The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-04 00:00:00

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NOTICE Vavigation for 1850; or, Canal Propt:rty res med by the Aquatic Locomotive; combined with a New System of Screw Propulsion; illustrated by Engravings and by Conversations with celebrated Railway and Canal Engineers, and other Scientific Gentlemen of the first eminence, ke.—By a Promoter f Inland Steam Nivig The firs uary,number of a work under this, or le, has made its appearance, and though It manner of the writer tends to excite, al, an impression that the author, Mr. Slanchester, who is somewhat of a wag, right earnest, a more attentive consi ts adduced leaves us to conjecture, at that there is some feasible and substantial method L'he views of the author, so far as they are conveyed chiefly in "random recol ) shape of conversations or dialogues ted railway and canal engineers and others— )wedly being " to sell his book, and !ct of the proposed system to of the many rather than the lbject is to carry out his project le or company for that purpose. ement, that he has, in ited the subject for a 'et delivered unction with his ginal doub .rew, he can accomplish cheap aquatic transit— eciation in canal property. ne formation of a " Carriers, Aquebus Company." which ice to lines of canals without proposes to overcome) will, ial and profitable. He inti principle have already been We confess. however, that we leard of them, though we have long en ht lines of canal much I that a comparatively high speed without injury to the banks, compared with railways. The pre however, almost wholly introductory of ..ientific details, to enable us which we must reserve until fully developed. We shall be glad to numbers, and meanwhile have only to if the author be not in earnest, he, nevertheless, ';fic powers of no ordinary calibre, and con - "- - ----I, but popular and amus 'tying in this number, passing along a tor- is willing to receive objec at his Inland Navigation tchester. He notices the that encompassed railway ►n—all now to a great ex hat, upon his principle of ropelling them by locomo- ,ndali afined in Le assumes I at a sr Le subje prospect 3oats on I opinion that on st by steal act, and affords no s any decided oT 'EER AND PEASANT IN OLD AGE. From Mr. Warren's " Now and Then.") lylton was moved almost iich was before 1 the fir: - - 311 earth ; and his offer to yonder The ear gels there' oke not As the cat Hylton e pported by M the co in to announce his arziva le the door as the earl en art, done to Mr. Hylt6 n while he said this a table, on said h han he had si My lord. ,othing The earl pod to: I men, and God Wain Avliffe, inc right t ' Av, n it ; and r to tears at the spectacle a of these two old men ht be for the only, time company his lordship at accepted, and they both age approached, the earl prospect of the coming ultingly, " yonder is the id for but a little longer, own do' :red to—with whom God t is a hallowed spot 1" v minutes' time he was Hylton and a servant, oor, another preceding tanding uncovered out -his lordly master him Etyst forgive as he stopped within, rho led him up to old as one to speak with you th that he bath long, in ustice; and hath come embled on Mr. Hylton's uncovered, gazing with n, who, when they en ning on bis staff beside )le open, with his spec ; had but just laid them lion ceased speaking. and standing more ars, " we be now both spared us thus long for h. a cou alley of the sso ! Will you forgive c3rl faintly, advauc of God! feel;ng that I Dr a father am I, and a ;nce it bath been asked rithheld from =Pi that ;ces out to thee with it! ;line old and feeble days the gra,-,shopper is a es were f act reveiel ," Laid the ea-1 gentl be thou seat , :d Digo to to each othcz, Mr. Cod may forgive me r !)—thou, my fellow- I cannot forgive myse , f, e. Good Adam ! wbat twenty years !" falte.-ed shoed Ayliffe solemnly, son•owful d;vnty at the xenty years,benn a long and lonesome; but yet ver blessed'y beside me, sed my way for ever and low of death !" As be >sily on the earl, and be he saci ed volume beside mbloxl me, and mightily am not what I R as ! 27 Ndst need, my lord, and ; yet it is in mercy to d lord I" said Ayliffe, belonging only to one n mercy, too," he con to rec?ive and listen to e and in a knd tebellious, yet have then, my lord, in thy bath indeed 'suffered bath el them, . 10, went right, as the law ,r me, what a spirit hath and thine ! Forgive me, weth more against me" Ayliffe with a look of tell thee, of mine own said Aylife , arving the earl grow ie door. I day," said Lord Mil not cow ..deilM. of immortal ..,f .rarla-coltie here vi HE BE uld not escape from the rain aping the hand whi ome hither again to come yonder to m( are fewer, I fee' roof o: to me, my good lord, I sadly, following the earl ,m until he had driven in which to .ense of howev of the do G.-A medical man, of Lt ions that are performed ping, " senseless opera- ake it healthful and joy lunity from fire ; such a 's first great gifts), and onstitution of man de- of producing "An end '—delighCully to adorn it. When it is remem factories of men, and in tnportance of improving :feet men come not forth wellings : and how few lot be improved !—The R.—The most sordidly of a bedchamber is one ;er, who, asking a visitor d, and being told that he which came through the found out one particular Ale bed, said laughingly, , " Ah ! what ! you found a ni e corner, isn't it ?" ramatic effect by the story to last century, who were r furiously discussing some rate beds in one room, by a thrust forward towards .nd the gesticulation going does not deceive us, one le had the gout, and his a, and the weather being room, the noble earl had the other bed.—L. Hunt. thou season of rightful, but evating joy Oh, what EVENT, gracious awful dolt thou not commemorate ! —set foretold—advent of the ,kind, the joy and glory of wrapt contemplation, behold ne instinct with heavenly in s sang together for joy ! Let 11 the hearts and voices of man.. d was God With Us ; dwelling as ! HERE ! on this dim speck, ...ering and inconceivable vastness of the .ed out for such purpose in the unsearchable .e Most High ! Angels unseen ! bow with us our present dust-clad brethren—your heads in awe 3found! Together let us celebrate this Mystery, saying. Glory to God in the I , ighest ; and on earth PEACE, , OD-WILL TOWARDS MEN! Thus, heaven-kindled, is joyousness of Christmas : soul-elevating : heart- Therefore do all Christian people welcome this -heerful season: their hearts being first pros expanding towards man, in Now and Then," a Tale LO fire in the for to get i Ml hail, 1 iedeemer of mai - aven ana c Tsal II a ie flest deeds of charity and virtue.—' by S. Warren, Esq., F.RS. NATIONAL TRANSGRESSIONS.