The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-06-24 00:00:00

tfttraturr. NOTICE. The Mirror of the Time; a Weekly Magazine, devoted to the Defeace and Maintenance of British Industry at Home, at Sea, and in the Colonies. This is a weekly publication, in the form of a small newspaper, which has now run to the 47:h number, and, from the talent employed upon it, and the truly British and Protestant character of its politics, it deserves to take rature of the n men ced a series Catholic Emanci- is most ably treated THE CENSUS. The returns for the United Kingdom are published The following are the details : GREAT BRITAIN AND ISLANDS IN THE BRITISH SEAS. Number of inhabited houses, 3,675,451 ; uninhabited houses, 165,603 ; buildings, 29,109. Population—males, 10,184,687 ; females, 10,734,844: total, 20,919,531, of which England an'7 Wales contain 3,276,975 inhabited houses and 26,529 buildings ; 8,754,51• : total population, 17,9(5,831 —abited houses ; 11 ,ngs ; 1,363,622 males • ation of Scotland, r British Seas, 21,826 2,570 uninhabited )les; 3,151,277 females Scotland, 376,650 it ed ; 2,373 bu totgl popt Islands•n ,956 uninha -1,507,1G2 fe t. d ; 202 buildings females ; total population, 142,916 London contains 307,722 inhabited houses, 16,889 un inhabited houses, 4,817 buildings ; 1,104,356 males, 1,258,785 females: total population. 2.363,141. Increase in England and Wales since 1841 : males, 979,320 ; females, 1,015,744 ;—Scotland : males, 121,760; females, 128,840 ;—lslands in the British Seas : males, 8,955 ; females, 9,921 ;—London : males, 192,355 ; fe- 2,870,734 habited houses ; 66,311 males ; 76,405 1,077 uninl a permanent place in the pe country. Amor serve Mr. Jona' of letters to the merctoe tant question. from wh , the liberty of occa'' several other valuable papers, which the question " Was the Rom. pation Act a Wise Measur gst the a Lan Dune , st of its cuntri sionally qu VARIE'FIES QUICK WORK 'WITH A LIONESS : A CHAREBE DELI ACACY.—At night I watched a fountein, and shot an old lioness. She came and drank within ten yards of me : the ball entered the centre of her breast, and rested in the skin in the middle of her back. On the 13th I despatched =en to camp with the skin of the lioness, and held south are Inc for Charebe, which I found still deserted by the elephants. In the evening the natives were all busy cooking the flesh of the lioness, which was excessively fat, and es teemed by them a particular delicacy.—A Hunter's Life in South Africa. LORD ROSSE'S DISCOVERIES OF STARRY FIRMA 3IENTS.—As Professor Nichol very truly remarks, " inves tigation regarding such aggregations is virtually a branch of atomic and molecular inquiry,"—with stars in place of atoms—mighty spheres in place of " dust"—" the fir mament above" instead of " the firmament beneath." In fact, the astronomer, in sweeping with his telescopic eye, the " blue depths of ether," is, as it were, some Lili putian inhabitant of an atom itself, or rather of one little corner of an atom, prying into the atomal structure of some Brobdienagian world of " star-dust," organised into spiral and other elementary forms—of life, it may be something like our own. The infinite height appears, in short, like a mirror of the infinite depth, and we know not precisely where we stand between the two immensi- , ties of depth and height ! The shapes evolved by the wonderful telescope of Lord Rosse are, many of them, absolutely fantastical : wonder and awe are mingled with almost ludicrous feelings in contemplating the strange apparitions—strange monstrosities we had almost called them—that are depicted on the black ground of the illus trations. One aggregation looms forth out of the dark ness like the skeleton face of some tremendous mammoth, or other monstrous denizen of ancient time, with two small fiery eyes, however, gazing out of its great hollow orbits. Another consists of a central nucleus, with arms of stars radiating forth in all directions like a star-fish, or rather like the scattering fire sparks of some pyrotechnic wheel revolving. A third resembles a great wisp of straw, or twist or coil of ropes,—a fourth a corkscrew or other spiral seen on end,—a fifth a crab,—a sixth a dumb-bell, —many of them scrolls or rolls of some thin texture seen edgeways, and so on. It is even a suggestion of the author's that some of the spirals and armed wheels may be revolving yet in the vast ocean of space in which they are ingu!phed. Thus has the telescope traced the " bind ing" influences of the Pleiades, " loosened the bands of Orion"—erst the chief of nebulous hazy wonders, once 1 and for all revealing its separate stars ; and thus, in brief. has this wondrous instrument unrolled the heavens as a I scroll. Yet even these astonishing results are as nothing to the fact that those fantastic shapes which it has revealed in the depths of this limbo of creation, are not shapes merely of the present time,—that thousands of years have passed since the light which shows there left the starry firmaments only now revealed,—that the telescope, in short, in reflecting these astonishing shapes, is liker to the eye of a mind turned inwards on the long stored records of an universal and etern d memory of the past, than to a mere eye of sense looking outward on the things of passing time !—The Builder. THE COLLECTOR OF THE HUMMING BIRDS.—Some twenty-five or thirty years ago, there was a young man whose " daily walks and ancient neighbourhood" were by the quiet creeks that branch from the Thames near Eton, or on the verge of the adjacent forest. He is sometimes, apparently idle, lying under the willow branches in a little boat, with a book on his knee and a gun by his side. There is a well-known sound—and the gun is cocked. The kingfisher has darted upon his finny prey, falling into the stream like a lump of lead. As he rises with the minnow, and his orange breast and green blue tail glitter in the evening sun, his flight is ended. In a few days he is stuffed, sitting on a pendant bough ready for the plunge. The unscientific bird-stuffers are amazed that there can be life in death. In process of time this young man has made a considerable collection. He is the possessor of a few books of zoology, but most especially do rewick's Birds delight him. He ear nestly longs to become a scentific naturalist—to attain to something more th n the mechanical skill for which he has gained a reputation. The opportunity arises. He leaves his native town, being engaged by the Zoological Society in the preparation of specimens for their museum. He marries. His wife has a remarkable talent for delineating objects of natural history with accuracy and taste. They publish a beautiful example of their joint ability ; he, as the scientific author ; she, as the accomplished artist—A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Moun'ains. Their success is complete. Henceforth, John Gould—who had sold stuffed birds at Eton—is to take rank among the best naturalists of his age. His labours are unceasing ; his success is propor tionate. He commences The Birds of Europe in 1832, completing it in 1837—a magnificent work, of which, though the cost is astounding, not a copy now remains for 1 The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in sale. After the issue of one or two less important books 1 Foreign Parts, incorporated on the 16th of June, 1701, he commences The Birds of Australia, and completes the having now completed the labours of 150 years, has in series during 10 years' labour. Here are 600 species vited all who feel an interest in the missionary operations figured and described from actual observation in their of the Church of England to join in celebrating, in this native haunts. Connected with this work of surpassing week, with thanksgiving and prayer, its third jubilee. beauty and of necessarily large cost, there is a touching On Monday morning a very large congregation assembled history. The wife of the naturalist was the companion of I in Westminster Abbey, where an appropriate sermon was his voyage. She had drawn on stone nearly all the plates I preached by the Bishop of London. On Tuesday after of The Birds of Europe; but her loving industry was in- I noon a public meeting was held in St. Martin's Hall, his terrupted. She died " within one short year after our Royal Highness Prince Albert presiding. Very great return from Australia," says Mr Gould in his preface; interest was excited upon the occasion, and long before "during her sojourn in which country an immense mass two o'clock—the hour for the commencement of the of drawings, both ornithological and botanical, were made meeting—the hall was crowded to excess, with the excep by her inimitable hand and pencil." They went to tion of a portion of the platform reserved for the bishops Australia in 1838 ; they returned in 1840. Mr Gould is and chief friends of the society. now engaged on The Birds of Asia; and has also issued Precisely at two o'clock his Royal Highness came into the first part of a Monograph of the Trochilithr, or the hall. He was received with the most enthusiastic Humming Birds. The industry which has got together, cheers. He was accompanied by the Archbishop of and the taste and science which have arranged, the col- Canterbury, the Bishop of London, and a number of lection in the Zoological Gardens, will be permanently re- noblemen and gentlemen. A few moments after the presented in this book. The coloured engravings approach Prince had taken his seat Lord John Russell came upon the brilliancy of the plumage of the birds themselves in a the platform ; his lordship was immediately recognised, degree which is very remarkable.