The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-25 00:00:00

the wa )ther p her sons Referrir P Chant, are still t Cost to t I heard. I sir bodies f notoriety, t •,—is it pos while t 'coney' or_ t Tesuitism ; its Pri Chu Church, a few week talented and elcqu of the diabolical do creeping somewhat !onstitt the or: enters at I, know, at s of viciou: are training up shape. Two of as to the cha nt of what they and it is the lg at constant nt I refer to Can any one loubt, it ner cent. more terrib Six of t `requent atten ,y I never saw); attributii them, to t ding -rooms being tself to the minds all that is vile itrtt authoritg ? d by hundreds, night the room g their spend. sing-room,—the mother, alone miserable pit. when her bus Howell ;ton Presbyterian V. M. White, the masterly exposure cli seems now to be r amongst several r, after explaining it of the )ciety, As a the following extract .actices Li/ify,'—which is, oo lights, one of ther wicked and the wrong, if more probability of its __ thing being right, less and varied writ ?ren one anthor who ,s scarcely an wicked mind of man has - murder, per Joie, as there 1 soda from this seasons 4 6 %1 next, t e are cow:inc hip of their divines, advocates it. Inastr probal) lborainab jury, adultery, and every other specicn for the com mission of which advocates cannot be found, the doctrine of Probability is nothing more nor less than an unlimited license to indulge in sin. " I think," said a Jesuit father, "it is pro bable this coat is mine but I am not b ound to g ive it up, though I think it is mu c h more probable it is yours." A judge, says another, may be fully assurel that a certain view of a case 'it, and though he is sworn to decide according to truth, if lecision be against his friend. he is not bound to give it, inosite may be true. if there be even a probabi rittlre. 1 the f riples and Pr h-street, Live into fa% The a' o their pr Were Min a principle suggested for adoption, to that u rupted and incorruptible body of men Nvh ) lilt the jni benches of England—the pride and glory . as well as the s of the land—who, when they take thnr snt on the b forget alike friends, and class, and politics,—were, I sa, there in " c, WORK H VARIETIES and " d ut a host, dvinz w I Year on the Punj FRIGHTFUL P. lee was made t t Icts table, bet •ed to sit Frontie DI the f rd's life ried witl In these days The m Ls every movemen on the Pith of ellion s previous to t Mur ly was arrest y, a f se of one He v m each ent ind of doubl commenced a Swan. and sl When tf e neck. He died in Newgate on the third of the et month, demanding repeatedly in his delirium wi Dublin was not in flames.—Curran and his Cont RESULT OF THE SUPPRESSION OF SUTTEEIS I may here remark, that when English readers hear or read of the unpopularity of British rule in the east, it is well that they should know that by far the greatest share )pularity arises from such i .—And Tferences as of this u The Hindoo no these with the prejudices of the natives. _ longer feels himself a person of vital importance .._ own house. His death will not shorten the days of his young wife. She will not adorn his funeral pile, nor :her screams give solemnity to his exit from the world. She will happily survive as long as her Maker intended, and her lord only if he treats her well. Far be it from .at, if he treats her ill, his curry may with him. The Mahommedan feels equally aggrieved by these benevolent rulers sinuate th, He also ,bould be t d to treat his wife as a worn ch case, T without be Mahornmedan he presume to seek a kinder home ; in 3 low h - as liberty fallet anged. Neither may le cannot kill ther Hindoo longer by the pound ; nor those sacred rac s to meaner ME In short, British rule has tives of many of V ed the ...4e _asuries )man from man ; and that It has protected lost valued as odious as it is n the Puniaub Frontie papers a functionary called " the Biographer terary employment it is to write, and be in read memoirs of great and leading men, so that on their re the public are put in pos- whose 11- a day may not session of the prominent incidents of their lives and career. With the inexorable diligence of fate, the " Life writer" of the London paper is always posting up the records of Or failing strength would i in sn is wif in m arr trangle tt vat reforr dwa .des' Yea itable re ,übtedly Lsualty call them ever so sudden f the fa ake her £lO ward should nade from and sence of mo- children had had been to a nds that •` the of evil .es, in- courage ) look for the The gethcr ng pockets, whose increasing year ender it probable that dea public me h,.ai no distant day, may close feet, that z moran t living great pe der the speCtive initial letters, ready for use aid compilation at a moment's notice. Thus we learn that not only are the Duke of Wellington, Lord Brougham, and other veterans of the 14 T House. and have been so if, Lord Palmer and others, are posted up every ses- their inevitable turn in the ' of the chief London mornir but even the Prei Lographical depar gjourr Ter him sel for yea' ston. Lord Stank so that should any c ount, only a Dries areetbro - wn into .ectsion, hours may intervene before served up in the columns of the morning press. AN AUSTRALIAN HUT.—The station itself appeared miserable enough, though like most others in this quarter. The hut was of the usual gum slabs, rough as split from the tree, and so far apart that the hand might be thrust through }. hnlf A fnnt between each. hese were sunk nab a toot in the ground, and nailed at the top to the wall plates, which rested on round posts, about seven feet high : The _ _ floor was earthen, not of trodden clay, but gravelly, and Among the productions of art of this country which are full of holes, while the roof, of course, was composed of now ready for forwarding to the exhibition are a quantity the customary bark, which is stripped from the trees in of carvings and other decorative works, by Mr. Rogers, of lengths of from six to eight feet, and laid on the sapling Carlisle-street, Westminster. Among them will be the frame like Brobdignagian tiles, overlapping each other, beautiful carved boxwood cradle, made for the Queen, and crowned by saddle sheets sitting astride the roof-tree. and which will be sent by the gracious permission of her There were only two apartments, " a but and a ben," Majesty. The cradle is carved in the finest Turkey box divided by a partition of slabs, and having a doorway, but wood, and was in hand nearly two years, delays having no door, wl ile a small room, or, as it is called, " skil- been occasioned by various circumstances, principally by lean," leaning against the hack of the hut, served as a the difficulty of procuring wood of high quality and suffi store and servant's room. In the principal apartment, a cient size, to render as few joints as possible necessary. hole cut in the slabs, eighteen inches square, served as a The shape of the cradle, which consists of flat head and window ; and the man having a wife, this window was or- footboards elaborately carved in high relief, and united by namented by a small curtain, though, as the woman was a a semi-cylindrical trough, was suggested by her Majesty, slattern, and in fact an old convict, the drapery was none partly in consideration of those representations of cradles of the cleanest. A similar hut was occupied by the men, which generally appear in this form in early Italian and while a stock-yard, with a gallows for hoisting up slaugh- Flemish pictures. tered bullocks, stood behind, and a dirty sheep-yard, Among the novelties from Leicester to draw attention fenced with bushes and boughs of trees, exhaled odours to the Crystal Palace will be a receptable for the dead, not far off. Cultivation or garden there is none, but these sent by Mr. Wilson, of the office of Messrs. Parsons and were not to be expected, for no crop, and seldom any ye- Dain, architects of that town. It is proposed to inclose getables, will grow in Liverpool Plains.