The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-06 00:00:00

limperial Vatltaintnt. HOUSE OF LORDS.-: MONDAY Lord BROUGHAM submitted for consideration some re solutions proposed by him on the 4th of May, 1846, rela livn tha nriv.tp hnqiness of the house. and made an ex- zislation in position of his plan for private and railway their lordships' house.—After a short discussion the reso- Intions wer managers c by the higi The Al There being o o'clock, the Spea Wednesday. anchester Bill was read a third time NSDOWNE laid on the table a treaty ,y and the sed his ad kd hoped the I ration of the prin- COMM( Pattisoii, Christie, Ward, Wakiey, HOUSE 0 F COMMONS Some remarks wer would not Trelawny EDNESDAY by Sir D complained of the report of the Relief Commissioners grossest misconduct and dishonesty, without producing t h e documents • was drawn. Lord J. Rtrs pon winch st ELL said the report imputed such conduct :entry only, and added that a general in- withdrew for the would Lolly ma, conarounie,a Colonies at peal or din-] E OF LORDS •THURSDAY 1 of Asnot aoved for " Extracts from all ary of State governments, relative to any re m differential duties by which the ,ndustry of this country bad hi- produce of the domes therto been protected The re turns were Lgreed to The Trustee t the city o ,nd was only snryr Relief Bill was then read asecond film( on the motion of the The Juvenile Offenders Bill was read a third time and passed, after which their lordships adjourned. LORD CHAN( 110USt OF C( MONS VIIURSDAI' the co. Objections were made by Mr. G. PALME R and Colonel EIBTHORP, to the house going into committee on the Health of Towns' Bill. The latter wanted to know, why the city of York—which, when he had formerly visited it in his military capacity, was as distinguished for its hos pitality, liberality, cleanliness, and good feeling as any city in the country—should be included in this bill, when the city of London, with all its filth and insufficient sewerage, was to be exempted from it ? He was afraid that the savory steam arising from the Lord Mayor's kitchen overpowered the olfactory nerves of Lord J. Rus sell. and rendered them insensible to the villainous smells of Puddledock and other similar laystalls in the city of London. The bill was most partial, dangerous, and un constitutional; and he should therefore meet it with the most strenuous opposition in his power. Mr. W. BROWN considered this to be the most impor tant bill of the present session, and hoped that the house would support it. Some bEtter sanitary regulations were required in all large towns, and particularly in the town of Liverpool, in consequence of the crowds of destitute Irishmen who were flocking into it. In the course of the present year 250,000 Irishmen had landed at that port, of whom 70,000 had since gone to the western world, carry ing with them the seeds of pestilence and death. The remainder were, for the most part, still in Liverpool ; and he was sorry to say, that there were at present 6000 or 7000 cases of typhus in the hospitals of that town, and that disease and death were spreading in every quarter of it, owing to the want of proper sanitary regulations. A medical gentleman who had recently arrived from that borough informed him, that in the course of the last fort night the authorities had paid not less than £l6O for coffins. With these facts before their eyes, he hoped that both houses of Parliament would give their support to government in carrying this bill. If experience should show that there were defects in it, they could easily be remedied in the next session. Mr. MACKINNON did not mean to deny that the bill omitted many points which it ought to include, and that it contained much machinery which might be as well left out; but still, upon the whole, it was a good bill and de serving public support. If the government had power to include in its operation the city of London, it would un doubtedly exercise it ; but it had not the power, and therefore it was not fair in the opponents of the measure to twit the government with not doing that which it had not the power to do. Mr. SPOONER objected to this bill, as it was founded on the principle of centralization, on which we had acted too much already. If the system, of which the bill was a part, continued to be acted on, we should have nothing but commissions to govern the local affairs of the country. He sympathized with the present condition of the borough of Liverpool ; but was the house, on account of the dis tress of that town, to pass a general and permanent mea sure—from which, however, the city of London was to be exempt—to meet a special and temporary evil ? The bill established a most expensive machinery, of which nobody knew anything ; and the most objectionable feature in it was, that it placed no limit to the expense which might be incurred on it. MR. Hunsox also objected to the bill, which was one of patronage and jobs. He also objected to the bill be cause it contained powers that were monstrous in respect to the unlimited rating of towns. Other bills contained clauses limiting the amount of rates to be levied in one but no such clause was to be found in the present d thus the commission would have the power of 11 towns not within the circuit of ten miles from o any extent which it pl ease th. did _ not know why the metropolis I from which gave tha' ost anxious to have The house then divided, when the numbers were—For the committee, 117 ; against it, 26 ;—majority, 91. The house then went into committee ; and before any clause was proposed, Lord MORPETH, to mollify opposi tion, announced his intention of reducing the number of commissioners from five to four, and of making only one of them a nairl rammissinner. The rest of the evening was consumed in the discussion of the first seven clauses of the bill, upon which some verbal amendments were made, but not without the con- sent of the Governmer ttee was ordered to s The al her orders were then disposed of, and the house IOUSE OF LORDS The It )rd BROU G was given by commission to a vase sked the Duke of Wellington whe- Ler he had re [nation respec of suicide in the 75th Re he late withdrawn of commerce and navigation between her Majes Grand Duke of Tu The Clergy Offences Sill and the Royal M Their lordships then journec HOUSE OF LORDS-T (Scotl in moving the second .fly ex- commit ee anc Martin reading of the Poo: that it cont ;ry, of the pl the appointment of on there be coin Lord BROUGIIAIki exr ciple of the pr,ese.._ _ , depart from it. But when they went into committee, on the bill, he should feel it his duty to suggest some amend- inents. Lord REDESDALE objected to that portion of the bill which provided that the chief commissioner should have a seat in parliament. In his opinion the delicate duties which that functionary had to perform should be kept wholly apart from party politics. After a few words from the Marquis of LANSDOWNE in explanation, the bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday. On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, the house went into committee on the Baths and Wash-houses Bill. The noble lord said that in this bill, which was intended to promote habits of cleanliness among the poorer classes, it was originally provided that all the baths, hot and cold, should be charged at a uniform and minimum rate, but subsequently it was thought that the classes immediately above the poorest might be benefitted, if baths at a s'- - what higher charEe were established. .r-4 latter would support th the revenue baths for the poor, without any increase in the