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EDITION. I THE JEWS AND " FRATERNITY." Standard Office, Ten o'clock IRELAND. litical scal (From the Jewish Intelligenee) The following article shows that political power can rety to the ed with lever oe concec ianized, and consequently that Christ is people; all other efforts to el them. N Mr. Coulson off, riding however, to be remarked ison immediately ordered t nism a secret larcip movable whee Magaii I vidence of God I tive cuff f his one a Jewi A YANKEE ALLIGATO 'd to At SablikerWerTnow a — lo; men of Caswel's company, ( went along the bank for ear 'oung alligator Do 3 off h •-- 1 on the Ch — aD ' at tt i seized hi by the f his companions at first relief, and they lispatched him. Hi Hugging a live alligat Ises without end he active part taken oy toe sews in these political commotions, have by no means procured for them the favour of their revolutionary corn-patriots ; on the contrary, we meet with frequent symptoms of a feeling of dislike and hate towards them, on the part of those on whose behalf they have been so zea lous. We have before us several proofs of this hostile feeling, in the shape of placards, which have been posted in the streets of Vienna, all holding up the Jews as ob jects of suspicion, and representing them as plotting to. obtain the m as t er y over their Christian fellow-citizens Thus giving another proof how hollow and worthless the pretensions to liberty and equality are on the part of those who, while they boast of their humanity and brotherly love, manifest such rancour, hatred, and unmingled bit terness. The headings of some of these placards will indicate their general tone and tendency. Thus we have one : " The German Michael (Michel) and the Jews;" another headed " Fresh Jew-cherries ;" and a third, " Pertition of the Christian slaves to their Jewish masters, for emanci pation of the Christians." Another, again, denounces the Jews, in consequence of the discovery on the Jewish bu rial ground, of chests containing military stores, &c. As may be expected, the language of these placards far exceeds all the bounds of reason and justice. Thus to quote some of the least violent passages : "Their participation in the political commotions of our times is a clear proof that they only aim at supreme rule. They sow 'iscontent that they may gain arlu--` -q in the general c- V au ',ages . on fusion. They wish to become ministers, princes, regents, that they may trample on the Gojim in conformity with the doc trines of the Talmud. They have started a disreputable press, and consider that courage, which others denominate insolence. " Who are the most furious republicans ? The Jews. They perceive that we will never suffer their emancipation, and look, therefore, to a republic as their goal. 1.1.14 Le 2164111 in us, consist in the invention of audacious lies which are dis seminating for the purpo se o f exc i t i ng among lies, lower orders either fear or rebellion. They only aim at promoting distrust and dissatisfaction, and would even not flinch from the horrors of civil war, if it be the bridge leading to their emancipation. It is to be regretted that for the sake of the dregs, a whole nation should be persecuted and hated, but the true tact of our ~ ennese win Here also know how to separate the chaff from the corn, and do full justice to the many worthy men among the Jews. But Nemesis will surely overtake the rabble." One of these productions:after many accusations, winds up with the following warning : "The Jews have already ent n._ nnv. nnnss... ---• e our mone, in te , lay and carry thei r heads high but the y y wish now also n to g nag et everything we have left, an d to be the sole masters ; this is what is meant by emancipation ! We have concluded the chapter of Jewish cunning, but come now to the chapter of Jewish fogy. "The Jews imagine that when they have rooted out Christi anity from among the Christians, by means of their Jewish Neologian literature, from among the people, by means of their atrocious pamphle.s, (for the authors of most of these are Jews,) that then their wishes will be crowned, that then all dis tinction of religion will be merged, and the much longed for emancipation will be obtained. "This is very possible. It may be so. But mark this, you Jews! Just as those Jews who have no Jewish faith more, are now the bitterest enemies of Christianity, so will the Christians, who have no Christian faith more, be the bitterest enemies of Judaism." Such is the prospect which is held out to the Jewish nation by those who use their boasted liberty as a cloak of maliciousness. Some of the more light-minded Jews have been seduced, r n unawares, to join in the movement that has spread so ›. widely ; but the more sober-mi n d e d among t h em h ave 4 all along seen the danger that must be occasioned by a course which every principle of earnest Judaism teaches k them to abhor. May those who have been misled soon Po have their eyes open to see the gulf that threatens to de -0 p v your them, and attending to the warning contained in the ra passage last quoted, learn that those who are false to that Christianity which they profess in name only, will never g be the friends of those who have been led astray by vain glory and unbelief, to unite with them in opposition to that lesson which is taught by revelation, and verified by the univeral testimony of the history of all nations and all ages, —" Meddle not with them that are given to change." 3 I ANECDOTE OF LORD ERSKlNE.—Erskine, when some ,•a what young at the ba r , was engage d i n the fallowing case. g An old gentleman had died at a village inn, and a will was produced by which all his property was left to as at fi3° torney not in the most distant way related to the testator. ;=.+, The widow of the gentleman in question was left in a r r 1? state of destitution with a large family ,: in vain did she 4 solicit the attorney to assist her in providing for herself 0:1 and family : the matter soon became the subject of gene. ral conversation, and means were provided to enable the • g widow to contest the validity of the will, on the ground of the testator's incapacity to make a bequest at the time the will in question was stated to have been made and ( " 1 n •F' executed. Erskine w-- f •-•LJKII. was retame. .or the widow and suc cessfully advocated his client's cause. In the course of the trial the defendant brought forward, as evidence to show that the testator was in a fit state of mind to make and execute the will in question, witnesses who swore that they had seen the testator playing at cards. " Gen tle— (- '1 F b . _ e n of the Jury saia ~ , rsitme)—it certainly appears st 9, that the old gentleman has been played with : how far ". this is a test of his sanity will be f or y ou t o determine. rn l Yes : he played at cards—probably be might play a him or a queen, or an ace ; but, gentlem an o f tL e jury, befor - e you leave the box, I think that I shall be able to point out the party who played the KNAVE in this business." ALLEGED PROPULSION OF A VESSEL BY STEAM IN THE YEAR 1543.