The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

FOREIGN 4- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE PORTUGAL Intelligence from Lisbon to the 31st March, states that Saldanha still remained in his old position, retained there from the want of funds to proceed, all attempts on the part of the Queen's government to raise a loan having en tirely failed. The Queen's troops are deserting daily, while the troops of the Junta are in high spirits, and are well supplied with money and with provisions. So strong is the Junta that it has assumed the offensive. Sada Bandeira sailed with an expedition of 1,250 men in the Mindella, Porto, and the Vessuvio steamers, and, having forced the blockade of the Douro, proceeded to the south ward. The expedition is most probably destined for the Algarves, although it was reported in Lisbon that it had landed in Peniche. There is no truth in the rumour of Louis Philip's illness. WEST INDIES.—The steam-ship Avon arrived at South ampton, on Wednesday, from the West Indies. The general accounts from the West Indies are favourable The prospects of the crops continue to be described encouraging in the extreme, and th sugar was proceeding s lanufacture sfactorilv There is no politica news of consequence from these places. The House -o Assembly at Barhadoes has voted a sum of £2,000 as the contribution to the subscription for the relief of the des• titute Scotch and Irish, and considerable sums have bees collected in most of the Island through private channels. RIVER PLATE.—The packet Is for th Falmouth on Tuesday evening last, brings news from the Brazils and La Plata. The Seagull left Rio de Janeiro or the 14th of February, and her dates from Monte Videc are to the 31st of January. No political news of irnpor• tance from Brazil has been brought by this vessel. From Buenos Ayres, the accounts of the defeat of Riviera an confirmed. The loss on both sides was estimated at 70t men killed and wounded. General Oribe had successivel3 fallen in with the divisions of Flores and Medina, am entirely cut them to pieces.. these• leaders escaping witl only three or four men each. . . BAHIA AND PEDN'AMBIJCO. — TiIe new ship Seraphina, Captain Taylor, arrived at this port on Thursday morn ing, from Paraiba, in thirty-one days and some hours, and brings the latest accounts yet received from Batik, and Pernambuco, being from the former port to the 27t1 February, and from the latter to the 4th March. Consi. derable purchases had been made of sugars at high prices and the rate of exchange at Pernambuco had advanced tc .30d. or upwards. The Seraphina encountered head winch all the passage to the Channel, with heavy weather dur ing the past - fortnight. The Beraza left Paraiba two day; • previous to the departure or tne nerapnina. A POPISH MIRACLE !—A long and marvellous tale is told in the Paris 'religious periodicals, how a French cler gyman lost his voice from too much preaching, how for months he could not utter a single word—how he was de prived of all his strength—how he became more helpless than a child—and how he was instantaneously cured by throwing himself before a stone statue of the Virgin, in one of the convents at Rome. This sample of the effects of idolatry is -vouched for by the Rev. Mr. Newman, Lord Clifford, and others. [An idea, however, suggests itself to us, -how, if as helpless as a child, and " deprived of all his strength," the priest had power to throw himself be fore the statue ?.] SLAUGHTER OF CAPTAIN GIBSON, DR. HOWELL, AND THE HON. MR. CHETWYND.—A rumour of this sad event, which reached town last Saturday, has since been confirmed. The gentlemen referred to were all new corners, and unacquainted with the Kaffir character and tactics. Captain Gibson and Dr. Howell had the charge of 70 men, and the sick, on the banks of the Kei. Being short of rations, they went with a party to take some cattle for use. They fell in with a herd, apparently un guarded (placed in all probability as a decoy), and, accom panied by four Hottentots, detached themselves from the men to drive them away. They were waylaid by about 150 Kaffirs, and the officers, with two of the Hottentots, killed, before the soldiers, alarmed by the firing, when two miles distant from them, could reach the spot. Dr. Howell's horse was killed at the first fire, and his friends sacrificed their own lives rather than abandon him. They fired away all their ammunition, and their dead bodies were found lying beside seven or eight of the enemy whom they had shot. The bodies had been mutilated in a shocking manner by the beastly savages. Captain Gib son was married : his wife and family are in Europe. He was about to retire from the service, and it is said had indeed given up his papers, and might have left the camp, but declined to do so as long as his corps (the rifles) was in the field. The Hon. Mr. Chetwynd was not more than 25 years old, and Dr. Howell was about the same age. PAMINE IN MADEIRA. - From