The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-15 00:00:00

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I Ecclesim Historic." to his executors CURIOUS STORY IN N is a tree called i the cieara bursts of it, the some of the insect, the tree back, and t rootlets outlets, the fact in natural histl is it accounted for insect having been back, and ti 'ales and Queries A SERVANT'S Rion gentleman in the neight farm-servant, found him v ,e tree, and, as the up thr except that he it his master's rl ham one da rti, with come into the hops " Yes, I suppose Lt to, why shouldn't I ?" man to another where al moment's reflection, he shrewdly what'll you take—how much I take off your he requires consider The morrow what additional off ?" " Well, sir, I i " It's settled then, Jc rao :" a while John's hat was always in his hand when he entered the house.—Professor Johnston's Notes in America. THE TWO PEELS.—As everything connected with a name so illustrious as that of Sir Robert Peel excites a lively interest, T may mention, that the present baronet bears hardly any personal resemblance to his lamented fa ther. Like him, he is rather above the -e he: averag his movements, his hair large, and his counts nt mother, Lady Peel, nce for the difference whi lculineand feminine expression and elast but ti father he i dark and bushy, his e the counterpart of his( ygoes further, ght, Unlike his andsome fe The 1 Terence t lehrated w, and in that concln ness between Sir Ro mved by those who are E of Lady Peel . . ich adorns - the drawing room in 3 which has been made known to If, however, the pre brother, young , a marked lii A in the person of Mr. Fre- daily what out among them —When Paa nt of I pleased `with his performance. On the first evening, between the acts, his excellency desired that he might be brought round to his box to be introduced, and paid him many compliments. Lord Anglesea was at that time residing in perfect privacy with his family at Sir Harcourt , near Blackrock, and expressed a e great violinist, to gratify tiation was rather a diffi- wish to get an eV his domestic circ: nothing in the w others, the man who did 'clearly defined con ivantag of honour, I knew the vic manage the affi aide-de-ea ucli as £l5O and a London, and I th me on Pagan 'ed him a card of introduced in due fc._ tion to dinn er , which, of course, he received and with cerem - departed_ I am I expec 1 replied, ' g my instrument ?" " Oh, yes a matter o tamily wish to hear you in private." " Caro amico rejoined he, with petrifying composure, "Paganini c violino e Paganini senza violino—ecco due anirr-" tinti." (" Paganini with his fi with ..titierent persona.") raganint I knew per ., meant, and said, " The lord-lieutenant f exalted rank and character, liberal in he is not Crowns ; nor do I think von and T is a nom the extr two very d playing two or thre such an honour is send in a bill for tunes in the evenii ' What lio you ad He was I said, in the shape of a ring, or snuff-box, or something of that sort, with a short in scription, would be a more agreeable mode of settlement ?' He seemed tickled by this suggestion, and closed with it at once. I despatched the intelligence through the proper channel, that the violin and the gran maestro would both be in attendance. He went in his very choicest mood, made himself extremely agreeable, played away, unsoli cited, throughout the evening, to the delight of the whole party ; and on the following morning a gold snuff-box was duly presented to him, with a few complimentary verde engraved on the lid.—Dublin University Maga. I amid A LEGISLATIVE JOKE.—An incorrigible wag has ad mirably succeeded in perpetrating a capital joke upon the lowa Legislature. In passing the bill prohibiting negroes from entering that State, and affixing heavy penalties upon them when they do enter it, J. T. Morton, of Henry, who is both a whir and a wag, moved an addi f tional section " That tr - L‘ould ' •- force • - after its pi] Abolition pap to the House be in , from an catiln in the lowa Free Democrat," the The bill went back louse, a' t Pleasant The amendment was acc ter a whi /Rion organ might decline publishing the law, and thereby kill it stone d,ad, and he moved fora reconsideration, but failed, and the bill was left to he sent to the Governor in that crafty shape.—New York Journal. NGRICULTD IN THE STATE OP NEW YORK tura, from the skew of implements and sion, was a very favourable one. That iqnd and Scotland no one can den in the State, that progn thougi talian, of his-life, silver told I pence ing the necessary ways exists betty Sir Robert is a Mon they will be correct bert and 1. familiar with Thomas Lac: Whitehall G the public by sent baronet re; Frederick, no 1( distinguished father. Inch deriek Peel, the House of C great leader who s —London Corresx ) .LORI every ni Er turn. VARIET t is said, been introduced into 1, which is found to 31 vinegar IS COMING TO.- 1 is wasted, the a to a Quarter S leen ?" —lf much No, B notion d if he would fit of abstraction. I am unable to fi WIN THE P tends sendinc to the Wo wernor of Texa mg, oyes a ges of Thursday LORD Jon .dship is, by any m Jted whether any ing advertisement ' The person who, to tht; owner." lETALS ?' ho had ii tereou tepayers Dn the a T dliy, to le of the room— ,ufactu I the majority arty covered. That', replied the weaver .t've bigger bellies." was greater that that were sr ham establih opntry, appo enerable , r of the local Observer ne :—" Here the kings uch justice to their sub- it dicta Ihrouled In ' bassadors of fr cbarnber bei overcome by the And no St. Edmunc tives, each of 2 w. a sil 3 a frier donahl Eusabius cum Lte of h AL HISTORY ct which makes an it ing goe )vidius goods he leaves —There is in id to grow out of the chirps till it is said to grow out he lees eds of the k lanation e the death of the le softest part, the it way down the or. ow whether any similar .en noticed ; and, :;an vouch for the skin of the i with the tree growing out )wing down through the le —I was told at B hood, who ston of a aving engaged a factory in all respects, to the house, and into "John," he said to s keep your bat on when you " Well, sir, haven't I a right rou have." " Well, if I have a Thiswasa poser from one Now, John, lore wages will you ask to come in ?" " Well, that ." " Take the thing into e to : morrow morning have you considered ) have for taking your hat worth a dollar a month." hall have another dollar a there are good f ig generally, tt .iat a desire for progress is very ising it elt nd that there are men of skill and in I *ng and directing that pr'- the occurrences of this meeting sufficiently testified work in excitir ms offered by the Society on this occasion amounted f £1,600, and it ted tl Thirty thousand pence each) were sold on the first day show. hi‘sides three thousand members' tickets )Ilar e. 1,11). which admitted the member and his —Professor Johnston's Notes on America. You have ut I hope Ism not ern to sus- elaneholie as you Dmeti mes appear long, and dull —your chili! PHER AND TI said Riccaboo unreasonably pact. The evenly 1. to a man a )land Italian appeared to check some disparaging ad Ind mildly added, " so good, I allow; hut you n that we cannot have much in common."—" own nothing of the sort. You have your house and your interests jeetive ou- happiness and your lives, in common. We , icting, we expect to find ideal nymphs and when - ve condescend to marry a mortal ; and if oil. our chi, would be boiled to rags, and our mutton come un as cold as a stone."