—Thomas Gonzales, Director of the Royal Archives of Simancas in Spain, published in 1826 an ac count of an invention by Biasco de Garay, a naval cap tain, who, it is stated, exhibited in Spain, in 1543, an en gine, by which ships of the largest size could be propelled in a calm without the aid of oars or sails. He made an experiment before commissioners, appointed for the pur pose of examining his invention at Barcelona, on the 17th June, 1543,—the vessel used being a ship of two hundred tons. Garay, we are informed, wished to keep his mecha ; but it was observed to consist partly of two Is, one on each side of the ship. The expe riment succeeded so far, that the vessel was propelled at the rate of two leagues in three hours ; and the inventor was rewarded by receiving a sum of two hundred thousand maravedis, denies naving nis expenses defrayed from the public treasury. It is added, that the invention would have been further encouraged had not State expeditions of great consequence claimed the immediate attention of the emperor. But it is important to mention, that the au thenticity of the entire history of Garay's invention, as published by Gonzales, has been called into question ; and it is certain that no practical results of any utility fol lowed.—Fraser EFFORTS OF THE JEWS TO OBTAIN POLITICAL POWER AND EQUALITY OF RIGHT.—AS was to be expected, the Jew, who has long lain unheeded and neglected at the very gates, as it were, of the Austrian Established Church (and may this be a warning to our own dear Church), ? should be, griaonffst others, an especial agent in the pro ,.. . le bitter cup of retribu- I had not it the truth of thi to the principal syr s text the subject of if .nce from the promised land ; he seemed to anticipate a bright future for Israel in the new era of liberty, reminded his hearers that they had played no unimportant part in the great achievements of the times, and called upon them to press forward in the same direction, until they came into full possession of the rights that were due to them. On leaving the synagogue, two Jews conducted us to the hall where the " Sicherheits Ausschuss," a sort. of provisional government, was sitting, and this we found was presided over by a Jew ; subsequently to this we met no end of Jews in the dress of National Guards in the streets, and shortly afterwards a Jew who was a newly-elected member of the National Assembly of Austria ; so that altogether a long time the party oppressed of becoming the oppressors of ace back camp ith his nisf, while the latter, having got a hold on shallow bot )m, pushed and dragged him towards the shore, while trifled with astonishment, ran m got the alligator ashore and asured in length seven feet. the water is a ticklish sort of business. "skin-horse "is a gooa-burnoured dare-devil chap, cross-eyed, medium height, bony and strong, in for a scrape at any time, and is a great favourite with the whole regiment.—Furber's Americans in Mexico. SECOND hich they did, and Dragoons him considerab. mountains close by, a present: his hieh the insurgents had the High Sheriff o pistols, &c the rider w mind on t Mahon ,unted, made for th that means escaped for th ken, and proved to be onet taken from William V, Stuart, f the county Kilkenny; from it is conjectu red ti It was reported here on Friday evening that some marines, who had ascended the Suir in gun-boats, for the purpose of practising, had been at tacked on that day by the insurgents, and compelled to fire cannon at them. I cannot describe to you the alarm this town was thrown into on receipt of the intelligence. THIRD EDITION. ndard-office, Two o'clock, p.m LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—THis DAY . Our Share Market this morning is decidedly firmer, but qui!t_ytre annex the quotations . _ U ; kAueuumaux pre', u LUCIUS JUI d; London stock, 108; Do. new i's, 11 d; Midland stock, 84; Do. I's, 10 4; Shropshire Unions, 21 d; Dover No. 4, 61 1 6 / 3 ; Newcastle pref., Id. _ MARKET.—THis DAY. port since Tuesday last, con- Tessa, 'the Baltic and nearer Lit 3000 quarters of Egyptian then Grain produce are coin single barrel, no Flour from a fair demand for good old iday. English new was also unsaleable. equest. ase no change. itmeal, on the contrary e decline of the week adily at the rates of To, LIVERPOOL CORN The arrivals of Wheat into this wise, and a fair quantity from 01 ports of Europe; but, except aboi Barley, the fresh supplies of a►l of paratively light, having, beyond a Canada or the States. At this day's market there wa Wheat, at the reduce I rates of Fi cheaper in the same proportion; being very soft and inferior, wer Flour steady, and in moderate In Barley, Malt, Beans, and P Oats Id. per 45Ibs. dearer. ( the turn cheaper. Indian Corn fully recovered ng become v titrua turn , . NOTICES Strange Blot Educational Magazine. London : W Paternoster•row ; Liverpool : R. Wrightson. a most useful nublication. conducted by Pro. fessor Bei acquireme . . _ rtinchamp, of our town, a gentleman whose nts as a linguist and teacher are known to most of our readers. The - plan is a highly useful one : the editor intends the publication not only for the assistance of sciences and languages to their pupils, but for the perusal of all persons who wish to make themselves ac quainted with th e p r i nc ipl es o f a soun d m ent a l and liberal education. As a specimen of the editor's mastery over the English language, we cannot resist quoting the fol lowing metrical translation from the Polish. It is most spirited, and reminds one of Macaulay's splendid lays, than which higher praise need not be given : 1E SONG OF THE WAJDELOTA.* elated from the Polish of Mickiewicz.) ient and the young y stroke of fate; .nt's tot !ngth of hearts an, The tissue of their h ning of their w lg of old glories ! eictemple, thou art ever Peen to wait ien light, and a voice of thrilling might, a red flame waving bright With wings of 5 And the sword of an arc written stone—and royal brigands burn— iiong we loved of old, untouched, shall to our heart Time may rot I But the The heroic legend of the dead the crowd shall ne'er forget, They quenched its thirst with ardent hopes, and feed it wit nd to our mo all the c wheie the goo - C1 f and ye died Lithuar The London c nt of t Married at Bar John Gat t Qua' HARD 1 you in ti AMERICA ardens of Drum dence - ofi 3 and Lady Will did specimen of the Agave aloe, the flower stem of which is upwards of 2,800 flowers. DINING WITH THE D boasting in 4 —ericana, or great Atnerii 30 feet high, support DANELLE A. gentle s travels that he had been armed eve re, and that he had seen all the great in Euro Ind them to be :cellent company."• York .Harbinger VA THETT Le corm at Gib '—Net TIE LIVERPOOL STANDIEt VAN DIEMAN'S LAND SINGULAR CHANGE.—The New synagogue in King street, Canterbury, is being erected on the site of the We have already published a number of particulars con- ancient house of the redoubted `• Knights Templars," netted with the Australian colonies extracted from the once the unrelenting foes of persecuted Israelites, but ---'ience given before the Colonisation Committee of the now themselves swept from the face of the earth, together ofith their house, which has thus given place in the lapse House of Lords We now ar a revo Van Dieman's Land The population of this colony i 3f land having originally been an lion of the sexes is ff reatpr than i MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—Captain Miller, Royal En gineers. who arrived on Monday in the Devestation, at Portsmouth, has come home from the Cape on account of a deplorable accident, which unfortunately deprived him of the sight of both eyes. Captain Miller was using some gun cotton, when it accidentally exploded, and caused the f the other Aus- tralian s 140,949 ts. In 1845 the land in cultiv In the precedine veer the n mports The lock of hair of Queen Mary, who married the Dul of Suffolk, taken from her corpse at St. Ma Bury, in 1784, was sold at Stowe for £7 1 the q gland not hav- the land fertil soil on the ban was contained in a glass case, and the sale of the Duchess-Dowa 1786 by the Duke of Chando of Portland' he rivers, v has been d neral charae- sely wooded manuscript library at Stowe. NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP.—The ceremonial of consecrating a Roman Catholic Bishop of the Western District, in the room of Dr. Ullathorne, translated to the .y, and , the population occupy a kind of belt of count running from north to south, pursuing le! , d watercourses. Although the pro- If is large, the colony is not likely to export much grain to England, owing to its liability to damage on the long voyage. The shipment in 1846 was merely the consequence of the unexampled depreciation of all kinds of Australian produce, the price having fallen as low as 2s. 6d. per bushel, and a great quantity of what was sent in that instance became damaged. The following table will show the rate of production of the soil on a ge neral av, the great valley duciion of wheat See of the Midland Provinces, took place at St. Mary's Chapel, Bristol, on Sunday last, when the Rev. Joseph Wm. Henderson, D.D., was duly installed to the vacant episcopate. The Hon. Mr. Clifford, son of Lord Clifford, and a student, at Prior Park, preparatory to his taking holy orders, officiated as master of the ceremonies. On the evening of Monday week, Mr. Brown, a farmer, living at Nether Place, Dumfriesshire, went into a field to fetch home his bull, which had been fighting during the day with a neighbour's bull, and which had become so fu rious that the herd-boy was afraid to drive him. The animal at first seemed to obey his master, but suddenly turned round, attacked Mr. Brown, threw him on the ground, and gored him so severely that he died two hours afterwards. Wheat, per acre. 15 bushels Barley Peas Beans Potatoes 44 tons. Turnips SCHOOLMASTERS IN THE COLONlES.—Government has just dispatched several members of the scholastic profession, male and female (principally men and their wives,) to establish primary schools in the Mauritius. Before starting they received £l2O to provide the neces sary outfit, and on landing in the colony they are to have £25 to defray immediate expences. Their salary com mencing at £BO, is to gradually increase to £2OO per ' Owing to the low prices prevalent during the last few years, many people who used t o grow gra i n h ave g i ven it up and turned their attention to pasture land, but the im pression still seems to be that the prosperity of Van Die man's Land must depend in a great measure upon grow ing wheat for New South Wales, where the production of wool is the most profitable occupation. Every increase of emigration to New South Wales by creating a demand for breadstuffs will therefore act beneficially upon Van Die . man's Land ; and as there is avast amount of agricultural land available at low prices in the latter colony, the pros perity of both would advance together. In this as in all the Australian settlements the conveyance of land between individuals is encumbered with all the expenses and com plications of the English system, and this in the face of the fact that for the Crown grants in South Australia a very short document has been adopted, prepared by a London conveyancer, which is held to convey in about eight or ten lines everything that can be conveyed in fee simple. The complaint put forward by the colonists re garding the inconvenience of the old system, however, is ' in opposition to the opinion of the lawyers." In Van Diemaa's Land the number of bushels of wheat grown per individual is 13. In South Australia it is also 13, and in New South Wales it is only six. The land in cultivation in the three colonies averages 1 1-sth acres per individual, and the present general total of live stock would give, it is estimated, 40 sheep and six or seven horned cattle for every man, woman, and child. One principal point on which the various witnesses lay stress in describing the urgent necessity for emigration, is the fact that under the high wages caused by the insuffi cient supply of labour, it is the policy of employers to en courare demoralisation on the part of their servants, since it is not merely that the present system of exorbitant wages compels them to pass overacts of insubordination and mis conduct from the difficulty of replacing those whom they might discharge, but they feel that it is not their interest that the servant should save his earnings, and by expend ing them on a small farm not only withdraw his own la bour from the market but also become a competitor with themselves for the labour of others. " I have heard," says one witness, " colonial proprietors expressing their grati fication again and again at the fact of their shepherds or other hired servants spending their earnings, perhaps £4O or £5O at a time in the public-house; for they knew that the men would in all such cases be ready to hire themselves again on the same terms as before." annum The Quadrant Colonnade, in Regent-street, London, that exquisite specimen of what a prince regent can do when he takes to architecture, was pulled down on Mon day week, and the removal of the materials has been going on since. They have been purchased for railway purposes. The cast-iron pillars, 145 in number, realised £2900. The total cost of this alteration is estimated at £9OO, to be defrayed by the sale of the old materials, and by a rate on the inhabitants. APPREHENSION OF " WAY TYLER," NEAR BRADFORD. —This notable personage, Isaac Jefferson, the chartist blacksmith, so famous in the annals of Bradford chartism, was apprehended early on Wednesday morning, at a lonely place called Swilling, on the borders of the parishes of Halifax and Bradford. He was pounced upon whilst sleeping, and, seeing himself overpowered, without friends in this moment of need, and without a chance of escape, be quietly yielded himself. On Tuesday week, the family of a man named Law rence, living at Eastry, Kent. were treated to some sloes, which had been prese rv ed i n sugar s i nce l ast autumn, and of which Lawrence himself, his wife, and his wife's sister and brother partook, all of whom, shortly afterwards, be came very sick, vomited much, and were violently purged,. in which state they continued some time, totally incapa pable of assisting one another, and it ended in the death of one of the children, which took place the following day. EMIGRATION OF POOR PERSONS.-By an act which passed on the 4th inst. it is provided b3rthe sth section (11 and 12 cap. 110) that the guardians of any union or parish may, with the order of the Poor Law Board, and in conformity with the regulations they make respecting the emigration of poor persons, render assistance in the emi gration of poor persons irremoveable and chargeable, and charge the cost upon the common fund of the union or parish where there is no union. NOVEL CRICKET MATCII.-011 Monday a cricket match for a purse of sovereigns, between eleven one-armed and eleven one-legged pensioners, belonging to Greenwich Hospital, took place in a field at the back of the Priory, Lewisham, Kent. The novelty of the match attracted a great many spectators. The result of the play was slightly in favour of the one legs, whose facilities for bowling and batting overbalanced the running capabilities of their opponents. etntral IR tsrellanv. The total number of labourers employed in the dock yards and arsenals at home and abroad, is 3,977. A boy at Widcombe has died from eating the berries of the yew tree. A CHEMICAL MODE OF EJECTMENT.