—Renderson's one or two acres, (on Woking Common,) as a garden Excursions in New South Wales. cemetery, a large portion of which is to be consecrated for THE CONCEALED DAGGER.—The s o ldie r s too, were the free burial of the poor. In the centre of this large forbidden to go out alone into the villages to buy food or tract of ground it is proposed to erect a pyramid, occupy get grain ground ; no one was to go out without his com- an area of eighteen to twenty acres and rising to the rade, and both well armed. For m y own part, I remern- height of 9eo feet. The plan is to erect stages of cata ber that, some years ago, Runjeet's own grandson, Nao combs, one above another, diminishing every ten feet to Nihal Sing, was twice very nearly assassinated in Bunnoo, the apex. It is computed that the pyramid alone would while at the head of Sikh arm i es . Once a poor looking be capable of containing five million of bodies. Private lad, with a basket of flowers, was admitted into the tent graves, tombs, and cenotaphs are intended to be arranged to lay his humble offering of roses and jessamines at the , round the great sepulchre. The intention is, we believe, feet. As lie approached a suspicious bystander ' to raise the required capital in shares, proposals for which will, no doubt, be submitted to the public, if, after being made known, the plan should be approved. THE LATEST INVENTION FOR THE CRYSTAL PALACE. —A strange rumour has reached our ears. Whether there be any foundation for it, or not, we cannot under take to say. The joke, however, is too good to be lost, even if it were pure invention ' • though we have been assured, in sober earnest, that it is a literal fact. When the Commissioners of the Great Exhibition, so runs the tale, were receiving tenders for the refreshment-room, there appeared, among the parties offering to take the contract, a firm not hitherto known among the restaurants of the metropolis. To cover any objection which might be raised on the score of want of previous reputation. the tender was accompanied by the offer—a tempting one, we should think, to the surplus-lacking Commissioners -- to pay down the amount in hard cash. The fairness of real live sentries the terms proposed, and the prospect of ready money, had 'e tent. One might have thought well nigh decided the Commissioners to close with the for the Emperor of Russia, bargain, when, just in time to prevent it, there was a sus were no discourage- picion whispered in the Commissioners' ears, which led to Year on the further inquiry ; when it turned out that the firm in question consisted of more partners than were " osten sible;" that, in fact—horrendurn dictu—the offer came from the fraternity of pickpockets, who had subscribed a handsome sum in the hope of purchasing the privilege of acting as waiters in the " crystal palace," and easing the sight-loving public of some of their external superfluities, while ministering to their eternal wants. Imagine twenty miles of a crowded holiday thoroughfare, sprinkled over with gentlemen of the swell-mob, in black dress coats and white ties, ticketed as the servants of the establish ment, exercising their vocation amidst the exciting explosions of soda-water and limonade mossemse, and the insinuating comforts of cherry-brandy and punch ala Romaine ! No wonder the idea took with the " pro fession ;" for the purchase of such opportunities any out lay almost would have been a profitable investment. The fellow that first hit upon the scheme deserves to have a cast of his head taken, and placed in the Exhibition, as a specimen of the highest development of the organ of acquisitiveness—a sample of native industry, unmatched, we venture to say, even in the raree-show of cosmopoli tan ingenuity. We confess to some little curiosity, as to the truth of the story, which we have given without embeilishment as it reached us.—John Bull. prince' thrust his hand into the basket and Pulled up a pistol, which was concealed under a garland, HI cocked, and loaded to the muzzle. Another step nearer and he would have discharged it. A second time a whole band of Bun noochees concealed themselves under some mulberry bushes in a water-cut, which ran past the prince's sleep ing tent ; and, when he had retired to rest, fired a perfect volley of bullets in the direction of his bed. _ Several of the attendants were wounded, and the " charpai" on which Nao Nihal Sing was sleeping was splintered, but he himself escaped with a severe fright. These examples, coupled with the late attempt against General Cortlandt and myself in the court-martial tent, determined me to be more cautious ; and from this time 1 always carried a double-barralled pistol in my belt when out of doors, and in the tent made a paper weight of it while writing, or laid it beside my plate at meals. A long cavalry sword also usually stood sentry in the corner, and real live sentries stood over each door of the tent. One might have thought these precautions sufficient for the Emperor of Russia, but it will be seen presently that they were no discourage ment to the patriots of Bunnoo.—Edwardes' Year on the Punjab Frontier. A GREAT DROUGHT IN NEW SOUTH WALES.—I found the country here, like that which I had just passed through, burned up with drought, and, as it lasted for six months after I got home, the cattle I brought with me suffered Being wea Lean from tr country where there was but little to cat, they could not stand the want of food so well as those settled on the run, and about one-fourth of the number died : In many rp, and Wi ron and sky of brass, changing ci !less heavens, Omni ffiatllanv. The judges open the assizes at Newcastle-on-Tyne to morrow. Wheat is 25 per cent., flour 30,1 per cent., and bread about 43!, per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. No fewer than six fires occurred in the metropolis on Monday. _ _ _ Mr. Paxton's design for covering the Royal Exchange with a semicircular glass roof has been sent to the Gres ham committee. _ _ It is said that the Duke of Newcastle has resolved not to preserve game on his estates, as heretofore, but to allow his tenants the privilege of killing the same. At the Midllesex sessions on Wednesday, Mary Evans, aged 18, was sentenced to seven years' transportation for stripping little children in the streets. It is stated that about 8,000,000 of " Bath bricks" are annually made at Bridgewater, from the deposits of the river Parrett. An owl was found in the pulpit of a Wesleyan chapel at Exeter, a few Sundays since, and was captured after a short chase by the chapel keeper. A verdict of wilful murder has been returned at Here ford against a man named Roberts for the murder of his wife, who was found dead in a ditch. About forty vessels were last week detained at Hartle pool through the seamen's strike. A similar inconve nience has been felt at most of the northern ports. Father Gavazzi lectured, on Sunday, on the " Social Working of Monkhood and Nunneries, at the Princess's Concert-hall, London, with great eloquence and fire. The shipwrights on the Tyne are still on strike, not on account of wages, but of some regulations insisted on