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✓. 7 ilticuaturr. VARIETIES. BARKIS'S MARRIAGE WITH PEGGOTTY. (From David Copperfield, part 4, for August.) ' :et • t • THE FOGS ON THE Misstsstret.—We had been told we should reach our destination before night, but we were scarcely half-way when we cast anchor in a dense fog, followed, in the course of the night, by much lightning and rain. We found the temperature of the water to be 46 deg. Fa.renheit, while that of the air had varied, in the course of twenty-four hours, from 50 deg. to 75 deg. This difference between the temperature of the water and the air, often amounting to 30 deg. Fahrenheit, gives rise to the fogs which prevail at this season. The river flow ing from the north, where there is now much ice and snow, is always much colder, and I am informed by pilots, that as far as the Mississippi water can be traced, by its colour, into the Gulf it is commonly covered, in the spring, with dense fog, while the atmosphere is clear on each side. These fogs are generated in the same manner as ordinary clouds, by the mixture of two currents of air of different degrees of temperature. The river cools the air in contact with its surface, and this colder layer of air mingled with the warmer layer immediately over it, causes the fog to begin to form close to the water. Hence it is frequently confined to the bed of the river, not spreading at all over the banks. The upper surface is often as well defined as if it were in a bed of liquid, instead of vapour, and the cabin, roof, and funnels of a steamer may be seen moving along perfectly unobscured, while the hull and lower parts are as completely hidden as if buried beneath the turbid water on which it floats. The pilot, too, from the upper deck, can often see the shore and landmarks with perfect clearness, and steer his vessel with safety, while the passengers on the cabin deck can seo nothing beyond the sides of the boat. The fogs form sometimes whatever be the quarter from which the wind blows, but are more frequent when it is from the south, as the air is then the warmest.—Sir Charles Lyell's Second Visit to the United States. A YOUTHFUL WANDERER IN THE UNITED STATES. — A lad about 13 years of age arrived at Cincinnati by the cars a short time since. His story, though brief, is an interesting one, and exhibits a strength of close clinging affection which it is a pleasure to record. His mother and sister left Ireland about a year ago for America. and the boy being then a bound apprentice, was not permitted to accompany them, although he desired to do so. Some eight months after their departure, the little fellow, with out a penny in his pocket, ran away from his master, walked to Dublin city, told his story to the captain of an American ship, and tearfully solicited his aid in taking him to his mother. The captain told him that the United States was a very large country, and should he get there he might not find the object of his search ; but the little " Japhet" was determined to " try," and finally got the captain's consent to take him across the ocean in the ca pacity of a second cook. The vessel arrived at New York, and the little fellow, all alone, searched the great metro polis throughout—inquiring of the Irish families of the whereabouts of his mother; but to no purpose—no one' knew her. During this search, which continued more than a week, the little fellow met his current expenses by doing chores in the streets, such as holding horses, &c., for a lad of that kind could not be dishonest. Failing in New York. he worked his passage on a steamer to Albany —reached that city, and worked his wasito Buffalo, thence to Sandusky, and on to Cincinnati—making a journey, in all, of about 4000 miles, in search of his mother ! Upon his arrival here, ho immediately sought out the Irish resi dents, and for the first time heard of the object of his long and singular pilgrimage. He learned that his mother and sister lived in Cincinnati, but about a month since had moved to Vanceburg, Kentucky. The little "Japhet," in the fullness of his joy, was determined that an hour should. not be lost, and went to Captain Grace, of the Brilliant, and told his story. The captain took him on board, gave him some money, and provided him comforta bly for the passage, and doubtless ere this the little fellow is in the arms of the loved ones of his search. It is a fact not unworthy of record, presenting as it does a pleasant incident in the train of the story, that while on board the Brilliant the boy was recognised by a gentleman who was passenger in the same vessel upon which he crossed the ocean, who fully corroborated his story.—Cincinnati Com mercial. On the very first evening after our arrival, Mr. Barkis appeared in an exceedingly vacant and awkward condi tion, and with a bundle of oranges tied up in a handker chief. As he made no allusion of any kind to this pro perty, he was supposed to have left it behind him by accident when he went away ; until Ham, running after him to restore it, came back with the information that it was intended for Peggotty. After that occasion he ap peared every evening at exactly the same hour, and always with a little bundle, to which he never alluded, and which he regularly put behind the door, and left there. These offerings of affection were of a most various and eccentric description. Among them I remember a double set of pig's trotters, a huge pin -cushion, half a bushel or so of apples, a pair of jet earrings, some Spanish onions, a box of dominoes, a canary bird and cage, and a leg of pickled pork. . . . . Mr. Barkis's wooing. as I remember it, was altogether of a peculiar kind. He very seldom said anything ; but would sit by the fire in much the same attitude as he sat in in his cart, and stare heavily at Peggotty, who was opposite. One night, being, as I suppose, inspired by love, he made a dart at the bit of wax-candle she kept for her thread. and put it in his waistcoat-pocket and carried it off. After that, his great delight was to produce it when it was wanted, sticking to the lining of his pocket, in a partially-melted state, and pocket it again when it was done with. He seemed to enjoy himself very much, and not to feel at all called upon to talk. Even when he took Peggotty out for a walk on the flats, he had no un easiness on that head, I believe ; contenting himself with now and then asking her if she was pretty comfortable; and I remember that sometimes, after he was gone, Peggottv would throw her apron over her face, and laugh for half an hour. Indeed, we were all more or less amused, except that miserable Mrs. Gummidge, whose courtship would appear to have been of an exactly parallel nature, she was so continually reminded by these trans actions of the old one. At length, when the term of my visit was nearly ex pired, it was given out that Peggotty and Mr. Barkis were going to make a day's holiday together, and that little Em'ly and I were to accompany them. I had out a bro ken sleep the night before, in anticipation of the pleasure of a whole day with Em'ly. We were all astir betimes in the morning ; and while we were yet at breakfast, Mr. Barkis appeared in the distance, driving a chaise-cart towards the object of his affections. Peggotty was drest as usual, in her neat and quiet mourning ; but Mr. Barkis bloomed in a new blue coat, of which the tailor had given such good measure, that the cuffs would have rendered gloves unnecessary in the cold est weather, while the collar was so high that it pushed his hair up on end on the top of his head. His bright buttons, too, were of the largest size. Rendered com plete by drab pantaloons and a buff waistcoat, I thought Mr. Barkis a phenomenon of respectability. When we were all in a bustle outside the door, I found that Mr. Peggotty was prepared with an old shoe, which was to be thrown after us for luck, and which he offered to Mrs. Gummidge for that purpose. " No. It had better be done by somebody else, Dan'l," said Mrs. Gummidge. " I'm a lone lorn creetur' myself, and every think that reminds me of creeturs that aint lone and torn, goes contrairy with me." " Come, old gal!" cried Mr. Peggotty. " Take and heave it !" " No, Dan'l," returned Mrs. Gummidge, whimpering and alatilcing her head. "If I felt less, I could do more. You Wit% feel like me, Dan'l; thinks don't go contrairy with you, nor you with them ; you had better do it your self." But here Peggotty, who had been going about from one to another in a hurried way, kissing every body, called out from the cart, in which we all were by this time (Em'ly and I on two little chairs, side by side), that Mrs. Gummidge must do it. So