—Dickens Household and was much cheered. The Bishop of Oxford, who Words. followed soon afterwards, was also warmly welcomed. LORD JOHN RUSSELL ON THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. The Royal Chairman addressed the meet log as follows —At the meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the —My lords, ladies, and gentlemen, we are assembled Gospel on Wednesday last, a condensed report of the pro- here to-day in order to celebrate the third jubilee of the ceedings at which will be found in another part of this foundation of the Society for the Propagation of the day's paper, Lord John Russell said—lf you look back to Gospel in Foreign Parts, incorporated by royal charter, the time, 1701, when this society was instituted, and if and one of the chief sources of the spiritual aid which you compare the present state of affairs with that which the established church affords to our extensive colonial then was exhibited to the authors and founders of this so- dependencies. We are not commemorating, however, an ciety, you will perceive over what a great extent of the isolated fact, which may have been glorious or useful world, over how many millions of people, our operations to the country, but we are thankfully acknowledging may have an influence which they could hardly have had the divine favour which has attended exertions which in contemplation. We have in America alone an extent have been unremitting during the lapse of 150 years. We of population about equal to that of England and Scot- are met, at the same time, to invoke the further continu land, a population of not less than 20,000,000 acquainted ance of that favour, pledging ourselves not to relax in with our language, sprung most of them from this land, and to whom the blessings of the Gospel may be extended. our efforts to extend to those of our brethren who are We have in Australia again new communities— c o mmu - settled in distant lands, building up communities and riffles which in the last fifty years have begun their exis- states where man's footsteps had first to be imprinted tence, but which in the next fifty years you are sure to see upon the soil, and wild nature yet to be conquered to his use, thse blessings ofChristianity w form the increase into large and populous communities. Now, let foundation of our commu Cyisti nit and of our hich state. This - us consider with regard to all these people, although many society was first chartered by that great man,William 111 of them are not adherents to the Church of England, but —(cheers)—the greatest sovereign this country has to belong to other communions of Christians, yet the work boast of—(loud cheers)—by whose sagacity and energy of the Church of England, the great work of our ancestors was closed that bloody struggle for civil and religious when they founded this church, and when they translated liberty which had so long been convulsing this country, the Bible into the English tongue, is a work from which and there were secured to us the inestimable advantages all these millions will derive their knowledge of divine of our constitution and our Protestant faith. (Loud truth. There can hardly be a more sublime contempla- cheers.) Having thus placed the country on a safe tion than the consideration that the book sanctioned by 1 basis at home, he could boldly meet her enemies abroad, the Church of England, the Bible in its English form, in and contribute to the foundation of that colonial empire that pure and ancient and simple language, is the book to which forms so important a part of our present greatness ; which millions in the present age, and many more mil- and honour be to him for his endeavour to place this lions in the succeeding ages, will have to look for their foundation upon the rock of the Church. The first jubilee comfort on that subject which can most deeply interest fell in times when religious apathy had succeeded to the them. Great, therefore, as are the numbers of the cler- over-excitement of the preceding age. Lax morals and a gymen and of their flocks who in America and Australia sceptical philosophy began to undermine the Christian have in the course of these 150 years belonged to the faith, treating with indifference, and even with ridicule, Church of England, let us not suppose that the benefits the most sacred objects. Still this society persevered in which we are enabled to give do not go far beyond the its labours with unremitting zeal, turning its chief atten compass of those numbers. As his Royal Highness justly tion to the North American continent, where a young and said, wo have done right to found this society upon the vigorous society was rapidly growing into a people. The rock of the Church, and in founding it upon that rock we second jubilee fcund this country in a most critical posi would hold forth a beacon by which those who may navi- tion. She had obtained by the peace of Amiens a mo gate the surrounding seas will find succour and safety. meat's respite from the tremendous contest in which she One other consideration I beg to call before you, because had been engaged with her continential rival, and which it is a consideration, I think, of hope and promise for the she had soon to renew in order to maintain her own exist future. After Christianity had first been promulgated, it ence, and to secure a permanent peace to Europe. Since pleased Almighty God to allow many of those territories the last jubilee the American colonies, which bad origin which were under Christian rule, in which Christian ally been peopled chiefly by British subjects who had left bishops preached, in which Christian people worshipped, their homes to escape :he yoke of religiOus intolerance to be overrun by infidel and Mahommedan conquerors, and oppression, had thrown off their allegiance to the and to be subdued under the sword and the power o (those mother country in defence of civil rights, the attachment who denied, who scoffed at, and who sought to triumph to which they had carried with them from the British over Christianity. Those parts of history are melancholy toil. (Cheers.) Yet this society was not dismayed, but to read, and one would fain wish, in looking into the fu- in a truly Christian spirit continued its labours in the tore, to think that from such dangers we should be here after free. Si r , I t hi n k t h ose w hi c h h ave b een spo k en of, neighbouring Noah American and West Indian settle ments. This the third jubilee , falls in a happ ier e p och, those art s w hi c h h ave accompanied Chr i st i an i ty, w hi c h when peace is established in Europe, and religious fervour enabled our ancestors, once rude and barbarous, to over- come the resi s t ance o f matter, and by the art of sc i ence, is rekindled, and at an auspicious moment, when we are have enabled us t o s h ow those wonders of civilisation celebrating a festival of the civilisation of mankind, to which we have seen in th e p resent year, will b e a security which ail quarters of the globe have contribute d their for the maintenance of that Christianity ; and I think we productions and are sending their people, for the first time need never dread that any barbarous or infidel power will, recognising their advancement as a common good—their by means of the sword, again extend an empire where I trust, therefore, in the interests as identical—their mission on earth the same, Christianity at present rules. All this civ , ilis . ation . rests on Christianity—could only be first place, that this Anglo-Saxon seeing .. race is spreading raised on Christianity—can only be maintained by Chris over the globe,—seeinis, in the next place, that it carries tianity—the blessings which are now carried by this society er is extends' with it those arts with which power is joined, and seeing, to the vast territories g of India and Australasia, which last with it wherever •'. in the last place, that it carries are again to be peopled by the Anglo Saxon race. While that holy volume a— , hich by means of those very arts, has we have thus to congratulate ourselves upon our state of become within the reach of the poorest among our erni-tempo ra l p p _ prosperity--harmony erity—harmony at home and peace abroad these — grants and settlers,—that seeing all . ..circumstances, t. f that the church, whose exer we cannot help deploring .. . . we may look for the prevalence of Christianity over mil-of Christianity and civilisation we are ions or the progress lions more than we should be able to count, over territ . 