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SECOND EDITION. I THE JThWS AND "FRATERNITY." of them portun to esca from Clo was very LAE Standard o,fice, Ten o'clock I IRELAND. e excitement c e as yet contriv Doheny y, not very far ected to be o'.llahoneN unty Mr. Coulson, (From the Jewish Intelligence.) [The following article shows that political power can never be conceded with safety to the Jew till he is Chris- tianized, and consequently that elevate this people; all other effort ng temper of Christianity alone a that the Jews of Berlin I ant part in this literary w to t to them in the dangerous.) to, with rooms, iciency We have and that there have without end, with Jew iVe learn from recent , a few ,Iso the has been, and is to a consider- communications . democratic newspaper p_ able extent, under Jewish influence, as the publications called the " Radical," " Cat's Music," the " Democrat," early on Friday morning a the " Lantern," the " Free-spoken," &c., &c., abun .e distance off, riding away a t dantly show. oulson immediate) ordered the It is, however, t o b e remar k ed that the active part taken y by the Jews in these political commotions, have by no .lase, which they did, and gained on means procured for them the favour of their revolutionary when he dismounted, made for the com-patriots ; on the contrary, we meet with frequent so by, and by that means escaped f or the ; symptoms of a feeli ng o f di s lik e and hate towards them, on the of those on hose behalf the been ea- present : his horse was taken, and p r o ve d t o b e one lons p . art We have befor w e us several vr y oofs have of this hostile which the insurgents had taken from William V. Stuart, feeling, in the shape of placards, which have been posted Esq., the High Sheriff of the county Kilkenny; from in the streets of Vienna, all holding up the Jews as ob jects of suspicion, and representing them as pl o tti ng t o . pistols, &c., found on th e h orse , t is conjectur ed tha obtain the mastery' over their Christian fellow-citizens the rider was O'Mahony. It was reported here on Friday Thus giving another proof how hollow and worthless the evening that some marines, who had ascended the Suir in pretensions to liberty and equality are on the part of those who, while they boast of their humanity and brotherly gun-boats, for the purpose of practising, had been at- love, manifest such rancour, hatred, and unmingled bit tacked on that day by the insurgents, and compelled to terness. fire cannon at them. I cannot describe to you the alarm The headings of some of these placards will indicate their this town was thrown into on rece i p t o f the intelligence. general tone and tendency . Th us we h ave one : " The German Michael (Michel) and the Jews;" another mar headed " Fresh Jew-cherries ;" and a third, " Pertition of the Christian slaves to their Jewish masters, for emanci pation of the Christians." Another, again, denounces the Jews, in consequence of the discovery on the Jewish bu rial ground, of chests containing military stores, &c. As may be expected, the language of these placards far exceeds all the bou n d s o f reason an d j ust i ce. Th to The Polyglot Educational Magazine. London • : W. us quote some of the least violent passages : Strange, Paternoster-row; Liverpool: R. Wrightson. "Their participation in the political commotions of our times This is a most useful publication, conducted by Pro- is a clear proof that they only aim at supreme rule. They sow fessor Bertinchamp, of our town, a gentleman whose discontent that Ih s r l y to mty gain advantages in the general con eco4neei im milist c e e r a s io prng l e . s ;v rgets, that acquirements as a linguist and teacfier are known to most they may tra y m w ple on th tof our our readers. The plan is a highly useful one : the trines of the Talmud. They have started a disreputable press, editor intends the publication not only for the assistance and consider that courage, which others denominate insolence. of teachers and families in communicating the elements " Who are the most furious republicans? The Jews. They of sciences and languages to their pupils, but for the g e r r c e ep r e e that a w r e e w u ig li n c ev as er t r e F er their l emancipation, and look, perusal of all persons who wish to make themselves ac- The is 2- ma w ncenv P ring tactics which the the Jews practice against quainted with the principles of a sound mental and liberal us, const in the invention of audacious lies, which are dis education. As a specimen of the editor's mastery over geminating for the purpose of exciting among the lower orders the English language, we cannot resist quoting the fol- either fear rebellion. They only aim at promoting distrust dissatisfaction, ~.,, 1 lowing metrical translation from the Polish. It is most and and would everi not flinch from the horrors ot , c , ivil bridgeleading to their emancipation. l spirited, and reminds one of Macaulay's splendid lays, It to ld be g reretted that for the of the dreg a who e than which higher praise need not be g i ve n : nationis shou be persecuted and hated,sake but the true tact of our THE SONG OF THE WAJDELOTA.* N iennese will here also know how to separate the chafffrom the (Translated from the Polish of Michiewicz.) corn, and do full j us ti ce to the many worthy men among the Jews. But Ne mes i s will surely overtake the rabble." Tradition ! Tradition ! thou of the seraph tongue, The arch that links two ages—the ancient and the young; One of these p ro d uct i ons, after many accusations, winds True arch ! thou art not broken by any stroke of fate ; up with the f o ll ow i ng warning : No tyrant's touch profanes thee—while millions consecrate : "The Jews have already got us, i. e. our money, in the bag, In thee our warriors treasure up their strength of hearts and and carry their heads high, but they wish now also to get swords, everything we have left, an d to b e the sole masters; this is what The tissue of their holy thoughts—the lightning of their words! is meant by emancipation !We have concluded the chapter of Thou song of olden glories ! like incense f r o m th e s h r i ne Jewish cunning, but come now to the chapter of Jewish folly. The Jews imagi ne t h at when they have rooted out Christi. Of a nation's fame and freedom, tho u r i ses t up di v i ne. anity from amo ng th e Christians, by means of their Jewish Thou song of olden glories! like an angel at th e ga t e Ufa nation's storied temple, thou art ever see n to wa it Neologian literature, f r o m among the people, by means of their atrocious pamphle s, (for the authors of most of these are With wings of golden light, and a voice of thrilling might,. Jews,) that then their wishes will be crowned , that then all dis tinction the sword of an archangel like a red flame waving bright, tinction of religion will be merged, and the much longed foe _ emancipation will be obtained. "This is very possible. It may be so. But mark this, you. Jews! Just as those Jews who have no Jewish faith more, are now the bitterest enemies of Christianity, so will the Christians, who have no Christian faith more, be the bitterest enemies of Judaism." with a r aim considerabl mountains close 7Littratiirr. NOTICES Time may rot the written stone—and royal brigands burn— But the song we loved of old, untouched, shall to our hearts return; The heroic legend of the dead the crowd shall ne'er forget, They quenched its thirst with ardent hopes, and feed it with regret. It shall go amongst our hidden glens, and to our mountains cling, _ _ .nd from the rock and ruin shall the olden spirit sing, The hoary peasant goeth forth to till the grassy plain, And riveth with his ploughshare the bleach'd bones of the slain; He prayeth for the noble dead—the long-renowned story, And he singeth unto echos with the old song of their glory : " Rest—rest upon your bed of fame, where the good fight ye tried, And sword in hand for freedom ye conquer'd and ye died; The stricken-down invader rests here beneath your glaive ! Where are your children, Fathers? 0 answer me, ye brave!" * A Lithuanian word.