The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-19 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION. Standard-of ce, Two o'clock, p.m. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—THis DAY. Our Share market is a shade flatter this morning, as might be expected after the rapid advance of the last few days. Our private telegraph from London also reports a weaker market, both for consols and shares. The prices to one o'clock are as follow :—Chester and Birkenhead, 14} ; Caledonian preference, 11i; Great Northern preference, 4 p; London and York Ex tensions, 1/ d ; Leeds sths, 3d d ; London stock, 129 ; Do. i's, 3p; Midland 'so's, d ; Berwick Extensions, d ; 1)o. preference, 31 d; Royal Assurance, 2p. We have rather more business doing, but there is a preponderance of sellers. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—Tins DAY. Although the supplies from Ireland had nearly ceased of late, and - little expected to he shipped thence, we have a tolerable quantity of Oats and Flour fresh in from that quarter, with a few small parcels of Grain coastwise; whilst the-imports from abroad since this day week are in the aggregate limited in amount, consisting chiefly of Wheat, Oats, and Pease from the north of Europe, and of !leans thence and Egypt; those from the United States, being merely 401 barrels Flour, with 2,124 quarters of Indian Corn, against 12,512 quarters of the latter exported during the week to Ireland. At. this days market we bac a mo"erately fair hut not extensive demand for Wheat, at rather higher prices than on Friday, making the advance upon the rates of this day week ld. to 2,1. per iOlbs. Flour was also in moderate re, pest, and held at rather higher prices. For Barley there was a retail demand, on the full terms I noted. Malt dull, but not cheaper. 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Go, ask of the hero when victory soundeth What glory a moment of time may command; Ask the home-seeking sailor, while fast his heart boundeth, How sweet is the moment he views his own land : Ask the lover, when whisper to whisper replieth In accents that tremble lest lips be o'erheard ; And oh ! they will tell you each moment that dieth Hath crowded eternity oft in a word ! VARIETIES. Prejudice is opinion without judgment. They who are very indulgent to themselves, seldom have much consideration for others. Good intentions will never justify evil actions ; nor will good actions ever justify evil intentions. PANIC AND POPIILATION.—The Berlin correspondent of the Medical Times gives a curious fact. " The popu lation of Berlin, from 1843 to 1847, kept steadily increasing by 14,000 to 17,500 souls annually : it has, in the troubled year 1848, decreased by 3,000." Dr. W. B. Carpenter, in a lecture at Ipswich, allowed the possession of reason, to a certain extent, in animals. He instanced that the young ladies in a Bristol school used to lunch in the garden at twelve, and crumb-picking sparrows congregated a little before ; but on Sundays, as the girls did not lunch, the sparrows never appeared. AFFECTING MEMORIALS.---The Duchess of Angouleme, daughter of Louis the Sixteenth and Marie Antoinette, and now about seventy years old, lives with the Duke of Bordeaux (Henry V.) at Frohsdorf, on the Hungarian frontier. She keeps in her bed-chamber, the austerity of which is almost monastic, only such objects as are calcu lated to revive the tragic scenes of her early youth,—the portraits of her father, her mother, and her mother's friend, the Princess de Lamballo, and near her bed, which has not even a curtain, stands a prie-dieu full of objects most sacred in her eyes,—the black vest which her father wore when he ascended the scaffold—the lace cap which her mother made with her own hands to appear in before the revolutionary tribunal. She alone has the key of these sad relics, and once a-year, on the 21st of January, she takes them from the reliquary in which they are in closed, and surrounds herself with them, in order to bring herself into closer communion with the beloved dead by whom they were worn. On that day she buries her tears in complete seclusion ; she sanctifies the blood stained anniversary by solitude and prayer. ri:A GALLANT OLD OFFICER.—The late Admiral Sir N. J. Willoughby was a singular instance of intrepidity, in an individual escaping the most imminent dangers. He was thrice shipwrecked, once upset in a boat, and kept himself afloat on an oar for nineteen hours. He was two years in slavery at Tripoli, and escaped by beating out the brains of two Moors, and swimming an board a French ship in the bay, lying two miles from the shore. He en tered the harbour of the Isle of France with a single fri gate, and cut out two rich ships, though opposed by sixty pieces of cannon. He was eleven times wounded with balls, three with splinters, and was cut in every part of his body with sabres and tomahawks ; his face was disfi gured by being blown up with gunpowder, and he lost an eye, and had part of his neck and jaw shot away. When unemployed, he joined the Russian army under Kutuzoff, and was made a colonel : he was thrice wounded, and, at Leipsic, had his right arm shattered by a cannon shot. He had pensions from the Russian government. Amongst sailors in his day he was called " The Immortal,"—at any rate he seems to have possessed more lives than a cat, with all the courage of a British lion. TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD.—" The simple truth often sounds harsh," replied Arnold, " but it must be spoken, nevertheless." "Not the whole truth," pleaded Miss Egerton again. " There are instances occurring every day, in which to speak the whole truth would be madness." " Amongst near connexions ?" asked Arnold. " Yes, I should think so," replied the lady. " Miss Egerton," said he, " I have had my dreams like other men, and I have dreamed of a connexion so close, so sacred, that the whole truth might be told without injury to its purity, its blessedness. It is not for me to dream of this connexion now ; but I am still of the opinion, that the nearer we approach in any of our relationships to that perfect trust, confidence, and integrity towards each other, the happier are the parties so connected : and the more honourable and lasting is the bond by which they are held together." "But are there not morbid and sensitive minds, to whom the whole truth would be misery or death." " Yes, no doubt, if they had been pampered and fed on falsehoods." " Put the case in a less repulsive form ; say, if they have been blinded for their own good." " Bind down their eyes, if you like, with a silken bandage, make the delusion as pleasant as you will, some time or other the scales will fall, and—then—?" " Ah ! then, I grant you ; but suppose this never happens to t hem until they die ?" —And suppose that you do keep them deceived until they die, and, meeting them in eternity, the first look of a father, a husband, or a brother, convicts you of falehood and deception ? If it be terrible to be found out in this world, how much more terrible in the next ? Besides which, do you believe it possible, in any instance, really to serve your fellow-creatures while we are offending God ?"