The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

St. CL Eu, P, Ettf ratttri. .1, weary, have called her long; nes the c coining to greet my beautiful May kings of 10. rlcEs House of Stanley a iexion of t )oper, of Lo' h it.—Leicester Journal my as " tt k, Pers Yankee, &e. pedlar asked an itiner R TETI Louis Phiti )3 ; his eni Al List has His life has been in And lastly, since his oever v ,nenjo :ts, ani in Wales—butter ET i keep his feet I. a 'knot in ti k in Wal Chinese—that of the Chero yhms. The three languages hat of the e of t of the exiles called by the mild n convicted of treasot It to reside . he ley Sea better cla;ses are officers who ach of trust Many of ia, and the effect of assi gning them a Dpe. In this Condition sk, one of the oldest and ntsof Tobolsk ; ,Ing my unates, cm quite ex , t from ar ame ti conviction. Ti of Moscow to ly equanu d as they the Ko3ak and the peasant once believed. Hence it :hildren, whom they bring late city of Tartar i to petty d hazel trl The water-' hem worthy of bot 3 moors abounded mu haunt of tlo y throu T preparea -mhated. v nee ri would have mur TUT RPOOL SHAR Are had a most ; Dover, old, d; Caledonian, 30. RPOOL CORN her to d the c .nd fort A. rutil years sir 1£ 1 imitators rider which failure arose in istied the fault lay rather in :2.ct. We remember all that sister island, and remem lar results impossible in cuniary aids also now proffered to in the shape of easy loans, such as and to all these works of recla it we Lice a hearty God speed ! J Magazine: in Uni 1 SECOND EDITION. rard-office, Eleven o'clock THE STATE 1 5 11DSECUTIONS. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, DUBLIN MONDAY, MAY 1. The Court was much crowded, as Mr. 0 Brien had to cippuur 1.0 ji LJuly n 111.71.1 . 6ru 1. LA. uuv may. filed against him by the Attorney-General; and it was lderstood Mr. Mitchell meant to apply that he might I Both 3..1 tr. O'Brien bei D. F. M. C •" the Mitchell and Mr. O'B Sir C. O'Loghlen, on that he might b failing to make out , d with the indictment filed Mr. iliachell, applied liberty to appear by attorney, but on any case, the application was refused and Mr. Mitchell has again put in a dilatory plea in batement, on the ground that an indictment has been st him for the same offence as that for which found aga the Attorne -Gene I has pra ded by ex officio infor- and has been q lied. The plea is, that the indictments should have been quashed, instead of having nolle prosequi entered upon them, as has been done by the law officers. Mr. Mitchell has been -General required to attend this clay, when the Attorni will state the course he means to adopt SMITH O'BRIEN AND Ills THREE COPATRIOTS MOBBED. s O'Brien has resigned the representation - of ie county of Limerick. The following are the reasons : —On Saturday., he and Messrs. Meagher and Mitchell were entertained at a soiree in Limerick. The - Old Ire landers were determined to oppose them, and, in conse quence, a dreadful riot took place. The windows and doors of the building where they were assembled were de molished, stones and missiles were hurled in through Mr. Smitl the broken window shots were fired by the confederates, who in self-defence, were obliged to tear up the seats and forms to protect themselves—an effigy of Mr. Mitchell was burned outside the doors. The scene was frightful. Smith O'Brien received a cut on the head, a severe being said to be broken. The rioters were at last dis persed by the police and military. After the troops had withdrawn, the mob broke all the cups, saucers, ornamenta .stoonings Meagher and Mitche►. 'I but for the police. When Mr. O'Brien appeared at the Queen's Bench yeSterday, his head was bound up with straps and plasters. Mitchell and Meagher were protected home by the Mayor, the latter having a drawn dagger in his hand to protect himself ; they were hooted and hissed, and pelted the whole way to the hotel. Mr. Meagher was smuggled out of Limerick on Sunday. determined to proclaim the county of the city of Lime rick under the Crime and Outrage Act, and the procla mation was accordingly issued. By the provisions of this law, all persons not duly qualified must deliver up their arms wt' in nine days. Another proclamation was also issued, warning the people against taking part in the the formation of ational Guard HOUSE-STEALING CASE -We are assured that Mr. )re Mr. Rushton, yesterday, Stritch was not charged bef with any nifty knOwledge in thi and that the J iN • ,-THIS DAY 'e Market this morning, list of lARKET market was more healthy par -k p ; Iloltou and Bury, Western 17's, lk d; North , swestry, of al Assurance; 14 j); . Leeds THIS DAI• IANGE-' ly into this port durir f Wheat, Oats, Beam iuppply of Indian Cor our, but of anything inciaf markets, both close of last week, ay; caused a dull st ng the amendment equal to those of th n cheaper were taken off sp we hake no ag the s, and -n and coast- in this repre at the d with benches, an ah as a gravy, c )r oys h on ou a labour sans s. adjuncts tionally dound o it Har M PARIS.— ; but there to tempt he t with the tail by turns ad carrots, suet di salted beef in its vi tacle of the kind. grotesque shaped, 3 have no more it !alc, than they I from ' clods PPert contracts its bulk on being idiron, by many a shifting, trface is indented, and full of infatuated cook pours oil, and a spoonful or two of horror" is served hot, selon s leg, greasy as a tallow tub, ey sauce, sans horseradish, requite the teeth for occa e outlay of tenpence on each 'arc's Parson, Pen, and Pen, THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE CONTENTED AND THE COMPLAINERS (From the London Times.) How many of the men who paraded down Whitehall with flags emblematical of " Death or Liberty " periodi cally sell that Liberty to the highest bidder? How many regard their vote as a thing to be sold ? Again, is it that bugbear the oppressiveness of capital? Talk with the workmen—ask them separately what they think of the scheme of Communism—the .majority will, despite Mr. Owen and M. Blanqui, reply, that the partnership scheme is a humbug, and the division of property a robbery. What is it, then ? The property qualification ? Consti tutional writers allow that the admission of some intelli gent working men into parliament is in harmony with the spirit of the Constitution, and would be beneficial to the state. This, then, is at least worth considering. But this is only one of the many things insisted on. What is that that prompts other complaints, so violent, and other de sires, so various ? In - solving this problem we must fall back upon our Wilt are th . eir social condi Higgins and Jem Stubbins ins works with a great . Stubbins is lourney- contractor near town named Jon man to an upholsterer named Tibb from the country, having lost his father and mother. Stubbing was born in London, and never knew father or mother. Huggins's employer is a man who began in the same condition as himself, and has worked his way up. Stubbins's has done t' "t - " • `v ..11e same; bu_ lere the similarit ends. Higgins's master is kind, courteous, and genial Stubbins's is hard, surly, and—as his men phrase it-- " rayther high." The former looke after his men, has built them cottages, which he lets at a just rent, and a .