—A pagan priest who sang to the peo le during their national festivities the praises of their ancestors. VARIETIES Such is the prospect which is held out to the Jewish nation by those who use their boasted liberty as a cloak of maliciousness. Some of the more light-minded Jews have been seduced, unawares, to join in the movement that has spread. so widely ; but the more sober-minded among them have all along seen the danger that must be occasioned by a course which every principle of earnest Judaism teaches them to abhor. May those who have been misled soon have their eyes open to see the gulf that threatens to de vour them, and attending to the warning contained in the passage last quoted, learn that those who are false to that Christianity which they profess in name only, will never be the friends of those who have been led astray by vain glory and unbelief, to unite with them in opposition to that lesson which is taught by revelation, and verified by the univeral testimony of the history of alt nations and all " Meddle not with them that are given to The London correspondent of the Liverpool Albion describes John O'Connell as a mendicant, a monk, a mountebank, a maligner, and a muff. Married at Barn-staple, by the Rev. John Gates, Mr. John Post to Miss Sophia Rails. If this match don't " make a fence " of the first quality, we should like to know what stuff will.—Bristol Mirror. HARD TIMES CONJUGATED.—A country schoolmaster thus describes a money-lender :—"He serves you in the present tense—he lends you in the conditional mood — keeps you in the subjunctive—and ruins you in the fabire SPLENDID AMERICAN ALOE.—There is now in bloom, in the gardens of Drummond Castle, Perthshire, the re sidence of Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Eresby, a splen did specimen of the Agave Americana, or great American aloe, the flower stem of which is 30 feet high, supporting upwards of 2,800 flowers. DINING WITH THE DARDANELLES.—A gentleman was boasting in his travels that he bad been caressed every where, and that he had seen all the great in Europe. " Have you seen the Dardanelles ?" said one of the com pany. " Yes," replied he, " I dined with them at Gib raltar, and found them to be excellent company."—New York Harbinger. __ SCENERY AROUND HEBRON. — There is no part of Pa lestine which I have visited, so well cultivated as the country around Hebron. On the evening of our approach to the city, we passed for miles through scenes of ravish ing loveliness, varied with hill and dale, of wood and corn fields, and vineyards, illuminated by the rays of the de clining sun. The prospect was enlivened by groups of men and cattle busy at the harvest. Nothing could be conceived more rich, brilliant, and smiling than this gar den of Eden. Thoughts of the days of old rose up, to give their interest to a scene replete with patriarchal as sociations anil historic events. But here there was no melancholy contrast, as this country elsewhere presents, of present desolation and departed glory. The teeming threshing floors and the clusters of Eshcol, are proofs that the land is not unworthy of its ancient patriarchs and kings.—Mr. Ewald's Report. A RUSSIAN WIFE SHOW . .—The chief opportunity of seeing native finery is mixed up with a curious custom observed on Whit Monday at the summer gardens, when the unmarried girls paraded themselves, on the chance of being selected and sought in marriage by those who are on the look-out for wives. These young people arrange themselves in rows by the sides of the long ave nues, attended by their mothers, decked out in their gay est costume ; while congregated thousands promenade up and down in dense crowds. The idea realises what we call " love at first sight," and is certainly a novel way of pntting the power of Cupid to the test. If an arrow tells, the party introduces himself to the mother, exchanges ad iresses, and the matter is negociated at home. This is mfined to the little people—l mean those just above the - Ter class ; but in former times it was common to all ks.— Thompson's Life in Russia. Mum EATING IN CHINA.—The habitual use of this the smoker's life in about five years. he opium-smoker, may always be known and imbecile mind. Unborn ffer for the sins of their f heartless traders. In Parents, and the as; Ipearar provides himself with inmerous h oppor d to to evade the penalty of t ages, change." both c ANECDOTE OF LORD ERSKlNE.—Erskine, when some what young at the bar, was engaged in the f3llowing case. An old gentleman had died at a village inn, and a will was produced by which all his property was left to an at torney not in the most distant way related to the testator. The widow of the gentleman in question was left in a state of destitution with a large family : in vain did she solicit the attorney to assist her in providing for herself and family : the matter soon became the subject of gene ral conversation, and means were provided to enable the widow to contest the validity of the will, on the ground of the testator's incapacity to make a bequest at the time the will in question was stated to have been made and executed. Erskine was retained for the widow and suc cessfully advocated his client's cause. In the course of the trial the defendant brought forward, as evidence to show that the testator was in a fit state of mind to make and execute the will in question, witnesses who swore that they had seen the testator playing at cards. " Gen tlemen of the jury (said Erskine)—it certainly appears that the old gentleman has been played with : how far this is a test of his sanity will be for you to determine. Yes : he played at cards—probably he might play a king, or a queen, or an ace ; but, gentleman of the jury, before you leave the box, I think that I shall be able to point out the party who played the KNAVE in this business." ALLEGED PROPULSION Or A VESSEL BY STEAM IN THE YEAR 1543.—Thomas Gonzales, Director of the Royal Archives of Simancas in Spain, published in 1826 an ac count of an invention by Biasco de Garay, a naval cap tain, who, it is stated, exhibited in Spain, in 1543, an en gine, by which ships of the largest size could be propelled in a calm without the aid of oars or sails. He made an experiment before commissioners, appointed for the pur pose of examining his invention at Barcelona, on the 17th June, 1543,—the vessel used being a ship of two hundred tons. Garay, we are informed, wished to keep his mecha nism a secret ; but it was observed to consist partly of a large cauldron, or vessel of boiling water, and of two movable wheels, one on each side of the ship. Th e expe riment succeeded so far, that the vessel was propelled at the rate of two leagues in three hours ; and the inventor was rewarded by receiving a sum of two hundred thousand maravedis, besides having his expenses defrayed from the public treasury. It is added, that the invention would have been further encouraged had not State expeditions of great consequence claimed the immediate attention of the emperor. But it is important to mention, that the au thenticity of the entire history of Garay's invention, as published by Gonzales, has been called into question ; and it is certain that no practical results of any utility fol lowed.—Fraser's Magazine. EFFORTS OF THE JEWS TO OBTAIN POLITICAL Pow . r.n. AND EQUALITY OF RIGIIT.—As was to be expected, the Jew, who has long lain unheeded and neglected at the very gates, as it were, of the Austrian Established Church (and may this be a warning to our own dear Church), should be, amongst others, an especial agent in the pro vidence of. God, in transmitting the bitter cup of retribu tive suffering into the hands of his oppressors. I had not been a day in the city when I found out the truth of this; I went in company with Mr. Hoff to the principal syna gogue, which we found to be a spacious building with double galleries, all crowded to excess. The preacher, a man of great ability. took for his text the subject of the two faithful spies returning with good intelligence from tikeremi d land_; he seemed to anticipate a bright future for lsrae e new en of merry, rernlnuea ma - neaters that they had played no unimportant part in the great achievements of the times, and called upon them to press forward in the same direction, until they came into full possession of the rights that were due to them. On leaving the synagogue, two Jews conducted us to the hall where the " Sicherheits Ausschuss," a sore of provisional government, was sitting, and this we found was presided over by a Jew; subsequently to this we met no end of Jews in the dress of National Guards in the streets, and shortly afterwards a Jew who was a newly-elected member of the National Assembly of Austria ; so that altogether it seemed as if the Jews, a long time the party oppressed here, were in a fair way of becoming the oppressors of others.—Letter in Jewish Intelligence. A YANKEE ALLIGATOR STORY.