The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

FOREIGN COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. I Advices from Athens of the 20th ult. announce that General Griziotti has escaped from imprisonment at Chal cis and raised the standard of revolt against the Coletti Government at Negropont ,ciinburgh Register The Parisian correspondent of the Et says that the Bishop of Lucon, in order to induce hiSsflock to subscribe for the purchase of new bells for his cathedral, has asserted that these bells will afford great pleasure to the Holy Virzin, that they will prevent storms, and that they will mai SO gre the Austrian ed a mer tude towar ?one, that many of the priests and the use of arms, and it is expected that a battalion oltheselnembers of the ( will soon be organised. The Overland Mail from .urch huhtant dia has brought aocoun from the Indian presidenci Iv, no furt intelliger 11%/111 A-e 1.111.14 Mt V .16 - dian money market is the principal circumstance mentioned ►g in any part of t whence accounts hE east, including New South e 20th to the I to ti ON OI notber [ded to the ; thrown on this st Lt incorrect.] iOOll HOPE.—ACCX on the 75,000 from Calcutt improvit Wales, of April from Syc 25th of March. PRASLII tragedy which has caused so much sensation not only in Paris, but throughout all Europe. The eldest son of. the Duke de Praslin committed suicide on Tuesday. He was only seventeen years of age. He_ shot himself vvith a vngeatice of (There ha tement, and we believe is have been received re of Good• Hope, dated the 29th June, and le shin Persia. An expgaition, comprising led to the rash act. 'had fallen upon this some discredit it will turn ou from the C brought bN 250 men, horse and foot, proceeded against the stronghold of the Caffre chief Sandilla, attacked it by night, captured about 100 head of cattle, and was, nevertheless, repulsed eventually with the loss of two mem, (one of them Lieut. Russell, of the Caffre police,) nearly the whole of the cattle, and, worse than all, with the discredit of having been worsted in their own mature pl -From a return bhshed by the Minister of the t been is to nearl Mediterranean, Egypt, India, ENGLISH A: which has just Ist of A This does not include erland, Italy, and the via" Marseille CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCZ ExTRAoRniNA_. small town of Cambo, near Bayonne, was the seene.of the following strange occurrence on tile night opt me ztsi inst, when an inhabitant of that place was shot dead through the heart, on his way home. On probing the wound, the doctor extracted from it a bit of printed paper, which had been used by the assassin in loading his gun. It was part of a leaf from Madame de Stael's celebrated romance of " Corinne," and soon afterwards the corres ponding fragment was discovered in the pocket of a douanier, residing near the murdered man's residence. He has, in consequence, been sent to jail at Bayonne The assassin must have been close to the victim when French paper fired. — Earl Grey, secretary for the colonies, has addressed a letter to Sir Henry Pottinger, directing him to establish a kind of military colonists on the disturbed frontier of Caf freland. The soldiers of the 27th and the Ist battalion of the 91st Regiment, now at the Cape, are to be discharged if they will accept service in the local militia. These men are to be settled on the frontier of the disturbed district, and allotments of land to be assigned to them, so that henceforward the charge of their maintenance will be partly at their own cost, and partly, we presume, at that of the colonial treasury. If the plan should answer, of course it will be unnecessary to maintain so large a force at the Cape as we have hitherto done, and the imperial ex chequer will be proportionably relieved. ATTEMPTED MURDER AT PARIS BY A PRINCE.—A very unpleasant feeling was excited in Paris on Tuesday by a report that a prince (son of one of Napoleon's marshal's) had attempted to murder his mistress. The name of this nobleman was before the public some months back as the plaintiff in a suit against his mother, in order to get removed a judicial interdiction, granted against him on the application of his family, for extravagant and irre gular conduct. The tribunal refused to accede to his demand, and the prince has since, it is said, resumed his former wild kind of life. The particulars of the attack oh his mistress were not very well ascertained on Tuesday ; but the rumour was, that after a quarrel he had stabbed her more than once, and then fled to Belgium by the Northern Railway. Her wounds are said not to be dangerous. The nobleman is the Prince d'Eckmuhl. THE EMIGRANT FEVER IN CANADA. — The Canadian papers last received give dreadful accounts of the ravages of the epidemic in Montreal, Toronto, &c. At the former place, the Rev. Mr. Richards (a Roman Catholic) had died, and the whole of the sisters of the Gray Nunnery were prostrated by the malady. The number of immi grants that arrived to 2nd August was 20,886. There were in the hospital at Toronto 640 ; 36 had died within the previous week. On the passage across, in the Sir H. Pottinger, 98 had died, and 112 were sick on her arrival. The Virginius, from Liverpool, lost 158 out of 496 pas sengers. The total of emigrants to Canada was 60,000, and of these 5000 to 6000 had perished on the passage, or since their arrival. The accommodations provided for them on board was not adequate, and the home govern- ment is blamed. The deaths in the hospitals were very numerous, and some most affecting incidents are related of the desolation caused amongst poor Irish families. SHIPWRECK, AND DEPLORABLE Loss OF LlFE.—Let ters from Aden communicate the loss of the barque Wel come, of London, 500 tons burthen, on the coast of Yam bro, West Africa, with most of her crew. She had been chartered by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Naviga tion Company to convey coals to their depot at Suez. On the 14th of April, though the weather was moderate, she by some accident ran on a reef of coral rocks, S.W. of Yambro. She was soon got off apparently without serious damage, but after clearing the reef, settled down by the bow, and in three minutes sank in 100 fathoms of water. There was no time to launch a boat. The master, mate, a seaman, and an Arab, saved themselves by clinging to a boat bottom up, which they cut adrift when the vessel foundered, and which was washed back to the reef. The remainder of the crew, fifteen in numner, were drawn down in the vessel, and all perished. The survivors got the boat righted, and reached Yambro in 48 hours in an exhausted state. The governor treated them kindly and obtained them a passage to Aden. The names of those drowned are not given. Most of them were from the Thames. IRELAND. The repeal rent is looking up. Last week it amounted to £ll9, of which £lO lls. was from Liverpool, and £5O from America. IRISH M.P.'s.—The Nenagh Guardian says that Mr. Keating, M.P., for the county of Waterford, is an in spector under the relief act, at a salary of 7s. 6d. per day. An estimate for £lOO was recently sent from Carriga bolt to the inspecting-officer of Kilrush union, to purchase coffins for destitute living persons, who, it was calculated would die within that period and the Ist of October next ! ! THE O'CONNELL MONUMENT.—The committee of the " National Monument to O'Connell" have published their receipts from the 6th of August, which amount to £239. Of the subscriptions 40 were of £5, four of £3, one of £2, and 25 of £1 each. As James Cashen, a respectable farmer, near Emly, was going to his chapel on Sunday week, he was met upon the way by a party in wait, who beat out his brains with stones —a favourite mode of slaying adversaries in Ireland. Some dealing in land which he had lately with some of his own family is supposed to have caused this outrage. A fine young woman named Byrne was accidentally killed near Ardee, County Louth, a few days since. A young man of the neighbourhood presented a gun at her —not knowing it was charged—and having pulled the trigger, the contents lodged in her breast, causing instant death.