The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-15 00:00:00

15, 1848. ;LE, AUG., 8.1 1 ecial Jury. ) ' ; OF A RECTOR 11r. Wilkin, ths nberland, to re' t, a SUM rang i a 5. £6O had been le sum for all re: had been erected ,resent rector, on he wood work-A gs in a bad star t Mr. Wardle, fo re re; dr. r G. Robins 2 rong, £155. On T called to show )lete repair for returned a vet' urdav at Lance' v, is light. 111 ! esketh, thro n g , ' iri the forenoon, g the bankruptq ver of arrest on incidentally e 3 '" would be adopted, 'ould be reducea unswick againstn instrument h f the prope firmed the de' coo sovereign ore, be made .rts on the Sin; av have started to railvol! ndeed the time last arch of th e . of the present Aisle Railways lion of the co have increase d r, is the relat loo )rt. A divide d .re was declare , irectors for the ruestion DuavEa.- - ° 4 nnel End, ne at d stoker of the left the engie a abodes. Se rn ' „ ;ine, and, wi sh ,: wereve, ere es had left, th e idling the er e/ red, and plac e A the engineer truck attache' th rown to the en. There Aire is brother, e t he engineer om fortunate', trial. day a very ce. ce of several e: e of this is t_e° ; leading lin es ' )n considerably The declara; le London and reduced -to 31 1. annum, Pro he shares doyvii tr a long Pe r ri : ) , 3n tl y suppo. a ., ves t e d has 1 ~ rits, becau se " t en t caved b _ extensions tat and sincol2r to throw the ir sic which .there ain for sinister vinEr3• -- T l l l faction of fin"' Ling on Friday ide ascertain ea r l ow by any 0 ' lship, or rather s of third-rate condescended ividend for the !ndangered the ted reputation to and straig ht " wen the aPP h a i : .onduct t" hey have taken adence, in pre gg' r , t ted state , a nd }nuki n g ; is a positio n ;have the most. o il w ayßeord I Monday, the s of the North: tation, August -the Observer the Times 0f Friday of m any I on the Lon: ! en alleged t hat the classifies le wages of th e _ 'roll) this bon: wee, strictly td 3e-drivers . an vacancies 101 it is not, en_„ tors to redoc:'_ classes, or rea l ei r )n Tuesday ad. e London ef, ailway Tav ern 3 pending Brown oce.l4_, t. The C hau' , griev b anee " y s prop:n u - s o notives wages, but o ur round the ref; bjected ro staters' of b . ted to the r 2 140 30MPanY* to n intended • ma n them ef l a )tiations The fferences. 'hole of th. a , eir resigne t Tbe Ain& that , to !en Inducer e., i ti on , but then ere deternoTs, for six montil'ea 3een Publis i 0 M.P. o°4 a g reater e tir a shows the c „ils iding the, C. l4 way sYst e '" to y intention_ow a than is t ; r eo tpon the o wn s and urthr„ the a coast an 0 00 the metroP .ai by th e ss i 6 f doing . 1 4; the rently ig to 1 ' 0 " This 7 miles. o d les or a V a l admit , hi it could b e eo he broad Pog, e fron auge than of a t an r tio o f more ea Lay the • 11 of te e f f e ct o ' d more e i d i the o bject, 1 : 7 „rids' pe to °° oir ,baraptoo,t the , coast , l e its n made by its m Nice Basings • •ts, o mist dist ric or , ve d the - Whit hetes-en )ally the chea p' V e i •• inter; st ets, Great _ s e es o! comm itic ra ixe d tend the and to , • baa"' tit h e 31115 to : I*. 81 ° urning es oid s care , o 0 Nth' a tbe g et rid of the , x tension da ce. that 01'0110,a t could C O'' g the stoe r le of a d bre " ol or 3 a t points v oio comPanY' bot h eisY u rn rlye ant ,„„ixt „otot the ` — a , !emselveslei ni Pet" Angst 15.1848 EtteratUrt. NOTICES the Land we Live in. Parts 12 and 13. London : Charles Kniht. T his illustrated Sketch Book o f the British Empire is catried on with Mr. Knight's usual spirit, and cannot fail _ t° become a favourite with the public. The '_ 11 ", we think, about the best that have vet .„nether we view the li terary or the illustrated department. ran 12 is devoted to Bristol—its docks, its manufactures, com part 13 I,„ic' merce, of whi c h it g i ves a v i v id d e scri n t;- !,in present parts meared, scenery a ,aus us till' of the Lakes VARIETIES b abitant OERIAAN 11 1Atter' OF INTELLECT of 3 of Gorman) , have " protest the elpni. ; tvirna Qop s - :;; CURIOUS ADVANTAu aPPears in a Dublin paper:- - s. p e ,TY . Painter, who is in the habit of travelling to all coo:l...l:new' the country in prosecution of his business, will noicate with his brother Henry Headen, at 48, trif i h ,llee, Dublin, it will be for his advantage, as his e s dead, Asr a„toINDIGNANT IRlSHMAN.—lrishmen ! it ited ? asks in w h a t way h e h as i nsu l te d us s u Hasn't he exempted us from income-tax, as tocarriage-tax, and servant-tax ? Isn't that as s od tell us that we have no incomes, windies, carriagt ,Joniestic menials to bless ourselves ? Isn't it tratin 1 „_"!th scorn and contempt, and castin a slur on the re lic:lability and opulence of our illigant nation ?—Punch. tametbAST OF THE FEMALE BRICKLAYERS.—The New of f e _Jousna/ thus records the death of the last of a race a s a'uale labourers who some years ago, more especially, "in the war time," were very common 'S o , t 9wris of e, Shields, and Sunderland:— , o N n ewcastl the 3d instant, Mrs. Elizabeth John bei,.'hle last o f the female br i cklayers ' l a b ourers i n thi s f. "rb°°(l she had followed her laborious occupa- Hr Years, and was latterly in the employment of t „rt Rutledge, builder." ET GOD OF SILVERING GLASS.—By this pro- F, th ale inventio n o f a M r . Drayton, flat plates of glass e r endered more c l ear and colourless than by the old ProCess of tin and mercury. The silvering wafter, which CollSists of silver held in solution in nitric acid, and mixed W ith oil of cloves or cassia, is poured upon the back o f th e Plate, a n d the silver, being precipitated, adheres firmly to t h, e glass —so firmly, indeed, that it requires considerable 'arse, or the use of powerful acids to remove it. The Plate thus silvered is exceedingly brilliant. The time er aPloved is less than a fourth of that occupied by the old 41►ethod, the process is not more expensive, is certain in its effects, and is attended with none of those terrible Narnities by which the lives of those who are employed I I; all operations in which mercury is used are shortened. f he invention can, moreover, be applied to glass of all 2ins, so th a t cups , b ow l s , vase s, no matter how full of n ifications or angles or circular bosses they may be, he be be silvered on the inside, and by being so silvered The Y externally resemble cups, &c., of polished metal. silvering being hard and tenacious, the cups can be 7.'ld with water w i thout d anger o f i ts removal, and use d w hold flowers. L RUS SIAN FOUNDLING ASYLUM.—The card (playing rd, the Russians are inveterate gamblers) manufactory a greserved privile e to itself by the government, and the eed foundling re devoted to the maintenance of the colossal asylum—l say colossal, not because of its extent ealpfh,,however, would justify the . appellation,) but be they the number of children registered on its books ; must amount, I am informed, to 15,000. These, you t he understand, are not foundlings in the real sense of th e t erm, but children (many of them illegitimate) placed ere, either by the poverty of their parents, or their dis helination to rear them. A rapid increase of population __ alm ost essential in Russia, not only on account of the teat waste of human life, but from the thinly-peopled t o ~,!ee of the country thus, while an asylum is offered i_Ptidiation of oe helpless a door is opened to immorality and to the 'the most sacred of parental duties. The disposal claims, in return for this privilege, the absolute ZPosal o f Zil e the the unfortunate beings thus thrown friendless world. What a revolting picture ! A national of (gambling) is made subservient to the maintenance Thi 4 charitable institution ; which in its turn offers e a pre theirn to profligacy, and to the unnatural abandonment of 13 • •1 offsprin g by parents.—Life in Russia. 1 " OF A TRADESMAN.—What is the daily life of a ,irietish tradesman ? In a political and moral point of tiow' it tradesman no doubt, entitled to the highest commends- It it is a pattern of industry, punctuality, and good We " eh But if we contemplate it under its sanitary aspect, Wh at a i ti ,fisid that it deserves more censure than praise. ness , t s Pis daily life ? He rises early, and begins busi shinienajeoat o'Clock, having opened his shop before the his customers have opened their eyes. At nine es q -,„ - aatY breakfast, and immediately returns to bu m:veil' nY business he is engrossed till two, when he ows a beefsteak, and returns again to business. At he withdr aws f rom b us i ness f or a b r i e f i nterva l to tea , , hen having gulped down some cups of souchong, he re -srnss again to bu s i ness . H e con ti nues i mmerse d i n b u - BZ i ne s till eight or nine, when he begins to think that u siness may yi e ld t h e place to relaxation or amusement. Does i s th e nature of this relaxation or amusement ? lioes he brace his nerves, reanimate his spirits, or circu late his blood by any gymnastic exercise, any invigorating ime ? Nothi ng o f th e ki nd. If fond of literature or po litics, he reti res t o rea d t h e l ast rev i ew, or study the lead lig article in the Times. If he be convivial, he strives anxiety, a few boon companions to relieve the pressure of - ,P t ietY, and escape the persecutions of care. If he be „,.. - olliestic, he seeks on the household hearth the solace of wnversation and repose. Heaven forbid that I should atte nipt to decry the pleasures derived from society, from °l ne, from intellectual employment.