The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-11 00:00:00

J I COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MONEY MARKET. SATURDAY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have received Mauritius papers to the 6th or June. Exchange:—Mauritius Government Bills, 30 days' sight on London, live per cent premium; Bank Bilis, 90 days, none; Private Bills, at 90 (lays, at par, none. By an overland express from India accounts have been re ceived from Alexandria of the 16th of August, stating that the English steamer arrived there from Bey rout on the 9th, bringing the intelligence that Ibrahim Pacha had finally put an end to the insuriection of the Druses by the capture of all their chiefs. The Consol market continued in a dormant state during the whole of yesterday at 9-1 a 1 fur Money, and 941 a for the Account, and opened this morning at 9-11 for the Account, Wire,tre-y 94t1r. Ex - cheque - T - BMR. 71 id ; Tifdri IS - outfit, 72 74; Bank Stock for opening, 2684 9!4. India Stock, 264 54. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active still heavy at 194 1. with coupons; Portuguese, 354 36; Three per Cents., 234; Brazilian, 831 I; Mexican, 211: Colom bian, 254 '.46; Dutch Two-aud-a-Halt per Cents., 534 511; Five per Cents., 1024 1. HALF-PAST ONE. Consols hare receded from the morning price of 944 to 941 sellers for the Account. This decline is not to be attri buted to any news being received affecting the funds, but merely to some small sales of money stock, which, aided by the wetness of the weather, have rather depressed the market. Consols at present may be quoted at 911 for Account; Money 94 91k; Exchequer Bills, 71 73: India Bonds, 71 73; Bank Stock, shut; for opening, 2084 209; India Stock, 26.44 2654. Spanish Active, 19%5; Portuguese, 35% 36; Three per Cents., 2:3#; Brazilian, 83 ti 34; Nlexican, 231 241; Dutch Two and-a- Half per Cents., 5-% 54; ditto Five per Cents., 10'24 1. The Share Market is buoyant, Great Western, 144 pm.; Brighton, 23 dis.; North Midland, 8 pm.; Birmingham, 794 QUARTER BEFORE. THREE. Consols for the Account, 943 1. (From the official list, containinl4 the business actually transacted.) BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock, India Stock,— . 3 per Ct. Red., Shut , lndia Bonds, 71 73 pm 3 per Ct. Con., 94 4 !Bonk Stork fur Open. 16th 3} per Ct. Anns. 1818, Oct., 208-A • 3 per Ct. Red., Shut !consi , li for . Act., 944 New 3!.si per Cents.. lUli I '£looo Ex. Bills, 71 73 pm Long Ans. 1860, Shut £50 0 ) do. it 73 pin Ditto, 30 yrs. 1859, 15i . Small do. 71 73 pin Ditto, 30 yrs. 1860, 15 I -16 Ditto Commercial, SHARES. (The quotatious give the actual price, without reference to . . . . - premium or discount.) Angelo Mexican (issued at £s' London and Croydon Trunk, Pm-0 3 ; 161 Real del Monte Unregistered, North Midland, 41. 6 101 Australasia Bank, - 63 United Mexican (issued at £2; Asphalt,, British, 21 pm.,) 21 IBittimen. Robinson, 21 Great Western, 791 British N. American Bank, London & Brighton, 91 Ei 271 4 London and Blackwall, 5i General Steam Navigation, London & Birmingham, 1691 2.3 k London & Southampton, 48 National Bank of Ireland, 164 Southampton, New, 371 DEATH OF TWO GRAVEDIGGERS. CORONER'S INQUEST. On Friday evening an inquest was held in the committee roma at the workhouse of the parish of St. Botolph, Aldgate, before Mr. Payne, the. City Coroner, and a jury composed of the Common Councilmen, the parish officers ' and the most respectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood, on the bodies of Thomas Oakes. the gravedigger belonging to Aldgate church, and Edward Luddett, a fish dealer at Billingsgate market, who came by their deaths on that forenoon, under the following circumstances:— Mr. Edward Cheeper, the master of the workhouse, stated that about eleven o'clock, while passing through Church passage, Aldgate, he heard the loud screams of a female in the church-yard, and he instantly hastened to the spot, and look * into a grave, about 20 feet deep, at the north side of the church-yard, he saw the deceased gravediver, Oakes, lying on his hack, apparently dead. A ladder was instantly pro cured, and the deceased young man, Luddett, who with several others had by this time been attracted to the spot, instantly volunteered to descend to the assistance of Oakes. On his reaching the bottom of the grave, witness called out to him to place the ropes under the arms of Oakes, and the instant he stooped down to raise the head of Oakes he ap peared as if struck with a cannon ball, and fell back with his bead in a different direction to his fellow-sufferer, and ap peared instantly to expire. King, the former gravedigger, made two or three ineffectual attemps to ascend, but so foul was the air that he was obliged to be drawn up again, and it was full 2 S minutes or half-an-hour before the bodies were taken up by means of a hook attached to a rope. Every possible exertion had been made to recover the bodies, and the conduct of the medical gentleman, Mr. Jones, who promptly attended, was beyond all praise. Mr. Davis, a member of the Society of Friends, residing is Church-passage, corroborated the last witness, and said, that he was on the spot, and that every exertion had been used to get up the bodies. William Mallin deposed, that he and the deceased Lud dett, who was a friend of his, were accidentally passing by the church-yar44, when they beard that a man was suffocated in a grave, and Luddell volunteered to descend the ladder. M rr. Mary Fleetwood stated that she was the daughter of Phillip the sexton, and her father not being well on that morning it was the duty of Oakes to ring the chimes at half past ten o'clock, and she finding that tie had not done so, went to look for him, and ultimately proceeded to the grave, where she saw him lying at the bottom. She instantly gave en alarm, and Mr. Cheener and other persons were soon on the spot. The grave was what was termed a deep grave, and had been opened for about four weeks. Juror (Mr. Heard, a common councilman of Holborn.) — Was not this grave what is called a pauper's grave? Witness.—lt was, sir. The witness proceeded to state, still-horn infant in the one in question. It was not the custom to put any earth between the coffins in those graves, except in cases where the persons died of contagious diseases, and ie that case some slacked lime, and a thin layer of earth, were put down to separate them. The practice of digging deep graves had been adapted by order of the churchwardens five or six years ago. Witness knew of instances wherein the gravediggers could not go down a grace owing to the foulness of the air ; but she was not aware that the fact had been made known to the churchwardens. On such occasions they (the deceased, and his predecessor, King) were in the habit of burning straw, and using other means, to dispel the impure air, and then going down. The deceased had been employed as gravedigger about six months, and was, she should' think; 53 years of age. William Thomas King, the late gravedigger to the parish, said, he 7las passing by the gate, when he was told by Mrs. Fleetwood what had happened. He offered to go down, but took the _precaution to have ropes affixed to his person • so that he might be pulled up in case of need. H e was person, lowered, so that he could nearly get his feet as far as the bodies of the deceased ; but the smell was so offensive, and the air so affected him, that he became faint, and he was cer tain that if he had nut been instantly drawn up, he must have shared the fate of the others. He made one or two ineffectual attempts, but without being able to succeed. The witness said that he had dug graves as deep as 58 feet, and had fre quently been similarly affected with the foul air within, and bts general plan was to throw down some lime, and sprinkle water on it, and iu half an hour afterwards he used to go down with safety. Mr. Jones, a surgeon, of Jewry-street, stated, that a little before eleven o'clock he proceeded to the churchyard, when he found a young man about to descend into the grave. Hav ing it once discovered that. the cause of the death of the un fortunate men was carbonic acid gas, generated from decayed animal matter, he would not permit the party to go down, as pot the slightest hope could be entertained of saving the lives of those who were already at the bottom of the graves. He, Mr. Jones, then sent for two bottles of concentrated solution of chlorate of lime, which he threw into the grave; but even after this, he found that the foul air of carbonic gas was not expelled, for on lowering a lighted piece of paper and a candle into the grave, both were extinguished some time before they reached the bottom. The body of the young man was the first taken up ; and though he (Mr. Jones) hid not the slightest hope of restoring animation, he used every remedy, but of course without effect. The case of the other man was beyond all hope. The witness, on being asked his opinion as to the effect of keeping a grave open for a couple of months, replied that the noxious effluvia emitted from it must be most injurious to health. Mr. Townley, a respectable tradesman residing close to the church, complained of the practice adopted in the church yard, which he said was most distressing to the sight and injurious to the health of the inhabitants of that crowded neighbourhood, and he hoped something would be done around it. Mr..Tyars, the deputy of the ward, and who is alsochurch warden, here said, that from the observations just offered to the coroner and jury, he felt it to be his duty to reply to them. He begged, in the first place, to say, that about six years ago, when appointed to the office of churchwarden of the parish, he found, in consequence of the practice which existed of digging the graves so shallow, some of them not being more than three or four feet from the surface, that the ground was literally full, and there was scarcely a spot to inter bodies, which, at that time, owing to the dreadful ma lady, the cholera, were unfortunately very numerous. In this unpleasant dilemma he felt it to be his duty to call a meeting of the inhabitants to devise what was best to be done under the circumstances, and the result was a recommenda tion to dig deep graves from thenceforth. This much he said, lest auy blame might attach to his successors in office; and he begged to add, that from. that period to the present he had heard no complaints of the practice. He further begged to state, that he had on several occasions sent a pre sentment, expressed in the strongest language he could use, to the archdeacon of the diocese, or his surrogate, descriptive of the filthy state of the vaults and the burying-ground, but no notice had been taken of the evil. He would appeal to the medical gentleman present (Mr. Jon es ) , if burials in a densely populated t ieighboui hood were not most injurious to health; and, for his own part, he hoped the time was not distant when such a practice would be discontinued. Mr. Jones confirmed the opinion of Mr. Tvars. The jury here, at the suggestion of Mr. Hoard, the fore man, proceeded to the churchyard to view the grave, which presented a scene most repulsive to the eye, and almost im possible to describe. It appeared much more narro w at the top than ordinary graves; and this and its extreme depth gave it a most singular appearance. On each side there were coffins heaped up on each other, and shelving, out about the middle, so that the space at this place did not appear to be mote than 20 inches or 2 feet. The coffins exhibited proof that they were indiscriminately placed there; one in particular was exuding matter of a most offensive effluvium, and not a, particle of earth was there between those and the new grave. Mr. Jones tried several experiments, which proved to de monstration that the grave remained still two-thirds full of the noxious vapour. The Jury then retired to the inquest-room, and the Coroner having summed up the evidence, they returned a verdict of "Accidental Death" in both cases. The Foreman expressed a hope, in order to allay the strong feeling which the unfortunate affair bad created in the neigh bourhood. that the grave would be at once filled up, and Mr. Tears said he would most readily acquiesce in the wish of the jury. H xovEa, A u&. 29.