Mrs. Gummidge did it; and, I am sorry to relate, cast a damp upon the festive charac ter of our departure, by immediately bursting into tears, and sinking subdued into the arms of Ham, with the de claration that she knowed she was a burden, and had better be carried to the House at once. Which I really thought was a sensible idea, that Ham might have acted on. . Away we went, however, on our holiday excursion ; and the first thing we did was to stop at a church, where Mr. Sarkis tied the horse to some rails, and went in with Peggotty, leaving little Em'ly and me alone in the chaise. I took that occasion to put my arm round Ere'ly's waist, and propose that as I was going away so very soon now, we should determine to be very affectionate to one ano ther, and very happy, all day. Little Em'ly consenting, and alloWing me to kiss her, I became desperate ; inform ing her, I recollect, that I never could love another, and that I was prepared to shed the blood of any body who should aspire to her affections. How merry little Em'ly made herself about it ! With what a demure assumption of being immensely older and wiser than I, the fairy little woman said I was " a silly boy"; and then laughed so charmingly that I forgot the pain of being called by that disparaging name, in the pleasure of looking at her. Mr. Barkis and Peggotty were a good while in the church, but came out at last, and then we drove away into the country. As we were going along, Mr. Barkis turned to me, and said, with a wink,—by-the-by, I should hardly have thought, before, that he could wink : " What name was it as I wrote up in the cart ?" " Clara Peggotty," I answered. " What name would it be as I should write up now, if there was a tilt here ?" " Clara Peggotty, again ?" I suggested. " Clara Peggotty Barkis !" he returned, and burst into a roar of laughter that shook the chaise. In a word, they were married, and had gone into the church for no other purpose. Peggotty was resolved that it should be quietly done ; and the clerk had given her away, and there had been no witnesses of the ceremony. She was a little confused when Mr. Barkis made this abrupt announcement of their union, and could not hug me enough in token of her unimpaired affection ; but she soon became herself again, and said she was very glad it was over. We drove to a little inn in a bye road, where we were expected, and where we had a very comfortable dinner, and passed the day with great satisfaction. If Peggotty had been married every day for the last ten years, she could hardly have been more at ber ease about it ; it made no sort of difference in her ; she was just the same as ever, and went out for a stroll with little Em'ly and me before tea, while Mr. Barkis philosophically smoked his pipe, and enjoid himself, I suppose, with the contemplation of his hkpeiness. If so, it sharpened his appetite; for I distinctly call to mind that, although he had eaten a good deal of pork and greens at dinner, and bad finished Of with-% fowl cr two, he was obliged to he.;e cold boiled • % • bacon for tea, and disposed of a large quantity without any emotion. I have often thought, since, what an odd, innocent, out-of-the-way kind of wedding it must have been ! We got into the chaise again soon after dark, and drove cosily back, looking up at the stars, and talking about them. I was their chief exponent, and opened Mr. Barkis's mind to an amazing extent. I told him all I knew, but he would have believed anything I might have taken it into my head to impart to him ; for he had a profound vene ration for my abilities, and informed his nife in my near ing, on that very occasion, that it was " a young Roes thus''—by which I think he meant, prodigy. 1 ITHIRD EDITION. Siandard-office, Two o'clock, p.m. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—Tms DAY. The Share market is quiet this morning, and perhaps a shade firmer than at the worst of yesterday. The dealers are waiting the effect of the Western and London reports upon country shareholders. The latter report shows a dividend of 7 per ct. and £16,000 surplus. The report is not considered a satisfac tory one. We annex the quotations up to one o'clock :—Leeds fifths, 31 d ; Do. pref., 1211; L'pool and Bury, 91 d; London stock, 1261 to l 281; Do. quarters, np; Midland stock. 62; Do. halves, 15 d ; Royal Assurance, 21 p. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—Tins DAY. Augmented arrivals into this port since Friday, added to those previously inwards, furnish for the week ending yester day, a fair quantity of Wheat, Malt, and Flour, Coastwise and from Ireland ; with a Food supply of Indian Corn, Corn Meal, and Flour from the United States, and a rather liberal accession of Wheat, Barley, and Rye chiefly from Mediterranean ports, and the North of Europe. Upon a limited demand for all kinds of Wheat the prices have receded 2d. per 701bs. from the rates of Tuesday last. Flour, attended with a moderate sale, remains unaltered in value for the best kinds, but inferior sorts are unsaleable. In Barley, Beans, and Pease we have little alteration to note. Malt is. per qr. cheaper, and very dull sale. For Oats there was a moderate retail demand, on the terms of this day week. Old Oatmeal nearly without inquiry, and the turn lower in value. A small lot of Irish New Oatmeal was sold at 28s. per 240ibs. There has been a considerable business transacted in Indian Corn, both on English and Irish account, at an advance of Is. to 2s. per quarter on the rates of this day se'nnight. Corn Meal, 148 per brl. 51 tv Ir. : tv p- 1 m 1 z 4'4 i 0 ..p.. , 1.4 x ;4 t'l nn.., , -4 eD , - .- 1 .. otg v 7.; ()N- .1- , 23 0 e,e T.. tg 1 0 4 % 0 "8 A > V r.:(6 o c:=, t 6. ' ; 'S 5 . 0 ... T . ° .'ll T ir . ..3 .. ci il•F:".1 1 ) . 4 2.5 I C) --.. 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The proceedings were instituted by a maiden aunt of the infatuated husband, who had been left his guardian. Lola Montez was accommodated with a seat, and Mr. Heald was allowed to have a chair beside her. Their appearance is thus described : " The lady appeared quite unembarrassed, and smiled several times as she made remarks to her husband. She was stated to be twenty-four years cf age on the police-sheet, but has the look of a woman of at least thirty. She was dressed in black silk, with close-fitting black velvet jacket, a plain white straw bonnet trimmed with bine, and a blue veil. In figure she is rather plump, and of middle height, of pale dark complexion, the lower part of the features symmetrical, the upper part not so good, owing to rather prominent cheek bones, set off by a pair of unusually large blue eyes, with long black lashes. tier reputed husband, Mr. Heald, is a tall young man, of juvenile figure and aspect, with straight hair, and small light brown downy mustachios and whiskers. The nose being turned up gives him an air of great simplicity. During the whole of the proceedings he sat with the Countess's hand clasped in both of his own, occasionally giving it a fervent squeeze, and at particular parts of the evidence whispering to her with the fondest air, and pressing her hands to his lips with juvenile warmth." _ _ Mr. Clarkson produced witnesses, first, Miss Heald, who stated that she felt it her duty to prosecute, as guardian to her nephew, who only came of age last Janu ary, and is possessed of property of between £6,000 and £7,000 a year. A certificate was produced from a clergyman who married, on the 23d of July, 1837, at Meath, Thomas James, Lieutenant (since Captain), of the 21st Regiment, E.1.C., to Rosa Anna Gilbert, spin ster. They went to India; and Captain Ingram brought Mrs. James to London in 1841-2, and declared Lola Montez; to be the same person, though considerably altered. In December, 1842, a decree of separation was made in the Consistnry Court of divorce between Mrs. James and her husband from bed and board, " but that neither party have power to contract another marriage during the lifetime of the other." The clerk of St. George's, Hanover-square, produced the register of the marriage of George Trafford Heald with Maria Tores de Landsfeldt on the 19th of July. Police-Sergeant Gray took " the Countess" into custody at nine o'clock that morning, as she was about to get into her carriage. He said— " I told her she must consider herself in my custody on a charge of bigamy, she having intermarried with Mr. Heald, her former husband, Captain James, being alive. The Coun tess replied that she had been divorced from Captain James by act of parliament. The Countess said, I don't know whether Capt. James is alive or not, and I don't care. I was married in a wrong name, and it was not a legal