the men with reference to hire, &c. Instructions have been forwarded to Hull and Shields, from the Board of Trade, to cancel the regulations under the mercantile marine act, against which the sailors have made such a strong demonstration. ear) , of the wi g glare of nd the everlastin the sun. - All the cattle flocked tit any water-holes that might be left them fell down and died. Too weak t hey staggered into the yea __king down, they were drowned ; or, at the water-holes, the mud held them fast, and in the night, long ere life had fled, the disgusting crows, and lean, savage wild-dogs began their repast, the former picking out the eyes, while the latter tore their way into the unhappy animals' bowels. Even the McLcay, which, from its short course, and the propinquity of the mountain ranges and table-land, is commonly a tine, clear, flowing strcam was so dried up that in more than one place I crossed it Sry-shod. It was river, or to there many of n thanSelVeS rig I their h or retre ender the stones, but at one ford there was a perfectly dry bank of shingle across it, and in the large pools and reaches the weeds flourished so that one would have supposed the water stagnant. All vegetation seemed to have ceased. The fields bore no crop, and the herbs in the garden shrivelled under the hot winds, as if tle:1 had been in a baker's oven. The wonder was, not that the cattle died, but that any of them survived, for all nature was in mourning • the grass was crumbled into dust, d the very inSeetS thatl filled the air with their va rious and discordant humming, seemed to despair in si. knee. But it was not in our district that this severe affliction was most felt, for we had scarcely a sufficient taste of it to let us know what a severe drought was, in comparison with some other, I believe I may say most other, parts of the colony. In the Bathurst district it lasted for three years, during which time a trustworthy person residing there informed me that no rain fell. It was perhaps in Liverpool Plains, however, that it had the most direful effect. These wide-spread plains, as they had suffered previously from great floods, which carried away flecks and herds, so were now to groan more heavily under the contrary evil. All that extensive country, where thousands of cattle and horses, and hundreds of thousands of sheep were pastured, was reduced to one vast desert. Some of the cattle, of their own accord, left the plains, and made their appearance in New England and other places. Many died during this migration in search of water, and many more dropped down by the muddy, puddled, and ultimately dried up water-holes, of the Narnoi and Mookie. At one of these, a friend of mine counted no less than nine hundred carcases of cattle, be sides some horses ; and I believe in more than one instance a human being fell from the same cause, where the flocks and herds had dropped down before him. Many of the stations were deserted, and proprietors drove their flocks and herds before them, like the patriarchs of old, looking for a place to feed and water them. But this wise step was taken too late, and many left the greater part of their worldly wealth rotting on the plains.—Henderson's Ad. ventures in Australia. always running at the il Captain Ryan it Swan a He instantly rose, having in his stiletto, the ha desperate res abbed Ryan i id the door, fired hi as helph le being in the centre, sand overpow - ered by the sol. ation i THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. safety On Tuesday, the Queen and Prince Albert, with the y, the nch, Royal children, visited the Exhibition, in Hyde Park, mg.', when the zalleries were tested in every way by bodies of counter-marching over them, mg upon them in every way, and more than double ,ht conc7ntrated upon them that can possibly be e after the stalls arz put up, and the arrange complete for the admission of the public. A great scientific gentlemen were present, and expressed impletesatisfaction at the success of the experi- king anc At no time, under the severest pressure, was any urflection observable greater than would be the case with the floor of a London house at an ordinary evening party. The TimeB gives an interesting account of the proceedings the interior of the building on Tuesday :—" As the eons containing the packages arrive within the build are driven to the cent r e of the transept, and —se unloaded and marked by a Custom-house officer. From the transept relays of Sappers convey the packages n trucks to the compartment of the foreign country hence they come. Deposited in this compartment ano er band of custom-house officers are there to receive m, and a fresh party of Sappers, with chisels and other lements, rapidly break open lids or other coverings, „iitary determination sweep everything before them until the goods lie revealed. Yesterday the Zolve reign compartment was the principal one to which goods , ned, though arrivals also took place for the and Canadian collections. Entering within the ,oarding, where Sappers were vigorously engaged break ng open great boxes, one might have almost fancied that some scene of plunder was in progress. The variety of articles that the different packages presented was also cu rious, and even the custom-house people themselves, hardened as they must be against that species of excite- nd with m were const went, appeared interested in the miscellaneous character of their occupation. One box contained a set of trays, another earthenware images, another silk handkerchiefs or gloves, another parasol handles, another a machine for knitting, articles of general merchandise alternated with works of art, and specimens of skilful handicraft. And, we may observe, that even at this early stage in the arri val of foreign goods there are signs that the palm of cheap production and the merit of an industrial system, founded ou the principle of utility, are not to he resigned us with out a contest by the States of the Zolvereign. Within the space allotted for our native contributions few arri vals have taken place, and beyond the apportionment of ground hardly anything has as yet been done. The floor ing is marked off with red paint or chalk, and one sees scrolled on the boards the familiar names of our different manufacturing communities. In the division of machi nery, Oldham has taken the lead by commencing the foundations of the complicated and splendid display of cotton machines which are to be exhibited from there. It is singular that, as a milliner was the first contributor to the stock of the exhibition, the small Scotch town of Dun fermline should have its stall soonest completed." Great progress has been made within the last few days in the arrangement of the space in the building for the various classes of goods, and in the allocation of the space to be occupied by individual exhibitors in the respective classes. The arrangements for cotton machines to be shewn in motion were finally completed yesterday. The space to be occupied by this very important section will be in the form a parallellogram of 240 feet, by 72 feet in breadth, situated on the north-west portion of the build ing. Sites have already been marked for almost every variety of machine, from the first stage of the preparation of the cotton up to its final manufacture in the loom. The space allotted to flax and the linen manufactures is divided into compartments, bearing the names of Belfast, Leeds, Barnsley, and other towns which will contribute to this class. The arrangement of the space to individual exhibitors will devolve