—kt Bow-street, on Saturday,. J. Dolby, chemist.. of 280. Strand, appeared to answer a complaint preferred against him. by Mr. E. Wild, a wood engraver, residing in the same house, for having exposed a chemical preparation close to his room at the top of the house, by which the health of his wife and children was dangerously affected. The plan was resorted tain order to get rid of a troublesome tenant. The prisoner was fined for the offence. At the Clerkenwell police-office, the other day, Edwin Fox was charged with an attempt to steal swatch from the shop of Mr. King, Goswell-street. The rogue was caught in a trap. In consequence of previous attempts at rob bery. Mr. King's shop door had been made to fasten with a spring when any person entered. Fox pretended he wanted to buy a watch, and got it into his hand ; he then attempted to open the door to make off with it, but the sprint baffled him, and though he threw snuff into Mr. King s eyes, he was captured and committed for trial. FIRST APPLICATION TO GOVERNMENT UNDER THE NEW PUHLIC HEALTH ACT.—The mortality at the port of Whitehaven, being at the rate of 42 in every 1,000 (taking the population at 11,840, according to the census of 1841), the inhabitants determined last week to present a memorial to Lord Morpeth, calling for the interposition of the commissioners appointed to give effect to the provi sions to the new sanitary act. The inhabitants are look ing forward with interest to the anticipated official visit of the government inspector. Jenny Lind performed,. on Thursday, at the Theatre Royal, Hull, in the opera of Sonztambula. Yesterday she appeared at York, in a concert ; on Wednesday, the 20th instant, at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle, in the opera of Sonnambula ; on Saturday, the 23d, in a morn ing concert at Edinburgh, and on the following Monday in the opera of Sennambula. She will then perform at Glasgow, in the two operas of Sennambula and the Figlia dal Reggimento ; and on the 11th of October will appear at Dublin. After performing there four nights, she will return to England. A poor woman, named Anderton, met with her death on Monday, at Stitchford, a few miles south of Birming ham. It appears that she and her son were about to pro ceed by the up train to London, and for that purpose she took her place at the station in question. The noise of a train approaching caused her to run out of the station room and cross the line, supposing it to be the train by which she was about to proceed to town. Unhappily it proved to be the express down train, by which, on at tempting to cross the line she was instantly knocked down and killed on the spot. THE HERRING FISHERY.—The " takes" within the past week have bean unprecedented for the last twenty years at least, both as respects the profusion and the quality of the fish. Our fishery this year will be worth £60,000 at the lowest estimate, and by moderate calcula tion not less than £6OOO h a s th is week been netted from the deep. The bustle and animation in the harbour and on our quays, has been quite enlivening, and both the Fleetwood and Liverpool packets have taken heavy car goes each trip for the English fishmongers and curers. The current price to the curers and fresh buyers was ss. a mease, and to small purchasers ls. 3d. per hundred of six -Manx Liberal. The Bradford chartists were all committed for trial on Saturday, at the Court-house, Bradford. The Worcester Festival has realised £l,OOO , for the charities, besides the £5O sent by Jenny Lind. A man named Davison has been committed at Sunder land for killing a man named M'Clen in a fight. The sale on Friday, at Stowe, (when the best paintings were sold,) realised nearly £lO,OOO. „ • The first anniversary meeting of the Cambriaa Institu- tion for the Deaf and Dumb was held at Aberystwith, on Monday, the Earl of Lisburne presiding. A young lady, named Stephens, from Bristol, fell from Dover Cliff last week, a height of 200 feet. She was killed. The extensive woollen manufactory of Richard'Caunter, at Ashburton, known as the Bedford Mills, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday last. The sale at Stowe has, so far, has occupied twent days longer produced £65,441. It -five days ; and will continue for ten At Burford, Oxfordshire, last week, a boy playing with an elderwood popgun, got some of the pith in his throat, which occasioned suffocation and death. On Saturday, the coachman of Col. Sykes, at Hyde Park Mews, was literally worried and trodden to death by a horse. A London magistrate has decided that policemen have no right to interrupt the public thoroughfares by walking in rank. In the next issue of camp equipage to, the army the tents will be made waterproof, as the present canvas is no protection against a heavy fall of rain. - Two gold - rings, exhibiting beautiful, miniatures of George 111. and Queen Charlotte, sold at the Bucking ham auction for £6 2s. 6d. The Bryn-y-pys estate, at Flint, the property of F. R. Price, Esq., was sold by auction on Wednesday for £150,000. So plentiful was the take of herrings at Sunderland last week, that they were selling at the rate of fourteen shil lings per thousand. An estate, lying in the parishes of Erlistock and Ban gor, comprising 1684 acres, and producing a rental of £3566 per annum, was sold last week for £130,000. Richard Wootten, Esq ~ draper and banker, the "Jemmy Wood" of Oxford, died on Saturday, in his 85th year, leaving a fortune of £500,000. The - celebrated Chandos portrait of Shakspeare was sold at Stowe on Thursday to the Earl of Ellesmere for 355 guineas. Upwards of 8,230 packages of foreign fruit, chiefly plums, have been landed at Hull from the continental steamers during the past week. CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE, NEAR BRlSTOL.—Up wards of £40,000 have already been suspended upon this undertaking, and no more money being forthcoming, the works are now at a stand-still. On Tuesday, as the workmen were engaged building a Presbyterian Chapel at Bradford, a large stone fell and killed three men instantaneously, and seriously injured a fourth. score.— Typhus fever has broken out in Greenwich Hospital Schools. There are upwards of 40 boys in the sick ward ; one death ; the friends of the other boys have been advised of the complaint prevailing. TRAMPS.—By an Act passed on the 4th instant, from and after the 30th instant until the 30th September,lB49, tramps are to be relieved from the common fund of poor law unions, and;not at the cost of the parish, where the union house is situated. GUTTA PERCHA ON THE MONUMENT.—This novel material, so famed for its utility, has lately risen to an extraordinary elevation in the metropolis, having reached even to the top of the Monument, from whence the visitor to that noted column may look upon a gutta percha tube one hundred and ninety feet in length, three inches in diameter, and one quarter of an inch thick. This tube passes up the centre of the Monument from its base to the gallery, at which point it is upheld by a flange also made of gutta percha. It is intended for the conveyance of water, and is, we understand, highly approved by the civic authorities, being light in weight and economic in price. As a proof of the honest and peaceful habits of the peo. pie of Westmoreland, a Kendal paper mentions that for the last three months no case has been brought before the magistrates at the monthly petty sessions held at Kirkby Stephen. Continued fine weather has enabled the farmers to cut nearly all the wheat in this district, and on the best lands there is not a stock left in the fields, the whole hav ing been secured in fine condition. Oats and beans are rather late in some places, but, the oat crop is being rapidly cut, and will in another week or ten days be all safe, should the weather continue fine. Further enqui ries confirm the opinion already expressed that the bulk is large, the yield good, and the sample fully an average one. About one-half of the wheat exhibited in our mar ket on Saturday, was of the new crop, and it was remarked that a finer sample, or one in better condition, was never seen for the first of the season. Many of the samples weighed 631bs. and some as high as 661bs. per bushel.