—Belfast Journal. Larkin and Daniel, two of the murderers of Mr. Prim, the pay-clerk, were executed at Kilkenny, a few days ago. These miscreants, together with a third murderer named Walsh, who was to be hanged on Wednesday, conspired to murder the turnkeys, and attempt their escape from the gaol, but were detected. THE HARVEST IN IRELAND. There is scarcely a county in Ireland in which considerable progresi has not already been made in the corn harvest, Nvltich is nearly a month earlier than the average of seasons. All accounts concur in describing the produce as unusually abundant, and the quality as excellent. The wheat, oats, and barley crops are, in fact, the greatest, in point of breadth, ever witnessed in this country. A spirit antagonistic to the payment of rent is developing itself in many districts in Ireland. In truth, the small farmers are placed in a difficult position. If they sell their corn, plentiful as is the harvest, the produce will do hardly more than pay the rent and arrears, if even so lunch. The potatoes are gone as a food resource, and they can not go upon the public works. They have, there fore, it is said, come in many places to the resolution that rent they will not pay, but keep the corn for their sup port. It is very doubtful whether this will generally be acted on ; and it is to be hoped that no such spirit will generally prevail, for the whole force of law should be put ,in operation to bear it down. MATRIMONY.-FREAKS OF FORTUNE.—A young gen tleman, but a few years of age, and hitherto a total alien to the graces of the blind goddess Fortune, will this mouth lead to the altar the richest heiress in Ireland. The lady is now in her thirt y -third year, and has been for several years known in the literary world. The fortunate youth was seeking a commission in some regiment on foreign service, when dame Venus demanded him o f Mars for the home department ; and ere this month shall be ended, he may ride twenty-five miles in a straight line on the lands to be bestowed on him. These possessions de volved on the lady by the demise of her father, a western M,P., in April last. THE ABSENTEES.—In the course of an eloquent article :in the Dublin Packet, the writer states the following most gratifying facts :—" And we tell the people of Ire land—tell them too on the most unquestionable authority —that they may expect the immediate return of numbers of noblemen and gentlemen who have been partially or entirely absentees, and who for the future mean to reside upon their estates, and to cultivate those intimate rela ti ,ns with their tenantry, the want of which has been so bitterly felt. The Earl of Devon, for instance, is about to break u p hi s E ng li s h es t a bli s hment, and to reside _.s per manently here ; and we have the fullest reason to add, example will be followed b•• nvnibPrs 1,1o12:24; g; , y,ilrr ,eminent position." FATAIIACT7DENT FROM Plitt Atots. 4 =Ott the 30th ult. C. S: Agnew, Esq., of Ballyclare, went to shoot on the mountain of Ballyalbanagh. On leaving the mountain in the evening, he was in the act of adjusting' their guns, in the straps of the dash-board of the gig, standing in front of the muzzles, when, melancholy to relate, one of them went off, and the entire contents lodged intthe unfortu nate gentleman's chest, which caused almost instantaneous The loss of a bank parcel, containing notes to the amount of £7,500 has been .the subject-of .investigation ' • )m the metropolis to a city in _the south, and there xamined, previous to being transmitted to its destination, when it was found correct. The pared was forwarded to is destination from the branch of a second town, and the :ontents quite different from• what he was advised they sere—for, instead of the bank notes, ainoseting to £7,500, 6 certain quantity of turf was discoveredin the envelope, .•• ••• CI mama 1111 in flul r I Ann 1,04. tsse "'sr bona' 1,01.- 'S OF FURTHER DISTRESS AI a meeting of La-diens of the Limerick Poor-law Union, Captain 1, Inspecting Officer of the Union, said he wished ns of the amount of destitution n the Gua ssuredly prevail in-enother fortnight, TPS Would rpricn in n fenxr days. he did nc erick without making known the fact ,that, irding to the most minute inquiry he had made, the ibers on'relief lists at the beginning of the week were ierick electoral division, 1,783 ; in -the rural districts, rl4 ; or, on an average for the entire union, 26,500. to leave I cent on the population, which was a small average com pared with the amount of destitution which prevailed four months since„provision should be made.under the new act to provide 1183 persons in the city, and 15,950 in the rural districts, with out-door relief. Unless some remedy Some discussion took place on this an nouncement, and finally a committee, suggested by Lord Clare, was appointed to devise means of affording relief in the cheapest manner possible. DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE IN CASHEL .—A SON SHOT BY HIS FATHER. — The Tipperary Canstitzetion states that the police, having got information that Mr. Francis O'Ryan, of Cashel, had shot his son, proceeded to the scene of the .outrage, accompanied by the Hon. Mr. Ffrench, S. M. On arriving at the house, they im mediately arrested Mr. O'Ryan, who stated that laving was immediate) certainly starve He got . up and •ossed his mind that all was not right, and he he was led to suppose that an improper intimacy existed between his wife and his son whom he had by a former marriage. He at once repaired to the son's room, and there found his wife in bed with him. Mr. O'Ryan then dragged her out of the bed, and abused her.in a v,iolent manner, the son in the street, from whence he returned into the house through a back entrance. The father, who had a case of pistols in his hands, then met him en the stairs, and immediately fired one of them at him, the contents of which hit the unfortunate young man in the corner of the right eye, and fractured his cheek bone. Drs. Russell, Cormick, and Power were immediately in attendance, and he now lies in a most precarious state. Mr. O'Ryan has been committed to Cashel gaol. CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. The Rev. 1 Lrd Bird, A. 8., late rector of St. Tho n, has been presented by Lady Olivia ctory of Hyton vel Houghton, near Sparrow, to the R Huntingdon. Mr. C. B. Marriott, of Thundersley Rectory, has ad dressed a letter to the Yorkshire-man, contending that the clergy of the establishment ought to be eligible to the House of Commons as Dissenting ministers are. _ The Rev. William Geo. Greenareet, M.A., of Christ's College, Cambridge, is promoted to the Vicarage of Pat tingham, and the Perpetual Curacy of Patshull, both in the county of Stafford, vacant by the death of the Rev. Richard Thursfield. The Bishop of Exeter has addressed a letter to the various Archdeacons through his diocese, expressive " of his earnest wish that the thanksgiving for plenty should be used in all the churches of the diocese, to the end of September." The Hon. and Rev. George Montagu Villiers, M.A., rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury, and a prebendary of St. Paul's, is now spoken of as the new bishop. Mr. Villiers married Miss Hulton, the eldest daughter of Wil liam Hutton, Esq., of Hulton Park. He will be the youngest bishop, being in his 35th year. AN HONEST CONFESSION AND A DESERVED REBUKE. —The Manchester Guardian, a free trade and dissenting journal, made the following honest avowal last week with reference to the " Manchester Bishopric Bill." "We must, in order to avert misapprehension, repeat that we consider the opposition of the dissenters to the bill as most unreasonable, while at the same time it appears cal culated to defeat their own avowed objects. We cannot admit that the appointment of an additional bishop, paid out of existing revenues, and having no seat in the legis lature, is an insult to dissenters. We deny that it is in any way a question between the establishment and dissent. It affects simply the efficiency of the church; and, though we do not deny that in this men of all sects may feel a deep interest, yet it is no matter of complaint if the legis lature follows the counsels of those who are not open to the suspicion of being influenced by their attachment to other communions." _ _ The Gazette, of Tuesday, contains the order in Council, _ the new Bishop of Manchester ;. ordering the Collegiate Church to be the Cathedral Church of the new diocese, which is to consist of the deaneries of Amounderness, Blackburn, Manchester, and Leyland, and the whole pa rish of Leigh, including the townships of Astley, Ather ton, Bedford, Pennington, Tyldesley, with Shakerley and Westleigh, otherwise Leigh, in the deanery of Warring ton, all in the county of Lancaster and the diocese of Chester, together with such parts of the respective deane ries of Kendal and Kirkby Lonsdale, in the same diocese, as are in the same county. The Bishop's stipend is to be £4,200 per annum, and a scheme for fixing the mode of such endowment is to be laid before her Majesty as soon as may be. The Bishops of Manchester and Ripon are to have alternately the patronage of all benefices hereto fore or now belonging to any prebendary of the Collegiate Church of Southwell. THE BISHOP OF OXFORD AND CHURCH Accommo- DATION. — The vestry of