The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-12 00:00:00

Dee. 12.1845. SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m. ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA The mail ship Acadia arrived in the river at about 12 o'clock this morning. She brings New York papers to the 28th ultimo, and Boston to the 29th ; the news in the latter is unimportant. The session of the Thirtieth Congress will begin on Monday. the 4th December. The most important of the measures for the considera tion of Congress, is the establishment of territorial juris diction over the newly acquired territory of New Mexico and California. And another important subject is await ing legislative action—the foreign and domestic postage system. According to present appearances (says the New York Herald), the obstacles placed in the way of a free postal intercommunication with England by the pas sage of the retaliatory postage law, are in a fair way of being adjusted by negociation between the English minis try and the American minister. Doubts are entertained as to whether General Taylor has yet made up his mind on the particular measures and policy of his administration. One thing, however, is highly probable—that both moderate men and moderate measures will be in the ascendant, and that the mere par tisans of any faction will have little influence in that quarter. An effort is about to be made to grow tea in the States of Georgia and Alabama. It is said that Forrest has lowered himself much in the public estimation by the course which he has pursued in his quarrel with Macready. A gold mine is said to have been discovered close to the sea coast at Salt Key, or Creag, belonging to Capt. Shep pard, Governor of San Juan. The previous reports of the gold mines of California are confirmed. HAYTI AGAIN IN TROUBLE.—The President of this unsettled country has issued a proclamation informing the people of Hayti that it is his intention to send an army against the Spanish part of the island, for the purpose of subjecting it to his rule, and on the 13th ult. an expedi tion was fitting out to proceed at once to the southward. LIST OF PASSENGERS. —From Boston : Mr. H. Witte, Mr. A. Cuvillier, Mr. J. H. Asgood, Capt. Grange, Mr. J. Potter. Mr. J. Astor, Mr. P. Kerman, Mr. J. Brodie, Mr. S. Vonchond, Mr. F. Furnival. From Halifax - Mr. Finlay NEW YORK, MONDAY, Nov.' 27, 6 P.M. The stock market opened heavy this morning, and quotations for several of the fancies fell off a fraction. The demand for exchange, for remittance by this packet, has thus far been mo derate, without any change in rates. We quote the best bills On London at 81 to 8i per cent. premium. On Paris, sf. 23 to sf. 221; Amsterdam, 40 to 401; Hamburg, 351 to 351; Bremen, 73 to 78*. The amount of specie exported from this port, from the 3d to the 27th instant, was 84'4,142 ; previously this year, $10.013,815 ' • making a total of 310,317,957 from January 1 to November 27, 1848. BREADSTUFFS.—FIOUT.—The sales in the aggregate reached about 6 a 7090 barrels, including 4 a 5,000 bids. this State and Oswego, at about .85 37*, with some lots straight brands do. at .65 41. About 1,003 bbls pure Genesee at 35 44 a 35 50 ass 561; 400 do. Troy, at Si 37} a 35 44 ; 300 do. Genesee (fancy) sold at .85 621 a 3.3 68i. There was no change in Southern brands. Sales 6,000 barrels Ohio, baker's brands, were made at $3 73. Wheat—Sales of 3,000 bushes Illinois were made at $1 12. Corn—The sales, including lots both old and new, reached about 40 a 50,000 bushels; 7,500 Southern white, on private terms, 3 a 4,900 old round yellow, at 73c., and about 20,000 bushels old and new Southern and Western white and mixed, the latter at 61 a 62*c., and the former at 66 a Glic. ; 2,500 do. old mixed, on private terms, and 1,000 Southern mixed, on private terms, and 10,000 tigh mixed at 66c., ad 6,000 New York yellow at 62*c. Meal—Sales of 100 n a 200 barrels of New Jersey were made at 33 12i. Rye— The sales reached about 6030 bushels, in lots at 62 to 621 c., with a small lot of 800 bushels at 61c., which was no criterion of the market. Rye Flour—Sales of 100 barrels were made at 33 188. Barley—Sales of 3000 bushels were made at 64c. Oats—Sales of cargo were made at 34 to 35c. FRED:MTS.-12,000 bushels corn were engaged to Liverpool at 74d. A vessel was chartered for Belfast, to load with corn, at 9d. in bulk, and flour at 28. 6d. To Liverpool, flour were engaged in a transient vessel at 25., and corn, in bags and bulk, at 2s. A vessel was chartered for Cork and a market, to load in Baltimore with corn, at 9s. in bulk; 10,000 bushels corn were engaged for Glasgow, in bulk, at 9d. COTTON MARKET.—The tendency of prices to favour the seller have been as uninterruptedly uniform since the 14th inst. Prices not quite so still N. Orleans, Mo bile 8- Texas. 54 a 52 6k a sa 6i a 7 7i a 7S H 1 I ..<, CC ..—. . po five in astle to by this fighting er. In ssisting mselves nto the s dead ie vessel Friday 1. The nit over as twice witness Jig one ;sengers women between I. One le deck, running at. wheai replace le tight- tti the t they d. - In hrown ed front as a risk people .re were said ha Ind next mied out another. Dek et by take the !ries for that the a Miss vas with it to any rother, (as she sengers Soma a dead. on the 3nie bad ,fortably Td : it von are be bad rv, and Pro spots a human witness of what it it; he mutinied he was fled ; he mid tell to him, ad been a to rob ed what to which them a l having throats he sup- ed to the fled with signed to ;onera in and in .ed : one 3M their T death Le follow in con- nt of the Uexan der :uilty of ity to ex- i the in: on board rgent ne of venti- .CCOUIMO 26—died 1. 3d by the -- E t d , w - hid] LIVES 1, fatal to d by eir -1 to have the report ortunately mg on the llee, over- i pitated t fourteen e upwards called by where the ifty yards any years, lg and re- a boat-was clock, she )ned a lar- otherwise Ily for the afely on [s instance, iwever, be- , and who, of persons n over- we been no , and that ;position to aution with rent state- iginated bT ide, which a move to y made, and previously lersed in it, )tion. The ► the shore; Lrieks which but which each other, its, nothing e the silence :re going to ; ship-yards he darkness 1 help could boats being vere floated, sist some of parts of the bodies were were saved, all were girl named as seen by a ,et hold of He thrust which she 3oor girl had owned. V TT L• 164.• is a new and t wide. with is well caps- providing as tury sales to-day are reported at 500 bales f hiann LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION Uplands none Florida. none 54 a 5 Inferior Ordinary Good middling Middling fair Fair 6# a 6 6+a6 6/ a 7 6/ a 6/ 61 a 6/ Lone Fully fair The cotton market continues rm—sales of . 2,0' , 0 his of the week reach 22.000 bales. We quote fair, Cc. ; flour re mains steady at ,S 1 75 ; the sales are 3,030 bbls. ; corn is dull and prices less firm ; sales of 15,000 bushels at 48c. for mixed, and 53e. for yellow ; mess pork has advanced, and new com mands 810 50. Of lard there were sales of 120 kegs at 60. Sales of 310 bhls. molasses at 20c. In freights and sterling ex -Stamm we have no change to notice BOSTON, No. FLOUR.—The general operations have been to meet the usual AnP dpn.and. Genesee Si 73 to $5 87, and Michigan and simi- traue • _ lar descriptions, $5 62 to $3 75 per bbl. GRAIN.—The sales indicate less firmness in prices. with re ceipts greater than the demand. Yellow flat Corn, new, 65c, and old 67c, white 63c to 64c per bu; other grains the same as previously reported. nor ,n,O Ret-et,e• by who.nt 2,600 bushels ; corn, 3,300 do. ; barley, 11,000 do. 't he flour market is dull, while quotations remain about the same; sales an, (1 f barley there were sales of Of 2,500 bushels of rye at We. ...-• •. _ _ 9,000 bushels at 61:1 a 66c., according to quality. In oats we notice sales of 6,000 bushels at 33 a 34c. A lot of 100 bbls. prime mess pork were taken at private bargain. -THIS LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET We have had a very small business in our Stock DAY. .xchang this morning, in consequence of there ueing a rneering members to elect committee-men, &c. Business was t. the following prices :—London Stock, I is ; Leeds and bury, 391; Sheffield pref., 9j ; Midland, i-shares.lol d Stafford, XS 95. 9d. ; Dovcr, No. 1, 108 d ; Commercia 11 ; Union Batik, 2i d. There are a great prepondert buyers, and very little stock offered. Dews ; North 1 Bank, LIVERPOOL CORN ] Free Wheat Id. to 2d. ; bondec 6d. per barrel; Indian Corn 2s. at the above advance. ARKET.