The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-25 00:00:00

Ebt &tanbarti. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 25, 1849 , A FEW months ago that motley body, the Na tioNt.l Confederation of Liverpool, offered a prize of £7O for the hest Essay "On the Equitable Adjustment of National Taxation ;" and, as a matter of course, the pens of a multitude of scribes were forthwith put in requisition. The Committee appointed to determine upon the merits of the various productions submitted have at length awarded the prize of merit to one of these, which has been pritited by the Confederation, and is nov before us The opening pages of the Essay are devoted to a History of Taxation in the early ages, when the chief burthens were borne exclusively by the pro prietary of the soil, in the shape of Land Tax. This portion of the Essay is not uninstructive or uninteresting; but it is impossible to avoid detect n unfair share of the log in it a blame of Josition to la r present accumulation of burthens ulders of this body. They are repre sented as availing themselves, at every opportunity, of their preponderating influence in the legislature to escape from their fair share of taxation, although no attempt is made to spew it to have been just that, when the middle or trading classes began to upon the si iinportar ce, the land alone expense of eten ce progress in wealth ani should remain internal government and national c übject to the wl inconsistency into which the writers arc led by this anti-landlord bias is most glaring, as an example will suffice to she% He states, page 8 " From the period of the Conquest to the sitting of the Long Parliament, in 1643, the expinses of Government were in a great measure defrayed by the lands of En gland, which were held expressly on the condition of making those payments. It was owing to this that the holders of land offered, during the interval of our history, such determined resistance to the imposition of new taxes, and that, aided by the burgesses, whom, by itiner ant lecturing, they impressed with the idea that their interests were likewise at stake, they wrought upon the weakness of John to concede that they themselves be the judges of the necessity, and hence the quantity, of taxa tion. To this cause, also, do we trace the absence of national debt, or anticipations of revenue for state pun- Lich would have tended to enhance the Price poses, v which they bad to pay for the tent and to materially diminish the amour of their possessions, t of their enjoy- men ts. Surely this can he no great crime in the land owners that they sternly resisted the imposition of new taxes ; and that they wrung from the monarch one of the dearest rights of Englishmen, that the right to impose taxes should be in the people alone! This state of things, however, they inform us was altered at the commencement of the Com monwealth : " At that ti a still fur' r change took place. The landowners, haring become the sale legiilators, pa triotically freed themselves from the lien which the State had upon their properties. The collection of the feudal dues was discontinued, and the weight of taxation, which should constitutionally have been sustained by the land, was transferred to the products of industry ; and commerce and manufactures, which had been springing up from imperceptible beginnings, and had during the period referred to, swelled into streams of considerable magnitude, were subjected to - the inconveniences and re. atrictions imposed by the Excise, and to the augmented annoyance and pernicious effects of the Customs." We are certainly not aware that, at the time of the Commonwealth, the landowners became sole legis lators. So far as our acquaintance with history serves the very contrary was the case ; the great proprietors having been ousted from their seats to make room for adventurers from the middle classes, the tools of th men we hav )rewer of Hu To these mmencement of the Ingdon to attribute the system of direct taxation, which our Essayists condemn so strenuously, We fancy that the - statesmen of the Peel and Cobden school will not thank the Confederation for the_ following expose of the juggling system years. The writer is dilating upoii the subject of the several reductions which have been made in taxes upon various articles : k.s the burden, however, has merely been .em oved alteratic another, the reli, .11ass of producers to lien short of expects- n fact the 1 lessened been increased. From 1830 to the present time, various taxes have been repealed, which annually yielded in the aggregate a little over £20,000.000 and a quarter; whilst, including the Property nually £9,000,000 and nd Income Tax, whiet a quarter, leaving an apparent )f the country of £11,000,000 a-year. paid into the Exchequer, in 1831, nalance in fay But the ,t the country me in IX MIL This is undeniably )Ns a-year for the fiscal amend- The reductions of the past few years have been only apparent then of taxation has been shifted from the shoul ders of one class only to be imposed upon those of others; but the total weight to be borne has been increased. Moreover, to render our reduced taxes as productive as before the change, we have had to expend with the foreign producer a larger portion of the national earninu.s. The bur- We must proceed ho—ls ever to give a description barna of taxation, to which the Confedera tion have affixed the seal of their approbation, by giving their . unqualified sanction to this essay. of the si - The writers propose that an account should be taken of the incomes of every inhabitant, above the age of 20 years, without exception of any ; and such incomes should - be capitalized, according Thu o their nature Ls, they state " Labourers, for example, who earn £1 a week, have an income of £52 a year ;_ which, we may reasonably imagine them, one with for seven years and a half. The capital of each, there - ire, would be £390, and this sum would yield, by as ers per cent. upon capitalised ient of ls. 41d. The clerk who £lOO per annum, may also be en and a half successive years ; went of three receive is £760, which would I per centage, to £5 12s ke his tax amount, by si And the 'veil - inual . receipts by the number of yea, which they are worth, in order to determine the quantity of capital subject to charge." Incomes from fixed property of course will be as sessed at from 15 to 25 years' purchase. Females will not be exempted ; even domestic servants will be assessed. The total assessible capital, from property and labour throughout Great Britain they put down at £6,274,508,125, on which three quar ters per cent. would raise a revenue of £47,058,811. In order to collect this taxation the country is to be divided into districts. "In every city, town, and rural district of Great Britain and Ireland, there shall be offices of registry, where each male of the taxable age shall cause himself to be enrolled, f certain civil disabilities." Every s to be furnished with a book, fer all wages paid ; and he employer of labour -is workmen the proper per centage every pay day; and hand over the amount to the collector at stated periods rlngvav fn avnminP slieh ti shall deduct from Inspectors are nd re their accuracy to he confirmed upori oath. "The solitary or isolated workers," the writers say," shall have to make their returns monthly, quarterly, or semi-annually, according to circumstances." Ern _ _ and men of independent means have also to make returns, according to a form provid ald to nay Os' fa every quarter 0- plover t ,-, .eir quo, vord, the whole of t e community, from the illionaire, are to b 'weeper o involved v es of a gigantic inquisi to be covered over with a tonal sy complete army of goverr issue with the bulk of the