The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

Nov. 7, 1844. 7L tterature. P O E T R Y. THE SISTERS. (From the Dublin University Magazine.) Come hither, gentle sister, And raise me in the bed ; Now place yourself behind me, And press this weary head; For I have much to tell you, When all are fast asleep— You need not be alarmed Though I should wildly weep. There now, I'm nicely settled, And we are all alone, With nothing to distress us But the wintry wind's sad moan, And the flickering of that taper, Where a winding-sheet I see— Ah ! death that comes too soon to some, Brings happiness to me. I've placed me, dearest sister, That you may not mark my face ; And yet the tale 1 have to tell Knows nothing of disgrace. But weeks have grown to months, dear, And months have swelled to years, Since first I had within my heart The fountain of sad tears. Do you remember, darling, An eve in leafy June? The sun had set in crimson light, And gently rose the moon. We wandered by the river's side — Henry our friend was there; You surely must remember it, That sunset was so fair. Your heart is wildly beating— I feel each heavy throb ! Oh I lay me on the pillow— I'll give back sob for sob I I long thought that he loved me— That eve I heard him say That you were all the world to him — Oh I turn not thus away. But let me tell you all, dear, Whilst life and strength remain — I know he is returning To visit you again ; I pray for happiness to both — But would that I were dead, And laid in shrouded slumber In the churchyard's quiet bed! Oh! promise me, that to my grave You will together come, And shed a tear of pity O'er her who has gone home; The: look up to the heavens And remember I'm in bliss. Where in a few short years you both Shall share my happiness. • Then do not grieve that I am called To leave this earthly scene; You know I shall be happier Than ever I have been. My health has been but weak, at best, For many a weary day, And you have been so kind to me I love you fervently. Now, fare thee well, sweet sister I The dawn is cold and grey— Oh! ope that gluomy casement That my soul may pass away. The cocks are crowing loudly— The world begins to wake— . Oh! take me to your bosom. I knew my heart would break! ARION. VARIETIES. The completest pun on the records of literature is pro • duced in the following words, which were inscribed on a tea-chest :—" Tu DOCES" which is the second person singular of the verb doceo, to teach ; and when literally translated, becomes THOU TEA-CHEST. A Goon ANSWER. — " What shall I do," said a liquor seller to a temperance lecturer, " if I quit selling rum ? " " Go into the poorhouse," said the lecturer, " and be supported there, and let the poor you have made paupers come out." AN UPSTART.—A negro boy was driving a mule in Jamaica, when the animal suddenly stopped and refused to budge. " Won't you go, eh ?" said the boy. " Feel grand, do you ? I s'pose you forget your fadder was a Jackass ? "—American paper. It was a beautiful idea of the infant astronomer who said the stars were " holes in the sky for the glory of God to shine through." Another admirable answer, also of a child, was, when asked if there was any place in the uni verse where God is not, he unexpectedly replied, " Yes, God is not in the thoughts of the wicked." THE OLD TOWN OF EDINBURGH.—There is a strength of character, a determination to get over difficulties, in the very positions the houses occupy. Auld Reekie is built on, and between, and up that succession of rocky ridges, which makes it the most wonderful town in the world to look upon, but the most difficult to erect. The houses, almost all, stand with their limbs gathered under neath them on one side, and hanging down over a preci pice on the other. They are like giraffes, with short hind legs and long front ones, or vice versd. There is hardly one which is privileged to stand comfortably on level ground. Modern improvements enable the spectator to take in the construction of the town at a glance. We step with our traveller on to that grand George the Fourth's Bridge, which now conveys all the traffic of this side of the capital, at one leap, from one ridge to another. A wilderness of ragged roofs, and garret windows, and smoking chimneys, all tumbling and battered in irregular rows, like a jaw of broken teeth, are level with our feet. The gilt weathercock of a venerable church tower seems within arm's length. The grand pile of the Castle rock towers in the distance above, while deep below us runs that other muddy current of life, the Cowgate, with a repetition of the same scenes we have just related going on,—coal -heaps, dirt-heaps, children, herrings and all. From this depth, up to the level of the High Street, the houses go climbing, like trees up a mountain side ; the foundations of some level with the tops of others, like trees, too, on uneven ground, throwing out deep roots of masonary in search of support. A wildand rugged scene of artificial growth, with those alleys or wynds deep be tween the houses, looking like gorges and gullies worn by the action of mountain torrents. These wynds are the most wretched features of all. The traveller's greatest enthusiasm cannot gild the misery that too obviously dwells there. There is a species of dirt and wretchedness which goes beyond the spell of the picturesque. Some of them are wider and less squalid, and still tenanted, here and there, by the brass plates and iron scrapers of such few respectable householders as still linger on in the Old Town ; but the greater number are such as it seems pur gatory to dwell in, and not always safety to'pass through. Nature does all she can to cleanse the filthy pavement and purify the mouldering walls ; blasts of wind whistle through them, and deluges of rain pour down them ; but not all the rivers of Damascus, nor the breezes from Ara bia, could sweeten these wretched ravines. The traveller feels, as overcoming his strong disgust he stoops under the dark, cavern-like entrance, and plunges into the murky twilight of the wynd, that he has entered that at mosphere of poverty which brings fever and pestilence, and every ill, moral and physical, to which flesh is heir, in its train. Here are none of the light and sunshine of the High Street, which make all look free, if they did not look happy. The blackened broken windows, stuffed up with clouts of rags, look directly on a blank wall, or down on to the opposite dwellers' misery. Neighbours can shake hands out of the second story, or break heads, which they are more likely to do, out of the third : for the houses project at each story till they almost meet, and you look up at a sepulchral light at top, as through a dark chim ney . A s for suns hi ne, it wo uld be melancholy to see it here, and moonshine to expect it.—Fraser's Magazine. LAMENTING THE IRISH TRIALS.—We cannot but feel that it is among the very worst consequences of party con nexions that some persons are found almost to lament the issue of these trials because they have been conducted by a Whig government. A more melancholy feature in the history of faction could not well be disclosed. We will not be suspected of any partiality towards the present ministry, whose tampering with sedition and truckling to intimidate we have never ceased to denounce. Had it not been for the encouragement which they ever extended to the late Mr. O'Connell, the patronage with which they invested him, and the honours which they conferred on him in return for his parliamentary support while he still continued his seditious career, we would not now be writ ing on state trials, nor would we be living under a sus pended habeas corpus. If it be true that every danger is most successfully encountered when encountered manfully and resolutely, it is emphatically so of sedition. Check this agitation et once, when it assumes the aspect of sedi tion, and the evil is crushed in the bud ; but truckle to it, or foster it by extorted concessions, and it extends with increasing rapidity over the whole society, and becomes uncontrollable. Yet such has ever been the course of the present ministers down to within the last few months, when the necessity for a contrary course was forced upon them—when they would themselves have been traitors to the Queen and Constitution had they faltered but an in stant ; and we cannot hesitate to say that by their ill-con ceived and unstatesmanlike policy, they have been the primary but unintentional authors of all the evils that have arisen. But though this be so, is it not unreasonable and senseless in the highest degree to treat the deeply-laid and well-matured schemes for a revolution in Ireland as a question at issue between the rebels and the cabinet mi nisters ? Whose property was at stake when Mr. Smith O'Brien declared that the estates of such of the Irish gentry as did not side with the people should be confis cated, and transferred to the national exchequer ? a de claration which his letter to the Mining Company showed to be no empty threat. Whose life was at stake when Mr. Meagher declared that if Irish nationality were re fused by the crown when demanded by a deputation from the parish delegates of Ireland, " then up with the barri cades, and invoke the god of battles ;" or when Mr. Mitchell taught his readers that "the plainest path to liberty was the path of a rifle bullet on point blank to your enemy's heart ; ' or when Mr. Duffy, in the Nation, re minded the servant-men of Dublin that they should be organized, " as they had the keys and arms of the citadel." Was it the person or the property of Lord John Russell that was imperilled by these atrocious doctrines ?