—Social Distinction. TILE INQUISITION AT ROME. A few weeks since we copied from a daily paper an ac count, supplied by its Roman correspondent, of some extraordinary discoveries made in the office of the inqui sition at Rome. We are now put in possession by the same journal, of the following " Memorial regarding the Tribunal of the Holy Office at the time of its suppression in Feb. 1849 ;" to which we invite the undivided atten tion of our readers : " In consequence of a decree of the Roman Constituent Assembly, by which the 'suppression of the tribunal of the holy office was resolved, the government ordered, that the Fathers of the Dominican order then inhabiting that vast locality should remove to the convent called Della Minerva, the chief seat of their order. They were in number eight, exercising the functions of commissary, chancellor, &c. The doors were then carefully sealed by the Roman notary Caggiotti, to prevent the abstraction of any object, and a keeper was appointed to the premises. These precautions taken, the inventory was commenced. The first place visited was the ground floor of the edifice, where were the prisons, and the stables, coach-houses, kitchen, cellars, and other conveniences for the use of the assessor and father inquisitors. This part of the build ing was to be immediately prepared for the reception of the civic artillery with the train belonging to it. Some few doors were opened in the walls and part of a pavement raised : in this operation human bones were, found, and a trap door discovered, which induced a reso lution to make excavations in certain spots pointed cut by persons well acquainted with the locality. Digging very deep in one place, a great number of human skeletons were found, some of them placed so close together, and so amalgamated with lime, that no bone could be moved without being broken. In the roof of another subter ranean chamber a large ring was found fixed. It is sup posed to have been used in administering the torture. It still remains there. Along the whole length of this same rcom some staps, rather broad, were attached to the wall —these probably served for the prisoners to sit or recline on. In a third underground room *as found a quantity of very black rich earth, intermingled with human hair ; here, also, human bones were found. In this dungeon, a trap-door was formed in the thickness of the wall which opened into a passage in the flat above, leading to the room where examinations were conducted. Among the inscriptions made with charcoal on the wall, it was ob served that many appeared of very recent date, expressing in most affecting terms, the sufferings of every kind en dured in these chambers. The person of most note found in the prisons of the Inquisition was a bishop- named Krasner, who had been in confinement above 20 years. He related that he arrived at Rome from the Holy Land, having in his possession papers which bad belonged to an ecclesiastic there. Passing himself for that person, lie succeeded in surprising the Court of Rome into ordaining and consecrating him a bishop. The fraud was afterwards discovered, and Krasner, being then on his way to Pales tine, was arrested and brought to the prison of the holy office, where he expected to have ended his days, less, as he expressed himself, to expiate his own fraud, than the gross blunder of the Court of Rome, which had no other means of concealing his character of bishop, its own abso lute laws preventing his being deprived of it. The inventory of the contents of the ground flat. being finished in a few days, it was then thrown open to the impatient curiosity of the public. The crowd that resor ted to the scene was very great, and the public indigna tion rose so high that there was a loud and general cry for the destruction of an edifice of such detestable memory. This feeling was so strong that on a Sunday afternoon in March, faggots were thrown into the cellars and other underground rooms, with the intention of set ting fire to the building, and this would h a ve b een accom plished had not a battalion of civic guards rushed to the spot from the Piazza di S. Pietro. To the truth of all that is here related thousands, both Italians and foreign ers, who visited the place can testify ; and there exists also a detailed account of everything written and solemnly attested with legal forms. Passing to the upper flat, the attention of the govern ment was especially directed to the chancery and the archives ; the first containing all the current affairs of the Inquisition, the second jealously guarding its acts from its instituton until now. Before commencing the cata logue of the contents of the chancery, it was resolved to remove such papers as might disturb or compromise the tranquillity of those persons who had had relations with the holy office. Attention was especially directed to the book, called " Solecitazione" (it contains reports), and to the corres pondence. This was done by order of the government, which thereby gave another proof of that moderation which its enemies deny to it. There results from a care ful examination of these documents, which remain for the inspection of such as desire proofs, that the past govern ment made use of this tribunal, strictly ecclesiastical in its institution, for temporal and political objects. and that the most culpable abuse was made of sacramental confes sion, especially that of women, rendering it subservient both to political purposes and to the most abominable licentiousness. It can be shown from documents that the 'cardinal secretary of state wrote to the commissary to the assessor of the holy office to procure information as to the conduct of suspected individuals, both at home and abroad, and to obtain knowledge of state secrets by means of confession, especially those of foreign courts and cabi nets. In fact there exists long correspondences, and voluminous processes, and severe sentences, pronounced upon La Giorine Italia, La Juine Suisse, the masonic societies of England and Scotland, and the anti-religious sects of America, &c. There is an innumerable quantity of information and processes on scandalous and obscene subjects in which the members of regular religious socie ties are usually implicated. Passing from the chancery to the archives, which is in the secon floor, it appeared on first entering as if every thing was in its usual place, but on further inspection it was found, with much astonishment, that though the labels and cases were in their places they were emptied of the packets of papers and documents indicated by the in scriptions without. Some conjecture that the missing packets have been carried to the Della Minerva, or were hidden in the houses of private persons, while others sup pose that they were burnt by the Dominican fathers. THE ENGLISH LITURGY.—I tremble to speak of your ritual : the liturgy looks to be that which the old churches are—the work of a fine art. A poetical sensibility, a wakeful, just, delicate, simple taste, seems to have ruled over the composition of each prayer, and the ordering of the whole service. The whole composition of the service is copious and various. Human supplication, the lifting up of the hands of the creature, knowing his own weak ness, dependence, lapses, and liability to slip—man's own part, dictated by his own experience of himself—is the basis. Readings from the Old and New Volume of the Written Word are ingrafted, as if God audibly spoke in His own house ; the authoritative added to the suppli,.a tory. * * * * The hymns of the sweet singer of Israel, in literal translation, adopted as a holier inspired language of the heart. * * * * The ritual of England breathes a divine calm. You think of the people walking through ripening fields on a mild day to their church door. It is the work of a na tion sitting in peace. possessing their land. It is the work of a wealthy nation, that, by dedicating a part of its wealth, consecrates the remainder—that acKnowledges the Fountain from which all flows. The prayers are devout, humble, and fervent. They are not impassioned. A wonderful temperance and sobriety of discretion ; that which, on worldly things, would be called good sense, prevails in them ; but you must name it better in things spiritual. The framers evidently bore in mind the con tinual consciousness of writing for all. That is the guid ing, tempering, calming spirit that keeps in the whole one tone—that, and the hallowing chastening awe which subdues vehemence, even in asking for the Infinite, by those who have nothing but that which they earnestly ask, and know unless they ask infinitely they ask nothing. In every word the whole congregation, the whole nation prays - not the individual minister; the officiating divine functionary, not the man. Nor must it be forgotten that the received version and the book of Common Prayer— observe the word Common—expressing exactly what I affirm—are beautiful by the words, that there is no other such, English, simple, touching, apt, venerable—hued as the thoughts are—musical—the most English that is known, of a Hebraic strength and antiquity, yet lucid and gracious as if of, and for to-day.—Christopher 11 , orth. How TO SETTLE A BREACH OF PROMISE OF MAR RIAGE.