•en • he has also set a little savings bank on foot, in which they deposit their earnings. His wife gives tea-parties to the women, and looks after the school. The other never took a moment's interest in his lal - f-- school for t .00urers, except when he wanted to canvass them for his own Radical candidate, and Mrs. Tibs —a ci-divant lady's maid—is very fine and grand. Higgins's fellow workmen are devoted to their employer; Stubbins's hate theirs. The consequences are what might be supposed. Stubbins and Co. are a dirty, discontented set; dissolute in their habits, violent in their language, and irrational in their opinions ;—Huggins's, for the most part, intelligent, in dustrious, prudent, and saving. When there is a depres sion in trade, the former strike, the latter fall back upon their earnings- When there's a row, the one class joinin the procession, the other keep the peace. On the me- morable 10th, the one were at Kennington Common ; the other were sworn in as special constables. When Mrs. Tibbs's bodoir caught fire, all Tibbs' men laughed at the fun ; when Mrs. Jones's conservatory was iu the same predicament, all Jones's men rushed to the rescue. Jones's men are in the main content ; Tibbs's think they are per sonally injured, because they don't sit in parlian.ent, and pay themselves for the trouble. They hate the Throne, they hate the church, they hate the aristocracy • but they hate with a ten times bitterer hatred the class Of employ ers, whom they believe to be men without hearts, with out sympathy ; living on their labour, and thriving on . their wretchedness. Jones's men hate no order of society, because the only superior order they know of they find friendly, genial, and sympathetic. Indeed, it is by means as symple and ordinary as these tnat the welfare of society is cemented. Half the griev ances of any one man, and more than half the grievances of any one class, are sentimental ones. The Higginses and the Stubbinses are each a numerous body. Were all masters as indifferent and as haughty as Tibbs, all artizans would be as dissolute and as violent as Stubbins ; but were all masters as kind and thoughtful as Jones, all mechanics would be orderly, peaceful, and well-disposed. It is not merely by legislative enactments or grand projects that poverty is conciliated and discontent appeased, but by the gentle influence of unpretending good offices, which permeates one rank after another, consolidating all into harmony unity, and mutual dependence. CHEAP DISCOUNTS.—Not long since, pending cheap di9count was standing in Brunswic when a certain Mr. came up, and, addressing the party with whom I was conversing, said, " Please, , lend me Bs. Gd. to buy a stamp.' The borrower was one who bill, and my friend de less than twenty Minutes, the would-be borrower came again to me, and said, " Look here !" (taking off his hat, the crown of which was full of bank notes, hundreds of pounds, in fifties, twenties, tens, and fives,) " see what the Bs. 6d. has produced me." Such was cheap discount in Liverpool_ not. vet twelvn months cone by ! Indeed any man, tearing a slip off his shirt and scratehir with a pen into the sh r ape of a bill, could, during the time of low discount. get what sum he pleased ! Is it any wonder, then, that cheap discounts should generate undue On my plan, such things cannot occur, as no , . currency can be obtained but alter full value has first been paid for it ! The placing the monetary system of this great country in order is beneath (query, above) the capacity of our government; they, mighty men, are over occupied with—keeping t could amplify, but refrain ! faction new places—an( —Pamphlet by Mr: Pickering EVERY STATION NECESSARY.—Let us never forget, what I hope I have already impressed upon you with some degree of success—that every station in life is necessary ; but the worthy fulfilment'of its duties, does honour to a man ; and that we only - merit esteem in so far as we ap proach nearest to the perfect performance of the duties assigned to us in the order of things; that therefore the scholar has reason to be, of all others, the most modest, because an aim is set before him of which he continually falls far short—because he has a most elevated ideal to reach, which commonly he approaches only at the greatest distance. There are many tendencies and powers in man, and it is the vocation of each individual to cultivate all his powers, so far as he is able to do so. Among others is the social impulse; which offers him a new and peculiar form of cultivation—that for society—and affords an un usual facility for culture in general. There is nothing prescribed to man on this subject ;—whether he shall cultivate all his faculties as a whole, unaided and by nature alone ; or mediately through society. The first is difficult, and nowise advances society; hence, in the social state, each individual rightfully selects his own part of the com mon cultivation, leaves the rest to his fellows, and expects that they will allow him to share the benefits of their cul ' ture, as he permits them to participate in the advantage of his own ; and this is the origin and ground of the distinction of classes in society.—Fichte's Vocation of the Scholar. WHAT TEMPERANCE CAN Do.