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titeraturr. NOTICES. Kavanagh, a Tale. By H. W. Longfellow. Liverpool: John Walker, 97, Bold-street. rWe should have been puzzled under what denomina tion of works to class this beautiful little work, had not its very talented author informed us in his title-page that it was " a tale." It is certainly not such in the ordinary sense of the word, but rather a most poetical exposition (in prose) of some of the finest phases and weaknesses of the human heart in its mare exaltic moods, introduced through the medium of just as much incident as will serve to sustain the interest of the reader. The principal of these is the history of an affection, awakened i❑ the breasts of two fair young girls—friends--named Alice Archer and Cecilia Vaughan, for a young clergyman, Kavautigh, just introduced to a curacy in their parish, — all whose characters are drawn with the skill of a master and the delicacy of a true poet. Same other characters are also karmic-7Ni, not however connected with the story ; and one of these—a deliciousll sketched one—we shall introduce to our readers. TMr. Churchill is the schoolmaster of a retired rural district in the heart of one of the rural States of America —" a dreamy, poetic man," simple and amiable in cha racter, through whose day-dreams floats the dim shadow of some immortal work, for the accomplishment of which his slumbering- genius only requires awakening. Mr. Churchill at length resolves to write a romance; but we shall give the description of the occasion of his resolve, inasmuch as it introduces his wife, a character as deli ciously painted as his own : MR. CHURCHILL RESOLVES TO 'WRITE A ROMANCE. • • - - " When tea was over, Mr. Churchill walked to and fro in his study, as his custom was. And as he walked, he gazed with secret rapture at the books, which lined the walls, and thought how many bleeding hearts and aching heads had found conso lation for themselves, and imparted it to others, by writing those pages. The books seemed to him almost as living beings, so instinct were they with human thoughts and sympathies. It was as if the authors themselves were gazing at him from the walls, with countenances neither sort owful nor glad, but full of calm indifference to fate, like those of the poets who appeared to Dante in his vision, walking together on the dolo rous shore. And then he dreamed of fame, and thought that perhaps hereafter he might be in some degree, and to some one, what these men were to him; and in the enthusiasm of the moment he exclaimed aloud, — "'Would you have me be like these, dear Mary ! ' " Like these what ? ' asked his wif7, not comprehending him. " Like these great and good men,—like these scholars and poets,—the authors of all these books!' , She pressed his hand and said, in a soft but excited tone,— " 0, yes ! Like them, only perhaps better ' " Then I will write a romance 1 ' " Write it ! ' said his wife, like the angel. For she believed that then he would become famous for ever ; and that all the vexed'and busy world would stand still to hear him blow his little trumpet, whose sound was to rend the adamantine walls of time, and reach the ears of a far-off and startled posterity." The fate of the romance—never to be begun—is con veyed in the following conversation between the simple. minded, procrastinating schoolmaster and Mr. Kavanagh, l i the curate, which took place years after the incident which we have quoted : MR. CHURCHILL'S ROMANCE HAS NEVER BEEN BEGUN. " And your Romance,—have you been more successful with that? I hope it is finished, or nearly finished?' " Not yet begun,' said Mr. Churchill. The plan and cha racters still remain vague and indefinite in my mind. I have not even found a name for it.' " That you can determine after the book is written,' sug gested Kavanagh. You can name it, for instance, as the old Heimskringla was named, from the initial word of the first chapter.' "' ! that was very well in the olden time, and in Iceland, when there were no quarterly reviews. It would be called af fectation now.' "' I see you still stand a little in awe of opinion. Never fear that. The strength. of criticism lies only In the weakness of the thing criticised.' " That is the truth, Kavanagh; and I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits, of which we alone perhaps are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.' " I will not say,' replied Kavanagh, ' that humility is the only road to excellence, but I am sure that it is one road.' " Yes, humility; but not humiliation,' sighed Mr. Church ill, despondingly. As for excellence, I can only desire it, mid dream of it; I cannot attain to it; it lies too far from me; I cannot reach it. These very books about me here, that once stimulated me to action, have now become my accusers. They are my Eumenides, and drive me to despair.' " My friend,' said Kavanagh, after a short pause. during which he had taken note of Mr. C hurchill's sadness, that is not always excellent which lies far away from us. What is remote and difficult of access, we are apt to overrate; what is really best for us lies always within our reach, though often overlooked. To speak frankly, I am afraid this is the case with your Romance. You are evidently grasping at something which lies beyond the confines of your own experience, and which, consequently, is only a play of shadows in the realm of fancy. The figures have no vitality; they are only outward shows, wanting inward life. We can give to others only what we have.' " And if we have nothing worth giving?' interrupted Mr. Churchill. " No man is so poor as that. As well might the mountain strearnlets say they have nothing worth giving to the sea, be cause they are not rivers. Give what you have. To some one, it may lie better than you dare to think. If you had looked nearer for the materials of your Romance and had set about it in earnest, it would now have been finished.' " And burned, perhaps,' interposed Mr. Churchill ; or sunk with the books of Simon Magus to the bottom of the Dead Sea.' " At all events, you would have had the pleasure of writing it. I remember one of the old traditions of Art , from which you may perhaps draw a moral. When Raphael desired to paint his Holy Family, for a long time be strove in vain to express the idea that filled and possessed his soul. One morn ing, as lie walked beyond the city gates, meditating the sacred theme, he beheld, sitting beneath a vine at her cottage door, a peasant woman, holding a boy in her arms, while another leaned noon her knee, and gazed at the approaching stranger. The painter found here, in real life, what he had s o lon g sou g ht for in vain in the realms of his imagination ; and quickly, with his chalk pencil, he sketched, upon the head of a wine-cask that stood near him, the lovely group, which afterwards, when brought into full perfection l ecame the transcendent Madonna della Seggiola.' " All this is true,' replied Mr. Church ill, but it gives me no consolation. I now despair of writing any thing excellent. I have no time to devote to meditation and study. My life is given to others, and to this destiny I submit without a mur mur; for I have the satisfaction of having laboured faithfully in my calling, and of having perhaps trained and incited others to do what I shall never do. Life is still precious to me for its many uses, of which the writing of books is b ut one. Ido not complain, but accept this destiny, and say, with that pleasant author, Marcus Antoninus, " Whatever is agreeable to thee shall be agreeable to me, 0 gracious Providence ! nothin g shall be to me too early or too late, which is seasonable to thee! Whatever thy seasons hear shall be joyful fruit to me, ti Na ture ! from thee are all things; in thee they subsist ; to thee they return. Could one say, Thou dearly beloved city of Cecrops? and wilt thou not say, Thou dearly beloved city of God? " ' " Amen ! ' said Kavanagh. And, to follow your quotation with another, "The gale that blows from God we must endure , toiling, hut not repining. " Here Mrs. Churchill, who had something of Martha in her, as well ns of Mary, and had left the room when the conversa tion took a literary turn, came back to announce that dinner was ready, and Kavanagh, though warmly urged to stay, took his leave, having first obtained from the Churchills the promise of a visit to Cecilia during the evening. " Nothing done ! nothing done ! ' exclaimed he, as he wended his way homeward, musing and meditating. And shall all those lofty aspirations end in nothing? Shall the arms be thus stretched forth to encircle the universe, and come back empty against a bleeding, aching breast ? ' " And the words of the poet came into his mind, and lie thought them worthy to be written in letters of gold, and placed above every door in every house, as a warning, a sug gestion, an incitement : " Stay, stay the present instant! Imprint the marks of wisdom on its wings ! 