The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-29 00:00:00

\ S !~ FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. The report of a revolution at St. Peter burgh proves to be a Polish invention, though it is stated to have come mm Riga. The most serious imputations against M. Ledru Rollin relate to the alleged liquidation of his private debts by the public money, which he will endeavour to disprove by the evidence of his notary. One of the strongest charges against Louis Blanc is the evidence of Colonel Watrin, who declares that he saw Louis Blanc at the Hotel de Ville on the 15th of May. Louis Blanc will endeavour to prove that Colonel Watrin was not at the Hotel de Ville himself on that day. M. Caussidiere, unable to produce any direct proof in refutation of the charge against him, will endeavour to cast discredit on the witnesses, and especially M. Chenu, whom he accuses of being an agent of the police of the lowest order. It is stated that the harvest in the north of France and Belgium was pretty well gathered, but the farmers express disappointment at the yield. In rae north of France and Belgium a fair average, instead of abundance, is now re ported pretty generally. The grand jury of New York, in a late presentment, urged that the police be employed effectually in diminish ing the very large resort, chiefly of the young, to cigar shops. public-houses, and groceries, which now present scarcely any perceptible difference between Sundays and other days of the week in that city. The French government have wisely suppressed four papers, viz.. the Representant du People, the Pere Du chene, the Lampion, and the Vraie Republique. These journals, it is well known, inculcated diabolical doctrines, and the most ardent advocate for the liberty of the press cannot but rejoice that these detestable periodicals have been put down, as they went to undermine the very basis of civilized society. A singular letter, purporting to have been written by the Duke of Bordeaux, is likely to excite a good deal of interest. His Royal Highness says that he is not willing to cause any division or trouble in his native land, but if France " be weary of experiments that keep her suspended perpetually over an abyss, and should pronounce his name, as the true guarantee of the rights and of the liberty of all, his hand, heart, and life shall be at their service." THE CITOLERA.—A letter from Aleppo gives a frightful account of the ravages of the cholera morbus in Asia Mi nor. The number of deaths increases daily, and between the 17th and 19th July, nearly 1000 patients succumbed. Belief in fatalism prevents the Mahometan part of the po pulation from taking any precautions or resorting to any remedies. Since the 15th of July the average diurnal number of deaths has amounted to 140. To aggravate the evil there are only three European physicians in Aleppo, wiai a population of 80,000. _ THE LATE INDIAN VICTORY.—The success of Lieut. Edwardes over the rebel Molraj are placed beyond a doubt. He succeeded in crossing the Indus and Chenab, and ef fecting a junction with the forces of the Rajah of Bhawul poor. On the 18th of June the united forces came into collision with the army of Molraj. They awaited his at tack, and sustained a singuinary conflict of nine hours' duration. The rebel army were completely defeated, and driven from the field with the loss of nearly all their ar tillery, six out of their ten guns remaining in the power of the British. The cause of Moolraj is completely lost. MORE DISTURBANCES IN PRUSSIA.—In consequence of an attempt to disperse the democratic club at Chariot tenburg, some severe fighting took place, and the club bists received some severe injuries. The mob stormed the house of the minis;er, and a constable was so be spattered with stones that he was left for dead in the streets. They broke the windows of the Hotel of Presi dent Anerswald, destroyed a great part of the barrier at Linden, tore up the pavements in the Behrenstrasse, and commenced erecting barricades. The constables were driven back, and many wounded, in consequence of which the burgerwetor was called out, and after great exertions the disturbances were at last put down. LABUAN AND SARAWAK.—By the overland mail we have advice from our new settlement of Labuan. The Phlegethon steamer had arrived from Singapore with some of the newly appointed officers of the colony, and the first steps for its formation would now, it was expected. pro seed rapidly. The coal mines of the island have already aeen worked for the supply of the vessels on the station, in which the coal has been delivered under contract of £1 per ton. but the surface deposit having thus been removed, proper apparatus would be necessary for more extensive operations. The belief was, that there would not be much trouble in making roads to the mines, and it was supposed that Lboure s for this and other purposes would be pro cure without difficulty. From Sarawak the accounts are satisfactory. The rajah, Sir James Brooke, had ar rived, and it appears that the place was rapidly increasing. The natives as well as the Chinese come there in great numbers, and are now estimated at nearly 800. They regard the rajah with the utmost veneration, and their condition shows great progress ' • they raise the antimony ore, cultivate gariens, and employ themselves in fisheries, trade, &c. Fights amongst the Dyaks in the surrounding -country, to gratify their inveterate desire for getting heads, and not for plunder, are still frequent, but they do not disturb the settlement at Sarawak, or cause the slightest fear to the Europeans. GREAT PROTESTANT GATHERING IN PARIS.—The great subject of interest during the past week, the great topic of conversation, and of reflection too, has been the assembly in Paris of all the Protestant notabilities of the country. The long-contemplated fusion of the Lutheran and Calvanistic doctrines is finally agreed upon, and the grand Protestant synod is to be held on the 9th of Sep tember, wherein the interests of each sect are to be dis cussed, and judgment pronounced as to which of the two is to give way to the other. A new feature in the ever varying physiognomy of Purls is mated by this gatherina. In our public walks and assemblies may be observed strange groups, such as we have never beheld before. The grave and solemn Lutherans of Alsace, with long beards and yellow hair, calm, reflective, and passionless, jastle the bold and fiery Calvinist of the south, ever ready to fly to arms, seeking reproach where none is meant, with a restless flashing eye that seems to dart defiance on all who meet its gaze. It is easy to see that these men aave not forgotten that the last synod to which they were -tonvoked was held amid the caves and solitary fastnesses of the Cevennes. They remember yet the dragonades of ' friontrevel and Villars ; their hatred to the Catholics is just as fresh as in the days of Jean Cavalier and his brave :,'amisards. The approaching conference will have an im mense influence over the future position of the Protestants 'jf France. There is said to exist much powerful talent among those of Nimes Toulouse : their fiery energy is dreaded to this hour, while their brethren of La Rochelle, who muster in great numbers to this moment in Paris, are remarkable for their coo'ness in debate and their sub '.lety in argument. They are all amongst the most con sidered and wealthy of the inhabitants of the place—the " haut commerce" of which is entirely Protestant.—Paris :orrespondent of the Atlas. VINEYAnDs IN AUSTRALIA.—The Australian journal :-ailed Lander's Bushman, contains the following remarks on the growth of the vine in Western Australia :—" There is every reason to believe that Western Australia will one day become a great wine country. Its vineyards are be coming more and more numerous every year, and the wine produced in them is of a quality to lead us to be lieve that when the art of preparing it is better under stood it will be found of a very superior quality. It will, however, be a new kind of wine, and therefore, before it will be prized in Europe, prejudices in favour of older wines will have to be overcome. Soil and climate com bined give to different wines their peculiar flavour. The vines which in Madeira produce the wine of that name, when brought to another country even in a corresponding latitude, and planted in a soil that chemically approaches as closely as possible to that which they have left, will produce a wine materially different from that called Ma deira. So with the wines of Xeres and Oporto, of Tene riffe and Constantia. Different countries produce wines peculiar to themselves, and the wines of Western Austra lia will be found to be entirely svi qeneris. Those even narde of the poorer grapes and common sweet water have one peculiarity : a good draught, instead of affecting the head or flushing the face, causes a most delightful glow to pervade the stomach, and it is of so comforting a na ture that the labourers in harvest prefer the home-made colonial wine