest opera tions that they have latterly put in a very scanty appear ance at the corn markets of their respective localities. An old man, named William Husband, aged 75, while attempting to push open a swing-gate on the Perthshore road, leading to Norton Church, was caught by the throat in consequence of the gate falling back upon him, and was afterwards found hanging by the spars in a kneel ing position. During the thunder storm that lately passed over Yeo vil, a thunder bolt fell in South-street, which is said to have scattered its fiery balls in all directions, illuminating the streets to such a degree that many persons thought the houses were on fire. Two persons who were passing at the time, had their frees slightly scorched. CHOLERA IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—On Tuesday, a gentleman and his son took their seats in the train at Euston station, and before they had reached Watford the son was taken ill of cholera, and continued to get worse till he got to Leighton Buzzard, where he was taken out of the train, and in ten minutes afterwards died. STRANGE BIRTH.—A boy in the district of Kirksldy, who has a passion for chicken-hatching, got a large egg some time ago from some sailors just come from Alexan dria, and placed it under a favourite hen, expecting to get a large Egyptian fowl ; but his surprise and amazement may be better conceived than described when he found, one morninir, a live crocodile. _ _ THE CHOLERA.—During the week, ending Saturday, there were in England, Scotland, and Wales 5168 cases, and 2,368 deaths. Of there 1103 deaths were in London and the vicinity, 216 in Liverpool, 68 in Plymouth, 50 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 101 in Dundee, (nearly two thirds of all the cases in Scotland,) 29 in Merthyr Tydfil, and the remainder in other towns. • CRICKET—KENT V. ALL ENGLAND.—This annual match was played on Tuesday and Wednesday, at Lord's. As had been anticipated after the close of the first innings en both sides, the England eleven were vanquished by an unusual number of runs, namely 206—the final totals being, Kent 127 and 277, or 354 ; and England, 48 and 100, or 148. EFFECT OF WEALTH.—On Friday a commission of lunacy was held at Hoxton on a maiden iady of high accomplishments. Her mother also lost her reason on acquiring a fortune of £40,000. When before the Com missioner she said. "You are a liar." Commissioner: That is not a very lady-like expression.—Miss Fisher: Perhaps not ; but the Duchess of Beaufort and all the nobility use it. Dr. Wolff has published a letter, addressed to English Protestants, in which he says, " you Protestants would deserve the reproach of being imbeciles, if you were not to claim from Louis . Napoleon the release of Father Giacinto Achilli from the Inquisition." Popery is as persecuting as ever. In the East she has just imprisoned a British subject for refusing to idolize the host. Protestants will surely be awakened shortly. GROWTH OP Corrow IN INDIA.—We are astonished to find that the East India Company have resolved not to carry any further the cultivation of cotton in India. The reason they assign for this extraordinary proceeding ap pears to be that the government of India having shown that cultivation can be carried on successfully, they have done enough, and that the rest must be accomplished by private enterprise. There are now living within half a mile of Brorns grove, Worcestershire, on the Worcester-road, four children born at one birth, all girls. They are fifteen months old ; two of them can walk alone, and the other nearly so. The father is a labouring man, named Lam bert. His wife, at her previous confinement, bore him three children, the whole of whom are also alive, making seven children within two years. The execution of Mary Ann Geering for the murder of her husband by poison, took place at Lewes on Tuesday. On Thursday the wretched woman confessed to the chap lain that she was guilty of the murder of her husband. and subsequently stated to him that she had also poisoned :ier sons James and John, who had both died, and that she afterwards attempted to destroy her son Benjamin by the same means, but he recovered. Alexander Brock, residing in High-street, Glasgow, is in custody, charged with the wilful murder of his wife. It appears that Brock, who is an engineer, and a steady man, had given his wife money on Saturday, for family purposes, and on coming home for dinner, found the fire out, and nothing provided. He went in search of his wife, and finding her drunk, knocked her down and kicked her with such vinlencethat she died almost instantaneously. The Rev. Mr. Jones, curate of St. Paul's, Covent garden, London, refused on Saturday to bury ie body of the man who was killed a few days previously by jumping from the roof of a house while attempting to commit a burglary. The funeral party were kept in the church yard until a clergyman, who enier:ains the belief that no minister has a right to refuse, when called on, to per form the service, consented to go through the ceremony. ALLEGED MURDER.