0, let it not elude thy grasp, but, like The good old patriarch upon record, Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee ' " Alas ! how many Churehills are there in this world of ours—men burning ever to attain a height of excellence shadowed to their imagination, yet never daring to take the first upward step ! We should have been glad to have been able to quote another scene or two from this beautiful, though unartis tic little book; but we fear that we might detract from its interest with the general reader, and expect moreover that it will attain a large circulation. Its typography and getting-up are very creditable to the publisher. VARIETIES. There was a great battle fought some ten miles from Brussels on the 18th of June, 1815.—Journal. Miss Martineau's Book of Eastern Travel has been excluded from the Derby library, because of its immoral tendency ! A medical journal has actually been started in the Ot toman Empire—an important sign of the times and the advancement of medical science. THE BEST YET.—" My dear Polly, I am surprised at your taste in wearing another woman's hair on your head," said Mr. Smith to his wife. "My dearest Joe, I am equalLy astonished that you persist in wearing another sheep's wool on your back. There now !"—American paper. THE DlAMOND. — lnteresting as is this queen of gems to all, and although they are exposed in dazzling quantities in all our jewellers' windows, our readers will be startled when we inform them that the art of cutting and polishing diamonds is almost unknown in London ; we may say, England. Looking at the abundance of the working jewellers, setters, and lapidaries in the Clerkenwell and St. Luke districts alone, considering the great artistic skill to which our artisans have arrived in every branch of mechanism, and the perseverance and enterprise which have ever marked their progress, this absence of the art of cutting and polishing diamonds is singular. We believe there is but one individual who follows this peculiir art. He resides in Harrison-street, Grays Inn-road, where the family was originally established by the eminent firm of Storr and Mortimer, the gold and silversmiths and jewel lers, of New Bond-street, who erected very expensive machinery for the business. The Dutch have for ages almost monopolised the diamond cutting trade of Europe, and so expert are they, that on showing them a rough diamond, they will tell to the greatest nicety what the p o lished gem will weigh. It may therefore be naturally supposed that any rough diamonds which may come to this country are sent to Holland to be cut and polished. The merchandise here, however, in diamonds is with them principally in a finisned state. Diamonds are found of very different colours to what is generally believed ; not only are some pure colourless crystals, but yellowish white, gray, ash gray, bluish gray, yellow and greenish gray, indigo blue, passing into red, rose red, clove and other shades of brown, asparagus, leek and mountain green ; and Moht, in his description of Von der Null's cabinet, mentions a grayish black diamond, the rarest of all. It was first thought to be an inflammable sub. stance, by Boetius de Boot, in 1609. In 1694 experiments were made by Boyle, which proved that the diamond, al though the hardest of minerals, was combustible. Nu merous experiments by able chymists since nave lel to illustrious counts same belief, but it was left for our own counti rum, Sir H. Davy, to prove, by the galvanic 9 Parlc, tint the diamond is pure carbon.—Mining Journal. DOING A LANDLORD ; OR GETTING THE VALUE ON'T. Shortly after the completion of the " Great National Road" through Ohio, the incident T am about to relate occurred. There was in a quiet little village through which the " Road" passed, a hotel where the stages always changed, and the passengers expected to get breakfast, The land lord of the said hotel was noted for his " tricks upon travellers," who were allowed to get fairly seated at the table, when the driver would blow his horn, (after takng his horn) and sing out " Stage ready, gentlemen," where upon the passengers were obliged to hurry out and take their seats, leaving a scarcely tasted breakfast behind them, for which they had (to fork over) fifty cents. The hero I speak of was one of nine male passengers in a stage coach, which was slowly approaching the village above mentioned, one cold morning in February, 183—. " Gentlemen," said one of the nine, " I have often travelled thiS road before, and, out of good feeling to all, I will caution you against " hugging the delusive phantom of hope," as regards getting breakfast at the hotel we are approaching." " What ?—how ? No breakfast ! exclaimed the rest. . ... .. ... " Exactly so, gents, and you may as well keep seats and tin." " Don't they expect passengers to breakfast ?" "Oh yes ! they expect you to it, but not to eat it." " Why, wot on airth air yew talkin"bout ? Ef you calkerlate I'm goin' to pay 'four nine peaces' fur my breakfuss and not get the vallee on't you air mistakin'!" said a voice from the back seat, the owner of which was one Hezekiah Spaulding. " Then you'll be left." " Not as yew knows on I won't ?" As the stage drove up to the door, the landlord, ready to "do the hospitable," says— " Breakfast just ready, gents ! Take a wash gents ? Here's water, basin, towels, and soap." After performing their ablutions, they all proceeded to the dining-room, and commenced a fierce onslaught. upon the edibles. though " Hez" took his time. Scarcely had they tasted their coffee, when they heard the unwelcome sound of the horn and the driver exclaim "stage ready." Up rise eight grumbling passengers, pay their 50 cents, and take their seats. " All aboard, gents ?" enquires the host. " One missing," said they. Proceeding to the dining-room, the host finds Hez very coolly helping himself to an immense piece of steak, the "size of a horse's lip." " You'll be left, sir ! Stage is going to start." " Wal, I haint got nothin' to say agin it." drawls out Hez. " Can't wait, sir, better take your seat." " Dew wog." " Get in, sir." " be gaul darned of T dew, nuther, 'til I've got my breakfuss ! I paid for it, I'm goin' to get the vallee on' t, and if you calkerlate I ain't, you are mistaken." So the stage did start, and left Hez, who continued his attack on the edibles. Biscuits, coffee, steaks, &c., &c., disappeared rapidly before the eyes of the astonished landlord. " Say, Squire, them there cakes is 'bout East T fetch us another grist on 'em." " You!" (to the waiter ;) " nuther cup ov that air coffee. Pass them eggs." " Raise yew ' er own pork, Squire? — this is mazin' nice ham. Land 'bout yere tolerable cheap, Squire ? Hain't got much maple timber in these parts, hey ye? Dewin' right smart trade, Squire, I callate. Don't lay yew'er own eggs, dery ye? Aud thus Hez kept quizzing the landlord, until he had made a hearty meal. " Say, Squire, now I'am 'bout tew conclude payin' my devowers tew this ere table, but of yewe'd jus' giv' us a bowl o' bread and milk tew sorter top off with, I'd be obleeged tew ye." So out goes the landlord and waiter for the bowl, milk and bread, and set them before Hez. " Spewn, tew, if you please ?" But no spoon could be found. Landlord was sure he had plenty of silver ones laying on the table when the stage stopped. " Say. yew ! dew yew think any of the passengers took them ?" •` I don't know. Do you think they did ?" " Dew I think ? No, I don't think, but lam sartin. Ef they air all as green as yew 'bout here, I'm going tew locate immediately and tew wonst." The landlord rushes out to the stable, and starts a man off after the stage, which had gone about three miles. The man overtakes the stage and says something to the driver in a low tone. He immediately turns back, and, on arriving at the hotel,- Hez comes out to take his seat, and says— " Heow air yew gents ? I'm rotten glad tew see yew." Landlord says—" Can you point out the man you think has e spoons ?" "Pint them eout ? Sartinly I ken. Say, Squire! I paid vew four nine pence for a breakfuss. and I callate I GOT THE VALLEE. ON'T. Yew'll find THEM SPOONS IN COFFEE• POT !" " Go ahead, all aboard, driver." LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. -W EDNESDAY. - EDNESDAY. BLUNDELL V. GLADSTONE. This case came before the court upon two petitions, one by the plaintiff, in the nature of exceptions to the mas ter's report, the other by the co-heirs-at-law of the testator in the cause, praying that the report might be confirmed. The testator, Mr. Blundell, of Lancashire, by will, dated in 1834, devised his farm (having two) for the maintenance of a Raman Catholic priest, the Rev. Thomas Robinson, of Seel-street, Liverpool, and the questions were, whether that devise was void for uncer tainty. and, if so, whether the farms passed under a general devise to the trustees of the will, or lapsed to the co-heirs-at-law, the priest having: died in the testator's life-time. Ile master had assumed the trust deed, which assumption was now called in question. The Vice-Chancellor said that the only question was whether the testator had any farms or lands in trust, so as to come under the exception to the general devise in the will. Lord Lyndhurst had, in fact, agreed with his honour, and a reference was ordered to the master to in quire whether any of the lands were held upon a trust. The Vice-Chancellor then went through the master's report, and said that he did not think that report was right in assuming a trust by Lady Anderton, with refer ence to Shepherd's Farm. With regard to the construc tion of the will, he still entertained the opinion that the testator held no land in trust. LIBEL UPON THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, last week, an action was brought by the Duke of Brunswick against James Hamer. Esq., the proprietor of the Weekly Dispatch, to recover compensa tion in damages for a series of alleged libels. The libels complained of alleged that the Duke of Brnnswick had been expelled from his dominions because he was a tyrant, and had outraged the feelings of his subjects, trampled on the laws, had the letters in his post-office opened and plun dered, had been guilty of so much atrocity that his subjects had expelled him, and burned his palace. Sir F, Thesiger was retained for the defendant, and made a powerful speech in his defence. The jury found for the plaintiff, damages £5OO. WHAT CONSTITUTES A FIXED RESIDENCE.