The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-05 00:00:00

SECA )N1 • LIVERPOOL COB The arrivals coastwise yesterday, are still rath however, we have to note • import of other groin, wl siderably. There has been a very a moderate demand for c per 70Ib. New Irish ha was Id. dearer than on tl Flour ls. per barrel do In Barley, Beans, and • Oats ld. per 451 b. dear, 'lndian Corn rather ea week. Corn Meal in goo C) t" • 0.4 " —r ,o ez n; . ° le n o P - a 5* trj . mc 2 . 4 15° .o 42 2 g .; CD CD 4. 0:74 MCD?" Cif n-4 eg 0 2 A, a.= : : • •• -• oom t • •" 4 05 • " • • • • • - • . . . . . • • • • • • • • • . . :• • • • • • • • • • " a". 2 • • • • • • •• •• •• •• I 1 o 5 ' W:4 ' \ : : C. 4 5 S 0 • • CM -4 0 C. 4 C. Eitcratur. VARIETIES. SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Two o'clock. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE—Tars DAY, The arrivals coastwise and from Ireland, for the week ending yesterday, are still rather limiled in amount; from abroad, however, we have to note a fair supply of Wheat and a moderate import of other grain, whilst that of Flour has fallen off con siderably. There has been a very good attendance of buyers to-day, and a moderate demand for old foreign Wheat, at an advanee of 2d. per 70Ib. New Irish having recovered the decline of Friday Was Id. dearer than on this day week. Flour I s. per barrel dearer, and in good demand. In Barley, Beans, and Pease no variation. • Oats ld. per 451 b. dearer. Oatmeal 2s. p?r load cheaper. 'lndian Corn rather easier, at a decline of Is. from this day week. Corn Meal in good request, at 14s. 6d. to 15s. per brl. GT Ca 04 C . ! : Co. 00 CI wl 2 : off' : !! 4 2 : Zg ..1; . ov I C . ce• CC' altt ioa .1. ." 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Because he is the boy to keep the game alive. SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE.—Sir Thos. Lawrence wrote thus to his sister, under the date of 26th of Dec., 1829 : "On the 6th of January I have sacredly pledged myself to be with you, and to that all circumstances shall bend." Alas ! this was too bold a word for man, without any re ference to the divine permission. On that very 6th of January, 1830, he was seized with mortal illness, and died on the day following.—Poynder's Literary Extracts. FINE WRITING.—HER MAJESTY OWN SISTER TO THE MOON.—The editor of the Fleetwood Chronicle, in describing the landing of her Majesty at that port, with a pen charged with ink of the most cerulean blue, writhed thus :—" At this moment the chaste and lovely Queen of night came forth from her previous veil of clouds to greet her sister sovereign, and the whole scene, without excep tion, was one of the most beautiful we have ever beheld." DIRTY 1847 !—ln connexion with the building of so many crack public wash-houses, how shall we reconcile the fact that the six months' consumption of soap in 1847 is seven millions of pounds less than that of six months ih 1845 ? Is it the washing in pure water that keeps the dirt at bay ? or do they bottle up soap suds, as a saving of soap ? How will ministers and their reforming, purify ing, and cleansing advocates get clean out of this dilemma, in proving the popular advantages of free trade and the improved state of the people ? FRUIT STORING.—At the present season of the year, the most important duty of the fruit grower is the gather ing and storing of his crop, so as to preserve it in perfec tion to the latest period possible. The directions regard ing the fruit room, contained in the Botanic Garden and Fruitist, for the present month, are too copious for giving at length. The following ideas from them will, however, be useful to many of our readers. The room should oc cupy a northern aspect, be kept dark, and have a low uniform temperature. Its shelves should be of scentless wood, and those for Flemish Pears inclosed. Apples and Pears may be kept in perfection between layers of sand ; and still better, if first wrapped in paper. Or, wrapped in paper, and enclosed in earthen jars, with due regard to temperature, .&c., they keep long without shrinking. RISE OF A MANUFACTURING TOWN.—Sixty years ago, Huddersfiield, now in the centre of the fancy manufacture of England, was a miserable village. The houses were poor and scattered, the streets narrow, crooked, and dirty —the people ignorant, and wild in their manners almost to savagery. Around them stretched the black moorlands, unreclaimed by the plough or the spade ; and the sides of noble hills were covered with shaggy moss, brambles, and wiry creepers, or coloured in the appointed seasons with the golden gorse and the purple heather. And how short was to be the intervening period ! Already in this wild people were deposited the seeds of a glorious manufactur ing and historical unfolding. Sixty years have changed the face of this vast district ; for during that time heads and hands have been at work, conquering the wild domi nion of nature, and making all her elements serve them. Thus the river has been converted into artificial beds, and the waters arrested in their course by weirs, and compelled to turn the wheels of the hundreds of factories which are built upon the river's banks. The savage moorland has been cultivated and parcelled into corn-fields and pastures. The hills, in many eases, WaVe, even id their 2 1 .:0hy SUM , mits, with rich herbage ; and from the wildest glens and ravines rise the chimneys of noble factories, sending their black smoke through the green foliage of the trees; every one of them the centre of a little working community. Thus Huddersfield has grown an important town, and, what is more, she has fostered other towns and villages in her immediate neighbourhood, and made them also im portant, so that, within six miles of her, there are some hundred and thirty thousand souls engaged in manufac tures, and in the commerce to which those manufactures gave birtb.—Bradford Observer. INDULGENCE FOR SINS.—I observed over the door Of almost every church, in large white letters on a bla, ck ground, the words "Indulgentia plenarie perpetuo vivis et defunctis." This startling announcement is ge nerally upon a board, like a sign over an hotel, declaring what sort of entertainment is to be found within. There seems to be an absolute rivalry upon the subject. In some we find it placed more prominently than in others ; while it is not forgotten, if the letters became defaced, to have them carefully renewed. What an extraordinary an nouncement in a Christian temple—" the utmost liberty for the living and the dead !" No doubt, this subversion of the principles of Christianity drives only at one object —the replenishing of the coffers of the church. It is the prostitution of religion for the purposes of gain, and upon a subject which is sure to have no lack of customers, as conscience will urge millions to the absolving shrine, and affection call as many to purge the ashes of their dead. The words are on St. Peter's, and thus are stamped with all the authority of the Vatican. If the announcement is fully acted on the question may b e we ll as k e d , w h at are its effects ? Immorality and religion must, I conceive, be the inevitable result. If a man under the influence of sin, or committing actual crime, knows where he may without any inconvenience (where there is an ObBolllte scars and re t t o ur e n erv io Q i slim) , *" 3 „ 1 11 1 II ese stains ant* —if the accounts he innocence, participating in full pardon the are settled so easily, the long las ignored by t c l ! e esiastical jury, with whom the heaviest arguments a re whether with as it were outbhe. site —it aenadgreoenatsedieonucbet cleansed, he will not return ttorlenewed zest to his ori ginal life ; and thus a sort %o 7 bookkeeping be kept up, the account of debtor and creditor_o regularly proceed ing, and as regularly settled34..7l v vi t ea B ri of a Residence in Rome, in 1846, by the Rev. TILE SCRIPTURES.—Sent from heaven, but little tehoughe prigted book, th of—locked up in that trite small - -lies the germ of moral renovation —the only secreßible making base spirits noble, and fallen spirits puree. Roer ceived into the confiding heart, and developed in conge: nial affections , it comes forth in all the wonderful v ar i et i es of vital Christianity ; and according as the recipients dis position is energy or mildness, activity or contemplation, it creates a bold reformer or a benign philanthropist —a valiant worker, or a far-seeing thinker. In bolts that melt as well as burn, it flashes from Luther's surcharged spirit; and in comprehensive kindliness spreads its warm atmos phere round Melancthon's loving nature. In streams of fervour and fiery earnestness, it follows Zuingle's smoking path, and in a halo of excessive brightness encircles Cal vin's awful brow. In impulses of fond beneficence it tingle's in H owar d' s restless feet, and in ablaze of in door welcome Cowper's friends. But whethe r it s mani festations he th e more beauteous,. or the more majestic, of all the influences which can a lt er or enno bl e man, it is beyond y suffusion the m wh o i s e t h p i o t t e e h n e t ers an e d xi p s e te rv e a ce si , ve in . th ln e holy ambition which the sunn ns‘ti it it impart s to charact er kindles, and i n th e i ntens i ty which North British Revietc: that Gospel i s " t h e power of God. " • EMIGRANT LABOUR.