—" Per Mice° ! you are an oracle," said Riccabocca, laughing. " But lam not so sceptical as you are. I honour the fair sex too we did. our chickens at many women who realise the fear M Parson, not beetling this )rd was not profar What', only to c pare mind to mind, and when my poor Carry says something less profound than Madame de Steel might have said, smile on her in contempt from the elevation of lo.ic and Latin. Yet, when I remember all the little sorrows and joys that we have shared together, and feel how solitary I should have been without ber—oh, then, I am instantly aware that there is between us in common ar I .., • • given us t ,e same equality of and I was forced to brace myself for a combat of intellect, as I am when I fall in with a tiresome sere like yourself. I don't pretend to say that Mrs. Riecabocca is a Mrs. Dale," added the Parson, with lofty candour—" there is but one Mrs. Dale in the world ; but still, von have n a prize in ti s, and yet. he was content ev( wheel matrimonial ! Think of So ith his—XFintinae called to mind M-s. Dale's " littl and only rejoiced that no second Mrs. Dale -Aisted to fall to his own lot. His placid Jemima 'ained by the contrast. Nevertheless, he had the ill reply, "Socrates was a man beyond all imitation ! )elieve that even he s ent very few of his even. tempers, bar] ckvia grace to Yet I I ings at home nearly at Mr evenons a nos moutons you ha Novel," in BlOCkwOod. FATHER GAVAZZI' The ape ceived, pr 's cotta settled as to Leonard." ,u have not 3 vOTJRT NTH ORATION THE JESUITS (PART to a letter he had r y, in unexceptionabl her share of paradise, pro d to renounce in his favour !d he brought his lectures to ing for his attacks on the close L where to a .w or the J in the crowded a rs), they might, haps, convey to tF scornful relection of same time. his disinclination rested interest in the abodes of .ble in tbi,_ projected transfer of infernal irn s to deno - uneeand de- roolish : to that ti 'reely devote the e ask he wou The attitude he assumed towards this order of mischie vous übiquity had its attendant annoyances and risks ; but he had learned, from the dauntless spirit of Paul, truth, and trampled in th dust personal apprei the ranks of organised treachery were to be - found un conscious agents and deluded dupes. These men were put forward as a mask. Arrayed ostensibly as members of the corporation, their individual character and plausi bility helped to disarm and to delude. Behind them lurked the plotter and the cheat, and the foul type of sanctified intrigule, the byeword for consecrated fraud in the vocabulary of mankind. At his approach the balance between good and evil, as far as the whole body is in volved, ceases to be doubtful. False appearances kick the beam, and whilst the flimsy countorpoid is borne aloft, the deep-laden scale of duplicity descends. For such a man it would be better for the Church of God he pretends to serve that a millstone should be tied round his neck to sink him in the unfathomable sea. By what foul process was such a being fabricated ? The cave of Menteza was the dark laboratory of this Spanish fanaticism, and the " spiritual exercises" its fitting Alcoran. A frightful phantasmagoria was conjured up around the votary of blind obedience, and the proudest attribute of the soul, free will, was forcibly eradicated. The man who entered, came forth a machine. Home, friends, kindred, coun try, he knew thenceforth no more. A spy on his con federates, he i 3 himself girt round by a gang of informers. The heart that beats in a human bosom is dead to all further emotion. The mind has abdicated its Godlike functions. A dog, with its chain and collar, is scouted as an apt embodiment of his new condition by the exponents of the system. That implies vitality. A wooden stock or a corpse, " baculus aut cadaver," Is put forth as the dis mal residuum precipitated by the alchemy of Loyola. The intoxicating hemp, by the fumes of which the " old maa of the" Syrian " mountains" lulled the senses of his mur derous emissaries, ere he sent them forth on his errands of formidable agency of blind obedience. Poverty and chas tity were also vowed, but were held in theory and practice as mere secondary appendages to the first and distinctive badge of the tribe, unscrupulous execution of the superior's mandate; and the speaker entered into copious details as to their methods of acquiring wealth, and the sumptuous palaces they contrived to appropriate in all the great towns Europe; while he furnished not less forcible instances r laxity in point of morals, drawn from notorious occurrences, such as at Monte Putciano and Modena, in Italy ; Montpellier and Marseilles, in France. He exonerated their founder, Ignatius, from the imputation of having planned, in its subsequent form of hideous organization, which he traced to the Neapolitan Aquaviva, during whose generalship of the order the crafty principles of Macchiavelian policy were engrafted on the original stock of stupid but energetic fanaticism. Their influence on European cabinets, and the pernicious working of their obstructive and retrograde industry throughout the world he would reserve for separate animadversion : making but a brief s ,Ilusion to a kind of Koph, :y still treasured up among the traditions of the order, " We entered Europe as lambs, became formidable as wolves, were chased away like dogs, but our youth shall be renewed like that of the eagle." Aye, from Venice, from Portugal, from Spain, France, and Germany, the hell-hounds were driven out e jubilee of mankind ; but it is deplorably true that ciety reappears under the cognizance of an eagle, 11 &L.... s our land with its disastrous shadow, until the avenging arm of the people shall be finally put forth to crush the obscene phenomenon and bury in one grave the carnivorous bird with the purveyors of its carrion. (Cheers.) Thus far the orator seemed but to prelude by a few preliminary touches on the general argument, which ho now divided into two branches—the order considered as auxiliary to the Popes individuality ; and next, as subsi diary to the general interests of the church ; to both which parties he undertook to show it had proved a bitter bad bargain. The original compact between this corps of banded janissaries and the father of the faithful, involved pretty much the same dependency as the Pretorian guards imposed on their nominal masters in the decline of impe rial Rome ; the pontiffs ceased to be free agents; infalli bility became a puppet in the hands of these its upholders and satellites, to the constant and ludicrous annoyance of its ostensib e possessor. In the great controversy about divine grace, Clement VIII. had the hardihood to ques- es of the Jesuit eaning towards the old doctrine kuuinas ; an independence unfavour lolina, and showed a of the Dominican e to longevity as el odore di veleno His repugnance to canoni Fathers Garnet and Oldcorn for their share in the powder plot was doubtless intolerable, when his predecessor had sung Te Deums for the kindred performance of St. Bartholomew. The urgency with which the order, down to this day, clamours for the canonisation of Bellarmin3, and for the public recognition of his ultra montane creed, is felt to be a perpetual nuisance; in the case of the venerable Palafox, their veto was found suffi cient to invalidate the acknowledged sanctity of an adver sary. In all the minor details of church government their pressure is felt, and their ill-dissembled omnipo- tence exhibited. As for services done the church, the scandals and odiums they had brought on Christianity vastly outweighed and fearfully counterbalanced any merits of that kind, to illustrate which the Jesuit confessors of kings were paraded in ghastly deformity before the moral sense of the auditory ; Pere La Chaise, Pere Letellier, and other panderers to royal profligacy in every European court. In the foul department of casuistry they held an unenviable eminence, Escobar, Busemhaum, and a host of similar scribes, laboured to mystify the plainest pre cepts of morality; while the prurient Satiates had pro duced three folios on matrimony, of such revolting in decency as to be publicly burnt by the common hangman in France, pursuant to a decree of. the Parisian parlia- THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD ments. Dissimulation, perfidy, and falsehood were the familiar instrumentalities resorted to in their champion ship of Roman Catholic ascendancy, and their devotional inventions, into which the father entered at considerable length, were derogatory to the Redeemer and the great work of his atonement. For two hours he continued to accumulate facts, and draw inferences illustrative of the mischief traceable to its fatal institution, and though the ground he went over has been frequently trodden, old arguments appeared fresh, trite statements were clothed in such novelty and force of diction, as to keep the as sembly in breathless attention to the close.