—This ques tion was mooted in the Middlesex County Court last week, on the occasion of a claim preferred by a firm in Regent street against Lord Drumlanrig, for the sum of £slos. 6d., being for drapery supplied to Lady Drumlanrig in 1843. A summons had, it seems, been left at the residence of Sir William Clayton, in Gloucester-place (his lordship's father-in-law), where Lord Drumlanrig was staying. It was contended, however, that his lordship's occasional visiting at Sir William's house, or even sleeping there, did not constitute a fixed residence, the Judge of the County Court stating that " it had been held that a resi dence is a fixed abode, where a person has an intention to remain, and in this case it does not appear that Lord Drum lanrig intends to reside permanently with Sir William Clayton." The Judge added, that the question was a very important one,and that the legislature was about to amend the act. The service was declared to be not good, and the plaintiffs were nonsuited. BEARD v. EGERTON.—This was an action brought by the assignee of the patent for taking daguerreotype like nesses against the defendant for an infringement of the patent, which had been assigned to the plaintiff by one Miles Berry. The defendant pleaded a great number of pleas, the material plea being that the specification was bad, and that by following its directions the plates, which were to be silvered over, and prepared in a particular way, to receive impressions, would be useless. Evidence to this effect was given, and it was contended that the objec tion was fatal. The learned Judge who tried the case thought the objection was fatal, and the jury were directed to find for the defendant, leave being reserved to the plaintiff to move to enter the verdict for him if that direc tion should be wrong. The court had now come to the conclusion that the objection then made could not be sustained. In the construction of a patent the court was bound so to read a specification as to support it, if it could be supported. Applying that principle of construction to the specification before them, it seemed to the court to be free from any obscurity calculated to mislead any person of fair intention, and that the obscurity was cleared away by a fair consideration of the whole specification. The rule, therefore, to enter the verdict in favour of the plain tiff must be made absolute.—Rule absolute. THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM AND HIS CREDITORS. —A case was tried in the Court of Queen's Bench, on Sa turday, Strutt v. Lowndes, the plaintiff being an attorney, and formerly the confidential adviser of the Duke of Buckingham. and the defendant the Sheriff of Bucking hamshire. It appears that, when the duke assigned his estates, the name of Mr. Strutt was omitted from the list of creditors, and now by him an action was brought no minally against the sheriff, but really against the Marquis of Chandos, to whom the estates were assigned. Amongst the witnesses called was the Duke of Buckingham him self. It transpired in the course of the trial, that, in the year 1842, when the duke succeeded his father, his income was nominally £61,000 a-year. The property was bur dened. between the liabilities of the late duke and his son, with debts to the amount of a million one hundred thousand pounds. These obligations he continued to increaso till, in 1847, they amounted to a million and a half of money, the interest upon which was fully £15,000 per annum more than the nett rental of the estates, which it covered in the shape of mortgages. In five years the Duke of Buckingham had added nearly £400,000 to his original debts. The duke stated that he was unable to say, within £50,000 or £lOO,OOO, the amount of his pecu niary obligations in 1847. After a consultation with Lord Brougham and the Duke of Richmond, he assigned the estates to the Marquis of Chandos, who gave up all for the benefit of the creditors. It appeared further that the conduct of the Marquis of Chandos, agains t whom the duke now appeared as a witness, has been highly credit able and unselfish. He has been appointed receiver on the estates at a salary of £1,500 a-year, which is less than half the salary usually allowed on similar circumstances. This is the sole support. Out of this 1,500 a-year he allows his father, the duke, £5OO a-y'efif; bi s „other, the duchess, £5OO a-y ea r, retaining for the§tipport of himself, you ng w if e , an d f am ily on ly £5OO a-yedf, The jury found a verdict for the defendant. THE NEW RELIGIOUS SECT AT " AGAPEMONE." This case, to which we referred last week, was resumed in the Exchequer Court on Monday and Tuesday. In the course of Sir F. Thesiger's speech for the defence, he said : "The AgaperaOtte, or Abode of Love, wherein this unhappy plaintiff had taken up her residence, consisted, amongst other of its inmates, of four apostate clergymen, one civil engineer, one farmer, one solicitor,—for even in this "abode of love" they could not do without a lawyer—(laughter)—and two blood hounds—(renewed laughter.) In this place, it appeared, all prayer was abanloned—a duty which was one of the first, which was the most emphatically enjoined by the religion of the country. Although he could not but feel disgust at such a course, and at the efforts of these people to creep into families and there to spread dismay and desolation, yet if it were proved that the plaintiff was of sound judgment, he could not but admit that, however extravagant her opinions might be, still that were no justification for her being put under the restraint of a lunacy asylum. - 2. Tr. Prince, of whom they had heard much during the proceedings, had in 18-ti, most unhappily for the family of Mrs. Nottidge, obtained a sway over the young ladies by his preaching at Stoke. The influence of Mr. Prince had been so great, under the ' will of God,' that three of her daughters, with .e 6,00 each, had been carried off from her. It would have been supposed that £lB.OOO out of one family would have satisfied these people; but no, it was not so—they must have another daughter, and another £6,000, and the present plaintiff was the victim." Mrs. Nottidge, the mother of the plaintiff, was the first witness called for the defence, when she gave the follow ing sad history of these extraordinary doings. She said — "I am the mother of the plaintiff, and lived as Rose-hill when my husband died, with my daughters, in 1844. My un married daughters were living with me. In 1843 Mr. Prince came to preach at Stoke, and my daughters sometimes went to his church. I heard of his going to Brighton. Louisa, (the piaintiff,) Harriet, and Agnes, took a house at Brighton. That was before the death of their fattier. I sent for them from Brighton when he was dying; and when they came they told me they should not have clone so but for the will of God.' He died in May, 1844, and my daughters returned to Brighton in. August. Clara stayed with me. I afterwards went to Brigh ton and took up my abode with them, but I did not join them in their devotions, and I told them that I would never receive Mr. Prince into my house. I remember Mr. Prince coming to the house, but I would not see him. I was compelled to lock myself up in my bed-room to prevent his intrusion upon me. I recollect my daughters going on a Monday to be present at the opening of the chapel at Charlinch. They were to return on the Saturday. But two only came back, and my daughter, Louisa (the plaintiff), not until Sunday morning. I spoke to her of the impropriety of travelling on Sunday. Louisa said, Mr. Prince had written a prayer which said that they must not travel on Sunday; but then he made another prayer, where he said it was the will of God' that they should travel on the Sunday; and she also told me, with tears in her eyes, that the other three sisters were going to be married, as it was the" will of God' that they should then marry. She then told me that Brother Thomas' was corning to sleep there that night. I