people, prying into every man's business, examining employers and employed at their good pleasure; and the founda tion is to be thus laid for such a system of impos- is the sa jnfederation a scheme so absurd that we can only marvel that a body, composed in great part of men of business, could for a moment give it . the slightest counte nance. We shall not here attempt to examine the fair ness of the essayist's mode of capitalizing income, or, in other words—for the two things are identical —of his graduation of income tax. We prefer directing attention to the principle of direct taxa tion, contended for by the Confederation, and its tendency, if carried out. The essayist contends that a direct tax will bring about economy in the public expenditure ; that when men have to put their hands in their pockets every year, or everx quarter, and say, this is the amount which is wrung from our earnings to pay for the cost of government, for army and navy, for law and other national uses, they will insist upon every possible retrenchment. He suggests that our colonies should be abandoned to their own resources, as worthless possessions; that we might then disband ' THE IaItERPOOL STANDARD the bulk of our army, at present employed in pro tecting them ; that we might dismantle our navy, dissolved Observer says that the Free Trade Club has been which at present only "floats on every sea for the like unprofitable purpose ;" that we should itnme- tsg e vei lo bir e ui- i tan . imo t ir consent. diately bring the crown lands to the hammer---why governorship o"feßleaslta. Mr. O'Ferrall has resigned the that t r that he has been reprimanded. not add 'Windsor Castle and Park, Greenwich, It is said that if only half the objectionswhic'a have Buckinghatn Palace, the Royal Yachts, and other been lodged against the electors in the boroughs and valuable appanages, and board our Sovereign county of Cardigan are substantiated, nearly half the vo ters be disfranchised. Victoria in a cheap square or street in London , lettera rnent writtenfully approve b 5 Lord of with an income sufficient to keep a one-horse that Fromgoverstrikingjthem Russell.o itthel3ri appears shay ? In this way, we could, no doubt, reduce tish fl ag, as practised by Mr. More O'Ferrall, just as they considerably our direct contributions to the would ap prove, and always have approved, (according to national exchequer; but unfortunately th ere i s an their nature,) of every thing base. h Lord Brougham has again been addressing himself to awful bugbear in the way, which will retard for a while our approach to a primitive state of Arcadian t if e r . farmers tisrael i ? s f cry, offers and, tll e in penn contradistinction m aa. to e. plithlaute with bliss. There is the debt—the unvarying twenty- the Society for the ConfusiOn m of Knowled y g four millions a-year which constitutes one-half of the yellow capital of the one, and the blue-stocking aid the national burthens, 'Wh a t i s t o b e d one w i t h i of the other, the farmers will soon be in a condition to this? The crown lanes are to pay off a portion of it, we observe; and the rest is to be gradually liquidated by subjecting to legacy duty every species of property, and thus "a sum equivalent to a tenth of our annual savings be levied by a post mortem irntaost to redeem the debt," which it is calculated would be effected in eighty years. But would such an additional tax be submitted to for eighty years? Would it for ten years? We think not. We suspect that the very object of this scheme, which is to create "an impatience of taxation," would be so effectually realized in a couple of years that the debt would he voted a bore, and honesty, an exploded feeli POLITICAL MISCELLANY. understand the philosophical combination 'of green better than the French appear to do, according to Lord Brougham's account. • etural zalts'rellanv. . . of modern enliglitenment and philosophy. - We have, perhaps, bestowed more time upon this trumpery essay and its absurd propositions than they deserve. We cannot, however, conclude without addressing a few words to those Con servatives who _have given to the National Confederation the sanction of their names. We ask them to examine calmly what it is that such men as their essayist are driving at, and what would be the inevitable result of the adoption of the mode of taxation recommended. In the first place, let it be borne in mind that—as the Anti- Corn-Law League justly said—" Capital has no country." Capital will most assuredly not stay here to be taxed from 10 to 25 per cent. upon its returns: Capital will not remain in the public funds, in land, in houses, in railways, or in mines, for the tax-gatherer to take away yearly a tenth or a twentieth of its yield. It is contended, in reply to this obvious fact, that living will be cheaper, and that the increase of taxation upon the man of money will thus be compensated for. This is simply absurd ! The saving is only in the con sumption of the individual owner of capital and that of his family. The tax is upon the yield of his whole property. A man with ten thousand a-year will be paying from one to two thousands, and saving not as many hundreds from the cheapening of articles of necessity and comfort. Nor will industry, talent, or enterprise stay here to be taxed. The idea is preposterous. The whole scheme is a delusion. A perusal of this very essay must convince any practical man that a scheme of direct taxation cannot he worked ; but we go further than this, and unhesitatingly express our conviction that, in a very few years; it would hurry this country to a convulsion more disastrous than ever befel any civilised country. This agitation is, in fact, a revolution under a mask ; and we would most earnestly urge the Conservative members of the Confederation to part from the dangerous colleagues with whom they are allied, before they commit themselves irre trievably in the eyes of their fellow-countrymen. A. MEIVI. FOR DR. HAWTHORNE In a rather lengthy report, in reference to the measures of prevention and relief of cholera adopted in the metro polis, in which the beneficial effect of house to house visi tation is strongly dwelt upon, we find the following, amongst other similar statements : an hour King, in respect to Lambeth and Newinzton, re he tour dayi during which the visitation has been &ga -1 in operation, the vb itors have discovered and brought cricket eight or nine days before under immediate treatment 2103 neglected cases of diarrhoea, and 67 cases on the verge of cholera; but that none of these as far as has been ascertained, have passed into cholera." From a communication just received from Sheffield, it ap es that during the last week the medical officers have, by system, discovered, and brought under immediate treat- young man, su reptic fits, met . _ . . Tuesday, at Birmingham, by falling with his throat on a chamber basin. He expired in his mother's arms in a few minutes The Wakefield Journal says that a wife and child were publicly sold in a village near that town on Saturday week, f dia , ;rhcea, out has piissed itito cholera, and that during this period there ha 4 i been only one death from cholera in the districts under visita tion." by a labouring man, to a navvie, to her lawful husband. hem the wife preferred These are precisely the sort of cases which Dr. home considers within his conditions ; that is, the A police-officer, near Gateshead, having observed six thieves decamping from a house they had robbed, pre sented his staff, threatened to shoot the first man who stirred, and captured the whole batch without resistance. One of the Sheriffs elect of London. Alderman W. cholera cases which have not yet assumed the fatal type. WIT . I that other practitioners cure ases