—ln Mrs. Hall's book on Ireland, occurs the following passage, which a person will hardly read without emotion :—We entered, one day, a cottage in the suburbs of Cork ; a young woman was knitting stockings at the door. It was as neat and com fortable as any in the most prosperous district of England' We tell her brief story in her own words, as nearly as we can recal them :—" My husband is wheelwright, and always earned his guinea a week ; he was a good work man, but the love for the drink was strong in him, and it wasn't often he brought me home more than five shillings out of his one pound one on a Saturday night, and it broke my heart to see the children too ragged to send to school, to say nothing of the starved look they had outof the little I could give them. Well, God be • praised, he took the pledge, and the next Saturday he laid twenty-one shillings upon the chair you sit upon. Oh ! didn't I give thanks upon my beaded knees that night; still I was fearful it wouldn't last, and I spent no more than the five shillings I used to, saying to myself, may be the money will be more wanted than it is now. Well, the next week he brought me the same, and the next, and the next, until eight weeks had passed ; and, glory to God ! there was no change for the bad in my husband ; and all the while he never asked me why there was nothing better for him out of his earnings ; so I felt there was no fear for him, and the ninth week, when he came home to me, .1 had this table bought, and these six chairs, one for my self, four for the children, and one for himself ; and I was dressed in a new Eown, and the children all had new clothes and shoes and stockings, and upon his chair I put a bran new suit, and upon his plate I put a bill and re. ceipt for them all just the eight sixteen shillings, the cost that I'd saved out of his wages, not knowing what might happen, and that always went for drink. And he cried, good lady and good gentleman, he cried like a baby, but 'twas with thanks to God ; and now where's the healthier man than my husband in the whole county of Cork, or a happier - wife than myself; or decenter or better fed chil dren than my own ?" THE VILLAGE OF EVERTON. —'What havoc the last half century has made in that once beautiful and pic turesque village ! Within a mile or so of the shore, the spectator gazed on a vast expanse of water, woodland, and mountain scenery. People who delighted in seeing farther than their neighbours, used to point out the 1-=" of Cumberly 1 1 Yr - c —ant MIL, )t ana anc ~orkshire; the Calf of Man they asserted to be visible, even to the spur on his heel ; and also the frowning moun tains of Flintshire and Denbighshire, which streak the horison in the west, were triumphantly referred to as a proof that the denizens of Everton were high in the world. And TUE " GAGGING ACT." Up to Saturday week, when the bill inflicting the penal ties of felony on incitements to insurrection received the royal assent, Saturday had been the regular market day for treason in Dublin ; but a magical change has been wrought amongst the Jacobin writer?. The Freeman's Journal, we need scarcely say, is dumb • indeed that paltry pedlar in seditio n h a d b ecome as gen tl e as a sucking ays before the passing of the - act. Th. dove two 4:] which had Nation, ••••••-• akra acsoL Lacfjr .• coolly reasons the question, " What if we fail ?" with all the coolness of a philosopher, and has no stomach for an attack on any one but poor Johnny O'Connell. Mr. Duffy says, in a letter extending to nearly five columns, "A revolution, I know, to be inevitable. No policy and no force can avert it. * * * I lov. peace—l fear dis order—l hate anarchy. I believe the public opinion of Ireland to be as well disposed to peace at this hour as ever it was or ought to becom. All Ireland. from sea to sea, is arming to enforce our natural right to this my conscience is clear that we are able and entitled to take it. If we cannot save our country by peace lam for war." The rest of the Nation is tame and spiritless. The fire, if not totally extinguished, seems well nigh raked out. The United Irishman did not annear on Saturday until a late hour, in consequence of the parties who priated the paper declining to continue to do so, as they had been in formed by eminent counsel that they could not do so without the risk of an indictment. Par thus accounting for the delay, Mr. Mitchell says,—" We hare been obliged to submit to the degradation of having our proofs revised by a lawyer, in order to satisfy the parties before this number could appear. We can only promise our readers • • that no lawyer's pen shall touch our writings a second time." Mr. Mitchell complains that the " censors" have ruthlessly erased all the felonious" passages in his writings, extracting, in fact, the oyster, and leaving the • - • public - nothing .better than the " pearly shells." A "leader" in the United Irishmam, ungraced by felony or treason, is as dull as Hamlet without the principal part. etntralsrtlianin An abundance of ripe strawberries were exhibited in Edinburgh market last week. The distress in Leeds is so great that one in ten of the population is maintained by the parish funds. The Earl " 4 ^ , vnn. a of arborough has given £lOOO to founa "Yarborough Scholarship" at the Royal Naval School, New Cross, Lincoln. • The foundation-stone of the monument to celebrate the landing of Prince Albert, at Ramsey, in the Isle of Many was laid with some pomp on Monday. In the Court of Chancery, on Wednesday, Lord Brougham introduced Prince Metternich. They both sat for some time beside the Lord Chancellor. At several parish and district meetings in the metropo lis, more particularly on Easter Monday, opportunity has been taken to express undiminished loyalty and gratitude to the active guardians of order on the 10th. The Commissioners of Customs have decided against the appeal made by the Due de Stackpole, and that no bleman's splendid schooner yacht, the Gipsy Queen, has been declared forfeited to the Crown for smuggling. The Countess of Mornington, in Thursday's Times, again appeals to the public for alms : her husband, the Earl of Mornington (the " Long Tilney Wellesley Long Pole Long," of Fitzgerald) having left her destitute. The citizens of YOrk were hoaxed on Good Friday by a public announcement that a man would ride in a bucket, Multitudes attended, to be di-appointed On Wednesday, a prize frght for £2OO took place be tween James Massey, of Manchester, and Jas. Edwards, of Cheltenham. The locale was near Newmarket. After 53 rounds, Edwards came off" victor. The Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer decided, on split a dt. i is Jove £2O, for the purpose of enabling him to recover his Dr canna Jt, whic claim by .several suits, brought in the new County Courts. It is said that Mademoiselle Jenny Lind will make her first appearance for the season, at the Italian Opera, on Thursday next, as Ainiita in "La Sonnambula" her brilliant de'but The York Courant was published for the last time on Thursday. It first appeared under that nape in 1719, being a continuation of the York Mercury (said to be the first newspaper established in the county). It is now to be incorporated with the York Herald. FRENCH CONTRACT FOR HORSES.