—A singular piece of temerity, with regard to an alligator, is related in camp. At Sabine river (now a long distance back), one of the men of Caswel's company, called in camp " Skin-horse," went along the bank for game ; did not see any ; but then a young alligator popped up his head ; " Skin-horse " fired at it, and the water was stained with blood, but the alligator had disappeared. The report of the gun !nought some of his comrades to the spot, and they were told by him what he had killed. They thought he was " fooling' them, which made him very angry, and, swearing that he always told the truth, he stripped off his clothes, and waded in the water to his neck, feeling about with his foot, and stepped on the chap at the bottom ; he being only wounded, instantly rose and poked his long nose out of the water, behind " Skin-horse," who turned, and with one hand seized him by the fore-foot, and threw the other arm around his neck, and himself on his scaly back. Now came the tug of war. The alligator whirled round and round, making the water foam with his tail, snapping his jaws together, in his endeavours to get at his antago nist, while the latter, having got a hold on shallow bot tom, pushed and dragged him towards the shore, while his companions, at first petrified with astonishment, ran to his relief, and they soon got the alligator ashore and dispatched him. He measured in length seven feet. Hugging a live alligator in the water is a ticklish sort of business. " Skin-horse "is a good-humoured dare-devil chap, cross-eyed, medium height, bony and strong, in for a scrape at any time, and is a great favourite with the whole regiment.—Furber's Americana in Mexico. and in t secret. A here he 1 propensity without molestation. subterrar etrate into those nircotic caverns, or wit ness their sepulchral horrors. Whole streets are devoted to licensed opium-shops, from which the colonial govern ment derives a large revenue. It is even a more shameful crime to fill the treasury of a colony from the produce of such a trade, than to traffic in slaves. Prudery has ex claimed against our French neighbours for taxing gam bling and prostitution ; but we should look more at home efore we boast of our morality, and not suffer our colony turn this murderous and`roying drug into a il-dest versify CONTINENT Altogether, w, on accot of the vol- by reason of the jealousy gners, especially in thi from t ircu m stance of tt re now traversing the enabled to kful for having t hrown into the inEdoms of the ggling for their own obje to 13;a'r them in your heart by at God may be pleased to defeat r evil, and prosper thou is kingdom: What- lieve t lutism in Church and a and Italy for ever. latist at the present time, there eresting countries than these, the centres of the ancient Church of ;ontain within their boundaries n of the ancient people of God. 3n to believe a mighty vas shall vet take place. Many there shall yet " learn 31 14hteousness," many shall " be affrighted" and led " to love glory to God," and shall say, " Wh o s h a ll no t f ear hee, Oh Lord ! and glorify thy name, for thou only art oly, for all nations shall come and worship before thee, "-- Idgments are made manifest in the earth." If was a time when those words of our blessed applicable to his disciples, " Have faith in the present; let us watch and pray, and be ts we pray, and we shall probably live to see great kings come to pass.—Jewish Intelligence. Lord were THE LITERPOOL STAN A It 0 __ —. SINGULAR CHANGE.—The N ew s y nagogue i n k ing - We have already published a number of particulars con- ancient house of the redoubted " Knights Templars," nected with the Australian colonies extracted from the once the unrelenting foes of persecuted Israelites, but I evidence gi ven b e f ore t h e C olon i sat i on Committee of the now themselves swept f rom th e f ace o f the earth, together House of L or d s . W e now a d d many i nteresting details ofith their house, whi c h h as t h us g i ven place in the lapse w ages to so si ngu l ar a revo l ut i on. I respecting V an Di ernan ' s L an d . • The popul a ti on o f this colony is scattered, large grants I . l . neers. who arrived m:!. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT Captain Miller, - Monday in the De vE . . 0n.,,,4 i-.... 1.. • • ~ VAN DIEMAN'S LAND .....i.ving originally been made ; am tion of the sexes is greater than in any of tralian settlements. In 1845 the dispropor- Aber Aus- In _the preceding year the nuinher"ni I, GI' 11 US 1 ,14.3pUtV and in 1846 the imports £561,000, and the exports £582,000, of which latter sum £150,000 consisted of grain shipped for the most part to New South Wales, the quantity sent to England not hav ing exceeded £lO,OOO. The climate is very beautiful and the land fertile, there being a large quantity of alluvial soil on the banks of the rivers, which is particularly fa vourable for agricultural purposes. The general charac teristic of the island, however, is that of a densely wooded mountainous country, and the population occupy a kind of belt of country, running from north to south, pursuing the great valleys and watercourses. Although the pro duction of wheat is large, the colony is not likely to export much grain to England, owing to its liability to damage on the long voyage. The shipment in 1846 was merely the consequence of the unexampled depreciation of all kinds of Au.tralian produce, the price having fallen as low as 2s. 6d. per bushel, and a great quantity of what was sent in that instance became damaged. The following table will show the rate of production of the soil on a ge neral average : Wheat, per acre, Oats, „ Barley „ Peas „ . 15 bushels, Beans ;; Potatoes „ Turnips „ Owing to the lo w p r i ces prevalent dur i ng the last few years, many people who used to grow grain have given it up and turned their attention to pasture land, but the im pression still seems to be that the prosperity of Van Die man's Land must depend in a great measure upon grow ing wheat for New South Wales, where the production of wool is the most profitable occupation. Every increase of emigration to New South Wales by creating a demand for breadstuffs will therefore act beneficially upon Van Me man's Land ; and as there is a vast amount of agricultural land available at low prices in the latter colony, the pros perity of both would advance together. In this as in all the Australian settlements the conveyance of land between individuals is encumbered with all the expenses and com plications of the English system, and this in the face of the fact that for the Crown grants in South Australia a very short document has been adopted, prepared by a London conveyancer, which is held to convey in about eight or ten lines everything that can be conveyed in fee simple. The complaint put forward by the colonists re garding the inconvenience of the old system, however, is " in opposition to the opinion of the lawyers." In Van Dieman's Land the number of bushels of wheat grown per individual is 13. In South Australia it is also 13, and in New South Wales it is only six- The land in cultivation in the three colonies averages 1 1-sth acres per individual, and the present general total of live stock would give, it is estimated, 40 sheep and six or seven horned cattle for every man, woman, and child. One principal point on which the various witnesses lay stress in describing the urgent necessity for emigration, is the fact that under the high wages caused by the insuffi cient supply of labour, it is the policy of employers to en courage demoralisation on the part of their servants, since it is not merely that the present system of exorbitant wages compels them to pass over acts of insubordination and mis conduct from the difficulty of replacing those whom they might discharge. but they feel that it is not their interest that the servant should save his earnings, and by expend ing them on a small farm not only withdraw his own la bour from the market but also become a competitor with themselves for the labour of others. " I have heard," says one witness, " colonial proprietors expressing their grati fication again and again at the fact of their shepherds or other hired servants spending their earnings, perhaps £4O or £5O at a time in the public-house; for they knew that the men would in all such cases be ready to hire themselves again on the same terms as before." oval En- etzttral The total number of labourers employed in the dock yards and arsenals at home and abroad, is 3,977. A boy at Wideocabe has died from eating the berries of the yew tree. The Bradford chartists were all committed for trial on Saturday, at the Courthouse, Bradford. The Worcester Festival has