—Daily News. AN AVERTED AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—The Times of yesterday contains a correspondence between the Hon. F. H. Berkeley and Captain Shute, of the North Somerset Yeomanry, relative to an expr, , ssion used by the former in the House of Commons. Mr. Berkley, however, assures Captain Shute that he never intended to impeach his personal courage, and the affair has ended. SUPPLY OF WATER TO THE METROPOLIS.—We are informed, on undoubted authority, that government have ahandoned the idea of adopting any of the proposals for the supply of water, bnt that a proposition will be sub• mitted to parliament, having for its object the taking up all the water companies, giving 6 per cent. interest on the capital invested ; and there is no doubt but. such a mea sure, if properly carried out, would be highly beneficial to the community. William Grey Smith, aged 47, a surgeon, living in the neighbourhood of Vauxhall Gardens, London. was tried at the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, and found guilty of a felonious assault upon a girl of tender years. There were several indictments nganist him for the like offence on other girls; and though on some of the charges he was acquitted, his conduct has been so heinous—for there is good reason to believe that he has ruined up wards of thirty young girls—that the recorder sentenced him to be transported for life. Frances Taylor, alias Fanny Foreman, aged 20, the victim and accomplice of William Grey Smith in his atrocious crimes, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labour. THE LATE SARAH CHESHAM.—THE BODY STOLEN.— Several zaltsrellaiw. Catherine Hayes has arrived in Paris from Rome, en route for England. Signor Mario arrived in London on Friday from St Petersburg. Two regiments are under orders from the Commander in-Chief to strengthen the garrison of London. The Frimley murderers will be executed at Horsemon. ger gaol this morning. Several Yorkshire farmers who emigrated to Natal last summer have returned hoax again. M. Soyer advertises in the Times for 100 active boys, from 12 to 15 years of age, as pages for Gore House. Mr. T. Hankey, jun. has been appointed governor, and Mr. J. G. Hubbard deputy-governor of the Bank of England. The Rev. H. E. Manning, late archdeacon of Chiches ter, and J. R. Hope, Eiq., Queen's Counsel, were re ceived into the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday week. Considerable sensation has been occasioned by the myste• rious exhumation and abstraction of the body of Saral Chesham, who was executed a short time hack. In ac• cordance with the sentence, her body was delivered up to her friends, who conveyed it in a coffin to Wix, near Clavering, for interment. The clergyman was understood either to have refused to - read the service over the remains, or:to allow them sepulture in consecrated ground, and the friends of the culprit consequently had a grave made, within which they laid the body, they honed only tempo rarily, their desire being that it should receive Christian burial. To their surprise the grave has been opened', and the coffin and body have been carried off. The whole A report is prevalent that Miss Talbot is about to be case is shrouded in mystery, and has caused much excite married to Lord Edward Howard, M.P., for Horsham, tnent.—Sunday Times. son of the Duke of Norfolk. TUE STOCKPORT BOILER EXPLOSION.—On Tuesday The new reservoir at Whittle Dean will cover 40 acres the coroner's jury found a verdict of accidental death in of land. The inhabitants of Newcastle-on-Tyne are now this case. They add, as an'expression of opinion, that the supplied with good water in abundance. junction-valve upon the boiler, leading to the howking Two hundred and seventeen emigrants, sent out by the kiers, was closed at the time of the explosion, and that Cheltenham Board of Guardians, sailed from Glocester the over-loadine of the safety-valve prevented that relief for Quebec on Tuesday. One poor fellow carried his bed to the boiler which was necessary for the escape of the from Herefordshire to Glocester, a distance of 16 miles. steam and these conjointly caused , the explosion ; hut Twelve baskets of new potatoes from Scilly were ship- I that thisjury has no evidence before it to show by whom, Mr. Beckett Denison is converting a large house in Kirkgate, Leeds, a nest of the commonest lodging-houses, into a model lodging-house. A Joint-stock Company is about to be formed under the auspices of influential parties in the City for man►x facturing iron and steel in India. The late Sir Gilbert Heatheote's raeinz stud is to be sold, the present baronet having none of his father's love of the sport. Tuesday, for the London markets, and itv of hrnonli and rAnliflaruara fncratllar an imm fiat means, the said junction-valve was closed the overloading of the safety-valve is attributable to the act or sanction of the engineer, Joseph Hyde, o with upwards of 655 baskets of mach this jury express their un qualified censure. It is also the opinion of this jury that the applying of this boiler to high-pressure steam is highly censurable and, although the extra stays were applied, such application has been done without due calculation. FATAL ACCIDENT.—The eldest son of the Rev. Dr. Bromby, Principal of Elizabeth College, Guernsey, was, on Tuesday lest, found hanging inside one of the windows of the boarders' room, in the college, quite dead. From the top of each of the windows hangs a double cord, which reaches to the sill, and is used for raising and lowering the sashes, and which, from i s being undivided, forms a kind of loop at the lower extremity. The pupils have been in the habit of laying hold of this cord, and thereby raising themselves up to the window, and then sitting on the sill with their legs hanging out, and usually having their heads between the two parts of the cord. The deceased had frequently been seen to perform this boyish frolic, and it is presumed that he must have repeated it on Tuesday, and that on turning round into the room for the purpose of descending, he must have lost his hold ;Lid been caught under the chin by the cord, as, when he was found, this cord was tightly- pressed against the windpipe, and the lower part of the back of the head was, by the weight of the body, jammed against the sill of the window. A PAUPER ELOPEMENT FRUSTRATED. — At the meet ing of the Canterbury board of guardians on Thursday last, a letter was read, which had been written by a male inmate, with one leg, about twenty-one years of age, to one of the opposite sex, with seven children. The woman, with good sense, landed over the epistle to the master. It commenced with " My dear mistress," and went on to urge the good Mrs. Taylor to leave the union with her seven children, and accompany the gay writer on his tra -1 by land, to Wales. He I Last week, a man named Darby was drowned while endeavottrinz, fora wager, to swim across the Thames, at Milbank. Another young man, Edward Hucker, was drowned in