-TH 1E to 4d. per bushel r quarter. A good .., - 9' ;••• open =:IZ=MB W-ttruaturc. MISSING—THE GREAT SEASERPENT. — Had on, when last met with, a bunch of sea-weed round its neck, a seal skin coat, with a very long tail, and " continuations" of a most extensive character. He had been going lately to very great lengths; but his friends fear that he may have come to an untimely end, for when last seen he appeared to be almost at his last extremities. He need not be afraid to make his appearance again, and unfold himself without scruple, but he must embrace the p resent oppor .tunity, or he is for ever lost.— Punch. IMMORTALITY.—Some of the houses in Edinburgh are • eleven stoties high, and in one of these near that exquisite green slope from the Castle -esplanade Johnson visited Boswell ; and here also David flume the historian and philosopher, resided for many years till he removed into the oldest square of the New Town. A recent traveller toiling up the stairs asked an oli woman, who was con veying a pitcher of water to her aerial domicile in the building, whether she could tell him in which story David Hume lodged. "Dawvid Hume ! Dawvid Hume ! (re pl!ed the old woman) —I hae been here this echteen year, and never mind sic a name. Dawvid Hume is no on this stair." To which he gently replied, in Toot's phraseology, hat it was " of no consequence," and seat a retreat. Till LIVERPOOL STVIDARD. tended itself to him, and placed him in a position to feel more acutely his intellectual superiority and his physical wants, without at the same time enabling him clearly to distinguish the causes of the latter; and it was on a po• pulation thus half instructed that evil men attempted to work their mischievous designs, and to sever those bonds by which society could alone exist in cordial union. They had tried to persuade them that a general feeling existed amongst the rich to act towards them as oppressors, and that an organicchange in our laws was the only preserva tive against a condition of absolute slavery. One of the means employed by these men to promote their designs was the calling together their unfortunate dues, in order, as they said, to discuss their grievances, but really to enforce upon them the necessity of an entire change in our several systems, and the acquisition of certain political rights, which were to redress all wrongs and to render them again comfortable and happy. The inculcation of such doctrines would however,always be attended with its legiti mate fruits; and, from the experience of other nations,he felt justified in saying they would aggravate and not dimi nish the privation they were called upon to sustain, and the distress they were unhappily suffering. The learned judge then, in order to show that the possession of politi cal rights was no indication or guarantee for the posses sion of physical comforts, referred to certain documents which had been published in Paris, demonstrating that during the French monarchy, previously to the revolution of 1789, the physical comforts possessed by the poor greatly exceeded those possessed by them subsequent to that event. It had been assumed, on very competent authority, that the physical comforts of the poor might be safely judged of by the quantity of meat consumed by the population ; and, taking this as the criterion, the sta tistics of Paris gave the following result:—ln 1789, du ring the period of the old monarchy, the quantity of meat consumed was 1471 b. per man : in 1817, after the Bourbon dynasty had been restored to the throne, sub sequent to the revolution, it was 1101 b. 2oz. per man ; and in 1827, the medium period between the restoration of the Bourbons and the present time, the average was still about 110Ib. ; while, after the revolution of 1830, it fell to 981 b. lloz., and at this period it was in all pro bability still less. These statistics at least showed that prosperity and political rights on the part of the poor did CLOSE OF THE TRIAL OF THE SEVEN BISHOPS. not always exist together, and this was the truth he The jury retired at dark. All night long the solicitor I wished to make clear, and not that political rights in for the bishops, with a body of attendants , w a tched the themselves were not to be desired or enjoyed It door of the room in which they were confined, to pre- might sometimes be desirable to acquire political rights, elude any communication or supplies. As day broke a even at the expense of suffering ; but all he would little water for washing was taken in to them, which they urge on his poorer friends was, that before they disturbed lapped up like famished hounds. Nine were for acquittal, the peace of the country they should sit down and inquire three for conviction. This minority soon dwindled to a what would be the cost to themselves—whether the intro solitary unit, but the unit was formidable. Michael Ar- duction of confusion and anarchy into our complicated nold, the brewer to the palace, had been heard before the social system for the sake of a doubtful good would nob trial wringing his hands and crying, " Whatever Ido I render them less happy and comfortable in their circum must be half ruined ! If I say ' Not guilty,' I shall brew stances than they had previousiy been. He believed that no more for the King ; and if I say ' Guilty,' I shall brew no rational man acquainted with the circumstances of the no more for anybody else." He now threatened to hold country would hesitate as to what course he ought to pur out, but Thomas Austin, a country gentleman of good sue, but would see it to be his interest as well as his duty estate, who had conscientiously taken notes all through to remain quiet, and seek such changes as he might deem the case, after vainly challenging his stubborn fellow-juror desirable, not by physical force, but by an appeal to con to argument, at length exclaimed, " Look at me. lam stitutional means only. This brought him to the second the largest and strongest of the twelve, and before I find point on which hefelt it his duty to address them, viz., how such a petition as this a libel, I will stay here till lam no to provide a remedy for the evils to which he had alluded, bigger than a tobacco-pipe." and the effect of which he had briefly attempted to de- At ten the Court again met ; the crowd was greater scribe. Now, he believed that our safety lay in education than ever. The jury appeared in thei r box, and there was —education rightly directed. We must teach the people a breathless stillness, not only :heir duty to God but also to their neighbours, Sir Samuel Astry spoke. "Do you find the defendants, and, if we did this, we need not fear for our future or any of them, guilty of the misdemeanour whereof they tranquillity. But how was this to be done ? Why, much are impeached, or not guilty ?" Sir Roger Langley an- in the same way as a good father would teach his swered, " Not guilty." As the words passed his lips, own children. We must do it uniformly in a kind and Halifax sprang up and waved his hat. At that signal affectionate manner, in such a manner as to convince them benches and galleries raised a shout. In a moment ten that we love them, and that we are seeking their good, thousand persons, who crowded the great ball, replied and not our own. This was the mode in which a father with a still louder shout, which made the old oaken roof instructed his children, and this was the way in which the crack, and in another moment the innumerable throng poor must also be instructed; for, having convinced them without set up a third huzza, which was heard at Temple that we loved them, it would be comparatively e sy to Bar. The boats which covered the Thames gave an an- communicate those lessons of wisdom which it was of im swering cheer. A peal of gunpowder was heard on the portance they should learn. The manufacturer must water, and :mother, and another , an d s o in a few moments thus teach his workmen, the tradesman m ust thus teach the glad' tidings went flying past the Savoy and the Friars his apprentice, and the clergy, in their more extended -.trio-bridge, and to the forest of masts below. As sphere, would inculcate the same lessons on their respec .treets and squares. market-places and tive flocks. Being thus prepared, he thought the people . . . .. - - -- EXTRACTS FROM MR. MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND THE FAMOUS JUDGE