The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-03-05 00:00:00

A SHIPWRECK From Fraser's Magazine.) One morning, I can remember now well, how we watched from the Hartland Cliffs a great barque that came drifting and rolling in befon the western aale, while we followed her up the coast, parsons and sportsmen, far mers and preventive men, with the Manby's mortar lum- bering b ways, fr h stone-gaps and track- The maddening ex hind us in a cart, throe lm headland to headland .-an wildly towards the ed off again inexplicably— ,ilecr, were gone short off of sail fluttered from her with all straining of eyes and -en no sign man on board. Well led disappointment and admiration of men, as a fresh set of salvors appeared in 1. of a boat's crew of Clovelly fishermen ; , ssly the little black speck crawl ing and struggling up in the teeth of the gale, under the Shelter of the land, till, when the ship had rounded a pint into smooth water, she seized on her like some tiny spider on a huge unwieldy fly ; and then how one still smaller black speck shewed aloft on the main-yard, and ---and then the desperate 'fforts to get the topsail `. , ar out o 4 eir hands again, and fan( Iwe could hear the of expectation as she id then shee owsprit, I rec watched breathl aw it tear out of tl under of its flairings above the roar of the gale, and the mountains of surf which made the rocks ring beneath our feet—and how we stood, silent, shuddering, expecting every moment to see whirled into the sea from the plung ing yards, one of the same tiny black specks, in each one of which was a living human soul, with wild women pray ing for it at home ! And then how they tried to get her head round to the wind, and disappeared instantly in a cloud of white spray—and let her head fall back again— and jammed it round again, and disappeared again —and at last let her drive helplessly up the bay, while we kept pace with her alone the cliffs ; and how at last, when she bad been mastered and fairly taken in tow, and was within two miles of the pier, and all hearts were merry with the hopes of a prize which would make them rich, perhaps, for years to come—one-third, I suppose , of the whole va!ue of her cargo—how she broke loose from them at the last moment, and rushed frantically in upon those huge rock 3 below us, leaping great banks of slate at the blow of each-breaker, tearing off masses of iron-stone which lie there to this day to tell the tale, till she drove up high and dry against the cliff, and lay, the huge brute, like an enormous stranded whale, grinding and crashing itself to pieces against the walls of its adamantine cage. And well I recollect the sad records of the log-book that was left on board the deserted ship ; how she had been water-logged for weeks and weeks, buoyed up by her tim bercargo, the crew clinging in the tops, and crawling down, when they dared, for putrid biscuit dust and drops of wa ter, till the water was washed overboard and gone; and then notice after notice, "On this day such an one died," "On this clay such an one was washed away." The log kept up to the last, even when there was only that to tell, by the stern, business-like merchant skipper, whoever he was ; and how at last, when there was neither food nor water, the strong man's heart seems to have quailed, or, perhaps, risen; into a prayer, jotted down in the log, " The Lord have mercy on us!"—and then a blank of ges, and, scribbled with a famine-shaken hand, her thy Creator in the days of thy youth:" log and. the ship were left to the rats, which covered her deck when our men boarded her. And well I remember the last act of that tragedy ; for a ship has really, as sailors feel, a personality, almost a life and soul of her own ; and as long as her timbers hold together, all is not over. You can hardly call her a corpse, though the hu who inhabited her, and were her soul, may • and so I felt that night, several pl " Remem and so t man being Lave fled into the far eternities as I came down along the very woodland road on which we are now walking, with the north-west wind hurling dead branches and showers of crisp oak-leaves about my head ; and suddenly, as I staggered out of the wood here, I came 'won such a piece of chiaro-scuro as would have baffled Correggio, or Rembrandt himself. Under that very wall was a long tent of sails and spars, filled with preventive men, fishermen, Lloyd's underwriters, lying about in every variety of strange attitud and costume; while can dles, stuck in bayonet-handles in the wall, poured in a wild glare over the shaggy faces and glittering weapons, and piles of timber, and rusty iron cables which glowed red-hot in the light, and then streamed up the glen to wards me through the salt misty air in long fans of light, sending fiery bars over the brown transparent oak foliage and the sad beds of withered autumn flowers, and glorify ing the wild flakes of foam, as they rushed across the light stream, into troops of tiny silver angels, that vanished into the night and hid themselves among the woods from the fierce spirit of the storm. And then, just where the glare of the lights and watch-fires was most brilliant, there too the black shadows of the cliff had placed the point of intensest darkness, lightening gradually upwards right and left, between the two great jaws of the glen, into a chaos of grey mist, where the eye could discern no form of sea or cloud, but a perpetual shifting or quivering as if the whole atmosphere was writhing with agony in the clutches of the wind. ' The ship was breaking up," and they sat by her like physicians by a death-bed side, to watch the last and " the effects of the deceased." I recollect down to the beach, hold- hopeless struggle our li terally warping ourse and posts. There was a saddened, awe tence, even upon the gentleman from Lloyd's with behind his ear. A sudden turn of the clouds let in a cam of moonshine upon the white leaping heads of „ant breakers, and on that tall pyramid of the Black -arch Rock, which now stands in such calm grandeur gazing down on the smiling summer bay, with the white sand of Braunton and the red cliffs of Portledge shining through its two vast arches ; and there, against that slab of rock on your right, still disooloured with her paint, lay surge, to drop again with fell back from the cliff, and ing on by rocl struck the per wild ul !hip, rising slowly on every as the wa ing - wall of foam dragged the roaring pebbles back with it under the corn- You have heard of ships at the last moment crying aloud like living things in agony ? I beard it then, as the stumps of her masts rocked and reeled in her, and every plank and joint strained and screamed with the dreadful tension. shrieking on the rack, at those strange semi-human cries, and away—and I tried to turn, and yet my A. horrible image,— rose up before n t be put i on the hllek mass, which seemed vainly e the help of man against the stern ministers of eyes were rivet to imp the Omnipotent Still she turned at 1 fore it, ruE time to sa' seemed to linger in the death-struggle, and I st away ; when, to ! a wave, huger than all be led up the boulders towards us. We had just ourselves. A dull, thunderous groan, as if a mountain had collapsed, rose shave the roar of the tem pest; and we all turned with an instinctive knowledge of what had happened, just in time to see the huge mass melt away into the boiling white, and vanish for ever more. And then the very raving of the wind seemed hushed with awe ; the very breakers plunged more si lently towards the shore, with something of a sullen com punction ; and as we stood and strained our eyes into the gloom, one black plank after another crawled up out of the darkness upon the head of the coming surge, and threw itself at our feet like the corpse of a drowning man, too spent to struggle more. S EARLY STRUGGLES.—When " Joan of Arc" was in the press, I had as many legitimate causes for unhappiness as any man need have—uncertainty for the future and immediate want, in the literal and plain meaning of the word. I often walked the streets at din ner time for want of a dinner, when I had not eighteen pence for the ordinary, nor bread and cheese at my lodgings. But do not suppose that T thought of dinner when I was walking. My head was full of what I was composing; when I lay down at night I was planning my poem ; and when I rose up in the morning, the poem was the first thought to which I was awake. The scanty pro's of that poem I was then anticinating in my lo:1,!, ,, -" , !tse bills for tea, bread, and butter, and those little&..'s which amount to a formidable sun, when a man has no resources.—/Fouthey's Life and Correspon- A Pot AN. IMPORTANT CAPTURE.