quite as infallibly as Dr. Those practitioners, however, like the par- Are to the premonitory symptoms their proper e have r 3 same description of peatedly Hawthorne. Lawrence, has his chaplain. appointed the Rev. D. Davison, M.A This is the first instance of an Unitarian name of lera," . . diarrlicea. The Doctor calls all his cases " Indeed, he says so in a letter to the Mercury, The American mail steamer Hermann left Southampton for New York on Thursday, with a cargo of Bremen and French manufactures, &e., valued at £150,000 sterling, and upwards of 160 passengers. _ It is stated in naval circle; that Ex-Commander Pitman, recently dismissed the service, intends appealing to the Court of Queen's Bench against the judgment of the court-martial which so justly deprived him of the com mission he disgraced. The cholera is visibly abated since the beginning of the week. The deaths reported in London this week are 850; throughout England, Wales, and Scotland, 3473. The country returns, however, include numerous arrears. In Dublin it has almost entirely ceased. The Glasgow Mail says that, on Wednesday morning, a barrel-organ player, who had slept in the open air at Glasgow, discovered that during the night he had been robbed of 17 sovereigns, a half.crown, and some copper money._ THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—The annual proceedings of this society—equal in interest to any former meeting, closed on Wednesday. The society will meet in August next year, with Sir David Brewster, as president, and in 1851, at Ipswich. At the sale of the effects of the late Mr. Nicholson, brother-in-law to Mr. Hudson, at York, last week, a portrait of the ex•railway king was put up, and the first bid for it was sixpence. It was ultimately knocked down to one of the family for ten shillings. THE HOME SECRETARY AT BERWICK.—At the dinner given to Sir George Grey, by his friends at Berwick, on Monday, it is rather remarkable that with the exception of the honourable guest, not a single member of either branch of the legislature was present I Samuel Hanson, a milk-man, at Lockwood, near Hud dersfield, has been committed to York assizes, for trial, on a charge of administering deleterious drugs to young women, in order to enable him to accomplish criminal 'The mixture was rum and cantharides Lord Carlisle has recently accepted the office of Vice President of the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders. The late Mr. J. Denison, M.P., has be queathed £5OO in aid of the society's farm-school, Redhill, Surrey. . - We regret to hear that the potato disease is doing much mischief in some parts of Scotland. It has also shown itself and is making progress, although not as yet to any very great extent, in the Axholme district of Lincolnshire, from which the London market is mainly supplied. From. other quarters, likewise, the same accounts reach us. A few days since, a fine kite pounced on a cage contain-, ing a goldfinch, which was hanging outside a house at Wood Leigh, Devonshire. The kite was so eager for his prey, or so stunned by the force with which he had struck the cage, that he was easily secured by the farmer, who ascencred a flight of steps, and took him with the hand LADY FRANICLIIN —This noble-minded and devoted heroine has purchased one-fourth of the Hull whaling ship Abram, and paid the additional risks for insurance, with a view to her exploring Jones's Sound and Smith's Sounding, and search for Sir John. She has also offered a reward of £5OO in case of success.—New York courier. MISS BREMER IN' ENGLAND.—Amongst the passen gers by the Helen M'Gregor, from Petersburg, which arrived in Hull last Saturday, was Miss Frederica Bremer, the celebrated Swedish authoress. This lady proceeded on Monday to London, whence she will in a few days proceed to New York. _ _ Sir Moses Montefiore and Lady Montefiore safely ar rived from the Holy Land in this country on the 13th. They landed at Dover, and proceeded to their seat at Ramsgate, Lady Montefiore has completely recovered from her previous illness.. The money distributed by the philanthropic baronet in the Holy Land amounted to no than £5,000 Messrs. Graham and Elliott, late of the Childers, are now confined as felons in Exeter Gaol. They complain very much of the treatment to which they are subjected, crior qu ;y of the food allowed them. "For cod's sake," eiclaims one of the gentlemen, writing to his solicitor, " obtain us some miti gation of this severity, or we shall both die." MURDER.—On Friday night a man, named Warner, formerly a waiter in the United Service Club, drowned his child, n girl about eighteen months old, by immersing her in a water-butt. his wife had gone out, and when she returned and asked for the child, he only replied, " I have murdered her, and you will find her in the water-butt." The man was given into custody. The foreign arrivals at Leith have been numerous during the last few days. No less than 65 foreign vessels were discharging grain during last week—the greater part of the wheat is from Prussia and other ports of Germany, and the oats and barley from Russia. Altogether, probably from 30,000 to 40,000 quarters are at present lying in Leith Docks. EVERY MAN HIS OWN GRAVE-DlGGER.—Between forty-five and fifty thousand bodies (says Mr. Walker) are annually placed in the receptacles for the dead in London ; and these bodies are deposited amidst millions of others who have predeceased them. Twelve-thirteenths of every dead body must dissipate and mix with the air we breathe, which is thus the vehicle of invisible and subtle poisons. A SOUND SLEEPER.—On Friday night, a person named Hunter, residing in Castle Gate, Nottingham, went to bed, having seen all the doors secured. By the side of his bed he kept a sword, and under his pillow he put his trousers, in the pocket of which was his purse, containing £6. On awaking in the morning, he found his trousers lying on the top of his sword, his money gone, and all the doors of the house open. He heard no noise. THE ENFIELD MURDER.—At the Central Criminal Court, on Thursday, Caroline Cock was indicted for the wilful murder of her husband, John Cock, at Enfield, in July last. The murdered man was footman in the service of Mr. Butler. Jealousy seems to have prompted the dreadful crime. The counsel for the defence dwelt in geniously on the probability of the man having murdered himself. A verdict of not guilty was returned. The Hereford Musical Ftstival closed with eclat, on Friday, the 126th meeting of the three choirs of Wor cester, Hereford, and Gloucester, the principal perform ances being the oratorios of Elijah and the Messiah, supported in the vocal department by Madame Castellan, the Misses Williams, and Miss Poole, Messrs. Lockey, Sims Reeves, Hobbs, H. Philips, and Machin. The amount collected was £833, being rather more than at the last festival in Hereford, in 1846. BENEVOLENCE.—Some time since the Earl of Carlisle received an anonymous letter containing £lOO. to be ap plied to her Majesty's service. His lordship, in the pre sent emergency, has sent the amount to the Bishop of ..,ondon, for the most afflicted districts of the diocese; and lest his lordship " should appear by this possible di version to be only making free with the money of others," he has sent the same amount to the Bishop of Winchester for distribution on the south side of the river. Lord Brougham, at the Carlisle Agricultural Associa tion, has repeated the advice he gave at Penrith, and has again lauded the Earl of Lonsdale for having delivered Prince Canino has declined to accept an invitation to a from water three thousand acres of land, and for deep soire'e proposed to be held in his honour at Birmingham. draininc, to the extent of three hundred miles. And the Two arrivals of hops from Belgium took place in Lon- Earl of Lonsdale renewed his account of the benefit which don last week. has been the result, which consists in the great fact that On Wednesday, seven fires occurred in the metropolis on properly drained farms the crops are earlier and more in less than twelve hours. prolific. The floating island in Derwent Water, Keswick, has TREASURE FROM CALIFORNIA.