The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-31 00:00:00

Rlttraturt. POETRY. TRIPPING DOWN THE FIELD-PATH. BY CHARLES SWAIN. Tripping down the field-path, Early in the morn, There I met my own love, 'Midzt the golden corn; Autumn winds were blowing, As in frolic chase, All her silken ringlets Backward from her face; Little time for speaking Had she, for the wind Bonnet, scarf, or ribbon, Ever swept behind. Still some sweet improvement In her beauty shone ; Every graceful movement Won me—one by one ! As the breath of Venus Seeni'd the breeze of morn, Blowing thus between us, 'Midst the golden corn. Little time for wooing Had we, for the wind Still kept on undoing What we sought to bind Oh, that autumn morning! In my heart it beams, Love's last look adorning With its dream of dreams ! Still like waters flowing In the ocean shell, Sounds of breezes blowing In my spirit dwell! Still I see the field-path ; Would that I could see Her whose graceful beauty Lost is now to me ! VARIETIES. Neither birth, marriage, sickness, nor seasons, are known to editors in this country ; they may die, but their papers must be published.—American paper. A " Country Friend" who has lately begun to learn Latin, wants to know whether a fire at a Tallow Chandler's could with propriety be called an ignis fatuus. We should say not, but he had better consult his master.—Jones. A book, published by Mr. Akerman, catalogues 2,461 different tradesmen's copper tokens, issued in London alone between 1648 and 1672. They are arranged accord ing to streets and localities ; so that the whole forms a kind of tradesman's guide or Post-office directory to London as it was in the days of Oliver Cromwell and Charles IL Theodore„' said Angelina, " are you going abroad, dear ?"—" Yes," he replied, " I embark to-day."—" But if, alas, you should die in the hot African clime of Malta, dear Theodore, what should I do ?"—Theodore, musing a moment, said, with a sigh," If the Duke of Clarence met his death in Malmsley, why may I not find my bier at Malt-a ?—Angelina fainted.—Jones. AWFUL FATALITY.—A gentleman was lately inquiring for a young lady of his acquaintance. " She is dead," very gravely replied the person to whom he addressed his inquiries. " Good God, I never heard of it ; what was her disease ?" " Vanity," returned the other ; " she buried hersel, in the arms of an old fellow of 70, with a fortune, in order to have the satisfaction of a gilded tomb." THE DIFFERENCE.—The mode by which the title to land is tried in parts of Hindostan is deserving of imita tion in more civilised countries. Two holes are dug in the disputed spot, in each of which, the plaintiff and defendant's lawyers put one of their legs. and remain there until one of them is tired, or complains of being stung by the ants, in which case his client is defeated. In this country it is the client, and not the lawyers, who puts his foot into it. AN ENGLISH BREAKFAST-ROOM.—There is nothing like it in the world besides. It is an emanation from the morning heart of Englishmen. It is a type of the cha racter of the people. When one comes down on a fine autumn morning, and finds the snowy tablecloth, the steaming urn, the clean polished furniture, the simple meal, and all the elements for dispensing it, shining in the morning sunshine, as if the goddess of tidiness had burnished them—together with a rich English landscape looking in at the windows, and, around the table, half-a eozen smiling faces and fair forms, all arrayed in that un deviating neatness which is also purely English—how the heart is opened to all that is good, and kindly, and social —how it is strengthened and fortified, arid guarded against the cares and labours, and Ma of the ensuing day. EXTRAORDINARY PETITION.—INCONVENIENCE OF MAKING A MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT.—At the sitting of the House of Commons, on Thursday week, Lord Dudley Stuart said he rose to present a petition from one Mr. Colin Makenzie. resident in Camden-town, which was of a very peculiar character, and the like of which, perhaps, had never been presented to that house before. The petitioner stated that in 1846 he contracted a marriage which had turned out very unfortunate for him—(a laugh) by which he became acquainted with the evils of that state. (Renewed laughter.) He was led to the conclu sion that the most fertile source of domestic unhappiness was a marriage settlement, which gave to a wife great power over her husband--(laughter)—and in consequence of the independence which it placed her in she defied him, against all the vows she made on the altar, and did all sorts of things which she ought not to do. (Loud laughter.) The petitioner stated that in censequence of the practice of marriage settlements it was necessary to employ a lawer to draw them, who in that way obtained great influence over the parties, and frequently under pretence of being the legal adviser of the husband, be came something more than a legal adviser to his wife. (Laughter.) The petitioner finally prayed among other things that the good old system of the ducking-stool might be revived as a punishment for all undutiful and runaway wives. (Oh, oh, and cries of " Order.") A MESSENGER EXTRAORDINARY.—A characteristic anecdote is related of Lord Hardwicke in the Quarterly Review, just published. Every one knows, and has done justice to, the humane and praiseworthy exertions of the noble lord, whose ship. the Vengeance, happened to be at Genoa during the recent insurrection in that city. The preservation of thousands of lives, as well as of the edifices of that beautiful place. was entirely owing, as the writer truly says, to the gallantry, discretion, and humanity of this distinguished officer; and on several occasions he en countered no small personal risk. His greatest difficulty was with the Provisional Government, amongst whom there were some hot-headed men desirous of holding out, principally, it is supposed, with the hope of obtaining either an amnesty for themselves personally, or time to escape ; and it is reported that some very violent scenes occurred, through which Lord Hardwick° managed to steer with greet moderation and good humour. But it is paid that on one occasion, when the storm of debate was at the highest, his quieting influence was very much strengthened by the arrival of a sudden and very unex pected auxiliary in the shape of a bomb-shell, which thundered in through the wall of the council-chamber, and exploded in the wall of the ante-room. It was won derful how suddenly the arrival of this messenger stilled the stormy voices and subdued the violent gesticulations of the war party, and particularly when, in the silent con sternation that followed the crash, Lord Hardwicke coolly said, " Poo, poo ! 'tis only a shell ; but we had better make haste, for there will be more corning." EXTERMINATION OF INDIANS IN VIRGINIA.—There yet remains to be told one terrible incident in the earlier story of Virginia, an incident that resulted in the total destruction of the Indian race. The successor to the father of Pocahontas had conceived a deadly enmity against the English: this was embittered from day to day, as he saw the hated white man multiplying and spreading over the hunting grounds of his fathers. Then a fierce determination took possession of his savage heart. Fcr years be matured his plans, and watched the favourable moment to crush every living stranger at a blow. He took all his people into counsel, and such was their fidelity, and so deep the wile of the Indian chief, that during four years of preparation, no warning reached the intended victims. To the last fatal moment, a studied semblance of cordial friendship was observed ; some En glishmen who had lost their way in the woods, were kindly and carefully guided back again. One Friday morning (March 22, 1622), the Indians came to the town in great numbers, bearing presents, and finding their way into every house. Soon the fierce shout of the savages broke the peaceful silence, and the death-shriek of their victims followed. In little more than a minute, three hundred and forty-seven, of all ages and sexes, were struck down in this horrid massacre. The warning of an Indian converted to Christianity saved James Town ; the surviv ing English assembled there, and began a war of extermi nation against the savages. By united force, superior arms, and, it must be added, by treachery as black as that of their enemies, the white men soon swept away the Indian race for ever from the Virginian soil.