The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-06-04 00:00:00

iLttiraturr. TO A VASE 'OF FLOWERS RECEIVED IN A MOMENT OF bEEFAFFEICTION. (From "Sprays from the Hedgerows*," by Mrs. Hadfield.) Bright flowers ! ye well might wake The poet's warmest strain; Come in an hour of deepest gloom To beautify my little room, And make me smile again. Welcome ! thrice welcome ! to my heart Which yet ye cannot cheer ; • Why did ye leave your sunny bed • For one short hour a grace to shed, Then die in sadness here ? Lovely ye are—but whilst I gaze Ye're withering in my view ; Too fragile for one chilling breath; And is not love like you? As rich an odour round us casts, As sweet and beauteous while ielasts, As perishable too. *A neat little volume of well-written poems, composed " daring brief intervals of leisure in the life of a busy mother," by an intelligent lady known to many of our readers. The allusions to local circumstances impart an additional attrac tion, for Liverpool readers, to many of the poems; and we shall be glad on future occasions to give further specimens of their quality. LET ME GET A START. A little black-eyed girl once laid Her book upon my knee, And with a lisping voice essayed To learn her A B C. She tried in vain : she did not tell A letter right—not once ; At length I bade her take her seat, And harshly called her dunce. Tears filled the would-be laughing eyes, I'd pained her little heart, " Aunt Fanny, do just wait," she cries, "''fill I can get a start." My anger was all turned away By that sweet artless plea ; And patiently from day to day I taught the A B C. And soon the bright one " got a start," Each letter learned to tell ; And ere three months had wax'd and waned Could read her lesson well. Now, when I hear a cold rebuke Pour'd on some failing heart, I think of Nannie, and exclaim, " Oh ! let them get a start." VARIETIES. When Professor Webster was first told Dr. Parkman's body had been found, he asked, " What part of it ?" So does guilt convict itself. The United Service Gazette, in speaking of the pot animals which have at different times belonged to various regiments, says that a regiment of cavalry now has a favourite regimental donkey. AN AWKWARD MiSSNOMER. - A poor woman in one of the Middle States who lisped carried her daughter to church for baptism. Being asked its name by the bishop she replied, " Luthy, sir." " What ?" says the doctor. " Luthy, sir," says she. " Lucifer, Lucifer, that won't do," cries the bishop ; and baptized the child George Washington. The poor mother, confounded, could not speak until near the church door, when she told the par son the infant was a girl.—American paper. THE ROMANCE OF AN ADVERTISEMENT.—The Times of Wednesday contains the following pathetic appeal : " To . If humanity has not entirely fled from your breast return, oh ! return, ere it is too late, to the heart broken distracted wife you have forsaken—ere the expres sion of those soft eyes that won you be lost in the bewil dered stare of insanity—ere they may gaze even on you and know you not ; write, tell her, oh ! tell her, where you are, that she may follow you—her own, her all—and die. See her once more." We hope the stony-hearted monster is melted. MR. JUSTICE TALFOURD WHEN A BOY.—In the course of his address at the annual meeting of the Read ing Mechanics' Institute last week, Mr. Justice Talfourd said—He recollected when a boy the feelings of ardent joy with which he looked forward to the arrival of the judges ; how childless;y he rnaneeuvred to obtain a place near the judge's seat. On one occasion he repaired as early as six o'clock in the morning to the Town•hall to obtain admission, and by some great favour he entered and seated himself near to where the awful judge was to enter. At length the judge, whose name he should for bear to mention, appeared, and finding him seated on the bench, said, " Who is this little boy ?—take him up, and carry him down into the court !" A country gentleman who happened to be near, said to his lordship, "My lord, this young gentleman has a great desire to hear the trials, for he thinks he will be a lawyer some day." The judge again said, " Take him up, and put him down into court ;" but Lie little boy obtained a place in the body of the hall, and he thought his brother judges might at least learn one lesson, • never to turn another little boy off the bench. BISHOPS' SIGNATURES.—The prelates of the Church of England are sometimes accustomed, when signing their names, to use the old Latin appellations, or abbreviations of them, for their sees, instead of the English ones. Thus Ebor. stands for York ; Cantaur. for Canterbury ; Vigorn. for Worcester; and Exon. for Exeter. It is said that an eminent bookseller once received an instruction, per letter, of an author's intention to publish a " Life of Pitt." It was signed " George Winton," and was thrown aside with the most perfect indifference, the publisher never thinking that George Winton was George Bishop of Winchester. When the Princess Charlotte was ill, the Bishop of Salis bury sent frequent inquiries to her Scotch physician, sign ing himself " John Sarum." The doctor, after the receipt of many similar missives, observed to a friend that he had been much pestered with notes from " ane Jean Saroom, that he kenned naething shoot. But (he added) I tak nae notice of the fellow !" —Heraldic Anomalies. There is an anecdote current among the "old standards" of New castle, that, when Shute Barrington first entered upon the episcopal office in that diocese, lie sent unsolicited a dona tion to some charitable object ; and on the follow ing Friday it was announced in a loca newspaper that a spon taneous subscription had been received from " S. Dunelm, Esq." NEWSPAPER MENSURATION.—The press sends forth in daily papers alone a printed surface amounting in twelve months to 349,308,000 superficial feet. If to these are added all the papers printed weekly and fortnightly in London and the provinces, the whole amounts to 1,446,150,000 square feet of printed surface, which was in 1849 placed before the comprehensive vision of John Bull. The area of a single morning paper—says . The Times—is more than 12-i square feet, or nearly five feet by four. Compared with an ordinary octavo volume, the quantity of matter daily issued, is equal to 300 pages. There are five morning papers whose superficies is nearly as great, without supplements, which they seldom publish. A sixth is only half the size. We may reckon, therefore, that the constant craving of Londoners for news is sun plied every morning with as much as would fill about 1200 pages of an ordinary novel; or not less than five volumes. These acres of print sown broadcast produce a daily crop to suit every appetite and every taste. It has winged its way from every spot on the earth's surface, and at last settled down and ranged itself into intelligible meaning, made instinct with ink. Now it tells of a next-door neighbour ; then of dwellers in the uttermost corners of the earth. The black side of this black and white daily history consists of battle, murder, and sudden death ; of lightning and tempest ; of plague, pestilence, and famine ; of sedition, privy conspiracy, and rebellion ; of false doc trine. heresy, and schism ; of all other crimes, casualties, and falsities, which we are enjoined to pray to be defended from. The white side ch ron i c l es heroism, charitableness, high purpose, and lofty deeds ' • it advocates the truest doc trines, and the practice of the most exalted virtue ; it records the spread of commerce, religion, and science ; it expresses the wisdom of the few sages and shows the ignorance of the neglected many—in fine good and evil are as broadly defined or as inextricably mixed in the newspapers as they are over the great globe itself.— Dickens' Household Words. OUGHT WE TO ADMIT THE IMPORTATION OF SLAVE GROWN PRODUCE ?