0 to-day acknowledging,internal dis should be afflicted by - sentioand ries more than we should be able to measure; and I trust ns attacks from without. 1 have no fear, how. likewise that these conquests will be permanent, that we ever, for her safet and ultimee welfare so long as she holds faet to whatcest lined for us at the re whichnever shall have again to see that influx of barbarism, byuttba o t ver formation —the Gos our el a a n u d t o e r s u h gnfe,,tered right of its use. Europe and Africa have had to mourn, h among means of propagating the knowledge of the gospel The dissentions and p difficulties which r ight witness in this, as in every other church arise from the natural and ne• all those who speak our tongue and learn our language, cessary conflict o f ' principles which we shall have fulfilled our duty not only to this genera- the two antagonistic move human society in 't t —I mean tion, but to those generations which after as may occupy as s. 6 e. the world. the principles of individual liberty, and of all "Slants and males, 222,417. The Army in Great Britain, and the Navy, Merchant Seamen, and other persons on board vessels in the Ports, -.!lulled in the Return for 1851; the Navy, Merchant Seamen, and persons on board vessels, were not included in 1841. The returns ;rem IRELAND are not yet made up The first thing which will strike every one who reads this brief table is the demonstration it affords of the enormous growth of London. Were Cobbett living he would have to change his imagery in reference to a city which has now outgrown the proportions of " a great wen." In ten veers a population of 1,048,369 has in creased to 2,363,141 ; an increase little short of half a million, and upwards of 21 per cent. During the same time the population of all Scotland has only increased 250,600 which is at the rate of little more than - 9 per cent. England and Wales (excluding London) had a population in 1841 of 13,063,383 ; which is now increased to 15.542,690, a difference of 1,579,302, which is a little more than 11 per cent. The single fact that in spite of its vast population London contained on the day of the census sixteen thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine uninhabited houses, besides 4817 in process of erection, tells of the greatness of the English metropolis and may perhaps serve to re-assure intending visitors to the Exhi bition. At the average of Great Britain (which is now established to be 5.6 souls per house) the uninhabited houses in London on the 31st of March would accommo date a population of nearly 100,600. A less obvious but more important feature of the above table is the effect it exhibits of the rapid flow of emigra tion to our colonies and to the United States. This effect will be more strikingly shown when the returns from Ire land are published. But taking the returns before us, we find a rapid diminution in the rate of increase as exhibited in former decennial periods. In England and Wales the population increased from 1801 to 1811 at the rate of 14 per cent. In the next decennial period it rose to 17 per cent ; between 1821 and 1831, it was 16 per cent ; and be tween 1831 and 1841 it had fallen to 14.5 per cent. The present return only shows an increase at the rate of 12.4 per cent. In Scotland where the rate of increase between 1801 and 1811 was the same as in England ; and between 1811 and 1821 was 16 per cent; it fell to 13 per cent between 1821 and 1831, and to 11.1 per cent between the latter year and 1841. In the present year we find the rate only 9.5 per cent. BALLOON ACCIDENT, On Monday evening Mr. and Mrs. Graham ascended in aballoon from Batty's Hyppodrorne, Kensington, and when about 20feet from the ground ,a pole tore a hole in the balloon. Grappling irons were thrown out, but there was nothing to hold by, and the balloon drifted directly over the Crystal Palace, causing great alarm. The aeronauts, seeing their dangerous position, threw out the whole of their ballast on the roof of the Palace, and then managed to pass over the building without injury, several flag staffs being torn away from the top of the "Glass House." The balloon then drifted towards Piccadilly, and was driven against the front of the houses in Arlington-street, in one instance tearing away a stone parapet, and hurling it on the roof of the house, through which it descended, carrying with it some of the rafters into the hall below. The balloon then ran between two large blocks, the chim neys of which had been carried away, and its progress was arrested, a body of police securing it. Mr. and Mrs. Graham had been thrown from the balloon, and were lying on the roof of one of the houses, apparently lifeless. Mr. G. has received a fearful cut on his forehead, from temple to temple, and a severe contused wound in the side. Mrs. G. received an incised wound on the head, and several contused wounds on the back. On ascending the roof to aid the aeronauts, Mr. and Mrs. Graham was found lying ineensiblo, having been thrown out of the car. They were taken home in a cab and put to bed, when it was found that Mr. Graham's cheek-bone was broken asunder ; his collar-bone was fractured closely over his left El-milder joint ; he had several severe cuts on his head, but the skull did not appear to be fractured. Mrs. Graham is not so seriously injured ; she has, however, four of her front teeth knocked out, and several lacerated wounds on the temple and back of her head. She was, however, sufficiently recovered to write an account the following day to the newspapers. The damage done to the balloon is estimated at £l5O. SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL. submission to the will of the community. exacted by it for its own preservation. These two conflicting principles cannot be disregarded—they must be reconciled. To this country belongs the honour of having succeeded in this mighty task as far as the state is concerned, while other nations are wr, stling with it. And 1 feel persuaded that the same earnest zeal and practical wisdom which have made her political constitution an object of admiration to other nations, will, under God's blessing, make her church likewise a model to the world. Let us look upon this as sembly as a token of future hope, and may the harmony which reigns among us at this moment, and which we owe to having met in furtherance of a commo❑ holy object, be, by the Almighty, permanently bestowed upon the church. (Hear, hear.) The Secretary then read the report, which briefly stated the history of the society, and contrasted its early with its present condition. It stated—" That there were now altogether, in British America alone, and for the most part connected with the society, about 400 clergy men in the seven dioceses into which that vast territory has been divided. For more than a century this society had maintained missionaries and schoolmasters in the West Indies ; during the last twenty years, 90 of the clergymen who are ministering in the several islands re ceived their education in Codrington College, Barbadoes. Within comparatively recent times, the society, taking up the ancient missions of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge in Southern India, commenced its missionary operations in the East; and there were at pre sent in the three presidences 36 ordained clergymen, and a large body of catechists and readers. The baptised native converts exceeded 18,000, and there were between 5,000 and 6,000 more under preparatory instruction for baptism. Last of all, attention should be directed to the efforts made by the society for the religious benefit of the rapidly growing population, free and convict, of the Aus - tralasian colonies. The consequences in time to come of our treatment of those young communities must be, be yond calculation, great. Thus, then, in all parts of the world (for the colonies and dependencies of the British Crown are to be found in every quarter of it) the society has a great work in hand. Its means of usefulness were derived from the voluntary offerings of a Christian people." The resolutions were proposed and seconded by the Bishop of London, Earl Grey, Mr. S. Herbert, the Bishop of Oxford, Lord J. Russell, Sir 11. Inglis, the Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of Harrowby, the Bishop of Tenessee, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Earl of Chiches ter. Amongst the resolutions was the foltowing—"That over and above such contributions as may be offered for the general purposes of the society, in commemoration of the present jubilee, special hinds be opened in furtherance of three of the more important purposes to which the at tention of the society has of late been directed ; namely— the extension of the episcopate in the British dominions abroad ; the education of missionary candidates in colleges at home and abroad ; the religious instruction and super intendence of emigrants." THE .14TrERPOOL STANDARD. HONESTY IN HUMBLE LIFE.