marriage. What will the King say? Lord Brougham was present when a divorce was granted, and Captain Osborne can prove it.' " A clerk from the East India-house proved that by the last return from India, dated June 13th, Captain James was srill alive and in command of his regiment. This con cluded the case for the prosecution. On behalf of " the Countess," Mr. Bodkin admitted— " Enough had bean laid before the Court to justify further inquiry. At the proper time, however, he should be prepared to show that the marriage with Mr. Heald was a lawful act. It would seem that the lady had been married when about fifteen or sixteen years old, and that a divorce had taken place. From want of sufficient time it was impossible to ascertain whether the assertion made to the officers was true or not. It was evi dent the lady bed a strong impression that a divorce bill had been obtained in the House of Lords." Mr. 13inghain, atter a short consultation with Mr. Hard wick, said— `• It is observable in the present case that the person most immediately interested (a person of full age, and holding a commission in lier Majesty's service) is not the person to insti tute or countenance the prosecution. It is quite compatible with the evidence now produced that the accused may have received by the same mail from India a few hours later than the official return, communicating the death of Captain James by cholera or other casualty. The law presumes she is inno cent till the usual proof of guilt has been brought forward. Here that proof is wonting, and the magistrate is requested to act on a presumption of guilt. I feel great reluctance in doing so, even to the extent of a remand. However, upon the ex press admission by the advocate that in his judgment sufficient ground had been ►aid for further inquiry, and upon his offer to tied security, I shall venture to order a remand, and to liberate the prisoner upon finding two sureties in £5OO each, and herself in £l,OOO for her re-appearance here on a future day." Bail was immediately tendered and accepted. The Countess of Landsfeldt and her husband were allowed to remain some time in court, in order to elude the gaze of the crowd which had assembled. The Times of Friday says :—" We understand from undoubted authority that immediately on the marriage of Lieutenant Heald with the Countess of Liandsfeldt (Lola Montes), the Marquis of Londonderry, colonel of the 2nd Life Guards, took the roost decisive steps to re commend to her majesty that this officer's resignation of his commission should be insisted on, and that he should leave the regiment." •8 von oo 0 .-. ~, I•- i b.D co o 1 ..... i THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. Since our last notice, the weather in our neighbourhood has been most propitious for all kinds of crops. Heavy thunder showers fell on Thursday afternoon, and rains have occasionally followed, which, it was apprehended, might "lay " some of the corn crops, especially the wheats. We are glad to state, however, that here, at least, no damage has been sustained, and that the whole of the crops, yet on the ground, look more promising than for many years back. A fine field of white oats of eleven acres was cut on the farm of H. Littledale, Esq., Wal lasey, on Saturday week. Some fine wheat on the same farm, and the neighbouring farms, has also been cut, and and the reapers are now generally busy in the field. On the farm stated, three heavy crops of Italian rye-grass have this season been already cut, and another will be mowed in a few weeks. All kinds of field turnips look fine. We have seen one field in Wirral of twelve acres, which may be taken as a general sample of the turnip and mangel crop on all well-farmed grounds. We cannot notice this without offering our humble tribute of praise to cultivators, both in this county and Cheshire, for the improved systems they have adopted (in the face of discouragement in prices) in both draining and tillage, —the result of which is a general abundant crop of all field products. The gardens are luxuriant in all that is useful or delightful to the sense. The stormy weather by which Liverpool has been visited, appears to have travelled over the entire surface of the British islands, as was naturally .to be expected from its intensity during the period of its prevalence here; but although partial thunder showers have occurred in other portions of this county, the general character of the weather is still consicered favourable. Northumberland experienced the deluge of Thursday a day earlier; and reports of an unsettled atmosphere come in from all parts. Irish letters speak of broken weather, with heavy showers and intervals of warm sunshine, but on the whole not un genial. On Friday and Saturday much rain fell, accom panied with high winds, in the neighbourhood of Cork, the sky still wore a very unsettled appearance at the time of writing-, and a continuance of such weather would not only materially retard harvest operations, but very serious injury to the grain crops would doubtless result. A Waterford letter, dated Saturday last, states ! " A good deal of rain fell here in the early part of the week, succeeded by two days of fine and very warm weather, during which reaping was progressing rapidly in this neighbourhood. Last night we had, heavy rain again with high winds, and to-day we have sun and fresh breezes. We think no injury has been done as yet to the grain crops, which fine weather would not remove, but much more rain would, we fear, prove very injurious." NI: • :• - : : : IRISH BOGS. Our readers will not fail to have noticed in the last Parliamentary Reports the statement made by Mr. O'Gorman Mahon relative to the value of the Irish bogs. The following documents have since been published. They detract somewhat from the extravagant representations that were at first held out : " A statement was made in the House of Commons, sanc tioned and supported by Lord Ashley, which, if not ea:ly con tradicted, may lead many into error. What he supports by his authority is, that the peat bog of Ireland, 100 tons, at a cost of labour, Ste., about £l6, will realize to the fortunate speculators the enormous sum of £9l odd, and lie calls this a second Cali fornia. _ _ _ " Now, three years since a company was formed here among the merchants and tradesmen, under six able directors ; they leased the government premises on Dartmoor which were for merly occupied as and termed the French prisons, they erected steam engines and laid out every apparatus considered neces sary, with train railways running across Dartmoor to the dif ferent bogs, where this peat could be had in the greatest per fection ; they produced from it naptha, ammonia, grease for railways, or candles, gas, &c. It was burnt and used, and the profits were held out as being equal to the Ashley statement, for his products are correct. But, some how or other, it is a failure. £20,000 and upwards have been expended ; my bro ther tradesmen, right and left,have suffered. Your correspont dent here, or I, will furnish you, if worth your attention, with all particulars in figures, and the cause of failure. , 4 I am, sir, your obedient servant, " HENRY SEAM-4N. " Bold-street, Plymouth, July 28." Taking notice of this communication, Lord Ashley writes : " I did not in the statement express my own knowledge or opinion of the value of Irish peat. I simply bore testimony to the high character and respectability of the individual on whose authority the statement was made.-1 am, sir, your very obe dient servant, " ASHLEY. " August 2." Mr. Owen, on whose experiments most of these asser tions were made, thus writes : " With reference to the report in your paper of Saturday last of a statement made in the House of Commons on theprevious evening on the subject of Mr. Reece's pa tent for obtaining va rious products from Irish peat, I request permission to make one or two corrections, in order that the public may be under no misapprehension as to the facts. The two chief errors in the statement, and which I am anxious to set right are—first, that I had invested a large capital in the undertaking—had already had a profitable return ; secondly, as to the quantity of tons of peat which had been applied to the purpose during the last twelve months. " The fact, however, is, that experiments have hitherto been made on only a small scale; one is now in progress in the neighbourhood of London, for the satisfaction of the gentlemen who have associated themselves with me for the purpose of carrying on the undertaking ; the whole has not hitherto ex ceeded twenty-five tons ; no profitable return has been at pre ; sent received ; and the whole money which has been ut present expended does not exceed £lOOO. " I am, sir, your very obedient servan t. " W. D. OWEN. " 44, Great Corans-stred, dKguat s." z-. : I t : CAi:3 " • I = 4.