—Observing two young men ap parently brothers, and evidently emigrants, listlessly walking along the streets, we asked them if they wanted a job of work? They said readily " yes.' What wages do you ask ?" " Sevenpence halfpenny an noun" they re plied. We asked, "had they ever sawed wocd 1" "Yes," was the reply. " Can you chop and split it ?" " Yes." " Did you ever pile cordwood !" To this they were at a loss to reply, because they did not know what it meant. " How long have you been in Canada ?" " Three days." " Where, then, did you ever chop and split wood ?" " Oh, they had done neither, but no doubt they could." We had just purchased three cord of wood, at Bs. per cord, and wishing to enable the poor fellows to earn a trifle — both having said that they had not a farthing of money, we set them to work piling the wood at 71d. per hour. Some business calling us away, we forgot our emigrant wood-pilers for three hours, and on returning found them still at work, and the wood not all piled. They complained bitterly of the hard work, and boasted how hard they had worked, and when the job was completed we had 6s. 3d. to pay for what our Canadian would have gladly under taken and executed for 3s. ; and yet these men were quite saucy and abusive when they were civilly told so. There is a man in this city who makes it his business to go to every emigrant he can get hold of, and caution them not to work for anybody under 3s. 9d. per day, and his board. These poor weakly creatures readily believe such state ments, and by following such advice, reduce themselves to starvation and beggary.—Kinystoa Chronicle. PECULIARITIES OF PLANTS.—Under the Spiny Col letia, a Furze-like shrub, figured in the " Botanic Garden and Fruitist," for the present month, (October,) the author has the following observations. "'There are two circumstances in the economy of this genus of plants, which naturally force themselves on our notice. These are, their armature, or spines : and the absence of leaves in some of the spices. Generally speaking, we say that leaves are necessary for the elaboration of the sap, to ren der it suitable food for the flowers, and the fruit; and it is very true, that where leaves are furnished to plants, those leaves are necessary to the healthy development, both of the tree and its produce : but leaves we see, ex quisitely organised as they are, can be dispensed with; and yet the plant can produce its .flowers in beauty; and its seeds it can nourish to maturity, for the continuance of its species. There are other appendages too, impor tant, doubtless, to the plants which bear them ; but all plants require them not ; thorns, bristles, glands, scales, and such like forms of clothing, are common on some, whilst others are as exempt from them as a piece of polished marble ; and who amongst us has satisfied the " why and because" of their existence, or their absence ? Who has yet told us why the kindred fruits—the Peach and Nectarine, have coats of a texture so completely different ? No attention of ours can change either the one or the other. Spines too, offer to our contemplation as wide a field for speculation. In some instances they are eradicated by cultivation, as in the Pear ; hence they are said to be starved branches; but other spinous plants are, which no cultivator has ever rendered spineless. How little we know ! as Pope justly intimates — "All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee ; All Chance, Direction which thou calist not see; , All Discord, Harmony not understood; All partial Evil, universal Good." INGENUITY OF Faauns—ln 1780 a gentleman of eminence in the mercantile world was grieved by the con tents of a letter which he received from a correspondent at Hamburg, the post mark of which it bore. From the statement it contained, it appeared that a person, most minutely described, had defrauded the writer, under extra ordinary circumstances, of £3,000. The letter continued to say, information had been contained that the defrauder —the dress and person of whom it described—was ocsa sionally to be seen on the Dutch-walk of the Royal Ex change. The object of the writer was to induce his cor respondent to invite the party to dinner, and by any moral force which could be used compel him to return the money ; adding, that if he should be found amenable to reason and evince any signs of repentance, he might be dismissed with a friendly caution and £5OO, as he was a near relative to the writer. As the gentleman whose name it bore was a profitable correspondent, the London mer chant kept a keen watch on the Dutch-walk, and was at last successful in meeting, and being introduced to the cheat. The invitation to dine was accepted ; and the host having previously given notice to the family to quit the table soon after dinner, acquainted his visitor with his knowledge of the fraud. Alarm and horror were depicted in the countenance of the young man, who, with tones apparently tremulous with emotion, begged his disgrace might not be made public. To this the merchant con sented, provided the £3OOO were returned. The visitor sighed deeply, but said that to return all was impossible, as he had unfortunately spent part of the amount. The remainder, however, he proposed to yield instantly, and the notes were handed to the merchant, who, after dilat ing upon the goodness of the man he bad robbed, con cluded his moral lesson by handing a check for £5OO as a proof of his beneficence. The following morning the gentleman went to the banker to deposit the money he had received, when, to his great surprise, he was told that the notes were counterfeit. His next inquiries were concerning the check, but that had been cashed shortly after the opening of the bank. He immediately sent an express to his Hamburg correspondent, who replied that the letter was a forgery, and that no fraud had been com mitted upon him. The whole affair had been plotted by a gang, some of whom were on the continent and some in England.—The Bank of England. THE CH URCH IN MALTA.—We confess we are disposed to regard Malta somewhat in the , light of operations (to use a technical phrase) for the CLurch of England in the Mediterranean. Its military and therefore political im portance ; the vast number of foreigners from almost all the nations of the earth who constantly meet there ; its proximity to Italy, now beginning to be stirred after an unwonted fashion; the easy and rapid communication with Constantinople, at once the head-quarters of the Eastern Church and the capital of the infidel empire of Turkey, now evidently tottering to its fall in spite of the efforts of the powers of Western Christendom to maintain it; the near neighbourhood of the Mahometan states of Tunis, Tripoli, and Egypt, the former already crowded with the overflowings of the Maltese population ; all these circumstances conspire, we think, to give it an importance possessed by no other British possession of the same ter ritorial extent. An attempt has been, or is just about to be made, to turn to advantage this peculiarly favourable position of the island in a missionary point of view, to which we cordially wish every success. A college has been established under the direction of a Committee in London, of which the Bishop of Gibraltar is Visitor, the object of which is to unite a school of the higher description for English and other children, with a college in which natives of the countries bordering on the Mediterranean may re ceive an education to qualify them as Missionaries of the Church of England to their respective countries. At pre sent the school alone is in actual operation ; the latter part of the scheme is suspended, we understand, until the necessary funds can be raised, which it is hoped may ere long be accomplished. The advantages of such an insti tution under proper direction, such as appears to be se cured to it, would be inestimable : a body of Missionaries might be educated at far less expense than would be pos sible in England, qualified by their knowledge of the lan guages required, and by being habituated to the climate