— Newcastle Journal. Most of the bakers at the west end of the metropolis made a reduction in the price of their bread on Monday of from a halfpenny to a penny in the four pound loaf. od bakers are selling from a penny to three low-pr SS PREACHER ! — Mrs. Darley, long and fa vourably known_ on_the_Shields. and Stock ton circuit, as an actress, preached in the Wesleyan cha pel, Cotherston, twice, on Sunday last. At night the place was crowded.—Gateshead Observer. - ALTERING THE NAME OF A TOWN.—By command of the Postmaster-General, Lane End, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, is in future to be designated Longton, for all purposes of postal communication, and instructions have accordingly been forwarded to all postmasters. A few mornings since, at an early hour, a fox suddenly appeared in Queen Square, Bristol, and was immediately seized by an unlucky byp asser , w h o was so severely bitten by his captive that he was f orce d to re l ease t h e an i ma l , which then triumphantly retreated into a drain leading from a neighbouring public house. FATAL FIRE.—On Saturday, a fire broke out in the premises of Mr. A. F. Watki nson , staymaker, White chapel, London, which completely d estroyed the build ings. A child, named Pitt, was burnt to death, and Mrs. Pitt and her daughter. aged nin , s, were so seriously injured that the girl has The new P^-- THE LEIGH PEERAGE.—At Warwick, on Monday, Mr. W. P. Roberts, solicitor, of Manchester, applied to Geo. Cattell Greenway, Esq., one of the Coroners of the coun ty, to appoint a day to hear evidence, in order to induce him to grant a warrant for search after the bodies alleged at the county petty sessions in May last t o h ave b een bu ried under the new bridge,in Stoneleigh Park, upwards of 30 years ago. The Coroner said in cas e th e b o d y was known to have been buried, any coroner would be justi fied in having it exhumea, if suspicious circumstances arose, in order that the cause of death might b e satisfac torily ascertained ; but he did not think the duties of a coroner extended to a search after bodies, whose inter ment rested merely on suspicion ; the appli ca ti on was , therefore, refused. An application had previously been made to Mr. Seymour, a coroner, acting in another divi sion of the county, but he refused to interfere, Stonel e i g h Abbey being out of his district. This was represented, to be merely a preliminary step to further proceedings. One of the new wrought iron bowstring bridges, con structed for the Blackwall extension line, has been tested at the works of Fox, Henderson, and Co., at Smethwick, near Birmingham, in the presence of Mr. Muntz, M.P., Captain Simmons, and other railway officers. The bridge, as erected on an open space near the London works, pre sented a clear space of 120 feet between the bearings. It is constructed entirely of wrought iron, and consists of an arch of boiler plates and angle iron, tied across at the ends by horizontal bars, the tie being cemented with the arch by vertical standards, and by a double system of di agonals, which have the effect of distributing over the whole curve of the arch the action of weights placed on or passing over any part of the bridge. The ribs are adapted for large spans in cases where either headway is of im portance, or where sufficient abutment cannot be obtained without a great outlay. The ribs are supported in such a manner as to allow not only for expansion and contrac tion, but also for motion under a heavy weight. On this occasion the bridge was loaded with 240 tons of rails and bars, double the load which the bridge can under any circumstances be required to bear. The trial gave satis faction to all concerned. year nce died. ,oman Catholic chapel, Salisbury, was on -.tied with great pomp. It is dedicated ler of the cathedral of Old Sarum, .round, who accompanied his uncle, y.aCl Ur, to England as a warrior and after n conquest was consecrated Bishop of Sarum. SHOT.—As Clarence Hooper, Esq., -- A Captain Frederick Johnson, tate of H. M. Williams, Esq., he sth of September, four par which fell to one barrel fired by . e of week c founder an lebrated Sai tm the Conc Green hole of r .,_, _ rorty yards. tleman, who has farmed extensively in the southern . 1 of this county for the last twenty years, and who s year grown 600 acres of wheat, 600 of barley, 600 and tJUU acres or turnips, states that, taking the nerally or as a whole, he has never, during his known a more propitious harvest than the present.---Devizes Gazette, Lord George Bentinck's visit to D oncaster has b een far more profitable than his contemplated trip to Ireland could have turned out. It was stated that, in the event of Surplice carrying off the St. Leger, the Protectionist chief stood to win .00,000, a portion of a bet made at the time Surplice was foaled. We know the result of the race, and the upshot of the long odds taken by Lord G. Bentinck against the crack horse winning both the Leger and the Derby, a feat unperformed since the year 1800. MAN VERSUS STEAM.—On Tuesday evening a comical adventure was witnessed near Bedwas Church—a race between Mr. John Jones and the locomotive called " Bute"—distance three hundred yards, for a sovereign a side. It was won by the former, by about twenty yards. FASHIONABLE LUCIFER 1V— JAATCH DEALERS. — There are numerous revivals of a well-known ruse for getting money, and mysterious noblemen are scouring the country by dozens selling lucifer matches. A country correspon dent of the Cambridge Chronicle states that the place from whence he writes was lately visited by a "walking gentleman," well dressed, and with his hair neatly curled, cyinves a box of lucifers to all who , rge of one penny. undertaken to rs before he eats his who disp buy at gow from Greenock, on Wei Russell. His lordship drol was visited by Mr. Hasti the City. Lord Jol aan who ha The Premier arri Star Hotel, where he M.P., the Lord Provost of lw no other visitors, and, indeed, very few persons were aware of his arrival of the unemployed were anxious to have an interview with his lordship, in order to present a memorial for re lief, by an advance for emigration, or otherwise ; but they failed to discover where he was temporarily lodged. His lordship and family departed in a compartment of a first-class railway-carriage for Perth by the half-past one o'clock afternoon train. M. Louis Blanc has published a letter in the Times, in reply to an article in which the little gentleman's princi ples were pretty freely commented on. M. Louis Blanc's defence is divided into two sections—one of which is devo ted to the refutation of a particular charge respecting his responsibility for the ateliers nationaux ; and the other to the exculpation of his general doctrines from the liabi lities with which they have been visited. Under the first of these heads he alleges that the ateliers nationaux re cently suppressed were in no sense of his creation ; that M. Marie established, and M. Emile Thomas directed them ; and that, in point of fact, they were employed to counterbalance an embodiment of his own influence in another quarter. OTTER HUNT EXTRAORDINARY.