JEFFREYS. He was a man of ouick and vigorous parts, but constitu tionally prone to insolence and the angry passions. When just emerging from boyhood he had risen into practice at the Old Bailey Bar—a bar where advocates have always used a license of tongue unknown at Westminster Hall. Here during many years his business was to exa mine and cross-examine the most hardened miscreants of a great capital. Daily conflicts with prostitutes snd thieves called out and exercised his powers so effectually that he became the most consummate bully ever known in his profession. All tenderness for the feelings of others, all sense of the becoming, were obliterated from his mind. He acquired a boundless command of the rhe toric in which the vulgar express hatred and contempt. The profusion of maledictions and vituperative epithets which composed his vocabulary could hardly have been ri valled in the fish-market or the beargarden. His counte nance and his voice must always have been unamiable. But these natural advantages, for such he seems to have thought them, he had improved to such a degree, that there were few who, in his paroxysms of rage. could see or hear him without emotion. The glare of his eyes had a fascination for the unhappy victim on whom they were fixed. Yet his brow and his eves were said to be less ter rible than the savaze lines of his mouth. His yell of fury (as was said by who had often heard it) sounded like the thunder of the judgment-day. These qualifica tions he carried, while still a young man, from the bar to the bench. He early became Common-Serjeant, and then Recorder of London. As a judge at the City Sessions he exhibited the same propensities which afterwards, in a higher post, gained for him an unenviable immortality. Already might be remarked in him the most odious vice which is incident in human nature,—a delight in misery, merely as misery. There was a fiendish exultation in the way in which he pronounced sentence on offenders. Their weeping and imploring seemed to titillate him vo luptuou,ly, and he loved to scare them into fits by dilating with luxuriant amplification on all the details of what they had to suffer. - - . - coffee-houses, broke forth into acclamations. Yet were would readily be brought to understand that the a.:cumu the acclamations less strange than the weeping. For the lation of capital in the manufacturing districts was a feelings of men had been wound up to such a point that blessing to the workmen, by providing a fund, like that at length the stern English nature, so little used to out- of Joseph 'n Egypt, out of which years of scarcity ward signs of emotion, gave way, and thousands sobbed might be provided for, and the workmen saved in ' t'or very joy. Meanwhile from the outskirts of some measure from deprivation of work, even when 1-,,rsemen were spurring off to bear alor ' 1 )- t'ie fluctuation to wh' the mu! ag I trade itself was prejudicea oy ds intelligence Of the victory of our church lit was subjected. Then also wou voked, and to win a way as was his wont, into the- good graces of his victim—or whether this last affront proved irremediable and he was compelled to seek further enter tainment for himself and horse at the " Flower-pot " minor, unfortunately our informant is at fault. etntral The executors named by the will of Lord Melbourne are Lord Brougham and Mr. Edward Ellice. Jenny Lind has promised to sing gratuitously at a con cert at Birmingham for the Queen's Hospital. On Sunday night week, during the heavy gale, a stone fell from one of the houses in Edinburgh on the head of a young woman, who was killed instantly. Richard Harris, Esq., M.P. for Leicester, was origi nally " P.D." in Sir R. Phillip's printing-office, in the town which Mr. Harris now represents. The Master of the Rolls has continued the injunction to prevent any buildings being erected on the open space in Leicester-square, London. A sale of property in MonmouthAiire, belonging to the Duke of Beaufort, took place on Tuesday and Wednesday last, and realised .Z 45,000. The increase of vagrancy in the metropolis has aroused the attention of the civic authorities. Combined action of all the unions is proposed to check the evil. HOMICIDE.—A quarrel took place at Newport, on Thursday, between John Collins, a hauler on the tram road. and an Irishman, named Richardson, which resulted in the death of the latter. . The Chancellor of the Exchequer has received from " R. K." half notes for .f.. 30 on "account of income-tax." He has also received from "an African slave-catcher" £57, which will be paid into the Exchequer. A meeting of the Oxford and Cambridge University Club has been summoned for the 15th instant, to deter mine whether William Smith O'Beien, Esq., M.P., has merited expulsion or not. On Saturday week the steam-ship Glenalbyn came into collision at the mouth of the Humber with the brig Fate, when the latter instantly gunk. The crew were saved by leaping on board the steamer. Nearly three million pairs of gloves have been imported into this country in the first ten months of the present year, the glove makers here being meanwhile in an appal ling state of destitution from want of employment. The postmaster has issued a notice that, on and after the Ist of January next, the transaction of money order business on the Sunday will be entirely discontinue` that one ot . ...emons ot n.. throughout England and Wales. were conversing had arrived bodily, to resent their 11., A. poulterer at Spaldirg, Lincolnshire, is preparing to sion on his chosen domicile. The ox hung by his fore supply the London markets with Christmas fare, by fat- quarters, his fore legs projecting over the eaves, bellowing iening upwards of 3000 geese, which daily eat 21 sacks loudly, and cut a most ridiculous appearance. A couple of oats. of butchers, having secured him with ropes. contrived to On Tuesday week, Sheffield fair day, upwards of 800 of release him from his elevation, and, as he was still much the licensed victuallers and their friends, of Birmingham, infuriated, they slaughtered him on the spot. - _ _ ,-....._....... Un—, ....AA. nafata of of WI THE COLLINGWOOD ESTATE.- Collingwood, situate in the parish magnificent fortune of £lO,OOO per annum, nu, ... sum in cash, most unexpectedly, by the late Lord Mid dleton. Jenny Lind will sing, gratuitously, at a magnificent concert at Exeter Hall, on Friday, under the patronage of the Queen and Queen Mendelsohn scholarships. 500 performers. An elegant marble monument, with a suitable inscrip tion, has been lately erected by the heritors and parish ioners in the church of Lunan, to t' — the last Scottish martyr fered for his adherence rt. ' Mr. Smith O'Br" wager, The concert will consist of he memory of o. under Pop college for the deaf and - Winnil) at Rugby. Master O'Brien is between u and to years of age, very intelligent looking, and remarkably quick at comprehending anything communicated to him by the usual signs. morning wec and nation. Yet not even that astounding explosionman, living at Crediton, was found dead in ner nouse, readily learn that the possession of lair;e estates, could awe the bitter and intrepid spirit of the solicitor.with a box placed on her chest and other articles of fur not used merely for the purposes of luxury and pri- Striving to make himself heard above the din, he calledniture piled upon her. Her premises had been robbed vats ratification, was a blessing to the pour, in pro upon the judges to commit those who had violated byand everything portable was carried away. moting the establishment of schools, churches, and clamour the dignity of a court of justice. One of the re- STEAM NAVIGATIO7.q. contract will shortly be other institutions calculated to ameliorate our social -noulace was seized. But the tribunal felt that it ,;_„,,......, c.... ~, nc _ condition ;. d,2 , 37 ,. tiT 2‘t,he.:?.Tll;t”htz:milclil,e,.arTththpraet entered into between the Admiralty and the Indian and Australia Steam Packet Company, for the conveyance of "s between Singapore and Sydney for a period of would be absura to pull.o a mug., LULLS • tuuan Rut ata vs- Tile suomvision 01 moo, p fence common to hundreds of thousands, and dismissed him with a gentle reprimand. was no law of primogeniture, ; L a ' S - O ' ne -- (Fthe greatest t- --- seven years. sources of misery that could possibly exist. (His Lord- READING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDULGENCE IN THE ship here referred to the evils c> to France from •,._ Innd_ the