—On Saturday, seventy appeared again for the first time this season. tons weight of gold dust from California and dollars from Death has been busy of late with the old pensioners at Valparaiso were placed in the vaults of the Bank of Greenwich Hospital. Numbers of them are dying daily. I England, brought by her Majesty's ship Calypso. The A vessel arrived in London, from Caen, has brought 22 specie arrived by special train from Portsmouth, and was casks and 50 cases of French honey. removed from the London-bridge terminus in twenty At Aberdeen, James Robb has been sentenced to death vans, drawn by eighty horses, and escorted by the police. for the murder of Mary Smith, whom he also ravished. It was contained in 1,4000 boxes, value £6,000,000 The authorities of Norwich have commenced a subscrip- sterling. tion to erect a monument to the memory of the late bishop LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND Menrontsm.—Lord John of the diocese. Russell once gave great offence by thus passing judgment At the London Central Criminal Court last week, upon Conference :—" Could the Methodists be invested Thomas Smith, aged 33, was sentenced to fifteen years' by some revolution with the absolute power which Rome transportation for setting fire to a wheat stack. once possessed, there is reason to fear, unless checked by Sarah Jackson, the widow who attempted to murder the genius of a more humane age, the Conference would her children at Enfield, has been tried, and acquitted on equal Rome itself in its spirit of persecution." Many de the ground of insanity. vout Methodists are now prepared to say that his lordship The Duke of Northumberland is at present expending had more penetration than they gave him credit for.— a sum of £20,000 in improving the cottages of the ten- Wesleyan Times. antry on his estates. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Wednesday a very destrac- On Friday week, a boy leaped into the hopper of afl our tive fire, the act of an incendiary, took place at a farm at mill in London, and was covered and suffocated by the Braintree, Essex. The live stock destroyed consisted of meal before he could be extricated. six horses, two calves, a sow, and eleven pigs. The crop The inhabitants of Leicester pay a voluntary rate of a of the farm in the barns, (which were extensive and full,) penny in the pound, for the furtherance of the National- t wo s t ac k s o f w h eat, a stack of barley, two stacks of hay, rate agitation. two of straw, the cart-lodge, with all the implements, At the New Court. London, John Pearson, a labourer, stables, granary, barley, barn, two cattle sheds, piggeries, indicted for stabbing a man named Lamb, at Whetstone, wheat barn, and two sheep sheds, were also consumed, in a quarrel, was sentenced to ten years transportation. and the cowhouse was partially injured. An Inverness paper mentions that, a few daps si nce , LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT.—On Thursday Mr. W. H. three sportsmen, who were shooting on the Glenfeshie Jennings, son of the Rev. H. Jennings, of Watton Abbey, Hills, killed thirty brace of ptarmigan in five hours. near Driffield, was out in the fields amusing himself with The lowest rental of land in England is in Wiltshire, a gun. Finding some cattle had strayed in the fields, he where it averages 9s. per acre ; and the highest is in Mid- attempted to put them right, and in endeavouring to do dlesex, where it averages about 345. so he struck one of the beasts with the butt end of the A young man, rejoicing in the patronymic of Oliver gun, whilst holding the barrel in his hands. The concus- Cromwell, has found his way into Wakefield House of sion produced by the blow is supposed to have caused the Correction, for theft. Another named Feargus O'Connor gun to discharge, and lodged the contents in his body. is in the same place, for an assault. He only survived a short time. Sir James Duke's butler strangled himself on Sunday LOLA MONTES.—This celebrated woman is the daugh week, at his lordship's country residen c e in Scotland, ter of a Cork lady. Her mother was a member of a mil. Glen Ogil. He had recently suffered from concussion of linery establishment in this city, the partners in which the brain by a fall from a horse. were the mother of the Countess of Landsfelt, her sister, A PRECIOUS JUNCTION.—The Paris correspondent of and two step-sisters. The mother was married in this the Times states that relations of an intimate kind have city to Lieutenant Gilbert, the father of Lola, who was an been established between a leading French Socialist officer in the army, and shortly after sailed from this port refugee in London and the Chartists with ulterior views. with his wife to join his regiment, the 21st Bengal Native On Sunday, a man suddenly threw himself under an Infantry. Lola's mother, who is in declining health, paid omnibus as it was going through Moorgate-street, L on - a v i s i t to h er s i ster i n th i s c i ty at t h e close of last year.— don, and was killed on te spot. A coroner's jury brought Cork Constitution. in a verdict of " Temporary insanity." NEW MODE OF PUNISHING A THIEF.—Last week, a On Monday a young man, named John Marr, at Gains- young man entered a currier's shop in London to buy a bore', who has been much addicted to intemperance, piece of leather, and whilst the proprietor was getting the committed suicide in the union workhouse by striking his article for him, the young man secreted a roll of leather head against the wall. under his apron, which was missed by the proprietor, who On Wednesday week, some gentlemen dined at Spald- gave the thief the choice of two things—to stand on the ing, Lincolnshire, off some corned beef, which had been counter with a card round his neck, with the words, enclosed in a tin case in March, 1820, an d whi c h was pro- " This young man is a thief !" or be given into the custody nounced to be very good, though a little too salt. of the police. The thief chose the former, and was Another of the Chartist prisoners, named Alexander exhibited to several thousand passers-by for the period of Sharpe, died in Tothill-fithls Prison last week. Latterly he has been locked up, and kept on bread and water, and he told his wife that this was the cause of his death. Mr. Godfrey Pigott, of Bolton-upon-Dearne, died on Thursday week from concussion of the brain, occasioned sorts I by a blow of a ball under the right ear while, playing at FIGHT BETWEEN WOMEN.—The Bedford Times re ports an Amazonian battle. On the borders of Roxton and Wilden parishes are some fields, the gleaning of which is disputed by the neighbouring parishioners. The other day the worn en fought for the prize., The Wilden women were gleaning, when the Roxtonians resolved to expel them. A fierce battle ensued ; caps and bonnets flew about, hair was torn from the head, and there was a terrible clamour. The invaders were successful, on ac count of superior numbers ; the Roxton women count ing nearly sixty, the Welden hardly thirty.. Mr. W. Hodgson, tenant farmer, of Low-Walton, near Whitehaven, has addressed a letter to Messrs. Mechi, Davis, and Huxtable. as representatives of the "scientific treatment of the soil." £2O to £10( urnips equal present growir to one a scientific" BURN'S MONTHLY COLONIAL CIRCULAR The state of our colonial exports to the British colo nies, and markets for commerce with which they afford facilitie: ppears to be thus far of a very satisfactory cha- increase in the principal cotton staple plain calicoes, from the commencement of the year to the present time, to the following markets, over the average of the 3 years preceding : Calcutta, increa5e,15,391,541 yards; Bombay, 28,625,205 yards ; Sincapore, 2,137,240 yards ; other ports of India, (except Madras,) 1,047,269 ; Shanghae, 9,680,951 ; other Chinese ports, (except Hong Kongand Canton,) 1,536,936; New Holland. 