The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-10 00:00:00

DIERS . t a tract/ d rapidll ar there' s a tracl4 ng believe! ted, and s no in' oodilyio Ivereign oyal :!reasing hall an that the, 335 1 0 by one and on oyal 1!1: vas set n 1837• usly in' scorn' ist that tionarr, Ciiu rel. It for her , on the I uction s force, r part► erty of illy ar housei :,rown , venues Lied by robe w roe" übject• i ia:rie 9, sing to •lly env nstead Queen i 0,000; easill poiab their its Ofq, iste, o f 10010 e un art of Ist°l? Oct. 10, 184 S. SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—This DAY. We have to report since this day . week an increased supply of rui.o Flour, and Oatmeal coastwise and from Ireland ; with a fair import of Wheat, a few parcels of Barley , chiefly from the "P continent of Europe; and, p r incipally from the United States, ! I pwards of 44,000 quarters of Indian Corn, 3,732 barrrels Corn !teal, exclusive of about 13,300 barrels of Flour thence and Ituada ; the exports to Ireland, at the same time, continuing to a fair amount, and likely to increase. The sales of Wheat at our market to-day have beenmoderate, at a decline from the rates of this day week of 2d. to 3d. per 101 b. Flour was also Is. per sack and ls. per brrrel lower. Barley, on a fair demend, steady in value.; Beans and Peas dull on the terms last noted. Oats recovering in part the depression of Friday, the best qualities were saleable this morning at 3s. 2d. to 38. 3d. 45i Oatmeal Is. per load cx an on Tuesday last. than Corn 6d. per qu, reaper th alter lov .1:7; I g 7 4 21 .It=l (-In*/ giimo v l .2co=4,ngr a ri? 0 :0 OR . sw ". g • V ' t h: "C 3 0 c;.•t-4 1.114 c„ p,...1 1 z il z .„,:7.-. 1 - e. P__= 2 : P. 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L • 1,0 •:: : : • . ..., • ; ..., 5 ° * Q. : : : : : : V, :• .; cc. . 9 ' S S': . 4 ... • . . .., c,. sg„, ---- ciD • • ~. • • • L.. ~, . . . . • ' " • • I c 4 : ,c. 4 ,, : •-= : : :4 5; __. 0.• •- ~.,, • • . . . • ....1 .. • 4.) • ...1( • • CD O 2 ....._ r e _________ _ I I t., • 5 • 0, ... • • 1 , 0 • ~..,. • ~,.., • 0. a- •;4 1 : : 1 ..., J. ; ; `-'4, : F., : 8 i. 3 I 4 : • ~••• 1W tittraturt. NOTICES. <4tir ch qf England Quarterly Review. October, 1848 - London : W. E. Painter, Strand. The number before us contains some very valuable Papers, but is a little short for that class of readers who Seek for light and amusing reading. Perhaps it is not exactly the province of a reviewer to cater for that class 1 ° Particular • but it would be profitable to a ff ord a few a rticles of the lighter and gossiping kind occasionally, as a relief to those which are provided for the scholar and the theologian. Amongst the best articles in the present number are No. 2, " Germany during the Reformation, a review of Leopold Ranke's History of the Reforma tion in Germany, translated by Sarah Austin" ; and No. 6, " The Panslavic and Germanic Movements," a review of Count Valerian Krasinski's valuable work. The latter i s:especially worthy of an attentive perusal, as affording Als the best explanation we have seen of the causes of the movements which are taking place in Western Europe. " 0 . 9, " The Parliamentary Session," is also a sparkling Palm . ; and the reader in this locality will find much that la interesting, and probably new to him, in the article entitled " The Church, the Kingdom, and the Isle of 44411 ." We give a couple of quotaions from this article. VARIETIES. NoT BAD.—Some time ago, a gentleman passing rough Lancaster was taken ill. A friend of his, looking lxver the list of surgeons in the directory, asked " who Was the great gun ?" whereupon a certain clergyman present :replied, "Mr. .Howitzer," (Mr. Howitt, sir.) ; r. Howitt being a surgeon, at Lancaster, of great skill and extensive practice. A MANX LEGEND. — From the summit of the gravel boss of the Calf Islet was once witnessed a scene, some account of which will serve as a specimen of the rich le gendary history scattered about these pages. It appears that in the early days of Olave Godredson, a Norman ba ron, with dreadful sporting propensities, had so nearly exhausted the race of bisons and elks that, to check the hunter and save what they could of the little he had left, the people had, of course, recourse to magic. While he Was one day chasing the red deer of the Calf, and his stout-lunged cook, Eaoch, was sleeping by the side of the Witch, pot in the castl e kit c h en o f B arru ll, a M anx "oh, named Ada, set the fat running over and therewith Put fire to the castle. Eaoch roared so loud that his mas ter, the B aron Kitt er , h ear d hi m , thou g h ten miles o ff. He jumped into a boat with all his followers, to gain the main island from the Calf; but the witch touched the ""hel m, the prow touched a rock, and the whole of them -en t to the bottom. The poor cook was forthwith seized !is the author of all the evil and condemned to death, with Vie solitary privilege allowed to that early Ude, of choos -41,4 bow he would die. " Well (said Eaoch to Olave the ' 11 g), if it be so, I wish my head to be laid across one of Your Majesty's legs, and there cut off by your majesty's the Macabuin, which was made by Loan Maclibhuin wa , dark smith of Drontheim." The king's scimetar s t empered that it would cleave through a mountain of Rt auite : he felt, we may suppose, a little, uneasy about tke tibia and fibula ; but his word was pledged and his V„ e ,. d g,e Was not to be forfeited. A l the precaution taken by Ada the witch—who placed a dressing of nine I ,:lea nine filthy and witch-like components between his tri e stY's leg and the head of Eaoch the cook. All these I nga (says Mr. Cumming) being properly adjusted, the tre at sword Macabuin, made by Maclibhuin, the dark 1 3 3 ,Tith of Drontheim, was lifted with the greatest caution one of the king's most trusty servants, and laid gently Ltlle neck of the cook ; but ere its downward course E7,be stayed, it severed the head from the body of last n' and cut all the preventives asunder except the t i,„l wiereby saving the king's leg from harm. When the C., 4 smith of Drontheim heard of the stratagem submit by ,e by Olave to thwart the e ffi cacy of the sword Macs hum, he was so highly offended that he despatched his ;_ al omerman, Haillus-nanurd, who had only one leg, hay. 7. 4 _!8' lost the other when assisting in making that great °or word, to the Castle of Peel, to challenge King Olave, or any of his people, to walk with hi m t o D ron th e i m . It W as accounted very dishonourable in those days to refuse Challenge, particularly if connected with a point of, ho- - hour. Olave, in mere compliance with this rule, accepted the challenge, and set out to walk against the one-legged I., 4l weller from the Isle of Man to the smithy of Loan • n aclibhuin, in Drontheim. They walked o'er the land, 41 ;k1 sailed o'er the sea • and so equal was the match that, ~When within sight of the smithy, Haillus-nanurd, who was lt, ca ll e d to Loan M acl ib hu i n to open the door, and him called out to shut it. At that instant, pushing past sheevident of the one l eg , the ki ng e n t er ed th e s m ithy fi rs t, t o Zle evident discomfiture of the swarthy smith and his as ust_aot. To show that he was not in the least fatigued i , Fge lifted a l arge f orge h ammer , an d, u n de r pretence of bl lie la g the smith, struck the anvil with such force that o ve 1 , it, not only from top to bottom, but also the Lo an upon which it rested. Emergaid, the daughter of t i ee , seeing Olave perform such manly prowess, fell so W as p l y in love with him that, during the time her father D on 'placing the block and the anvil, she found an op Pl a ; n nitY of informing him that her father was only re te,lo the studdy to finish a sword he was making, and 'lest' lean decoyed him to that place for the purpose of ,woact, as it had been prophesied that the sword sfti n o ld be tempered in royal blood, and in revenge for the of the cook's death by the sword of Macabuin. Nos not your father the son of old Windy Cap, King of fatil wa y ? said Olave. `He ''Thenis d Emergaid. fis her v ia et entered the smithy. (cried the King of tu v , ll 4 ',as he d rew th e re d s t e el from the fire) the prophecy liftZ °e fulfilled !' Emergaid was unable to stay his up fatt; h and till he quenched the sword in the blood of her •he inn ;!: , and afterwa r ds pierced the heart of the one. legged life--;74ernian, who he knew was in the plot for taking his a CO , Such a dramatic legend would be nothing without th e i lculsion, with a marriage tacked to it. Accordingly, to l egend of the cook and the one-legged hammerman tl xe 'Lloated conjugally. Emergaid married with alacrity Witlf e7 al murderer of her father : just as Chimene. but Who more show of reluctance, espoused the valiant Cid, AUe t ,:c.,e l 7 properly slew that tedious and rude old gentle 3enct '"° 11 Gomez, the lady's sire. As for the Manx le %anti we suppose there is a moral to it, if it could be ti o , for the seeking. To our thinking the chief instruc -4 th en nveyed by it is, that cooks should not go to sleep impe kitchen fire; and that, if they do, it is perfectly as i W e s!il:ile for the m to calculate the consequences. At the ott 10 :, 1 ,_,me, every cook who falls asleep is not to suppose, toar r i"*.log, that the first step has been made towards the C hurc h of a king with a monarch's grand-daughter.