poor-rat( With this view a clause had been introduced, authorisin, in certain cases a charge of threepence for cold and six- pence for warm Dan s. Lord MONTFAGLE opposed the clause, as applying a public rate to that which was not a public purpose. To establish baths and wash-houses for the better classes at the public expense would be tantamount to establishing a tenant-farmers' ward in the v The B that he did not think that ged would justify the house are which was intended to Lness, and the morality of any argument tha' nt td a m the metropolis of them in the nort Lord ST ,nd, in to latic asylu bly rel howev le, but one ,li - of ar :ed under the bi be charged at st is of L w observations from Lord BROUGHAM, id that the principle of the bill it had been adopted in t ted by the proprietor of pri- unposed to be en- the 'bit rkGLE, the elm THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SPAIN Accounts from Madrid to the 25th nit. say that prepa rations were being made for the reception of the Queen at San Ildefonso, where it was still hoped the King would • join Her Majesty. The intelligence from Burgos mentioned that the band of the Carlist chief, El Estudiante, had been reinforced by very few partizans. On the 20th, that chief, after ex changing a few shots with the civic guards of Villafranca, retired into the mountains, and surprised the small town of Belorado, where he seized some arms and about 2000 reals, (X 20,) belonging to the municipality. The Madrid Gazette published a despatch from the General-in-Chief of the Spanish Army of Operation, dated Braganza, 16th, stating that he would arrive before Oporto on the 22d or 23d. Another despatch from the same general, dated Mirandela, the 19th, announced that Brigadier Belesta, with eight battalions of infantry, a bat tery of artillery, and two squadrons of cavalry, was to sleep, on the 20th, at Chaves. PORTUGAL. THE DUKE OF PALMELLA.—The Queen of Portugal has written a letter with her own hand to the Duke of Palmella, commanding his return to Lisbon, and his re sumption of the position which he had so long and so de servedly held in the councils of her Majesty before he was displaced and banished by the factious and corrupt pro ceedings which have brought so much trouble and cala mity upon Portugal. The Prussian Gazette of the 27th ult. announces the closing of the Diet at Berlin on the preceding day. The quantity of beet-root sugar manufactured in France during the last six months, amounted to 52,695,424 kilo grammes, being an increase of 13,343,670 kilogrammes upon the quantity made in the preceding season. An American paper mentions that the woods along the Baltimore and Ohio Railway were lately set on fire by a spark from the ngine of a train; and as the wind was high the flames swept over a space of more than four miles. The Boston Transcriptstates that General Tom Thumb, who has realised a handsome competency, has "wooed a little maid," who has agreed to marry him. She is in her 16th year, weighs 1911 b., and is 30 inches high. The united weight of this little couple is 501 b. at Vehice on the 21st instant. He re - plied in French to a complimentary speech made to him and was enthusiasti cally received. The treat was given with the authority of the Austrian Government. Mr. C.was about to proceed to Trieste, where a new triumph awaited him. THE POPE'S LAST MIRACLE. — The Tablet publishes the following extract from a private letter from Rome : "The Pope has wrought a miracle. He went to Subiaco, and as there was a great want of rain, the people asked • him to pray for it. - He accordingly went to the shrine of St. Benedict, and prayed there an hour, and immediately the rain came and lasted six hours." _ SUFFERINGS OF EMIGRANTS.—The latest accounts from Quebec estimate the number of emigrants arrived, at 30,000; the number of deaths on shore and at sea, during the week ending June 11, was'll9; . the number of death; on boar there, could not be ascertained , ut was known to b ere we IRELAND. The sum subso Bombay amounts to £9,3oo—upwards of £22,000 having been collected throughout India. Colonel Jones, chief commissioner of the Board of Works. is nnw makino a tour of the coast of Ireland, with bours and fishing station: Parliament has made a grant one of the firm of Jcein and Uo., for having defrauded the finance committee, by substituting a different descrip tion of Indian corn for that sent to their mill to be ground -----__ stated that the Very Rev. William Delany, 8.8. of Ban don, who stood second on the list, has been appointed Bishop of Cork by the Court of Rome ; and that the consecrating bulls will be received in a few days from this date.—Cork Examiner.—[Father Mathew was first on the list]• THE Inisn PACKET STATIONS.—We have learned -as a stepping- that £30,000 has been granted by government for Port avinee patrick Harbour, and large steamers are about to be put ,nmerr on that packet station. At the same time, we under- Juprer stand by way of experiment, an additional mail is to be ehene carried by contract from Ardrossan to Belfast and Fleet itoyal Navy is supplied with seamen. , mai wood, to carry, we presume, the north mails to Ireland that the suspension already tried, as far as experience and England—the south mails continuing as formerly to proved, had had no practically beneficial effect ; and he go by Portpatrick and by Holyhead. The new arrange insisted that the Government, instead of suspending the ment is said to be a temporary one.—Wigtonshire Free Navigation Laws, ought to have employed all the vessels Press. of war that could be spared in carrying grain to this MR. O'CONNELL'S REMAINS.—The Dublin Evening country. By September next there would be no further Post says: The Oriental Steam-packet Company, through pretence for continuing the suspension of these laws. their respected and public-spirited secretary, Mr. Hartley, Lord J. RUSSELL assured the noble lord that the mea- have made arrangements on the most liberal scale, for the sure was designed to be only temporary, and had no conveyance of the remains of Mr. O'Connell from Genoa reference whatever to any ulterior change in the perma- to Southampton, free of all charge. The steamer destined nent Navigation Laws. convey the body of the illustrious deceased is expected at After a slight discussion, Lord G. BENTINCK consented Southampton about the 17th of July. Mr. Hartley has to withdraw his opposition, as Lord John Russell had undertaken to convey the body in one of his own vessels, announced that he would impartially consider the evidence and solely at his own cost, from Southampton to Dublin or • taken before the Navigation Laws committee. Kingston, as the Dublin Cemetery committee may select, The Custody of Offenders Bill passed through com- and has given directions that the Queen steamer should mittee, and the report was ordered to be received on be suitably fitted up for this purpose. It is calculated that Mon he day. the remains of Mr. O'Connell will arrive in this city about T Stock in Trade Exemption Bill was read a second the 20th of July." time after some opposition from Sir R. Inglis and Lord STATE OF THE COUNTRY. —Generally, the accounts are G. Bentinck, the latter of whom moved that the House much less unfavourable as to the extent of fever and desti be counted. Sir G. Grey was then the only occupant of tution. Food is becoming plentiful and cheaper, and the the Ministerial benches, but by a sudden rush of members fine prospects of the harvest are giving confidence to all the House was saved. classes. Even in Skibbereen there is a most decided im- Dr. Bow