—A few nights ago John Jones, one of the street orderlies (No. 125) employed in cleansing London. found a siver watch and chain in Bishopsgate-street. On restoring the same to the owner, who had given up all idea of recovering the articles, .he was rewarded with the munificent sum of one shilling. A BENEVOLENT EXAMPLE.---The Rev. R. C. S. Cherm side, Rector of Wilton, Wilts, has offered £2O to the railway authorities to convey to London all the factory girls and children attending the National Schools at Wil ton, to see the Exhibition—the rev. gentleman also under taking to pay for their admission into the Crystal Palace. The Trate/man can only point to Wales as the scene of Conference increase. 'Everywhere else, a decrease is reported; and how does our contemporary explain the exception ? Why, innocently enough, he imputes it to an ignorance of the English ltaiguage among the Welsh Wesleyans ! The increase of population in Cornwall does not exceed 12,000, whilst in each of the three previous periods of ten years the excess had been uniformly 40,000. The births, however, from 1841 to 1851, have exceeded the deaths by 47,500. Emigrat;on is suggested as the cause of the re- duced proportion of increase. PEAT GAS.—Taunton was recently "brilliantly illumi nated" with gas from peat or turf ; a substance abounding in the eastern part of Devonshire. The Taunton Courier states that the jet was of unusual brightness, and left no doubt of its decided claim to preference, over the ordinary gaseous supply. It will be remembered that a duel between Captain Hawkins, ~ of the Guards, and Viscount Maldon, took place a few days ago, but our readers are not perhaps aware of the cause Viscount Maldon, it is said, had se duced the wife of Captain Hawkins, who is taking steps to procure a divorce : in the meantime, the Lord Chamber lain officially signified to Viscount Maldon, by command of her Majesty, that his presence at court was no longer required; and he was not at the Costume Ball.—New castle Journal. INcENDrAar FIRES.—On the night of Monday, the 16th instant, an excellent farm-house, situated on the lands of Oakley, was reduced to ashes by the act of an incendiary. It is deserving of observation that a tenant was to have been placed in possession of this house on the day following ; that a respectable farmer had agreed to take the land On which the ruins of the farm-house stand, and that a house on the same farm had not long been in the possession of a respectable tenant when it was also burned. For the conviction of the perpetrator of this last offence, Government recently offered a reward of forty pounds. Barnum has an agent, resident in London, constantly on the look out for novelties. This gentleman is in his way as great an original as his employer, and well known to the metropolitan " men about town." A short time since he was regretting to a friend his inability to find anything or anybody to succeed Jenny Lind, when lie suddenly exclaimed, with some energy, as if struck by a great idea, " I should like vastly to take the Duke to America, for one year ! I guess we might safely guaran tee him 500 guineas a day." We have not heard if this magnificent offer has yet been made to the hero of Waterloo. The Census Returns give the population of Great Bri tain at nearly twenty-one millions. In round numbers the females may be stated at nearly eleven millions—the males a trifle over ten millions. This majority on the female side is very serious, and is engaging the anxious attention of politicians. Since the census of 1841, we have increased by two millions and a quarter. The in crease in London alone, during the same period, ap- . . proaches to half a million. The population of the metro polis now reaches considerably above two millions and a quarter. There is food for speculation hew had we but room for it. DISGRACEFUL ELOPEMENT. — On Monday, it was dis covered that Mr. Pincott, master of the National School, Portsea. had eloped with Miss White, the mistress of the same school, the heartless husband leaving behind him a wife with six children, she being enceinte. What adds to the criminality of the affair is the fact, that the wretched girl, who was authorised to draw £lOO from the Savings Bank, by her mother, has robbed her parent of that amount, in order to enrich her paramour. Pincott and his companion, state that they are on their way to Aus tralia, although this is doubted by the relations of the parties.—Portsmouth Guardian. A DOMESTIC PARTRIDGE.—A short time since, a par tridge in search of a place for her nest found access, by a hole in the roof, to a fisher's hut upon the banks of the river Earn, where she deposited her eggs in a quiet cor ner of the floor. As the hut is not much used, the bird was little disturbed, and continued to go and come as she thought proper. Last week, a considerate person, who reflected that the young brood would not be able to get out by the hole at which the mother got in, cut an open ing in the wall near the ground; and it is likely that in a few days the old hen will introduce her family to the world from the somewhat singular nursery she has chosen. —Edinburgh Evening Courant. EXTRAORDINARY OAK.—About two miles from 011er ton, on Sherwood Forest, there is an oak tree, called the Butchers' Shambles, or Hooton's Shambles, from the circumstance of a person of the name of Hooton, having long carried on the practice of sheep-stealing, and secre ting the carcases within the decayed hole of the tree, until he had found a market for them. At the time he was ap prehended, three carcases were found in it, suspended by hooks. At the period he carried on his nefarious trade, this tree was in a dense part of the forest—an unlikely place for a sheep-stealer, and thus far it tended to lull suspicion. This patriarchal tree is thirty feet in circum ference, and its hollow trunk is capable of holding four teen persons.—Derby Mercury. NOVEL HAUNT OF RATS.—In the Scotia steam-boat store a novel and efficient rat-trap has been discovered in the following manner, An old hogshead had lain neg lected in a corner for some time. It was filled with bog fir and straw, enclosed at both ends, the only aperture being the bung-hole. This aperture the rats who infest the wharf discovered, and, liking the straw and bog fir, entered in great numbers and made it a family residence. This the storekeeper found out. A bevy of dogs were got, a stave knocked out of the barrel, and as the rats rushed out they were destroyed. On the first worry no fewer than 120 were killed, chiefly young ; on the second, 50. The barrel trap is now set up a third time with the old ba . t, " bog fir."—Ayrshire Advertiser. DISGRACEFUL DOINGS.—On Monday a glassman at the works of Messrs. Featherstonhaugh, named Jefferson, committed suicide. He went home, and finding his wife _ _ time since lying in a corner of the house in a beastly state of intoxi cation he exclaimed that he would bear it no longer, and immediately went into another room and suspended him self by a rope to the bedpost. His friends, becoming sur prised at his absence, entered the room and found him dead. A disgraceful scene tuok place at the funeral of the unfortunate man. The body was conveyed to the ceme tery, Bishopwearmouth ; but almost all of the party were in a disgraceful state of intoxication. They had forgotten to order the grave to be dug, and also to bring the coroner's certificate for burial—consequently, the funeral was delayed for upwards of an hour and a half. One of the mourners, who was drunk, sat upon a grave and gave utterance to the most terrible howling, so that the officia ting clergyman was obliged to order I , is removal ; and it was altogether one of the most disgraceful scenes ever witnessed in the parish.—Sunderland Herald. A SEA ADVENTURE.—A tradesman of Porthcawl, Glamorganshire, accompanied by his son, recently took a voyage in a boat from the river Ogmore to Newton Pool. The boat having been moored, the voyagers proceeded to Newton village, to pass the interval between the ebbing and flowing of the tide; and great was their dismay at finding o❑ their return that their frail craft had drifted out to sea. The father, without hesitation, divested him self of his clothing, and in a moment afterwards was buffeting the waves in pursuit of his lost boat. After swimming nearly half a mile, he captured the object of his search; but with the tide running strongly against him, his efforts to reach the shore were fruitless, and he was at the same time exposed to the chilling blasts of a keen wind, which, acting upon an unclothed body, was far from agreeable. What would have been the issue of the adventure it is impossible to say, had not he been per ceived by some humane people at Porthcawl, who promptly manned a boat and proceeded to his assistance. He was safely deposited on terra firma at about ten o'clock at night, after upwards of two hours of painful exposure and suspense.—Swansea Herald. THE DOG AND THE THIEF.