realised £l,OOO for the charities, besides the £5O sent by Jenny Lind. A man named Davison has been committed at Sunder. land for killing a man named M'Clen in a fight. The sale on Friday, at Stowe, (when the best paintings were sold,) realised nearly £lO,OOO. The first anniversary meeting of the Cambrian Institu tion for the Deaf and Dumb was held at Aberystwith, on Monday, the Bad of Lisburne presiding. A young lady, named Stephens, from Bristol, fell from Dover Cliff last week, a height of 200 feet. She was killed. The extensive woollen manufactory of Richard Caunter, at Ashburton, known as the Bedford Mills, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday last. The sale at Stowe has, so far, produced £65,441. It has occupied twenty-fiye days, and will cantinap for tp7l days longer. At Burford, Oxfordshire, last week, a boy playing with an elderwood popgun, got some of the pith in his throat, which occasioned suffocation and death. On Saturday, the coachman of Col. Sykes, at Hyde Park Mews, was literally worried and trodden to death by a horse. A London magistrate has decided that policemen have no right to interrupt the public thoroughfares by walking in rank. In the next issue of camp equipage to the army the tents will be made waterproof, as the present canvas is no protection against a heavy fall of rain. Two gold rings, exhibiting beautiful miniatures of George 111. and Queen Charlotte, sold at the Bucking ham auction for £6 2s. 6d. The Bryn-y-pys estate, at Flint, the property of F. R. Price, Esq., was sold by auction on Wednesday for £150,000. So plentiful was the take of herrings at Sunderland last week, that they were selling at the rate of fourteen shil lings per thousand. An estate, lying in the parishes of Erlistock and Ban gor, comprising 1684 acres, and producing a rental of £3566 per annum, was sold last week for £130,000. Richard Wootten,Esq., draper and banker, the "Jemmy Wood" of Oxford, died on Saturday, in his 85th year, leaving a fortune of £500,000. The celebrated Chandos portrait of Sbakspeare was sold at Stowe on Thursday to the Earl of Ellesmere for 355 guineas. _ Upwards of 8,230 packages of foreign fruit, chiefly plums, have been landed at Hull from the continental steamers during the past week. CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE, NEAR BRlSTOL.—Up wards of £40,000 have already been suspended upon this undertaking, and no more money being forthcoming, the works are now at a stand-still. On Tuesday, as the workmen were engaged building a Presbyterian Chapel at Bradford, a large stone fell and killed three men instantaneously, and seriously injured a fourth. Typhus fever has broken out in Greenwich Hospital Schools. There are upwards of 40 boys in the sick ward ; one death ; the friends of the other boys have been advised of the complaint prevailing. TRAMPS.—By an Act passed on the 4th instant, from and after the 30th instant until the 30th September, 1849, tramps are to be relieved from the common fund of poor law unions, and:not at the cost of the parish, where the union house is situated. As a proof of the honest and peaceful habits of the peo. ple of Westmoreland, a Kendal paper mentions that for the last three months no case has been brought before the magistrates at the monthly petty sessions held at Kirkby Stephen. _ _ _ Most of the bakers at the west end of the metropolis made a reduction in the price of their bread on Monday of from a halfpenny to a penny in the four pound loaf. The low-priced bakers are selling from a penny to three halfpence cheaper. AN ACTRESS PREACHER ! — Mrs. Darley, lonz and fa vourably known on the Shields, Sunderland, and Stock tan circuit, as an actress, preached in the Wesleyan cha nel. Cothersu_ twin/1_ 5...1., 1...4. Aro - night the place was crowded.—Gateshead Observer. - ALTERING THE NAME OF A TOWN.—By command of the Postmaster-General, Lane End, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, is in future to be designated Longton, for all purposes of postal communication, and instructions have accordingly been forwarded to all postmasters. A few mornings since, at an early hour, a fox suddenly appeared in Queen Square, Bristol, and was immediately seized by an unlucky byp asser , who was so severely bitten by his captive that he wa s f orce d to re l ease t h e an i mal, which then triumphantly retreated into a drain leading from a neighbouring public house. FATAL FIRE.—On Saturd a y a fire broke out in the p re mises of Mr. A. F. Watkinson, staymaker, White chapel, London, which completely destroyed the build ings. A child, named Pitt, was burnt to death, and Mrs. Pitt and her daughter. aged nine years, were so seriously injured that the girl has since died. The new Roman Catholic chapel, Salisbury, was on Thursday week opened with great pomp. It is dedicated to the founder and builder of the cathedral of Old Sarum, the celebrated Saint Osmund, who accompanied his uncle, William the Conqueror, to England as a warrior and after the Norman conquest was consecrated Bishop of Sarum. EXTRAORDINARY SHOT. —As Clarence Hooper, Esq., of Green-park, Bath, and Captain Frederick Johnson, were shooting upon the estate of H. M. Williams, Esq., at Eastcott, on Tuesday, the sth of September, four par tridges rose, the whole of whi c h f e ll to one barrel fired by Mr. Hooper, at a distance of forty yards. A gentleman, who has farmed extensively in the southern division of this county for the last twenty years, and who has this year grown 600 acres of wheat, 600 of barley, 600 of oats, and 800 acres of turnips, states that, taking the crops generally or as a whole, he has ne ver , d ur i ng hi s experience, known a more propitious harvest than the present.—Derizes Gazette. Lord George Bentinck's visit t o D oncaster has been far more profitable than his contemplated trip to Ireland could have turned out. It was stated that, in the event of Surplice carrying off the St. Leger, the Protectionist chief stood to win £BO,OOO, a portion of a bet made at the time Surplice was foaled. We know the result of the race, and the upshot of the long odds taken by Lord G. Bentinck against the crack horse winning both the Leger and the Derby, a feat unperformed since the year 1800. rortsmouth, has come home from the Cape on a deplorable accident, which unfortunately depri the sight of both eyes. Captain Miller w.q cotton, wi en it Accidentally exploded, and caused t The lock of hair of Queen Mary, wi of Suffolk, taken from her corpse Bury, in 1784, was sold at Stowe for £7 10s. was contained in a glass case, and, since its purchasb the sale of the Duchess-Dowager of Portland's effects in 1786 by the Duke, of Chandos, has been deposited in the o married the Duke Mary's Church, This relic manuscript library at Stowe. NEW ROMAN C ATHOLIC BISHOP.--The ceremonial of consecrating a Roman Catholic Bishop of the Western District, in the room of Dr. Ullathorne, translated to the See of the Midland Provinces, took place at St. Mary's Chapel, Bristol, on Sunday last, when the Rev. Joseph Wm. Henderson, D.D., was duly installed to the vacant episcopate. The Hog. Mr. Clifford, son of Lord Clifford, and a student at Prior Park, preparatory to his taking holy orders. officiated as master of the ceremonies. On the evening of Monday week, Mr. Brown, a farmer, living at Nether Place, Dumfriesshire, went into a field to fetch home his bull, which had been fighting during the day with a neighbour's bull, and which had become so fu rious that the herd-boy was afraid to drive him. The animal at first seemed to obey his master, but suddenly turned round, attacked Mr. Brown, threw him on the ground, and gored him so severely that he died two hours afterwards. SCHOOLMASTERS IN THE COLONlES.