— Warbuton's Conquest of Canada. THE LADY'S MAID. — The lady's maid is the flower of the domestic establishment, the Proserpine of the lower regions, the ele'.gante, whose graces of mind and manners bewilder the minds of the footmen, to whom, with super cilious scorn, she delivers the orders of her principals, a stumbling block in the eyes of venerable butlers, as Maria in those of Malvolio, and a target for the merry jests of the servants' hall. The lady's maid is my lady's shadow, a parody upon the chef-d'ceuvre of elegance, to whose cast-off clothes, airs, and graces she has the honour to succeed. Though worn to the bone by the labours of office, though deprived of her rest by my lady's dissipa tion, and of her meals by my lady's selfishness, though harassed by flaws of temper and caprices of taste, there is a species of one and indivisibility between the mistress and maid, characteristic of the umbrageous nature pointed out. An instinctive esprit de corps unites the daughter of Eve who washes the laces, and is to inherit them, with the daughter of Eve who wears them in her pinners. Against my master, or my lord, on the other hand, the lady's maid cherishes an intuitive antipathy. Even my master's own man, nay, even the family butler and coach man does she detest, as depdndencies of " master." " Master" is a tyrant, master is a nuisance, master is never satisfied, master is always complaining of the man ner in which his linen is starched, or left unstarched, and master's shirt-buttons have twice as great an aptitude to come off as any other gentleman's. And then master keeps such hours ! Master goes to bed at an early hour, and rises earlier than can be accounted for on any other principle than that of matrimonial contrariety. Master comes into my lady's dressing room in dirty boots, or sets down his gat candlestick on a new cap. Master is full of fancies, such as having his newspapers ironed, and worrets people out of their lives about keeping dinner or horses waiting. According to the lady's maid, there is no end to the pectadillos of " master." Not but that my lady has her faults too. My lady is sadly thoughtless and heedless, and seems to think people have twenty pair of hands, and no need of rest or recreation. But she is a good creature after all; and if it were not for having such a brute of a husband, she would be such a swee tempered lady ! Ah ! poor thing ! if people only kn what they were about when they married.—Mrs. Gore NOTICES. The Times of the End: Five Sermons on the Apocalypse, preached during Advent, 1848. By the Rev. Charles J. Furlong, Minister of Trinity Church, Boulogne-sur- We have been kindly furnished with a few interesting particulars respecting the important mission, with which Mr. Furlong is now so intimately and beneficially con nected, and these our readers will find laid before them in another part of our paper. • These sermons by Mr. Furlong possess a peculiar value at the present time, when so much is taking place in al most every quarter of the globe, to elucidate the extra ordinary revelations vouchsafed to the Apostle John. The author, in the discourses before us, limits his teaching to the pouring out of the sixth vial, and the opening of the seventh,—the period of the Apocalyptic history at which we ourselves are living. He presents his views with be coming modesty, but, at the same time, he points out such marvellous and minute coincidences between the historical facts, (which have been occurring during the last few years,) and the symbolical representations fur nished to us in the few verses on which the sermons are founded, as to arrest the attention and stimulate the in quiry of every devout and anxious Christian. His re. marks are brief, but very pointed and effective. If there is one point in the history of the world which is invested with more peculiar solemnity and interest than another, it is that which will usher in the glorious advent of our blessed Redeemer, and as Mr. Furlong, in these addresses, enters on the consideration of the "signs" that shall precede and herald his coming, no doubt many a thought ful and earnest believer will be glad to have placed within his reach the reflections of such an experienced Christian as the preacher of these sermons, especially as the reader is living at a time when, in the words of our author, "a series of events, all bearing the same impress, and ap parently tending towards the same end, are following each other in quick and startling succession. Who can reflect on such events as these—events which only a few months since would have been pronounced to be beyond the remotest limits of probability—without feeling as if he were watching the onward flow of that mighty tide which bears upon its bosom the final destinies of the human race, and rolls on more and more rapidly as it advances nearer and nearer to the end of its predicted course." DR. HAWTHORNE AGAIN. A correspondent of the Mercury, after half a column of puffery of this personage, remarks in a postcript " P.S.—ls it not very provoking to hear the impertinence of the parish surgeons here to Dr. Hawthorne, when it is well known to those acquainted With his character that he is a medical man of the first standing, of great skill, and very ex tensive practice. and was considered the most eminent physician in the north of Ireland ?" It is rather unusual for " most eminent physicians" to leave the localities in which their high abilities are known, to try new ground, with nothing but the puffery of a newspaper to bring them into notoriety. The doctor has not treated Ireland well to aesert her. MADAME COSTA CABRAL, COUNTESS DE THoMAR.— Some years ago the widow of a butcher's assistant, in Aldgate, went out to the Portuguese island of St. Michael's, one of the Azores, with a view to establish a lodging-house for sailors. She was accompanied, in the smack that took her out, by her three young children — two girls and a boy. The woman's name was Read ; and, etrange to say, she almost immediately on her arri val married the English Consul on the island, who was also named Read—the new bride thus twice changing her condition, but only once her name. Here was the first rise in life, from her humble station as the widow of the journeyman butcher to the honourable positi on of a l a dy to a British Consul-General. Iu the course of time the family became still further promoted. The eldest daugh ter by the former marriage, Eliza Read, became the wife of the celebrated Costa Cabral, now Count de Thomar, and Prime Minister of Portugal, and is consequently Countess de Thomar, and a Portuguese peeress. .The son of Mrs. Read, and brother of the Countess, has r?cently (although an Englishman) been nominated to one of the most lucrative situations in the gift of the Minister—that of sole Director of the Custom-house at Ponta Delgado ; not, it will readily be supposed, without creating much heart-burning and jealousy among the native cinprobA who remember the humble position of Mr. William Read when his family first landed on the island of St. Michael's. Costa Cabral, himself the son of a small country grocer in the town of Fornos d'Algodres, was at that time a small lawyer, but so great a demagogue that he could not even have dreamed of his present Con servatism, his Courtship, his Premiership, or, much less, of the sumptuous palaces, valuable estates, magnificent chateaux, and splendid establishments, of which, with most praiseworthy ingenuity, he has contrived to make himself master out of the savings from an official income of not quite £7OO sterling per annum.—Morning Post. TAKING THE STARCH OUT OF 'EM.—A COLD WATER SKETCH.—A knot of idlers stood upon the end of a pier which ran out into the Hudson River, in one of the small towns near Albany a few days ago, amusing themselves with hurling stones into the broad stream, each vieing with his neighbour in the endeavour to pitch a missile to the farthest distance from the shore, when a tall, rugged built Vermonter direct from the Green Hills suddenly made his appearance in their midst, and for a while re mained a quiet observer of their movements. He was a very brawny strong looking Yankee, and was very decently clad. The efforts of the little party had been exhibited over and over again, when the stranger picked up half a brick which lay near him, and giving it a jerk it fell in the water a long way beyond the line which had as yet been reached by the foremost of the crowd. At the conclusion of this feat a loud " bravo !" went up from half a dozen voices around him. It was a cold, clear day in October, and the men determined not to be outdone renewed their attempts; but the Vermonter without saying a syllable to any one continued to pitch the pebbles far out into the stream, which seemed to annoy one of them in a green jacket, the apparent leader of the gang, who declared he would'nt be beaten by a fellow right and straight out of the woods, any how ; and sliding up to the stranger he determined to make his acquaintance. " Where do you come from, neighbour ?" enquired the other. "Me ? Wal, I hails form Vermont, jes now, friend." " Haint been in these parts long, I reckon ?" " Wal—no. Not