—Lord Dalmeny's .4(ldress to the Middle Classes on Gymnastic Exercises. , T RE MORALS OF THE BRITISH ARMY.—While the - ".°Y, in point of morals, has stood stationary, we think, :421d. others we believe are of the same opinion, that the Hutton at la rge h as gone d ec id e dly f orwar d. Th a t we are 11 far behind the state to which the high standard held 'IP to us for emulation by the Gospel points, cannot, in need, be denied The growth of population, the increase 13 1 :0 ,„, tr a_ de, the vicissitudes attendant thereon, and an im te'4;se extent of pauperism, lead unavoidably to discon ti:,;aod crime. And the inability both of the church and th: school to keep pace with the necessities which call for ,k o ",,T,..operates as a heay drawback on the social and ,oral improvement of the y people. Nevertheless, in times idi e t4 nParative prosperity—when the mill does not stand ez , c, nor the loom lie neglected—when we have good eat ps and fair weather, and brisk markets and plenty to E n ait would be a libel upon the age to deny that °t end, take her for all in all, is not only the most moral mo re " t° Pean nations, but that she is by many degrees th i , Moral than she used to be a century ago. Admitting, that th e facts to be as we have stated them, and assuming ficob,, - ; u e great body of the people is in the main habitually iq th e and well-disposed, while the standard of morality t nd e army is lamentably low, it cannot surprise us to that the sentiment with which both officers and sol- AP are regarded here in England is not one of respect. p t 4 4tion we deprecate war, and doggedly believe in its to , ab ilitY. We hate taxes ; we look with a jealous eye tn e ,',_erY item in the yearly budget; we see in this docu kill.' Propositions regularly made for expending so many Si lt 'i n ns upon the military machine ; and we conclude, ki p too hastily, that because the sole use to which the . bad ier 's Pay is turned seems to be the ministering to his )31,1 3as sions, and the spread of vice by his profligate ex io,Faides that, therefore, so long as an enemy is not actually Sold; I ng our shores, nor we opposing him in his own, the greatly himself is a mere nuisance. But in this we err- The soldier is not a mere nuisance, even in tioq; n , of profound peace. He is evidence to other na iat You are prepared to resent wrongs, if they be th e r i e d to y ou f rom a b roa d ; h e i s th e b es t su pp or t er o f sea tat , and of suc h as a d m i n i s t er the law, should its co s ig 4 tY be threatened at home. He is well worth his a provided he be trained to do his duty ; not merely as alli a t ut iog man, but as a public servant likewise. The hot 4 question, therefore, for us to ask is, whether or and ".e military body is such LS we could wish it to be ? disci: l l ,th all possible respect for the courage and parade avo w 'Re for which it is renowned, we are constrained to b f , o or conviction that it is not.—Frazer's Magazine. I ''itOSMANDEGENERATE?—Many persons unacquainted th ese th e powerful influence of exerc i se, will attribute a ppWonderful exploits of our ancestors to some innate cos t illnrity of the ancient over the modern nations. Ac dilating to them, the physical powers of man have gra astis declined. H av i ng th u s s e ttled to thei r o w n entire e oliti eet ion, that man is doomed by the fiat of fate to a the i r risible degeneracy, and having thus made Providence th e i r ns ible for that inferiority, which is the offspring of they r ° r° sloth, they quietly resign themselves to what l e ,ga ll rd as their inevitable destiny, or ensure its fulfil he d e "Y a life of sensuality and inaction. This notion of ter„titrla Buteraof man is an inveterate ad antivated s st„l,n though superannuated and worn out, u it gi n in "Xoornly retains a decrepit vitality. It had its ori- Period;ue earliest and will, probably, survive to the latest d i sPla y of tne world. Men have displayed,' and ever will ;rid di ; a strange delight in exalting . their predecessors, , as hioo par ading their contemporaries. Homer . set the ' was adopted by his successors, is continued by (le v• ' e s and will be perpetuated by our posterity. But thYsi l o s ins of poets are no ground for the conclusions of leY i s :g!sts- This idea of a continual physical degene- advertise I Header. Is it in- . - del us,l;icripp - o - r - t - e - d - by no evtdence and , ble rtZ ted bY no facts. It belongs to the region . of chi dez-9(1 dreams. There is a degeneracy of habits, but large ' elle racY of Nature. That the artificial habits . of a s ttla y 1 3 1313 rtion of mankind may have enervated their frame ben tt uc; but the capabilities of the human tarliers-kilflly trained are equal to what they wfre in _ mat er a ges of society Englishmen are horn with all . the ~"ve - , a 4 8 of activity and . strength possessed by the prim!- `assels-""• have seen a few specimens of ancient ,%xiat,'„aad these were so narrow, that but few of my Jere, y could wear them. The Greeks and Romans 9er ti 'usPect, smaller men than the inhabitants of nor ut,s tecuntries. Their historians make constant allu i there t he' gigantic size of the Tuetonic nations. Ye ta t ttd f is 9 ° ['round for concluding that we have degene -4N 'PM the stature and bulk of our forefathers. At ql.eezglinton's tournament, scarcely a knight could kNrioua himself into the corslets of the middle ages. Samuel theyriesk e_xi?eriment was made by the . late Sir a e n wori d. w no T possessed the finest . collection of armour i Elef e • 4 11 his gallery hung sixty complete suits, once %re Bu nsive arms of that heroic chivalry, of whom we die a I tsed to be the dwarfish and degenerate descfn oa4tl: of his guest?, English . men of average size, lar e i whole sixty in succession, and encountered tet e in each case. The chests and shoulders of the ef pkopderns were found too brawny and broad for the )' of an cestors.—Dalmeny on GYOMailiet* LORD JOHN AND THE IRISH CHURCH " What is truth ?" Is it the doctrine of the Protestant, the Catholic, the Apostolic Church of Ireland ? Or is it that of Popery? Or is there any truth at all ? Can Lord John, can Sir George Grey answer this question ? If we are to gather their answer from their speeches during the debate on the state of Ireland, it will be something to this effect—" What is truth, Mr. Bull, will, in every country, depend very much upon what the majority of the people choose to consider truth. We are willing to believe that the doctrine of the Established Church is truth, and we shall at any time be happy to find it so. 11.1114 Urn great masm ut LIM /WRI Ma-G. 4C1U61.1 look upon the doctrine of the Church as a lie, and u the Church herself as a nuisance, and since they have a belief of their own, we inclin6 to think that in Ireland Popery is truth, at least to a very great extent." And is this,' we most humbly inquire, says the John Bull, the notion which Ministers of the Crown, profess- to be Christians, professing to believe in the . revela- divinely revealed We shdl be answered be told as bigots, that the question is not one of divinity, but of policy ; and that the noble lord and the right hon. baronet speak, not as Christians but as statesmen, when they intimate their belief that the Church of Ireland is a serious grievance to toe Roman Catholics, or, to use the Premier's own pointless circumlocution, that " the en dowment of the Clergy of the minority of the people, lergy of the in !y, is a just subject of complaint with the people of Ire Receiving this insidious statement—insidious as coming from the first adviser of the Sovereign, who, by the solemn obligation of an oath, is bound to uphold the church of the minority, and whose " reconciliation" to the church of the majority involves the forfeiture of the crown—we might ask Lord John Russell if he is aware that the clergy of the majority are a body of men intruded into the kingdom for the express purpose of alienating the ignorant multitude from the faith as well as the institutions of the country ; that the existence of these politico-religious agitators was the curse of Ireland before the Act of Union ; that, fur ther, in the Act of Union the maintenance of what he is pleased to call the clergy of the minority is specifically guaranteed by a solemn national compact ; and, lastly, that when the Roman Catholics of the empire sought admit tance to an equality, not of civil rights only, but of politic .1 power, with their Protestant fellow-subjects, the question as to the maintenance of the Irish church was expressly raised, being one of the greatest impediments to the con cession sought for ; and that thereupon the Roman Catho lics, priests and laity, solemnly declared that they had no wish to interfere with the maintenance of the Protestant church, or to procure an endowment for their own—a de claration embodied in the oath, which Roman Catholics, on their admission to the legislature, take, as a supposed guarantee for the security of the Protestant establishment ? All this we might ask—and it is sufficiently humiliating that the First Minister of the Crown should lay himself open to such questions—but we forbear. We have another, and a more stringent question to ask of the noble lord. Does