endeavouring to swim across the same spot, in twelve minutes. A melancholy incident occurred during the Gloucester The Sheriff's coachman took cold on Friday, assizes Judges ; died—a ce of having to wait " on the box" for the Saturday he was worse, and on Monday he victim to si Mr. Maclise is about to paint in one large picture the portraits of all the amateur actors in Sir E. B. Lytton's contribution play, the proceeds of the whole by en graving and by sale to go to the new " Literary Relief Institution." The stable at Stanwood farm, near destroyed by an incendiary fire last barn, with sixty quarters of corn, five ricks of corn, ten pigs, nearly two hundred head of poultry, a vast quantity of farming implements, &c. WCS, WaS were the week, as Mr. Gearh, the new M.P. for Coventry, commenced his career as a clerk in the Bank of England. He is now amassed considerable property by comme,, Lions. He is a director of the Sheffield railway. There are two Countesses of Newburgh, both widows, The present Earl of Newburgh is unmarried. The coun tess under whose care Miss Talbot is placed is a convert to the Roman Catholic religion, and resides in Chesharn place. She is sist er t o L a d y Alice 1 3 (sPI Peel. ;ial specula ed out the many advantages that would accrue from his wooden , leg and the seven children on the journey, and the great effect they would have on the feelings of the benevolent ; and ulti mately tend to their being placed in comparative comfort On Sunday week, about five o'clock.in the afternoon, the village of Blyth, in Nottinghamshire,.was visited by an awful atnrm of rand iirrisfrarwrr onnesnl inn nLNA with mingled hail, snow, and raint The lightning shi vered a large ash tree, and killed five of a frock of sheep that were under it. from ibis happy link of circumstances. He said that his proposal emanated from the most honourable motives," and that he had no -doubt they would live together on the most comfortable terms. On the chairman inquiring of the Lothario if the letter had been written • by him, he denied it " on his honour." The board ended the mat ter by giving the - wooden leg gentleman 55.. and he there fore proceeds to Wales, unaccompanied by Airs. Taylor or her seven children—by a union with whom he anticipated an independence for the remainder of his life. THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH.—At the soirtre held on Wednesday evening, at the Russell Institution, London, Professor Ansted, of King's College, gave a lecture on the supply of water to large towns, illustrated by numer ous maps and diagrams, which was listened to with great attention ; after which Foucalt's recent experiment, af fording a palpable demonstration of the rotation of the earth, was exhibited, and was conducted in a manner similar to the experiment at the Pantheon at Paris. The wire, which suspended a weight of 28 pounds, was of the the size of the middle C string of a piano. It was 30 feet long, and vibrated over a graduated table fixed to the It is said of Hiram Smith, the approver in the ease of the Frimley murder, that in consequence of the statement of Mrs. Holiest that he was the man who fired at her hus band, the government believe that Smith has deceived The new direct line of communication between England and Denmark takes the passenger from London by the Eastern t.munties Railway to Lowestoft in six hours, thence by steam direct to Hjerting, a port in Jutland, in 26 hours, and from that to Copenhagen by land in 36 hours at the utmost. A number of the merchants ,f Leith, at the taking of niselves as enumerators, the census to several of the charitable institutions of that town. The sum thus generously contributed will amount to no -less than £3OO TI e City of London Corporation Bill, for enlarging and majority of 246 to 124 ; and a bill now adopted by the government for removing the market generally to some suburb, without saying which suburb, was read a second time by a majority of 230 to 65. 75 oft 77 ?—One of the persons engaged in taking the census, called in due course at the house of an old woman, who, of course, had not filled up the schedule. The offi cer, therefore, proceeded to fill it up, and on asking the old lady what age she was, she replied,—" I should have been 77, hut I war ill two years, so yo mun only put me down 75." and the wonderful spectacle was presented of the rotation of the room round the pendulum. The experiment ex cited the astonishment of every beholder, and many emi nent scientific gentlemen who were present expressed their great delight in witnessing a phenomenon which they considered the most satisfactory they, had witnessed in the whole course of their lives. We believe this is the first time that the experiment has been verified in this country. DEATH FROM.CHLOROFORM IN LONEWN.-011 Wed nesday an inquest was held on the body of John Holden, an inmate of Stepney Union. Deceased was about to undergo an operation, and desired the relief of chloro form. Mr. Swain, a surgeon, administered the chloro form under the direction of Mr. Reynolds, and in the presence of two other medical gentlemen connected with the establishment. Mr. Swain said, that having examined the deceased, and finding nothing to prohibit the admi nistration of chloroform, he administered half a drachm, which was less than the average dose, without producing any of the premonitory symptoms. He again adminis tered a similar dose, when the patient suddenly died with out exhibiting any one of the symptoms usually found to precede the full and desired effects attendant on the ad ministration of chloroform. The countenance was sud denly suffused, the heart ceased its action, the pulse was still, and the vital spark was instantly quenched. Wit ness could only account for the result on the supposition that the peculiar idiosyncracy of the patient was such as to render him more than usually sensitive to the influence of the drue. Cases of the kind were of frequent occur rence with respect to medicines whose sanitary character was held in general estimation, such as calomel, &c. — Daily News. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—A circumstance occurred lately at the funeral of a woman who died of dropsy, at the hospital here, which seems entitled to a verse in the chapter of strange coincidences. Twelve years ago, hav ing been born and bloomed into womanhood at Sisted,, she was wedded to one Joseph Manning, a carpenter at Marks Tey, but soon after quitted the bridal hearth and, set out upon her adventures in the world. A period elapsed and the tidings reached the deserted one that she was turned from wood to stone, and was actually married to a mason named Coates, with whom she was living com fortably at Kelvedon. There Manning found her,. but her second love being stronger than her first, he failed to coax her hsck to his own fireside, and they met no more, nor did rumour ever bring him the history.of her where about. Wandering. however, a few days since in Colches ter, in an idle excursion, he beheld a funeral cortege issue from the hospital gate. He followed it listlessly to the churchyard of St. Mary-at-the-Walls, and when the corpse had been lowered to the arms of its mother earth, he carelessly scanned the inscription on the coffin lid, and lo ! it was his own wife. The two husbands of one wife had been present at her funeral, one of them uncon sciously; and No. 1 having tendered his thanks to No. 2 for burying her so respectably, they adjourned together to a neighbouring inn, and joined in praising alternately the good qualities of the deceased and of the fare before them.—Essex Herald. THE LORD MAYOR'S BANQUET TO MINISTERS.