edzactly yere—but up and daown, sorter." " Yis, so I 'sposed.' " Yaas," continued the green 'un carelessly, and seizing a big billet of wood he twirled it over his head and it landed several rods from the shore in the water. "You've a little strength in your arms,neighbour." " Some pumkins—is them flippers, stranger, up in our taown, mone'n a month ago, I driv them are knuckles rite strait thur a board more'n a ninch 'naff thick." " Haw, haw," shouted the hearers, the man in the green jacket laughing loudest. " May be you don't believe it." " Not much," answered the crowd ; " we ain't very green down here in York—we ain't," said the fellow in the green jacket ; " we've been about you see." " Wal, jes you look yere, friend," continued the Vermonter in the most plausible manner, "up in aour country, we've a purty big river considerin—lnvun River its called, and may be you've hearn on it. Wal, I hove a man clean across that river t'other day, and he came down fair and square on t'other side." " Ha, ha, ha," yelled the auditors. " Wal, naow, you may laff, but I can deu it agin." "Do what ?" said the green jacket quickly. " I kin take and hove you across river jilt like open and shut." " Bet you ten dollars of it." •‘ Done," said the Yankee, and drawing forth (upon a broken Down East Bank) he covered the shin plaster. " Kin yon swim, feller ?" " Like a duck," said green jacket ; and without further parley the Vermonter seized the knowing Yorker stoutly by the nape of the neck and the seat of his pants, jerked him from his foothold, and with an almost superhuman effort dashed him heels over head from the end of the dock, some ten yards out into the Hudson River. A terrific shout ran through the crowd as he floundered into the water, and amidst the jeers and screams of his compa nions the duck loafer put back on the shore and scratched up the bank half frozen by his sudden and involuntary cold bath. " I'll take that tenspots, if you please," said he, shivering rapidly to the stakeholder. "You took us for green-horns, eh ? We'll show you how we do things here in York"—and the fellow claimed the twenty dollars. " Wal, I reckon you won't take no tenspots yet, cap'n." " Why ? You've lost the bet." " Not edzactly. I did'nt kalkilate on dueing it the fust time—but I tell you I kin due it—and again, in spite of the loafer's utmost efforts to escape him, he seized him by the neck and the seat of his over-ails, and pitched him three yards farther into the river than upon the first trial ! Again green jacket returded amid the shouts of his mates, who enjoyed the sport immensely. " Third time never fails," said the Yankee, stripping off his coat ; " I kin due it I tell ye." " Hold on !" said the almost petrified victim. " And I will duo it—ef I try tell to-morrow mornin." " I give it up I" shouted the sufferer between his teeth, which now chattered like a mad badger's—" take the money." The Vermonter very coolly pocketed the stakes, and as he turned away, remarked, " We aint much acquainted with you smart folks daown here'n York, but we sometimes take the starch out of 'em up our way—and p'raps you won't try it on strangers agin. I reck'n you wunt," he continued, and putting on a broad grin of good humour, he left the company to their reflections.—Flag of our Union. JULLIEN'S CONCERT.—As usual, this concert went off with great eclat, the chief attraction being Mme. Persiani, who is taking her leave of so many triumphs, while yet in the full enjoyment of her glory : Her voice seems as fresh and brilliant as ever, and the pieces selected by her were " Come per me sereno" (Sonnambula), and " Una voce poco fa " (Barber of Seville), both airs which she has made entirely her own, and in which she will very likely never be surpassed. The celebrated singer certainly did everything to assure the public of her undiminished po w er, for the amount of fioriture which she threw into the music, and the ease with which she accomplished the most asto nishing feats were almost incredible, particularly the " Una voce," was hardly to be recognised amidst the crowd of sparkling cadences and variations with which she overwhelmed it. We do not approve of this as a rule in the delineation of a character — as Persiam's custom is—but we cannot but admire such a talent whenever it is dis played on an occasion like this. The other chief features of the evening's entertainment were the " Allegretto Scherzo, from Mendelssohn's symphony in A minor, the gem of the orchestral part of the concert, a part of Beet hoven's " Sinfonie Pastorale , " and a selection from Meyerbeer's new opera—" The Prophete," which has just been put on the stage in the Italian Opera, Covent garden, with unprecedented splendour. We confess we are disappointed in our expectations as to this work : it contains, so far as we can judge by these extracts, little new and original ; but, of course, it is idle to form any judgment from this fragment. The band was, as usual, most excellent, and the numerous audience gave ample signs of their satisfaction. We must still mention in high terms the performance of the celebrated " Tremolo " on the violin, by a young and very talented artist—Mr. Day. Jullien, we see, is going to give a second concert on next Monday, on which occasion Mine. Persian will again appear. THE WHIGS AND THE SUNDAY-TRADING BILL. The termination of the parliamentary session has stifled numerous abortive measures, some of which were never theless worthy of a matured existence. Amongst . this class may fairly be set down Mr. Hindley's bill to prevent Sunday trading. If ministers had felt the smallest regard for the integrity of that day which still is hailed by the majority of Englishmen as sacred, there could have been no difficulty in accelerating a bill of the deseription al luded to in its passage through parliament. But the liberal-minded Whigs have no sympathy with either men or measures whose characteristics are of a stricter nature than their own ; hence the checks that from time to time have been given to the Sunday-Trading Bill, until Sir G. Grey the other night found himself in a position to inform its proposer that the advanced period of the session ren dered any further consideration of the bill impossible. The cause of religion and morality is, however, not surely at so low an ebb, that some other champion will not re turn to the charge, prepared to carry his point against every opposition. The evils arising from Sunday trading are exceedingly numerous, and by no means confined to the simple flagitious act : a thousand consequences threaten to follow in the train of this violation of the spirit of Christianity, just as is the case in every wilful departure from the law of God. That which commenced by the seemingly venial offence of serving out a few tri fling, but necessary, articles of domestic consumption, bids fair to accomplish the destruction of the sanctity of the Sabbath, not only as a day appointed for religious worship, but also as one immemorially appointed for the rest of man and the animals employed by him. And in this particular it is, if on no higher principle, that the measure in question ought to present itself to the serious consideration of the working classes, from whom, by de grees, this priceless privilege is being withdrawn. Most persons are inclined to connive at the unseemly practices at present allowed, from pure ignorance of their enor mity. Their notion is, that any law prohibiting the me chanic from purchasing that dinner on the Sunday morn ing, which the want of consideration on the part of his employer prevented being bought on the previous night, would act very harshly. The system complained of is much more serious than this ; indeed, though bad enough in all our large manufacturing and commercial towns, it is to be seen in its true deformity only in the metropolis. Few country readers will be prepared to believe, that in London are to be seen whole streets of shops open for business on the Sunday : wearing apparel, and almost everything, may be purchased in the open mart, just as easily, in fact, as on any other day of the week. There is no laudable shame evinced at offending against decency, on the part of purchasers, as is the case in towns less de based, where a poor woman seeks admission to the baker's back door, to obtain the loaf which may not be dispensed with, but which could not be got before. We are sur prised when we are told that in Paris the theatres are open on the Sabbath, but the same result will assuredly follow in London if no check be put to the rapidly increasing demoralisation of the day of rest. Hundreds, nay thousaeas of people know no day of rest in London : they are engaged for seven days in the labour or business which ought only to be followed as dependent on the higher duties which claim their attention. If the working classes regard Sunday trading as a privilege, they are de ceiving themselves, for they will eventually be the suf ferers. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. BENEFITS OF FREE TRADE. (From the Brighton Gazette of Thursday.) We understand that Messrs. Peckham and Co., who have lately supplied our workhouse with French flour, have imported into this country, from their establishment at Eu, no less than between 17,000 and 18,000 bags of flour, (about four bushels to the bag), within the last nine months. Will it be said that these large importations do not affect the farmers of England ? The cry of the Free Traders is, what would have been the consequence in England, if flour had not been allowed to come into this country duty-free, arguing on the assumption that we must necessarily have had harvests ? Free-trade is eating into the very vitals of the farming interest ; and the time must shortly come, if free-trade principles continue to be acted upon, when the farmers will be completely ruined. It is impossible to disguise the fact that, even now, the farmers are suffering immense losses. Go into any mar ket room ; nay, ask any free-trader who knows something of farming, what sort of position the farmers of this country occupy at present, and he will tell you that it is impossible for him to live with such prices. But then, he adds, the way to obviate this is for the landlord to lower his rent. What reply, however, does the farmer give to this ? Why, that even if he paid no rent at all, he could not cultivate his land with the present burthens upon it, and compete with the growers of foreign corn. There is one fact, not generally known to farmers them selves, which presses exceedingly hard upon them. We allude to the duty on oil-cake imported into this country. About four years ago the French Government finding that the cake went out of their country at a very rapid rate, the greater portion of it to England, to the injury of their own farmers, put on an export duty of 26 francs per ton, so that the oilcake exported from France into England has been ever since raised in price to the farmers in this country. The French farmers fatten their cattle on oil cake free of duty, whilst the English farmer has to pay the heavy duty, or if not the duty, he still pays an in creased price to the person who imports the cake from France. How, then, is it possible for the English farmer to compete with the French breeder of cattle under such circumstances ? It is well Known that the manure from cattle fed on oil cake is much more valuable than manure from cattle fed on other food. Here, again the French man has the advantage. His land is greatly improved by it ; and he farms under easier and better circumstances. All this is independent of the low amount of Poor-rates, the absence of tithes, and all other things which the land in this country is subject to. It is well to get a cheap loaf; but, if a labourer had no employment, his cheap loaf would, we apprehend, be a sorry one. Shouldthings go on as they have done lately,—and there appears little prospect of change,—the amount of agricultural labour must inevitably be reduced; and, if we get a cheaper loaf by the admission of foreign corn duty free, we shall pay dearly for it in the end by increasing taxation. THE PEACE CONGRESS IN PARIS. The French government have given a full authorization for the holding of the congress in the French capital, and have expressed their warm approbation of the object of the meeting, and the motives of its projectors. Many men of great influence in France have given in their ad hesion to the movement, and have enrolled their names as a committee of organization, to make effective prepara tions for the congress. Amongst others we may mention the names of M. de Lamartine, M. Francisque Rourect, Member of Assembly, M. Wolowski, Member of Assem bly, M, Emilie de Girardin, editor of La Prone, M. Da veyrier, editor of Le Credit, M. Guillaumen and M. Josepb Gamier, editors of the Journal des Economistes, Marquis de Rochefoucauld, M. Horace Say, M. Chevalier, M. Cocquerel, Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., and several other members of Parliament, have signified•their intention of attending the congress, and the English delegation will comprise some hundreds of gentlemen from different parts of the united kingdom. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. BLYTH.—The weather during the past week has been exceedingly favourable to the crops in this locality, which are unusually luxuriant and promising. The fine rains which have fallen since our last have given a most delightful freshness to the face of the country, and strikingly improved the green crops and gardens. We are glad to hear good accounts of the potatoes, strong hopes being entertained in the best informed quarters that they will turn out well. The wheat is in fine condition ! harvest has begun here and there ; and however low free-trade may have kept prices, the farmers will, at all events, have a good quantity to sell.— The Bath Chronicle. CHESHIRE, JULY 26.—Since our last, we have had such soaking rains for the last three days as we have seldom experienced ; the benefit of these is already manifest in the rapidly improving condition of the pastures, which bad begun to " burn" on the higher grounds. The bene fit also to the corn crops will, be immense, provided we can now obtain plenty of sunshine for a few weeks. The wheat plant is reported thin on some poor and stubborn soils, and a grub is stated to have made some little havoc in certain localities ; nevertheless, on the whole, things bid fair for a fine harvest, the weather being suitable. Potatoes turning out splendid ; no signs of disease as yet, although the rains will try them. Most of the hay crops are in—capital in condition.. Wind westerly, a bright sky,—but abundance of cumuli hovering about. LANCASTER.—A large quantity of rain has fallen this week and retarded the haymaking. The wheat crops are looking well, and promise an abundant harvest. Oats are complained of as being short in.the straw, but otherwise good. No fears are now entertained about the potatoes. Considerable quantities of rain have fallen this week in almost every part of the district ; but we have pleasure in adding that the bay crop generally is stacked. Serial crops, especially wheat and barley, are exceedingly fine, and so are oats, peas and beans, also turnips; but the rot has evidently got into the potatoes. We planted about ten stone of fine tubers this year on ground previously occupied with diseased crops. About half the plants have six bad ones out of every eight potatoes—the other half, which were set on somewhat drier soil, are as yet but partially tainted.— TVhitehaven Herald. A correspondent writing from the neighbourhood of Dunmanway, says—" I have travelled from Cork here yesterday evening (Saturday), and the appearance of the potato fields is magnificent all along the road. lam told it is the same all the way from this to Bantry. In my own demesne there were last week about a score of slightly blackened stalks ; but these have outgrown the indications of disease, and assumed a hcaLlay and even vigorous appearance.—Cork Examiner. A correspondent writing from Miltown, county Kerry, says—" The produce is most abundant, and of superior quality. I hope, should dry weather again set in, all will be right. Corn crops of all descriptions are far above an average, and already are beginning to change colour. Green crops are very fine. On the whole, the promises of an abundant and early harvest were never more cheer. ing."—Dublin Evening Mail. Since our last the weather has been exceedingly dull, cold, and wet. On Monday the rain set in in good ear nest about 9 o'clock, a.m., and continued without inter mission until about 9 p.m. With the exception of a smart shower between three and four o'clock, the after noon was fine, but during the night rain again fell. On Tuesday the morning was fair, but towards eleven o clock the raip began to fall heavily, accompanied with an ex ceedingly cold temperature for the time of the year. Wednesday was cloudy and cold, as was also yesterday (Thursday), accompanied with rain. We have seen one or two fields partially laid down by the heavy showers, but, generally speaking, the crops have not suffered, but on the contrary derived great benefit from the rain. Warm and dry weather, however, is now wanted, and should it set in speedily, and continue uninterrupted, we may still look for an early and prolific harvest. @entral AlfOrtilaitv. The Bishop of Manchester has sent £lO to the Birm inaharn guarantee fund of the British Association. There is a spirited opposition at present going on be tween Halifax and Bradford, and the fare is reduced to sixpence ! On Monday last, a young lady named Anson, from Birmingham, was unfortunately drowned while bathing on the shore at Rhyl. PROSPECTS OF AN EARLY HARVEST.