said, I would not consent to that. This Brother Thomas' afterwards married my daughter Agnes. The plaintiff said it was of no use objecting to his coming, as it was the will of God' that he should, and in he would come; and accordingly in he came at ten o'clock that night. I said I should leave the house if this were done, for it was very improper. My daugh ters went up to him, and when they came down they told me that it was the will of God,' and stop there he would. In consequence of this I went to a friend's house that night, and on the next day, when he had left, I returned. They then told me that lie said lie should return at night, and that it was the will of God' that another man (Turner) should come with him. I objected, tut they said it was the will of God', and they must submit. I afterwards heard that the marriages were to take place at Swansea, and I went down to prevent them ; but it was of no use, for they said it was the will of God' that they should be married. After this I went to Rose-hill, where the plaintiff and Cornelia were. That was in December, 1845. Mr. Starkie and Mr. Turner came to Rose-hill. From what was said to her the plaintiff told me she must go; that it was tearing the flesh from her bones to leave me, but that it was the "will of God' that she must. The men gave the plaintiff two hours to pack, and at the expiration of that period they drove up in a carriage and took her away. That was the last time I saw my daughter until sh • was brought back by the defendants. I am now seventy-six years of age. I went to Weymouth to find my daughter to bring her away. I had heard that she was living at Weymouth in the greatest sin and iniqinty. I told Mr. Ripley what I had heard from several friends and from many letters. These reports it was that I communicated to the defendants, and they went down to Char linch in consquence. When I was at Weymouth I saw two of my other daughters, but they refused to give me any informa tion as to where plaintiff was. I was six weeks making my search, and was not successful. I offered a reward, but it was of no use. I afterwards found a clue to where the was, and I then begged of the defendants to go and bring my daughter away as quickly as they could ; and at once down they went, for I was in such a wretched state of mind about her. I saw them with my daughter on their return. She was brought at once to me, and I conversed with her. This was at Mr. Rip ley's in Woburn-place. She told me that if it were the will of God' she should be at Charlinch on the Wednesday. This was on the Monday. i put clown on paper what she said. It was when I spoke to Louisa (the plaintiff) about Mr. Prince, that she said, ' I know no such person. God now only dwells at Charlinch in the flesh of him I once knew as Mr. Prince. God, who made me and all the world, is now manifest in him whom I once called Mr. Prince. He has enteredhis tabernacle of flesh among men, and I have seen God face to face. He will deliver me whenever I am taken.' After this I sent for my brother, who saw Louisa, and by his advice the medical men were sent for." Mr. John Pepys, brother of Mrs. Nottidge, corroborated her evidence, and Mr. Thomas Morton, surgeon, and Dr. Rowland, of Woburn-place, declared their opinion that the plaintiff was of unsound mind, and that they had accordingly given their certificates for her admission into a lunatic asylum. Dr. Stillwell, the head of Norcroft house, the asylum at Hillingdon where the plaintiff was confined, was of the same opinion. Dr. Turner, Mr. Milne, and Mr. Procter, the lunacy commissioners, and Mr. Lutwedge, their secretary, gave evidence that they had examined the plaintiff eight times during her incar ceration, and were always of opinion that sh e was o f unsound mind. She was in the end discharged on the ground of declining health, the commissioners giving it as their opinion that there was no abatement of the unsound ness of mind of the plaintiff, nor of her extraordinary delusion on the subject of religion, but they thought the plaintiff was competent to manage her own affairs.—Mr. Cockburn then replied on behalf of the plaintiff. The Lord Chief Baron summed up, and, in doing so, said that the jury must find a verdict for the plaintiff on the first plea of "not guilty," as the facts were not denied ; also upon the second, of "justification" which was not made out : " Namely, that the plaintiff was a lunatic, and not capable of taking care of herself, and was in such a state of mind as to injure herself and other persons, and that it was in conse quence of her being in that state they had had her put in a place of safety—that plea was not made out. Now, he was bound to say, that the law had been correctly laid down, that if the jury considered, upon the evidence, that the plaintiff was not in such a state as to be dangerous to herself and others, then, that the plea to that effect not having been made out, the verdict ought to be for the plaintiff upon that issue also. The evidence had clearly shown, as applicable to this branch of the case, that the conduct of the plaintiff had , been per fectly consistent, even in respect of her delusions. The lady entertained a strong opinion on a religious subject, and to that opinion, whether right or wrong, she had adhered." The jury, after deliberating, found a verdict for the plaintiff for £50., coupling it with an opinion that no malice against the defendants had been proved with re spect to the course they took in confining the plaintiff in the lunatic asylum. The damages were laid at £l,OOO. In the Bridgewater County Court, on the 11th instant, Isaac Thomas, a labourer, residing at Paxton, obtained a verdict of eleven guineas damages for an assault by Thos. Starkey, Lewis Price, and Thomas Williams, three of the "apostate clergyman" inhabiting the Agapemone, under the following circumstances : "The premises occupied by the defendants adjoin the turn pike road, and the plaintiff, who was a labourer residing at Paxton, on passing their premises and hearing a noise inside got upon the hedge on the other side of the road, which was high enough for him to see what was going on. Plaintiff there saw about forty men and women playing at • hockey;' upon their seeing the plaintiff, about twenty of them rushed out into the road with their bandies in their hands, fell upon him, and thrashed him within an inch of his life." For the defence it was stated that : "The ladies and gentlemen of the Agapemone had been re peatedly insulted by the plaintiff and several others, without giving the slightestprovocation. On the sth May, a number of these ladies and gentlemen were amusing themselves at a game of ' hockey ' on their own premises, when a stone was thrown over the wall which struck Mr. ' Prince.' but did not injure him. The defendants then rushed out in the road to punish the offender. They were constantly receiving insults of this sort, and in consequence had been obliged to raise the walls of the Agapemone." The Court awarded the plaintiff eleven guineas damages. Crneval A vessel arrived in London, from Van Dieman's Land, has brought 3800 hams as part of her cargo. A bill has been brought in to authorise the sale of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton. Last week the town of Kilham, near Hull, was the scene of six incendiary fires. Major Charles Campbell, an old and most distinguished Peninsular officer fell down dead on Saturday, whilst walking along Pall Mall, London. Miss Cushman intends to return to America, accom panied by her friend, Miss Heyes, the novelist and trans lator. - - - - . -- . . The Dean of Durham has offered to give £5OO in aid of any measure adopted by the authorities of that city for the prevention of cholera. On Saturday, a man was killed at Cross Mills, Dean Clough, near Halifax, by two of his companions, with whom he had quarrelled, throwing him out of the window. A young woman named Emma Mellor has been com mitted to York Castle charged with the murder of an il legitimate child to which she had just given birth. On Friday, a lodge of Orangemen was opened at Little Horton, when 18 good men and true were initiated into the mysteries of Orangeism. A man, named Ferguson, is in custody at Castletown, Isle of Man, charged with occasioning the death of his wife. The Duke of Hamilton has been presented by his Scotch tenants with a superb piece of plate, valued at 1,200 guineas. In some of the London Savings Banks there has been a gratifying increase of deposits lately, and this, it is to be hoped, is the case elsewhere. Louis Philippe has presented to the captain of the express steamer. which conveyed his ex-majesty from Havre to Southampton, a beautiful silver vase and cover with an autograph letter. On Sunday week, three young men, named Stowe, Heseltine, and:Good, went to bathe at Immingham Creek, Lincolnshire, when they got out of their depth, and were drowned. SLANDER AT A DiscouNT.