—On Wednesday, the lord mayor of London entertained her Majesty's ministers. In reply to the toast of the evening, Lord John Russell said :—" Here I might content myself with returning my thanks for the honour of this night, were it not that this day recalls to me the position in which we were placed three years ago. We can all recol lect that on the evenine preceding the 10th of April, 1848, there were doubts, misgivings, and fears that there might be some violation of the public peace ; and many were apprehensive that loss of life even might ensue on the fol lowing day. But on the evening of that ensuing day we found ourselves perfectly safe—safe, I will venture to say, not from the armed force (small as it is) maintained in London, though that force would no doubt have done its duty had there been cause for it—(hear, hear)—not on account of the presence of that armed force, but because the people themselves arose. They rose not to cause, but to prevent, riot and disturbance. They rose to maintain, not to subvert, the institutions of the country. (Cheers.) My lord mayor, we are now about to see in this country a large number of foreigners to assist in what, I trust, will be one of the most interesting sights the world ever saw. I know it has been said, and rumoured—and your res pected recorder has mentioned elsewhere the rumour— that advantage will be taken of that occasion by some of those foreigners who will come to visit this country, to disturb our internal peace ; but I feel confident that peace will be preserved, not only by the strong arm of the law and of justice, but also because T feel that any, who being our guests on such an occasion, should attempt to disturb our internal peace, would be condemned by the universal voice of mankind as guilty of the greatest violation of the sacred laws of hospitality. (Cheers.) On that great oc casio.i which we are about to witness, when those who are about to visit this country, never having had occasion to be in England before, shall see with admiration the extent of our trade and commerce—shall see a thriving population—they will have reason to be convinced that there must be somethi t ng excellent in the laws, something excellent in the spin so mething excellent in the tradi tions of a people who exhibit such a spectacle. (Cheers.) In this city I am sure they will meet with a cordial recep tion." (Loud cheers.) The meeting was subsequently addressed by the American milaster k Lord Palmerston, and the Attorney-General. AN ANCIENT LADY.—The taking up of the census created no little sensation at Inverness. It is said the ladies were particularly annoyed with that column in which their last birthday wag required. One venerable lady we must adduce in honourable contrast to these, who has given in the round figure of 705 (seventy-five) as her last natal day. A TRAGEDY.-Mr. Miller, a brewer at Ely, accused his three servant girls of pilfering his flour. but said he forgave them if they did not repeat the offence. That night, the three girls agreed to destroy themselves by poison, and for that purpose purchased fourpennyworth each and swallowed it. One of them died, the other two are likely to recover. The Enniskillen Chronicle states that Mr. Chisholm Anstey, M.P., is second son of Mr. Thomas Anstey, who had £lO,OOO left him by an uncle, with which he embarked amongst the first settlers for Van Diemen's Land. He is now living, and resides at Anstey-Barton, near Hobart Town, and has accumulated in flocks, herds, and cash, above £200,000. THE DUKE OF NORFOLK TURNED PRESBYTERIAN. — We have heard, on what we consider to be good authority, that an application has been made, by a gentleman pro fessing to be properly empowered, for seats in Dr. Cum ming's chapel, for the use of the Duke of Norfolk.— Morning Advertiser. May not the application be on behalf of the Duchess, who is a Protestant ? THE TERRIER DOG AND THE LARK.—A gentleman in Scholes has a dog, of the bull and terrier breed, which displayed much sagacity one morning last week. On no ticing the escape of a lark, that had got out of its cage, and seeing it flying about the room, the sagacious animal captured the bird and took it up stairs, without injury, to his master, who was then in bed.—Wigan Times. At a late meeting of the bo,ard of guardians of I - 101- beach, Lincolnshire, a man named Willimot applied for relief. After considering his case, the guardians told the applicant that they had decided to allow him 2s. 63. a week ; but Willimot said that he did not require so much as that, and at his request the allowance was reduced to to 2s. AN ENORMOUS PlKE.—William Barry, Esq., of Abney House, Little Marlow, killed on Saturday last, a pike in the river Thames, fronting his residence, which weighed nearly 351hs. It was a female fish, and rather out of con dition. Had it been taken a little earlier in the season it must have weighed upwards of 401bs. Mr. Barry, after three quarters of an hour's sport in an ineffectual attempt to land it, was gompelled to shoot it. On Saturday, a number of young men, dressed in red uniform, and furnished with apparatus for cleaning clothes and shoes, were stationed in the vicinity of the Exhibition building, and west-end thoroughfares. They are all lettered, and wear badges inscribed " The Shoe black Society." They have been selected from the Lon don Ragged Schools, previous to being assisted to emi grate. Mary Anne Parkes and Jane Lewis, previously con victed of perjury in having endeavoured to affiliate an illegitimate child upon the Earl of Stamford and War rington, were sentenced on Tuesday last by the Recorder of London. Parkes, who had been in prison for two months, was ordered to be imprisoned for nine months longer, and Lewis was sentenced to be imprisoned for six months. On Saturday week, a young woman, named Esther Curtis, was killed near Gloucester, by her husband, under circumstances of great brutality. The poor woman called upon the fellow at a public-house where he was carousing, when he attacked her with such ferocity, beating and kicking her, that she died in half an hour from the injuries which he inflicted. He is now in cus tody. _ _ ELOPEMENT.--We have to record an elopement this week ; the gentleman from Althorpe, the lady from the Burringham side of the Trent. The parties were married at Hull, which is a kind of Gretna-green for all runaway matches from Lincolnshire. In this case, it is said, steps will be taken to try the validity of marriages thus so lemnized. They have been of such frequent occurrence lately that both the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Lincoln have been applied to for their interference to check the Hull cler gy.—Doncaster Chronicle. POISONING NEAR WISBECII. — The proceedings in the case of Ann Overnent, before the Wisbech Isle magis trates, which had been adjourned from the 22d ult. to the 24th, and then to the 26th, were closed on Saturday. After a mass of evidence had been taken, the prisoner was asked what she had to state, and cautioned in the usual manner. She replied, " I think it very hard that this should be laid on me, for 1 am as innocent as a new-born babe. I hope the gentlemen will consider this, and set me at liberty. I'm sure I'm innocent." The magistrates, however, felt it their duty to commit the prisoner: for trial on the charge of poisquing her mistress by pu,ttlug a rsen i c in her puddings DESTRUCTIVE FIRES IN THE PROVINCES.—The diffe rent insurance offices in the City have received intelligence from their respective agents of a series of destructive conflagrations in the provinces by which a large amount of property had I”en consumed. At Bideford, on Wed nesday night, a fearful fire broke out in the extensive sail and rope manufactory of Mr. Thomas Evans, the mayor of the town. The loss, it is said, will amount to thou sands, but the premises are insured, as also the stock. A very serious outbreak is reported to have occurred on Lard Berners' farm, at Tirton Grange, in Leicestershire; and a few evenings since a large extent of farming pro perty was destroyed at Long Melford, in Suffolk. Many other destructive fires are included in the returns. MYSTERY OF THE SHREWSBURY FAMILY.