The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-31 00:00:00

FORE;Giv AND COLONIAL. WEST INDIES. The Trent, Royal Mail steam-ship, Captain Norton, arrived at Southampton on Wednesday, with the usual West Indian and Mexican mails. The Trent experienced very bad weather in the Gulf of Mexico. Jamaica papers have not arrived. It was, however, as serted by one of the passengers that he learned at St. Thomas's, Sir Charles Grey was likely to recover from his late severe accident. There was no Jamaica pas senger on board to confirm this assertion. In Barbadoes, should the weather prove favourable next month, the crops will equal last year. In Demerara, it is expected that the crops will this season be better than for the last three years, and about sheads is stated as the probable shipment of the 50,000 he colony. INDIA AND CHINA We have received Bombay papers of the 15th Septem ber, Calcutta 7th September, and Hong Kong to the 23d August. A considerable force is now assembled at Moultan, and by the last advices was ready to commence the siege of that fort. Moolraj, it is said, has resolved to sell his life, and there is no doubt that he has some devoted followers who will stand by him to the last. Various reports of the Igth of Moultan have been circulated, the truth of h will now soon be put to the test. That it is thought despicable by those at last sent to reduce it n the deliberation with which they are pro- Wm by no m is evident and the power that they are preparing to bring againdit. By the Delhi Gazette of the 6th we learn that Moolraj is making great exertions to seduce the Sepoys of the East India Company. That paper says,—" Endea vours to seduce the Sepoys of our own regiments are ttempts made, his instruments being deser- British army, who promise high pay and Two Of these c 51st Native Infantry, who appeared to agree to take ser vice with the Dewan on fifteen rupees a-month. After a induced the decoys to go with him to his tent, iuietly slipped away to report to the officer of his company what had occurred. The two men were forthwith apprehended, and Aloolrars purwannahs found on their persons. Several heads of cattle, and among them some camels and an elephant of General Whist), had been captured by the Dewan's foraging parties." In Bombay there was some improvement in business, and a large number of shares having been taken up in the while I proposed - Railway Company (Great Indian Peninsular SeCond General Meeting of the Bombay St I‘ , l aviga- eld immediately after last mail left and their affairs, not in an over-flourishing condition pang was I Governor remains in the Deccan, where, lately, the wea ther is described as having been extremely pleasant. His lordship is expected at Bombay about the 15th proximo. A steamer owned by natives is about to be regularly put on the line between Bombay and the Persian Gulf. The trade on this line, heretofore principally car- tied on in small craft, called buglows, is very great, and good judges are of opinion that it would support several mers if well conducted. alcutta suggests nothing to one's mind but the eve ing Union Bank affair. The Bank makes no progre: . - that the leading men among the resident shareholders have applied to Government for a special Act to wind up the concern, and that the proposition is favourably enter tained, but that difficulties very apparent may still pre ._. vent the application of this remedy. The Bombay inercial Bank is still without its four lacs of rupees in that quarter, and a special agent is retained cutta to look after the amount. We Lear of the removal in custody of an assistant surgeon, Mr. Daubeny, from Khotagherry to the Madras Mresidenev, charged with murder. ver:have cost money in the trans tation of the destruction of property, and the necessary igainst future disturbance. la Seas an English schooner has been cap- Majesty's ship Childers, on a charge of preparatio In the ( tured by Her A company for insuring the lives of horses is in opera- tion in P-ar A lump of pure gold, weighing 3,032 pennyweights, was lately found in a mine belonging to Major Heiss, in Virginia. Lord Brougham has arrived in Paris, probably to ex plain that his late pamphlet. denouncing the revolution and the republic, did not mean what it said. EARLY LEVEE OF A MINISTER.—M. Dufare, Minister of the Interior, gives audience (says the Constitutionnel) at three in the morning ; and still the applicants for place are not the less eager or less numerous. On Thursday, the French Assembly divided on the im portant question of the election of President of the Re public, when the following was the unexpected result : Number of votes, 819. In favour of the decree, 587 ; against it, 232 ; majority, 355 ; consequently the election will take place on the 10th of December. The result ex cited the greatest surprise. An American paper states that the Jesuits driven from Europe are flocking to the United States. Many of them have come in the vessels recently arrived from Havre and Bremen. It is stated that no less than five hundred of them are now on their way from the Atlantic coast to the West, and that their purpose is to found a community beyond the Rocky Mountains. At Munich, on the 18th instant, some serious riots oc curred in consequence of the brewers having raised the price of beer. The rioters, in some instances soldiers, went from brewery to brewery, and broke tables, chairs, seats, glasses, windows, and whatever they could get at in those houses where they refused to sell the beer half a kreutzer less than the price hitherto existing. The Daily News reports that on the 18th an insurrec tion had broken out against the Austrians at Milan, sad that " Radetski had mined the palaces and the cathedral, and threatened to blow them up. This did not, however, prevent the exasperated people from attacking the mili tary. Several lives were lost, and the whole city rose in arms. The tocsin was sounding from every tower, and complete confusion prevailed." _ THE GOLD OF CALIFORNIA—NEW YORK, OCT. 11.— We have now in this city specimens of California gold. It was rumoured here that the real metal was as scarce and dubious as that of the Wicklow mountains, which, ac cording to Moore, " all over the surface shines." But it has proved no delusion in California. It has reached us in a tangible, visible, solid form, and large quantities, a n d so it is conceded th at the " golden age," if we ever had any, is about to recommence in a metallic form. If we had but a ship canal or railway across the Isthmus of Pa nama, we would see strange movements in the world. A correspondent of the Morning Post, writing on the morality of the inhabitants of Turin, gives the following advertisement as a specimen, from the Concordia of the 7th instant :—" Wanted, a Nurse.—The Signora Mar chesa Siffanti di San Bartolomeo is in want of a young healthy wet nurse, and, in order to avoid the possibility of any future loss of milk, she must be unmarried. Her services will be required for the nourishment of a small litter of five thorough-bred English spaniels, the mater nal bitch having died in giving them birth. The Mar chioness would stipulate, as an essential condition, that the nurse should reside in her Excellency's house ; her salary will be one hundred francs per month. She will be allowed chocolate i n th e morn ing, she will take her breakfast with the Marchioness, her dinner with the ser vants, and will be required to sleep with the dogs." CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—Accounts to the 9th of Sep tember, communicate the important fact, that his Excel lency, Sir H. Smith, had reached the disaffected Boers, at Borm Plaas, and bad given them battle on the 29th of August. After three hours sharp contest, he defeated them with great loss. We regret to add that Sir H. Smith was wounded in the knee, and his horse killed un der him. Five other officers were also wounded. Strongly posted at Boem-Plate, on the opposite bank of the Orange River, the rebels must have been able to make a most stout resistance, the loss of the troops being 46 killed and wounded, exclusive of seven officers wounded, one mor tally, and others dangerously. The proportion of officers wounded, is very large, and shows hard fighting. The troops engaged belonged to the reserved battalions of the 45th and 91st regiments—the Rifle Brigade, and the Cape Mounted Rifles. The rebels loss was also very severe, 49 having been counted dead on the field of battle, and about 150 are supposed to have been wounded. The day after the fight Sir Harry Smith published a manitesto, warning the disaffected, and threatening them with the most severe punishment if they permitted themselves to be led away by Pretorius. This man, it appears, bad been appointed to an official situation in the disturbed districts, took advantage of his position to excite opposition to the form of administrative government, which Sir Harry Smith had given them. Succeeding in this, he contrived to gather from 700 to 1000 desperate men, who have now received a severe chastisement. It would appear, however, that some of the rebels are men of substance, for Sir Harry Smith warns them that if they persist in their misconduct, the large sums of money which they have in the colony shall be confiscated to pay the expense to which the government has been put, and as far as possible to reim burse those who have already been sufferers through their violence. The native chiefs are faithful to the government, and we have no doubt that Sir Harry Smith will soon be able to put an end to this unfortunate outbreak. MAN OVER NIAGARA FALLS.