—No ; it was our own properties and lives—the properties and lives of the well-affected and the loyal, of every denomin ation, in this island, but chiefly of the Protestant popula tion, as being, before all others, the mainstay of order, and of the British connexion. This was the stake that was at hazard. The choice was offered to us, either to yield to terrorism, to forswear our allegiance, to renounce the advantages of British connexion, and submit to the self-constituted directors of the country, or to yield our properties to confiscation, and expose our persons to the pikes, vitriol, and rifle-bullets, with which it was sought to intimidate us. It was to us—te every loyal Irishman — and not to the Whig ministry, that this alternative was presented ; it is from this that we have escaped by the recent vindication of the law ; it is our own security, not a Whig triumph (if such it can be called), that we rejoice at ; and we confess that our satisfaction at being rescued from the revolutionary vortex is so great that we could well afford to accord to our political opponents any credit that they may claim for the suppression of a rebellion which their own pernicious policy materially contributed to produce.—Dublin University Magazine. erntrat ;,ffitsrellanv. A few days ago, a fine whale measuring 30 feet in length and 13 in girth, was caught in the Humber. The Rev. James Parsons, of York, is President of the Congregational Union for the ensuing year. The etter signed " James Henderson," about the sea serpent turns out to be a hoax. One day last week five turnips, weighing altogether 751 b, were dug up on a farm near Halifax. Madame Grisi has been engaged in London for the winter months. Jenny Lind will remain in England through the winter and coming spring. The Marquis of Bute has lent his noble collection of pictures for ten years to the Royal Scottish Academy. Thb Marquis of Salisbury has returned to Hatfield House, Herts, from attending the funeral of the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Gerard V. Wellesley, at Durham. Charles Hastings, of Lincoln, has been committed for trial for having attempted to murder Lydia Graham, a woman of bad character. The Queen has appointed Mr. Henry Halford Vaughan, M.A.. of the Inner Temple, banister, to be Regius Pro fessor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. One day last week the ex-Mavor of Salisbury, for a wager, carried a butcher's tray, laden with meat, through the markk-place to his house. Five Post-office letter-carriers have been severally con victed, in London, of stealing letters containing money, and sentenced to transportation for seven years, Miss Hutchinson, a young lady lately living in Suff)lk street, Southwark, died in a cab, from disease of the heart, while returning from an evening party on Wednesday. The hills of Kent, particularly around Tunbridge Wells, were white with snow last week, and a heavy fall took place at Brighton and other towns on the coast. The Suffolk Chronicle says that singing has lately been introduced into the devotional services of the county gaol, Ipswich, and appears greatly to interest the prisoners. Mullins ' the young surgeon and confederate of Coffey and other Chartists, has been sentenced to transportation for life. A young lady named Pettit, who had formed a mis placed attachment, destroyed herself a few days since at Portsmouth by cutting her throat with a razor. The ship-builders of Glasgow have received, lately, extensive orders, and their yards are now scenes of great activity. NATIONAL PROTESTANT CLllll.—This institution has been revived, and three able and spirit-stirring addresses against the endowment of the Roman Catholic priesthood have been issued. Mr. Chambers has intimated his withdrawal from the contest for the Edinburgh Provostship; and accordingly the field is left -to Mr. Johnston without the probability of competition. The Bishop of Sodor and Man has written to the clergy of his diocese, directing them to observe Sunday, the 19th instant, as a day of thanksgiving for the late harvest, and for a most abundant supply of fish. Several crownless pineapples have this year been grown and ripened in the hot houses at Claremont, the present abode of Louis Philippe, and the appropriate name of " republicans" has been given to those fruits. In the case of a sudden death at Halifax, a few days since, the coroner's jury returned a verdict that the de ceased died of Asiatic cholera arising from neglected diarrhEea and not from epidemy. JUVENILE OFFENDERS.—Prince Albert has consented to lay the first stone of the new farm school for criminal and vagrant boys which the Philanthropic Society is now establishing at Potter's Bar, near Barnet. The Bristol Times notices the case of a young lady who recently seceded to the Church of Rome, and who has returned to the Church of her baptism, influenced by the disgust she felt at questions put to her at confession. The much-vexed postal differences which existed be tween the United States and our Government is finally aaranged to the satisfaction of both Governments. The arrangement has yet to go before the American Congress for formal sanction. At the Durham quarter sessions, last week, John New ton, a collier, was sentenced to a week's solitary confine ment for smoking his pipe in a mine at Monkwear►nouth. This practice is supposed to have occasioned many dread ful explosions. One of the most dangerous operations in surgery, the removal of the collar bone in the female, was dexterously performed by Mr. Henry Potter, on Tuesday, in New castle-on-Tyne, whilst the patient was under the influence of chloroform. FOREIGN POTATOES.—The importations of potatoes which have lately taken place from France and Belgium, have been of so numerous and extensive a character as to have been quite remarkable and are of much interest and importance. It has been noticed that all porters engaged in loading and unloading charcoal, at Malta, and other parts of the Mediterranean, have escaped the cholera. The power of charcoal to absorb atmospheric impurities, is thus ren dered highly deserving of scientific investigation. THE ALLEGED MURDER OF SLATER.—The Bradford paper states its belief that the statement made by Joseph Foster that he was the murderer of Robert Slater (a full report of the particulars of which appeared in our last paper) is an idle tale. EXPLOSION OF POWDER MILLS.—On Tuesday morn ing, about four o'clock, the three powder-mills at Sedge wick, near Kendal, were totally destroyed by an explo sion ; the report was heard at a distance of 40 miles, and mistaken for thunder. Fortunately no person was present. TENTENNY POSTAGE STAMPS.—Postage stamps of the value of 10d. are about to be issued for the purpose of Postage, in addition to those now in use, they will be sold to the public a; the rate of 10d. each, whatever may be the number purchased. John M'Donald, the marine sentenced by court-mar tial in July to transportation for life, for having struck Captain Baynes of the Bellerophon, whilst in the execu tion of his duty on board the said ship, has received a free pardon, and has been set at liberty. Mr. S. G. Osborne, in a most forcible letter to the Times on Thursday last, described the dreadful condition of the poor of Hilton, Dorsetshire, and the extent to which fever has been suffered to exist without any attempt to check it. _ _ _ The Baroness Cabral was on Thursday remanded for a week, on a charge of stealing jewellery and other valuables from a boarding-house in Finsbury-square, where she had been staying for some months. She was bailed out by the Consul-General of Portugal. The Stowe Estate will, ere long, be deprived of the whole of its timber. A further and far more extensive sale than the last one ;s to take place shortly. Persons are now employed in marking the various lots ready for the auctioneer's hammer. _ . _ ----- PERMANENT PAUPERISM. — It is a curious fact that on one day lest week three orders of removal were taken out before the magistrates of a Yorkshire borough in the cases of paupers who had been respectively 18, 38, and 53 years in uninterrupted receipt of parish pay. THE INDIAN MAILS.