—Government has just dispatched several members of the scholastic profession, male and female (principally men and their wives,) to establish primary schools in the Mauritius. Before starting they received £l2O to provide the neces sary outfit, and on landing in the colony they are to have £25 to defray immediate expences. Their salary com mencing at £BO, is to gradually increase to £2OO per annum The Quadrant Colonnade, in Regent-street, London, that exquisite specimen of what a prince regent can do when he takes to architecture, was pulled down on Mon day week, and the removal of the materials has been going on since. They have been purchased for railway purposes. The cast-iron pillars, 145 in number, realised £2900. The total cost of this alteration is estimated at £3900, to be defrayed by the sale of the old materials, and by a rate on the inhabitants. APPREHENSION OF " WAT TYLER," NEAR BRADFORD. —This notable personage, Isaac Jefferson, the chartist blacksmith, so famous in the annals of Bradford chartism, was apprehended early on Wednesday morning, at a lonely place called Swilling, on the borders of the parishes of Halifax and Bradford. He was pounced upon whilst sleeping, and, seeing himself overpowered, without friends in this moment of need, and without a chance of escape, he quietly yielded himself. On Tuesday week, the family of a man named Law rence, living at Eastry, Kent. were treated to some sloes, which had been preserved in sugar since last autumn, and of which Lawrence himself, his wife, and his wife's sister and brother partook, all of whom, shortly afterwardsrbe came very sick. vomited much, and were violently purged, in which state they continued some time,. totally incapa pable of assisting one another, and it ended in the death of one of the children, which took place the following day. EMIGRATION OF POOR PERSONS.—By an act which passed on the 4th inst. it is provided by the sth section (11 and 12 Vie., cap. 110) that the guardians• of any union or parish may, with the order of the Poor Law Board, and in conformity with the regulations they make respecting the emigration of poor persons. render assistance in the emi gration of poor parsons irremoveable and chargeable, and charge the cost upon the common fund of the union or parish where there is no union. NOVEL CRICKET MATCII.—On Monday a cricket match for a purse of sovereigns, between eleven one-armed and eleven one-legged pensioners, belonging to Greenwich Hospital, took place in a field at the back of the Priory, Lewisham, Ken'. The novelty of the match attracted a great many spectators. The result of the play was slightly in favour of the one legs, whose facilities for bowling and batting overbalanced the running capabilities of their opponents. A CHE . DiICAL MODE Or EZECTMENT.—At Bow-street, on Saturday,. J. Dolby, chemist, of 280, btrand, appeared to answer a complaint preferred against him by Mr. E. Wild, a wood engraver, residing in the same house, for having exposed a chemical preparation close to his room at the top of the house, by which the health of his wife and children was dangerously affected. The plan was resorted to in order to get rid of a troublesome tenant. The prisoner was fined for the offence. At the Clerkenwell police-office, the other day, Edwin Fox was charged with an attempt to steal a watch from the shop of Mr. King, Goswell-street. The rogue was caught in a trap. In consequence of previous attempts at rob bery. Mr. Kifig's shop door had been made to fasten with a spring when any person entered. Fox pretended he wanted to buy a watch, and got it into his hand ; he then attempted to open the door to make off with it, but the spring ba ffl ed him, a n d th oug h h e t h rew snuff into Mr. King's eyes, he was captured and committed for trial. FIRST APPLICATION TO GOVERNMENT UNDER THE NEW PUBLIC HEALTH ACT.—The mortality at the port of Whitehaven, being at the rate of 42 in every 1,000 CtikkAo r th A ocemarition obi, 11 % Chin, gacsamwdliankg to of 1 41), the inhabitants determined last week to present a memorial to Lord Morpeth, calling for the interposition of the commissioners appointed to give effect to the provi sions to the new sanitary act. The inhabitants are look ing forward with interest to the anticipated official visit of the government inspector. Jenny Lind performed, on Thursday, at the Theatre Royal, Hull, in the opera of Sonnambula. Yesterday she appeared at York, in a concert ; on Wednesday, the 20th instant, at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle, in the opera of Sonnambula ; on Saturday, the 23d, in a morn ing concert at Edinburgh, and on the following Monday in the opera of Sonnambula. She will then perform at Glasgow, in the two operas of Sonnambula and the Figlia del Reggimento ; and on the 11th of October will appear at Dublin. After performing there four nights, she will return to England. A poor woman, named Anderton, met with her death on Monday, at Stitchford, a few miles south of Birming ham. It appears that she and her son were about to pro ceed by the up train to London, and for that purpose she took her place at the station in question. The noise of a train approaching caused her to run out of the station room and cross the line, supposing it to be the train by which she was about to proceed to town. Unhappily it proved to be the express down train, by which, on at tempting to cross the line she was instantly knocked down and killed on the spot. THE HERRING FISHERY.—The " takes" within the past week have ben unprecedented for the last twenty years at least, both as respects the profusion and the quality of the fish. Our fishery this year will be worth £60,000 at the lowest estimate, and by moderate calcula tion not less than £6OOO has this week been netted from the deep. The bustle and animation in the harbour and on our quays, has been quite enlivening, and both the Fleetwood and Liverpool packets have taken heavy car goes each trip for the English fishmongers and curers. The current price to the curers and fresh buyers was ss. a mease, and to small purchasers Is. 3d. per hundred of six —Manx Liberal. GIITTA PERCHA ON THE MONUMENT.—This novel material, so famed for its utility, has lately risen to an extraordinary elevation in the metropolis, having reached even to the top of the Monument, from whence the visitor to that noted column may look upon a gutta percha tube one hundred and ninety feet in length, three inches in diameter, and one quarter of an inch thick. This tube passes up the centre of the Monument from its base to the gallery, at which point it is upheld by a flange also made of gutta percha. It is intended for the conveyance of water, and is, we understand, highly approved by the civic authorities, being light in weight and economic in Price. Continued fine weather has enabled the farmers to cut nearly all the wheat in this district, and on the best lands there is not a stock left in the fields, the whole hav ing been secured in fine condition. Oats and beans are rather late in some places, but, the oat crop is being rapidly cut, and will in another week or ten days be all safe, should the weather continue fine. Further enqui ries confirm the opinion already expressed that the bulk is large, the yield good, and the sample fully an average one. About one-half of the wheat exhibited in our mar ket on Saturday, was of the new crcrprana that a finer sample, or one in better condition, was never seen for the first of the season. Many of the samples weighed 63Ibs. and some as high as 661bs. per bushel,— Newcastle Journal. THE LEIGH PEERAGE.—At Warwick, on Monday, Mr. W. P. Roberts, solicitor, of Manchester, applied to Geo. Cotten Greenway, Esq., one of the Coroners of the coun ty, to appoint a day to hear evidence, in order to induce him to grant a warrant for search after the bodies alleged at the county petty sessions in May last to have been bu ried under the new bridge, in Stoneleigh Park, upwards of 30 years ago. The Coroner said in case the body was known to have been buried, any coroner would be justi fied in having it exhumei, if suspicious circumstances arose, in order that the cause of death might be satisfac torily ascertained ; but he did not think the duties of a coroner extended to a search after bodies, whose inter ment rested merely on suspicion ; the application was, therefore, refused. An application had previously been made to Mr. Seymour, a coroner, acting in another divi sion of the county, but he refused to interfere, Stoneleigh Abbey being out of his district. This was represented, to be merely a preliminary step to further proceedings. One of the new wrought iron bowstring bridges, con structed for the Blackwall extension line, has been tested at the works of Fox, Henderson, and Co., at Smethwick, near Birmingham, in the presence of Mr. Muntz, M.P., Captain Simmons, and other railway officers. The bridge, as erected on an open space near the London works, pre sented a clear space of 120 feet between the bearings. It is constructed entirely of wrought iron, and consists of an arch of boiler plates and angle iron, tied across at the ends by horizontal bars, the tie being cemented with the arch by vertical standards, and by a double system of di agonals, which have the effect of distributing over the whole curve of the arch the action of weights placed on or passing over any part of the bridge. The ribs are adapted for large spans in cases where either headway is of im portance, or where sufficient abutment cannot be obtained without a great outlay. The ribs are supported in such a manner as to allow not only for expansion and contrac tion, but also for motion under a heavy weight. On this occasion the bridge was loaded with 240 tons of rails and bars, double the load which the bridge can under any circumstances be required to bear. The trial gave satis faction to all concerned. MAN VERSUS STEAM.