accounts up to the 20th ulto, this beautiful and interesting island is in a deplorable state from want of food. All the vessels had left the bay, and with a population of 112,000, there were not supplies for more than twelve, or fifteen day's consumption. Ame rican flour had advanced from 12 to 30 dollars (£6 55.) per barrel, and every article of food in proportion. Many deaths had taken place from starvation, and the mother country, being involved in civil war, and nearly equally destitute, is unable to render any assistance. Riots had taken place. The governor had called a meeting of the merchants, and 30,000 dollars were subscribed to send for food of any kind, to be retailed out at cost price, the governor guaranteeing the merchants from any loss on their advance of money. The miserable condition of the island hoz boon brought about by tho atoto of tho cern markets in England—as Madeira produces only about three months' consumption of grain in the year. The rest has always been supplied, by Greek and Sardinian vessels, from the Mediterranean, but now that England has become the great market, not one of these had made her appearance at the island, and it was feared that before t__] 1i 1-- +,,+.,1 f mien ma] have taken place. 'Mr. Driver of this town, who brings the dire intelligence, says :—" Ireland certainly has greater claims upon us for succour than Madeira, but I agree with the Lisbon correspondent of the London Times, that a subscription for the famishing people in Madeira ought to be forthwith commenced in England. There are thou sands of persons in this country whose lives have been saved or prolonged by the salubrious climate of Madeira, and who ought willingly to aid in giving relief to the des . . titute peasantry of thidisland." - AMERICA.—By the packet ship Fidelia, we have advices from New York to the 16th ult. There had been rumours of another battle between General Taylor and Santa Anna, in which the former it was said had been wounded. The report was not credited. Exchange on England and France has touched a very low point. Four per cent. premium is all that the best bills would command and SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND Noll.ll/ WESTERN RAILWAY. — On Wednesday night, an accident occurred on the above railway, near Winsford. The expVess train left London for Liverpool at five o'clock on Wedn'es day afternoon, and passed Crewe at nine. Wh'en near Wtnsford, from some cause unknown, the engine, which was going at full speed, got off the rails, and turned completely over, dragging with it three carriages and a van, which were attached. The carriages were thrown on their side. at a short distance from the line ; but, so far as we have been able to ascertain, none of the passengers were in jured. The engine-man and fireman are much hurt; the former, it is feared, fatally. The engine was smashed, but the carriages sustain ed little injury, and after some delay a train, with the passengers, &c., was got upon the line, and arrived here at two o'clock the ollowing mornin Q. - . SPEED ON THE NARROW GAUGE. — The special train employed to carry down the visitors invited to " open " the docks, &c., at Birkenhead, left Euston-squre at six, a.m., on Monday. The train consisted of five passenger coaches and two waggons, weighing some thirty-five tons, independently of the locomotive and tender. The engine, one of Mr. Stephenson% with outside cylinders, long boiler, and driving-wheels of seven feet diameter, per formed the distance of about 200 miles as nearly as possible in six hours ; from which must be deducted, in dependently of the necessary stoppages, of about 30 minutes in all, at various stations, a loss equal to more than half an hour, caused by the working gear heating at an early stage of the journey, which rendered it necessary to reduce the speed to a rate of six to ten miles per hour for several miles before arriving at Birmingham, where a delay of 15 minutes is reported to have taken place from the same. cause. The velocity of the train while . running appears to have been as high as 61 miles per hour on various parts of the line; from Wolverhampton to the journey's end it had to fight with a violent wind, for which an allowance of 2 to 5 miles per hour, if not more, should be made for the performance from that point. LONDON AND NORTH - -WESTERN (LIVERPOOL TERMl gantic alterations at this station, sanctioned 260 yards of the Edgehill tunnel live been taken away, in order to enlarge the station, and the rock which was perforated by the tunnel is being excavated for a consi derable distance on either side. Hotham-street, which passed over that portion of the tunnel now taken away, is to be carried over the station yard on an iron viaduct of enormous dimensions, the mirders and columns of which will weigh 430 tons. The tunnel is now reduced in length to about one mile, on an incline of 1 in 98. Although this gradient is no longer formidable, 1 in 75 