to any other beverage. Every farm settler is now adding a vineyard to his estate." It may be here mentioned that the finest of the colonial wine fetches a 'higher price in Australia than some of the finest foreign growth ' • and it is not too much to say that, in time, our colonial imports may include the juice of the grape, and the wine ultimately obtain celebrity for some peculiar flavour it may have. The resources of Australia are not -fully developed yet, and there is no knowing what time -will bring forth, if labour be supplied the colony to an ex tent its wants require. IRELAND. A writ of error has been served by Mr. Martin to take the case into the House of Lords. Mrs. O'Brien provides the meals and visits her hus band daily. Mr. Jonathan Henn and Mr. Whiteside have been re tained for the defence of Mr. Smith O'Brien. The latter has declined the post as he is a Q.C. The Evening Herald alleges that amongst the treason able papers found in Smith O'Briea's portmanteau, some of the worst are letters from Romish David Coughlan, of Drowgan, Tipperary, having a commission of colonel in the rebel force on him, has been arrested. The constable Haniver, who had the warrant for the arrest of Mr. S. O'Brien at the Thurles station, and who was on the platform when Hulme laid hands on him, has been promoted to a first-class head constableship. Mr. Thomas F. Meagher has been attacked with typhus fever. He is under the attendance of Dr. Stokes. The unfortunate young man has been visited by his father, R. Meagher, M.P. It is currently reported that Mr. John Dillon, for whose apprehension a reward of £3OO has been so long offered in vain, has effected his escape seaward. An auction of his furniture and other effects has been advertised for several days past. The Mimiing Chronicle states that, in O'Doherty's case, no fewer than forty-six jurors declined to answer to their names, and submitted to the infliction of fines of £5O each, rather than take their chance of serving an office usually considered to constitute the decu.e et tutamen of free citizensh . p.” It is said that, in the early part of his life, Mr. O'Brien was for some time in the office of Mr. Thomas Booth, of Liverpool, afterwards Booth and WaLinsley, having come over, as numbers of young men from Ireland were then and hay . e . since been i n tl' e h a bi t o f d o i ng, f or the purpose of acquiring a knowledge of the corn trade. At the conclusion of the state trials, Mr. Butt sent a lostile message to the Solicito r -G enera l , request i ng to know whether a compliment which he had paid to the 4.ttorney-General, " that he was a man who did not make nis profession a trade," implied that Mr. Butt, i n th e Aolicitor's opinion, did. The Solicitor-General as aired Mr. Butt that his expressions had .no oblique re ferrence to him. - , Government is still in doubt as to the course to be taken with the rebel leaders. The result of O'Doherty's trials has led to further doubts of the propriety of making any fresh experiments upon trial by jury, as the system exists in Ireland. REWARDS OF THE CONSTABULARY.—The Lord Lieu tenant has awarded £2O to Constable Williams, of Mul linahone, and £5 to each of his men, for the firmness they so nobly displayed in the attempt on the part of Mr. W. Smith O'Brien, to tamper with their allegiance. He has also promoted Williams to the rank of Supernumerary Head-Constable of the second class, with two chevrons of distinction, and the senior sub-constable to the rank of constable with a chevron, and to each of the other men a chevron. Constable Madden, who arrested Messrs. Meagher, O'Donoghue and Leyne, has been promoted a Supernumerary Head-constable of the second-class, with a pecuniary reward of £100; and Sub-constables John Carroll, John Enright, Michael Cullinan and Thomas Coyle, who assisted at the arrests, £5O each. Head-con stable Hanniver. of the Reserve, who held the warrant for the arrest of Mr. W. Smith O'Brien, has been raised to the rank of first-class Head-constable, with a reward of £25. A Limerick paper gives a droll account of the escape of one of the Irish rebels, Mr. Richard O'Gorman. from the hands of Mr. Little, R.M., who, it seems, was watching the disembarkation of passengers at Kilrush. amongst whom he had reason to believe was the rebel in question. "The plank was put out," says our contemporary, "and the passengers disembarked, stepping on the landing with considerable alacrity, and walking the gauntlet between the files of police. There was an old lady, however, of sallow complexion, and dressed, some say, in black, who got out with some difficulty; and tottering a good deal, and complaining not a little, was making her way up the ship to where Mr. Little, R.M., happened to be standing. His attention was attracted, his gallantry was roused, and he courtecusly descended, offering his arm, and led the feeble old lady up to the landing. Little did he know the sex of the lady. We are positively assured she was Richard O'Gorman—that he was among the passengers numbers now assert; and that information to that effect was furnished Mr. Little is obvious, from his presence on the spot. He is said to have acted the squire with great dignity. condoling with the old lady as she muttered, " Oh dear," and bidding her adieu, when she was extracted from the crowd, with a bow that would have done credit to Lord Chesterfield himself." A BREAKING UP.—An auctioneer's bill, announcing the sale of Mr. Charles Gavan Duffy's moveable property is befire us. As an inventory of the effects of an enslaved Irishman, it is worthy of a wider circulation than amongst the lovers of bargains. It shows the owner to have been a man of elegant tastes and luxurious habits which he had acquired ample means of indulging. In his pretty country seat, not more than a mile from the dust and bustle of the city, he was provided like a Nabob. The furniture and decorations of his various apartments seem to have been complete, in all things necessary for comfort or for ostentation. The walls were hung with paintings ; the tables and mantle-shelves covered with costly ornaments. His library was stored with the choicest productions of history, philosophy, poetry, romance, and periodical li terature ; somewhat too much of the last named article, we suspect. If his over-laboured sense craved to be soothed by music's gentle spell, there was a" magnificent harp, with all the new improvements," in the drawing room. Did his spirit seek excitement of a rougher kind, the cellar boasted its " well selected wines, bottled by the proprietor." Out of doors, his garden and his green house ministered delights to the palate and to the eye. His " three melon frames " may be even now, as we write, passing away to some ne w p ossessor , un d er the hammer of the salesman ; and to-morrow is destined to witness the dispersion of " 250 pots of rare, valuable, and healthy plants, including pelargoniums, cactus, and American primroses." Ah—those American exotics—how many pleasant homes have they made desolate ! The miserable dupes of this rebel no doubt imagined that their leader was making every sacrifice of personal comfort, and was wil ling to be "such an one as themselves." Let them look, however, to the li;t of Mr. Duffy's easy chairs, his rich tabaret hangings, his folding screens to keep the wind of heaven from visiting his face too roughly ; and his choice bottle of wine at his elbow, to inspire him with visions of n awry and woe. They know the game he has been play ing for some years to maintain himself in such luxury and ease. Can they wonder that he should have put the lives of other men in jeopardy, and compromised his own liber ty, at least for the sake of adding to the splendour of his position ?--Dublin Mail. Lord John Russell is about to start for Dublin, to con fer with Lord Clarendon, and to ascertain personally the real grievances of Ireland, with a view to their remedy. A dreadful fire occurred in Cork on Monday night, in the endeavour to extinguish which a man. named Short, lost his life. Three others were seriously hurt. A tremendous flood has carried away the bridge over the White River, near Dunlcer, Louth, on the line of the Belfast. Junction Railway. ' In Clare and Tippet ary the work of eviction goes on ra pidly. A sure indication of what we shall have to expect in the coming winter, which promises not to need that aggravation. - The largest market for potatoes for the last two years shown in Dublin, was that held on Tuesday, a strong proof of the injury done to the crop, as it shows how anxious cultivators are to get rid of them thus early. The Cionmel Chronicle states that, on Monday night, a gang of men, headed by one Thomas Sullivan, seized a man, who was watching a field of wheat, imprisoned him in a house, and carted off the whole of the wheat. The yacht of Mr. Cuthbert, son of a merchant at Green ock, has been seized at Belfast, with fifteen pounds of cigars and nine bottles of wine, which had been transferred flout an outward bound Vessel i n the Clyda, tor which Mr. Cuthbert has been sent to gaol until a fine of £lOO be paid. A meeting of the friends of the Church Missionary Society was held in Youghal, on the evening of Monday, and on no former occasion, perhaps, did so many persons assemble in the Mall-room. Speeches were delivered by the Rev. George Hazlewood and Rev. Thomas Nolan, of St. Barnabas, Liverpool.