upon the local committees of the respective towns. The gallery flooring also bears the names of many firms of high repute and standing in the higher branches of our manufactures, to whom space has been allotted. In the woollen section, also, the marking out of the space has been completed, and several of the Scotch towns have made considerable progress in their fittings. Several agricultural implements have already arrived, and the foundations for several pieces of heavy machinery are being proceeded - vith. In the space de voted to colonial productions, the sappers and custom house officers are busily engaged in unpacking and regis tering a large quantity of Canadian productions, many of which will not tail to prove exceedingly attractive. Some most remarkably fine specimens of white pine," and other varieties of timber, in slabs and logs, are in cluded in the articles which have arrived from Canada. There is also an exceedingly valuable collection of furs ; and the stuffed aquatic and other birds may be considered as highly creditable specimens of the art of taxidermy in the colony. Of the productions of foreign countries, the largest amount which has yet arrived has been from the Zoilverein ; among which manufactures, textile and otherwise, appear to occupy a very large proportion. Some few packages have also arrived from Switzerland. Great progress has been made in the fitting up of the space allotted to North Germany ; and several otner coun tries have also commenced these preliminary proceedings. •The first cargo of French articles, consisting of 1200 packages, for the Hyde-park Exhibition, left Paris on Tuesday. _ _ _ The Sloanes are to be confined in Newgate. because they were not sentenced to bard labour. Mrs. Sloane is in the ho.pital. Mr. Sloane prefers being in solitary confinement—to avoid the society of the prison. The Dublin papers announce the death of Mrs. Xaveria Wiseman, mother of Cardinal Wiseman. She died on the 7th instant, at the house of jier daughter, the Coun- tess of Gabrielli, at Fano, in Italy, after - a short illness, At Shields. Sunderland, ScarbOrough, Liverpool, and other ports, Mr. Labouchere has been burnt in effigy by large bodies of sailors, through feelings of indignation towards him for passing the Mercantile Marino Act. . - On Sunday week it was discovered that some thief had stolen the black cloth with which the pulpit and reading desk of Markham Clinton Church, Notts, had been hung on the occasion of the funeral of the Duke of Newcastle A successor to the corpulent Mrs. Armytage appears in the person of a Mrs. Farmer, who is now exhibiting in the Strand The weight of the good lady in question is reported to be 3561 b On Monday the area of St : Paul's Churchyard, London, . • was thrown open to the public, so that persons can now pass to and from the western entrance on the top of Lud gate-hill to the north and south sides. A very destructive fire broke out on Wednesday in Duke-street, London, near London-bridge, at Wigan and White's, hop-merchants. The whole of their large warehouses are destroyed, besides several houses. The average price of wheat for the week ending on Saturday last has fallen to 375. Bd. per quarter, the mar kets ruling dull throughout the country, and immense supplies coming in almost daily from abroad, duty free. .. THE PARTRIDG E D ALE gum:int.—John Firth was committed on Thursday to York Castle, charged with the murder of his brother. It is strongly suspected that the deceased was shot in cool blood, and in a deliberate manner. The Rev. William Holme Milner, vicar of Penrith, was presented the other day, by his parishioners, with a splendid tea-urn, of the value of a hundred guineas, as a mark of their unqualified approbation of his ministrations among them. Mr. Skelton, a miller, at Worksop, Notts, lately received a letter enclosing 2s, 6d., wbich the writer said was to compensate Mr. Skelton for a peck of beans, which the writer and another girl stole from one of his fields twelve or thirteen years since. _ _ _ While a fruit dealer was leaving his dwelling in Derby, on Wednesday week, his little daughter ran after him to give him a kiss; but be did not stop, and the child began to cry, suddenly threw her head back, and immediately died. MORE WORKHOUSE RIOTING.—On Monday, a num ber of the able-bodied young men in the workhouse at Yarmouth, made an attempt to get possession of the stores and provisions, which was, however, frustrated by the interference of the police, but not before they had smashed a number of windows, benches, &c. On Friday week a public meeting was convened in Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, for the purpose of present ing the Rev. E. Pughe, late vicar of the parish, with two pieces of plate—one from the opulent, the other from the working classes--on the occasion of his leaving Llanidloes for the junior vicarage of Bangor Cathedral. The wife of a journeyman shoemaker, at Northampton, having absconded with a man, the husband procured a pistol, followed, and found the fugitives, and, having caused his wife to be called out of a public-house where she was, he shot her, and she now lies in a dangerous state. He has been committed for trial. Mr. Knowles, the Commissary General, aged s], com mitted suicide, on Sunday night week, by swallowing prussic acid. His mind had been recently troubled by the death of a beloved daughter, and again by the depar ture of his son for Sierra Leone, where another son died about five weeks ago. The Wolverhampton Chronicle mentions that yester day week a quantity of gunpowder, used for blasting, exploded in Messrs. Homfray and Brettell's pits near Rowley, and so severely injured a miner named Kitson, that it is feared he will lose his sight, even if he should survive. George Barrett, who keeps a general shop at Newport Pagnel, is in custody on a charge of being concerned, with his brother Enoch Barrett and William Evans, in stealing, at:different times, from the stations and carriages belong ing to the South-Eastern Railway Company property of all descriptions, amounting in value to over £2OOO. While a young man named Kennedy, employed in a thread manufactory, near Cockermouth, was " larking" with two or three others on Monday evening week, he accidentally fell into a large vat which catches the boiling water from the engine, and so frightfully was he scalded that he died the same night. SUDDEN DEATH OF A CLERGTMAN.—The Rev. J. Gresswell Vicar of Creech St. Michael, while reading at the table in his study, was suddenly attrcked with wheez ing, and a slight cough, when he began to froth at the meuth, turned black in the face, and died before he could be removed. The deceased was abort 58 years of age, and was much respected. A man named Gurnett, the principal gamekeeper to E. J. Esdaile, Esq., of Cothelston, near Taunton, was attacked on Saturday se'nnight, in Mr. Esdaile's preserves. Gurnett was very much beaten by his assailants, who, after depositing his body in a ditch, left him for dead. He afterwards revived sufficiently to relate the circum stances, but he is not out of danger. At Guildhall, on Wednesday, an action was tried at the instance of Wilks, a turnkey at Marlborough-street police office, against the Times newspaper, for a libel imputing to the plaintiff that he had been bribed to permit the escape of one Hacket. a notorious offender, and another named Mackenzie. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff with one farthing damages. A Kendal paper mentions that at a private ball at Am bleside, a few evenings since, a young lady's dress came in contact with the - flame of a lamp, and immediately caught fire. The dress burned rapidly, and before the flames could be extinguished the young lady was severely scorched ; but fortunately her injuries were not of a dan gerous character. On Tuesday evening, as the Parliamentary train from London to Manchester came near Alderley, at about six o'clock, an accident, the immediate cause of which is at present involved in mystery, occurred, by which the en gineer was killed on the spot, and many of the passen gers were more or less injured. Five of the carriages were. dashed to pieces. On Friday morning, a young lady, the daughter of a gentleman of great wealth, and who has considerable property in her own right, was missed from her home in Cheltenham. Inquiries were instituted, and it was ascer tained that she had eloped with a " dashing young car penter," and that the couple had been safely united in Hymen's bonds, in a neighbouring town. A very numerously attended meeting was held on Wed— _ nesday, at the Hall of Commerce, London, the Lord Mayor presiding, supported by several members of Parlia ment and leading merchants of the City, at which a series of resolutions were _proposed and unanimously carried, recommending the adoption of measures favourable to the establishment of tribunals of commerce in Great Britain. On Friday morning, a man named Fradd, a shoemaker, : of 58, Richmond-street, Plymouth, attempted suicide by cutting his throat. His wife was in the room at the time, i and attempted to wrest the knife from him, on which he turned upon her and inflicted several wounds on her neck, 1 hands, and arms. She succeeded in getting the knife 1 from him, but he was so severely injured that he is not 1 likely to recover. 1 RELIEF TO THE WIND-BOUND MERCHANTMEN.—The Admiralty have ordered the 60-gun screw line-of-battle ship Hogue to proceed from Cork to the Chops of the Channel, for the relief, with water and provisions, of the homeward-bound trading vessels ; and the Admiralty have further ordered that in future the Hogue is to cruise in the Chops of the Channel at all times when the wind has been blowing from the eastward for 24 hours. The Emperor of Russia has transmitted a silver medal, with the riband of St. Anne attached, to Mr. Joseph Thompson, engineer, son of Mr. Robt. Thompson, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, butcher. Mr. Thompson served his apprenticeship with Messrs. Robert Stephenson and Co., after which he superintended the construction of the bridge across the Neva, which in Russia is designated " the Blagovenshensxoy Bridge in St. Petersburgh." On Friday last, Emma, the daughter of Mr. Job Dibs dell, Salisbury, was sitting at her father's house, in com pany with a few friends, when suddenly she was seized with excruciating agony. Medical aid was soon in at tendance, but she expired the next morning. Her be reaved parents permitted her body to be opened, when it was ascertained that an orange kernel had worked an unusual course to her heart, and caused death. ' A 100-GUN SCREW LINE-OF-BATTLE SHIP.—A new ship of the line, by name St. Jean d'Acre, has been on the " Navy List" for some years, but has not been laid down. The Admiralty have now determined that instead of a 90-gun ship, like the Albion, she shall be a powerful two-decker, to carry 100 guns, and to be propelled by screw machinery of 650-horse power. She is ordered to be built at Devonport.—United Service Gazette. MUNIFICENT DONATION IN SUPPORT OF ROMAN CA THOLICISM.—Th inhabitants of the village of Oldcoates, near Blytho, and also of the surrounding neighbourhood, have been astounded by Edward Chaloner, Esq., of Gold thorpe, giving upwards of an acre and a half of ground in a field south of Oldcoates, whereon to erect a Roman Catholic church, a house for the priest, a school, and a burial-ground. That gentleman has also, we hear, in vested £4OOO towards its completion.—Noilinghatn Guardian. The baby monkey, at the Bristol Zoological Gardens, is now beginning to leave its mother's neck. Its first lessons in climbing are exceedingly interesting to witness. Sometimes the mother will get into the tree, leaving the young one below, for the purpose, it would seem, of tempting it to climb up to her ; the outstretched hand, however, shows bow narrowly those attempts are watched, and should there appear the slightest danger of its falling, it is instantly clasped to her breast, and hugged in a manner which is most amusing. Binstead-house, the seat of General Lord Downes, 1 near Ryde, Isle of Wight, was totally destroyed by fire on Monday afternoon. £30,000 of jewels was stated to be lost. His Lordship and family were crossing from Portsmouth, and saw the conflagration from the deck of the steamer ; they were coming to Binstead for a short time, the house having been prepared for their reception. The cause of the fire was the careless way in which a ' stove had been set in the study. The wall between this room and the drawing-room was but half a brick thick ; this had been knocked away and the stove thrust against the battening, which was canvassed. THE LATE WORKHOUSE RIOT IN SUFFOLK.—It ap pears that at the time of the riot there were 120 able bodied men picking oakum in the Barham Union. A pe tition has been drawn up for presentation to both Houses of Parliament, from the guardians of the Hoxne Union, in the same county, which states that the union is " not sufficiently large to contain half the applicants for relief, as there are in the house 130 able-bodied men, and out of the house 127 receiving relief under the out-door test— i2s7 . and that, taking a single week, ending in January, 1850, and the corresponding week in 1851, the number in the former is 73, in the latter 249, showing an increase of more than 300 per cent." HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCE.—In the parish of. Llanfi hangel, near Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, a young ser vant girl, near her confinement, horrible to relate, opened her side with a pair of scissors, and thus delivered herself of a full-grown infant. She was detected in the act of stitching up the wound thus so unnaturally inflicted on her person. Medical aid was immediately procured, but she died at the house of her parents in a few days from mortification.—Chester Chronicle. INcEspiAILY FlRE.—About eleven o'clock on Monday night, another destructive fire occurred in Wimbish, near Saffron Walden, on the premises At Pinckneys t held off-hand by Mr. E. Emson, and caused the destruction of three barns, stables, cow-sheds, piggeries, and cart-sheds ; about 300 quarters of wheat, beans, barley, and oats ; one cart-horse, eleven pigs, five sheep, ten lambs, a quantity of straw, two waggons, five rollers, and the whole of the cart harness. The damage is estimated at £3OOO. -- AN UNCOUTH SHOPMAN.—On Tuesday evening last, after dark, a pair of oxen ran unceremoniously into the shop of Mr. J. Chapman, grocer, Hartlepool, one of which fell head foremost through a hatchway into the cellar be- low, and was got out with considerable difficulty ; the other ensconced himself behind the counter, to the no small terror of the displaced shopman, and much to the amusement of the crowd which soon gathered around the door. The services of the new corner, however, were as speedily as possible dispensed with, and but little injury was done. A POACHING TRICK.