—The accounts of the harvest, respect inz which some fears were felt, are very satisfactory from almost all parts of the kingdom. The "Twilight." an above bridge iron -steamer, on being east adrift from Old Swan pier, on Monday evening, could hot get her engines to work; the passengers appeared dis aPpointed, and the master and crew surprised. The paddle wheels were inspected but they could not go, and as the tide was running down, the crew of the vessel attempted to cast anchor, wh en t o ! i t was d i scovered that the stock was not shipped properly, acrd the anchor would not hold. A rope was then thrown out to make the vessel fast, but another dis -nointment ensued, as it fell short of the pier, and the r and drifted through one of striking against a pier and ultimately dropped alongside ,ssengers. " Daylight" after tght," and did her business in id up by " Moonlight," and ,menced running by " Sun ly damaged by t h e co lli s i on art. 4 .... twiligii:; . w cu sueu , as it Teti f e a. l l 4.3vn the river the arches alarminLl4,V r . ridge, r A, ,'-She u Frerh-...,.,,,ttl atzetadliftiv Dar ik 41,-; th4. 1141 . ,...).ibtia0r-.4 'fair ' 7eikte4 - tig" 4 v. • - ' was tight .7" , r . - -, >kwa. , "ieeT, IFl5' 44 1. -8 Ilig 1 <..... Nk i :le ' Ni '9:'',lVl SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER, FRIDAY EVENING. The sanguine backers of Heron, for the Leamington Stakes, have had to put up with a defeat; and those gentle men whom we noticed on Tuesday as having Modesty in their eye, had the pleasure of finding that Lye, after a very splendid race, won by a very short head. From the betting that occurred on the Cup race, on Wednesday night, at a late hour, the result might have been actually known, so far that Calmuck was cyphered in Modesty's race. Even mo ney was freely accepted on 1%1 r. Cooke's horse, and 6 to 4 was the figure on the following day. We hear he won in a common canter, and came out the following afternoon (yes terday), and won her Majesty's guineas, at two heats, after some capital racing with Mr. Bristow's Dr. Slop. Maim uietan fell, and was killed on the_ground, in the second heat. Mr. Fowler's Gilbert Gurney, having won his race against Eliza, yesterday, may improve a shade in the St. Leger bet tin ;s, which for the past two days have been of a ren.arkably insipid character. ion, owing to his having just the call of Don John, yesterday, at 'Tattersall',, has also been moved half a point. Offers of 3to 1 are made on the field. Laner cost and the Grey stand at 8 and 12 to 1. Cobham has rather improved, but not to the extent that the London figure would have led us to expect. 200 to 10 was taken on Appleton Lad to-day, and this evening 15 to' was freely offered against the Duke of Cleveland's filly. This evening - 100 to 6 was taken, and the party accepting would have gone on. There has been nothing done of moment in the others. The Cup bet ting is so quiet that quotations would be superfluous. Hark away remains at 3 to 1. TATTERSALL'S, THURSDAY. The absence of many of its usual visitors at Warwick races occasioned the room this day to be thinly attended; the bet ting, however, although dull enough in amount, was of some little interest, inasmuch as it enabled lon to recover the lead from Don John. Cobham also improved, 9to 1 having at one time been taken in good quarters; a point more was betted towards the close. Alzira and Grey Moiling were not in any force, while Pucelle, backed freely at Warwick, rose to 15 to 1, taken, but not generally. Nothing done ou Al bemarle or Appleton Lad, whose supporters have disappeared altogether. A solitary bet, 1,000 to 25, was laid against Saintfoin. Closing prices:— • ST. LEGER. 3 to 1 against Col. Peel's lon. (r) 10 to 3 „ Lord Chesterfield's Don John. 9to 1 „ Mr. Parkin's Lanercost. (t) 10 to 1 „ Mr. H. Coorubes's Cobham. (t) 13 to 1 „ Duke of Cleveland's Alzira. 13 to 1 „ Lord G. Bentinck's Grey Momus. 15 to 1 „ Duke of Cleveland's Pucelle filly. (t) 40 to 1 „ Mr. Thornhill's Saintfoin. (t) THE EXPERIMENTAL ASCENT OF THE NASSAU BALLOON ON TUESDAY. (From the Times.) MR. GREEN'S NARRATIVE It will he remembered by our readers that what is termed a "double ascent" of balloons took place on Tuesday last from Vauxhall-gardens, when considerable astonishment' WixS created amongst those who viewed the progress of the aerosta tic machines at the different courses the two floating bodies struck into shortly after they had lett the spot whence they started. Even to the spectator that fact bore ample proof of the existence of varied cur - rents of air, although the sub stance operated upon at first appeared to be moving at nearly equal elevations. The results to which th e voyage as affect ing the Nassau balloon has led, and the different effects to which it was subject during the journey, we have been kindly favoured with by Mr. Green, to whom the science of aerosta tion is more deeply indebted than to any individual who has before made that peculiar branch of discuvert a study. It will, by a 'careful perusal of the account, be seen that effects hitherto unobserved were produced, and with minute accuracy marked by the three travellers, but by neither of them with more avidity or with more anxiety than by Mr. Rush, from whose memoranda a great proportion of the particulars have been furnished. Independent of the details contained in Mr. Green's version, that gentleman and Mr. Spencer have In formed us that, after they had `• u'ertopped" their oppo nent, the appearance it presented was that of a large boiy skimming along the surface of the earth, although a portion of that time it was as far therefrom as 4000 feet. Since their arrival in town, the same parties have been told that the Nassau balloon was visible to the eye of the gazer for an hour after it had quitted the gardens. It is clear, then, such being the case, the balloon must have been seen in London when it bad reached a distance of 30 miles from the metro polis. Mr. Green's narrative is as follows " My ascent on Tuesday last from Vauxhall-gardens in the great Nassau balloon was in company with Mr. Edward Spencer and Mr. Rush, of Elsenham-hall, Essex, who had in timated to me his desire to make an ascent of considerable elevation, with a view of ascertaining the greatest altitude that could with safety be attained with three pet sons in the car; and further, to ascertain the. changes of temperature that would take place at different elevations, as well as the variations of the currents of air, and finally, to establish the important fact as to whether the same difficulties existed with regard to respiration in a very rarified atmosphere by persons ascending with a balloon to any great altitude, as have been felt and described by persons who have ascended lofty moun tains. "Ever since I constructed the Nassau balloon I have had a strong desire to set these questions at rest, and I theretore feel great pleasure in being able to communicate to the pub lic (through the medium of your journal) the result of our ex periments, extracted from our minutes out of Mr. Rush's note-book, and which were made by him at short jute, vals, dtfring the progress of our ascent and descent. " We left the earth at 25 minutes before 7 p.m. with two barometers standing each at 30 inches. One of these instru ments, as welt as a thermometer, was furnished by Mr. Rush, constructed on the most accurate principles, and made ex pressly for the purpose by Mr. Jones, optician, of Charing cross. The thermometer stood at 66 degrees of Fahrenheit. During our ascent the barometer and thermometer at our different elevations varied thus:— BAROMETER. , THERMOMETER. 30 inches. 1 66 degrees. 23 , 56 r.) 1 18 42 17 ; 39 16 1 35 15 ' 25 Greatest alti. 14.70 1 tude. .... i 25 " On our first rising from the Gardens we took a north westerly direction, and continued that course until we arrived over Vauxhall-bridge, when we were at an elevation of 2,500 feet. The line then changed to the north, and shortly after to north-east. All the time we were passing over the metro polis we discharged ballast, and rose in proportion. We then pursued our journey, passing over Dalston, Lea-bridge, and Epping, in which direction we continued with but little variation, leaving Dunmow, in Essex, on our left. At this period we had attained our greatest altitude—namely, 19,335 feet, or :3% miles and 855 feet. It was now that for the first time our view of the earth was intercepted by a stratum of cloud, which was apparently somewhere about 6,000 feet below us. In consequence of the vast quantity of ballast that we continued to discharge after having cleared the me tropolis, our ascent became very rapid, and from the great expansion of the inflating power, the gas rushed out from the lower valve in considerable torrents. The velocii.y of our upward progress caused the balloon and car to rotate in a spiral motion on its axis with astonishing rapt , !ity. (A simi lar operation takes place, although not to so great an extent, on all occasions of a rapid ascent or descent.) During our ascension we, at different periods, threw overboard about 1,20019. of ballast, reserving only 1001 b. by which to regulate our descent. " Prior to commencing our descent Mr. Rush, our wine glasses being purposely charged, proposed the health of our most Gracious Sovereign Queen Victoria. The toast was drunk with great fervour and sincerity, and we followed it by raising three cheers and 'one cheer more' in honour of the deed. We lost no time in drinking the health of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, who gave birth to our Graci our Queen.' Mr. Rush then ouce inure rose, and proposed the health of ' The greatest commander on earth. his Grace the Duke of Wellington.' The toast, like its predecessors, was responded to with alacrity, and was accompanied with the usual honours. Having re-deposited our bottle and glasses, we discovered that the balloon was descending. Our course then veered to the north over Thaxted. We were now under the influence of the same .current as that which go verned our progress immediately on quitting terra firma, and the balloon was propelled over Debden, where we effected our descent, at five minutes after eight o'clock, having accom plished the voyage in one hourand 30 minutes. We reached the earth in a field near Rowney-wood, in the parish of Deb den, a distance of 47 miles from Vauxhall-gardens, three miles south of Saffron Walden, and only five miles from the residence of our fellow voyager. Mr. Rush, to whose house we at once proceeded, and after having partaken of his hos pitality, passed the night. " It will be perceived that the table I have given above that at our greatest altitude the mercury in the barometer had fallen to 1.1 inches 70, giving an elevation of 19,335 feet. Since my arrival in London the matter has under gone acal culation by Mr. Jones the optician, from which the following results have been arrived at:— "Barometer at starting 2O. Thermometer 66. " Ditto at greatest elevation..l4. 