—The Earl of Shrewsbury, it is well known, is a descendant of an old Roman Catholic family who made those elves con spicuous at various times in the history of our country. During the time of Queen Elizabeth the Earl of Shrews bury was one of the keepers of Fotheringay Castle, at the period of the imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots by her cousin, Elizabeth. With reference to this affair a curious tradition has been attached to the family of Shrews bury, and much superstition has existed on the subject. The tradition, or legend, is to the effect that no person becoming Earl of Shrewsbury will ever have a son who shall live to inherit the title and estates of his father. It was said that this judgment was originally delivered as a malediction upon the nobleman who had assisted in carry ing out the views of Queen Elizabeth ; and it is said to he a fact that this lege(' i has proved to be correct in an incredible number of instances; hut we leave it to those who are learned in anathemas to account for the fact.-- Observer. THE LAWSHALL MITRER.—George Carnt, 23, for the wilful murder of Elizabeth Bainbridge, the wife of a sergeant in the Sappers and Miners, at Lawshall, orr the evening of the 21st of hat January, was sentenced to death on Friday week, at Bury St. Edmund's. The deceased woman had married the butler of a clergyman, who afterwards enlisted, since which time she had resided with her father at Lawshall. About eight or nine days before her death she went to visit a sister-in-law, whose husband kept a public-house at Lawshall, in which the prisoner lodged. There the prisoner took improper liberties with her, which she indignantly rejected. On the 20th of January she left to return home, and when last seen was crossing the fields, She never made her appearance at home, which caused much alarm to her parents. On the same evening the prisoner came in much excited, and with his clothes wet'. He said " the halter was for his neck, and the devil had got possession of him." Suspicion being excited, a search was made, when the dead body of Bainbridge was found' in a pond, the dis ordered state of the clothes and hair showing that she must have had a desperate struggle with some one. A vast amount of circumstantial evidence was adduced, amongst which was the fact that some of the deceased's trinkets were found in the prisoner's pockets. The Bury Herald states that the prisoner has since made a full con fession of his guilt to Mr. Macintyre, the gaoler, acknow ledging the truth of the evidence and the justice of the sentence. He is in a very becoming and penitent frame of mind. MURDER AT A PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION.—Saturday night week was observed by the tenantry of G. Lort Phil lips, Esq., for the celebration of that gentleman coming into the Laurenny estate, Haverfordwest, upon the decease of Sir William Owen Barlow, Bart. On that occasion Mr. Phillips gave away several barrels of ale at the little village of Rosemarket, and the event was signalised with bonfires, fireworks, and other demonstrations of joy. The novelty of the scene caused a great number of persons to assemble, and amongst the number was the unfortunate deceased, Mr. Stevens, a respectable farmer - at Westbury hill, and William Jones, the person charged with the murder, who is styled a shipwright. Mr. Stevens, with some other parties, retired to the New Inn, to partake of a social glass, free from the noise and tumult which pre vailed on the grounds. The prisoner came into the room where the deceased was, several times during the evening. About twelve o'clock the deceased and a gentleman named Barron left the house together, in order to go home. They had barely proceeded twelve yards on their journey when the deceased received a tremendous blow from the prisoner, who had evidently been lying in wait for him, which felled him to the ground, and be never spoke after wards. He lingered in the most excruciating agony until the following day, when he died. Jones was -taken into custody, and the coroners jury the next day reterned a verdict of wilful murder against him. The cause that prompted the prisoner to take away the life of an unof feading man i 3 enve'oped in mystery. He states that the deceased struck him first, but that was disproved by those who saw the fatal blow given. THE HOUSE Tax.—The following is the resolution to bo proposed in committee on the Assessed Taxes Act by the Chancellor of the Exchequer :—" That the duties granted by the Act 48 Geo. UT., c. 55, and now payable in England, Wales, and Berwick-upon-Theed and in Scotland, respectively, upon a welling-houses, and levied and assessed according to the number of windows or lights therein, as set forth in the schedule marked (A) to the said Act annexed, shall be levied and assessed upon inhabited dwelling-houses in and throughout Great Britain, according to the annuc.l value thereof, in the manner following—for every inhabited dwelling-house, which, with the household and other offices, yards, and gardens therewith occupied and charged, is or shall be worth the rent of £2O or upwards by the year ; where any such dwelling-house shall be occupied by any person in trade, who shall expose to sale, and sell any goods, wares, or merchandise in any shop or warehouse, being part of the same dwelling-house, and in the front, and on the ground or basement story thereof. And also, where any such dwelling-house shall be occupied by any person who shall be duly licensed by the laws in force to sell therein by retail beer, ale, wine, or other liquors, although the room or rooms thereof, in-which any such liquors shall be exposed to sale, sold, drunk, or consumed, shall not bo such shop or warehouse as aforesaid. And also, where any such dwelling-house shall be a farm-house occupied by a tenant, and bona fide used for the purpose of husbandry only, there shall he charged for every 1 1 twenty shillings of the annual value of any such dwelling house, the sum of sixpence. And where any such dwel ling-house shall not be occupied and used for any such purpose and in manner aforesaid, there shall be charged for every twenty shillings of the annual value thereof, the sum of ninepence." WANTON AWD DANGEROUS OBSTRUCTION UPON A RAILWAY. — George Hamblin, aged 14, in the employ of Mr. Sherwood, farmer, of Purley, near Reading, was brought before the county magistrates on Saturday, charged by Mr. Collard, superintendent of the Great Westernilailway police, with having, on Thursday last, placed upon one of the rails of the said railway an iron joint plate and bolt, with intent to endanger the lives of persons travelling. William Hoare, shepherd to Mr. Sherwood, said the prisoner was his assistant. On Thurs day morning he bad occasion to send him to the sheep-cot, to reach which he ought to have gone through the arch. under the railway ; that he had no business upon the railway, and that he was a long, time gone, for which he scolded him. The next morning one of the railway gaugers or firemen told witness some one had placed a joint plate, &e., upon the rail, and witness immediately suspected his fellow-servant of being the party who did so. He taxed the prisoner with having done it, and'he at first stoutly denied doing so, but upon being pressed he at length admitted the fact; and said he put it there to try what effect a train would have in passing over it. The prisoner further said he put a stone on each side of the rail, that is, upon the timber under the plate, and that when the train, namely, the express, came, it merely jumped a little. Joseph Smith, gauger, in the employ of Mr. Brotherhood, the permanent way contractor, proved finding the pieces of plate, screwbolt, &c. The plate, which is a foot long, ten inches wide, and nearly half an inch thick, was completely cut in two from end to end, and almost as clean as if- done with a chisel. The screw bolt, three-quarters of an inch thick, was quite flattened. The magistrate, after having severely admonished the prisoner, and commented upon the enormity of the act, which might have occasioned the loss of many, lives, fined him £5, and in default six weeks' imprisonment in Read ing Gaol. The fine not being paid, the prisoner was forthwith committed, THE IRON TRAHE.