the parish of Upton-cum-Chal bey, near Slough, is at issue with the Bishop of Oxford, respecting some alterations in the church. The vestry, professing a desire to afford greater accommodation to the poor, determined that a portion of the seats in the centre of the church should be converted into pews, and that a gallery should be erected capable of giving accommoda tion as free sittings, to one hundred and forty more per sons than had been deprived of seats by the erection of pews referred to. Previously to these works being com menced, the consent of the archdeacon and rural dean was obtained. A few days since the bishop, who had been informed of the nature of the changes, visited the church, and refused to permit the additions which had been made to remain. Under these circumstances, a vestry meeting was called in the church, for the purpose of the position of matters being explained to the parishioners, and Mr. Bedborough, of Upton-park, who maintained that the vestry had proceeded regu larly, after having obtained the consent of the archdea con and rural dean, moved " That this vestry confirm the resolutions of the previous vestries, as connected with the alterations of the church, and recommend the church wardens to carry them out ; and that this vestry under take to bear them harmless." Mr. W. H. Boncey, fearing that the parish had acted in a headlong and heed less manner in not having first obtained the consent of the bishop, moved an amendment to the effect that before proceeding further the consent of the Bishop of Oxford and the Church Building Society be first obtained. After a long and stormy discussion the amendment of Mr. Boncey was put to a show of hands, when only five were held up for it. The original motion of Mr. Bedborough was then put and carried by a large majority. The Rev. Mr. Knox observed that, by the resolution they had just carried, they had completely " flown in the face of the Bishop." Mr. Bedborough replied that they had quite as much right to have an opinion as the Bishop of Oxford. s as if th RAILWAY AFFAIRS. The Caledonian Railway i; now completed to Beattock, forty miles north of Carlisle. It is expected that the whole line will be completed by November next. WATER CONVEYED PER RAILWAY.—Trains of water, conveyed in engine tenders, are now running up the Midland Railway from Derby to Leicester, in consequence of the shortness of the supply at the latter station. The Manchester and Leeds (now called by the more comprehensive name of the Lancashire and Yorkshire) pay a dividend of 31 per cent. on the half-year, minus income-tax. At the meeting of the Caledonian Railway Company, last week, Sir Andrew Agnew brought forward a motion against all traffic on the Lord's day, which was lost by a majority of 6,428 to 2,874 votes. The railway calls for September amount to £3,851,439, exceeding by nearly a quarter of a million the average for the preceding eight months of the year, and by nearly two millions the amount claimed last month. RAILWAY SECTION OF PARLIAMENT. The new House of Commons will comprise no fewer than forty three members connected with railroads—an important phalanx who may turn the tide in any struggle on the boards of St. Stephen's. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The posts for the elec tric telegraph have been put down, and the wires have been laid along a part of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, so that in a month or two we shall have a tele graphic communication from Liverpool to London, via Manchester. The London and North-Western, with its itgrown the usual " time table' branche now issued in a pamphlet shape, and instead of seeing at a glance the information respecting the times of arrival and departure at each station, you are referred to the different places by means of an index. The new mode is the less convenient, but perhaps is unavoidable. in columr LIVE171;00 L AND MANCHESTER RAlLWAY.—TheWidell ing.of this line, from Liverpool to Huvton, is proceeding rapidly. Three lines of rails have been laid down on part of the way, and . four for a short distance. It is said that when the four lines are completed, the omnibus trains will be introduced at this end of the line as well as the Man chester end. There they are found to be an immense con venience to parties having occasion t o v i s it th e p o p u lous villages along the line, and they would be found not less useful at this end of the line, - in rendering easy the corn municatien with Bvacigrecn, 1c110tt; Hu - ten, and Jrescot. LEEDS AND THIRSIC RAILWAY. — It is expected abont ten miles of this railway, from Thirsk to the north side of the river The, near Ripon, will be open for public traffic early in Odtdber and that a permanent junction will be formed withl heFork and Newcastle Railway, at Thirsk, early in November. A further distance of about eighteen miles, from Ripon to Weston Lane, near Castley, will probably be open in March. The Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire —lnnction Railway Company have offered to the Birkenhead Dock Commissioners, that if the rates upon shipping-be reduced to 6d. per ton from foreign ports, and Id. per ton on coasters, the railway company will pay the rates upon all vessels with cargo entering the docks, guaranteeing a mi nimum revenue, from the Ist of September to the Ist of January, 1849, considerably exceeding what-the commis- LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCASTLE JUNC- TioN. — Vhe meeting of this Company on Tuesday was , of a different character to one in February last. The pro- aan said, that the £92,000 available balance was out on good secu rity at . s per cent. The Directors have pledged themselves to make no call during the next six months ; and the Chairman gave it as his opinion, that there would be no need of any for the next twelve months. He also made the agreeable announcement, that there will be no neces sity for their going to parliament next session. A saving of £l,OOO a year has been effected by dispensing with the London and Newcastle offices. The business is now car ried forward at Manchester, under the superintendence of Mr. C.ll. Wilson (the Secretary), on whom the Chair man passed a high and no doubt well-merited compliment. r I LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY. speech of Mr. Houldsworth at the meeting of this Company on Wednesday will be read with interest. It contains matter of the gravest importance, and shows in the strongest possible light the evils that are resulting from the GnvernmPnt interference with the rate and tolls of the the increase of passenger and merchandize traffic, and the receipts therefrom. Mr Houldsworth says, the average of passengers has increased since 1845 22 per cent., while the receipts had only increased 51 per cent. A similar re sult is shown in the merchandize department. The in crease of work done was about 12 to 14 per cent'., while there has been little or no increase in the receipts. The direct effect of this is a loss to the Company of £50,000 per annum. THE BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY. —The half-yearly meeting of this _company took place The Chirman directed the secretary hare register 'e that this could be done without the authority of the meeting. The Chairman : It is done. (The secretary here affixed the seal.) Mr. Mozley said, that what had been done was neither more nor less than a declaration of the nullity of all meetings of this description. (Applause.) Several Proprietors ex pressed z similar opinion. Mr. Mozley moved a resolu tion, demanding that the seal of the company, which was now improperly used, should be delivered up to him, Mr. Elias Joseph Mozley, for safe custody. Mr. Hore se conded the motion, which, however, the chairman de clined to put. Mr. Mozley said this'was of no importance, since it had been improperly done, and he accordingly put the resolution himself, which he declared to be carried. Amidst some laughter, he then requested that the seal might be handed over to him, a request which was not complied with. Mr. Whately then read the half-yearly report, together with a statement of accounts. The re port consisted of little more than a statement that no re port would be presented, in consequence of the differences between the directors and shareholders. The accounts stated the whole amount received to be X 442,008 19s. 3d., and the balance in hand to be .241,408 16s. The Chairman made a few observations, and moved the adoption of this report. Mr. Spooner, M.P., seconded the m otion. Mr. Mozley opposed it, and demanded further explanations as to the estimates and expenditures. The Chairman said that these points would all be included in the directors' answer to the bill in chancery, and for the present he should decline further explanation upon them. After a good deal more wrangling conversation of the same na ture, the meeting was, on the motion of Mr. Mozley, a& journed till the 22nd October. eriteral Mr. Lumley has concluded an engagement with Jenny Lind, for the next season, at her Majesty's Theatre. The Leeds intelligencer says that the potato disease has not visited Yorkshire. The barque Cobre from Swansea to Coquimbo has been entirely destroyed by fire originating in the spontaneous combustion of the cargo. The day on which the Great Britain steam-ship was released from Dundrum Bay, was the anniversary of that on which she was christened at Bristol by Prince Albert. The Marquis of Anglesey transmitted to Lieutenant Munro a check for one hundred guineas, immediately after his trial. _ _ Sir Robert Peel has purchased from a party in Edin burgh the full-length portrait of Dr. Chalmers, printed by John Watson Gordon. Mr. Yardley, of the Chester and North Wales Circuit, has been appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Bombay. A Too ARTFUL DODGE.