—On Sunday morning, the body of a man was taken out of the river Lea, and its appear ance left no doubt that he had been murdered. From the dress it is supposed that the deceased was a navigator. Upon an examination it was discovered that the arms and legs were tied, together, ar.d were fastened to the left thigh in such a manner as to preclude all possibility that the deceased bad committed suicide. MELANCHOLY DEATH. —On Saturdry, the wife of Capt. Mitchell, E. 1. C., got up early and went out, as her husband supposed, for a walk. Not having returned, he felt uneasy and went in search of her, when he met some men with a corpse, and on looking at the body found it to be that of his wife. Whether she was acci dentally drowned or otherwise remains enveloped in mystery. She was 85 years of age, and had been married only about four months.—Sherborne Journal. NARROW ESCAPE.—On Wednesday a heavy shower of rain fell with great suddenness, and flooded the common sewers of Edinburgh to an unusual degree. Two boys who had entered the great sewer in the Cowgate, in search of stray articles of value, were swept away by the flood, and carried to the South Beck of Canongate, where one of them succeeded in escaping by an iron grating, and obtained assistance for his companion, who was quite ex hausted, but recovered soon after his extrication. A boy, selling newspapers at the railway station at Ely, was calling out one Saturday evening, " To-day's Times, gentlemen," upon which a passenger, attempting a wit ticism, cried out, " What's the use of to-day's Times? I'll give you a shilling for to-morrow's ! " The boy im mediately handed to him the Sunday Times, •hen the passenger refused to give more than sixpence; but his fellow-travellers made him keep his word, and give the sharp-witted lad a shilling for a sixpenny paper. Cholera has reached Bath, and created great conster nation. The first victims to its ravages have been four children of a man named Kennard, residing in Russell place, Lower Bristol-road. Three other cases have since occurred. The mother of the man Kennard, who has at tended upon her grandchildren during their illness, was seized, and died in a few hours; and two children living in the same house in the Wells-road, were taken with the same symptoms, and died after a few hours' suffering. LAYING IT oN.—We are told that a Trowbridge minis ter has had gutty percha piping carried round his chapel, and connected with a large open funnel in the book-board of the pulpit, and wherever a deaf hearer sits he has an ear trumpet attached to the tube, by which he can hear all that passes. Loving music, and anxious to extend the enjoyment of it, we have often contemplated the possi bility of laying it on to various quarters by means of pipes from a central producing orchestra. The possibility seems to be becoming a probability.—The Builder. ENCOUNTER BETWEEN A HAWK AND A HEN.—On Sunday, at the Castle on Haughmond Hill, Shrewsbury, a hen with a brood of chickens were on the greensward, when a large sparrow hawk pounced down in the midst of them. Instead of fleeing, as is usual with the hen, when attacked by a hawk, she boldly flew at him, struck him on the head, and laid him flat on the ground, as if dead. The hawk was taken into the house, where it recovered. His wings were then clipped, and he was turned out, when the hen again set upon him, and killed him on the spot. DREADFUL COAL-PIT ACCIDENT IN LANARKSHIRE. — An alarming and destructive explosion of fire-damp took Owe at Mr. Wilson's No. 6 Pit, Wishaw Colliery, on the 13th inst., at half-past five a.m., by which nine lives were lost. Some idea may be formed of the strength of the blast, when we state that both cages, slides. part of the barring, a portion of the mid-wall, and one man, were blown up and out of the pit, and carried to a great dis tance in the air, and fragments of human flesh and bone have been gathered at four hundred yards' distance from the pit. ATTEMPT TO MURDER A WIFE AND SUICIDE OF THE HUSBAND.