— The proceedings of the quarterly meetings, just concluded. have been unusually spiritless and uninteresting, and the attendance at the different places of assembling, with the exception of our Town. hall, has been both tardy and less numerous than upon previous occasions. Throughout the week the demand was drooping, and there was not the slightest appearance of speculative impulse. On the part of dealers and pur chasers. an importunate effort was made to force down prices, but it cues firmly and effectually resisted ; in fact, the resources of capital and credit have already been too heavily tasked to allow a possibility of compliance. Busi ness was therefore confined to the supplies for immediate consumption, and in many instances, after being delayed from day to day, was ultimately put off till future oppor tunity. For the best descriptions of iron there was some demand, and previous prices were well supported ; but in common use iron, rods and sheets, the trade ruled exces sively dull, in consequence of the late falling off of orders in the chain and nail trades and other hardware manufac tures : no actual reduction, however, has been reported. The manufacture of sheet iron was, till a late period, monopolised by a few of the leading firms of the trade, and commanded a figure much beyond its relative value ; but latterly this branch has met with more attention, and from the widely-extended competition, sheets, both in quality and price, have sunk below the average standard, and are now complained of, equally with rods, bars, and hoops, as unremunerative. In pig iron there was little business doing, and much difficulty was experienced in realising the prices of last quarter-day for the inferior makes. Coal and ironstone are also very flat.—The sub ject of s general reduction of wages seems to have formed a topic of conversation, as being the resource to which the Staffordshire masters may ultimately be driven, although there is a full determination not to resort to it till it becomes unavoidable. —Birmingham Gazette of yesterday. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The character of Amine in " La Somnambula," which was played by Mademoi selle Caroline Duprez on Tuesday night, is unquestion ably the one in which she has achieved her grea t est suc cess. More was required than in any part which she has hitherto attempted, but her energies increased to the exigencies of the occasion. The music could not be more faultlessly executed. Every morc eau s h e sang, from the quiet aria at the commencement of the b r illi an t fi na l e , which always exhilarates every heare r , was an excellent specimen of the most thorough traiuing, so perfectly in tune was every note and so finished was the execution of every passage. The end of the opera confirmed her tri umph. She was called on the fall of the curtain, and then in answer to an unanimous demand, the brilliant finale was repeated. Coletti, who made his debut foethe season as Rodolphe, likewise appeared in the last scene of " I due Foscari," in which he displayed his wonted power. Likewise, in additi on to the ordinary ballet, there was the immortal " T ruan d a i se, " i n which Carlotta Geisi seemed literally wafted along by her own poetical inspirations. Under the Italian title of " La Muta, di rertici," the April 15,1!51.. Pip it • chef d'oeuvre of A u b er was pro d uce d on Thursday for the first time at this theatre, where some year's t was so popular in th e f orm o f a b a ll et . Th e rePresel li „ s , tion of " Masaniello" was interesting for several res s r A new tenor, Sig. P ar di n i (f rom the Italian opera et pj bt lin), appeared in the part of the hero • the justly P°P et barrytone, M. Mass o l came forward, ?or the first CHO o f her Majesty's Theatre, in his well known character 0 , Pietro; and Mdlle. Monti, a pantomimist of highl e Po tation, made her first appeal to an English audience,th the dumb girl Fenella. Besides these, other two te., , i n ° 0 Signori Scotti and M ercur i a li, also made their deo'B,o9 Alphonso and Lorenzo. Th e grea t po i nt o f the ex" "0 the Fenella of Mdlle. M on ti, w h o comes f rom the Scal a t he Milan, where for five or six years she has enj'eYe d g ho reputation of being the first " mime" in Italy al l " alone would have ensured the success of the opera. D a Monti proved that her ce l e b r ity was not a h o ll o w one. 8 0 , 0 it is not too much to say that the character of Pendi a re • seen for the first time in this country adequately sented. The oper a was ene i re l y success f u l . The 0 P et pal performers were called before the curtain several l' sl during the evening. There was a very full house. SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSEZES. NISI PRIUS COURT.—TUESDAY. (Before Mr. Baron PLATT. , NEWTON V. VAUCHER.—After the examination t to few witness e s f or th e d e f en d ant, w h ose evidence went show that the patent of the plaintiff bad been foresee, by a previous invention of the defendant, the ki r l turned a verdict for the plaintiff. „This W pb TOULMIN AND , OTHERS V. JOYNSON, an issue directed by the Court of Exchequer to deteTala whether o r no t th e p l a i nt iff s were entitled to certain nocl9 of cotton, which th e y h a d s t oppe d i n transit:h.. The, g - be• were ordered by a person named Chadwick, and Il e t he coming insolvent, the plaintiffs served a notice on iva i captain of the vess e l convey i ng t h e cotton, on his 811(the at Liverpool, to hold the goods for the consignor s o cl plaintiffs) ; and this, it was contended, was a g ()°d set legal stoppage in transitu. For the defendant " ,. to contended that the bill of lading had been endins t i c a him, for a bond fide consideration, prior to the t ie : to p being served on the captain ; and that the right to the goods was, therefore,-defeated.—Mr. Knowles e liel ; from the defendants' witnesses that when Chadwick g„,,t the defendant the bill o f l a di ng, h e to ld t h e defer rd that there were bills of exchange drawn against it ; a also that on the d a y i n quest i on Ch adwick was see' „ „ e d Liverpool by one of th e d e f en d an t' s c l er k s, who infot7l,l) the defendant of th e c i rcums t ance, an d that afterwr;:o person was sent upon 'Ch ange to ma k e sure t h a t it 1;6 4 Chadwick, and an o th er , su b sequent l y, to the Cr,°°tbe Billet; with a reque s t th a t Ch a d w i c k would come t ° aer office. The learned counsel, in his reply upon the effor commented very stron g ly upon t h ose facts, con tend that they all went to sh ow t h at t h e d e f en d ant beli e t be that Chadwick's credit was failing ; and that he took be bill of lading, although he knew that by so do i j ng oll would prevent his meeting the bill s o f exc h an ge u i r e i c le against it.—The learned Judge left it t o th e j ur y to ue ,,,ust the whole question of bond fide or nzald fide. The/ decide whether, taking i n t o cons id era ti on a ll the ta c o, the mode in which Ch a d w i c k was i nv it e d i n t o the coupled with the pressure for payment and securq a t ot they could or could not fairly infer that the def e nlio had reason to know that Chadwick was insolvent. , for jury, after two hours' deliberation, returned a verdic t the defendant. WEDNESDAY. abt NEWELL. 