— if Rnpland Quarterly Review. PROVIDENT SOCIETIES During the last session a very important investigation was conducted before the House of Lords, at the instiga tion of the Manchester Unity of the Order of Odd Fel lows, and a select committee of that house have printed the evidence then given by several celebrated actuaries, Messrs. Neison, Ansell, Griffiths Davies, and Finlaisons ; and on the part of the Order, Messrs. William Benjamin Smith and James Roe, principal officers, were examined. The most material points of the printed report and evi dence are the statement by the Lords' Committee (page 5) that— . . . " The Edinburgh and some other districts have already adopted the high rate of contributions recommended by Messrs. Wood and Neison (actuaries); and should the central committee enforce similar scales in all the remain ing districts of the Unity, the Odd Fellows' Society would be, in the words of one of the actuaries examined, the greatest economical institution of modern times. " Until, however, rules to the above effect have been universally adopted by the Order, the committee (of the Lords) would consider any special favour granted to the society as an encouragement to young men to join the body, with the foreknowledge (on the part of the above committee) that the promises held out to them can never be completely fulfilled." From such a disastrous delu sion, it appears the Lords' Committee revolted. The allusion here seems to refer to important passages of the evidence page 25, No. 155, wherein Mr. W. B. Smith admits Mr. Neison's statement, to the effect that whereas only 225. 9d. is now paid yearly by members in general, that sum to secure solvency ought to be 395. 5d., or 16s. Bd. yearly more than is paid. Viewing several parts of this vast body as having begun their existence as far back as 1814-15, with yearly augmenting numbers, it is difficult to conceive how the lee-way is to be made up. Mr. Nei son, page 14, No: 48, states, that " Ten minutes' calcula tion will show any person from the original data, that if the Order goes on even without augmenting its numbers, * * * * there would be an ultimate deficiency of ten millions of money ! " Also, that the initiation money itself had amounted (without weekly contributions) to £750,000, and that in 1845 they had only in all their lodges .£700,000, which was now reduced to £600,000. " For twenty-five years after the formation of the socie ties they should be storing up more than half the contri butions given to them ; and the contributions were more than £250,000 a-year. So that instead of storing up their contributions, all the contributions had actually been squandered, and they were making inroads on the initia tion motley." (Page 14, No. 49.) Mr. W. B. Smith's hope of obtaining a sound state of monetary affairs is thus expressed (page 42) :—" If we can get parliament to recognise us, and to give us a legal title, the next step will be to induce, as far as we possibly c an , an influx of young members into the society, paying the present amount of contribution." But after a time, when a vast number of young members had joined, Mr. Smith proposed to adopt " a graduated scale" according to the age of the parties. These proposals would be in effect that the young members should pay for the old, but the question arises, " who is to pay for them," when they get old ? The whole subject is most important, and ought to be one of justice rather than of delusive expedients. etittral lifttortllany. No other cases of cholera have occurred in Hull. The tonnage of Bristol has increased during the last six months 12,651 tons. _ _ The Queen of the Belgians arrived at Dover on Monday morning, en route to London and Claremont. The receipts at the Edinburgh Theatre, on the first night of Jenny Lind's appeara nc e, amounted to £1,200. A vein of iron ore has 'been dis Covered on the estate of Mr. John Shepherd, High Brow, Miliom, Ulverstone. The total income of the boroughs of England during the year 1846-7. amounted to £1,346,184. The munificent Dr. Warneford has just given another donation of £l,OOO to the Queen's College, Birmingham. Jenny Lind has consented to sing at a concert in Man chester, and to give the proceeds for the erection of ano ther wing to the Infirmary of that town. A public banquet, on an unusual scale of magnificence, was given on Friday night, at Cheltenham, to the " Conqueror of the Scinde." A verdict of manslaughter has been returned, at Dinton Devizes, against a man named Ford, for killing another man in a fight. The steam-ship Washington arrived at Southampton on Thursday, from New York, which she left on the 20th ult. The news by her is very meagre. The members of the Edinburgh town council have una nimously resolved not to allow written speeches to be read at the meetings of their body. Mr. Salt, farmer, of Woolton, near Ashbourn, was kil led on Monday through the upsetting of his gig in which he was riding. An old gentleman named Purling, living at Brighton, has been killed by an overdose of opium, which he had long been in the habit of taking. The pork for naval use, this year, ►ill be made up en tirely in Ireland. No American will be taken into con sumption. . . . During the past week two parish meetings have been held in London, to adopt precautionary measures against the cholera and other epidemic diseases. I MILE IN LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES !—On Satur day, Captain Robertson, 31st Regiment, ran on Leith Walk, Edinburgh, one mile in 4 minutes and 50 seconds. On Sunday week, a streetsweeper of Wisbeach, who was sifting the dust, &c., which she had swept from the mar ket place, was rewarded for his trouble by discovering five sovereigns among the garbage. The schooner Caroline, from Newport for London, struck on some rocks near Scilly, on the 28th ultimo, and wen t down instanter. The master and crew (seven in number) were all lost, except the mate. That immense wilderness, Alnwick Moor or Aydon Forest, containing upwards' of three thousand acres of land, a large portion of which is capable of cultivation, is now in a likely way of being reclaimed. The John 0' Groat Journal calculates that in the pre sent season there have been 92,862 trans of herrings cap tured. Supposing that each crau holds 70 dozen, we have 6,487,740 dozen, or 77,852,800 herrings ! A few days since a living tortoise, packed in a box pierced with air holes, was sent through the Postoffice from London to Axminster, where it arrived without suf fering any injury from its journey in the mail bags. Three senior cadets of the East India Company's Col lege, at Adcliscombe, have been expelled, for attempting to " fag" Mr. Douglas Reid, who refused to submit to the usual drudgery imposed upon new comers. Several immense masses of ice are now drifting in the Atlantic Ocean, in the direct course of the shipping be tween England and America. One of them was noticed 600 feet high, and a mile in length. The celebrated Mrs. Armitage, " the fat lady," died suddenly, on Friday, at Birmingham. She was seized with a shivering fit, and expired before her medical attendant arrived. The revenue received from tolls on turnpike roads, in England and Wales, during the year 1846, amounted to £1,384,498 ; and the total expenditure, in the same period, upon the same roads, amounted to £1,378,352. - On Saturday no less than four postmen were charged at Bow-street with abstracting money from letters entrusted to them for delivery. Our friends should beware of mak ing remittances in cash, or in bank-notes except by halves. On Wednesday week, at York, two children narrowly escaped being poisoned, by reason of one of them having had left within his reach a plate or saucer of what is com monly called " fly poison," which in fact was a solution of arsenic. The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Liverpool Road, Islington, London, was destroyed by fire on Monday. The loss is £3OOO, but the premises were insured in the Sun Office. The books and documents of the chapel were saved. Sir Charles Grey, the governor of Jamaica, who met with such a serious accident through falling from a mule, was formerly M.P. for Tynemouth. The hon. bart.'s spine was so much injured that his life is in imminent danger. The Fifeshire Journal relates that a woman lately sold some ducklings to a hawker, and was surprised on the following morning by finding that they had managed to return to her poultry-yard, though they must have tra versed by land a distance of more than a mile and a half. AMERICAN TURTLES.