and customs of the countries to which they would be sent to preach the Gospel to Jews, Mahometans, and Heathen, perhaps to aid in reclaiming the heretical bodies of the East to the ancient Catholic and Apostolic faith. We earnestly trust that this design will not fail for want of means to support it : the present state of Western Asia and of the north coast of Africa seem to offer an opportu nity for the diffusion of the true light, which, if neglected now, may scarcely occur again for a long time to come. It is for these reasons that we look to Malta with such lively interest, and hail what has been already accom plished pclhisuhrecdhthcehrreonaisctl.hee beginning of greater things. — C ol on i al Idharlehs's death-warrant, has not, perhaps, been suffi ciently appreciated. We have already remarked that his grea t religious error was his assuming for the mains p rin g of his actions those inward impulses which he ascribed to God, in preference to the explicit commands, of the Holy cr lievlefdwihnilweheantgahgaesdbienenprdaeyneorm, ori ted , a particularS,iptur eslie be faith." im mediately after, he felt a lively con v ict i o n in his mind, he thought that this impression proceeded immediately f r om Heaven, and that he ought to follow it as the very voice of God. If, on the contrary, his devotions remained uid, he concluded that he ought to. abstain from the I we might point to one denomi n a tion of Christians, editated act. This is a common er r o r in p ious minds, ark cele ate in such sentmnts. It was this guided him orated for their spirit of meekness a nd p eace, who por tion) Tip tn ,e s entence passed i on e Charles, and freed 11 his doubts and scruples. John Cromwe ll, at that him artici from a the Dutch service, had come to England with a time in f r om the Prince of Wales and Orange to endea message . vour 'to s ver, he rem i n d e d him of the royalist opinions aye the king's life. When introduced to h is cousin Oh -nerly entertained at Hampton Court, The he had for, ncertain as to the line of conduct he ought to latter, still u. d, that he often fasted and prayed to know pursue, replie the will of Goc. 1 with respect to the king, but that God had out the - way. When John had withdrawn, not yet pointeu friends again sought by prayer the path Cromwell and li t -4; and it was then the Parliamentary they ought to f ol i o viction that Charles's death alone first felt ts.L '-om that moment all was fixed : ns._ •o s —4e culs !ndecision was at an end : it re could save ss...earitls Ir, -I accomplish that will, how- God had spoken: Oltiefs one o'clock in the morn mained now merely to asittas ' knocked at the door of ever appalling it might be. At, lodged, and informed ing a messenger from the genei'ai missed his doubts, the tavern where John Cromwell . m a and t thatdeei decided Republicans the `forward by the him that his cousin had at length dis, argument w s er s e o n lo o n vs g . seed by the will co P n u fir ‘ -se of Cram . but may of the Lord. Enthusiasm, then, was the cats - sho de well's error. This is a serious , in • • ieter fault religion it not extenuate the fault in morals the . Is a man s. sires to obey God equally guilty '4 mined to listen to his passions only Is not God's wih sovereign rule of good and evil ; • beyo n d Chateaubriand , a witnes suspicion on this • which we have been point, speaking of the times at under examination, glancing, if not of the particular act was everywhere, n, proceeds thus—" At this epoch, faith and philosophers; it in a small number of libertines times even on t at impressed on the faults, and some moral, if the crimes, something grave, and even victim of Polk the expression may be allowed, by giving to the y conscience the conviction of truth." of the martyr, and to error opinion, the only important This error in religion is, in our well. At the same time it is the blemish to be found in Crom plains his whole life. His ex piety key which opens and ex not always sober. Yet if this erroryviits sincere, but it was of the Protector's fault, the crime to o great extenuation which must ever remain, in history, as a warning to terrify it le y d him who may base their conduct on their inwardiierrif those rather than on the sure, positive, anti ever npressions, -accessible in spirations of that W or d o f G o d w hi c h never deceiv e s.— The Protector, a Vindication. 13y Merle D'Aubign e t.; . .;r.. iti THE IAVERPOOt STANDARD. antral ftlilSrrilanv. The form of thanksgiving for the late abundant harvest is appointed to be used on Sunday the 17th, Father Mathew is going to teetotalize file Americans in the spring of 1848. The bells of All Saints, Norwich, were rung in honour of the arrival of Jenny Lind in that city. Mr. Strafford (acting for Earl Ducie) bid 340 guineas for a cow, at Mr. Carruthers sale. It has been calculated that there are now about 108,000 women servants in London. On Sunday week, upwards of 250 vessels, of all sizes and classes, sailed in various directions from Penarth roads. In Thursday's Times a gentleman has inserted .an apology (in an advertisement) for passing a friend in the street without speaking. At the Devizes petty sessions, a few days since, a man was sentenced to pay a fine of 20s. for having assaulted a young woman, by kissing her without her consent. Another Edinburgh assistant inspector of the poor has died of fever, being the second victim of a similar grade since MOnday. A young woman named Newby, who was born an idiot, died in London on Friday, from the effects of a large quantity of yellow soap, which she bad eaten. The porter at Southampton, who was suspected of hav ing opened a letter addressed to the Queen, during her stay in Scotland, has been dismissed from the service of the postoffice. Madame Albertazzi, the celebrated vocalist, died on Saturday at her residence, St. John's Wood, aged 35 years. Her maiden name was Howson, and she was married to Albertazzi at the age of 16 years. LORD MAYOR OF LONDON.—Mr. AltiOrMaD Hooper, vintner, was on Wednesday duly elected chief magistrate of the City of London. Mr. Wm. Cubitt and Mr. Chas. Hill were sworn in Sheriffs. So abundant is the crop of apples at Steeple Ashton, Wilts, and other villages in that locality, that they are being sold at less than 4s. per sack. The best potatoes are selling in the same county at Bix shillings per sack. The Glasg()w testimonial to Sir Harry Smith took the form of an epergne valued at £450, which having been presented, Sir Barry returned a very handsome letter of thanks. No fewer than three destructive fires happened last week in Worcestershire, throm.rli the carelessness of children, who were playing with lucifer matches in the neighbour hood of corn stacks. A heap of lime having been placed near the scaffolding erected for repairing a house in London, the rain that fell during the night slacked the lime and set the scaffold poles in a blaze. Mr. O'Connor, M.P., commenced a letter in his last paper, addressed to the editor of the Weekly Dispatch, with these words ;—" You unmitigated ass ! you sainted fool ! you canonized ape !" CORNISH MINERS.—One hundred Miners arrived at Falmouth on Monday en route to Durham, having been engaged to proceed thither for the purpose of working some newly-discovered iron mines. ON THE INTENDED MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE OF WEL LINGTON WITH MISS ANGELINA BURDETT COUTTS The duke must in his second childhood be Since in his doting age heturns to A. B. C. MONETARY REFORM.—A meeting of the " Mends of monetary reform" was held at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet street, London, on Wednesday last, and resolutions adopted for organising an " Anti-Gold Law League." A Mr. Bennoch was in the chair. At Spofforth, on the 18th, a young man of twenty and a boy twelve years of age, drank, before breakfast, six gills of raw gin mixed with whisky. The young man, after remaining in a state of stupor for many hours, re covered under medical assistance, but the boy died. METHODIST NEW CONNEXION, (STOCRFORT CIRCUIT.) —The friends of this community held their annual tea meeting on Wednesday last, in Cross-street School, Port wood. The day being fine, the meeting was well at tended. VESTRY MEETINGS.—A correspondent of the County Chronicle states that the vicar of Chertsey has closed the doors of his church against vestry meetings, and adds that it is the intention of the parishioners to try the question of right. In the case of Mary Ann Hunt, convicted of the cruel murder of the aged female with whom she lodged, a jury of matrons have decided that she is not pregnant, although she declared before the Judge that she was. Mr. Baron Platt therefore said that the law must take its course. The Bishop of Bath and Wells and the trustees of a school at Enmore, near Bridgewater, have declined to re ceive a government-grant in aid of the institution upon the ground that the conditions exacted are contrary to the provisions of the Trust. CURIOUS IMPORTATION.