-Mr. Sowasby of Holmpton, in Holderness, commenced cutting his wheat the week before last. We (Stamford Mercury) regret to announce, as " a great fact," that the number of laudanum-takers is be coming fearfully great on the Trent side. The stoppage of the bank of Messrs. Bntterfield and Co., of Petersfield, was announced on Wednesday* It was not a bank of issue, and its liabilities are small. Mrs. Butterfield, of Hitchen, has just presented her husband with their twenty-fourth child, about a month after the twenty-third anniversary of their wedding-day ! The Chartist prisoners, Cuffy, Lacey, and the others, convicted at the recent session of the Central Criminal Court, were put on board the Adelaide transport on Tues day evening, at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. A BOLD YOUTH.—Among our marriage announcements this week is that of a widow residing in Causeway-lane, and having a family of six children, to her apprentice, a youth of 19 or 20.—Leicester Journal. FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—An explosion of fire damp, by which two men were killed, occurred on Mon day morning, at Waterloo Colliery, Thorpe Hall near Leeds. It was stated in the course of some trials against the keepers of disorderly houses at the Middlesex Sessions, that there is a Mr. Flight, who is the owner of more than 1,000 brothels in London. The Earl of Ellesmere is erecting a monument, with a short inscription, to mark the grave of Addison in the north aisle of Henry the Seventh's chapel, in Westminster Abbey. The Austrian government, although on the very brink of bankruptcy, has its agents in London, nt the present moment endeavouring to effect a loan of British capital to assist in crushing the Hungarians.: 01 Wednesday evening, the dress of a lady who was passing along the New Road London, was observed to be on fire ; but a potman extinguished the flames. It is sup posed that ignition was the consequence of her treading upon a cigar fusee. FREE TRADE !—There are now, and have been for some months past, no less than six farms situated in the very heart of the Pewsey Vale (one of the finest corn-growing districts of Wiltshire) for which no tenant can be found.— Devizec? Gazette. The father of a young man who was struck dead by lightning, in London, on Thursday, exhibited the blackened corpse of his son to the populace at a penny a-head, and it is said that he realised upwards of £7 by the indecent exhibition. On Wednesday week, six men were killed at a colliery at Flint. They were drawn up, but as it was thought that a bin of coals was coming, they were hauled up beyond what is technically known as the trill, and, losing their hold, were precipitated down the shaft, 194 yards deep. A man who was lately removing some mining refuse in a mine called Highrake, near Eyam, Derbyshire, found a handsome silver-hilted sword, which is conjectured to have been hidden there by some straggler from the Highland army which followed the Pretender to Derby. PROLIFIC POTATOES.—We understand that the gar dener of Robert Baxter, Esq., on Friday last obtained the astonishing number of fifty potatoes from a root. The potatoes were all of good useable size and excellent quality ; and they were of the kind called Regents. The following curious advertisement lately appeared in a provincial print :—" To be sold, by private contract, a beautiful monkey, a parrot, two spaniels, and a tortoise shell tom cat s the property of a lady, just married, who has no further accasion for the same." DRURY - LANE TfIEATRE. The performances on Wednesday night, for the benefit of Mr. Kenney, were preceded by a most melancholy event. The veteran dra matist for whose advantage the theatre was especially opened died early the same morning, after a short illness. CORN IN BOND AT HAMBURGII.—By advices from Hamburgh it appears that the stock of wheat warehoused there and at the other blockaded ports is under 500,000 qrs. The probability is that the greater proportion of this will be shipped to England within the next few weeks. ENORMOUS LOBSTERS.—The Scottish Press mentions that several lobsters, weighing upwards of seven pounds, and measuring thirty inches in length, from the point of the claw to the tip of the tail, have lately been sent to the Glasgow market, from the coast of the west High lands. The Chaplaincy of the Hull gaol was last week filled by the appointment of the Rev. James Selkirk, curate of Middleton Tyas, and formerly a missionary in the island of Ceylon. This gentleman is a native, of Egremont, Cumberland. REDUCTION OF RENTS.-At the rent day held at Washingborough the other day, the Rev. H. W. Sibthorp generously returned 20 per cent. to his tenants, to enable them to a certain extent to hear the Free Trade foolery. —Boston and Lincoln Herald. Madame Sontag is stated to have entered into an en gagement with Mr. Lumley for a period of eight months, at the round sum of £12,500. At the end of the operatic season she will sing in Edinburgh, Dublin, and the prin cipal towns in the United Kingdom. The Sun, of Thursday, described a new portable ma chine. called a fire annihilator. It may he carried ahont by one man, and is described as possessing powers to beat down the most fierce flames and to extinguish the most glowing fire in a few minutes.. LARGE CucrmßEß.—Mr. Braid, gardener to Joseph Brook,. Esq., of Green-head, cut from one of the hot beds on Tuesday, a cucumber upwards of 30 inches long, and of proportionate thickness. It is not improbable that it will be exhibited in Leeds during the ensuing Horticultu ral show. RARE OCCURRENCE.—From three stocks of bees, com monly called hives, standing in the garden of Mr. Durham, at the Manor Cottage. near Worksop, there have been, since the 15th of May, 1849',. t9n swarms of fine, strong, and healthy bees ! An occurrence, perhaps, unparalleled in apiarian history. At Cambridge, George Shaw, a man of unusal stature and strength, was arraigned on a charge of wilfully murder ing Ann Simms, by knocking her down, and kicking and trampling on her, on the 6th instant, at Melbourn. The prisoner, who got his living by keeping a pettty gambling table at fairs, with the deceased for his partner, was found guilty, and sentenced to be transported for his natural life. FOREIGN FRUITS.—The importations of fruits from Holland, France, and Belgium are at the present time of a very extensive character. One vessel, from Rotterdam, has just brought the immense quantity of 3,404 baskets of currants, besides other fruits, and some arrivals of apricots and pears have taken place, the first during the present season. An arrival of nearly 1,000 baskets of fruit has also taken place from Dunkirk. MR. HUDSON'S ESTATES.—The following is an alio tioneering estimate of Hudson's estates, now being, or about being, brought under the hammer : Londsborough, (bought of the Duke of Devonshire,) £470,000; Bal. dershy, £lOB,OOO ; Octon Grange, £BO,OOO ; Newby Park, £22,000. Gibraltar House, at Albert Gate, £lB,OOO ; making a total amount invested in lands and houses alone within a trifle of £7oo,ooo.—Globe. DEATH BY ELECTRICITY AT WOOLWICH.—On Wed nesday afternoon the military band was preparing to play on the parade. To keep a clear space amid the crowd, a number of soldiers were being told off, when a flash of lightning struck the group. Gunner Queeny was killed on the spot, Gunner Miller was render insensible for some time, and several others were stunned. The electric fluid passed through Queeny's head, and thence down his body. It is stated that the Marquis of Waterford has resolved upon disposing of Ford Castle, with its noble accompany ing demesne, near Wooler. The estate is one of the finest and most picturesque in the county of Northumber land, and its value is little, if anything, short of £300,000. The noble marquis is not only a good, benevolent land lord, but a very wealthy, provident man, and there are many who will regret his separation from a county in which his maternal ancestors resided and held large pos sessions for centuries.—Newcastle Journal. Roin AND HIINGARY.—On Monday evening week a meeting of the inhabitants of Birmingham, convened by placard, was held at the Public-office, Moor-street, for the purpose of sympathising with the people of the above countries. The large room was crowded to excess, and many hundreds were obliged to leave, who could not gain admittance to the building. At 8 o'clock Mr. Councillor Baldwin was moved to the chair, when resolutions, ex pressive of sympathy with the Romans and Hungarians in their struggles for freedom were unanimously carried. AN AWKWARD GARTER.