—Last week, James Lomax, Esq., of Allsprings, near Blackburn, took (by the kind invitation of the Earl of Harewood) his cele brated pack of Otter hounds to Harewood House. They flung off on Wednesday, at Harewood-bridge, and a short distance up the river Wharfe they got on to the " drag" of an otter, which they presently found, and swam him for eight hours that day without securing their game, and had to be called off. On Thursday morning, they threw off at the bridge again, and found the otter at Arthington Mill. They swam him again for eight hours and a half, and at last killed him in the moonlight, after one of the severest hunts that ever was seen. The otter weighed 241 pounds. PRICE OF PAINTINGS.—At the sale of paintings at Stowe, on Friday, " Sybilla Persica," from the Orleans gallery, by Domenechino, fetched 690 guineas. A burgo master, in a black dress, by Rembrandt, sold for 810 guineas. The finding of Moses, by Salvator Rosa, (six feet seven inches by four feet,) was sold for 1,000 guineas. Philip baptising the eunuch, by Cuyp, was sold for 1,470 guineas. The great feature of the day, however, was The unmerciful servant brought before his Lord," by Rembr ndt. The size of the picture was seven feet by five feet ten inches. The first bidding was 1,000 guineas. On this the next advance was 50 guineas ; from 1,600 guineas it went. at one bidding, to 2,000 guineas; and, after a somewhat languid competition, was ultimately knocked down to Mr. Mawson at 2,200 guineas. USEFUL HINT ABOUT CHOLERA.—A writer in a weekly medical journal, who saw much of the cholera in 1832 and 1834, suggests a very simple, and, as he asserts, a very valuable prevention against the susceptibility of the disease. The weakened state of the stomach, he says, which pre disposes to chole r a, is so decidedly obviated by eating freely of common salt to our meals, that it is believed that three-fourths of the cases which would otherwise occur may be prevented by this simple addition to-our food. The writer recommends for an adult the ninth of an ounce (about a small teaspoonful) three times a day,. at break fast, dinner, tea, or supper. It may be eaten with fish, animal food, poultry, game, bread, toast, or bread and butter. The same beneficial result is not obtained with salt meats, broths, soups, &c., in which salt is dissolved ; because, by the action of the heat, or long admixture of the salt with other matter, a change is produced in its pro perties, and the preventive power, with refe rence t o thi s particular use of it, destroyed.. BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, GREEN PARK.—The new residence for the Earl of Ellesmere was long talked of: the carcase is now completed ; the chimneys are being capped; the carving cleaned off. The situation is one of the finest in the metropolis,—the view from the state rooms of the new house, over the park and towards Buck ingham Palace, is perfectly beautiful. The plan approaches a square; the south front is 142 feet 6 inches, from east to west and the west front, 122 feet, from north to south : and there are two small courts within the mass to aid in lighting the various apartments. The south elevation differs from the west in having no projections of the front wall. Vases surmount the dies of the balustrade._ The entrance-porch, not yet built, will be in the centre, and be surmounted at the angles by similar vases. The whole of these fronts, and part of each of the other fronts, are faced with Portland stone. In examining the interior of the building, when finished, one point will particularly force itself on the attention, and that is the care which has been taken so to plan it, that the freedom of access to his fine gallery of pictures, which Lord Ellesmere pro poses to grant the public, may not be interfered with by the private requirements of the liberal owner.—The Bulkier. A committee THE SMOKE NUISANCE AND- SMOKE CONSUMERS AT HALIFAX.— Messrs. Crossley, of Dean Clough,. to pre vent the nuisance of smoke, have adopted " Samuel. Hall's self-fuel-supplying and smoke consuming furnace,"'which principally consists in an inclined fire-grate, composed of a large namber of distinct parallel bars, moved at the up per end by a series of eccentrics turned by a revolving shaft. The longest motion of these eccentrics is given alternately to bundles'of about twelve bars ; but during this motion every third bar also traverses an inch more or less than the two adjacent to it; thus affording an addi tional preventative against the formation of clinkers. But as- these hindrances to complete smoke-prevention can never be entirely avoided, provision is made for their fall ing into a chamber at the lower end of the furnace, a fire brick shelf being interposed, with an inclination the re verse of that of the fire-grate, so as effectually to burn anything that will burn, before it is finally cast amongst the useless scoriae of the clinker-chamber. The regular motion and inclination of the fire-grate affords a means of self-feeding, without the aid of any extra wheels or cylin ders; and the front of the furnace is formed of three up right plates, with spaces for the admission of air between them, which not only keep the front of the furnace cool, but also afford an easy method of regulating the admis sion of air. The patentee sets forth eight advantages of this furnace, many of which are also claimed by other pa tents. Its peculiar advantages, however, seem to us to be, first, that as there are no joints to work in the heated part of the bars, and no friction except at the ends, the fire-grate is likely to be more durable ; secondly, that there is little or no waste of power in giving motion to the furnace ; and thirdly, that the supply of coals, of air, and of speed, is very easily regulated.—Halifax Guardian. THE POISONINGS.—The cases of poisoning in Essex are still under investigation. The case to which the au thorities are now directing their attention is that of a per son named Nathaniel Button, formerly a resident in the parish of Ramsey, who died on the 30th of September, 1846, a few days after the death of Mary May's first hus• band, about whom also some suspicion exists. The authorities, not having the power of exhuming the body, have transmitted to the coroner a quantity of evidence, in order that he may take the necessary steps for investi gating the matter. The next case is relative to a person named Palmer ' resident in Ramsey, who died sh or tly after Button. Almost immediately after his death Mrs. Palmer left Ramsey, accompanied by a man with whom she had long been intimate. The town of Great Holland in the Tendering Union has also, it is suspected, been the scene of one, if not more, of these dreadful poisonings. From tqe investigation which has taken place, it appears that a man named Brudger died suddenly some time since in great agony, having been well and at his work until within a few hours of his death. Two other cases are un der consideration—one in the parish of Tendering, and another in the parish of Bradfield. In the former the keeper of a beer-shop, named Brown, is the subject of in quiry, and in the latter the body of a person named Gop, who there is little doubt was poisoned, is to be exhumed. In the investigation of these cases it has been ascertained that most, if not all, owe their origin to the existence of w h a t are inthiapart of the country called " Death Clubs." A person (man or woman) enters one of these clubs, agreeing to pay a sum of 7d. per quarter, at the same time appointing a nominee, at whose death the subscribing party receives £lO or £B, according to the number of per sons enrolled. In addition to this subscription each member pays 6d. extra on the death of any nominee. Mrs. Southgate was a member of one of these clubs. Mrs. Button was also a member, and received £B, on the death of her husband. MANUFACTURE OF GAS FROM WATER.