—On Tuesday evening a COmical adventure was witnessed near Bedwas Church—a race between Mr. John Jones and the locomotive called " Bute"—distance three hundred yards, for a sovereign a side. It wa3 won by the former, by about twenty yards. I - FASHION kBLE LUCIFER MATCH DEALERS.— are numerous revivals of a well-known ruse for g mysterious noblen- -There wutury by dozens selling lucifer matches. A country correspon dent of the Cambridge Chronicle states that the place gentleman," well dr and with who dispensed with kid gloves a box of lucifers to all whc were disposed to buy at the small charge of one penny. He was the unknown nobleman who has undertaken to sell some millions of boxes of lucifers before he eats his Christmas dinner. LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—The Premier arrived at Glas gow from Greenock, on Wednesday, accompanied by Lady Russell. His lordship drove to the Star Hotel, where he was visited by Mr. Hastie, M.P., the Lord Provost of the City. Lord John saw no other visitors, and, indeed, very few persons were aware of his arrival. A committee of the unemployed were anxious to have an interview with his lordship, in order to present a memorial for re lief, by an advance for emigration, or otherwise • but they failed to discover w h ere h e was temporarily lodged. His lordship and family departed in a compartment of a first-class railway-carriage for Perth by the half-past one o'clock afternoon train. M. Louis Blanc has published a letter in the Times, in reply to an•article in.which the little gentleman's princi ples were pretty freely commented on. M. Louis Blanc's defence is divided into two sections—one of which is devo ted to the refutation of a particular charge respecting his responsibility for the ateliers nationaux ; and the other to the exculpation of his general doctrines from the liabi lities with which they have been visited. Under the first of these heads he alleges that the ateliers nationaux re cently suppressed were in no sense of his creation ; that M. Marie established, and M. Emile Thomas directed them ; and that, in point of fact, they were employed to counterbalance an embodiment of his own influence in another quarter. OTTER HUNT EXTRAORDINARY.—Last week, James Lomax, Esq., of Allsprings, near Blackburn, took (by the kind invitation of the Earl of Harewood) his cele brated pack of Otter hounds to Harewood House. They flung off on Wednesday, at Harewood-bridge, and a short distance up the river Wharfe they got on to the " drag" of an otter, which they presently found, and swam him for eight hours that day without securing their game, and had to be called off. On Thursday morning, they threw off at the bridge again, and found the otter at Arthington Mill. They swam him again for eight hours and a half, and at last killed him in the moonlight, after one of the severest hunts that ever was seen. The otter weighed 24} pounds. PRICE OF PAINTINGS.—At the sale of paintings at Stowe, on Friday, " Sybilla Persica," from the Orleans gallery, by Domenechino, fetched 690 guineas. A burgo master, in a black dress, by Rembrandt, sold for 810 guineas. The finding of Moses, by Salvator Rosa, (six feet seven inches by four feet,) was sold for 1,000 guineas. Philip baptising the eunuch, by Cuyp, was sold for 1,470' guineas. The great feature of the day, however, was " The unmerciful servant brought before his Lord," by Rembr_ ndt. The size of the picture was seven feet by five feet ten inches. The first bidding was 1,000 guineas. On this the next advance was 50 guineas; from 1,600 guineas it went. at one bidding, to 2,000 guineas ; and, after a somewhat languid competition, was ultimately knocked down to Mr. Mawson at 2,200 guineas. USEFUL HINT ABOUT CHOLERA.—A writer in a weekly medical journal, who saw much of the cholera in 1832 and 1834, suggests a very simple, and, asp he asserts, a very valuable prevention against the susceptibility of the disease. The weakened state of the stomach, he says, which pre disposes to cholera, is so decidedly obviated by eating freely of common salt to our meals, that it is believed that three-fourths of the cases which would otherwise occur may be prevented by this simple addition to our food. The writer recommends for an adult the ninth of an ounce (about a small teaspoonful) three times a day, at break fast, dinner, tea, or supper. It may be eaten with fish, animal food, poultry, game, bread, toast,. or bread and butter. The same beneficial result is not obtained with salt meats, broths, soups, &c., in which salt is dissolved ; because, by the action of the heat, or long admixture of the salt with other matter, a change is produced in its pro perties, and the preventive power, with reference to this particular use of it, destroyed.. BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, GREEN PARK.—The new residence for the Earl of Ellesmere was long talked of: the carcase is now completed ; the chimneys are being capped, the carving cleaned off. The situation is one of the finest in the metropolis,—the view from the state rooms of the new house, over the park and towards Buck ingham Palace, is perfectly beautiful. The plan approaches a square ; the south front is 142 feet 6 inches, from east to west ; and the west front, 122 feet, from north to south : and there are two small courts within the mass to aid in lighting the various apartments. The south elevation differs from the west in having no projections of the front wall. Vases surmount the dies of the balustrade. The entrance-porch, not yet built, will be in the centre, and be surmounted at the angles by similar vases. The whole of these fronts, and part of each of the other fronts, are faced with Portland stone. In examining the interior of the building, when finished, one point will particularly force itself on the attention, and that is the care w hi c h has been taken so to e l an it , that the freedom of access to his fine gallery of pictures, which Lord Ellesmere pro poses to grant the public, may not be interfered with by the private requirements of the liberal owner.—The A 3.24.24.- THE SMOKE NUISANCE AND SMOKE CONSUMERS AT HALIFAX.— Messrs. Crossley, of Dean Clough, to pre vent the nuisance of smoke, have adopted " Samuel Hall's self-fuel-supplying and smoke consuming furnace," which principally consists in an inclined fire-grate, composed of a large namber of distinct parallel bars, moved at the up per end by a series of eccentrics turned by a revolving shaft. The longest motion of these eccentrics is given alternately to bundles of about twelve bars ; but during this motion every third bar also traverses an inch more or less than the two adjacent to it; thus affording an addi tional preventative against the formation of clinkers. But as these hindrances to complete smoke-prevention can never be entirely avoided, provision is made for their fall ing' into a chamber at the lower end of the furnace, a fire brick shelf being interposed, with an inclination the re verse of that of the fire-grate, so as effectually to burn anything that will burn, before it is finally cast amongst the useless scoriae of the clinker-chamber. The regular motion and inclination of the fire-grate affords a means of self-feeding, without the aid of any extra wheels or cylin ders ; and the front of the furnace is formed of three up. right plates, with spaces for the admission of air between them, which not only keep the front of the furnace cool, but also afford an easy method of regulating the admis sion of air. The patentee sets forth eight advantages of this furnace, many of which are also claimed by other pa tents. Its peculiar advantages, however, seem to us to be, first, that as there are no joints t o work in the heated part of the bars, and no friction except at the ends, the fire-grate is likely to be more durable ; secondly, that there is little or no waste of power in giving motion to the furnace ; and thirdly, that the supply of coals, of air, and of speed, is very easily regulated.—Hal fax Guardian. THE POISONINGS.