2,236,166 ; Mauritius, 749,192 ; Coast of Africa, 2,330,018 • Jamaica, 977 , 032; Honduras. 797,799 ; other British *est Indian ports, 1,238,221 •, Cuba, 195,602 ; St. Thomas, 1,393,996 ; Columbia, 4,649,125 ; River Plata, 14,125,336. There is a decrease to the following places :—Madras, 185,408 yards ; Batavia, 1,064,232 ; Hong Kong and Can ton, 6,248,594 ; Cape of Good Hope, 1,266,553 •, British West Indian ports, 466,179 ; Brazils, 1,001,731 ; Chili and Peru, 2,868,111 ; Mexico, 77,343 ; British N. Arne _ on of rice, 1,373. E I States, 4,435,528 yards. Gene- 907 ; Unite( (i- rally speaking, me exports of printed and dyed goods have followed the rule of plain calicoes. There are im portant exceptions, however, in the case of the Brazils, where the decrease in printed and dyed goods is more than five times that of plain ; in Chili and Peru, where with a decrease of nearly 3.000,000 yards of plain goods, we have an increase of 10,967,083 yards of printed and dyed ; in Mexico, where, against a decrease of 77,343 yards plain, we have an increase of 7,687,768 printed and dyed ; and the United States, where, against a decrease of 4,435,528 yards plain, we have an increase of 10,590,249 yard NOVEL BOOT JACK.—Major Rogers had just bad capital fun with a herd of elephants ; his four guns had all been discharged, when an elephant made a charge at him at the skirts of the jungle ; there was no help for it except to run ; and for 400 yards the major kept just a-- feeling at every step t itself round his loins. lead, inuate A turn round a free - gave him a momentary advantage. which he made most of, by spring . g as a lion), one foot higher, and he would have t of the elephant's reach, but before he had time up his legs the elephant had got firmly clenched Is of his proboscis ; still Rogers pulled against to dr in the co him, thin thing it better to have his leg wrenched from the socket than to fall back bodily into the animals power. The struggle, however, did not last long; for to the de light of the pursued, and the chagrin of the pursuer, - the Wellington boot which the former wore slipped off, ex tricated the leg, and saved the life of poor Rogers. The dilemma, however, did not end here, for the elephant, finding himself baulked of his prey, after destroying the hoot np his quarters beneath the branches, and kept cd victim in the tree for 24 hours, when the )untry postman, happening to pass by, Rogers , took I, flticipat gavehim notice Of . his position , and on this being inti mated to the nearest village, the elephant was frightened away by tom-toms and yelling. lied this occurred in a deserted part of the jungle, poor Rogers would, undoubt edly, have been starved to death in the tree.—Sport ing Magazine. ENGLISH RESIDENTS ABEOAD.—It is a strange thing ice cant mong of which we Bele- t for our own convenience, and where it is comfort to promote cordiality and good 1 Englishman carries with him, where _ ,ustinate antipathies : first, a disrelish or contempt for everything that is not English ; second, a freezing suspicion and distrust of everything that is. so essential to fellowship. B f urn of in a repellant atmosphere shuts 1 a crust of prejudices, and has a Way of disdaining the people, whose resources he has come to eat up, and at the same time of shunning his own countrymen, which is ir• reconcilable with common sense. He dislikes the French because they am French , andavolds the English because s like - Avranclies, which' ;elected on the common ground of cheapness, tbe latter hows itself in_its most unworthy aspect. An Englishman will have it believed that everybody na, there for economy, except himself; and his conduct im plies a sort of superiority over them which must be un intelligible to people like the French, who never suffer such considerations to interfere with their sympathi es , or interrupt the flow of social intercourse. The prevailing occupation of a community which thus sits in judgment on itself is scandal of the very meanest kind. Each in dividual seems to think this depreciation of other people's characters indispensable to the elevation of his own. He shines by the force of contrast. He makes out his case, not upon his own merits, but by damaging the case of S Come the gentleman over the way. Next-door neighbours supply the whole business of life. They cannot dress, dine, walk, without being exposed to an incessant inqui sition. Habitual defamation gradually splits up the little colony into factions that have their distinct cir cles, holding no intercourse with the rest, and waging against each other that bitterest of all species of warfare, which, not content with open manifestations of derision and hostility, penetrates to the secrets of households, and strikes its shafts into the core of domestic life.—Bell's Wayside Pictures. o produce a crop o Plan of our ancestors but repudiated by the ~, V IIIIC/11C11. LIAM 11 /1116 cualictige IJ UUCCIJICU, tur.ontmg son further challenges them, in addition, for the like sum, for the best-managed farm, and the quality of the general stock thereon " DESPERATE CASE" OF CHOLERA.—The following is the latest case of cholera which has come within our notice :—A gentleman, having some property in Water lane, was desirous to obtain from a certain male tenant his lawful rent. The bailiffs were sent to• distraia the goods for the same, but, on entering the premises, found the tenant in a desperate state from cholera.. Such apparently being the case, they consulted together, after which they fled in alarm. We are enabled to state that the afflicted one recovered almost as soon as the " limbs of the law" bad shut the door after them.—Yorkshire- ANOTHER FLYING DUTCHMAN.—A narrow escape oc curred on the St. Leger night to a respectable man at Rawmarsh, who had witnessed the decision of that great event with feelings of great excitement. He had retired to rest, which appears to have been much disturbed by visions of what he had on that day seen. He loudly voci ferated in his sleep, " They're coming, they're coming ;" and springing out of bed, exclaimed, " the Dutchman — the Dutchman wins--stand off—stand off—the Dutch man wins !" He threw open the window, jumped out, and fell a distance of sixteen feet, alighting on a brick pavement, but without receiving any further injury than a severe shaking.—Doncaster Gazette. LAMENTABLE FATALITY.—The following report from a district in Lambeth is fearful :—" F., 65, widow of a ship-carpenter, cholera twelve hours, Sept. 13, 7, Hemp shire-street.