-NATIONAL CALAMITIES. There is nothing, says Blackwood's Magazine, in historical experience to forbid the idea, that peculiar nations may have been appointed to separate purposes. If to ancient Greece was almost exclusively given the intellectual advancement of the world ; if to ancient Rome was as exclusively the preparative discipline for its government; there can be no doubt that to Judea was assigned the guardianship of religion. The process may be diversified in later times ; but the principle may re main. The rapidity with which the derelictions of duty in Judah were followed by punishments declaredly divine, finds a memorable counterpart in the annals of England, even down to the present hour. But we shall limit our selves to the evidence in Ireland ; and on this point we shall be as brief as possible. In the latter part of the seventeenth century, Popery, hitherto kept down, became suddenly triumphant in Ireland, and began its habitual system of severity to the heretic. Confiscation and exile swept away the rights of Protestantism. The result was the national punishment by the scourge of civil war, a renewal of conquest, the expatriation of the Romish army, and the decay of all the sources of national pros perity. Another era came. Under the government of Protestantism the country had recovered, privileges were successively awarded, and it enjoyed the peace and gradual opulence which belonged to English government. But, a parliamentary faction at length allied itself with Popery ; parliament was subdued by clamour, or seduced by popu larity, and the Popish population obtained tI franchise. The elections instantly became he elective scenes of national iniquity. Perjury was scarcely less than a pro fession, and that notoriously ruinous system of " sub letting," which has covered Ireland with pauperism, became general, for the sole object of multiplying votes. This was followed by the foundation of Maynooth, a col- lege expressly formed for the training of a Popish priest hood, whose tenets, every man who had voted for this foundation had sworn to be " superstitiousand idolatrous." But, when did faction care what it swore ? The cup was now full. The priesthood of Maynooth had scarcely begun to learn their trade when vengeance fell upon Popery and the Parliament. Instead of the promise of gratitude, which had been so ostentatiously given by the Popish associations, and so ostentatiously echoed by Par liamentary Liberalism, the first act of the Popish pea santry was to take up arms ; a rebellion of the most treacherous and bloody nature broke out, in which the murder of Protestants was perpetrated in cold blood, and with the most horrid atrocity, Ireland was convulsed and impoverished, the rebellion was extinguished and punished by the sword, and at the cost of ten thousand peasant lives. The next blow was on the feeble and fractious Parliament. The Irish Legislature was extinguished at a blow; and its fall was as ignominious as it was judicial. Its national pride and acknowledged talent gave way with out a struggle, and with scarcely a remonstrance. It had already lost the respect of the nation. The mind of Ire land disdained the deliberations which had suffered the dictation of a mob. Parliament, existing without national honour, perished without national sympathy. Its own principle was retaliated on itself. The Papist sold it, the Borough-monger sold it, the Protestant sold it, not for the baser bribe of the populace, but for the prospect of peace ; it was given over to execution, with the calm acquiescence of a sense of justice, and tossed on the funeral pile amid a population which danced round the blaze. Popery now talks of its restoration. It is im possible. The very idea is absurd. As well might the ashes of the dead be gathered and reshaped into the living man. As well might the vapours of the swamp be purified by filling it with the fire-damp. Every hour, since that time, has made the country still more unfit for legislation, more furious and inflammable. As well might the nakedness of the people be covered by rags, reeking with the pestilence. We rejoice to escape from the sub ject. It can be no gratification to us to trace the pro gress of disease through the political frame which it first enfeebles, and then makes a source of contagion. We have no love for the history of an hospital, or those fright ful displays of a " surgeons' ball," where every skeleton is connected with public crime, and where science is demon strated from the remnants of the scaffold. But, it is notorious that the morals even of the Irish peasant have been degraded in the exact proportion of his rise in poli tical power. Every favour of the English Parliament, from the beginning of the century until the fatal year 1829, only furnished him with an additional weapon, to be used with more seditious violence. In that yew-, the British Legislature was thrown open to him, and he entered it in a barbarian triumph. From that moment, England and Ireland were sufferers alike. In England, Irish faction was an insolent mercenary, which opened and alternately hired its services to both sides alike. In Ireland it was a ferocious rebel, which, as the notorious preparative for broader hostilities, exercised its arms in midnight murder. At length the final endowment of Maynooth came ; and, as an establishment, solely for the Romish priesthood, without any admixti,-e of the laity, and allowing the means of an increase in the number of those pupils of Rome, and propagators of Romish doc trines, from about five hundred to double the number, was fixed on the empire for ever, taken wholly out of the further del heist:on of the legislature, and confernd, to 7 me-; the amount of its former or. r. which professes the Marv— wb ich bows down to zu oTship of a en to deld u —which offers Weakly ab which apportions men of money for mas; solemn adoration to a c .d water priest, and which it acivally decla God, whom "the heaven and the I not contain." These vre doctrim men with fear c on of this most uul The subje:-.t. which 1 1 n on b, Englis,. band. YES even now, the consequence ) the various cont;rn—platiOn o solemn for The rr the con- Lb .equent n trymen. a fal•illood, its mous tic!luio Itl:,sh and ;) and we are pc has no r to be which f man- ith refer g but the name ; we speak only of the p: —lt is a good of content. The ..at we were brought up axuries ; and, to this day, as we had there. We could LEIGH HUNT'S LOVL thing that custom is half the reason why we like a hard bed is, t at a.public school, without any lux\ we like just such a sort of bed as wt find a satisfaction in having the ider Our sheets ; and the same reaso s, too, of no greater tine of rug over ness. And towel to the of some sort, to a coat. with a h we used to itions of Gray s us prefe finer one, and the go pocket in the same j s the one in put our mar and Collins. and toy We have and our poet . of houses — .n taverns and inns, and public-houses, at least - the Ita- ' liens all such), and on board slip ; yea, in bivouacs, just enough to taste the extremest hardness of the bed mili tary ; and for the only contrivance utterly to vitiate our . That and --Jame disputed the palm. nrftn kings and popes. Frederick the —fred lying in a little tent bed, such as Vol , found him in at their first interview, shivering with an ague ; and we learn from Horace Walpole's letters that Pone Benedict the Fourteenth lay upon one no better (the palliasse, most probably, of his convent), by the side of the gorgeous canopy prepared for his rank.