—WC were much pleased with a descriptive lecture at the Polytechnic Institution, accompanied by a working model of a new hydro-carbon gas apparatus, patented by Mr. Stephen White, for the manufacture of gas from. water and com mon tar, or resin, &c. The apparatus consists of three retorts placed in a stove, two of which are filled with char coal and thin pieces of iron, and the other with iron chains, hanging from a centre bar. Th e fi rs t two retorts are for the decomposition of water, which is regularly supplied by means of a syphon pipe, through and into the centre of the retort ; the water, in passing through the heated ma terial, becomes converted into pure hydrogen and proxide of carbon. It then passes into the third retort, to receive its dose of bi-carburet of hydrogen, which is prepared from common tar, resin, or similar substances, passing, or dropping, on the red hot chain, from a syphon tube, which regulates its supply. This causes the tar, or melted resin, to throw off an abundance of hi-carburet of hydro gen gas. The gasss being mixed in this manner, are im mediately conveyed into the gasometer for use, without any purifying vessels whatever, none being required. The great advantages arising from this invention appear to be the small, simple, and cheap apparatus required, and the beautiful, clear and bright light produced, surpassing the ordinary coal gas ; also, its p er f ec t p ur it y , b e i ng f ree f rom any nuisance in its manufacture, and, above all, so pure and innoxious, that it may be burnt in any private room, without the least ill effects or smoke resulting from it. The apparatus may be used, and th e gas ma d e , i n any private mansions, churches, or manufactories, and on any scale, from 5 to 1,000 lights or more, as well as for cities and towns. This gas can be made and surplied at a price considerably less than that of coal gas. Thus we see ac complished the foretelling of that eminent chemist and philosopher, the late Sir Humphrey Davy, " that at some future time gas would be generated from water for general purposes, surpassing coal gas in brilliancy and purity." —Mining Journal. SENTENCE FOR HIGH TREASON.—TIIe sentence is that of execution, attheerson and cun b vice bertetdbe hanged b be drawn a hurdle place t h e n ecl ,ll dead, and that then the head be severed and the boclY, into quarters, and be left at the king's disposal' A consequences of the sentence are, corruption of blood which the convict can neither inherit nor transrnitV his heirs. the loss of dower to his wife, and forfeituri the crown of his lands, goods and chattels. These Pa u s c ayA la :N rs wH in aso a N y reE p cs o eT s n s te i l b yo l n y lFy pi ns o gu v . e —i n i n kL a s r ol e co s ho t b i p n r, g obo t ern o l o, t n h gt e hi n r eg e ad sti rp.; hipper ) ten f s e Fairy this Pori Feroni 41 4U8t Otter atd Q 4 ,41 i°,e,r,Diii:, The s he j , creek Yera ° l,, r Rhea'Nl, A. r4isi lockers, &c., from his pocket, Attached to the bunch was a small pi( _ _ which his name and that of the v and gazed on their rapid d( tory with deep r cast anchor off the island of Rassay, about No Lochbroom, and again resumed his piscatory emPlach i Among the result ot his labours was a large codfi sb y, was speedily unhooked and thrown on the deck; L l ile o the utter amazement of the skipper, the poor cod , ", the last agonies of death, v om it e d up his bunch ?!. o r The parchment, being partly preserved, proved ai:,;er, pertv beyond a doubt. At the same time, as if coni; o 0 stricken, it disgo rg ed a p en k n if e b e l o nging to a . skipper, on which his initials were engraved. It load markable circumstance that this fish, in its course, should arrive at the same spot where tb,° g io was, sacrificing its life, and with its last breath dis cl 7, ; ,o an act of honesty that would have honoured a l" grade or species of animals.— Greenock Advertiser. 1 51 EFFECT OF PROSPERITY ON MARRIAGES. — i n DO OO according to the census of the R eg i s trar General , b ber of women living betwee n th e age s of 15 no m i te o , • 3,812,651, of whom it was esti ma t e d a bout 2,00 0 .vy'l 0 unmarried. Allowing for a proportionate mar eas : o o° diminution by marriage during each of the s ic id, o years 1842-6, we find that on thi s num ber of 2,0000):0. affected, the returns of marriage give the followio6o sults :-1842 237,650, 1843 247,636, 1844 2640,4 287,486, 1846 291,328. The Registrar-General To " the disposition to marry " as one o f the tests ° Tbo i prosperity or supposed prosperity of the country. or half of the year 1846. Then came an in 1844-5, years of great abundance and ease, til e , or riages were far above the average ; so, too, in the the number of marriages, and an increase in the nO t y of deaths. We have not as yet got the returns ores year 1847, but they will, we fear, give strong ev ide l the heavy suffering resulting from our comm oto other calamities during that year. In 1845, wh eii r soo l was cheap and commerce prosperous, 50,000 more p 0 were married than in 1842. In 1847 the variation °' doubt, be the other way. cv e . ; CHARGE OF ARSON.—Oh Monday, at ' s ow' Emily Beaumont, keeper of a coffee shop in Lo rig r ; Mary Fitzgerald, her servant, and James Fry, ' ye cbg" ced at the bar, the two first-named prisoners being gedasyrineipals, and the male prisoner as being a U ' '' g r ' actual ciecrei .nt into the water Six weep after the fact, in setting fire to No. 52, Long-ne re e "lieP s Storr, the assessor to the Fi r e- o ffi ce , sa id th a t on l' i olog of August, the prisoner Beaumont called on him , $4 , f claim to £272 165., among w hi c h was a quan tity O tY ing apparel, which was found pledged previo o 4, o o 25th of August, when the fire took place. 0 0 f . bol#; the 4th inst., the prisoner Fit zgera ld came to his ;00' when she made a statement respecting the fire,:_ c etitl: any threat or promise bein g ma d e t o h er , w hich ° e a , tt` ced to writing in the presence of Sergeant Then officer.—The effect of the state men t was , that the t io ner Beaumont had repeatedly urged various P r obf set fire to the house, under a p rom i se o f a con si / joste"' pecuniary reward—that one of the parties thus ins!;ciff" received the sum of £5 as a po r ti on of the proln!4 ward, but decamped with the money without tal'l st e part in the crime, and that the prisoner Beaunr,, 5 0 0 , been sending her property out of the house f° time before the fire which actually occurred in '", ( .091 the deponent Fitzgerald, also by the hopes of P — o rir„; gain, to keepler secret.—The prisoners were rol l Or CHEAP ANDNICIOUS LITERATURE.