70. Ditto 25. "Approximate feet.... " Allowance for temperature 509 "Total elevation 19,335 • or three miles and three-quarters minus 465 feet. "During our descent, when at 1,2(10 feet from the earth, we encountered' a heavy fall of snow, which lasted for half an hour, accompanied with a sudden and very great reduc tion of temperature, the thermometer dropping, to 22 degrees, or 10 degrees below freezing point. The mercury in the ba rometer at this moment had risen to 19 in. By a comparison of this state of the two glasses with that which they pre sented as we went up, it will be seen that at the same eleva tion, whilst the barometer was at 19, and thermometer at 46, the former retained its position, but the latter had fallen to 22, thereby showing a reduction of temperature in the course of one hour, at the same elevation, of 24 degrees. I mention this circumstance for the purpose of directing the attention of the scientific world to those local and sudden changes of temperature which in the course of my numerous ascents I have often experienced. " I have further to observe, that although the air near the earth was in a tranquil state, the current by which the bal loon was principally operated upon (namely, south by west) must have been moving at the rate of at least 60 miles an hour; for, notwithstanding the rapidity of our ascent and descent, which necessarily formed a powerful resistance to this horizontal current, we travelled at an average speed of 30 miles per hour. " When at an elevation of 15,000 feet, we discerned in the south-east an extremely vivid flash of lightning. " With reference to the fact of there being a supposed natural difficulty of respiration at great altitudes above the earth's surface, as mentioned in the works of Humboldt and other celebrated travellers, by whom it has been painfully experienced in their ascents of high mountains, I am in clined, from the circumstance of an opposite result having been produced upon ourselves on this occasion, to imagine that the fatigue and depressien of the muscular powers, pro duced by the accomplishment of their journey, must alone have led to such an end. Mr. Rush, Mr. Spencer, and my self, at no moment, even when at our greatest elevation, laboured under the stightect inconvenience in respect to a difficulty of respiration. We breathed with the utmost ease, and as freely as when walking on the earl b's surface." t the rumour Whit e i s a b out to resign the represe The Dubli n E ven i ng P ost contradi nuttantoi on of o t that a Long ford. T) E NT. —.i Bedworth,sort time thaigto,N(:)luin•.tMy;lsiietnlotwa. of S C lN ro G w u l L ey A , }l n A ea c r el Great team of four good horses, und er the case of two w projecting ,ro l in harrow one of his fields. They were attached l a rgetoseNlecrin.ts:to t i harrows, with spikes . nine inches long , frame. After working some time, one of the horses, a fine e young colt, became restive, and, owing to the carelessness of the driver, it turned shoat round, pulling the other horses after it, which caused the harrows to upset, the spikes then turning upwards, and upon them the first horse fell, an d dragged the other three horses after it: thus all the four animals were impaled upon the spikes of the harrows, kick ing furiously from the vouy they endured. In this state they remained for nearly half an hour before they could be released, which was only done by applying levers under each of them. The lungs of one of the horses were perforated, and they were all seriously injured; but, owing to the skill and attention of the veterinary surgeon, Mr. Lewis, of Bud worth, they' have all recovered, and are again iu working condition.—Cheater Gazette. COMPARATIVE STATE OF MORALS IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND. (From the Dublin Record.) There can be no doubt but that an accurate acquaintance with the state of morals in England and Ireland would enable us to form a due estimate of the comparative merits of the opposite religious systems under which the two countries live. The principle a ill ever hold good which is so frequent ly urged upon us in scripture' • By their fruits ye shall know them.' Let it, however, be kept in mind that that is not decisive which is obvious. The newspapers and other perio dical works afford us very insufficient data to go upon. Pri vate virtue. social and domestic worth, are not objects of no toriety. They rarely come before us in the prints. The same observation holds good in some sort with respect to the less glaring vices. It is crime atone which fixes public atten tion on the one hand and illustrious actions on the other. We repeat that that which comes before the public through the press. affords a.very insufficient mean to enable us to de cide upon the question of the respective moral excellence of nations or great communities. The prints, as aforesaid. scarce give us any thing else to judge by but the more fla grant crimes. Now, there is again something to be found in the nature of the opposing principles, calculated additionally to render the judgment derived front publications a mere fallacious one. The protestant system is a system of Light. lt'brings every thing to the light. It tests the value of every thing by the light. It looks fur the effectuation of great good through the operation of the light. It does not favour concealment. IL never throws its sheild over the guilty individual under the notion that the notion that the notoriety of his crime might induce men to become hostile to the principles which he held or professed to hold. It never apprehends an injury to pro testantism from the flagrant offence of a protestant, and therefore it never dreams of sheltering the individual for the sake of the system. On the contrary, its hope is, by sacrificing the pithy individual at the shrine of public opinion, thus to make him a warning to others and to reader his criminality subservient to the general good. In fact, whatever is criminal in England, is poured into the public ear, and becomes matter of extensive notoriety. On the contrary, in Ireland there is a private tribunal, to which all the vicious have access. - They are never so-likely to seek it, as when the breast is torn with the pangs of remorse— agitated by a guilty conscience, and by the fear of exposure. The feeling created in the mind of the guilty by the existence of this tribunal must be one of a strong inclination to have recourse to it in their guilt, under the notion that thus in many ways secrecy may be secured, and the annoyance of a public exposure avoided. By having recourse to the confes sional, an influential friend is made sure of, and the cause of the penitent is made something like the cause of the church. The feeling of the priest-will be against the scandal that would arise from publicity. He will naturally be disposed to desire that the fair fame of his church should not be tarnished with the foul reputation of its erring child. Hence there is a very gteat reason to suppose that n e never hear of those of fences of a Romau Catholic country which are made to shock the ear in the records of a Protestant one. There is another ' circumstance which also should be taken into account. Pro testantism gives no countenance to one class of sins more • than to another. There ate no sins which it considers venial, and therefore there are no vices which become in a manner popular, and which will attain at length to such a degree of prevalence, that they will become in some sort the fashion. Such may be the case with intemperance, profane swearing, Sabbath-breaking, rioting and revelry in general. There is, comparatively speaking, a happy absence of these vices in England; sobriety, gravity, sincerity are the national cha racteristics. Now,, the prevalence of even lesset vices is ut terly inconsistent with the prosperity of the people amongst whom - they abound. A severe practice of virtue on the part of communities is essential to their progress in art, science, and civilization. Those that are vicious, or the slaves of popu lar sins, will want that spring of action that is essential to raise to eminence. They that are not elevated in point of moral character, cannot become in the nature of things, dis tinguished•with respect to mental attainments, or those which are akin to them. THE PRESS - RELIGIOUS PERIODICALS AND FRASER'S MAGAZINE. (From the Dublin Statesman and Record.) There is an article in Fraser for this month which it may be supposed we are under some very cogent obligation to make mention of, seeing that our paper is noticed in it in so very flattering a manner. It does so happen, however, that we are under no obligation save that which the courtesy of literary interchange, or the intrinsic value of the article it self might create. We are wholly unacquainted with the author, and we must take leave therefore to inform an even ing contemporary (the Packet) that he was under a mistake in supposing or insinuating that there was any private un -lerstanding whatever between the parties. As several other journals as well as our own have been descanted upon . in the paper in question. we feel quite at liberty in speakihg of it. We say then that the article is a very able one, and laying aside what has been said of ourselves, a very just and Useful tine. Its commendations of our contemposapes the frate/i -man, Scottish Guardian, and other journals, so far as we are acquainted with them, are, we believe, well merited, anti its criticisms otherwise fair; but that which we look upon as infinitely more important, is, that we have here so interesting, so lively, so talented, and so politically sound a periodical as Fraser's Magazine bearing testimony to the vast political value of those principles which we have so long contended for. We have it amongst others, in the following just and beautiful passage:— " But it must also be conceded, that other (journals), placed on sacred principles, and conducted with consistency and vigour, are at this moment leavening the population with the elements of sound political views. In fact, Christianity, ac cording to our constitution, must be the basis of all politics, if these are to have stamina and worth., Its great truths must communicate their colouring to all the crystallization of social existance ; and the man or the periodical, that strikes into the national mind an inspired truth, as a nucleus around which personal and social consistency may gather, confers a benefit greater, than if he'had endowed an hospital, or gained a battle. The cement of our English constitution is, in the main Protestantism; and those writers who teach ' this are surrounding it with bulwarks better than armies." There is another passage which proves that the subject has zn->S thaarg"tep- ow - miset c.fatrasns;4-.'r,..,,tt important remark—a remark that demands the serious notice of the Ministerialists and Radicals of the country: it is this— RELIGION IS ON TILE SIDE OF CONSERVATISM. With the exception of one solitary DISSENTING paper, the Patriot and, it may bP, another hole-and-corner print—the religious newspapers of the country are the open and uncompromising advocates of Conservative principles. This is a most striking and impressive consideration. It is the habit, generally, of Conservative statesmen, to base their views on the funda mental and glorious principles of the English constitution— to advocate certain measures, because they are calculated to lead to certain valuable results—and to resist the encroach ments of the fierce democracy, on the strong grounds of an enlightened philosophy and ripe experience • and these are tribunals nev er t o be lust sight of in the adju dicationl of poli tical measures. But it certainly must strengthen the hands of the powerful opposition, that now covets the assaulted liberties and menaced institutions of their native land, to be assured that si g n a l piety, as well as great talent, is enlisted on their side; that -the faith of millions, as well as the in escrip- Lions of the Magna Charta, sustain and side with them; that the prayers olChristian men, as well as the re4ources of gifted minds, are lifted- up in averting the catastrophes, that are knowingly courted, or i n i gnorance h urr i e d on, y reckless anti unlit incipled statesmen." This is a large amount of concession from a literary periodi cal, though obviously short of the great principle which we hold to be inseparable from Christian statesmanship. It is the "almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian;" but not the "altogether." Now why should this be so? Why should the writer of this article, who we are persuaded is a Christian, prefer "our enlightened philosophy and ripe ex perience" as grounds to rule upon, rather than the princi p;es of the Bible, and the direct and express commands of Gad? Here is, in fact, the difference, perhaps the only, but certainly an important difference between a merely Conser vative, and what the world calls a lleltgious Periodical. It is, in fact, the weak point of our Conservative statesmen— would that it may not be more! for is it not being "ashamed" of our Lord and his word ? And does not every Protestant know what the consequence of such shame will be? The writer in Fraser rejoices that Christian princ'ple and Chris tian piety are, inter alia, on the side of the Couserva ve opposition : we look upon this as something too, but us something very tar short of the mark—as something which will not do, till these alone be taken ani put forward as the basis of their policy. This is what we want—this is what a religious press will demand—and this is what we hope be fore long, every Conservative and Protestant journal in the kingdom will look fur. Prase:* remarks that that there is no religious press on the side of radicalism. Of course there is not; radicalism is not to be found in Scripture; how then could it be assisted by a scripturally-founded press ? The voluntaries strive to keep religion from the state. When they come abroad into the world, they leave their religion at home, like Dr. l'ye Smith, when he went to vote for the infisb-1 Hume at the Middlesex election. Religion, in short, would be the ruin of