--The copyright of the Satirist newspaper was, on Thursday, publicly put up for sale, and an offer of £lOO was made, No bidder appear ing beyond that sum, it was withdrawn. The Manx Sun says, " throughout the island the crops look promising. The potatoes are healthy and regular; the grain is rapidly appearing in ear ; and the hay harvest is in full operation." Mr. Macready appeared, for the first time in England since his return from North America, at the Birmingham theatre, on Tuesday night, and his reception was enthu siastic. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. A few days ago the workmen who are cutting through a mass of rock at Westbury, near Brackley, Oxfordshire, came, at the depth of 20 feet, on a layer of clay, in which were found embedded the bones of an Ichthyosaurus. Large importations of oranges are taking place from Lisllon, the growth of Portugal. They are of very fine flavour, :Ind are of considerable importance, as the arrivals from St. Michael's have ceased. A METAMORZEIOSIL — The Primitive Methodist Chapel, Cowpen-quay, is at praftnt undergoing repairs, and being altered preparatory to its beidg made into a beer-shop and public-house.—Shields Gazette. A large number of Highlanders, of all ages and both sexes have, within the last few days emigrated to North America. The Duke of Argyle has assisted 360 to emi grate from the island of Tyree. Notice has been given by the Rev. Edward Postle, to bring before the sessions on the 6th of July all the cir cumstances relative to the finding and custody of the blunderbuss discovered at Potash Farm. The Imaum of Muscat's ship Artemisia has arrived in London Docks faom Zanzibar, with five thoroughbred Arabian horses, which the Imaum has sent as a present to the Queen. . . A young French lady named Rheims, who had been staying as governess with a family near Douglas, Isle of Man, was found drowned a few days ago on the receding of the tide among the rocks. From letters found in her possession there is no doubt she committed suicide. On Friday evening, Mr. J. Phillpotts, the late member for Gloucester, and brother to the Bishop of Exeter, died very suddenly in an omnibus, as it was proceeding along Oxford-street. Death was occasioned by disease of the heart. A considerable trade in horses appears to have arisen between London and the continent, for the London jour nals mention importation of horses, mostly consigned to metropolitan horse dealers, from Havre, Harlingen, Os tend, Hamburg, and Antwerp. ORANGEMEN.—On Tuesday, the Orangemen of the Halifax district held an interesting festival. They as sembled in Sowerby-street about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, each wearing an orange ribbon, with a blue . rosette, round his neck, and having on white gloves. They afterwards walked in procession, and had a grand banquet. Mr. W. Mynn, of cricketing celebrity, eloped last week with the daughter of a respectable man named Jeury, who resides at Maidstone. The father pursued the fugitives to a place called Surbiton, where he overtook them, and recovered his daughter. How DID IT HAPPEN ?—The parish clerk of Kirkby Lonsdale when digging a grave last week, found a coffin with the lid loose and filled with shavings, but no body in it. It has caused some excitement in the neighbourhood. The coffin was one that had been interred about ten years ago. The committee of the Bible Society having, by a ma jority of 24 votes against 21, ordered that the meetings of the society shall be opened in future with reading of the Scriptures and with prayer, Mr. Brandram, the clerical secretary, has determined to retire, under the impression that the proposed change will lead to endless divisions. The total amount subscribed for Emily Sandford was £983 13s. 3d., of which £553 ss. 6d. has been expended in providing for the wants of herself and her brother, in clusive of £6O given by her desire to members of her own family. The balance (£427 7s. 9d.) remaining to be re mitted as may hereafter be deemed advisable. A woman named Rebecca Smith, wife of a labourer, at Westbury, Wilts, has been committed for trial charged with the wilful murder of her infant child by poisoning. The prisoner has been married 18 years, and has given birth to eleven children, all of whom, except the eldest, died in infancy. Amongst the guests, with Sir Robert and Lady Peel, at the banquet of the Lord Mayor of London, (Sir James Duke) on Wednesday last, were—the Marquis and Mar chioness of Londonderry, Earl of Harrowby, Earl of Lincoln, LDrd and Lady Wharncliffe. Sir James Graham, and the Right Hon. G. Stuart Wortley, M.P. Two serious fires broke out in Hull during the past week. The first in a bed-room of the Sykes's Head Inn, had nearly proved fatal to three invalided soldiers, who slept in the room. The second fire, in the cooperage of a per son named Smith, damaged property to the amount of £4OO. A few days ago, while an aged woman, named Thomp son, of Ryall, Northumberland, was proceeding through a field to a well, she was suddenly attacked by one of a herd of Irish cattle grazing in the field. The heifer rushed upon her, and after tossing her, gored her so severely that she died a few days afterwards. A " crow's nest" has just been completed on the tower of Gloucester Cathedral, for the purpose of taking obser vations for the survey of the river Severn. The scaffold ing is raised to a considerable height above the tower of the cathedral, and is surmounted by a small house or cot, which is reached by means of a long ladder. On Wednesday, the coroner for Surrey, stated at an in quest, that he had received an official document from the Secretary of State, giving orders that in all cases of cholera occurring in union workhouses, prisons, &c., he (the coroner) was to hold inquests upon the bodies, and to report accordingly to the government authorities the result of the same. Many bones of the megatherium, myloden, and other extinct animals, were lately found in Southwark, near one of the railways which traverse the borough, and were sold to a bone grinder, from whose hands a geologist rescued several hundredweights of these interesting remains of ancient creation, though a large quantity had already been ground into manure. LONGEVITY IN HULL. —There are 290 old people lief at the Hull Workhouse, whose united ages amount to 20,958 years, averaging to each 721 years, of which num bet 237 are women, ranging from GO to 96, and 53 men, from 61 to 93 years. In the house, 151 old people, whose united ages amount to 10,474 years, averaging 691 years ; 66 men, from 60 to 86, and 86 women, 60 to 91 years. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has received in an anonymous letter, £2O, "in repayment of a sum claimed in error, and received from the Legacy Duty office." Also, in another anonymous letter, £5 on account of " an omission in a return of income to be taxed, by which the revenue was deprived of a sum which he restores four fold." Mr. and Mrs. Plumptree, and Mr. and Mrs. 0. Mosley, of Chancellor House, had a very narrow escape on Sunday week. They were returning from church in a fly, which, having come in contact with an omnibus, caused the horse, a blind one, to run away. He fell down a preci pice 33 feet below the level of the road, carrying the fly with him. The parties inside escaped without injury. The woman whose child was stolen from her at Hull, the week before last, was sent to Leith after the female who kidnapped it. After a fruitless search by the police, the poor woman fell in with the thief accidentally, and. the child'was restored to her. It would appear that the beggar woman absconded with the child in consequence of having become greatly attached to it. STREET BEGGARS.—Three men, O'Leary, Riley, and Regan, were successively charged at Marlborough-street Police-office, on Tuesday, with begging in the streets. One was di unk, another abused a lady who had refused him alms, and the third protested that he had not tasted food for two days. In each case a sum of money was found on the impostor. They have all been sent to gaol. BIGHT MEN KILLED.—On Wednesday week an acci dent occurred at the railway-bridge now building at Rox burgh, over the Teviot. Eight men were on a crane, engaged in springing two arches, and a number of others were engaged in the quarry beneath, a depth of from 80 to 90 feet; when, without giving any warning, the pier gave way with a sudden crash, killing the men. SALE OF HUNTERS.—The following hunters, the pro perty of Mr. Baker, were during last week sold by Messrs. Tattersall :—Mummy, 370 es. ; Whitelock, 360 gs. ' - Elec tion, 310 gs. ; Challenger, 290 gs. ; Mulatto, 260 gs. ; Lamp lie,hter, IBsgs. ; California, 170 gs. ; Wallingford, 160 gs. ; Clinker, 150 gs. ; Lounger, 145 gs. ; Voltaire, 130 gs. ; Mandarin, 195 gs. We notice that the Shepping House and Church Farm estates, situate at Mathon, on the borders of Worcester shire and Herefordshire, are to be.publicly offered for sale in the course of a month. These two valuable properties wore amongst the purchases made by Fcargus O'Connor for the purposes of the land scheme : for reasons known to himself, the hon. member has not completed the purchase of either, but has preferred forfeiting the deposit-money. THE IRON TRADE OF SOUTH STAFFORDSIIIRE.