—Bhye Maharaj Singh, the Gooroo, is at length in safe custody in the Jullundur gaol. We have several,communications respecting his capture, and from them we gather that it is entirely owing to the exertions of Mr. H. Vansittart and a small party of the 14th, or Skinner's Irregulars. It would appear that on the afternoon of the 28th December, information was brought into Jullundur that the Gooroo was known to be at a place near Adampore, midway between Hoshearpore and Jullundur, with some followers, and that there was every chance of capturing him if no time were lost; the intimation being also given that foureeen koss at least must be done in an hour and a-half. Mr. Vansittart lost no time in getting together some 20 of Skinner's :Horse, and set off immediately in the direction which the guide pointed out, and on arriving at a thick enclosure of trees they were warned that they had arrived at the spot of their search by the sudden appearance of some six or seven men, who immediately took to their heels ; they were, however, pursued by a portion of the party (only ten, we are told, arrived with Mr. Vansittart), the others kept guard over the enclosure. The Rissalder of Skinner's Horse was the first to enter the enclosure, and, the others following, the Gooroo, with twenty followers, was cap tured ; they were generally unarmed, or there would, no doubt, have been a contested Struggle ; as it was, we hear that one man struck at Mr. Vansittart with a small axe, but a' pistol-ball from that gentleman disabled the Sikh from during further mischief. This is certainly very creditable to Mr. Vansittart, and the behaviour of the Irregulars is beyond all praise; they will no doubt reap the reward promised fr— •' believe 10,000 rupees r the capture of the Gooroo—wl It is well known in certain circle: that the influence of this man is unbounded amongst the Sikh chieftains and the whole population of the Punjaub ; and there i 3 little doubt but that he has generally been the prime mover in all the conspiracies and revolts which have lately caused us so much expense, and led to so much bloodshed, whilst he is revered by .all parties and ranks for his supposed power of working miracles. and is, in fact, the one holy man and profit:of the Punjaub.— Delhi Gazette. CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS.—It has the appearance of compassion and charity to think that men ought not to be put to death for their crimes, but to be kept alive, that they may repent of them. Some, both ancient and mo dem!, have thought that there was a cruelty in all capital punishments that was inconsistent with the gentleness of the Gospel i .but when we cons id er t h a t G o d, i n th a t l aw which He nunself delivered to the Jews by the hand of Moses, did appoint so many capital punishments, even for offences against positive p recepts, we cannot th i n k that these are contrary to justice or t rue goo d ness , s i nce th ey were dictated by God himself, wh o i s eternally the same, unalterable in his perfections. This shows that God, who knows most perfectly our frame and disposition, knows that the love of life is planted so deep in our natures, and that it bath such a root there, that nothing can werk so powerfully on us, to govern and restrain us as the fear of death. And, therefore, since the main thing that is to cQuiddered in goverment a the good of the whole air feet, The preventiv View, in the f body, and since a feeble indulgence and impunity may set mankind loose into great disorders, from which the terror of severer laws, together with such examples as are made on the incorrigible, will naturally restrain them, it seems necessary, for the preservation of mankind and of society, to have recourse to capital punishments. The precedent that God set in the Mosaical law seems a full justification of such punishments under the Gospel. The charity which the Gospel presents does not take away the rules of justice and equity. We owe to human society, and to the safety and the order of the world, our endeavours to put a stop to the wickedness of man. It is highly proba ble that, as nothing besides such a method could stop the progress of injustice and wickedness, so nothing is so likely a means to bring the criminal to repent of his sins, and to fit him to die as a Christian, as to condemn him to die for his crimes ; if anything can awaken his conscience and strike terror in him, that will do it. Therefore, as capital punishments are necessary to human society, so they are real blessings to those on whom they fall ; and it may be affirmed, very positively, that a man who can harden himself against the terrors of death, when they come upon him so solemnly, so slowly, so certainly, he being in full health, and able to reflect on the conse quences of it, is not likely to be wrought on by a longer continuance of life, or by the methods of a natural death. Under the Gospel, as well as under the law, the magis trate is the minister of God, and has the sword put in his hand, which he beareth not in vain ; for he is appointed to be a revenger, to execute wrath on him that doeth evil. The natural signification of his carrying the sword is, that he has authority for punishing capitally, since it is upon those occasions only that he can be said to use the sword as a revenger. Nor can Christian charity oblige a man, whom the law has made an avenger of blood, to refuse to comply with that obligation, which is laid upon him by the constitution under which he is born ; he can only forgive that of which he is the maste r , bu t the other is a debt, which he owes society ; and his private forgiv- ing the wrong himself does not reach to that other obl gation, which is not in his own power to give away.- Bishop Burnet. general /+ltsrellanv. There are in London eighteen Ragged Schools, with 15,000 pupils. Four men have been convicted for the forgery on the Brighton bank. Lord Stanley, of Alderly, has returned 10 per cent. to his tenantry in Anglesey, to be expended in guano. Great numbers of base crown-pieces have lately been put into circulation in Edinburgh. On the 23d inst., the East India Company will enter tain Lord Gough at a splendid banquet. About 4,000 young trees were blown down during the late high winds, in a plantation at Coddington, Newark. The Newcastle-on-Tyne guardians have refused to form a " district school" in the union. Two hundred and fifty millions of oranges are annually imported into Great Britain. The directors of the Bank of England are lending money on stock at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum. It appears that, after a lapse of some years, the Bank of England has resumed its connexion with the Guarantee Society. Dr. Vaughan (head master of Harrow School) will shortly lead to the hymeneal alter Miss Kate Stanley, youngest daughter of the late Bishop of Norwich. Government intends to pay the solicitor for Manning and his wife out of the proceeds of the jewels and other property seized by the police. It is said that orders have been received at Holyhead to be in preparation to break up the government packet sta tion early in spring. _ The amount of silver and copper coin delivered by the moneyers into the Mint Office in 1849, amounted respec tively to £119,592, and £1,792. An Aberdeen paper notices that three horses, which had been bitten by mad dogs, have lately died of hydro phobia at Aboyne and Kincardine O'Neill. The newly appointed high sheriff of Oxfordshire is Henry Hall, of Barton, Esq., Oxford, printer and propri etor of the Oaford Journal. There is no truth in the report of any party having taken proceedings to recover possession of the Stanfield hall property. The smack Catherine, of Port Madoc, David Evans, master, from Newport for Mochras, has been lost on the Patches, near Aberystwith, and all hands perished. The sellers of cheese at Winchester fair have now no de mand for that article. One gentleman, who pitched 500 tons at Monday's fair, could not sell five tons. KELPINA.—:The discovery of a new alkali from kelp is attracting great attention in Scotland, as pregnant with great results for the Highlands and the Islands. A verdict, with £2O damages, was given last week at the County Court of Cornwall, against a schoolmaster who bad beaten a little boy on the head so severely as to cause blindness. INDUSTRIAL Exn IBITION IN 1851.—The Town-Coun cil of Plymouth have voted the sum of £5O, and the Chamber of Commerce 10 guineas, towards the Exhibi- Charles Dickens• will publish, at the end of March, the first number of " a weekly journal, called ' Household Words,' price 2d., designed for the instruction and en tertainment of all classes of readers." On Monday the adjourned inquest met to inquire into the death of the lad Allen, who was killed at the late protectionist meeting at Dorchester. Various witnesses were examined. The jury could not agree on a verdict. One thousand and fifty signatures, out of about one thousand two hundred ministers, have been attached to the Wesleyan conference declaration of the immutability of its organic , institution. On TuesdaY, S. C. Stokes, Esq., son of the Rev. J. Stokes, of Abbe} Foregate, Shrewsbury, was thrown from his horse whilst hunting.. He fell into a pool and was drowned PREVENTIBLE DISEASE.