—On Tuesday, William Walker, aged 18, a drover, residing in Narrow Marsh, Nottingham, rose early in order to go to Colston Bassett, for the purpose of fetching a number of lambs. When between Gamston and Bassingfield he met two vagrant Irishmen, who demanded his money. He replied that he bad none, where-upon they approached him evidently for the purpose of searching his pockets. He struck the least a vigorous blow on the jaw, which caused him to run away, but the other, being a stout athletic fellow, grappled with and threw him, and then rifled his pockets of a silver watch and 7s. The drover had fortunately a good dog with him, which sprang upon the robber and seized him by the nose, the nose was tender, and the animal's teeth so sharp that a portion of the nasal organ was bitten off. The dog. succeeded in throwing the fellow down, and pinned him to the ground while Walker regained possession of his property, when he took his defender from the high wayman, and let him depart, which he did with all possi ble alacrity. The dog, however, having tasted blood was far from being satisfied, and breaking from his master ran after the Irishman, whom he caught and dug has fangs deep into him bearing back a piece of frieze to the driver. The piece of nose left by the vagabonds was as large as a nut.—Nottinghamshire Guardian. A SLIGHT MISTAKE.—A correspondent of the Bristol Times says, " One morning, shortly after the arrival of the Misses Sellon at their retreat in Lower College-green, a clergyman, holding livings in this city, went to pay his devoirs to the sisters ; but, through fate conspiring against him, or some other cause, he was led to the next house to the one where they lived. Knocking at the door, he was answered by the servant, of whom he inquired if Miss Sellon was at home. The girl fancying the rev. gentle man said Miss Ellen, and her young mistress having this cognomen, said ' Yes,' and ushered him into the room to Miss Ellen, who, as I am informed, was in the act of copying music, not a very likely way, by-the-bye, in which the good sisters pass their time. In the exuberance of his joy at seeing so pious and amiable a person as he ima gined he did, he seized her hands, and (without embracing her) begged her to accept his warm congratulations upon the good work in which she was engaged ; (query, did he mean the music?) and assured her that she had his prayers for her success in her pious undertaking, or words to that effect. Miss Ellen, as the sailors say, was taken all aback by this exhortation, and told him he must be labouring under some error, almost imagining that his upper story must be very defective ; and it was not until the young lady begged him to allow her to call her mamma, that the affair was satisfactorily explained. Then, to the rev. gentleman's great mortification, he was informed that Miss Ellen was not the party for whom his prayers had been offered up; and that next door he would find the Sister of Mercy, for whom his respects were in tended, and I presume be made the best of a most unfor tunate SOMNAMIIIILISM.—Last Sunday morning, a young man, about 16 years of age, was found lying dead in a yard in Dumfries, having fallen from the roof of the house where . _ he resided, when in a state of somnambulism. He was dressed in a shirt and night-cap, and his skull had been . . . fractured by the fall.—Dumfries Herald. It has been proposed to present a substantial testimonial to Dr. Cumming, the eloquent champion of Protestantism, for his zealous, eloquent, and unrivalled advocacy of the cause. A committee, of which Sir Peter Laurie is chair- man, and Sir John Maxwell vice-chairman, has been formed for the purpose of carrying out the necessary measures to effect this object. There are now living in the borough of Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, all natives of that place, twenty-four per- sons whose united ages amount to 2,021 years, being an average of S 4 years for each person, the oldest of whom is 97, and the youngest 73. The population err ounted at the last census to 5,800, and only increased 17 in the last ten years. MURDER IN LouTn.—The neighbourhood of Dundalk, in the county of Louth, has been made the scene of an other ferocious and savage murder. The deceased was a young man, named M - Integart, who, with his sister, was • Proceeding to a place called Knockbridge to hear mass, and when about a mile from his father's house, at a place called Anna, he was attacked by a party of fellows, and bludgeoned to death. The only reason assigned as yet for this deed is that the father of this young man took a few acres of land that were held by another person some BATH ELECTION Will take place this week, the writ having been issued on:Wednesday. The candidates, Cap- tain Scobell, and Mr. Sutcliffe, both maintain' the'ir ground. On Thursday the latter issued another address more fully explaining his political creed. He avows him- . self a Conservative, but not a Protectionist. " Opinions based on early reading and reflection (he says) have led me, generally speaking, to approve of those gradual and experimental changes in our commercial policy which have resulted in the abandonment of all material restric tions on international commerce;" and he desires that the present "experiment" shall be fully tried " FURTHER TRACES OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN."• With reference to a statement which is going the round of the press, headed as above, and alleged to have been made by William Millar, a seaman of the Prince of Wales, whaler, in 1848, and now gone out in the Prince Albert, we are enabled to state that Mr. Lee, who commanded the Prince of Wales, says that he was not at the time in question in Jones's Sound. He supposes he ran up into Lancaster Sound. He remembers guiding a boat in shore for ashort time ; but neither on its return to the ship, . . nor during the homeward voyage, did we hear of any cairn of stones having been seen.—United Service Gazette. A NONAGENARIAN RECTOR AND AN OCTOGENARIAN Curate.—Lately deceased, at the Vicarage, Down Amp ney, Gloucestershire, the Rev. E. H. Payne, curate of that parish. At the same time was lying dead, the vicar of Down Ampney, the Rev. A. Price, being also rector of Britwell, Oxfordshire. Of the former parish the reverend gentleman liad been vicar sixty-three years, having been presented thereto in the year 1788 ! But, what - is far more astonishing, he was presented to the rectory of Britwell in the year 1782, so that he must have been its incumbent sixty-nine year's ! What Mr. Price's age was at the time of his death we do not precisely know, but he must have been almost a centenarian ! ! STRANGE . ACCIDENT.—An accident happened_ on _the Dumbartonshire Railway on Monday, hy which eight persons were more or less injured. It appears that the train, after passing Dumbarton, was suddenly divided by the simple unscrewing of a nut, whereby the bolt coupling the tender to the carriages became loose, and, falling out, the engine shot ahead Of the train. On observing this, the engine -driver immediately put on his break and brought to, without taking into consideration that the carriages had still considerable way upon them. The train, however, soon overtook the engine by the momen tum it had, and before he could get out of their way the tender was run into. Several of the carriages were con siderably damaged, injuring some of the passengers as already described.—North British Mail. - A RUNAWAY Tows- CLERK.—The greatest excitement prevails in Tunbridge Wells, in consequence of Benjamin Sears, the town-clerk, having absconded. It appears that he has obtained money - to the amount of above £2,000. by discounting very recently, and that many re spectable inhabitants of the town who placed confidence in him will be brought to the verge of ruin. He was collector of assessed taxes, town-clerk, collector of the gas and water companies, and held other appointments. It is reported that he is a defaulter in almost every in stance, and a warrant has been issued for his apprehension. A search warrant, it is said, has also been granted to enable the officer to examine the premises of a relative in London. Sears is suspected of being in the metropolis. His income exceeded £4OO per year.—Herald. THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH'S POCKET-BOOK.—The British Museum has recently become possessed of the memorandum-book which was found in the pocket of the unfortunate Duke of Monmouth at the time he was taken prisoner by the troops of James 11. It is about six inches long by four broad, and the cover is black leather. It con tains some 40 or 50 pages, most of which are written upon by the Duke; but what gives it a peculiar authenticity is an inscription on a fly leaf, in the handwriting of the King himself, stating that it was taken from the person of the Duke of Monmouth after the battle of Sedgmoor. After his abdication James 11. seems to have presented the lit tle volume to a monastery in Paris, where it was preserved with religious care until subsequent to the late revolution. The contents are of a very varied description, and singu larly illustrative of the character of the noble writer. The relic has only been in this country a few weeks. A RUNAWAY BANKRUPT.