—By the Washington steamer from New York, a parcel of live turtles has been received, which is a navel importation from that quarter. and has become subject to a tuty of ss, per cwt., being a dis tinction made by the new tariff from turtles of British taking, which are admitted duty free. PRISON DISCIPLINE.—A controversy has been going on in the London papers between Sir Peter Laurie and Ald. Sidney, on the subject of prison discipline, chiefly as to whether the separate system has not produced a large number of cases of insanity. Mr. Sidney ably defends the system. THE CHARTIST LEADERS.—DowIing was an obscure and unknown soi-disant artist ; Cuffey, a mulatto jour neyman tailor, born, bred, and fed in one of her Majes ty's dockyards, which makes the ingratitude of his trea son the greater; Fay, a journeyman shoemaker; Lacey, another disciple of St. Crispin ; and Richie, a bricklayer. CITY RUMOUR. There is a rumour, which we give as received, that the bank has quietly, and without the know ledge of any one but its very immediate circle, contrived to obtain a loan of two millions for the Minister. This, it is supposed, explains the great amount of money transactions which have lately occurred.—Herapath. ADVERTISEMENT DUTY ON PARAGRAPHS.--A circular has been issued at the office of stamps and taxes, announc ing that, on and after the Ist of August last, all paragraphs referring to advertisements published in the same news paper shall be charged with duty, the same is separate advertisements. A most beautiful and unique gold teapot was forwarded from York to the Swedish Nightingale, while in New castle, by one of her enraptured admirers. The present originally was part of the valuable collection of the late Duke of Sussex. Other parties have also sent similar but less costly tokens of their admiration. Last week the Norwich mail was forced into a hedge, and the driver, Francis Wicks thrown under the horses and killed, in consequence of David Bond, when riding in his tart half asleep, coming in contact with the vehicle by turning into the road instead of to the side. The Coro ner's jury have returned a verdict of manslaughter against him. MATERIALS FOR A ROMANCE.—On Saturday, infor mation was received by the police that a female infant, about one month old, had been found abandoned on the step of the door, No. 91, Guildford-street, Brunswick square, London, inclosed in a reticule basket. There was also a complete change of clothing of a superior kind, a packet of rose powder, and a note, written in an elegant female hand, stating the child's name to be Rose Walton, that its parents were persons of distinction, that eventu ally it would be claimed,, and those who, protected it amply rewarded. COURT MARTIAL.— On Thursday, at Portsmouth, First Lieutenant Daniel was dismissed from her Majesty's ship Powerful, for inducing the young naval cadets to en dorse a check on a bank at Portsmouth where the de fendant had no funds. A poor woman, last week, in the metropolis, suddenly ran into a tobacconist's shop, fell on the floor, and was shortly afterwards delivered of a fine female child. The tobacconist and his wife have allowed her to remain until she is fit to be removed; and it appears that the husband of the poor woman is out of employment, and with her had been endeavouring to procure some necessaries at the time she was taken ill. THE BEAUTIeS OF INTEMPERANCE.—The Leicester Mercury records an anecdote of a joiner at Matlock who recently returned home one night steeped in inebriating liquors, and when reducing his thirsty frame to a state of nudity like to the condition of the " untutored savage," threw his clothes, as he believed, on a chair. The morn ing discovered in the grate a large quantity of tinder. and a small quantity of molten silver. The latter had been a watch. GOOD AND BAD FARMING.—A gentleman possessing land at Charlton, which he formerly let at £2 the acre, and the tenant of which gave it up, as being unprofitable, has since taken it into his own hands, and by improved culture has this year got sixty bushels of wheat to the acre. He has just carried from part of the same land barley which has strolled out from seventy to eighty stalks each root.—Bristol Chronicle. The Exeter Chronicle states that the wife of a Cornish bankrupt, who was recently examined in the Exeter Dis trict Court of Bankruptcy, was supposed to have concealed about her person money and other property of value be longing to her husband's estate. She was searched a few days ago by two women, by direction of the officer from the court, and in her " bustle," which was unusually bulky, were found watches and articles of jewellery of the value of £lOO. STARVING A JURY.—At Douglas, Isle of Man, on Sunday, a jury on a coroner's inquest, who had been incarcerated for three nights, and had had nothing to eat for four-and-twenty hours, brought in a verdict of man slaughter, but appended to it the following :—" This unanimity has been obtained from the painful gnawings of hunger, and not from the conviction in the minds of all the jurors that it is in accordance with the principles of law as laid down by the Deemster." THE NEWCASTLE SAVINGS BANK MURDER.—It has always been suspected that the murderer of Millie had made abominable overtures to his victim, and that, being repulsed withvirtuous indignation—probably, also, threat ened with exposure—he took the life of the man whom he had only befriended with a view to his moral ruin. This explanation of the mystery is now corroborated by a letter of the 4th of April last, recently received in Newcastle from Launceston, Van Dieman's Land. He has been since committed to Norfolk Island for that offence. ANEXPERIMENTAL VESSEL.--There it? now loading in the North. Docks, Sunderland, an experimental vessel, named the Mary Caroline, built by Mr. Siddon, of Ro chester, who is also the owner. She has no keel , but is fiat-bottomed and built in the barge style. Neither is she caulked : the seams are lined with felt. She is 224 tons register, and carries 4000 yards of canvass when in full sail • and when lull laden with 29 keels of coals, she draws Only 94 feet of water. She is intended for the French trade. On the run down, with a N.N.W. wind, she outstripped forty colliers. MADLLE. JENNY LIND IN GLASGOW.—This accom plished singer and actress made her first appearance on Monday openedni gh b t e , f i o n r ethe sevenT Theatre-Royal. o'clock, c r e l ; It o k y a a n l d. hoursT h ou beforegh t he thatdoors a were crowd of-idlers bad taken up their stat ion in front of the theatre, comparatively few had taken their seats until within a few minutes of the hour of commencement. With the exception of tie gallery, the tickets were all numbered, so that the holders of them were quite at ease as to their obtaining their allotted places. At the hour nearly every seat was filled, and the greater part of the assembly was in full dr ess . The elegant house, wh en li g hted up, had a most brilliant appearance. CURIOUS FATALITY.—A melancholy casualty occurred at Kimblethment House, last week. On Wednesday, a young man of the name of Gray, one of the grooms, while daffin' with a fellow female servant, who was engaged sewing at the moment, seized her unexpectedly by her left arm, which was inflamed, and thereupon she instinc tively thrust him off with the other, in the hand of which were a pair of sharp-pointed scissors, whi c h un f or t unate l y perforated his breast, and, reaching a vital part, caused his death on Saturday. The poor fellow, with his dying breath, acquitted the girl of all blame ; but she is in a dreadful state of mental suffering.—Montrose Review. EMIGRATION.—Three very large vessels sailed last week from Plymouth with emigrants for Australia. The vessels have been sent out by the Colonial and Land Emigration Commissioners, who have appointed six more vessels to sail during the present month.—On Wednesday, the nu merous artificers employed at the Great Western Railway locomotive works, at Swindon, held a meeting at which two gentlemen deputed by the commissioners attended by invitation from the men, and pointed out the great advan tages of colonisation. The meeting was held in conse quence of a great number of the men having received no tice to quit the company's service, owing to a cessation of operations on branch lines. THE RIVER NILE.