—Cork Paper. The Globe announces that the Irish Government has had a careful inquiry gone into, as to the state of the crops in that country ; and has learned, as a general result, that there is barely food enough in the island to supply the inhabitants until the Ist of January. We apprehend that the inquiry must have chiefly turned upon the state of the potato grounds ; for the quantity of oats grown in Ireland is immense ; but the bulk of these crops come to England as their natural market; they cannot be purchased by the poor Irish for the lack of money. However, if this repre sentation, which is demi-official, be not wholly erroneous, we are within a few weeks of the commencement of another famine in the sister country. THE IRISH COLLEGES.—A pamphlet from the pen of Dr. Ennis, Archbishop Murray's Envoy at Rome, an nounces the fact that the three Presidents destined to govern the new Colleges are already selected. Two of them are to be Roman Catholics ; one, Sir Robert Kean, for the Southern College, the other, Dr. Kirwan, a Romish priest, for the Western College. The Northern College is to be presided over by a Protestant, the Rev. M. Henry, described by Dr. Ennis as " a minister of that religious sect which prevails in the north of Ireland, but very much esteemed by many Catholic bishops,. and by the Irish clergy; his principles of honesty and liberality being known to all from experience ; he having been for many years a member of the Board of National Education." WEALTHY PAUPERS.—The failure of the potatoe crop is said to be an ascertained fact, and the prospects of the winter are most alarming. Mr. S. Crawford has already asked what means are to be adopted by Government to relieve the distress. We shall soon have abundant ap peals for eleemosynary aid ; but we hope we shall not bare any more of the improvident expenditure of 1846. To those well-meaning and benevolent individuals who are ever ready to give away millions from the Imperial Ex chequer, we recommend attention to the following ex tract from a letter by Mr. Tidd Pratt to the Lords of the Treasury, in reference to the Irish Savings Banks :—" Se veral parties who were inmates of the union workhouse, as well as recipients of the late relief fund, appeared be fore me as claimants, and three parties who w e re i n th e gaol as debtors came in the custody of the gaoler to claim deposits." And again—" I would observe that by far the majority of depositors who came before me as claimants, though to all appearance in the greatest destitution, were not, from the investigation I had made, parties for whom these institutions were intended, but they had invested their money to the amounts before stated [viz., £l,lOO, £B5O, £620, £5OO, £4OO, £320, &c.], in order to avoid the payment of their rents and other legal claims upon them, and in numerous instances they were living on charity, or were recipients of indoor or outdoor relief; and the investigation was rendered most painful from the al most utter disregard for truth, and the attempts at fraud, falsehood, and subornation of perjury, which were made by the claimants."—A pretty result of the alms-system of 1846-1847 CONCILIATION.—We have done much to discourage Protestantism, and to encourage Popery. That is, to dis courage the faith which openly rests on the revelations of God to man, and to encourage that which virtually seals up the word of life from mankind, Thus have we sown ; and how have we reaped ? The earth refuses to yield her fruit ; and all our " conciliation" bestowed upon the peo ple, leaves us, at last, under the necessity of holding the island by military occupation, more than 40,000 men be ing now kept employed in putting down, and keeping down, a threatened rebellion ! It might have been sup posed, reasoning upon any ordinary principles of calcula tion, that th e id ea o f " conc ili a ti ng " the devotees of Rome would by this time have been at least suspected of fallacy. But we observe no signs of any such enlightenment. On the contrary, preparations are deliberately making, for a constant and avowed intercourse with the Pope, with a view of submitting to him, as Lord Clarendon began to do, recently, all the measures of our Government having reference to Ireland, in order that they may be modified to meet " his Holiness's wishes." The National System of Education in Ireland has now been in operation since 1832. A good trial of its quality and healing efficacy has accordingly been given. What are the results ? Lord John Russell in his place in the Commons on Monday night, said they were admirable. His proof of his assertion was very simple. There were, he said, now established 4,000 schools, and 400,000 scho lars. We say, the results are bad. That the greater the number of schools, and the greater the number of scho lars, the worse the system has proved itself to be. Six teen years is a long time during which to prove the use fulness or efficacy:of a system. During a shorter period than that the child and the boy grow up to the man. Are the morals, the habits, the industry, the intelligence, the peaceableness, the loyalty of the Irish population mani festly improved under this widely-spread course of teach ing of the Roman Catholic priesthood ? Not in the slightest degree; they are as immoral, as idle, as ignorant, less peaceable, and far less loyal than they were when the system began. Strange effects of a successful system of national education !—of what his lordship called on Mon day night, " a most comprehensive plan,"—" the best teaching that could be given to the greatest number !" Record. THE LIVERPOOL STAVDARD. curial lisrdiann. There is more timber at present in Leith than ever since it was a port. There are no fewer than one hundred and eleven inns in the small town of Durham. A petrified ham is said to have been excavated, within the last few days, at Robin Hood's Hill, near Gloucester. The Rev. Mr. Jephson, curate of Dr. Hook, of Leeds, has been received into the Church of Rome, along with his wife and two children. At the Central Criminal Court, on Friday, George Snell, shoemaker, was found guilty of sedition. Many parties will be tried this week for the same offence. The body of a new-born female child was found a few days since floating in the river Tees, near Middleton-one- Row, sewed up in a wrapper. The child aas born alive. John Pritchard has been committed to take his trial for the murder of John Rowland, the watcher at the works Britannia-bridge, near Bangor. Viscount Arbuthnot, who stands charged with forgery, and is finally reported to the House of Lords as " not to be found," is supposed to have escaped to America. At the sale at Stowe, on Tuesday, a bust of Prior, the poet, an exquisite work by Roubilliac, was bought by Sir R. Peel for 130 guineas. The salary of a Poor Law inspector is £7OO a year, with one guinea per day travelling expenses. The jury on the coroner's inquest in the case of Swaine, murdered by some Irish labourers, have returned a ver dict of " Wilful murder against some persons unknown." A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against Maria Lightfoot, of Brierly Hill, for the murder of her husband by administering poison to him. A Coroner's Jury has found that the late fire at Albany street, London, was occasioned by an explosion of gas, but there was no evidence to show how the gas had escaped. Au explosion took place on Saturday, on board the Yarmouth steamer, Earl of Liverpool, by which two of the mechanics were scalded to death, but the passengers escaped. On Tuesday, a large hay-stack, containing about 26 tons, near Nottingham, was ignited by lightning. The electric fluid completely perforated the stack. Water was poured on the hay, and most of it was spoiled. The swindler who pretended to marry a respectable Sunderland girl has been committed for trial. The man who acted as priest was a comrogue of the pretended bridegroom. A monument, consisting of a most massy centre tablet, 18 feet broad, and supported on either side by smaller ones, is about to be erected in the Southern Cemetery, Edinburgh, at the grave of Dr. Chaln.ers. In the course of a single day, at the beginning of last week, there arrived in London no fewer than 89 vessels wholly or partly laden with foreign corn ; and the total quantity of grain imported on that day is estimated to have exceeded 50,000 quarters. The Sherhorne Journal records an inquest, at Branksca Castle, on Sir Augustus John Foster, Batt., P. 8., G.C.H., aged 68, who, whilst labouring under a disease of the heart and lungs, which produced delirium, cut his throat with a razor. The Newspapers published in the Channel Islands are for the future to be charged with postage, when