—On Saturday a warrant was issued by Mr Commissioner Holroyd, and placed in the hands of Mr Bright, the messenger, for the appre hension of a bankrupt named Martin, late of Lewes, Sussex, draper. It appears Martin carried on business in the High-street, Lewes, and so far back as December last established a shop at Jersey. His practice was to obtain large parcels of goods from the London warehouses on credit, and as soon as they came into his possession at Lewes he sent them in a collier from Shoreham to Jersey, where they were disposed of by forced sales. Property to the extent of £3OOO was thus got rid of, and about £7OO more removed from Lewes to the Old Ship, Brighton, before the bankrupt decamped. The evidence shows that he went to the last Derby, where, not being unknown, he made heavy bets, which he lost, and the next clay pro ceeded to Liverpool, and sailed for America in the Pacific. The property at Brighton has been seized. THE CARDINAL AND ST. PHILIP.—The Tablet's Lon don correspondent writes thus, in a late number of the paper:—" I forgot to mention, last week, that the Cardi nal granted an indulgence of one hundred days, to be gained daily, by visiting the public chapel of the Oratory, and there reciting three Paters and Ayes in honour of St. Philip. and one Pater and Ave for the Pope, and the needs of the church, before the picture of St. Philip." Now, what can be the meaning of gabbling over the Lord's Prayer three times, "in honour of St. Philip," and praying to the Virgin for the Pope, " before the pic ture" of a saint, the said picture being, possibly, a nearer likeness of Judas Iscariot than St. Philip ? What, but to perpetuate the shameful, barefaced impostures of that corrupt church which encourages sin, by granting so called " indulgencies," and leads reprobates to hope that a few Paternosters and Ave Marias will do all that is necessary for their soul's health ! SUSPECTED MURDER OF MR. SHEIL.—The Bristol Times has a curious paragraph in connexion with the recent death of the late member for Dungarvan and re presentative of her Majesty at the dirty and despotic Court of the Duke of Tuscany. " A correspondent (says our contemporary) makes a startling suggestion to us : he states the possibility that Richard Lalor Sheil, our late envoy at Florence, met with his death in a suspicious manner. Sheil (he says), though a Roman Cathol►c, was a man of such liberality that, instead of playing the game of the priests—(whom he knew too well to hold in very high respect)—so far sympathised with Count Guiccar dini and the inquiring Catholics that be endeavoured to protect them in the free perusal of the Bible. This drew upon him the indignation of the inquisitorial faction. His death was sudden and accompanied with spasms of the stomach. Our correspondent concludes by wishing that the stomach of the late envoy were in Mr. Hera path's hands." We let this go for as much as it is worth. We will, however, add that, if the fact were as the corre spondent of the Bristol Times suspects, there would be nothing in it that would surprise us. DINNER TO MR. Fox, AT DERBY.—On Saturday the inhabitants of the town of Derby entertained Mr. Fox their fellow-townsman, head of the firm of Fox and Hen derson, at a public dinner, in honour of his great achieve ment—the Crystal Palace. The occasion must have been a peculiarly gratifying one to that gentleman, to his bro ther, who is this year, for the third time, mayor of the borough, and to all his friends, who flocked around him to testify their admiration of his successful labours, and their respect for his private character. Mr. Paxton had been specially invited to be present, and came accordingly. Mr. Henderson was prevented from attending by his delicate state of health. As to the rest of the company, it comprised mi..ny of the chief guest's most respected townsmen and friends, and was in all respects a very gra tifying muster. About 150 gentlemen sat down to dinner, and Mr. Douglas Fox presided in a manner which did him the utmost credit. Among those present, besides several of the town and county magistracy, were Mr. Bass, M.P., Mr. Heyworth, M.P., the Right Hon. Edward Strutt, Mr. Mozley, Mr. J. Cochrane, Mr. Jobson, Mr. Cooper, Dr. Wylde, Mr. W. E. Mousley, Mr. Low, and Mr. Crampton. The dinner took place at the Royal Hotel, and was worthy of the occasion. EXTRAORDINARY PHYSICAL MALFORMATION. -- There is at present living, in a remote district in Suther landshire, a youth, aged 17 years, who, from extraordinary physical deformities, is considered one of the greatest liv ing wonders in Scotland. Both his arms are entirely powerless, and issue from his back. Below the wrists they are reversed, and the fingers are completely stiff ; in fact immovable. The position of his feet is indescribable, their deformation is so extraordinary. Below the knees the bone appears to be twisted like a screw, and his legs resemble the arm of a grown-up person. The ancle, the heel, and the toes are reversed, and the feet are flat. He has never used shoes ; and the only way by which he can convey anything to his mouth is by the toes of his right foot. He can put off and on his clothing in the same way, use a knife and cut a stick, or hold any other light instru ment, betwixt his toes. About three months ago he went to school, and since then he has made considerable pro gress in learning. Taking into account the many disad vantages under which he labours he is very intelligent, and he is desirous to acquire more education. We have before us a specimen of his toe writing, and it is certainly good considering the poor fellow was only three months . at school. This poor yet very interesting young lad is unable to support himself and attend at school, owing to the poverty of his parents, who are poor and have a large family to support. Notwithstanding the great deformity with which Providence has been pleased to afflict him, he , appears very cheerful, has a fine, open, intelligent counte , nance, and reads such books ag fall into his possession with avidity.—Glasgow Mail. Ottieral fifttsrellanp. The Council of Newcastle-on-Tyne have determined, by a majority of 24 to 12, not to purchase the gas-works. The Hon. W. S. Lascelles, brother of the Earl of Harewood, M.P. for Knaresborough, is dangerously ill. A Newcastle paper records the arrival by railway of 300 rats, addressed to a saddler at Newcastle. A consignment of 255 dozen of wine, described as " Australian white wine, and "Australian red hermitage," has been received in London from New South Wales. The fact that the Kaffir war is costing this country something like £3OOO a day while it lasts, is calculated to quicken our interest in the affairs of the Cape Colony. The third performance of Sir Bulwer Lytton's new co medy, " Not so Bad as we Seem," took place on Wednes day evening, at the Hanover-square Rooms. Two gunners of the royal artillery, named Wilson and Evans, were drowned off Plymouth, on Friday night, by the upsetting of a sailing boat. WEST INDIA PINEAPPLES.—The Susan, twenty-three days from Eleutheria, has brought a cargo of 30,000 pine apples and 50 head of turtle. Jane Wilbred, the victim of the Sloanes' barbarity, has had nearly £3OO subscribed for her, and will be placed in a respectable situation. Samples of wheat, barley, and oats, shot in the ear, were exhibited in Edinburgh market, on Tuesday last, being one week later than last year. A flint glass manufactory, which has been lying dormant for some time, has been re-opened at Sunderland during the past week by Mr. Nicholas French. A banquet was given to the Duke of Richmond, on Saturday evening, by a large number of officers, in token of the high and grateful sense entertained by them of his grace's successful exertions on their behalf. EXTRAORDINARY. — One day during the present week, a hen, belonging to William Ross, of Horton, hatched two ducks from one egg, both of which are likely for life. —Halifax Guardian. The reward offered for the discovery of the persons who committed the gold dust robbery on the South- Western Railway, a few w,:eks since, has been increased from £250 to £5OO. Notwithstanding the assertion of the Times to the con trary, Colonel Sibthorpe stated in the House of Commons on Monday evening last, that " he never had been in the Exhibition, nor had ever been even near it." A return has been furnished to the House of Commons, that the declared value of British produce and manufac tures exported from the United Kingdom during the last two years, ending Ist of January, was £69,934,312. A little boy, twenty months old, the son of a clergy man's servant at Leicester, was choked last week by a small piece of bone, contained in a morsel of beefsteak-pie which was given to him by his father. The wife of an innkeeper in Saltfleet, Lincolnshire, who had been married only six months and was no more than seventeen years of age, has eloped with a small farmer. Within a short distance of this town we yesterday ob served what was very lately a flourishing piece of beans, about 20 acres, completely destroyed with the blight, and presenting the appearance of a burnt mass of black cin ders.