• 0 • ~, MUT: NY ON BOARD THE AMELIA, OF GLASGOW. (From the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette.) We have received the following account of a daring mutiny on board this vessel, which resulted in the loss of seven lives. The schooner Amelia was on her passage from the coast of Mexico to Hong Kong, having on board specie in gold and silver amounting to about £60,000, and which led to the sanguinary occurrences that took place. The Amelia was commanded by Mr. Robert L. Macnally, a Scotchman ; besides whom a Spaniard, Don Ramon Alva, acted as supercargo and principal master. The crew consisted of nineteen persons, only two of whom, lads about 18, were British subjects, namely, Thomas Gannon and Charles M'Donald; the remainder were Dutchmen, Norwegians, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Mexicans. There were besides, as passengers, a Mr. and Mrs. Sarah Selina Cooke and her female servant. The mutiny broke out about two o'clock on the morning of the 3rd of October last year, and appears to have been wholly confined to three of the crew, Jose Torres, Andres Baldibiza, and Jose Calero. The second mate, Gaetano Gomez, who had charge of the watch, was attacked and murdered by these ruffians, when Mr. Alva came upon deck, followed by Mr. Cooke, the passenger. The former was immediately stabbed in several places; he managed, however, to get down into the cabin to arm himself and to alarm Mr. Macnally, but when endeavouring to force his way upon deck, sword in hand, he was mortally stabbed when he had reached the top of the companion ladder. Mr. Cooke, the passenger, was their next victim ; he was stabbed and thrown overboard. The mutineers then went forward, called the larboard watch, and, show ing their bloody knives, told them they had murdered every one aft except Mr. Macnally, Mrs. Cooke, and her servant, Mary Hudson ; that they, the mutineers, were in command of the vessel, and if one of them refused to obey their orders he would be instantly murdered. The re mainder of the crew, having no arms to defend themselves, had no alternative but to submit ' • large stones and pieces of lead were then handed upon deck for the purpose of destroying Mr. Macnally, who was still confined to the cabin. At eight o'clock in the morning it was communi cated to him, that if he would lay down his arms and sub mit quietly, they would not take his life ; these terms he refused, but said if they would allow him and the two women the gig, with the necessaries he required, he would give them no further trouble, and would direct the course to steer. After a consultation this was promised, and having got from him the course for Malabrigo, orders were g iven to prepare the boat ; the vessel was at this time ing to. Trusting to their faith, he went on deck unarmed, when he was seized and thrown overboard with weights ; the schooner then filled, and made all sail. The next proceedings of these ruffians were what might be ex pected of them ' • they dressed themselves in the clothes of those they had murdered ; took all the gold and distri buted it amongst the crew destroyed all papers and writings which they considered offensive, with many valu ables, which were thrown overboard, and finally got at the wine, and became more or less intoxicated. The fol lowing day, the 4th, J. Smit, a Dutchman ; W. Peter, a Norwegian ; Frank Geering, of St. Michael's ; Jean Be renger, of Bordeaux ; and Joze de Averasturi, a Spaniard, of Bilboa, proposed a plan to recover the vessel that night, which they communicated to the rest of the crew, four excepted, whom they were afraid to trust. Having prepared for their enterprise an adze, the pump breaks, some boarding pikes, &c., at 11 o'clock Jan Smit de spatched Torres and Baldibiza, who were sleeping upon deck, and then fell upon Calero, whom he overcame after a sharp btruggle. The bodies of these ruffians were then thrown overboard, and Jan Smit took the command with the consent of the crew, the lad Gannon being engaged to navigate the vessel. Their first intention was to have returned to Mazatlan, but the state of the weather, which came on to blow, prevented this, and the course was shaped for the Sandwich Islands, where, after a tempestu ous passage, she arrived safely at Honoluhu, on the 12th of October, 1848. The preceding part of this narrative has been of a me lancholy character: what folows is more pleasing. After the mutineers had been got rid of, the money which had been distributed among the crew was all brought aft and deposited in the cabin—a meritorious instance of good faith and honesty among so many men of different countries. Through the judicious arrangement of Mr. Miller, her Majesty's Consul-General for the Pacific Islands, residing at Honoluhu, specie, amounting to 287,684 dollars was safely landed and taken charge of by him ; a list was likewise taken of the effects of those who had been murdered ; and, in fact, every thing in the vessel was safely secured through the exertions of Mr. Miller, to ' whom much praise is due. It may be useful to mention that among the papers found on board the Amelia were three bills of lading, with corresponding letters of advice and instructions from Jecker, Torre, and Co., of Mazat lan; one for 150,000 dols., consigned to Messrs. Turner and Co., of Hong Kong, but for account and risk of Messrs. Finlay, Hodgson, and Co., of London ; another for 120,000 dols. to Messrs. Turner and Co., of Hong Kong, in payment for a cargo previously ordered for ship ment in the Amelia on her arrival in China. The third bill of lading was for 1,379 dols„ in favour of Mr. J. A. Duran, of Macao ; 16.304 dols. were landed, for which no bills of lading or other document could be found. We nave now the gratification to state that Jane Smit, of Rotterdam, whose conduct on this occasion is above all praise, has been presented with £l,lOO by several of the insurance companies; and also with a valuable sextant, by Ashdown, otPinch-lane. A " ragged church" has been in existence in Aberdeen for the last eighteen months, and promises to produce very beneficial effects. The proprietors of John Knox's house. at Edinburgh, have appealed to the Court of Session, against the decree of the Dean of Guild Court, for its demolition. On Sunday week, Mr. James Bird, master of the Free school of Codenham, was seized with a fit of apoplexy whilst singing one of the psalms, and died in two hours. A magnificent parhelion, or double sun, was observed by the inhabitants of Weymouth, about six o'clock in the evening of the nd ult., and continued visible about an hour. CONFIDENCE OF Rusu.—A correspondent states to us that he has in his possession a letter written by Rush, in Norwich Castle, previous to his trial. It is addressed to a respectable female ; and the purport of it is that as, after his acquittal, Miss Sandford would no longer reside with him, he offers the situation of housekeeper to the person to whom the letter is addressed. It is a singular fact that Rush and Thurtell were bedfellows at the same school. FATALITY FROM CH.OLERA.—A man named Craven died at Leeds last week of cholera, and immediately after his wife was carried off: During the holding of the in quest on Wednesday information was received that a daughter of Craven's died that morning of the same dis ease, and on Friday Mrs. Tempest, a sister of Mr. Craven, and who gave evidence relative to her brother's death, also died from an attack of cholera. THE PRESIDENT STEAMER.—OR Saturday, July 21, a bottle was washed on shore at Queenbarough, Kent, It contained a slip of paper, evidently hastily torn off a serial publication, written with lead pencil, and related to that ill-fated steamship the President. It stated that the immediate destruction of the vessel and passengers was inevitable. The slip of paper is in the possession of the landlord of the first public-house northside Queen borough.—Maidstone Journal. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—OR Tuesday week, as the coal train on the Swannington line was proceeding to Leicester, and when near Glenfield, the engine driver suddenly perceived a fine bullock appear on the line, and turn to meet the train, head to head with the engine. The animal ran directly up to its fiery antagonist, and by the contact was killed on the spot. There was no time to stop the train before the infuriated beast came up.—Lei ceder Journal. MURDERS.