—A farmer, of Glasgow, has been taken into custody for dating a bill 1947, thus im posing on his creditors. The rumour of an extensive loss of life on board the steamer, Glamorgan, in the Bristol Channel, which has appeared in several papers, proves to be untrue. On Wednesday, the boys belonging to Plympton, St. Mary Union, near Plymouth, were taken to bathe, when three of them were drowred. The majority of pews in Wakefield parish church are owned by Dissenters, who receive the pew rents, but re fuse to pay the church rates. JUVENILE ORGANIST.—Master Edwin Mercer, son of Mr. James Mercer, who is only sixteen years old, has just been appointed organist at the Episcopal Chapel, Great Horton, near Bradford. A petition for the pardon of Lieut. Munro, having some 200 names attached to it, has been forwarded to the Home Secretary from Ross-shire, of which county the lieutenant is a native A few days since, while a boy named White, ten years old, was chasing some butterflies near the edge of the West Cliff, at Whitby, he fell over the precipice, and was killed on the spot. The French government has ordered two English jour nals, Punch and the Weekly Dispatch, to be stopped in the post-office, as they have published articles reflecting personally on the King of the French. Mr. Barrett, of the Broadway Theatre, New York, when in London, offered Jenny Lind £5OO per night, for forty nights ; but she could not engage, having already con tracted for a long time in advance at the European theatres. A dreadful fire took place at Exeter, on Wednesday, which began at the premises of Mr. Solomon, in Water beer-street. It extended to the adjoining premises, and did nearly £lO,OOO damage. A London paper says that several tradespeople in St. Paul's Churchyard have placed boards descriptive of their trade and calling against the chimney pots on the roofs of their houses, in the hope of catching customers among the visitors to the summit of St. Paul's. The Gazette of Tuesday contains the appointment of the new peers—General Strafford to be Viscount Enfield and Earl Strafford ; Viscount Acheson to be a baron of the United Kingdom, by the title of Baron Dartrey Sir R. Bulkeley P. Philips, Bart., to be Baron Milford. At a meeting of the inhabitants of Douglas, Isle of Man, on Thursday week, Wm. Kelly , Esq., in the chair, the deputation who ought to have presented the address to her Majesty from the town of Douglas was called to account, and their conduct severely censured. The Guernsey Star mentions that a young lady, who arrived at that island from Jersey, suffered so much from sea sickness while on her passage, that shortly after land ing she died, probably from some internal injury caused by vomiting. A correspondent of the Standard, who signs himself " A Rural Dean," states that he bas received a letter from the Bishop of Oxford, dated August 23, in which his Lordship says, " a thanksgiving is to be appointed when the harvest is generally secured." The magistrates of Windsor have determined to put down " Derby sweeps," and lotteries of a similar nature, in every public-house within their jurisdiction. A great good would be effected if such a gambling practice as this were put a stop to in London, where it is extensively carried on. THE FOLLY OF BEING UNINSURED.—A bankrupt merchant passed his last examination last week, in the London court. His property, an oil mill at Southampton, uninsured, was burnt down by lightning ; and a vessel, in which he had also an uninsured interest, being lost at the same time, completed his misfortunes. . FALL IN FLOUR.—On Thursday, the price of bread fell in Lambeth a halfpenny the loaf. At one of the cheap baker's, the shop was so crowded with customers that the floor fell in, and several persons were buried in the troughs of flour. All however escaped with a little frightening. In London, last week, an inquest was held on two chil dren of the respective ages of eight and nine years, who were proved to have died from dysentery, produced by an insufficiency of wholesome and nutritious food. The fa ther is a billiard-table maker, and travelling the country in search of work. Among the young gentlemen who have just gained honours at the London University is an East Indian, named Soorjoo Coomar Chuckerbutty, who has distin guished himself in three different departments of medi cine—anatomy and physiology, chemistry, materia me dics, and pharmaceutical chemistry. On Monday, three men, who were engaged in cleaning out a sewer leading from Laggate under the ballast hills to the river Tyne, were suddenly thrown down into a state of torpor, and one of them was found dead soon after, and the other two were insensible but ultimately recovered. On Saturday week, a poor woman, named Daggett, living near Bath, went from home early to go gleaning, and having no one to leave with her children, all under seven years of age, for greater safety locked them in the house. On her return, they were all found suffocated with smoke, but how the fire had originated could not be as certained. DESTRUCTION OF WHEAT BY VERMIN.—There are now standing in a close at Willingham four stacks of last year's wheat so destroyed by rats that it is estimated their produce will not exceed 40 coombs ; whereas, if thrashed out at the proper time they would have produced 240 coombs, and the wheat would have sold for between £4 and £5 per quarter.—Cambridge Chronicle. CONVERTS TO POPERY.—CII Thursday last, at the Spanish Chapel, Mr. and Mrs. Burns, of Portman-street, i and their family, along with Miss Christian, and Miss Mary Banks, were received into the Catholic Church, by the Rev. William Hunt.—Tablet (Romish paper). [We presume this is the popular publisher who has becuilhulcd 1 to as likely to embrace Romamism.] A NOBLE POULTERER.—A general reduction of game keepers has been made on the Duke of Buckingham's manors in Bucks. Around Stowe no less than sixteen have been dismissed, and two only retained. A number of "watchers" are out of commission. The venison from Stowe park is in the course of sale, and the leverets on the estate are sent to market weekly. CRICKET.—The great match between the eleven of all England and twenty-two of Birmingham, was brought to a termination on Wednesday. The play was excellent on both sides, especially the bowling on the part of the Bir mingham players, who gained the viqpry by five runs only. The numbers scored were—Birmingham, first in nings, 80; second innings, 81. All England, first innings, 93 ; second innings, 63. _ _ A few days since, two boys, four years old, were playing in the streets of Perth, and amused themselves by running after some pieces of paper which were driven about by the wind. The children caught the whole of them, and took them home as 'playthings, but their parents discovered that the pieces of paper were four bank notes for £2O each, which had been lost by a gentleman residing in the neighbourhood.- Loss OF THE AUCKLAND.—We regret to announce that private letters have been received in town, which leave very little room to doubt that her Majesty's ship Auckland has been unfortunately wrecked. This vessel was engaged.. finding a fit site'fcr a new penal settlement, we believe to the north of Port Essington. It was on her return that the Auckland went upon the rocks. PRICE OF WHEAT AND BREAD.