being hourly ascended, by ordinary locomotives, at a speed of 25 miles an hour on the Shap incline of 8} miles, on the Lancaster and Carlisle, yet all the North-Western trains are taken up the Edge . lllll incline by means of the chain. For this expensive mode of working there is, unfortunately, no remedy, for no outlet has been provided in the tunnel for the escape of the steam from the engines, which conse quently falls upon the rails, rendering them too wet and slippery for the engine wheels to bite. At the top of the incline extensive preparations are also in progress for the better accommodation of the daily increasing traffic. The line is being widened for several miles, to admit of a third line of rails, which must, sooner or later, be carried on the whole way to Birmingham and London. Several handsome new stations are also building on this part of the line. These works, will, no doubt, cost a large sum of money, several hundred thousand pounds probably, but they are absolutely required by the circumstances of this railway, and, indeed, they have been too long delayed ; and while the shareholders will be benefitted, the public will be the chief gainers, by increased accommodation, punctuality and safety.—Railway Chronicle. COURT AND FASHION. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the youthful Royal Family and the Court, remain at Windsor Castle. Her Majesty will hold Drawing Rooms, at St. James's Palace, on Thursday the 15th April, and Thursday the 27th of May, to celebrate her Majesty's birth-day. On Thursday Lord John Russell arrived on a visit to her Majesty. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of Lord Alfred Paget, fourth surviving son of the Marquis of An glesey, to Miss Cecilia Wyndham, second daughter of the Countess of Listowel, was solemnized at St. James's Church, London, on Thursday last. After the ceremony the Countess of Listowel gave a superb dejeuner at King ston House, in celebration of the happy event. The bride's jointure is said to amount to nearly £lOO,OOO. The illness of the Duke of Portland, father of Lord George Bentinck, is believed to be a fatal one—no very improbable surprise, seeing that his Grace is in his 79th year. His death would make no change in the political position or title of the protectionist leader, the heir to the Dukedom being the Marquis of Titchfield, now forty seven years old, but quite unknown to fame as a party man. Gossip assigns Lord George the inheritance of most of the unentailed Ayrshire property of his father consequent on his relinquishment of the turf and his de votion to politics. It is said that the Bank of France has already made 'arrangements for the repayment to Messrs. Baring and Co. of the loan of £BOO,OOO, due at the end of the present month, by credits upon St. Petersburg, and it is antici pqted in some quarters that some of the gold then may find its way back to England through that operation. It is stated that the ministers were to assemble in town, yesterday, for the purpose of considering the proposition made by the Irish landlords, for an extensive scheme of emigration. Some of the ministers, it is said, are very favourably disposed towards it; but it is not expected to be adopted. A trotting-match, for one thousand guineas, was de cided on Friday near Maidenhead. A Manchester horse had set the time for ten miles at thirty-five minutes four seconds. A mare, called The Wonder, performed the distance in thirty-four minutes ten seconds, thus beating the Manchester time by fifty-five seconds. The Poet Laureate, William Wordsworth, Esq., has just been on a short visit to Bristol and Bath. During his brief sojourn, he daily perambulated the most at tractive localities ; the poet also inspected the remains of " Cannynge's chapel," on the premises of Mr. iefferies, Redcliff-street. A man has been killed, in a strange manner, at'Cherry Willingham, in Lincolnshire. He was walking behind a cart, which a boy was driving; in the vehicle the man had placed a loaded gun, the muzzle pointing backwards ; the jolting of the cart discharged the gun, and the con tents lodged in the man's body. It is rernarkabli,that of the many women just tried on assize circuits for the murder of their infant children:, not one was declared guilty. Perhaps there never wa riod when, owing to accidents by fire and the carelessness, or something worse, of mothers, so much destrUction of infant life took place as at present. The opponents of the Government education scheme at Bristol held a large meeting in the (late) Sbcialist Hall, Broadmead, on Thursday evening. They are in a sad plight, for their organ, the radical Bristol Mercury, has completely deserted them on this question, and given in its unqualified adhesion to the Cabinet. At the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, Dennis Cronin was acquitted of the charge of manslaughter, in having caused the death of a female by administering a certain noxious compound. The defendant is a physician in good practice in London, and his trial caused much excitement among the faculty. AMERICAN FLOUR.