—The irte vo ok; the bankruptcy of George William M'Arthur o ° ' author of the " Mysteries of London,''' and other es publications, has elicited some interesting evidence store', subject of the demand fo r c h ea p an d v icious lit ee t be ll The bankrupt himself gave evidence. He was the ;'l, the " Mysteries-of London," " Pickwick Abroad , ci dei, ter Timothy's Bookcase," " W a ll ace ," " The Par s% til e " Gretna Green," besides several translations Ir e f tb French and Grman. He was also the " London Journal," and is now connected with.," cas', paper, to divulge the name of which would,- he s at , if s i , his immediate dismissal. One of the most re„cl, gise° the latest of his publications, was Reynolds Lankrale limy," which has-had a large circulation. Th e ha d nec being examined regarding it, deposed thateibrceulation received one penny out of it, even when tr an d he 20,000. The price of it was only one Pe nn ' '26,00. it would not pay at a circulation of less than completed added that when those cheap serial works were whilst they were not worth one farthing, and only 6O OO progress. He declared that a circulation of 0 " 0 at tl 7000 would pay him better at nd. than 22,0 0 _ or Or, that he had been losing by the Miscellany .tal6 d his earnill;', week. He was now employed by others, and his err averaged £lO a-week. The penny works were quite r extraordinary sa e o 5 meral. They had, perhaps, an e down.—Patriot. A weeks, and then as rapidly went • • or en Th following int or i STATISTICS OS MARRIAGE. —The ReP statement is contained in the Registrar General's „ er a just published :—" In the year 1846 the total nu e m st sb' marriages celebrated according to the rites of tlavngt,, lished church was 130,509; the number not acco rd f tie the rites of the established church was 16, 155 ;,, we re,b, ( first-named. 14. were by special license, 17,1°," were,! license, 92,995 by bans, 1,862 by SupPrintellUeD t h of t d trar's certificate, and 18503 " not stated by whie to tb i e ditor peg' foregoing forms." Of the marriages not according( o r established church, there were in registered places,_?oo ll ‘ ship, 10,693 (of which, 3,027 were in Roman 'l 5l O chapels, and 7,669 in the chapels of other denotnin,'„%iietj' e 4,167 in Superintendent Registrar's office, 68 and 224 Jews. In 1846 the number of men rotor''' . I' l , i ; were not of age was 6,313 ; of women, 20,0 01. 1 0 le widowers who re-married were 18,343 ; the widows, name The men whee ',Aug unable to write their ow n signed with marks, were 47,488, the women not . ` e 70,145. The age at which the greatest number f riages takes place, both of men and women, is frtweeli 25 years. Then 20,519 ba c h e l ors marr i e d thel save, 1,',1 ber of spinsters ; 871 bachelors married widoe'sia',4 widowers married spi ns t ers ; 996 widowers be e 3 widows. Three women were l e d t o th e altar,, o 0 0, 0 J the mature age of 75 and 80 ; t wo b e tween 1 3 0 (whereof one found a partner of a less age than s er l ji five between 65 and 70. Of th e men 20 were, Ocl 'llie, between 65 and 70 ; seven b e t ween , 70 and P do ' whom married a woman of a less age than 26); between 75 and 80 years of age. oti l l;re Two• CHILDREN KILLED BY AN INSANE i; 0 0' On Wednesday, the inhabitants of Willenbal" re,i' t or d manufacturing parish, three miles f r o m Wolver i e l Y t o/ were alarmed by a report th a t a woma n flan' p it , o rl Jones,. wife of Enoch Jones, whimseyman at %Or I/ killed her own child, Edwin, a boy 18 monk s „ s e.gi' also a niece 12 years of age, by cutti ng their t°, 1 1 ;" 0 net seemed that Mrs. Jones had b een a tt ac ked o lle e o• ous monomania, and it was deemed necessary i ° o `o)e t ,o in the lunatic ward of the Wolverhampton el , o •los t et. She was removed thence on Wednesday morn' i l' s , be . 44 the instance of two female relatives, appare, ° ' Vi r tt e According to a statement which she made, t• ° „ e o r bt,," after the occurrence, to Abbott, the gever",he d - workhouse, she sent her niece with the babe '):) 51 1 "e't fore eight o'clock, and retired to rest hers elf iot ° o l ' after, but could not sleep, and the thought cat 0, 1 01 1 " head that she must kill her child, a s it would "- CPO , ' owing to its having been christened by a Roma n or; e d i t clergyman. She then got up and sought for a eef i f r ot° not finding one, took a black-handled knife, t oat hi •lP, on a steel, proceeded up stairs, cu t th e g irl's t he el 5 13 ; ear to ear, and afterwards completely severe? a , D''„ head from its body. She then ra i se d a n al°,, e to et o ur had murdered the children, an d en d eavo ured own throat, but only inflicted a slight wound'r othe r tirj at times she seems tol era bl y compose d, yet tdeOP: ments she bitterly reproaches herself, and has ` e he P con' to strangle herself, an d t h reatened to kill verlder watching her. She and her husband were i no e fortable circumst ances , an d religious frenzy 0 1 A to have prompted her. e this te r'r o A BATTLE WITH THE WHALES. We 113 %1 I° doff e to perform the duty of the ancient scalds, n',! ro (but in sober prose) the gallant deeds that tv' t sr bal''so j , e e u s 9 neru i l ° ,` l ll l Cromarty Firth last week, when an invasi courageously encountered by the hardy " A - we 0 ,. - 01 . 4 ; after a bloody fight, the shoal was disPer°'" b est 4, with great loss," for many of the largest ant i : o t Do ra p ee shoal were stranded, and became Pri 2es ,ii cOt e p r A l e querors. The shoal of bottlenoses was ,;* u: '0 Saltburn, near Invergordon, on MondaY , hd e .„, l their presence by the noisy nature of their g,°"' o larl e 9,( village fishermen were soon ready after tf e ha teb o oe t o given, and went out in boats, armed with A S I A i°,o spear, musket,. pitchfork, grape, and Wal, rigat *'lie the most amusing character ensued. Dosit i d 0 0 ; 0 5 the middle of the shoal, the fishermen T yr os ij o g io t great good will, and many a deadly woun'''.. t I l ea' o rin t o the fray. The terrified whales dashed alO fa r e , p it h • al o se the wildest confusion, lashing the water in_ ho t , iso the safety of the men and the boats, and , " hot" poe t and the excitement of male and female,ld the i 'a c ile ti li shouts of the fishermen, the struggles of a etl, o i• o f gathered on the shore, the scene was ay., t he l' 3 „ . t i l t° and wildest that can weli be imagined. ;; dyceF t beSlic the hubbub, the mail coach from Invern ar ge ,r . , 0 the village, the road running close to the e ses'ejoyet!br9 sengers, several of whom were strange, trave l 011 which they may not see again should t he y ,g , alte r e d) road for 50 years. Late in the orf e e r ' ai l en su e , tboc,'ilt' hours of shouting and fighting, the nsu e so me driving 45 of the sea-monsters on s.,. ll° Ti r that ni i g u b her 4 feet in length. Lille sleep was taken the blob tie ° fr burn ; everybody was busy in cutting „e opera„' the prizes • and on Tuesday forenoon e arrw t 60;0 , tinued—the carcases, divested o b h e oil we e r e O r the farmers as manure. With casks were filled to be shipped off to t ood ge ble eo et ot el o ' and will. no doubt, yield a was a large„ o lll,,,lt o The great body of the shoal, which sea, but sec ro ' ee';ct e o f ceeded in making their way out to _ vea o f the_ .i ,ht_ o l t t tangled in the bay of Nigg, Wher su T ue sdaY 4309 o io aground by the receding tide. On de their way sh y moresvere catured, having.ma _ aa ded °t i e c ar ,frA l e down the Firth; and having r. 1 .2 m ore w ee v arYi liP Fowlis Point. On Wednesday dullie Point:l the little haven to the west of Ar a a tone oy ureA 11 to 16 feet, the fight having been ttY eq u the tiff 70, pre , a or , whole number captured exceeds orth de eighy iol °ll # amongst the fishermen on the Il t h e n _ co os i° „. none of the whales having ventured2,les a re o u p so ' O 7, their 410 of Cromarty, where bottlenose n' a y E r n ntere seen. Shoals seldom, if eve , 11 01 ° 11 did the one which was so signa Y Inverness Courier. tiliefatlubber abloct°ooo ps a TY YS 11 °11:. " ( 1 Alll O l l'etre? b VI et,,etori ~.a_ry ut t 4,R 4 apl 31 4 1 1 Ity Jp rtitri