—Men, Women, and Books. A RUSSIAN BREAKFAST TABLE ON EASTER-DAY. — In the centre of the table stood a sucking pig, flanked with small hams. German sausages, chitterilngs, black puddings, and large dishes of game. A magnificent pie, containing at least a dozen hares, towered like a fortress at one end of the table. The sondag and the sterlet, those choice fish of Southern Russia, garnished with aromatic herbs, betokened the vicinity of the sea. Imagine, in addition to all these things, all sorts of cor dial waters, glass vases filled with preserves, and a multi tude of sponge cake castles, with their platforms, frosted and heaped with bon-bons, and the reader will have an idea of the profuse good cheer displayed by the Russian lords on such occasions. On leaving the breakfast-table, we proceeded to the place where the sports were held ; but there I saw nothing of that hearty merriment that accompanies a popular holiday. The women, in their best attire, clung to the swings, I will not say gracefully, but very boldly, and in a manner to shame the men, who found less pleasure in looking at them than in gorging with brandy in their smoky kabaks. Others danced to the sound of the organ with cavaliers whose zig-zag movements told of plenteous libations. We noticed on this occasion an essential characteristic of the Russian people. In this scene of universal drunkenness there was no quarrelling; not a blow was stuck. Nothing can arouse the Russians from their apathy ; nothing can quicken the dull current of their blood ; they are slaves even in drink. Such are the Easter festivities. As the reader will perceive they consist on the whole of eating and drinking inordinately. The whole week is spent in this way, and during all that time the authority of the master is almost in abeyance ; the coachman deserts the stables, the cook the kitchen, the housekeeper the store room : all are drunk, all are merry-making, all are intent on enjoying a season of liberty so long anticipated with impatience.—De Halls' Travels in Russia. night's rest, commend us e bed of down the wooden bed of the Habit Seconi 3 issue for help inpos opeof fl be empt aism TIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. STATISTICS OF THE DISTRICT OF VAUXHALL. The district of Vauxhall recently set tioated by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to form a new parish in this town, is in some respects the? W.& remarkable in the diocese. In size it is above the average of the divisions of the parish by about one-fifth, and while the population of the districts in the parish averages about 7000, and those of the borough about 5000, the population of this district is 13,000. On the simplest grounds of comparison, therefore, it presents unusual difficulties; end the series of facts brought to light in the annexed table will astonish our readers. The design is that of the Rev. A. Hume, L.L.D , the minister of the district, who has examined in person all the streets and courts marked with an asterisk, the others were in general examined by some of the young men at Birkenhead College, except those marked thus t, for which they are jointly responsible. We have never seen such a statement before ; but it is not likely that many will be at the pains to enter upon such a minute investigation, though it places the clergyman in such an advantageous position in respect to the knowledge of his people. It appears by the table that the district embraces 27 streets, and 226 courts connected with these ; and when it is stated that most of the streets are private, i. e., leading only to the houses that are in them, the nature of the inhabitants will be better understood. No fewer than 152 cellars are inhabited, and in 515 instances more than one family occupy each house. There are more than 2300 families belonging to the labouring class, and of these 1383, containing probably 6223 individuals, are supported by casual and ill-paid labour. There are 76 public-houses, and 51 beer-shops in the district, too many of them spreading immorality in every direction around them. One of the most start ling facts in the whole, however, is that there is the awful number of 9099 who attend neither church nor chapel, who use the name of God in blasphemy and impiety, but who know neither prayer, nor preaching, nor Sabbath bell. Of these 4635 still claim a connexion with the Church, but unless something be done and that speedily, these will all be sunk in irrecoverable infidelity. Among the members of the church alone, there are 258 bibles wanting, and 325 books of common prayer ; in a large number of cases there is neither of them in the same family. Of the adult population, 932 parents are unable to read ; and of the juvenile population, there are more than 2000 children of suitable age to attend school, who attend no school ! There ore 226 cases of sickness in the district, of which 77 are fever cases ; and, at the present moment, notwithstanding the numerous removals to the country, for want of employment, there are still 13,028 of a population !! For these the Queen has appointed a minister, and the law has pro vided a stipend, but there is no church or licensed chapelry in all the district, and the only dissenting chapel has Welsh services. There is, probably, not in all England such a lamentable case of destitution. One is ready to ask what can a single clergyman do among so many ? Our own decided impression is, that the ecclesiastical commissioners did not know what a multitude they were handing over to the charge of one man. or they would surely have divided it into two. There should be at least three clergymen for all this extent of population, two of whom could probably find a suitable residence in the district. Where is the Pastoral Aid Society, or others for similar purposes ? Surely, they would help to wipe away such a disgrace from our town. We have heard that the incumbent proposes to erect a temporary church, capable of containing 600, as soon as he can get a site for it. We do not wish to disparage any efforts that may be made, but this really looks like bringing a pail of water to quench a burning house. A church for 600 people, when there are 9000 to be civilized and christianised, and 4000 more to be assisted and instructed. In our opinion there should be church accommodation for 1800 or 2000, and a vigorous effort made to implant good habits in the people. There is not a school in the district except that connected with St. Mary's Roman Catholic chapel, yet there are 2000 waiting to be educated. Much as the town has suffered recently, there is still money enough for all these purposes, and spirit to give it. The people of Liverpool, and the public generally, do not suspect that such a state of things exists ; and, when they know it, we have no doubt that the sympathies of other districts, as well as of this, will be awakened. We are glad to find that the minister of the district, on whom the missionary and monetary labours will mainly fall, is not dismayed by the task before him. He has met with large numbers both of Roman Catholics and Dissenters, as well as of Churchmen, who are extremely anxious to have a church and schools beside them, before it be too late for themselves and their families. To their credit be there was not the slightest attempt at insult, unki: it spoken too, they afforded every facility for the enquiry which has just been completed ; and, in the most immoral localities ndness, or injury of any sort. DWELL ING. 10 13 14 18 SUPPORT. !RALSI Labourers "CZ da "17 CD - r4" 9 6 8114 63 67 22 45 35 128 26 28 9 19 10 18 6 10 3 3 4!1 6 9 1 25 5 , 14 12 1 21 17 , 22 36 38 20 38 30 21 16 31 12 30 .. 