—The vessel Lady Hilda, arrived in the London docks from Barbadoes, brought, in addi tion to a cargo of West India sugar, 100 barrels of Ameri can flour. This is the first occasion, to our knowledge, of the arrival of American flour from one of the West India Islands.—London, Times. Mr. Savile Ogle, it appears, does not intend to retire from the representation of South Northumberland at the ensuing general election, as has been rumoured. It is understood, however, that the step was contemplated, 'but is not to be carried out in consequence. we are glad to state, of the improved state of the honourable member's health. REFUSAL TO WORK.—At the Newport (Monmouth shire) police-office, two Irishmen, John Murphy and J. Barry, one of them from Skibbereen, who had been granted an asylum in the workhouse, were last week convicted of cursing and swearing, and refusing to work. They were sentenced to imprisonment and hard labour in Usk gaol. THE IRISH IN SOUTH WALES.—Swansea, Cardiff, Newport, and other places on the line of the South Wales Railway, are overrun with distressed people from Ireland, who leave fever in the track of their perambulations through the rural districts. They generally travel in troops of ten or twelve, and few of the women appear to have bonnets ; many are barefooted. The mortality amongst lambs in Herefordshire during the present season, has been of serious consequence. One farmer has lost as many as 100, and another 90. It is remarkable that whilst this has been going on in Here fordshire, in the southern counties of England the lamb ing season has been particularly favourable, healthy, and prolific. VERY LITTLE CHANGE.—It is announced that the Theatre at Aberystwith, has been purchased and con verted into a Popish Chapel. The change will scarcely be perceptible in the performances now to take place, and those formerly under theatrical management, only the mummery and tinsel will be more showy and melodra matic in the hands of the Priests. _ _ Sir George Grey, the Home Secretary, has addressed a letter to the visiting magistrates of the various gaols, in the country, acquainting them that, "in consequence of the suspension of the transportation of male convicts to Van Dieman's Land, it will be requisite to make immediate provision for the confinement and employment, in this country, of a great number of such offenders." PARENTAL AFFLICTION. — The following appeared as an advertisement in the second column of the first page of the Times of Wednesday last :—" R. P. B.—My dear child, write to me without delay, as your father is very ill on account of your absence, and I am almost distracted. If you wish to live from home I will send you your clothes and money for your need, if you will send to me. If not, you will break my heart.—M. B." TAME BIRDS.—At the Rectory, Llanfoist, the Rev. James Jenkins has a lawn adjoining his garden, where may be seen several robins and chaffinches, the worthy rector making it a daily practice of feeding them ; and he 'has so successfully trained them, that the moment he enters the lawn, they will immediately come to his call, and fly, each in its turn, to the number of six or eight, into the hand to be fed. AWFUL VISITATION ON A WEDDING-DAY.--LUCY Loomes, aged 22, died at No. 14, Baltic-street, Old street, London, where she was about to spend the honey moon. It appeared that she was married on Tuesday, to a young Iran of respectable connections, at Spa-fields Chapel ; afterwards they walked about the streets, when, in the course of the afternoon, she complained of being ill. On reaching home she became so bad that a surgeon was sent for. Life, however, soon became extinct. _ _ Letters fretri Scotland advise of a most extraordinary event. The load-lieutenant of a Scottish county, and a member ofthe Eitt tch peerage, has suddenly absconded, leaving behind in a mass of bills and securities bearing the forged namts of his own son and other-relatives. The signatures have been repudiated by the respective parties. It is repotted that large amounts of charity funds are in volved in the wreck of the party in question.—DailyNews At Fareliam, on Tuesday, Charles W2lfe, a footman in the service of Mr. W. Thresher, was committed for trial for attempting to murder his fellow-servant, a young.wo. man named Elizabeth Ayling. The prisoner made no de fence. It appeared from the evidence that he followed the prosecutrix into her room, there struck her on the head, and then attempted to kill her with a razor. The prisoner afterwards attempted to cut his own throat. From one portion of the evidence it would appear he was ncited by j ealousy. REDUCTION IN THE DUTIES OF FOREIGN TIMBER, &c.