—A very interesting journey has been undertaken by the Rev. Dr. Bialloblotsky, under the joint management of himself and Dr. C. T. Beke. The object of the journey is to trace the true sources and branches of the River Nile, in reference to which scientific gentlemen have differed much. The map of Ptolemy is said to vary greatly with the proper bearings of the river. Another object is to ascertain . the state of slavery and that trade on the African coast. The expense of this expe dition is defrayed by subscriptions from scientific and other gentlemen interested, but we believe the list of subscribers are not too numerous. The East India Company have granted a free passage in their steamer. The result of these researches, it is expected, will add much useful information to the members of the Geo graphical Society and others. DISSENSION IN DISSENT.—A correspondent has fur nished us with some dissenting movements at Reading, farther exemplifying the charity which warms and impels the dissenting heart. It appears that the Independent meeting-house in Reading has for its minister a respect able, inoffensive, and clever individual, named Legg ! ! Mr. Legg, however, in spite of his merits, talent, and long service, has given unpardonable scandal to a very independent portion of his Independent congregation by reading some part of his discourse instead of delivering the whole ex tempore. If there be other cause of offence, we do not believe it to have been of graver kind than what we have above named. So outraged, however, have some of the congregation been pleased to feel themselves, that they have actually seceded, and are now building an independent Independent meeting-house, The Berkshire wits have, of coarse, named this meeting-house " The Left-Leg meeting-house !"—Churchand State Gazette. POISONING ItY ARSENIC,—The inquest on the two young girls Fanny and Sarah Anne Kent, was resumed on Wednesday evening at Glocester. The medical gentle men came to the conclusion that the deaths of both the children had been occasioned by that poison. On the second examination the father of the children requested the coroner to send a constable with him to Cheltenham to visit the druggists' shops, a rumour having been circu lated that he, the father, had recently purchased the arsenic in that town. The coroner accordingly commu nicated with the inspector of police in Cheltenham, and the result of the inquiry was, that no arsenic had been sold to Kent or any otber stranger. A trace of arsenic was very distinct in the remainder of the farinaceous food left after making the pudding. The jury returned, " That the children died from the effects of arsenic taken in farinaceous food, but how it became mixed with the food there was no evidence to show." A DISEASED KNEE.—A WONDERFUL CURE BY HOL LOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—John Weir, aged 19, of Kinnegs, parish of Longhall, near Armagh, was seized with a pain in his knee which lasted for three months, and then commenced to swell ; six months afterwards it broke out into a dreadful wound and discharged for twelve months, though every remedy was used that medical men could devise, both at the county infirmary and local dis pensary, yet no appearance of healing presented itself until his father purchased some of Holloway's pills and ointment, which soon effected a sound cure. No wounds, sores, or ulcers, however long standing, can resist the proper use of these fine medicines. - FIRE AND Loss OF TWO LIVES.—On Tuesday evening a fire broke out in a cottage at Lushbrook, Ship-lake, near Henley, by which two lives were destroyed. The cottage, which was thatched, was occupied by a man named Mills, a widow named Creaswell, with whom he cohabited, and a family of five children, the - youngest being the child of Mills. Mills returned home from his work and was eat ing his supper, when the eldest of the children, a boy of nine years old, went up stairs to put his younger brother to bed, and on descending unfortunately set fire to a heap of corn stowed in a recess. The staircase was almost im mediately in a blaze. Mills rushed up to the room in which the child slept to rescue it, but was unable to do so from the intensity of the heat, and both he and child were burnt. The cottage was totally destroyed. The husband of the woman was killed some time back by falling from a waggon, and about three years ago another of her chil dren was burnt to death. SINGULAR INSTANCE OF CONJUGAL AFFECTION.— FOLLOWED TO THE GRAVE BY Two DISCONSOLATE WIDOWS.—On Sunday week, in a parish in the neigh bourhood of Tiverton, a man was buried, who, with the reigning wife, lately came from Tiverton to reside in the parish above alluded to, where, after a few days illness, he died, and was followed to the grave as abovmentioned, by two widows. The singular history is this :—His first wife was by mutual consent, handed over to his own bro ther, who married her. Thus freed, he betook himself to anotherl wife, but a little lurking affection induced the discarded lady, on hearing the melancholy tidings of the death of the first object of her plighted love, to pay the last respect to his lamented obsequies. It appears that the hero of this tale expressed a wish to be taken back to Tiverton to be buried, but the wife in possession thought this too great an expense. The first possessor of his love on hearing this, said, had she but known it, she would have spent her last shilling to have gratified his wishes. After the funeral the two disconsolates retired, and spent a very amicable evening together.--Sherbourne Journal. As IN LONDON.—A perusal of the following letter sent this week to Messrs. J. and T. Waterhouse, grocers, at their recently-opened handsome shop, will show that we of South Australia are not a whit behind our contem poraries in England in specimens of the march of intel lect; and although the erudition may be wanting in many skulls at the antipodes, they nevertheless possess veins of genuine humour and untutored raciness : Sir,—Having bean to See yore nue shop wich is a verry good un and onely wonts wun thing wich is too men in the Winder a Noddin all Day jest like wun Off the Shops in London i no Too chaps as would be glad of the job for ss. a day and there grub So that you wos Not too and upon us and am your umbel Servant JOHN TOMKINS. N. B. wood turn A smal pepper Mil now and then but wood rayther Excuse the coffy. Mr, Warterhouse Groser Hinely-street. —Adelaide Obeerver,, March 25. SERIOUS ACCIDENT FROM• DISSECTION.-Dr. Wills, of Greenock, Ayrshire, while amputating a man's leg in an advanced state of gangrene, unfortunately scratched his thumb, and thus inoculated himself withthe animal poison, which speedily caused his thumb• to swell, and has pro duced such an effect on his system, that a large tumour has appeared, and serious apprehensions are felt for his life. • _ LADIES BUSTLES.—A few evenings since, a very de cently-attired female, about thirty years of age, stopped at a hardware stall in one of our markets, where she was engaged inspecting and pricing the various articles ex posed for sale. She, however, suddenly turned pale and uttered a slight exclamation. Several females imagined that she had been taken ill ; one, however, nearer to her stooped down and picked up the cause of illness,—her bustle, which, in her exertions to reach the articles on the stall, had burst the ligatures which confined it, and it fell down, and in its fall some of the stuffing was scat tered on the pavement. The unfortunate fair one snatched her treasure and darted off at railway speed through a narrow passage, but not till curiosity had ascertained the nature of the ornament, and its contents, which proved to have been a small bag, stuffed with several pounds of good farina. For what particular purpose such an ap pendage had been placed in such a situation, deponent sayeth not.—Halifax Guardian. REMARKABLE FACT.—In 1843 a young man named Reuben Brinkworth was, whilst at Bermuda, deprived of both hearing and speech during a thunder-storm. He returned to England, the effect of this sad occurrence remaining, and resided at Stroud, his native place. He next went to Newport, Monmouthshire, where he lived with Mr. Nash, basket-maker, Market-street, who is connected with the Mormonites. These persons induced the young man to be baptized, and the ceremony accord ingly took place late on Friday night. He was taken to the canal and baptized in the name of our Saviour ; and immediately on coming up out of the water, he cried out, " Thank the Lord, I can speak and hear again, as well as any of you !" The fact was even so—he has quite reco vered ; and whether the reader looks upon the cure as the immediate agency of Providence, or the result of electri city as the secondary cause (thunder-storms had prevailed a day or two before), we have only done our duty in re cording the circumstance as it occurred.