radicalism, and radicals very wisely keep clear of it. It is not, so. with Popery. It has a press--a press that talks incessantly of principle—a press that works out the principle of Popeiy, and demands a concession to the rights of conscience, or rather to the pretended cravings of an erroneous Popish conscience, that everything Christian in the land should be cast down, in,order that-flee scope should be given to time abomination which maketh desolate—to Popery, and the chariot-wheels of its idols. There i 3 just as much religion in any journal which supports Popery, as there is in Popery itself; and thus in one sense of the term, every pro-Popery paper is a sort of religious periodical on the side of Popery. In this respect every journal which is nut for us—which is not for Protestantism in Church and State, is unquestitnably against us, and a supporter of Popery. _This is an important consideration, and one that ought to stimulate every Pro testant and conservative periodical to give our cause not a sort of half support, founded on the principles merely of an " enlightened philosophy and ripe experience," but an entire and full support founded on the Word of God and the Gospel of Christ. But the leaven is working. We copy a good article in-day from the Times, on the National Education Society for gogland, and on infidel periodicals and teachers, which shows a great improvement in the tone of that journal. We are happy to say that this is only one of several which we have lately noticed in it of the same decided and Christian tendency. Let this plain, uncompromising way of speaking be taken up and universally adopted by the Protestant press. Let no quarter be given to either Infidelity or Popery, and we shall soon see an end to the O'Connell domination—to say the least. ALL IN THE FAMILY. —A few miles from Derby, and but a short time ago, two brothers of a respectable family married two sisters; a third brother, feeling disappointed that there was not another sister, det erm i ne d not to marry out of the family, and took the mother to wife.—Derby Reporter. RAILWAY ACCIDENT:-011 Saturday last, as a party of labourers on the new line of railway to Preston, were engaged in removing some sleepers, by means of a crane, the carriage on which it was gave way, and a large stone, about seven hundred weight, being suspended to the crane, caused the handlekto turn round at a very rapid rate, one of which struck a man named James Flynn on the head, and fractured his skull so severely that be died on Monday morning. The men who had hold of the crane at the time were obliged to let go their hold in order to save their lives. An inquest was held on the deceased the same evening, at the Saracen's Head, and a verdict of "accidental death" returned.-1“yon Gazette. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT Tlll3 DEAF AND DUMB INSTITUTION, MANCHESTER.-010 Thursday last, a young trill named Maria Brunt, an inmate of the above instantup, came by her death under the foilowing circumstances :—She was amusing herself about eight o'clock in the morning, Just after the school had broken Op for breakfast, by swinging on the rail of the stairs; and having overbalanced herselt, she fell over and rolled to the bottom, her head striking the stairs in her descent. Twolittle girls who were descending anot her flight of stairs saw the accident, and immediately ran and gave the alarm to one of the female assistants, who, on pro ceeding to the spot, fou n d h er lyi ng on h er f ace, an d quite speechless. She was conveyed into the adjoining room, and Mr. Turner, surgeon to the establishment, was sent for, who afforded all the aid in his power, but without effect. She lingered in a state of insensibility until half-past one in the afternoon, when death put an end to her sufferings. An inquest was held on the body th e same day, before W. S. Rutter, Esq., coroner, wh en t h e two li ttle deaf and dumb girls, who had seen her fall, were examined, Mr. Bingham, the master of the school, acting as interpreter, when the above facts were elicited ? Thp d ecease d was a very interest ing girl, about fourteen years of age, and was a native of Macclesfield. She bad only been about six weeks in the institution.—Manckester guardian. IHE CORN LAWS. (From the Orford Herald.) A statesman of antiquity charged his chief political adver sary with living and thriving upon the public danger. " While the state is prosperous," said he, " you rest in com partive obscurity ; but let any cause excite the apprehensions and depress the spirits of good men, and then you are to be seen conspicuous and exulting. ; just as our old ailments of boily are sure to return upon any serious deviation from health." The party thus described was a traitor, and his practice has been characteristic of the betrayers of public interests, from his time to our own. The somewhat unfavourable weather of the last and pre ceding months, concurrently with the lateness of the season generally, has caused some unpleasant doubts as talkie pro- . _. duce of the harvest. The danger of a failure is probably exaggerated, but it would be wrong to denv, that, notwith standing the late happy change in the weather--succeeded, however, by a day or two of rain—much of the corn in the remoter parts of the kingdom is still in a precarious state. It is possible, therefore, that bread may rise to a higher price than it has reached for some years pastand they who " live and thrive upon the public danger" are resolved to make the most of the calamity. The coin-laws are to he the topic of agitation—and the command has gone forth through the niinisteral journals (ministers all the while professing to up hold the proscribed laws), to merge all other subjects of agi tation in this one. We have lately heard a great deal of the " march of mind" and the " spread of knowledge," and a whole vocabulary of such-like cant. The fate of this new enterprise will tell how much wiser the men of our time are than the generation of their fathers. Looking to the kind of persons that are sent to parliament, and to the description of journals and other publications that are patronised by many; we, fur ourselves, must. confess some misgiving as to any very extraordinary improvement. Had we to deal with rational men, we should say, " why choose this particular time to raise an agitation against the corn-laws? The very circum• stances of the day, in truth, afford the best possible. proof of the necessity for the code against which you would excite the country. Anxiety prevails as to the probable Supply of grain. in the United Kingdom. Why ? because from the bad wea ther it is feared that part of the tillage land will prove - iinpro duct ice, and the whole imperfectly productive—and this is the time you select to recommend putting part of the land wholly out of tillage ! and causing the land to be less pro- ductively tilted because tilled at a less profit ! ! Surely you must imagine that you address yourselves to animals more stupid than those that draw the plough." Suppose that the fears of a deficient harvest are realised, what then? the ports are opened much before grain can reach a famine price : and as long as England shall retain her capital—and she will retain it as long as she protects her agriculture, but no longer—the whole world will starve before Englishmen can want. The foreigu corn wilt.rome in, it will be paid for in money, and this money will come back to our manufactories, if the enemies of the corn-laws speak truly—and as far as a single year is concerned, they probably do speak truly, for it would require more than the experience of one year's drain of capital from England.to induce the foreigner, and to enable him to create other channels than those already prepared fur the money so received. Upon this, the least favourable hypothesis, she supposition that the harvest prove deficient, much will have ben gained by the corn laws in the amount of grain already in the country, and in the security that the money to be paid for foreign grain must come back,"while nothing will have been lost. And now take the other, and, we trust, the more probable, hypothesis—the suppo sition that the harvest prove sufficient, and comb ler the corn-laws with reference to that event. We all know what com mercial speculation is capable of, and can we doubt that but foi the corn-laws the existing anxiety about the harvest would cause the markets and granaries to be gluttedwith foreign grain long before this, to the ruin of the British farmer, indeed, but no less to the ruin of the British importer and of the foreign grower—and, if the enemies of the corn-laws speak truly, of he British manufacturer. These are consideratiuns suggested by the particular time at which the present agitating is raised —a time which affords the most irrefragable proof that the laws in question are a necessary defence again: t speculators gambling with the lives of the people; and thus demonstrates the faith of the agitators in "the beast blindness" of those whom they would halloo against their best protectors. Dr. Bowring lately told his hearers at Edinburgh that Switzerland is the great commercial and manufacturing rival of England, because Switzerland has no corn-law. Will the polyglot quack say what is the profit of the commerce and ma nufactures of our great rival, and where are itsaccumulations to be found? Switzerland has enjoyed within the last century about three times as many years of peace as Great Britain, yet we do not hear of any loans contracted for with Swiss capitalists—no Swiss railroads are talked of—ports, docks, and a marine, are, of course, out of question—and where is the accumulated saying. of the commeicial and manufacturing rival of England The truth isikut under the influence of our corn-laws, and since these 13W - s were enacted, or their provisions prat tically anticipated, single towns have grown up in England incomparably richer than the whole Swiss confederation. But Dr. Bowring has inadvertently let us into an important secret by his reference to Switzerland. The. Swiss are an industrious, an ingenious, and a frugal people: their country is the most secure in Europe—secure not only its mountain rampart, but also in the interest of all its neigh bours to maintain its prosperity and independenee. But Switzerland has always been, and still is, one of the pooreSt countries of the world. As if to complete their titleto Virgil's imperfect line— . "Sic vos non voids," the Swiss labour for the profit. as they fight for the safety, not of themselves but of others. This does not arise from the minute size of ,their territory, for it is larger than any of the Dutch, Venetian, Genoese, and Florentine states, when each in turn engrossed the commerce of the world; and was the hank of Europe, as England is now. The poverty of Switzer land, notwithstanding its industry, and its advantages, arises• from the very fact in which Dr. Bowring sees the sprint: of ails wealth. It imports its corn, and every state imputing its provisions, however industrious or well circumstanced other wise, must become p'oyressirely poorer. This is a moral law as absolute and as free from exception as any law of thomit terial world. What has called into existence the nunsertius towns and villages that adorn the face of England?—the de-,mand of the agriculturists. The se towns have gro wn up to supply the wants of the landowner and formei', and to share in his profits, as they do most amply.- What has expanded some of these towns into such prodigious hives of industry, as Birmingham,. 14.11,1Alisster, Shefl iefd, Leeds, Ste., the least - lotion, and wealth, since the enactment of the - corn-laws? What has expanded these towns to their present dimensions; if not the application of savings, the saving of agriculture alivayigin the first instance to snake the best use of local ad vantages;, Geneva is now no larger, no snore populous, and no more rich than Geneva was 300 year ago; the'Gemerese have been fbr three centuries employing titeir distinguiihed ingenuity and indefatigable indswi v to enrich, not themselves_ but those from whom they must buy food; and so will it ever be. The mere manufactuier..yrill ,exec he the drudge of the.pro ducer of food, if the producer of fooMna his own country min, and is not,' as stich, compelled to sharegains and bur , _ . thesis with bins. THE HARVEST OswEsTrtv.