—A curious instance of a lady availing herself, in 1540, of the right to appear by champion in a breach of promise of marriage case, is mentioned in the memoirs of the Marechal de Vielville. The husband of Philippe de Montespedon having died in Piedmont without issue, she was left a young, rich, and beautiful widow, and was sought in marriage by several noble suitors. Amongst these was the Marquis do Saluces, to whose attentions she seemed to listen favourably, and she permitted him to ac company her from Turin to Paris. It turned out, how ever, that the sly dame merely wished to have the advan tage of his escort on the journey . ; and when she arrived at its termination, she cavalierly dismissed him, saying— " Adieu, sir ! your lodging is at the hotel des Urains, and mine at the hostel Saint Denis, close to that of the Au gustins." The Marquis still persisted in his suit; but as Philippe continued obdurate, he asserted that she had made him a formal promise of marriage, and cited her to appear before the court of parliament. She came there, attended by a numerous company of friends, and, having been desired by the president to hold up her hand, she was asked whether she had ever promised marriage to the Marquis, who was then present in court. She answered upon her honour that she had not ; and when the court proceeded to press her with further questions, she ex claimed with passionate warmth, " Gentlemen, I never wl,s in a court of justice before ; and this makes me fear that I may not answer properly. But to put a stop to all captious cavilling and word-catching, I swear in the fate of this assembly to God and the King,—to God under pain of eternal damnation to my soul ; and to the King under the penalty of loss of honour and life,—that I have never given pledge or promise of marriage to the Marquis de Saluces, and what is more, that I never thought of such a thing in my life. And if there is any one who will assert the contrary, here is my chevalier whom I offer to main tain my words, which he knows are entirely true, and ut tered by the lips of a lady of honour, if ever there was one. And this I do, trusting in God and my good right, that he will prove the plaintive to be (begging the pardon of the court) a villainous liar." This spirited defiance caused no little sensation in the audience; and the president told the registrar that he might put up his papers, for Madame la Marechale had taken another and much shorter road towards settling the dispute. Then, addressing the Mar quis, he asked, " Well, sir, what say you to this challenge ?" But the love, as well as the valour of the latter, was fast oozing away ; and the craven knight answered by a very decided negative. " I want not," said he, "to take a wife by force ; and if she does not wish to have me, I do not wish to have her." And so making a low obeisance to the court, he prudently retired, and the fair Phillippe heard no more of his pretensions to he hand.—Horten. silts, by W. Forsyth, Esq. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARiI. THE CONDITION OF IRELAND. Our readers have no doubt occasionally perused the writings of an indefatigable correspondent of the Times, the Rev. S. G. Osborne, That gentleman has just paid a visit to th , 3 union of Ballinasloe, in Ireland ; and his revelations of the sad state of the population are most distressing to reflect upon. In addition to the workhouse in the town, the authorities have hired fourteen houses, and fitted them up as hospitals. The following is his description of his visit to the workhousz‘ itself:-- "I found the boys at dinner. I believe no power of pen or pencil could exhibit their real appearance, especially that of those lately received into the house. One disease had printed itself in a type readable to every eye on three-fourths of their countenances—starvation—hunger borne with, ought with, and only yielded to when the workhouse or the grave had be come the sole option ; till I thus witnessed it, I could not have • believed how famine could clothe childhood with all the phy sical appearance of old age. Had that mass of animated skin and bone been a soulless mass, I could have knelt and prayed Heaven at once to change their home from the union-house to the grave. True, it may he that they gain strength• by admit tance into the union house; the food they get may, for a time, fresh trim life's lamp, but it was marked on the countenance of hundreds that the light of adult life never could shine in them; care, food, cleanliness,. shelter, come too late to such. Turn to another scene. I should not like to say, for it would scarce be zredited, the number of yards in length of wards, on both sides of which lay beds thickly tenanted by children and others in different stages of dysentery ; their heads and arms alone could be seen ; no groan of impatience did I hear—nay, not a cry of pain. Passive in the extremity of their weakness, they were pictures of sad, silent, suffering, which would have wrung the hardest heart. Shed after shed, building after build ing, each tells the same tale ; in one part of the hospital I was shown several stages of a disease induced by the poor creatures having eaten a particular poisonous plant, which grows wild, and has a blossom similar to the corn kail —a plant which they gladly seek for. • with nettles, &c., for their food. They fre quently make the mistake or picking the one plant for theother, and thus become poisoned ; the face swells frightfully, turns of a dark colour, breaks out in blotches, and takes the form of a formidable disease." The writer continues : "The reluctance of the peasantry to enter the workhouse is scarcely to be credited; the groups I see lying ahout the s reets and roads are in appearance far worse than those who are in• door paupers; and yet, unsheltered, unfed s.:arce clothed, they are content to run a race with death, and will not try to escape him at the workhouse door, till he has marked them as his own. I shall know better some days hence how far it is credible that the extremity of hunger has driven some of them to eat • strange meats;' at present, my impression is that, in nine cases out of ten, they would die rather than touch such food. The di-lirium of fever, the brutality of idiotism. may in some cases have led to acts which may have given foundation to such tales ; but I was informed by a highly respectable Catho lic priest, whose experience amongst the very poorest is great, that he believet they would perish rather than eat anything of the sort." " I have just visited the burying-ground, a large walled-in enclosure about half a mile out of the town ; the dead have been literally trenched in ; large pits are opened, 12 feet by 9, beginning at one wall, or rather a few yards from it ; as one pit is filled another is dug, the soil from one covering up the other ; and so on right across the enclosure, and then a fresh trench is begun. Six only were buried last night. I asked the men how many they had buried in any one day ; the answer was, Faith, sir, and it Would be a good clerk who could tell that.' Those I saw appeared to have decent coffins found them. I grieve to say I have a strong impression that many hundreds are fast approaching this last home ; cholera may have ceased, but dysentery and hunger are, I believe, only yet at the commencement of their fatal work. Until I have seen more I will give no opinion either as to the origin or the remedy for this state of things ; at present I only wish faithfully to tell what is, how it came to be ; how it is to be arrested I have yet more fully to learn. . _ " The outward character of the country is this, as far as I have yet seen—great breadth of land under tillage, the crops looking very well, a good deal of potato sown, the leaf rather more coiled than I quite like to see. One most prominent feature is the number of gable ends of cabins from which the roofs have been torn, the people driven ; few, if any, pigs are to be seen ; you for ever meet groups of half-raked women and children going somewhere with bundles of nettles and corn kail they have gathered for food ; hunger is written on every peasant brow ; perplexity is legible on the countenance of those above them ; increasing rates, approaching ruin—this is the theme ever on every lip: But relief, liberally given, might save, they say, hundreds of lives, but at the cost of the ruin of those who, once ruined, rating must cease, and famine rule the laud less checked than now. STEADY (LOW) PRICES FOR THE FARMER. (From "A Report on the State of Agriculture in Lancashire," By George Beesley.) . . . . . . It is said, that if free trade does