—As there is a very general tendency to throw this twenty millions in the teeth of our West Indian friends, and many still believe that sum to have been actually paid, it is but right that the misconception should be removed by a statement of the truth. The argument, howeve!, is independent of this fact. Who could have thought that England would tax herself to the extent of some £BOO,OOO per annum to prevent her own colonists supplying her with cheap sugar by means of slave labour, and yet that, in a few years later, she would pass an act which admitted slave-grown sugar the produce of foreign possessions ? That there was a distinct bar gain or contract between the colonists and the mother country, to the effect that slave-grown sugar never was to be admitted into the markets of this country to com pete on equal terms with British colonial free-grown sugar, and that the fact that they were to be protected against the competition of slave-holders was an argument used to make our colonists contented with the Emancipa tion Act, I am ready to prove—ready to prove it by a mass of testimony, and to the satisfaction of the most incredulous jury that ever were impannelled in a jury box. Nay, more, I am ready to show that British Ministers have again and again admitted that such was the fact; that Lord Stanley, when, by mistake, he had used the words I, s l a ve-grown" for " foreign-grow n ," w h en speak ing of a differential duty between foreign and British colonial sugar, and when the mistake was noticed, replied by admitting the mistake, adding that everyone must lave seen that it was a mistake, inasmuch as no one could ever think that Britain would admit slave-grown sugar into her markets, after her costly sacrifice to prevent sugar being made in her own colonies by means of slave labour. And Lord Glenclg, at a later date, made a well-known statement to the effect that they who were so foolish as to believe that Parliament would break its faith with the planters of the West Indies, by admitting slave-grown sugar into equal competition with that produced by them, displayed, by so believing, an "incapacity for conducting the ordinary affairs of life and business." But apart from the question of contract, which is one of evidence, there is the natural, the necessary conclusion to be drawn—the conclusion which no one could avoid drawing—from the act itself. If at such cost England tied the hands of her own colonists as to the kind of labour by which they should make sugar, would any sane person have believed that she would buy her sugar from foreigners who made it in the very way she had so seriously and emphatically objected to and protested against. The idea could not have been entertained for a moment. I maintain, then, that part of the compensation to be given to the British colonist was, protection from competition with the slave holder of Cuba, Porto Rico, and Brazil ; and that the same principle of justice was violated by depriving him of this, as would have been violated in depriving 'himself of s.portion of the twenty millions , which wee the compen. Wahl nutney.—Baird's Wed NEW ORLEANS AND THE OVERFLOWINGS OF THE MISSISSIPPI. (From " Baird's West Indies and North America in 1849.") The Crevasse broke out while I was in the Crescent City, and during my stay it formed part of the principal topics of conversation. And well it might. Imagine, reader, a mighty—the mightiest—river in the known world, having broken (not merely overflowed, but broken) its banks for a space of some half mile or so, and gradually, despite all the efforts of the energetic human inhabitants of the surrounding country, (by sinking of barges, steam boats, and otherwise,) increasing the extent of its debou chure, and pouring its waters into the lower level of the conterminous lands. And imagine, too, that in the midst of the scene, or rather at the point most exposed to its ravages, the luxurious inhabitants were making the in crease of the waters, in their streets and around their dwellings, the subject of light-hearted chat—that in the morning your drive down the " shell road" was so sur rounded with water that you might almost have fished out of the windows of the carriage as you passed along ; and your evening journey, as you drove to the conversatione, the dance, or the theatre, was through water, which mounted some inches up the spokes of your carriage wheels ; and add to all this, that the occasional—l had almost said constant—subject of conversation, was the probability of New Orleans being, some fine, or at least some floating day, washed down bodily into the Gulf of Mexico !—many sage reasons being given, and many great scientific authorities being quoted, to prove the exceeding probability of such an event : and so imagining, you will have some idea of the characteristics of New Orleans society at the time of my visit, in 1849. It scarcely re quired the ravages of cholera, which was then visiting the city, to sdd anything to the dismals of the scene • but so it was. In the town of New Orleans, and specially in the neighbourhood, and in the vessels on the river, cholera was raging to a very considerable extent. Certainly, therefore, it cannot be supposed that my visit to the Crescent City was made at a time calculated to leave on my mind a very favourable opinion as to its salubrity ; and it is chiefly on that account that I have troubled the reader with the above details. For notwithstanding the fact that my opinion was formed under circumstances so disadvantageous to arriving at a favourable one, I main tain and record the fact, that the unhealthiness of New Orleans is much exaggerated. No doubt the yellow fever visits it much oftener, and commits in it more fearful ra vages, than is at all desirable ; but there are few places secure from the attacks of epidemics—and it is generally conceded that, with the greater attention now paid to sewerage and cleanliness, the deaths from yellow fever have greatly decreased, so that there is every reason to hope that the very circumstance of its being necessary to adopt many precautionary measures against such pericdi cal attacks may, in the course of time, render New Orleans as healthy a town as almost any in the American Union. In connexion with the subject of the Crevasse, and in the almost hourly speculations as to what part of New Orleans was to be carried down into the Gulf, or whether any part of it was to be spared that fate, I heard such fre quent mention of the "Levee," as to lead me to make special inqliry as to its nature, uses, and history. The Levee of which one is doomed to hear much during his stay in New Orleans, and which occupies so important a position, and discharges so important a duty, as fully to justify such constant and respectful mention of it, is neither more nor less than a simple embankment to pre vent the waters of the mighty Mississippi from inundating the fertile though marshy plains which stretch away from either bank. Opposite the city, the Levee is of consider able breadth, and looks as if it were competent to the task assigned it of saying to the turgid waters of the " Father of Rivers," thus far shalt thou come but no farther. But farther up the stream—and it extends up wards for a great distance, above a hundred miles—it seems singularly inadequate, being in many places little more than a comparatively small earthen mound or (Scottice) " turf dyke." During my stay in New Orleans the Mississippi rose to a greater height than it had done for many years before; and the consequence was that a large portion of the Levee, about five miles above the city, and to the extent of above half a mile long, gave way ; and the waters continued for many days to pour through the gap and into the surrounding country, destroying property to a very large amount, and ruining many planters ; after which it found its way down to the town, many strrets of which were covered with water for days. During this overflow large numbers of snakes, and other reptiles from the swamps, found their way into the streets of the Crescent City. Conger snakes—the most venomous known in the country—were seen in the water in several parts of the town; and a little girl in the Faubourg Tri ere, while wading in the waters flowing along the street. was, in May, 1849, bitten by a snake or some other rep tile, and that so severely that she died in a few hours. Such are part of the effects of a Crevasse in the Levee which protects the town of New Orleans from the waters of the great Mississippi. At the time I write great fears were entertained for the safety of a considerable portion of the town itself ; but by dint of great exertion, sinking of boats, bales, and rafts—in the course of doing which, many of the negro slaves employed at the work perished of cholera or of fatigue—the Crevasses were stopped, and, for a time at least, the Crescent City is safe. I confess that it engendered somewhat of a strange feeling to be in the city day after day, while the overflow was progressing, and conscious that it had not been stopped, and that thousands of tons of water were pouring in on the plain in which was your dwelling—to listen and take part in the conversation which speculated on the chance of the site of New Orleans being some day or other added to the Gulf of Mexico—or the town at least washed down into the Gulf. There is a very prevalent opinion in New Orleans that the bed of the Mississippi is annually rising, and most plausible reasons are assigned to prove that such must be the fact. Ido not feel warranted, by suffi cient acquaintance with the habitudes of this mammoth river, nor have I sufficiently studied the science of hydro statics or hydraulics, to entitle me to pronounce an opinion on the subject ; but, without troubling my readers with the pros and cons of the argument, I may be permitted to express a hope that they will concur with me in thinking that, if the bed of Father Mississippi rises from under him, Father Mississippi would be quite entitled to resent the indignity by getting up from his bed. Se riously speaking, however, there does seem some cause for the opinion referred to ; and it is to be hoped that some one of the many courses which the science and skill of modern engineers have suggested, may be adopted, and may be found sufficient to ward off the apprehended danger. DEATHBED SUPERSTITION. — The practice of opening doors and boxes when a person dies is founded on the idea that the ministers of purgatorial pains took the soul as it escaped from the body, and flattening it against some closed door (which alone would serve the purpose), cram med it into the hinges and hinge openings; thus the soul in torment was likely to be miserably pinched and squeezed by the movement on casual occasion of such door or lid. An open or swinging door frustrated this, and the fiends had to try some other locality. The friends of the departed were at least assured that they were not made the unconscious instruments of torturing the de parted in their daily occupations. The superstition pre vails in the north as well as in the west of England ; and a similar one exists in the south of Spain. where I have seen it practised. Among the Jews at Gibraltar there is also a strange custom when a death occurs in a house ; and this consists in pouring away all the water contained in any vessel, the superstition being that the angel of death may have washed his sword therein.