—A gentleman while walking the other day in the grounds of a noble family in this neigh bourhood observed a pheasant pecking on the ground, and, watching the bird for a minute or two, he saw it tum ble over as if shot. The observer walked to the spot, and found the bird dead ; there was a sprinkling of peas on the ground of a rather suspicious appearance. He picked one up, and to his surprise discovered that it was threaded with bristles, cut short, but still long enough and sharp enough to stick in any bird's throat that tried to swallow the bait, and so choke it.—Worcestershire Chronicle. DISGRACEFUL PROCEEDINGS AT THE FALKIRK ELEC TION.—This election was characterized by such scenes of drunkenness and disorder as have seldom been witnessed on a similar occasion. Drunken men and women are described as having been lying about the streets in all directions in a state of perfect insensibility, while others, who were able to stagger upright, were engaged in conti nuous fights and brawls. After the poll had closed, the rioting became so serious, the hotel where Mr. Baird's committee sat having been assailed with showers of stones, and every window in it smashed, that the aid of the mili tary at Glasgow had to be called in. A WOMAN KILLED BY HER HUSBAND.—On Tuesday night, about eight o'clock, Joseph Clarke, a carpenter, the husband of an unfortunate woman, a notorious drun kard, on his return home, at Bath, from work, found his wife in a state of intoxication. He began to quarrel with her, and lastly took a stick, from two to three feet long and one inch thick, and severely beat her about the head and other parts of her body. In the course of a short time she died. A policeman who was called in charged the prisoner with killing his wife, and he said, " I am the canse of her death." He said he knocked her down with a stick which was then lying on the floor broken in seve ral pieces, about one of which was a quantity of human hair. Where the deceased was lying there was a large pool of blood. A BARN OF GLASS.—Mr. N. Tuckett intends to cover a large barn, 110 feet long, and 28 feet wide, on his farm at Heavitree, with a glass roof, after the model of the pa lace of glass. The expense will not be above two-thirds of the cost of slate, and he anticipates several advantages &ern the novel roof ; among others it may be applied to the drying corn during a catching harvest. The corn can be placed in the barn immediately upon being reaped, where it will have the benefit of the sun when it shines, be protected from the showers, and also dried by artificial heat, if required, and then stacked in ricks under a co vered stackyard. This will enable the land to be imme diately ploughed up, and sowed with turnips or rape, which will prepare the land for another cereal crop the following year, so that he anticipates three crops in two years.— Western Times. . . ALLEGED POISONING BY A HUSBAND. — An inquest is now proceeding at Chipping Sodbury, near Bristol, on the body of a married woman named Hathway, whom her husband is suspected of having poisoned. He, and a girl with] whom he cohabited, are in custody. Hathway, it is stated, was a man of somewhat irregular habits, which caused great uneasiness to his wife. They were both young people, and on their marriage he received a consi derable sum of money with her, which, however, was soon dissipated, and it is alleged that he was in the habit of receiving at the house, in the presence of his wife, girls of ill fame. On Friday night last, Mrs. Hathway was taken very ill, between seven and eight o'clock. She had a violent sickness and retching, which continued throughout the night, and on Saturday morning early she died. In consequence of a rumour of ill play having got abroad it was determined that an inquest should be holden. BURGLARY AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER AT WINDSOR. —On Wednesday morning, at half-past one o'clock, the house of Mr. Tucker, the verger of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, who resides at No. 4, Clarence Road, was broken into by two men, who first ransacked the low er rooms of the house, and then proceeded upstairs with lighted candles to the sleeping apartments of Mr. Tucker and an elderly lady. named Whittaker. Mrs. Whittaker was awoke by the light and noise, and uttered an excla mation, upon which one of the ruffians struck her on the head with an iron instrument, inflicting two severe wounds and another blow broke her arm, which she held up to protect herself. Mr, Tucker, on hearing Mrs. Whitta kes's screams, jumped out of bed and ran to her assistance, but was knocked down several times, and received four severe wounds on the head. Mrs. Whittaker's screams alarmed the villains, and they made off before the police arrived. Mr. Tucker is upwards of 90 years of age, and both he and Mrs. Whittaker are in a most dangerous state. _ _ MONEY MARKET.—The return of the movement of the Bank of England for the week ending on the 15th inst., gives the following changes compared with the week end ing Bth instant :—ln the department of issue the notes in circulation had increased £120,000, which had been pro duced by an increase of £120,000 in the gold coin or bul lion, the silver bullion remaining unaltered. On the debit side of the banking department the rest had increased £87,424, the public deposits had increased £440,568, the private deposits had increased £63,401, and the seven-day and other post hills had decreased £77,182, making the total of the liabilities £35,597,233. On the credit side the government securities remained unaltered ; the other securities had increased £54,114, the notes had increased £384,760, and the gold and silver coin had increased £75,337, which equalized the account. The bullion in both departments of the Bank had increased from £14,278,164 to £14,473,501,being a difference of £341,942. The paper in actual circulation had decreased from £20,381,557 to £20,039,615, being a difference of £341,942. THE ARMOURY AT THE TOWER.—Great preparations are being made at the Tower for the approaching crowds, who are expected to visit the metropolis this year. A new room and staircase is being constructed at the end of the White Tower, in order that the visitors may not have to return by the same way at which they enter the horse armoury, as heretofore. This is a very great im provement. All the magnificent suits of armour are being reburnished ; also the various ancient weapons which form the devices on the walls and ceilings of this splendid receptacle of England's chivalry of the olden time. It is quite amusing to pass through the gallery at the present time. The Black Prince has an old blanket thrown over him for protection again st an Irish labourer r y a n V d o n n I whose head is undergoing a cha ncer y p rocess at the hands i p s a i l n o t o i n k n t g h e w s i k a t: Il h p c d t i h s e gu C st ov a e t na h n is ter c s o . usi h n la ß rt of an Ordnance manipulator. In fact, kin g s, kni g hts, e a r P f s e c o t f squires and horses appear terrified at these preparations. One would almost imagine that Sir Francis Head, or some other of the present alarmists, had been delivering a course of lectures to them.—United Service Gazette. THE SEAMEN IN THE NORTH.