not secure high prices for the farmer, it will ensure their stability; that they will not rise and fall with the vicissitudes of the seasons; and the farmer can rely on his calculations of prospective profits with greater confidence. It is well known that, in consequence of difference of seasons, the produce of the crops varies considerably ; and heretofore prices have generally corresponded in in verse ratio with the excess or deficiency of the crops. When the harvest was abundant prices were low ; and when deficient, the advanced. And, consequently, when the earth was filled with abundance, all classes of the community participated in her bounty. The farmer, by the excess in quantity, was compensated for the diminution in prices; and by means of diminished price, the public shared in the abundance. In seasons of scarcity, all suffered privation ; hut the farmer obtained some degree of compensation, by the in crease of price. But the efforts of free trade will be, to preserve uniformity of price, whatever may be the varia tions in the yield of the home-grown crop. Ifs general effect is, to cause the home prices to approx imate to those of the corn-exporting countries ; and, con sequently, in seasons of abundance, a very slight depres sion of the markets, or even the difficulty of sale, would prevent any great degree of importation, and the home grower would have the monopoly of the market; but when a deficient crop occurs, a price may prevail which will leave the importer a profit. He will send out his orders with confidence, and a large influx of corn will be the result ; and the price of grain in years of scarcity will not greatly exceed the price of the most prolific crop. The truth of these remarks is confirmed by the experi ence of the past and the present year. In 1834, the average produce of the wheat crop in the parish of Kirkham was 16}* bushels per acre, and the following year 231 bushels. The average price of wheat in 1834, was 465. 2d. per quarter ; in 1835, 395. 4d. per quarter. And the value of the produce of 100 acres, in the respective years, will be : s. d. In 1834-100 acres, at 19* bushels per acre, will yield 241 quarters, which, at 465. 2d. per quarter, is worth 553 6 0 1835-100 acres, at 23a bushels per acre, will yield 287 quarters, which, at 395. 4d. per quarter, is worth. 5'54 8 0 Difference ll 2 0 But if uniformity of price were maintained in all sea. sons, say 465. 2d. per quarter, then In 1834—The value of the crop of 241 quarters will produce 553 6 0 1835—The value of the crop of 287 quarters will produce 662 10 0 Difference lO9 4 0 Thus the difference in the quantity of the crop will cause a difference of 225. per acre in the value of land ; and will, in some cases, make a difference in the farmers' receipts, equal to the united amount of rent, tithes, and taxes. The aggregate crop of wheat throughout the kingdom, in 1834, was a full average; and the deficiency of the crop in Lan cashire was produced by the occurrence of a storm on the wes tern coast, about the time of harvest, which did great injury to the standing corn. In consequence of this anomaly, the pro duce of three years of average crops is made the basis of the calculation, viz., 191 bushels. Ornerat ißtOrellany. The Marquis of Westminster has reduced his tenants' rents ten per cent. Considerable quantities of gooseberries, cucumbers, and melons, have recently been imported into London from Rotterdam. _ On the mornings of Saturday and Sunday week ice, was found on the fells at Coniston, the thickness of a quarter of an inch. _ The case of the Tracy Peerage is considered as dis posed of; shutting out the claim of the son of the late claimant, deceased. The house of Mr. William Bryson, smith, Darvel, Ayr shire, was destroyed by fire on Saturday last, and two young men, who were in the house, lost their lives. Mark Jeffery, a convict under sentence of transporta tion for fifteen years, has had his sentence extended to transportation for life, for an assault on one of the offi cers at the dock yard. Vv The trial of William Hamilton, for shooting at the Queen, took place on Thursday, at the Criminal Court. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to seven years' transportation. The loss of the ship Maria, from Limerick, Ireland, is confirmed ; three of the crew and nine out of the one hundred and eleven passengers arrived at Quebec, in, the barque Roslin Castle. Such immense quantities of mackerel were caught last week on the coast of Sussex, that the highest price ob tained for them at Hastings was only 4s. a hundred, and a considerable quantity was sold for manure. On Tuesday morning week lightning descended upon the dwelling of Mr. Thomas Drury, at Conisholme, Lin colnshire, and struck a young man, his son, as he lay in bed, so severely as. to deprive him of his sight. In University College llospital, London, a juggler, 22 years of age, died last week from " tremendous pericar ditis," caused by passing an iron sword down the oeso phagus, and thence to the pericardium, after exhibition. A company established in the metropolis, entitled "The Company of Window Cleaners," are now cleansing house windows for nothing, to demonstrate their abilities. An act has been hurried through parliament in a couple of days to legalise the transportation of the Irish state prisoners. What a hubbub would have been raised N a Tory government had resorted to such a step. In addition to £BO,OOO in gold received from Russia a few days back, and a like sum which is to arrive imme diately, a further amount of about £750,000 is, we under stand, expected in the course of the next few months. A vessel has recently arrived in the port of London containing a quantity of prepared beef from Australia, but the authorities at the Custom-house have decided that such importations came under the denomination of a manufactured article. Lord William Beresford, brother to the Marquis of Waterford, anchored a few days ago off the Grimsby out fall, in his yacht the ',Coral Queen," on his way with several other gentlemen to Norway on a fishing and shooting excursion. On Friday, in the London Bankruptcy Court, a divi dend was made on an estate, under a fiat issued in 1799, fifty years ago. The bankrupts were Messrs. Persent and Bodicker, who failed in upwards of half a million. There is scarcely a single creditor surviving. On Tuesday morning, about eight o'clock, an elderly man was seen deliberately to approach a coal-pit at Brad. ford, and commit self-destruction by leaping down it. The depth was between 200 and 300 feet ; and, of course, I immediate death was the consequence of such an act of I insanity. A poor woman obtained £lOO damages on Thursday, in the Sheriff's Court, for injury sustained by her child, who was run over by the carelessness of the driver of one of Pickford's vans, which crushed the leg of the child, who was in consequence an inmate of King's College Hospital for eight months. On - Friday morning, at an early hour, twenty-four om nibuses, loaded with convicts from Woolwich. arrived at the South-Western terminus, for instant transmission to Gosport. It was stated that the cholera had made its appearance at Woolwich, and hence the removal of the prisoners. ___ In the Cirencester Union for the half year ending March, 1842, the expenditure in flour, at 465. a sack, was £4,070. The expenditure in the same union for the half year ending March, 1849, was £5,390, when flour was 30s. 6d. a sack ! That is, when flour is one-third less in price the poor rates are one-third higher. An intelligent foreigner, now in London ;who has visited California, and in whose veracity every cocfiden e e can be placed, fully corroborates the flattering accounts from that quarter. His estimate is, that eight to ten millions ster ling can be produced annually. Such sums, in a few years, misfit seriously affect the standard of value, and the study of the subject becomes now a very interesting one. A DISAPPOINTMENT.—At the Mitldlesex Sessions, last week, Terence M'Glouchlin was convicted of a felony. He said that he had committed it for the purpose of re ceiving a sentence of transportation, and he begged and implored the court to transport him, as he sadly wanted to "get out."—The learned judge said that for the pre sent. he must be contented with three months' hard labour. SWIMMING EXTRAORDIN A RY.