—Notes and Queries. A BILLINGSGATE AUCTlON.—Nothing can exceed the gentlemanly manner in which the auction is conducted except the mode of doing business at Christie and Man son's. Before the commencement, the salesman, with his flannel apron protecting his almost fashionable attire from scaly contact, is seen—behold him yonder !—seated behind his stall enjoying a mild Havannah, with an appearance of sublime indifference to all around him. Presently his porter deposits a " lot" of fish between him and an eager group of buyers. He puts down his cigar and mounts his rostrum. " What shall we say, gentlemen, for this score of cod ? Shall we say 7s. a piece ?" No answer. " Six ?" Perfect silence. The auctioneer gives pause for consideration, and takes a whiff at his Havannah. Time is, however, precious where fish is concerned, and he is not long in abating another shilling. " A crown ?" " Done !" exclaims Mr. Jollings, of Pimlico. " Five pounds, if you please !" demands the seller. A note is handed over, and the 20 cod are hoisted into Mr. Jol lings' cart, which stands in Thames-street, before a second lot is quite disposed of. This mild proceeding is going on all over the market. On looking to see if the remotest relic of such a being as a fishfag is to be seen, we observe a gentleman who, though girded with the flannel uniform of the craft, has so fashionable a surtout, so elegant a neckerchief, and such a luxuriance of moustache and whiskers, that we mistake him for an officer in Her Ma jesty's Life Guards selling fish by way of—what in Bil lingsgate used to be called—a " jolly lark." Inquiry proves, however, that he is the accredited consignee of one of the largest fishing fleets which sail out of the Thames.—Dickens' Household Words. THE AFRICAN RACE IN THE WEST INDIES.—There seemed to me to be something in the Creole blood that engendered a graceful courtesy and disinterestedness of conduct—some generous peculiarity of mind, derived from the fact that a tropical birthplace had dissolved something of the natural caution of the northern race to which they belonged, and warmed them into a more generous sympa thy. The observation applies to my Creole friends of both sexes. As regards the ladies, I may be permitted to add—and I make the condition with heartfelt sincerity— that to a natural kindness (if I may so speak) of manner, there is added an ease, a grace, and a beauty, which at least proves that they have lost none of the charms of the race from which they have sprung, by their parents being transplanted into a warmer clime. I had heard something of the beauty of the Creole ladies ere I visited the West Indies. But I was not a week there ere I felt surprise that I had not heard much more. And, did not my feel ing of what is due to propriety and the duties of private life prevent me from even partially lifting the veil which ought to preserve from publicity whatever the traveller may have seen, through his having been admitted into the circles of domestic life, I could name ladies, married as well as single, in Barbadoes, Antigua, St. Kitt's, Sta Cruz, and Jamaica, (particularly I confess in Antigua,) who, in personal charms, as well as accomplishments, would advantageously compare or contrast with any of the fairer part of creation it had ever been my own good fortune to meet. To the fulness and dignity derived from their Norman blood or Anglo-Saxon origin, they add an easy grace and elegance of motion, probably derived in some way from the circumstance of their birthplace being within the tropics. And, albeit their complexion is gene rally pale, this very circumstance supplies an additional interest ; while the soft languor of their dark eyes, with their long eyelashes, gave many of these Creole ladies a very peculiar charm. Add to this, that it were difficult to find, in any part of the world, north or south, east or west, any ladies who better discharge their relative duties as daughters, wives, and mothers, than do our fellow countrywomen in the British West Indian islands.— Baird s Weil Indid Islands. THE tiVERPOOL STANDARD. CURIOUS CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. A Kent contemporary furnishes us with a . remarkable correspondence that has taken place between Mr. Wad dington, surgeon of Margate, and his Grace the Duke of Wellington, respecting a whale caught on the Long Stnd a short time since. The circumstances out of which it arose are thus stated :—"The Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports' officers having claimed, and sold by auction for £6O, the whale lately captured, alive, upon the Long Sand, and towed into Margate Bay by the crew of the Liberty lugger, the novel case was, at their request, re spectfully submitted by Mr. Waddington to his Grace the Duke of Wellington. The three principal points sub mitted to the consideration of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports were-Ist. That a whale was not a ' royal fish,' but a mammiferous animal, having warm red blood, in common with birds. 2ndly. That it was a denizen of the deep, and had never been the property of any one. 3rdly. That it was taken alive, and at considerable risk to the lives and property of the captors." To this the Lord Warden refers the mariners to the Court of the Admi ralty of the Cinque Ports. Mr. Waddington again writes, stating that that court had awarded the captors £2B 125., a moiety of £57 45., less £2 16s. expenses for sale and printing. Mr. Waddington again writes, urging his Grace to take the case of the poor mariners who captured the whale into his consideration, expressing a hope that in kindness and charity his Grace would forego his claim upon the monster of the deep. To this appeal his Grace thus snappishly replies— " The duke is not aware that a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons has any relation with the Court of Admiralty of the Cinque Ports. The Court of Admiralty of the Cinque Ports, after inquiry, decreed that the whale brought into Margate be longed to the Lord Warden and Admiral of the Cinque Ports ; and further that out of the proceeds the sum of .e2B 12s. was to be paid to the salvors or finders, which sum has been paid to those men in conformity with the decree. The remainder of the proceeds, after paving the charges, is at the disposal of the Lord Warden ; and the Duke of Wellington will take the liberty of disposing of the same without consulting the opinion of Mr. Waddington." The reply of Mr. Waddington to this rebuff is very dignified, and must have made the iron duke smart a little. He says— " I assumed not any relation with your Grace's jurisdiction : I did but appeal to the great ane.. powerful in behalf of the friendless and poor. My professional designation showed that I am not a lawyer; and if, when considering the law of reason and humanity only, I misapprehended the law of the courts, I might have reckoned on being spared your Grace's repulse. To this, however, I must submit, as mightier men have been obliged to do; consoling myself as well I may, in the integrity of my purpose." In Trentham pool, Staffordshire, a few day's ago, " trimmers" were laid at night by the keeper for pike, and in the morning -a pike and a heron were found se cured to one of them. It is supposed that the pike first took the bait, and swallowed the hook and that the heron afterwards seized the pike, and in tearing out the entrails encountered the hook. A balloon of a new form was, it appears, inflated at the gas works, Kennington-oval, on Friday last, and after wards ascended with its inventor, a Mr. Bell, from that place on the evening of the same day. It reached the earth again safely at High Layer, in Essex, but in its descent a man named Frederick Clark, who was attempt ing to render assistance, was killed by the grapnel. A London paper states that Prince Albert has recently sent an exceedingly able and valuable paper to the Royal Agricultural Society of England on " The Sewerage of Towns," in which his royal highness developes a plan for filtering the sewers at convenient intervals, thus accumu lating in convenient tanks a rich and valuable manure, and liberating the water from all mechanical admixture of impurity. WHO WOULDN'T BE A PRISONER ?