—On referring , to our paper of no longer date than May last, we find that wheat was sold at 120 s. per quarter, and the quartern loaf at 104 d. At the commencement of this month, September 2nd, we find wheat quoted at 60s. per quarter, and house hold bread is now sold in this city ac 6d. per quartern, though in most instances at 7d. In May potatoes were , now they are to be bought at7d. s been committed for trial, in uartern London, on a charge of stealing a number of sheets of the Pickwick Papers, the Peoples' Journal, and Punch, from the premises of Messrs. Bradbury and Evans. The prisoner was a warehouseman there, and has been in the habit of supplying various newsvenders with those works several hours prior to their issue by the regular publishers. At Dixon's lodgings were found as many sheets of differ ent works printed as would fill a barrow. Bou-mt EXPLOSION. - The boiler of the Firebrand, one of the steam-tugs employed on the river Tyne, burst one day'last week, as the vessel was running into Shields har- forward underneath the deck, anddestroyed the fore cabin, ne /MIK neaa ana tne enure wouuen Fortunately, no one was below at the time, but the steam rushed up one of the hatchways and scalded a boy, named Foreman, in the face. Deficiency of water is said to have been the immediate cause of the accident. STATUETTE OF JENNY LIND.—An elegant statuette of this celebrated singer has been modelled by Count D'Or say, and may be seen at the establishment of Messrs. D. Colnaghi and Co., Pall-mall East. She is represented in the character of the Figlia del Reg pimento. The attitude is precisely such as the lady assumes in one part of her performance, and will be immediately recognised. The likeness is good, both as to the features of the face and the general outline of the figure. The statuette is about 20 inches in height. The people of Newcastle-on-Tyne have lost the oppor tunity of seeing Jenny Lind. An agreement bad been made with the proprietors of the theatre there for the ap pearance of the nightingale, but afterwards Mr. Knowles, who had engaged the theatre, was apprised by the secre tary that there were 70 proprietor's tickets, and that these would be entitled to gratuitous admission, and it also coming to light that the proprietors tickets instead of being 70 were 130, Mr. Knowles determined to forego the concert, though the tickets had been printed and every other arrangement made. COMPENSATION FOR PERSONAL INJURlES.—Facilities of which many persons are availing themselves are offered in the new county courts for bringing actions to recover compensation for injuries where the damages are not laid at more than £2O. In one of these cases, heard recently at North Shields, J. Robson, a boatman, complained that as he was lying in his boat with his hand hanging over, a Mr. Black pulled a small boat against him with great vio lence, and so injured his hand that he was obliged to sub mit to the amputation of his finger. The court awarded him £2O damages. A WIFE POISONED BY HER HUSBAND.—At Edinburgh, on Wednesday, Thomas Leith was tried at the High Court of Justiciary for the murder of his wife. It seemed that. on or about the 15th of April last, the prisoner, who lived at Dundee, mixed a quantity of arsenic with some barley meal, which his wife made into porridge and partook of, soon after which she became ill and died, as was proved, from the effects of poison. Some time before this the prisoner had been made ill by some tea sent to him by his wife, which was found to contain poison. The man was found guilty, and sentenced to death. CURIOUS COINCIDENCE—BRITANNIA-BRIDGE AND THE "GREAT BRITAIN."—A correspondent of ours, in conversation, happened to mention he had suggested a. plan to Mr. Robert Stephenson for placing the Britannia bridge from pier to pier by floating the one end of it over to the centre pier, supported upon a wooden tower, built upon the hull of a large iron vessel—at the time, there happened to be in our office another scientific gentleman, who, after hearing the thing explained, observed, it might be necessary for Mr. Stephenson to defer placing his bridge until the Great Britain was got off to float it over. On the same day, to the best of our remembrance, that noble vessel was rescued from her perilous situation. — Mining Journal. THE CROPS.-The accounts from the provinces are all confirmative of the abundance and good quality of the „.. grain now being harvested in tins country. tne oariey crop, in particular, is said to be unusually fine. Hay and grass are quite as abundant as any other crop ; and the large stocks of the former on hand will probably keep prices at a low range for some months. Fruit, too, par ticularly of the kinds most in common use, is generally plentiful, and well ripened. In France, too, the harvest is nearly housed, and is described as one of the most pro ductive and the finest ever remembered. The only draw back experienced in respect of the crops is the reappearance in some districts of the potato disease ; but even this ca lamity would leave in the harvest a vast superabundance of food for all France.—Gardeners' and Farmers' Journal. On Friday, the attention of the Oxford city magistrates was occupied a considerable time in hearing informations, on the prosecution of the Crown, against seventeen market carriers, for having, contrary to the statute, carried pas sengers, and travelled at a greater speed that four miles an hour, whereby they had not only incurred a penalty of £5 each, (the lowest the magistrate could inflict,) but had made themselves liable to the mileage duty, as well as to a license for carrying passengers. The result was, that seven were fined £7 each and 9s. costs, four were dismissed for want of proper evidence, three were adjourned, and the remainder were out of the jurisdiction of the city authorities. These informations, it is understood, were at the instance of some of the coach proprietors, who had complained to the Board of Stamps and Taxes of the system carried on by the carriers trading to and from Oxford. In every case the defendant pleaded ignorance of the law. _ THE HARVEST.—The corn harvest throughout the north of England is now in full operation, an immense amount of grain having this week been cut down in the best pos sible condition, whilst in the more early and favoured dis tricts considerable quantities of wheat and barley have been safely deposited in the stack-yards. The weather conti nues to be all that could be desire d, and the harvest is unusually early. There can now be no doubt that the crop of wheat will be fully an average one ; the same may be said of barley and oats, although the latter, in many places, are exceedingly short in the straw, no doubt owing to the droughty weather which we have experienced. Turnips will be more than usually abundant, and potatoes —free at present from all symptoms of disease—will also be a good crop. So far, there is great reason for thank fulness, and little prospect of our being required to look to foreign countries for supplies of grain. In Northumber land the wage's of reapers is from 3s. to 3s. 6d. a day. The Irish are paid at the rate of 12s. a week, with their food. — Newcastle Journal, THE FEAST OF HARVEST.—The Jews err in overlooking the Advent of the Messiah, in humility and the New Tes tament. Many Christians err in overlooking the Advent of Messiah in glory, and the Old Testament . The Pentateuch may teach an important lesson to Christians. Unless it can be shown that less gratitude is expected from Christians than Jews, bow can Christians justify their neglect of the Feast of the Harvest ? After the Jews had gathered in their corn and their wine, they observed a feast of seven days, when they were all commanded to rejoice :—" Thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daugh ter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates," (Deuteronomy xvi. 13-15 ; Leviticus xxiii. 39-43 ; Numbers xxix. 12-40 ; Ezra iii. ; Nehemiah viii.) After our happy deliverance from scarcity and dearth, can we do better than follow the example of the Jews by such an expression of gratitude to God as shall include charity to man, especially by feeding the hungry, delivering the poor and fatherless from want, and causing the widow's heart to sing for joy ? Let the harvest feast and harvest home be kept in every parish and neighbour hood, and special services be performed in every • place of public worship, to conclude with the gathering of alms for the purchase of bread or cakes made from the new wheat, to be given to the poor, who may be recommended for their general good conduct. INCREDIBLE BARBARITY.