—At the Devizes assizes, on Thursday, Re becca Smith was convicted of the murder of Richard Smith, her son, by administering poison to him. The prisoner had been the parent of eleven children, all of whom except the eldest had died in extreme infancy. The jury recommended her to mercy. Mr. Justice Creswell': On what ground, gentlemen. Foreman : That she may have time to repent, His lordship, without further re mark condemned the prisoner to death in very solemn. terms. ELOPEMENT.—A rich heiress of seventeen, named Kealing, whose guardians reside in London, has eloped with a young gentleman, named Boynton, the son of an eminent Yorkshire baronet, and an officer in Prince Albert's regiment, the 11th Hussars. He. too, is under age. The young lady's stepfather obtained the assistance of two policemen to regain possession of her, but it ap pears that their services were not required, a preliminary treaty being agreed to on amicable terms. FATALITIES FROM CHOLERA.—Major Moore, of the 82d regiment, died on Friday of cholera, at his quarters at Devonport. The people at Merthyr are flying in all directions, as fast as their circumstances will enable them, and in consequence sufficient coals cannot be obtained for the furnaces of the Dowlais iron -works, and they have been obliged to be worked half time for some days. It is feared they will have to be abandoned altogether, and the effects would be fearful. At Merthyr 673 deaths have taken place, at Dowlais 355, and at Aoerdare 51. THE CHOLERA.—The deaths in the metropolis last week from cholera were 926, being a great increase on previous weeks. From the 13th July to August 6th, the deaths in England and Scotland were 5358. In conse quence of the prevalence of cholera in the metropolis, Dr. Wiseman, the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Metropo litan District, has caused a notice to be issued, under the authority of the Pope, permitting the consumption of animal food on the days set apart in each week for absti nence. DEATH OF A SOMNAMBULIST.—A German in London took up his lodgings at a German lodging-house in St. George's in the East. and he slept in a room with ten other emigrants, in bunks or hammocks, which were fastened against the wall. On Thursday night he went to bed in the usual manner, and about one o'clock the following morning he was seen to leave his bunk and crawl towards the window. Deceased appeared fast asleep, and, before he could be prevented, he opened the window, which was only four feet from the floor, then put his feet out, and he fell to the ground. a distance of abcut 30 feet. He was immediately picked up, and his head was found to be fractured in a most shocking manner. He was removed to the hospital, where he died shortly afterwards. AN ANTIDOTE TO SEDITION.—The Earl of Carlisle, at the Agricultural Meeting at Leeds last week, with his wonted good humour, turned to practical account in another direction a hint thrown out by Mr. Legard on subduing the unruly dispositions of cattle, in the admi nistration of their daily meal of oil-cake. He said—lt is a lesson, I think, which you might all apply to your muni cipalities—(laughter)--to your parishes, to your labourers, to your servants'-halls, aye, even to your drawing-rooms. (Laughter.) If you want to prevent people being contu macious—if you want to prevent them from growing rusty—from kicking—in short. the best way is to give them a good dinner. (Renewed laughter.) THUNDER-STORM AT BANGOR.—A gentleman, writing from Bangor, on Thursday, says :—" This place was visited early this morning, between the hours of one and two, by a most terrifie thunder-storm, accompanied by very heavy rain. The house of Captain Atkins was struck on the chimney by the electric fluid, which de scended into the bed-room underneath, killing and dread fully mutilating a lady of the name of Hobery, from Birmingham, who was on a visit there, her husband escaping without the least injury. The electric fluid traversed the whole rooms in the underneath stories, de molishing every pane of glass in the windows. The appearance of the interior of the rooms in the house through which the fluid passed appear as if blazed by gunpowder, the whole of the plastering being completely scaled off the ceiling. A highly-respectable widow lady, Airs. Ellis, of Penralt, has died also this morning of fright, occasioned by the effects of the terrific thunder and lightning. Several horses and cattle have also been killed." DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—On Friday, Mr. John Lil lington Badcock, of Lymington, accompanied by his two sons, his brother. Mr. Thomas Badcock, and Mr. Alfred Clayton, both of that place, went in a boat to the fishing ground off Boulner, Isle of Wight; where Captain Mac kinnon, in his yacht, hearing that Mr. Badcock's party was short of bait, very obligingly offered them a supply to obtain which Mr. Badcock brought his boat alongside the yacht ; at this moment a gust of wind caused the yacht's boom to jibe, which carried away the cleat of the main sheet; the boom thereby struck the boat's mast and spreet of her mainsail (which was dewed up), and in an instant the boat filled rind sunk. Mr. Thomas Badcock was dragged on hoard of the yacht by Captain Mackinnon ; his crew, with all possible alacrity, jumped into the yacht's boat and succeeded in saving Mr. Clayton and Mr. J. L. Badcock, but the two sons of the latter, aged respectively 12 and 10 years, were drowned. Mr. Badcock was in the water nearly twenty minutes before he was rescued ; be saw one of his sons sink near him without a possibility of reaching him. EMIGRATION TO NATAL.—On Tuesday the Dread nought sailed from Gravesend with 120 cabin, intermedi ate, and steerage passengers for Port Natal, being the third vessel despatched this season for that rising colony, by Mr. J. C. Byrne, since he obtained those concessions from the Emigration Commissioners that have enabled him to confer land in the ratio of passage money, a steer age passenger acquiring 20 acres for £lO, priority of choice being secured according to the date of entrance on each ship's books. Originally Mr. Byrne was restricted by government to the location of 500 settlers ; but the man ner in which he sent out his first two ships. the respecta bility, intelligence, and comparative affluence of the passengers, and their general eligibility for the colony, so favourably impressed the commissioners, that they have extended the concession so as to embrace 200 adults. Previous to sailing, Mr. Byrne, according to the excellent custom he has adopted, entertained his passengers at Pallister's Falcon Hotel, Gravesend, and gave them a resume of the latest information from Natal, in cluding the actual condition of the emigrants. EXTRAORDINARY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.— One of the most singular catastrophes of which we have ever heard occurred off the coast of Kincardineshire, on Tuesday week. A large herring boat, which had been engaged in conveying railway sleepers from Aberdeen to Stonehaven, had discharged her cargo at the latter port, and was returning to Aberdeen, when she was caught in a sudden and violent whirlwind, which laid her on her beam ends instantaneously, amidst a boiling vortex of broken water. The crew were, of course, thrown out, but they all succeeded in clinging to the capsized boat except one man, who was observed to be floating about stiffly, and with a peculiar and unnatural buoyancy. Mr. Thom, of the mill of Muchals, with several fishermen, having witnessed the catastrophe, put off to the assist ance of the crew, and succeeded in rescuing them, after severe and highly praiseworthy exertions. The coast guard were, also, promptly afloat and at the scene of dis aster. It was found that the man who had been observed floating about so strangely had been killed by a flash of lightning, which was observed, by parties on shore, to. break over the boat at the very moment of the accident. BAPTISM OF THE NON AND REV. BAPTIST ;NOEL. — It having transpired that the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, who lately seceded from the Church of England, and who has embraced the views of the Baptists, was to be publicly baptized in John-street chapel, Mecklenburgh - square, London, in the immediate vicinity of the chapel in which the hon. and rev. gentleman had preached as a minister of the Church of England for twenty-two years, the chapel was crowded in every part long before the time appointed for the commencement of the services. The number. present must have been from 2,000 to 2,500, while almost as great a number must have gone away unable to obtain admission. The services of the evening, after the usual preliminaries, were commenced by the Rev. Mr. Shepherd, assistant to the Rev. Mr. Evans, minister of the chapel, delivering a short sermon, chiefly bearing upon the subject of adult baptism. Mr. Noel himself then ascended the pulpit, and delivered the ad dress usual among gaptists before the administration of the ordinance. The hon. and rev. gentleman spoke at considerable length on the nature and obligation of adult baptism, the whole of which period he was listened to with the deepest attention. After some intervening de otional services the hon. and rev. gentleman descended into the font, which is situated in the body of the chapel, and was immersed by the Rev. Mr. Shepherd. Several other persons were also baptised in succession. The ceremony was witnessed with the deepest interest by the vast crowd assembled on the occasion. THE CHOLERA AND THE PLAGUE.