—At the Town Council meeting at York last week, the gaol finance com mittee reported that it cost Ils. per week to maintain each prisoner, whilst the children in the ragged school only cost lJd. per day. What ! a prisoner live at the rate of Ils. per week. There are many poor families who have not as much to pay all their demands. Well may we have so many depredations committed. A lodging for a month or two in a " first-rate boarding-house" does not present itself every day. RE-ISSUE OF THE FLORIN.—The Master of the Mint announced, on Monday last, that the florin would shortly be re-issued, with the addition of those words (recognising the Supreme Being, and the supremacy of the Queen in these realms,) which that Popish Minister had omitted. He also announced a large issue of silver threepences. This small coin will greatly facilitate the convenience of " change!' But it will behove parties receiving small silver change to be on the look out to avoid receiving threepenny for fourpenny pieces. A SOLDIER ROLLED TO DEATH.—On Monday morn ing, about seven o'clock, a party of soldiers belonging to the 28th Regiment, at Portsmouth, having been on fatigue on South Sea Common, were returning to quar ters, drawing after them a very large iron roller charged with iron shot, when, in descending the road to the centre of the glacis at a rapid pace to escape the rain at the time falling, one of the men fell, and in an instant the pon derous machine passed over the unfortunate fellow, whose head and body were so fearfully crushed that instanta neous death resulted. It appears that the celebrated authoress Miss Jane Porter was born in Durham. Her baptismal register occurs in the books of St. Mary-le-Bow, in that city. Her mother was a Miss Blenkinsop, the daughter of a member of the choir of the cathedral, whose grave and tombstone are in the burial yard attached to St. Oswald's Church. Mr. Porter, father of the deceased lady, was interred in the same churchyard. Maternally, we believe, Miss Porter was connected with the family of John Adamson, Esq., of Newcastle. LORD BROUGHAM IN A NEW DRESS.—At Tuesday evening's sitting of the House of Lords, Lord Brougham startled their lordships from their propriety by entering the House dressed in white silk stockings, blue breeches, and a frock coat. The noble and learned lord kept the House in a state of excitement by moving his legs about admiringly in all directions—the more grave and reverend of their lordships evidently feeling alarm lest his eccentric lordship should take it into his head to dance a pas seul on the woolsack, round which he gyrated like one under the influence of some irresistible fascination. Amongst the persons who applied to Mr. Elliott at the Lambeth Police Office for relief from the funds in the poor-box was an aged and feeble woman of ladylike man ners, and her case was found to be so deserving that Mr. Elliott ordered her £5 from the poor-box. The appli cant, it appeared, is the granddaughter of the celebrated John Robertson, author of " Elements of Navigation," a work that has done more for the improvement of the British navy and British sailors than any work that has ever been published ; but who, like many other distin guished writers, had, in 1776, left his daughter totally unprovided for. POSITION or THE NEW COMET IN JUNE.—From note published by M. Hind, the eminent astronomer, it appears, that during the next fortnight the track of the comet lately discovered by a continental explorer will be nearly parallel to a line joining the stars called 31 (Psi) and 15 (A) in Draco, the comet being always about two degrees nearer to the pole than this line, and moving towards the latter star. At the end of June it will enter Bootes, and, subsequently, traverse the whole length of this constellation, passing most likely about a degree west of the bright star Arcturu near the middle of July. It will be finally lost on the confines of Virgo and Hydra, shortly before the perihelion pas sage, on the Ist August. PROSPECTS OF THE GRAIN MARKETS.—The prices of corn are not rising, but falling ; and, should the weather continue favourable, and the country be blessed with an average harvest, it is deemed highly probable that wheat will fall to 30s. per quarter. The quantity of foreign grain and flour imported and entered for con sumption during four weeks in the month of May con sisted of 1,007,469 quarters of wheat and 109,372 cwt. of flour, making in the whole more than one million of qrs. of foreign grain during the month ! In presence of such a fast, we care not a rush for the assertions of those that affirm that the foreigner cannot send his corn to England at present prices without a loss. He does send it ; and, if he wants to turn his produce into money, he must send it to England—as this is the only country in the world which will receive it. THE NATIONAL SOCIETY.—The annual meeting of the National Society for educating the poor in church princi ples, was held on Wednesday, at Westminster, the Arch bishop of Canterbury in the chair. The Archbishop of York, and many of the right reverend prelates were also present. The report presented no feature of remarkable interest, and the principal business of the meeting was in troduced by a resolution proposed by the Rev. G. A. Denison, which reiterated the displeasure already ex pressed by the committee of the National Society at the proceedings of the committee of Privy Council on Educa tion. This resolution was seconded by Lord John Man ners. An amendment was moved by the Rev. H. Hughes, and supported by, among others, Mr. Page Wood, M.P., but the original motion was, after some warm debating, carried by a large majority. Miss Sinclair, a lady living at Leopold Place, Edin burgh, was awakened during the night by a noise in her bedroom ; and she found a young man standing by her bedside, with a pistol in one hand and a candle in the other. his face disguised by a plaister of rouge. He de manded ten pounds. Miss Sinclair said she had not the money ; and on her niece, a little girl, corroborating this, the ruffian presented the pistol at her. He then ordered the lady to show him the plate-chest, and made her rise in her night-clothes. While looking for the keys of the chest, she noticed that the door-key was outside the bedroom; in a moment she sprang through, and locked the robber in ; then hastened into the street and raised an alarm. When assistance came, it was found that the burglar had escaped at the back of the house, descending to the ground by means of a pipe. He carried off a watch and guard • chain. FRIGHTFUL THUNDER-STORM AT PENRITH.—A most awful storm of thunder passed over the country (Thursday week) by Penrith and Deere. At Penrith a cow belonging to Mr. Joseph Proud, was killed by lightning. At Deere, during the funeral of Mr. John Ellwood, the people were driven from the grave side into the church, and while there the lighthing came through the chancel window, car ried away the books, went out at the other end of the church, and knocked down the chimney top of an adjoin ing cottage. In the course of a few seconds another light ning shaft entered the said cottage by the door, knocked four people down senseless, went out at the window and took with it a large portion of the window sill. A little girl ran out to give the alarm, and those who had taken refuge in the church proceeded to the cottage. The four people were dead to all appearance, but in the course of an hour they began to recover. THREE SUNS IN THE HEAVENS.—A celestial pheno menon of rather remarkable nature was observed here on Monday evening last. Between the hours of half-past five and half-past seven o'clock there were three suns shining in the firmament, the true sun in the centre, and a mock sun on each side of him ; all the three were in a line parallel to the horizon. The suns were surmounted with a circular halo, like a faint rainbow, and to a specta tor in Perth a slightly arched and very remarkable cloud stretched from Moncreiffe-hill to Birnam-hill, and seemed to rest on each of these elevations. The far background of the suns seemed to be composed of dark silver, from which grotesque clouds towered aloft in bold relief, their edges burnished with radiance from the triple lumi naries. At one time the most northerly of the false suns appeared brighter and better defined than the true one. The beautiful but substantial vision had passed quite away before eight o'clock, leaving not a wreck behind. — Perthshire Advertiser. AGGRAVATED HOMICIDE.