—A woman, in the neighbour hood of Llanfechel, happened to go on a fair day last week into her garden : after sitting awhile in the sun's heat, she, as may be anticipated, fell asleep, when she for some time enjoyed a peaceful nap. On awakening she felt something loose about her, which she at first fancied to be her garter, and on stooping to tie it found, to her great surprise, that it was a large viper which had crept under her clothes. This frightened her so much that she swooned away, and has been very ill since; but fortu natel3 the serpent did her no harm.—North Wales Chronicle, DEATH IN A DRUNKEN FROLIC.—On Thursday after noon, a weaver named Godley, lost his life under the fol lowing circumstances :—A number of men, including Godley, had been drinking at the Railway Inn, at the bottom of Crosland Moor, and it appeared that he and another of the company had engaged for a wager to run a race through the Yew-Green Tunnel, on the Hudders field and Penistone Railway, and started accordingly. It was found when the company arrived at the Lockwood end of the tunnel, that Godley was missing, and on re tracing their steps they found the unfortunate man lying across the rails with his neck broken, having evidently been tripped up by the rails and thrown to the ground with great violence. PRINCE ALBERT AT PORTLAND.—The foundation of great work of national defence was commenced by Prince Albert on Wednesday, by depositing the first stone of the breakwater which is to convert the Portland Roads into a harbour of refuge approachable in all winds, for the largest English fleet. The occasion was made a gala day by the inhabitants of the towns on the southern coast, and the Corporation of Dorchester were officially present en masse. After the ceremony of depositing the stone, Prince Albert inspected the system of convict discipline established in the Isle of Portland, his visit being graced by an exercise of royal clemency :—" As the Prince entered the quarry ground, a poor old fellow, who had been sentenced to seven years transportation for stealing a goose, was feebly chip ping with a hammer the rough surfaee of a block of free stone. The Prince went up announced to him that her Majesty presented him with a free pardon. The unex pected news overcame the old man so much that he drop ped to the ground for a moment quite overcome; but he soon resurted his hammer again." CRICKET: THE GENTLEMEN. OF ENGLAND V. THE PLAYERS.—This great match commenced at Lord's on Monday, and was brought to a close on the following evening, the gentlemen winning in one innings. The score on their side ran up in a single innings to 192. The Players made only sixty-five and eighty-seven in their two innings and their antagonists consequently remained winners with forty runs and the second innings to spare. The papal authority is restored in Rome—the priests have embraced General Oudinot—masses have been cele brated in St. Peter's—salutes without number have been discharged from the frowning batteries of St. Angelo— and, in the smoke thereof the papal banner was smuggled to the top of the staff on the central tower. This is called the " restoration of papal authority ;" but there is very much yet to be done, and to be undone, before Rome will lend obedience to Pio Nono. The Romans will not have him as king, and he refuses to return simply as bishop. In the meantime, the tricolour flings out its insulting pro tectorate over the ancient city.—Church and State Gazette. TUE MOORS.—It appears that on the moors, in the Highlands, and in other parts of Scotland, the disease which has proved so fatal among moor game during the last few years, has not made its appearance this season. The like report is true with respect to game on Cross Fells, Birbeck Fells, Skiddaw Forest, Stainmore, and other moors in the counties of Westmoreland and Cum berland, and other parts of the north of England. The gamekeepers and watchers state, that as the weather was dry and seasonable during tne time of incubation, the broods, which generally have a greater number of birds in each of them than for many years past, were brought forth in a healthy manner. Since then they have gone on well, many of them being already well feathered and strong on the wing; so that there is every prospect that grouse will be numerous, and in such a state of perfection as to afford to sportsmen the usual pleasure on the 12th of August. Hares and partridges are unusually numerous and forward in the northern counties. METHOD OF TREATING DISEASED POTATOES.—In recent despatch from Lord Howard de Waldon to Vis count Palmerston, (the English minister at Brussels hav ing caused some inquiries to be addressed to Mr. Tom belle Lomba,) is encloeed that gentleman's reply, from which the following is an extract :—" I can state in the most formal manner, that when the potato stems are cut off with a sickle properly sharpened (avec une faucille dont le tranchant est convenable) the tubes are not at all interrupted in their growth ; that they remain attached to the stem until they are ripe, just as if the haulm had not been removed ; and that they acquire as large a rela tive size as potatoes which have not undergone the ope ration. I have so often observed this continuation of growth that I can speak positively to its going on without the slightest interruption, and that the treatment which I have recommended is not attended by any loss whatever of size or quality. I can offer the most positive assurance as to this ; it is only necessary to take great care that the implement employed in cutting off the haulm shall be so sharp that the stems may he separated without disturbing the roots (sans les soulerer, afia de ne pas les Macke,- des fruits). It is also proper that the stems should be removed from the ground immediately after being cut off; and especially that no time be lost in covering the surface of the ground with a layer of earth at least half an inch thick." REMARKABLS CASE OF RECOVERY FROM APPARENT DEATII.--The Times of Tuesday states that on Friday afternoon, at four o'clock, Mr. Morse, surgeon, was sent for to attend a woman named Roberts, the wife of a brick layer, residing at No. 1, Smith's place, Devonshire-street, Kennington-lane, London. He found her suffering under Asiatic cholera in its worst form. He prescribed for her, but she continued to get worse, and about one o'clock next morning he received a message to attend again im mediately as Mrs. Roberts was supposed to be dying. Having some other patients to attend to he did not reach the house till half an hour after the messenger arrived. He was then told that his patient was dead, and had been laid out twenty-five minutes. Knowing that he would have to give a certificate before the funeral could take place, Mr. Morse went to the room in which the body was laid out and covered with a sheet. Upon drawing away the sheet and feeling the body, he found it quite cold, pulse imperceptible, the fingers blue and so con tracted that it was quite impossible for him to open the hand. He next applied his ear to the chest, and finding that the heart had not entirely ceased to beat, he drew his lancet from his pocket, opened the vein in the arm, from which three or four ounces of blood flowed freely, when, to the astonishment of all present, the woman cried out, " What are you doing to me ?" Other remedies having been applied, the poor woman so far recovered as to be able to eat a meat dinner on Sunday. SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO THE NASSAU BALLOON.—Last evening the feelings of several hundreds, who ;had, not withstanding the unfavourable state of the weather, assembled in Vauxhall-gardens to witness the ascent of the Nassau balloon, as well as those of the vast numbers of persons on the outside of the gardens, who had been on the lookout for the balloon, were for some time kept in a state of painful excitement for the safety of no less than H individuals, who had accompanied the immense machine. At seven o'clock, the balloon having been suf ficiently inflated, Mr. Charles Green, the veteran aero naut; Mrs. Green, his wife -: Mr. and Mrs. Green, his nephew and his wife ; Miss Green, and Miss Gascoyne, of Vauxhall-gardens; Mr. Crashaw, the iron -master; Mr. Stephens, Mr. Faunee, captain Ondre, and Mr. Pierce, making altogether 11 individuals, got into the oar, and the word " all right" having been given, the ropes were unfastened and the balloon mounted into the air in very good style, and the ascent was considered a very beautiful and successful one. The balloon proceeded In a north-eastern course, but it was soon observed that it was descending so rapidly that it was generally thought that a considerable leakage of the gas must have taken place, and that an accident of a serious character was inevitable. Mr. Green, who was seated in the car, perceiving the ex treme danger in which he was placed, commenced empty ing the sand bags or ballast as quickly as he possibly could, but even this did not prevent the gradual