—On Saturday an inquest was held at the University College Hospital, London, on view of the body of George Morton, a painter and glazier, aged 52, and late of No. 29, Melton-crescent. The deceased and his wife, a pretty looking woman, aged 27, had been married in May, but quarrelled and parted in June in consequence of deceased's violent temper. On Thursday night she visited him at his request, when a quarrel ensued, and the next morning he fired a pistol at her, and afterwards swallowed a quantity of oxalic acid, which produced almost instant death. The shot from the pistol struck the wife's shoulder, passing through the dress, and grazing her ear. The jury returned a verdict of insanity. The deceased was a sober steady man, but smoked to a fright ful extent. CURE Or A DISORDERED STOMACH, WITH WEAKNESS AND GENERAL DEBILITY, BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS. — Mr. M'Kenzie, of Stornoway, a retired officer, who had spent many years in warm climates, was afflicted with a disordered stomach, indigestion, and liver complaint, with complete debility. In his endeavOurs to renovate his con stitution, he visited the various watering-places, and ob tained the advice of many European physicians of celebrity, without experiencing relief. Under these circumstances, Holloway's Pills were recommended to him, and to the astonishment of all who had witnewd his previous suffer ings, he is restored to the most buoyant health, by a course of this most inestimable medicine. To THE LADIES.—The powerful influence of the sun on the skin at this period of the year calls for increased attention in preserving its delicacy and beauty. The most pleasing and effectual specific for this desirable object is ROWLANDS' KALYDOR, so deservedly established in royal and public favour and estimation. Its application neu tralizes the effects of atmosphere, and induces that healthy action of the microscopic vessels of the skin, by which its delicacy and beauty are so essentially promoted. Freckles, tan, spots, pimples, and discolorations fly before the application of the KALYDOR, and give place to a healthy smoothness and transparency of complexion. Ladies travelling or taking out-door exercise will find it to diffuse a grateful and refreshing feeling. In cases of sunburn, or stings of insects, its virtues have long beau acknowledged.—See advt. Aug. 2S, IST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Mt THE PROTECTION V. . BRITISH INDUSTRY AND CAPITAL.—A long list of 0° scriptions to this newly-formed society appears ill t4 e ', Times of Saturday. Among the £5O donors are the Dr of Richmond, Lord Scarsdale, W. Long, Esq., Earl of Normanton, &c. The following donations_tr,e from Liverpool gentlemen :—Sir John Gladstone, Harold Littledale, Esq., £lO, William Mann, Esq., . 4 ,. 4 1 " Laurence Peel, Esq., £lO, W. R. Sandbach, Esq.' Charles Turner, Esq., £lO, Liverpool Constitutional Pl'. ciety, £lO. fr at It is proposed to hold an " Anglo-Saxon Jubilee , Watage, in honour of Alfred the Great, (born at Wanfilltei 849.) The time suggested is the middle of October , 01 is believed that the birth-day of Alfred was between the 26th and 29th of October, and the latter day is well knO ll ' ~ to have been the date of his death, in 901. I s,,' hoped by the originatiors of this project that a W"' fund may be raised towards erecting at Wantage :nodal to record the commemoration; and that a ? La e ' nation may be given to the Royal Literary fund in name of the Scholar-King. The failure of Mr. G. T. Braine, who was extensiv elf engaged in the India trade, took place in July last ye w' His friends then applied for assistance to the Bank 01 England, as it was estimated his estate would pay 20ki li t the pound, and leave a large balance in his favour, ° l l l O the application was not successful. Within twelve ronuL o from the period of the meeting of creditors, Mr. 1 31111 : has, with the assistance of Mr. J. E. Coleman, hi- 5 , 11 .1 countant, liquidated at the rate of 20s. in the pound, vy:. interest, and will ultimately possess for his own bolo"' surplus amount of £120,000 to £150,000. liftr PARTRIDGE KILLING EXTRAORDINARY.—Mr. butcher, on Sunday morning last, about four o'cloc r . while standing in an orchard adjoining the railway betwel Gloucester and Br'stol , observed a partridge rise lust before the down mail train, and it appeared as if directly struck down by the engine, which was at full speed. 311. ' Clift proceeded t the line, and there found a covey of fi le partridges lying dead. What is the strangest part of the matter is, that only one of the birds appeared to bal e been touched by the train ; the others seem to have bee n frightened to death.—Gloucester Chronicle. EXECUTION.