—On Monday evening, a man of the name of Samuel Law was killed in a beerhouse at Sheffield, under circumstances of gross atrocity. He was a slater by trade, 39 years of age, and lived in a locality called " Back Fields." During the day he was drinking in the company of a disreputable woman of the name of Lydia Robinson. At five o'clock in the afternoon they were at a low beerhouse in Sims Croft, kept by a woman. of the name of Hannah Bates, where a quarrel ensued be tween Law and four young men. One young man, in a great rage, leapt upon a table, swearing that he would " Jump Law's b—y entrails out." Suiting the action to the word, he immediately leapt with all his weight upon Law's breast. The suddenness and force of the contu sion caused the blood to rush from the prostrate man's mouth and nostrils, imparting such a tremendous shock to his entire system that he died almost instantly without uttering a word. Bernard Housley, a steel melter, living in Ward-street, was soon after apprehended at a tavern on a charge of being concerned in the diabolical act. The other three are well known to the police. FEARFUL COLLISION IN THE BRISTOL CHANNEL. — LOSS OF A LARGE SHlP.—About five o'clock yesterday (Friday) morning, as the Brilliant steamer, from Hayle, was proceeding up channel, when about three miles North West of Ilfracombe, she spoke the barque Glenlyon, out ward bound from Cardiff, and laden with coals. The master of that vessel reported that, on Wednesday morn ing, between twelve and two o'clock, he came in collision with a large vessel, name unknown, bound from Valpa raiso to Swansea, laden with copper ore. Both ships at the time were laying well up on their respective courses, and being on opposite tacks, they came into collision with such fearful force, that the vessel from Valparaiso sunk before three o'clock. The crew betook themselves to their boats, and, after tossing about for some time, were picked up by a small steamer, and taken into Swan sea. As for the Glenlyon she was herself almost a total wreck. She lost her three masts, bowsprit, and the whole of her standing and running rigging, whilst her larboard bulwarks and bow were completely stove in. It is very satisfactory to be able to state that, so far as we could learn,, there have been no lives lost —Bristol CURIOUS FACT IN NATURAL HISTORY.c-zlii the month of November last, Mr. C. Aukland, Betwell street, Chesterfield, sold a hen pigeon of the tumbler breed to a person residing at Whittington Moor. About seven days ago she returned, her domicile having in the interval been converted . into a rabbit cote, and found five young rabbits which had been born a few days previously ; these she adopted as her own offspring, and has ever since sat upon and nursed them, refusing to allow the mother to approach the nest in her presence. ORANGEISM.—The anniversary of the lodges belong ing to the Grand Protestant Association of Loyal Orange men in the Bradford district, was celebrated on Sunday week. In the morning, a procession of more than 500 members proceeded to the Bradford Parish Church, being joined, when they arrived at the vicarage in Leeds-road, by the Rev, Dr. Burnet, as a member of the order, who was attired in full canonicals. On arriving at the church the organ played the national anthem ; and on their re turning the old bells rang a merry. peal. Dr. Burnet preached an appropriate and able sermon from Jude, 3rd verse. The rev. doctor enforced the duty of Orangemen contending for the faith once delivered to the saints, and showed that the principles and professions of Orangeism inculcated not only loyalty, order, and attachment to the laws and constitution of the realm, but likewise constant devotedness to works of charity, mercy, and brotherly love. The brethren left the church in the order in which they went. A large number subsequently dined at the Moulders' Arms, Sticker-lane. ADULTERATIONS.-It is not very agreeable to read the accounts that occasionally come before us of the nasty stuff which certain of her Majesty's subjects are com pelled to eat and drink. In the House of Commons, a great fuss has been made about the adulteration of coffee. We are told that a good-looking compound is made up of a small portion of genuine coffee, a good deal of chicory, refuse ship-biscuit, damaged bean-flour, rope-yarns, rad dle, and soot to deepen the colour. Filthy stuff, certainly ; yet one may escape it by buying coffee whole. But how will the Londoners manage about their milk ? A me.li cal gentleman has published a book upon the horrible practices of the London milkmen. Chalk and water are innocent things, and happy is the Londoner who gets off with such harmless and pleasant additions to his morning's meal. London milk has very little indeed to do with cows it is made of bullocks' brains, soft water, whiting, and the scrapings of raw hides, coloured (if you will insist on cream) with a little of the thing called annatto : the thicker your cream, the more bullock's brains are you treated to. ROMISH BLASPHEMY.—The Tablet boasts of a" patron age" as illustrious—we cannot say more illustrious, for it places the Virgin and the Godhead on a parity—as that of the " Four Archbishops." About to multiply its periods of publication, it thus announces its intention :—ln about three or four weeks, on a day to be fixed very shortly, the first number of the Evening Tablet, will—please God and our blessed Lady—be published. On this the Evening Herald remarks :—Here is no " wet " popery, but a frank, a fearless prominence accorded to its most offensive and vulnerable doctrines. " Our blessed Lady " takes her seat upon the throne of Omnipotence and wields a veto upon the decrees of the Trinity ' Well, no wonder that the organs of popery should unmask thus daringly the features of their idol when they find so cordial and genuine. a zeal in act as well as profession among their partizans. After all, good may come of it. This open association of a creature with the Being who gave her birth and pronounced her, as he pronounced others, " blessed," cannot but revolt the reflecting, and compel them to consider whether it is meet and warrantable. For our parts, we always think it better to have absurd things propounded plainly than insinuated secretly. DISCOVERY OF A MURDER COMMITTED ELEVEN YEARS SINCE.—The Otley correspondent of the Leeds Intelligencer gives the following account of the discovery of a murder committed eleven years ago :—On Saturday last, as some men were digging for peat on Roggan or Rocking Moor, an extensive and barren waste, situate in the forest, about 13 miles from Otley, they found the body of a man in a state of decay, with his clothes on, just under the surface, and covered over with ling, which had been cut from the common for that purpose. The remains were conveyed to the Gate Inn, West End, when an inquest was held on Sunday before Mr. Brown, of Skipton—verdict not known. On Monday the remains were buried in Fewston Church-yard. We understand that about eleven years ago a man of the name of Carlin was missing, and, as no intelligence could be had of him, a man named Jonathan Bland, in whose company Carlin was last seen, was strongly suspected of having used foul play towards the missing man. Bland and Carlin were at that time in partnership as cattle-dealers. Bland ac counted for Carlin's absence by stating that he had gone to America. The body found on Saturday hasbeen iden •tified by several persons, from the dress and other little things found in the pockets of the clothes, to be that of the man Carlin. Jonathan Bland has been apprehended. THE ASSYRIAN RESEARCHES.—CoIoneI Williams, her Majesty's boundary ccrnmissioner, who has lost no oppor tunity of supporting Mr. Layard in his operations, occu pies his spare time at the present moment at Workah, an immense ruin with of Babylon. He had previously dis patched Mr. Loftus, the naturalist attached to his diplo matic mission, accompanied by a young gentleman (son of the late Mr. Churchill, acting as interpreter), with the caravan of mules and horses by the way of the Mesopo tamian deserts, and these explorers have been fortunate enough to discover entire mines of antiquities, consisting of bricks with very perfect inscriptions, which cannot fail to throw considerable light upon the period of history to which the city, to whose previous existence they bear testimony, belong. In addition to this, they discovered coffins of glazed earthenware, out of which they took armlets and anklets, furnished with inscriptions in a very perfect state. From these it is probable that information as to the burial ceremonies of the dead may be collected, in illustration not only of their domestic life, but also of their religious ceremonies connected with the final desti nation of body and soul. In the short space of three days, Mr. Loftus (by the assistance of Arab excavators) had collected from these mounds sixty very curious relics, the most important of which consisted in armlets, anklets, arrow heads, bronze and clay statuettes, bracelets, and a sword : and, in addition to them, innumerable inscrip tions. On his return to head-quarters, whither Mr. Lof tus considered himself bound to proceed, to obtain an ex tension of leave, in order to revisit the scene of his suc cessful labours, he loaded his mules with some fragments of a statue in black basalt, all of which will be transmitted to England with Layard's third exportation of Assyrian marbles. ARREST OF A RUNAWAY PARTNER.