6 5 11 24 71 24 38 3 4 21 20 9 5 g - 1 k 47 3 . . 33 28 . • 44 97 . . 210 407 2 84 430 5 188 771 16 160 116 27 118 14 1 97 72 8 25 39 20 28 9 . . 208 4 110 .. 40 19 26 5 148 24 116 63 244 66 57 23 74 4 37 86 55 81 30 14 .. 30 14 1100 5 13 59 9 77 49 28 116 59 5 215 114 15 148 76 24 198 116 57 164 26 34 17 41 .. 4 90 .. 112 84 49 145 20 37 23 16 .. 184 65 69 268 125 126 98 262 25 60 130 19 78 35 13 27 48 .. 77 169 53 95 86 14 132 80 1 7 21 48,t .. 189 203 13 131 90.19 8 24 .. 29 13 .. 85 43 ,i 37 24 18 15 5949 5546 10591 RELIGION 4 .. 13 41 35 5 .. 15 51 18 9 20 130 39 28 6.. 44 609 183 14 .. 90 443 67 30 1 80 926 164 16 6.. 40 285 274 13 120 105 76 101 62 37 !47 14 31 6 6 9 .. 20 294 82 7 .... 10 !253 136 30 138 96 ▪ 4 2,- 4 114 77 2 44 '374 208 2 10 .. 60 550 403 31 B'.. 314 '371 214 5 .. 68 , 68 29 7 .. 47 68 '3O 12 •• •34 2 176 280 18g .. 4 138 287 207 ..1.. 14 30 22 62 81 25 34 47 5 7 .. 1 66 , 96 62 7 47 1140 101 11 7 3 7960 .( 6 ) IF 7 .: 11'12.224 170 123 24 .. 10 111 '147 124 2 .. .. 44 16 17 1 ~., 53 42 4 6 2 149 104 69 . .6 19 2 93 .13.1 110 . 8:: 164 r 162 125 17 .. 5 216 325 188 . 181 204 54 ... 3 106 'lO6 33 .. 3 25 105 72. 34 41 15 .. 119 180 57 3 .. ..1 95 103 60 30 ....1126 123 76 41 14 .: 11 • 51 28 249 141 .. 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Healtiii 8 t, ; 0: W, K t i t I K t,4 5 : st. 1 - 4 z CDg 1 g 1 9 8 5 7 8 18 24 41 ;105 19 I 46 45 85 8 15 8 11 2 6 45 76 50 274 42 48 10 26 8 60 12 26 8 .. 13 74 14 52 20 35 17 9 46 74 79 108 56 81 19 10 20 20 10 9 21 38 18 26 6 4 14 12 9 19 120 24 30 187 8 11 137 1 4 29 1 6 40 0 5 19 10 14 101 14 19 95 1 3 1 1 .._ 15 2 1 3 51 16 1 2 33 5 5 6 39 19 5 7 47 25 6 16 85 41 4 15 61 35 1 1 77 22 § I 7 I i 5 1 11 6 1 2 25 4 1 5 58 24 1 1 35 14 . 2 19 6 • 5 10 57 18 7 10 115 25 10 16 120 37 11 15 38 16 _ 1 28 14 1 f 3 33 13 4 7 5 8 1 4 3 5 18 23 17 22 2 3 1 4 7 9 2 4 361 571 *Carruthers-st *5 courts.... *Chartres-street .1 33 *l4 courts '137 *Chisenhale-st 91 *36 courts l6l *Clement-street . 55 *9 courts.. 32 Cockspur-street 2B 3 courts l9 Dickson-street 6 *Eaton-street 59 *ll courts 49 *Eccles-street 2B *7 courts 2B *Gascoyne-street. 68 *l6 courts Highfield-street 1 110 6 courts Key-street 2l 2 courts fLeeds-street i' l 3 courts WlTiccar-street . 2 2 courts Milk-street 3 courts Northampton-st.. 33 10 courts 39 Pall-Mall 14 courts.. 1 tPlumbe-street tl2 courts Pownall-square ll 3 courts Prussia-street 6 courts *Pump-fields 5 Ray-street 13 courts. lOO Smithfield-street. 66 12 courts 5l Tithebarn-street 2 courts .. Upper Milk-street 39 8 courts fVauxhall-road 54 3 courts Westmorland-st 5O 11 courts *Wigan-street *2 courts 6 Worfield-street 3 courts 27 streets 226 courts, 152 cellars. 2379 2894 940 1383 571 1 76' i I 2894 ettitrai Altatllanp. THE TYNE.—The river is crammed with shipping ; " the oldest inhabitant" new saw so many. Patrick Reid, the Mirfield murderer, will suffer the ex treme penalty of the !aw on Saturday, at York. On Sunday a beggar died from starvation on the Leeds and Tadcaster road. RETURN OF ESPARTERO TO SPAIN.—The Duke de la Victoria, with his family, left London on Thursday, on his return to Spain. A prize of one hundred guineas hasbeen offered for the best essay " On the use of Alcoholic Liquors in Health and Disease." According to the latest returns of the average price of wheat, it appears that on Dec. 24, wheat was eleven shil lings and eight pence a quarter lower than at the corre sponding period last year. The Emperor of Russia has presented through Baron Brunow, the Russian Ambassador, a very superb diamond ring to Mr. Nasmyth, of Patricroft, the inventor of the steam hammer and pile-driving machine. A PITHY RErLY.—Lord John Russell's reply to the Dean of Hereford's letter is as follows :—" Sir, I have had the honor to receive your letter of the 22nd inst., in which you intimate to me your intention of violating the law." It is calculated that nearly three tons weight of Leices tershire pork pies are made weekly in Melton Mowbray, and forwarded to London, Liverpool, Manchester, Shef field, and other large towns. The Art Union Journal states that legal proceedings have been instituted to arrest the progress of art-lotte ries; writs having been issued for penalties in the form of actions for debt and costs. An Edinburgh paper states that a woman lately stole a can of milk, and pawned it for threepence, telling the pawnbroker that as she wanted threepence, she would leave the milk in plo I:re until the cream rose upon it. Such was the effet t produced by Christmas puddings on the price of suet, in London, that it was sold last week at rntes varying from ls. to is 3d. per pound, while it can now be purchased at 7d. per pound. A CONTRAST.—The imports of this country in 1803 were in amount, calculated at the official rates of valua tion, £26,622,696, and the exports £28,541,405. In 1845 the imports were £85,281,958, and the exports £150,877,902. THE MIRFIELD MURDER.—A reprieve has been sent for Michael M`Cabe, who was convicted with Patrick Reid, at the late assizes held at York, of the murder of Caroline Ellis, at Mirfield. The law is left to take its course on the convict Reid._ Lord George Bentinck has declined to become a vice president of an association for altering the right of repre sentation, as he considers " the Reform Bill to have been a measure calculated to fulfil all the rational wants of the country for at least half a century from its enactment." A WHOLESALE BIGAMIST.—It is stated, as a fact, that an excavator, either at present or recently, working in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, has thirteen wives living in various parts of the country ! None of them look after him, probably because he is not worth following. The tradesmen of London complain strongly and very generally that persons who are in no way affected by the present monetary crisis, most inconsiderately withhold the payment of their accounts, to the injury and ruin of many persons. The two children of a man named Blake, residing in Golden-lane, London, have been strangled by a woman with whom their father cohabited. The murder was com mitted deliberately, in revenge for Blake having abused her anti ce.l...l,;..l.......aatiLetrowaaaaa. At the anniversary dinner of the Master Ironfounders' Association, in Glasgow, on Wednesday last, Mr. J. B. Neilson stated that since the introduction of his hot-blast process, the quantity of iron yearly made in Scotland had increased from 48,000 tons, which it was in 1828, to nearly 500,000 tons. A LUCKY DISCOVERY.