—A singular feat of swimming took place at ilincksey, on Wednesday. Wm. Aldridge, a whitesmith and bellhanger, of Oxford, under took for a wager to swim across Hincksey Stream, at a part where the water is 20 yards wide and 18 feet deep, with his hands and legs:ied together,and ha performed the task with apparent ease and much to the astonishment of all. On Friday, at the conclusion of the Old Bailey busi ness, a person named O'Keefe, the owner of the pistol that had been discharged by Hamilton at her Majesty, applied to the court to order the weapon to be restored to him, as he said he had been offered £4O for it, and he should not like to lose so much money. The court, amid much laughter, ordered the " valuable" article to be given up to the applicant. In the Sheriff's Court, London, on Saturday, a gentle man recovered 20s. damages against a publican for refusinz to provide him with a bed. The defendant said be did not usually allow parties, who were without luggage, to remain all night, unless they gave a respectable reference. The gentleman produced a sovereign, but the defendant still declined to comply, observing that he had recently had his house robbed by a very respectable looking man. STRANGE, YET TRUE.—The town crier of Aberayon proclaimed through the streets on Thursday last that bread was wanted, and stating that any person bringing bread to the Plough public-house within half an hour, would be given sevenpence for the sixpenny loat. It ap pears that the unusual influx of strangers visiting this favourite watering place on that day had caused the bakers, five in number, to be left actually without a loaf in their shops. EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—WhiIe some boys were angling in the Keadby and Stainford Canal, near Pontefract, on the evening of Monday, one of them hav ing hooked a small roach was in the act of landing it, when a seagul passing near at the time, seeing I he " finny dwarf" dangling in the air, made a sudden dart at the fish and gorged it instanter. The hook, however, on which the fish was hung caught the beak of the gull, and the tiny fisherman had the surprise of finding not a fish but a bird at the end of his line. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN AND xis WIFE.—A few days ago, a gentleman named Wicks, who had been for many years connected with the Excise establishment, left his house in Kennington, on a visit to some friends in Jersey, with whom he was enjoying him self, when he suddenly complained of illness, and was speedily a corpse. On the same day, his wife, who was in a delicate state of health, while attending the domestic duties of her household, was momentarily seized with convulsions, and ere medical aid could be obtained she breathed her last. GROUSE PROSPECTS IN THE NORTH.—The dry weather, which has now so long prevailed, has been favourable to the arouse, and we heard encouraging reports from the head of Glengarry, and other quarters. Nests, with six or eight eggs in each, were often met with early in the season. We have received two separate reports from Stratherrick, and believe both may be relied upon. The one says, "the grouse are doing well, and I have not seen such appearances of abundance of gamesince the season of 1846." The other says, " there were a third more birds this spring than last., and, what is still better, they were healthy." —lnverness Courier. A BULL IN TROITBLE.—On Monday, a bull ran into Barker's-passage, Dagger-lane, but in consequence of the passage being extremely narrow, it only got a few yards, when it stuck fast between the two walls. All at once the inmates of the adjoining houses were so amazingly alarmed by the shaking of the walls, that nothing less than the shock of an earthquake was anticipated. Unfor tunately there seemed no possibility of getting the bull out for the passage was blocked up at the further end. It was only after the lapse of two or three hours that the animal was released from his durance vile, by the wall being knocked down, and the bull being driven through at the end of the court.—Hull Packet. ANOTHER EXTINCT PEERAGE.-Henry Tufton, eleventh Earl of Thanet, expired on Tuesday, at his resi dence in Gloucester-place. His lordship was deseended from one of the most ancient and illustrious families in England, through the Cliffords and Veteriponts (whose descendant he was, and whose property in the north he possessed. At the battle of Hastings, Sir Lewis de Tuf ton, his lordship's ancestor, figured as one of the com manders of the Saxon cavalry. The late Earl was born in 1775; in 1832 he succeeded his brother, previous to whose death he was M.P. for Appleby. The Earl was patron of (Leven livings. Both the elder brothers, as well as himself, having died without issue, the peerage becomes extinct. CAUSE AND EFFECT —A correspondent of the New castle Journal writes, " In the able letter of " A Fellow Sufferer," inserted in this day's Journal, I observe the following passage The government, for many years past, has been under the influence of the manufacturing and monied interest : not because they are the most nu merous and powerful classes, but because they are the most noisy, bustling, and importunate.' Will you allow me a corner to suggest to him and to his readers, that he has unfortunately omitted the main reason of the thraldom without which noise and bustle would have little effect. It may be found in Prov, xxii. 7, ' The borrower is servant to the lender'—a spice of the foresight and wisdom of that monarch, who ' made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars as sycamore trees,' by custom-house duties on imported articles. I Kings, x : 27,28." . FATALITY AT WOMBWELL'S MENAGERIE.—This es tablishment had arrived at Coventry on Sunday week for the purpose of exhibition at the fair to be held there, when a most lamentable occurrence ensued. It appears that, owing to some cause, the keeper of the elephant had been dismissed, and Mr. Wombwell, jun., the nephew of the proprietor, took upon himself the care of the animal. About mid-day he went to feed him, when the elephant, being outof temper, itissupposedin consequence of a short delay in receiving his food, became furious, and ran his tusks into several parts of Mr. Wombwell's body, after which he beat him dreadfully with his trunk. Assistance was immediately rendered, and Mr. Wombwell was re moved from the caravan apparently in a lifeless state. The injuries he received subsequently proved fatal. CHARGE OF POISONING.—On Friday, Eliza Schulen berger, indicted for attempting to administer. to her hus band a quantity of arsenic, with intent to murder him, underwent her trial for the alleged offence, at the Central Criminal Court. After the husband, and his brother, had been examined at great length, a number of witnesses (including the father of the prisoner) were called to de pose to the prisoner's character, and they all concurred in speaking most favourably of her conduct both before and after her marriage. They likewise said that the prose cutor had always appeared to be a sickly, ailing man, and that several years ago his hair appeared to be falling off. Dr. Letheby, lecturer upon chemistry at the London Hospital, was also examined, and he expressed an opinion, having heard the prosecutor's symptoms described, that those symptoms were not the result of the administration of arsenic, but that they arose from some chronic affection of the stomach. The jury returned a verdict of " not guilty." APPROACHING GRAND SCOTTISH FETE IN LONDON. — A knot of patriotic Scotch noblemen, whom fortune has located in the great metropolis, have lately formed them selves into a society, called the " Scottish Society of London," their object being to enjoy the exhilarating amusement of archery, encourage Scottish national sports and pastimes, and give a grand benefit once a year to the London Scottish Charities. The first annual " gathering" of this assoeiation is fixed to take place on Wednesday, the 20th instant. Lord Holland has granted the use of his spacious park, at Kensington, for the purpose, and the arrangements now in progress are on the most mag nificent scale. The ground will be alive with archers, in Lincoln green ; sinewy borderers, to throw the hammer or toss the caber; " lads wi' the philabeg," to dance the strathspey and sound the pibroch, and " ladyes fair," - to smile approval of the successful competitors. The fete will last two days, and will conclude with a grand ban quet, under the presidency and vice-presidency of the Marquis of Breadalbane and Viscount Drumlanrig.