—The cases of poisoning in Essex are still under investigation. The case to which the au thorities are now directing their attention is that of a per son named Nathaniel Button, formerly a resident in the parish of Ramsey, who died on the 30th of September, 1846, a few days after the death of Mary May's first hus. band, about whom also some suspicion exists. The authorities, not having the power of exhuming the body, have transmitted to the coroner a quantity of evidence, in order that he may take the necessary steps for investi gating the matter. The next case is relative to a person named Palmer ' resident in Ramsey, who died sho r tly after Button. Almost immediately after his death Mrs. Palmer left Ramsey, accompanied by a man with whom she had long been intimate. The town of Great Holland in the Tendering Union has also, it is suspected, been the scene of one, if not more, of these dreadful poisonings. From tile investigation which has taken place, it appears that a man named Brudger died suddenly some time since in great agony, having been well and at his work until within a few hours of his death. Two other cases are un der consideration—one in the parish of Tendering, and another in the parish of Bradfield. In the former the keeper of a beer-shop, named Brown, is the subject of in quiry, and in the latter the body of a person named Gop, who there is little doubt was poisoned, is to be exhumed. In the investigation of these cases it has been ascertained that most, if not all, owe their origin to the existence of what are in this part of the country called " Death Clubs." A person (man or Woman) enters one of these clubs, „A.-, 4—, cr.., of 7d. per quarter, at the same time appointing a nominee, at whose death the subscribing party receives £lO or £B, according to the number of per sons enrolled. In addition to this subscription each member pays 6d. extra on the death of any nominee. Mrs. Southgate vas a member of one of these clubs. Mrs. Button was also a member, and received £B, on the death of her husband. MANUFACTURE OF GAS FROM WATER.—WO were much pleased with a descriptive lecture at the Polytechnic Institution, accompanied by a working model of a new hydro-carbon gas apparatus, patented by Mr. Stephen White, for the manufacture of gas from water and com mon tar, or resin, &c. The apparatus consists of three retorts placed in a stove, two of which are filled with char coal and thin pieces of iron, and the other with iron chains, hanging from a centre bar. The first two retorts are for the decomposition of water, which is regularly supplied by means of a syphon pipe, through and into the centre of the retort ; the water, in passing through the heated ma terial, becomes converted into pure hydrogen and proxide of carbon. It then passes into the third retort, to receive its dose of bi-carburet of hydrogen, which is prepared from common tar, resin, or similar substances, passing, or dropping, on the red hot chain, from a syphon tube, which regulates its supply. This causes the tar, or melted resin, to throw off an abundance of bi-carburet of hydro gen gas. The gasss being mixed in this manner, are im mediately conveyed into the gasometer for use, without any purifying vessels whatever, none being required. The great advantagcs arising from this invention appear to be the small, simple, and cheap apparatus requ i re d, an d th e beautiful, clear and bright light produced, surpassing the ordinary coal gas ; also, its perfect purity, being free from any nuisance in its manufacture, and, above all, so pure and innoxious, that it may be burnt in any private room, without the least ill effects or smoke resulting from it. The apparatus may be used, and the gas made, in any private mansions, churches, or manufactoriel, and on any scale, from 5 to 1,000 lights or more, as well as for cities and towns. This gas can be made and supplied at a price considerably less than that of coal gas. Thus we see ac complished the foretelling of that eminent chemist and philosopher, the late Sir Humphrey Davy, " that at some future time gas would be generated from water for general purposes, surpassing coal gas in brilliancy and purity." —Mining Journal, 1 4 SENTENCE FOR HIGH TREASON.—The sox!! is, that the person convicted be drawn on a hunil,e4 place of execution, and be there hanged by the nee', dead, and that then the head be severed and the bol l ') into quarters, and be left at the king's disposal°. consequences of the sentence are, corruptio n of bl,o°o which the convict can neither inherit nor tran , mit 13 ; hia fh n t n hl4 wife. and forfeitt at) crowd of his lands, goods and enattei. elders may possibly prove interesting to the. reaallot AN HONEST CODFISIL—A sloop, belonging t °. n er s ay , was recently lying in Lochbroom, the sloßof 1,,,t the keP, g over the sine, ins. lockers, &e., from his pocket, into ten fathoms .eoto Attached to the bunch was a small piece of pai l le i b t w n , which his name a n d that of the vessel were w * t of course gave up all hopes of ever seeing the keP tit ,por and gazed on their rapid descent into the watery cast t y aweiethhedreeeffp the island nd Si e x f it t e , e ss lc a s y a , f a ter ou m t r i d o s o th w e i j o i t.e g al fit Lochbroom, and again resumed his piscatory Among the result of his labours was a large codr_rp was speedily unhooked and thrown on the deck!,:teto thethe l u a t s t t e ra agoniesmaze re of en d t ea o t f h t , h v e o s m k i i re p d ei u ., p t hheispoboura °f key • The parchment, being p ar tly preserved, provett"' oeot i pertv beyond a doubt. At the same time, as if e°l3tolte stricken, it disgorged a penknife belonging re' skipper, on which his initials were engraved. lin"igratoff markable circumstance that this fish, in its the sloop ' course, should arrive at the same spot wher e .. e barg °4 was, sacrificing its life, and with its last bre,t;Cd'„ higher an act of honesty th a t wou ld h ave honourel_:,. grade or species of ani ma l s .- G reeno ck AdvertSlsll' EFFECT OF PROSPERITY ON MARRIAGES . ' the orr according to the census of the Registrar Genera 'd 45 1 ' ber of women li v i ng b e t ween th e a ges of 15 0 0 000' 8 1 3,812,651, of whom it was estimated about 2 + ea se s°, unmarried. Allowing fo r a p ro p or ti o nate Inc' essi'' diminution by marr i age d ur i ng each , of the nm se 0 00,0 years 1842-6, we find that on this number of 2, 7 0 g e ' affected, the returns of marriage give the 010,1° sults :-1842 237,650, 1843 247,636, 1844 2 64 ..1 tsl' es , tr riages h ' raee t g h snep e sue d mwr e s tby p ree o re s ro i f t afs i r o u npa marriages,t ono 287,486, 1846 291,328. The Registta-Gen e :, of t „ 4 " . s i e ye d t p marryhro trY• O at' in 1844-5, years of great abundance and' eas e ! - t he l it half of the year 1846. Then came an actual : u e- oulu' of deaths. We have not as yet got the regilee s Q ual ° year 1847, but they will, we fear, give strong; evitisud the heavy suffering resulting from our coninle rc a Or ° other calamities during that year. In 1845, * 0 ;0 0 0 an was cheap and commerce prosperous, 50,000 more ollt°4 • average edr a i s at ny o ei n nf e ;c rt o ehsa f eos:e the oe t e e ial s were married than in 1842. In 184 the variativi doubt, be the other way. s tree t ' CHARGE OF ARSON.—OD Monday, at B i r„,.s,: Emily Beaumont, keeper of a coffee shop in -""L' r FL" Mary Fitzgerald, her servant, and James Fr 9, ;coat - ced at the bar, the two first-named prisoners be ing ged as principals, and the male prisoner as being a 3t, f ,' after the fact, in setting fire to No , . 52, Long-a ° ,, r 7be 3l : ( ig.the e f Storr, the assessor to the Fire-office, said that °' 10," of August, the prisoner Beaumont called on vi; claim to £272 165., among w hi c h was a quan tity to when nc eteh4n a te p hsf p hi a eAn r s e umt l g. , :dte w eht h,eaiwcsphhtr prisoner w tnseo a mtn s heeer t n b fit u Fr enri Fitzgerald pledged gepeeerckatlipdnl ge e acet h.m p e r e e ,fi : 00. r e i 0 0 ? hi _0,5? rettoi I cl : ; :ae fi any threat or promise being made to her, w h ich psi ced to writing in the pr esence o f S ergeant ThoraP e 0 0; officer.—The effect of the statement was, that 0 0 p ner Beaumont had repeatedly urged various P,, c lerl b k set fire to the house, under a promise of a 0° , 12- s tiP t ve pecuniary reward—that one of the parties thus 11 . 1 „ied received the sum of £5 as a portion of the Pr e ,iiing ° d part t d n but e d eectiammep,edanwdi thatth th et the moneypris withoutprisoner B esloo; a 6 : ,go been sending her property out of the hou a orl d i time before the fire which actually occurred in, ' fl 'l c ail, l 7l, the deponent Fitzgerald, also by the hopes 01.,,,r0a1w, t o gain, to keep her secret.