—At Minchinhampton, last week, a man was taken suddenly ill, as is supposed, from removing a manure heap, and died, as did also his wife and two children. The magistrate at Worship-street, London, decided on Thursday that it was an illegal act, punishable by fine, to refuse a person admission to an omnibus, on the plea that the vacant places were reserved for regular riders after wards to be taken up. NEW POTATOES.—We (Carlisle Journal) were shown the other day, a dish of tolerably-sized new potatoes, spontaneously produced from a heap of diseased potatoes, last year's crop, in the garden of Mr John Wallace, of Rigg, near Gretna. The Earl of Powis, a few weeks ago, sent to every householder in Bishop's Castle, without regard to the re ligion or politics of the parties, the annual present of game, of a hare and pheasant, which was the custom of the late Earl. A COCKNEY BULL.—A poor toy-maker describes his case thus to a London paper:—",That (15s. a week) is but little to keep a wife and two children on—one only just born a month ago last Monday, and another just dead and buried." It is said that the honour of knighthood is about to be conferred on Dr. Hastings, of Worcester. Dr. Hastings occupies a high position in the medical world, and was the principal founder of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association. Mr. Edward Kenealy, a barrister, has been examined before Sir P. Laurie, in London, on a charge of having brutally flogged and otherwise ill-treated a boy between five and six years of age, his (Kenealy's) natural son. Mr. Kenealy is to answer the charge at the sessions. The Birmingham Gazette says that on the morning of the 6th ult. after the storm from the west, many of the windows at Lichfield were covered with salt, as were many evergreen shrubs, some of which retained a saltness for several days. Mr. Manfullay has been elected Professor of Ancient History in the Royal Academy, in the place of the late Bishop of Llandaff. Sir Robert H. Inglis has also been appointed Antiquarian Professor, a chair which has been for some time vacant. The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng land had increased from £17,089,901 to £17,122,221, being a difference of £32,320. The paper in actual circu lation had decreased from £20,339,864 to £20,000,213, being a difference of £339,651. MiNSLAUGHTER.—The woman Charlotte Lovey, who was stabbed by her husband in a lodging-house, in White. chapel, London, on last Tuesday week, died on Thursday in the hospital, after enduring great suffering. It was found that the gullet had been divided by the blow. The rector of Upper Chelsea, the Rev. Richard Vur has arranged to build several lodging-houses in that parish, the rooms in which, with various conveniences, will be let at Is. Gd. per week. The state of the lodging houses both in London and Liverpool for the poor calls loudly for legislative enactment. SilsIGULAR.—Last week, at Gowan Park, a lark, hard pressed by a hawk, took refuge in a boy's breast-pocket, where her pursuer, though only a yard behind, did not of course dare to follow his wished for prey. The litth songster is now carolling in the cage of her liberator, a grateful and happy captive.—Montrose Review Captain Warner ha's intimated that, if his plan is not accepted by government, ho will dispose of it to some. foreign power. The captain asks, " Had I sold them to Greece, where would Admiral Parker, with his fourteen vessels, have'been long ere this ? Not a survivor would have been left." The late high floods have done considerable damage in the county of Selkirk, by which the wooden bridge at Wester Deloraine, over the Ettrick, has been carried off, and the flood has also swept away one of the arches of the ancient bridge over the Yarrow, near the church, which has existed for centuries, and which it is suppose' was built by the Picts The Montrose Standard states that on Tuesday weet as some cattle were passing through Brechin, a big hul left the ranks and coolly walked into an inn. It passed up stairs into a bed-room, where it put its head through the window and bellowed to its companions. It retired in the same ordinary manner, passing down the stairs, and rejoining its companions in the street. An extensive fire broke out on Sunday week, on the premises of Messrs. J. and R. Raimes and Co., manufac turing chemists, Leith-walk, Edinburgh, which involver' tae almost total destruction of their premises. The los , has been variously estimated at from £12,000 to £15,00( one estimate being as high as £20,000, and only about the half is covered by insurance. The gambling-houses in the vicinity of Jermyn-street Regent-street, and Leicester-square, London, have beer placed under a close surveillan ce , by or d er o f the com missioners of police. The constables are stationed at the entrance to each house, to note down and describe the persons entering therein. The surveillance to continue, without intermission, night and day. According to an estimate by Dr. Playfair, the 52,00; bodies annually interred in the metropolis emit upward of five-and-a-half million cubic feet of carbonic acid gas exclusive of other gases and vapours still more offensive and deleterious, the whole of which must pass into the , water below the soil, or escape into the air we breathe, and must, in either case, be moat mischievous. THE LIVERPOOL §tAbiltp. A YOUNG MISCREANT.—At the London Central Criminal Court, on Thursday, a boy, only fourteen years old, was sentenced to seven years' transportation for robbery. The moment the sentence was pronounced, the prisoner shouted out to the judge—" Well, you are a pretty b— ! You might have given us three days' holiday first. A few nights since, in London, a man, named Drury, whilst sliding down a water pipe fixed to a house side, three stories high, came in contact with a projecting brickwork, which threw hint down, and, falling on the pavement, he sustained such injuries as to cause his death next day. He had several times previously slid down the pipe, but on the last occasion he was intoxicated. The farm-labourers of the district round 'West Laving ton, Devizes, have been resisting an attempt to reduce wages from is. to 6s. a week, by forcibly stopping farm operations. Some ringleaders having been arrested, more than a hundred men, armed with staves, marched to break open the prison ; but they were deterred by a strong military detachment. There is at present living at Elton, near Stockton, a woman called Mary Benton, who is now in her 120th year. She was born at Cockfield, where the registry of her baptism may be seen in the books of the parish church, bearing date February 12, 1731. Her faculties are good, and she is able to perform most of her house hold duties without assistance. The gallant Major Edwardes has written a letter to the papers of London, in which he says—" The morning papers have overpowered me quite with giving me a wife and two children' at a blow ! How soon I have all three I care not ; but, having none, my countrywomen will easily imagine how many reasons (and fair ones, too !) there may be for contradicting the report." While the mail train was traversing at full speed the East Lincolnshire Railway, between Alford and Fireby, on Wednesday week, a passenger suddenly opened the door of a second-class carriage and leaped out. On the arrival of the train at Boston, an engine was immediately despatched in search of the passenger: but as no trace of him could be discovered, he was probably unhurt by his leap. A correspondent of the Timm, alluding to the recent plunder of a vessel at Boffin, says sixteen men of the island are in custody. The conduct of these islanders was most inhuman ; instead of rendering assistance to a foreign vessel in distress, they plundered her of every thing they could carry away, stripped the captain and crew of their clothes, and left the vessel a wreck on the coast. The Hull Advertiser relates :a story of a substantial tradesman of that place, a widower, who paid his addresses to a buxom widow, but forsook her. The widow one day lured him to a friend's house, plied him with brandy, took him to church, and there, by the aid of a previously prepared license, married him. It is hinted that the gentleman, dissatisfied with the proceedings, is about to try if the law cannot set aside the nuptials. Joseph Hogg and John Nichol were tried on Monday, at Carlisle, and acquitted, on a charge of having murdered a gamekeeper on the lands of Sir - .Tames Graham. The deceased was found dead on the hills in November last. and it appeared that he had been strangled and robbed of £B. The evidence against the prisoner was that of an alleged accomplice who had perjured himself by giving two contradictory statements. A boy of fourteen attempted, a few days ago, to drawn himself in the New River, near the City-road. lie deli berately mounted the parapet of a bridge, and jumped into the water; some people succeeded in dragging him out, but he begged to be allowed to go in again. The boy's brother, with whom he.had quarrelled, had boxed his ears ; and the anger thus excited seems to have been the only assignable motive for the attempt at suicide. On Sunday morning week the watchers on the grounds of Brancepeth Castle, Durham, had a bloody collision with a party of poachers. A greyhound belonging to the latter was shot dead, and all the men were very much injured. having fought desperately, though they fortu nately did not fire at each other. Three of the poacher must have been very much disabled as traces of blood were visible for more than a quarter of a mile along their track. ADULTERATION OF CHLOROFOT Al.