— Glasgow Citizen. A SHARPISH ATTACK.—On Sunday evening, a few minutes prior to the commencement of divine worship, a vehicle might have been seen to enter the beautiful little village of H , not a hundred miles from the city of Bristol. On arriving at the inn, the lady alighted, leaving the gentleman to proceed to H n, an adjacent ham let, where, at the house of Mr. W , he ordered the driver to stop.. This order was complied with, and the gentleman, whom we will call Mr. B—, rapped at the door, and requested to see Mr. W—, who very shortly afterwards made his appearance ; scarcely, however, had he done so, when Mr. B— raised a short riding whip, and, using the butt-end, felled Mr. W-- to the ground, and on his rising repeated the attack, disfiguring his face in a very unsightly manner. Before Mr. W could again rise, Mr. B-- ran to the vehicle, standing close by, and returned with two loaded pistols, one of which he politely offered to Mr. W , requesting him to ac cept it, and asking him to meet him on the nearest spot at twelve paces ! Mr. W— declined the invite, and Mr. B , finding there was no chance for satisfying his thirst for mortal combat, returned to his vehicle, which was driven off with all possible speed. Mr. W— feeling, as may well be imagined, very sore, and still more indignant at the attack, sent parties in pursuit, and a capture having been effected, Mr. B— was taken be fore a magistrate. The facts of the case were detailed, and Mr. B— was bound over to appear at the next sessions, if called upon. The affair has given rise to con siderable gossip in the neighbourhood, and many are the surmises given to account for the attack, the cause for which we are not at liberty to state,—Bristol Journal, PROPERTY AND INCOME TAX.-A parliamentary return just issued exhibits a variety of statistics relative to the property and income tax during the year ended the sth April last. The result of the whole calculation, as compared with that of the previous return, shows a decrease in contributors to the tax of 2,455 persons, and a decrease in the amount realized of £36,198. The number of con tributors being, in the year ended the sth of April, 1847, 150,114, and the sum received. £5,204,349; and in the year ended th sth of April, 1848, 147,669, and the amount received £5,168,151. The total nett amount of property and income tax collected in 1847 in the United Kingdom was £5,675,578, and in 1848, £5,638,702. SHREWSBURY Snow.—This ancient pageant was re vived on a scale of unlimited splendour yesterday week. Of course the day was observed as a universal holiday, and never, perhaps, within the memory of man was Shrews bury so thronged with visitors from all parts of the king dom. The procession was one of the most unique and imposing description, and presented a richly picturesque appearance, Afterwards a sumptuous cold collation was laid out under the splendid Waterloo tent, kindly lent for the occasion by Viscount Ilill. The dinner took place under the presidency of the mayor, who was supported by several hundreds of the gentry and principal inhabi tants of the town and neighbourhood, with a large num ber of friends from a distance. The proceedings went off with the big.hest eclat. A VIRAGO.—On Wednesday, at a London police-court. Eliza Gnswell, a masculine-looking female. was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with being drunk and dis orderly. Just as the constable was about to state the charge to the magistrate, the prisoner rushed from the dock, and seizing hold of the police-officer by the throat, nearly strangled him. Considerable force was obliged to be used before she could be made to let go her hold. She was then placed in the dock, guarded by two constables, when she made use of such dreadful language that it was truly frightful to hear her, and conducted herself with such gross obscenity that the magistrate at once commit ted her for a month. The prisoner, on hearing this, called down the most horrible imprecations on the magis trate, wishing he might sit on the bench till the day of judgment, when she hoped that the Devil would come and fetch him. She was then removed from the court, and locked up in a cell by herself, where she continued howling for more than two hours. SERIOUS ATTACK AND GALLANT STRUGGLE.—As one of the apprentices of Messrs. Maltby and Richardson, drapers, Mansfill, was returning from Berry-hill, between nine and ten o'clock on Friday last, he was furiously at tacked by two dogs, belonging, it is said, to one of, the gamekeepers. One of them seized him by his leg, and the other at the same moment sprang at his throat. The young hero, however, with almost unprecedented courage and self-possession, seized the latter assailant by his throat, and a determined struggle on both sides ensued, which might have terminated very seriously for the young man but for the lucky thought of a draper's never-failing i companion, a pair of scissors, which he used most man fully, and effectually succeeded at last in killing the savage brute by actually piercing him to the heart with the scis sors. The young man has been compelled to discontinue his duties in consequence of the severe bite in one of his legs. It is not only disgraceful, but illegal, to permit such savage dogs to be at large, and it is to be hoped the com missioners, who have the power, will interfere and prevent the possibility of a similar occurrence happening again.— Nottingham Guardian. A WOMAN'S WAY OF TELLING A STORY.—At the Marlborough-street Police-office, London, on Saturday, a brisk looking elderly female wished to submit a case of great importance for the magistrate's opinion. She had been married some years ago, and some time after her marriage she had discovered that her husband had married her in a wrong name. Mr. Bingham asked whether her husband was known as well by the name by which he mar ried her as by his real name ? The applicant replied a great deal better. Mr. Bingham then said she might rely upon it that the marriage was a perfectly good marriage in law. The applicant said this was not the main point. She had separated from her husband, and two years ago she had ascertained he had married another woman. Mr. Bingham said she could proceed against him. The appli cant said, with a little bashfulness, that was not the main point. She wished also to marry another man, and she wanted to know if, under the circumstances, she could not follow her inclination ? Mr. Bingham said the applicant asked him a very odd question, whether she could not commit bigamy because her husband had committed bigamy. He should advise her not to make the experi ment, for he could assure her it was not lawful. The applicant thanked the magistrate, with a disconsolate air, and left the court. THE CHOLERA.—This dreadful visitation has made its appearance in the neighbourhood of the city of Hereford. When last it devastated this country, the cholera did not show itself in any part of• the County of Hereford.—The disease has broken out in the Union Workhouse, Mon mouth. There have been 26 cases, 15 fatal.—There have been in Cardiff, during the last fortnight, 119 cases, 77 of them fatal.—The official returns show that at Merthyr there have been upwards of 100 cases, 35 fatal. From these returns, it appears that the fatal cases are chiefly those who lead a dissolute life, and are surrounded with filth, and others who refuse medical aid, or delay it till it is too late. As soon as symptoms are felt, medical assist ance should be instantly sent for.—lt rages at Gloucester with much virulence : 50 cases occurred last week, of which more than 20 were fatal. Its ravages have been experienced in both gaols.—At Woodhead, on the line of the Sheffield Railway, several fatal cases have occurred among the navvies.—At Manchester and Staleybridge there have also been a few fatal cases.---At Cardiff; on Wednesday, there were meetings at all the dissenting meeting-houses, for prayer for the removal of this afflic tive visitation, and the arrangement was so made as that theone o t day w interfereaso occupied e a d n another; lipelra;y thereforeprayer, m an y the g m re e a e t t e in r g pa sh rrof ld members of different congregations meeting at each other's chapels. THE CHOLERA.