—This place contains eight houses, in every one of which, I am informed, cholera has made its appear ance. In No. 3 died a mother, just on the point of con finement, and four children. The husband, after the loss of all his tamily, fled, to wander, as he said, about the country, careless what might become of him. The land lord, or his agent, let the premises to another family, who entered the house ignorant of what had taken place, and were almost immediately seized with cholera. The daugh ter died in a few hours ; the mother was very bad when I saw her, but has also since fled from the spot." MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—On Friday week, .Thnathan Hoy, aged 69, a respectable carrier in London, committed suicide. Since the death of the deceased's wife, which took place nearly five years ago, his whole thoughts had been centred in his only son, a youth of twenty years of age, for whom he entertained the strongest affection. Arrived, however, dose upon the age of legal responsi bility, the youth united himself to a woman of loose cha racter. This preyed deeply upon the father's mind for ted his usual avocations, went SECOND EDITION. Standard Office, Twelve o'clock, noon LATER FROM AMERICA. Arrival of the Steam-Ship Caledonia. The Royal Mail steam-ship Caledonia arrived in the river this morning at eleven o'clock, and has brought dates from New York to the 11th inst., and 21 passengers. The cholera still continued to decline, and had disap peared from New York, in an epidemic form. The steam-ship Niagara reached New York on the 7th instant, and took intelligence of six steamers. She re ported the arrival of the Europa at Liverpool, and saw on her passage the steamers Cambria, America, Hibernia, Canada, and Sarah Sands. The Empire City, with one month's later news from California, was anxiously looked for at New York. According to all appearances, the secret expedition, designed for the invasion of Cuba, has been knocked on the head for the present, in consequence of bad arrange. ment on the part of those who were at the head of it. A rumour of an insurrection in the eastern part of the island had been circulated, but this had arisen from the fact that the government bad chartered two steamers to take troops for reinforcing the garrison at certain exposed points. General Taylor is reported to be still in very feeble health. SHIPPING NEWS. — Arrived at New York': Aberdeen, and Devonshire, of Liverpool. THE HENRY CLAY.—Nothing has yet transpir-d as to the origin of the fire by which this unfortunate vessel was destroyed. She had on board 200 bales cotton; 1,000 barrels flour; 800 barrels rosin; 30 hoghsheads tobacco; 43,000 worth india rubber shoes and coal for ship's use. The value of the whole cargo is estimated at 4'30,000. It is said to be fully insured on this side of the water. The vessel is insured for 866,000. The New York Herald " In the present state of matters it is impossible to ascertain whether any of the cargo has been saved in the hold by the scuttling of the vessel. The rosin was in the bottom. The cotton was between decks. It is intended to raise her with casks, and then the whole truth will be revealed, both as to the cargo and the vessel. We ap prehend that even her bottom will be found to be of little value. It is believed that none of the rosin is burnt, as the water filled the hold before the fire communicated with it." CANADA.—Lord Elgin on the sth inst. proceeded with his Countess and suite to visit Niagara Falls, with a view, it is supposed, to meet General •Taylor, who is staying there. His Lordship is not expected to visit Toronto, Hamilton, or any part of Upper Canada in his progress. Public feeling continues in an excited state. The harvest in Upper Canada is nearly gathered, and the crops ex cellent. List of Passengers : —From Boston—Mr. George A. Fanshawe and lady, Mrs. Marshall, Mr. Geo. C. Bosson, Mr. A. Bowman, Mr. S. Dupont, Mr. W. Hastings, jun., Mr. S. J. Carter, Right Rev. Bis Lop Ruppi, Messrs. J. Cameron, Schulten, C. Vogel, H. C. Schuller, V. Lafont, C. Morey, A. Grant, T. Hughes, C. Bontemps, Roderick, and Maud. From Halifax—Mr. Simms. some time about like one deranged,. calling for his " dear lost bov ;" and on Friday put a period to his worldly career by swal lowing a large quantity of the oil of vitriol. We believe it has been generally held by medical men that the early or premonitory stage of cholera is almost completely under control. It is confirmed by the result of house-to-house visitation, which has been partially in operation for a week or two in London ; and. this result is so remarkable that we select two illustrations of it. Within a few days, in Lambeth and Newington alone, the medical visitors charged with house-to-house inspection discovered and brought under immediate treatment 2,200 cases of diarrhoea, and 67 cases on the verge of cholera, the whole of which they were able to stop by taking timely measures of prevention. In Bethnal-green the medical visitors record 1,600 cases of diarrhoea, 57 of rice-water purging, and 69' of cholera discovered, and, with only three exceptions, checked. A LUCKY FlND.—About a week ago the wife of Thos. Reece, a collier, residing at North Wingfield, Yorkshire, was rummaging up some old pit clothes that had been laid aside for a number of years, in order to find a patch, and in the course of her search she met with a pair of old trousers that had belonged to her husband's father, when she found the watch pocket carefully stitched up, and upon being cut open it contained a receipt for £55, which had been placed in Messrs. "Wright and Co.'s bank, at Nottingham, by David Reece, in the year 1833, and who died iu March, 1842, without saying a word about it. The wife, overjoyed, hastened to inform her husband of their good luck, who immediately posted off to Nottingham, and received the above sum, with £ll 15s. 2d. interest —Derby Mercury BAPTIST —The negotiations for the occupation Lapel. Cf:ny's inn- NOM r. Noel of 11 road, have been LrouL;ht to an unsuccessful ter:>,:r.ation. The chapel is the property of Mr. Davenport, who, under a commission of lunacy was declared some years ago in competent to manage his affairs. Now, as Mr. Daven port is an Episcopalian, the Court of Chancery will not sanction the transfer of the chapel to a dissenter, on the ground that if Mr. Davenport were compas mentis, he would probably object to such a transfer, feeling bound not to do any act of which Mr. Davenport, in his right mird, might disapprove. Mr. Noel will hereafter be the pastor of Mr. Harrington Evans's Baptist Chapel, John street, Bedford-row, London. POPULATION or LONDON.—The number of deaths re gistered in London last week (says a correspondent) was 3,183 ; that is equal to 454 every day, 19 every hour, and one person every three minutes. This may appear very alarming to some readers, but they must bear in mind that the vast extent and population of our metropolis, London and its surrounding districts, contains nearly 3,000,000 persons. If the immense number of persons were placed in a line, at a distance of 14 yards apart, they would reach to the extent of 25,000 miles, or more than the circumference the globe ;so that if persons died at the above rate, viz., one every three minutes, and allowing 1,000 births every week, it would then be 26-years before all the people in London were extinct. COMMERCIAL, NEW YORK, Sept. 11. Flour dull, and sells'at 85 to 5,12 for common State, $5,19 to 5,25 for straight State and Western, Southern .85.38 to 5,50. Rye flour 83 to 3,06. Jersey meal $3,25. 1500 bushels Del. wheat sold at 114 c. Corn dull, and nominal at yesterday's price._ 1000 bushels rye sold at 59i to 60c. Pork, 10,75 for mess, and at 6 to 78. Exchange closes at 9 to 10 for sterling, and 5,271 for francs 5 for prime . 250'brls. lard sold FREIG s.