—Dorset Chronicle. The bullion in both departments of the Bank had in creased from £13,836,557 to £13,925,874, being a differ ence of £89,317. The paper in actual circulation had decreased from £20,081,624 to £19,940,349, being a dif ference of £141,275. The committee of the Ulverston Library, in solemn conclave assembled, have determined that an individual of the greatest respectability, but who unluckily happens to be a master dyer, is not eligible as a member on account of his occupation I On Wednesday, at Edinburgh, George Black Pyott and William Black Pyott, wholesale grocers and commission agents, Leith, who had been found guilty of setting fire to the premises occupied by them as a warehouse, were sentenced to 14 years' transportation. Two individuals, well known at Jarrow, were, a few days ago, brought before the magistrates and fined 28s. each, for throwing upon the rails, from one of the rail way carriages in which they were riding, a great coat belonging to the guard. The Rev. Mr. Manning, late Archdeacon Manning, who recently seceded, in a state of bewilderment, from the Established Church, was ordained priest in the Roman Church by Cardinal Wiseman on Saturday last, at the oratory in King-street, London, and subsequently cele brated mass in the presence of a numerous auditory. One of the persons who bore Sir Ralph Abercromby from the field when he fell, in the moment of victory, at the celebrated battle of Alexandria, 1801, appeared at the Court-house, Leeds, a few days ago, charged with having attempted to bang himself on account of want. He gave the name of Steele. Father Ignatius, in a letter to the Tablet, says that circumstances are leading him to withdraw for a time from his public operations in the crusade for the conversion of England to popery, and that he intends to devote the summer to a course of missions and retreats, with "inter vals of rest in our happy solitudes." The Ragged Schools are telling. In Edinburgh, in 1848, 552 boys and girls between fourteen and sixteen were sent to prison in 1849, 440 ;in 185 0, 361. In 1847, five per cent of the Edinburgh prisoners were under fourteen years of age ; in 1848, three per cent. ; in 1849, two per cent. ; in 1850, one per cent. At the Mansion-house, London, last week, Donohue and Smith, suspected of housebreaking, impudently de clared that they had given up thieving, and had taken a private still, finding it " safer and more respectable to do a little in that line than in any other way." They were remanded. Mr. Robert Stupart, aged about 21, son of Major Stu part, formerly of the Scots Greys, and one of the remain ing heroes of Waterloo, now residing near Edinburgh, while on a visit to his cousin, Mr. Mill, of Portmoon, was in the habit occasionally of going down the dangerous paths which intersect the rocks in that part of the coast, for the purpose of gathering sea-gulls' eggs. While en gaged in this manner, on the sth instant, by himself, as it appears, he lost'his footing, and was killed. THE AFFRAY AT TWINSTEAD.—The fearful encounter between the police and Mr. Cook, and three burglars, at Twinstead, has resulted fatally, Poole, one, of the wounded robbers, having died in Hedingham police station from the effects of his wound. It is most satisfactory to the public, that the prompt measures of the county police led to so speedy an apprehension of the three burglars. Mr. Cook's man is at present going on favourably, and Jones, the policeman, though severely wounded in the affray, is doing well. A sober festival occurred last week, at the metropolis of the East Riding, where a delegates' meeting of the Yorkshire Mechanics' Institute was appropriately cele brated by a speech from Lord Carlisle. The speech was good, but one is rather tired of hearing the Great Exhi bition called a " Temple of Industry," and a " recogni tion of the dignity of labour." The fact is, that the tendency which this great show inevitably has to make us exalt and worship our own creative powers, is the only feature of it upon which it is painful to dwell. AN OMNIBUS ON FIRE.—On Saturday night last, the omnibus which plies between Chesterfield and Derby, belonging to Mr. Samuel Becon, arrived at Alfreton about nine o'clock, apparently all right. A little before one the next morning an alarm of fire was given by a neighbour, when, on examination, the front of the omnibus was found enveloped in flames. The vehicle was a good deal damaged. A two-gallon bottle of spirits had exploded with heat. The fire is supposed to have originated from an ignited cigar left in the omnibus. —.Derby Reporter. OORANG OOTANG IN THE REGENT'S PARK.—TIIO Zoological Society have been fortunate enough to receive a fine living oorang ootang, among other gifts, from the governor of Singapore. His excellency not only collected the valuable animals in question, preserved them in his garden for some time to ascertain that they were recon ciled to captivity, but defrayed the whole expense of their freight to this country. The oorang was accompanied by a female of the same species, who, unfortunately , died at sea not many days before the arrival of the vessel in the English Channel. He is about four years old, and by far the finest example which has yet heou brought to Europe. June g 4, 1851. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. YESTERDAY. CURATE OF ST. JOHN'S.— Catherine reavey,: decently-dressed Irishwoman, was placed inlete dock, 11 A SECOND ATTACK UPON THE REV. R. W. WotsElol the following charge. Inspector Burton briefiY st ate _ that he apprehended the prisoner on Sunday afternolt! on the charge of assaulting the Rev. R. W. WolseleY,.lt, Standish-street ;he also produced two form idable tal e siles, which he said had been seen to be thrown at w, rev. gentleman. Richard Usher, a young man o f resPefi, able appearance, deposed to having seen the woman t:ra up the pieces of stone and coal produced, and throw b ees at Mr. Wolseley, as he left the place where he had , preaching, to return to St. John's Church. James Tick t e r another witness, was in Standish-street, at a claa r f e e before three o'clock, about a quarter of an hour be or Mr. Wolseley came up, and heard a conversation betwe! the prisoner and another woman. The prisoner said to /le i :, companions that when he, (Mr. W.) came up, they sh° u _t shout at him, and " frighten" him and his mob until they should all run away. She was s aid il l , addition, to have made use of language unfit forrepetitio.e When at length Mr. Wolseley made appearance, and app prisoner said—" Now, women, let us get clutch, „ throw at them. The slutch was thrown in the direct!°' of Mr. Wolseley, and though no portion of it struckNs: his friends who surrounded him were plentifully be, spattered. The prisoner followed up this assault by hold, ing up her arm, shouting and urging the mob to act s t violence. Mr. Booth observed that it was very indiscreoef of Mr. Wolseley to persist in thus going into the Ini,c l i t o t a Roman Catholic neighbourhood to preach ; it colic' not Protestal'a fail to lead to a breach of the peace ; at the same 60'05" was the magistrates' duty to punish such illegal acts id icl that of which the prisoner had been guilty. He EH fine 2s. Gd. and 2s. Gd. costs, and in default to be itu prisoned three days. rAlf THE PRICE OF A POLICEMAN'S CAPE.—A resp ec— bo dressed middle-aged man, named Witham Hampso n, sc of had been " bailed out," appeared to answer the ch ar g e 's/ having been drunk on Saturday night. Constable 0 stated that Mr. Hampson had been very violent. a pd tc 's, his cape to such an extent as to render it entirely uselesof Mr. Booth, the presiding magistrate, adjudged a fin g e rs„ ne p five shillings, and seven shillings the value of the cyuctle cape. Considering that the cape was torn to shre ds+ ng court expressed its surprise and amusement upon I - le a/I bis the defendant claim the damaged official garment, as 5 , right, no doubt to he preserved as a trophy of his pr oves ; CAUTION' TO EXCURSIONISTS.—SamueI Mills , 8 ' tern man having the appearance of a resid en t of the et s " an d division of this county, was brought up as " drun k an d incapable." The defendant has lost one of his legs'ao walks with crutches. Constable 173 states that be font 9 the gentleman lying in the gutter in Vauxhall-road, abet late hour, helpless, drunk, and surrounded by a 30Z, 10 C1 of bad characters. When taken to bridewell it wa s 'l, O O that Mr. Mills had in his possession the large sum o'6o hundred and twenty-eight pounds. The usual fine of " shillings was imposed. STABBING.