his Lordship know what the meaning of a Church is ? Has he capacity—we beg his pardon for the necessary plainness of our interrogatory—to comprehend that the Church is the living representative and teacher of God's eternal verity ? that an Established Church is that living representative and teacher, acknowledged by the State in all the high authority which a Divine Commission confers, and set to work to instruct, the people in those principles of religion and morality which, as they alone can make them acceptable in the eyes of their Maker, can alone render them good and loyal citizens ? If Lord John Russell can understand this, then let him for a moment face this great element of national life, a national faith founded upon everlasting truth, and let him ask himself whether the hesitation to maintain the established Church, and the suggestion to endow a Clergy inculcating deadly error in opposition to that Church, is not more suitable on the lips of a renegade to his country's faith, and an enemy to his country's weal, than on the lips of him who, as the chief councillor of our beloved Sovereign, ought to be the " defender " of that faith, and the guardian of that weal ? Has Lord John Russell eyes? If be has, let him look abroad. Let him compare the condition of the country which be so haughtily misrules, which is so deeply hum. bled by the high position he holds in her, with the condi tion of other countries where Popery is the endowed religion of the State —or, if he will, of countries where every religion is endowed. Or if his statesmanlike vision does not carry far enough to enable him to institute this comparison, let him look at home, and compare the con dition of Ireland with that of England —or that of the Priest-ridden Popish population of Ireland with the Pro testant population of that same country. And if Lord John Russell cannot, after all this, see cause to uphold the Irish Church Establishment—and not only to uphold it, but to strengthen its hands, until the religion which it teaches shall have reached the minds and hearts of the majority of the Irish people, all we can say is, that his intellectual capacity is more hopeless than we are at pre sent willing to believe. SKETCHES IN PARIS DURING THE LATE INSURRECTION. (From Blackwood's Magazzne.) A NIGHT SCENE See here ! the bands of united men assembling by night, and marching silently through the sleeping streets; then shouting and tossing up their arms in defiance; then the rising barricades, all bristling with bayonets ; then the national guards and troops pouring through the streets; the smoke of the firing; the mass of uniforms mounting the barricades ; the tottering fa:ling men ; the confusion ; the bodies strewn hither and thither, of wounded and dead ; the struggle, hand to hand, upon the barricades ; of the blouse with the uniform of the national guard,—fury and hatred between fellow-countrymen in each face; the cavalry dashing down the boulevards; the cannon rapidly dragged along ; the tottering houses bat tered down ; and then the biers slowly borne upon sad men's shoulders, supporting the dying or the dead; the carts filled with corpses ; the wounded, upon straw littered down on the pavement, attended by the doctor in his common black attire, contrasting with the pure white cap and pinners of the sceurs de charite : the uniforms, now smeared! with blood and blackened by smoke, mingling with the long dark dress and falling white collar of the administering priest. See I now again, in the midst of the carnage and uproar and smoke, the young soldier of the day, the Garde Mobile, borne on the shoulders of his comrades, and waving in his hand the banner which he has wrested with valour from the hands of the insurgents on the barricade; and women, even in the midst of the terror and dismay, fling down flowers from the windows upon the heads of these young defenders of their country —the perfume of the flower mingling with the scent of stifling powder-smoke and the rank taint of blood. THE MORNING AFTER THE FIGHT But the sun is shining still, and the little birds are twittering merrily upon the house-tops, and the caged canaries chirp at windows, and perchance there is the merry laugh of children. All these things heed not the terror and desolation of that city. It is shining still— into huge eaurches also, where thick masses of straw are littered down, and the wounded lie in hundreds to over flowing—into courts, where again is scattered straw, and again groan wounded and dying —upon street side pave ments, where again are strewn these sad beds of the vic tims of civil co-itention, excited by the most frantic of delusions—and through narrow windows, into prison vaults and palace cellars, where are crowded together masses of prisoners, who, for the most part, regret not the part they have played in the scenes of blood, and sit gloomily upon the damp stone, brooding over schemes of vengeance upon the detested bourgeois, should they escape, and the Red Republic ever be triumphant ! A SKETCH OF WARLIKE EVENTS But there are still stirring, striking, unaccustomed scenes limned in the Parisian Sketch-book. Paris has been declared in a state of siege by the military autocrat, into whose hands the salvation of the capital and the country from utter anarchy has been given. The scenes of marching men and torrents of bayonets coming down the broad boulevards, and sentinels at street corners, and patrols, and military manoeuvres, and galloping dragoons, and of drums beaten from daybreak until late into the night, are nothing new to Paris ; such scenes have been traced upon its Sketch-book again and again, for the last four disastrous months. But Paris has gone further now. See ! in these sketches it represents one vast vista of the boulevards where whole regiments are bivouacing : the horses of the cavalry are stabled upon straw along the pavements, or around the triumphal arches ; arms are piled together at street corners : some sleep upon the straw, while others watch as if in battle array. The shops are still shut, although pale faces look from the windows ; and the grateful inhabitants shower blessings upon those who have saved the terrified people from the horrors of the Red Republic, the pillage, and the guillotine ; and ladies bring out food and wine from the houses ; and none think that they can find words enough to express their gratitude, and praise the heroism of their defenders. Alas ! those who fought in that evil desperate cause showed equal heroism, equal courage, still more reckless rage ! What a strange scene it is, this scene sketched in the streets ! The closing scene of a battle-field of un exampled courage amidst a peaceful population—the scl dier and the tenderly nurtured lady placed side by side amidst the wounded and the weary ! the mourning of the bereaved family upon the same spot with the first emotion of victory ! Since the agitated and disturbed city of Paris has existed, it has witnessed many wild and strange scenes in its bloody and tormented history, but none per haps so glaring in their strange contrasts as these which have been last painted in its Sketch-book. -4- APOLOGY FOR SMITH O'BRIEN.—The courage of Mr. Smith O'Brien in slinking, under the fire of the police at Boulagh-common, among the cabbages in Widow Cormack's garden, may be questioned, but it is to be remembered that the hero, if he crept out of the way of the bullets, betrayed no fear of the slugs.—Punch. . . STATISTICS OF MATIRIAGE.—IO the year 1845, of 143,743 marriages, 129,515 were performed according to the rites of the established church, and 14,228 not accord ing to those rites. Of the latter number there were 9,997 marriages in registered places of worship, 3.977 in super intendent registrars' offices, 180 marriages of Jews, and 74 of Quakers. In the first year of the reports of the Registrar-General (1838) the number of marriages cele brated otherwise than at church was only 4,280 ; in the fifth year (1841) it was 8,125; in the ninth year (1845) it had increased to 14,228. Women, as is known, marry earlier than men : 6,287 men and 19,376 women, married in 1845, were under 21 years of age. A greater number of widowers marry again than of widows. Of the persons married in 1845, 18,176 (or 12 64 per cent.) were widowers, and 12,369 (or 8.69 per cent.) were widows. A large proportion of the persons married sign with their marks, notwithstanding the great increase of education. In 1845 there were 47,665 (or 33.2 per cent.) and 71,229 women (or 49.6 per cent.) who signed with.their, marks._ T.ll LIVERPOOL STANDARD, eturral /iftiortilanv. Prince Albert has consented to lay the foundation stom of the docks at Grimsby, in October. A vessel arrived in the Thames, from Dublin, has brought MU railway shovels, as a portion of her cargo. On Tuesday a sand-barge sunk between Cardigan Island and Mount,; it was loaded with sand. The two men on board, father and son, were drowned. ___ _ Among the articles for sale at a recent Wesleyan bazaar at Beverly, Yorkshire, was a fine sheep, which was con tributed by a farmer, and which readily found a purchaser. On Saturday a labouring man named Fell, killed him self at Barrow, in Loci Furness, by incautiously drinking a quantity of cold water whilst in a state of perspiration. The riotings among the English and Irish labourers at Doncaster were renewed last week, and were only quelled by the interference of the military. The leaders in the sturbances have been arrested and punished. A respectable widow lady named Corbett, living near Stratford, died on Monday throng' occasioned by were brought home to her before her death. The John 0' Groat Journal states that a short time ago a gentleman residing near Dingwell, on opening a bag of guano, discovered amongst the manure the body of a pen- guin, perfectly entire. It appears, from a return just made to Parliament, that the declared value of British machinery and millwork, ex- [ed on the sth of January last, was 1,263,015 At Monmouth, on Wednesday, Mathias Kelly, private in the 14th regiment, was convicted of the wilful murder of his mistress, Agnes Hill, at Newport, on the 26th of May last, by shooting her, and sentenced to death. The Smoke Prohibition Bill, which stood for a second reading in the House of Commons, on Wednesday, was withdrawn, Lord Morpeth expressing a hope that some measure would be brought forward early next session. THE TRAGEDY AT PENRITH.