stant addition day,lt. vri7frvomuerrooufs 4.,, rimir_ The Bishop of the Diocese ❑e mai OF KING JAN 'or Was Cf. The Saturday passed over without any sign of relenting to its proprietor , —creating, according to rrenen our u.., -- -, on the part of the government, and the Sunday (May 20, millions of distinct properties, the effects of which, in im- wrote to regret his inability t_o atm., ........._ 1688) arrived,—a day long remembered. In the city and poverishing the national resources, he detailed at eonsi liberties of London were about a hundred parish churches. derable length.) He would only add one word more on sceevneernatlsepleeereghyemse.n, and other gentlemen, delivered c A meeting of the In only four of these was the order in Council obeyed. this part of the subject. They had winter before them, culture" was hell At St. Gregory's the declaration was read by a divine of and distress at the present season of the year. and under the name of Martin. As soon as he uttered the first present circumstance s, it lar g el y p revailed. He need not, offices, in Bond in the chair. The proceedings consisted principal , / words the whole congregation rose and withdrew. At St. therefore urge on them (the grand jury) the importance vote of 100 guineas to a monument to the late Lord G Matthew's, in Friday-street, a wretch named Timothy of sympathising with the poor. and embracing every op. Hall, who had disgraced his gown by acting as broker for portunity of mitigating their privations. For affording an B m e : n i t r i . n ck. Gear the Duchess of Portsmouth in the sale of pardons, and opportunity of exercising virtue in this manner might bege Bennett the well-known tragic actor, has written a play, called "The Justiza ; a Tale of Arragon," who now had hopes of obtaining the vacant Bishopric of one reason why Providence permitted so much suffering; which is to be produced at Birmingham. The heroine is __ _ _,. A. 1-,„1- 1,‘,, ou.itie. , themselves of such means of doing good, to be performed by Miss Cushwan ; and it is said that - Intro -J.-well fitt,d, in hoth_sitnatinn and writing, AO , the capabilities of that accomplished actress. ~ ,-, , , • :............,-.. Society for the " Protection of Agri.. Th....lnv last. at the society's Tt. Lando.), the Duke of Richmond • " - ntiment,— Serieanhe-inn, in Clinme•prv-1,.., thn eletk Dretended that we mi he had forgotten to bring a copy, and the Chiet Justice of the King's Bench, who had attended in order to see that the Royal mandate was obeyed, was forced to content himself with this excuse. Samuel Wesley, the father of John and Charles Wesley, a curate in London, took for his text that day the noble answer of the three Jews to (From the We of I heodore Hook.) the Chaldean tyrant—" Be it known unto thee, 0 King, There resided at Sunbury, in a large house, an elderly that we will not serve thy gods nor worship the golden gentleman, a bachelor, of somewhat eccentric disposition, nape which thou bast set up." Even in the chapel of whose ruling passion was for his garden. This, albeit prodigality was by no means a besetting sin of the pro rcppze rue. ITU' tl tit i he Duct may have otter taste, The traffic on On "Wednesday there were no less than 13 schooners, one brig, and five sloops, in the basin and Muirton Locks, besides the fine barque Mersey, of Liverpool, which ar rived the preceding evening. This large vessel measures 364 tons register, but carries upwards of 600. A WOMAN KILLED BY A LAMB• — On Sunday morn ing as a female named Hannah Dawson, of Methley, Yorkshire, 81 years old, was crossing a field in the occu pation of Mr. Farrer, of the Rose and Crown Inn, at that place, she was attacked by a tap-lamb, and so much injured that she died on the following Tuesday. A perfectly white rat was caught at the Sheffield work week. It was then confined in a squirrel cage, THE SIGN OF " THE FLOWER-POT aletlonia afing minister had the courage admirable order, and deco- to disobey the order Vestruinster boys Long re- membered what took p►a.,_ uay in the Abbey. ?Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, officiated there as Dean. As soon as he began to read, the declaration murmurs and the rates; regarmubs meats in the very height of suourban fashion—leaden cupids, slate sun-dials, grottoes of oyster shells and look ing-glass, heaps of flint and over burned bricks, denomi , voice. lie trembled so violently that men saw the paper shake in his hands. Long before he had finished, the place was deserted by all but those whose situation made it necessary for them to remain. Never had the church been so deer to the nation as on that day. The spirit of dissent seemed to be extinct. Baxter from his pulpit nated rock-work ; and beyond all, and above all, with a magnificent vase filled with a flaming cluster of fuschias, geraniutns, and a number of plants with brilliant blossoms and unntterable names, which faced the entrance. Here, one fine afternoon, when the flowers had reached their achme of refulgence, Mr. Theodore Hook pulled up his de►uner. A powerful tug at the bell brought a sort of half-gardener, half-groom to the gate in double-quick time. " Take the mare round to the stable, put her in a loose box, and rub her down well. I'll come and see her fed myself in a few minutes : none of you rascals are to be trusted !" So saying, the young gentleman threw the reins to the domestic, marched leisurely along the broad, brown sugar looking walk, dexteiously cutting off here and there an nv pr 0-rnwn carnation with the lash of his driving whip, non-. -- • -- _ and turned the wiry drum as naturally as a squirrel; but it died on Monday last. Since the capture of the animal, two other rats have been seen, one of which is perfectly black, and the other black and white. A meeting has been held at Hereford to establish a c)unty school farm, in which as many boys and girls, the children of agricultural labourers, should be instructed in agricultural pursuits as the quantity of land would em ploy and subsist. The high sheriff presided, and a com mittee was appointed to carry out the suggestion. There has been a marked decrease in the number of cholera cases daily during the past week, both in the me tropolis and in Scotland. The number of fresh attacks reported in London on Thursday was only one, in the provinces also one, and in Edinburgh, Leith, and other Scotch towns, 14, being the smallest return since the dis ease attained its height. SUNDAY SEIAVING.—The curate of Upton-on-Severn has laid informations against the local barbers for follow ing their calling after the hour of half-past ten o'clock on Sunday morning. The informations are laid under the 29th Charles 1., and a case came on for hearing a few days ago. The defendauts were discharged with n cau tion. _ _ _ . pronounced an eulogium on the bishops and parinhial clergy. The Dutch Minister, a few hours later, wrote to inform the States General that the Anglican priesthood had risen in the estimation of the public to an incredible degree. The universal cry of the Nonconformists was, that they would rather continue to be under the penal statutes than separate their cause from that of the pre lates. PRCIMEN OF A CRIMINAL TRIAL IN 1685.-BAXTER, THE CELEBRATED NONCONFORMIST When the trial came on. a crowd o and honoured Baxter filled the court. . . . Two Whig barristers of great note, Pollexfen and Wallop, ap peared for the defendant. Pollexfen had scarce begun his address to the jury, when the Chief Justice broke forth,—" Pollexfen, I know you well. I will set a mark upon you. You are the patron of the faction. This is an old rogue, a schismatical knave, a hypocritical villain. He hates the Liturgy. He would have nothing but long winded cant without book ;" and then his Lordship turned up his eyes, clasped his hands, and began to sing through his nose, in imitation of what he supposed to be Baxter's style of praying,—" Lord, we are thy people, thy peculiar people, thy dear people." Pollexfen gently reminded the Court that his late Majesty had thought hose w and entered the hall. Giving another tremendous jet the bell-wire in passing, he walked into the dining-room, the door of which happened to be open, took up a maga zine, and threw himself at full length upon the sofa. A tidily-dressed maid-servant appeared at the summons. " bring me a glass of brandy-and-water, my dear, and send Boots.' " " Boots,' and brandy-and-water,' claimed the astonished girl. " You may fe ch me a pair of slippers yourself, if you like; so make haste, and you shall have a kiss when you come back." Duped by the authoritative air assumed by the visiter, it would he indecorous to suppose another motive, the attendant disappeared, and speedily returning with the —La, sir 1" ex- DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF A SOLICITOR.