—At about sundown on the Ist instant a man was carried over the Falls ; who he was is not known. From his management of the sail-boat in which he came down the river, I think he was not well acquainted with the current of the Rapids. His dress and appearance indicated respectability; and after he got into the rapids his self-possession was most extraordinary. His boat was a very good one—decked over on the bow, and I should think would carry three or four tons. From what I learn of a sail-boat having been seen below Black Rock, coming down, I think it is from there or Buffalo. No other than a person unacquainted with the current above the Rapids, would venture so near them. I was on the head of Goat Island when I first discovered the boat— then nearly half a mile below the foot of Navy Island, and nearly two miles above the Falls. There seemed to be two in the boat. It was directed toward the American shore—the wind blowing from this shore, and still the sail was standing. Being well acquainted with the river, I re garded the position of the boat as extraordinary and ha zardous, and watched it with intense anxiety. Soon I discovered the motion of an oar, and from the changing direction of the boat concluded it had but one. While constantly approaching nearer and nearer the Rapids, I could discover it was gaining the American shore, and by the time it had got near the first fall in the Rapids, ebout half a mile above Goat Island. it was directly above the island. There it was turned up the rive'', and for some time the wind kept it nearly stationary. The only hope seemed to be to come directly to Goat island, and whether I should run half a mile to give alarm, or remain to assist, in the event the boat attempted to make the island, was a painful doubt. But soon the boat was again turned toward the American shore. Then it was certain it must go down the American Rapids. I ran for the bridge—saw and informed a gentleman and lady just leav ing the island, but they seemed unable to reply or move. I rallied a man at the toll-gate—we ran to the main bridge in time to see the boat just before it got to the first large fall in the Rapids. Then I saw but one man—he stand ing at the stern with his oar, changing the course of the boat down the current, and as it plunged over he sat down. I was astonished to see the boat rise with the mast and sail standing, and the man again erect. directing the boat toward shore. As he came to the next and to each succeeding fall he sat down, and then would rise and apply his oar in the intermediate current. Still there was hope that he would come near enough to the pier to jump, but in a moment it was gone. knother, that he might jump upon a rock near the bridge, but the current dashed him from it under the bridge, breaking the mast. Again he rose on the opposite side. Taking his oar, and pointing his boat toward the main shore, he cried, `• Had I better jump from the boat ?" We could not answer, for either seemed certain destruction. Within a few rods of the falls the boat struck a rock, turned over, and lodged. He appeared to crawl from under it, and swam with the oar in his hand till he went over the precipice. Without the power to render any assistance—for half an hour watching a strong man struggling with every nerve for life, yet dopmed with almost the certainty of destiny to an imme diate and awful death, still hoping with every effort for his deliverance—caused an intensity of excitement I pray God never again to experience. The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser says, it has been ascertained that the person who was carried over the Falls was Richard Leedom, a shoemaker of that city, aged about 38. He was without a family. IRELAND THE STATE TRIALS SENTENCE ON THE CONVICTED PRISONERS The judges took their seats on the bench on Monday morning, at half-past ten. After the following persons had been arraigned, and pleaded " not guilty" to the charge of high treason, viz.,—Jam ?s Onchard, Patrick Denis Tyne, Patrick O'Donnell, William Pert, Thomas Finane, John Brennan, John Preston, and Thomas Stack, The Solicitor-General rose and prayed the court to bring up for judgment the prisoners who had been found iven to conduct the er, from ti ,fterwards they aol, and shortly ooked firm, M'Manus was ex ceedingly nervous, and his eyes were filled with tears. were pia andapE 'ently distressed in Mind proceeded to answer the last question of the law his utterance was choked for a moment. He at length de livered his address in an impressive manner :—" My lords, I trust I am enough of a Christian and enough of a man to understand the awful responsibility of the question which has been put tome. My lords, standing on this my native soil—standing in an Irish court of justice, and before the Irish nation—l have much to say why sentence of death or the sentence of the law should not be passed upon me; but, my lords, on entering this court, I placed my life—and what is of much more im portance to me, my honour—in the hands of two advo- cates ; and, my lords, if I 11,..(1 ten thousand lifes and ten thousand honours I would be content to place them under the watchful and glorious genius of the one. and the high legal ability of the other. My lords, I am content in that regard. I have something to say which no advocate, however anxious, can utter for me. I have this to say, my lords, that whatever part I may have taken through any struggle for my country's inClependence—whatever part I may have acted in that short career—l stand before your lordships now with a free heart and with a light con- y to abide t reissue of your sentence sentiment o between the dock and the scaffold—it may be now, or to-morrow, or it may be never ; but whatever the result may be, I have this sentiment to put on record, that in any part I have taken, I have not been been actuated by animosity to Englishmen, for I have spent some of the happiest and most prosperous days of my life there ; and in no part of my career have I been actuated by enmity to Englishmen, however much I may have felt the injus tice of English rule in this island. My lords, I have nothing more to say. It is not for having loved England less but for having loved Ireland more that I stand now before you." O'DOnoliue then came forward, leaned over the dock and read his remarks, which when concluded he dropped his head on his hands and shuddered for a moment, but drawing himself up retired. Meagher then moved slowly forward to the front, and delivered his address in a strong and solemn tone of voice. Having concluded, the Lords Judges consulted for a few moments, when Chief Justice Doherty pronounced the sentence of the law, that the prisoners should be hung, drawn, and quartered. The prisoners were then removed, and the commission was adjourned to the sth December. IRISH MISCELLANY, The Earl of Clarendon proceeds this week to Dublin. Jenny Lind and Mr. Lumley, on leaving Dublin, sent £4OO to the archbishop for the poor of the metropolis. On Friday, at Dublin, a true bill was found against Charles G. Duffy. The trial will not take place until December. The foreman on Smith O'Brien's jury has received a Rockite notice that he will be murdered if O'Brien be either hung or transported. THE COicVICTED REBELS.—At a cabinet council, on Wednesday, it was resolved to spare the lives of Smith O'Brien and his rebels in guilt. The three prisoners charged with assaulting the police man Byrne, with intent to kill him, have been convicted of an assault with intent to maim him and prevent lawful arrest. Michael Moran is to be transported for 15 years, and the two others are to be imprisoned for nine months. John O'Donnell and Richard Shea, for refusing to give evidence against Mr. O'Brien, are to be imprisoned for one year, from the Ist of October, and fined £lO, and in default of paying such fine, that they be further imprisoned for a period of three months. INSOLVENCY AMONGST FARMERS.