— The City of Rotterdam steamer has brought over 852 pair of wooden shoes, the manufacture of Holland. Wooden shoes are generally worn by the humble classes in Holland, and are of great strength and thickness, and totally impervious to wet. The Duke of Sutherland has promised to give his Scotch tenant fishermen two prizes, consisting of a boat, oarsails, and fishing-lines for the greatest quantity of cod, ling, &c., caught or cured, within the period from Sep tember current to July, 1848. At a meeting of the Bramber Agricultural Association at Arundel, on Tuesday, it was resolved to break up the society in consequence of a deficiency of funds to carry . it on. The Duke of Norfolk was president of the associa tion. THE MURDER BY A MANIAC. — Thomas Macintosh Davidson, charged with the murder of Lewis Mugford, by stabbing him with a knife, has been pronounced of un sound mind, and Mr. Baron Platt has given directions for his safe custody during her Majesty's pleasure. The Manxmen are going to erect a monument in honor of Prince Albert, on the spot where he stood when he surveyed the beautiful country round Ramsey. The pro prietor has presented four hundred square yards of land for the purpose, and £l6O has been so far subscribed. A court of inquiry is sitting at Portsmouth, nvesti gating the circumstances under which the Birkenhead, steam-sloop, Commander Ingram, ran down the unfor tunate brig, off the Lizard, a few days since. It is upposed that the result will be a court-martial on the officers. _ On Wednesday, Mr. Alderman Thompson, Mr. Chris topher Pearse, and Mr. John G. Hubbard, were elected directors of the Bank of England, in the room of Mr. Prescott, who has been appointed deputy-governor, and in lieu of Sir John Rae Reid and Mr. Abel Gower, who have of late disqualified. In reference to the complaint that some of the postage labels wouldn't stick, a correspondent of the Times says :—" Damp both sides of the label, by drawing it gently through the lips or otherwise, thus swelling both sides of the paper alike, and there will be no difficulty in making them adhere." On Saturday morning last, a seaman belonging to one of the ships lying in the docks at Hull, rose, while asleep, and walked overboard ; but some of his shipmates over heard the noise caused by his plunge into the water, and. succeeded in saving the unlucky sleepwalker from d;own ing. At the County Court held at Barnard Castle on Thurs day the bench decided that a publican could not recover for spirits sold out of the house in quantities less than one pound sterling in value. Many publicans have the im pression that this law merely relates to spirits sold in the house. ACCIDENT TO VISCOUNT MOILPETA.—We regret to state that the noble First Commissioner of the Woods andForehstosrmsee, whichtwi with ahases sincerious n a c c o cid fi e n n e t d la h s im tw t e o ek h b is y r a o f o a m ll from his at Castle Howard. His lordship, we are happy to state, is going on favourably, and is expected in town next week. At the Westminster County Court, on Tuesday, Mrs. Latham, housekeeper at Berkeley House, obtained judgment for £l9 13s. 10d. against Grantley Berkeley, Esq., M.P., for articles supplied to hint prior to 1844. The housekeeper, it appeared, was placed on board wages, and supplied articles for the family, for which she made a regular charge. At the Privy Council held by the Queen at Osborne, Isle of Wight, on Tuesday, Parliament was ordered to be further prorogued from Tuesday, the 12th of October, until Thursday, the 11th of November. The last occa sion of the prorogation of parliament, after dissolution by writ, was in the year 1837. The last parliament was dissolved, August 21st, 1847, and the writs were made returnable on the 21st of September. Amongst the last bills which were presented on Friday by the grand jury, at the Central Criminal Court, was one for misdemeanour against Lord William Paget. The of fence imputed to his lordship is, that he, by means of false ftetences, obtained two one hundred pound notes, under a pretence that he was in a condition to obtain for the prosecutor a certain situation, and upon this repre sentation the money was advanced to his lordship. Jenny Lind has been singing at Norwich at three con certs, the receipts of which amounted to £3,500, of which Mdlle. Lind received £1,200. It is stated she returned £2OO to the giver of the concerts, as the prices were lower than any where she had previously sung. The Swedish nightingale also left with the Bishop of Norwich, with whom she had been staying, £2OO, to be distributed among the charities of the city. -; ANOTHER. INCENDIARY FIRE.—On Saturday night a fire broke out in the stack-yard of Mr. Gale, of Little Brick-hill, near Woburn, and was not subdued until ten or twelve ricks of agricultural produce had been consumed. Great discontent exists in this district, owing to the re duction of wages with the price of corn, and some of the labourers refused to assist in extinguishing the conflagra tion. THE LATE MR. ROBERT THoM.—Lord John Russell has kindly presented to Mrs. Thom, mother of the late Mr. Robert Thom, Consul at Ningpo, China, £250 out of the Queen's Bounty Fund. Mr. Thom, we understand, has acquired a new claim on the gratitude of his country by devoting the last week of his life to preparation for pub lishing another work on his favourite topic. It is entitled " the Chinese Speaker." FATAL AFFRAYS.—On the 11th instant, a sanguinary 'arrel took place in Sheffield between some soldiers and or three civilians, during which one of the latter, ' Thomas Morton, received such injuries that he Thursday last. The inquest is now sitting.—On ek a sanguinary affray took place in the same • party of Irishmen, during which a labourer, ndley, received such frightful injuries on on Friday last. - CAL FESTIVAL.—We pronounced -ucc.essful one ; and we are now c comparative results, which -o.casion were six hundred -lue of the tickets sold has amounted to •e to be able to ills. Their 'ost, we `ran. cp. two . named died on Sunday Nvc, town an icnig.t. named :John Mak. his head t hatdie,die. GLOUCICSTER Muss, the festival last week a 4, enabled to give a statement O. shows that the receipts on this 6, pounds more than in 1844. The vt.. in 1844 war about £1,975 ; this year L. about £2,575. We should heartily /*jolt.. add that this covered the outlay of the stew loss, hpwever, is not likely to be l arge — at the mi., hear, about £p each —possibly less.—Gloucerter EMIGRATION.—The New. Zealand Company intend to despatch two vessels, of 600 tons b►irthen each, on the 30th of October nest—one from the Clyde, and the other from the port of London—with stores and emigrants for their new settlement, Otago. lath vessel will convey 200 settlers. DR. CUMMING'S LECTURES AT EXETER HALL.—These lectures, whi6h have obtained so wide and intense an inte rest, and which are now being published, have been sent for from the highest place in England, and are at this moment read, there is reason to believe, by the most illus trious personage in the realm. A respectable grain firm in , Fife has issued their annual circular regarding the crops of this season, and their report is to the following effect :—Wheat, 61 to 641 b. per bushel, and a fourth above last year's crop. Barley, 53 to 561 h. per bushel, and a fourth aboYe last year. Oats, three-fourths of an average crop, and about the same as last year in quality. Beans and Peas, average. Potatoes, good crop, but only about one-fifth of usual quantity planted. Turnips, a very large breadth sown, but crop not likely to be average. Some villains lately placed a tree across the line on the Esk viaduct of the Caledonian. It was fortunately seen in.time. One hundred pounds has been offered as a re ward for the discovery of the perpetrators. We are sorry to notice also that a large piece of iron, the crane of an old fashioned wood plough formerly in use in this county, has been placed upon the rails of the Kendal and Win dermere line, near to Staveley. This, too, was discovered before the passing of the train. A reward is offered for the discovery of the guilty party. CURRENCY REFORM.—BIRMINGHAM, Thursday.