—On Thursday the private preliminary meeting of the iron masters of this district was held at Bolton's, the new inn in Hanswnrth. The state of the trade was reported to be such as to render a further reduction of 10s. a ton neces sary. This makes a reduction of 30s. per ton on the de clared prices of last quarter-day, and with no prospect of improvement. AN ANCIENT GOOSE.—On Sunday week, Mr.W. Turn ill, of Braceborough, Yorkshire, experienced a loss of a singular nature—no less than the death of a favourite goose, which had been on the premises at Braceborough for 60 years, and prior to that had been in the possession of Mr. John Smith, of Deeping St. James, for 40 years. The bird was consequently 100 years old at his demise. Mr. Turnill intends having the skin stuffed. Last year the freights from Odessa to London averaged £4 per ton. On Friday last these freights were offered at £2 10s. the ton, but not taken. On Saturday they were offered at.£2 7s. 6d. a ton, but not taken ; it is expected that foreign ships will offer for less than £2 the ton. Thesa are the first fruits of the repeal of the navigation laws. The ruin that such a reduction of freights must cause to the shipowner is apparent. TURNING THE TABLES.—A few days ago, at the County Court, held at Morpeth, a pitman from Netherton col liery was ordered to gaol in default of payment of a debt of 15s. While his commitment was being made out, however, he coolly took his hat, walked away, locked the door on the outside, and made his honour and all the rest of them prisoners. Some little time elapsed ere they could get egress, and in the meantime the pitman had escaped. There is now living at Scalpa, in the Isle of Harris, a woman, named Marian Morrison, who has attained the age of one hundred and eight. She hears and sees well, can walk on a good road ten miles in the day, and can knit a- d darn without spectacles, which she has never used. She has paid rents to a succession of seven pro prietors. She has never indulged in dainty food or ardent spirits, but has lived on good " wholesome Highland fare. RAMSEY HARBOUR.—The commissioners of harbours have determined to improve and enlarge Ramsey har bour, for the better protection of vessels which seek shelter during tempestuous seasons, and for the accom modation generally of the shipping interest. Within the past week builders have commenced to enlarge the har bour, under the direction of the corn rnissioners, by clear ing and digging the foundation for the addition of 100 yards at the western extremity of the quay. CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER BY A PREACHER. —On Wednesday, the Rev. Jonathan Henry Price, a dissenting minister at Woodham Ferris, and Priscilla Ruffle, about 30 years of age, daughter of a widow occu pying a farm at High Roothing, were charged at Chelms ford with attempting to murder a illd found in a basket at Widford. They were seen in gig with the basket, which was afterwards discovered in a ditch by a person passing the page. The prisoners were committed for CoutzaT EXPLostoss.—On Tuesday a fearful explo sion took place in a coal mine at Dudley, whereby thir teen men were killed, and twenty-three others seriously burned. A number of horses were also killed. The explosion was so- violent that it was heard a mile off; pieces of coal were hurled to an immense height, and the gearing of the pit was blown to pieces. Another explo sion took place on Wednesday morning at the Black Wagon Pit, near Dudley. One man was killed, and seven others dreadfully burned. ELECTRICITY IN CHOLERA.—Mr. T. W. Cooke, late resident surgeon of the Royal Hospital, in a communica tion to the editor of The Times, of Tuesday, states that a girl, eight years old, was recovered from the last stage of cholera, (complete collapse, and the power of deglution having ceased), by the application of the pole of a galvanic battery over the heart, the other pole being placed over the region of the stomach. In half a minute the child began to rally, some strong beef tea was got into her sto mach in less than ten minutes, an 4 ultimately the resur rection was complete. CURIOUS ACCIDENT.—An innkeeper, of Flixton, last week, while making too free with strong liquor, contrived, unwittingly, to break a bottle of vitriol which he had placed in his pocket. The corrosive liquor reduced his coat tails and the hinder part of his inexpressibles to the condition of tinder, so that when he arose they fell away Piecemeal. Fortunately the vitriol did not injure his per son. He went to the street, ignorant of the dilapidation of his attire, but was quic.dy driven back to the inn by the laughter of the crowd. By the aid of a long cloak he was enabled to reach his home. EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE. —On Tuesday, as eight or nine haymakers, with their employer, were at work in a parish in Gloucestershire, a partridge (the male bird) suddenly flew out of a hedge in the meadow and assailed successively the whole of the party, pecking at them as a gamecock might do, repeating the attack and then returning to its nest, where it was supposed the hen bird was hatching. On his attacking the master, he picked the bird up, and smoothed its ruffled feathers, ob serving he was a gallant fellow to defend his family in so determined a manner; but on inspecrion of the nest on the following morning, the appearance of the shells indi cated that the young ones had recently left them. THE MURDERER RUSH.—It has been a matter of con jecture whether Rush availed himself of any other weapon besides the blunderbuss found at Potash. The following extract of a letter, addressed by Mr. Field, the gun maker, in High Holborn, to a Norfolk magistrate, on the 23d instant, goes to prove that the only weapon was the blunderbuss in question, and that Rush, after the assas sination of the Messrs. Jenny, re-loaded both the barrels in the dining-room :—" There was one circumstance con nected with the sale of the blunderbuss which I did not mention to you—that Rush, after purchasing it, ordered me to make them 'prime themselves,' by enlarging the touch-holes, which, coupled with his having cartridges, would greatly facilitate the re-loading." PEDESTRIANISM.—On Monday the great race came off at Harlington, between Reed and Seward, for £2OO, as to who should first cover 440 yards of ground. Seward led soon after the start by the tithe of a yard • at 100 yards they were abreast ; at 200 Reed shows slightly in advance ; at half-way he improves his position ; at 250 the game is up, Seward cannot live with his competitor, and gives a slight symptom of falling off; at 300 yards there is no• mistaking it, Reed takes Seward's ground by running almost full in front of him, and ten or a dozen yards a head, finished a most exciting spin by coming in 14 or 15 yards a winner. The time was variously taken at 51, 52, and a fraction short of 53 seconds. THE CHOLERA.—This fearful disease still lingers in the country, though in scarcely any instance to an alarm ing extent. The Bristol Mercury states that 75 cases had occurred in that city, of which 33 had proved fatal. The Cardiff Guardian mentions the death of seven per sons who had been attacked at Castletown. The Man chester and Leeds papers record the occurrence of a few cases in Lancashire and the West-Riding. About 100 cases have been reported in the city of Gloucester, nearly one-half of which have proved fatal. In the lower parts of the metropolis several deaths from cholera have oc curred. A Limerick paper says :—" The Jane Black. Gorman, master, of and from the port of Quebec with passengers, had 43 deaths on board, the first off Kerry head, on clearing the Shannon, after which the mortality increased four and five daily, from cholera and dysentrv." TRIP TO GRETNA.—Two damsels of the Wear, on Sa turday week, quitted the parental root " to walk in Hen don-gardens." Not Hendon, however, but the Monk wearmouth Railway-station, was their goal; and there (by accident, of course,) they were met by two young gentlemen, who whisked them off, via Gateshead and Carlisle, to Gretna-green. One of the young gentlemen and one of the young ladies placed their hands on the anvil of Hymen, and were welded by Vulcan into " one flesh." The bridesman pressed the bridesmaid to join hands also, and follow the example, but she could not muster courage to face the blacksmith. Before, however, the wedding party had got beyond the Eden (an Eden, truly, it was to the love sick youth) the maiden, surren dering to a vigilant seige, blushed consent, and back they went to Gretna, and gave the hybrid priest another job. The " happy day" was spent at Carlisle. On the morrow the party returned to Sunderland, where the wedded bridesmaid repaired to her home. A maternal examina tion—perchance a cross-examination—awaited her ; and, having passed this ordeal, she retired to rest. Mamma, certain that she had not got to the bottom of her daugh ter's confidence, dived to the bottom of her pocket, and was rewarded by the discovery of the wedding-ring, and a certificate of marriage, bearing the autograph of "John Murray !"