—The Dublin Ga zette of Tuesday evening contains a list of 132 insolvents for the counties of Donegal, Tyrone. Enniskillen, Queen's County, Kilkenny, Limerick, Tipperary, Waterford, and Wicklow, of which no less than 73 are set down as " farmers." THE " GODLESS COLLEGES"—THE RESCRIPT.—The original announcement of the reiterated and final con demnation of the " Godless" colleges, is confirmed by the arrival of the " Great Reformer's" rescript, which, toge ther with a roaring manifesto from the Lion of Judah, addressed to the faithful of the diocese of Tuam, appeared in the Freeman's Journal of Wednesday. The publica tion of these documents has caused great rejoicings throughout the length and breadth of all bigot-land. The rescript recommends the duty of concord to the four metropolitans. The Archbishop of Tuam's letter, addressed to the clergy of his diocese, alludes, in addition to the subject-matter of the rescript, to the operation of the poor-law in Ireland, the conduct of the clergy during the late outbreak, and the endowment of the Irish Catholic clergy. He vehemently denounces the last idea, saying that the hand on which the holy unction has been poured, to be lifted up in prayer for the faithful, shall never be soiled by a bribe proffered for the betrayal of their faith and our own. LAW INTELLIGENCE. IMPORTANT TO BETTORS.—In the Sheriff's Court, London, on Friday, a Mr. Levy, well known in the city sporting world, sued a person named Barlow to recover the sum of £5, being the amount of an I 0 U for a bet lost by the defendant to the plaintiff on a match at bil liards, for £5O a side. The facts were admitted, but it was contended on behalf of the defendant, that, under the Bth and 9th Victoria, c. 109, s. 18, the security was null and void, being given for money lost on a wager. On the other hand, it was alleged that the act in question was limited to sums above £lO, but the judge said no sum was mentioned in the act, and was clearly of opinion that it was intended to apply to all securities given for bets at wagers, or games of skill or chance, and that billiards came within its meaning, without regard to the amount. He therefore nonsuited the plaintiff. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. MR.FITZWILLIAM'S ADDRESS. — It is as we expected. I Mr. Fitzwilliam comes forward, in consequence of the re quisition, not in compliance with it. He comes forward at the call of those who think him " a fit and proper person," not of those who would have made a cat's paw of him for their extreme views. His address is such as any Conservative could have written. There is "no Mayor of Leeds" in it ; the elegant gem picked out of dissenting violence, and Lancashire dictation, which so prettily adorned the requisition, at his worship's desire, do not find a place in it. It does even allude to that ill omened compound by name. Mr. Fitzwilliam having " reason to believe it will be agreeable to a large body of electors" accepts the honour which their " friendship and partiality wish to confer upon him." As respects his politics, he declares himself " a frind of free institutions," and promises to form his spinions " on the important questions in parliament by the best lights which he can obtain from observation, and from intercourse with the ablest and best informed of his countrymen." Such is literally all that the address says. THE EFFECTS OF FREE TRADE.—At the Sheffield Town-hall, on Tuesday, on the subject of the forthcoming municipal elections, Councillor Pearson, hitherto an ar dent and staunch free trader, expressed himself in very equivocal terms on the subject of free trade, when speak ing upon the question of marking cutlery, and the expor tation of the raw material. Mr. Pearson is a partner in a highly respectable firm in the Sheffield trade, and may therefore be supposed to be competent to form a tolerably fair opinion of the practical results of free trade, as far as his branch of trade at least, is concerned. But what does he say ? Why, that " Sheffield is like a man that had lost his character, with regard to the production of sterling ar ticles, especially in America." On the exportation of the raw material (steel) by means of which other nations are enabled to manufacture for themselves, especially with our best hands into the bargain, Mr. Pearson speaks de spondingly. " Free trader as I am, yet I am in a diffi culty as to the propriety of its being proceeded with, and if it can be proved that the present system of exportation is an injury to the trade of the town, there ought to be some alteration effected." Yes, the shoe is beginning to pinch, and Mr. Pearson may rest assured that he is not the only one who feels the smarting effects of free trade in Sheffield. Little better than a year ago, Earl Fitzwilliam did all but read his recantation of free trade at the Cutlers' feast. No one will deny that the trade of Sheffield has deteriorated since the operations of free trade. TRE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. • Bridgewater - Gramm mbridge Stakes making good their captur The Commissioners for the improvement of the Severn navigation have resolved to apply to Parliament to raise £50,000 additional, to erect a loch and weir at Tewkes bury, and to carry out the plan proposed by Mr.Cubitt. On Sunday week, a well-known bailiff, named George Haigh, gave himself up at Halifax, for having set fire to some buildings at Southowram, belonging to James Wo unersley. He said—" I had got a little beerified that Saturday forenoon. I was going to set my brother John's premises on fire, not this man's. I never intended it." The prisoner has been committed. _ _ At the General Quarter Sessions at Peterborough, on saturday, Stephen Aveling, whose family connexions in the county are of the highest respectability, was found guilty of uttering a forged cheque for the sum of £283, upon the brnk of Messrs. Gurney, Penkover, and Co., to the account of Daniel Fry, Esq., of Elm. He was sen tenced to two years' imprisonment. The Lord Bishop of the Diocese has addressed a letter to the incumbent of the parishes in the city of Bristol, requesting them to preach sermons on behalf of the Bris tol Infirmary, on the ground that " the probable visita tion of the Asiatic cholera, seems to render it most desi rable that this excellent charity should possess ample means for dispensing its healing benefits among the poorer classes of the city and neighbourhood." At the quarter sessions, Durham, last week, John New ton was charged with unlawfully having set fire to a quan tity of tobacco (lighted his pipe) in a coal. pit at Monk wearmouth, thereby endangering lives. This was the first indictment for the offence charged ; and the prisoner pleaded guilty, on an understanding come to between the should be lit- tie more than nominal. FATAL EFFECTS OF PROSPERITY labouring man. residing at Little Loi . 7 -Lately, a poor humble means would allow, having come into possession of property, took to dissipation, ruined himself, sold all his effects, and deserted his wife. His wife went in search of him, but all her wanderings being fruitless, life became a burden to her ; and on Thursday night she destroyed ierself by poison, at a lodging:bouse, at Ely • THE LATE LORD GEORGE - BENTINCK.—At a meeting held at Mansfield, on Thursday, the high sheriff of the county of Nottingham in the chair, it was unanimously resolved to commemorate the memory of the above noble man in a manner to be determined upon, and a subscrip tion will be forthwith opened for the purpose. The Duke of Newcastle, Earl Manvers, Viscount Galway, M.P., and other noblemen, were present. On 'Wednesday week, the eldest son of the master of ig himself de what is that the powder was too damp . tO ignite, and therefore sprinkled from a powder flask a litttle. dry powder over the " devil," which then caugh fire, exploded, and shat- SUICIDE OF A LADY.