—A correspondent of the Daily News attributes the occasional failures which attend the application of chloroform to the use of an impure drug :—" It is a fearful statement to make, but it is no less true, that for the mere sake of making money muriatic acid has in London been so largely used in the adulteration of chloroform as not only to destroy the effects of, perhaps the most valuable agent ever introduced, but even to produce the most deleterious and murderous effects." The late Mr. A. L. Johnston died on the 19th ultimo, near Castle Douglas, in the stewartry of Kirkcudbright. Mr. Johnston was the first British merchant who settled in Singapore, 30 years ago, and the greatly honoured leader of its mercantile community for more than 20 years. He bound the island a mere nest of Malay pirates, and he lived to see a place which owed so much to the example of his own enterprise, intelligence, and integrity, with 60,000 inhabitants, and in rank the third emporium of British India. PEDESTRIANISM : RACE FOR £loo.—The match be- tween Conway of London, and Hayes of Halshaw:moor, came off at the race-course, Aintree, on Tuesday. Hayes was the favourite at 5 to 4, but the Londoners, nothing daunted, backed their man with much spirit. The dis tance was four miles, and was performed in 19 minutes and 44 seconds. Conway assumed the premiership till turning into the straight running, w'ien Hayes came with a rush, passed his man, and improved his position till the finish, where he came in an easy winner by about twenty five yards. Prince Albert has just presented to the boys of Eton College a copy of the large work of Grumer, "On the Arts in the Medieval Ages." On the fly-leaf preceding the title-page is the following inscription, in the hand writing of his Royal Highness : " Presented to the Boys of Eton College, with a hope that this book may not be considered merely as an ornament to their library, but as a work freely to be used by them for recreation and the acquirement of taste. Albert, Windsor Castle, Feb. 6, 1850." A great number of works„ written by the Arch bishop of Canterbury, have also just been presented to the boys' library by his grace. SRDUCTION.—On Tuesday, at the Carlisle assizes, a man named Routledge brought an action, in forma pan. penis, against a person named Calvert, to recover com pensation for injury received through the seduction of his daughter. The plaintiff is a farmer, near Stapleton, and the defendant resided in the neighbourhood. The latter wooed one of his daughters, seduced her, and the usual contingencies folio wed. For the defence it was elicited, that four out of the plaintiff's six daughters were pregnant when married, and that the remaining two (one of whom is the subject of the action) had given birth to illegitimate children. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with damages of a shilling. EMIGRATION OF THE DISTRESSED NEEDLEWOMEN.— On Monday the first detachment of the distressed needle women, of the metropolis, embarked at Gravesend, in the ship Culloden, Captain Ferguson, for Port Philip, New South Wales. They numbered 38, including matrons and sub-matrons. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Herbert, and a party of ladies and gentlemen accompanied them to the ship. The emigrants were all mustered in the presence of Mr. Sydney Herbert and his friends, and many a kind and cheering word was spoken both by ladies and gentle men as the objects of their solicitude and their bounty passed them and proceeded to their strange and cheerless berths. Numbers appeared sorrowful, and many wept at the position in which misfortune and misery had placed them ; but others looked smiling and happy. A Fox IN A TREE.—The East Kent hounds were " drawing " in Knowlton Park, on Friday week, when not having found, the field was departing. A hound had endeavoured to climb a tree, but had been whipped off as upon false scent. A gentleman who had observed this rode under the tree, a large cedar, and examined it nar rowly. To his surprise, he saw a fox, almost 15 feet from the ground, quietly gazing after the retiring horsemen and dogs. The animal liked his quarters so well that it was not till lashed by a long whip that he would quit them. He descended by a large drooping arm of the tree, which nearly touched the ground. On examining the tree, it was found that he had two kennels in it, which bore every appearance of- having been used for some time. The sly gentleman was hunted ; but we are glad to say that he got away from the hounds, and was the same day seen near his tree.—Kent Observer. NOVEL APPLICATION OF PHOTOGRAPHY.—Mr. Richd. Beard, jun., one of the most accomplished proficients in this highly interesting application of the sciencea of chemistry and optics to the fine arts, has recently been called upon to exercise the skill for which he has attained a merited pre-eminence, upon the dead body. A case has recently come within our knowledge in which the features of a child that met with its death in consequence of an accident by fire were truly and beautifully rendered by Mr. Beard, jun. It has occurred to us that photography may be brought into requisition with very manifest benefit where accuracy and promptitude are of paramount importance, as, for instance, in cases that form the subject of judicial inquiry, where the object or appearance to be copied is of a perishable nature. Photography may also be made vastly useful to the medical inquirer in securing exact representations of morbid conditions in the human body. —Lady's Newspaper. PRIZE ESSAY—Two HUNDRED POUNDS.—The above sum is offered by a gentleman in the civil service of the East India Company for the best essay on the Life of Christ. It is desired that the work should be adaped to missionary purposes, and is intended to be translated into the vernacular languages of India. It should dwell upon— the original deity of the Son of God; the circumstances of his life and death, so as to show the wonders of his love in the work of redemption, and the exceeding sinfulness of sin which required his obedience unto death ; the glo rious exaltation of Christ, and his second coming, with its consequences. The whole work being such as to exhibit most forcibly to the minds of enlightened heathen the wonderful character of the Son of God as revealed to us in the Scriptures. The adjudicators of the prize are,—the Rev. Professor bcholefield ; the Rev. John Tucker, Sec e tary to the Church Missionary Society ; the Rev. Thomas Sale, the minister of Weld Chapel, Southgate. DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—A young man, named Robert King, who occasionally slept at his father's house, which is situated at Fordor, near Exeter, went home on the night of the 18th ultimo, and was admitted by his father, and they went to bed together. Between , hree and four o'clock on the following morning, Sarah Hatch, the housekeeper, was aroused by Robert knocking .t the door, saying that his father was very ill, and had something the matter with his throat. She went into the father's room, when King struck at her with his fists, Ind he then took up the poker and struck her across tifferent parts of her body and head until she fell insen.: Bible on the floor. He had served his father in the same manner. He then decamped, taking with him all the valuables in the house. The prisoner was pursued end apprehended. He was taken before a magistrate, and •..•as charged with attempting to murder his father and the woman Hatch, but owing to the precarious state of health of the father, the prisoner was remanded. DREADFUL FALL.—The John 0' Cracres , Journal states that a young shepherd recently fell over the brae head at Knockinnon, a depth of three hundred feet. After lying insensible for some time, lie became aware of his awful position and ascertained that there was a wound on his head. Wrapping his shawl round it, he lay 011 the spot throughout the night, and next morning, after seve ral attempts scaled the precipice and reached home. His clothes were nearly all destroyed. FEAT UNDER ARMS.