—Hereford SWINDLING.—A rather ingenious piece of fraud was perpetrated in the neighbourhood of Brechin a short time ago. A watch and clock maker, in that town, had sold an eight-day clock to a farmer in the Braes of Menmuir, and sent it:home with a man to put it up, and a discharged re ceipt for the price. The farmer having been absent on the occasion ' the money was not obtained, and the receipt was brought back. In a few days, the farmer called on the watchmaker and remarked, en passant, that he hoped he had got his cash all right. The watchmaker, surprised, observed that he had got no cash, but that his receipt had been returned by the man to whom he had entrusted it. The farmer laid before him a receipt for the amount, an exact copy of the original, but in a different hand. It appears that, not being acquainted with the watchmaker's caligraphy, he had given the money to a man who called on him, and, presenting the receipt, stated that he bad been sent far it; to whom he paid the cash. It is strongly suspected that the watchmaker's servant had, after leaving the farmer's house, forgathered with a kindred spirit, who had copied the receipt, and, being made acquainted with the circumstances, had called and got the money.—Edin burgh Paper. ROMAN CATHOLIC ENDOWMENT.— On Wednesday night a numerous meeting of persons opposed to the en dowment of the Roman Catholic Religion, and Religious establishments generally, was held at the Finsbury Chapel. Mr. E. Miall was called to the chair. The Rev. J. Gor don proposed the following resolution :—" That this meet ing, having the profoundest conviction of the evils result ing from legislating by the civil government in matters of religion, rejoice in the evident tendency of public events both in this country and the Continent to hasten the down fall of ecclesiastical establishments." The Rev. Dr. Massey seconded the resolution." Mr. R. Taylor said there was a large portion of the population who he feared possessed very little of the religious sentiment. He thought that for their sakes the entire abolition of those religious esta blishments which had been founded by the piety of their ancestors, would be an evil. He could not believe it wrong that the state should contribute to the support of religion. So far he dissented from the resolution. The resolution was then put and carried. The Rey. J. Burnet moved a resolution pledging the meeting to oppose the endowment of the Roman Catholic priesthood. The Rev. Reid seconded the resolution, which was carried. A. vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the meet ing saparated. MR. BUNN ON DRAMATIC ARTISTES. —Mr. Alfred Bunn, manager of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, has addressed a letter to the editor of the London Standard, in reply to some remarks in that journal in reference to his not introducing in his programme the names of soi disant professors of the " legitimate drama." He states that though he is warranted in declining engagements with such artistes, he had ever manifested a desire to introduce them in his arrangements. He offered Miss Helen Faw cett £25 a week, but that lady demanded £l5 a night, or £9O a week. He offered Mrs. Nisbett the same sum, but she stated that she had recently received £6O, and would not act in after pieces. He offered Mr. Anderson £2O per week, but he wanted £lO per night, with certain other considerations. With allusion to former actresses and actors who were content with the offers he made, he con cluded by saying—" I am old-fashioned enough to think that the histrionic talent we possess is by no means equal to what we have lost ; that English performers neither improve nor attract by emigrating to America—that the public are not to be blamed for confining their patronage to first-rate instead of second-rate artistes, and that a director cannot justly be condemned for refusing to give ' . the tatter about three times the salaries, on an average, than were given to the former. PROPOSED ALTERATION IN THE MODE OF KEEPING TIME.—In a letter to the editor of the Nottingham Journal, Mr. J. A. Novello, of Dean-street, Soho, Lon don, suggests—" That it would be very convenient to number the hours of the day from one to twenty-four, beginning at midnight, as the additional words 'morning,' ' afternoon," evening.' 'a.m.,' 'p.m.' at present essential to specify the time, might be dispensed with, and we should then have a distinct name for each hour of the day. Mr. Novello considers that this is becoming more necessary to the proper understanding of railway time-bills, especially for the long lines. The proposed numbering would take no extra room in any tables, as four figures are already required for the hours and their fractions. No difficulty would occur even with the clocks, which could easily have the additional figures placed in an outer or inner circle on the face." " In England," he adds, " I think this change would find universal adoption, if two establishments were to adopt it—l mean the post office and the railways. The announcement—' The packet sails Sept. 16, at fourteen o'clock,' would completely explain the time, instead of saying two o'clock in the afternoon." " We," says the editor of the Nottingham Journal," so thoroughly approve of the above excellent suggestion, that we intend to act upon it." SALE OF A WIFE.—A young man of Edwinstowe, named Freeman. having resolved to withdraw himself from the Eden of wedlock, brought his wife to Mansfield market, and offered her for sale. In the midst of the corn-market, close to the town-hall, the fellow with his unloved and unloving spouse took up his position to carry his resolution into effect. There she stood, a comely country-looking girl, of some 18 years or so, with her waist engirdled by a new halter, bought expressly for the occasion. The husband, attired in the habiliments of an agricultural labourer, announced his intention, and speedily disposed of his " angel love," halter included, for the astounding sum of ls. 6d. The purchaser dis posed of the halter for 3d., and thus eventually obtained the precious allotment for ls. 3d. After the sale, Free man demanded of the woman the wedding-ring he sup posed her to have on her finger. Ihe wily woman, having surmised that such a circumstance might probably occur, had provided herself with a penny brass ring, which she presented to him instead of the gold one, and which the unblushing salesman, with much apparent com placency, deposited carefully in his pocket. Nature hav ing infused no large amount of bashfulness into their composition, there was no diffidence displayed on either side, nor were the parties in the least disconcerted by the laughs and jeers of the crowd of idlers that witnessed the novel spectacle.—Nottingham Review. AFFECTING OCCURRENCE.—A working man at Mer thyr, named Longfellow, last week sent a letter to his wife then staying at Newport, saying he was much dis tressed in mind, as he had had a dream for two or three nights, in which he saw himself surrounded by some great trouble, which was occasioned either by injury to her or their only child, a very interesting boy of five years old. He therefore begged her to come to Merthyr, that he might be relieved of his foreboding; and he particularly cautioned her to avoid all danger by the way. Anxious to free her husband's mind from its distress, and to show him that herself and his darling boy were well and happy, she on Wednesday morning settled her affairs in Newport, packed up her goods, and placed them all ready for her departure ; but before she went, she bade her neighbours good bye. While at the house of one, taking some re freshment, to which she went accompanied by her little boy, she was talking of her journey, and did not perceive the absence of the child for a few minutes. In the inte rim he had stolen out, and with his bread and cheese in hand, was talking to a woman, saying he was going away presently, for his mother had washed and dressed him for the journey ; and then the little merry-hearted fellow ran off, saying he was " going to say good bye to Johnny," who had been his playmate. Nothing more was heard or seen of him alive. He was afterwards taken quite dead out of the canal, into which, in his eager haste, he had fallen. PERILOUS ADVENTURE.