—The Constitu tionnel publishes the following communication from Lille : " An arrest has taken place in this town under somewhat extraordinary circumstances. One of the four partners of a banking-house in London had one fine day been found missing, and, together with him, the funds in the strong box, amounting to the enormous sum of £125,000. He had taken refuge in Belgium, and his place of retreat was known. Either because it was easier to arrest him in France, or because there was danger in seizing him in his own quarters, a plan, by which he should be drawn to Lille, was imagined and executed, though not without trouble by the three injured partners. The delinquent had been on terms of intimacy with a woman employed in his establishment. This woman was gained over. She wrote to her former paramour that she could not longer live without him, that she was about to quit England, and that he must meet her at Lille, where a letter addressed poste restante would indicate the hotel to which she had repaired. The three partners, reckoned greatly upon the success of their stratagem, took a special steamboat on Saturday evening and performed a rapid voyage, which cost them nearly £4O. At four o'clock in the morning they arrived at Lille, where they secured the assistance of the police, in case their prey should have taken the bait. They placed themselves in ambush near the post-office, one of them taking up his position within that establish ment, two others at M. Barrat's, a hairdresser, opposite the Rue Marais, and the police at the cabaret of the Cave of St. Paul. They were not long in suspense, for at 11 o'clock precisely the expected delinquent, not suspecting any treason, on stepping out of the train, proceeded im mediately towards the Rue Marais. We shall not depict his astonishment at seeing himself suddenly surrounded by those whom he could now look upon as his most for midable enemies. He perceived at once that resistance was useless, and accompanied the police to the lock-up house, where he will remain confined until he is despatched to England, where he will have to answer for his delin quency." ELOPEMENT.—The ancient little town of H—, in the Lake district, celebrated in the last generation for the excellence of its grammar school, from which proceeded some of the best scholars of the day, was on Wednesday thrown into a state of much excitement by an event that affords abundant food for the gossips thereof, in the form of that most piquant of all dishes to them—an elopement, ' the principals in which aro the only daughter of the cler gyman and a disciple of Esculapius, some time practising in the town and neighbourhood, but a native of the Emer ald isle. It appears that the young lady was first missed at the usual breakfast hour, and, on the maid being sent to her bed-room, she, on knocking, received no answer, and on entering she found that the young lady was not there, and that her bed had not been occupied. Inquiries were immediately instituted by the distracted parent in town, but she was not to be found, and it was soon disco vered that Mr. L— was missing also, and when such was known the conclusion was at once jumped to that the twain had flown on the wings of love to that shrine of Hymen so enchanting to young ladies in general— " Gretna," a route taken by so many of those with whom " the course of true love runs not smooth" at home. Directly this discovery was made, post horses were ordered, and as soon as possible two parties were off in pursuit northward as fast as horses and wheels would carry them. It appears, however, that the enamoured couple had a good start, having crossed Windermere during the night, and taking a conveyance had arrived at Oxenholme Sta tion, (the junction of the Kendal and Windermere with the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway,) for at the early hour 1 of six they were seen by a gentleman returning from Lan caster, taking their places in the train proceeding north ward, and who knowing them, more than suspected the place of their destination. The pursuers arrived too late at the hymeneal goal, for the marriage had taken place. The happy couple, however, were encountered on their return southward, and were induced to proceed home, where a scene of no little violence was enacted, and the lady, we understand, was placed under restraint; but whether a reconciliation has since ensued our informant does not say.—Preston Guardian. A PERFECT CURE OF DROPSY BY HOLLOWAY' critical period she was attacked wit ropey, attended by usnwtannishtereemterNideiwall,ocastle ifs. A en t jo t y h e a d t the —M rbests. troublesome Lambert, b ea t i th ° f cough. a verymedics' aid of several procured, but af th h e e irefforts f disease. The water in her bod and legs increased so rapidly, that e fears were entertai that she could not long survive. swss i P t isc'e he At this crisis commenced taking Holloway's rills, v a e i rY ledetm o in re e m nt ove, o practitionersr eve ate, which acted so powerfully on her complaint, that its pro gress was immediately arrested, and i.u. the course of two months the cure. was coceßlete, enteral lilliaellanv. Two gentlemen in Scotland have contributed £2,100 to the endowment scheme of the Church of Scotland. At Doncaster, recently, a lady who had left an infant slumbering in its cot was alarmed by cries of distress, ran to its side, and discovered a rat eating one of its hands. The Marquis of Waterford has returned twenty per cent., and Sir M. W. Ridley twenty-seven per cent. on their respective estates in Northumberland. The Rev. Mr. Caldwell, an independent minister, died in an awfully sudden manner, at the Tynemouth railway station, on Tuesday. THE HIPPOPOTAMUS.—This wonderful animal was ex hibited to the public on Wednesday, for the first time, at the Zoological Gardens, London. During the storm at Tunstall, Staffordshire Potteries, the lightning killed a man and four cows. At Dowlais, four women were struck down in a mass, and one killed. The ambassadors of Nepaul have taken a box for every night's performance at her Majesty's Theatre during their residence in London. At Bowness, on Thursday week, a man and four horses were killed instantaneously during athunder storm, by the electric fluid. As a proof of their enjoyment of the pleasures of Eng lish society, the Princes of Nepaul have taken a box for every night's performance at her Majesty's Theatre during their residence in London. On Thursday night, a splendid banquet was given to Lord Gough at the Mansion-house, London. To this magnificent entertainment nearly 300 of the most dis tinguished inhabitants of the metropolis were invited. The Earl of Shrewsbury made the handsome return of twenty per cent. to his Shropshire tenantry, at the audit of Monday last; and of twenty-five per cent. to many of his Worcestershire tenants, at the recent audit. SIGNS OF THE TlMES.—Fifteen able-bodied labourers, with their families, came into the Union workhouse, in Doncaster, on Friday, from Tickhill, in consequence of their inability to obtain work. The Queen has, upon the occurrence of a vacancy, offered to Mr. Hunt, a brother of Leigh Hunt, a nomi nation as one of the poor brethren of the Charterhouse, which that gentleman has accepted. A writer in a metropolitan contemporary alluding to the invasion of Cuba, says that " the struggle between the whites in the midst of so large a negro population would be like a duel fought with pistols in a powder magazine." A fire broke out on Thursday, at the Great Western Cotton Works, Bristol ; the reeling and warping sheds were destroyed ; the entire works will be temporarily stopped. The cause of the fire is unknown—damage £5OOO. A day or two since the barge Sarah, belonging to Mr. George, of Branscombe, laden with coals, was upset in the Severn, and all hands, consisting of three of the crew and one passenger, were lost. The barge afterwards righted, and was towed into Chepstow. The Ladies' Society for the Promotion of Negro Edu cation in the West Indies held their annual meeting in London last week. It was stated that subscriptions to the amount of £l,lOO had been received during the year. Dr. M'Neile was among the speakers. The Shields Gazette says that a coin, apparently struck during the reign of the Kentish king Egbert, as it bears the name of Alchred, who was a moneyer of that king, and lived between 665 and 674, was found last week in Jarrow churchyard, during the digging of a grave. WESLEYAN SOCIETY.—A tabular statement of the re turns from each district, prepared for presentation to con ference, shews a total increase of upwards of fourteen thousand members during the year, with twenty thousand members on trial. What will the agitators say to this ? The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Englanii has increased from £16,631,080 to £16,701,949, being a difference of £70,869. The paper in actual circulation has decreased from £20,659,416 to £20,199,440, being a difference of £459,976. DEPARTURE OF SIR JQHN ROSS FOR THE ARCTIC RE GIONS.