—Two foreigners were " tarred and feathered" at North Shields on Saturday week. They had come across from Sunderland to a foreign vessel in the Tyne, and had been overhauled by a company of " watchers," who are kept on the look-out by the men on strike. The foreigners, being unable to give a good account of themselves, were followed without the borough. One of them was caught near some coal staiths at Hayhole, besmeared with coal tar, and after wards dusted with chaff from an old bed-tick. The other man, after a chase, was caught in the village of Howdon, and met a similar fate, amid the yells and derision of a mob of women. On Sunday week, about three o'clock, a melancholy accident happened to one of the watchers, who went off with five others to overhaul a vessel that was goinc to sea. The vessel was towing down, and going rapidly through the water. In attempt ing to hook the ship's boat the watcher's boat upset, and one of them, a young man, named Mark Armstrong, was drowned. His body was picked up on Sunday afternoon. Twenty-five policemen have been sent down from New castle to assist the authorities to keep the peace, and a number of special constables were sworn in at South Shields. It has since been announced that the seamen in the North have resolved to terminate the strike and return to their duty. DISCOVERIES IN AFRICA.—A meeting of the Royal Geographical Society took place on Monday, the 10th instant; the president, Captain W. H. Smyth, R.N., K.S.F., D.C.L., F.R.S., in the chair. Two communica tions upon African geography, just received, preceded the papers of the evening. In the first, mention was made of the successful ascent of the cataract of the White Nile, which had stopped the further progress of D'Arnaud. The expedition, consisting of the missionaries (Dr. Knob licher (vicar), Don Angelo Binco , an d Don Emanuel Pedemonte, started with seven vessels from Khartum, on November 13, 1849. On the 14th January, 1850, the great cataract was for the first time luckily ascended, tin_ der the guidance of their bold p ilot Suleiman Abu Zaid, favoured by a strong north wind. Immediatel y above the cataract the navigation of the river was rendered ex. tremely difficult by sand banks, and higher up by rocks. At the village of Tokiman, the surprise of the natives at the sight of the vessels and of the white men, was amusing. The party arrived at Logwek on the 16th of January, where Dr. Knoblicher ascended a lofty granite hill, from the top of which the White Nile could be seen stretching away to the south-west, and in the distant horizon the summits of a range of lofty mountain could be distinctly traced. At the 4th deg. lat. the Nile was 200 yards broad, and from two to three deep. In the second African anun v e o paper, the Rev. D. Livingston communicated through the London Missionary Society, an account of another large lake, 150 to 200 miles to the northward of Lake Ngami, the discovery The very new lakeofwhich w which Mr. Livingston received the seco n d p r i ze o f the containsas announced no large d islands, last year, upon and for ne of which Sebetoane, the well-known chief, resides. The two lakes are connected by a ra pid, stream, the Teoge. The inhabitants around this lake are said to be in com munication with the Portuguese settlements upon the coast. Mr. Livingston intended. proceeding again shortly to the north upon a visit te , the chief* Feb. 25, 1851. EXTENSIVE PLCIIDEB. BY A LODGING HOUSE-KEEPER. —Mary And Turner, a very rtipectaNy-;Wircd W 9 11 11477 about 30 years of are, residing at 57, Beaumont-street: Marylebone, was charged at Marylebone Police court, London, on Monday, with having stolen bank notes, jewellery, &c. to a large amount, the property of Mr. Thomas Hillman, chief clerk to the Accidental Death In surance Company, Lothbury. It appeared that the prose cutor and his family lodged with the prisoner, and on his returning home about 6 o'clock a few evenings back, the prisoner expressed her fear that a robbery had been com mitted, and that the thief was then probably up stairs. While he was waiting at the door to endeavour to get the assistance of the police the prisoner's sister ran down stairs with dishevelled hair, and said there was a man under one of the beds. A policeman having then arrived they all went up stairs, when no man was to be seen, but Mrs. Hillman's cloak was found in an unoccupied room, and the drawer of her dressing case, which contained one or two £5. notes, and about £BO. or £9O. worth of jewell ery, was gone. It was subsequently ascertained that the prisoner bad paid one of the notes, whose numbers had been stopped, at Shoolbred and Cook's in Tottenham court-road, when she was taken into custody. The pris oner now denied that she was the person who had changed the note, and was remanded. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.—On Wednesday the Earl of Stamford and Warrington was summoned before Mr. Bingham at Marlborough-street Police-office, London, for refusing to maintain an illegitimate child of which he was alleged to be the father,'by Mary Ann Parkes. The applicant, who said she was the daughter of a spade and iron implement manufacturer, at Hyde, about two miles from the hall where Lord Stamford lived, gave a circum stantial account of her alleged interview with the Earl, and swore positively that he was the father of the child, and the only person who had been familiar with her. he was supported in her testimony by a female friend named Ann Lewis. On the other hand it was proved that Mary Ann Parkes had lived at Wolverhampton and London with a man named Sheridan, and passed for his wife, and that the witness Jane Lewis, who swore to the contrary, resided in the same house with them. After this contra dictory evidence had been given, the attorney who appeared for the complainant abandoned the case at once. He had no hesitation in saying that the parties ought to be indicted for conspiracy. If the Earl of Stamford took further proceedings he would do all in his po arer to assist his lordship.—A gentleman in court, on behalf of Lord Stamford, said he was authorised to say his lordship would certainly assist towards attaining the ends of justice. An application was then made for a warrant against the man Sheridan for conspiracy, and the two women were re manded on a charge of perjury and conspiracy. THE GREAT SWINDLE OF THE DAY.—That Hydro pathy, Homcepathy, and Mesmerism, those offsprings of deceit and humbug, should have found, not only believers, but enthusiastic supporters in the nineteenth century, will ever be a cause of wonder and regret to the sensible and unbiassed portion of the community. The blind and arrogant vanity of the fosterers of these systems, where madness is balanced by dishonesty, is the mainspring of the zeal they display with so much pride; and though the fallacies which they profess were clearly proved to be untenable, and fraught with incalculable mischief, pride, vigorously backed by ignorance, would still hold out, and fasten upon the wild notions which were im bibed by the love of singularity. That the mischief re sulting from the lies and deceptions of mesmerism is frightful, has been proved repeatedly ; we were, there fore, not surprised at the vile accusations made the other day in Paris by a mesmeric impostor. The wretched creature, who, with so many other rogues, daily panders in mesmeric sleep to the stupid love of the wonderful in. the Parisian gulls, destroyed, by his calumnious insinua tions, the peace of two families, in the most wicked and heartless manner; and so high did the indignation run, that even the authorities, so watchful of political delin quents, and so supine towards the herds of ignorant pre tenders who daily figure in public advertisements, insti tuted inquiries regarding this disgusting transaction. The whole business will be brought before a court of justice, and though we have but very little faith in the support of government in such matters, we trust that the guilty parties will meet their full deserts.