—Naval stores were taken for Liverpool at 1671., and heavy goods at 155., and measurement goods were taken at 20s. for London. THE COTTON TRADE The question of supply, in view of the increase of consump tion, has again become of paramount importance, and is likely to challenge a closer scrutiny than for some years past. It is a question that is always involved in much uncertainty, particu larly at so early a period of the season as this,- and the indul gence in anything like definite estimates would be presumptu ous in the extreme, as so many vicissitudes may yet arise to the advantage or disadvantage of the growing crops. We think it may be safely asserted, however, that, what with the frosts of April, which, by rendering replanting necessary to'an im portant extent, retarded the progress of cultivation several weeks in some sections,. and the excessive rains of July, which washed the hills, flooded the lowlands, and kept the grass and weeds rank in the fields— and still further, the recent destruc- The quality of the new supplies thus far this season proves much superior to those of last year, and they give warrant for the expectation of a considerably higher average classification than was attained for the crop of• 1848. The sales of new crop up to this date amount. to 2€3'bales, at a range of 101 to 12 c. for Good Middling to Good Fair, with some fancy parcels at 13 to 14 c. per lb. In addition to the causes already enumerated, as operating against the production of a full crop, the past few days h'ive brought intelligence that the boll worm is quite destructive in many sections, and that in several portions of Louisiana and Mississipi caterpillars have•appeared upon the•plants, which it is feared may prove the same species of worm that committed such ravages in 1846. It is devoutly to be hoped, however, that this may not Le the case, or at 'least that the lateness of their appearance, and a favourable change in the weather (which has thus far been rather too wet), will prevent the ac complishment of very extensive injury. Some two or three weeks (perhaps less) will determine this important point. STATEMENT OF COTTON Stock on hand Ist September, 1848 Arrived since the 25th ultimo bales 37,401 2,057 Arrived previously Total receipts for 12 months, ending 31st ultimo Additional bales made from waste and da maged cotton, and samples, estimated 1,142,382 1,145,382 1,182,783 The New York Shipping List states:the crop for 1849, as Last year... Year before, Increase over last year Bales 2,728,596 year before 2,347,634 arted to Great Britain Lait year Increase 949,945 Total exports 1,537,901 bales 1,324,2 Increase 2,227,884 pp last year, , 8,261 369,583 ~ SEPT. 11, 24,P.M The sales of Cotton are 1000 bales, at full prices. "OUR B. LADY OP LORETTO IN LONDON.—With their characteristic readiness to take advantage of every circumstance, the Popish priests at the east end, have, with the air of some " Wapping boys," pitched a tent on the cemetery adjoining what they intend to be the site of new church of " Our Blessed Lady of Loretto. TL measures 100 feet by 40, and accommodates 100 l persons, Mass is regularly said there, and the whole affair, which is puffed off most immoderately in the Tablet, is under the management of an association, calling itself " The Sodality of our Lady of Loretto, for the erection of a new church of Loretto."—John Bull. RELIGIOUS SORUPLES.—At the Central Criminal Court this week, Isidore Yarblouski, 17, a Polish Jew, having been convicted of a felonious assault upon Leah Isaacs, a girl under twelve years of age, and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment and hard labour, asked, through his interpreter, what he was to do with regard to his vic tuals while he was in gaol. The Recorder asked what he meant. The interpreter said, that. being a Jew, he wished to know whether he could comply with his religious in structions with regard to food while he was in prison. The Recorder said he had no power to make any order upon the subject. The prisoner should have thought of that before he attempted to debauch a child under twelve years of age. If his religion bad kept him from commit ting such an act, he would not have been placed in his present position ; but as it had not, he must conform him self to, the regulations of the prison. in which he would be confined Tuu BANK OF ENGLAND.—On Thursday a half-yearly general court of the proprietors of the Bank of England was held for the purpose of considering a dividend. The governor (Mr. Prescott) said, is have to inform the court that the profits of the half-year have exceeded the usual dividend of 31 per cent. by £14,522 ; that the amount of rest, out of which the dividend is to be declared, is £3,567,328 7s. 10d., and that the court of directors pro pose that a dividend of n per cent. be made (if this court think fit), out of interest and profits for the half-year ' ending the 10th of October next, without any deduction on account of income-tax. After the payment of a divi, dend of 31- per cent., the amount of the rest will be re duced to £3,057,973. Mr. De Winton moved as an soormdment that out of the rest of £3.574,861, dividend of 41 per cent. on the bank capital be paid to the proprie tors on the 10th of October next. Mr. De Winton, jun., seconded the amendment. After considerable discussion the amendment was negatived, only the mover and seconder voting for it. ANOTHER FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday, Captain Somerville (late of the Royal Artillery) and Mrs. Somerville, with their female attendant, went out from Portsmouth in one of the boat yachts. Being nearly becalmed at Spithead, and wishing to get on shore, the boatman volunteered to put the party on shore at South sea beach in his dingy. No sooner had the party got into her than she capsized, and the four persons were immersed in the water, The boat gable was close to, and by the exertions of the boy left in her, and the boatman, who regained the yacht, Captain and Mrs. Somerville, and the attendant, were all got out of the water, but in a very exhausted state. It was supposed to be about an hour before the parties could be brought on shore, when they were taken to Mr. Hollingsworth's hot-baths, and every method for their resuscitation was used ; medical aid was also soon got. Captain Somerville was soon recovered, and Mrs. Somerville also was resuscitated, but she re mained in a precarious state for an hour or more. The attendant, Mary Anne Robinson, was lifeless before she was landed. set22o l THIRD EDITION. GE - IS NI ••sr ol fl q .Prel l „° 1 LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET-T ll but t he • obi' )! it has a s Our Share Market is quiet this morning, and tniF te etbe r a 11) e ear l 44 ; ceded a little. The sales, however, appear to be a' ` L ;nct!',, , , b ei `2 Standard-office, Two o'clock,P ite tit li t ' nth ' de T sfa h r speculators. The prices quoted to one o'clock are — d orl'i ttt a Sq za and Yorkshire, 35 dis. ; Ditto Fifths, di s. Otiri „: tn 112 ; Shares, prem. ; Sheffield Eighths, 3; 3 ' l "prefe 7 eriee 51 • s -Shares, ISi dia.; Dover No. 4, 6 ; Newcastle r., ) , , oro ucr i, 4i ' dis. V'Por e. 6 '4 , IfZ e ', at 37: LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.-1111,:;,,, h e . Wit Without any lively symptom in the Wheat trade o r ' e - or? Ni f • Prod ing, the prices of English, Irish, and Foreign old of 'l, Petre unvaried, and in limited demand ; and new fartners n ' t i oter o i t zi? • hav e the show of samples was numerous, was likewise o i , 9, h ut value. Irish new was rather easier to phrchase. . f . a rce , ,4 ft ' Nit; Choice brands of American Flour are becoining.,7o, o3 ot fi n •°n, consequently rather dearer •, other kinds of Man n ' , ,70i 4 C e We as Irish, remaining unvaried. .. st be A i: l ) .tv I n) ite ( In Barley no change was observable. Malt Was seri 'Or al , • u .. v pressed in value. English and European Beans, tho nr; ssi It,nmdiitatnedCtoornonwyaeslinoewglecwtheditetore are not dearer, but Egyptians are held at an A 1, 4 4 e e es 6.r • D r , altar 6d. to la. per. qr. yaahe and s t a a d tio c n i a in i:te f 41 ; 1' 3 1 Oats and other articles we have no change to k ka tsin, exam a 4 et Niot; a nd to 11 •tla an d foi lit !, th ere Thr, les a ' r is s r t ,iti es wv C 4 j 4 4 45. 