—A gentleman wished to have in his possession a living specimen of the cough or Cor nish crow, a bird now becoming rare, and which always builds in the precipitous sides of the cliffs. Two brothers engaged to furnish him with young birds from the nest. They accordingly provided themselves with a rope, and proceeded to a place where they knew to be frequented by these birds. One of them tied an end of the rope round his waist, and his brother lowered him over the edge of the cliff, holding the rope in his hand. When he had arrived opposite the nests he found that they were built under an overhanging rock, so as to be beyond his reach. Nothing daunted, he set the rope a swinging, until he was carried into the hollow, when he held fast by the rock ; but finding the rope too short to allow him to gain the nest, he untied it from his waist, climbed into the cavity, and secured his prize, which he stored away in his bosom. Meanwhile, the rope had swung back to the perpendicular, and was resting motionless. Without hesitation he called to his brother above, " Stand by the rope ! I'm going to leap to it !" He did so ; but the rope, as might have been expected, slipped through his hands and he fell into the sea. The brother felt the jerk, and looking over the edge of the cliff, saw him neither dashed to pieces nor drowned, but rubbing the water from his face, and exclaim ing, " Carry my shoes round to the cove, John ; I'll be round as soon as the west !" And so he was, and more over bringing his birds safe with him. This perilous adventure is said to have happened in the parish of Breage. —Glasgow Mail. THE CHOLERA.—Two cases of cholera were admitted into Bartholomew Hospital on Wednesday ; one a la bourer, and the other his daughter, a girl of seven years. The father died the same day : the daughter recovered. Cholera has likewise been fatal in the vicinity of the Lon don Docks, and M the east end of the metropolis. THE CHOLERA.—Mr. Grainger, accompanied by Dr. Ayre, proceedtd to Hamburgh on Saturday. Dr. Suther land remained in. Hull throughout Saturday and Monday. On the latter day he expressed his entire conviction that there was not any cholera in the town. On Tuesday morning he proceeded to Sunderland, but is expected very shortly to return here and to follow his colleague, Mr. Grainger, to Hamburgh.—Hell Packet. THE CHOLERA AT WOOLWICH.—The cholera has made its appearance here, and three fatal cases have occurred on board the convict ship moored opposite the royal arsenal, the whole of the sufferers being convicts. The first case took place on Friday, and the convict died after about seven hours' illness. Of the cases on Saturday two died—one after about seven hours' illness, and the other . in about two hours after he had gone to the ship, having been taken ill when at work in the royal 'arsenal. Two cases were reported as having occurred on Sunday; but, up to the afternoon, they had fortunately not proved fatal. THE CHOLERA.—A notification has been received from Edinburgh, announcing the appearance there of malig nant cholera in five cases, three in one part of the city, and two in another. Three of the cases had proved fatal within twenty-four hours. The College of Surgeons had advised the formation of a local Board of Health. Dr. Sutherland, who had been investigating two cases of cho lera occurring at Sunderland on board a vessel from Ham burgh, had, on Thursday, been directed by the General Board of Health to proceed to Edinburgh and take steps in aid of the organization of a local Board of Health, and measures of prevention or alleviation.—The Edinburgh Post of Saturday says—" We have the satisfaction, how ever, of being enabled to state, on the authority of medical gentlemen who have professionally attended some of these cases, that there is not that great cause for alarm which the statements given out at the Parochial Board yesterday are likely to occasion. The cases which have occurred partake more of the character of British than Asiatic cholera, and the parties who have been seized are persons whose habits of life have not been of the most temperate description." DISCORD AMONG THE WESLEYANS.—A correspondent of the Watchman attributes the " want of prosperity" of the connexion mainly to the following cause. "There are the says) a few brethren, who, during the last and the preceding conference, have manifested such a spirit of animosity against other brethren, and have seized every opportunity so vigilantly of showing that spirit, that attendance upon the conference, which I used to bail with such great satisfaction and pleasure, has become to me a matter of great repugnance and regret. Whatever may be my own determination as to the future, I know at least one venerable minister, held in consideration by the whole conference, who has said that, if the same spirit is to con tinue unchecked, he shall think it to be his duty to cease to attend the conference." THE SAMPHIRE GATHERERS.—We consider the fol lowing fact worthy of record, in order to show how minute and extended are the ramifications of the convulsions of the continent. A poor man, who collects the sea side herb called samphire, much used for pickling, called, as he has done for some years past, on a tradesman to know how much samphire he would require this year,— the tradesman being in the habit of sending annually a large quantity of it to a wholesale house in London. He accor dingly wrote to enquire what they should want, when the answer returned was, that, from the disturbed state of the continent, their business was so much interrupted, that they should not require any this year. Thus, even the poor samphire collector is intimately interested in the restoration of order and preservation of peace. DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE.—A girl of the name of Daven port, who had absented herself from her work in the cot ton-mill, called on Mr. M'Farlan, superintendent, at his house in Ann-street, and in a very noisy manner asked the wages due to her. He refused then to give them, and she went away. Shortly after a little boy knocked at Mr. M'Farlan's door, and said that a woman wished to speak with him. Mr. M'Farlan, who suspected who wanted him, did not choose to attend her call, and was in the act of shutting the door, when in an instant, the woman, mother of the girl referred to, ran forward and threw a cupful of vitriol in Mr. M'Farlan's face, burning him severely. His wife, with her child in her arms, was stand ing immediately behind Mr. M'Farlan, and she and the child, especially the latter, were also much burned about the face. Mrs. Davenport was speedily apprehended.— Greenock Advertiser. SCAN-MAG.—A singular affair has lately happened near Ashton. A young lady, an orphan, having a fortune of £l,OOO when she came to age last month, was wooed in vain by a young man of the village, and who a short time since was thrown into despair by his fair mistress marry ing a Manchester bagman, who had been on a visit in the village. The affair was kept secret, till some one inform ing the young lady's guardian of the fact, he proceeded to administer personal correction to the young lady. She resented the insult by quitting the house next day with the intention of going to Bristol. On the road she met the cavalier who had once wooed her. Her old partiality for him returned. He proposed—she hesitated—and was lost. Like riches, they " took unto themselves wings, and fled away," carrying with them the £l,OOO, and the husband doesn't know where to find either. We believe the alliance the young lady so clandestinely contracted is displeasing to her friends, and they will not, therefore, assist her liege lord and master in endeavouring to discover her where abouts.—Bristol Journal. A GENTLEMAN MATCHSELLER!—A well-dressed young man, with lavender-coloured gloves on his hands, has been tramping the streets of this town for the last few days, offering lucifer matches for sale, giving out that he is the unfortunate lover who is condemned to sell a certain num ber.of boxes before the hard-hearted father of his " ladye love" will allow him to marry her, of which we gave a notice some weeks since ; and of which story this " gen tleman" has been cunning enough to take advantage. He is vastly too delicate to carry his own goods about, only burdening himself with a box or two at a time, being attended by a man with a number of boxes stuck round his hat, and carrying a good supply in a carpet-bag !We hope he may meet with the success he deserves, and that the poor little children who try to get a living by selling their boxes of matches, will not find their trade much injured by the genteel match-men.