—The Southampton correspond ent of the Morning Herald says that Messrs. Cunard and Co. have tendered, in opposition to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, for the conveyance of the Indian mails from Southampton, on the 20th of each month. At Kirmington, near Coistor, on Monday night, some villains attacked the house of Mr. Hall, farmer, and effected an entrance to the drawing-room by smashing the window to atoms; but luckily Mr. Hall was not re tired to rest, and he captured one of the burglars named Woolly. A boy living at Great Clacton, in Essex, had been prohibited from playing with a gun. He secretly took it, loaded, from a cupboard, and concealed it in a ditch. A little while afterwards, he tried to draw it out again by the muzzle; the gun went off, the charge lodged in his side, and he died iu a few hours. There is a difficulty in inducing a gentlemen to fill the office of mayor for the city of Bristol, in the ensuing municipal year. Several parties who have been applied to have expressed their intention to pay the fine of £lOO rather than serve. Civic honours appear to partake of the general depression. On Friday intelligence was received at Lloyds of the total wreck of the emigrant ship Thetis, on her passage to Melbourne. The passengers and crew consisted of about forty persons. The disaster occurred on the night of the 26th of June, at the entrance of Port Philip Heads. EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—A valuable horse, belonging to a gentleman near the town of Chard, died lately, and on opening the body, a row of large stones was found in the stomach. It is supposed by scientific men, that these concretions were formed in the stomach from the food, by some peculiar and unexplained cause. THE CHOLERA.—The Times of yesterday, at the con clusion of a long article on the subject of the cholera, says,—" There is little more reason for believing the cholera to be an Asiatic production than a Baltic impor tation. It is but a modification of the ordinary results of impurity and want, and should be met with the ordinary appliances of cleanliness and care." In the New Court, on Monday, Emma Beaumont and Mary Ann Fitzgerald, her servant, were found guilty of having set fire to the dwelling-house of the former in Long Acre, having just completed an insurance in the Westminster Fire-office for £4OO. Beaumont was sen tenced to fourteen years' transpwlation, and Fitzgerald to seven. John Higgins, a boy of very bad character, was sen tenced at the Thames Police Court, on Tuesday, to be imprisoned for three months for stealing a coat. He was placed in a cell adjacent to the court. Some time after wards he was found hanging by a handkerchief to wire work over the door, quite insensible, but by surgical aid his life was saved. SINGULAR INCIDENT.—On a recent voyage of one of the steam-packets from Bristol to Newport, about four miles from land, a hawk was seen in close pursuit of a small bird, which in its escape from impending destruc tion, flew to a gentleman on board, who took it in his hand, and when close to shore gave freedom to his fea thered taptive, a green linnet. THE SMUGGLING CASE AT ROCHE STER.—On Thurs day William Christian, of Craven-street, Strand, publi can, John Eline, of Gravesend, van proprietor, and Edwin Harding, of High-street, Bermondsey, cab proprietor, remanded at a previous examination on a charge of smuggling, to which they had since pleaded guilty, were each convicted in a penalty of £lOO. SUICIDE OF LORD MIDDLETON. — Lord Middleton, a healthful man, in the prime of life, but who has lately been rather eccentric in manner, committed suicide, on Wednesday, by inhaling the fumes of burning charcoal. His lordship resided at Paperharow-park, near Godalming. He dies without issue, and is succeeded by Charles Brodricke, son of the late Archbishop of Cashel and brother to the former incumbent of Shalford. ANOTHER VISIONARY.-Mr. Dingle, a farmer, of Great Orcheton, has forsaken his farm and commenced lecturing on the Millenium, saying he has been commanded so to do by a vision. He goes from town to town preaching that the Millenial reign of Christ on earth, will commence in the year 1850, &c. He has crowds of hearers. — Sher borne Journal. M. JULLIEN'S PROMENADE CONCERTS.—The enter prising Jullien resumed his popular entertainments, on Friday, in Drury-lane Theatre, and they promise to be more popular than ever. The house was crowded to the doors, and the various performances were received with vociferous applause, especially the National Anthem, which produced a perfect storm of loyal enthusiasm. At the Glamorgan Quarter Sessions, W. Squire Brad. ley, described in the calendar as a gentleman, was con victed of having, at various times, embezzled sums of money amounting in all to £9OOO, the property of the Llynvi Valley Railway, he being at the time a servant to such company. Sentence, six months' imprisonment, with hard labour. CHOLERA IN HULL.—For 11 days not one case of cholera had occurred at Hull. On Sunday last, however, there were two fatal cases. One was that of a young sailor, named Henry Mallinson. who died on board a keel in the dock, and the other that of an elderly woman, named Mary Stubbs, residing in Sewer-land. The medical attendants declare both these to have been un doubted cases of cholera. JENNY LIND AT BRIGHTON.—This admired singer was the star of attraction at a concert which took place at Brighton on Tuesday. The large room at the Town-hall not being large enough to accommodate the whole of the applicants for tickets, the orchestra was half-filled, and, in addition, a greater number of persons were obliged to content themselves with listening from an adjoining room, from no part of which was the orchestra visible. LOUIS PHILIPPE'S PRIVATE PROPERTY.—It is said in Paris that Louis Philippe and the Government have come to an understanding with respect to the private property of, the Orleans family in France. The Count de Monta livet is to be " liquidateur," and a loan of twenty-four millions is to be raised to pay the most pressing claims on the property, and for the immediate support of the mem bers of the family now in England. SUDDEN DEATH, AND BURIAL.—On the 18th instant, an 01.1 man, named Thomas March, a native of the parish of Wick and Abson, dropped down, and shortly expired. By the direction of the overseer, the -body was removed to an outhouse, where it remained until an inquest was held. In less than two hours after the inquest the body of the deceased was placed in a coffin with all his clothes on, just as he was picked up in the road, his hat being taken off and put under his head fora pillow, and, with out further ceremony, taken away for interment.—Bath Chronicle. THE FENS.—Never, within living memory, did the fens, at this time of the year, present so cheerless and sad a prospect. The roads are impassable, and the rivers full of water from bank to bank. The dykes and drains in many parts are equally full, and some banks have blown and others are in a very insecure state. The land itself is so com pletely saturated with wet, and rotten, that in many of the oldest drained districts the houses are continually miring down, whilst in several others the sowing of wheat this season has been abandoned altogether. ATTEMPTED MURDER BY POISON.—At Alton, Sussex, Ellen Heath has been committed for trial, charged with attempting to murder her husband, a carpenter, by mixing arsenic with his dinner. The parties have been married twelve months. The woman had gone off with a young man, but returned to her husband, who took her back again. Finding himself ill immediately after eating, he suspected what had occurred, and went off to a surgeon, taking part of the victuals with him. Proper remedies being applied he recovered, and the food was found strongly impregnated with arsenic. AN ARTFUL DODGE.—As a farmer of Caterham was making a bargain for some sheep, in Croydon fair, last week, with a farmer whom he did not know; there was some dispute about the price, and he left the pens. One of the " swell mob," having overheard the conversation, followed Mr. Clark, and said he did not like to lose the bidding, and would take his money for the sheep (naming the price). They went to an inn, where the money was paid, the purchaser saying he would send for the sheep shortly. On going, however, to the owner, the latter disclaimed all knowledge of the man to whom the money was paid, which was about £5O. CHOLERA.—CHLOROFORM A CURE.