sinking of the . balloon. On passing over the St. George's-road, near West-square, it was painfully evident to the thou sands who were looking on that the balloon must come in contact with some of the buildings, and in an instant it struck the roofs of the houses 94 and 95 on the north side of the London-road, and only one house removed from the Nunnery which had been formerly the Roman Catho lic chapel. The car, in which seven of the aeronauts were seated, struck the front of the house with considerable force, so much so that three of the persons who were standing on the hoop were thrown forward on the roof, which fortunately happened to be a flat one • but the fourth clung to the network of the balloon. The machine being thus relieved from the weight of three of its occu pants, and having fortunately escaped damage, instantly rose into the air to a considerable altitude, when a brisk current of air 'carried it in a southerly direction, apparently towards Croydon. The three individuals who had thus fortunately escaped descended the trap-door of an adjoin ing beer-shop from the roof, reached the street, and having procured a cab drove as fast as they could to the gardens to relieve their friends and the visitors from their painful anxiety. After passing over a great portion of the county of Kent, the balloon safely settled upon terra firma in an open field within half a mile of Erith Church. EXTRAORDINARY DEATH AND DISGRACEFUL WED DING.—MOst singular circumstances have attended the death of a man residing in Mill-street, named Joseph Lumley, who was attacked by cholera, in this town (Hull), during the present week. He was attacked some time on Monday, and was attended by Mr. H. Gibson,. surgeon, Prospect-street, under whose care there appeared to be strong hopes of his recovery. Although living in a wretched habitation, destitute of almost every means of comfort, Lumley ( who was of every covetous disposition) was by no means penniless, and had, during his illness, both gold and silver in the bed with him. On Wednes day, during the absence of his medical attendant, and before those who watched him could prevent him, he absolutely swallowed five shilling pieces ! This so seri ously aggravated his illness that he died four or five hours afterwards, leaving his only daughter, a rather pretty young woman, sole possessor of £3OO. The news of this legacy soon spread, and the heiress was very speedily beset with the importunate addresses of some half-score of lovers whom, in former days, she had more or less fa voured. One of these, a jolly Jack-Tar, more pressing than the rest. soon placed his rivals hors de combat, and married the heiress and the legacy on the very morning after the death of his bride's father. Two. hours after the wedding the corpse of Lumley was interred : whether the newly-married couple followed it to the grave we do not know,—it is certain, however, that they applied to the parish tl give a coffin, but were, very properly, refused. — Hull Packet. EXECUTION AT LINCOLN.-011 Friday last the sentence of the law was carried into effect at twelve o'clock upon John Ward, who, at the last assizes for the county, was found guilty of the murder of his mother, Martha Ward. No sooner had the wretched convict reached the scaffold than he became dreadfully convulsed, and upon his partial recovery he confessed to the sheriff that be shot his mother intentionally on account of, her interference about the servant girl, Susan Beggs. The convict although he hod previously confessed to the Rev. Mr. Richter, the chaplain, for some days previously ex hibited no compunction, but after the rev. gentleman had pointed out the fearful position in which he stood he joined daily with him in prayer, and in the course of the Scriptural readings which took place, he expressed his sorrow and penitence, and said he hoped God would par don and save him. These sentiments he repeated at the place of execution. When asked if he had made a full confession, whether he was truly sorry and penitent ? the wretched parricide replied in emphatic tones, " Yes." The usual preparations having been made, the bolt was withdrawn, and the convict appeared to die without a struggle. There were at least 10,000 persons present, a great number consisting of women. CHEAP FARMS.—Mr. Davies, of the Old Jewry, Lon don, in a communication to the Agricultural Gazette, says :—I have just had put into my hand a printed list of 24 farms that are just at this moment to be let in Ireland, and only some 24 hours distant from England. The terms on which they are to be had must astonish many of your readers ; and when we reflect on the thousands that are annually leaving Britain to seek settlements in conntries that for ever divide them from relations and friends, how surprising it is to find there are such openings at home, going as it were begging. Take for instance the follow ing, viz. : Bealanaboy Farm, 1050 acres, to let at £25 per annum. Mingaroon Farm, 1607 ~ If 0 „ Fanlagh Farm, 916 ~ If 43 „ Carrowmare Farm, 650 „ ft 53 „ Dereens Farm, 260 „ f 18 If Described as being situate in the main road, and only five miles from a town, with the further inducements that money will be found for the tenants to drain at 61 per cent per annum, and leases for 21 years will be given, and the tenants, should they at the expiration of the term be disturbed in their occupation, will be paid ten years' pur chase on the value of the improvements they have made, and this in a county one of the most peaceable in Ireland, and where agrarian outrages are unknown." July 3112 t Tnls/ 15 , ' THE LAST NEW FASHIONS AMONGST TH E The light-fingered gentry now wear shor t COat3,, td pockets outside. Their hands, in a crowd, are alsca' b yre prevent suspicion, in their pockets, which, hovre ce ' the a large hole in the bottom. Through this apertureer manage to push their hands, and, in many case s, ., u u r the ceived and undetected, contrive to make free sc"bee contents of the pockets of those whom they hav e standing near.—Globe. . THE SLAVE TRADE.—The Como, from Af ri ca' ar r Ri at Bristol, reports that about the Sth of May , a wieektntbe her leaving the ceast, a Spanish slaver, arnie u de* teeth, but having no name, came up with her, an,,,,„(ii maded provisions, two casks of which—the relative . her , of the vessels being very unequal—were given , promise of payment. She had been much shatterea, stated that she had been in conflict with her 3 1 10 frigates Inconstant and Flying Fish. She had lios on board, but was manned by about 100 men. Elistrirt •e)vs. A th p e r° S j a uenctdahyassbeieleonolseeotfonthfeotootwant, and Ches a te p r u fo h r he t h ro has been held on the subject. ter, e: t iA of So great is the demand for small houses in Lan'jpa that rents are exceedingly high, and pay an enor ell° centage upon the outlay.—Lancaster Guardian. ,stet THE CHOLERA.—A death has occurred in La case which is stated by the medical men to be a de cide d 1 5 of Asiatic cholera. Willy, t 1 No cases of cholera have yet occurred 't re bs s borough of Wigan, but we regret to say that t r n eell t been one death from this disease in Uphollanc , Hindlcy, and another at Oell. o f 4, 0 1 CHOLERA AT NANTWICH rr .—lll this little town - inhabitants there have been during the month 19 1 4 t, cholera. Deaths, 101 ; recovered, 31; under 004' 59. Premonitory cases, 437. ac hing s Joseph Pendlebury, ten years of age, whilst w a . game at Cricket, at Charley, on Tuesday evelnacgddies; accidentally struck on the head by the ball , 3 about ten minutes afterwards. The Lord Bishop of Chester will lay the foc i stone of a very elegant church, to b e built in ti le° Oat gate, Wigan, on Saturday next, at one o'clVegri' townsman, John Hay, Esq., is the architect, an Palerson, Wylie, and Neilson are the contractorstostea sin T c h e e the comni Lancaster encein Gu e a n rd t i o a f n u s ie ay p s re i s t e h n a t s ,e b ar ee , a a ri;: e t that about 10,000 vag ran t s h ave passe d th r ough ' or stP t " of whom were relieved in th e usua l manner. ) c osel. e , °f PROSPERITY OF THE PORT OF RUNCORN. -- '' fore l ° 400 tons burthen is now laid on the berth for a Run' port, the first instance of the ki n d i n th e history of corn. A Manchester paper mentions a " British ~ sat strawberry, grown by Mr. Royl e , o f L a wton Northenden, which measured no l ess th a n 10i " 1 " circumference. ttealle i t The Manchester Guardian states that a Mr.° i rbic has left that town without discharging his liabilities, ' 4 o' are said to amount to about £12;000, and to f all r pally upon the calico printers. h Yen (ll s At Charley, on Tuesday evening last, Joseph ..or „- bury, a boy ten years of age, whilst watching sar e bst" cricket, was accidentally struck on the head by and died about ten minutes afterwards. debt!, A sheriff's officer, named Bell, after depositt n g - izeil m ' safely in Lancaster Castl e , th e o th er day was o f three stalwart insolvents, pl ace d i n the trough pump, and treated to a very thorough i r rigation. to l.b i e . A fine sturgeon was captured i n th e MerceY,n e3r ale bridge at Warrington, on Monday last. 