—Among the collection of paint ings, the property of Mr. John Wilson, of Stratford, Essex, he has discovered " A Sleeping Venus," executed by the celebrated Titian. The fortunate owner has sold it within the last two or three days for five hundred guineas. Cuntous ERRATUM.—A vendor of quack medicines, who makes a fortune by spending a fortune in advertising, was surprised to find at the top of his advertisement the words " The greatest curse of any medicine in the world." The compositor had only set up curse instcad of " cures," but it made all the difference. THE SWEETS OF OFFICE.—The chairman of a railway board of directors received, during the past week, by way of presents, among other items, 140 turkeys, 50 geese, and 56 hares. We understand most of the parcels were re-directed, and sent among his friends, and, strange to say, in nine instances out of ten the presents were unin tentionally returned.—Essex Standard. A few days since, while a sawyer at Carmarthen was sawing an elm tree, he discovered in its centre a bird's nest, containing the remains of a bird and three eggs, the shells of which were rather bruised, but otherwise per fectly sound. The nest must have remained there for some years, as but scanty remains of the feathers and bones of the bird were found. Loss OF LIFE IN THE NORTH.—The John o' Groat Journal contains a melancholy catalogue of the loss of life on the northern coasts during the last month, the total number being 36 ; namely, in the county of Caith ness, 14 ; in Orkney, 14 ; and in Zetland, 8. Of these, 28 were drowned in consequence of the wreck of the boats in which they were either hands or passengers. THIRTY-FIVE SHEEP DESTROYED.—The Rev. A. Packe (brother of Mr. C. W. Packe, M.P.), of Walton on-the-Wolds, Leicestershire, has just had a serious loss by the destruction of thirty-five sheep. On Wednesday a shepherd went into the meadow, where 40 sheep had been left the previous evening, when he found eight of the flock drowned in a brook, and twenty-seven so severely worried as to render it necessary to kill them on the spot. It is conjectured that while the sad havoc was being made amongst the sheep the eight ran precipitately into the water and thus lost their lives, The Queen Dowager is not forgetful of home duties though so far away. On Christmas-dav, nearly a thou sand families at Hampton were regaled with beef and bread by her Majesty's munificence. The royal bounty, in this and various articles of warm winter clothing, was dfstr:buted by the vicar of the parish. Mr. Elihu Burritt delivered a lecture in the Town-hall, Newport, Monmouthgrire, On Wednesflay last, upon the philosophy of labour ! It was stated that this was the last lecture of the sort he would deliver in England. We should have thought, indeed, that there is too much plain matter of fact about work to render it susceptible of phi losophical disquisition. ELECTIONS FOR MARRIAGE PORTIONS.-011 Monday, three young women, educated in the schools founded by Mr. Rainey, the celebrated brewer, in St. George's-in the-East,'London, were elected to the marriage portions of £lOO each for good and virtuous conduct since leaving the establishment. These marriage portions are annu ally given by order of the benevolent founder of these schools. . SEASONABLE BENEVOLENCE.-011 Christmas eve, the Duke of Marlborough distributed among the poor of the parishes surrounding his princely domain, Elenheim Pa lace, his annual gift of venison; 125 prime fat does were killed and given away among about 600 families, who each received, on an average, from ten to twelve pounds of prime meat. A CONFUSION OF HATS AND PRONOUNS. -- A corres pondent of the Suffolk Chronicle says that on the break ing-up of a tithe-least at Haleswortli, there was a confu sion of hats. Next day the following note was received : —" Mr. T's compliments to Mr. W., and I have got a hat which is not his—if he he have got a hat which is not your's, no doubt they are the expected ones." On Monday, whilst a letter carrier in London was de livering letters, at half-past eight in the evening, he was attacked, whilst in Bridge-street, Blackfriars, (one of the most public struts) by three women, who threw a sack over over him and robbed him of 21s. in silver and es- The money was the harvest of the man's Christ mas boxes. Mary Anne Hunt, who was sentenced to death fur the I murder of a woman named Stowell, and who was declared by a jury of matrons not to be enceinte, was on Tuesday morning delivered of a fine male seven months' child. The mother and infant are both doing well. It will be recollected that her sentence was some time since com muted to transportation for life. LORD WILLIAM PAGET OUTLAWED. --- Tile list of per sons lately outlawed contains the name of Lord William Paget, a captain in the royal navy, for whose apprehension on a charge of oktaining money under false pretences' a reward is offered. A letter from the admiralty has been addressed to Lord William, requiring a satisfactory ex planation of the charges preferred, otherwise his name will not be suffei ed to remain on the navy list. The lord mayor of London has published several letters, showing that some of the parties who are offering to sup. ply The Times, Herald, Scc., at low prices, are swindlers. They receive the money, supply one or two of the papers ordered, and never supply another. It also appears that fellows in London are raising money by pretending that they are going to bring out a periodical, which periodical is never destined to see an existence. WHOLESALE DESERTION OF WIVES AND FAMILIES. —On Friday the parochial authorities of Saint Luke's, Chelsea, and Saint Leonard's, Shoreditch, issued de scriptions and rewards for the apprehension of 54 men, charged with deserting their wives and families, leaving no fewer than 217 individuals a burthen to those parishes. The men are described as good mechanics, and able to sro.Y. 26e. + 30.1.. par. suaal:_._ • - WILL OF MRS. SAREL.-The Crown will receive be tween £70,000 and £BO,OOO from the estate of this widow lady, Mrs. Louisa Sarel, late of Grove House, Enfield Highway, Middlesex, and of Henger House, in Cornwall, who died on the 7th September last, having made her will in the month of June preceding, but without dis posing of her personal estate, and there being no rela tives to claim the same. The Flax-growing Society of Scotland has now been formed in Aberdeen. The prospects of the society may be estimated from the consideration that, of the 17,000 tons of flax annually imported into the country, 4,500 tons are landed at Aberdeen, the value being £lBO,OOO. The freightage of flax along the east coast of Scotland amounts to £120,000, which would give the home-grown an advan tare to £2 an ac:e. SINGULAR DEATH OF HUSBAND AND WIFE IN ONE DAY.