—On Thursday Rebecca Smith was ell' cuted at Devizes, for poisoning her children. She ow e , a full confession of her crimes, and appeared very penite e " for them. The numbers present were countless. T_ A h e unfortunate woman, on the drop, was fi rm an d comanseu,i The rope was round her neck in a moment ; she clasp e d and raised her hands together as if in fervent prayer, a n after a slight struggle she was launched into e ternitY' Her husband was an idle drunken man, and never brough t a farthing to his wife, and there is no doubt that her lur vations drove her to the commission of the crimes. i f Mr. CHARLES BUTLER. — The appeal made on bell s of this gentleman, through the medium of an advertise" melt in our first page, is deserving attention, on publ ic as well as on private grounds. Having suffered from the effects and insufficiency of our criminal laws, Mr. 13utler has endeavoured, and is still earnestly seeking the rig ht of appeal in criminal cases—compensation for Judic la f error and injustice, and the reversal of the record o, guilt, in cases of innocence—all very necessary reforms 01 the present system.—Coventry Standard. DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—On Saturday evening, th e cry of " Fire" was raised at the top of the High-stre e t Oxford, when a large number of persons rushed towel a public-house, known as the Jolly Postboys, the bar o which appeared to be in flames. It turned out, however. that the landlady, Mrs. Galloway, having occasion t ° fetch some beer from the cellar, had placed a candle oi the stairs, and on passing by, her clothes caught fire, a u ° she was speedily enveloped in flames. She rusted uP stairs immediately, and was about going into the but was stopped and hurried into the bar. After linger' ing in great agony through the night, the poor woma n expired next morning. EXTRAORDINARY CASE—GIRL LOST IN THE MOORS!. —On the 7th instant, a young woman, about eighteen a nineteen years of age, named Isabella Paton, left St. Colmes, a village about four miles to the east of Fraser: burgh, with the intention of proceeding to Pennan, abe u ` seventeen miles distant. It is not known at what time she left St. Colmes, but she did not reach Pennan that evening. On the following day, she was met about a mile and a half from Pennan by the party to whose house sh e " qu ite was going, and who describes her as being then cheery and happy." It will be remembered that this was the day on which the heavy fogs of the week commenceelj and whether she had lost her way in consequence, or 1 111 . t! gone out of the road on purpose, it is not known ; but n , is most probable that the former was the case. It Is f known that on the day she purchased sixpence worth t!,, bread from a woman selling it by the way ; but from th at time till Monday morning, nothing was seen or heard,'" her. It is conjectured that she had continued walking the whole of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, during whic h the fog continued, and on which days, owing to the fol and the nature of the country—which is wild bog an deep glen—it would have been extremely difficult for her to have made her way to any house. But whether sh e walked or not, it is certain that, houseless and unshel tered, she encountered all the fury of the terrible thunde r w hich , storm of the Saturday evening —a thunder-storm street, for violence, has seldom been exceeded, and exposure If' which, in the circumstances in which the girl wasp ls e g e was not unlikely permanently to injure the intellect, 1 was not affected previously. As we have said, she 0 ",. 119 found on Monday morning, the 13th instant. When W__,,s" " covered, she was lying on the moss of Kinbean, and I found by some of the servants belonging to the farm ° f that name, which is situated on the property of Troup , 1 3 the parish of Gamrie. Having been for six nights expose to wind and weather, and with, so far as known, no Cood , save the sixpenny-worth of bread already mentioned, s 1 1: was in a most dreadfully weak state. Her clothes, %chi c . had been drenched, had begun to dry upon her, and h e ' boots were perfectly worn away with wandering In ri moss. Every effort was made to re st or e her exhaus ted frame. She is so far recovered a s t o b e a bl e to speak, but it is evident that the mind is affected. At times she takes fits of raving, and gives utterance to the most extraordi nary statements.—Ban f fshire Journal. SUFFICIENT MONEY V. THE STATE OFBARTER' Barter is an exchange of goods for goods. But we cannot carry on au extensive trade, such as es" ists in this country, by means of barter. Then we must have the representation of goods portabl e and transferable. This is money—and might be paper money. Quere.