—(Leicester Mercury.) We find from the Derby Reporter that this man and his " servant" were taken on Monday by the police before the Derby magistrates, for obstructing the thoroughfares, and were discharged on promising to leave the town. THE FLOODS.--The Valley of the Severn may now be aptly styled the Severn sea, being flooded to a consider able extent. Owing to the co n ti nuous an d heavy rain which prevailed in the later p ar t o f l as t wee k , the river continued to rise for several days a ft erwar d s, unt i l over leaping its banks it has covered the meadows on either side with an extraordinarily wide expanse of super abundant waters. The Valley of the Severn now pre sents a very curious appearance : the river forcing its rapid and troubled course through a sheet of placid waters, which becomes all the more remarkable, streaked as it is by the partially submerged hedge-rows, and dotted by trees. We are not aware that any material damage has been done by the flood in this locality, and it is now subsiding. On Monday, a young man, named Cooke, was drowned near Miusemore-bridge, by falling into the current while trying to get ashore with a cable from a long-boat, which had broken adrift at the Upper Parting, At Tewkesbury, the Warwickshire Avon, which unites the Severn at Tewkesbury, rose much more rapidly, and to a greater height than has been experienced for very many years; and if the waters of the Severn had run down with equal force with those of the Avon, the flood would indeed have been a most extraordinary one. The whole of the medows in the neighbourhood of Tewkes bury were entirely covered with water to a considerable depth ; and three out of the four principal roads 'which lead into the borough were rendered quite impassable ; but no material loss, except the carrying away a quantity of timber, and removing some fencing, occurred in the immediate vicinity of the town. At Evesham, very many have experienced great losses. Mr. Holtom, of Cleeve, it is said, has had seventy sheep washed away, and Mr. Hopkins, of Offenhani, twenty ; the latter has also lost a cart colt.—Gluucester Chronicle. WOMBWELL'S MENAGERIE.—Such a series of disasters has seldom occurred on the transition of a collection of beasts as happened between Seaton and Lyme Regis on Simday week. Soon after the carriages began to be re moved from Seaton the rain fell in torrents, literally soaking them, and continued the whole of the way. On coming up Bossell-hill, the van which contained the lions and tigers fell over, and with great difficulty was again put in an upright position, to proceed on its journey. On the arrival of the van containing the elephant by High Cliffe House, where the road is very steep, the shaft of the van touched the legs of one of the horses, which com n.enced plunging and kicking furiously, and frightening the other horses drawing the van, upon which the whole of them set off at a gallop down the hill, nearly coming into collision with the landau of R. B. Wrey, Esq., of Wier Cliffe, in which was Mrs. Wrey; returning from church. Her life was in imminent danger, as the van threatened to crush her carriage to pieces; the horses, however, reached the bottom of the hill without further damage, but immediately on entering the field of exhibi tion the wheel of this ponderous van gave way beneath its weight, breaking into several pieces, and bringing the carriage down on its axle-tree. " These disasters were of a more serious nature than all which had happened to the menagerie during the whole year previous," said one of the company, and these, be it remembered, befel it on a Sun day. Its misfortunes, however, did not terminate here, for on drawing the beasts from the town on Tuesday, the van containing the zebra was turned over, and in order to set it right again, it had to be disencumbered of its bur den, which, for a time, was allowed to be at large in the field.—Exeter Post. THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.—The quar t er ' s revenue will be made up on Tuesday evenin g nex t, up t o w hi c h time all receipts will included. It is impossible, there fore, for us to give an exact statement to-day. We are glad, however, to learn that the receipts of the present quarter will bear a most favaurable comparison with the corresponding quarter of last year. The total amount will exceed the receipts of the October quarter of 1847 by more than £500,000. The chief gain will be in the Ex cise, which would in itself have exhibited an improve ment in the full ext en t o f w h a t we have announced, had it not been counteracted by a decrease of more than £200,000, which is transferred in collection from the Stamps and Taxes to the Excise. Independendent of this sum, how ever , it is matter of sincere congratulation to find that the Excise returns themselves, which show the increased consumption of excisable articles, prove by their increase that the people have resumed, with the activity of the trade, and the renewal of employment, the power of purchasing and of consuming those articles still subject to Excise duties. The Customs, too, will e x hibit an increase, and thus give further proof of the revival of our foreign trade, and the soundness of our commercial code. From the Post-office, we regret to say that no further addition of any consequence is to be expected, in consequence of the increased expenses of that establish ment in providing further extensions to the public ac commodation. The property and income-tax exhibits generally little variation, and cannot be expected to make more than a very slight addition to the increase of our resources. The Stamps and Taxes will exhibit a serious decrease, owing to the reason we have stated above, of the transference of the carriage duties from this depart ment to the Excise. Upon the whole, there is much reason for congratulation. The state of the public in come is sound, and the prospects of the country cheering. We have obviously begun to retrace our steps upwards from our late depression.—Observer. THE WHITTLE DEAN "WATER COMPANY. —The in habitants in many parts of this town have for some weeks past been supplied with water from the reservoirs at Whittle Dean, which is acknowledged to b e great l y supe rior to that obtained from the Tyne and filtered at Els wick. The company are at present engaged in laying down a ten feet main in Blackett-street, and in a short time pipes of capacious bore will be extended to all parts of the town. A most exaggerated statement, relating to the bursting of a pipe near to Scotswood, was published a few days ago, in one of the Liverpool papers, which, it may be presumed, was intended to produce a local effect, as water-works have been projected there on a plan similar to that of the "Whittle Dean, but, having the reservoir at a much higher elevation. It is calculated that if the reservoir can be filled once a year, it will sup ply the wants of the population, and if to this we add the company's other resources it is clear that water is amply provided for every purpose. In round numbers, say the distance between us and North America is 190,000,000 inches of length ; thus, it appears, that we possess a resource, of pure element, amounting in gallons to only one-sixth less than this nurn'aer of inches. It would take about five hundred and twenty such ships as the last built in the Tyne by Messrs. Smith, of 1500 tons burthen each, to transport this across the broad Atlantic. The weight of this accumulation of water is 775,629 tons, and allow that the most powerful locomotives can draw 300 upon an average, it would take 2586 of those to draw this quantity of water, the cost of which would be at least near six millions of pounds sterling.—Newcastle Journal. Etstrut t3t1115. Farnworth fair, near Warrington, for the sale of cattle, sheep, pigs, &c., will take place on Tuesday next. A young woman named Elizabeth Cooke has been com mitted for trial, on a charge of breaking into a public house at Manchester. The Manchester Town Council having memorialised the Postmaster-General that he order their Post-office to be closed on a Sunday altogether, his Lordship has declined acceding to the request, beyond closing it after 10 a.m. On Taesday, a poor woman looking for work stepped over the spindle of a thrashing-instrument, then at work, at Spelce. Her clothes caught, and she was drawn into the machine and killed. A LONG WALK.