trans mitted into this country. No fewer than 20,000 impres. sions of a paper published in the. Channel Islands have been forwarded here. Though the sale at Stowe appears to realise on an average about £2OOO per day, some of the articles are dis posed of at a great sacrifice. A magnificent clock, which cost the late Duke of Buckingham 1000 guineas, was sold on Thursday for £5l. _ . On Saturday, a public meeting of the inhabitants of Chelmsford was held, for the purpose of erecting a statue to the late Lord Chief Justice Tindal, in that his native town, when nearly £lOO was subscribed in a few minutes by about 20 individuals, as the commencement of a fund for that object. At the hotel, Crewe, on Monday morning, a waiter for the station refreshment-room, a female unknown in that part of the country, was found dead in her bedroom, hav ing nearly severed her head off with a common dinner knife. She had only been a short time in Mr. Edward's employ, and had conducted herself with great propriety. A large party of young persons engaged a phaeton, on Tuesday, for a jaunt to Bath. The horse ran off, and a young lady, Miss Bartlett, jumped out, and was so much injured that she soon expired. Several others were seriously hurt, all the party having leaped - from their seats. So strong a hold has the genius of superstition among the peasantry of South Wales, tha a woman at Carnar von, recently bitten by a mad dog, was sent to the church yard of St. Edrin's to eat the grass. which, it is believed, has the peculiar property of being an antidote to hydro phobia. CHEERING NEWS ABOUT THE POTATOE-CROP.—A statement is going the round of the papers to the effect that in one part of the country a person on examining a potatoe-crop found that it was full of disease; he went in ten days after and saw that it was entirely gone! Accord ing to this ingenious piece of intelligence the best way will be to leave the disorder alone—perhaps, like Sir Abel Handy's fire, it will go off of itself. JULLIEN'S BANKRUPTCY.—This bankrupt has obtained his certificate. The debts now are £12,000. His attor ney had advanced him money at the rascally rate of 60 per cent. ! One of his ruinous speculations was engaging Mddle. Dorus Gras at £2OOO for only a short time. One item of his personal expenses was £lBOO for presents to his musicians in a year and a quarter. THE KING OF - THE BELGIAN'S ANNUITY.—The ac counts of the trustees of the King of the srAtiao T .- annum received from regard to the annuity of crew. britaia, haVe been published, from which it appears that the annual expense of keeping up Claremont, to gether with certain pensions and salaries, amounts to about £14,000, leaving a balance of £36,000, which is regularly paid into the Exchequer. On Sunday last a party of Irish reapers took their seats in a train travelling on the North Midland- Railway from Rotheram to Masbro'. Not having provided themselves with the usual tickets they thought they might as well get out before the train stopped. This they effected when the train was near Normanton. The engineer pulled up, how ever, and guards, station men, and passengers followed in hot pursuit after the Irishmen. Several of them were taken, and next day were fined heavily by a magistrate. REMARKABLE PRESERVATION.-011 Sunday, a child of Mr. Edgar, tea-dealer, about two years old, having been taken by her sister into the attic, fell out of the window, a height of full 30 feet, upon the pebble pavement below, and was taken up quite insensible ; but was found to have sustained no fracture, and appears likely very soon to re cover. It is supposed that her clothes acted as a para chute to break the force of the fall, and that she alighted on her side.—Bury Post. A few days since, a waggoner unluckily caused his horse to back his waggon into a quickset hedge, at Horsemon den, in Kent, and thus upset three hives of bees, which immediately attacked their disturbers with such fury, that the waggoner was forced to cover his head with a sack, and some labourers hastily fled into the neighbouring field ; but the horse, which could neither flee nor shelter itself, was so dreadfully stung, that it was with difficulty that its life was preserved. MONEY ORDERS.—The following notice has been issued by the authorities at the post-office : 1. 'The ad vices of money orders granted on the chief office must hereafter be transmitted to that office separate from all other advices, and in order to insure this, care must be taken to tie them up securely in a distinct packet. In granting money orders, and in advising the same, one christian name in full for either the payer or the remitter will henceforward be sufficient instead of all the christian names being furnished_in full:as hitherto required. The trades' union of the Britannia metal smiths of Sheffield has hired eleven acres of land at Gleadless Com mon, for the purpose of employing such of its members as have no work, and arc consequently dependent on the funds of the union. The wages allowed to the men are 14s. a-week, and 6d. a-week for each child under 13 years of age, and the rent paid for the land, with two cottages and outbuildings, is £l3 • but it is hoped that the ex penses will be defrayed by the sale of the produce in a shop at Sheffield. It is said that property of the Duke of Buckingham to the amount of about eighteen thousand a year cannot be sold. Neither the Duke nor his son has the power of cutting off the Chandos entail, and by the proper sale of the other portion of the property, and consequent saving of interest and insurance, it is declared, by persons com petent to judge, that twelve thousand a year can be saved to the family during the duke's life. Can it be said that the marquis, upon coming to the dukedom with thirty thousand a year, will be utterly destitute and a beggar ? Two timber-merchants of. ;ling have been committed for trial, charged with stealing timber from the New Forest. One of the workmen, who was in the habit of going into the Forest for timber, was asked; "Do you then help yourself to any Umber you find there ?" The answer was, " I take what I think is the right timber." No wonder the Royal Forest will not repay the expenses of management. Thelia t ier seized in the different yards of the forest, and on shipboard in Southampton Water, is said to exceed in value £6,000. A young married woman, named Sarah Burgess, aged twenty-three, in Blackfriar's-road, London, who, atter three years of happy wedded life, was so hurt at some reflections cast upon her character by a young man who had known her in the country, that, though her husband made every attempt to convince her that he did not believe the story, took the opportunity on Friday night, while he was asleep upon a chair, and suddenly rushed to the win dow, opened it, and leaped out. She was picked up im mediately, still breathing, but she died in a few minutes, her skull having been frightfully fractured by the fall. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased destroyed herself while in a state of unsound mind, caused by slanderous imputations. MARKED' SALINION. The North ern Warder states that one of the first or spent salmon, marked several years ago by Lord Glenlyon, now Duke of Athol, was caught on Friday morning at Bathopburn, on the Tav, below Perth. It was a fine fish, weighing sixteen pounds six ounces, having a metal engraved, " Duke of Athol, Dunkeld, No. 128," fastened by a copper wire round its This,. adds the Warder, proves to a demonstration that spent salmon, after depositing their spawn on the gravelly beds of our rivers during the close months, seek their way back again to the sea, their rich pasture and feeding ground. NOVEL APPLICATION OF GLASS. —A glass manufac engaged in the ma golwass dooes, the n tu u r f i ac ng tu fi r r e n o i, f e a t p ß a i i r r in o i t og m h a ar n i fi a c r e e nt n frame work of which is, of •course, wood. On either side are two pilasters composed of crystal glass, fluted with gold. The lower panels are of silvered glass, each ornamented by a centre star, richly cut. The upp er p ane l is of the large dimensions of four * feet by two and a half, and is of plate glass, with an etched border. The upper portion of the dooi way is inlaid with richly. cut glass, and the entablature is co mposed of crystal and plain g l a ss. The whole is surmounted by . a large shell, and on either hand are vases wiei flowers, &c. The ditnvusions.9f,the work are seventeen feet by ten. The Mitchel Club in London was formally dissolved on Friday night. NOVEL IMPOICTATION.—By the Growler, arrived at Cork, from New York, heavily laden with Indian corn, are two cases of American Chairs ! During a thunder storm at Oldham, on Tuesday, one of three children playing in a cellar was struck dead by the electric fluid, which appeared to have come down the chimney. On Tuesday, Jas. Smith, the man suspected of the murder the woman at Shaw-hill Common, as mentioned last week, was tried for the assault on the Rev. Mr. Haddo, of Ever leigh, on Tuesday, at Devizes assizes. The charge was for assaulting " with intent to kill and murder," and the evidence showed that the attack was of a more ferocious kind than at first reported. The fellow was hunted down by Mr. liaddo and h;s servants, and when that gentleman attempted to seize him he defended himself with more stones. While he was in custody he said that he knocked the woman down. The verdict was " guilty," and the sentence seven years' transportation. TRADE OF BRISTOL.