—A mere girl, named Mary Rile°Vol charged with having stabbed a woman named ca n ' M'Cudden, with a table-knife in the cheek. plainant had received three incised wounds. The n a , r- be all reside in Limekiln-lane ; and it seems they sP en qbe Sunday afternoon in a most riotous manner. If , complainant had been very violent when, ulti rnt,e the girl Riley, who was peeling potatoes at the t'11.1„; rushed upon her, and, with the knife she was using, "d flicted the wounds. She was fined 30s. or to be imp rison' one month. sere PERTY ROBBERY : NEARLY .£2OO -WORT H OF PERTY STOLEN.—Joseph Hill and Anne Woolley' 0 placed in the dock, the former charged with stealin' r est the latter receiving, a quantity of silk goods, of g' t be value. The female, who was very well dressed , i S s et' wife of a beer-house keeper, residing in Fleet-st,,r`o Constable 197 stated that, about half-past 12 o'cloc" be Sunday night, he was on duty in Concert-street, wb eli : tit saw the male prisoner at the distance of about e'go yards down Fleet-street :he followed him, when be s ,lch him go into the back door of Woolley's beer-house, fir st upon inspection, lie found, just on the spot where er caught sight of the man, a large bundle. By this foot officer 490 came up, and entered the house by th e, filar door. In the passage lay another large bundle , s,.it ia le in appearance to the one found in the street. The re'soid prisoner, in answer to questions put by the officers' that her husband had gone out, and expressed her sorrow The she had ever had anything to do with the bundles. r ich bundles were found to contain a large quantity 0 " - 0 0 fancy and plaice silk goods. A gentleman, w h ?, th e present, stated that he was a traveller, represent'"geee, fiim of Welsh and Margetson, the large London In e a r o telr and was at present stopping at Brotherton's th e Hanover-street. On Saturday night he deposit:v(ol' goods in premises belonging to Mr. Brotherton, %Or street ; the outer door was fastened b 3 a padlock , w, `l 2e eti on going to the place that morning, he found h ad to carried away and another substituted. Hill pr ofesse lley , know nothing about the bundles. The woman , W° ° , bet told a story about a man named Downey ca lling et, house, at a late hour, and leaving the parcels witila'll Both prisoners were remanded for some days. - ASSAULTING THE POLICE. — A powerful fellow uow John M'Coy, whose sole covering appeared t o be a " rug, which had been lent to him in the bride whose head and face presented the traces of a d el" it police. sd blood, was charged with having assaulted the appears constable 17 interfered with the Pris ° , ller bon t another man who was fighting in Vauxhall-roan, t o rl nine o'clock, on Saturday night, when the prisoner s e t °? nine o'clock, on Saturday night, when the prisoneraidll it him, and he was compelled to use his stick, of "vb' e f aan, was seen he had not been at all scrupulous. Th e „aea was fined twenty shillings and costs, or to be irnP r ' — twenty-one days. .1 55.a fld A driver of one of Gates's omnibuses was fine - 00 costs, for being intoxicated and incapable of driviell'to Sunday night. His license is to be suspended I°' months.tr od A man named Matthew Graves was committed t,o 1 ; CO o' for two months for stealing 40 lbs. of cotton, sclu n c o urn e ' sisted of two samples belonging to Messrs. -'-' A 0 9 14 Latham, and Rogers. A respectably dressed elderly man, name 3 ga r- ' 'tab' ns fined 10s. and costs for being drunk, and striking 03- 676 at Bold-place. well, :of THE ORANGE INSTITUTION• (From the Shropshire Conservative.) to r c - 0 The love of Protestant principles and loyal rel o ,. Sovereign are characteristic of Orangemen, and ' O OlO to announce that in Shrewsbury, in less than si% en to . 1 ,, e more than 200 of the Queen's loyal subjects have 00 0 7 themselves in this admirable institution. li' l l e iiteti c o Society was founded in commemoration of the i t fri° 9 t this country from Popish slavery, by William l'io;c101,11 of Orange, and it is satisfactory to us to fin d ' Tees 0 , be gratifying to the brethren to know, that nn,ropako last at the third jubilee of the " Society for the ,: 4 ' 3 o f tP tion of the Gospel," Prince Albert thus SPe' gry founder of Orangeism : tpsleioervteßirnieebingl e c r; e a ; t n o a d f n ro d e r r e fto umiyfiseeatAtthi,nthedoSeduepirnrurfeosiesovi u s G sg e e e ni n s r c rest ,Villci• "This society was first chartered by tha t t his 09 etv WILLIAM HI. —(cheers)—the greatest Sovereiga , and Obertf has to boast of.—(loud cheers)—by whose sagacity ions l '..e I was closed that bloody struggle for civil and rell, ri dive , 0 0, which h-'. so long been convulsing this country, 7itutiolloceo cured to us the inestimable advantages of our CO" . thus Vol of our Protestant faith. (Loud cheers.) Havi,7pold„Wr ilift i the country upon a safe basis at home, he CO" ' da iio l ' , i ' re sell 4 her enemies abroad, and contribute to the four o f ou r to plav colonial empire which forms so important a 14,1',four to ...s, ) . greatness ; and honour be to him for his enu,i',,,ci clie l , o o 4 this foundation uon the rock of the church." k"' tan a go i 0 T K l i i n e g glorious William and l n i .mi smever a l memorydear to Orangemen'of the gte i v: lll3 i 1 05 0 i the principle of the order that all its member 9 s _od;bo far as human nature permits, act up to the cote,7, t0,' . ., present g e y a i h n d a d d r t e h s r e s e i e r c s e l n ° o t Y f i g Y t i b l o tj e ll o e VJ o i l °l o 6 Orangemen of England and Ireland to the Que e to ,'O, person of the Sovereign, attachment to the no n 9 jael:d papal nw.lhcnh aggression.a speakingled and a determination to support those Protestant Priosb;fB wade " knee deep in been designated by papists, who dread the e i o° l' o Bible truths, " bloody Orangemen," that we re 0 11 0 breathing devotiontiotioo disposed towards Roman Catholics, &c. I, Ve oe s e s fio say how utterly devoid of veracity such act is chef oe' and to prove the falsehood of assertions of th i , e () b erg we give the following entire, from the first I;_e:ydete Laws and Ordinances. It points out what tu'' of our order should be, and gives these sie e f i er ti e ' QUALIFICATIONS. , l ove ° a et t he " Every member of this institution shoahl 4l .o la c ', 00 s pe love and veneration for his Almighty Maker, fob roil fast faith in the Saviour of the world, and a fob toil bee o' tie influence of the Holy Ghost ; his disposition alio a bell ior , occ . Popish founder 0 00 0 ff d ,o: our re t that leesvereltse:llBs:l °I f 3tOO i f and compassionate, and his behaviour kind 111 ' cO e tli ° e t° an enemy to savage . brutality and unchristian r d Vil de Of oit i; should love rational and improving society ; r, e g f erelY, 0 1 '0 6 , tion the Protestant established religion, and sn,;,(l 9,.. O f f propagate its precepts. He should have a 11_,;'.',.; vain' re and swearing, and taking the name of Goti,: - thes e o nciretl should use all opportunities of discouragi,..l,7;ooo, 01,r'0,„ practices, especially among his brethren. ", - tillu 0 0 ; 1 0 ' deuce should guide his actions ; tempera bo , 0 , honesty and integrity, direct his conduct ;an moth r ooti fe ~oto, welfare of his Sovereign and country, be the forip exertions." of • ,i This is our answer to the malignant assertinnosffeaee._oeA and Infidels. An Orangeman is slow to ta” rw ati ° o o s f; attack his religious liberty gained at the ft9llion b fl secured in 1688, or l e t the arm of re be l s (Rie e de!? against his sovereign, and then truly , in se ,, Roe t t''' 0° will fight, to use the Papists' expressions one bnoteripi blood" for his altar and his country. l'o i ical g o°,,'' who are ashamed of their faith and a tne nar io; e. l %tic w ot ment, need keep back from joining our ranronstitso led is " The Church, the Sovereign, and the Irela nd .101, and these will exist in both England an d o 'bear t o 9 o I as some hundreds of thousands of Ova" co of the reason why" they should beat in defers land. cl f ---- dweeHl believel u G . Garde dt A lei l a t t l i i no o HAlR.—Although f m atd a hv n ec y rbt s ei ss e itn c j i zs fi t c ch s oa ( ;lee offer _1 1 ,1,0 b f r t ie. e it d oco ol . - .................m....•'"' - ----r oelessA racter) have been offered for p the restoration° 14 5 0i ' , A V 4 0 I V ttw r n t oihna e neFse n i Ands d hhteT a ciaA t lintdt i i o gi,iii n ulAyoa s pfsFbo i i n nea, Rnit gainedcAti s lfiolec f b a is,av v ot .alTa u deb u wyDffl r eeoEl, a fi R r .t. e fßo I s u ie .n r_ d y eco s d t a r r o eT n p g u : t 1 :: flop' i f o , , . s t t , t orsr4t , to i 5- 0 e or c.c.s. i osy , -- th I i iws flittedoni C lego C a t l ura r il nnd r degbidsaysosuiosfneinsbetfDrienjoletgomsbhyDbeTeeHtthelwleoeerojesurnenrDyiGisairoutey:royade.nins sold i e B c h s re s°l: ; Regiment and the police of that ity, o' h P l ilo °lll ' verdict returned ;_.‘ We fintnald'metdehdeacctPGEaidlinfdlelledetresoisaildia°li::eso;nttinsobirdit°l:;ftti;iliiiillit:Cli:::ll::::l: by his death in consequence of the blow,. ° Will i lo ° let laghan, Daniel Harrington, and Michael V A t hat 0, 10 , coroner then committed the prisoners 0 assizes. 1411,. Th e ►catil r erun er al wi 4 ! ti t e o . m r q l dre s d „ Q ci r ti n 4 r. D 3, Prod uc ,j h r e Lip ktlrtec"°'