---On Monday so'nnight, John Langley, Esq., attorney, of Harrington place, Bath, committed suicide in his private office by firing a loaded pistol into his mouth. The unfortunate gentleman, who was advanced in years, was in no pecu niary difficulties, and no cause beyond that of nervous despondency can be assigned for the dreadful act. IT' I Baxter deservin_ of a bishopric. '` And what ailed the old blockhead, then," cried Jeffreys, " that he did not take it ?" His fury now rose to madness. He called Baxter a dog, and swore that it would be no more than ° justice to whip each villain through the whole city. . • • Baxter himself attempted to put in a word ; tn but the Chief Justice drowned all expostulation in a tor rent of ribaldry and invective, mingled with scraps of Hudibras. "My Lord," said the old man, " I have been much blamed by Dissenters for speaking respectfully of a bishops." " Baxter for bishops," cried the judge, "that's merry conceit indeed. I know what you mean by bishops; rascals like yourself. Kidderminster bishops, factious e 4 snivelling Presbyterians." Again Baxter essayed to speak, and again Jeffreys bellowed,—" Richard,. Richard, dost thou think we will let thee poison the court ? ; to Richard, thou art an old knave. Thou bast written books slippers, observed, " If you please. sir, I have brought you a pair, but they are master's and he is rather particular." " Particular : Nonsense ! where's the brandy. ter As a means of reform, a member of the Town Council of Durham, at a meeting ►ast week, said he would keep down the increase of the nefarious, low, filthy, and dirty public houses. In Durham, he said, they had 120 or 130 public•houses open already for the reception of guests, and every means was used to induce young men of the lower and middle orders of life to go to these places. - .nd-wa- " He never leaves out the spirits, sir; he always keeps the key himself, sir, in his own pocket." " He must be a deuced odd sort of fellow, then : send him here immediately." " Master is dressing, sir; he will be down directly," was the reply ; and accordingly, after the lapse of a few minutes, Mr. - made his appearance, in full evening On Sunday week, Nehemiah Smith, son of the late King of the Gipsies, died in his tent by the side of the road leading from Kislingbury to Gayton, in which neigh bourhood he was well known. He had been ill sometime, but, although advised by a medical gentleman to go to a more comfortable abode, lie refused to be removed. On Wednesday week he was buried in Kislingbury church yard. A REALLY' INDEPENDENT LADOURER.—At a recent meeting of the Guardians of the Cleobury Mortimer Union, Henry Tudor, a resident in the parish of Wheat hill, voluntarily came and paid Is. 6d., the amount of relief advanced to him while unable to work from the dis location of his arm. The Guardians present immediately subscribed the amount, and returned it to Tudor, and ex pressed their admiration of his sterling honesty. costume. " My good friend," commenced Hook, without raising his eyes from the paper, " allow me to observe, that the rules of your establishment are a little inconvenient to as an esg is full of meat. By the grace of God, I'll look after thee. I see a great many of your brotherhood waiting to know what will befall their mighty Don. But, by the grace of God Almighty. I will crush you all." . . . The noise of weeping was heard from some of those who surrounded Baxter. • Snivelling calves !" said the judge. brandy-and-water—brink one immediately me know what you have got for dinner." " I really beg your pardon," said old Mr. —, as soon as he could find words; " I really beg your pardon, but I am at a loss—" " So am I, my good man—for a glass of brandy-and water—bring that, and another for yourself, and then I shall be happy to hear whatever you have to say." " But, sir, you must permit me to state--" " I was never in such a detestable house in my life," exclaimed Hook, starting up ; " what do you stand chat tering there for, instead of attending to my order ? am I to be kept here starving all night ? Bring the brandy and-water, d'ye hear." The old gentleman was struck positively speechless ; his face purpled, he seemed in imminent peril of choking with the sudden conflux of ire, indignation, and astonish ment. '• Why, the fellow's drunk !" pursued Theodore ; " disgracefully drunk, at this time of day ! and in his own parlour, too ! I shall 'feel it my duty, sir, to lay a statement of this inexcusable conduct before the bench." Mr. -- sprang . to the bell. " John—Thomas—turn this impudent scoundrel out of the house !" The arrival of the servants necessarily led to an explan ation. Nothing could exceed Mr. Hook's regret ; what could be done ? What apology could be made ? He was a perfect stranger to Sunbury ; had been directed to the " Flower-pot " as the Ina affording the best accommoda. tion ; and on seeing what he imagined to be a gigantic representation of the sign in question at the garden gate, he had naturally entered, and acted upon that erroneous impression. This was the unkindest cut of all. To find a stranger reclining in full possession of his sofa and slip pers was bad enough ; to be treated as a dilatory innkeeper was worse; and to be taxed with insolence and intoxica tion was still more trying to a gentleman of respectable character and excitable nerves • but to hear the highest a c hievements of art he possessed—the admiration of him self and friends, and the envy of all Sunbury, his darling vase, compared with which the " Warwick" and the " Barberim " were as common wash-pots—to hear this likened , to an alehouse sign, was a humiliatjon which dwarfed into insignificance all preceding insults. Bat as to whether. Hook contrived , to sooth the anger he had pro. A cornfactor at Thirsk, of the name of Cariss, was on Monday committed for trial on a charge of uttering seve ral forged bills of exchange to the Yorkshire Banking Company. One was for £36 18s., another for £l9B, and a third for £157. During the signing of the depositions, the prisoner was left in charge of the door Keeper, whom he induced to accompany him to his lodgings, and whilst there the prisoner went up stairs and escaped by a room window, and has not since been heard of. MR. JOHN MUSTERS.—This gentleman, so well known in the literary world as having married Lord Byron's " Mary," is, we regret to hear, in a state which precludes all hope of his ultimate recovery. As a first-rate sports man, he many years kept a pack of hounds and hunted in the adjoining county of Nottinghamshire, and for two yeara hunted the North Wold hounds. His gentlemanly manners in the field, and his hospitality at his mansion, gained him innumerable friends as l• Handsome Jack." FIFTY MILES IN FOUR HOURS.—A trotting match took place, on Thursday last, at Hatfield, in which a horse, the property of Mr. Richley, was backed to trot fifty miles in four hours and a half ! The horse had been running for a long time in one of Mr. Richlev's omni buses, between. London and Waltham Cross. When the match was made, the horse was taken from the omnibus and put to rest. He performed the task (resting for five minutes at the end of every ten miles) in four hours and thirteen minutes. MURDER IN A LUNATIC ASYLUM.