'lle fished 0 was with some difficulty brought ashore, n'e n lalb , feet four inches in length, and we i g h e d uparda of I s 4l SUICIDE BY A SOLDIER.—On Sunday morni e f n et, S Daniel Javerty, a private in the 46th R 'men Chester of Regiment detachment of which is now stationed in the e ster fir. lats , rison, committed suicide while on duty, by shooting self through the head. ~g, IS tg irgt FIRES IN MANCHESTER DUR ING T HE thea The total number of fires in the bo ro u g h between - 13 4 °, of January, and the thirty-first day of Decembe r ' d th e was just one hundred, and there were four beYn n boundary of the borough. ; aid S t A h ar e I H TA ea n i z h N o l f av T m o a w sa n N a TA.—etTthoehGeenera. _ order ir e E d applied caster, and the provisional order has been dee o s l the Town Clerk. Application will b e forthwith Iva ot Parliament to have the order confi rme d. alera - ae RISHTON RESERVOIR.—It is a remarkable ev i ja•t the extraordinary dryness of the se a son, that theotate reservoir Rishton, which covers an area of 33 „iFi.., 0 .g , fie d wit 0 acres, and was constructed for the purpose of .serft't the Leeds and Liverpool Canal with water, Is ' date; nearly empty. e e s y, tb WILFUL MURDER AT BURNLEY.—On Wedng (e h ' 18th instant, an inquest was held before J. ris" - 503ii Esq., coroner, on view of the body of Crowthe r woos' who died on the previous Sunday from a blow, or, yoe' inflicted on his head with a 31e, by an Irishman at e j a r) bridge, Burnley. After an hour's consultation , ; saw' brought in a verdict of " Wilful murder" agains . t i.4 sr and the coroner immediately issued a warrant for prehension.—Blackburn Standard.( too £B Blackburn, b F u O r U n N , D a t. half-past the pas t five Tuesday, arrival of at a vort _ er Roger Houghton was looking into one of the c t !' 11 ' when he perceived a small parcel lying on the s e f, 02 4 immediately took it to tho station-clerk, and it w - e arL, to contain £370 in gold and bank notes. Abon t l A'e of an hour afterwards a claimant came and stater,,,, lan had left the train at Church, and on finding , altc all haste to Blackburn to regain his charge, VP) .- proper inquiries, was handed over to him. C 4 ; 0 55 / "if LOST PROPERTY RECOVERED B Y T HE ca lo.l POLlCE.—During the past year, the amount 0 %, beri, property reported at the police stations as har l `Zz,r, accidentally lost, amounted to £4893 4s. B d,la `l' money (including bills, notes, cheques, &c.) X 44 '', l `" jewellery, watches, plate, &c., £266 ss, 6d.; an'..ad ios laneous, £l2O 14s. sd. Of the property so repor"-eatr £3517 14s. 4d. was recovered through the instrerjital is lity of the police, who were also mainly i n strurn e e n bel os ' recovering £285 lls. Id. of property concerning ` of which no report had been made to them. A 5, 0 5 ,,,4 STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Monday We - 0 1 ' f o man was descending into an old coal-pit ne s t ! ttola Common, Wigan, when he arrived near the u? the shaft, at the depth of 60 yards from the "NOV, much surprised to hear the barking of a cl,g' appeared to be from the bottom of the pit. ve s ' a ot' out of the basket he certainly found one, which vralpea,rt: all pleased by the intrusion of strangers. I t "fa' 1 t (according to report) that it was thrown dovil; it , li t owner about thirteen weeks ago, in order to 1° " e ver , ); liking to pay the dog-tax. It is now fatter tha n (ter 1 was, and appears not to have the least bruise s et ., er great descent. It was restored to its original osf e ,,.. e gt o ; DISCOVERY OF A ROMAN. ALTAR. Of ) , sand in a sandpit at Boughton, near Chester, a L r tais t o since, a Roman altar was discovered, which 04i not the least interesting of the remains lately er'' ne dPV light in this neighbourhood. The altar is sinall' or ls, n o no doubt been intended for a portable one; I t . „ s , c ,aPt! inches high, and is about 7 inches eq are. Thei rs, t ot is just sufficiently legible to-afford matter fo..r. "1 1 8 5 „0 and suggestion to the antiquaries. The first un' ; usual dedication—" Genio '—plainly and sharp l y the ci, from the nature of the stone, the red sandstone ° le o . l e i g pe cinity, the succeding lines, three in number, are 5 0 . 0 • ble, and admit of more than one interpretati on iittje read the second line " Averni"—a reading ye r Y,hi_PPs, dicative of the heavenward aspirations of its w,° e "Aslll'"a The altar is at present in the possession of Yr'i,xo l° B Ayrton, who has presented it to the Chester Ar, c- o fter:s, cal Society, to whose museum it will remove' chest —Chester o ter La C N o n u F ra o n ß t. visit of the British Archinological Association t o i t r01, 4 ' OLIVER—LAW aeraaa „„pal, itc t . r l FORC is not often that the stipendiary ra'" - ot .8 Manchester unbends from the " frigid dignitY rn atf , bench," or ventures to say aught that will ; F t , of r n el laugh in court, but on Tuesday last he was gn" wa - tei petrating a joke. A beerhouse-keeper was! otli ii .to for selling ale during proscribed hours, an"' er , conviction inevitable, the man lost his tell polio actually gave formal notice that if ever he caug ht b ira s t At man scaling his yard wall with a view to detec t „ e a A s tricks again, he would shoot him dead on till s :de?! the moment this- threat was uttered, Mr. 1 0 1 :4 PI busied signing some warrants, but he nevertheio AC what the man said, and raising his bead he el c n t. fe a very quiet way, " Oh ! nonsense man you w n D O ot l° pi the same time assuming a look such as vroor,„ 0 5 .1 o f disgraced the countenance of the imalortal J" - aiirtl3 o , he drew his pen across his throat, uttering 1 0 1 , to chuck, and adding, "it you do, I'll send Y et bled assizes for murder, where you'll be sure to 5- fdrefet Altogelher,the action and the inimitable look e ffect',4B which accompanied it had the most laughabl e and it the whole, court roared out a peal of laughter' gS' some time before gravity was restored. _,., asl u 'ate, THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE AT MA , li i o C. b ". o l' The committees commenced their sittings at + b e pr ek r . tBil on Saturday week, and proceeded to arrange " lo s ce nary business of the conference, and to d's.,4 oo dalA its affairs of the society on that day, and on ." o peff - tbe Tuesday. The General Conference (the 106tb ) h oe) , t he sittings on Wednesday, in the Oldham-str ee for° s 'tsrC . Rev. Dr. Newton presiding. After the usual! gcre' meeting proceeded to elect the new president an w bo v - 111 It was found that, of the "hundred" ministersbseat;,oo stitute the legal conference, forty-three were that c!"`PI the same venerable number it was announc e " accla, vacancies had occurred. These were thus suPl; Ov' Nomination : W. Lord. George Osborn, Pet se t, By Seniority : M. C. Dixon, Alexander Bell, 0 f' o o o yard, John Shipman, William Jewett, LeOg„, 1 11 . ,, 1 0 11 David Evans, Benjamin Frankland. The "iljr. OrdiA Jackson was chosen president, and the WV' foe o to cer, secretary. The evening sitting took place 0 0 %105 Oa Thursday morning the Rev. Dr. Ne s l7;elve ° f ior d the death of the Rev. Edward Batty, who a"Orene ° ' sn on the preceding day was present at the con nn erli'Oe his votes, returned home complaining of heinf o r ieral er on Thursday morning early died of Asiatic c i ) 1t ; medical gentleman who visited the decease" 0 1P, f O , horted him shortly before his death to be rep ere7,, Batty replied, " I have been for forty yea 5 0;0; death, and am not afraid to die." Both t": or t en Thursday were spent in examining eandid o r g e ' e atle ° . t e , nistry. There were fifty-three names . 01 06 116 re lan England proposed from the various distr:ct in I . umb er *nin* th on mission stations, and about an equal n esorel tiie Part of Friday morning was also spent in, , u. ,ioe candidates, and at the conclusion of tins n w ere morning and the whole of the evening sitti,ng.: the ~ e 5 pied with the inquiry, " Who have died du ll ' 'i o llo ol lo3 l Richard . 'd c aarcl 0 0 0 . 4 : 4 Mole, Thomas Baker, Henry Groves' and Greeoopf,t,, T A h m e o ß ng ev t e h . e A m h i ra ni h s a te m rs who oFahrrazdied are th r e onp er. Joseph Armstrong, John Rogers, w e ' JontjaC t il John Radford, David Morgan, T hom a John Pier' Jones, Moses Dunn, George Bitrslan"' d auto The ministers who have died in Englan*""", Ity-three ; those on the mission station, „n hIY 31 AR R , , TL tailed \ Lic ata 11 t11, and f. tue, o l) o:ore s , r, S AILE n - - Hen tJaunS'„lli n a • JOr, A ca I,..l_)llco `l4nro,ivel—El . Peter,