—The Provisional Government having issued a decree that they intend to enter into contracts for 28,000 cavalry horses, several French contractors are at present iuthe.north of England, inakincepurchases. On Monday, a fearful explosion of frre-damp took place by which iiv'e men lost their lives instantly were seriously injured is despaired of. Two others [—one so much so thal is recovery ESCAPE FROM GAOL. —On Sunday morning, John Bryant and Edward Edwards, two prisoners in the convict no were awaiting ensuing assizes, e heir escape [lave not . . been heard of since. Two hours before the artillery in St. James's-park, ,London. announced to the Cockneys the birth of a prin cess at their doors, the bells were ringing in honour of the been received at the latter place by electric telegraph CIRCULATION OF THE BIBLE The foll6wing has been the circulation of the Scriptures through the British and Foreign Bible Society during the last three years in the following large towns :—London, /26,391 ; Liverpool, 81,342 ; Manchester. 129,241 ; Leeds, 49,975 ; Bristol, 54,955.—T0ta1, 441,905 copies. On Wednesday the entire of the valuable timber, prin cipally oak, standing in the woods at Stowe, Foscott, Thornborough, Finmore, Hillesden, Falcutt, and Ashwell, the property of the Duke of Buckingham, was sold by public auction at Buckingham. The sale produced up wards of £22,000. At the Dempster's Court, in the Isle of Man, the other clay, the judge, barristers, and litigants, were not a little amused at the appearance of a new candidate for forensic honours, in the shape of a monkey, which, seated in the lawyers'' seats and looking at the bench, chattered away until rudely expelled by a servant girl, who came to look after the runaway pet of her mistress. Mr. T. Campbell Foster, formerly." The Times Com missioner" in Ireland, now a barrister on the Northern circuit, has promptly and emphatically denied that he ever made an overture to write articles from Ireland for the Northern Star, or any other newspaper than the Times. This denial has been occasioned by a statement made in the House of Commons by Mr..F. O'Connor. One of the clerks at the General Post Office gas been dismissed for refusing to be sworn a special constable during the Chartist demonstration. Of course he is, in his own eyes, "an injured Englishman." Reasonable people, however, will hold that if a man refuses to protect the property on which he is employed, it would be only natural to refuse him the custody of it any longer. Charles Dickens and other amateurs will shortly per form " The Merry Wives of Windsor" and " Every Man in his Humour," in aid of the purchase and preservation of Shakspere's house, and of an endowment for some worthy dramatist whose means may not be equal to his merits, and to whom the custody of the property at Strat ford may be confided. The returns of the Registrar-General record the death of a child, aged two years, " from inflammation of the stomach and smaller intestines, combined with fluid black blood in the right side and large veins of the heart, sup posed to be caused by mephitic vapour from a cesspool Opened, of which the contents were carried through - the house." Two days elapsed between the date of the latter occurrence and the death. the habit of calling his servants, before their faces, " ne cessary evils." He quarrelled with one of them, who left him in a rage, said he was sick of service, and vowed that he would never enter it again. A few days after his old master meeting him in livery, said, " Poh, you are gone into service again after all." " Ah, sir, I have found that masters are ' necessary evils'." A correspondent of the Gardeners' Chronicle mentions that a robin is now rearing her young in a sawpit, where the sawyers work every day, and could at any time lay their hands on the young or the parent bird, which dis- plays no fear, but comes when the men are at dinner to pick up the crumbs. A wren had followed the example, and had built her nest under the same shed ; but the jealous robin would not allow the wren to lay her eggs, and at last succeeded in driving her away. On Tuesday, Mr. Thomas Steele was brought before Mr. Jardine; at Bow-street, for an attempt to commit sui cide by throwing himself over Waterloo-bridge. Mr. Steele. having solemnly pledged his word not to attempt the crime again was dismissed, having been bound over in his own recognizance in £lOO and two sureties of £5O each. Lord Brougham has sent £5 to Peel's Coffee house, as his contribution to a fund raising to relieve Mr. Steele from his pecuniary difficulties. _ N OF ' COLUMBIA. -011 S turday, at the they were so, literally ana tig,uratively. A poet of no mean ---- —-- , oung man, named Boniface . _ Chrystie, celebrity—one whom Sir R. Peel has deemed worthy of a Mansion-house, a y pension, declared to the writer, only recently, that in the was examined on a charge of being concerned in a con course of a long experience he had seen few sweeter places spiracy to commit an extensive fraud , by imitating the than Everton was when.he resided there thirty years ago. current coin of the Republic of Columbia. The spurious coin is a piece of yellow metal , of the size of a half Nay, a late popular novelist has gone even beyond this, sovereign, with the impression of the arms of Columbia and declared, traveller as he was, that Everton was the Prettiest village in the world. Tile stranger will be sorely.. , ~. v.— hc.on qtriirk nfr ( .. I . . s liy, an d , of " IRKM, Popayan." It is believed that hem, at ieo - - of perplexed to aiscover such beauty in the Isdack, begrimed, 10,UOU unsightly mass of buildings that now bears the name. M. Jullien, whose name appears as a bankrupt in the The great democracy has trenched on the aristocratic Gazette, owes between £9,000 and £lO,OOO, principally lawn, and the stately mansion has acquired, by contiguity, arising cut of his connection with English Operant Drury a vulgar tinge. The onward progress of society is read Lane, where his extravagance as a manager precluded the in the rise and metamorphosis of Everton. Commerce impossibility of a profitable return. It is stated that he is a sore destroyer of sylvan ;3eauty. The merchant, offered his creditors to put aside £1,500 per annum out of from his residence on the brow of the hill, overlooking, his professional earnings—but failing in conciliating all, by its commanding elevation, the entrance of a noble and an attempt being made while at Dublin to arrest him river, may still catch a glimpse of his incoming and out- —he determined upon going through the Gazette, and his going argosies, as they are borne to and fro on the assets are now stated at nil. bosom of the Mersey ; but in