—On Tuesday, at Portsmouth, r,a Miss Pettit, a young lady of 30 years of age, put an end to her existence at an early hour by cutting her throat with a carving knife. The unfortunate lad' had lately formed an attachment to a young gentleman, and which, not promising that result she hoped for, preyed on her mind and produced temporary insanity ; and a verdict in accordance with these facts was returned. The CL , at the Second October Meeting at Newmarket, were won, on Tuesday last, by Col. Peel's Da'cia. Colonel Peel's Taffrail was second, and Mr. J. Knight's Gaffer Green was third. The following 21 also Collingwood. Dulcet, Buscot Buck, Lanesborough, Yard ley, Forest Deer. Bridle, The Moor, Psalmsinger, Geral dine, Serenade, Fern, Camphine, Lola Montez, Keraun, Backbiter, Maid of my Soul, Tophana, Ulysses. The North British Mail gives an animated description of a chase by some policemen, at Stockwell-bridge, after a boy who had stolen some clothes, and having plunged into the water made his way to the centre pier of the bridge, where he resisted all entreaties to surrender him self ; and it was not till after the police had floundered for some time up to their waists in water, to the amuse- ment of numbeis on the banks, that they succeed& A Wesleyan minister, stationed by the last Conference at Redruth, in Cornwall, has been superseded by the President, for persisting in wearing his beard. The rev. gentleman says, in a letter to the Wesleyan newspaper, " For many years I have been convinced of the absurdity of the fashion which requires a man to appear dissatisfied with nature (to adopt en idea of Diogenes) for making him a man instead of a woman; and I had been made sensible by experience, that the practice alluded to was seriously injurious in a physical sense, especially to minis ters." WHALE AND COD FISHERY.—The Seaflower, Captain Smith, arrived at Hull on Saturday last, from the Davis's Straits cod fishery, with the very fair cargo of 12,000 cod, 3 tons of halibut, and about 4 tons of cod liver oil.— Intelligence was oh Wednesday received by the Horn, Sturrock master, arrived from the Davis's Straits whale fishery, that the total catch of the fifteen British vessels engaged in the fishery was 54 fish, or about 680 tons of oil, averaging about three fish per ship. The Horn had four fish, or 50 tuns of oil. JUVENILE CRIME.—A child pleaded guilty at the Middl esex sessions, on Wednesday, of having stolen a sixpence belonging to its father. The learned judge said the pa rents of the child were, he was informed, most dissipated, and had, no doubt, got up this charge to relieve themselvess of its maintenance. He was very much surprised (we share his surprise) that police magistrates should send such a ettse to that court. Ilia lordchip contonocci tno child to one hour's imprisonment, and severely repri manded the mother. SUDDEN DEATH AT A FUNERAL. —The funeral of James Dickinson, Esq., of Rosehurst, Pannall, near Har rogate, took place on Monday, in the Methodist Old Chapel burial ground at Leeds. As the funeral cortege entered the town of Leeds it was joined by several friends of the deceased ; amongst others by an elderly man, named Christopher Boshell, who had been some 50 years in the service of the firm with which deceased had been connected. Boshell walked to the chapel, and whilst eand:ng during the reading of the burial service, he was seized with a fit and died almost instantly. DEATH FROM EXPOSURE.—EarIy on Thursday morn ing a woman named Isabella Adams, or Honeyman, lately resident at Liberton Tower, was found in an insen sible condition near Inch-gate, in the parish of Liberton. She was removed to the infirmary a short time afterwards, but only survived a few hours. The deceased was in Edinburgh the previous night, and it is conjectured that she bad been seized with illness on her way home, and having been unable to proceed further had lain down on the road, and became insensible from her exposure during the night, which was extremely cold. An old lady of Somers-town has proved more than a match for a robber. On Tuesday evening, Mrs. Fanny Morgan found Edward Marney in the parlour of her nephew's house in the Polygon, with two boxes under his arm. She asked what he wanted ;on which he struck the candle out of her hand, but she seized him by the collar and shouted for aid.. Marney made for the street door, buffeting Mrs. Morgan ; but she kept her hold, and got the door open, continuing to call out; and at last the depredator was secured by neighbours. Marney is a con victed thief. He has been committed. DISEASE AMONG SHEEP.—A conviction under the recent act for preventing the spread of contagion among sheep took place at the Guildhall. Norwich, on Tuesday, before a bench of magistrates. Mr. Betts, a cattle-dealer, was the person against whom the information had been laid ; he having offered some sheep for sale in Norwich market before they had recovered from the effects of in noculation. As the defendant did not seem to be aware of the penalties he incurred, he was only fined £2 and costs ; the magistrates saying that future cases would be much more severely dealt with. THE PEAR OF CONTAGION.—On Tuesday a communi cation was received at Lloyd's, that on the night of the 20th instant the Isabella of Blyth, Hiron master, from Charleston, in Scotland, got on the bar of Hartlepool. A Hartlepool pilot proceeded to her assistance. On hail ing the vessel his first question was, had they any sick on board ? The master replied, two. Immediately on hear ing this, notwithstanding the danger of the vessel, he ' made for shore to consult the Custom-house authorities as to whether he should board her; he did not return again till 2 a.m. on the 21st, when the Isabella had dragged her anchors, and the heavy sea beat her up on the beach, the crew and pilot being with much difficulty saved by the life-boat. _ _ _ BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—In the She riff's Court, London, on Thursday, an action was brought by Kate Burgess against Charles Nash, to recover com pensation for a breach of marriage contract. The damages were laid at £lOOO. It appeared that the parties were introduced to each other in 1841; the plaintiff, aged 20, was a young lady of considerable personal attractions, an orphan. and resided with her relatives in Hertfordshire ; the defendant, aged 31, had been the owner of consider able landed property in Gloucestershire, and was then carrying on business as a corn dealer. The intimacy be tween the parties continued for several years, up to 1846, when the defendant was married to a Miss Jacobs. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £l5O. H. Bramwell, a surgeon, has been remanded at the Mansion-house, London, on a charge of p o ly gam y un d e r circumstances of great atrocity. Three cases were stated, and more are expected to be proved against him. He married Elizabeth Tinley in 1843, Emily Rose in 1847, and Hannah Amelia Bland in September of this year. The second case was that of a girl of fifteen, whose affec tions he gained while she was a passenger in the ship of which he was surgeon on his way to Calcutta, where they were married on their arrival, Bramwell having obtained the mother's consent by representing that he was a man of family, and that his father had recently died, leaving him £5,000, £3,000 of which he offered to settle upon his wife, and caused all the deeds to be drawn up accord ingly. On their return to this country he abandoned her while at an hotel at Liverpool. at which town he had married his last-mentioned wife, with whom he had been living up to Saturday, when he was taken prisoner. DISASTROUS FLOODS.—The late heavy rains have caused the \Talley of the Stour, from Ashford to Rams gate, to be flooded, occasioning great loss and damage to the inhabitants. On Friday, the 21st, about noon, the inhabitants of the west end of Canterbury were alarmed by a cry of " the water is rising," and almost before they could get their goods removed up stairs, the lower rooms were inundated. Near the ancient west gate the water poured over into a new street called St. Peter's place, con sisting of neat cottages, and continued to rise for twelve hours, the only mode of approach being by carts and boats, the inconvenience and suffering to the poor inhabi tante:being very great, as few of them were provided with any stock of food or fuel. Carts were employed all day in removing the poor people and their furniture, and sundry casualties occurred. The flood has not been known to rise to such a height for the last 70 years. The water in the Stour in the city was raised about eight feet. conse quently immersing all the lower parts of the town. The valley of the Stour for forty miles was flooded from hill to hill, presenting the appearance of a vast navigable river far exceeding the Thames or Medway. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. It is proposed to establish a railway between Carnarvon and Bangor. There is no truth in the report of the works at the Menai Straits being suspended. On Tuesday, as. two men were crossing the railway at the Edinburgh station, a train came up and killed them. It is understood at Stockton, that Geo. Hudson, Esq., has taken a lease of the Stockton and Darlington line. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ended Oct. 21st :—Coaching traffic, £l2lB Is. 11d. ; parcels. £53 2s. 11d. ; goods and cattle, £217 Bs. Bd.; steam-boats, £154 14s. 6d. ;—total, £1643 Bs. Bd. The first instance upon record of a change in the name of a railway station, will take place on the Eastern Coun ties Railway on the Ist of November, when the Wenden station, 43 miles from London, and the stopping-place for passengers to, Saffron Walden, will be called by the name of " Audley's End." The result of the meeting of the Liverpool, Manches ter, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Railway shareholders, on Tuesday, was the adoption of the recommendation to re turn 10s. per share on the Ist proximo, and subsequently proceedings were adjourned until the 15th, the directors in the meantime to oring up a report stating what further sum can 'be distributed. It is anticipated that the second and final-division will be about 4s. per share. The directors of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlisle Railway Company have declared a dividend of £3 a share, and so in proportion to the quarter shares (far the half year ending the 30th June last), to be paid on the 15th November next. The interest on the red scrip shares up to the same period will be paid at the same time, the -tax being deducted from the respective amounts lend and interest. Northern Railway took place at Boston on Thursday Upwards of 500 sat down to a banquet in the theatre Mr. James Hodges, mayor of Boston, in the chair. Th meeting was addressed by the Earl of Yarborough, Sir James Duke, M.P., Mr. B. B. Cabbell, M.P., Mr. Denison, M.P., and other gentlemen ; and the meeting separated early, to attend a ball given in the assembly rooms. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE.—At a meeting of the shareholders, held in. Manchester on Tuesday,—Mr. W. Rawson in the chair,—resolutions, declaring the inexpe diency of proceeding with ex pensive works of a doubtful character at present, and calling for a full and explicit statement of the liabilities and actual position of the company, and, at the same time, requesting an immediate a of all unnecessary works, and - that no further ,ears that the amount of traf- lc, on 4,166 miles of rai £220,334, thus accounted for:—£111,13; for the convey ince of passengers only, £55,246 for the carriage of goods, ist wee way, was gether, not respectively apportioned; being an increase of £30,081 over the corresponding week of last year, when the mileage was 3,309. The average earnings per mile were £54, whilst in 1847 they were £57, RAILWAY AMALGAMATION.-It has been already an nounced that an amalgamation was in contemplation be tween the London and North Western railway, the Great Western railway, and the London and South Western railway, and that several meetings has taken place be tween the respective boards with that view. The Rail -leronicle of Saturday, however, says that the nego )n, which was for an alliance, if not an entire fusion, has been broken off, but that powers are to be asked from Parliament to make such an alliance hereafter, if the pat can agree - MIDLAND RAILWAY.-At a meeting of shareholders in this railway on Saturday, J. H. Brancker, Esq. in the chair, the following resolution was passed :—" That the meeting having been called prior to the promise of the Midland directors to publish a full report of the state of the company's affairs, now deem it desirable to adjourn until after the publication of that report, and they request the chairman of this meeting to desire the midland direc- forwarded to them on the24 - th instant, mail the requisi tionist communicate farther with them." COURT AND FASHION. The Standard makes the following announcement : " It is currently believed in the fashionable world, that her Majesty the Queen bas the intention of commencing what is called the season at a very early period this win ter. by making the beginning of the usual Court ceremo nies in the month of November, instead of delaying them until a late period in February, and continuing them to so late a period as really to turn summer into winter. This would be a decidedly great improvement ; and as the state of the Continent of Europe is now such that it will be im possible for the nobility and gentry of Great Britain to go abroad, and spend their money in foreign countries, the English people will no doubt duly appreciate this unex pected and beneficial innovation, and by adopting which our amiable and youthful Sovereign will confer a benefit on her grateful and loving subjects." The - Globe states thai the Duke of Buckingham is about to visit Stowe, and remain on the estate some time, for the purpose of shooting.. Still further portions of his Grace's estates will have to be brought to the hammer to satisfy his creditors, whose claims amount to the enor mous sum of £1,800,000. The Duchess of Buckingham has a yearly income of £16,000 in her own right, and the Marquis of Chandos has about £15,000 per annum. eerietal ilAtOcellanv. A method of welding iron, steel, and sheet iron has been discovered. A few days since a fine whale was caught in the I . Humber. A grant of £BOO has been voted by the National Society towards the fund for the building of the Worcester Dio cesan Training School. M. Jullien has announced that he will open Drury-lane Theatre Royal, London, on the 3d of November, for a se ries of concerts. The collection of English pictures which Mr. Vernon presented to the nation, has at length been removed to the National Gallery, The entire cost of the witnesses in the recent state prosecutions for high treason, as paid by the crown, amounts to £l5OO. SELF IMMOLATION OF FIVE. PARTRIDGES.—On the 19th instant, a covey of five partridges flew against the sails of a wind-mill, in the occupation of Mr. Worthing ton, at Barwick-in-Elmet, and were killed thereby. The alkali and glass trades on the Tyne are in a very depressed state. Several of the manufactories of crown, flint, and bottles are closed, besides three of the principal aikali manufactories. The Committee of the Stock Exchinge have decided that the " Weekly Railway Share List" shall in future contain only official data, prices, &c. No Bearish state ments again.—Sun. Lord Strathmore's horses were put up for sale last week, and the following lots sold :—The Swallow, 200 guineas, Gambler, 59 guineas, Telegraph, 50 guineas, Legerdemain, 45 guineas, St. Leger, 25 guineas. On Monday the body of a labourer was found on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway fearfully mutilated. in toxicated, and is thought he had strayed on the line whilst and was cut down by a train. A dancing-master in Carlisle, at the foot of an adver tisement, announcing the re-opening of his school, offers for a wager to dance any man in Cumberland, in horn pipe or quadrille. A RUTLAND GRAND JURY.—At the sessions, on Thurs day, the grand jury returned a bill into court as follows : " know bill on the first count ; a true bill on the last count." The eminent discount firm of Overend, Gurney, and Co., have given notice, it is understood, to their regular banking and money connexions that they decline to take in money returnable at a call at a higher rate of usance than 2 per cent, On Sunday, the Folkstone police hastened to apprehend a Mr. O'Gorman, who had just arrived from France, but were disconcerted in finding that the man whom they supposed to be the Irish rebel was 63 years of age, instead of 29, the age of the true Simon Pure. Two large bodies of the Parisian National Guards, about 1200 in number, arrived in London last week. They were in full uniform, and on Thursday they visited Westminster Abbey, and have since inspected the nu merous public buiidings of the metropolis. PRECIOUS STONES.—The recent disturbances in the French capital in particular, and other portions of the continent of Europe, had the effect of causirg so large an influx into this country of diamonds that they are now " a drug to the market," and nearly unsaleable. On Wednesday morning James M`Wheelan, an Irish man, who had been convicted of the murder and robbery of a young country lad named Young, on a solitary road in Ayrshire, was hanged at the usual place in the vicinity of the county prison of Ayr. THE CHARTIST PRISONERS.