—A. meeting of merchants, manufacturers, and others inter ested in a reform of the currency system, has been called by circular, and will be held at Dee 's Hottl, in this town, on Monday next. Invitations have been forwarded to several members of Parliament who have taken an inter est in the question, as well as to other persons ; and the meeting is likely to be of an important nature. The memb, rs for the northern division of this county, and for the borough, have promised to be present. The scarcity of water is beginning to be felt as a cala mity in Edinburgh. It is really distressing (says the Caledonian Mercury) to witness the struggles for preced ence which take place between the crowds that assemble at the public wells, when the water is put on, perhaps twice a day for an hour or two, and which are frequently in dangei of leading to a breach of the public peace. it was only the other day that we heard a poor woman ex claiming, in tones almost of despair, and whilst waiting her turn for service, " Dear me ! there's nine o'clock struck, and there's no water to mak' the porritch." GENERAL THANKSGIVING.-It is understood that the day appointed for the General Thanksgiving will be a Sunday ; probably the 10th or lith of October. The selection of a Sunday does not exhibit the national grati tude in a very striking or favourable light. The only ground there can be for taking that day, is that of saving time. Sunday gratitude does not lose the nation a single Minute. It costs absolutely nothing. Independently of the religious question, we do not see why the labouring classes should have been begrudged a holiday. They had a fasting day given them, and why may they not have a day of festivity.--The Guardian. _ ANOTHER ACCIDENT FROM READING IN BED.—Thurs day morning, between two and three o'clock, the family of James Antrobus, Esq., 19, Seymour-street North, Euston-square, were alarmed by loud shrieks and cries for help proceeding from the bedroom occupied by Miss Antrobus, on the second floor, who was found with her night dress on fire, and the furniture of the room in flames around her, which with some difficulty were extinguished. The young lady is so severely injured that her recovery is considered extremely doubtful. The accident was caused by the flame of a candle, by the light of which Miss An trobus had been reading, in bed, and had fallen asleep without extinguishing.—Bristol Mirror. SUICIDE BY A MERCHANT.—On Wednesday, Mr. Wakley held an inquest at the residence of Mr. M. A. Reynolds, in Tunbridge-terrace, on the body of that gen tleman, aged 60. The deceased, who was a merchant, carrying on business in the city, a short time ago lent a large sum of money to a person who became Involved during the late commercial crisis, in consequence of which the deceased was fearful that he would not be able to meet his engagements, though his affairs were not complicated. On Sunday night, as usual, he read the family prayers. The following morning the female servant entered his thorn, when she found the deceased suspended from a bed post by a silk handkerchief, which he had tied under his chin. Verdict, temporary insanity. FEAST OF THE FIRST MAYOR OF BRADFORD.—The first civic feast, given by the first Mayor of Bradford, Robert Milligan, Esq., of Acacia, took place on Friday. in the large room of the Exchange-buildings, and was an oc casion of princely bounty and magnificence worthy of that liberal. excellent, and public spirited gentleman, who last week presented 200 guineas to that excellent institution, the Bardford Infirmary. Brief as his term of office has been, the first mayor has at least given a guarantee already in munificence and generosity almost unexampled, that those who aspire to fill the high and dignified office of first magistrate in this borough shall evince a deep and tender regard for the humblest and most helpless of its people ; while, at the same time, he displays a rich and bounteous hospitality to its principal citizens.—Halifax Guardian. THE CARDINAL-LEGATE. — Among the on dits of the day we have heard it stated that Dr. Wiseman will cer tainly receive a cardinal's hat, and be appointed " legate from the holy see to the court of James's." It is further stated that this appointment will not be published until Lord Minto has been accredited as English ambassador to the court of Rome ; after which event Dr. Wiseman will be received at the English court as a prince ! We must say that we have not much faith in this report as a whole ; though it is pretty certain that an overture will be, or has been, made for establishing diplomatic relations with Rome. We believe that the appointment of that Popish gentleman, Mr. More O'Ferrall, to the governor ship of Malta, has something to do with the matter. — Church and State Gazette. _ . . DEATH FROM YOUTHFUL BRAVADO.—An inquest was held on Saturday, on view of the body of Thomas Russell, aged 15 years, who while standing near to the shaft of Elemore George Pit of Hetton Colliery, remarked to a person who was standing near him that he would leap upon the rope : he immediately did so, and hanging by the rope which is used for drawing the coals up the shaft, his weight caused the engine to move, and he was lowered down the shaft about a fathom, whereupon he called to the brakesman to stop the engine, but before the latter could accomplish this it had reversed, and the deceased was drawn up to the pullys over which the rope works and was thrown off. He fell upon the settle boards at the top of the shaft and was precipitated thence to the bottom, a depth of thirty-three fathoms : he was quite dead when taken up.—Durham Advertiser. At Cheltenham, a few days since, handbills were cir culated through the town, headed "Unprecedented at traction ! " and displaying with much skill, in large characters, such words as ' Jenny Lind,—Signor Alboni, —Signor Mario," while the real facts of the case were arranged in comparatively small type. Many persons thought that Jenny Lind was really to honor Cheltenham with a visit, and the room was filled. When the curtain was removed, an aperture was disclosed, where might be perceived figures, painted on canvass, representing the principal characters in the Opera of The Barber of Seville, while ' behind the scenes," were chanted forth the lays which, doubtless, were intended to produce a magical effect upon the audience. This was followed by a mis cellaneous selection of music, introducing similar repre sentations. Much ridicule was excited, and many jeers were indulged in, and there was an end of it. CULTIVATION OF THE BEAUTIFUL.-It has been the fashion with prudes and pedants time immemorial to run down the advantages of external appearance—thus the phrases, "Outside show," and " Skin-deep beauty," had Obtained a sort of currency which gave them, and others of similar import, an appearance of grave authority. The present age is bold enough to question this dictum, and even to go as far as to extol the study of externals as a duty to society, which should have presented to it agree-. able objects, and now contends that the cultivation of the beau.fiful holds a place second in importance only to the promotion of the good. This it is which holds out encou ragement to those wao labour to put the public in pos session of means to this end. Oldridge's Balm of Co lumbia, as the most efthctive preservative or renovator of that most beautiful ornament the Human Hair, takes first rank, and as long as its valuable properties continue to be known and appreciated, must take the precedence of every production intended for exterior improvement in this direction. AN IRISHMAN'S PURSE.—A few days back a. son of the Emerald Isle, on his way home from the harvest, en tered the public-house of a repeatable widow in Gilmer ton, and called for a bottle of porter, which was brought to him. From the external appearance of her customer the hostess entertained but faint hopes of payment. Pat, however, drew from some part of his rags a thimble or ferrule of a walking-stick, and began picking out a small round substance about the size of a pea, which to her astonishment, on being unfolded on the table, was a genuine £1 note, with which he requested the landlady to pay herself. On her return her visitor was engaged un folding another from the same repository, and proceeded to do so until they numbered five, when he inquired if she could supply him with silver for the whole, as Scotch bank notes were at a discount in Ireland ? Having received the silver, he turned out the foot of an old stock ing, and deposited his treasure there, tying it up with a rope of straw, hanging it to his reaping hook, and throw ing that over his shoulder, exclaimed as he left the house, " By my soul, they may search my person long ere my money be found, but they will never examine my hook. — Edinburgh Courant. FURTHER SERIOUS FAILURES.