—The late genial weather has enabled the far mers on the Welch frontier to make great progress. A' great breadth 'of barley and oats -have 'been brotight under the scythe, and has fallen heavily. In a few days, should it con tinue, Wheat will he 'early; and notwithstanding the many speculative reports, every prospect is against that-approach of famine. which these good Christians would have made us believe was so near. LEwEs.:—The land in our neighbourhood has been cleared of wheat, oats; and barley, and the harvest may he said to be. generally finished and the crops housed in excellent con dition. The green crops have not advanced much during the past fine weather, but the showers of Thursday have refresh ed them. The second crop of clover was short, but it has been stacked in a goad state. NEWHAVEN, SEPT. 6—The harvest in this neighbourhood is now nearly finished ; the last load of Mr. W. Elphick was paraded thiou'gh the town, - with the horses gaily decorated with flowers,. bells, &c., having a grotesque figure, with a mask on its face and otherwise fancifully dressed, on the back of each. The waggon was full of men and boys singing the harvest home. We are glad to say it has been all got up in capital order. LYNN, SEPT. 6.—The late fine weather has occasioned the harvest thereabonts to proceed most rapidly. In the upland districts most of the whew is carried in very fine order, and the harley . harvestis proceeding at a rapid rate. The barley crop is better than it has been for many preceding years, and the straw or stover, will make excellent strawyard provender for the winter season. The cloVer and other artificial grasses amongst the barley are very luxuriant, and what has already been carried is in such fine order,' that the stover will be as good as some middling hay. The Turnips are exceedingly fine, but some fields begin to exhibit symptoms of want of rain. Much new wheat was exhibited in our corn market, on Tuesday, and many samples were in very good condition. Such another week' as the last will effectually cheat the speculators, .And''Set the wheat harvest free from all danger. One-half of the crop, it is calculated, is safely housed, and a week or ten days inure of the late brilliant weather will do the same for the most backward part; of the kingdom. There fore, alter all the mut tours and melancholy anticipations with which a tribe of interested croakers inundated the country, the present 'harvest will, thanks to a bounteous Ptovidence, turn out, upon the whole, to be one of the most abundant ever known; for though there may have been partial failures of the wheat crop in some few districts, those of barley, oats, beans, peas, and potatoes are so large as to compensate in a tenfold' degree lOr any partial deficiency in the first-named art iele,--Stockpor t Advertiser. The alarm which but recently existed throughout the king dom, on the prospect of a bad harvest, has now, by the blessing of Divine Providence,' been in a great degree, if not alto gether, happily removed, by a _continuance of fine weather for many days, which has no doubt already been'thelneans of many thousands of acres being reaped, and saved in ex cellent condition. It will have the effect, too, we sincerely hope, of frustrating the plots in which the schemers and job bers in corn speculations were emmerSed,- for repealing the corn-laws, with the disgraceful intention of reaping to them= selves a profitable harvest on the misery pf their fellow-cleat s ures.—North Devon. Advertiser. In this neighbourhood (Devoe), we are happy to say, great progress has been made, and the crops, generally, are much better than was expected. From Southmolton we have similar accounts. Iu the vizinity of Bideford, also, it is expected the crops will be secured in fine condition, if we have not, within ten days, a -return of wet weather. The harvest in and around Dartmouth, and the river Dart, is most housed, and in a few days the whole will be secured in as good a state as could be wished for by any person; the crop is also considered to be rather beyond an average. Ibid. nom the very commencement of the harvest the work has been going almost without the smallest interruption. In one or two instances a moderate quantity of rain has fallen; and it may have been necessary to exchange the reaping hook for the scythe, and transfer the labourers front the wheat field to the mowing of barley; in no other sense are we aware that any time has been lost or any delay occasioned from any cause whatever. Consequently the harvesting of wheat is nearly concluded, and a tolerably accurate judgment may be formed of the condition of the crop. In conformity with our hitherto avowed opinion, we have the satisfaction of being still more thoroughly convinced that in Norfolk wheat is not a deficient crop. Those which have been complained of_ as wanting plant are still defective, not only in bulk, but pro bably in the quality of the grain also; notwithstanding which, those wheats which had a full plant, are so remarkably good, that, taken as a whole, we believe the produce will.he found nearly equal to that of the last two years. Throughout the summer it has generally been believed that barley was much the better crop of the two. Now it appears to be univer sally admi►ted that the fact is otherwise. Many of the barleys (but more especially those grown upon wheat stub bles) are thin upon the lend, anti of very indifferent quality. We know in some instances where the acreable produce of wheat, in the present harvest has amounted to nearly six quarters, and upon equally good land we have seen barley that will not come up to five quarters per acre. It must be admitted, on the other band however, that a large portion of the barley crop of this year is of very superior quality and a very ample produce; in short, that taken one with another, there is no reason to complain of any, whether of wheat, barley, oats, peas, or beans. The three very fine days at the beginning of this week were most propitious for the iermina lion 01 the harvest; and the copious rain of Thursday last has been most refreshing for the turnips and second crops of clo v e r. Norfo/k Chionicle. The weather contiuued most favourable in this part of the world for the getting-in of the harvest up to last evenine., when we were visited by heavy showers of rain and a thun der storm. The atmosphere had previously been . Very op pressive, and some days this week have been the warmest of the summer. Most of the wheats have been got in; but they do not realise in quantity the general expectation, and the anxiety of the farmers to avail themselves of the preiak vourablestate of the markets has caused much to be offered for sale which is yet damp. Buyers, howe7er, are 'ery shy, and those that can possibly wait do so. With duty on foreign wheat at 2s. Bd. per quarter, high prices cannot long be main tained, spite of the efforts of the capitalists.—Brighton Gua7diatt. Since our last we have had exceedingly favourable weather for harvest operations, and a great quantity has been cut and housed.— Ten Towns' Messenger. The weather on Tuesday, and the whole of yesterday, was as inauspicious for the crops as it could possibly be—the rain having fallen heavily, and almost without intermission, ac companied with a void wind from the eastward. Elsewhere we have inserted some notices of harvest operations through out the country. In this neighbourhood, however, they are completely suspended, in consequence of the rains which-con tinue up to the hour of going to press. 'We perceive from the Edinburgh .papets of this morning, that the weather- in that neighbourhood is equally unpropitious.—Glavow Courier. Within these last 10 dais an immense breadth of wheat has been carried, and we think it would have been as well for those who were_ in such haste on the 25th had they allowed it to stand out another day*or two; we fear they will find it out when it is taken into the barn. There still exists a diversity of opinion in different counties as regards the wheat crops. We can only again repeat, that our epinion as regards this county is unaltered, and, as we have stated before, it requires minute examination to find the number of capsules that are altogether void of corn. The evil will not be felt till it is thrashed and ready for market, and though we are unwilling to look on the dark side of the question, we fear the average will be a very short one. The barleys are very heavy in the swarth and look bulky and well; and although the rain has discoloured them, still it has improved them for malting, and we have no doubt but the crop will be above an average one. Oats are exceedingly good; some few samples have already made their appearance in the market, and we have seen them sold at from 28s. to 30s..per quarter. Those who were wise enough to reap their oats have found the great profit and ad vantages of I his- showery season.—Northampton Herald. A considerable : quantity of grain has. been well got-in in this neighbourhoOd during the week; - crops very abundant. As a proof of a very abundant harvest, we have now at our office fur 'inspection fen stems of wheat springing from one root, the produce of a single grain of corn. The ears'are full groWn and well 'corned. It was taken from the farm of Mr. Wallis, of Staplefork.and is of the variety of wheat called the " Golden drop."—NottinOarn Journal. The weather during the week has been generally fine, and great progress has been made in the oat harvest. The sickle has nut been so active with the wheat.— Wakefield Journal. TRAGICAL EVENT. FIVE CHILDREN AND THEIR 31JTHER KILLED BY POISON WILFULLY ADMINISTERED .BY THE MOTHER. (From the Preston Chi onicle.) Happily, for the stale of morals in this country, and the sober and social lone which, in a national sense,- characterises its community, it seldom falls to the lot of a public journalist to lay - before his readers- the, details of so heart-rending and horrifying.a tragedy, as that which it is this week our me lancholy duty to communicate the particulars. • The scene Of the shocking occurrence to which we refer, is a small hamlet called Fairhurst, in the township of Goosnargh; between eight and nine miles front this town, and about six Miles from Garstang. -• Edward Sanderson, his wife, and their five children, resided at Fairhurst, in which place Sanderson has lately been occupied a day labourer. On Thursday morning last, Sanderson went to his work, but was not ex pected home to dinner;- he left his wife and five children in their usual state of health, and did not observe anything par ticular in the demeanour of the latter. About half-past twelve o'clock at noon of the same day, (Thursday,) Mr. John Brewer. of Little Inglewhite,, was passing Sanderson's house, when he was calied in by Mrs. Sanderson, who stated to him, that they (meaning herself and children) had eaten some pudding to dinner, and she was afraid there was some thing in it which had poisoned them. She also requested him to go for a surgeon. Mr. Brewer, .at this time, saw the children, and they, as well as their mother, appeared to be sick, and the younger children were vomiting. A medical man, resident in the neighbourhood, was in at tendance before one o'clock, and he found both the mother and children in so dangerous a state, that he was induced to send for Messrs. Smith and Clarkson, surgeons, of Garstang, both of which gentlemen tendered their assistance with all possible promptitude. The unhappy husband, whose feelings on the occasion it would be must difficult adequately to con ceive, much less to describe, was sent for !one from his work, wither he arrived about half past two o'clock. He found his wretched wife and expiring offspring surrounded by the surgeons and a number of neighbours, and was ad dressed by the wife in the most affecting manner, and in terms of nervous feeling and earnestness, with regard to the awful situation of herself and her dying children. Soon after the arrival of the surgeons from Garstang, a small por tion of the pudding, which remained from the dinner, was given to a duck, which almost instantly died. The medical gentlemen, by the use of emetics, and other means, excited themselves in every possible way during the afternoon, to mitigate the sufferings . , and if possible,. preserve the lives of the ill-fated family, but melancholy to relate, their efforts were utterly fruitless and unavailing. The names of the children were, Eleanor, 12 years of age, Daniel James, 9, 'Margaret, 6, Robert, 4, and William, 2 years of age. - Previous to the shocking affair of which we write, they were all promising