—On Friday a match was under taken by a young officer in the Guards, to walk, accoutred in every respect as a private soldier, in heavy marching order, from London to Windsor-barracks, in seven hours; 5 to 1 was subsequently betted against his doing it in six hours, the distance being 21 miles; the weight about 60 pounds, with grenadier cap, knapsack, havresack, musket, &c. ; and the difficulty of walking under such equipments, without previous training, was great. The feat was accomplished in five hours and a half to the sur prise of the natives and soldiery. Crowds were collected at the entrance of Windsor—the cheering was immense. The start from Hyde-park corner was at 8 a.m. The first 10 miles were walked in two hours 9 minutes, and the remaining 11 miles in about two hours and a half ; the time of halting was 40 minutes. ATTEMPTED MURDER.—On Friday night a collier named John Thomas, in the employ of Messrs. Wayne, - of Aberdare, had retired to rest, and had fallen to sleep, when he was suddenly awoke by a noise. On the floor of the room he saw something burning, and immediately got up to extinguish it. Before he could do so it explo ded with immense violence, so that his escape seems al most miraculous. The roof of the house was lifted off ; all the partitions in the house were blown down, but Thomas, although severely burnt, is considered out of danger. His wife and three children, who were in bed with him at the time, escaped unhurt. Upon examina tion it was found that a stocking filled with gunpowder, to which a fusee was attached, had been thrown through the window, the breaking of which had most probably awoke Thomas and his wife. It appears that the cause of this diabolical attempt arose out of several strikes which have taken place between the workmen at the several collieries in the neighbourhood. The whole mat ter is undergoing an investigation. A SINGULAR RACE.—A novel pedestrian match, which has caused much amusement, took place on Stamford race-course on Wednesday week. H. 0., Esq., a gallant captain, who is regarded as one of the sterling sort of English gentlemen, undertook, for a wager of " £5 and a dinner for eight," to run 50 yards, with a man weighing 10st. on his back, before another gentleman (Mr. G. H., of sporting popularity,) could run 100 yards. Both are votaries of the sports of the field, and, it is supposed, ride about equal weights, and as the captain usually wears " sober green," and his competitor assumes " the scarlet," by those colours they were designed in the event of Wednesday. Bets were in favour of scarlet, the wearer of the blazing costume being some ten years the junior of the captain ; but as " the race is not always to the swift," so this was not to the younger, for the veteran won in gallant style, with about 20 yards to spare. Mr. T. Massey was the person whom the captain carried, and he had also to encumber himself with some pounds of shot to make no the weight.—Stamford Mercury. STF:AM BETWEEN GLASGOW AND NEW YORK.—We alluded a few weeks ago to the fact that certain parties in Glasgow had resolved upon establishing a regular line of steam-communication between that port and the United States. Our readers will see, on reference to the adver tisement of Mr. Robert Lamont, that the arrangements for this design have been promptly perfected. The splendid new screw steam-ship City of Glasgow is adver tised to leave the Clyde for New York on the 16th of of April next, with goods and passengers. She is a very superior vessel in all respects. Her burthen is 1087 tons per register, 1607 tons over all ; her engines are of 350 horse power; a, d as she will be commanded by Capt. B. R. Matthews, formerly of the Great Western, we may expect that she will frequently, in time to come, realise a first-rate account of her sea-going qualities. Her ac commodations in both cabins—for she will carry no steerage passengers—comprise everything that can con duce to the personal conduct of the occupants. She is intended to ply regularly from Glasgow about the middle of every alternate month from April, and from New York about the middle of every intervening month. The passage will be effected in from twelve to sixteen days. BURGLARY AT CLAYPOLE, NEAR NEWARK.—During the past week an aged man and his daughter, of the name of Cross, when about retiring to bed, heard a knock at the door, when Miss Cross went to the door, and inquired who was there, but received no answer ; a second knock was given, and even then no answer was returned, and they retired to rest. At one o'clock in the morning Miss Cross was awakened by a trifling noise in the house, and immediately afterwards saw a light in the room; she got out of bed, when one of the ruffians struck her a violent blow on the head, and one of the parties said " shoot her ;" the other party said, " stop her breath." She seized hold of a stick, which one of the robbers had in his hand, and a scufle ensued; the candle was then put out, but she still retained her hold on the stick, and, in consequence of the bedroom where Miss Cross was, being peculiarly formed, she made her escape into her father s bedroom, taking the stick with her, and bolted the door. She opened the window and called out " thieves, mur der;" and for assistance. The villains then retreated, taking with them several bottles of home-made wine. Miss Cross then went, in her night dress, to give an alarm to the parish constable and others in the village; but no clue has as yet been ascertained of the depreda tors.—Nottingham Mercury. WHAT CAN WHEAT BE IMPORTED AT ?—Looking to the capabilities of America, not in 1792, but at the pre sent hour, we find that in the Western. States corn may be purchased on the farms for cash at from 12s. to Iss. the quarter ; and that 13s. per quarter is an ample allow ance for carriage to a shipping port, and thence to Liver pool. The price, therefore, in the English market will not exceed 28s. a quarter. It is very possible that we should find it difficult to obtain at present the necessary amount of supply at the price just quoted ; but there seems to be no doubt whatever that in process of time 28s. per quarter, and even less, will be the ruling price of corn obtainable from the Western States of America. As regards European imports, it is also ascertained, from a comparison of the prices of European corn imported into England during a long term of years, that the very first quality of wheat can be soli in British markets, under the free trade system, regularly, and in ample quantities, at 325. the quarter. Under the operation of the corn law of 1842, indeed, the maximum duty of 20s. per quarter was paid for weeks and weeks together, at different intervals, when the price of corn in the market was 465. to 485., showing but too clearly that consecutive supplies have been already possible at prices varying from 26s to 28s. for the cost of production and the expense of con veyance. THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851.—The Commis sinners have fixed upon the first day of May, 1851, fcr opening the exhibition. They will be prepared to receive and take charge of, at the expense of the commissioners, all articles which may be sent to them, and delivered at a place to be named by the commissioners, in London, on or after the Ist of January, 1851, and will continue to receive goods until the Ist of March inclusive ; after which day no further goods will be received. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to grant a site for this purpose on the south side of Hyde Park, lying between the Kensing ton Drive and the ride commonly called Rotten row. From the approximate estimate which the commissioners have been able to make they belive that the building ought to cover a space of from 19 to 20 acres, or about one mil lion of square feet. The productions of all nations will be exhibited together under one general classification. The building will be provided to the exhibitors free from rent and will be fire proof. Exhibitors will be required to deliver their objects, at their own charge and risk, at the building in the Park. Colonial and foreign productions will be admitted, without paying duty, for the purpose of exhibition, but not for internal consumption. Her Ma jesty's commissioners of customs will consider all such articles as bonded goods ; and her Majesty's commission ers for the exhibition of 1851 will make suitable arrange ments for their reception. STRANGE MUTATION—QUAKERS IN A MONASTERY. —The Builder of Saturday last contains an engraving and description of the Friends' School at Bristol. We cannot copy the engraving, but the following is a copy of our contemporary's account of the edifice :—" It forms the north side of a quadrangle, ant stands on part of the site formerly occupied by a monastery of Dominican Friars, founded by Maurice de Gaunt, in the year 1228. The church appears to have been of considerable extent and magnificence. The dimensions, as given by William of Worcester, are—Choir, 44 by 14 paces ; nave, 58 by 34 paces. The cloisters of these have been recently restored, as well as a large portion of the ancient work in the pre sent edifice. The building consists of several class-rooms on the ground floor, and above, a large school-room of the entire length, having at the east end a fine triple lancet window, and at the west a two-light decorated. The roof is partly old, open, and of a good pitch. In the new portions of the building the prevailing style of the thir teenth century is carried out. The architect was Mr. W. Armstrong. The building, with its ecclesiastical associations, contrasts strangely with the meeting-house hard by—an unimaginative block, expressive alike of Quakers' theology, and poetry (albeit, the muse never dwelt therein). It is, however, worthy of notice, as indi cating the progress of architecture in the nineteenth cen tury, that the Quakers, of all men the most indifferent to the claims of art, have caused to be restored an eccle siastical structure of the middle ages. NEW PAVING.