RING asked the Attorney- General whether the provement. The Rev. R. Boyle Townsend, in a letter property of Tawell, who was executed for murder, and from that place, says—" Though the workhouse is as respecting which an official inquiry had lately taken place, crowded as ever, having at this instant eleven hundred in instead- of escheating to the Crown, would be restored to it, that is, three hundred over its original intended num his widow ? ber, there were but four deaths in the last week—a prodi- The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he had been wholly gious change from over one hundred deaths in the same surprised at the turn given in various quarters t o th e l a t e space of time shortly ago. We have, to be sure, many inquisition into the property of the convict Tawell. The epidemics raging still, and much destitution of course, but hon. member was aware that the goods of convicts es- nothing above ordinary mortality, nor any want of food cheated to the Crown ; but the widow of Tawell having in plenty allowed to exist, through the Lord's blessing." petitioned the crown that an inquisition into her l a te In some districts, however, Sligo in particular, fever and husband's property might be made, with a view to itsbeing destitution still prevail to a lamentable extent. vested in herself, the petition had been granted, and the THE WEATHER.—Summer has set in in right earne but st, inquiry had taken place accordingly. ',Hear, hear.) not , as ha s been observed, " with its usual severity, Lord SANDOM asked if the Governor of ! Hong Kong with a brilliancy and warmth more resembling a tropical had acted on his own responsibility in his expedition to than the humid, lukewarm , climate of the " Emerald Canton ? Isle;" and a continuance of such weather as we have had Lord J. RUSSELL replied that he had received instruc- for the last few days cannot but raise high hopes of the tions to demand redress for injuries inflicted by the Chi -than average abundance. Nothing advent of better times, by the realization of the prospect of a harvest of more nese authorities, of which he had sent ho m e information • but other circumstances having since arisen, he had acted can be more cheering than the accounts from all parts of th e kingdom—there is scarcely a drawback. The grain without instructions as to the particular expedition. crops are described as being seldom equalled, never ex- To a question from Mr. Horsman, Lord MORPETH celled, in appearances, while the turnip and other green replied that he intended, on the passing of the Health of Towns Bill, to discontinue burials in crowded towns. crops promise a field which must nearly, if not altogether y counterbalance the loss by failure — supposing it complete The House went into committee on the Health of Towns Bill, and clauses eight to fifteen inclusive were —of the potato. Prices of all kinds of provisions are agreed to. The thirteenth clause, which excludes the gradually declining everywhere, and, all things considered, city of London, was carried on a division by 112 against the aspect of affairs is by no means so disheartening as it 70. The Chairman reported progress, and obtain leave to was at the corresponding period of last year. Mr. SHIEL'S PANEGYRIC ON O'CONNELL.—Mr. Sheil sit again at twelve o'clock on Monday. The House then adjourned to Monday. availed himself of the recent debate upon the Government project for lending £600,000 to certain Irish railways, to deliver a panegyric on O'Connell. The hon. member's speech was in his usual style when he lavishes praise— somewhat florid and tawdry, but at the same time cold This week the installation of Prince Albert will take and constrained. He appeared as if wishing to be only decently civil ; . without any deep feeling of admiration for place at Cambridge. The Queen is to be present, and his departed friend, or of veneration for his memory. Mr. would arrive there yesterday. M. J. O'Connell, who afterwards addressed the house, would I is to our commercial id which would put in peril the naval supremacy the source from whence the y restr He maintained UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. J..- The Lord Bishop of Exetsr has been pleased to appoint took no notice of this posthumous tribute, and we suspect the Rev. William Maskell, M.A., of Broadleaze, near it will be very ungraciously received in Conciliation Hall. Devizes, one of his lordship's domestic chaplains. The topic upon which Mr. Sheil expatiated most largely, Friday's Gazette contains Orders in Council ratifying was his own regret that O'Connell did not live to reach three schemes of the ecclesiastical commissioners. The Rome ! Nothing could be more trite or superficial than first authorises the sale of certain lands now forming part the manner in which he handled this point :—I would that of the endowment of the prebend of Bishopshall, in the he had lived to behold the seat of that ancient and per cathedral of Lichfield. The second and third assign dis- petual faith in which he was anh humble believer, and of tricts to the consecrated church of St. Peter, Birming- which he was the proud and chivalrous that h champion—that n e ta n d — kt h e a l t t ham, and to Newport Chapel, Bishop's Tawton, Devon. he had lived to behold the eternal city, COLONIAL SEES.—We have now twenty-two colonial at the altars of that temple, the noblest that was ever raised by the hands of man, an& worthy of the purposes, sees and dioceses ; viz., Antigua, Barbadoes, Bombay, the high and holy ones, to which it is devoted--and, that Calcutta, Gibraltar, Guiana, Jamaica, Madras , Montreal , through the marble halls of the Vatican the venerable Newfoundland, New Zealand, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Tas man, though with a feeble and tottering step, had found mania, Toronto, Sydney, Newcastle, Adelaide, Melbourne, his way, amidst the array of sacerdotal pampa, and re _ Cape Town, Colombo, and Fredericton. This is a goodly ceived the sanctifying salutation of the great pontifical and a godly array ; but it is the forerunner only, we trust reformer who has ascended the chair of St. Peter amidst and believe, of a far larger distribution of spiritual aid to our vast colonial empire. The field for labour is bound- the acclamations of the world. TRAGIC OCCURRENCE.-011 Saturday week, a trooper less ; our duty, as a Christian state, to cultivate it. impe named Smith, of the 7th Hussars, attempted to shoot native. Until recently, this duty was but feebly and par- Sergeant-Major Trout, in the ba rracks at Balli nasloe. tinily recognised ; but we are beginning to understand it On examination, the culprit endeavoure d to prove that he better ; and we look forward to its future performance with enrifithmep. The impulse which has been given will have fired a blank cartridge ; but, in.ortler to do this, it was of a natural tendency to develop its own energic Bull. number of ball cartridge. It is supposed that a private in the 75th Regiment, named John Radcliff, supplied a ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS OF TII IS DIOCESE.