4 is -e 4l oo k pus to "e e l, o^esN ha w ith a sli t IN ade ' . eh e r It ed,•o sale L katd f i f t .r Th "Rlit ePe av ea B altia ur ' 1 135 11 - 1 1 ts titi vier „ 'Nlitth er h rt-tt s 6coy rant 1,-. r: P 4 .r. • % : 1 'F', :2% ~. 8 R , ,2 - ma 3 fl; 1,0,4 ...,, I - I `'. no g r 0, -0:41 I • 1 lJ loon ..,_. (~o 4 , 1 R.... 1 *."-',., c .1 4 ... I • Ka ,-.-• A carved oak fire-place, of great beauty and has be en presented to the Mayor of Durban official capacity for the citizens, by Walter Scrut° and is to be placed in the old civic chamb r, th e ° nelling and architectural character of which are n° restoration. In date it appears to be of the time °- 0( VIII. Ipg dlred CALIFORNIAN GOLD.—We have had the P7 - h - s 5 %. 4 inspecting one of the largest pieces of gold the' „ e cil°' been dug out of the Californian mines. Tlie s r - ,, 0 136. was received by Messrs. 3/I , Callum and Gra u ttP' f : chanan-street. It weighs 61 lb., and is worth ah°,bacif. It is of irregular shape, and has the appearance e ` re cil been submitted to a fusing heat. Around thi 3 r," to cb., lump of metal, an iron collar is fixed, to which 1 9 c, a strong chain about two feet long. This aprar atu ilell used in the United States to secure the prize fccta stolen out of some museum in which it was exhilo",eM This large piece of bullion in its r cie -nded with inconvenience as Br' , 51. 00 h '; ierstand, that last night, it w9:..1 to for the purpose of being reducc° the realm.—Giasgew Mail. RING ON TITE CAM.—Tr great curiosity chonn bainrr of exchange, we and river pot has presented a rather novel appearance during_no col" fortnight, from the number of persons emPir t nroP e d t :, letting the weeds cut by the conservators. 11 `: 5 11i% ties of these weeds, as manure, are truly a s ` °- , 1 0, 1/ ,;I being so powerful when decomposed that, like go ll ' e pew necessary to mix with them something else. 143rg h , rig e o r i are to be seen at different places by the side of t4.."10,40,6 some of which are said to be worth from .E 5 t ° collected with very little trouble in a short tira e " or; wonder that this has not been sttended to befereivit tb i cially as we know a gentleman who, k n owing t s i - a0 richness of fen land was owing to the deconW ° ., s 'd P e ig vegetable matter, recommend e d to some of the lor , sons who are now collecting thisinanure to do so I)e' t since. f ~,01 oi THE FAST DAY IN LONDON.—The April tigad, came famous for its manifestation of the Per. ct r eoi, r e ' r ; England's sons. The September of 1849 will bered as exhibiting their faith and trust in 1 , 0., o llic o appearance of that great section of the metroV i ' - g e.ol lies on the southern bank of the river, on Nv e `, l l it, e t will never be forgotten by those who witness the exhibited half a million of people, apart from n i.e lq ; e rf. districts of London, for themselves and by t" e- f f ito'',,, seeking to God's throne for mercy in an hour of c s , So ri " l And this was not done by merely making the day of s ire bath-day. The observance went far beyond thates remembered Sunday. The whole of the htalbetot closed—spirit-shops, cigar-shops, and inns. " t r ot walk" and the " New Cut,"—places where, orvii Sabbath mornings, trade is openly carried on, we re ' bry day, silent as the grave. Cricket-matches we re jo il4 off, and Vauxhall and all similar places wer e # 1 still! irPrer. STRANGE NOTIONS OF MARRIAGE.---At W ed d Criminal Court, London, last week, a man na lli pe at n d aged 31, was sentenced to one year's iniprisc" aeo hard labour for bigamy. The prisoner said ths a t r it ife his wife parted by mutual consent, and he b b a .d a The her for fifteen montis. Before they Par" — ty• wrote to him to ask him to give her her fibe r i l l)er" I Recorder.—What do yonmean by giving her ber tbe r ''ne' Defendant.—Why, that we mi g ht n ot live tag e oa el' l „ l ce, gave her her liberty, as s h e w i s h e d, an d she W e 'd I and she told me she was going to be married , s e sa rar i ;gle her leave to do so, and the said I might do th e y a then married this woman, as I considered MYse i w ife tie r, man. The Recorder here h a nded t o the secon" Pr ii° r e• following document, which was t a k en from th e and asked her if she had ever seen it before' y a l Pe t plied that when she discovered the prisoner w i ll t be P ik tied man, and taxed him with it, he produced f at!';`,c 9 in question, as he said, to satisfy her that thei r ba t was legal; and he, at the same time, told her signed by his first wife. The paper was a,s, big!te, This paper certifies that Stephen Deer 5 0 °' I W e ' e l ' wife for five shillings, for the term of his natee,,toorri that all parties agrees to the following weru s o . s r " five shillings, and one shilling to drink hcalth._ent,, signatures were appended to this precious docewaise among them one purporting to be that of the P first wife. vire,dnegqieli THE BERMONDSEY MURDER.—On th 5e e , 11 ‘, 4 ,1 ning and his wife were again brought up at - - „ing Police-court, for further examination. an',ol e -c in with an unsteady step, and presented a . I .' e, l l o; t 0 ,4 1 1 : countenance,. indicative of bad health ; his wi •t, b followed without e w r i y thlu o t u t g h h e tf l u ea l. st waveringpuri During th i T e l e h x e a r ffi g i 0 : 0 1 61 ! c o i l t 3 000r , ileoe 'l Manning frequently made suggestions to her 0 . 0 4 did the mate prisoner to Mr. Bi n ns. The fer n ,;,,le 57 ,10,,e did not exhibit the slightest feeling, but the o', to be somewhat affected as those parts of o' o o 1 4 relating to himself were deposed- to. Mrs • 3 . 1 1;ee l ' e i: maintained a short conversation with gr . 4o oi l ?`,,t Governor of Horsemonger-lane Gaol, as he 0 it° side, expressing as we believe, her desire for 5 0 06 with Mr. Moxey in the gaol. She at:liver ed bee s J o,F rt than formerly. Both prisoners stood during t of o llej tion. The additional evidence taken was ti tce' I, ho Coleman, the landlord of No. 3, Miniver-P the I , the Mannings lived ; Mr Archibald Grltnic_rioi ti c f; clerk, who changed the £lOO note, Mr. na t .- , 32,f, / , gave Barrett (since dead) the £lOO note l e r e 'hp I k ' n h o e w p n a , r a ti n c d ul t a h rs ere o fisthneoiroceeavidsieonnceiorhoiwtsevreerkifloitolel tbef At the conclusion of the examination the Pr ' p ecte cO 4 O, rem- Thursday next, when it is % t ol vv.n bout be committed for trial at the Ce, b er. r yj, nal Court, to be holden on the 22nd Oc. 1 : 0 0 3 ,1)0 1 t 2 Ballantine and Mr. Parry have been ret- 3 1 er 11 12 0 ' 0 1e,4 Manning, and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins fo r h as er —Since the last examination, a circumstance 1111'011,0;i light likely to throw guilt upon a third part i l e ' e ps t) ,De l et that O'Connor was seen by a woman who iriateeef conist's shop and news shop, at twenty r e m) ti! ir eof six o'clock, in company with Mrs. Manni n g 0 0• A Ptl' ing of the murder. They passed her she? i i a lfe'i, and proceeded towards London -bridge , , fan ot", twelve yards in the rear by Manning an fie , 0 0 ,11 whom she has minutely described and ide%, til e " , *(. 4 0 therefore, supposed, from other inforn3a!wboas„ce7 men, including O'Connor, entered a Pub l ` c- to :;0 3c / ?‘ Mrs. Manning hurried to his lodging s jn t°, whether the deceased's property was sare• tr ive° l ,, time, Manning and the other man ee e s ho rt e rfd e , O'Connor to his house, where they we re aial" P'l3, wards rejoined by Mrs. Manning, and th_! . . A ,reti tb os mitted. It is quite clear that the mad e t he t o' property was not stolen on the first eveninip w i l e e ,7 0 calling at his lodgings then was to ascertatel 5,,1 1 0 1 box and things were as usual before th_ l . 3 . :; jac" mitted. Other circumstances of in2Porta— a third person are known.