—The latter fearful visitation occurred in 1664, and, supposing the population of London at 400,000• souls, we shall then be able to illus trate the actual ravages of a great plague. The victims of the present epidemic have never yet, even by the highest reports, reached in the metropolis a daily amount of. 150; that is to say, not 1 in 10,000 of the population has been carried off in any single day, while the highest weekly return yet declared has been 926. Now, in the year 1664, from August 22 to September 26, the bills of mortality, incorrect and incomplete as they were, gave the following specification of the numbers who had died of the plague in five successive weeks, viz., 7,496, 8,252, 7,690, 8,297, 6,460, making a total of 38,195, so that almost one-tenth of the entire population perished in little more than a month ! Indeed, it was subsequently calculated by those of the survivors, who nad the best means of judging, that at this particular period of the visitation fully 10,000 a week died from the plague alone, while the seven-day bills of general mortality were swollen to a total of nearly 11,000 from an ordinary average of about 260. so that the deaths of the season were actually multiplied fortyfold! and even when the plague was considered to have been stayed, and all was thankfulness and joy, the weekly mor tality amongst this decimated community of some 350,000 souls was more than treble that among our own popula tion of 2,000,000. at the height of an epidemic. The weekly average of deaths in London at this season is 1,008. Un der a mortality like that of the great plague we should have seen it returned last week at about 41,000, wheress it reached but 1,967. CAUSES OF CHOLERA.—On the 9th, there were four cases registered of death from cholera in Church-lane, London. In Kennedy's-court, which contains only five houses, there have been eight deaths from cholera. The epidemic broke out in every house, and in one there were as many as five cases. On Friday, some of these horrid dens were closed, but there were others still open, and in one apartment, not more than twelve feet by seven in size, in disgusting proximity to a closed-up privy, four teen human beings had slept on the preceding night. Yet the inmates, who it is unnecessary almost to say were Irish, called this sink of filth their " parlour," and seemed rather proud of it than otherwise. In 3, Church lane, there have been six cases of cholera, which have all proved fatal. In 84, Dudley-street, which is in the immediate neighbourhood, there are six rooms, in all of which the disease has shown itself. Many of the cases which have occurred have been , removed to the work house, and have been attended to there, but many prefer to be left to die in a manner with which the fate of the beasts that perish can stand no comparison. Take, for instance, the case of Mrs. Conolly, the wife of John Conolly, living at 18, Church-lane—a woman 22 years of age, with a child at the breast. She was seized with cholera about one o'clock on Tuesday last, and was dead at eight. When Dr. Lightfoot and Mr. Simpson visited her, shortly before she expired, they found her laid upon a mattress placed outside the doorway of the room in which she lodged. The stench from privies in the yard was almost insupportable. The poor dying creature had about fifty or sixty people crowded around her, and at an adjoining window, looking composedly on the scene, was a man in a perfect state of nudity. The woman would have received no medical aid whatever if Dr. Lightfoot and Mr. Simpson had not come to her assistance. A WIFE, A WIDOW, AND A WIFE, IN A WEEK.—The delectable neighbourhood of North Corner, in Devonport, was yesterday in an extasy of enjoyment and hilarity (not withstanding the pestilence, which has been doing more than ordinary duty there lately.) Some ten days ago there was a black waterman who plied at Devonport, named Jack Clyne, who was married to a white woman. carried Las toff wee k poor y r J a a p c i i , c d wasy He w attackedas buried with cholera, yesterdayandk w ee was . For a time (short of course) Jack's wife was inconsolable •, but there was another black man serving the office of captain's cook, on board her Majesty's ship Queen, who came to sympathise with the charming widow Clyne, and he thought that the best way of doing this effectually was by marrying her himself. Being probably afraid of the practical jokes of his messmates, it was arranged that the wedding should be by licence, and yesterday it positively came off at Stoke Church, when the happy twain were made one, within a week of the original blackie being put under the turf. The cook's comrades had, however, got scent of the affair, and yesterday eight of them came ashore in a boat, with their trousers turned up to their knees, their arms and heads hare, and their legs, arms, and faces all blackened. In their hair they had fastened bows of red bunting—they also carried a red flag, and one of them had a biddock, while the rest carried shovels, with which they said they were going to dig Jack Clyne up again to see his old sweetheart. In this trim these merry tars par aded up and down Cornwall-street, and all round that neighbourhood. They then dressed up an effigy as nearly as possible like the bride, even to her cap and flowers, and this they sent to their comrades on board the ship to be hoisted up to the mast-head. We were informed that the effigy was so honoured, much to the amusement of all who saw the affair, who looked upon it as a good practical joke against both parties. Plymouth Journal. A 0 g. 1_42,19' STATE GRANTS TO WESLEYAN SCHOOLS. --From„!;,: Westminster is to receive £7,0 00 as a building gmeet the (at The annual expenditure is estimated at £4,7 50 . 1 ,1. 0 5 t i r e e y p a o u rt c ofun Conference, u G ee en , e i r t al a E g u d e u a c r a s t i t o h n attheN Committeeuoat; per this expen week, diture fe t r he 4 r B e are the receipts 2o a f u o d r B fr Oo ou r i ll scud,eoo o, 2d. .£BOO ; the government grants to 80 stewards, 8;0 to four masters, £120; leaving a deficiency of 1.. h be made up from the general fund. e l' arY Fissuarn FOR THIEVES. — At the Mansion -hoe- . cot don, on Monday, a woman, named Emma Hatntiiicis( brought up and committed for trial on a charge er_P ro rel pockets ; having been detected by means of a rata o e contrivance. The complainant, a German proles he had lost some silk pocket-handkerchiefs in th.e.heelti, bourhood of Lombard-street, in consequence 05 1 ,... e d to genuity of the London thieves, and he bad detenn a jbe r lose no more. In order to secure himself from ; 0 1 plunder of the kind, he had fastened a strong P!