—Our Bristol contemporaries are in high spirits about the state of trade at their port. The transfer of the docks to the corporation will be carried out during the present month as settled by the act of Parliament. The receipts continue to increase ; the excess over the corresponding months of last year (dating from the Ist of May) being nearly £3OOO. During Jan. to April, in 1848, 169.917 tons of shipping entered the port, against 142,817 in 1847, being an increase of 27,100 tons, or 15} per cent. The improvement during the same period in the coasting trade is remarkable, namely, from 92,443 tons to 104,900, being an increase of 12,457 tons. Seventeen vessels laden with sugar are daily expected for one firm alone. The port is full of large class ships. FELINE TENDERNESS.—A curious - circumstance oc curred at Wincombe House, Shaftesbury, the residence of Mrs. Gordon, a few days since. It appears the servants were removing some straw, and found a nest of young rats, which, as a matter of course they destroyed, or in tended to do so ; however, one of them more fortunate than its fellows, was not quite killed, and is now alive. A cat who was watching the proceedings, 'it seems, seeing the young rat move, took it up in her mouth and carried it to the stable, where she has two kittens ; she placed the rat in the nest. where the warmth soon revived it; and where it is now enjoying the paternal care of the cat in an equal degree with her own offspring!—Salisbury Herald. A NEW TRICK.—It appears that some people are going about plundering the provincial magistracy and police authorities by representing themselves to be police officers in pursuit of a chartist delinquent, or a detachment en route to bring deserters to head-quarters. On Saturday Mr. J. Jacombs, of Coventry, was duped of £2 12s. 6d. by a fellow who said he was an inspector of police from Weedon in pursuit of a prisoner, and who found himself suddenly without funds; and G. H. Packe, Esq., justice of the peace at Lincoln, of £2 by three fellows who were dressed in the uniform of the artillery, and pretended they were carrying forward a prisoner, one of the party actually having his wrists in handcuffs to help the deception. A verdict of £5O has also been offered far their discovery. TEIE STOWE BED.—This magnificent lot was sold at Stowe on Thursday. It was described as " magnificently carved and gilt, with yellow silk tabaret curtains and hang ings, the linings of crimson silk, the canopy with a net work of gold, and rich scrolls at the angles ; the columns formed as Roman fasces ; at the head are the arms of Chandos embroidered ; with two hair matresses, a wool mattress, a down bolster, two down pillows, a Marseilles quilt, and a white satin quilted cover." This magnificent piece of furniture, which was furnished to the duke re gardless of cost, on the occasion of her Majesty's visit to Stowe, was bought by Mr. Walesby, of Northampton, after a languid bidding, for the inadequate sum of 86 guineas. The bedsteps sold for 20 guineas. EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.—On Friday, as two ladies were riding out in a retired lane, at Mattishall Burgh, they observed a cow running towards them in a state of great excitement and apparently mad. On its approach, they discovered a child attached to its tail by the hair, which was wound round its body. Assistance being ren dered the cow was secured. The child, was, however, found to be quite dead. The body was muchl bruised, and the bead cut and battered in a dreadful manner. An inquest was held on the body on Saturday, when it ap peared, from the evidence of a child five or six years old, who was near the' spot at the time of the occurrence, that the deceased (whose name was Thomas Ireson, aged ten years, son of a labourer residing in the parish) had tied the cow's tail, which had a great length of hair, round his body, saying that he was going to have a swing, and the cow started off, dragging the deceased after it—Norfolk Chronicle. At the Lent Assizes, held at Salisbury, in 1847, a re spectable-looking man was indicted for sacrilege, to which, with tears in his eyes and symptoms of the deepest con trition, he pleaded guilty. So completely did his appear ance and the piteous story he told enlist the sympathy of the court—for he belonged. he said, to a high family, whom he would not for the whole world should know of the crime he had been induced to commit—that; believing his sincerity, the judge let him off with a light sentence ; and a number of well-disposed people who heard the case afterwards made a subscription, and started him from Fisherton gaol with a tolerable pocketful of cash. At the Wells Assizes, last week, the same fellow, who gave his name as Lefevre, was again brought up on a similar charge, with similar tears in his eyes, and the same piteous story on his lips. In this case he was sentenced to four months' imprisonment. INSTRUCTION OF THE BLIND.—We have received a pamphlet entitled "An Examination of the Embossed Systems, adopted in the United Kingdom, for Educating the Blind ; by George A. Hughes, Professor of General Instruction, including Music, Thoroughsass, and Musical Writing, for the Sightless." The author is blind. The following extract from Mr. Hughes's pamphlet will afford some idea of the system :—" Hughes' System " for in structing the blind in spelling, reading, writing, cipher ing, music, and musical writing, on common writing paper, by simple raised characters, which are as plain to the touch of, the blind, as those formed with the pen are to the sight ; they are producible on paper with the hand, by means of an ivory instrument as simply constructed as an ordinary pencil-case, being equally as small and light, which, with the aid of a formula to guide the hand from line to line in writing, or the various positions of the notes in music, will enable the blind, whether so from birth or otherwise, infant or adult, to emancipate themselves from the mental darkness into which too many of them have unhappily fallen ; mainly from not having hitherto had any efficient mode sufficiently expeditious for the purpose of impressing ideas on paper, and prosecuting their studies when alone. The alphabet is composed of two distinct signs—a small dot and a large or rough one, which being combined and methodically arranged, in relative positions, so as to prevent confusion, represent all letters, punctua tion marks, figures, musical notes, &c., &c." Two EXTRAORDINARY FEATS.—On Monday, a large concourse of persons assembled on the Woodstock-road, to witness the performance of two extraordinary feats, undertaken by the two celebrated pedestrians, Coates and Makepeace. The first feat was to pick up with the mouth, 50 eggs, placed one yard apart, to throw a side summerset with each egg in the mouth, and complete the whole in twenty minutes. The eggs were placed in a straight line on the road, and as each one was picked up, it was dropped into a basket, placed near the first egg. This feat was very cleverly performed by Coates, in 161 minutes, being 31 minutes less than the time stipulated. After an inter val of about half an hour, Makepeace the pedestrian, commenced the second feat, which was to run a mile, walk a mile, wheel a barrow a mile, trundle a hoop a mile, walk backwards a mile, hop 100 yards. and leap over 50 hurdles, 10 yards apart, completing the seven feats in one hour. This feat, which taxed a man's strength and endurance to an extraordinary degree, was performed with much ease and skill, although not quite within the specified time, by a few minutes, but this was entirely owing to the difficulty there was in keeping a clear course, for the spectators pressed so close to the pedestrian, that at times his progress and pace were much interfered with. SERVED RIGHT.—A married man, living oear Leeds, was lately wooing a buxom widow, who, hearing of her suitor's true character, determined on being re venged. Accordingly one night she invited him to tea, and scarcely had he finished his first cup, when, upon a signal from the widow, he was pounced upon by some of her female neighbours and acquaintances whom she had let into the secret. The first step was to throW a rope round him and pinion his arms. A copious supply of gas tar and feathers was then brought, and the former was poured on the head and shoulders of the luckless wight, uho was afterwards profusely bedecked with plumage, so that when his relentless assailants had finished their operations he presented a most unusual spectacle, and might easily have been mistaken for some mad Indian fakir. His hat was also well stuck with feathers, and in this strange plight he was most mercilessly turned out of the widow's domicile, to brave the loud laughs and jeering of scores of-ispectators. What made the matter worse,- he had considerable difficulty in making his way out of the square, a barricade having been erected for the purpose of confining him. At last, however, he was fortunate enough to obtain the protection of a police man, who took him to the Court-house, and he was there suffered to divest himself of his disagreeable outward habiliments, and for that of a goose to assume the com plexion of a man ; but whether he will venture again to appear in the character of a "farmer of substance," and to give way to his amatory propensities is more than doubtful. CHARGE OF FORGERY.