—On Monday, the Char tist prisoners, Ritchie, Lacey, Fay, Cuffey, and Dowling. who were sentenced to transportation for life, were re moved to Millbank Penitentiary, in which place they will remain until their final departure for Van Dieman's Land. As the Roman Government had previously resolved that the chief magistrate or Papacy of Rome is a merely civil office, it is not impossible that a Jew may be the next Pope,—a matter that we seriously recommend to the attention of Mr. Rothschild. On Saturday an inquest was held at the Sussex County Hospital, on the body of Mary Sturt, who met with her death by falling ovar the cliff just above Kemp Town. Deceased was about 40 years of age, and bad been filling a domestic situation in some respectable family in Lon don. On Thursday, a little boy, seven years old, who was in a menagerie at Huddersfield, offered a quantity of nuts to a large and savage baboon, which immediately seized him by the arm, bit off three of his fingers, tore out one of his eyes, and frightfully lacerated his cheek. In spite of the severity of his wounds, he is expected to recover ; and the fierce baboon has since been killed. TIMBER ROBBERIES IN THE NEW FOREST.—At the Southampton sessions, John Light was charged with stealing, at Buskets, five beech trees and other timber, the property of her Majesty. The prisoner, who is a timber-merchant with a good business, was found not guilty. Several other accused parties pleaded guilty, but were not sentenced at the time. AMPUTATION OF Two LEGS PREVENTED BY HOLLO WAY'S OINTMENT AND PlLLS.—Extract of a letter, dated Roscommon, Feb. 19, 1847 :—Mr. , prtetor of the hotel next door to me, ha o very bad legs, one with eight ulcers on it, th ther with three. After spending some time in D in with several eminent me dical men, he left wit e choice of one of the two alter natives, to have bo egs amputated or die. On his way home he met w" a gentleman" in the coach, who recom mended hi ollowr.y's Pills and Ointment, which he used, by their means, is now quite well. Signed, Charles Tully, proprietor of the Roscommon Journal. — See add. A NEW WAY OF GETTING CIISTOMERS.—A little in cident which occurred on Monday morning, in front of a respectable drapery establishment in Sheffield, strikingly exhibits the intensity of the competition in some branches of trade at the present time. A' rival establishment was " selling off;" and the house in question, having no ex traordinary attraction to put forth as a set-off, resorted to the following expedient as a means of drawing the crowd of bargain-seekers from their rival's shop to their own : One of the shopmen came to the door, and having adroitly , attracted the eyes of the crowd, began scattering confec tionery in liberal quantities upon the causeway. The bait took ; and as soon as the lovers of " cheap John " from within held out some of his most attractive cheap wares, which he offered at "an astonishing sacrifice," in true country fair fashion,—Sheffield Times. PAINTED TEA.—Professor Reid, a practical chymist of New York, and a person to be relied upon, states that, having seen in the shop windows of that city a sample of green tea of a very bright colour, he suspected it was of that class of painted and poisonous teas lately examined by London chymists. He examined the article, and says he has discovered it to be painted tea; that is, old stale and exhausted tea, covered with some colouring matter, no doubt injurious to health ; and proposed a simple test, which is, to take a spoonful of tea, and put it in half a tumbler of water, and allow it to stand for five minutes, and then stir it up, when the paint will be detached and form a turbid mixture with the water. The public, how ever, cannot always be upon its guard against these frauds, and the only mode is, when painted tea is actually sold and detected as such, to publish the name of the person who sells it, in order to guard the public against future imposition.—The Patriot. COLD COMFORT FOR CHARTISTS.—Now that Ernest Jones has been incarcerated for two years, and Cuffey, the auditor of the accounts of the hopeful land iob. transported, the knowing Feargus O'COnnor, who'hai kept out of the scrape, makes this announcement to the deluded Chartists : Now, brother Chartists, I have to inform you that no power on earth shall induce me to say a word, or write a word, that will place me in the power of these devils; and if any man writes me a sedi tious or treasonable letter, I will immediately publish it and if any man, during my tour, comes into my presence and talks sedition or treason o me, in the hone of en trapping me, I will leave my mark on his face, that will enable me to identify hint in the witness-box." Mr O'Connor, in another part of his journal, slanders th, late Mr. O'Connell, and fills three or four columns witl T.—On SUIT FOR THE RECOVERY OF A LOVE Thursday, Mons. Dominic Lambert, principal rider of the Cirque Nationale, was summoned at the Marlborough street Police-court, London, for refusing to deliver up to Madame Klebert, a French lady rather advanced in years, a valuable diamond ring. Madame Klebert stated that she became acquainted with the defendant sometime ago, in Paris, and that an intimacy occurred, which ended in the defendant propc one of them of consid lg to become her husband rable value It was expr ilv un- derstood at the time that the ring was a gage d'amour, to be returned in case affairs did not come to an hymeneal conclusion. Circumstances had since occurred which put marriage quite out of the question, and she then demand ed to have her diamond ring restored. The defendant refused to give up one of the rings unless a sum of 200 francs was handed over. The defence was, that the lady had deceived the defendant, by representing hersclr as a lady of fortune, and the ring was a gift ; and the magis- trafe refused to make an orde; on the subject. RAGGED SCHOOLS.—Lord Ashley examined the Indus trial School. Dumfries, on Friday. His lordship expres sed himself highly gratified with the progress made by the children during the short time they had been under train- Oct. 31. 1848. THE CHOLERA AT HULL.—We are happy to have to announce that it is still questionable whether Asiatic cho lera has yet visited Hull. Some medical gentlemen in the town affirm that they have had patients attacked with cholera, but it has not been proved to the satisfaction of the Sanatory Committee of the. Town Council that such patients were resident inhabitants of Hull, or that they exhibited the deadly type which is reported to prevail in London, and which recently raged in Hamburg. In an swer to question put to him at a meeting of the Town Council yesterday, Dr. Ayre, the Chairman of the Sana tory Committee, said that he had not only NOT seen any real case of cholera in Hull, but that he had not so much as spoken with any person who had witnessed a case, or who had conversed with a third person cognizant of the epidemic.—Hull Advertiser. - CHARTIST TRIAL.-At the Central Criminal Court, on Thursday, George Bridge Mullins, a surgeon, aged 22, was placed at the bar char ge d w ith f e l on i ous l y con . spiring to levy war against the Queen. The Attorney general conducted th prosecution in person. Thomas Powell, the approver, was the first witness called, and deposed to having met the prisoner at meetings of the chartist association, where he always took a prominent part. Prisoner was always " chief spokesman," a mem ber of the plotting committes, and a strong advocate for physical force. He was included in the " firemen" who made the appointment to meet at the Orange Tree. Powell underwent a very severe cross-examination, and made the same confessions as to his previous life and con duct, which were elicited from him in the former trials. George Davis, the other approver, was also examined, and gave evidence of the same character. The prisoner was, on Saturday, found guilty. A STRANGE SLEEPING PLACE.