_bich black silk thread to the corner of a Handkerchief band, he put into his pocket, and he hild the thread in I .'l a ttig in order to check the next thief who should mat,, ar ed at his property. Down Lombard-street he went , Pr` te l y be to do justice to himself and society, but unfortue° up ped did not catch a proper hold of the thread, and out P , 'sod his handkerchief once more without his knowleag`;inat off went the thief with complete impunity. Dabanc l. to catch somebody, he armed himself with an mote' kerchief, and into the same locality he walked 0 15 1 a ion3 In his last attempt he succeeded. As he Pas a Sk 0 3 Lombard-street, with the hand to which the 74ent attached in his trousers pocket, he suddenly felt bite, and starting round he pounced upon the r_7 i n to who was endeavouring to put the fatal handkercaps PO, her bosom, and was soon placed in the custody' ° I liceman. ma t reP °rl THE CRIMINAL LAW COMMISSION._Tbe egooP,;' of her Majesty's commissioners for revising and ea dating the criminal law has been laid before Paneport and since ordered to be printed. The preseadsre contains the revision of the digest of the law of r7i - Jers' in respect of indictable offences, referred to the e! 9 ,1 1- 01 , t he tion of the commission, and the draught of a_ n is ! fl as P re :A purpose of consolidating into one statute the v'''forit , '" visions of such digest. The commissioner's h al e cts t il „ e f some important alterations of the law as re3fdsnre ,"" drawing of indictments, w ith a v i e w to the so,. a lto to those flaws which have a ff or d e d so gr eat a sea a `ols l3 _, l ° administration of criminal justice in this count r y , re pose" to the curtailment of prolixity. They have also tetini considerable alterations in the law as regards t he Sce of warrants by. justices of the peace, the a gents - 0 5 ' examination of an accused person's witness bete tarried tice of the peace, the binding over of infants a nd d P ry women to prosecute, &c., grand juries, juries , 1, - u tica'' process, pleas of autrefois acquit, costs of Pr° s ; 0 53 : and other matters of less general consequent a la a" h lu a n y g e e a e l b so e p u r s o ed po a s s ed a that m ud c e o coroners' e fu r r s i a n i q e u h is a i r t e io e n , s an s e c tu b .s ttr ol, power at present possessed by a coroner of comm.... f ie "' trial any person against whom a verdict of m"',,„ 0 1t1b 6 ,, manslaughter shall have been found before him s .'„ d au, abolished, and that henceforth the coroner sh°" fts kia* have authority to issue a warrant for the purnea. e Th e l such a person before a magistrate for examinatrou•buop have also suggested the abrogation of the law ° f ora r cry," as a primitive course of proceeding unsuited 5 dern habits. PROTEST OF ITALIAN RESIDENTS IN (jel l AGAINST POPERY.—On Friday, a meeting of resident in the metropolis, was held at the We ster° •to of rary Institution, Leicester-square, " for the discus : 1 0 of the religious questions involved in the present st o nger Italy, and urging the Italian people to protest nf ro petl against the Pope merely, but against the system o f to Oa itself. The proceedings were conducted accordinrl,,et of rules of public meetings in Italy, and were threo,r',`::,, d a i e re u m ee ar i re n markable c l li ta a l r i a a c u te i r a . o s T ua ii g e e speakers la lr o s l e d lyt t b b li e e sa di : large number were present, took an active part 0 , „tom cussion of the questions brought under constaeLper: many of them rising to make observations on the s sa tive addresses. Signor G. V. Vignati took the cla°4l o or the meeting was addressed by the Cavalier Fenai , 1 0 0 Raffaello, di Roma, Professor Gabriele Rosati , Siwn or Boccalossi, Signor Susinni, and other gentlemen' $e the Mappei thought it was no longer of any use to oPP a be be. Pope as an individual or as a temporal prince, tb r odd lieved that the whole system of Roman Catholicism thei r to degrade the people, and obstru t th progress of C e • f ttere political independence. They wished to be un e bar their acknowledgment of " one faith, one Lord, 00e , o li. tism." In fact they wished to get rid of the wh ° ' e griP' trial machinery of the Church of Rome. Signer oar pei enlarged upon these topics amidst constant ir,lif,e po' tions. So great indeed was the disturbance. that s%dr lice were frequently called in to quell it. Sever al ge Pt e. men (zealous Roman Catholics and advocates of Oa f t bs sent system) were forcibly expelled. In the mids t 3Tha g confusion the following resolution was adopted 00 0 this meeting, highly condemning as tyrannical, fm a play anti evangelical, and impious, the conduct of pope re' IX., invites all the Italian patriots to follow the tr or s, ligion of Jesus Christ, as followed by their an e f n i r init throwing aside their Papal Church, which is e °° „ l- Irs 5° against the liberties of the people."—A vote of th a- ta aill not one o T f h t e h s e ta l g e n a a st ut si w gn a i t fi e r r a s n a t ee of bg h i e nu l l the chairman closed the proceedings. This is a r t - the sgigit'os be turb W ed. ESLXYAN CONFERENCE.—EXPULSION 0 17 , 111 a'_h a JAMES EVERETT.—The Wesleyan 'limes of 3 15)° „ lia , l .riv . e* t W he ed b n o e d s y eiay as , E gi n y g es lis a n d m e e s n cr , iption of the manner '"Drotrr correctly reported. "On th the proceedings against Messrs. Everett, Burdsall, 01 ley, &c., has been conducted, but which for the er e beet' longing to the York district being successively called, to in answer to the question, ' Are there any objeetV ric tlf John Burdsail or James Everett ?" None' was des Hop e and emphatically announced by the chairman : that' s ," to in reference to ministerial ability—none in refereT4 is moral and religious character—none as to a berdisci; Wesleyan doctrine—none as to the observance °` a wes' wee nameswould o l if op tk e e ts in f i s o t t e o o, !; , pline." On Mr. Everett's appearing at the bar, 5 7,ter . preliminary questions were put, after which he 'va s t ° rogated respecting the fly sheets. Mr. E. is rePer*:;sn: have said :—" If authorship is your object I leave, n" swer to give to your question, yea or nay ad d ' u lts i ° know the feeling that has been excited, and nower the this Conference against me—a feeling that disquali the brethren from judging." * * "That," aidf tbo Doctor (Hannah, we believe), affects the motives ° or brethren, and you have no right to impute improllert tives to them."l * * Mr. Eyerett— Wu! who terpretation am I to put upon the motives of ra e itbe° fill the public mind with prejudice against me, an sites' with a view to get me to criminate myself, turn th?, o re leyan Conference into an Inquisition ? You shroill' no answer to the question from me, at the risk 0 1 e i f yOtS sion from the Connexion. My , mind is made uP• ni y ac have any charge to prefer against me, show m e in - e s C e U l S f er t S o — m let e r th em em apuc T e h th e ei w r e e v s i l d ey e a n n ce, T a i n nie dl e s l t e a u t :i ee tli r ; Mr. Everett's remarks were received with derisive $OO that his accusers and their evidence were withhei",n'atee, that three of his accusers were placed on the ce' r 7gl o l appointed to consider his case. We should be c er Lee o 7l to be able to contradict these statements, but we deed it just to Mr. Everett—(who has long been coo s , ~*)..41 3 ptonenuebrli publish hd the ethuel omg g irue g nl reatest ornaments ßAlera.uvueur et passedo f an d thata observation h co i g n h n e an wisepPoi: made as to the injustice of expelling a member on sr cion. On the motion of the Rev. Samuel JacloStae,3 conded by the Rev. John Rattenbury, the W tt . S S ,' Everett was expelled. O n th e mo ti on o f the i Naylor, seconded by Dr. Newton, the Rev. Jo hn Jan' 5 sail was to be censured from the chair. The Rev left' Bromley's case was not finished when the reeer;'thefe We have no sympathy with the flysheets ; we thin - t is no excuse for anonymous slander ; but, we m,i Th s e that if the above report be substantially correct , 5- f Or ceedings have been un-English, and unworthy ° Wesleyan body. a drea d FATAL THUNDER STORM.—On Wednesday bo, storm of thunder and rain visited this locality. f i ,„lig.a'; in the Dog Bank, in Newcastle, was struck by '700 1 . ° 1 ing, which shivered a strong jamb in a partition tor; a portion of the side of an upstairs apartment , °rroo" by a person named Young. Descending int, ° , " n eni: f below, where its course is marked by two sma" e r o ort" in the brick-work, on each side the fire-place, 00,1, art being driven out, it struck the inmate, a Mrs. S cot ° we a l , was cleaning the hearthstone at the time. Fora "' 130 t,, she was stunned, but quickly recovered her sense a 'Ang her legs and arms were burned ; and her wedding' it It o discoloured and distorted, that it appeared as OP- d been thrown into a fire. One of her children '7 o°,', severely and another slightly burned. All three a•,; recovering. At the same time some pictures hangSbP: s the fire-place were destroyed, and a large was °Li - to t" ter, which stood upon the mantel-shelf, was hurleu Jul opposite side of the room. The roof of ISfr r i t , Mather's house, in St. Mary's-terrace, wa s stra- 1-, injured, o wm f aos t v h es e lm dr uT a c w hhe ing room lightning athen struck enteredthrough of the drawing room and struck a ahog3O ,: eiy b 1 e il ! keti ..e .i that a part of it has hadl ° ,, c ent' which Mr. and Mrs. Mather were sitting• both stunned by the suddenness of the occurre° of s ll u a s r ta d i ea ne s d ne n , o fi v u e u r r y -e m lu a t t h er m ia a l u in u j f u a r e y tu . re T e, h ß e ig p g refn m i a s r e b, t s or t,A the Central d E a x m e a h g a e ug ; e an w d as pa s r t t ru o e f k o , naenuof:hpeortio:tobll't thrown against the widow of Mr. Wilson, draP er ' t he half-past