the valley below, the ver- " One of the officials" of the Sherborne workhouse, dart meadows that formerly stretched to the water's edge, having nothing better to do, has executed the following filling the air in spring with the delicious fragrance of the barefaced delusion. He wrote on an egg, " Prepare ye, hawthorn, and in summer with the not less grateful odour for the kingdom of heaven is at hand"—placed it in a of new-mown hay, have given place to crowded streets, hen's nest, and pretended the bird had produced it. smoky factories, and the tall chimneys whose chemical Numbers of persons believed in the prodigy, and trembled. exhalations have long since put to. flight the poetry and The local journal says that " several of the ministers beauty, the exclusiveness and splendour in which Ever- actually alluded to the matter in the pulpits." On Mon ton once gloried. Viewed from that grassy vale, and day, a notice was posted on the union gates" that the more particularly towards the close of the day, the hill matter was an April fool hoax. itself presented a strikingly attractive appearance. The At Brighton Police-court, last week, a man, named numerous windows of the handsome houses that adorned Lowton Lucas, was committed for trial for the novel trick its side, glittering with the rays of the setting sun, and of abstracting money in the - gorgeous in their brilliancy, contrasted beautifully with into a pastrycook's shop for the dark clumps of trees and bright patches of greensward a sixpence, and received sd. in change. The sixpence elegancies of life. By and bye there came down. to th that diversified the slope. Crowning the summit, and was afterwards observed to be dangling over the till, and, clerical residence two persons, one of them a " page," ant about the spot where the church has since been built, j on examination, was found tied round with fine horse- the other a relative, whom be called " Johnny Deer," of stood the beacon, w hi c h, th oug h remar k a ble f or antiquity j hair, to which a long end was attached. On being taken " dear," a term of endearment somewhat applicable ; r ather more than for beauty,, formed a pleasing object in i n to custody, three or four others, similarly prepared, since there are shrewd suspicions that although in male tt the laadscapu.--The Skye C'ap!ain. wen found in his pockets , attire the wearer is of the femini o gender, bun, for r Lid down May 2,184 g. TIKE BREA 17:fit UIT TREE.-There is at this time in the Conservatory tif Alfred Orrell, Esq., of The Grove, Cheadle, a fine specimen of this extraordinary plant; the tree, which is of noble dimensions, being laden with fruit of a rich and delicious flavour. After a Chartist meeting at Greenock, on Saturday week, a portion of the mob came in contact with a large body of police and specials, stationed in one of the streets to stop the way. The mob made a bold rush against the police and !es, who made a vigorous use of their constab' af tank on V , read "only the endorsements CHARTIST INTELLIGENCE At a meeting ceaseu, jur. xtouerrson, tne .7ncrin=Suu j' and Mr. Forsyth, the Procurator-Fiscal , ' [nesday last, and too. . . . • . 1 1 1 ... POST=OFFICE DELINQUENCY.—An inquiry t akes place during the past week, relative to a packet of P addressed to Mr. James Boodle, solicitor, Cheltenham, ?Y. Mr. Coppock, of London, the parliaraenfary agent for the petitioners against the return of Sir W. Jones. Air. C°l3 l ; pock sealed the packet and posted it ; on its ar rival Cheltenham Mr. Boodle discovered that the been opened. The parcel containing some haporla.4 documents relative to the pending election, an inq ui he was set on foot, when it was discovered that One o f t clerks. a Partisan onnnspri in noticing to the liberal partYf rrha packet bacie statement of the clerk was, that he found the packet °P ; in the bag, that he took out the bundle of papers from a envelope, untied the tape with which they were tied, acid Chartists, of Newcastle, held on Friday, a Mr , Vistw i delivered a long address, i n th e course of which 1 1 °. s d l e they had determined to agitate peaceably till the classes were brought round to their views, and that ro, gave his vote in the Convention that there shou ld the , synonymous meetings held on Good Friday all ° ver bt country. This observation excited roars of I " u g - e ed when one of the more le arne d o f th e Chartists,as hatil , the at such a display of ignorance, pulled the speaker vY ‘ v, coat, and whispered " simultane ous m e etings," at'd,„,',..,,ct VT ULM/11, uu resuming uia utscourse, attempt.o t ion, himself by repeating the substan ce o f hi s last observ n a thi s and introducing the term spontaneous'meetings• blundering style the Chartist delegate proceeded for 11 g half an hour, till, at length, he conc l u ded by PrO" a resolution which he was unable to read. „ esia' t DEATH FROM FRIGHT.—Two mischievous boy' , r s o. ing in Simon's-square, Nicolso n -st ree t, f o r the Pu r P ( f ) a ttet amusement, seized a little fellow abo u t e i g ht years who was also resident in that locality and was li n°- tioo them and c'aarging him with some trifling depred3,,,(l from his aunt bound his arms with a piece of cord, I, s , proceeded with him to the police-office at St. T veoll9l. Before they reached that station, however, a' Pa s ' e tr n a g s e ed attracted by the distressed condition of the boYy r e , — .se nt him from the grasp of his bullyi ng companions,!an,!;,„ 10' him away home in a very a g it a t e d s t a t e . The lit'L' o rl low was put to bed, but he became rapidly wor se ' t to during some periods of nervous exc it emen t cried' ° u a de cut the cord and let him off. Every exertion vr 3 ' . iiecl• in his behalf, but the unfortunate child expired on ;st ,d, nesday from the effect s o f th e f r i g ht h e had rece`dete The boys, who had acted in so thoughtless a manner , 0 , taken into custody, a nd th e case i s a t present uncle r ' l vestigation.—Edinburgh Register. - S- V of - ROPULSION OF ,FEAI 4 ,I- VESSELS.-Mr. Kingston-upon-Bull, has taken out a patent f'-'r c o. chinery for propelling vessels, consisting of a shag, i ',, s netted with the engine, projecting th ro u g h the sr a of usual; this shaft carries two double-ended cran"„l j oi levers, at right angles to each oth er . T o the craws"l" of upon the ends of the crank-lever s , a r e a ttached ha r fi lor rods, being attached to pins upon cran k s , or levers' 'he: two similar shafts, one of which is situated befor s a ted . driving-shaft attached to the en g i ne; th e o ther sit s t ile' behind that shaft—the centres of the three being 111 0 same horizontal line. Upon these horizontal ha r i 0 0 placed floats, which act as the p r op e ll ers , an d are %ten in a vertical position', whether in entering the : 03 0 during their passage through, or le av i ng it ; or they ,01 4 be so arranged, that during their b ac k war d 110 ",;tion , they In mono present' their edges to the di rec tion of the which may be done by means of eccentrics tiP ( ; r to crank arms, and forming the fl oa ts th emse l ve s, sim ile Venetian blinds. 