—Gateshead Observer. STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH AUSTRALIA —A very respectable meeting was held in London on Tuesday, to determine on the most desirable steps for promoting steam communication with Australia 'and the adjacent colonies. Earl Talbot took the chair ; and among the other parties present were Lords Lyttleton, Polworth, and Naas, Hon. A. Petre, Sir W. Verner. Mr. Boyd, &c. The latter gen tleman said that in 1844 there had been received in Aus tralia from Great Britain 68,500 letters and 106,105 news papers, in addition to 2,855 letters and 651 newspapers re ceived from India. That in 1844 there had been dis patched to Great Britain from Australia 68,652 letters and 95,134 newspapers, and to India 2,491 letters and 3,779 newspapers. He had ventured to occupy the attention of the meeting, as he feared he was now doing at too great length, with some palpable truisms as to what would re sult from a steam communication with our Australian co lonies—that it would facilitate the investment of capital for the gradual development of the boundless resources of Australia and New Zealend ; that it would establish much greater confidence in all mercantile transactions with these colonies, and which the experience of the last eighteen months has proved to every receiver of Australian prodhce in this country, who had had to provide for drafts against consignments valued in the colony, in the absence of late intelligence as to the state of the European market, in many instances fifty per cent. too high. Resolutions were passed approving of the object, and hopes were expressed that we shall shortly have steam communication once a month with this important territory. DARING AND INGENIOUS ATTEMPT.—Three prisoners have been making a most daring attempt to escape from Horsemonger gaol. As they were desperate characters, they were placed in one of the strong rooms, adjoining to which was a room fitted up for prisoners who were allowed by the county to keep themselves with food and drink, consequently those three burglars during the time of their incarceration contrived to get into their possession a pewter pot, which was the extraordinary means of their getting beyond the cells. It appeared that they were en abled to see through the key-hole, and by means of tallow and some otherAubstance take an impression of the wards. They then, with the assistance of a piece of old iron, which they sharpened, formed a key out of the pint pot, and in the middle of the night, " when all were wrapt in slumber," they unlocked the doors and forced their way into a passage called the arcade. Their ingenious key also unlocked the door of that place, when they found themselves on the green at the rear of the Sessions-house, the outer wall of which is about 20 feet high, and sur mounted with sloping spikes. They had previously torn their blankets and rugs, and tied them together, and had actually attached an end to the spikes ready to ascend, r when one of the watchmen perceived their movements. One was about to climb up the wall when the watch man in question secured him, and while he was struggling to prevent the others fr an escaping, a number of turn keys came to his assistance, and overpowered the others. They were taken back to the interior of the prison and heavily ironed. The locks were of extraordinary strength, and it is a matter of surprise how they were able to make such a key, from an old pewter pot, to unlock them. The key is kept as a great curiosity, and its construction would do credit to some of the first locksmiths in the metro polis. A WHOLE FAMILY SWEPT AWAY BY THE CHOLERA. —ln a small village named Blacktown, about one mile from Castletown, Monmouthshire, towards the Bristol Channel, is a small thatched cottage, in which lived a labourina man named Bevan and his wife, with four young children, his father-in-law and two sons, and two lodgers —making eleven inmates altogether ! Nine of these were huddled together at night in the upstairs room, and three in the lower room ; so that at night, when in this closed up and unventilated upper hole, the atmosphere was so thick and poisonous, that a lighted candle would scarcely burn in it ! On Monday week, the husband went to his work, leaving all well, except a lodger who had recently come from a house in the neighbourhood, sick of a fever ; but in the evening, between seven and eight, he was called home by a messenger, when he found his wife and one of the children strangely affected by sickness and purging : and next morning, his father-in-law and three other children were similarly affected. In a few hours, the first-named were dead ; and before the evening, the other four had also fallen victims—six altogether having died in about twenty-four hours. One of the lodgers was also taken ill, and on Friday last expired. So sad a visi tation naturally excited much notice, and one of the stories was that the family and the lodger had died from partaking of tea in the water of which a toad had acciden tally been boiled !—An inquest was, however, held on the body of Wm. Thomas, aged 63, the lodger, and it then appeared that the cause of death was malignant Asiatic cholera, induced by bad diet and close, unhealthy sleeping places. THE AGAPEMONE.—The Rev. 'l'. Starkey formerly held the living of Charlidge, and whilst there a gentleman of the name of Prince assisted him as his curate. until his doctrines became so wild and his manner so eccentric that his diocesan suspended him from performing service. Mr. Starkey, however, adopted the same views as his curate. Again the bishop interfered, and eventually the vicar and his curate were forbidden to promulgate their new-fangled religious notions in this diocese. Religious madness or most subtle scheming now marked the career of these men ; they went about forming a new sect, announcing themselves as being personifications of the Deity, and inducing many witless men, and far more witless women, to trust their fortunes in their hands and join them in their new belief. We understand that numbers in Weymouth, Wales, and other parts of the kingdom, as well as from this neighbourhood, joined their standard, brought their DIAIIeY into the treasury, and were permitted to join the Jaly 3, 10' eron ‘ l . the powe r Taunton, law stepgad id 1.2 preserve the property of sole` AO of these woe. , s ge aelnedad,elgiult:ed We f e v; v e h m , istake not, more than once spending some flow rti a1...7 town a nd and extraorn being the subject of ruttitturs nature as to their mode Of I:visrTinang.e,dijr;listioeakss 0244 moral, social, and religious grounab 4 , - which, if a tithe only be cor;':lct: etrea at last Porelre. . 3 ,:d their l arge et some property near Charlidge and erec, . 1 1 ,2/ mises, surrounded with every convenience -0 "4 and congregating together in large numbers gl',:j e • establishment the name of " Agapemone, or Au t ` o 7, l re, Love." Here with every luxury money os° P_ A ; Li nio beautiful equipages, splendid horses, and other ni i st of weaith, these parties under the name of Priocif en , 0 together, numbering amongst them four clergYminlerili, attorney, a civil engineer, a surgeon. and others general term of gentlemen , together with a id9g i the weaker sex, who, whether married or single , ' l ' 3 o mothers, we have no opportunity of ascertaini.l.4.oo an establishment in a rural district necessaraL„,e great curiosity amongst gentle and simple. 7 . l 7t be: curious to know where the money comes frorn;,iol strive to discover what mysteriotts orgies vre 05., 4 St. within the walls, it being generally admitted.p: tbe Prince is regarded as superior to the o thers, 11 personification of the being whom they wor sh i p ' quite certain, that our Sabbath is not regar ded by t' fre. we regard it, the villagers around noting that theescsl' quently on Sunday than on any other day' does n cldoe, cade of the Princites„ with their splendid horse s a bu nt ° sweep through their villages as if going to' the To be the race field, and this whilst the village bell s o3 bli sl '; solemnly inviting them to prayer. Such is the e-,,,tana, ment now in full fig at NewCharlidge.—Sherboto - POLITICAL MISCELLAN I • wtt . The followiag spiritual peers voted for, or Pr e li e jte , favour of, the Affirmation Bill:—London, o, Worcester, Oxford, and Norwich. Ar edaY The Marquis of Lansdowne stated on We"" e d ge ` no reparation whatever had been offered by th e government for the dismissal of Sir H. Bolwe t ' 1r s d e One of the Railway journals, which forreet:,,ed ofe , ported Sir Robert Peel's financial policy, e° f o tO other day that " the principles of free trade a re O f work just the contrary to what was expected. THE JEW BILL.—In the minority in the b ' e ' Peers on the second readin g of thi s bill were t ileee f° , l - bishop of Dublin, the Bish o ps o f Durham, i c ,Cle . „ c l Manchester, and Worcester, the Dukes of War, 6 " land, and Norfolk, the Marquis of W e stmir,. Lords Ashburton, Leigh, Lyttleton, and MarleTegorte PROGRESS OF REACTION. —We CTION. —We observe that t of t" ec sng Advertiser, which is the organ and proe r , e ;t orl licensed victuallers, in the course of a very vin,l against the protectionist meeting in London, Pw7,otr er ~, that, if the poor - rates are as heavy during the r an .a, as they were during the past, "it will re-con s ' whole question of free trade," rlc Ol e f MISREPRESENTATION.