—On Wednesday the charge of forgery brought against Mr. G. W. Dumbell, of Douglas, Isle of Man was gone into before a crowded court. The charge' consists in the alteration of the date of a mortgage deed for £l2OO whereby it is alleged that the claim under a prior mortgage was defeated. The pri soner is a solicitor and a member of the House of Keys. Mr. Deemster Heywood took his seat at eleven o'clock, and the Court having been " fenced" in the usual form, his Honour ordered the coroner to bring in the prisoner. Mr. Dumbell accordingly made his appearance shortly af t?rwards, in custody of the officer, and was permitted to take his seat behind the bar, and near his counsel, one of whom sat beside him during the day. On entering the court several of his friends shook hands with him very cordially. The Attorney-General for the island, Mr. Ogden, appeared for the prosecution ; Messrs. Blcwitt, Stephen, and James Gell, for the prisoner. The follow ing special jurymen answered to their names :—Robert Roskell, Joseph Roskell, William Smith, told Alexander Steele. J. S. Shaw and John Stephen, who did not ap pear, were fined £lO each, and the Attorney-General hav ing prayed a tales, William Stowell mid William Woods were called, and both having answered, the jury were sworn. The Attorney-Gene-n:1 then opened the case, and proceeded to call witnesses, whose examination, and the reading of various documents, owing to the very diletory mode of proceeding adopted, the evidence of ever: witness being taken. down at length by an officer, and dam read over again, occupied the court till eight o'clock, when one of till; jur3-incti (Mr. : Smith) was taken ill and obliged to retire. After the lapse of about half an hour the court adjourned. The case occupied all next day, when the defendant was at once acquitted, amidst the congratula tions of his friends. • A boat containing thirteen men was upset., last week, on the Tay, at Perth, and six of the poor fellows were drowned. A WONDERFUL ESCAPE.—A few days ago a glass-blower of Hunslet, whilst in a state of intoxication, trespassed on the line of railway which forms the junction between the Midland and Leeds and Bradford stations, in Leeds ; and although called to by the engine-driver, was so stupified that he was knocked down by the engine, and the whole train passed over him. When picked up by the points man, he had received no further injury than the blow from the engine. A COUNTRYMAN PUZZLED.—Two gentlemen angling in the Thames at Newham lately, could not agree upon the appearance of one of their favourite baits, the horse fly, and they agreed to refer the question to a rustic whom they saw ploughing at a little distance—" Whoy," said Hodge, with some astonishment, "Nog, dr'at it; I never seed a horse fly, but I once seed a cow fall down a pre cipice." RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA.—Mines are discovered in many places, but quicksilver is to enrich California be yond all other mines. There is one now in operation be longing to Barron, Forbes, and Co., an English house in. Mexico. The workmen at this mine have only the com mon try-pots, a few picks and crow-bars, and for a few days past have bottled off 300 dollars per day. I presume the expenses are less than one quarter. The ore is sim ple rock, mostly of a red coloar ; is merely broken and heated, producing one fourth its weight in pure metal. By dropping a pinch of it on a hot iron, covering it with a ter-cup two minutes, the cup is covered with the smoke. This being rubbed carefully by the fingers, in some cases, produced a globule of the size of a small pea. Almost the same expense and labour employed in Pennsylvania, in obtaining a ton of iron, will obtain a ton of quicksilver in California. Neither you nor your readers are expected to believe this most incredible story ; yet, such is the fact. The quicksilver obtained at the Forbes mines, in one week will pay for the machinery. When the expected works from Europe reach this country, the tons of quick silver will show for itself. Many other valuable mineral deposits have been discovered at San Jose de Guadaloupe, in the northern part of Upper California. Quicksilver, silver, and zinc, appear to be most abundant. The quick silver ore yields upon an average about fourteen per cent. ; silver about fifty per cent. ; and zinc about eighty per cent. As to gold, it is said that several mines containing precious metal exist in these parts ; I have seen none ex tracted. EFFECTS OF THE LATE STORM. A hurricane visited the neighbourhood of Peterhead, on the eastern coast of Scotland, on Saturday morning week. It is stated that upwards of 100 lives have been lost. About 400 herring-boats, each manned by crews of five or six persons, were known to be off the coast in the course of Friday evening. On night setting in a furious gale arose, the wind blowing from the S.S.W. At daybreak a distressing scene presented itself : the beach was strewn with the bodies of the fishermen and the wrecks of their fishing-boats. Many of the boats have been swamped with all hands, and it is supposed about 70 boats have been destroyed. The accounts from Wick and other seaport towns on the opposite shores of Murray Frith are very disastrous. It appears that the storm overtook the fishermen when at sea, about two o'clock in the morning, a n d th ere b e i ng upwards of a thousand boats exposed to the fury of the elements, many of them well laden with herrings, the loss could not be otherwise than great. At the break of day the coast was literally strewed with wreck. At the port of Wick four or five boats' crews perished within sight of their relatives and friends, and altogether more than fifty fishermen were drowned within a short distance of the harbour. At all the other ports along the coast wrecks have been cast ashore, and at the date of the last accounts no true estimate could be formed of the actual loss of life that had been occasioned by the storm. One thing ap pears certain, that by the gale of Friday morning 200 fish ermen have perished, about 150 boats have been wrecked, and taking into account the value of the nets and other fishing gear, as well as the herrings destroyed, £20,000 would not cover the damage done by this awful gale. At Stonehaven several fishing boats with their crews were lost, and much damage was done to the cther boats. At Johnshaven similar calamities occurred; two boats were upset and eight persons drowned. The gale on the east coast of Northumberland caused considerable loss to the herring fishermen, several being obliged to abandon their nets ; and we have to add the loss of the lives of three fishermen who belonged to New biggin, and who were caught in the storm, and, it is sup posed, in their attempt to lower the sail, the boat was upset and they were drowned. The boat was seen the following morning bottom up. A house was destroyed on Monday in Queen's-place, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London. A tall stack of chimneys was blown down, and falling upon the roof carried it away, and forced down every floor, de molishing the whole of the furniture, and nearly killing a child, the only person in the house at the time. The Wyvern yacht, a noble schooner of 205 tons, the property of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, was caught in gale off Bembridge, near Portsmouth, on Mon day afternoon, in which she lost her mainmast, but won the cup she was competing for at the time. His Grace and the Duchess were on board at the time, and his Grace had a narrow escape from the falling mast and gear, being on the after ladder at the time. On Wednesday, a portion of the town of Over Darwen was inundated by the bursting of a reservoir, known as the Bold-venture Lodge, by which the cotton mill of Messrs. Eccles Shorropk and Co. is supplied. voir is about 50 yards long and 25 yards wide, the depth being considerable. The supplying stream, from the late heavy rains, has been much swollen. The inmate of a house at the end of Back Water-street was alarmed by the noise occasioned by the water; on looking out he per ceived his house to be surrounded by the torrent, and had scarcely escaped with his wife and children over the roof of the adjoining house, when the gable end of his