—This gallant explorer, who volunteered to go in search of Sir John Franklin in the Arctic Seas, sailed from Lochryan last week, accompanied by Commander Phillips and a picked crew. The governors of the Wakefield Grammer School have declared that the Rev. J. Taylor, head-master, has ex ceeded his duty in severely flogging a boy of thirteen years of age, and that he ought to have laid a complaint before them, as directed by the statutes. During the Whitsuntide festivities at Dinton, near Salisbury, on Monday last, some rustics were throwing at boxes placed on sticks, when the stick thrown by one of them struck a youth who was standing near with great force, on the jugular vein, and killed him on the spot. On Friday week some men were washing sheep in the river Tees, at Gainford, Durham, when one of the men, following a stray sheep, slipped over a rock into a hole in the river. Two of his companions jumped in after him. The former, having a rake in his hand, managed to escape, but the two who so gallantly came to his rescue perished. A youth, named Steel, after running a race with ano ther lad on Thursday evening week, at Mortomley, near Sheffield, complained that he felt ill, and shortly after wards expired, in consequence of the rupture of some large blood-vessels, as was shown by a post mortem exa mination. One of the college students at King William's College Isle of Man, was on Wednesday climbing a steep rock near Castletown after a birds nest, when his foot slipped and he fell on the beach. He was unfortunately killed. The deceased was a son of the Rev. G. H. Woodhouse, rector of Frimingley, Notts. Twenty-four plants of the famous Stanwick Nectarine, the property of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, were sold by auction, a few days since, for the extraordi nary sum of £166 19s. which was, by his Grace's orders, handed over for the benefit of the Gardener's Benevolent Institution. A clergyman, the Rev. Thomas Bull, of Corby, North amptonshire, seeing two men engaged in a pitched battle in a field, went up and pushing through the crowd sepa rated the combatants, and although threatened at first, he succeeded, without assistance, in putting an end to the disgraceful exhibition. The inhabitants of Carlisle make loud complaints of the filthy state of the water supplied to that town ; it is de scribed as rel and muddy, and as having a "fishy flavour," which is not surprising, since fish have actually been deli vered through the water taps in various parts of the town —some without heads, others without tails, and some all alive and swimming. _ . _ DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT.—On Sunday, the 15th ult., an amiable girl, the daughter of Mr. Everson, a respecta ble farmer of Upper Aston-lodge, Shoreham, had just been to call her father to breakfast, and was standing be tween two young ladies who were on a visit to the farm, when her brother was in the act of laying down a pistol, which went off, killing the unfortunate girl on the spot. A woman at Bristol was fined last week for having pawned some shirts which a tradesman had given her to make. In the course of the inquiry, it was stated that the remuneration to the poor woman for making shirts was fourpence each, which the employer considered good wages, as many only gave twopence halfpenny each. The woman said when she pledged the shirts she had not a morsel for her children to eat. The story of the poisonings at Clavering has been revived. It will be remembered that, about two years ago, Sarah Chesham was tried and acquitted for the mur der of her children by poison. Richard Chesham, the husband of the woman, died on Thursday last, and the body is now undergoing a poet mortem examination, under suspicion of foul play. Another son is also said to be dying. Last week an inquest was held in Essex, on the body of a sailor, found drowned. The jury found the usual verdict, and retired to their homes ; afterwards, however, when the body was stripped for burial, the supposed sailor was found to be a female, a poor girl, who had been en gaged in seaman's garb only a week before, at Harwich,l and who had accidentally fallen over the bulwarks of the vessel at Wivenhoe, and was there drowned. It appears that " Broom-stick" or " Toll-gate" mar riages are patronized by a Rev. Mr. Ritchie, of Berwick upon-Tweed, who has recently assumed the honour of presiding at the " orgies" of border unions in that neigh bourhood. The circumstance has created some stir, and it is rumoured that the reverend gentleman has received a call from the hostelrie of Gretna to officiate there in the absence of the recognised official. Mr. Ritchie has written a long letter to the Berwick Warder in justifica tion of his eztakordhun cimduCt. in!....42; Igsl. - - -_— ,ibii,hea on ~ , - We find, in the Cathelie:Magazine, P" .100'1,1 t day, the following paragraph t•-•:-"iLe „ eri r ci a t i- eof C7dtf ! the Rev. William Dodsworth, petee,,fw7 , - ce benef,,, o rs ; church, St. Pancras, has resigned • Ina i1 1 ',. 0 Ilat'A; , the intention of joining theirs atholic Chert,,e dos P . ):ii ' to this effect have been flyg about for so me ton : A but we feared to e ared currency to them 0 111 ° l'or,, 1 confirmation app. This open declarattoi?! a t ist periodical, is the best sort of proof that gj it etai Having alluded to the subject, we may I,ll a t h a t*, 4 l positively stated by friends of the parties'-osfora , ' f 10 W. Wilberforce, brother to the Bishop 0 , den, Mr. Allies, late Chaplain to the Bishop of Lon de a come to a similar determination.--Orfungso SVif, Two BROTHERS DROWNED IN A EErrr t, fros Pl op SOMNAMBULISM. — The Otter steain•eac e ~„,id of. A to be pa id head, arrived at Chatham on Saturday re ed Few" • It Monday morning one of the crew, °a o r e boa. missing from the vessel, and as he did Of T we e en, pearance in the course of the forenoon, fear search wit h t ,, tamed that he had gone overboard ;_a ~e both 4 drags was therefore made, and on Tuesday.l7. he wsi!, i found. It is supposed by his shipnaates I ' d f o hoe y u e dr r ta b e o eb a nr r e d wt leilneerithsseiasrgysollneegdpiis.aaptplhteesirsseadrteefremovamerks s:eetactiti.esad cwi t s :;o st e C tifotl4ol , 7o , Pl i , head, when, after two or three days search, e d °ve rb° , drowned ;he also was supposed to have Wilke 111 in his sleep.—Rochester Gazette. 'T AvE g) ' to 01 SuiciDE AT THE LONDON-BRIDGE ! ,„ .0: i 0 0 London coroner has been engaged in ineng;iv, si L 4 circumstances of a suicide, committed bY a ' i , ihetep London-bridge Tavern. She took 80 1 ° 1° h t oug l ' t e di week, and the day following a young worogorailof 0, a letter, almost immediately after which sr., sta st d e ,,,e quantity of oil of vitrol, which which it Letters were found upon her, from which it " g ol f that the writer had refused to fulfil an el eotr e r i wmaarrdryteheidr,enantidfyhtabdeldeefteeEansegdlr but a ll oge o a n t e lei l e a eulif i o lo te o , the coroner that if he went to Mr. Matt a : .. w i l,be e l j aTolf e u unhanr n dert . haF , t l d eputy -cashier ehre t wri h rtdtoh e aeauedr2j,sto,hhwneutfiarbsieedtwdeirtpeelAitdnoill.arpphiwbndNefieewnefaidra.tdydwr easss the .e o d f Hteh ua Ba n k scce: d: n o ~f r y e c A e u de ii r l yk , Marshall, who said that he knew nothing of „if g io l, but they might have been sent by his b r° s s e ti bli joir h br a i d da l o ef T t oEvenrgola,nLdofoodronS.oburtihdgAe.u, s , tra T li h a e o in n o df/o: : e: Mrs. 1 . 4°5 ' ffic itl 01 0 ; . , $ DARING BURGLARY AND ATTEMPT TO to $ O B Friday, between the hours of one and io llitg,.4s l most daring outrage was committed in the e t o f se:ip. of Mrs. Christiana Waters, in the Paris ovetber,) 1 0 Alaw ß nnisai i rc y ts..i h e naci r eg,w s l la , aowfcr i kh n tkheoeoe t bf h iwdny i pai s doths c hinent o iht i tr i iel n inleroi t gfeeg y t hs . sasteoriglrmmule A nhcea t eenpai t ylvtae h erh e odsf iatiohninclnodo:ui.rboarealtpohi l a ti is vayis:ehie:sri_diebiytiotorpi 0te,50 " Chas. Clarke (brother to Mrs. Waters! re','“„d.ro o „;ol 4 ' rae mga in rw oaF g aspEyt t pA o laeen g xdlF e at t out of bed, he saw a man stanen eg o seti ° o tii; ohat the s m e t the the fellow almost immediately fired, °ell e , shot ° f iee f el ih.oowuwspieet Not withstanding :ssw t o ehh r d t oe i o o rhn n uaffihd o i f asbn t ew l , e l t e anahyn fl iadsu e r s oph l i‘us i eitsl o ared f i. dr the sbc.yislr!hue:e the,co : silo p te::t i e r : his (Mr. Clarke's) two nephews, whio)iinsietil:iateapoli°rttbtfrlol H gu e n r . ald The gun used was the property of 3. ` r tie o e Pb r ° I had been placed in one of the lower root_ d isce e intoiicto i g rtto i o v imbns e e n pair:ltoi a b bk o fai had a been was wed d ing, fid they call wyoai, ote D aitphrrhahrnfooiscegetFracwp S hrihneetriot.duu t eamehw N edspittsapesruaotad o ctuosorytrbet ti trn leehikhr,leev e px,a,eere,foap i paancicsauoieisl adandcsardms ;i iede,t A en, 3 ,Paoiikbdaigptict ni c e.iiutucrr e, c o.esgi tn i joppi o:denttrrt:fooaEr:otdtabSlotafi tort fiah, L i ns ctebete ' ti:aeehii " , hr o,ls,:rip:t.e. ridotiliooc i fee el irti : o jeei . . fithof ribeolo foceii 000,,,ti. o rl b,l of tv. :e i#0 0 .5.