—Joseph Todd was tried before Mr. Justice Cresswell, at Carlisle, on Wednesday last, for the murder of Joseph Jackson, at Penrith, on the 28th ult. The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. An early rising club has been established at Farringdon, in Berkshire, and the members have regularly assembled thrice a.week during the present summer, at an early hour of the morning, for the purpose of amusing themselves by playing cricket before breakfast. With a view of putting a stop to the nefarious practices of a set of scamps, a plan is in agitation for registering every picture that may be painted. The registry being effected by the artist, the forgery of the registrations mark would be felony. Mr. Charles Griffin, the writer of the pamphlet on the Stoneleigh Abbey case has been held to bail for a libel on Lord Leigh. At Coventry Assizes, on Wed nesday, Mr. Robert Astill, printer, was committed in default of bail for publishing a handbill containing a libel on his lordship. PRESENT TO MDLLE. JENNY LIND.—On Friday, a very massive silver salver was presented to Mdlle. Jenny Lind by the committee of the Hospital for Consumption, as an expression of gratitude for her having given s con cert for the benefit of the institution, by which nearly £lBOO was realised. The last new scheme of Mr. Feargus O'Connor is a grand sweep of 10,000 members at ls. each, for four free hold houses, with votes. The prospectus announces that democratical associations are formed in districts to issue shares—all moneys received to be paid into the National Labour Bank. _ _ _ . _ _ FORTUNATE NEWSMAN.—A carrier of the Bristol Mercury has recently had the good luck to obtain pos session of family property to the extent of about £l2OO. An advertisement of "next of kin" met his eyes some seven years since, which induced him to institute inquiries, and subsequently led to the commencement of a legal suit. At the Warwick Assizes, on Monday, eleven Irishmen and two Irishwomen were tried for a riot and savage as sault on the police in the execution of their duty, at Bir mingham, on the 18th of June. Two were acquitted and eleven were convicted. Of the latter, two were sentenced to three months' imprisonment, and the remainder to six months' imprisonment. A singular fire occurred on the premises of Mr. T. Hird, Tottenham-court-road, London, on Tuesday. Through beating, some Indian wool, a particle ignited by being beat upwards to the gas, and the spark having com municated with the bulk of the material. the whole was almost instantaneously in flames, and several hundred weight consumed. A mail-guard, of the name of Taylor, on the Caledonian Railway, thought on Thursday, after the train had left Edinburgh, that the couplings of some of the carriages were not properly attached, and in his anxiety that all should be correct, got down from his seat for the purpose of examining them, when unfortunately he slipped over betwixt the carriages, and was killed on the spot. EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS.—On Thursday, a fellow in Stourbridge, having drunk himself into a state of ine briety and spent all the money he had about him, has tened home, and, seizing his wife's boots and a loaf that had been purchased for his children's dinner, went and hawked them at the various shops, and offered the loaf, which cost 9d., for 7d., with the avowed purpose of spend ing the money in the intoxicating draught. STEAM CONVEYANCE TO AUSTRALIA.—The communi cation between this country and Australia will now be reduced to a period of about two months. The govern ment have entered into a contract with the India and Australian Mail Packet Company for this purpose. The Oriental Company convey out to Singapore in forty-two days, and the Australian Company from Singapore to Sydney in twenty-five days. The growing value of our Australian possessions renders this arrangement a very important one. EXPENDITURE OCCASIONED BY CHARTISM.—Among the items of expenditure, occasioned by the Chartist folly, is to be reckoned the support of the families of the Char tist convicts. According to the British Banner, Jones has a wife and three children ; Sharp, a wife and two children ; and Williams, a wife and two children ; all of whom are in the greatest distress; their only hope being the workhouse, unless Chartist patriotism should (which is very unlikely, seeing it could net maintain itself) raise a fund for their support. An elderly gentleman named Mr. John Lambert, of Hull, arrived at Bridlington station on Wednesday, by the evening train, which had so nearly stopped that the rate of motion was almost nothing, when Mr. Lambert attempted to alight. He had placed one foot on the plat form, bad the other on the step of the carriage, and with one hand held the handle of the same vehicle, when by the almost expended momentum of the train he was thrown backward, and fell between the platform and the wheels of the carriage, which proceeded only about three yards, and then stopped. He only lingered about an hour. FIRST TRIAL OF BARON VON RATHEN'S LOCOMOTIVE CARRIAGE BY COMPRESSED-AIR ON COMMON ROADS. —We are informed, that a first and successful trial of this carriage was made on Wednesday. The carriage which is about 3 tons weight, travelled from Putney College to Wandsworth (about one mile), from beginning to end, with a uniform and regular speed of about eight miles per hour; and there is no doubt that it would have continued to run for 10 or 12 miles, as was originally intended, but for an unfortunate accident in charging the reservoir (a combination of cylindrical tubes), to a too high degree of pressure in the c,,urse of the test, by which the greater part of those tubes were impaired. SINGULAR AND SPEEDY RECOVERY OF PROPERTY.— A few weeks back a fisherman, whilst traversing the river near Peterborough in his boat, hooked up a bundle, tied in a coarse towel, with three large stones attached to it. On opening the parcel it was found to contain mortgage deeds to the amount of £2,000, as well as other securities. Enquiry was made, and Cie owner was found' to be a curate near Ely, who had been travelling the day before the discovery, to: Peterborough and lost his trunk, in which were the documents found by the fisherman. It is believed that the trunk was stolen, and that the thief finding the deeds of no use to him, had thrown them into the river. ATTEMPT TO MURDER A POLlCEMAN.—Yesterday week a violent attack was made upon a police sergeant, at Bristol. A warrant had been issued for the apprehension of a man named Stallard, who had stolen some iron. When the constable (Whitby) went to the house of Stallard's father, in St. Philip's district, he found the offender, and desired him to surrender, which he refused to do, and was seized by the officer. A struggle ensued between them, and the prisoner's father, brother, and others came up and attacked him. One of them wrested his staff from him and struck him with it across the face, breaking a tooth. One of the assailants finally struck the constable a heavy blow with a stone which rendered him insensible. He was conveyed to the,lnfirmary,and being dangerouslyill.Jais depositions were taken. The principal offenders are in custody. WHIRLWIND AND WATERSPOUT.—On Thursday week, a whirlwind and waterspout did considerable mischief on the Brighton race-course. Several booths were blown down and three men considerably injured, and an immense quantity of glass, crockery, and other moveables were destroyed. The following is an extract from a letter re ceived in this town from a gentleman at Brighton : " On Thursday the Brighton race-course was visited with a waterspout and whirlwind, which carried away a dozen booths, washing me in its course down a delve. Four persons were so seriously hurt that they had to be carried to the hospital, and eight or ten were more or less injured." An action for seduction was tried at the Guildford assizes, on Tuesday. The plaintiff was Anne Brown, who pleaded the loss of the services of her niece, Mary Brown, the female seduced, and the defendant was a Mr. Joshua Yardley. The plaintiff was in a humble station, her niece living with her as a servant. The defendant was the son of a highly respectable and wealthy gentleman in the county of Berks. The seduction, it appeared, had been effected under a promise of marriage, which was broken unceremoniously after the birth of a child, the result of the intercourse. Damages of £2OO were only given, the circumstances which seemed to weigh with the jury being that the defendant was only nineteen years of age at the time he accomplished his purpose, the female being nearly thirty, and that his friends had prohibited marriage with her. THE IRON TRADE.