—A melancholy oc currence took place on Monday morning, in the private lunatic asylum kept by Dr. Brigstock at Derby. One of the inmates,. a youth of respectable connexions, and who was considered rather as a harmless idiot than a madman, was allowed to sleep with another inmate named Tomlin son without any keeper in the room. On Monday morn ing- Tomlinson was discovered murdered by his companion, who had inflicted several dreadful wounds on him with a board taken from the bed. A verdict of wilful murder was returned at the inquest. oto THE RECENT CONTINENTAL CONVULSIONS AND THE RELATIONS BETWEEN RICH AND POOR. (From Baron Alderson's Charge at Chester.) That man must have looked on with careless eyes who had not observed the transition state in which society now was, or who had failed to see the imminent peril which hung over the whole civilized world. In the language of prophecy, and to which in this peculiar season of year our church especially called our attention, we hear oT wars and rumours of wars—nation is rising up against na tion, and kingdom against kingdom, and the powers of the world seem to be shaken. Europe, during the past year has been convulsed to its very centre—its ancient dynasties were overthrown, and its rulers sought a refuge from the fury of those over whom they had swayed the sceptre. Even the mightiest fabric among the ecclesiasti cal powers seemed to be crumbling to pieces ; and he who had presumptuously claimed to give and to take away kingdoms was now a fugitive from his own people. In our own kingdom something of these mighty movements had been felt, but, blessed be God, the shock had not been one of a very serious kind. There had, no doubt, been reasons for this. The causes of anarchy which ex isted abroad had not been felt here. Our people lived under free institutions, and they knew it, and, knowing it, they had manifested a general desire to maintain those institutions. We had also a monarch whose public conduct deserved their approbation. and that appro bation he rejoiced to say, had been manifested of late in devoted attachment and ardent loyalty.. Our poor had been subjected of late to deep , distress and to much privation ; but, though poor, they were sound at heart, and he regarded this as a good indication for the future. There was, however, the reverse of this picture. I Recent events had tended to elevate the labourer in the scale of society ; the general spread of education had ex- paid a visit, by special train, according to previous . pointment, to their brother bonifaces of Sheffield, by whom they were hospitably received and entertained. THE ATTEMPTED ASS&SSINATION OF THE T CLERK OF GREENOCK.—The trial of John Thompson, tor tax redeemed. it comprised mu acres in art,,—, the attempted assassination of . Mr. Grey came on on dow, and pasture land, the rental being about £2045 per Monday, in the High Court of Justiciary, and ended in annum. It was purchased by the Hon. Henry Thomas the conviction and sentence of death on the prisoner. ngt Forged £5 notes (which chiefly purport to be of the in Newcastle Branch Bank of England) are in extensive cir- - it culation ; and it is stated that an immense number of tithes, Secured upon the estates ~ ..,, —__ counterfeit fourpenny pieces are in circulation in different berland, Ralph Carr. Esq., the Hon. H. T. Liddell, , parts of the country. Thomas Clennell, Esq., situated in the paiiih of Alnhan Lieutenant W. H. Rushbroke, of her Majesty's ship It was knocked down for £6450. The last property S. Vincent, at Portsmouth, has been bequeathed 0- - ...te esdipd R1.1.-.1,-- - , Ainghain and Alnhan, Northumber Land. was put up to Liddell, of Eslington —' purchase on the rental The next propertxy -charg 3 of £261 is 4d. per annum, in of ahevioCHill, and containing about ISUU acres of sump w..., tithe-free. The estate is bounded by the Breamisl and is let at .£llO per annum. It produced £3250 The ,Monmouthshire Merlin relites an attempt fraud a publican by some pretending prophets at port. two men ten a tnira, mew couipzunuu, a. lic-house for the night. In the morning the lodE found by the landlady stretched upon his bed app lifeless. Shortly afterwards his two friends mad appearance and said,—" You have a dead man - The woman si it was so, and a, .vealed unto us by awake than the wife istening and who had been quiet_ " Oh, I see, T see !" and fetching a moderate sized wal ing-stick, he ran up to the corpse, to which he applied his stick so effectually that the corpse sprang out of bed with one bound, huddled on its clothes with as little delibera _ cc 5 c. oo aid let Two sermons were preached on Sunday, in Birmingham, " On the merciful and kind treatment of all dumb animals, but more especially that of the horse," by the appoint ment of the governors of the Free Grammar School of King Edward VI., in Birmingham, of trustees under the will of the late Thomas Ingram, Esq. A. POLITICAL EYE TO BUSINESS.—When Mr. Denison was- speaking at Barnsley, a worthy knight of the " three balls rose up, and began to ask the honourable gentleman several questions. A cheerful-faced linen-weaver, who was standing at the edge of the crowd, hearing him, called out—" Don't yo pledge yersen, Mestur Denison, to that pop-shop chap, watever yo do." This excited consider able laughter ;ht ago, a THE BArux BEWITCHED. — About a fortnit, South Shields matron, having a child whose growth was stopped by the witches, resorted to a charm to release her offspring tram their spite. A sheep's heart was procured, and stuck full of " bran new " pins, while a darning nee dle was thrust through the centre. It was then put down to the fire at the witching hour of midnight, and the child was held at a little distance, and its mother read the Bible until it (the heart, not the " babby " or the Bible) was burnt to a cinder. The charm so far has had no percep tible effect ; but the good woman says she is not surprised , for she fell asleep while she was reading .the Song of Solomon !—Newcastle Journal. MURDER.—A shocking murder was committed on at the village of Broughton. near Pershore, Worcestershire. A young girl, named Mary Ann Stai. o qQnt by her aunt, Mrs. Richards, to a huckster' - e a few articles. Having bought wantee she left the shop about five o'cis. and proceeded homewards, having to_ pa Tuesday what si to ourchas lc in the eveni frequented road. She never arrived home, and nothing was heard of her until the next evening , when a lit tle boy, named Turvey, discovered her lying dead in a ditch, with her basket of groceries lying near her. On lifting up the body it was found that the girl's bonnet was cut through, and her skull fractured by a blow from some heavy instrument. Suspicion has fallen upon a man named Robert Pulley. STARTLING INTRUSION.—The Perthshire Advertiser states that a publican and farmer were, on Saturday week, gravely conversing in a stable, at Newburgh, on the probability of the house being haunted by evil spirits, when an ox, which had been startled by a horse, arid had run madly through the town, sprang from an elevation on to the roof of the building which instantly gave way be , neath his weight, and ,his hinder quarters fell through, r scaring the poor fellows below nearly out of their wits ; I for they believed that -- ' the de ....bich they ANOTHER. ATTEMPT AT MURDER AT CARDIFF.—OR Tuesday, the town of Cardiff was again the scene of another diabolical attempt at murder. The victim on this occasion was an Irish woman. It appears that she had been fetching sand down by the wharfs, rnd whilst returning with it about three o'clock p.m. some one sud denly pounced upon her from behind and stabbed her under the right arm with some sharp instrument—proba bly a knife. The poor thing is considered out of danger. No clue can be had of the villain. A CONFESSION. — On Friday much amusement was caused in the Westminster County Court by the candid confession of a lawyer's clerk that lie had told a lip. It appeared that when the summms was left at the office of the defendant in John-street, Adelphi, the clerk told the officer that his master was in Paris, and had been there for six weeks. The plaintiff - swore positively that on the mornitur the summons was served he saw the defendant. go into his office.—The Judge (to the clerk) : Then you told the officer who served the summons an untruth, when you told him your master was in Paris ? Clerk (with great sang froid) : Yes, it is not an unu_ual thing to tell an un truth in an attorney's office.—Judge : Then your master will have to pay the money on the Ist of January. DEGRADING FEAT OF MILITARY OFFICERS.—At the magistrates' offiu, Bristol, on the 25th ult., John Need and Charles Churchill, two officers of the Rifles, were charged with willfully breaking a marble slab from the Portland-square, and with 's from oppo- I was also door of PhiPippart, breaking down a porti . on of the iron rail► site a void house in Cave-street. John N from the house of )rass knoct charged with steal.., Mr. M'Dowall, Queen-square. The evidence on this nightly frolic having been gone through, the mayor said it was a case which the magistrates felt bound to send before a jury ; they would, however, take bail; the de fendant's own in £lOO, and two sureties in £5O each. Mr. M'llowall expressed great reluctance to prosecute, ates said hemuit INGENIOUS FRAUD.