-011 Monday, the London papers announced the failures of Messrs. Cock burn, bankers and army agents, and Messrs. W. L. Ben susan, Barbary merchants. On Tuesday, Perkins, Schlus ser, and Mullens, Baltic and East India trade ; liabilities £250,000, expected to be paid in full. J. A. Armstrong, cotton dealer, Manchester. On Wednesday, Fry, Griffiths, and Co., indigo brokers ; liabilities not known. News, by the arrival of the Caledonia, of the failure of Prime, Ward and Co. The liabilities are stated at 8900,000, of which'44oo,ooo consist of deposits. It is supposed they will not resume payment, or pay in full. One writer esti mates the assets as likely to yield 75 to 80 cents per dol lars Letters from Manchester announce seven stoppages during the week. Liabilities supposed to be small, ex cept in the cases of Mr. Armstrong, cotton dealer ; James Guest, and Co., cotton spinners ; E. M. Cooper and Co., Manufacturers. But the most alarming intelligence was contained in the Times, of Friday, which said, Thursday was " one of the heaviest days yet experienced." Among the failures announced were Messrs. Shewell and Co., for a large amount ; Messrs. Lyall, Brothers, and Co., £400,000 ; Samuel Phillips and Co., £150,000 ; W. Steel and Co., of Liverpool ; Watson, Knight, and Co., of Glasgow, and others, whose names are not given. The Morning Post says, "We might very safely include in our gloomy enumeration of those who close their doors this evening, the names of three or four other firms, of greater or less consequence, who have been unable to meet their engagements." THE GAME.LAWS.—The premium of twenty guineas offered by the East-Lothian Anti-Game-law Association for the best essay on the moral, social, and economical effectvf the game-laws, has been awarded to Mr. John Cheine Shepherd, farmer, Gleghornie; near North Ber wick. The essay is to be published immediately. It may be mentioned as another indication of the universality of the feeling against the game-laws among the tenant far mers. that Mr. Shepherd, the successful essayist, is a con servative and protectionist, and distinguished himself by debating the corn-law question against Mr. Cobden, at Haddington.—Scotsman. EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS IN DUNROBIN CASTLE. — We learn from a letter received from Sutherlandshire that the Duke of Sutherland has expended no less than £lOO,OOO in the extensive alterations he has been_making for some time past in Dunrobin Castle, which is now re presented to be, in its internal arrangements, one of the most magnificent ducal mansions on either side of the Tweed. There is a universal impression in the north of Scotland that Dunrobin Castle is the place which is des tined to be next honoured by the temporary residence of, her Majesty, and that August next will, in all probability be the period in which the expected visit will be paid. DISCOVERY OF MANUSCRIPTS.—The workmen while repairing some wainscoating in the mansion of Mr. C. Bathurst, of Sydney-park, Gloucestershire, in removing one of the panels, fell upon a recess, in which they dis covered an old table, on which were laid several books of the ]sth century, a pile of manuscript sermons, many of which had been preached before crowned heads, a silver chalice, which appeared as though it had been burnt, and an old newspaper. The mansion was formerly in the pos session of Sir John Wintour, a distinguished Roman Ca tholic and Royalist in the time of Charles I. ; so that in all probability the documents were hidden there in the days of the revolution. In the southern parts of this county the crops of apples and pears are immense in quantity—we never saw any thing to exceed them. Thus a great deal of cider will be made, which will be peculiarly acceptable this season. Hop-picking has commenced, and from the very scanty nature of the produce, will very soon be over. We have heard of one grower who instead of his average crop of five tons, will have about four hundred weight ! We re gret much that, owing to the failure of the crop, the families of the industrious poor will be deprived of much of that employment which, in more favourable seasons, they obtain at this period of the year. Last season it was difficult to get hands enough to work.—Hereford Journal. STEANGE DEATII.—A very melancholy sensation has been created in the parish of Cairney (Aberdeenshire) and neighbourhood by the death of a woman under the follow ing circumstances. She had been attending as sick nurse, on a young man suffering under malignant scarlet fever, and, in wiping the face of the sufferer, some of the puru lent matter from his mouth came in contact with a pin scratch on her hand. Her arm almost instantly became inflamed, and she was soon in an agony of extreme suffer ing and fever. Everything that medical skill could sug gest was tried to stay the progress of mortification, but in vain. After some little time the arm was amputated ; even this failed, and after a few more days of great dis tress the woman died. On Thursday night, the extensive farm-yard of Mr. John Cannicott, of Stebia, near Ilminster, was the scene of an alarming conflagration. Besides the destruction of the stables, barns, stalls, piggeries, washhouse, harness room (with all its contents), and gig -house, there were about 300 bushels of old wheat in Jags, and upwards of 2,000 bushels of new wheat in stack, consumed ; also 25 tons of excellent hay, a rick of straw, and a quantity of wood, with a chaff-cutter, all the dairy utensils, and a great part of the household furniture. A valuable hack neylorse was burnt to death. Report states the esti mated loss to be about £2,000, while the insurance ef fected in the Sun-office amounts only to £1,500. The fire evidently commenced at or rear the stable, and sus picion is afloat that it was a wilful act. An article in the Times of the 28th ult. is very facetious about restoring the old exploded law of wager of battle, in order that the murdered men in Ireland may have a chance shot with their assassins • but it does not tell us how assassins are to he compelled to take their share in the duello. It blunders on the very threshold of the ar ticle, by stating the cause of the repeal of the law, in a prisoner refusing to plead, and his attorney claiming the privilege of wager of battle. The case causing the repeal of the law, was that of Abraham Thornton, who was ac quitted on a charge of the murder of Mary Ashford, and brought up for a second trial, for the same offence, on new evidence. It was on the peculiar case of the second trial that his attorney discovered he privilege of the pri soner, in claiming to fall back on the ordeal of battle. At the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday week, John Bull, an " agent," was tried for obtaining by false pre tences a bill of exchange for £2OO from John Alexander. Alexander was a draper in Kelso, he answered an adver tisement offering to lend money ;. and sent a bill for £2OO to Bull to be discounted in London. The bill had been accepted in the Scotch method, Alexander writing his name under that of the drawer : the agent wrote to him that he could not negociate such a bill in England ; and induced Alexander to forward another £2OO bill. The Scotchman got no money ; and he discovered that the se cond bill was obtained from him by a false pretence, for . Bull had endeavoured to negotiate the first. The " agent" was found guilty, and sentenced to be imprisoned for two years, with hard labour. MURDER OF A CHILD.—For some days past the magis trates of Cardiff have been engaged in investigating a diabolical case of murder of a young child. The party accused is Catherine Evans, its grandmother: It appeared that the daughter of the prisoner, a single woman, had given birth to a child, and, from some cause which is un explained, the prisoner took the child from the bed in which it was sleeping by the side of its mother, and with out making any remark, put both her hands round its neck and endeavoured to strangle it ; but in consequence of its not dying fast enough she procured a pan of water, put the unfortunate child into it, and covered it over, where it remained till it was quite dead. The bench re manded the prisoner, in order that the child might be exhumed and examined, and at the same time ordered the mother to be apprehended. CURIOUS USE OF ELECTRICITY.—We shall shortly turn that dread agent—electricity—into " a servant of all work." We already use it in the electric telegraph to send messages—in the electrotype , process to silver our plate—in medical galvanism to cure our diseases, &c. ; and now we find that Mr. Andrew Crosse, of Broomfield, n this county, has turned the tables on the thunder for making beer sour, by calling in the aid of lightning to make it fine. The above gentleman has recently. enrolled a patent for improvements in treating fermentable and other liquids, so as to cause impurities or matters to be extracted or precipitated. The means proposed are elec tric currents (generated from zinc and iron in water, in. porous cylinders) passing through wine, cider, beer, &c. through the first two during, , .but through beer after, fer mentation.