—The iron trade generally about Dudley, and the adjustment of wages to the price of iron particularly, are progressing satisfactorily. It will be recollected that in consequence of the reduction of the price of iron proposed at the preliminary meeting held at Stewponey, a reduction of the wages of the• men to the amount of 20 per cent. was deemed necessary. In many instances this reduction was acceded to, in others it w as opposed ; but we are bappy to state that a mutual consi deration for each other's interests appears now to be the governing motive by which a great portion of both masters and men are influenced. In the district south of Dud ley it . : is agreed that, in consequence of the improved state of the iron trade, the reduction of wages shall be only 8, instead of 20 per cent. At the collieries the price of coal has been reduced. to the iron works. Is. per ton, and 6d. for slack. Thews reductions,. however, are made only to the iron works.. George Chilton, Esq., Q.C., a leader of the Smith Wales Circuit, has presented the hatulsonie gum Of twenty five guineas to the funds of the Carmarthenshire infir mary. We understand this is a portion , of the £5OO receiv...4 ky the learned - counsel as damages from the Croydon an....v Conipany, for having falsely imprisoned him, the whole of Mr. Chilton has divided amongst various charitable institutions. _ SHOCKING OCCURRENCE. three re spectable youths at Bath got possession of a pisw from a garret in the house of the father of one of them, , in d knowing it was loaded, snapped it off several times with out discharging it. They then went to get the flint fas tened on, and, whilst playing with it as before, the pistol sitting Lear, who died next day. The jury brought in a verdict of " Death by misadventure,' but the coroner severely reprobated the practice of persons allowing loaded firearms to be within the reach of children. MALICIOUS PROCEEDING.—RecentIy the remains of Miss Mary Sandell, of Cheddar, Somerset, were disinter red, and an inquest held upon them, at the instance o Mr. John S and Mr. Edmund Sandell, her brothers, who openly asserted that their sister had been poisoned by her nephews, Mr. Albert and Mr. Caleb Hill. She had left her money to them, which gave rise to this im putation upon them. Mr. Herapath, however, to whom the viscera and intestines were submitted for inspection, declared that there was no trace of poison, and the jury returned a verdict of " Natural Death," accompanying their verdict with an expression of indignation at the conduct of the parties who had instituted the proceedings without the slightest foundation for so acting. PARRICIDE. — On Saturday a young man, named John Parkor_ was committed to the Castle. at Lincoln. to take his trial at the ensuing assizes, on - a charge of having murdered his father. On the 19th ultimo, the deceased was found dead in his house, with a gun-shot wound in his body, sufficient to cause death. Circumstances arose which led to suspicion falling upon the prisoner; but at the inquest, held the following day, the jury, after a langthened inquiry, came to the conclusion that there was not sufficient evidence to justify them in returning a ver dict of guilty against the prisoner, and he was conse quently discharged. The inhabitants not being satisfied, a further investigation was made, which resulted in the committal of the prisoner. IMPORTANT SALE OF HUNTERS.—On Thursday, Aug. 3d, a most valuable stud of hunters was disposed of by public auction, Bretherton's Repository, Pershore street, Birmingham. A great number of noblemen and gentlemen from various parts of the country were present. The premises in Pershore-street. now occupied by Mr. Bretherton, are second to none in the kingdom, being re plete with every convenience as a repository, in an excel lent situation, and bidding fair to be the principal mart for the sale of horses in this country. The following were the principal sales. The Duke, 175 guineas ; Goliah, 330 guineas ; Caledonia, 180 guineas ; The Friar, 200 guineas ; Baron, 155 guineas ; Fox, 150 guineas ; Neddy, 170 gui neas ; Milkman, 125 guineas ; Bendigo, 360 guineas ; Storm. 180 guineas ; Lady Parker, 90 guineas ; Billy, 95 guineas ; Jimmy, 215 guineas ; Rose Bud, 60 guineas. DEATH OF CAPTAIN MARRYAT, C.B.—This distin guished officer and novelist expired at his seat, Langham, county Norfolk, on Wednesday, the 9th instant, after a long and painful illness, caused by the bursting of a succession of blood-vessels, in the 56th year of his age. Captain Marryat was second son of the late Joseph Mar ryat, Esq., of Wimbledon House, Surrey, and married Catherine. only daughter of the late Sir Stephen Shairp, Bart., N. 8., by whom he leaves a family of six children. When at Hastings, in the month of February last, Capt. Marryat read the account of the total loss of Her Majesty's ship Avenger, in which his eldest son perished. For some time it was feared the shock would have been fatal. Capt. Marryat's talents as a writer are too well known, and his services as an officer have been too lately laid before the public to require any further comment. COLONISATION SOCIETY.—On Thursday, a meeting, attended by several noblemen and persons of influence, wes held at Brighton, for the purpose of disseminating the views of the Society for the Promotion of Colonisation. Some Chartists were also present. The High Constable was called to the chair. The first resolution, moved by the Hon. F. Scott, was as follows :—" That, considering the distressed condition of a large number of the labouring population of the United Kingdom, and the extensive and remunerative field which our colonial possessions present for their employment and relief, it is the opinion of this meeting that immediate steps are expedient, with a view to nn organised and well-regulated system of emigration." The resolution was seconded by Earl Nelson, in a long and excellent speech, in which the noble earl was greatly applauded. At an early part of the meeting one of the Chartists called out, " I suppose you want to transport us." " Certainly," replied Mr. Scott, "we want to transport you with a change from poverty in England to plenty in Australia." THREE PERSONS SHOT.—On yesterday week the town of Dundee and its neighbourhood were thrown into excite ment by a report (which pros ed to be true) to the effect that a man and two women had that morning been shot, by an inhabitant of the place, and that the women were dead. The name of the man is Whitcross, a weaver. It appeared that he and two women had been drinking to gether at Lochee, and at a very early hour in the morning, and when on their way back to Dundee, the woman entered a potato field, belonging to a man named Elder, and pulled up two or three shaws, which Whitcross observing told them to desist. As he was speaking a gun was fired, and one of the women cried out that she was shot. She ran some distance but soon after expired. Whitcross was also wounded, and fainted. He is still in a precarious state. The other woman was slightly wounded It appeared that Elder had had his garden robbed, had kept watch in the night, and had threatened to shoot the first person he found attempting to steal. On being apprehended he confesses the act. He is 65 years of age, is possessed of a good deal of property, and is much respected in Lochee. A LUCKY EMIGRANT.—About sixteen years ago, a young man, named J. B. Graham, came down from Lon don to Sheffield, as an upholsterer, with Mr. Eadon, of the latter town. Soon after he was induced to emigrate to Australia, where, step by step, he advanced, and about four years ago a scheme was set on foot for working a rich copper mine that had been discovered about 100 miles from Adelaide. Mr. Graham had information on the sub! ject which gave him confidence enough to embark in it all the money he could raise. He took a considerable num ber of shares of £5 each, and now owns about one-sixth of the whole concern. This is the Burra Burrs Copper Mine, where much of the ore yields from 60 to 70 per cent. of copper. It is already an extensi v e a nd most pro fitable undertaking, and is likely to be for many years to come increasingly advantageous. It is worked by several hundred Cornish miners, and preparations are in progress for smelting ore on the spot. This will render available a great quantity of less productive ore, which would be worth about £lO per ton in England, but on account of the cost of the carriage, is comparatively worthless there. Mr. Graham's shares already produce him about £16,000 a-year. He is now on a visit to England, and has this week been in Sheffield, where he has received the hearty congratulations of his old friends on the brilliant success which has attended his industry and enterprise at the Antipodes. TRADE RETURNS.