— W e I relieve that the Bishop- of Chester has divided the ruri- cartridge to make up the num ber. This becomin g kn own , the colonel of the 75th issued the following memorandum, decanal court hitherto presided over by the " Rural dean of all and si ngu lar the rural deaneries of the archdeaeonry ' to be read in presence of the com p an y :—" Private Rad . cliff's hair will be cut quite close to his head, and he will of Chester.' Hereafter, each archdeacon (of Chester, Manche s t er , an d Li verpoo l) w ill p res ide as rural dean over . be kept in the strictest confin e m ent, and an y man seen own di s t r i c t. A rc hd eacon W oo d an d Archdeacon speaking to him is immediately to be confined and pun his' ished for ' disobedience of orders. He will also be marched a prisoner on Wednes da y next, at 5 a.m., to Rushton are appo i nted and i n d ucte d, su bj ec t t o th e a lt ers - . tion of territo r y on t h e f oun di ng o f th e arc hd eaconr y of ' - of Athlone, handcuffed, and be prep ared to take hi s trial by Live- rol. As so me o f our rea d ers may not b e aware a `general' or ' district' court-martial; and most assu ties of a rural d ean , we may ment i on th a t rura l redly he will receive the severest p unishment th at can be are deputies of the bi s h o p, pl an t e d all roundhi. inflicted. The lieutenant-colonel cannot strongly I the d diocese, tn( c 1( ) inspect the conduct of the parochial express. his indignation- at the detestaote par to inquire into and report dilapidations, and to e the candidates for confirmation, and they are private Radcliffin the transact ion in q uestion, ing the corps in an odious liglitifforeneyubi: judicial coercive authority.—Mgneheeter Gwor;'/;a; Phould belong to ti rangements must, if possible, be made for sending the wife of the prisoner to her friends, as her name w ill be erased from the books at the end of the month." In compliance with this order, Radclifrs hair was cropped close, and after being paraded he was led back to the guard-room in company with a corporal arid two privates. Immediately on his entering the room he seized a razor, and drew it across his throat, which divided the principal vessels of the neck, and he soon afterwards died.—An inquest was held, when the following verdict was return ed :—" We find that the deceased, John Radcliff, came by his death in consequence of having inflicted an exten sive wound in his throat with a razor, whilst labouring under temporary derangement, induced by the extreme severity of the order from Colonel Hallifax produced in evidence." . _ LAW INTELLIGENCE. An action for libel against The Times was tried in the Court of King's Bench, on Tuesday, by a dealer in curio sities, named Evans. The alleged libel consisted in stat ing that he had sold a sword, falsely represented as having belonged to Lord Nelson, A verdict was returned for the _ _ _ _ THE LAW OF MARRIAGE.—Tbe London Gazette of Tuesday, contains a notice that the Queen has been please& to appoint the Right Rev. John Bishop of Lichfieln, the Right Hon. James Stuart Wortley, the Right Hon. Stephen Lushington, D.C.L., the Right Hon. Anthony Richard Blake, Sir Edward Vaughan Williams, Knt., and Andrew Rutherford Esq., Lord Advocate of Scotland, to be her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into the state and operation of the law of marriage. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—This Company has been singularly unfortunate this Session in their schemes. Out of five bills, they lost four. It is estimated that the Wolverton accident will involve the London and North Western Company in an ex of between £30,000 and £40,000. The daily expenses of the Great Western Railway Com pany, in the present parliament, have been estimlted at 1£4500, or about £30,000 a-week. The Mining Journal states that a series of experiments made by Mr. Motley, C.E. have thrown doubts upon the safety of Stephenson's bridge across the Menai Straits. Twenty railway bills have received the royal assent this session, authorising £5,404,915 to he raised by capital and loan for the construction of 255} miles of railway. he mere exi railway During the present session, bills in parliament have been estimated at half a million sterling, and during the last sessions at three millions sterling- ! Thelrombro' Railway Branch was opened on Monday and in commemoration of the event two thousand collier received each a gratuity and free passage to Liverpool an( back. THE ST. HELEN'S RAILWAY.—The St. Helen's Rail way Company's Bill, for branches to Warrington and Blackbrook, passed through the committee of the House of Lords on Tuesday. In the railway committee of the House of Lords on and New proved, and evidence was heard in favour of ti Lancashire (Southport branch). so in readiness to carry it farther :n a short time we may expect to h magic means of communication being extended to the most remote regions of the American continent. A useful label for passengers' luggage has been invent- king patterns, all dissimilar; and passengers may readily fix them on packages, so tkat they may be easily recog- nised, and no mistakes arise Yesterc' y week, ti locomotive en g iran. exnloded LS recover} ons of it being carried ur The engin eu up, withdrawn that clause of their bill which enabled them to apply their funds to the purchase of steam-vessel to unite the business of railway m ;ement with ti: tided on recommending that ample free quayage shall be provided for the public, instead of giving the company the exclusive use of the quays and landing-stages. OPENING OF THE NEWCASTLE AND BERWICK RAIL- Berwick-upon-Tweed, which is t han two years from that pe riod it has been opened for public traffic throughout.— Sunderland Times. ;ent in Ju GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY la this company are making ately commencing the line fir this town to the Askern Branch of the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway, which will afford a ready communication between Don caster, Wakefield, and Normanton. This part of the line it is expected will be finished by Christmas, at least up to the Marsh, where probably a temporary station will be erected until- the bridge -over the Don is completed. — Doncaster Chronicle. _ _ RAILWAY CARRIAGES nov 1 first-class carriage is Scotland and Englarid,: designed by Sir. Sinclair. The body of the carriage will be of the usual size, divided into two apartments, the one larger than the other. Both di visions will be fitted up with cushions, pillows, and every thing suitable for laying down at full length. The larger division will accommodate six personsi ; the smaller one, communicating with the other, is principally intended for ladies, and will afford room for two. In this latter divi sion there will be all those conveniences which ladies and invalids will appreciate.—. Railway Chronicle. T. LANCASTER AND PRESTON JUNCTION RAHAvAY annual meeting of the shareholders of this company was held at Lancaster on Tuesday ; Mr. —. Bushell in the chair. The report stated that the accounts furnished by the committee of management showed a balance of £4,505 in favour of the company, the disposal of which the directors recommended should be postponed. The accounts showed that £38,605 had been received from the shareholders since June, 1845, of which £37,406 had been disbursed, including £28,655 paid on 'account of calls due on the Lancaster and Carlisle shares held by the company, leaving a balance of £1,200. Resolutions were passed adopting the report and accounts, re-electing the retiring directors, appointing Messrs. Willan and Jackson solici tors to the company, and also Mr. Bushell to be the com pany's representative at the Lancaster and Carlisle Rail way board, in right of the shares held by the company. THE TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY.—This line (which we have before stated was opened with great ecliit on Satur day week) is, strictly speaking, a level one throughout, through a very pleasing country, passing partly under (by tunnel) and partly through Shugborough Park, the seat of the Earl of Lichfield ; crossing the Trent seven times, and having junctions or connections with the North Staf fordshire, the Midland Counties, and the Birmingham and Derby, lines of railway. The cost of construction is stated at £1,050,000, or £21,000 per mile, which, we believe, is about the estimate. Though the first sod was cut by Sir Robert Peel, on the 13th November, 1845, it was not till February, 1846, that the contractors got fairly to work ti r the line, and yet it was so expeditiously construe ed t it could have b e en o pened for traffic on the Ist May, bad it been desirable to work fast trains over a new line. It may be said to have been executed in little more than fif teen months ' • and it has had the advantage, for more than s ix weeks past, of due consolidation. Judging from the easy motion of the carriages on the rails, without any dis agreeable jerks or vibrations, we should say that the con solidation is now in a very satisfactory state. The stations are all finished, and the whole line as complete in all de partments as a new railway well can be. BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY. — On Wednesday, the adjourned meeting of the sharehelders in the Birmingham and Oxford Company was held at Dee's Hotel, Birmingham. P. H. Muntz, Esq., chair man of the directors, presided. Mr. Mozley moved, " That this meeting, considering the main objects of the bill now before Parliament, to enable the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company to make certain alterations in the line of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway, and to purchase the Stratford-upon- Avon Canal Navigation, and for other purposes, to be consistent with the interests of the shareholders, desires to express its concurrence in the provisions of such bill, expecting those which confer power on the Great Western Company to subscribe for, or to purchase and hold shares in this company, under the alleged agreement, to the terms of which the shareholders in this company object, and which enable the Great Western Railway Company to raise capital for that purpose, and to vote in respect thereof, of which provision, in the present state of the m atter, the meeting cannot approve : and this meeting, understanding that certain shareholders have petitioned the House of Lords against such bill, on standing orders, respectfully request those shareholders not to proceed further with such petition, provided the objectionable provisions before referred to are withdrawn, and cloth hereby express the desire of the shareholders that, sublect to the withdrawal of such provisions, the said bill should be allowed to proceed without further opposition in Par liament." Mr. Jones, of Liverpobl, seconded the motion. The chairman said every one present must be in favour of such a motion ; but if it were carried, it would not be of the slightest weight. Whatever came from the Wharn cliffe order, required a period of three or four weeks. If the petition were withdrawn, the committee might per haps allow the bill to pass. Mr. Mozley enquired, " Will you withdraw the bill ?" to which the chairman replied in the affirmative, provided the shareholders would withdrawn their opposition to the other bill. Several of the directors dissented, and the chairman declined to put ' the resolution, on the ground that it had not been men- I tioned in the notice calling the meeting. Mr. Mozeley then moved, That 0) hereby adjourned unt the matters r of the 29th (1 6pprettenk July 6,1547. Her Majesty's royal assent has been given to the new Enlistment Act; and, from the 22d instant, recruits for the cavalry are only to serve twelve and the infantry tea y ears. A quantity of horse flesh, salted and picked so as to resemble ribs of beef, has lately been seized in Birming ham. The house where it was found has long been famous for cheap and savoury meat. The ingenious pro prietor has absconded. AN UNEXPECTED DIEFICIILTY.—The Weekly Times states, that Mad'lle Lind has found herself involved in some difficulty with respect to practising at her house in Brompton. It has been impossible for her to give free vent to her vocal energies without attracting a crowd of persons about her dwelling ; and consequently, to remedy this inconvenience she has been compelled to take a house on Wimbledon Common, in the centre of a deep garden. Thus she hopes to avoid the uncourteous inroads of John. Bull upon her privacy. NEW POSTAGE BILL.—A bill has been introduced by government empowering the lords of the treasury to pre vent packets of unweildly bulk from being sent by post, by fixing the maximum weight ; to reduce the rates on any letters exceeding one penny ; and to allow printing. or writing on newspapers or their covers, besides the direction ; also to extend the privilege of the 3 and 4 Vict. to seamen and soldiers' foreign letters ; to enable any person to require a receipt for a letter delivered to the post-office, at a regulated charge ; to compel the senders of letters rejected or addressed to persons not to be found, to pay the postage; and to authorize the sending of mails by railways without a guard. A CIDER DRINKER.—An old man, named Abraham. Hillard, approaching fourscore, who has lived in the family of the Holmans, large farmers, at Glastonbury, for the last forty years, as farm bailiff, has had through the whole of that time one gallon of cider daily allowed for his own drinking, from his master's stores, and though he is now too aged to work, he is still seen going for his favourite beverage. The father of the present Mr. Holman, at his death, left in his will Bs. per week, to be given to this faithful servant as long as he lived. This he (the old man) regularly has been paid, and his daily .• • potation of cidei drawn for him also. During that forty years this man must have received 14,600 gallons, or 270 hogsheads 20 gallons, which, at 40s. the hogshead, would have realized £540 and upwards.—Sherbourne Journal. A NEW WAY TO TAKE A COLD BATH.-Two sailors were taking a walk the other day on the lower footpath to Daddington ; and when opposite the Loch, one of them, evidently the worse for liquor, suddenly broke off from the other and dashed into the water, his friend following him ; but the latter, it is supposed, seeing the other swim ming so well, and thinking no suicide was intended, re turned to the shore and sat down on the bank, waiting the event. The tipsy man swam for the nearest island, which he reached in safety, and coolly lay down to rest himself beside a swan on its nest; and after remaining for a few minutes, again plunged into the Lock and swam ashore. Having rejoined his companion, they returned again to town, arm in arm, as if nothing in particular had occurred, dripping like two Newfoundlands after a plunge.—Edin burgh Weekly Register. _ AN INNOCENT CONVICT.