—Another specimen of ingenious fraud has been discovered at the Bank of England. A few days ago a note for £3OOO was presented for payment. The inspector examined it, found it genuine, looked to the numbers of the stopped notes, and seeing that the note presented was not among them, two £5OO notes were given in exchange, for which gold was procured almost immediately. On the following day it was dis covered that the leading figure of the number had been dexterously changed, and that 94825 was altered to 04825. It required the eye of a el and as no blame can be a ymist to detect the change; ttached to the inspector, we reduced by the amount paid in error. The note thus sent in formed one of a series of which a bank clerk was defrauded a few years ago. FALSE LIGHTS.—The Times of Monday has a trium phant article upon some supposed recovery in the cotton trade, as proved by an increase in the exports of cotton goods. We are not aware of the amount of this increase, or of the description of the goods exported,—a matter of some importance, for, if the increase is principally in cotton twist, n ftr4ll,llPnllll. d not in cotton cloth, it is -t1 e reverse of mg of cotton, which employs men, is on the increase in the labour, is exported. The exportation of twist is hut the next step to the exp?rtation , of the raw material (cotton nanufacturi . industry Be this, however, as it may, a :nc litthA arrninut +ha The recedi tide always sends I bacicaw - awe or two, which seems to belie its retreat. CoNcEssios TO ROMANISM. — The Rev. Dr. Drew. in. a published letter, calls the attention of the Poor Law I Commissioners to an invidious and unreasonable conces- ;o the wishes o s, "Those prelates have claimed, and had their claie allowed, ' that Roman Catholic paupers, in matvs of workhouses, should be privileged to abstain from work upon eleven holy days in_ the year!' As these v. Doctor s: to de- New- claimed by Protestants, it must tol. „nat during nine days in the year Protestants must work while Roman Catholics enjoy the Irish luxury of idleness. I may ob serve that a Roman Catholic prelate once ado , ' that the non-working holy days did not 'd to me, annually I to six in his oho too many able-bodied male paupers amount to 100,000 and that their daily tabour might be averaged workhouses, here, on large sum of £45,000 is these nine (I_,. lost to the country !" EXTRAORDINAItY PARSIMONY tor Hepworth, of the Leeds police ' to the workhouse an old man, blin vinually, the —On Saturday Inspec was called to remove Id in a state tion, and darting down stairs, pine(' ins worrier propue,.., ~,, ...s, ..-..... , and the three decamped with the least possible delay. of mental derangement, named James Brown, who has OLD AFFECTIONS REVIVED.—An old townsman of for a long time subsisted by selling nuts, and by occa- Brighton, reduced in circumstances, has recently become I sional relief out of the poor-rates. His dwelling was in „ -Li...! .1...... Le. r,...--.1 ~., 1 Axihppler-street. Bank. and he had contracted the notion attachment with a lady, who, owing to Circumstances not that his neighbours intended to rob him. Brooding over within our knowledge, became the wife of an American this idea, his conduct became very violent, and when the emigrant. They prospered in worldly pursuits. and he police inspector found him he was at a shop in the neigh many years afterwards died, leaving her in possession of bourhood of his house. He desired to be taken to the his property. Meanwhile the swain of Brighton became Mendicity Office, and was anxious that a small bag which successively the husband of two ladies, both of whom died. he carried in his coat pocket should be left with the shop- The fact of his being a widower reaching the ears of his keeper. Upon the hag being opened it was found to pnritstin .E2g 7s. 6d. in crowns and half-crowns, most of a man of wea its yout Transatlantic nrst-love, sue cumni.n..,,,,, .. ~,c., ~,,—„, —........—_ to England to deliver him a letter, stating her circum- them quite black on the surface; having evidently been. stances, and expressing a desire that he should a third time hoarded for a considerable period of time. His house, in be bound in the chains of matrimony. The widower replied which he lived alune, was in a most filthy condition and to the letter. and by return of packet, received from the it is said that he never suffered any person to go in to widow a check to defray the expenses of a voya t o I clean it A. correspondent of the ,estion (wh!ch we should be glad to ks were America, wnitner tie aG o _Hoe UCptiz aou , uuaa arra , OM,, arr.r r • --r living in Brighton, has just received a letter, stating that GENERAL THANKSGIVING the widower and widow have just become husband and Times makes a sugr .„,. ' e set aside for a wife. GALVANISM.—The following is extracted from the national acknowledgment of the freedom from revolu- Court Journal of January 29 :—" It is now about four tionary violence which, through the mercy of Providence, :.. 4.- ts.s fut. nnnnfrr h aninVed. The following is an extract vears since that we intormeil our rcauers, it, was t.t., tiu re g retted galvanism was not - more extensively used as a I from the letter : May I venture to as would it not remedial agent. We have every reason to believe that I be an act highly worthy of our Sovereign, and calculated our advice was attended to; for, in a comparatively short to promote the best interests of this country, to appoint a time, Mr. Halse's residence was crowded with the elite of 1 day of general thanksgivine, and on it to go herself to St: fashion and their less fortunate fellow-sufferers; and we Paul's Cathedral, or Westminteer Abbey, and join the feel confident, judging from the astonishing remedial great conerelation' in offering praise t, the King of effects it has produced on ourselves, after all kinds of Kings' for his unspeakable mercies to our land ? And if medicines and hydropathy had failed to impart any bent fit, on that day only a tenth of what such a revolution in that the public will thank us for our recommendation. England as has happened in France would have cost us We were delighted to notice, a short time since, that Mr. all were given as a thanks-offering to Almighty God, and liaise was patronised by the Lord Bishop of London and expended in feeding the hungry and clothing the naked, Sir Charles Clark, his lordship's physician. Mr. liaise's what j.)y and gladness would, in the midst of a trying great reforms in the galvanic apparatus, and his improved winter, be diffused among the poor and needy throughout method of application, justly entitle him to rank at the the length and breadth of the land, and God, even our head of his profession. We again recommend our readers own God , w oul d g ive us His blessing,' in the times of to give galvanism a fair trial. Mr. liaise's residence is at trouble and danger which lie before us." 22. Brunswick-square, London.—See "advt. DREADFUL FLOODS IN SCOTLAND—DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY OF DURIIAM.—The present popular Mayor PROPERTY.—OnSaturdayandSunday week heavysnowand. of Durham, William Henderson, Esq., the clergy, rain fell in the southern districts of Scotland, and all the ri the magistrates, and many of the influential inhabitants vers and streams became swollen to a terrific extent. At of that town, are anxious to introduce the Sanatory Act Lamington, on the Caledonian line of railway, 'about 36 into that place, with a view to the conservation of the miles on this side of Glasgow, the wooden railway-bridge public health. Some of the citizens are opposed to such which there crosses the Clyde has been washed away, the a step, which they conceive will entail upon them an Ld- embankment on each side having been carried away by the ditional tax in the shape of rates. The cost of the con- river. At Crawford, about nine miles further, on the same templated improvements in sewerage, &c., is stated at .line, another wooden bridge across the Clyde has been from £5300. Some, however, propose to collect all the carried away in a similar manner. The passengers to and contents of the sewers for manure, which in one year from the trains have of course to leave the train at the re would cover in value the highest sum stated for the new spective places, and get across the country in the best way sewers. The Commissioners propose to lay on an addi- they can. The district for miles was one sheet of water, tional 4d. in the pound upon all houses rated at more and such an