—Dr. James Hill, resident surgeon of Peckham House Asylum, in a letter addressed to the Times of Monday morning, states, he placed the patient under the influence of chloroform, and "in one hour after the attack the patient had an abate ment of every bad sympton ; the nervous system being completely tranquillized, the vomiting and cramps cea sing; the purging being checked, and the heat of the body returning. His success." the doctor adds, "encou raged us to persevere, and we have now employed it in ten cases of malignant cholera with complete success, six having perfectly recovered, and four being convalescent." REPORTED Loss OF THE NETLEY.— Considcrable alarm has been, felt at Woolwich in consequence of the non-arrival of the Netley, a schooner belonging to the Board of Ordnance, which is employed in conveying stores between the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and the arsenals at Portsmouth and Plymouth, &c. It appears that the Netley, which had a crew of s,x men and a boy, left Devonpor, on the 23rd of October. She encountered very severe weather, and it is feared that her cargo— heavy guns and shot—shifted in her hold, and that she foundered at sea. Inquiries have been made at the va rious ports of the channel, but without success, and all hope of the safety of the crew is now abandoned. A WOUND IN THE LEG CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PlLLS.—Extract of a letter from Mr. Edward Nicholls, 34, Rose-street, Covent-garden :—"To Professor Holloway.—Sir,—For years I had a bad leg, and about four years ago an abscess formed, which the treatment adopted by several medical men failed to heal, and I despaired of a cure ; lately my friends recommended your medicines, and by their use alone I soon found a great improvement, and in a few weeks my leg was per fectly cured, I can now walk 10 miles a day with as great ease as when I was 20 pears old, and now I am 50." — Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's estab lishtnent, 244, Strand. HOARDING OF LINEN.--Amongst the old customs still in vogue in this country that of hoarding up linen is one of the most inveterate. The following is a singular ex ample of this habit :—An old maid, 78 years of age, died recently at Tocqueville. This person, who possessed rather a large fortune, lived with extreme parsimony. Her only luxury, her only expenditure, was for linen, which she laid by in her closets. An inventory made after her death proves that in 14 closets she had in reserve more than 500 pairs of stockings, nearly 600 chemises. the enormous quantity of 100 dozens of napkins 12 dozen sheets, an innumerable quantity of caps. handkerchiefs, &c. ; and, lastly, linen cloth sufficient to provide for the wants of 500 nersons.—Brussels Herald. GALLANTCONDUCT.—As Captain Thomas C. Irvine , late of the Liverpool barque Theodosia, and his brother, the manager of the Bristol and South Wales Coal Com pany, in this city, were crossing the Marsh-bridge, St. Philip's, on Saturday, they saw in the water of the New Cut a boy in the act of drowning. At the risk of his life, Captain Irvine plunged in, and succeeded in saving the little fellow's life. Ibis gentleman was, we understand, instrumental on a former occasion in saving the lives of fourteen of his fellow-men, when chief officer of the Elizabeth Wood, he having been the only one of the ship's company who volunteered in a gale of wind to take the crew off a wreck they met with in the Atlantic Single-handed he sculled a boat from one ship to the other, and succeeded in saving the whole of the crew. — Bristol Journal. SHEEP WORRIED BY A HORSE,—On Saturday, the 25th ult., a young horse out at grass, belo ng i ng t o M r. W. Ashburner, Pennington, near Ulverston, was discovered making a furious attack on a sheep. It seized the sheep with its teeth, and tossed it a considerable height three or four times, then kneeling upon it worried and tore it with the ferocity of a bull-dog. The sheep, a large fat one of 201 b. per quarter. when with difficulty rescued from the savage attack of the horse, was not quite dead, but so mangled and torn that it was killed immediately, there being no hopes whatever of its recovery. About a fort night before a sheep was discovered in the same field worried to death in a frightful manner, and three others very much mangled, and there is no doubt this was the work of the same horse.—Carlisle Patriot. GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—On Friday the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners appointed four vessels, of not less than 500 tons each, to convey 250 male and female emigrants to New South Wales and Australia—on the 4th December for Sydney, all the passengers to embark at Plymouth ; and the same date another for Adelaide, all to embark from London ; 11th December, Port Philip, all from London ; and 7th Dee., part in London, the rest in Plymouth. Total, 1000 adults, exclusive of children. On Thursday 164 fine young women, from Ireland, arrived at Plymouth to be sent out to Sydney under the care of respectable matrons. On the arrival of the young women in the colony they will be rlaced under the protection of the government authorities until they are provided for. WRECK OF THE VICTORIA BALLOON.—The aeronaut, Mr. Green, has had the misfortune to lose his balloon. He was preparing to ascend on Saturday, at H a l s t ea d , i n Essex, during a violent hurricane. The machine was held down by powerful men, but such was the violence of the gale, that in an instant twenty human beings were lifted up six or eight feet from the ground. Th e h oop broke in halves, dropping men and iron weights in a con fused heap beneath ; and the balloon rose to 16 or 18 feet, with the stakes, by which it had been confined, wrenched from the ground, and two or three men still h ang i ng on the hoop, and the balloon rolling entirely over o n it s s id e in the air (owing to the detention of one remaining rope), the netting suddenly ripped up on the side of the balloon then uppermost, and the silk enclosure, shelling itself out of the ripped envelope, burst from end to end. T he men and weights and netting fell in mingled confusion—away flew the immense mass of silk, rent in every direction, and the grand balloon was no more. EDUCATION. —COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL. --The Rev. F. Close in his recent pamphlet recommends co - operat i on with the Committee of Council o'3 Education on the fol lowing grounds :—" That the amount of moral, s pi r it ua l, an d intellectual destitution, both in town an d country districts, is appalling and increasing. That no individuil unassisted efforts of private and voluntary b enevo l ence are equal to the task of enlightening and ev ange li z i ng this mess of ignorance and vice. That th e ass i stance n ow offered by Government, is exactly that in kind and degree, which is calculated to call up the energies of the country, and to secnre a system of education adapted to the general necessities of the land both in qualiy aad ex tent. That the fears entertained by some pious persons relative to the interference of Government with the reli gious teaching in the schools are grounuless. Th at indif ference or opposition to this movement arises, in t oo many instances, from an almost unconscious prejudice aga i ns t the higher cultivationof the minds of the working classes. That these considerations are strengthened and confirmed by the experience of the founders of the Church of Eng land Training-Schools in Cheltenham." THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. A MAN STABBED BY HIS BROTHER.--TWO young men, brothers, living at Swainswick, near Bath, named Thomas - and Charles Cleverly, both of whom are labourers, had fallen out about family matters, and meeting each other in the road on Monday, renewed their quarrel, when blows ensued between them, and in scuffling together Thomas stabbed his brother Charles in the left thigh, and he bled profusely from the wound. He was conveyed to the Bath United Hospital in a dangerous state, but hopes entertained that the injury will not prove fatal. A large county meeting was held at Mansfield on Fri day last, for the purpose of devising some fitting testimo nial to Lord George Bentinck, as the leader of the country party. The Duke of Newcastle in the course of his re marks said—" I much fear we have no successor to such a man. Troublesome times are coming on, and we have no one who will devote his life, as did Lord George Ben tinck, to all that may be considered good and tree, in fluenced as he was by the noblest patriotism, and by all that which can impel a brave and honest citizen to stand up for the rights and welfare of his country." HORRIBLE DEATH.—On Thursday morning, about four o'clock, Mitchell, a dairyman, of Shoulder of Mutton alley, near the North Country Pink, Limehouse, got up, as was his usual custom, and went to milk the cows; no thing more was seen or heard of him till seven o'clock, when some men perceived a portion of blue apron project ing through the top of a pile of cow dung in the yard. Upon making a closer inspection they found that it was the deceased's apron, and that the body was immersed head first in the soil. With all possible expedition the deceased was got out, but life was quite extinct, and had been so for some time. It is supnosed that the unfortu nate man was walking along the edge of the shoot, and that he overbalanced himself and fell head foremost into the soil. VERY ODD FELLOWS.