5. BLACKWELL.—This was an action b r° ,7as by the plaintiff, a y oung man, against the defentito"tts auctioneer; of Nottingh am , for maliciously eliarginLot , plaintiff with corrupt perj ur y, an d f or f a l se ImprisonLrio4 The plaintiff had given evid ence a t a t r i a l l a st Assizes, to the effect that he had seen the defendatoOvia a certain guarantee. Shortly afte r this th e defencla,?,, , ig; the plaintiff arrested for perjury, in sw e a r i ng that ea rd nature was his (defendant's) writing.. The case was nt before Mr. Rushton, when the defendant deposed 0 1 / 0 5 had never signed the guarantee.—Whilst the first 1 / 4 . l o . e ett was under examination, a consult a ti on t oo k p l a ce b e ; gr,', Mr. Roebuck, who appeared fo r th e -d e f en d an t, CO"barli Lees, the defendant's attorney ; after which,Mr. l W e ueia said, " My lord, in this case I consent to a verdict taken for.Xloo." PRICHARD AND OTHERS V. TERER AND vT. , - f dr, This was an action brought to recover th e am ount ° e el mages sustained by the barque Ganges, in c onseque L n e tag alieged misconduct on th e p ar t o f th e cap t a i n of t", steam-boat Liver, w hilst roun di ng t h e cur ve c" d eo Brunswick Dock. The chief point was as to the 11 ` 0 4Jer i ' docking pursued by th e mas t er o f th e tug -b oa t, et lii- r ti& ing the state of th e tid e a t th e ti me .. S ever al pi l c liP witnesses were called on both sides ] whose opini° 9 ,,diol o , r fered " far as are the pole s a s un d er ."—After a 0 16 hearing of several hours, a verdict was returned 0 0 4 plaintiffs'for the amount claimed.—During the so. r ni' ve r, up his lordship attempted to explain the word " to the effect that it implied that the vessel was s. and could stand all sorts of weather. Mr. Knowl ea Or; he had been told that his lordship was mistake n o teo liver was the name of a bird that formerly freq ue,, these parts, and from which the town in fact to° s ent name. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins observed that the Pl' t l O O Mr. Sheridan, the member for Shaftesbury, the firs t 0 9, he saw the figure of the " liver" at the Gas-works lated the motto surrounding it, "Ex fumo dare l° c to mean liver and lights. (Loud laughter.) farm er n HALSALL V. GREENOTJGH.—The p luintlff, a S neer Wigan, sou g ht to recover f rom t h e d e f e ndap" 5 r assistant in a druggist's shop at Warrington, conapeno tion in damages for the value of a ware alleged to il o n. been killed by the defendant's negl.gence. It wol i c r uil tended that the defendant, whilst driving a gig , ri te was into a shandry driven by the plaintiff, and the l' c " . ;,The so severely injured that death resulted in a few dav Act for cart was also damaged.—The jury returned a vet' the plaintiff, damages £36 9s. s 1! 1 ,, i° HSSKETH V. EARL OF SEFTON AND OTHE-- it -•,1 action was brought to recover damages for an sill; 01 8 ' cessive distress. Sergeant Wilkins, in opening tu „r e al made some very strong observations on the inconve:,oo4. and danger to health to parti es f requ enting the juj e ot! Assize-courts. He said that the late Mr. Roscoe 6 , t he 01 tll was accelerated, if not caused, by the atmosphere, dea th courts • and he had no hesitation in saying that ttl e ,, s o s f; of another eminent barrister was owing to - the sarer,, - 0 One of the first physicians of -the town had given "i s tri' s opinion that the death of the late stipendiarY al e soo'd was attributable to the air of th e court. He trl or eg°,l further strong observations on the subject, and e 'ies' e .,cl 5e a hope that the Corporation would a dopt some , for the evil. He then opened the plaintiff's e 9 lilbt' r after Mr. Watson had made a few remarks, Mr. f ettle said he thought he could not continue the case and by mutual consent a juror was withdrawn. the COo The whole of the business being disposed of, closed at five o'clock. FUNERAL OF 'EDWARD RUSHTON, The remains of this deceased and lamented g; , fo ov - 0 weredepositedin their final resting-place, on Toes ua: c ess i° ing, at St. James's.Cemetery. The mournful POs c oith; lef the residence of the deceased, Parkside Hous e ' heg s e down. lane, at half-past nine. It consisted of a drawn by four horses, three mourning oua c ,,, he pric i Mayor's state eqpipage, and no fewer than fo r, 'ith his gentlemen's carriages. The coffin was covered° .. 9 50 r cloth, without a single ornament. The chapel zect° filled, and after the service, conducted by the ReY*. n eo o „' Campbell, asslsted by the Rev. Henry Hampton, bent of St. James's, was read , the procession r oc' re d towards the vault, which was situated within thee tl lO surrounding the monument erected to the memory (),,I late Mr. Haskisson. The co ffi n, which was carrivelb' members of the Council, and the leading six men, was preceded by the clergymen, and follf,teeP, the sons of the deceased (who appeared deeply u ffe jisi ll 'i and about two hundred and fifty gentlemen, coluP",0 0 ;, nearly the whole of the borough magistrates, o f 0: town. The arrangements made by ,Nir. - Th wii lo cci ; excellent, and not the least confusion 'or delay ra i 0- 0 maned, policemen being stationed about silc le e , ;$ fr ° , r o from the chapel to the vault, to prevent Per s°- s crowding on the walk. Several thousand persl present, and, from the observations we heard on ti c ii every one seemed deeply sensible of the loss /JP fr°, public have sustained. As the procession en ierg,e t 10 00 the small tunnel, and winded down the slope., o n lss,e very impiessive and solemnising effect upon t" he re of people who were crowded on every spa f a b e 0 0 slightest view of the melancholy spectacle Co u t o b e g entrY fi ey tained. During the early part of the m orning:. a St. Peter's Church rang several muffled PO. CORRESPONDENCE CHEAPNESS.—TO BUY CHEAP Is TO SELL CHEAP. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL t SlR,—The Morning Chronicle condenses the '` -13 fallacy into one sentence— " General cheapness is only a synonim for o k abundance." To my humble compr e h ens i on t hi s seems ratheji to'' dleheaded political economy. Let us analyse 4 5 04 0 ' 5 A tailor goes to buy a p a i r o f shoes an d firm s some two shillings ch eaper —h e then turns i n to tbievgaQ pl and gets a loaf for twopence less than he forme r ' T ilie j : he then gets a F renc h h at f or e i g ht een s hillings for used to give tw en t y . S o farewell : but opoli ll g ce t iof . shop he finds th e c h eapness un i versal . and sel l t which he used to get threaguineas he must TO ..10; two and-a-half. sori le s r The benefit of gener a l c heapness seems no.": dubious, and wh en th e t ax ga th erer co mes ~ ' _go claim as before, the benefit fades into a loss. be V a i For one article as compared:with all others to ii to cheap pe i indicate c l ty a h t s e at otwhest particularub sarttitchuealrraetri article, a sl ena,db deficiencyud t i sp f o r o r p o all fit: sTiO rfl pe r !l TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL — ~p 0 SlR,—Can you inform me whether the cee sli- ret e :A; left at convents and monastic retreats, w ere disel ° , l 4 filled up—the secrets of these prison-houses poroll.' Or. if not, what course the government os tl , e psl` c t l eo enforce its orders ? T was informed that s ic i telßre d tached to its non-performance ; will their ° t ie li% overlooked and pass unrewarded ? I hope fsse l die d d shortly coming when an enactment will be.,o Government, appointi ng comm i ss i oner s to vi n oevolif cally, the same as lunati c as yl ums . an d that er go unsuspecting females may b e a ll ow% l to e el 'ope r lo v their unwilling bonds and thus check, by the °` co nttAl• of exit, the plan of thq Beast 314 his ser respectfully, A VRcar'' Liverpool, April Mi. Falkner-square