children, and in the enjoy ment of good health. About five o'clock, Robert. the youngest boy but one,•after enduring the most acute suffering, died ; a very short time afterwards, William also expired in great agony. At this period, we understand from an intelli gent inforniant,' who was present during nearly the whole of the time the dreadful (llama was in progress, that the scene wes at once awful and harrowing. The groans and sobs of the .thiee - SurviVidg• children,—the ghastly, terrified, and • death-stricken appearance of the dying mother, —the despair • and alternately wild and subdued distraction of the afflicted father,—theTfelesi reinaiitS of the two poor is Unts who, a-few hoarsbefore, were "all gay with life,"—and the signifi cant and horror-excited silence of the sneca or , r sented, in their united influence' upon- the mind, t: e t of that appalling thrill and heavy emotion which we !nay sometimes see portrayed in the pages of romance, but w hick are rarely used - as the representatives of icality. ''The next - two children, Daniel James, and Margaret, lan guishr.A ip,great stgony for about an hour longer, whets they a;so died suitultaileonsly. Not a long ptrioa had elapsed after•the'portals of, life. were closed upon the ten last named oni.s.t et the dire-fated family, breathed tier last.. - Long before her 'dissolution, it nact come quite plain that the iron hand of death was fast enclo sing withiryits'graSp, the mother of the five murdered inno cents. • Before her death, this unhappy woman sent for the Rev. Mr. gradwell, the catholic priest of Claughton Hall chapel; and the Rev. Thomas Benn, incumbent of White chapel, Goosnargh, was also in attendance. To Mr. Benn, she . .stated, that in consequence of her being in debt " her neighbours had turned their backs on her, and that she had therefore put some arsenic into the pudding to poison herself and children." She also mad e s o m e communications to the Rev. Mr. Gradwell, but we have not heard to what effect. The poor creature died in excruciating torture, between nine and ten O'clock, - She was thirty-two years of age. An in quest will be held on the bodies this day, (Saturday,) before R. Palmer, Esq., when, should any additional circumstances transpire, we shall take care to communicate them. . This dreadful catastrophe has, as may be well supposed, created the strongest degree of consternation and excitement in the locality where it occurred. Post mortem examinations of one or more of the bodies will be instituted this morning (Saturday), and the remaining portion of the pudding ana lyzed. We understand that, a short time ago, Sanderson kept a small shop, which was principally managed by his wife. They were not successful in business, and were obliged to discontinue the shop, having incurred debts to the amount of about £4O, which they - were unable to discharge. This, it appears, preyed upon the mind of the deceased woman, and she has frequently of late been heard to express the most melancholy forebodings. Her general conduct recently has also been such as to excite the remarks of her neighbours, and to leave no doubt as to the derangement of her intellect. It may be known to many of our readers, that 72 years ago a tragedy, in character not very dissimilar to the above was enacted at Farington, near this town, by a man named William Whittle, who murdered his wife and two children, ender the most demoniacal circumstances. The murderer was executed at Lancaster, on the 4th of April, 1766, and subsequently suspended on a gibbet, near to the place where the murder was committed. The following is an extract from the confession made by Whittle preceding his execution, and will doubtless be read with interest by many who may have heard of, or remember, die bloods transaction : " I was most unfortunately prompted by the devil to com mit the most barbarous murder that ever vile wretch was guilty of, to a loving and industrious wife, and my two harm less infants. First, by knocking out the brains of my wife with an axe (who had run out of doors. in her shift, suspecting I Lteoded her an injury, as I proposed getting into bed to her with a knife in my hand), and afterwards cutting off her head with the same instrument. Then I proceeded imme diately to my two children (mire about three years old, and the other about nine days only), where I found them fast asleep in bed. I first laid one with its neck on the bedstock. where I chopped ff its head, and then executed the other in like manner. Afterwards, still more bloodthirsty, I went and ripped up my wife's belly, took out her heart, and nearly cut off one arm. Tnen I returned to fulfil my villainy in as wicked a degree as the devil only could invent. I then pro ceeded and opened the bellies of my two harmless infants, and took out their hearts, &c. The next thing the devil prompted me to do, was, to endeavour to conceal the murder: upon which I took out a window, and ran to the constable, and acquainted him that some rogues had broken into my house, and had murdered my wife and children. The con stable immediately suspected me, and seeing souse blood on my shirt sleeve and hand, which I endeavoured to wash clean, but could not, he said, " Thou rogue, is it not thyself that has conimitted the murder?" Upon which I pulled out my knife, and• intended also to have killed him, had not be called for assistance. I then ran up the lane, and coming to the town's stocks, sat myself down upon them till the constable and his assistants came up and seized me ' when I was not many minutes before I confessed the fact, fur which I justly win to suffer an ignominious death in this world." He. was taken limn the Castle to the place of execution about eleven o'clock, where he prayed very earnestly for some time. Being turned ofl, and having hung the usual time, he was-cut down, and his body was, at the request of the grand jury, ordered to be hung in chains near the place he committed the horrid - murder, and instructions were sent by the under-sheriff to Jeoffry Sudell, of Preston, to prepare the gibbet accordingly, viz., nine yards high by two yards. EXPORTATION of MACHINERY.—There are now in Not tingham and its vicinity, no less than nine parties from Calais, Lisle, and St: Quentin, who are purchasing, or con tracting for machinery to export to France; amongst the number are Pearson (the patentee of the circular spot,) Robert• King, and Kitchen. It appearS that not the least a:- tention is paid to this subject either on the Kent or Essex coasts; these parties openly state, that they can export bobbin-net or other machinery with the utmost facility. Some of them have been down to Manchester, and they openly declare in all public companies that the French have 'determined to have the trade from England. These parties, in most instances, give £lO more for a bobbin-net machine than the current Nottingham price. It appears from the assertion of one of these parties, that the smiths in Lisle are building stocking frames upon the English principle, with slaies, sole bar trucks, caster backs, and hanging bits; if so, the subject will prove of greater consequence than the making of Saxony hose, of which Mr. Porter, of the board of trade, tells such a lamentable story, for the purpose of obtaining a repeal of the corn laws.—Nuttinyham Journal. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The labourers have now completed the greater part of the gravel packing which it has been found necessary to compress under the rails, in consequence of the sinking of the earthen embankment. It is said, that the earth gave way chiefly on account of the hurried manner in which it was heaped up, in order that the line might he opened on the day for which the company bad pledged themselves to the public. The earth wal remain be tween the rails as hitherto. The gravelled stiliport under the rails will be about one foot in depth. This work, when finished, will cost the company about £5OO a-mile, and will have extended fifteen miles. Several thousand men have been employed upon it already . nearly two months, and at first they were obliged to work night an(.l day, including even Sunday; but this emergency did not hold long. A great part of the workmen are alreadydischarged. The passage of the. trains has nut been at any time suspended on account of this mishap; for, during the interval between the removal of the earth and the substitution of the gravel, the rails have been supported by blocks within a few feet of each other. The gravel used is of the largest kind. The displaced earth is first thrown upon' the banks, and afterwards removed in the night. , The demand for labourers upon the metropolitan .ends.of the Great Western and Grand Junction Railways is Mitch cliiiiirifslied; , atilt' numbers of disappointed candidates for work are now returning to their former London paper,' WARRINGTON, (From the Manchester Courier.) TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY.—The members of the Warrington branch of this society held their annual meeting in the Church Sunday-school, Latchford, on Monday even ing. Thomas Greenall, Esq., filled the chair. The meeting was addressed by the Rev. James Todd. Rev. J. L. Figgins, Rev. Alfred Hewlett, the Rev. A. S. Thelwall, and the Rev. J. Wright, the secretary. The report stated, that in the Ladies' Association, the free contributions amounted to £2O ls. aid.; subscriptions for Bibles, £33 155.; making a total of £.53 16s. Old. for the year, and a total of £126 175.4 d. since the commencement of the society. Since the society had been established, the auxiliary had put in circulation • 684 Bibles, and 232 Testaments. At the close of the meet jog a liberal collection was made. THE BLUE COAT SCHOOI..—The children educated at this flourishing institution have lately had several country excur sions. In the course of the last month, they paid a visit to the Rev. P. S Dale, of Hollin's Green, and were regaled with roast beef plum pudding, and other English fare in a meadow adjoing the vicarage. On Saturday, they went to the seat ofJawes Greaves, Esq., of Mill-bank, on the Cheshire side of the Mersey. Mr. Greaves took the children over his large paper-mill, and endeavoured to make them acquainted with the process of paper making. They were on both occa sions accompanied by theit flue band, of which the leader is not yet eleven years,of age. A large party of the resident clergy and gentry were assembled to meet them, and a num ber of questions in mental arithmetic were propounded by the boys in a manner highly pleasing to the company and complimentary to the governor of the institution. The Rev. P. S. Dale addressed them in a most feeling and fatherly manner. As most of the children are either orphans or fatherless, doubtless his address came home with force to them. By the kindness of the Old Quay Company they were conveyed to and from both places free of expense to the in stitution. FRAUD ON THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.— . Ou Wednesday, William Kirkup, who stated himself to be a groom in the service of Alexander Reid, Esq., was brought before Thomas Lyon, Esq., and the other magistrates assem bled in petty sessions, at Warrington, charged with having offended against a clause intromiced into the Grand Junction Railway Company's act, last session, which inflicts a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, with costs, upon any party riding in the company's carriages without haying previously paid the legal fare. It appeared that the defendant had con trived to get into one of the carriages of the best train from Hartford on Tuesday night, and had proceeded as far as Warrington before he was detected by the conductor. His defence was, that he had Merely got into the carriage for a few minutes, and that, John Gilpin like, in coming to War rington, he had gone farther than he intenned. dr a'he chair man ordered him to pay a fine of 10s. and costs. STEALING TenNlPs.—Thomas Goodier, a lad, was on Wednesday convicted of stealing three turnips from a field belonging to Holbrook Gaskell, Esq., of Appleton. The defendant said that he was seeking for work, and being hun• gry, he had goneinto the field and taken three turnips, which he had eaten. The bench ordered him to pay a fine of one :Jailing, and the casts. Ha wit (No WITHOUT A LICENSE.—James Brartey was on Wednesday,. at Warrington petty sessions, convicted in the penalty ant), for hawking merchandize from door to door in Warrington, without a license. EXTRAORDINARY CitoP.