—On the 13th instant, at Rudston Walk, near Newbald, Mr. Daniel Foster, farmer, aged 77, and Fran ces, his wife, aged 70, both expired within a very short time of each other. The latter died about eight o'clock in the morning, and her husband, on sending for the un dertaker, observed, " You may as well take measure for me at the same time." He died about one o'clock in the afternoon. _ An unprecedented surgical operation was successfully performed in London on Monday, by Mr. Wakley, jun. on a man who had inhaled .chloroform. The operation consisted in dissecting out the two chief bones of the leg which formed the inner and outer ankles. The bones were dissected out in less than six minutes, and the re maining portion of the foot having. been adjusted in its new position by a bandage, the patient declared that he had not felt the slightest pain. Ws"! CRIME.—A barrister on the Northern Circuit says, in a letter to the Times, that it has been proved from facts furnished by . the Governor of York Castle, that about 25 per cent. of all the crime committed in York shire, and tried at the last winter assizes, was committed by Irishmen. About 66 per cent. of the crimes of vio lence in Yorkshire tried at the York last assizes were committed by Irishmen. Of these crimes of violence eight resulted in death—in murder or manslaughter ; and of these eight crimes, six were committed by Irishmen ; or 75 per cent. of the murders and manslaughters in Yorkshire tried last assizes were committed by Irishmen. He adds, that he has been informed by barristers attend ing at the late Liverpool assizes, that the proportion of Irish crime in Lancashiiii is much greater, nearly one half of the whole offences being conamitted.by Irishmen. 125 8 8 69 5 1 7 2 1 1 12 1 1 5 .. 19 3 6 25 9 11 39 6 7 35 10 14 13 .. 1 Jan. 4, 1848. COUNTRY 5' 50 1 33 2 41 13 192 36 68 38 8 109 434 55 473 167 796 152 157 90 12 112 65 49 30 27 10 109 190 136 123 94 50 61 47 1 292 92 498 80 389 244 55 65 28 2 20 3 22 2 44 2 26 .. 55 2 47 2 5 .. 21 .. 34 1 21 .. 55 48 65 118 2 214 . 113 75 2 259 98 2 142 77 . 30 26 . .. 95 1 179 41 . 179 15 . 20 19 .260 47 . 341 109 7 98 j2Bl 1 74 132 .118 11 62 11 43 12 7 .. 8 1 148 77 30 39 174 236 123 110 8 34 30 12 101 46 28 14 19 68 6 6 I POPU. LATION. 66-120 150 653-803 533 1006-1539 325 133-458 177 84-261 314 263-577 168 118-286 418 610-1028 685 136-821 115 48-163 456 425-881 14 52-66 143 81-224 162 187-349 365 248-613 394 258-652 60 95-155 253 229-482 39 326 541-867 385 212-597 129 •. • .j : : 75-204 7 .. 299 8 198-497 11 .. 249 69-318 10 420 15 .. 254-674 51 42-93 18 .. 167 15 .. 57-224 3228 113 5550'253 - "Nr -130'28 ARTIFICIAL HATCHING OF CHICKENS.—An invention for hatching chickens by artificial heat is exhibited at the Cosmorama rooms in Regent-street, London. The hatch ing is performed by top contact heat, radiated through a sheet of vulcanized caoutrhouc, over which flows a stream of water of 100 degrees of heat. The rearing of the chickens is performed by pipes; the chickens•nestle under - and between the pipee. There isu t.oniinnetl-ci.reuhvtio of the atmosphere of_the rowan around th4-ehi6ek. FOOT RACK FOIL £lOO A.-SIDE.-011 Tuesday last, the much-talked-of foot race,, for £lOO a-s'de, distance one mile, between Jemes Sherdon. of Sheffield, and John Tetlow, of Hollingwood, near Mancheyter, came off on the Race-ground, Doncaster. Af they both went off sllglit lead, which he est ease, and came Her three raise starts ce, !Ty increased with the a gallara.winner by nr The race was ri atinz a FATAL FIGHT.—On Sunday week, a quarryman named Watson, and some others, collected on Lindrick Com mon, Notlinghamshire. They were afterwards joined by a " navvy" named Thomas Kay, whose dog was set to fight with WaLson's. A dispute arose on the matter, and Watson and Kay proceeded to strip, and carried on a combat even after it had become dark. Kay had the worst of it, and died next morning. At the verdict of manslaug was re who has absconded: TRIUMPH OP ART.—On Wednesday the brig Canning, of 180 tons, new measurement, wi wrecked and driven on the top of Dymchurch 11,11 three weeks ago, while on her voyage froin coast of Africa, Was at length got, off from her the wall, though her removal was thought a was beyond the power of human art to Through extraordinary skill the vessel was lat on Wednesday.—Dover Chronicle. THE LATE HORRIBLE CASE OF HOMICIDE STAMPS ON BILLS OF EXCHANGIL—A return of the amount of ditties received in the several years between. 1810 and 1846 both inclusive, for stamps on bills - of ex change, or promissory -notes ' and bank-notes, she w s th a t the largest amount of duty was paid in the year 1818, when it amounted to £845,749 155., and the smallest in 1832, when it was £545,801 3s. ld. In the last six years (from 1841 to 1846 inclusive) the duties amounted to £660,153 175., £589,394 17s. 6d., £564,443 95., £576,729 Ss. 4d., £558,586 Bs. 9d., and in 1846, £571,842 10s. ld. At the inquest on the accident on the York and North Midland, of the 4th ult., the foreman of the jury declared a verdict finding all the directors of the company guilty of manslaughter ! The jury had framed their verdict in culpating the directors as guilty of negligence ; and, though impressed by the coroner as to the informality of the finding, the foreman persisted in the verdict he had de livered in. Ultimately the inquisitions were filled up " accidental death," and were signed by the whole of the jury except the foreman. A painful instance of the uncertainty of life has occurred at the railway station in Bath. The Rev. John Hampden, rector of Hinton Martel, Dorsetshire, who had been visit ing Mr. Caddell, of the Crescent, arrived at the station about eleven o'clock, a.m., on Wednesday, accompanied by his lady and Mrs. Caddell, intending to proceed to Clifton by the train which leaves Bath at that hour. Having secured his tickets, Mr. Hampden proceeded to the platform, where, in a few minutes, he was seized with a fit terminating fatally after a very short interval. A LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS.-MF. J. Dearden, of Pres. ton, whose assiduity in collecting remarkable documents is well known, and whose perseveting inquiry has gained for him a large measure of success in that pursuit, has in his possession a letter addressed to Mr. Hudson—a draper in York at the time it was indited, but now the sovereign potentate of the railway world. Those familiar with the locality of York will at once recognise the mercer and his customer in their respective positions at the period of the good lady's commands. The following are the terms of the communication : " Mrs. Preston will be obliged to Mr. Hudson to send her per post 2 skeins of purse twist, exactly the colour and size as the pattern green which was got at his shop the other day. They had better be enclosed as in a letter.—Moreby Hall, Thursday night. " Messrs. Nicholson and Hudson, College-street." PLAIN ENOUGH, ONE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT.—May wood, one of the sanitaryreporters on the state of Sheffield, narrates a conversation which may give some idea of the carelessness respecting noxious effluvia shown by many of the humbler classes. "Do you not perceive an unpleasant smell from that place behind your house ?"