—At the weekly meeting of the London Institution of Civil Engineers on Tuesday, Mr. Taylor read a paper descriptive of a peculiar kind of paving adopted. five years since, at the Euston-square Station. The method employed was, after removing the subsoil to the depth of sixteen inches, to lay a thickness of four inches of strong gravel, equally and well rammed, then another layer of gravel mixed with a smell quantity of chalk, or hoggin, for the purpose of giving elasticity, the ramming being continued as before ; a third coat, of the same materials, was then laid and rammed, a regular de gree of convexity of surface being preserved. The stones used were of Mount Sorrel Granite, dressed and squared into regular masses of four inches decp, three inches thick, and four inches long ; these stones were laid in a bed of fine sand, one inch in thickness, equally spread over the surfac3 of the substratum, and tney were care. fully placed, so that no stone should rock in its bed. The whole surface was then well driven down with wooden hammers, weighing fifty-five pounds each. The small size of the stones enabled them to be well rammed home, so that the surface of the pavement never sunk, and the hardness and toughness of the material prevented the stones from being worn down by any traffic, however heavy. It was stated, that this system was found infi nitely preferable to the employment of large stones, and the statement of cost was vastly in its favour; the price of the ordinary kind of granite paving, in London, being 18s. per superficial yard. and the maximum cost of the new or " Euston" pavement, including the substratum, was not 12s. per yard, and deducting the value of the old stones, not (in this latter case,) claimed by the contractor, the nett cost would only be 9s. per yard. THE BAKERS AND THE PRICE OF BREAD.—A warm dispute appears to be going on between the bakers ir. some towns in the south and their brethren of Aberdeen, as well as between the latter and some of our contempora ries. The bakers of Montrose have found themselves, it seems, able to sell their quartern loaves at 4d. to their own customers, and at 44d. in Aberdeen, while here the price has, till within these few days, been maintained at 6d. The difference is now, we observe, divided, and sd. is a very reasonable price, of which no one can complain. We know too little of the mysteries of the trade to be aware what margin of profit remains of the 4d., after pay ing all expenses. We presume that at this price the bakers have trusted—as bakers in a great measure do generally—to the profit on the small kinds of bread ?Mich is at all times greater than on loaves : but if they had any profit at all, there is no doubt, with grain at the present prices, that the Aberdeen bakers must have been making a good thing of it. We are not of those who wish to bring any class of tradesmen down to unremunerative Prices. No part of the community gains, in the long run, much advantage from that; and we really do not see that 4d. is a fair price, to those engaged in so laborious a bu siness, for the 90th part of a sack of flour, and the ex pense and labour of manufacturing it into a saleable form. We, however, must admit, that the Aberdeen bakers deserve the pull-up which they have received. If 4d. be too little, 6d. is evidently too much ; and had they, of their own accord, struck the medium, as they ought to have done, the public would have thought little of the cheaper bread of other places.—Aberdeen Journal. MR. SOLOMnNS' CASE.—This case has been before alluded to, and it is merely needful to remark that Mr. Moses Solomons, the father, gave his servant girl, aged seventeen! into custody on a charge of stealing a tippet that was worthless, but it transpired in the course of the examination that, although the tippet was discovered a week before in her room, and found afterwards in a dust hole, no steps were taken in the case until she complained to Mrs. Solomons of her son having violated her. The mother of the prisoner merely made the remark of " Well, I suppose he did not kill you ?" and she was sub sequently given into custody for the theft and discharged, and her evidence taken against Joseph .Solomons for the crime of forcible violation. Last week, when the case was before the magistrates, it appeared that a sum of money had been given to the girl to induce her not to appear. On Tuesday, the case was again brought forward, when the accused failed to appear. Alice Cook appeared in the witness-boy, and stated that, some time since, her daughter lived in Mr. Solomons' service, and was treated in a nearly similar manner. Young Mr. Solomons took gross liberties with her; she complained to witness, and witness complained to Mrs. Solomons, who treated her with derision. Next day she girl was given into custody on a charge of having stolen an old victorine, which she had been permitted to wear, and she was imprisoned for the alleged theft. There was 7s. due to her at the time, but she had never been able to get it. Alderman Fair brother said it was evident that the young gentleman bad been carrying on the game some time. The recogni zances of the defendant, which were £2OO, and of his two sureties ; which were £lOO each, were estreated. Alderman Fairbrother, however, said if all the parties were in attendance next day he would go into the case. REMOVAL OF AN APRICOT TREE.—If the people of Ipswich cannot remove mountains, they have, at all events, wheeled away houses, and within the last few days they have applied their moving propensities to a large standard apricot tree, which for half a century has annually pro duced a noble crop of roseate and juicy fruit. The tree stood in the garden belonging to the late Dykes Alexan der, Esq., and was planted by that gentleman 56 years ago. In removing the timber from the estate, the wood man's axe was prohibited from touching the beautiful and rare old tree, and by and bye very formidable preparations were made, under the direction of Charles May, Esq., to remove it from it's bed, with a view of having it conveyed to this gentleman's garden, a distance of at least one mile, A trench was dug round the trunk, forming a circumfer ence of 27 feet, and a ring of tub staves, three inches thick and three feet deep, was made, all being firmly hooped and screwed together. Planks were then placed underneath the roots, and a good and strong bottom being formed, the whole mass, the earth alone weighing no less than five tons, was screwed up by jacks, and eventually lifted over a high wall, and safely deposited on a rully.. The girth of the trunk was 37 inches, and the circumfer ence of the branches was at least 100 feet. It was good work for five powerful horses to draw this unusual load. In passsing down St. Matthew's the branches frequently swept the fronts of the houses ; the rully, however, pro ceeded without any serious impediment through the back roads until it arrived opposite the weighing machine near to St. Margarite's Church, when it was found necessary to remove the overhanging steelyard ; this having been done, the tree was safely co .v2yed into Mr. May's pre mises, and it is now, together, with its old soil, one o f th e chiefest and most valuable ornaments of that gentleman's beautiful grounds.—lpswich Express. How TO Klee RATS.