—Bath Chronicle. AGRICULTURAL PREMIUMS.—Vihen the Times is puz. zled to find a subject for a leader, it has recourse to the agricultural premiums for stock, &c., setting forth the moral contrast of the sum•of £lO to the best bull; and two sovereigns for the labourer living longest in his place, &c., or bringing up the largest family without aid from the parish. This does very well for the tap-rooms, where the cockney chuckles over the " slashing artides "of the thunderer ; but would not the proprietors of the Times liberally reward the inventor of a model printing appar atus that would enable it to print five hundred impressions per hour more than it can at present, in preference to giving the larger sum to the servant as an individual, and the lesser to art which benefits the public ? Any im provement to the breed of cattle is an improvement in the spread of the public dinner table, both in quality and quantity. An improved breed of the cockney would not tend to deteriorate the true English stock. SHIPS ! COMMERCE ! I AND COLONIES ! ! I--These are the old-fashioned national advantages of skill, courage, and enterprise, which placed England at the head of the world, and, as Scott said (no mean authority, by the bye), would " keep her there, unless she chose to descend of her own accord." These enabled us to beat Napoleon, with nearly the whole civilized world at his back,—and who, in his turn, sighed for " Ships, Coramerce, and Co lonies !" But these are now found to be all delusions, and useless, or rather injurious, in the pursuit of free trade,—as cheaply-built foreign ships, and low-waged foreign sailors, rejoicing in black bread and train oil, can bring all foreign produce to our soil cheaper than we can get them by our own jolly tars. The Times has taken upon itself to laugh at the miseries of Jamaica—one of our noble colonies—ground down to the earth—suffering and perishing in its passage to th© perfectibility of free trade. - - - . RETURN OF MR, BROOKE.-Mr. Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak, has arrived by the mail steamer, the Indus, at Southampton, which port he left nine years back, in his yacht the Royalist, to explore the seas and islands of the Indian Archipelago. His researches and exploits in that quarter are familiar to the public through- the book of his friend and fellow navigator, the lion. Captain Keppel, and through the newspapers. Mr. Brooke was received at Southampton by Mr. Wise and other friends. It is some time since we announced his appointment as Consul- General and Commissioner from England to the indepen dent chiefs of Borneo, and his establishment under the British flag at Labuan, which he so largely contributed to bring under the protec tion of England. It was not until his arrival at home that Mr. Brooke learned the full nature of his appointments, and the measure of approval accorded to his enterprising and useful labours. Mr. Brooke con templates a sojourn of six months in England, when he will probably return to a fully organized and established Government in Labuan. The Birmingham Journal contains a curious romance of love and marriage, A Mr. Robert Moore, guard of the London and Holyhead mail, in passing through Shrews bury, saw each day a lady at the window of one of the houses, and the two began to smile and at length to nod familiarly at each other. One day the lady was missed by the guard, but she she was standing on the road a little further on, and stopping the coach, she asked to be conveyed to Welchpool. She was invited to take her seat by the guard, and they entered into conversation. He learned from her that she was the widow of Colonel Tripp, allied to a noble family, and possessed of a handsome in dependence. Other interviews followed, and at length, on the 15th of June last (about two months from the time they had first seen each other), they were married. After the ceremony they started to London and took apartments at the Euston Square Hotel, and there they lived ten weeks in a continued round of gaiety. A carirage was always at her service, and they called on many members of the no bility, but on these occasions the husband was always left in the carriage at the door. She buoyed him up with state ments that she had £5OOO in Glyn's bank, and other pro perty. At length suspicions were aroused, and it was found that the lady was the wife of a commercial traveller, and Mr. Moore found that he was the husband of another man's wife, and was owing £5OO for the ten weeks extra vagances. He has had the lady taken into custody on a charge of bigamy. Her first husband was in Shrewsbury at the time she was orought before the magistrates at Birmingham, on Monday week, but no prosecutor ap. peared against her, and 514 wg discharged. Oct. 5,154' ' On Thur Atty, John Hutchings, a cooper of Deptford, was tried for the murder of his wife, by poisoning her with arsenic. There was no direct proof that Hutchings had administered the poison, but he had been heard to threa ten the woman ; on the 27th August he had broken open son's drawer, and had tak e n out a b o ttl e o f arsenic; he was seen to throw some into the fire, and he gave the phial to one of his children to fling away ; the wife was taken ill on the same day. Mr. Baron Platt summed up favourably to the accused ; and the jury deliberated for nearly two hours ; but the verdict was " guilty," and sen tence of death was pronounced. FREE TRADE. —The evidence furnished bvthe Jamaica Despatch accounts at once for the suspension of a house engaged in the sugar trade, even were it twice as sound as that of Reid and Irving. The very difference in the price of sugars between this year and the last, would swamp the firmest house in London, gild break its credit, were it twenty times secured. We have done little indeed for the labouring population of England, and have wrung from the colonists such despairing and momentous confes sions as that which follows :—" We surrender at once. We cannot and will not waste health and means in the fruitless endeavour to turn to good the legislation for evil which you have so recklessly and blindly forced upon us. Unless we have some protection or some guarantee against our losses, there is no alternative left to the West Indian but to throw up his property, and to appeal to the world against the tyranny and injustice which have beggared him." PORTUGUESE CATTLE.—We have to record a very re markable arrival from the south of Europe. The vessel Falcao, of Portugal, which has arrived at the Brunswick wharf, Blackwell, from Lisbon and Oporto, has brought, in addition to a cargo consisting almost entirely of fruits and other productions of a seasonable character, 130 oxen, the produce of Portugal. By the vessel arriving at the Blackwall wharf, we presume it to be a steamer, which has been employed to facilitate the arrival of the perisha ble fruits and live stock at their destination ; and we do not think that any previous instance has occurred of a steamer belonging to that state having been employed to traffic with merchandise to the British metropolis. That feature in this arrival is, therefo re , worthy of especial notice. With reference to the supply of live stock, vve, believe we may state th a t no p rev i ous arr i va l o f t h e k i n d has taken place from Portugal into London. THE LATE CAPTAIN STIRLING, OF THE TIMES• - • - ' Captain Stirling, late one of the leaJer-writers o f the Times newspaper, died at an advanced age, a few [lO ago, at his residence at Knightsbridge. This gentlematt'S leaders obtained for the Times the names of the " Thun derer." They were full of vigour, and always to the point. The late Daniel O'Connell was his principal target, and the arrow of Mr. Stirling never missed the bull's eye. The mortality of the Times office in a very short space of time is worthy of notice. It has of late years lost by death, Mr. Thomas Barne , the principal editor, whose talents as a writer were well known ; Mr. Bacon, the sub-editor, a very clever writer; Mr. Alsager, whose city article was so much admired and sought for; the next was the great pillar of the establishment, Mr. J. Walters, whose biography appeared in the Times a few days since. His most intimate friend and companion at sickness, Captain Stirling, did not-survive him above a month. Mr. Grantley Berkeley has got into hot water in another quarter. It seems that some private friendo wished to present a sword to Mr. Balme, who had been of great service as recruiting sergeant to the Berkeley troop of Royal Gloucestershire Hussars (yeomanry,) but Mr. Berkeley put his veto upon the matter as contrary to the rules of the service, and moreover stated that Mr. Balms had often pleaded ignorance of his duties as an extenua tion of his f au lt s .