—A notification from the Board of Health appears in Tuesday's Gazette, announcing, the re-appearance of the cholera "in various and distant places in England, Wales, and Scotland." From returns which accompany this notification it appears that since the end of March, cholera has broken out in 12 different localities in the metropolis, in 29 towns in England and Wales, and 17 towns in Scotland ; and that in several of these places, as in Sunderland, Liverpool, Durham, Hit chin, Gloucester, Keynsham, Merthyr Tydvil, Cardiff, Kilbirne, Galashiels, Kelso, and Dundee, the disease has continued to spread. Another fact is declared by these returns of great significance, which calls for the earnest attention of the local authorities charged with the exe cution of the Nuisance Removal and Diseases Prevention Act ; namely, that the attacks within the last twelve days have exceeded those which have occurred the preceding two months. Thus in the two months from the 29th of March to the 29th of. May, both inclusive, the total num ber of cases is 428 ; but within the last twelve days, that is, from the 30th of May to the 11th of June, both inclu sive, there have been no less than 673 cases, and at the same time the disease has manifested a decided tendency to spread epidemically, as is shown in the numbers at tacked on board the American emigrant ship at Plymouth, and in the extent to which the disease has prevailed in Glover Hall Court, Beech-street, Barbican, London, and also in Bermondsey. The total number of the deaths, up to the time of the renewal of the Order in Council, was 6,319 out of 14,332 attacks, or in the proportion of three deaths to seven attacks ; whereas, the returns now made give 638 deaths, out of 1,203 attacks; or a pro portion of more than one-half—a proportion exhibiting the severity that usually marks the commencement of a general outbreak. Under circumstances which thus afford ground for apprehension that another visit of the scourge may be impending, the General Board of Health deem it highly satisfactory to be enabled to report the uniform success which has followed prompt attention to the pre monitory symptoms which generally precede an attack of this disease. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWTON RACES.-WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13 The SCURRY STAKES.—Won by Energy. Jolity, who came in first, having been disqualified. The GOLBORNE STAKES of 25 sovs. each, 10 forfeit, with 50 added. Half-a-mile.—Won by Mr. J. Fowler's Jack Briggs, beating 111 r. B. Green's Seiguor of Holder ness and Mr. Barton's Lady Godiva. The GOLD Cue of £lOO, added by the Lord of the Manor to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, 10 forfeit, and 5 only if declared. The second to receive 25 sovs. and the third 10 sovs. Two miles and a distance. 10 subs., 6 of whom declared.—Won by Mr. Osborne's Pity the Blind, beating Mr. B. Green's Westow and Mr. Lawson's Keleshea. A PLATE of 50 sovs. added to a stakes of 5 soya. each. — Won by Mr. Meesom's Doubt, beating Mr. Pedley ns. the Cantab and Mr. Ethell's Parable. THURSDAY, JUNE 14. The CUERDEN STAKES of 25 sovs., added to a Handi cap Stake of 20 sovs. each, 5 forfeit. One mile.—Won by Mr. Barton's Smuggler's Bill, beating Mr. Walter's Cavendish. Won in a canter. The DRAWING-ROOM STAKES. Of 10 soya. With 15 added. Half-a-mile.—Won by Mr. Legh named Dux bury, beating, Mr. Stewart's Wilmont by a head. The ST. LEGER STAKES of 10 soya. each, with' 100 added. One mile and a-half. The second to save his stake if four start.—Won by Lord Stanley's Strongbow, beating Mr. J. Bateman's Strychnine by half a head. The Bonouon CUP of 200 sovs. in specie, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 20. sovs. each, 10 forfeit, and 5 only if declared. The second to receive 25 sovs. and the third 10 sovs. from the Stakes. Two miles and a-half.— Won by. Mr. B. Green's Westow, beating Mr. Oxley named Smuggler Bill. A PLATE of 40 sovs., added to a Stake of 5 sovs. each. —Won by Mr. Grine's Anthony, heating Mr. Shelmer dine's Lanercosta and Mr. J. Osborne's Pity the Blind. FRIDAY, JUNE 15. The STAND CuP of £6O : Maid of Lyme, 1 ;: Lady Hylda, 2. The ST. HELEN'S. PURSE of X3O: Hard Shot., 1 ; Re cluse, 2. The NEWTON STAKES of 5 sous. each, and 30 added, once round, were won in two heats by Sir Henry Har dinge. A return match at crick( t was played on Thursday and Friday between the Marylebone Club and the University of Cambridge, on the ground of the former. The colle. gians won by 82 runs, the score being as follows :—The University, first innings, 106 ; second innings. 133. Mary lebone, first innings, 53 ; second innings, 109. ROYAL PRESENT TO FOBERT.—lmmediately after the Queen's Vase, at Ascot, Lord Eglinton presented to Fobert (his lordship's private trainer) a magnificent breast pin, in the form of a horse-shoe, of blue enamel, the eight nail marks being set with brilliants of the purest water, as a present from his Majesty the King of Holland, who, it will be remembered, visited this country a few months back, when Prince of Orange. The souvenir was presented as a slight token of his majesty's admiration of Fobert's excellent qualities as a trainer and in commemo. ration of his late victory at Epsom, Jane 19,1 STATE OF THE COUNTRY AND FREE TR . 0,4 of • „ the new wi d e s; s s p te re m a d introducedi wide-spreading, , so universalis Robert,a e p balefule i !.. s :l B S 4 pe e r : that it is difficult to take up a book, or a 11 . e%, the which does not, in some way or other, testifY , ~,a l e lamentable results of the lunacy which then seizea' for re the N e fi t r s P trfio five e u Produce •ot of our most prominent statesmen. Here are a couple of Parliamentary pav e , rs r ' n j of months of brought in from the printer. The first ii, a e t .,,, e ist, Stamps and Taxes, and the Revenue of t h e post 1; 05 , a nd IE 4 : t oll ing over 1848, as the year of Revolutions, let 6 ' compare 1849 with 1847. Here are the figuro:— , ItereiPte°' i 5 4 , 9•41 com P an— dine corr. ' l° o l ' • o d of Pere ease. r ~..•• ------,, 5. 4 '.; i i 1 1 Customs .. 7,445,997 13 3 7,311,239 1 4 134,7? 0 ° Excise_ .... 3,470,146 0 0 3 336 195 0 0 133,t 4 ii S Stamps.... 2,863,415 910 2 ' 3825 - 9 5 2 •Is."" . "., N o 0 a Post O f f i ce. 377,000 0 0 ' 355 ' 000 0 0 2 '" — a ,„••/ 3 I", Taxes .... 2,036,315 12 2 1,973,328 ' 8 4 a n ' 9 ,.' 6 o S ' Income Tax 2,819,095 9 7 2769445 1 3 47 ' .- Il h ° Id " I " 0 I:B4tici:BlBof4B,Customs, race, Receipts from Jan. 5 to June 5, 1847• Receipts from Jan. 5 to June 2, 1819. Surely this is as fair a comparison as cou.- made. And what does it prove,—if not that we c ,: ns iott: downward track ; and one of even rapid de, 'theft° Why should even the Excise, the St a mps, ee,`, 4 7, if ‘ l7 Office, produce less revenue in 1849 than 1 11 " were not altogether on a wrong course ? -• sn' uel . The next document that comes to hand, • lt"?: Return of Criminal Offenders during the y ear regl!'' And here we find precisely the same class no est° Every one knows that there is an indissoluble ce, ro node between roverty and wretchedness, and e is tb e therefore, a rapid and constant increase of elite ' fe rti clearest possible proof of a general increase of and wre t tchedness. or #0 years Nowh Committedas he b e p e r n o f g oar r s e t s fro s i al ll o o f iwns cr : i — m e (luring the last four 1845 .. .. 24,303 1846 .. .. 25,107 1847 .. . • • • 28 . 833 1848 .. 30,349 „or cO e- f Showing an addition of *ix thousand n ti o o ° te fi lei ft re l t i as o or f ib t dth h e e ant w pot h hl o iec le y , p. in the third year after the a de 'f a llb ut . this fearful portion - it We have alluded, on other occasions, to t he ca rOf crease exhibited in English pauperism. Each Y 0 11' passes now ad,ls a fresh 100,000 victims to t h h e ,„,lll._,,e recipients of parochial relief. This process can bour" on much lcnger, without bringing our w hole ' l3 ritr population into our relieving offices. roefWsoeunertnsyeteaeatdirsltl will i a c r s d . 