—" No, nowt as I know on. What ! does not that wet which runs down your wall smell bad sometimes !"—Sometimes ! It does a bit of a mornin', but nowt to mean aught." "Have you lived here long ?"—" About sixteen years." "Pretty good health since you came?"—" Pretty middling; cons]. dering." " What family have you had ?"—" O've had fourteen childer." " Have they had pretty good health as well as yourself ?"—" Nay, o've buried 'em all but three." " Were they all born in this house ?"—" No, four were born in Derbyshire—three of these are still living, but the youngest on 'em died here." DEATH FROM CHOLERA.—On Thursday an inquest was held at the Feathers Tavern, Waterloo-road, Lambeth, on the body of Margaret Garey, aged 8 years, who it was rumoured, had died from cholera. The parents . of de ceased were in very poor circumstances, and, it appeared seldom tasted animal food. On the deceased being at tacked by vomiting, &c., Mr. Pope, surgeon, of Princes street, attended her, and administered the usual remedies, but the disease terminated fatally. At the inquest, Mr. Pope stated, that, from the symptoms of the child, he should say that she had died from cholera of a malignant form. The Coroner.—Do you mean, when you say cholera of a malignant form, the Asiatic cholera. ? Wit ness.—Decidedly not, but a malignant form of English cholera, a disease not at all infectious. The Jury re turned a verdict that " The deceased had died from En glish cholera." Mr. Hyde Clarke suggests the application of the electric telegraph to musical purposes. He remarks that if a suf ficient number of wires were used, a set of chimes might be as easily rung as two bells—indeed, that the chimes in. York Minster, if there are any, might be rung from Lon don as well as York. Where bells are placed in a high tower, as some carillons or chimes in Flanders are, he suggests that they might by telegraph be played with much more convenience from the bottom of the tower than at the top. By a proper application of wires, two organs or two apollonicans, he observes, might be played at any distance apart, by one performer, thus realizing by electric telegraph what Professor Wheatstone is said to contemplate by acoustic telegfaph,—conveying musical sounds and compositions. We may yet, he thinks, have electrical organs in our churches as well as electrical clocks in our houses, and worked almost as cheaply. PEDESTRIANISM.—FOUR-MILE RACE FOR TWENTY.. FIVE Sovs. A-SlDE.—This match for the above-named sum and distance between the celebrated W. Jackson, the American Deer, and J. Hayes, of Halshaw Moor, a youth ful aspirant, was decided on Wednesday at Peci. ham. The course, measuring 648 yards 2 feet in circumference, re quired eleven circuits, minus 80 yards, to make the sti pulated measure of four miles. For the first two rounds Jackson led ; in the third and fourth the men, who seemed, especially the Dear, erciy musc!e, passed and re-passed each other repeatedly. At this point gone rather more than a third of th - - whose stride was truly wonderful, f rival. He continued to them and finally ran by t suvo r lao F _ _ n acho _ lu .aving listince, Hayes, an away from his .‘ C 'nterval between 31 209 yards, honest mea som. A=Ar-. 1 1 1 .5...5e11123z to him 'that halitta einotlik;i:..i.-Ti'cuit Koisii; tlielitarr4;* ran on, but his time at completing the eleventh turn to the winning-post , Aas 21 minutes 8 seconds. louse in last, a woman was discover( Glasgow, where she had been iromur:-.(1 by her husband, George Fay, a shoemaker. The unhappy creature was in a horrible state of dirt and disease, and died 'soon after in tbe hospit a l. At the Glasgow assizes, on Monday, Fay was indictzd for culpable homicide, was found guilty, and sentenced to transport& ion for life. The only defence made by this detestable being was that his wife was not in her right mind ; that she was a drinker, and that her habits wcte dirty. FUTUREE . LECTIO NS OF POOR-LAW GUARDIANS.—The new Commis: Toners have issued several fresh instructions to the various par:cllc3 and unions. Among these the election of guardians is in future to take place between the 15th and 2Gth ^n(11 1, " rolling papers are to commence be'ng ca-t tip on the 9th of Aprilandsurcecd in CHRISTMAS BOXES Dock having dete - ,.. Christmas boxes to their customers, and h meeting and issued an address to that effect sing degree of excitement was c'• posted up of " No Monopoly !" " lion !" &c. ; and by public requisitio, held in the Temperance-hall, a spacious buitai“,, lent for the purpose, when certain regulations were adopted for obtaining groceries and other articles direct from Bristol, Liverpool, and London markets. The local paper states that " orders to the amount of £3O were sent off this week, and the sum to be transmitted during the ensuing will reach nearly £1.0. " THE KIRTON MURDER.—The inquest was resumed yesterday week, when the investigation was brought to a close, the jury returning a verdict of " Wilful murder " against Joseph Travis. The prisoner, it appears, is very respectably connected. His father is a farmer, but the prisoner himself is a joiner and cabinet-maker, and only completed his apprenticeship afew months ago. He is about twenty-four years of age. It appears that for some years past he has led a most dissipated life, and he has acknow ledged that.--he has _leen ,addicteil to card-nlaving, and that he has lost considerable sums of money. It now ap pears that deceased had gone to Kirton for the purpose of purchasing some articles at the market, but had un fortunately gone to the Red Lion public-house.—Lincoln Chronicle. A man named John Wall, has died at Backwell, near Bristol, from the shot of a gun deliberately fired at him by a youth named Charles Manfield, aged only sixteen. It appears that Wall whilst sitting in his house. - , -as aroused by the smashing in of a pane of glass in his win dow, and upon the instant he heard the click of the lock of a gun. On looking up, he was horror-struck to see Manfield coolly looking through the window, with the muzzle of a gun inserted in the broken pane. Before he had time to speak, the gun was again cocked and dis charged, the contents lodging. in Wall's thigh. Had the gun been discharged, as intended, when first cocked, there is little doubt that Wall would have been shot through the heart. Wall, on finding he was shot, cried " You havn't done for me yet," or some words to that effect, and Manfield, who was still standing at the window, to see the effect of his fire, on hearing him speak, took to his heels. He was, however, captured, and there is little doubt that he intended to kill the man and then rob his —The tradesmen of Pembroke n of riving days, while the first: nr: is not to tlke place until after the 15th of Apr:l. In all cases where the per. manent pauper obtains medical relief, the guirdi ans shall once at least in every year cause to be prepared by the clerk or relieving officer a list of all such aged and infirm persons permanently sick or di—lbled as may be a:;tually receiving relief, and such list to be furnished from time to time to each district medical. officer. The. clerk is twice a ycar—raraev, four weeks at least before the layingtl i e t h o e v e r rs li e e e er and the amount 25th of March and on the 2Mt. of September resrctively in each. year, to accert lin the co s t o f t h e re li e f o f t h e poor, mainte nance of the poor.