—The Times, in its r e P ° t tl s e f , great Protectionist meeting on Tuesday, said Cr were only 1200 persons present, an error which • Young wrote to correct by s a yin g th a t above 25°.:,011,6 of admission were taken at th e d oors , a nd that no,' ch have attended but for an error in the day, t ee tiot Times mede in the advertisement calling the l e e,e f ; The Times, as usual, refused to insert Mr. Young . - te (l l , ° COLONIAL REFORM.—Amongst those who c ° c ol' Sir W. Molesworth's motion for an address to the re -to remove the causes of colonial complaint ,I;.lfietl, Brown, Sir J. Walmsley, G. C. Leigh, T. Bi n ' e t t .V Brackley, J. Bright, R. Cobden, W. E. Gladsteortb,j. miral Gordon, E. Grogan, J. Heywood, L. 1ie1 c ,, ° ,0,„, 4 " Kershaw, Earl of Lincoln, J. Napier, Lord SelGeoT Stafford, It. A. Thicknesse, J. T. Wortley, and Thompson. c teri o ll Clarance Mangan, an unfortunate literary char g e 3 last week, in Dublin, in abject penury. Wel: known by his poetical translations from Germa n 30 0', ture, being the author of " Authologia Ge tlP fe:-"% " Leaflets from the German Oakrand a varieti n h i c h ' in the University Magazine. The misers , in ge'Ltte,,l l lived for many years was very great. Within the 's pite" days he was an inmate of one of the temporal Pc) . for cholera patients. ili WHIG TACTICS.—The Government has done 0 1 4 1 f isc; power to secure Baron Rothschild's return by The The election was fixed for yesterday, the earliest C O 5 period, and the unnecessary haste has thrown , ~r, p be servative electors into this predicament :-- thatto go to a man on Friday or Saturday, June, and to ask him to stand for the City of Lenunsjle 19,000 constituents, on Monday, July 2 . The pe fe t ; knowing what was approaching, were of course P re tilte t Baron Rothschild on Wednesday accepted the C f i lf Hundreds, and next day a meeting of the electors nu, don was held, when it was determined to re-elect the O f ' The election was fixed to take place on MondaY , t n o , „ 1 : result we shall no doubt give in our express edi t to the course of the Baron's address, he said, " "" 7. • rest) Lords know that you are determined to have a h • (C sentative you think proper, they will give way. r oe, c I ask you again for your suffrages, and to asel s " fighting the battle of civil and religious libertl:A fry many expressions of kindness which I have recel7c, P te . parties of all grades of political opinions induce Me dict that we shall be victors." MR. HUME'S PRAYER.—" iou He prayed thathe rin :bot", wheat at 355. a quarter, and then h e believed 1 4 would receive the report of the landed interest t T e reel agitation for financial reform ; as the country g en t o? t of'' were the only parties at present who supper a t e o h e extravagance." Does Mr. Hume, or any s a " of t'i believe it to be possible, that the expenditur e A, country can be reduced to such an extent as t ° home-grown wheat to he sold at 355. per quarte e r t ;o t li o f Hume does not believe it ; and he must know„i' - 'O O l , realisation of his prayer would involve the Wl''' . t' e t the sponge to the National Debt, the annilailoadtioteheof, aristocratic element in our constitution, subversion of our social economy. CIVIC BANQUET`TO SIR-ROBERT PEEL.—'Ad t y I,a given on Wednesday, at the Mansion-house, by Mayor, to Sir Robert Peel and a distinguished C O po lo who had been members of his government, or sugl ifi eli; of his free-trade policy in both houses of par'7siretri About 200 were present, and all the principal gu es t tos' o l accompanied by ladies. After proposing the x14 13 ,1) 0 0 (including that of " her Majesty's ministers,) t e ecb l i t Mayor gave the health of Sir Robert Peel, in a s P, c rigA which he reviewed the most important periods of hon. baronet's public career. Sir Robert Peel re s res e j and concluded by exhorting the city of London t:? o pe d itself for the amelioration of Ireland. He then k f i t ie ti the health of the Lord Mayor. " The American i l j ecrl et h c and the Foreign Ambassadors ;" " The Earl a and the House of Lords ;" " Sir F. Thesiger c 8 1 ,,V English bar," were drunk with applause, and 00 0 . 0 sponded to by the individuals on whom the h0 n 03 51 ° ,4 volved. The last toast was " The healths of W ho ic e of Manchester, Liverpool, and Tamwortbr ' c " present. „, San der DICTATORIAL SPIRIT OF COBDEN.—GeOrn: on r ee ri k Esq., M.P. for Wakefield, took occasion to notiee„, o o,l day se'nnight in the House of Commons that the u „ti°,: r t r for of the Exchequer might have added to the„, - ,41 0 ,„`',1 income some £1,200,000 by the institution of a ir ic itY' o r of from 4s. to ss. per quarter on foreign whea:the raising the price to the consumer, and gave m__,o l `p. time some cogent reasons, aided by his own eer'" . here be perience in the corn trade, for the assertion j w o el 0 „, to stung by the force of the observation, the bon . tet' 5 t fo ak r a tl A le ir W . s e a st ad ß a i contrary to those for which the Wakefield ele ct has rdsi to n g t s a t s a k r t f e o d r t g o i v h i i n s g fe u e t t t e a r a n o d c e a t t t o e vimor,oi , o e him to Parliament. The latter, who, doubtless, .betn forgotten a small scene which occurred between the councils of the Manchester Chamber of anf o to,t e t retorted on Mr. Cobden by stating that he cam e e to r house as independently as the hon. member for t" s iae Riding ; that he considered justification on hi s , the remarks ; and that he had not repudiated n'i c ivey his hustings-speeches. If Mr. Cobden has conotojeof penchant for teaching members their duty, we r, e , c a ide,,t s lo him to pause ere he puts his fingers on the svi, i p t i Po? men such as the member for Wakefield. The . 1 ;7,40 unfelicitous as was the leaving out at the , banquet the usual ioast of the " army and navY• RAILWAY AFFAIRS. seal)r The charge for conveyance between Huytoo ri pool er railway has been considerbl y reduced. I. p Mold and Chester Railway s is expec ted to eok „ for An important me traffic in about three weeks. fo, t d, et ing in support of the proje,,relL tending the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway to r" . t was held in the latter city on Wednesday. , foie In' The atmospheric tubes are being removee,eil,,ri '` South Devon line, preparatory to their being, vi:ebol and sold for old iron, after having cost the ,3. tile f 6 upwards of half a million. cfo CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.- - A,' week ended 23d June, 1849: Coaching tralue' d c 50 3, 17s. 3d. ; parcels, £3B 12s. 91.; goods £lBl 9s. 10d. ; steamboats, £lBB 13s. : total, 2,5 •'" Exclusive of toll from Shrewsbury and Chester il° 4C and payment for conveyance of mails. ; 0 , 1,4 LAW EXPENSES.—In a recent action age.li s fe rc. ° t rio company to recover £4O for lost parcels and e: A for , e ro the costs exceeded £5OO. An action is e nterncefi by a carrier against the London and Ner t l; s rg e . Company, to recover about £lOO, for " O'e r D't tha small parcels," and the company has fil e ol ie . :" Chancery, extending to one thousand folios 4 carrier with reference thereto. 5 ,0 y t . e, c• A NEW FEATURE IN RAILWAY MANA • Gh'the °tire gentleman named Wright, has contracted vlit,," t he e ll o of , tors of the , Staffordshire Railway to N or ' o ers l ttb line. Mr. Wright is bound to maintain the Voir rolling stock, and the general traffic of the lotAilite e ty, stations, clerks, and receipts are under the infitenTi,tifejs trol of the company. The whole of the lee% bae!,OPC pines and carriages are to be delivered into tt'.. to oc' the contractor for ten years. The contractor ;;Dops,bo) and pay rental on the original cost of the vorlop qtoir gine houses, and engine sheds, together with on lo 4 1' rails, sleepers, and tools. He is also to take 1 1 0 .'s e;er e all the water cranes at stations, and the cere,P. ko n e t ing contracts for water, &c. These items, 1 : n oto. c J tentage, will amount to nearly £5,000 per t ot ivcsibeO f contractor has to maintain and work the leV e ture o rtf, riages, waggons, &c., at a mileage rate, a n w orkilg r io s at the expiration of the contract, in pro per oa and condition as they were received by hici tr ocal l ; o 4 s , employ competent stokers, engine drivers, 0 0, Tb ef cleaners, and to supply coke, water, gr e tretet s e l 4B and every requisite for the running Of !f o r 1 3 " e . " contract agreed upon is about 10d. per mu' trains, making an average of about IV,. I %to erogO ke i contractor is subject to penalties for We o f Ov a ' On departure of the trains, and to Peig w Y, t to th e case he break or does not fulfil his coutraw ni panY• c e, tion of the company's engineer. The 00000, right to determine the contract, by s 1 2122i n g 44 (4 paying, as COMpengli)n i sari eX4'w.4- fitly 3, 1 1 .......„„,,,,,,..,..... &b 4 A RR . 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