1 ystsilaly that it 1,140 Such being the course of affairs in eve f ly th tl e el. Bt peti ° , is it any matter of surprise that, even at this 13 ; i : to O.' of the session, Mr. Disraeli should think it rig?;1 1 the House of Commons to pause, and to look ? ous consideration on the work of th e ir own he nds ~eithe r the members ask themsel ves w h e th er it will b e er of ..t c` , safe or decorous, when J u ly p asses Twa y, to sc i a t i er en.,, the moors in quest of grouse , w hil e ever y one Are interests of the country is f a lli ng into them "" decay. . POLICE INTELLIGENCE. ea On Wednesday, a number of persons were fin e r 9 and costs for having more than the complement of for which they were registered. 1 t 7t/ AN INCORRIGIBLE. —A woman was sent to glderlf' d i s or fo g Tuesday, for seven days, for being drunk and She had previously been committed sixty-sae" ril' disorderly conduct. a On Thursday. Captain Hunter, of the Esther al l o d from Pernambuco, was fined £ICO3 for having 5 ` p ,,,, - i ert ll , ' thirteen packages of manufactured snuff, found u` 5 ,,,(1 0 his bed in the cabin.—Mr. Rushton observed that `;015 , a n n o d t r t e h c i n nk mm th e e n c d a a p d ta h i i n m i t n n te t n te le rn d etrocifdnelferanausdidtelraie ctio7v4the bo A ard. rat a REFRACTORY PAUPER.—.A young au M'Nalty, was charged with having, on we'L"b i fiot refused to do any work at the workhouse, and wit4rrt attempted to stab one of the officers of the estahor ; who remonstrated with him. He was sent to a° twenty-one days. h 313 DARING CONSPIRACY.—TWO brothers, ° se t t be ( William Chadwick, were on Mond a y brow:lit UP 3 -re borough court, Manchester, charged with an outr' ot berl an extraordinary character. It a ppe are d that their b ran °I Mr. Marmaduke Chadwick, of Liverpool, is a O some property, at Liverpool • and finding nding that r ht" g , ners were leading an idle, reckless life, at his exPel n aci' bought, some time since r a vessel for river and gation, of which he made one of them captain , Pl - ' lll ' 255. a week, besides his keep, whilst in Liverp ool. other was also employed upon the boat. The tw ' n the" ners came to Liverpool some time since, and took ' l 4 of residence with their brother. They had not gi ve " boot of the vessel's earnings to him ; and they left the t leng ta stealing and carrying away the ship's register. they went so far as to advertise the vessel for sate' p ass. Marmaduke Chadwick, to prevent the sale, too sion of the boat, and had it laid up in a dry d0e1 1 ,.. 0 ,0 b° chester, giving instructions that the boat au, be repaired. Whilst the boat was still lying there, ', T WO, prisoners, accompanied by an attorney's clerk, e i nia' lll3 ,' eighteen navvies, made an attack upon the doe" o `f the' been first refused the boat by Mrs. Morris), on e ,. h e loc k actually cutting away part of the woodwork 0 fl oo ding the gates with an axe. Ultimately they succeeded in , 0 0 ; the dry dock, and then conveyed the boat a,"' • gorrLi prisoner Joseph Chadwick actually struck Alr 9 l l fe and knocked her down. Mr. Hardinm,attorneY,.e..2 for the prisoners ; but the magistrates committed theP' trial at the sessions. nisirtrt fleths. A child died the other day at Manchester from 6 1, 11 0 0 sions produced by excessive bleeding from the gum' of the teeth having been injured and extracted. r oil STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE.—Some time since a ate official, personage had occasion to visit a rnagi3oie/ Manchester, (a prominent member of the 1,303„riti% Public School Association) for the purpose of swe:cild. an information before him, but he was compelled t?.. lr of and seek another justice, as it was found that the . 1 1 1 )1 , oa of the gentleman alluded to did not contain a 13 , which to swear him ! On Sunday evening week, a fall of snow took P'... ll h i Littleborough, about 14 miles from Manchester, 'cob§ lasted from five o'clock till seven. Next day, so° le field' of hay, which had been newly made, were seen in O4 p r a capped with snow. On Tuesday night the teirW. - ng t o b t i was exceedingly low; and on Wednesday tro rni ,, ' hedges were covered with hoar frost in the neigh' ° i t of Manchester. n it Sst er :4 l4l MANCHESTER.—DESTRUCTIVE p i le: evening, a little before seven o'clock, the extensldi. manufactory of Messrs. Williams and Gardofl l 1 ' 9 ,011; vered to be on fire. The flames spread with ata c- - ( " 8 pidity, and though the engines were prompt l y spot, in a short time the vast range of building 3 mass of mouldering ruins. The stock of silk large, and was wholly consumed. More than 6 `; l by this calamity will be thrown out of employ. possible at present to estimate the loss, but in u'ise',lo: machinery, and materials, it must be ver y heaccitll One fireman was seriously injured by an accident fire engine. a'rai • AN EDITOR'S MISER I ES.—The editor of a . -e ha's . has certainly an unenvi a bl e p os t : one gentlema n re 3- A . continued his subscription this week for no othl,c than our enlarging the paper 1 We ore a ccusea_ o Fi ther of " dipping our pen in anarchy," because c 5 t some school-girls to have a more fitting h e ad-dr e- c ar ° t c wd e e oen r oao i certain doubt o n aau c dnb o drt u ow t ho h aem - d l 2 o hw o os k euo i lim n dn g sehe o arr l vtedeemdhbataerhteksi been that owa neecesukahs sanatory ad d a ts o e bwr X yy c e si re t oi e nr ? Toeeertoso d ti e t: e. " flat burglary," if not " sacrilege."' Our sh°, ll ec es need be tolerably broad, and our feelings as e ssj -eil t. dia-rubber, to stand such shocks.—Lancaster Go -pts o r SEAMEN'S CASE.—On Wednesday last, the 5. 1 one of Sir Edward Walker's coasting vessels, ' c oov monad before Mr. Yardley, the magistrate of WI , fcr Police-court, by a seaman named Charles Lovettoot sum of £2 Ba. earned as wages. The coroPl' l wta le n another sailor had been hired in London to Per pow voyage to Chester and back, by a man namedl 7.10 formerly master of the ship. This man deserteue,cel: qtr sal - in Chester, and left the poor fellows t° le ;or dress bow they could. On making the case law,ie P a d , E. Walker, a small gratuity was given to Wl:4 , men from the poor- box, but the debt was not P v a e f after much time lost, the sailors returned to vr‘ o ,' supporting themselves by. the way on alms. 1 % 11 ;0 it 0 3, expressed his opinion in unmeasured terms , %ter , ` o l,t scandalous the men had not been paid at ell e be it° added, if the money were not immediately Pi' send his distress warrant to the ship. üblic co, TARVIN HALL SCROOL.—The minetion of the pupils of this well-conduct c° of a:' 0 0 0 was held on Wednesday last, in the presence and highly-respectable auditory, consisting of i tbe n r e gentlemen of the neighbourhood, the paren ts ° op siae,ed, many of whom came from a distance, and a c number of the old pupils of Tarvin Hall. 113e o ic; ings commenced with a selection of sacred. ' l l . ,,act,fll afterwards the. pupils underwent a rigorous vva ,ory urination in mathematics, divinity, classics, t7;sclp. and the other branches of learning taug ht thegoty The examiners, the Rev. S. Parkinson, A- 4 Jo:, T. S. Bowstead, 141. A., vicar of Tarvin, Ite, v ; „ creiff, M.A., rector of Tattenhall, and the s'e pa se'' o ce" seph, chaplain of Chester Castle, expresse d t°oo, el.1001)/1 terms of high commendation on the proficie th e 0 °J . by the pupils, which was, indeed, creditable to ...ci oe principal, the masters, and the pupils. The srojer;s3 ire penmanship, drawing, &c. were of a very higA s gave great satisfaction. At ' the close! the P! 1 : 0 - 0, P . At spected by Dr. Ll. Jones and George 1 -l a,r ri t ' or y. 40; parade, and the result was most satista c o llatiq; 11° ; ( 1 o'clock, a large pasty sat down to a cold c - w ort—let' ded in that liberal style so peculiar to the colpP r oew; and hostess. The dinner arrangements beta; ch oot r oa r, the company again assembled in the larg e n f s ecu b l o ct' e t , where there was an excellent performanc e - . d ot i te aetd sic under the direction of the talented re 3 i i v ice it :l 0 5 1 f Signor Sapio, in which the pupils took a e° l ,: a car t i r ou,p, The programme presented a combination ot ra pt 4 ,, e pleasing character, and several pieces w ere r pord 1 ',6 encored. Before separating, M. Hick" portd of thanks to Signor Sapia, which was, s f u l i vottribe principal, and received with very grea - st times three hearty cheers were then 00_11 and 1),50 pany, and the boys joining, for the princip; day' °` and dancing wound ue, the proceedings ?it , 1 with interest and ma:nixed pleasure tf°