—Mr. W. Kidd, of Hammer. smith, who had a whole aviary of prettily plumaged pets destroyed by rats in one night, has now published an ac count of his recent campaign against t he enemy :—" For the benefit of all who may hereafter fall victims to the rapacity of rats, I will lay before them my military tactics. Instead of commencing hostilities at once on discovering the extent of the ravages committed, I gave encourage ment to the enemy, by throwing in his way divers articles of food, such as dripping, lard, meat, bones, fish, and other dainties. This gave him confidence, and threw him off his guard, so that he revelled unsuspiciously. I took care, meantime, to secure all the hen-houses, and shut the inmates up every night to protect them from their bloodthirsty foe. The great field-day was Friday last, I completed all my arrangements before the hour of dusk, impatiently waiting for the rising sun on the morrow. My poison was carbonate of barytes, ground to an im palpable powder, and phosphorus. An incision was first made in the backs of the herrings, and the carbonate of barytes well rubbed in. The parts were then, as artisti cally as possible, reunited. Sprats being smaller than herrings, and more plastic, were pierced through with a piece of deal wood. Had a knife, a fork, or a human hand touched them, all wo u ld have been vain. The barytes was then `drilled in,' and other sprats, not poi soned, were placed above and below them, so that suspi cion was disarmed. Latet anguis in herbs"! Barytes is without taste and without smell ; hence its great value. The way in which I applied the phosphorus would take more space to detail. When the preparations were all completed I stationed my trusty messengers in every part of the garden and shrubberies ; some under trees, some in flower-pots, some hidden by a brick, others partly em bedded in the garden walks, &c. They did their bid ding' right bravely. On coming down stairs the morning following, I found the enemy had fallen into the snare. There was a serious diminution of the provisions furnished for the repast, and the hand of death was observable on every side. They had eaten ravenously; they had been seized with cruel thirst ; they had sated themselves with water ; they had ' burst their boiler !' To use an ex . pressive and most appropriate classical quotation, there was a visible decessio pereuntium—successio periturorum, which clearly proved I had won the day. In a word, two days and two nights effectually routed the whole. Oh ! ' had they 10,000 lives, my great revenge has stomach for them all."'—Gardeners' Chronicle. CONFESSION oFlitrininTlLliii;s within the last two or three days been made known that John Baguley, aged 70, who died at Chilwell, four miles south of Nottingham, on the 16th ultimo, confessed on his deathbed that 23 years ago he murdered a hawker of shawls, blankets, &c., and disposed of the body. This announcement has caused the greatest possible excitement. From a preli minary investigation it seems that at the time stated an individual, whose name is not now known, but whose de scription accords with that given by Baguley, suddenly disappeared, and all that could be learned respecting him was that when last seen he was proceeding in the direction of Baguley's cottage. This and other incidents led to a suspicion that the Baguleys had made away with the mis sing man, which suspicion subsequent circumstances re vived from time to time. At the period of his sudden disappearance the murdered man professed to be courting one of .Baguley's daughters, and as he was known to be in possession of a considerable sum of money he was looked upon as being a rather desirable suitor, especially as the Baguleys were known to be very poor. The hawker had not been missing more than twelve months, however, be fore their circumstances began to improve, and from the condition of a poverty-stricken labourer Baguley became suddenly advanced to that of a comfortable cottager, with a number of pigs in his stye. This sudden improvement was coupled by the neighbours with the hawker's sudden disappearance, and ever since the Baguleys have been looked upon with distrust. Two sons still living at Chil well and another residing at a distance are supposed to have been cognizant of the foul transa?tion, although at the time of its occurrence they were very young ; and that Baguley's first wife was, is certain, for whenever she quarrelled with her husband, as she frequently did, she was in the habit of putting a stop to the violence of his temper by saying, " Be quiet, John . ; you know I have _ your coat of arms upstairs,"—alluding to some bloody clothes that were supposed to be kept in a lodging-room. This first Mrs. Baguley died five or six years ago, and said, a short time previously, that she had something on her mind which she should like to reveal; but this com ing to her husband's knowledge he never afterwards would allow a stranger to go to her room. The present Mrs. Baguley, now the widow of the murderer, was married to him about three years ago, since which time she says his conduct has been very strange. In his sleep frequently he would jump up in a state of great excitement and ex claim that some one was about to seize him. The day before he died he said to her, " the pick that I did it with is in the dyke ;" and other revelations followed, which have not yet been made public. It is a singular fact that the cottage in which the murder is said to have been com mitled has never since been occupied for any length of time, and in it periodically strange nocturnal noises are said to be heard. The Chilwell Ghost," and tales respecting " the haunted house at Chilwell," have during the last twenty years dismayed many thousands of persons residing within a circle of 150 miles of the locality, and formed many an exciting theme in the local newspapers. The whole of the above circumstances have been made known to Mr. T. B. Charlton, the local magistrate. Hme VINCULA FEREMUS ?—To classify under one head disorders the most incongruous and even opposite— to disturb the timid and the nervous by false alarms—to lull the really afflicted with false hopes—und to deceive all by promises the most extravagantma absurd—as it is the chief characteristic of the medrcal adventurer of the present day, so it forms one of the most painful subjects of contemplation that can present itself to the eye of those who scan over the advertisements which crowd the columns of the newspapers of our time. Among the many medicines obtruding themselves upon our attention, it is some relief, hOwever, to find one at least which (while . its proprietor avoids those gross inconsistencies that, with but/very few exceptions, disfigure all others) is sanctioned 'and employed by the most distinguished practitioners, as well as the most eminent and enlightened i individual of the age, who have. hon o u re d w ith t h e i r favour a confidence the Compound Antibilio us Pill s o f Mr. Co e, the gentleroinoboo albuled. to.. Nardi 5, 1100, sr ° ef WESLEYAN j: GITATION.—The commo_ e unl' ache s i WesteYans continanS. At Bristol, on S d; a.!; Etteridge (a medilet doctor, it is said,) P re 4 o , 0 1/ taking occasion to elluele,. in condemnatory ifn,,,sirt agitation against cordevese:, some of the r i m u'e n holders began to leave theirr i g u t fi gi gn T i e r c())1ti°11111i • from two to three hundred 'e outsid , k chapel, and congregated in gro-r on L. , vent to their wounded feelings. c0 31 1 )3r1 :i The Morning Post observes on ri e • classical .1 . . suggested by the Bishop of Oxford befrreen the Pl e gisii exhibition of all nations and the great OlrelPil,,ol i that " the analogy forces itself upon us in the t o le question whether Mammon is the Jupiter 1) .1, 0 0 Europe," and thinks the projectors of the ohm o o n h t e ly tir r a et e:d. e tr° fori generally "too apt to get into King Cambyses, ve t they discuss the subj ec t," see i ng th a t, " when il ia.vast . ' they will but h ave pro d uce d an exaggera t e d Sohokw6. BALLOON EXPERIMENT AT THE ADMIRALTY... ~ ori Shepherd, C.E., attended the Admiralty on FrihdellYbi, despatched several balloons from the summit d t a ,, te ralit li , ing as experiments, the result of which was to I ' d s cloP' the Lords of the Admiralty whether they sh°„ n , he yitel l , this mode in the search for Sir John Franklin. 1 ".,„ 23i! filled with hydrogen gas, and the largest took_ttioo slips of diff e r e nt coloured paper, having printe dd ;d o for the find ers ; an d t h e s l ow matc h was s o Ws bed to drop small bundles every four or five miles. ° A c itial liberated, they took an easterly direction over the od e London, over which some of the papers were seen to Several of these experiments have been made within' „, 1 0 4 few weeks, which have proved highly satisfactory4joi having been returned from Sussex, Kent, Isle of " 0 60 Essex, and many other distant places. The 5°4 ' 1 0 5 ' bids fair to be of much importance in the Arctic t e e ps! , where a party could only travel eight or ten miles P. 0 0 while the balloon would proceed at the rate of fl o p per hour, distributing its silent but cheering Ine s 3 the finders in its progress. WHAT WILL BE SEEN AT THE GREAT EX oliti rie rl. The Times of Tu e sd a y pu bli s h es a c l ass ifi e d list o m oo admissible to the exhibition under four sections. floc First.—Raw mate r i a l s and p roduce. A. Mineral die dom.—Subst ances use d in metallic manufactures', mical products used i n th e manu f acture of 010" Do wio 7 and earthenware ; stones and mineral substangeoll building, implements, and decoration. B' Ire . ink Kingdom.