—At Alphington, near Exeter, there existed an Odd Fellows' Society, which latterly has not been in a very flourishing condition, the effect of which was that, about tiff, months ago, at a general meet ing of the body, a resolution was come to for breaking up the club and dividing the cash in hand. This amounted to about £6O, and three of the body were deputed to draw the money from the bank and place it in the "box," preparatory to another meeting, at which it was arranged the division should take place. The money was obtained and consigned to the custody of the box, each of the deputation having a key to three different locks by which the box was fastened. At the appointed time the meet ing took place, but neither of the custodians attended ; ditto at several adjourned meetings. At length the mem bers did what they should have done at first—broke open the box, but of course there was no money there. — Bristol Gazette. CONFESSION OF A HORSESTEALER.— The Rev. G. Walter, late of Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, and now of the Rocky Hills Probation station, Tasmania, Australia, sends home the confession of a convict. In June, 1845, he hired a horse in York. and, riding it into Lincolnshire, sold it at Horncastle fair. Shortly afterwards he got a horse from Mr. Greenwood, at Lincoln, and sold it at Stagshawbank. Next September Carlisle furnishes him with a nag; and at Stockwith fair, Lincolnshire, he got a customer. He then went to Doncaster races, and got a horse and gig, both of which he sold at Boston. About the 22nd of October, 1845, he hired a bay mare at South Shields to carry him to Chester-le-street, hut he rode on to Huddersfield, and effected a sale. Hardly another week had elapsed before he secured a pony at Halifax, and sold it at Newark, and in two or three days after that transaction he engaged a horse and gig at Grantham, one of which he sold at Peterborough, and the other at Nor wich. Thus, in less than five months, he sold seven horses and two gigs. THE SEA SERPENT.—One of the greatest difficulties on the face of the narrative, and which must be allowed to destroy the analogy of the motions of the so-called " Sea Serpent" with those of all snakes and anguilliform fishes, is that no less than sixty feet of the animal were seen advancing a fieur d'eau at the rate of from twelve to fifteen miles an hour, without it being possible to per ceive, upon the closest and most attentive inspection, any undulatory motion to which its rapid advance could be ascribed. It need scarcely be observed that neither an eel nor a snake, if either of those animals could swim at with the neck elevated, could do so without the front part of its body being thrown into undulation by the propulsive efforts of its tail. But, it may be asked, if the animal seen by Captain M'Quhae was not allied to the snakes or to the eels, to what class of animals could it have belonged ? To this I would reply that it appears more likely that the enormous reptile in question was allied to the gigantic Saurians, hitherto believed only to exist in the fossii state, and, among them, to the Plesio saurus. SINGULAR HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—As Mr. John Frost, watch and clock repairer. of Crich, was returning ho:ae from Ripley fair on the 23d ultimo, and when near the Old Brewery, Ripley, he was attacked by four men, two of whom " blufted" him with a handkerchief, and held his arms backwards, whilst the other two rifled his pockets. They took from him his watch, and a few shillings in silver, and instantly disappeared. What makes the cir cumstance more singular is, that on his recovering him self from the fright which the attack naturally caused, and when about proceeding on the road, one of the robbers returned to him, and asked him if he had not been robbed. Mr. Frost answering in the affirmative, the robber held the watch up to his face, and asked him if that was his watch ; he replied it was, and that he should like to have it back, as it was a family watch. The robber then in quired of him if he had any more money ; he replied " not that he knew of," supposing that they had taken all that he had. During his conversation with the man, two more of the robbers came up, when they seized him a second time, and again searched his pockets, but finding nothing, they gave him his watch, and again wished him " good night." On his arrival home, Mr. Frost had the good fortune to find two half-crown pieces in one of his pockets, which had escaped the robbers' notice.—Derby Reporter. A PREMATURE INTERMENT.—On Saturday evening, not long ago, a man who had been making a little too free with " John Barleycorn," had to pass through the Taxal churchyard, where a deep grave had been dug (for an in terment on the morrow) close to the footpath over which the jolly fellow had to pass on his way home ; and being rather unsteady in his gait, and not quite aisle to maintain his true perpendicular, he unfortunately fell into the grave, and being unable to get out again, he quietly resigned himself to his fate, and went to sleep. Shortly afterwards one of his boon companions, in passing the same way, had the misfor' une to fall into the same grave and rouse the first occupant from his sleep, who, feeling himself at the intruder's visit, muttered out in angry growl, " It's strange one cannot lie quietly in the grave." These words being uttered in a somewhat ghostly tone, so frightened the intruder that he quickly scaled the walls of the clay tenement and scampered away as fast as his legs could carry him to the friends he had just left at the public house, to whom he told the story of his misadventure•, the recital of which roused the people's curiosity, and they resolved to go in a body to the grave, and, if possible, ascertain from whence sprung the apparent supernatural voice which had so terrified their informant. Accordingly, with fear and trembling, they proceeded to the grave, and found it tenanted by a faithful pot companion that had lately left their company, whom they quickly liberated from his cold dormitory, to the infinite amusement of all present.—Derby Reporter. A LADY ACCIDENTALLY POlSONED.—Considerable excitement has existed in Romsey, Hampshire, and its neighbourhood, since Tuesday, in consequence of the death of a lady, the wife of Sergisson Smith, Esq., of Jermyn's House, near Romsey, and grand-daughter of the first Lord Gardner, by poison. It app ears th a t M rs . Smith, for some slight illness, obtained a prescription from her Southampton physician, and sent to a Romsey chemist to have it made up. A portion of the prescrip tion, as it was ordered, was three grains of salicine, which is the essence of the willow bark. It seems that the che mist was in the habit of keeping his salicine and stryhy nine side by side in some particular part of his shop. The latter medicine is well known as a deadly poison, being the active principle of nux vomica. When used as a medicine, there is never more than the sixteenth part of a grain given in a dose. The prescription was made up in the dusk of the evening, and most unfortunately the chemist took three grains from the strychnine instead -.of from the salicine bottle. The consequence was fright ful. The unfortunate lady expired on Tuesday, in about twenty minutes after taking the prescription, and endured the most intolerable agonies. The description given by Mrs. Smith's lady's maid of the singular effect of the poison on the frame. and the sufferings of her mistress, was of the most terrible description. The unfortunate lady was a very beautiful woman, about 35 years of age, and was the mother of five children. The chemist, when he accidentally saw, from the position of the salicine and strychnine bottles, that she must have used the latter, was horror-stricken, and immediately pronounced that Mrs. Smith must have been poisoned. —Local paper. BENEFITS FROM THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION.—It is evident from the minutes presented to Parliament at the close of 1847.8, and from the time which has elapsed since those minutes , were laid on the table of the House of Commons, that at the present mo ment, at least two thousand pupil teachers have been ap prenticed under the sanction of the Committee of Council on Education ! This involves for the current wear an ex pense to the country of £20,000 for the stipends of pupil teachers, and £B,OOO for the gratuities of the teachers who educate them. These stipends will rise by the end of five years in annual instalments to £40,000. It is probable that in September, 1849, the number of pupil teachers will be augmented to at least four thousand ; in which case the immediate annual charge will be £56,000 for sti pends to the pupil teachers and gratuities to the masters — which charge will increase by annual instalments to £96,000, at the end of five years. The Committee of Council on Education must also, by the time these pages have passed through the press, have granted certificates to about four hundred teachers of elementary schools, in volving a fixed annual charge (for their increase of salary) of not less than £B,OOO ; which may on an average be ex pected to last fifteen years. If four hundred teachers in like manner obtain certificates in 1848-9, another annual sum of £B,OOO will be added to the education estimates.— lt is impossible to calculate the cost that will be occa sioned to the Government by their liberal proposals for supplying elementary schools with books. This cannot, however, be estimated at less than £lO,OOO per annum ; promoting an annual outlay in the country at large of £30,000 in school books.—lf to all this be added the annual grants to training schools, which must increase from year to year, and which, when Queen's scholars enter the training schools, will provide for a large part of their expenditure, it is evident that the parliamentary grant for the years 1849.50, must be raised from its pre sent amount of £125,000 to at least £IBO,OOO or £200,000 ; and that in the years 1850.1, or 51.52, a quarter of a million must be annually voted for this great national ob ject. This calculation has respect only to the present ratio of expenditure necessarily arising out of the existing plans now in operation : should that ratio of grants be extended—especially in respect to training schools, at least in their first formation—a much larger outlay may be antieipated.—Mr. Close's Pamphlet. MURDER IN HEREFORDSHIRE. — On Friday, at BriHey,. a wretched drunkard, named Whitford, murdered his wife. He was partially intoxicated, and on attempting to go out to obtain more liquor, and finding that his wife had locked the door, he suddenly seized a heavy piece of wood and beat out her brains by repeated blows. The murderer was secured the next day. SUICIDE OF CAPT. SWINEY, OF THE 63D REGIMENT. —On Saturday this unfortunate gentleman destroyed himself in his apartment, No. 8, Cecil-street, Strand, London. He had for a long time past been given to acts of excessive intemperance, which had brought on delirium tremens. The deceased was found lying on 'Ate floor with a severe wound in his side. A regimental sword was lying by him, the point of which was covered with blood. To have effected his object he must have placed the handle of the sword on the ground, and forced himself forward upon its point. On the 18th ult. a corpse was found near a hedge in the vicinity of Halstead, not far from Seven Oaks : it was that of a female about forty years of age ; life appeared to have been extinct not more than twenty-four hours. The head, face, neck, and shoulders were a mass of wounds and bruises; on the ground were several pieces of blood, and the condition of the spot showed that the poor woman had struggled strongly for life. She appeared to have been slaughtered by blows from flints and kicks from nailed boots. The object of the crime seems to have been plunder only ; the woman's pockets had been rifled. She was on her return from hop-picking. A coroner's jury nave met twice, but the inquiry is adjourned. It is suspected that a man with whom the woman cohabited is her assassin. SUMMARY PUNISHMENT.—Last week the neighbour hood of the Pinfold-gate, Loughborough, was thrown into a state of great excitement, by a report that a person living there bed conducted himself in a most indecent manner towards his own daughter, a young woman 16 years of age. Proof, it is said, being obtained by the neighbours of the fact, they determined upon summary punishment. He was accordingly seized and well drenched at a pump. 1 hey then procured a hand cart, in which they conveyed him to the canal, and threw him in. He crossed the water, and was getting out on the other side, when two boatmen who had become ac quainted with the offence seized him, resolved to give him another ducking, and threw him with main force again into the water, and was some time before he could make his escape, half drowned.—Leicester Journal THE PRISON V. THE WORKHOUSE.—On Saturday last, a female pauper was taken before the Lord Mayor of London charged with violently assaulting an assistant relieving officer. The charge havin2, been proved, the complainant said :—There is no such thing as standing the violence of the paupers now. They are worse than ever they woe known to be formerly.—The Lord Mayor ; Prisoner, what do you mean by these desperate attacks upon this man, who has never done you any injury ? Prisoner : I don't know, I am sure, but I'll pitch into him wherever I see him. I like it.—The Lord Mayor: You must find bail to act peaceably for three months before 'you make your next attack, at any rate.—Corn mitted.—The Lord Mayor: It is quite ridiculous to sup pose that while there is better food to be found in a prison than in a union the poor will prefer the latter. That such a state of things should be is a monstrous anomaly. A DANGEROUS MISTAKE.—On Monday last a collier, working in the Pentrefelen pit, near Llangafelach, nearly met his death under the following sinaular circumstances. He had brought with him a supply of food for his meals —among other things a pot of good strong tea—that plant " which cheers but not inebriates." In a similar pot he had with him a more dangerous companion, a pound and a half of powder—not the tea called gun powder—but good rock powder, used for blasting pur poses. At the usual hour for the meal the canny man took up the pot and set it on the fire. It was the pot of powder, not tea. The result may easily be imagined— an explosion, which burnt the man and a boy, and five who were at the time in a shed near the works with him. Fortunately the injuries received by the sufferers, though severe, are not such as to endanger their lives—a circum stance which they owe, in great part, to the shed being open, and the roof, we believe, partly uncovered.— Welch man. A BRAVE LASS.—On Sunday se'nnight, a family named Outlaw, living at the Round House on the turn pike road between Bury and Newmarket, went to Gazeley Church in the afternoon, leaving at home a daughter, who, about four o'clock, locked the door and went to meet her parents. On their return, they found the cham ber window and door open, and, on going up stairs a man jump...d out of the window ; he had opened a bureau, but had taken nothing from it. The daughter immediately gave him chase, and in spite of his threats that he would do for her if she did not leave him, she continued the pursuit for full two miles, till she met with two gentle men, who assisted ber, and took the fellow into custody. On the following day he was brought before the magis trates at Bury, and sentenced to three months' imprison ment; the magistrates complimenting the girl on her cou rage, and telling her she had done more than many of the police would have done, and that she would make an ex cellent member of the force !—Norwich Post. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—On Tuesday night the domestics of the Hon. Colonel Begot, of Eaton-square, London, were retiring for the night, it occurred to one of them that the top of a cistern, used for supplying the nursery, which fastens level with the floor, was not so tight down as it should be, and she raised the flap for the purpose of forcing it down closer.. She was than horri fied at observing Emma Radwell, the housemaid, crouched down in a sitting posture under the water, and quite dead. The most unaccountable part of the sad story is the small dimensions of the cistern, which has only an opening of about 18 inches square, and so shallow that it was not supposed capable of holding a human being, an I had there been any means for pulling the top down inside, taking this to be a case of suicide, there is no human probability of the body being discovered until decomposition took place. No reason can yet be assigned for this strange affair, except some expressions the deceased let fall, that she feared she should not do her work to satisfy her mis tress. THE MAN WITH MANY WlVES.