—A most revolting case of inhumanity occurred at Horkstow, near Barton, on Saturday morning last. An itinerant Irishman, with a wife and three or four famishing children, a few days be fore solicited and obtained employment of a man of the name of Spencer, foreman for Lady Tuffnell, in the harvest field. His wife was far advanced in pregnancy, and on the above-mentioned morning began to show signs of approaching labour. Spencer, who is the over seer of the parish, and whose duty it was to have provided for such a case, when informed of the circumstance, went immediately to the woman's husband, and discharged him, at the same time telling him that he must leave the town instantly, in order to prevent any expense and trouble his wife might put him or the parish to. The Irishman, of course, remonstrated, representing his wife's condition, and her unfitness to travel. All the poor fellow could urge or say was wholly unheeded, for Spencer threatened if they refused to go to have them imprison ed. He also declined paying the man his wages, until he saw them fairly out of the town. Thus compelled, they commenced their journey to Ferriby, another village about a mile or two off. What the woman suffered it is impos sible to describe ! They had scarcely arrived at this place, when the hapless creature was delivered in the open street, surrounded by the unfeeling rabble, who had congregated to witness the sad spectacle. The miserable mother hud dled up the dead child, for dead it was, in her scanty and tattered garments to prevent exposure, until she was re moved to a public-house stable, and there deposited on some straw. The proper authorities have since taken the matter iato their hands, and commence d proceedings against .Spencer.—Doncaster Gazette. THE LIVE11 1 0:01 STANDARD. Sept. 7, 1847. The government steamer, Mastiff, Commander Lieut- A. B. Beecher, which has for some time past been engaged in the surveys of the coast in the vicinity of the Orkneys, on the morning of Tuesday, off the Island of Sandor, was driven from her anchor and carried ashore, a violent sea beating over her for many hours afterwards. The whole of the crew and officers were saved. Very little chance remains of preserving the steamer, which is full of water, and has sustained considerable injury. The Mastiff was an old vessel, having been launched at Bideford in the year 1813. She was nearly 200 tons burthen. EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR BETWEEN A HEN AND PAR TRIDGE.—A short time ago, at Capenhurst, a hen, be longing to Peter Woods, took it into her head to build a nest, and laid several eggs in a field adjoining his house. During the same interval a partridge also laid several eggs in the same nest. When the period of incubation arrived, the hen first began to sit. Not long, however, had she been in possession, before the partridge made her appear ance, when a general fight took place. The partridge proved the conqueror, hatched the eggs, and the varied brood now range the fields together, the chickens equally wild as the young partridges. CHEAP FOOD.—A correspondent of the Birminghant Herald states, that " the price of hominy is now only 10s. 3d. per cwt., or a fraction above ld. per pound ; and (he adds) when it is considered one pound produces six pounds, it is astoilishiug that it is not in more general use A large baked pudding of six pounds weight(supq rior to rice) for little more than ld. ought to tempt fami lies to be consumers of it. The present price is 200 per cent. cheaper than potatoes. All classes will doubtless continue, even in cheap times, the use of an article that was so much approved of and so eagerly sought after du ring the late high price of provisions. It is pronounced by eminent medical men as highly nutritious.' PENNY SUBSCRIPTION TO PURCHASE SHAKSPEARE'S HOUSE.—On Thursday a meeting, convened by circular, was held in Liverpool, for the purpose of devising means for raising a fund, by penny subscriptions, in aid of the purchase of Shakspeare's house. The meding was very thinly attended. Mr. K. M. Young, who occupied the chair, stated the object, and said a committee had been formed in Stratford-upon-Avon and in London, for the purpose of purchasing the house in which Shakspearelis said to have been born. It was originally intended to confine the subscription to a penny each contributor,, in order to make the object a more national one ; but this resolution has been abandoned to allow those who were desirous of contributing more. A committee of twenty four was formed to carry out the object of the society. It was suggested, at the close of the proceedings, that a number of boxes should be procured, and left in public places, after the fashion of the missionary collecting boxes. THE BROTHERS BERKELEY.—As we have apparently failed in a well-intended effort to restore the Berkeley brothers to a proper paternal footing, we must leave these litigious gentlemen for the future to settle their differences —or to leave them unsettled—by themselves. Each has sent us a letter since the receipt of those we published the other day, and the only satisfactory part of the commu nication of either is that in which he alleges his very wise intention to leave the other henceforth alone. " These lines will close my part in the controversy," says Earl Fitzhardinge ; and " leaving his Lordship, for the future, to write, say, or do just what he pleases," is the substance of the sentence with which Mr. Grantley Berkeley's let ter concludes. We are glad to see them showing unanimity even on this point, and though we had rather found them agreeing on something more amiable, it will be satisfactory to the public, who care not for the little differences of the brothers Berkeley, to be informed that they have promised, at all events, to desist from attracting attention by their noisy interchange of abuse. Napoleon observed, apropos of the scandalous notoriety of a family dispute, that it to of J was always better to have dirty linen IMPERISHABLE PORTRAITS UPON CAMEOS. - The finest specimens of cameo engraving that are known are those devoted to mythological subjects, and consequently are liable to the caprice or fancy of the artist, whose ob ject is to portray the general character without the neces sity of subscribing to the features, except so far as they are classically delineated. A young medallist of the name of Picourt has struck out a new path, and has ventured upon taking likenesses upon cameos, which of course are imperishable, and his essays have been crowned with the greatest success by those of her Majesty and the Prince Consort.—London paper. WARNING TO BACHELORS.-A worthy couple, who reside in the neighbourhood of Bishop Auckland, are ac customed to share between them the somewhat onerous duty of collecting at night their numerous offspring. As soon as the clock tolls the hour of repose, out the good man sallies, up the highways and byeways, in quest of his erratic' progeny. Thetask'of his Wife is to receive them at home, to reckon them and marshal them to roost. On a recent occasion, on his return home, after what he had supposed a successful expedition, the poor man was met at the door by his better half, who thus reported progress: —" It is o' no use ; thou inun out again ; for I've been to rekon the bairns, and there's now but thirteen in bed:" THE RATE OF INTEREST.—At the breaking-up of the Bank Court, on Thursday, it was announced that loans would be made until the 14th of October upon Stock, Ex ohpn,,pr Rills and Rills of Evehancre, at the redored rate of five per cent wasned at home. tpi ethoe years yearst The ytp occupation for the Berkeley laundry must, we should think, be very considerable, if we are to judge by the quantity of the family washing that they have been re cently putting out.—Times. The report of the Edinburgh prison contains the case of two young women, respectable servant girls, committed for beating carpets in the street at a wrong hour ! There o m n a e o Found ndt thessee e whole the nic sltuei e yti e e gabo a Dl finifesro stealing n mhte. aefe, d t bbam i eo pairnaebty nosogfs yooofprrfoortodfi rabbits.mbts hoeoluere t d vti nine fenoeorpngr. is another case of a little boy, twelve years of age, com mitted to the lock-up (which legally forms part of Edin burgh prison) for " playing at a game called marbles, to the annoyance of the public." He was liberated next day' by order of the sheriff. The following entry in the Edin burgh inspection book deserves to be extracted :—" Aug. 21, 1846.—Visited the prison this day, and looked into elvteirys melancholy r another 000rie disproportionate, propriety inarnoog a decypet n :i e sar,an te u nioof upwards as,nhws imprisoned aeet a r trfnaeokd s taking and ogyg sffftmropoaorriam l cannot him an helpou ounce questioning e o f bread But if the statement of the boys J. H. and W. C., about ten or twelve years of age, be true, and I have no reason to doubt it, I think the punishment inflicted on them 15 of a field near Newhaven—an offence of which, a when I was a boy, I was more than once guilty ; and if the same judgment had been meted out to me, I might have been ruined for life. (Signed) ADAM BLACK, Lord Provost." The governor said that the statement referred to in the foregoing entry was correct. FATAL THUNDER STORM.