—The trade and navigation accounts for the six months ending the sth of July, were presented to Parliament on Thursday. So far as regards the import trade, and the consumption of all the great articles of commerce, which mainly contribute to the revenue, or to the comforts of the people, the accounts continue to show very good results. In the last month embraced in the tables, there continues to be an increase of consumption. Tea, coffee, tobacco, spirits, and sugar maintain the high rates of consumption of last year; and tea, in particular ► shows a considerable increase. The exports of the coun try continue to show, however, the same very great falling off that they have done in former months—so far as value is concerned. The comparison of the last month, ending the sth of July, is thus : EXPORTS 1846 1847 1848 4,401,128 4,578,871 3.625,513 And for the six months ending the same day, the amounts are:— £ 1846 25,020,972 1847 1848 21,571,939 When speaking of the last returns of a similar kind—allu sion was made to the fact, that whereas the returns in question represent the actual value at the time of ship ment, they must necessarily be acted upon materially by change of circumstances from time to time. It is certain, therefore, that with the present very low prices of commo dities, and especially of manufactured articles, the quan tity shipped will not be diminished in anything like the same proportion as the reduced value would indicate ; and this is more appar3nt from the fact, that with the excep tion of seven articles, all those in the list show a reduction in the amount of value exported. MR. BURGE, LATE COMMISSIONER OF BANKRUPTCY. —On Tuesday last, in the County Court at York, an ap plication was made by Mr. William Burge, who was re cently one of the Commissioners of the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy, for an interim order for his dis charge from prison under the provisions of the sth and 6th Victoria, chap. 116, and 7th and Bth Victoria, chap, 96. The insolvent was supported in his application by Mr. Blanshard, barrister, and opposed by Mr. J. H. Hill, who was instructed on behalf of several detaining creditors. The case was argued at great length on both sides, Mr. Blanshard contending that the Court was bound, under the provisions of the statutes, to grant the protection asked for, and to discharge the insolvent from gaol, he having been confined in York Castle for nearly 18 months. Mr. Hill, on the other hand, contended that the Court had a discretionary power to receive evidence on behalf of the detaining creditors, tending to show that the insolvent had contracted debts by fraud, and without having, at the time of becoming indebted, reasonable assurance of being able to pay his debts. The judge (Mr. Robert Wharton) decided that it was competent to examine witnesses in op position to the insolvent's application. Mr. John Sang ster, solicitor, was then examined as to the circumstances under which the debts in Leeds had been contracted. Other witnesses were in attendance for the same purpose, but, without hearing them, his Honour decided that the conduct of the insolvent had not entitled him to an inter im order for his discharge from prison, and appointed the 15th of September for his first examination. By the sche dule filed in court it appeared that the insolvent's debts and liabilities were upwards of £40,000, whilst the assets available to the creditors do not exceed £5O. Mr. Burge formerly held an appointment as agent for Jamaica for which service he received a salary of £l,OOO per annum ; and his salary as Commissioner of Bankruptcy was £l,BOO per annum. The former appointment ceased shortly after his coming to Leeds, in the early part of 1846, and that circumstance is assigned as one reason of his being unable to meet his engagements. lie was at one period a member of the House of Commons, and up to the time of his arrest, at the snit of, a creditor in Landon, he held a Reccriership. A RIVAL TO Tom THUMB.—The American Museum names another pigmy of the Yankey market, in Major Zittle-Finger,—an abortion, considerably less than Tom, handsome, and wittier, and accomplished beyond com pare—the very perfection of the Lilliputian order. Of course, he will seek fame and riches in Cockaigne,—the most gullable market in the world for everything inimi tably greap or prodigiously little, whether in songsters or savages, pipers or pigmies. WRITTEN P. EXTEMPORE SERMvx•vt --The Wesleya ministers seem to be very much divided as to Ili, r-npriet of preaching from written discourses. At the Confere.... he Rev. J:W. Thomas said that the growing practice of more 'Aga' expressed his Jealousy. No one appreciated the importance of diligence in composition i no one more highly estimated the liberty of the pulpit than sae did. But the practice of reading ser mons might with 11 - I *e propriety be called the bondage of the pulpit. He fearen• in high places, hat the custom, if it became pre valentw'-‘id find imitators. The Rev. James Kerdall, on the other,nd said that he was glad to find the practice of reading , '- '-'iinons becom common. He himself, on a week niejit occasic livered a lecture instead of a sermon, and , h e con was increased thereby FALSE CHARACTERS TO SERVANTS.—Las . , wee k young woman was charged before the Cheltenham traces with having obtained a situation by means of a fiL character. She applied for a situation on the 26th of April, at Marl-hill, .near Cheltenham, the residence of L. Griffiths, Esq., magistrate, representing herself as having left the service of " Mrs. Gregory, of Frocester hall, near Stroud," and referred to that lady for a cha- was returned, giving a very good account of the prisoner's conduct. Prisoner was engaged. A few days ago Mr. Griffiths received his original letter, returned through the Dead Letter Office, the address of " Mr. Gregory, Fro cester-hall," being reported as "not known." The prisoner acknowledged she had herself written the letter purporting to be Mrs. Gregory's. The Bench fined the prisoner in the sum of £2O, and in default of payment sentenced her to six months' imprisonment. THE ETON COLLEGE SWIMMING SCHOOL GAMES-- An excellent law has for some time been enforced at Eton College, which requires that every boy shall pass the " swimming test" before he is allowed to enter a boat on the Thames. He is required to jump from the bank into deep water, to swim well fifty yards, and then to swim back to the place from whence he started. To encourage the practice of diving, as the most ready way of saving life, in case of sudden accident upon the water, as well as to give confidence to swimmers, prizes have recently been instituted under the superintendence of a committee. The swimming school games took place at Athens, on the Thames, about a mile above Windsor-bridge, in the presence of the committee, nearly the whole of the Eton masters, and a large assemblage of spectators. Since the establishment of the swimming school, which was founded by the Bishop of New Zealand in 1836, sixteen hundred and forty-four boys have passed the swimming test. One hundred and five have passed during the present summer. PRECAUTION IN CASE OF FIRES TO AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY.—The extent of damage to agricultural pro perty, in individual cases, is almost in every instance greatly increased through the prevailing practice of con centrating the whole produce of the farm in one stackyard, or upon one spot, and that frequently in the midst of, or contiguous to, a mass of thatched buildings, thus render ing the destruction of the whole almost inevitable. It would be exceedingly desirable that persons having large quantities of hay and corn should divide their stacks as much as poss ble, and take care that no stack should be so near a building as to communicate a fire from the one co the other. We are aware that in many instances where the premises are confined such a course is not practicable, but these more frequently occur where the amount of pro duce is small. Where the bulk of produce is large, and consequently the premises extensive, the precaution we recommend can easily be taken. Being now on the eve of harvest,:we venture to make this suggestion as worthy of consideration. SHAMEFUL CRUELTY.—At Warwick assizes, George Wheatcroft was acquitted, and Ann Wheatcroft was found guilty and sentenced to fifteen years' transportation, for the manslaughter of German Wheatcroft, aged 8 years. This case exhibited one of the most detestable and inhu man instances of barbarity upon record. The unfortunate deceased was, it appears, a son of the male prisoner by his former wife, upon whose death he cohabited with the female prisoner, lodging at that time in Edgbaston, near Birmingham, but soon after removing to some low court in the borough. The witnesses for the prosecution could not say that the father of the boy had ever been seen by them to beat deceased unfairly, but as against the female prisoner it was proved that her inhuman feeling against the helpless child exhibited itself by confining him for as much as three days suecessively without food, with his hands and feet corded together, and by beating him when perfectly naked in a most savage manner with a cane. The effect of a long continuance of such horrible conduct was the death of the unhappy object of this wretched woman's hatred on the 25th of April last, and the public exposure of her brutality. FEARFUL MURDERS.