—Btainall, or Beau mont, the surgeon, was brought up again on Wednesday, at the Mansion House, London, charged with having married several young women, all of whom are now living. Elizabeth Tinley stated, that she was married to the prisoner on the 25th of March, 1843. He stated to her that his name was Henry Edward Beaumont, and five months after the marriage he went to sea. Emily Georgiana Rose, whose affections the prisoner had gained on the passage to India in the vessel in which he was acting as surgeon and she was a passenger, was the next witness called. The poor young creature was an object of great and general commiseration. She has not yet attained her 16tb year, and upon being called upon according to the customary form to say whether she knew the prisoner, she was quite overpowered by her feelings, and sobbed and wept bitterly. It was well that she had but to answer a question or two. She stated that she was now in Sussex, living with her friends, and that she had been married to the prisoner at the Old Church in Fort William, Bengal, on the 30th of October, 1847, and had lived with him afterwards as his wife. Anna Amelia Bland, who was supported to the chair in the witness box, and appeared to be in extreme affliction, gave evi dence as to her marriage with the prisoner on the 30th of September, 1848, and stated that she had lived with him till the Saturday on which he was apprehended. Mr. Coach, a gentleman of well-known respectability in the city, stated that he was brother to Rebecca Coach, the prisoner's first wife. She was now living with her parents at Liskeard. The prisoner left her in 1842. The witness here produced the letter which the prisoner had written to his wife upon his departure, excusing himself for the ab sence of a day or two. Several other cases can be sub stantiated against the prisoner. The prisoner passed as a surgeon, and was possessed of a certificate, which be longed to another person, whose name he erased by a chemical process. for the purpose of substituting his own. It is expected that the Apothecaries Company will prose cute him for this offence, as transportation for seven years is the heaviest punishment for all his matrimonial offences. BRISTOL A FREE PORT.—By an act passed during the last session of Parliament the docks of Bristol were trans ferred from the hands of a private company to those of the municipal corporation, with power to reduce the' ates on vessels and goods, and to levy a borough rate not ex ceeding 4d. in the pound per annum on the rateable pro perty of the borough in aid of such reductions. At a special meeting of the Town Council of Bristol, which was held on Monday last, on the recommendation of the Docks Committee the following reductions, amounting in all to about £12,000 per annum, were unanimously re solved upon, and to take effect on and after the Ist of November instant:—The* tonnage rates on vessels tra ding from Africa, Honduras, Surinam, and other ports in South America, the United States of America, East and West Indies, all the ports within the Straits of Gibraltar and the southern whale fishery, reduced from 3s. to Is. ; on vessels trading from the British colonies, Portugal, Prussia, Russia, Spain without the Straits, and Sweden, from 2s. to Is. ; on vessels from Flanders, France without the Straits, Germany, Guernsey, Holland, Jersey, Nor way, Poland, and Zealand, from Is. to 6d. per ton ; on all vessels trading from Ireland from Bd. to 4d. per ton; and and on coasters from 6d. to 4d., except vessels from Car diff, Newport, and other ports to the eastward of the Holmes, which are only charged at rates varying from ss. to 21s. per vessel per voyage. The dock rates on goods were entirely abolished on about 500 out of 600 articles contained in the schedule ; and amongst other articles which may now be imported into Bristol entirely free of dock dues are the important ones of corn, flour, meal, rice, and other provisions ; cotton, wool, yarn, &c. At the same meeting the Master of the Society of Merchants, Mn G. W. Franklyn (who is also a member of the Town Council), announced the determination of that body to abolish the wharfage dues (which the Society of Mer chants hold under lease from the corporation) on all exports ; also on Irish goods imported ; thereby placing the Irish trade on the same footing as the coasting trade, and that the rates on all goods of foreign impor tation shoud be reduced throughout, the maximum not to exceed 6d. per ton on any article. Bristol is there fore now an entirely free port for exports, there being neither dock, wharfage, or any other port charge on exports, either on vessels or goods, and inwards the dock dues on shipping are low. Wednesday last be ing the day when these reductions came into operation, all the shipping in the port was decorated with the flags of all nations, and they had guns firing, bell ringing, and other popular demonstrations; and Monday, the 13th instant, being the day which has been kept as a holiday for many years past, in commemoration of the celebrated Edward Colston, one of Bristol's former munificent mer iciloiastei t b s and d f o b r e o n l e o f t a b c i t o o g r s a , n w d h o o d founded a a b n o d o t e n B d o o w p e o d o r a p b u o b y s in his native city fur ever, and many other public chari ties, will this year be doubly honoured by a public pro cession of the trades, and be observed throughout the city as a general holyday to celebrate this most important event in the annals of Bristol—the day from which it is an ticipated she will date the restoration of her trade. The Gazette of Tuesday contains a series of further regulations for the general promotion of the public health, and the prevention of cholera. They affect every portion of Great Britain. They have reference to the cleansing of highways and public thoroughfares, the removal of nuisances, the cleansing of the dwellings of the poor, the previdinc , by guardians of th e p oor o f me di c i nes, me di ca l aid, and accommodation to poor persons afflicted with cholera ; and to various other matters. CONSECRATION OF THE SABBATII.—It will be remem bered by many of our readers that towards the close of last year a Christian gentleman offered . three prizes of £25, £l5, and £lO, for the three best essays, to be writ ten by working men, upon the "Temporal advantage of the Sabbath to Working Men." • In the short space of two months, upwards of 950 essays were received, many of them so remarkable for the talent exhibited that it was decided that the number of prizes sliou!d be increased from three to fifty-three, to be provided by the liberality of British Christians. Many of these additional' prizes have already been offered. THE CROPS IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND.—We have received from a very intelligent and experienced,corre spondent in the North of England, who is practically con versant with the agriculture of the district, soma important particulars as to the yield of the late crops. The pota toes have suffered materially : old pink eyes are nearly all bad, and three parts out of five of the Yorkshire red are useless. The corn has suffered much in consequence of the extremely wet weather. Some of the farmers made hay while the sun shone, but many of them will be great sufferers. One near Barnard Castle, Durham, has twenty acres of wheat to cut yet, and another is engaged in cart ing nearly the same quantity of peas into the told yards for manure. A great proportion of the barley is yet out, and some oats. Red Wheat is selling at Barnard Castle at 525. to 565. Potatoes, in consequence of the disease, are being hurried into the market at per bushel, but they are expected to advance to a much higher price. THE LATE MAJOR CHIPCHASE.—ThS gallant officer. whose decease we announced in our last, for some years past held the appointment of Barrack-master at Windsor. He was formerly one of the noble Commander-in-Chief's confidential officers, and throughout his career was actively employed. He served in the Peninsular in the 61st Foot, from 1809 to the end of 1812, including the battle of Busaco, pursuit of Massena, investment and capture of the fort of Almeida, the battle of Fuentes Donor, the actions of El Bodon Guinaldo, and the siege and capture of the forts of Salamanca. In the latter action he was severely wounded. That the Duke of Wellington had a high opinion of the character, military and otherwise, of Major Chipchase, may be gathered from the fact of his having entrusted him with a mission which, in fact, in volved the safety of the whole of Europe. It may be recollected Cast, for some days previous to the battle of Salamanca, both Generals were continually watching► their respective movements, each being ready to take ad. vantage of the first blunder committed. The French Generals Massena and Joseph Bonaparte, at length made a movement in the wrong direction, and the duke com menced his successful attack. Had Major Chipchase been either unfaithful or careless, the result might have been different. FALL OF MR. WILSON'S SUGAR -ROUSE, GLASGOW— SERIOUS Loss OF LIFE.