— A cottager. residing in the vil lage of Latchford, near Warrington, planted in the spring a single corn of barley. It has now forty-four stalks growing from it, and it has been calculated that there are about one thousand, ur hundred barley corns now growing, all the pro duce of a single grain. THE HARVEST.—At last the weather appears to have be come " set fair," and the husbandman has been enabled to commence his operations with the scythe and the sickle in earnest. It is now pretty generally confessed the corn crops, both in Cheshire and Lancashire, within a reasonable dis tance of Warrington, are much better than the farmers had, sonic few months ago, reason to expect. Mr. Jackson, of Newton Park, has just cut as fine a field of oats as was ever grown in the county of Lancaster. The wheat clop will be rather under the average, as it is thin in-some districts. Some second sown crops of potatoes are getting on well, and a month's dry weather will help them amazingly. "THE GLORIOUS UNCERTAINTY."—On Wednesday, at Warrington petty sessions, Mr. Cruikshanks, the assistant overseer of Warrington, applied for an order to a child to the parish of Southworth-with-Croft from Warrington. The following are the facts of the case:—About eight years ago, a single woman, - (then) belonging to Southwotth with-Croft, had an illegitimate child, which she affiliated upon a railway excavator, who absconded immediately after, and has not since been heard of.' The overseers of that parish gave the mother parochial relief until she was married to a person be. longing to Warrington, which marriage took place subse quent. to the passing of the poor-law amendment act. The husband, with the wife, and this illegitimate child, have since beCome chargeable to Warrington, and the overseers of War rington now applied to remove the illegitimate child to the mother's settlement prior to the marriage. As a proof of their power to do so, Mr. Cruikshanks quoted the decision of Mr. Foster, the Chairman of the Salford Quarter Sessions, who, in appeal, in whim the parish of Manchester were the re spondents, and the parish of Warrington the apellants, em bracing precisely the same facts, dismissed the appeal, on the round of the inability of the husband to support the child, and on the principle that, if the court decided to the contrary, a great door would be opened to fraud, by parish officers procuring the marriage of paupers to persons residing iu other parishes, who were not in a capacity to maintain the pauper or her children prior to the marriage. This, Mr. Fos ter considered, to be contrary to the spirit of the act itself, and against the intention of the legislature. Mr. Enoch San key, the assistant overseer of Southworth-with-Croft, came armed with the opinion of-the poor-law commissioners upon the case. They considered that it would not be competent . for the magistrate to grant an order for the removal of the illegitimate child to Southworth-with-Croft, inasmuch as the child being incorporated with the husband's family by the fact of' the marriage, and the operation of the 57th section of the poor-law amendment act, cannot be severed from it until the occurrence of the facts terminating the husband's lia bility, i. e., until such child attains the age of sixteen, or until the death of the mother of such child. T e commis. sionersahen go on to say, "It is quite true that the law which renders the husband liable to maintain the wife's bastard children does nos give _those children the husband's settle ment, and an order of reinaral purporting to adjudicate a change of settlement was in the case of Rex v. Walthamstow, I Nev. and Perry, 460, decided to be bad. But alth o u g h the settlement of - the children under such circumstances is not changed, still it appeals clear that the act having directed that the children shall be maintained as if they were part of the man's family, the only mode for giving effect to that provision is by considering that such children are, so lung as the obligation on the husband continues, liable to be main tained in, and relieved by, the parish in which the husband and his own unemancipated children, in the event of his own inability, would be entitled to be relieved." This opinion is in direct contradiction to Mr. Foster's decision. The magis trates refused to grant the order, and Warrington parish will have to keep the paupers in both cases until such time as the opinion of the court above is taken upon a case granted by the sessions, in the Manchester appeal. The glorious uncer tainty of the law is proverbial, and this is an instance of it. THE GENERAL LICENSING SESSIONS. The general licensing sessions for the Warrington division of the county, was held at the Horse and Jockey, Newton, on Monday, before John Holt, Esq.. chairman, and an exceedingly full bench of magistrates. There was a vast number of applica tions from the proprietors and keepers of beer-houses for licenses, but the magistrates refused to grant them, on the ground of their being nu necessity for an increase in the number of public-houses in the district. An application made by Mr. Nicholson, on behalf of Mr. John Booth, jun., fora license to a new hotel, erected by J. W. Patten, Esq , M.P., adjoining the railway station at Bank Quay, War rington, was complied with. Another license was also granted for a new house, near to Abram Church, to Mr. John Whitley, who, it was stated, had given to the public the ground upon which the new church was built, as also some land on which it is proposed to erect a parsonage house.— Mr. Wagstaff, of \Warrington, presented the report of the commissioners of police for that town, which stated that they had, in order to prevent mime and immorality, and especially to check drunkenness and profaneness on Sundays, which had a long time disgraced their town, they had appointed three additional police officers, and placed the police depart ment under a special commission. They recommended that the magistrates should take some steps to induce the publi cans to keep their houses closed until twelve or half-past twelve o'clock on Sunday mornings, a plan that had been successfully adopted in Manchester, Stockport, Bolton, and Oldham. In conclusion, they reported three houses as being conducted in a disorderly manner. The bench, after hearing the evidence of Mr. Jones, the deputy constable, who spoke to the disorderly manner in which the Cock and the Ship were conducted, and the late hours at which they were kept open, ordered those licenses to be transferred to the owners of the property. The ctomplaint against Mr. Edward Fair, of the Mill-Stone Tavern, for disorderly conduct, fell tothe ground, and his license was granted along with that of the other inn keepers of Warrington. Mr. Wagstaff also presented a paper, signed by forty-four publicans of Warrington, express ing their willingness to- keep their houses closed until after twelve o'clock on Sunday mornings. The matter underwent some discussion among the magistrates present, and the chairman, prior to leaving the coot t, gave directions to the clerks to the magistrates to prepare an order recommending the licensed victuallers to keep their houses closed until after twelve o'clock. It was generally admitted, that under the present licensing system, they had no power to enforce such a regulation. STATE OF TRADE. HUDDERSFIELD, TuEsnAy.--Though a fair extent of business was done to-day, it was scarcely equal to that of last week for any kind of goods; but as stocks were by no means large, it produced no effect on prices. The demand appears fully equal to the make. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET.-Our manufacturers are very shy in their purchases, and in consequence Prices are difficult to quote. The staplers, however, are not pressing with their stocks, and it would seem that a little time must elapse before buyers and sellers will adopt similar views as to prices. II A LIFA X, SATURDAY.—Things have been unusually dull to-day which, considering the briskness in our neighbouring markets, is difficult to account for, but such is the fact. There were fewer goods sold to-day than for seine time past, though we are not aware that things are lower ; but the manufacturers are low in spirits. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—The continued demand in both halls for some time past, was not experienced to the full extent to-day. Neither our merchants, nor the London houses operated to any great extent. Wool is considered at rather too high a price to justify purchases, unless to execute orders in hand, and as the manufacturers themselves 'anticipated a fall, every thing is done with great caution. BRADFORD M A RKET.--The demand for manufactured goods here, on Thursday, was much the same as it has been for some weeks past, but there was less business done in the yarn market, owing mainly, it is said, to the absence of many weavers on their usual harvesting excursions. The demand for wool was good, and the market was, on the whole, firmer ' than of lute. Prices have undergone little change. HECKMONDWIKE.--The Blanket Hall continues to be regularly attended by the merchants and manufacturers, with little change in prices or demand for goods. DONCASTER WOOL FAIR, SEPT. I.—At our first ad ditional fair held this day, there was only a small supply of wool pitched; the attendance of buyers was very numerous, whose principal inquiry was after short wools. The prices were decidedly lower than at our August fair,- and part was left unsold. The next and last fair for the season will be held on the first Saturday in October. The following are the quotations :—Hog 19s; hog and ewe lis 6d ; ewe 16s to 16s 6d per stone ; Locks 8-1-d der Id. CHESTERFIELD 'WOOL MARKET, SEPT- 6.—The wool trade still continues in a very languid and depressed state—buyers very slack in purchasing—and no business doing of any con sequence. The prevailing opinion is, that this article must experience further diminution in price before any sales of consequence can be effected. THE IRON 'TRADE.—During the last few (lays, iron has slightly advanced. All the works in the neighbourhood are fully employed, and several orders have been refused even at the present price. A greater advance is talked of; and should 'the demand for exportation continue as brisk as dur ing the past few weeks, it will probably be obtained.—Bir mingham Herald. METat. THADE.—The trade has somewhat revived within the past week or ten days; which has caused a slight rise in prices. We understand that £B7 has been asked for copper, which is an advance of £2 per ton. Tin is steady at £B7. Speller is quoted at from £2l to £22. Birmingham Advertiser. Prince Pierre Napoleon, son of Lucien Bonaparte, arrived at Antwerp-on. Mou(l:iy , b,e city of Hatitkurgla ste4ner. MISCELLANEOUS. ragret to announce the death of Mrs. Charles Kemble, after a lingering illness. Rapid progress is making in the line of the Midland Coun ties Railway, between Sawley and Nottingham. In the neighbourhood of Beeston, a large quantity of blocks are already laid. Sir Herbert Jenner, it is generally supposed, will succeed the late Sir John Nichol! as Chief Judge of the Ecclesiastical Courts and Court of Admiralty. Dr. Lushington would probably be the man, but ministers cannot afford to run the risk of an election fur the Tower Hainlets.—/Iforning Herald. EXPEDITIOUS THUM:LING.—The passengers which left London last Thursday morning at eight o'clock by the Vivid, arrived at Hull at a quarter-past six yesterday morning, and at Leeds at a quarter before twelve, thus completing the passage from London to Leeds in 27 hours and three quar ters.— Leeds Intelliyeticer. THE FRENCH ARMY.—The effective strength of the army for 1838-9 is fixed at 377,643; namely, 278,066 infantry, and 51,276 cavalry, for the home and colonial services; 1,522 for Ancona, and - 38,000 infantry and 8,779 cavalry for Africa. Strout) Fisu.—On Friday week, as a Boston fisherman was pricking for butts, near Corporation Point, Boston, he observed a sword fish knockiug about nearly aground, and lost no time in hauling it into his boat. The fish weighed about nine or ten stone, and the sword measured upwards of a yard in length. THE WOLVERHAMPTON CHURCH RATE.—The result of the scrutiny into the votes respecting the church-rate gives 714 for the rate, and 649 against it, being a majority of 65 undisputed votes in favour of the rate. Many votes, as our readers are aware, await the decision of Dr. Lushington, respecting their validity; but it is not expected the result will be affected by it.