—Lancet. WHITTLE DEAN WATER COMPANY.—The directors of the Whittle Dean Water Company have submitted to the shareholders the capital and revenue accounts for the past year, with an accompanying report which brings their lead•ng features under review. The report we subjoin; the detailed accounts those particularly interested may consult by reference to the official circular. With respect to the quality of the water supplied to the inhabitants, there are still serious complaints; indeed, it would seem that the present company, with all their boasted resources, and large amount of subscribed capital injudiciously ex pended, are not capable of meeting the requirements of the public. There is one grand fault their reservoirs have, which must for ever be a great drawback on their ability to supply the town—they won't hold water. Taking this important fact into consideration, no one can reason ably feel surprised that, commencing with an eight months' store, their tanks should soon run dry ;. for they were tapped at two points, that at which the water passes through the company's pipes into the houses of consu mers, the other being the strata of the dene through which the water percolates into the ravine below, and thence into the river Tyne. We shall take an early opportunity of returning to the subject. Our recent silence has been in expectation that the company would carry out works sufficient to meet the wants of the com munity in water, both with respect to quantity and quality; and as we are willing to give them credit for good inten tions, so we shall not prejudge the measures they may adopt. But, at the same time, it is only proper to remark, as already done, that the water continues to be extremely bad, discoloured, and full of infusorai. Newcastle Journal. MARKING A POACHER.—Some time since Daniel Gee, a young man who resides on the seacoast, near Hoibeach, and gets his living by fishing, but who, it appears, occa sionally varies his legitimate occupation by a little illegal sport amongst land animals, went with his gun on the lands of Mr. Woolley, in pursuit of a hare, which he found and killed. Before he could pick it up Mr. Elliff, an opulent young farmer, who was in an adjoining field, rushed upon him, and pointing at him a double-barrelled gun, declared that he would mark him, and atter abusing him with very disgusting language, snapped both locks, but the caps exploded without discharging the pierP. He re-capped his gun, and, as Gee continued to more cif, he fired, but the shot struck the ground near the fugitive's foot. " Surely," said the latter, " you do not mean to shoot me in this lonely place." Elliff replied, "I do mean to shoot you ;" and after following him about a quarter of a mile he again took aim, fired, and shattered the poor fellow's hand and arm in a shocking manner. "Now I can leave you," said he, " I shall know you again, and now I shall go back and look for the hare." Gee crawled as well as he could to Holbcach, where he was taken into custody by a constable, on the evidence of Elliff. The constable, seeing the agony he was in, took him to a surgeon, and the next day he was committed by a magistrate for a month on Elliff's evidence. Gee, at the expiration of his imprisonment, by the advice of parties who commiserated his sufferings , and who saw that he had been deprived for some time,. by Elliff's thewH a o n i y t b o eo n au h e g s farmer, w f e r t e h e f t for e o power s e o a g f e as a s, r heardni n i n t g h hi e o sne Thursdayc v u e n l h y od , Courtw s e u e e ko d .f ca It then appeared that the evidence given by Elliff b e f ore the magistrates was excessively exaggerated, he declaring that Gee shot at him first. His subsequent statement was, that he wanted to mark the man, and had fired for that purpose. It appeared also that the plaintiff was not at all on Mr. Elliff's land. There was a great sensation in the court against the defendant. The judge gave his decision in favour of the plaintiff, and awarded him £33 damages. THE IRON TRADE.—The dissatisfaction among the miners and colliers in various localities, adverted to in our last notice of this trade, has now subsided, and labour appears to be everywhere going on again, under a quiet continuation of the rates that were previously given. We then stated that the circumstances of the trade, whether considered with regard to demand or prices, were such as to render any advance in wages utterly impracticable, and hitherto no improvement has taken place ; but, un fortunately, there appears a little more flatness creeping on. and a tendency in the market to become more quiet. The current prices are easil, obtained for light orders of best qualities, but in naii-rods and common bars some difficulty is experienced. It is true that this is locked upon as a temporary cloud that will soon pass over, and at present we have not heard of any underselling ; bet a contrary tendency would have been much more satisfac tory, and much more consonant with the repeated predic tions and continued assurances of the suppor t ers of the policy of the day. The orders now on hand, joined with the demand that may reasonably be expected to arise from the more favourable position of railway property, and the additional construction of lines to be carried out this summer, would, under ordinary c i rcums t ances , h ave been deemed a sufficient ground for calculating upon an early advance; but the consu m pti on o f t h e enormous bulk ofiron daily produced is become too entirely dependent upon the variations of foreign markets, and the home demand has been too e ff ec t ua ll y cr i pp l ed to warrant any speculation. In the United States also—by far the most important outlet for our exports—we are still threatened with the adoption o f a h ost il e tar iff a l most equa l, to a prohibition ; hence there appears little probability of any upward movement beyond existing rates. In one or two instances furnaces and works that have for a long time been standing have again been put into operation, but it would seem not so much on account of any pressure of orders, since others less fortunately situated have in the meanwhile been compelled to reduce their make, as with a view to make up:for remunerative prices by pushing a more extensive trade, a practice most inimical to all permanent improvement. In Wales and Scotland orders are said to remain plentiful, but the prices at which they are taken are a shade lower. Pig iron is stationary—manufacturers are pretty well supplied, and very little is changing hands. Both coals and iron-stone can be procured on a little easier terms. The demand for the former by country dealers has considerably fallen off, on account of the introduction of coals from other districts by the railways, which has, to some extent, interfered with the sale of Staffordshire. —Birmingham Gazette. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. THE LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING Comes off to-mor row, under the distinguished stewardship of the Earl of Sefton, the Marquis of Waterford, and George Payne, Esq. ; and the promise held out by the programme is extremely gratifying, racing of every description, of an unexceptionable character, being provided. The grand feature, as a matter of course, is the Grand National Steeple Chase Handicap, for which 34 horses have ac. cepted. A great influx of visitors is anticipated, and the meeting is expected to, be oae of the greatest which has yet takea placSk de and and men e to