—l n rep l y M r. =I. repudiates the idea o f being made a " Be r k e l ey s e r f , " d en i es that he has d on e anything contrary to the rules of the yeomanry ser vice. and back to M r . G rantley Berkeley a haunch 0` venison which he h as rece i ved from him, " the only ob ligatory compliment," ever experienced at his hands . He declines to return his kit "not knowing who is his commanding-officeruntil he hears f ro m th e H orse - guards. ' Thus we have a prettier quarrel than that between the two brothers. There is not, it appears, any military canon which interdicts Mr. Balme's personal and private friends from presenting him with a sword at any time and any place when he is not on service or amenable to military law. AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS.—At an agricultural meet ing last week, one of the speakers said, "It was his pri vilege to live in a district where the labouring population were well taken care of and formed objects of deep inte rest to all around them•; but he had a letter from a friend who lived in Devonshire, who stated positively that at the time of the greatest scarcity he had seen labourers sitting under a hedie at their dinners provided out of wages of is a-week, themselves and' children dining on Swede turni9s 4 which they had obtained, with or without leave, mixsal with a little 'meal, and, by way of improving it, with 0 infusion of fat. Their drink had been half a bottle of sour cider. They might imagine what must be the condition of a family having such food and fare. It was related 'as an anecdote, that Mr. Chadwick, the able secretary of the Poor Law Commissioners, having been on 0 visit to a friend in D.vonshire, had seen a labourer 'car` • appeared to be taking very little interest in his w ork—tu t fact, none at all. On making a remark to the man ‘ l9 , he did not sweat at his work, the poor fellow replied, i" a-week beant sweating wages." ad... poor At the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, Irish girl, named Mary Doyle, was indi c t e d for tl e tencer tion of her infant child. The prisoner, in h e S en tlemall said she had been in respectable servi ce with '"`"" holiday' ~ in St. Pancras, and some time ago , h av i ng 'a """ went in the boat to Gre enw i c h, and during t h e jo u rney' she got acquainted with a young man, who succeeded seducing her, and the result was the birth of the child!' • She knew nothing of the father, and could not findera? and for a considerable time she paid 4s. a-week to a poo r woman to keep the child for her, but, finding herself:un able to continue the payment, she applied to St. Pancras parish for assistance. They, however, refused to do any thing for her, and, although she offered to pay half her wages if they would keep the child and enable her to re main in her situation, they refused to do so, and she was* in consequence, driven to commit the act with which she' was now charged. On inquiry her story was found to b 6 correct, and she was recommended to th e merc if u l consi deration of the court. The jury in strong terms expressed their indignation at the conduct of the authorities of Pancras. It being understood the girl's master was Nird" ling to take her back into his service, judgment was res.- pited till next session. SCULLING MATCH. — On:Wednesday, a sculling match between Coombes and Newall for the championship of the Thames and £2OO took place on the Thames. Coombes took his station, having won the chance, on the Fulham side of the centre arch of Putney-bridge ; his opponent be ing at the next on the Surrey side, to row thence to the Ship at Mortlake. The men started themselves at nine minutes to five o'clock, and never did men go away 1e a finer manner. It was as even a start as ever was wit nessed, and the pace something like a mile in four minutes. For the first twenty or thirty strokes it was diffi cult to detect the slightest advantage, but in the next two minutes, opposite the Half-moon, Newell had got the nose of his boat about four feet in advance of his or ponent. The next half-dozen pulls brought them again as level as at the moment of starting, and the dozen strokes that followed, as quick as lightning, placed the bow of Coombes's boat in front. Another minute served to give him the increased advantage of half a length abreast of the Crabtree Coombes went like a shot clea' and r of his adversary, and took his water almost immediately af terwards. After this, stroke by stroke, Coombes went further in advance, and won by about one hundred and twenty yards, accomplishing the distance of four miles one furlong in twenty-three minutes and thirty seconds- Newell rowed a most gallant stern wager, but his opP° - nents's pace was too great for him. • of IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE PREPARATIOI`. AGRICULTURAL SEED.—At the late annual' meeting o f the West Suffolk Agricultural Association, the Chairman, th e Rev.. D. Gwilt, stated a most important discovery had been made and patented by a, scientific professor of chemistry, in Belgium, involving the preparation of seed—wheat ancL other grain, turnips, &c.—which had resulted in produc— ing fine crops, free from grubs, and that too in the poorest. lands with a small quantity of manure, and in rich lando without any manure at all. He had tried it on his own farm for fifteen months with complete and extraordinao its 'infancy, and considered that when the system, yet in infancy, was matured, it would be found to be a greatn.s" tional advantage.. The manner of preparing the seedll yet kept secret by the discoverer, so that we are left to the mere conjecture that it is a chemical process. A company has been formed, and they are desirous to have a certain number of acres for trial, on different farms, in the-coin ing year, say 5, 10, or 15 acres, of gentlemen who would be assured that the experiment would not be a losing one- The gentleman alluded to sent some seed to Belgium to be prepared, both wheat and turnips, and he said " the parties sent nearly all the turnip seed back to him, keep ing some of it to try in Belgium. Both there and at lus own English farm the crops were the finest in their re spective-neighbourhoods. He also grew wheat from the prepared seed on land so poor that he was laughed a t, in the beginning, but the harvest was abundant. His rye from prepared seed grew six feet high. The cost of pre taring is stated to be about 30s. per acre, and the mate rial employed is extremely simple. We wonder whether the system could be applied to potatoes, so as to restore that valuable root to its pristine health and vigour ? THE ASIATICCHOLERA.--The approach of the Asiatic cholera is beginning to cause s ome littl e appre h ens i on in the minds of those who have been marking its steady pro' gress for many months past, from the plains of Seinde towards western Europe. Rather more than two years ago, it ravaged the banks of the Indus with frightful severity, inflicting serious loss upon the British troops at Kurrachee and Hyderabad. About the same time, or little later, it raged in Affghanistan ; spread from thence into Persia, which it traversed from east to west, spread ing to the northward into Tartary, and southwardly into Turkish Kurdistan and the pachalic of Bagdad. Early 1 0 the present year, it made its appearance to the west of the Caucasian Mountains, and committed great ravages in the Russian army acting against Circassians. About a mole ago, accounts reached this country of its appearance 1 0 Europe ; having broken out at Taganrog, Marianopols' and other ports on the westerly shores of the Sea of Awl , and we now give, in another column, details of its pre: gress through Central Russia, where it has manifested itself at Kief, Smolensk, and it is said (but the statement seems to need confirmation) that the disease has appeared on the shore of the Baltic, at Riga. Great alarm has consequently been felt in Poland ; and the authorities al' Warsaw have been busied in preparing hospitals, 110,'` making other arrangements to meet the coming In its former progress towards Europe, in the years I S 3u and 1831, the general course of the pestilence has been nearly due north-west ; and seems so far, to have Or yelled at about the same rate as on that occasion. 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