—On Sunday afternoon t during the time of divine service in the parish church of Welton, six miles east of Lincoln, that sacred edifice was struck by lightning. One of the pinnacles of the tower was first struck, a part of the battlements thrown down, and an iron connecting rod, for the service of the clock, was fused ; the inner clock dial was torn off, and the cur rent of electricity passed inside the church in the direction from west to east. In the north aisle were suspended three chandeliers, which served as conductors, for all per sons near to them were more or less affected, the fusing of portions of the chains giving forth a most sulphureous stench. Five,young women were scorched and blackened by the explosion, but sustained no material injury ; a boy had his clothes and shoes burnt, but was able to return. home the same evening. The greatest fury of the explo sion took effect upon Mr. John Brownlow, wheelwright, a stout elderly gentleman, who was struck to the ground, and died instantaneously. There were no marks of injury on his body, but his waistcoat buttons were melted off, his trousers torn, and the right shoe completely burnt. In the floor where he had been standing were perforated thirty or forty small holes, by which the electricity passed singing the from his to asi t s h b e o s d e y rvi c e t h ; e t he conductor, clergym a into clergyman a n d t he others earth. hastened _At tht to timethat p o a f t t t h a e f e t x h p a lo ah si ur on a , h w the hi c c o h n w gr a e s g t a he congregation were psalm just before the sermon, and the Rev. Mr. William son, the curate, had ascended the pulpit; the shrieks and terror occasioned by the terrific visitatio n a t once put so f this cata trophe, where they rende re d prompt id scene o b a They found Mr. Browntow to be u ite and he must have expired without a struggle ! Mrs. Brownlow stood the settlement on the marriage of his said son. The next him in the pew, and escaped uninjured ! A neigh residue of his real and personal estate to' his wife, Mrs. hour in an adjoining pew was struck down insensible, but Mary Walter, for her own absolute use, and has appointed received no serious injury. The lightning, after quitting her sole executrix. The personalty was valued for pro- the north aisle, proceeded by the chancel, making various bate duty at £90,000. holes in the eastern window and the stone-work near the THE " BOTTLE."—This is the title of a series of eight ground beneath it. None of the parties, Mr. Brownlosv plates, designed and etched by Mr. George Cruikshank, in excepted, sustained any serious bodily injury. which the progress and result of drunkenness are illus- THE OAK CHEST TRAGEDY AT GLASGOW.—The Gies trated by the artist in his best manner. In the first plate gow Constitutional furnishes the following additional par the wretched " hero" of the tale induces his wife " just titulars respecting the three poor boys who were acciden to take a drop ;" the result is immediate, for in plate the tally shut up in a stable corn-chest at Glasgow from Se second, they pawn their clothes to support the bottle." turday night till Monday morning. "It is melancholy In plate the third an execution is in the house, but " they but gratifying to think on the conduct of the poor boys to comfort themselves with the bottle." The consequences one another, when placed in their awful position. They are natural, or rather unnatural—violence, brutality, endeavoured to support each other's courage as well as habitual drunkenness, quarrels, and ultimately murder. possible ; they cried as long as they could for assistance, The wife is killed and the husband consigned to a lunatic but no one heard them, though they were not fifteen yards' asylum—in other words, the bottle has " done its work," from their parents' roof. They pushed their heads up so and all is misery and despair. As a work of art, the as to raise the lid at the end in which Robert, the youngest, plates are deserving of much praise. As a warning against was confined ; and with a discrimination beyond his years, intemperance in the class in which, unfortunately, the he fortunately put a marble in the chink to keep it open, vice is most prevalent, these prints can scarcely fail of which served him, of course, to breathe more freely. James having the same effect as the celebrated series of Hogarth. was next to his little brother, being in the mid compart- COTTON CULTIVATION IN AUSTRALIA.—A prospectus meat, where there were some beans, and with the utmost has been issued for the formation of a Company, to pro- sagacity and consideration, he managed to push through Ch ar b.u le t s inthteheisldest, attempt mote the cultivation of Cotton and other tropical produce a few of them to his companions in distress to appease by means of European free labour in the territory of Coo- their hunger. He directed them not to eat many, for fear lisland, in North-eastern Australia, with a capital of of becoming thirsty, and expressed his fears that he would 000inl fi 0 r ,O s (40 i s a ha p re re s v o i f di X n 2 g s a ea f c r h ee . p T as h s e ag c e ap o i u ta t l t i o s soon die. t ß o e e f u or t e a g i i , v o i l n e en toof be 25 expended,o, chest;ginupthheope farmers and farm labourers, to cultivate cotton and other They then resigned themselves to their sad fate, and after Australia for suitable persons and families, of the class of he cut his hand, and the blade of his penknife broke. tropical produce, for the home market ; and second, in being exhausted with unavailing shouts and cries, which the formation and maintenance of model farms, under the were not heard on earth, they praiseworthily and solemnly superintendence of fit and proper persons, to be engaged repeated portions of the paraphrases, and finally addressed for the purpose, from the cotton-growing States of North themselves to the Hearer and Answerer of prayer. Charles. America ; in the erection of the requisite machinery for died first, after bidding his cousins farewell: James then cleaning and packing the cotton, and in whatever else may bade his brother good bye, and spoke of his dear mamma, be necessary to ensure the success of the endertaking. who would never see him again. He became so faint, he Interest at the rate of seven and a-half per cent. per an- said he had just other three breaths to draw, and requested num is to be allowed from the formation of the Company, that Robert would not speak him. There was a loud on all the paid up capital. heavy breath, in a few seconds another, and in about a DEATH FROM IMPURE AIR.—An inquest was held in minute, a deep loud sigh, and death closed his eyes for Rosemary-lane, London, on Thursday, at the instance of ever. Robert soon after fell asleep, but he awoke on Sun the medical officer of the Whitechapel Union, on the body day morning, and heard, distinctly, the ringing of the bells of a female child, aged two years, who died at the house during the day. He slept occasionally till the Monday of her mother, in Haye's-court. It appeared that the morning at 6 o'clock, when he heard the men about the child and its mother had been ill of fever and diarrhoea stable, when he was able to make such a noise as led to for two months. The whole of the inhabitants of the his discovery." court were equally affected. The officer had prescribed FEARFUL SHIPWRECKS.—A fearful gale has visited the for the deceased, but the medicines would not act as they coasts of Scotland. At Thurso, on the coast of Suther would have done in a healthy atmosphere. He attributed landshire, one vessel laden with rye, and and another with death to the poisonous effluvia of the atmosphere, from meal are total wrecks. At Tongue, the Canton, of Hull, the want of drainage. It had been proved that decom - a large emigrant ship , has be e n wrecked , and all on board posed animal matter in its pure state is fatal, and M. —upwards of three hundred—have been lost. The Bri- Thenard, a French chymist, has found that 1-800 of its tannia, of Ardrossan, began to drift from her anchorage, volume will destroy a dog, and 1 volume in 250 is suffi- in Scrabster Roads, about eleven o'clock, a.m., on the cient to destroy a horse. Some course ought to be 22d instant, which, when perceived by the crew, they en adopted, as the whole neighbourhood was liable to be at- deavoured to cut away one of the masts ; but it did not tacked with fever. The jury returned a verdict to the effect come down at the time, so the vessel continued drifting, that the child died from disease caused by the noxious and struck on the rocks, below the house of Pennyland effluvium, from want of drainage ; and it was urged that (west of Thurso), by twelve o'clock. This being about the the coroner should write to the Home Secretary, enclos- strongest of the gale, she was no time on the rocks, until, ing a copy of the depositions. by the violence of the sea, one of her masts—the cut one THE LOVE OF FILTH.