9 0 An old woman,named Hannah Williams, flea rlf ls - t years of age, was ound dead in her bed at Gloucest e ol week, in a state of the most app aren t d es tit u tion: ? i '„ c tont been living for some time pasi'on Is. a week, with ! t iter from the union, and the charity o f h er ne i g hbours. ca re her death, however, was found a hoard of money it', o ous places, amounting to £tl4 2s. 2d., including e ked silver and £2 in copper ; and, although the poa r obe creature had been shivering with cold throughout 9 0 5 inclement weather of the winter and spring, ther iii is found on the premises a large stock of coal (more ton and a half in weight) the accumulation of m 39 '01 ritable gifts; whilst, in various parts of the bouse,,,eo, found stored away the remnants of unconsumed fol io to dently the relics of wh a t sh e lied received from tl s 010 time from the workhouse, an d in gifts from fries" tilai CU 011 U ~ .aa lU TAt:CIVe urea. /litre pieces bf bread, numberless pieces of bacon grow , ' d c liot from long keeping, bits of c h ee s e , remnan t s of P u t i ttc° &c., some of very recent acquisitio n , an d others ° age as to have become long since unfit for eating.. n 0 5 , LAMENTABLE OCCURRENCE.—Great sewati o rho & created on Tuesday morning last, in the neighb o6 boal of Minster yard, by the discovery of th e % io! of Mrs. Cookson (widow of the late Dr. Cookson);., 11,1 . well, at the top of the garden belon g i ng to the h ° rest which she resided. The unfort una t e l a dy retired t ° 05 0 9 1 about nine o'clock on Monday. bei ng before her time. On the following morning the servant wa s AO on finding her mistress's•bed-room door partly ogleon on looking into the bed, perceived she had quitted I .e l t be' proceeding to the garden she f o u n d that the 'nick, jails longing to the well had beenr e m ove d. Knowing . l e deceased was subject to fits of aberration, she at o n t into petted that she had destroyed herself. A person g ° 1 . 13 e the bucket, descended, and soon found the bodY• A pr deceased had complained very much of her head no f o nt, day, and wept bitterly. She had also said to the sel,, s he "You hate me, Eliza ;.?' and on her replying that,, ---Lv should she," the deceased rejoined',,ool "'--The jury returned a vcr u cause all the world does. wa S s T e g h A a N rg G e E d ,AErtAheeK-.. A ctfi3ll' " Temporary insanity " ing annoyed Prince Metternich and broken somqvosofici at the Brunswick Hotel, in Princes-street• J;“icli ,„ manager of the hotel, said thrt Prince Me tt . e bad suite were now stopping there. The prig/l e : 1 0cl, w il l e ci to the hotel, and requested to see Bare° 7-,,over use to attached to the suite of the prince. 111e 4.1 ,„ ho tel : _ pet , Marlborough a week Police-office, i d h 0 3 0 . 1 ; very energetic language, and at last be lett l'A•-• the sa id a minute or two some stones were thrown from o w l o which broke two of the windows. The to Mr. Watson : Do you know that you bar b( ) u : e _eich in your house ? Do you. know that prince Mett r.gi o o e . : a traitor to his country, and that he has been pr isoner , o il re ptl io before the Hungarian Diet, and dare not show 14 ; k h t wtH l ha l i e aerc. r rkd e Adsaw ? u, siskebtieD:uidatao Austrian hik y i geie o sod u pva retrireoosnnolpuewe prisoner at he has not only i r o 3 am a doctor of philosophy. o on ; C ' w e 3 r his O h w e a hl ai n aa o r d vtm b eh 7 P:7l :s i et n et wes e :a a d is t : l e? ;: b t i_ i! : i e° , :l - 1 1' 1 1 eih.f E r if a5 , ° : is £5O coming to me to which lam entitled. I‘-''') he damage, and prisoner said he had wr itt en severa l works, on 6 V`" - contributed to thequarterly reviews. Mr. Hard w icl , on the prisoner 6s. for a hol bail for his good behaviour. —lt t MR. COCITRANE'g PAUPER DEMONSTRATION• .seroeo, been impertinently, and falsely stated in an AdVerti.„oo that Sir George Gray would not interfere to P i _% s numerous procession of the inmates of workhour,_ fot cc , others through the public streets to the ITome-°.,000 , the purpose of laying a host of " hostile" gi r e i required him to . . before the Government, but the hon. hart. ter 00 5,4 portnnity, in his place in the House of C oma' se a removing any impression that might have bee n caller aPs such unfounded assertion. Mr. Cochrane, i wwe teriabe peared in Trafalgar-square on Monday, and el l , of t- cab with a van behind containing " Illustrations ro oplo " &stiles" B,nd the Poor-law, advanced wit h a o tit b v 1500 persons to Whit e h a ll. A b o dy o f police -O v. al to appeared, and they Sad immediately. The Ma n tico lo o `,s4 van finding his progress effectually stopped , hid , or payment for his services of Mr. Cochrane , I v , otO t e o immediately satisfied, and the bearer of the a to: r e tions" quietly retired. Mr. Co c h ra ne was fi llOWe 9 s ilis on in his cab, his "tail" having been cut of f „ a ieftet stated, and went to the Home-office, where "'otti l j e d petition, the hon. baronet presiding over that ( 1 4 1 : 1 , 5 ey not being visible to such an undesired guest. 1 , 1 r ee9 the affair, the only casualty being a broken heT' c i o t by one of the crowd, more, however, from ac ci tbe, design. tr ins o e o moRnEthLICoSf, ODF ec e mberI WANDERINGIast a w Jw a n E de E r i i ; A Daniel Stewart, a native of Ireland, died at his it-ue'„vsol, Keptie-street, Arbroath. Stewart ' e h a d been frl i bos`o9 the habit of visiting A r b r o a th w ith the two snu r P r oc e- c tir jewellery with which he travelled ; but his aff e .,,' e ce li c e' r apparel, as well as his penurious habits, led to''''" '5 0 111 „0 ) sion that he. was far from bein g in affluent c ire'' , After his death, his landlady, accompanied l y fet business and a magistrate, had his effects wale of o f to their very great surprise, found that, inste a "„oo` c tie" trumpery articles which they naturally s il l r e ol' e 4os' formed his stock in trade, there was a vel-ftlare%ger." df of valuable gold and silver watches, diamon d : s et I n o el f ; and pins, not a few of the rings ens' melled Ther e Ow for monds, besides other articles of great value' p ipt3 h at the same time found two deposit bask sums of £2OO and £26, respectiely. No re` - t by, , 1 - .' rlr appeared, and in the absence of v any settlemen st,„ ~, tP. . nuke properuy on oenan or roe k,rown. x,,,,i; of the property is supposed to be not less thau L':op, wart's wearing apparel was valuedesterclo' u40,131b,t!), and curiously enough, as if to mark' the r ‘p• stock in trade exhibited to the meanness 0L of latter was found to be worth the enormous stiff Di e s _, ° o ll ' sterling.