—On Tuesday, James Grout, a labourer, living at Grays, Essex, went to his work, leav ing at home his wife and three children—John, aged 6 ; Mary Anne, aged 4 ; and James, 2 years. Soon after, John ran out of the house, exclaiming that his mother had murdered his brother and sister. A neighbour ran into the cottage, and, on entering the bedroom upstairs, found the woman with a bill in her hand covered with blood, standing at the foot of the bed, and the bodies of the two children in a dreadfully mangled state, one on the bed, the other on the floor. The head of the little girl was nearly severed from the body. The mother said, " I have done it myself, I have nobody to blame but my self." The wretched woman was immediately given into custody, and stated to the constable that she had intended to murder the elder boy also, had he not escaped from her, and then to have destroyed herself. She appears to be about 40 years old. and has a ghastly expression of countenance. The poor woman is no doubt in an un sound state of mind ; about a fortnight before she at tempted suicide, and was only prevented through the rope breaking hich she had attached to a hook in the kitchen for the purpose of destroying herself. M. ROGER.—The .Athenteum, in noticing the debut of this celebrated tenor, on the London boards, who is to appear with Jenny Lind at the approaching grand concert at the Collegiate Institution, says,—" Tenors of his class are not so numerous that the coming of a new one can be briefly passed over. We have, again and again, from Paris, done honour to the jeune premier of the Ope'ra Comique as an excellent singer of sentimental music, and an actor no less excellent for finish and intelligence. So highly indeed have we always valued him in his own spe cialty as to regard with hesitation any meditated change of occupation ; being slow to see what is certain and perfect risked by an artist in attempt to make his own fresh fields and pastures new The event, however, so far as the success of the Edgardo establishes the fact, justifies the determination of the French tenor to be more daring than his " cautioners." Like most educated voices, M. Rogers's does not lose penetrating power by being produced in a larger arena than its old home. It has an evenness and a compass ( being capable of the upper B flat in chest notes) which render it sufficient for almost any part of the tenor's re pertory ; add to this, pliancy such as only comes of careful study, and attractiveness of quality when the tone is not forced. A little practice on the Italian stage will convince M. Roger that he can move his audience at will without exaggerating his effects and perilling his organ ; since as Lucia proceeded it became obvious that the singer was becoming more and more at ease, and in proportion sing ing with his natural force. M. Roger delivered his recita tive like a true dramatic artist. He showed, too, a fine discrimination of character meriting recognition. In his version of the part there was as much of passionate long hoarded affection as of hate and rage. The famous Male diction wrs delivered as from a heart itself breaking under the mountain of the curse' launched against the false one. More raging Ravenswoods there have been by the dozen ; but we do not recollect one in whom the passion has been so deep. Altogether, M. Rogers's acting was fine after its French manner. M. Rogers is precisely one of the artists who can best bear the most searching criti cism. Moreover, while he stands before the public of an Italian opera under peril of comparison, it is fit that it should be made with full and fair knowledge." A MYSTERY STRANGELY SOLVED.—The other week we related the facts of a case in which two men had been apprehended at Hessle for having in their possession var ious articles of clothing, known to be those of a young man who some time ago was staying at Leeds. This case has been before the Sculcohtes bench of magistrates for four successive weeks. On Tuesday last, Bateman and Bunting, the two men who had been detained in cus tony, were discharged. It appears that Jonas Edward Iredale, who represented himself as a clerk to Mr. Led. gard, of Mirfield, the solicitor who prosecuted M'Cabe and Reid for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Wraith and their servant maid, had lodged at a public-house in Leeds for about twenty-six weeks, where he represented himself as having business to do at Dewsbury once a week, for which he received £1 per day. His appearance and man ner being respectable, he became the acknowledged suitor of one of the daughters of the landlord. At the second trial of M'Cabe and Reid, he gave evidence against them. They were convicted. His connection with Mr. Ledgard immediately ceased, and he went to the north, still con tinuing his correspondence with the landlord's daughter, which suddenly ceased on the 7th July. From subse quent inquiries, it appeared that he had left Durham shortly after writing to Miss —, and had not afterwards been heard of, until, on the 17th, the prisoners were ap prehended at Hessle with a large portion of his wearing apparel in their possession. It was, of course, supposed that he had been murdered, and that these men in probability knew more of his death than they would tell. The facts, as ultimately elicited, are that Iredale never was clerk to Mr. Ledgard, but being in York Castle dur ing the first imprisonment of M'Cabe and Reid, he was at the same assizes indicted for forgery, but the bill was ignored. When M'Cabe and Reid were acquitted, he went to Mr. Ledgard, and told him that he had in prison overheard a conversation between M'Cabe and Reid, which went to prove their guilt. Upon this information they were re-taken, and again committed. Iredale repre sented himself as being upon the point of proceeding to America. To secure his attendance at the trial, he was allowed £1 per week to live upon until the assizes. This he received at Dewsbury, and the receiving of it was his only business there. Of course his connexion with Mr. Ledgard ceased at the trial, but he represented himself to the young lady as having obtained employment which yielded him £3 per day. At the time when he suddenly disappeared, he fell in with Bateman, and proposed to him to go and break into the country house of a banker, not far from Newcastle. Iredale, who had left his mrpet-bag in care of Bateman, actually got into the house. Bateman's heart failed him, and he ran away, took the carpet-bag, and came down to Hull in a steamer, on board of which he met with Bunting. The suitor, the supposed lawyer's clerk, and the man supposed to be murdered, is then at large, and is declared to be a burglar.—Hull Advertiser. The John Bull announces the demise of a new publica tion entitled " Politics for the People," after three months trial, the principal contributors having been : " The erudite and thoughtful Maurice, of King's College ; Chenevix Trench, his friend ; Kingsley, the sweet singer of the Maid's Tragedy ; S. G. 0., the eloquent defender of the claims of the poor in the columns of the Times; Connington, the accomplished and deeply-reflective au thor of ' Essays in the intervals of business ;' Bellenden Kerr, Doctor Guy, of sanitary renown, and one whose name we know not if we are at liberty to mention, alt though the students of l ,?ifi c ufle4 & ii i g Lit v, Dem.!, —;11 Y gers, Lieutenant Gale and Mr. Gypson, with their ►anions, in the Royal Cremorne and Royal Albert each other. the former in Wansted•j Romford, about 16 nines f place from the gardens Wednesday, and a moi never been witnessed. south-wes easterl distance of seat of the k, thf ndry Hatch, near The start took rid the balloons consequent ion. Mr. Gypson at first al 'en o'clock on ,nu a h Ovi lieutenant the Strand, St. Paul's, and Cheapside, the balloons were stationary for some time, d it was only on descending into an under current that tne , bore away from the city into the suburban districts in the 'st. In the neighbourhoood of the Vi c toria Park the Royal Llbert was lowered to within 1.500 yards of the earth. Here me thousands of persons had assembled to receive Mr. Gypstn and his companions, but that gentle man would not bazar?. a descent amongst such a crowd, and, throwing out bahast, rapidly ascended, till he at tained an immense altituk, where he and his friends be came exceedingly cold, event o a shivering sensation, and as their breath passed from thin it was as plainly seen as if it had been the month of December. They then com menced their final descent, and landed at the place above mentioned at about half-past eight o'clock. Mr. Gypson arrived in town at about half-past one o'clock on the fol lowing morning. The lieutenant who wea, the first to de scend, estimates that, at one period, he attained an alti tude of at least two miles and a halt. The parties from each of the cars frequently exchanged friendly salutes, and distinctly heard the echo of their voices. ENLIGHTENED JITHIES.