—Several children living at the top of Turvin, near Blackstone Edge, and who are short timers" at Copley Mills, have a daily walk of 10 miles to and from their work.: The Rev. J. R. Stephens, formerly " a great gun" amongst the Chartists, refused to preach in his chapel, at Ashton-under-Lyne, on Sunday, because a policeman and a reporter were present to take notes of his sermon. The street-sweeping machines have been entirely aban doned in Manchester, and the old practice of cleansing the streets resorted to. The machines have not been found to answer. The creditors of Scott, Alison, and Co., Manchester, warehousemen, have agreed to wind up the affairs of the house, the liabilities being much smaller than expected, under £20,000, and the assets equal to about 10s. in the pound. The Chartists of Manchester have now for some time confined their public demonstrations to weekly meetings, on Sunday evenings, in the People's Institution, Hey rod-street. These are very thinly attended, and the pro ceedings are of a very tame description. The Oddfellows in the Prescot district had a gala day on Monday at the village of Rainhill. In the course of the proceedings, the Rev. J. B. Ingham had a handsome coffee urn, manufactured by our townsman, Mr. Mayer, presented to him. The Lancaster Guardian mentions a man in that neigh bourhood, formerly a red-hot stickler for the " points" and physical force, but now of very moderate opinions, who, being asked the other day whether he was not a Chartist, said, " I was one, sir, but I have lately built two cottages." A young man, named John Ashmore, aged twenty-one years, who had been at work at a factory at Manchester, with a young girl named Isabella Hudson, for three years, committed suicide last week by taking arsenic, because the young woman refused to renew an engagement which had been broken off between them after a quarrel. FIRE AT MANCHESTER.—A serious fire broke out on Saturday afternoon, at the mill of Messrs, English & Co., in Angel Meadow, by which it was totally destroyed. The fire was occasioned by one of the boiler plates having given way, and the force of the steam driving the fire and ashes from underneath the boiler through the windows of the warehouse opposite. With the exception of a few bruises in one instance, no other casualty has occurred, although 250 of the persons employed in the mill jumped from the windows into the street. The loss is estimated at from seven to eight thousand pounds, Edward Corbett has been committed by the borough magistrates at Manchester to take his trial for stabbing his mother and a man named Plumb, with whom she was living in adultery and in a state of almost continued drun kenness. It appears that the prisoner had been taunted by his shopmates with his mother's guilty life, on Sunday, the 11th ult., when he rushed to their dwelling, and, on being admitted, stabbed both of them several times with a knife. The man Plumb has recovered sufficiently to give evidence in the police-court, but the wretched woman lies in a hopeless state in the infirmary. ALL SAINTS CHURCH, PRESTON.—This church WaS opened with sermons by the Rev. Dr. M`Neile and the Rev. W. Pollock, under circumstances peculiarly gratify ing. The Rev. Mr. Walling, who had a curacy in the town, was some time ago about to leave the neighbour hood. to the great sorrow of the poorer classes of the town in which he had officiated, when, singular to relate, these worthy people conceived the notion of retaining their pastor, by building a church for him. With their own hands many of them contributed to the holy work, and by interesting their wealthier neighbours, they have actually succeeded in the accomplishment of their pious purpose. The church is a neat and commodious build ing. EMPLOYMENT IN MANCHESTER.—The government returns of the number of persons employed in the manu facturing districts are now to be discontinued. The fol lowing is the last return :—One cotton mill formerly stop ped altogether is now working short time ; while another, previously working full time, but with only a portion of the hands employed, is now working full time with the whole of the hands. Of the hands employed in the cot ton mills, 90 more are working short time, and 372 fewer full time. Of the total works included in the table, one previously stopped is now working short time, and three previously working full time with a part only of the hands, are now working full time with the whole of their hands. Of the total hands included in the table, there is an in crease of 359 working short time, and a decrease of 616 working full time. The return is, therefore rather of an unfavourable character. MURDER.—Near Tongfold, in the neighbourhood of Bolton, on Saturday night, a man named Joseph Schol field was found murdered. Schofield was a labourer at a cotton mill, situate at Under-the-Shore. About five o'clock on Sunday morning, a man, named Robert Bar low, a collier, was at Tootel Bridge, about a mile from Bolton, and near Under-the-Shore, when he heard a noise as of some one moaning, which, on examination, he found to proceed from the foot of the bridge. On going thither he discovered Scholfield lyi ng near t h e water's edge, in an almost insensible state. When taken home he said that, when on the bridge the night before, he was met by two men, one of whom was a tall person, and they asked him to deliver his money, which he refusing to do, they threw him over the battlement, a height of fourteen yards. He continued unwell up to a quarter-past twelve on Sunday at noon, when he expired. EXPERIMENT BY THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COM PANY.—An experiment was made at Manchester, on Wednesday, by Mr. Cox. superintendent of the Electric Telegraph Company, and assistants, as to the practica bility of passing electric currents along covered wires under water. The wire was that ordinarily used, of cop per, wrapped with cotton, and then passed through shell lac and coated outside with India rubber (cold naptha being used to cement the latter). One end of the wire was in communication with the Telegraph Company's in struments at the office near the Exchange, and the other end with an instrument at Mr. Wm. Gaskell's mill, on the Salford side of the river, at about five hundred yards' dis tance. A portion of the wire, including a coil of about half a mile in length, was submerged in the river Irwell. Communications were passed along the wire with the or. dinary facility. DESERVED COMPLIMENT.—A very spirited effort has been set on foot by the inhabitants of Congleton and its neighbourhood, headed by the Mayor, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the occupation of the office of high steward of that borough by Randle Wilbraham, Esq., of Rode-hall. A fund already amounting to more than £3OO is in progress of contribution, to be chiefly invested for the foundation of three free scholarships at the Grammar School of Congleton, to be in the nomination of Mr. Wilbraham and his heirs for ever. The deed of endow ment is to be presented in a handsome silver box, bearing a suitable inscription, at a public dejeuner, which will take place at noon, on Wednesday, the 18th instant, when a distinguished assemblage will be gathered in the Congle ton Assembly-room, to join the inhabitants in their testi monial of regard and respect to the venerable object of the presentation. A gold medal is preparing by Mr. Wyon, R.A., which will bear suitable emblems and inscription, and will be presented along with the other portion of the testimonial. Two FEMALES KILLED. — On Tuesday a valuable young mare was being yoked, at Stockport, to a waggon with two other horses, for the purpose of being broken in for carriage use, when the drag chain falling on her heels, she took fright, and galloped out of the yard towards Brinks-. way Bridge, where three women were returning. The animal attacked them with great ferocity with its forefeet, beating them violently to the ground, and then trampling upon them with continuous fury. It then stopped quietly upon the bridge, without inflicting any further mischief, and was conducted back to the mill. The females, being seriously injured —two of them fatally so—were carried to the Woolpack Inn, Brinksway. Ann Faulkner was wounded about the head and body in a frightful manner, so much so, that she died the same night ; whilst the other (Ann Sherrock) had sustained such severe fractures be hind the right ear from the hoof of the animal, that no surgical aid could prevent her death, which occurred the next day. The carter was instantly dismissed from his situation, and the noble-looking animal, worth 120 guineas, was destroyed next day, by the direction of the owner. e l f I , W P. P = r g , TIE LIVIRPOOL STANDARD. ;r001:0, united of the :e anY. profess ealth/ ado . at the )bilitf r de .etual nera" ire to . s not , hag 1 the by h the nd of f the sums once —the siop Wish Per rig 10 id, of irs to pc a ' - iclir, less.. tract , are jo n 0 9 0 0 ootat°