—A few nights ago, Mr• Whitewright, Maxwelltown, made up a large sackful of rags to send off per carrier next morning. The sack was . _ left outside for . the convenience of the carrier's porter, and early in the morning the owner on looking out noticed it was shifted from its position. On ifoina. towards it. he was not a little startled to when he heard a snand liL being issuing from the interior of th of rags. Mr. \Vhitewright 1 mulously on the sack, it crawled o ave a heave firs still more so, ysterious bundle I somewhat tre- ing, the majority being scarcely able to read previously. His lordship said, " Their great difficulty would be the maintenance of the funds for their annual expenses. They-must take the children the whole day if they wished effectually to benefit them ; and if they did so, they must to one side and ter from the cola, and had there enjoyed a cozie sleep during the night, The beggar, instead of evincing glad- TLE STEAMER, :ed off w ELOCITY rumbled a his own ragged formed s for his been received, announc- Aberdeen, of the ti ing the complete 1 ship, Mr. John Stuart, command ingly boisterous. The stean the weather was ver, managed following ,t,v steam- exceed to bear up against it until six o'clock on. t evening (Sunday great that sh sunk. A lar when on runn h the north n for Aberdeen, sbe lmost immediately parted in two, and portion of the quarter-deck fortunately 3 passengers , n- their lives r much diffi- Ts of t Pilot-boas were put off to their culty, succeeded in picking ;hen !ly after the wreck on to which they had g( Velocity is tinders ,d - to hai near the same pla St. Nicholas coal, called the ewcastle, was driven upon the The crew were saved. I alluded the other Almost imi:ee portion of the o pieces. The sured. A few. A brig lath lso from 1\ the back of the pi,. its. FANNY KEMBLE BUTLE to Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butl well known that she married a weal man, of Philadell lived ihia, with whom s some inter- Merican gentle- aas not recently divorce [e has recently filed a bill in equity to obtain a and the ground assumed is said to be incom- noway of getting food but by begging or stealing, and therefore unless they fed them they could have them only attached to her husband, and would live wi th hi m i t she could. But it is said he will not allow h e r t o d o so ; and in the evenings, and it was difficult to teach them to any purpose in three hours each day. It was, therefore, ab- the apparent cause of his last resolution is h er i n timacy solutely necessary that the children should be fed, which with a distinguished literary family that h e d oes no t iike added very much to the expense. In London they were Mrs. Butler has nothing herself, and rec e i ves n othing f -Her wishes are very nlO 'sincerely unable to do it under a cost of £4 10s. for each child per annum ; although he believed from the difference of habits it could be done in Scotland for about half that sum. Again, in all these ragged schools it was necessary to have industrial classes—in all schools for the children of the working classes these were necessary, but more especially in ragged schools. The children attending these institutions must be shown that labour is honour rom him for her support derate, and she seems to be weary of life. The New York public, knowing her unhappy position, will doubt less give her a cordial welcome when she returns to the stage ; and we have no doubt that she will realise from her new efforts as much as she made when she was on the American boards previously—a sum estimated at 30,000 dollars, all of which she gave to her father.--:Neto York Correspondent of the Daily News. APPALLING DISCOVERY.—On Thursday, Mr. Noble went in company with a workman to inspect the premises situate at Bellvue, in this neighbourhood, and which have been unoccupied since the 12th of May last. They pro ceeded to open the front door of the further house, and, on doing so, they felt that it resisted their efforts as if sonic heavy body was lying behind it. On exerting more force they succeeded in gaining admittance : but their horror may be imagined when they discovered that the obstruction had been caused by the dead body of a woman. She was entirely naked, with the exception of a piece of calico rag which was sown around the neck, and the remains of a pair of stockings. The few fragments which had appar ently constituted her clothing were lying beneath her. On the circumstance being made known to the Coroner, he aumn.u.see a jury, nut not tue sllgntest evmence could be produced as to the identity of the wretched being. There was no article, mark, or sign, calculated in the most re mote degree to illustrate her dark and dismal history. We examined the premises on the following morning, and it would appear that she had effected an entrance through the window of a ba , :lc parlour, and the place afforded suffi cient proof that she had for some time, perhaps for weeks, used the house as a shelter, and that within it the wither ing hand of famine had slowly, and hour by hour, gnawed away her vitality, till exhausted nature sunk under the fearful conflict. In the rooms which she had used, not the veriest fragment of any kind of food was found, if we except two small turnips, one half eaten, the other un touched. There were sevzral heaps of turnip peilings scattered here and there, from which it would appear that they had served to prolong the dismal and agonizing strug gle which this forlorn outcast had waged with the great destroyer.—Manx Liberal. AFFECTING CASE OF SurcinE.—Mellicent Balch Ma guire. whose mother is a widow, residing in Southampton, in an evil hour left her house (having previously had a child, which accompanied her), under the protection of Captain Thomas Besant, of the Bengal Infantry, with whom she lived as his wife for a year and a-half, part of the time in London, and latterly at Owslebury Cottage, near Winchester. Some time since the Captain left her to go to Dorchester, and continued to correspond with her upon ordinary topics, when at length she rece;ved a letter containing the stunning intelligence that he was gone to India to his wife. The unhappy girl (for she had only just turned 20 years of age) was frantic at this unan ticipated blow; for the heartless wretch had induced her to believe that he would marry her upon the death of his mother. Upon the receipt of the intelligence of her pro. raised husband's desertion, she was almost distracted, and offered to make away with herself, but was prevented by the wife of the groom who had lived for some time with the captain. She removed to Southampton, where she stated it to be her intention to let lodgings. On Friday night she arrived at Winchester, accompanied by her child, four years old, where she remained that night and the following day, and after breakfast on Sunday morn ing took a fly to Owslebury Cottage with her litile boy. James Alexander (the groom) and his wife behaved in the kindest manner to their visitors, and did not observe anything extraordinary in her behaviour. She took a se cond breakfast, and said she had seen the captain, and was going to Australia with him. She then requested Alex ander to fetch letters she had written to him, but as he expected they would be brought he only pretended to go. He had scarcely reached the gate, when he heard a scream and a smash, and upon returning he found that the wretched woman had precipitated herself and child down the well, having a depth of 20 feet of water. Assistance was obtained as quickly as possible, but when the bodies were taken out of the well life was quite extinct. The evidence in every particular justified the verdicts of felo de se as regarded herself, and that of wilful murder of her child.— Hants' Guardian. BAD SEWERAGE, DRUNKENNESS, AND THE CHOLERA• —A coal whipper, 34 years of age, living in Wapping+ London, died of Asiatic cholera, on Thursday week. He was taken ill on Wednesday about noon, and died on the following morning. Sarah Grace, deceased's sister, stated that for two days previous to the Wednesday deceased had been drinking freely. Juror : Have you not complaints in your neighbourhood of the sewers being in a very bad state ? Witness : Yes, sir. Both the sewers and the drains are in a shocking condition. When there are heavy rains the ground-floor of the house he lived in overflows with filthy sewerage. which comes out of the common sewers and drains. The smell is so dreadful that they are obliged to shut the door and windows. The foreman of the jury and several of the jurors stated, that between ocrval ts.tl nine o'clock or an eve,ii,,,, the elTluvlui. 4> l aC neighbourhood was most dreadful. A sewer passed down Wapping wall and entered the river Thames, adjoining the house in which the deceased lived, and at the above time it is believed the refuse from the bone factories of Messrs. Cohen and Parker, in Old Gravel-lane, was sent into the sewer. The whole of the neighbourhood was suffering from the defective state of the sewers and the drains, in consequence of which the most serious apprehensions prevailed among the inhabitants. _ THE NATIONAL GUARDS AND LOUIS-PHILIP.