—A highway robbery was corn- Ited in the early part of 1846 by four persons, near ertford, and three were taken into custody and tried at e February assizes held there, and being all found guilty," were sentenced each to 15 years' transporta- William Bowers, one of the persons convicted, de 2ence of any participation in the crime .ce had been passed upon them ; but the tes , of his fellow-convicts was of a doubtful nature, ..ing to their silence on the subject previous to convic tion. Another of the guilty parties having been recently taken, confessed to th chaplain of the Hertford Gaol that William Bowers was innocent of being a participator in the crime of which he was convicted, and named the other person, still at large ; and it having now been satis factorily established that Bowers was really' innocent, a free pardon for him was received from Sir George Grey, Secretary of State, by Mr. Masterman, Governor of the Warrior convict-hulk,; at Woolwi c h, an d the prisoner was -ly liberated a faw days ago. CHURCHES - dared his with the comma so unfortunately on the prisoner's mind. On the motion for going into committee on the Poor- Amendment Lord BROUGHAM stated his objection to the connexion of the Poor-law department with the Government, and to making its head removable by, and intimately con nected with, the party in office. The consequence would be that all Poor-law measures, good or bad, would be at tacked and defended in a spirit of party, and there would be an end to all dispassionate treatment of the subject. He always considered the greatest blot in the bill to be the clause which had been introduced into it in the other house, providing against the separation of married pau pers above a prescribed age, and he tendered his hearty thanks to the Government for having opposed that pro position. Again, the requisite knowledge of the details of the department was not to be acquired in a day, and still less the firmness necessary for the discharge of so de licate and so difficult a duty. Yet the president of the department would, if his Government went out, retire from office before this firmness and this knowledge of the details could possibly be acquired. Such a functionary ness of character, but, - above all, - he {night to have a seat in Parliament from which he could not be expelled. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was glad to find that Lord posed to admit the heads of the Poor s in Parliament, for he was con- vinced that a great portion of the obliquy that had been thrown upon them resulted from the fact of their acting so much in the dark. He could not agree with the noble lord in thinking that the president ought to be uncon nected with party, but, on the contrary, was sure that the department would not work well unless its head was in intimate and confidential communication with the govern- Lord STA/ EY the -,lit that the question was beset K 4. but. thourth he was fully aware connection of the head of the Poor-lair department with ?.rnment, he still thought that such a connexion , e advantageous, and for this reason he quite ap- Df the principle of making the chief functionary of )artment personally responsible to the government. se then went into committee on the bill, and all th the exception of the 23d, greed to, NI to live apart in work houses, which The bill was then or red to be reported. S riled a stage, and their lordships ad- Darned OF COM i Paving, I MONS.-F: ghting, and Im irovement Market Lord G. I as to wh ether, in the Zollverein rE ritish ( tion which the lam Lord PALM NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF CORK • • ri • r__— n,._.,.,. :.- ...4,;,-.1. ;d• mei< questioned the Foreign Secretary , nt of the Prussian Government ng to renew the treaty of inter- that the Prussian Go nate the treaty, and he ieir intention to do so. imation on the With th with the the ships of all nations which would nan Sta the same privil rates extended to them. is true that the German ion with the I Towns for the object indicated ; and he had been informed that a person had been sent from Berlin to Hamburgh, Lubec, and Bremen, to induce the Hanse Towns to be come members of the Zollverein. Hamburgh and Lubec had, he believed, become parties to the arrangement. Lord J. RUSSELL moved the second reading of the Bill for the renewal of the suspension of the Navigation Laws. Lord G. BENTINCE opposed the Bill as an underhand attempt to repeal the Navigation Laws stone to their total abolition—which he felt convinced FOREIGN 4. 'COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE, INDIA By the last mail of the 20th of May, we learn that Hy derabad, the Metropolitan of the Deccan, had been the scene of military tumults in consequence of long arrears of pay which were due to the soldiery. The consequence had been that for the first time a body of English troops entered Hyderabad; and should their presence fail to re store tranquillity, it appears the Nizam's territories are so surrounded with British bayonets, that large reinforce ments from the three Presidences can be instantaneously despatched. The Deccan has long been in an unquiet state, and the British authorities, not only in Madras, but in Bombay and Bengal, have had to maintain an uneasy attitude of preparation which renders it extremely desirable, now that we have at last moved in the business, to bring it to a satisfactory conclusion, which we have no doubt Lord Hardinge will do. ide . was a most atrocious _ entect the severity I treated ; the only fault ht )fficer was that he had not suffi COURT AND FASHION. The Queen, it is said, will visit Ireland in the month of July, and preside at the ceremony of laying the first stone of Queen's College, Belfast. Lord and Lady Stanley are now at Knowsley Park, and are to receive a visit from his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, this day. Gibson's statue of the Queen was added to the Royal Academy on Saturday week, and inspected by her Ma jesty the same morning, her Majesty expressing her plea sure to be thus early in her visit, that she might not in terfere with the usual arrangements for the public. The statue is in marble, and about the size of life, with an antique feeling, and yet a good deal of Canova about it. Her Majesty is represented standing with a wreath in her right hand, a small roll of paper in her left. The drapery is admirably arranged, and quite a study and example in a very difficult department. Mr. Gibson has coloured his statue after the antique fashion, and with extreme good taste. The tiara, wreath, and sandals, are of a light yellow colour ; the border of the drapery a faint blue and red. The statue was a commission from the Queen ; and will be erected either in Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle, which ever will afford the best light. THE ROYAL VISIT.—In ancient times a Royal progress was the scourge of a country. Wherever and whensoever the Court appeared in any locality the people trembled with apprehension. It resembled rather the march of an hostile army through the land than that of the beneficent sovereign of the people. The purveyors for the Royal ta ble were entitled to carry away, sans recompense, from any house or enclosure whatever promised to be agreeable or appeared necessary to the subsistence of the monarch and his numerous hosts of retainers ; and this privilege was abused in the most atrocious manner—so scandalously, indeed, that what they could not consume the Court pur veyors not unfrequently destroyed in sheer wantonness. A Royal progress, or Royal visit, is now a very different thing indeed. Her Majesty, by moving to and fro, not only diffuses general gladness and gives a stimulus to trade, but actually whitewashes her dominions. Nuisances that have enjoyed a lease of centuries disappear at the mere prospect and anticipation of a Royal visit. Every house and lane and suburb puts on a new appearance. The Royal route is renovated. Improvements are suggested, and rapidly carried into execution, which were never pre viously thought of. Dunghills tremble and are troubled, and at last they are absolutely swept away for very shame, because " the Queen is coming.' All old things disap proach and advent of Her Majesty ushers The am in a new era, promotes the sale of brooms, and a rapid traffic in mops and brushes. Temporary