—The prisoners were. 1, ° 45 , CHEAP AND VICIOUS LITERATURE.—The lee the bankruptcy of George William M'Arthur Aa r cliry ry author of the " Mysteries of London," and publications, has elicited some interesting: evil subject of the demand for cheap and vicious "; e tbe, l . 4 ", The bankrupt himself gave evidence. Re was th e " )'"" the " Mysteries of London,,, " Pickwick Abroad' Perri ter Timothy's Bookcase," fro , t ts " Gretna Green," besides se vera l translation' „ 4 , French and German. He was also the ea ae" " London Journal," and is now connected wi t li t ; ca lt paper, to divulge the name of which would, heS-at, if his immediate dismissal. One of the most refCdstis. ld the latest of his publications, was " jonitr ti , lany," which has had a lar g e c i rcu l a tion. -",_:b a d ne,d being examined regardin g it, d e p ose d that.rThi a tiorir 7 4 received one penny out of it, even when its Orc an d he 1 / 1 20,000. The price of it was only one P,.. en ,r26,0 0 °' ted it would not pay at a circulation of lessr — re cornPl e "iB added that when those cheap serial works %T old „tw ig to they were not worth one farthing, and onlY, e froto 60 0 0 progress.. He declared that a circulation cL o °ll - would pay him better at lid. than .I .;"‘''i tB or - 4 .,; 1 0 g0 that he had been losing by the MiscellanY a w v e e e r k a e d il ll w o a a s w now k. employedThe by penny ea g le for s meral. They had, perhaps, an e xtraordinary •af weeks, and then as rapidly went down. —pa t riot. followinginteresp7 STATISTICS OF MARRIAGE.—The General's 1 1 °P ° 0 ( statement is contained in the Registrar 01 , 4 of the es _ others, V e Vii a l g e w p m he i ; j m u a st rr e nt ub ge l s is c h e e l d eb :— rat ' ed ln ac t c h o e rd y in ea g r 'ram sVerePl first-named, 14 were by special license, li , " t Regv' !tithed church was 130,509; the number not 4 n'of t license, 92,995 by bans, 1,862 by Superintenden 008 trees certificate, and 18,503 " not stated by which e t 0 , o t h i ! e fo s r ta eg h o u i s n h g ed fo e r h m ure s.' h ' ship, 10,693 (of which,O therefth3we tloB4t6hethreitetestalcn_u_Arogbli 4,167 in Superintendent Registrar's office, 68 ge l A b e chapels, and 7,669 in the chapels'e7 marriage sivr• i o erfreeogti registered et dden accordingP Roman o la m c l e t! jc °llll els i and 224 Jews. In 1846 the number of men nUarr l , 1 11 .; were not of age was 6,313 ; of women, 20, 001 ' IP' widowers who re-married were 18,343 ; the widows . 40 01 The men who, tieing unable to write their 0% 1 , 1 _ 1 ,1 ton s signed with marks, were 47,488, the women n ot ier ai ol' 70,145. The age at which the greatest number foot, riages takes place, both of men. and women, is f 11 .. 0 na m e 25 years. Then 20,519 bachelors married the st a ,'", ber of spinsters ; 871 bachelors married wide w " i iisrP4 widowers married spinsters ; 996 widowers .102,0 widows. Three women were led to the alter y 0 19 the mature age of 75 an d 80 ; two b e t w een '3o),,ad (whereof one found a partner of a less age than :OP . " five between 65 and 70. Of th e men 20 war° W e between 65 and 70 ; seven b e t ween 70 and Pod ,of whom married a woman of a less age than 25)' j / between 75 and 80 years of age. viroga taatl ;ere Two CHILDREN KILLED BY AN INSAN. 1i -it Of On Wednesday, the inhabit an t s o f Willenhsl b tt io manufacturing parish, three miles from Wrolv e ,„ r 9 d ) , were alarmed by a report that a woma n nei% phs' ca d Jones, wife of Enoch Jones, w hi mseyma n ‘ B ,,Volgh killed her own child, Ed w in, a b o y 18 inonPlroat°'l also a niece 12 years of age, by cutting their 'fit in l et seemed that Mrs. Jones had been attacked ,„ce 4 .„ pi. o r ous monomania, and it was deemed necessary „ r w o rlill, e t ,o; in the lunatic ward of the Wolverhampton 7„ - E iP; et' She was removed thence on Wednesday morn - dy h e n iog the instance of two female rel a ti v e s , appere,°' According to ord toastate to A statement whhi c hett, the hshemade, te, oi b e , af e te c rth in e g occurrence, go vern - wit fief workhouse, she sent her niece with the babY ! i) f 0 5 0 fore eight o'clock, and retired to rest hers after, but could not sleep, and the thouht eig,;(l• 0 0 ,: o lic head that she must kill her child, as it would m f ; Cat bat' owing to its having been christened by a Roo' 011' clergyman. She then got up and sought fora ',7a t peei r ote I not finding one, took a bla c k-h an dl e d k n ife, si' lr ot on a steel, proceeded up stairs, cut the girl's , t t he e l l el o ear to ear, and afterwards com pl e t e l y s evered 001 bet head from its body. She then raised an sil o ca t ugh had murdered the children, and endeavour own throat, but only inflicted a slight wound ' t e tbe r n ate: at times she seems tolerably composed, yet 6 '00% 4 0' ments she bitterly reproaches herself, and haSe, ha pe . " 0 ,111 1 to strangle herself, and threatened to kill ferie - 0 15 watching her. She and her husband were fortable circumstances, and religious frenel (t • ee to have prompted her. ut ,to eqe A BATTLE WITH THE WHALES.—We e to perform the duty of the ancient scalds, ail., 0 0 0 5 (but in sober prose) the gallant deeds that l' ar hale s o a!o Cromarty Firth last week, when an invasion ° wen' a dd we 89° courageously encountered by the hardl_, ,ve 03 ,, o ft after a bloody fight, the shoal was disperen'a best cal " with great loss," for many of the largest to t he shoal were stranded, and became d* QCOC' . II) A querors. The shoal of bottlenoses NV ° , 14 be 0' Saltburn, near Invergordon, on MondaY? 1'a v ,,, 1 ci their presence by the noisy nature of their gun' 0 0 / village fishermen were soon ready after, ta- i.ote • he o given, and went out in boats, armed with U A 50 in to spear, musket,. pitchfork, grape, and spad e :-.. P. rig h b t Ait the most amusing character ensued. nas it h i nhoe v ' eo r" the middle of the shoal, the fishermen I, a .as Cog ; great good will, and many a deadly wound heat' fill in g the the fray. The terrified whales dashed abotl ioy , pf th t 5 the wildest confusion, lashing the water in4 s t 01 „ o os e ,: the safety of the men and the boats, and,,n shouts of the fishermen, the struggles of Of, 0 0( 1 2 0 iaje o f Ile In L" et° ,10/ g an et d h t e h re e d e e x n cit t e h m e er s i h t e o r f e, m th a e le sc a e n n d e female , ol d o e u lt e h o e and wildest that can well be imagined. s drov t he ht the hubbub, the mail coach from Inverne: the village, the road running close to the-T: 1;0 yd / j ' e alP r 'o sengers, several of whom were strangers, travel sese which they may not see again should they a fter de.- 1 6 road for 50 years. Late in the eveni . llg e ' n s uccq,o l .ll , hours of shouting and fighting, the fishers " of ' 4 , Y st a driving 45 of the sea-monsters on shore , ,T n i g ht ', feet in length. Little sleep was taken trf; blu bl? o e t ; burn ; everybody was busy in cutting o perat i c ' being a bo ut ,„ 1 .8„ 1 tinued—the carcases, divested of fat, o tf blubber filo, the prizes; and on Tuesday forenoon the ee rrie 6 0 the farmers as manure. With the w ary t et and will. no doubt, yield a goo d a log g The great body of the shoal, which wob but 9eve "ife re pfel to sea, t . t here t o ceeded in making their way out 0 h tangled in the bay of Ni g, where; ve" TuesdaY 0 0 aground by the receding tide. On their way ° II sli!:;4' l 2, casks were tiled to be shipped off to tlieou go id e eo oo , ot o e ° oli more were captured, having.nui- grounded on - 0 13 . twitr e down the Firth ; and having nnore were ...,101 Fowlis Point. On Wednesday 12 oleic point,Wol,;‘,..;e4 the little haven to the west of Ar4en touto 11 to 16 feet, the fight having .., 1 1 eq thebor whole number captured exceeds 70, P,r` sh i e of 100 0 a ll 9 ig d n the ne 00 91 fSt of Cromarty, where bottlenose whyala their "liset seen. Shoals seldom, if ever, fin ea _ unt , did the one which was so signally ou Inverness Courier. n am on o e n ogfstththeewfihashleesrmhaevinnognvethneturneortinies are 00 00% • ontreal' Rev katt a—l fresh' i--Tap Doh i. age. o . —(Sri( koll.l3Sier ieWc‘ l°l44 .; C:ot " 1 1 4% 1'44:991 ~rl Joao, IV 4 4 1 1 ,,q Trak IVEb A k7 , S A ,,IvEr Itt i Z e is,,. Ott , ph hiry I ,r( . ard, D acha , krzus;To't onia Otter 13 kl. Susan„ S t t l`rDckil 4. 41. 0 0 ° 'are( kTiNt !tlif',l,l2,urgb ~pgBj lll a ti t eEf O f ion kt Csi f. SPr Tti u RS . tlard vE Olr i/I k' 44th _, 3Na ORt t Stq, P r k .1 ° 11 1 ) 11 ileZ . t Q 4 4 14 I 'o 4l be: tto