—If we had not reached a point in public events at which nothing surprises us on account of its apparent improbability, WO should perhaps have refrained from stating a circumstance that has just been brought to our notice. The inforinn- - tion, however, has reached us upon such authority that we do not feel justified in withholding it from our readers , though we are not in a position to assert the fact on out own personal knowledge. We are assured that a deputa tion from the Parisian National Guard now in London have waited on the Comte de Neuilly, at Claremont, to offer their condolence with the royal exile on his altered fortunes, that they were very graciously received, and that the Comte expressed his regret that he could not pre sent them to his illustrious consort, in consequence of that august lady's indisposition ' • but added, th a t as h e un derstood they were not to leave London for a few days, he should have much pleasure in introducing them, on a fu ture occasion, to the Comtess de Neuilly. On their return to town, as we are further informed, the members of the deputation determined that at the next interview they would present to the Comte an address expressive of their devotedness to his person and regret for his misfortunes; and this address, we understand, has actually been drawn up, preparatory to another visit to Claremont—probanlY in the course of this day. The names of several of the members of the deputation have been communicated to us, but it must be obvious that the present state of feeling in Paris affords the most cogent reason for declining to give them publicity.—Morning Poet. THE PRINCE OF WALES.—At the annual meeting of the York Auxiliary to the Bible Society, T. J. Bourne, Esq., one of the domestic agents to the Parent Society, with re spect to the disturbed state of the Continent and the com parative quiet which we have enjoyed in England, said he had been much struck with an incident that had occurred in the Royal Palace, as illustrative of the source whence the happiness of our own country is derived. He had had the case to which he alluded brought under his notice on good authority. Some time ago Miss Hillyard, the gover ness of the Royal Family, seeing the Prince of Wales in attentive to his studies, said,—" Your Royal Highness is not minding your business, will you be pleased to look at your book, and learn your lesson ?" His Royal High ness replied that he should not. " Then," said the go verness, " 1 shall put you in the corner." His Royal Highness replied that he should not learn his lesson, neither should he go into any corner, for he was the Prince of Wales, and, as if to show his authority, he kicked his little foot through a pane of glass. Surprised at this act of bold defiance, Miss Hillyard , rising from her seat, said,—" Sir, you must learn your lesson, and if ycu do not, though you are the Prince of Wales, I shall put you in the corner !" However, the threat was of no avail, the defiance was repeated,. and that too in the same determined manner as before, his Royal Highness break ing another pane of glas 4 . Miss Hillyard, seeing her au thority thus set at nought, rang the bell, and requested that his Royal Highness Prince Albert might be sent for. Shortly, the Prince arrived, and having learned the reason why his presence was required, addressing the Prince of Wales, and pointing to a footstool or ottoman, said,— " Yon will sit there, Sir !" His Royal Hi g h ness th en went to his own room, and, returning with a Bible in his hand, he said to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, —" Now, I want you to listen to what St. Paul says about people who are under tutors and governors," and having read this passage to him, he added,—" It is un doubtedly true that you are the Prince of W a l es , an d, if you conduct yourself with propriety, you may s ome d a y be a great man—you may be king, in the room of your mother; but now you are only a little boy—though you are Prince of Wales, you are only a child, under tutors and governors, who must be obeyed, and must have those placed under them to do as they are bid." "Moreover," said his Royal Highness, " I must tell y ou w h a t S o l omon says ;" and he read to him the declaration that he who loveth his son chastiseth him betim es , an d th en , i n or d er to show his love for his child, he chastised him, and put him in a corner, saying,—" Now, Sir, You will stand there until you have learnt your lesson, and until Miss Hillyard gives you leave to conic out, and remember that you are under tutors and governors, and that they must be obeyed !" MURDER AT BRADFORD—SINGULAR CONFESSION , " On Tuesday morning, a man named Robert Slater, a tailor, of Great Horton, was found dead in a stream called Bradford Beck, on the Leeds road. He was a person of sober habits, but, on the preceding evening, had been drinking with some friends at the Royal Hotel, in Thornton-road, until a quarter past twelve, when he started homewards, in company with a neighbour, Joseph Bowles. Bowles and the deceased. both of whom were the worse for liquor, parted company in Seagram's-lane , the last occasion on which the latter was seen alive. Na marks of violence were discoverable on the body, and; conjecture was at a loss as to the cause of death, until Thursday morning, the day appointed for the coroner's inquest. On that day, previous to the investigation, man called Joseph Foster, also a resident at Horton, stir' rendered himself to Police -constable Tiley, and confessed , that he had, with ou t any cause, w ilf ully murdered R o b e rt Slater, by throwing him into the beck, between one and two in the morning. At the inquest, Bowles (deceased companion during the day) stated that they had emploYea the afternoon in making purchases and paying visits, until seven o'clock, when they went to a b eer - s h o p, the 'Nevi: gation Inn, and remained there until they were dismissed by the landlord, at eleven. Joseph Foster was among the company there, but there was not the slightest quarrel between him and the deceased. On leaving the Navigation Inn, Bowles, Slater, and a third person, adjourned to the Royal Hotel, and remained until past twelve. On the way home, Slater stopped for a moment, fell asleep, and lost Bowles, who was seen no more. Mr. W. Brooks bank, of Market-street, was sitting up till late that night , and about two o'clock heard the voices of several men' apparently wrangling, and in a few minutes cries of " help," and receding footsteps. He has frequently el; hibited symptoms of a discontented and unhappy state of inind. Tbe coroners jury have returned a verdict of "wilful murder" against him. ORANGEISM v. POPERY.—The first lecture of the win' ter session of the Church Institution was delivered on Monday evening, in the large room of the institutions Charles-street. The lecturer was the Rev. Dr. Burnet' the president of the institution, and his subject was the Errors and Corruptions of the Church of Rome. Having shown how the errors and corruptions of Rome had gra' dually crept into the church through the dark ages, tb e rev. doctor said :—lt was in vain for them to talk of the 19th century. The light of the 19th century had not kept weak men from going back to the darkness and corruP; tions of Popery ; the liberty oof the 19th century coul d not of itself stand out against the corruptions of Poperl' If she was not now what she was, it was simply becaus e , she could not be. It was the want of power that kept h et down, and she was only waiting to come forth before t"' world to be the same hideous thing she ever was. (Cheers' ) He would convey to them his deep felt conviction, tba! from all the circumstances which were awaiting the chore" and the country, religion would be more than ever min' gled 'with the subjects that would come before the legiele: ture, and that the time was come for pious Christian me' of the Church of England to take their stand. They should not take it too late ; but should take it now. Lootit wherever they would, amongst the sections into whic h parties were divided in this country, and they saw m en t making questions those of conscience and religion. them take the Bible as their guide, because its princiPle • _. would lead them to a glorious issue. Nail their colua l ' to that mast. They would be driven from one post to another if they didn't. They would have to give up every' thing to expediency. Perhaps they would be called upo one of these days to accede to the endowment by the staff i l 'of the Romish clergy, Lut they must make their stee d upon the English constitution. The rev. lecturer tb et ! concluded by urging upon the Conservatives, w ho we ts Christian men, the claims of the Loyal Orange Institution. ros Ire the Wa