own house fell, and shortly after the whole house was overset by the torrent ; twelve persons who inhabited cellars in the adjoining buildings were drowned. The reservoir is situated 600 or 700 yards from the scene of the disaster, at an elevation of 200 feet above the town, so that the force of the inundation may be imagined. A culvert through which the waste water of the reservoir runs, and which passes under the principal street of the town, was burst, and the cellars filled with water; in these six per sons were drowned. In one house four children were carried out at the door by the torrent, but were fortunately saved. Many persons were floated about, and much pro perty destroyed. The flood lasted about an hour. The gale was felt severely on the coast of the Isle of Man. Several hundred fishing-boats assembled at the Calf of Man were scattered in all directions, and four boats in seeking shelter in Port St. Mary bay were driven on the rocks and became total wrecks. Fortunately only one man was drowned. At Penwortham and Hutton in this county there has been much land under water. At the Old Grange Farm, occupied by Mr. Oliver Ball, in the latter township, up wards of fifty acres of grain, potatoes, &c., were covered. Great numbers of persons at Charnock Moss, Penwor tham, have suffered from the flooding of their crops. In some instances, potatoes and grain have been carried away ; and in one instance at Chan nock Moss a haystack was a yard deep in water. At Longton, the whole of the lands near the Marsh, and the other low lands in the township have been covered. In Longton and the neigh bourhood the water has been across the turnpike-road, in places where the oldest villager does not remember such an occurrence previously to have taken place. Hoole was similarly visited ; and Bretherton Ileys were also under water, as well as some of the low lands of Ruflord. At Croston the streets were " swimming," according to our informant's account ; and many of the houses being flooded, much furniture was floating about. THE CHARTISTS AND IRISH CONFEDERATES Another large meeting of these parties was held on Wednesday at the South London Chartist Hall. The chairman observed, that according to the Attorney- General, it was sedition to repeat at one meeting any sedi tious language that had been spoken by other speakers at any previous meeting. There were, he went on to state, 70,000 men out of employ in London, but the Char ter would cure this, and all their other grievances, whilst the measures of Messrs. Hume and Cobden would prove wholly inefficacious. The proceedings at the meeting were of no general interest. At the Mansion house police-office on Wednesday, John Shaw, against whom a warrant had been issued by the Lord Mayor, for having attended an unlawful meeting and used seditious language was brought before his Lordship. A great deal of curiosity was excited by the examination, the prisoner having been chairman of the meeting in the Milton-street Theatre; at which the alleged seditious words were used, and J. J. Bezer having been a few days ago committed to Newgate upon a similar charge. The report of the prisoner's speech by a Govern ment short-hand writer, was read at length. He was then committed for a misdemeanour. On Wednesday, two more chartists—Hoyle and Ro gers, the latter apprehended at Nottingham—were ar rested: All the Manchester prisoners, except Burton and Leach, who have been bailed out, have been sent to Kirk dale Gaol, not having been able to procure the bail. The Standard states that amongst the fire-balls, car tridges, &c., seized by the police at the lodgings of some of the Chartists lately arrested, are some missiles ofa dia bolical character. They consist of a packet, somewhat square in form, covered with brown papr, and filled with nails, pieces of iron, and coarse gunpowder. Attached to each is a fusee of cotton, which leads to the powder. When ignited, the packet would in half a minute explode, and kill or seriously injure any one near. These missiles, it is supposed, were to have been thrown into the windows of houses the night the ringleaders were apprehended. On 'Wednesday, the following persons were apprehended at Ashton by Inspector Maiden, assisted by Mr. Sykes and Mr. Higgs, of the county constabulary, will a party of his men :—James Taylor, treasurer of the Chartist As sociation ; John Taylor, son of ditto ; W. Atkinson, schoolmaster; James Harrop, gas fitter ; Edward Harrop, factory hand ; William Boulton, ditto ; W. Machin, la bourer ; and T. Storer, shoemaker. The whole of the above, and James Ratcliffe, were apprehended under a bench warrant. Ratcliffe was arrested by Maiden, of Ashton, and Inspector Bates, of the detective force of Li verpool, on board the ship Ocean Monarch, bound for Boston. North America, in which he was found stowed away in the hold among a quantity of old wood end hay. William Dowling, artist and portrait painter, an Irish Confederate, was brought before Mr. Henry, at Bow• street on Monday, charged, on the evidence of Powell, with being one of the Chartist delegates present at the Lord Denman beer-shop on Tuesday evening, when Mul lins, the chairman, went round the room and asked each deleeate whether he would come out and fight on the fol lowing night. The prisoner had also been a member of the " Plotting Committee," whose duty it was to devise plans for carrying out the intended Chartist attack. Ile also was remanded. Anzust 29, IS4B. COURT AND FASHION. On Tuesday the Queen and P r ince Albert, an d th e Princess Hohenlohe accompa n i e d by t h e P r i n ce of Wa les' Princess Royal, Prince Alf re d, an d P r i ncess Alice, atte nd' ed the regatta at Cowes. The Court still remains at Osborne, and her Mail has received several distin g ui s h e d visitors within the last few days, but the weath er h as no t b een f av ourable for out-door recreation. On Friday the Queen would hold • privy council at Osborne. ' Her Majesty intends to embark at Woolwich on Satur day next, on board the royal yacht, for her annual excel' sion to Scotland. The royal party will proceed direct to Aberdeen, and thence travel in the royal carriages t o Balmoral, the Scottish residence of royalty. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of h ad/ Caroline Amelia Grosvenor, fourth daughter of the Nov quis and Marchioness of Westminster, and the 1 1 °_, 12 ' William Henry Leigh, eldest son o f L or d Leigh, IT solemnised on Tuesday last, at St. George's Churc h' ,n Hanover-square. The cer emon y was per f orme d by '' Gr.= ce the Archbishop of Canterbury. The bride v 7 e: attended by the ladies Octavia and Agnes Grosvenor , se Miss Victoria Charlotte Grosvenor, her cousin. A sm i r tuous entertainment w as g i ven a t G rosvenor H o use, .1 the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, to a large party. The bride and bridegroom left town for Hatch' ford-park, the Earl of Ellesmere's seat, near Cobham, to pass the honeymoon. CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. On Tuesday the Archbishop of Canterbury had an ie. terview with Lord John Russell in Downing-street. The Gazette contains an order from the Ecclesiastic , ' Commissioners for the division of Prescot, Lancashir e ' into two distinct parishes for ecclesiastieal purposes. for The Queen and Prince Albert have contributed £5O the intended church at York Town, for the benefit of the Royal Military C o ll ege . The Queen Dowager has 815° given £5O. The first stone of a new church for the district of St' Jude, Bristol, was laid by Archdeacon Thorp on Thurs day. This district was constituted upwards of four years ago under Sir Robert Peel's Endowment Act. It is taken from one of the poorest parts of the out-parish of St' Philip and Jacob, and contains a population of at least 5,000 persons. LAW 'INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN CIRCUIT-BRISTOL,AUGUST 24. (Before Mr. Justice Coleridge and a 7 Spe ---- .fury.) SCOTT V. FERRIS.--Mr. Cockburn, in opening the case, stated that this was an issue directed by the Coutt of Queen's Bench to try the question whether a certaie warrant of attorney given by the plaintiff had been ob tained by fraud. The plaintiff was an officer in the arteff and Pt the early part of this year he was with his regi ment at Norwich, and the case arose out of one of those transactions which had now unfortunately become m atter. of almost daily oc currence —h e meant what was terme d bill stealing. There existed in the metropolis an organised gang who obtained their subsistence entirely by these means; they obtained bills from the unwary and credo' lous by the fraudulent pretence of getting them ( I . I P counted, and for whi c h th e part i es who gave the Wu' never received a shilling. A verdict was returned for the plaintiff almost imree" diately. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. The Windsor, Staines and South-Western Railway wa g opened last week. The traffic on the Chester and Holyhead Railway fo r the week ending August 19th, was £2,212 13s. 7d. post office for the conveyance of mails, and toll from the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway company not included• The dispute between the enginemen of the North - Western Railway and the directors has been brought to an amicable settlement and the men have returned to work. SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RAILWAY.—The We' mony of keying the last arch of the Dee Viaduct, at the vale of Llangollen, took place on Friday, in the presence of the directors and their friends. The length of this unrivalled viaduct is 1508 feet : the height 147 feet : the number of arches 19; and the span of each arch 60 feet. DREADFUL RAILWAY FlRE.—Sh or tly a ft er t wo o 'cloe'. on Thursday morning, a dreadful fire happened at the Charlton station of the West Kent Railway. The sleepers , about 1,000 in. number, were saved. By five all danger ceased, but the loss will be at least £l,OOO. No cause could be ascertained for the calamity. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—It appears that of the 90 per sons killed and 99 injured, on all the railways opened for public traffic in Great Britain and Ireland, during the half-year ending 20th June, 1848, there were-6 passen gers killed, and 60 injured from c a us e s bey on d their oval control ; 5 possengers killed, and 2 injured, owing to their own misconduct or want of caution. _ FEARFUL ACCIDENT.JOITVonday afternoon, at five o'clock, an accident occurred on the Lancaster and Preston railway, the result of which was almost instant death to one of the passengers, and serious injury to several more. mixed train left the Preston station at four o'clock for Lancaster ; at the Bay Horse station (about six miles from Lancaster) it stopped to let passengers down. Whilst the station-keeper and guard were engaged in re moving luggage, to the dismay of all, a train was seen ap proaching on the same line at a truly fearful rate. This train proved to ho the exprona train, which waves - Low: l r at nine o'clock in the morning, and which was then nearly two hours after its time. As soon as the engine-driver on the Lancaster train saw the approach of the express, he immediately put all steam on to get out of the way, but before he could attain any speed, the express came up, and dashed right into the hinder carriages. Four carriages were completely dashed to pieces, and the wonder is hoW any of the passengers escaped. An engine immediate l y went forward to Lancaster for surgeons, and on their ar rival it was found, that although many were much injured, there was only one killed—a woman of the name of Ed mondson, from Poulton-le-Sands, near Lancaster. Two men received compound fractures of the skull, and pow' lie in the House of Recovery in a hopeless condition. Mrs. Yates, of Lancaster, had her face much cut, and he r collar-bone broken. A Miss Bland, of the same place' received several injuries. The number of the injured amounts to between ten and twelve. When the engine driver and stoker on the express train saw what Would in evitably happen they jumped off and escaped uninjured- Mr. William Jackson, of Lancaster. one of the directors of the Lancaster and Preston Railway, was in the express train at the time, and leaped out unhurt. Mrs. Edmond son, who was killed, had in her arms at the time a lovely little boy about four years old, who received no injury whatever. This is the first collision that has occurred op. the Lancaster and Preston Railway during the ten years,it has been opened, and has caused a deal of excitement In the neighbourhood. Mr. Beckett, tea-dealer, of Lancas ter, had a marvellous escape. He was in one of the second,: class carriages that was smashed to pieces. He fell through the bottom of the carriage when it parted, and escaped without even a mark of injury. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. 4 Mr. Lawrence Hey worth is a candidate for Derby at the approaching election. The Cheltenham Election Committee have resolved that Mr. Craven Berkeley was not duly elected, having through his agents been guilty of treating. MORE ABOUT THE SPANISH MARRIAGES• The Revue Retrospective publishes a "private" letter of Lord Aberdeen to M. Guizot, dated Sep. 14, 1846, that again shifts the burden of blame on to the shoulders of the French Government in the Spanish marriage question . His lordship explains that, although Lord Palmersto n placed Prince Leopold on the list of candidates for the Queen's hands it was because direct overtures had been made by Queen Christiana, and not from any desire for other than the success of one of the sons of Don Fran cisco : " I have always done ever: thing in my power to prove to Ynt i that this country had no interest in the success of Prince Leopold, and to remove from your mind every suspicion OAt his intentions, if indeed lie ever entertained any such, by of which to this hour I am quite ignorant, were supported I), the English Government. 1 had very frequent explanation!: with the Queen and Prince Albert on this subject ; and I Vfe'; remember saying to Jarnac, that after what had passed, th_ Prince could never speak to me again, if it were possible fo him to engage in any intrigue for such an object, without 3 11, knowledge." Lord. Aberdeen reminds M. Guizot that instructio ns had been given to Mr. Bulwer, When the feigning Duke of Saxe Coburg was proposed, that the feelings of the English, Government on the marriage question remained unalter eu and, after expressing his satisfaction at the prospect the marriage of the Queen with the Duke de Cadez, co n eludes with a free yet friendly warning on the Montpen sier union : " A descendent of Philip V. has been selected, and I dot P . ! comprehend, therefore, why it has been thought right or nec% sary to abandon the engagement voluntarily entered into s/ he me last year, and since frequently repeated, respecting .r e marriage of the Duke de Montpensier. According to the marriage of the Duke de Montpensier. According tO,I to terms of that engagement, although the King proposecl demand the hand of the Infanta for the Duke of Alontpenivn: be promised not to do so until the Queen should have child dl_ and the succession to the throne should be secured in the u' rect line. " I did not feel called upon to object to such an arrang e : ment. On the contrary, there appeared to be a wise couee : , sion to the reasonable apprehensions of this and other e_e% tries; and as the question itself would necessarily r e q tu to considerable time before it could be finally decided, it " e d possible that the views of policy by which it was dicta m" in the interval, receive some modification. oW " You may have reasons unknown to me for the course 11 ip adopted by the French Government ; and I am quite certia,ter that to you they must appear sufficient, as I am satisfied you would never do anything for which )on did not fee _ . ,Y°„" ot self to be fully justified. But I confess, my dear M. Gni; that I am at a loss to perceive an adequate groun d foe, o change which has taken place. lam sure that you would r .. . es , MC to state frankly, and without any disguise, my real al t t c o l ; sion upon the subject. Any other cour. e would be incoiiisi with my sincere regard for } you, and with that friendship Wnj I trust nothing call ever diminish. " The measure, as now contemplated, appears to me to b f_ ° ... l very doubtful policy, and may perhaps lead to serious cocues4 quences. But upon these matters it is not my provin.m..% present to decide. I have only to assure you that at all times, whether in a public or private capacity, you will dud w e f that and anxious to co-operate with you in the preservation 0., good understanding which we have happily established successfully maintained, ender ninny dirficuities, bettvalei two countries in the last five years. and which I ain firm Y P er suaded is essential to the welfare k( prosperity.of Believe me, my dear M. Guizot, ever most sincerelY ”):;, " Aar:avElo.- . , ......- The judges at Naples, as Mr. Whitesde delicalelf phrase.s it, " often borrow money from successful ad vc" caf." It es is a very foolish thing for any ma n to beeome 3 sleeping partner, bemuse he may awake, and find hitn se P in the Gazatc.--Commisekner Wed. Ingo ar 40 A g f i t v e e r n sot a n wl ante to a s t a of Mrs. Will broken v i ctt on which chi Lord B R , Merely ex pt to move for !"dallips to in the newap case anirnad c ommitting had not at al censure was Lord Bat) statement th and cler., , v those udigui the discharg 4 . The Mi `c bY the ar no p l cO mmunicat In answer the Marry Ternment h: Precautionar Cholera, and brollZht sand 1 I S a Il i nt I jOlto n el b e o s e e p th : i et per i odnri b w i a a yt t e i :( 13, _Bs: O icsah n i el ear t ai h . pin e : uo h h, o r: aii 1 , 1 latter of bein g co mmittee ( I Woved, as at liddre,s be p land may be Which a ver3 those of the entertain sib nes of Etb;la cotiscientiou Stood i n ti ,.. on the sam " e assistance e Th n„►e amen “ --oo.INi Si B G ATE, ard o 11r. B. 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