—Subst ances use d c hi e fl y as f oo d, 0 ; ',.1 preparation ; mat er i a l s use d c hi efly i n the eben33—tic^ or in medicine; materials for building, clotblegAnot miscellaneous substances unenumerated. c' „0 0 Kingdom.—Subst ances used as food • substa nc :;tut for medicinal pu r p oses ; substances used in man u ` a- A Section Seco n d.—M ac hi nery. A. Mach i nes for P use; prime movers; separate parts of mechae's a, .If gearing ; machi nes f or ra i s i ng and moving bodil o ' 9 A chines for wei g hi ng , measur i ng, and registra ti o n ;A m. ments and miscellaneous contrivances ; cannon an if arms; agricultural machinery. B. ManlifitCO U T7oo chines, or systems of machinery; tools and inl e ac intti employed for the undermentioned purposes ; inen g 0 0 011 ' of all fabrics th a t are spun, woven, felted, or l a id; factures of m e t a l s; o f m i neral substances; of 1 .1 ' substances ; of anim a l su b s t ances ; mac hi ner y an ratus for brewin g , di s tilli ng, an d manufactur i ng ch 0 C. Models of eng i neer i ng structures, exhibiting tLiel,ll,' cation of me c h an i ca l contr i vances. Section brie, ee l Manufactures in their finished state, fit for use; spun and woven, felted or laid ; manufactures in o f Fao p nu O ur i f e tah e c l .t a i i r n se , se Fourth. — S c u l pt u re ; fromei p r t T u a r eC vegetable l e , :i e db ll ei i d es earthenw are ;sutbh setapn illsse.;:b , s k in e in e d g ti s l o a n ; ss m , animal substances; smaliwares and chemical cot n ,tr c O a ; objects formed in any kind of material, if they ~e rt lo such a degree of taste and skill as to co me tie L!, s er denomination of fine art, may be admitted into tb l in tsr tion ; sculpture as a fine art; works in die sinking„; s , /t AI lips ; archit ec t ura l d ecorat i ons ; mosaics and inlaid fir enamels ; materi a l s an d processes applica bl e to t' ol arts generally, including fine art, printing in colour3l models. ...01.11.1•••••• TO THE B BREA'S" " There is a tear for all that die, A mourner o'er the humblest tomb;" So sings the poet, and a sigh Comes from the depths of memory's gloo ol ' 'Tis true; and many mourn who show No outward signals of distress: 'Tis not the sable garb of woe That does the inward grief express. We may be clad in rainbow hues, In garments fit for festal day, And yet the torn heart cannot c se But grieve for dear ones pased away. It matters little to the soul / The gloomy pomp about u§ spread, Yet worldly custom does Ontrol Our outward reverencifor the dead. Then, since old usag• compel Decent array in a. row's hour, Even when our hi. len thoughts rebel, And stinted , 'us restrict the power,— Seek Hyam's mous mart, for there You'll find hate'er your needs require, At prices to beyond compare, Style, fa .ion,,all that you desire. H YAM NATI7)NAL C , LOTIII%°' LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL 10 1 / HOURNING, to any ext en t, a t fi ve m i nutes untie' Stock always ready COURT AND FASHION. t he Preparations are making at Holyrood Palas dot accommodation of her Majesty and suite. C° " '• The Queen, the Prince, and the Duke of Sitle+6l 9 went to the performance of the French plays on day. The Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert an' Peel dined with her Majesty on Thursday. lad A Her Majesty and the C our t l e f t B nc kin g hara k t e r ;I Saturday, for Windso r , w h ere t h ey will remain °. days. Lord Gough returned t o f own f rom Bat h on why"; i „ afternoon, and in th e even i ng was present a t"- ro e's chioness of Londonderry's thi d ansan t e a t Ide I' o erf f house, where the noble a n d ga ll ant vetera n " tiegt-of warmly greeted. Major Ed war d es was a l so the g „e l the noble marchioness, an d came i n f or a f u ll me a l congratulation on his safe return to Old Engl e ," ; „,gb#4 Faiday morning, Lord G oug h went to Dien, palace, and had an inter v i ew , b y appointniell ec eif .s Prince Albert. At the i n t erv i ew , his lordship .;itliP from the Prince the Queen's command to dine " to Majesty in the evening at Buckingham-palace. v igt Lord and Lady G oug h h ave l e f t town to paY,-. 8 ,, 0 0 0 their daughter at Bath. It i s s t ate d t h at Lord (- 1 : ho t looking remarkably well, an d w ith t h e exce ption hair and whiskers have become quite white. 10 little the worse for the 13 ye ars ' h ar d serv ice be dergone in the east. 04; Her Majesty has presented to the Orthopaedic 250 guineas to purchase fo r th e P r i nce o f W a les a C r ow - admission of a patient i n t o some o f t h e l ea ding institutions of London. . 9 ' The favourite dau g ht er o f th e E mperor o f Re i s s h oof Imperial Highness th e G ran d D uc h ess of Le te.„—clon will visit England ve r y s h or tl y , an d res id e in - 1 - 1 ° - some time. The Victoria and Albert yacht,' Captain Lord , 14 : clarence, is fittin g w ith a ll di spatc h at P or tsmonte er if now certain that the Royal yacht will have an e" tal trip to Gibraltar and back early in April. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE• GRAND NATIONA L STEEPLE CO° WEDNESDAY. THE Mr. B. Green's Andalusian , TR sian4 TA y L STAKES. rs .............,' THE LIVERPOOL SPRING CUP. Mr. Meeson's Doubt, 4 yrs .......................... '. Mr. Lawson's Angean, 3 yrs ................. • .... ' • I Won easy. Osbaldeston a bad third. THE GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE CHAS° . ...' 5 , Mr. Wilson's Abd-el-Kader (h.h.) aged, 9st. 121bs. • • • .. .i i ',l Mr. J. Forth's Knight of Gwynne, aged, 11 st. Bibs . I „.'bt 1 BETTING.-5 to 1 agst Peter Simple, 7to 1 a gst .. go.* t O to I agst Rat-Trap, )9 to 1 agst Victim, 12 to 1 ags' A; 1 6 ,0: but irtf Gwynne, 15 to 1 agst Farnham, 15 to 1 agzt Vengea; ta l oi). e j agst Chandler, 20 to 1 agst Columbine (taken) , The . L ; Maria Day, 25 to 1 agst Little Fanny, 30 to 1 agst s b . Abd-el-Kader was not mentioned at starting, ,/,' if at 50 to 1 while running. e ow 0 On entering the course in the last round the race be t hg!,‘ ally over, Abd-el.Kader having a strong lead, win e log e f' j tamed to the end, winning easily by two or thre,A pac,.tr" good race for second ; Columbine a bad fourth. 1 00" good all the way. There were several casualties. I started. , 4 THE OPTIONAL SELLING STAKES. Mr. Lawson's Eunuch .......................... Mr. Jamieson's Tower ......................... • Four started. Won easy. THE SCRAMBLE HANDICAP. .•:; Mr. Morgan's Portia 4 yrs.... ................. . '0" Nine started. ' Won cleverly by a length and s 5 MATCH FOR 100 SOVS. Capta F in ig C i u ti n v n e i m n a n d a g all Lord Lurgan's Fugitive' Al un'n aged u • ,•• a ttea This race terminated the sports of the day. The • was both numerous and highly respectable Cunningham's theri n Yrs , .......... JO wr , “,ef if WATERLOO COURSING MEE ',€''' on '`e `ltf The great Waterloo Coursing Meeting came 0.. n jenc r ot i 4 and Thursday, on the ground at Altcar. The c o uldtat. t p v larger than on any former occasion, and the sport cfs,i r ~ exceeded. The following are the deciding cow l I ti t o: Cl i apportionmentof the stakes :- b , Mr. I p WATERLOO-32 DOGS, at ..e5 EACH.-Won "„boice,,fr.,4o. Cerito, Mr. Gregson's Neville ran up. -Mr. ',30; :,,A'efr Mr. George Gregson, .t 100; Mr. E. Taylor, ivilso,..",'ral t :o Graham, .e3O ; Mr. J. Robinson, .20; Mr. Vi.• 0, L'," ; 4t , Mr. W. Fox, .e2O; Mr. A. Graham, i2O; I%ir " / 1 "0; ' £10; Mr. . Taylor, £10; Mr. T. L. Brew ell , 'I * Bake, £lO Sir St. G. Gore. F0 r .6 .10. G I - N . lelvoelrtim, Mr..e 1 B 0 a ; k e M , sr .Kendall,Bolingbroke .e3O ra ; n M u r p . Coo k e , ....ir overbeoc, WATERLOO PURSE--16 Doos.-Won by M r . We. r, e Mr. Bake, t 42; Mr. A. Graham, .£5; Mr. T. Li l o A"" ,o , Mr. Jepson, <el; Mr. George Holme, £2; CO £2. gs o ,, Ili c r oi , .e 2 ; Mr. Cooke, , LadY '240 , ALTCAR STAKES.— Won by Mr. RidgwaY - ,' E. Taylor's Davie Gellatley r a n up.-Mr. Redo.i'i,i ..v l 0; E. Taylor, .e3O; Mr. Simpson, £10; Mr. Fl l5. Archdall,.es; Mr..lepandall, „Ati l ; so, g THE CHASE. Si ''- r< , t at n e mesT C doa h anr e dp s ao h yr ire hounds will meet t o -nio- „g a il y, a y day, March 6th, at Stamford Bridge ; Th u ,.so° - A wf 7 o t ,l h T ed , d h ; Bth, at Th y ; The North Staffordshire hounds will n k- oriclaY l Of 1' I,eikri;arcShatlulrtdiahya,tMpaarruchbau9th;:: to''''ga te) o r e, half-past ten o'clock. 0 11/' if Sir W. W. Wynn's hounds will 13 .2, ee rs asf , „0 0 ' eeMcarrcohwn6st,h,staotkel:rneneathrasmto;o;;" orb Wednesday, March 6th at Nascliffe; lu ti alf" i h a s ti 7th, at Oteley Park ; Saturday, March 9 t - ' 0 , 1 0 , each day at half-past ten o'clock. at half-past ten. Village ; R T uff h o u r r d sda h y o , a u t n c ds oc w ki i n ll g meet uor :li ss is u tl a i'p jl a t t Cll2l larch 5, POLL ( ( 1) ) ' • • . 1 . va n 11 1:`" " t1 t. Jw ‘l 4(l l Nt N4l .B 4 ' 41 114 1 r4. 111 g T • • L I VR N4 A 4 : 4 if ► AT ' Ai 414d4. 41V4 A,1L.81, , 4 4 Bt4t