— Wolverhampton Chronicle. • THE MAN OF M ANY WlVES.—There is a man named Fla vell, residing at Gornal, near Dudley, by trade a nailer, . commonly called " Major Flavell," who has had no less than eight wives, all of whom he has buried, and is now busily on the look-out for another! By each of his wives he has had one child, and of the eight children seven are now living. a , Mr. Barry, the architect, and Mr. De la Beebe, have set , out from London, under the authority of the Treasury, to examine the quarries in the north, in search of stone for the new houses of parliament. They will avail themselves on their way of the aid of Dr. Smith, the geologist. EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT.—An obscure author has just: brought out a book in which he attempts. to prove', that' "French is but English badly spelt and incorrectly nounced." Rhubarb is now brought to'a high state of cultivation in this country, and is much used for it edicinal purposes. The root is not so close in the grain as the Turkey rhubarb, but it is as close and fine as that imported from the• East Indies; though not quite so large. WINDSOR.-otlMonday7morning, during the rehearsal of the pieces at the theatre in preparation for the evening, a gtin which was loaded, but with powder only, was incautiously tired off by one of the performers, named Williams, near.io Mr. Howe. The wadding struck the lattey gentle/n:1On the eves, and it is feared he will lose the sight of one of theixt., Pucks Herald. MARCH OF REFINEMENT.—A cobbler living in.-Salin street, Minories, thus pompously announces his' " Surgery performed here upon old boots and shoes, by adding to the feet, making good the legs, binding the brolten, healing the wounded, mending the constitution, and support ing the body with new soles. Advice gratis by B. Marks." A letter from Berlin mentions the arrival of three Periians in that city, on their way to London, with a view to .obttlin a number of Bibles in the Chaldean !angular. The pil g .- k in i s, for such they may well be called, speak no language but their own; and it appears that none of the learned professors at Berlin were able to converse in Persian. The strangers had accordingly the greatest difficulty in making themselves understood. They are extremely poor, and a collection has been made at Berlin to enable them to proceed on their journey. M. Marzano has announced in the Venice journals,. that, in investigating the archives of the city of Bologna, he has discovered that the far-famed Maid of Orleans was of the - ancient family of Ghislieri, of that city, and was, in Rill!!', the ". daugther of the celebrated Ferrante Ghislieri, wlib",. was obliged tti fly from Bologna in 1101, when John Bentiveglia usurped the sovereign power of- that reptiblie; The jienice Gazette of the 14th ult. publishes the documents produced by M. Marzano in support of his opinion. . = • SlLlC.—Extract of a letter from Bourdeaux We Are now quite taken up here wi:h the cultivation of theUitilberry.:7• and the rearing . of silkworms. An individual has,'by the application of a judicious s)stem of warming and ventilation, - ' succeeded in raising double the quantity of silk which had previously been obtainable from a given quantity of leaves the advantage' is therefore great, and 1 am now planting . some thousands of mulberry.trecs, of which 1 hope, ere long, to bend you some of the results." The Superintendents of the different Dock-yards,have re ceived private instructions to hasten, as much us possible, the masts and sails, to keep up the stoics and the ships aforward as possible in their respective clock-yards; and suck:was the hurry at Sheerness that the tank vessel was orderedUff on Sunday last to fill up the water in ,the tanks of the Camper down to 240 toner. 'Whether this private hint on Saturday last from one of the Lords of the Admiralty to the•superin tendents of the dock-yards presages an increase to our naval armament, or arises from the panic now existing in the dock yards for the want of some stores, is yet to be developed.! THE 11 ARVEST.—The state of the harvest in this neigh bourhood continues highly satisfactory. A large . quantity of corn has been secured in excellent condition during the-last and present week. The accounts from almost every part of the kingdom are likewise favourable, and negativellaskalatin— ing rumours which have been circulated by thosZwho are interested in keeping up prices. The barleY crop iii;runtisu ..,; . ally fine.—Bristol paper. - POPERY IN THE. NINETEENTH CENTURY.—Th?Iour new:. • hells of the church of St. ltoch were lately baptized•by the - • • Archbishop of Paris, in presence of the Queen. A,Company of grenadiers of the second legion of the National:,:quard attended the ceremony! A. Spanish grandee, the - Puke pf . Berwick, stood as godfather for one of the -bells! ADVOCATES AND CLIENTS.—An advocate by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge-of that • office, but one person in the world—that client and none other. To save that client by all expedient means—to s prOtect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, anti among others to himself—is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties; and he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction, which he may bring upiin any other. Nay, separating even the duties of a patri4 from those of an advocate, and casting them, if need bi a ,'to the wind, he must go on, reckless of the consequences, ifl4s late should unhappily be to involve his country in coatis/RIO for client's protection.—Lord Brougham. CARL KING'S PPESENT TO QUEEN VICTORIA.—The re turn of Great Western has brought us news of the beautiful bonnet sent by the celebrated Carl King of New, York to, the . Queen of - England. As soon as the Western . reached Eng land, Captain Hoskins opened a correspondence with Lord John Russell, secretary of state fur the home department, relative to the bonnet. His lordship notified her - M ajesty— she wrote a beautiful complimentary letter—the bonnet was sent unto the Queen, and no less than three dozen ladies of_ the English nobility forwarded back orders and complimen tary letters to the celebrated Carl King and his lovelY lady for bonnets of the same style. Carl is a lucky dog !:.•:This King has given the Queen a bonnet. The Queen haakiven . the King a smile of approval, an d th e l a di es f or the Queen will make this King's fortune. We shall publish a'vart of the correspondence in a few days.—New York Iferaldj' MURDER FROM JEALOUSY.—A traveller for a mercantile house, named Barenne, about 60 years of age, .who hapived, in the Rue de la Verrerie, Paris, for the last fifteen.nicinthi, was assassinated by his mistress, who is not snore than. 22 years of age. The crime is attributed to jealousy ; the young woman, who states that she is pregnant by her victim, having complained bitterly of the attention. paid by bin, to another female. In order to divert suspicion from herself,,the Mur deress, who remained with her paramour duringjhe whole of Sunday night, was the first to divulge the criute to the neigh bours next morning, by her cries of help; murder, COACH ACCIDENT.—On Saturday evening .last, .as, the. Peveril London Coach was on its way to this t togn,:when near the centre of the Hazel Grove, ,the near .bit,id,whe'er came off, owing to lasin g th e f asten i ng seren.;;lik qui? WaS the construction of the roach, although heavily Wm, that. not a passenger or parcel fell from the roof, ankuAli.' eel be yond the fright no accident occurred,—Sta'ckpor4 .4vertiser. No JOKE.--A few days ago, a• drunken fellow at,H.ulme, near Blackburn, exchanged clothes with. a soldier in the, guards, and after parading about in his gay. - trappings for sometime, found that the soldier hal decamped. , -1 he-toter-- has not since been heard of, and the result of the-exchange was that the other had to pay a fine of £5 for having military equipments in his possession THE DONCASTER CM—The cup this year will be a piece of elegant design and exquisite workmanship. An oak tree springs from the sward, and the branches support a cup of capacious dimensions,--the exterior being beautifully chased. The horse, as a foal, a yearling, a two-year old, and•an entire horse, is represented as surrounding the cup ; a nd th e t o ut ensemble is superior even to the famous shield of last year. A YOUNG MOTHER.—On Saturday last, MrS. Helen Gib son, (whit is only thirteen years age,) wife of Mr. Ralph Gibson, of Normanby, near Whitby. was delivered of a fe male child. The mother and child are both doing well. 'fhe respective ages of the father, mother, and daughter collec tively, do not amount to thirty years. On first hearing o. l ' the circumstance we were almost incredulous, but on "enquiry found it to be a well authenticated fact,-LL4tdc hitetiigencer• Ntrrs.—There has not been for many years such prolific crops of nuts as are growing ibis season in the neighbourhOod of Richmond; the boughs - are literally, borne down wit._h them. There are now growing in a fi e ld b e l ong i ng toMr• Robinson, of Hag House, near Richmond, upon a branc4.qr twig, about eleven inches long, '26 clusters; one cluster-con' taming eleven nuts; three cluster*, den -nuts each pour, eight; five, six; two, five; four, three; five, toot and two with nine—making in the whole 152.—Thid. Mon isoN's Ptt.t.s —An inquest was held at New Lenten , Nottingham, on the body of Andrew Ibbotson, formerly fin exciseman, when the jury returned a verdict that the death arose from natural causes. but that it was accelerated li taking Morison's pills. 'l'he Nottingham Review adas---- " We are informed that the deceased was so• prepossesed favour of Morison's pills, that, during his life, he may be S3' l4 to'have taken pecks of them," NOIITH UmoN RA I LWA Y.—Every exertion is being . mag„ e by the spirited contr a ct ors o f thi s extensive undertaking t complete this line, s o as t o b e rea dy f or o p en i ng ;it the en of this month. 'l'he fifth and last arch of the magnificent bridge over the Ribble, was expected to have part of the keY" stones inserted on Saturday lust. The number a men in the employ of Messrs. Mullins and Macniahon, the coolra c. tors fur the Wigan and Preston ends of this line, are said to amount to nearly one thousand.— ff'iyan Gazette. BANK OF ENGLAND.—The following notice was ;su e d On Thursday: it does not differ in any respect from that 0f e ., 13 , 5 ,_ quarter:—The governor and company of the Bank of .- I ?Y''' t land do hereby give notice, that on and after the 6th inst',T e they will be ready to receive applications for. loans cc' t han deposit of approved hills of exchange not having more , six months to.run; such loans are to be repaid on .or ol r the 19th of October next, with interest at the rate cif PI P e o cent per annum, and to be f o r sums of not less t h a n L'2, ( •Y each." DREADFUL ACCI DENT. —A dislressin - and fatal accia"rt - happened on board the Earl of Roden steam-boat ,- on t t je passage from Dublin to Port Carlisle, with the depOt 33rd regiment, now stationed here, on Tuesday last. 11 , in vious to her l e aving Dublin, a boy applied to the C 3 P t3 for a free passage to England, which was refused. It apPe a e r li however, that he afterwards succeeded in concealing f a in the vessel, and was not observed by any of the cr ew u "h they had got out to sea. During the voyage he s hoWed w and intelligence, and made himself very active for the .ere w ; soldiers. In the afternoon of Tnesdav last, he came ir°ed, the fire hold into the engine room, and was, as it is ladder,sus (for he was not seen at the time) descending the •vg when he slipped his footing, and tell, and his •head„h,„,a v i fallen squeezed together, the scuil being fractured io t a most he „ ing manner, and the brains protrudin, At the insta n t vi t he fo ` vas a ft b sp o o d t y i b u e i d n e le a l b iat t e. h l e y, bo a a n ro d , he fell, he called out "murder:" the'engine-man tau " t he 41111-, (111 oy and entire stranger to all on board. He %las well dresseu; d at had a respectable appearance. An inquest • was - Ir . : „ t al Port Carlisle, on Thursday last, and a v erdict of• acou e death" returned, with a nominal deodand on the eng . inei. t he coffin. was prepared by the . overseeTs of - the - parishr:l... ,, body was decently interred at• llown-ess tlre-411W Carlisle Patriot, stoppedqu e dead.tie engine, p. .‘„ r and