two o'clock the electric fluid en tered • lioti chimney of the house of Mrs. Hall, publ,l s 'ry, l l; Benton, and caused the instantaneous death 0 5 The "' IO a daughter, and severely injured the servant girl. ,a we re ceased and servant were together in the passag e ' sne thrown down. The deceased was much burnt. „ n a „ 4 a steel busk, which appeared to have attracio-, *7, lightning. A picture frame, in the upper r e d e p last e i o shattered to pieces, and a quantity of bricks an flui d to ing thrown down the chimney. The electric estaof entered the roofs of two cottages on Mr. Wi ls°l 4icle s it at Forest Hall, and broke and injured various article' " 0 , furniture : fortunately the occupants were from ibig te fot the time. At Shankhonse Colliery, near Cr h a :neY. t ai six men had gone into the bottom of a large °"" " 0 shelter, when the lightning came down the chiP T l ig $ gds struck them. One man was in the act of Pein t ,}he otl i at a wild duck, and he was killed on the spot. 1 3 e°° ot are expected to recover. At a shrubbery , Dear thetr%, by the second mile stone, a tree was struck, al ur t- god of split down. The storm did not extend b evon mediate neighbourhood. In the neigfibourA gas% Bishop-Auckland the storm was very severe: named John Stephenson, was proceeding nlpena!, from Byers' Green, along the railway to NeT r , sl olL n u ; i b n e o in o g r, t w ak h e e n n h u e p, w w as as st a ru l c i k fel b e y ss t eu he rp e s l e e - ctric Arr fi w. °l oi e r a' a r o a s tio rti about the same time, who had come from , Gre en, her husband, while in a house in Byers' nbe n i t struck down, and many articles of furniture 111 _, 1 000 were thrown about and broken. The woman '" a very precarious state,—Newcastle Cotoraill• THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. C... 3 • Ca • • f.... • . • • U. • ....1 • •-• • • • CA • • : :I: : : t 2, 0 ..: , : ..., : : c . , 4. IC , • C. J • • 0 , .. • . 1 .., • CJ • • t,2 F ' • 1 N • 1 . .. 7) • X ••••I • ....4 N co • • • co • • • Q. • • • v• • • cn Ca • B—. • • .—. I, cra • r.) • • 04 Oo cn • 0•• Cr • • • C 4 •si ••-, I ~ C 76 • 4.. _., r E 5 • C •—••-• I G " SECOND EDITION. Standard Office, Twelve o'clock, noon. LATER FROM AMERICA. Arrival of the Steam-Ship Caledonia. The Royal Mail steam-ship Caledonia, Capt. Leitch, ar rived in the Mersey this morning at half-past eleven, bringing advices from New York to the Ist inst. She has brought 35 passengers. The business in foreign exchange for the steamer was dull. For sterling bills the rates ranged from Bto 81. The steam-ship Europa reached New York on the 27th ult., and the America was entering Boston as the Caledo nia:was leaving. On the Royal Mail steamer Caledonia's arrival at Ha lifax, she found the Mail screw steamer Kestrel, trading to St. John's, Newfoundland, had been due 4 days. The day after the Caledonia left Halifax, spoke the brig Argo ; she reported the loss of the Kestrel. The cholera was still spreading all over the country. On the western rivers it is much abated. In New York for the fortnight the deaths from cholera were about 100 per day. The Europa's advices had not had much effect on the New York markets, which were dull ; neither had the arrivals of gold from California stimulated them. In cotton alone does there appear any temptation to adven ture, and the price of this staple advances quite as rapidly in the States as the most flattering accounts from this aide will justify. In Venezuela new troubles are brewing, General Paez having returned thither, and been received in a manner to render probable the overthrow of Monagas, the actual and lawful President of the Republic, so far as the term " lawful" can be applied to anything connected with these ephemeral republics. A destructive fire had broken out in Albany, chiefly amongst the lumber stores, and was still raging on the 30th ult. The loss is exp'ected to be heavy. At the meeting of the British League at Kingston, Ca nada West, on the 27th ultimo, only twenty delegates attended, but afterwards the numbers swelled, and a deci sion against the recommendation of an elective legislative council was come to by a majority of 85 to 9. On the 29th a great tire occurred at St. Louis, by which property valued at , e 148,000, consisting chiefly of boats and cargoes, was destroyed. Much excitement and riot ing occurred. The latest accounts from Fort Kearney state that the emigrants were getting on very well, but that the roads were strewn with the newly-made graves of those who had died on the way to seek for gold. The cholera had broken out amonc , the Indiana, alarming them to such a degree that they had fled from the trail of the emigrants. _ _ CALIFORNIA.-By the arrival of the Crescent City at New York from Chagres we have one month's later news brought to Panama per steam ship Panama from San Francisco. The Panama left that port on the 20th June, and brought 500,000 dollars in gold dust and specie. The number of persons at the mines is estimated at between 20,000 and 30,000, one half foreigners. The gold con tinued abundant; but it was found that only very strong and hardy people could stand the fatigue of digging. Business at San Francisco was very dull, dry goods and provisions selling at very much below the original cost, and lumoer being the only remunerating article. Almost every article of export from the Atlantic ports will lose money ; so that, what with the amount of coin carried to California from the Atlantic side, and what with the losses that will be sustained on the late shipments from New York, the balance will still be against Califor nia, after a large allowance for all the gold brought to the States from that country. Preparations were making for opening a State Government, and a large and enthusiastic meeting upon the subject had been held at San Francisco. Up to the latest news from the diggings, all was tranquil. The total number of ships known to have sailed direct to California from the United States, up to the 4th July, was 371, including six steamers. These are supposed to have since been increased to 400, with merchandise, &c., involving a capital sunk of from 15 to 20 millions of dollars. LIST OF PASSENGERS.—From Boston :—Mrs. Fallon, Miss Cabot, Mrs. Riddle, Mrs. Grigg, Mr. Richardson and lady, and Messrs. C. B. Raymond, S. Gonzaleg, F. W. Shenger, Jonn Men, Higgins, Fallon, F. R. Starr, C. S. Alleyene. Conradi, Aleo, Vidal, Hancock, Weil, Hypolite, Crockford, J. Connelly, S. Peck, H. Scott, W. Laughlin-, M. Laccazette, D. S. Lewis, A. 'Walker, F. Rose, P. Meyerhoff, and P. Ganne. From Halifax: — Right Rev. Bishop Fleming, and Messrs. Billing, Smith, and Hazard. L. L'. o I 00' I 672 0 0 I I Is, Ch • 0 • W '"= I ti I 00 05 E: .. I. :i ii COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK, TUESDAY MORNING, JUL,/ 31, 1849. Concerning the growing crop of Cotton, we have the usual, and even more than the usual contradiction of accounts. The rains which in Louisiana and Alabama are represented to have greatly injured the plant, in Georgia are said to have benetitted it. As, however, it must in any event be a late crop, th e pro babilities are against it being a large one. The quotations by the Europa gave a further impulse, at an advanced price to operations in this staple. We are assured that telegraphic despatches were received to day from Mobile and Charleston, giving the following quota tions:— Middlin4 Cotton, 104 c Mobile; fair do.; 12c Charleston. The apprehension of injury from the effect of heavy rains which had been falling., had occasioned this advance. The previous quotations were from Mobile, 23rd instant, for middling Cotton Bic, and from Charleston the highest quota tions on 26th instant were 10c. In Breadstuffs very little doing. The Wheat crop will be large, notwithstanding partial damage from rust. and recent rains have greatly benefitted the growing crop of Indian Corn. The general harvest, there seems no reason to doubt, will be abundant. The early Potatoes in this region are dug out or digging, and neither among them nor among the vines of the latter planta tion do we hear as yet of any appearance of rust. Corrox. —fhe sales of the day amount to fully 3500 bales, at very full prices, making since the sailing of the Niagara on the 24th instant, 13,800 bales. The advance during the period is id. on the lower, and id. on the better qualities. We continue our quotations of yesterday, although it is very difficult to pur chase at them. Florida and N. 0., Texas Uplands. and Mobile. Ordinary Bi @ Si CO Middling 94 (0 9} gi @ 9/ Good middling 9l @ 9i @ Middling fair in @ 10 ® Fair Fully fair FREIGHTS to Liverpool, id.; to Havre, id.