extensive or destructive flood is not reniem than £5. The Dean of Durham has very liberally offered bered. At Carstairs, the junction station of the Caledo a donation of £2OO, which is calculated will cover the nian and Glasgow Railway, the station-house was so fear expense of introducing the provisions of the Health of fully inundated that the officials with difficulty escaped, Towns Act. There are few towns in the kingdom which while in the luggage warehouse scores of bags of corn and are more in need than Durham of the benefiis of the act in question, and none certainly where an extensive sys tem of sewerage could be more efficiently carried out. SCREW yEnsus PADDLE-WHEEL. — The accounts given other articles wirewashec y damaged of the Sampson's performance, both under canvas and steam are truly wonderful, and must be highly gratifying nn tat on If ...,.of loss will be most serious. On the line near Caritairs em bankments, bridges and about four miles of the rail way were swept away, and three trains which were on the line at the time were of necessity stopped, the engine riages of which were obliged to be dragged to hn;ses. &c. No accidents happened to the pace ever, be remembered tliat tins ven , rl L.A.ly 113V1) tons, with engines of 467 horse power, and yet she carries a battery of eight guns! Paddle steamers can never be made available for broadside fighting; but here is an enor- MOll3 disproportion between the size and armament. Our mechanical ingenuity must now be directed to the im provement of the screw propeller, and its adaptation to vessels of war, for that is obviously the only form of pro ..nlcinn ho avhinh atm ha nrnneriv annliarl •n rnnn of as a matron 1,. If, a. al • Huxter Row, was stirring up a goodly potful of kale, she was surprised to find her chimney take to smoking in an unusual manner, to the great detriment of the flavour of her soup. The nuisance continued to become worst.; and war. The Pumper and Reynard, screw-propelled steam vessels, the tonnage of both together not. exceeding 1.000, carry between them 20 broadside and four pivot guns, while their united power of engines is only 120. It is true they will not steam so fast, but they will sail as well or better. It is, therefore, a serious consideration whether we can afford to keep up such expensive vessels as the Sampson, in preference to such comparatively cheap ones as the Reynard and Plumper, who, at one-third the ex pense. carry three times the number of guns. and can. moreover, fight in dose action, which the Sampson cannot. —Hampshire Guardian. IMPROVEMENTS IN GIINS AND PISTOLS. — We have inspected some new inventions and improvements in fire arms, patented by Mr. J. C. Smith, of Birmingham, and which have been submitted to his royal highness, Prince Albert, to the authorities of the Horse Guards, Admiralty, Ordnance Office, &c., as well as to many distinguished worse, till she began to conjecture that the wind had surely taken to blowing perpendicularly. While she stood on the middle of her floor, gazing at the fire-place ' amazed and anxious , down came a mass of soot, and another, and another—some sweep had evidently mistaken the chimney which he had been employed to clean. She screeched out at the top of her lungs, but the soot continued to pour down continuously, and she was about to run from the house, when down came something which she instantly recognised to be a living creature. Oh, horror! it was hairy, had sharp eyes which winked incessantly, and was black all over, except where it showed a set of feeth, which grinned savagely at the terror-stricken lady. It sat on the lid of the kale-pot, amidst a mean 1 of soot, in a posture which resembled that which a human being might. be supposed likely to adopt in similar circum stances. The old lady bolted, leaving the apparition to ral and in most eases their unreserved approbation. The guns are so constructed as to be capable of priming them 'selves at each discharge, and with such facility and regu larity as to insure such a constant, rapid, and efficient supply of the means of exploding the charge in the barrel, as to give it an immense superiority over the common gun. Instead of a " nipple," which is the conductor to the charge, there is a "touch-hole" nearer the centre of the barrel, by about two-thirds, the communication being immediately at the back of the charge. Appended to this touch•hole, at the side, where the pan would be in a flint lock musket, but only much more compact, is a small wheel or revolver, and this is connected with the hammer or cock of the gun by a slight lever; this lever then acts upon a tube or magazine running back from the touch hole towards the butt-end of the gun, the magazine con taining the caps or detonating boxes with which the gun is primed. These being forced along by a spiral spring of German silver, the action of the cock, on being drawn back to the full, places the detonating box on the touch hole, and discharges it, and consequently the contents of the gun, by the action of the trigger. As there is no nipple, the cock or hammer, instead of being hollow, has a spill or striker, and it is by th,s spill, striking the deto nating box on the touch-hole, that the gun is fired. The whole thing is most simple and perfect, although difficult to describe. The caps, which explode by the striking of the hammer, are altogether a new and most ingenious in vention. They are about one-filth the size of the cap usually manufactured, of precisely the same material, but so altered in form and concentrated in power, as well as smaller in size, that thousands could be kept in the same space in which hundreds of the old caps are now placed ; they are of an oval shape, and, as we have before said, are drawn singly by the action of the cock to the touch-hole by full-cocking the gun. When the gun is half-cocked, the touch-hole is entirely protected, as also when the gun is full-cocked ; and when the hammer or striker is down, the spill also. protects the touch-hole from the dirt and wet._ preside over her dinner, and when she disappeared the visitor jumped from his resting-place and sprung among the shelves, where, in. graceful order, the old dame's crockery had been arranged, and which he knocked d',wm, and smashed in a manner which would have done Hugh Fraser's heart rood to behold. The dame soon returned with assistance, when it was discovered that the intruder was a monkey, which had escaped from the attic window of an adjoining house, clambered along the roof, and slipped down the chimney.—Aberdeen Herald. FLOODS IN TIIE NORTll.—During the last Six Or seven days in the northern counties of Cumberland and West moreland, heavy rains, sleet, and snow, nave fallen almost incessantly, both day and night, and in consequence, on Monday, the lakes, rivers, and streams were but once or twice before known to be so flooded and swollen, having overflowed their banks and covered the adjacent low grounds to a fearful extent and depth. On account of the flood rising so gradually, time was allowed for the exer cise of precautionary measures for the safety of live stock and other property. Still, it is to he feared that in mountainous districts there wilt be a very serious loss amongst the flocks of sheep, for several at various places were seen hurried array by the flood, and the quantity of large trees and other wreck which came down the rivers was, indeed, immense. In several localities large breadths of soil have been washed away, and the encroachments made by the flood on many estates are of a very serious nature, and will require large sums of money for making embankments, &c. 'All the millers, whose mills are stopped from grinding, several of the weirs having been washed down, and others livirg on the margins of the rivers, were obliged to flee to the upper apartments of their dwellings and to sit up all night. About 1 o'clock on Monday morning the flood rose to such a terrible pitch that live stock were obliged to be driven away more inland for safety. Fortunately no account has yet - Comet to hand of the loss of human life. Fears were entertained for the stability of the bridges on the rivers Eaniont, Lowther, Eden, Calden, and other streams. About mid night on Monday the storm again arose with double fury, the wind blowing from the east a perfect hurricane, and the rain at the same time falling in torrents, so t. A flood was terrifically increased, and additional : done to a great extent. On Tuesday the storman. subsided.