(1f, 0 ,, insane proceeding. tfit o hh n l lee e apohl hole oo t g lw h e g th e c ru i r o a nei i e av nnxo td a ne w craft marries, ode re and k! g a d ßn his intention to effect this by e l ea ciag sal e ° ! s o f ! oit e, body as Smith,he was blowing ~,,t er eer .., f r ee ti e. blow, when f a al m lin an g. being a piece of grit between it and Cho ~ oist dead' adt,Thaaelel took processtime u s p a ai s ilt,.aa otgaetreo P up attic ti v p .117.1,: , handle of the sledge hammer, upon which Iwo cle/11 , • 3 was driven through his body. He fell insf e ., P die ° s o, weight of the hammer-head pulling the Ott" doe s .t years of age, and was married, but had to o c Ol e '; lk John Dogdyke, y, gr ~. Alice, .0 near Boston, had a liaison wito ee l st an , young girl, aged 17, of considerable Pers4eli;,,,,gl Her friends were averse to her marrying l erj lo o - be f i f seems to have given him general cause f° ls 00 9 iv' . „ ~kt , ,reel', to by the name of the " village flirt. „ he' i r l; greatly exasperated with her. One ' B ' ja a bbe,.dg , went out together, and crossed a ferrY; o' o ,o lii, a d o s man muttered something about throir.,-,50% „. a ••„ e t he treated it as a jest; but on her re e " . „ad IPL - feli t ~.a, he suddenly clasped her round the wais, f ;;; t o r„,60,;, her into deep water, clutching her tign" ; •fbe, .1 - in 'We: 0 fTfihfet deceased orn w ns , ~, pe x rising from the bottom of the strewn . cce eta - t ill ne, Sampson. at the risk of his own life, s.ter, 'th d o ors 0 ging the ill-assorted lovers out of they; o:' but fii ~, t though exhausted. The girl recover „, le '°'fte e nie 'l a. after a partial revival, sank under there i l sce l " t is; who le s appy a . i ' d ' theyfter. g Before bis death, he said to Ain o 4 st t ; i i - to; y e ha g d ir b l owenasgitvbeen her torinhecirpbaly • - •,,h_ e e 5. ea eY,,,,.1, ..hould go together, and then ' l ",itac'',/tr''' c it , ci , uest held upon the body of her lover: W The 0 ' t beFi g t c ` Temporary insanity" was returned.. e a b, e , theyfoun upon the body were cla l t rll h de'F - Th o° l 'o' l they were retained for his relations. ~ GO T f tbel VIOLENT CONDUCT OF AN INEA N- one ‘,l ildf On Saturday, a gentleman, travelling fi t ' r , te ed "" w r oil extensive commercial houses in EnglarT,' - scin de „ . ,e9 looking at the books and prints in f"'„„ e re s° ,'l i isri Fishpool, bookseller. Amongst them "port , ' j - 1' " Caudle illustrations," prints of ti n excit ed' O e l it) of Wales, &c. He suddenly _becanie fierc e c oi r ' into the shop, demanding of Mr. FishP°°ltien 3 11.5 ,'111 $ll lO " Why the he exposed that (pointing 0 )0 0 ' sfel',lo in his window—it wan a libel on the best on pVi land, the Q ueen .? Without waiting f o r an .00.0 immediately knocked Mr. Fish I dovrn . 0 1 f il 10 5 4 , pool t hi . c i l 0 then snatched up a chair, and struc k ,110 i mfb 09 missing Mr. F., but smashing a glassa- 4o oe?..rej ti the shop. Two policemen, who were in t h e sercalqr hood, hearing the crash, ran to the ell° an d se insane entleman, not however without s ong to a µJo he was t arp powerful and violent. Or' i g g iplo f t ' ty Lion with the police, he became verY e i l. ,P- tb o 6 , o bl e of loyalty with great animation and z e , e t O h , oil where he had been staying, it appear'. h e ' ill t`Viti l morning, and mounted a horse which wa s to .„ tr having on him only his shirt, but was ino s a o ` o ` o s r e r being discovered. The gentleman was f ort to care of by his friends.—Bristol Mirror. co s, i .e a 01: 0 , PETITIONS IN FAVOR OF p o sTAD re sen' o f 5 1 0 1 StrteDAY,—The total number of petitiollober 'ere the 24th of May was 3120, and the total: 549 ,5?:;) ~rl, l tures appended to those petitions , w .3alon e "°: l e‘ ete many of those petitions (from Scotian. ~.s i rlel, Ol d ro signed by the chairman. There were , li la hio'd p o hundred petitions yet to be presented, on 9 111.,r ° to fore, a right to conclude that the signatuf'oo99 the petitions on this subject would actnaltY etittA I iti o f p ,s u r- 1 less than 700,000, and that the number , 000, .)* t of ' I,' Orr '' favour of this motion did not fall shor f i t o , 0 , persons. The petition from the t0 wn . ,0 1,0 00; .A O t to favour of this motion was signed by i a fari o 7 - 01,b1 bankers and merchants in that town be o bjec. OW • the slit f selves into an association for promoting r so , 0 , 0 cis motion. The petition from Manclieste , 01.. 4 . 0 real' 01* ft , 31,000 persons, among whom were a grey ill 13 ; ,00 largest firms and the greatest capita l ists 16 , ' rl " co t' The petition from Aberdeen was signe ~n o . an 0w. . 00 , Paisley, 6563 • from Edinburgh, 2 4,- 'f 015 6 g.,e0° 4 Glasgow, 21,75 0 . The town council °flie d theigtotte sisted of 50 persons, 41 of whom had s i g. of Che m eda e 0 Out of 11 banking firms in that citY .. ,.. ha nt!,6,!,,is these petitions, and no less than 50 0 ni""1.0 05trie nufacturers of that place signed thernu._,er h eist of t i o c ell the subject of the penny postage cam! . o uu • boaa is eso,? that house, the government vielde, ° ' 0 tot 000 . ne °' titioners amounting only to 2655,1x,00°' 00 0 r itl ° affected a revenue to the amount or to 700: 40 ,, 0 0 present request has been backed bY tiaa4te tioners, who asked for no exemption from sirep w t e rl is far e 01 asked for nothing for themselves, '' bu ber of ti 3 , 0 0 may be extended to a certain nual ~,iticiee creatures.—Lord Ashley's Speech. n i nitit - iov o i; The Nepaulese Noli we tangere• .. at SOl too , P e the arrival of the Nepaulese em b lpton eu b'sgO g li° l‘ instructions were sent to the Southa b tbe & g ilt' 00 1 .:, authorities, ordering them bas to eas‘,.irlaY froe clO o r iv presents brought by the erosY• ig,,•thstill?teal 0 e tl; ever, instructions were sent to the:_vdetieg te rt iOlf„s l , house authorities from London , % ti t to 11 1 0 s ain!' o .e I ,', open the presents for her ajestY, ~.,s si, , s o ~ t , re mine the personal luggage of the,enneo thfl h e co;,,e, usually done with foreign embassie_rer'ujed t sn l ie ase bs y ,o; this country. On the latter bein.• '..d a nd d i r , or t ilei '0 orders he appeared much disappoin_tes begg ag e e w e e tie , he declared that if any portion of _ ties he sago , 0,414 any of his suite, were touched he ei',..,•rture_ve f e 4 lO, remain at Southampton until thi!! 0 7 ou ld 1 0 009'4 outward Alexandria vessel, when he would esiif• hi the o ld w - ,, without accomplishing the object or _god 9 1 0 to o to communications were immediately ru'- Y•ostrueti°"e 09 iv a_; urging that the obnoxi a wes sSi se i, tr i , rescinded. In consequence of Which , t hing .0 n o va e 04A dering e"" '01 44° VA •e' witted to Southampton, or wen the ee-' l' the embassy to be passed without „ al oof°, t he r i t belonging to the embassy got by te e anT one of the htoftetto warehouse of the customs, and 7 ° bs clo'go 0 In a be d o t was examining it, a Hindoo drew e th e a t ant` though pacified, he refused to baps de e"li it er''of fo od had been touched. The aosbaos y id have l ot 6- 01 1. 0 , any Southampton hotel unless he eo ser les4 b oo t ott o , himself. This arose from re ligi° ll9 rod Wi t : ha te I lr it'' o s prepared for Christians should be, 01 in ple an d do i c e consequence of this deterniieatioxtarsador ‘‘t vo e a 15,, , ments were made to enable the effoinsular ' re fill g ee'? sleep and cook their food at the k ru e g i o do o L, a n t o io do their stay in Southampton. 11° o f &aerate' f ri ' O 5 er egge and P Ve t D eggs, and preferred the larg __„4o,,,er, , to. o fo d,, o o# , They took a great fancy for L a y,a '„pearet l e her ' l ,o'o o immense quantity of it. A ' ea ting t ' he ir 0 re llg o oli utmost secrecy in. dressing - an them at e 0 ° l*. O s quite indifferent as to who , saw anything, sopr eo , o in They wash after they touch f clea nlM co 0 1 , ~i f ceremony than for the Inu*Pose ° o f the clii etot ly t 1 :11 the Hindoo servants', but e ane 'roost PerPth area, ou i ll) back y ar d w ashing themselves a ~,h t c lo o _,, r l o i .j A , stripped, with the exception of a s s_7 e , a ll ,‘',10;, ) , ir loins, Outhey would wash hm; , •i ica ,i; • it. ,'a half Oof water. They se . .cerogbob JP in . h they resiO u 1 the apoebment wine I clot* and tuvadawati WO. kne,4, 1851. °CEA/ well that Othe r . li z tfT ekl i, 4o:l4t t vtlilsel4l.B : lBo.o, f 4 4 fwcottio,_ll, )(I'ote,tri.....:,ori. u_ophltsievis,tit4l,,mt‘iLp.tiske,uali'lletti)titeev,:naArtoa_rieaei,togrtv.o:addi;,e:restwhitithiiitlleazaibvee:tneetati,h,:t.rf.dika.filitgoiapa,eisnuotmlolts.ri_lhditsidout.deetgoe.ociil:hrailifsts.liil.7o,le,t. t ,It . . t r‘. , 4 ti i 1 , . , e c a l e ,r 3 0 , s- 1 . 1 1 i liorbeur i?a ktitc rsii,t4 Y ,t laittatl,altiti,e "lea efr. 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