—Why should a banker have interest for making this certificate ? He did not back it with value, but the manufacturer• The man who makes goods makes money ; he ma. the substance, and the banker charges interest for nlak ll3s ' the shadow ! J. 0. Bistrtrt 41.c1u5. Last week all the hands in the principal mills in Blac e k ; burn commenced working at the promised advaace 0' per cent. upon their previous wages: The days of the old tower of the cathedral church of Manchester are said to be numbered. It has long been in a miserable condition. The congregation of Whiston church, near Prescot, have presented t 3 their pastor, the Rev. G. Y. Osborne' a magnificent suit of robes. Mr. E. Brown, late of Preston, has discofered the liant" fication of hydrogen gas, a desideratum to chemists since the liquification of chlorium was effected by Faraday, to 182 A l man of the exceedingly great age of one hundred a nd seven years, died suddenly on F r id a y i n St. J o hn's Ron a l Catholic Chapel, Salford. H e was seen t o stagger 03 , fall, and a man who w en t di rec tly t o h e lp hi m u p observe" that he was dead. On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, a bazaar 'cc ° held at Lytham, the proceeds of which are to be aPP IIe to the funds for the completion of the new church, recenq opened in that town, and dedicated to St. John, and_.s which the Rev. W. H. Self is the incumbent. Theatan''' realized was £l,OOO. PROLIFIC RETURN.—Mr. James Bamber, of Gal's has a very small patch of ground, which he planted wi tt potatoes of the flat-red kidney description. The Wig n of the potatoes used for seed was 61bs., and after the crop had been lifted on Wednesday, it was taken to the sca l t and found to be the extraordinary weight of nine s c° '" and ten pounds. THE RELAY SYSTEM.—On Saturday week a cotton: spinning firm at Colne were summoned for having worked!, in their mill a young girl, aged 15 years, n.ore than to hours according to the statute. The witness w ho n'a s 'called to prove this admitted in cross-examination t hst she herself had begun and finished work at the sl y hours as the girl in question, and that s he had act ° , worked no more than ten hours. The ma gistrates ° r t.. victed the defendants in the penalty of 20s. and cost' The decision created much astonishment. THE BANK FORGERIES AT MANCHESTER. — On T ge sl day last we stated that two men, named Robinson sOyi, Macaulay had been charged at the Manchester Boreti_',l Court, with a series of forgeries on the Manchester an Liverpool District Bank. On Thursday the prise ne;;; were again examined ; but the only additional evi de bo adduced was that of a Mr. Hunt, cashier to the bank, 'co spoke confidently to Macaulay as being the person tendered, on the 27th of July, a check for £375 103. P„, porting to be drawn by Messrs. Collinson and Simi to and which Mr. Simpson, when the check was shoo, him, pronounced to be a forgery. Several pane"sod also been discovered in the houses of both Robinson bt Macaulay, in Liverpool, which will afterwards be br ong 4 in evidence against them. At present a further room has been ordered until next Thursday. : a dil l ' LONGEVITY AND FESTIVITY.—A few days sin— „,, t o ner was given by Mr. William Ainsworth, of Oldhat tp , 122 poor old people. The repast consisted of a fine she ep, od s weighing 1041b5., roasted whole, two rounds of beef, of 18 large rich plum-puddings, with a plentiful suPPif s o f ale. So great was the interest excited that thous ana ap. persons came to see the preparation before dinner. i f e d. Daniel Mills, a hale old man, 89 years of age, P res Zola After dinner, the day being beautifully fine, the Lgi s l o f were seated on forms in front of the house, and a o r ale was given to each man, and a glass of either all' e n i e d gin to each woman. They sang and danced, accon 3 P a n vo by a violin, the handbells, and an excellent band. ;`,.„s of the men, aged 75 and 80, ran a race, in which the wur d won. There was one old man, aged 78, who has adz 7;;; - , Manchester races 58 consecutive years, three days I t l year, excepting one year, when he missed one dsPir o rlc has always gone on foot, and he has twice races. There were two twin sisters, aged 8 3 . Th e pas person present was aged 99, and has had 19 children.,,deo old woman, aged 78, has never used an umbrella or, a u her in a coach in her life. Another, aged 81, appear e % little black bonnet, which she had when she Was ", of a quilted petticoat and bedgown. The unit.ei ,7 1 .0 those present were 9,272 years, on an averago Of ' each. wa lked tooldest Aug ~'APpLI