--An inquiry was gone into on —went overboard. Her bottom then gave way, and her Friday, as to the death of a woman named Elizabeth stern came out, part of which, along with some of the Meuritt, one of those old straggling creatures who are cargo, came ashore. The whole of the crew were, at this found about the streets, in London, wandering about the time, in great danger every moment, as the sea was in kennels for their daily subsistence. The woman lived in cessantly rolling over the vessel, and they could find no Jacob-street, Bermondsey, close to the island Mr. Dickens place of safety, as the whole ship was giving way. The has made memorable as the dwelling of " Quilp." scene gathered a numper of people on the shore, and She would never allow any one to enter her room. She through the exertions of the coast-guard, several ship gloated in filth and avoided all cleanliness. About eleven masters, sailors, fishermen, and landsmen, got ashore five weeks ago she fell, whilst in a fit, on the grate, in which of the crew. In doing so they were often exposed, and in there was a large fire. She was most seriously injured, great danger of their own lives. The way of getting the but she would have no medical advice. At first the men ashore was by a rope from the vessel to the shore noxious smells from the burns induced the neighbours The sea, at the same time, was tremendous, and a flowing to interfere, and they insisted she would go to the work- tide. One of the men who was drowned was the first sea.. house. It was found necessary to force her into a parish man who left the vessel. The master abode by the ship chair, as she declared she would sooner die than go to the until all had left him, and as his crew, one after another , poor-house. Her place was then examined, and found to went, he gave them instructions how to manage them' be void of all furniture. She had slept upon old straw, selves on the rope. He himself was lashed to the vessel, No furniture was there, and the whole place was crowded and was standing on the outside on the chains, but the with the most noxious vermin. Upon her admission into rope somehow loosened from the vessel, and he was un the hospital she was attended by Dr. Paul, who found her fortunately left on the wreck, for no help could be even flesh clotted in masses with insects. She lingered until him until the tide receded, which was not until seven Wednesday, when death removed her. o'clock. He remained in that situation for some hours , GREAT FALLING OFF IN THE SALE OF GRAIN.—The when he gave them signs of life by holding up his hand, events of the last few mo nths have g iven us the means of occasionally. But the vessel shifted about , and some o 5 forming a much more accurate estimate than we could the spars came down about where he was. The spectator g have previously done of the extent of the deficiency of saw no more of him as he was,gone from the lashings—s ° our home-grown supplies. It appears from the Gazette that the captain and a seaman found a watery grave. Car returns that the total quantity of grain of all descriptions thin M`Millan was also owner of the unfortunate vessel; sold, in the market, in which the averages are made up, She was from Cronstadt, laden with rye meal for Ireland' in the months of May, June, July, and August, 1845, The vessel is a total wreck. Most of the cargo is eolf, was 2,932,504 quarters ; that that quantity declined in the landed ; almost all the outsides of the bags are wet, copesponding months of 1846 t o 2,373 , 040 quarters ; an d th e i ns id es are d r y. At Zetland there is lamentation an tliat it further aeclined, in the same months of the present weeping, The packet boat from Dunrossness has been year to 1,183,558 quarters. Thus it will be seen that the lost, with all on board, supposed to be six in number. decline in the four month s p rev i ous t o th e presen t h ar - th ree m en, two women, and a child. A boat belonging vest was not less than 1,748,946 quar t ers i n com p ar ison B uc kh av en, William Robertson, master, who fished a with 1845. As the sales from which the averages are Wick to Mr. David Simpson, went down off Rosehear t made up do not form more than the fourth or fifth part and all on board have perished. Another boat was close of the sales of the whole kingdom, the apparent deficiency by at the time, from which a rope was thrown, but th e must be multiplied by four or five to give the total defy poor fellows lost their hold of it, and the gale was so fe le a r „ ciency of grain. T o thi s mus t a l so b e a dd e d th e deficiency ful at the time that the boat could not put back to their in the supply of the potato crop, the exact extent of relief. Two of the boats that left Wick have arrived her': ii which cannot b e ascer t a i ne d, b u t w hi c h i s shown to have and from them we learn that there wen., four men d been enormous by the high prices of the present year board. Six or seven others passed during the day, 4lA" compared with those of preceding years. we have reason to fear that more have perished. t as to - justify the temporary relaxatio step may have some effect in aiding many houses who are now exposed to embarrassment, rather from the distrust occasioned by the recent failures than any real unsound ness in their position, it may in some degree, for the mo ment, produce a useful result. Any idea, however, that the measure is a prelude to a permanently reduced rate of money, would prove no less futile than pernicious.— Times. PRESENT TO JENNY LIND.—A superb testimonial has been presented to Jenny Lind by Mr. Lumley, " as a tribute of respect for her genius and noble qualities, which have secured the enthusiastic admiration of Eng land." The entablature which contains this inscription records her arrival in England on the 17th of April, 1847, and her first appearance at her Majesty's Theatre on the 4th of May, 1847. It is of pure silver, dead and bright, nearly three feet in height; the composition consists of a pillar, wreathed with laurel, at the foot of which are seated three draped figures, representing Tragedy, Come dy, and Music; standing on the pillar is a figure personi fying Genius. The subject has been treated with great skill. Some statistics on the manufacture of plate-glass in Great Britain from 1819 to 1847, which have been prepared by Mr. Henry Howard, of Plaistow, furnish another sa tisfactory indication of the ability of our artisans to com pete with foreigners, and to drive them from the field. Until its entire remission by Sir Robert Peel, the excise duty on British plate glass was nearly 40 per cent. of the entire cost. In 1845, the price per foot 24 inches by 18 was 9s.—it is now ss. ld. ; the number of feet sold per week was 23,000—it is now 70,000; the hands employed were 6,ooo—they now amount to 12,000 ; the quality of the production having meanwhile rapidly improved, and the supply, notwithstanding the vast accession of hands, being less adequate to the demand than at any former period. A TRUE PROPRET.—The steam-boat Cricket, (the boiler of which exploded a few days since on the Thames) was condemned, together with the Ant and Bee, more than six months since, by Mr. Portwine, in his work on the " Steam Engine," &c., in the following plain lan guage :—" There are three vessels on the Thames, called the Ant, the Bee, and the Cricket—boats which profess to work with low pressure condensing engines. The pub lic is not aware that they are working at 361 b. on the square inch. The engines are by Joyce, two of 15-horse power. The fuel consumed is only about 2 cwt. 1 qr. per hour. These are the penny boats (now halfpenny) plying from Hungerford to London Bridge, and working at high pressure; they may, when out of order, blow up their decks, and the myriads of passengers they are burthened with."—Page 58. The will of the late John Walter, Esq., of Bearwood Hall, Berks, and Printing House-square, London, was executed by him on the 9th of February, 1847, and he died on the 28th July. He has devised to his son, John Walter, Esq., M.P., the entire freehold premises and ware houses belonging to the establishment of the Times, in Printing House-square, and leaves him all the interest in the business. The freehold and copyhold estates, which he possessed in the counties of Berks and Wilts, together with the right of presentation to St. Catharine's Church, Bearwood, he leaves to the trustees under the terms of