—At the Oxford Assizes, last week, the first case in the list was an action for goods sold and delivered, as to which there was no defence. At the close of the case his lordship briefly stated the facts. and directed the jury to find for the plaintiff. They consulted, and hesitated for some time, till at length his lordship told them again, the plaintiff's case was proved, and the defendant did not appear to offer any resistance, and there fore they ought to find for the plaintiff, when they, with some reluctance, returned a verdict accordingly. The second case was on a promissory note. There was no defence, and they were again told to find for the plaintiff; however, they hesitated, and when at length they were pressed for a decision the foreman turned round and created some merriment in court by saying, " The ju r y gives it in, he must pay £23 2s. 4d," This happened to be the amount claimed. The next case was an action of ejectment. The counsel for the plaintiff, Mr. Whately and Mr. Phipson, having closed their case, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd. who had watched the case for the defendants, admitted that the plaintiff's case was fully made out, an d that he had no answer to it. His lordship thereupon summed up, telling them to find for the plaintiff ; they deliberates. for a quarter of an hour, and then, on being told if they had any difficulty they might retire, and hearing the officer sworn to " them safely guard and keep without meat, drink, or fire" (for the term, as they pro bably thought, of their natural lives), the foreman came to their rescue by saying, " The jury agrees, that it should be left to three referees, because we knows nothing about it." Baron Platt : Gentlemen, you have no power to refer it. You must decide it yourselves. They again de liberated for a few minutes, and at last resolved the diffi culty, the foreman enunciating as the result of their cogitations, " The party, my lord, recovers his property." This was accepted as a verdict for the plaintiff, and they were allowed to retire from the box to make room for twelve others. MISERIES OF THE POOR LAW.—The guardians of the unions would in many instances be more lenient to the poor but for the restrictions placed on them. The laws of the Medes and Persians tie their hands. The man with seven children and 9s. a-week must drag them all into the union workhouse, to the perdition of both body and soul. The board may not give him a few shillings to tide him over a temporary embarrassment to fit his child out for service. A poor woman receives an order for the work house ten miles off, and the relieving o ffi cer gives her half a loaf that she faint not by the way. It is contrary to the law. A man leaves the workhouse with a dozen miles before him before he can get under cover, with the more distant and precarious prospect of a meal. The gover nor gives him a viaticum in the shape of a loaf. It is un lawful. The invalid mother of a large family can no longer look after her children, and they are running wild. For a week or two the guardians make an allowance for a nurse. It must not be. A friendless girl, who has been servant of all.work on short commons and no wages, loses her place, and seeks for a little help. In order to spare her the contamination of the women's ward she is allowed a few shillings. Wrong again. Others are jut strong enough, or wise enough, or respectable enough to get on with an occasional lift. Lifts are specially prohibited. The bit of mutton given once in a way to the squalid stonebreaker, night's food and lodging ordered for the vagrant who was thought to have the fever, and therefore not admitted in the workhouse, and all sorts of casual aid over and above the regulation, arc unla.wful. The Auditor receives a hint from the Commission that the board is in open rebellion, and to make an example strikes out every one of these items. Somebody, of course, must pay for them. The relieving officer cannot, so it falls on the purses of one or two liberal guardians. The present bill, by way of sop, provides for the payment, under certain conditions, of the items hitherto disallowed ; but it is system, not this or that particular payment, we are con cerned with:— Times. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—At Cardigan Assizes, Miss Mary Saunders, daughter of the late Rev. J. Saunders, Vicar of Llantrissent and Llanhowell, ob tained a verdict of £lOO damages against the Rev. P. B. Harries, Rector of the parish of Corby, near Rockingham, for a breach of promise of marriage, contracted under the following circumstances :—The defendant, being impaired in health, had been residing at Aberystwith for the last ten years. For the same reason the plaintiff repaired to the town last summer, in company with two female friends, one of whom, named Miss Jones, Mr. Harries stopped in the street, and asked for an introduction to the plaintiff, as he had been struck by her appearance. This was refused, and he then wrote a note to the lady her,- self, who was, however, still coy, and took no notice of it; but the defendant still persevered, and made daily visits till he was accepted, having, after several rebuffs, made a formal proposal in a very business-like love-letter, lauding the lady's charms, and stating the income of the love-sick swain in pretty nearly the same sentence. Still the mar riage day was postponed at the request of the intended bride, the defendant having been a widower little more than a twelvemonth, when, after the most urgent pressing, the sth of April was fixed for the ceremony, and all things placed in a state of forwardness. But on the 26th of Fe bruary, the defendant's love grew suddenly cold, and on that morning he called at Miss Saunder's lodgings, and brought with him an anonymous letter, which, he said, charged the plaintiff with being in debt, that she was a drunkard, and that she was old and ugly, and acting on that letter, without any inquiry, he rus h e d ou t o f room, snatching with unmanly grasp some presents he gave her, consisting of a gold watch, and a thermometer, and which he put in his pocket, and then made his exit. The evidence bore out the statement of the counsel, and but little was elicited in cross-examination. The witnesses denied that the lady was a drunkard, but one admittel she was in the habit of taking a little brandy and water after dinner. Another stated that the defendant had told him that he broke off the match because he thought the lady was rich, but found out on the contrary she was much in debt. For the defence it was urged that the defendant was eccentric, and afflicted with the St. Vitus's dance. The jury, after twenty minutes' consultation returned the above verdict. The damages were originally laid at £l,OOO. TERRIBLE FIRES AND Loss of LlFE. — Monday night the metropolis was visited by two dreadful fires, which in a very short period laid in ruins a vast amount of valuable property, and deprived one person of life. The first broke out upon the premises belonging to Mr. Loton, a Berlin wool-dealer, situate in Albany-street, Regent's Park, next door to the Windsor Castle Tavern. The second disaster occurred upon premises belonging to the Rev. Dr. Dale, in Amen-corner, Paternoster-row. The cir cumstances connected with the first fire were of a very distressing character. It appears that shortly after the shop was closed the inhabitants were aroused from their slumbers by a noise resembling the discharge of a piece of ordnance, and at the same time the greater portion of Mr. Loton's premises which were four stories high, were blown into the street, the floorings and roof were lifted into the air, the brick wall was demolished and sent flying in sundry directions, breaking in the shop-fronts of at least a dozen houses on the opposite side of the street, seriously injuring a great number in Ernest-street, forcing in the windows of the Windsor Castle Tavern ; and at the same moment, as if by magic, the whole of Mr. Loton's premises remaining burst forth into a general blaze. Notwithstanding the exertions of the firemen, however, the flames continued to progress most fearfully, and it was not until nearly one o'clock in the morning— three hours after the outbreak—that they were entirely extinguished. The origin of this calamity is not precisely known, but the prevailing opinion is that it was caused by an escape of gas. Three persons were in Mr. Loton's house, when the explosion occurred ; one, a young girl, about 16 years of age, a servant in the establishment, was blown through the shop-front on to the opposite side of the street; she was found dreadfully mangled, her head being shattered and her face burnt ; she was forthwith removed to the police-station, where she was seen by a surgeon, who at once pronounced life extinct. Two other persons, a man and a woman, were also forced by the power of the explosion into the street, and were so seri ously injured as to be obliged to be removed to the hos pital. The number of persons who have suffered by this disastrous event cannot be less than 20.—The second fire broke out shortly after 12 at night in the upper part of Dr. Dale's residence. It was first seen by a gentleman named Stiff, who forthwith gave the necessary alarm to the police. The flames at that period appeared to be raging on the second floor, but shortly afterwards they penetrated the third floor, and bursting through the win dows they illuminated the city for some distance. For tunately, the whole of the inmates succeeded in effecting a safe retreat from the blazing premises, although there was some difficulty in removing a lady who had recently been confined. The firemen were enabled to get the flames subdued by half-past one o'clock, but not until a serious amount of property was destroyed. How the calamity took place is unknown. _