—New reg u l a ti ons as t o th e a d m i ss i on of paupers into the workhouse, hours of work, &c., &c., rt e will o be e before require i have been made. FATAL ACCIDENT FROM N APTHA .—A. corresp o n d en t f o o f r m theonepyurt ained to abo. very am of the John o' Croat Tia g kindly gives an account of a s ntrnal, writ ;rig rrom Stiotnness, ular and fatal accident.. it ap is of the town had commenced pears that some m(111,1(11113 the burning of naptha in es of busi- "ss ; and a jar of that dan7crous commodity wflf. , . lately brought from Leith. On the evening of the llth ult., the persons concemed met, for the purpose of having the said article divide:;; and, as it was in the dusk of the evening, they thoughtlessly availed themselves of a lighted candle, which unfortunately coming in contact with the gas issuing from the liquid, the contents of the jar in stantly exploded. The persons, three in number, were in a moment enveloped in flames, from head to foo:, and were seen hurrying hither and thither distractedly. The neighbours were of course not backward in affording their aid - ; but, from the inflammable nature of the substance, the flames could not be extinguished, till nearly every rag elpired two days after. of clothing on the bodies of the sufferers was consumed, and their bodies burned in a frightful manner. Mrs. Dunnet, wife of Mr. Dunnet, merchant , after enduring tp l e r. m p o u s n t n e e x t c , rt l i v c h i excruciating g e r de ff a e l fi ,o n u g ri s n , g to extinguish the ele ments, had his hands and face severely burned, and is not yet wholly recovered. Miss Inkster, aunt to Mrs. Dennet, suf ferer, as it was era), on Sabbath last that death came to also suffered fatally. She wa s destin e d to be a long her relief. GIPSY FESTIVAL.—On Tuesday, the annual gathering of the reclaimed and wandering members of the Gypsy race, took place at Spring-hill House, Southampton, the residence of the Rev. James Crabb. This was the nine teenth anniversary, and though the proceedings at each successive Pleating have varied but little, additional inte rest has been manifested, year by year, in the condition wasth muchse by and welfare of this interesting section of the hu man family. The large school-room was filled with a highly respectable assembly of ladies and gentlemen, and the swarthy visitors occupied one end of the room to them selves. The absence, from severe indisposition,. of the venerable mall throu g h whose labours public attenti o n w present, e o nt, this a long-neglected ndby non emor more class, thn a whom he is so generally and deservedly known a s "The Gipsies' Advocate." Amongst those who we r e p resen t regretted as firsta b w y ak a l e l n p e were several clergymen. The proceedings commenced as usual with singing and prayer, after which the Rev. Mr. Coney gave a brief address to the gipsies, and concluded by reading a farewell address to them, from the Rev. J. Crabb. The Rev. Carr Glyn called attention to the school for gipsy children, which is now ready for twelve boys or girls. The service closed with singing and prayer, and the assembly retired to the playground, whilst prepa rations were being made in the schoolroom for supplying the gipsies with dinner. After being regaled with a plen tiful supply of roast beef, plum pudding, &c., flannel and clothing were presented to the heads of the families. ANECDOTE OF Da. CHADMERS.—Studious persons are sometimes surprisingly ignorant how to act on ordinary occasions. Dr. Chalmers came home one evening on horseback, and as neither the man who had the charge of his horse nor the key of the stable could be found, ho was for some time puzzled where to find a temporary residence for the animal. _ At last he fixed on the garden cottage, as he was a notorious thief, though so young. as the fittest place he could think of for the purpose; and EXPENSE OF USING HARD WATER.-Mr. Wrightson, having led the horse thither, he placed it on the garden after pointing out the extreme hardness of the water used walk. When his sister, who had also been front home, in Birmingham, has been showing the good people how returned, and was told that the key of the stable could much this costs them. He says Taking twelve of not be found. she inquired what had been done with the Professor Clark's degrees of hardness to be the average of horse ? " I took it to the garden," said the doctor. the entire quantity of water consumed in Birmingham, "To the garden !", she exclaimed, " then all our flower and taking 100,000 gallons as the average daily consump- and vegetable beds will be destroyed." " Don't be lion in washing the person alone—which must certainly afraid of that," said the doctor, " for I took particular be below the mark, not being four pints to each person (I care to place the horse on the garden walk." " And did believe the population is over 200,000)—as 100,000 gallons. von really imagine," rejoined his sister, " that he would at sixteen degrees, would require 32,000 gallons, 24,000 remain there ? " " I have no doubt of it," said the gallons of soap solution (or its equivalent in soap) would doctor, " for so sagacious an animal as the horse could be required for the same quantity at twelve degrees, in not but be aware of the propriety of refraining from order to remove the lime it contains before the detergent injuring the products of the garden." " I am, afraid," property of the soap can have any effect. Now, this soap said Miss Chalmers, " that you will think less favourably solution contains as near as possible about 11 oz. of soap of the discretion of the horse when you have seen the in each gallon, therefore 24,000 gallons=27,ooo oz., or garden." To decide the controversy by an appeal to 1,6871b5. This for one day's waste, is 615,755 lbs. for the facts, they went to the garden, and found, from the year, which, at 4d. per pound, is £10,262 ;no trifling sum ruthless devastation which the trampling and rolling of to be wasted among the inhabitants of a town in washing the animal had spread over every part of it, that the he person alone. The further waste in washing linen, natural philosophy of the horse was a subject with which &c., must of course be proportionately great, to say the lady was far more accurately acquainted than het nothing of the extra wear and tear, for it is well known learned brother. "I never could have imagined," said how destructive hard water is to linen, notwithstanding the doctor, " that horses were such senseless animals."... the copious use of soap and soda. Ifogg's Weekly Instructor. 284 168 375 1107 SAII POOteOahu, Q. A, 1 ) 1:y: verpoo inust d CAR. 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