—Arbroath Guide. _-0 0 Ger', l l4 last, CannriLnuqueSsTtAras ming so n h is at /T B S irMO.TOrni., 00 of 00,0ife, W nam hn e a d tc w ro i f i t e , a a te l r it o t f l t e b , an o d y e a ig w h a t nl y a e n ars wh ol , n d po tll e s ,c P C a l to l and who had been residing for some time. fl rise„eitr'j street, and whose death was alleged to ha v ' it 0 1 ' 0 1 0 1 starvation and ill-treatment by hie parent s *, is pic i f ) dread from the evidence of several persons th..t i.i. s; r clii` o o l o et b hx e ea en msai eic et i i t po e an d ra t in h tt a sw t . . w t a hi refo d tu e ru c e e da as tat e hd ( a l wt a i n tthh d e t gi ,w re oi r L eurr e na l eti t i. V eo cl itb : e i e n ro ; wales on their backs, and that they comPl,;ioflieceofo tied up in the house, while their father nn'oe d e o 14 0 ;3 away, and left without food for two dos. a r .,t r'i h e had a large cut on his foreher.d, suet" , 39 140 05. 0 0 . e re would make ; all three were perfect sjC e r ;pc., e y father had been seen beating them with 3 1 ;01 t j :„ . „je; l Lli; 31st of March, the door of the place in ;ire!' ,:i i ilt fr oo ti confined was broken open.. and the eh% tlie`i ea t o' The mother was also in the habit of betel, a 0( 0.0 cellar ok tl she had been seen to Ina them in a occasion to throw a sheet over their tinflit.eligii,trs ty parry with another woman, named Cle,a v ; c ,;ille,g„'e , J; a match, and stick the prongs of a foldes and tell her it wa,s the devil. Islotwi"al- e t - pt o f . medical care bestowed on the dec ease l o'e d . ci b of Sunday last. The medical evidence ea° :opell F had resulted from water on theelbrain, nectiAst; tinual irritation of the stomach. the c ° l . 1 " l' ;Y stomach being occasioned hy want of foot io t fl'ot turned a verdict of " Manslaughtfr Iladjechog, calling herself Sarah Wheatcroft , ' blaco 4-4 r 0415itiOred C4Qrgc WlAegcrofc NY41.443" " REBECCA " REntvivus.--The agrarian disturbances which characterised the southern portion of the princi- pality of Wales in the years 1843 and 1814 have again - manifested themselves in precisely a similar manner. The new county roads board does not operate in the way it was intended to do. A new toll-house was finished on a cross road near Llandilo on the 19th nit., and during the night of the 21st ult, the toll-house was completely demo lished by the Rebeccaites, who literally left not one stone standing on another. A FAIR CONFESSION. - Our attention I by a sentence of the Economist of Saturday, a paper abun dantly infected with the current liberalism of the age, and little given to mark the superintending hand of Divine s been arrested government of society has long been held up as the high est work of human genius ; we begin to doubt, since indi- viduals and the mUltittide have alike failed, whether the task be not beyond the faculties of man." A SERIES OF ACCIDENTS.--On Monday se'nnight, as a refractory cow was being driven by Mr. Home to the house of Mr. Allen, butcher, Brettell-lane, Brierley-hill. the animal became infuriated, and attacked everything in her course. A gentleman was thrown out of his phaeton, and the pony drawing the latter tossed in the air. Her driver was subsequently thrown into a ditch, and another man was forced through a shop window, and seriously hurt. At last, after an attack upon other persons, findii igit impossible to drive the cow to her destination, she vas shot in the road.—Ten Towns Messenger. EASTER MONDAY.--ANOTHER BESPOKE LONDON Row !—Mr. Cochrane's second day in London, as the Don Quixote of the poor, was only fit to be recorded by Punch. The very genius of a row, he specially enjoined peace! It was a failure extraordinary,—with Easter Monday into the bargain. It was Mr. Cochrane "illus trated," instead of the Poor Law. There were pictures of the poor—dying !'—sleeping on the stone floors !-men and women in separate cages—&c. The police prevented any great assemblage Sir George Grey was " not at home," nor Mr. Cdchrane ! for his affair was all abroad. EVASION OF AN OATH'.—A revolting case ,of subordi nation for perjury has been disclosed in the' Deemsteros Court, Isle of Man. A farmer, who had been summonei for non-payment of £47 rent, suborned two men to swear that they had seen him pay the landlord. He had met themon Douglas quay, and took them to a public-house. The witnesses sat down. and while drinking their glasses, the defendant took out of his pocket a piece of chalk, with which he drew the figure of a man upon the table, and wrote the plaintiff's name across. He laid down £47, and the witnesses then agreed to swear that they had seen the money paid to plaintiff. T C - E- —The e' mrtist de- _HE -.HARTISTS IN , DINBURGH.- _ monstration held on the Calton dill on Monday evening proved a total failure. There might have been 600 or 700 persons on rue nut ; OUT, owing to the unfavourable wea ther, the meeting adjourned to•the hall in Adam-square, where, after the assemblage had been kept waiting a con siderable time for the committee, a memorial to the Queen, praying her Majesty to dissolve the present Par liament, was ultimately adopted. Delegates were then appointed to represent the Scorch Chartists in the great " National Assembly," to be held in the metropolis on the Ist of May. ATTEMPTED MURDER AND ROEDERI.-011 Monday, between two and three o'clock, as a watchman named Brassett, sixty-four years of age, was on duty at the Leith and Glasgow wharf, London, he was•suddenly attacked by three men, who came on shore in w boat. They struck the poor old man on the head, as he believed with a life preserver or some other blunt and heavy instrument, which soon rendered him insensible. Believing, it is pre- sumed, that life was extinct, they thrust him into a cellar, len pro- which they rifled of its contents The poor watchman lies in a very precarioug condition EVASION . ' OF THE LAW.