decorations lead to permanent renovations, and Her Majesty may boast at her departure, in the language of Augustus—" I found this place of brick, and 10, I have built it of marble." — Cambridge Advertiser. FASHIONS FOR JUL (From the London and Paris "Ladies' Maf;azine of Fashion transparent materials are now in favour with violet, pink, or currant, dark green or light, the organdys are in large checks, and for morning Wear jaco nots and brillantes with flounces; the ensemble of toilettes cipaly rec p eignoirs o. Nankin, with deep hem, and ,uisa trimmed wi —many are made wit toiles de Chine are ornamented with embroidery in sou tache. For the present moment redingotes of muslin, 1;r".1 ..411 nnll an crpct 1 , 11 , 414+17 • 4hn IVITCAI7IPQ arcs rnnelP hi wh _ some are trimmed with several rows of lace, divided by boillons, with a ribbon through ; others with muslin fes tonnee or bouillonnee; these are accompanied by black lace shawls ; some are of net, almost covered with lace, and partake of the demi mantelet form; more elegant ones are small, with a simple row of lace half an ell in n, is very I A new material, termed taffetas rut others are in deep vandyke ed printed tarlatan€ Pounces, id with gimp or braid; .1 mouss - elines de soie grenadin r skirt of white silk, the core ribbon. For all thick materials the others are wide fulled into a wristband and showing tl bouillons of the white sleeve below, or with cuffs turned I back 'a la Louis XV., finished with a plisse of ribbon. are tight; votes have been made in Paris of white taffetas, but very simple in style, merely closing with gimp buttons; light necessary in out-door toilette, and the lace shawl of the morning must often be replaced for an evening promenade by a wadded cloak, closing to the throat with pelerine, and long ends crossing in front; many r frills, having wreaths of flowers, b are wits material ; the mantelets form a shawl behind, and the ends in front are short; many are of black figured net, trimmed with lace of embroidered muslin ; those of taffe tas glace have trimmings of the same material; ecru, green, glace, with white, dark blue, lilac, and currant, are favourite colours. To bonnets, all the lightest materials are now in request; thedentelle paille is particularly so ; bonnets of crin and bon, velou'W or check th large &( flowers; marine ones, ehesnut c. Some bonnets of dentelle ht-pnlnnypd silk_ with ninkpd _ . ie due on the mortgagee, and was lodged in Ilcliester gaol. The cause having been tried at the Lent Assizes in 1825, a verdict was given against Harvey for £826 10s., and he has ever since been retained a prisoner, although the judgment has never been revived by any of the repre sentatives of the deceased plaintiff. In Easter term last, Mr. Edwards benevolently moved the Queen's Bench Court for Harvey's discharge, there being no legal detain ing creditor, and on the 25th of May the rule for his dis charge was made absolute. Thus, after 23 years' impri sonment, during 19 years of which he had been a recipient of the gaol allowance, this unfortunate man is now at liberty ! It is alleged that upon a fair account, a consider able balance would be shown to be due to Harvey from the representatives of the mortgagee, and proceedings are to be adopted accordingly. DEATH OF A NOTORIOUS ENGLISH OUTLAW IN AMERICA.—Recent Vermont papers chronicle the death in the village of Brattlebro, in that State, under rather curious circumstances, of one of the most reckless and successful highwaymen that ever ranked in the annals of crime, and upon whose head the English Government, thirty-five years ago, set an enormous price. Doherty alias Captain Thunderbolt, was Irish. During his last illness he refused to have his clothes removed, and when he was sensible that his recovery was impossible he bar gained with two men to bury him in them. The curiosity of the neighbours was aroused by this singular request. Desiring that their fellow-citizen should have a decent b th u e ri c a l l o , t t h l i te n y g interfered fromthec a o f r t p e s r e h t i h s e d y e d ce is a e s o e v p e a r n e d on d a r t once.ei n o v in theg cause of his singular desire. A withered leg exhibited shot marks, and his neck a sea which together wit h a cork heel, identified hi m as being' the notorious highway man Thunderbolt. On his person a loaded p istol and a dirk were found ; among his effects, carefully packed away in sawdust and concealed, arms, watches, diamonds, rings, and other jewellery to an immense value ; and it appeared that, in order to make his person more portly, so as to prevent recognition, he had worn for years three suits of clothes at the same time. The shrivelled leg Was covered with cloths to increase its apparent size to that of progress." the other. The discovery of the far-famed robber, ea the Vermont papers, in the person of the individual who A large porpoise, or sea-hog, measuring about 12 feet had for some thirty years resided quietly in their midst, in length, and weighing 120 stones, was caught in the ri and who had been known to many as the " eccentric ver Ouse, at Kilpinpike, near Howden, on Thursday, the Scotch doctor," in whose prescriptions they had the most 24th ult. Leigh Hunt has received a highly-complimentary exalted faith, made a considerable stir among the peopl e Mr. of the village in which he had so long lived. — . Americ an letter from Lord John. Russell, with the announcement that the queen had bestowed a pension of £2OO a-year on A WEALTHY AND EXTENSIVE F —Near to the town - of Mere, Wilts, we were struck FARMER OF WlLT the veteran author.—Dottglas Jerrold's Newspaper. pap e r. l E Six new companies will be immediately added to the 911 • at beholding the fine crops, the excellent order the fields 'corps of Royal Marines, and fully officered with a captain appeared to be in, the low neat cut hedges or fences, and and two sabalterns in each company. Two field officers the immense quantity of oxen, cows, and sheep graz ing will also be added to the strength of the Royal Marine in the meadows : and this led to an inquiry to whom forces. those rich, broad fields belonged. To Sir H. R. Hoare , The bricks charged annually with duty in England and, the_rich banker, of. Fleet-street, London. was the re adY, Scotland alone (in Ireland there is no duty on bricks) are reply, whose seat is about three miles from Mere, an d upwards of 150,000,000, yielding a revenue of £440,000. Tne malt tax alone yields a net duty of £5,000,000: paper seven from Wincanton, who himself has the following yields a net duty of £7,000,000; soap yields upwards of seven farms in his own hands :—Shirton Knoyle, Colc,at , £950,000 ; and British spirits upwards of £5,000,000. Hill grounds, Brenham Lodge, Top Lane, and Search HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL.—The House of Commons Farm ; altogether containing between three and four determined on Thursday night, by a large majority, to thousand acres of land, once so poor and considered sc proceed with the bill in committee, and some ofy, the unproductive that every farmer in the old school failed ii i most important clauses were afterwards agreed to. Several getting their living from the farms they occupied ; hence Mr. Hoare, one after the other, was driven to make the members expressed their regret that the metropolis had best of such land, or suffer it to be still less useful if over' been excluded from the operation of the bill. run with weeds. He therefore hired farm-bailiffs, pa: FALL OF A GRAIN LOFT. — Some days ago, one of chased horses, and every necessary implement of hes., the lofts of a granary at Craigie gave way, and fell to the bandr : employed at least.lso labourers, keeping betwce' ground floor with all its accumulated treasures, in one seventy and eighty horses, giving constant work to woot promiscuous uproar. We believe more granaries through- men, bricklayers, and thus more than . - 4 ,r, t out the country have fallen within the last six mont hs men through him have constant emplopment, winter u v than during the previous sixty years—certainly no proof summer, wet or dry, at good wages; the lowest anaoeP t e per du e t i w o e i.i e k in , l a some btohue having .t o present His eol labourerscottages ge is 12s. ni !or e r Perth Advertiser. p t d h a a e y d s The daughter of a surgeon residing in London was ac let to his :YP" cidentallv poisoned on Tuesday last. She was in the ha- to 40s. per annum, with large gardens, right of corairlq bit of taking ginger-beer and soda-water, which she fla or pasturage, remrsldatafnrodmsll-% A ir voured with essence of lemon ; but she unfortunrtely mis- enabling some to keep a cow or two, and the winter fatten two or three pigs. Mr. Hoare hinls,,, took a bottle containing essential oil of bitter almonds for as many cows in milk at one time as yield him tol", the phial containing the essence of lemon, and expired in has a few minutes after she had swallowed the poisoned in each week fourteen to sixteen pounds of good bu t ted has seventy calves weaning and fattening at one time, t draught. i v., A singular mode of preparing medicines appears to in the winter at least fifty beasts stalled ; when fat ot , have been recently adopted in France by covering the are sold generally to beast-dealers in the neighbourho v, most nauseous descriptions of them with sugar in a . con- some of these beasts frequently reaching the enorn i t f o l u i t fectioned and highly-finished state, so as to represent Eu- weight of from sixty to eighty score pounds each. Adis'` lums and comfits, and to deceive any person as to -. Quality and real substance. Quantities of one third only is grazing land; he has never less t• t i r 1000 sheep and 600 ewes for breeding, of the pure So l v er down breed ; nearly 1000 acres of this very land•was never ml i ' - ' 4 for use considered to be worth more than ls. per acre for 1 ; 0 , -, Oa annum. When Mr. Hoare had it first in his Poe' all son, the occupiers then thinking three to four sack : s il t - I g, acre of wheat a good field, now, by cultivation, drai n area ctii valland P. acres of wheat grown last year on this very ore and manuring, it would let for 30s. an acre ; fivul l ~,, ducing on an average from ten to eleven sacks per__oo4 )e' This gentleman lets off a large breadth of land to far' a nd el l it in the neighbourhood, giving every encourageole w ainiC ea in p. assistance to those who will follow in his plans, by v _ . ..., 0- them money, finding drain-tiles, and rendering e r ei t hen sistance they may reasonably ask, and even snore they expect ; not raising the rent as extra man the ° ldol leads some to adopt, but granting long leases at Those - - -- --__ -1.... T.:... fn n-rsevere:„, sA 01(1 nto th Tier of 1 Mr. C. R. Wold, a con that all the alarm which Arctic adventurers is was provisioned for when he sailed no one contem i him earlier than October or Novem me unforeseen accident should compel , rising Behring's )f August, or in September or October, his success earlier than January re is, therefore, no cause as yet His absence has not yet equalled exist at the present moment more reason for n than there was when the expedition sailed. laving heard from Sir John is to be looked upon low terms to induce muse unuer not blinded to prejudice soon do well, the self -w ignorant are soon compelled to leap c.---Homy. trimmed wi are ornamented N blossom, honey- ruche in, de, and bunches of flower have silk crowns, and the fronts lined with silk and finished with a ruche, which continues round the bavolet; the bavolets are made larger than they were a few months back. particularly for capotes; tulle bouillonnee and crape are much admired, those of dark colour are enlivened by the beautiful flowers that ornament them. etntral Lord John Russell has offered Mr. Sheridan Knowles, from the royal bounty, £lOO a-year. The authorities in Edinburgh are about to erect tents in a park for the reception of fever patients. Ten casks of Russian potatoes have been imported into Bristol from Odessa. . _ A public entertainment was given to Sir Henry Smith, on Wednesday, at Ely, his native place. The yearly amount of insolvency in England is no less than £50,000,000. " A practical man," writing to the Morning Chronicle, suggests that the best monument for Caxton would be a " Caxton Hospital" for decayed printers. At a late meeting of a London Antiquarian Society, one of the members produced, for general inspection, the heel bone of Edward VI., pilfered from his coffin. The Queen, on the advice of Lord John Russell, has settled on the widow and family of the late Dr. Chalmers a pension on the civil list of £230 a-year. A parliamentary return gives the cost of the Yeomanry Corps in Great Britain for the year 1846 as £87,948 ; the number of officers was 884, and of men 13,818. The quantity of alpaca and llama wool imported into the United Kingdom in the year 1846, was 1,554,2871 b., and the quantity re-expor.ted, 112,1281 b. The Eleven (Ten) Hours Bill came into operation on Thursday ; and in several mills, consequently, the wages of the hands are about to be reduced. Fever is raging in Scotland. A Scotch paper says : " From all parts of the country we hear of the prevalence of fever, and of the steps which are taken to stay its immediate The paper of inquiries to church wardens, issued by the archdeacon, always contains the question, " Is there any ivy groiving on the walls, &c. ?" A rural dean has appealed to the Archdeacon Ormerod on his primary visitation • to consider before he issues his fiat for the removal of this ornament of many of our churches. He contends that, so far from the ivy render ing the structure damp, and so hastening its decay, on the contrary, nothing so effectually keeps the building dry, as may be seen by examining beneath the ivy after ram, when it will be found that the walls are dry, though every thing around is deluged with wet. And further, he con tends that " its exuberant and web-like roots, issuing, as they do, from every portion of the branches, and running all over the surface On which it grows, binding everything together that comes within their reach .with such a firm lace-worl , that not a stone can be removec on without first tearing away its protecting castles and abbeys : " for while in those parts of the struc ture that have not had the advantage of this protection all has gone to utter decay, where the ivy has thrown its pre serving mantle, everything is comparatively perfect and fresh, and oftentimes the very angles of the sculptured stone are found to be almost as sharp and entire as when first they came from the mason's yard.—Bury:Post. AN IMPRISONMENT OF 23 YEARS !—Jeffrey Harvey, a miller of Wedmore, in Somersetshire, in February, 1805, mortgaged his lands for £3OO, and in 1812 further mortgaged them for £3OO to William Barrow, of Wed more' the clear annual value of the prop er ty b e i ng £BO. In 1817 W. Barrow took possession and received the rents and T " Jeffrey Harvey has not had a penny from the property ince the death of W. Barrow in 1830. On the 4th of September, 1824, J. Harvey was arrested at the suit of W: Barrow, for £7OO, for principal and interest alleged to