—We published the following , extract from a letter dated Glasgow, Oct. 30th, in the second edition of the STANDARD of Tuesday last : " A very melancholy accident happened this morning at seven o'clock : the falling down of the whole of Mr. "Wilson's sugar-house, Alston-street, in one instant. It is certain that there were 32 men on the premises at the time, but doubts are entertained whether three or four other individuals were not buried in the ruins. At nine a.m. four were got out : one dead, three very badly bruised, and not expected to recover. During the day five more were exhumed : two dead, the others more or less injured. Since 5 p.m. one got out, with only the flesh torn from one leg, and able to walk home. The cries and moans of many others are heard—two of them so near and unhurt, that wine has been conveyed to them through a small aperture. At least twenty are yet to be sought out ; the greater part, it is feared, have perished. The affair happened so instantly that three could not be counted till all was down. Verily, in the midst of life we are in death." Since this was published several other persons have been dug out. The lower part of the build ing presents a mass of stone blocks, ponderous beams, iron pillars, planking, sugar pans, and machinery firmly jammed amongst each other, for not nearly all the ruins are yet removed. Altogether 17 bodies have been dug out, 12 of whom were dead. The property destroyed is valued at £15,000. _ _ _ CURIOUS CASE.—In the course of last week a female who calls herself Mary Kean or Hunter, and describes 'herself as a native of Dumfries, and respectably con fleeted there, came from Liverpool by one of the steamers. In the same vessel was another female, residing in Gor bals, with whom Hunter entered into conversation, and told a plausible story as to her object in visiting Glasgow. The result wag, that Hunter was offered for the present the shelter of the other's house, in wl.ich Hunter's chest was deposited. A day or two afterwards, the lady Hunter gave information to the criminal police at the central-office, that her chest had been robbed, and a quantity of wearing apparel, besides some money, stolen. The story seemed plausible, and the officers consequently made a search among the pawnbroking offices; and hav ing succeeded in recovering part of the property, the parties in Gorbals were apprehended and charged with the theft before the Gorbals police -court. From certain circumstances, however, which transpired, the case was continued for further investigation. In the meantime, by the activity of Patrick, of the southern criminal de partment, it was discovered that the plausible Mrs. Hun ter was herself the party who had sent the articles to the pawnshop!—that the parties charged were innocent of the knowledge even oE the contents of the trunk, and the party who had carried part of the articles to be pawned, had done so at the desire of Hunter herself. In these circumstances, the much wronged and robbed lady was sentenced to 30 day's imprisonment, on a charge of wilful imposition.—Giasgow Citizen. A meeting of the friends of peace was held on Tuesday, at Exeter Hall, to receive M. Visschers, Councillor to the Belgian Government ; M. Francisque Bouvet, Member of the French National Assembly ; the Baron Suringar, of Holland ; Elihu Burritt, Esq., of the United States; and Wm. Ewart, Esq., M.P., occupied the chair. The vast hall was crowded in every corner. A French Na tional Guard, who had taken his seat on a back bench, was, on being perceived by the meeting, loudly welcomed forward to a chair on the first rank of the platform, and there again enthusiastically cheered. Mr. Scoble detailed the proceedings of the peace Congress at Brussels, and read the resolutions which the Congress had unanimously adopted, inculcating upon all Governments the propriety, the essential necessity, of conducting their administration upon principles of universal peace and harmony. Mr. Scoble eulogised in the highest terms the courteous, the deeply sympathising manner in which the deputation that, on the previous day, had waited on Lord J. Russell, had been received by the noble lord, who had expressed his gratification at the late Congress as an efficient means towards the object which he, in common with the Con gress, had warmly at heart—the maintenance of peace throughout the world. The resolutions were moved, seconded, and supported by Mr. W. Bowley, of Glouces ter, Dr. Bowring, M. Visschers, W. Ewart, Esq., Elihu, Burritt, G. W. Alexander, Esq., the Rev. J. Burnet, M. Jousselin, the French National Guard before alluded to, the Rev. T. Spencer, Mr. Joseph Sturge, the Rev. Dr. Burn, Mr. Clapp, and Mr. D.W. Wire. On Wednesiay, Spencer Lindfield, 66, widow, and Mary Anne Dryden, were indicted as principals for the murder of Eliza Wilson, by using an instrument for the purpose of abortion ; and Richard Orpin, aged 35, car- Tenter, was indicted as a n accessory b e f ore t h e f act. he deposition of the dying girl spoke to the fact that Orpin was father of the child, and that by his advice she went to the other prisoners, the former of whom used an instrument three times, after which she became seriously ill, and subsequently she died. A surgeon spoke positively as to death having been caused by injuries received from the instrument in question, which was pro duced on the trial; but, on cross-examination, admitted that in some cases the use of such instruments was ne cessary to give relief, and the injury might have been accidental. Mr. Parry, who appeared for Orpin, declined addressing the jury, as there was little or nothing against his client. Dryden had nothing more to say than what she had admitted before the magistrate, that she had given the deceased some medicine, which she believed to be " fine things" for the stomach. Mr. Ballantine urged that little dependence could be placed upon the dying statement of the girl: and the jury. after a short de liberation, actually returned a verdict of •` not guilty." Judge Maule, who tried the case, was obliged to leave the court from illness, but the Recorder addressed the prisoners, telling them,—" They had had the benefit of an impartial inquiry, and the jury had, fortunately for them, returned a verdict of not guilty. He bad read all the depositions, and it was quite clear that they had been in the habit of giving medical advice under very critical and suspicious circumstances, and he hoped they would take warning by the present transaction. STATE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE THIRD QUAR TER OF 1848.—We take the following extracts from the return, just received, of the mortality, &c., in 117 districts of England, in the quarter ending September 30, 1848 : "The mortality in the quarter is below the avera g e. Only 43.445 deaths were registered ; which is l ess by 6,034 than the 49.479 deaths registered in the c orres p on di ng recollected, ir was st quarter low in registeredquarter l n B4 t h 7 e; Septemberand 7,960 less quarter than o s f 1 1 ,4 8 ( 4 15 6: the T numberhe mor tality of 1846; a slight increase took place in the spring quarter of 1846 ; in the summer a great mortality broke out, and continued through the autumn, as well as the whole of the the th o re f e the years country, i it should 18d in 1845, and an year 1847, until influenza raged epidemically at the close of the year 1847, and was then and in the winter of 1848 fatal to thousands. A remarkable improvement was ap parent in the spring of the year 1841, and was still more obvious in the summer quarter. While the deaths in the summers of 1846 and 1847 were 8,660 and 5,986 above, the deaths in the summer of 1848 were 809 below the corrected average. * * The improvement in the public health is considerable in all the divisions except London. The deaths in the districts of Lancashire and Cheshire, in the September quarters of 1846, 1847, and 1848, were 15,221, 17,080, and 11,720. In the same years the deaths in the districts of Yorkshire were 5,708, 4,708, and 4,404; in the northern districts, 2.988, 2,291, and 1,812 ; i n t h e north midland districts, 1,902, 1,604, and 1,369; in the western, including the iron districts, 6,276, 5,041, and 4,755. * * A few cases of common cholera are referred to in the Lancashire districts. The population of some parts, like Hulme, has probably diminished ; in others it has increased slowly ; and the Irish immigration into Lan cashire appears now to have ceased, or to excite no re mark. But the health of the Lancashire people has un questionably been better during the summer f # 1848 than in that of 1846 ; aft er a ll ow i ng f or th e eration Of PER those changes whi c h re d uce th e d ea th s 7 . 4,04 imply- 1 ing a diminution of the rate of mortality-J.-that - is', of the • proportion the deaths bear to the population during a given time. . • - ,• ~; . \ ',AIrfUNIICZE itiOaVlMk ' 7 777 .4 . I,` , ' -:-.".' *"... `,‘ ` ;‘,A k ` , . fs ,1 . • :-,', , . ‘ ..;•i:.:LS.t,: , •:?:' , ' 'I•1:.: ".... . 1- • 1 , / .. f ~ 1 , 4; 4'74} l —,`,