—We have heard of Many modes of evading the law, but Thomas Turk, a man who was deprived of his. license to sell beer at our police-court last week, has adopted a plan somewhat new in the annals of beer selling in Newport., Having a " good run" of custom, and being, moreover, possessed. of a pretty good " plant" at the Tyrant's Castle, in Pillgwenlly, Thomas Turk resolved he would not retire from business so ouietiv as some and carries on "a roarinz trade," by selling nuts at three half-pence each, and giving away. a glass of sparkling beer to the nut-buyer ! This system is carried on an ex sensive scale nightly.T-Monmouth.Merlin. At the Thames Police-office, on Monday, James Bolton was sentenced to eight days' imprisonment, for practising Lowing now cheat at pennyworth of coppers were placed On small p e g;, - N;i;14; were to be thrown at with a small bar, when, if all the half-pence were dislodged, the thrower, who paid a penny, pocketed them. The prisoner, who was the proprietor, was ready to take the chance eitheras a staker or a thrower, but always took care that he should win, in each capacity, except when he occasionally. tryst- on: , -purpot , e to•give-,an appearance of fairness to the game. When he tnrew himself the halfpence were lodged lightly on the pegs, but when others threw, the lo.ver half-penny was made to adhere by means of some composition PENURY OF Louts PHILIPPE.—The Count de Neuilly lives at Claremont in a state of almost penury, denying himself those small luxuries which had become all but necessaries from long use to a man of his time of life ',yen with t' St '" " ne mo rigid economy; however, it is said that his income is still insufficient for his maintenance, and that in a year or two, if he survives so long, he will be com pletely destitute. It can, however, scarcely be the inten tion of the French Government to sequestrate the private property, not only of the ex-King, but, of his whole family, The dowers of his sons' wives are said to be almost entirel• invested either in French funds, or in land in France, and whatever claim the nation may have upon the Royal estates, it can by no process, that wo are aware of, be ex tended to property thus acquired.— Times. DESECRATION AND ROBBERY.—The minister of a pretty church, which rises almost in the shadow of an embattled " fortress of the fen," not 100 miles from Con nigsby, was called upon by a party, of "navvies" on Sun- day week, to christen a child. While engaged in his duty, another of these sons of clay and iron, evidently a ?nate of the christening party, entered the church, and, on the principle 4 . " exchange no robbery," took the rev gentleman's new hat, and left in its place his own—one of those bettered coverings which we see on the heads of " Emeralders" during the harvest season—brimless, almost crownless, and wofully "wanting a nap." We are told that the trick is an old one; and that the same child has been christened on, a former occasion at a sacri fice to a worthy parish clerk of a great coat.—Stamford Mercury. ROYAL COLLEGE OF CHEMISTRY, pratt delivered an interesting lect —Dr. Sheridan Mus- evening, at the monthly meeting of the subscribers and students of the college, at Hanover-square, on the mann fazture of the carbonate of sada, sulphuric acid, and hy drochloric acid ; and in a series of successful experiments, showed how the deleterious gases evolved in the process, and which were so destructive of vegetation, as to have caused an action for damages to have been brought against the Messrs. Muspratt, proprietors of chemical works in Liverpool, upon that ground, might be condensed, and their unhealthy action thereby greatly diminished, if not a ltogether prevented. Scattere through the rooms were many specimens of daguerreotype portraits and landscapes, of Talbotypes, and of silver and copper electrotypes, all of which were greatly and deservedly admired. DAMAGE BY RIOTOUS OR TUMULTUOUS ASSEMBLIES. —Sir W. Clay's bill, for amending the law relative to re medies against the hundred in England, only contains two provisions. By the 1 as it now stands, compen _ ltion can only be obtained against the inhabitants of a hundred for damage done, where the offence amounts to felony ; and it is considered expedient that such inhabit ants should be made liable to yield compensation in like manner to parties damnified by the acts of persons, riot- ously and tumultuously assembled, which may not amount to felony. For this object, it is provided by the bill, that in every case where any building whatever, or any part thereof, shall be destroyed, or shall be in any manner damaged, or where any commodities whatever therein shall be destroyed, taken away, or damaged by any riot ous or tumultuous assembly of persons, the inhabitants of the hundred shall be liable to yield full compensation in damages to the person or persons injured. A PLAGIARISM.—The 7'ablet (Popish paper), in com menting upon Lord Brougham's attempt to become a of a British subject, say nue ne retained tne privileges One thing disappoints us in le notion is not original Lord Brougham It is well known that Lord Brougham is acquainted with the Tractarian system of philosophy. Many estimable professors of that religion have reduced to practice an analogous theory. When they travel abroad they fret the catholic churches, and are very devout at mass, vespers, and ask bishops for their blessing. They are ex tremely catholic. But when they return to this country, they never enter a catholic chapel, and speak slightingiy of the mass. They change on their passage catholics abroad—protestants at home. Lord Brougliar did but borrow their theory and apply it to civil politics in our opinion the more innocent borrowing of 0: A person, describing himself as the Rev. B. Fairfax, has been victimising the parishioners marsh, near Sheffield, where he had been officiating som months on behalf of the rector, who had been the winter in Ireland. He obtained the cura( swering an advertisement in the Ecclesiastical Gazette and showing ample testimonials ; but havir credit to a large amount, by an assumed li penditure, on the time approaching trust the creditors became pressing, missed from the parish, and has not si❑ The Society for the Propagation of the ( Parts and other religious societies are alsl a young, unmarried man, " tall, slender, of plexion, with large expressive eyes, and jetty hair , _ moreover, supposed to be nobly born and rich, he attracte, great notice from the ladies : not only so ; his zeal for th church, kindness to the poor and those who did not atter. his ministry, made him one universal favourite with th The tradesmen suoolied him with ennrla 4. nn of Raw lity of ex for him to resign I and suddenly he w pet In ForeigT rs. Beinl rk corn te comic tongs lanzu not ki ThC I se I 11( Pro The Hous Chro row. gtiu, NI. ?„ 4 ' to Ain inc D R t ° Ay h"ot N til,