—From Thursday last the duties on foreign timber and deals undergo the following reduction :—Timber from £1 ss. to £1 the load of 50 cubic feet ; deals from £1 12s. to £1 ditto ; staves from £1 Bs. to £1 3s. the great hun dred of 120 pieces ; handspikes over 7 feet from £2 to £1 12s. ditto ; handspikes under 7 feet from £1 to 16s. ditto ; lathwood from £1 to 16s. the fathom ; and deals of iall lengths, thickness, and breadth 20 per cent. on the great hundred of 120 pieces. _ CORN-LADEN SHIPS.—From a return, just published, of the number of ships, laden with foreign corn, entered inwards in the year ended sth January, 1847, we learn (says the Standard) that the grain and flour imported in a pe- 1 17 70 British ships was— Grain, quarters Flour and meal, cwts Grain and flour imported in 2927 Foreign ships 1,348,529 816,858 Grain, quarters Flour and meal, cwts, 1,744,506 1,938,948 YORKSHIRE BARRISTERS.—A barrister of the Northern Circuit had occasion to attend the Reading Assizes, the other day, in the capacity of a witness in a horse case. The learned judge (Maule) suggested that barristers gene rally were not supposed to know much of the merits of horses. The witness thereupon replied—" But your lordship must recollect that lam a Yorkshireman." To this the Counsel engaged in the cause added, " Yes, my lord, the Yorkshire barristers know a great deal more about horses than they do about law." MR. JUSTICE MAULE'S LAST.—The accommodation for the judges at the Reading Assizes is extremely meagre. Mr. Justice Maule reminded the authorities of this the other day, in rather a humorous manner. Coming into which the judge carries in his hand, his lordship cast his eye above and around, but saw no place convenient for the deposit of the judicial "tile." His lordship, turning round to the under-sheriff, addressed him in a loud tone of voice—" Mr. Under-sheriff," said he, "take my hat back to my lodging, there seems to be no room for it here." On Sunday se'nnight, during the morning service at Powick Church, a young lady was observed to be in a fainting condition, and the same symptoms also imme diately afterwards affected others of the congregation, to the number of about twenty. They were conveyed into the open air and to the adjoining houses, and after some time and trouble, they all recovered, having apparently suffered severely from incipient suffocation. It was found on investigation, that the alarming occurrence was caused by the sulphureous vapour evolved in the process of combustion from the cake used for the purpose of warm ing the building. THE NEW COMET. — This object, discovered on Feb. 6, has, during the last 20 days, been visible to the naked eye in the constellation Andromeda, shining as a star of the fourth magnitude, with a tail extending, on March 20, about four degrees from the nucleus. On the 30th of March, at noon, it was calculated that the comet was dis tant from the sun four times his apparent diameter, and nearly south-west his centre. The perihelion passage took place about 6 o'clock in the evening. The diameter of the cometic nebulosity is about 65,000 miles, and that of the more condensed central part 8000 ; the tail extends more than 5,000,000 miles from the head. THE IRON TRADE. — It has been resolved by the iron masters of the Birmingham district to maintain the pre sent prices of iron during the ensuing quarter. At Dud ley, on Tuesday, it was resolved to resist any further attempts on the part of the men to exact an advance in the existing rate of wages, the present rates bearing a ratio to the price of iron very much in favour of the workmen. At Wolverhampton, on Wednesday, the meeting was well attended. It was reported that iron is at present in great demand, and many good orders on hand. There was consequently no attempt to reduce the prizes, which stand as follow :—Pig iron, £5 to £5 10s. ; railway iron, £lO 10s. ; and bar, £lO. THE FACTORY BILL.—Lord Ashley has addressed a letter to the short-time committees of the counties of Lancaster, Chester, and York, in which he says—" It is impossible that I should omit to congratulate you on the glorious victory obtained by your friends, yesterday, in the division on the Factory Bill, when a majority of 78 affirmed the limitation of labour to ten hours in the day, 66 members only having been found to vote against it. We cannot be sufficiently thankful to Almighty God for this important progress towards the full attainment of a measure so indispensably necessary to the moral and phy sical welfare of yourselves and your children." SINGULAR ACCIDENT TO A SNIPE.—A dead snipe was found lately in one of the Castle meads by Mr. W. C. Tisoe. It had evidently been starved to death with food in its beak. The upper part of its long bill was jammed into a piece of hollow reed about an inch long, and in the lower part of the bill towards the point was en closed a small beetle. The bird had no doubt been boring into the reed for the beetle, and the stump of a reed had broken, leaving a portion fitting so tightly round the upper part of the bill as not to be removed by any efforts the bird could make. The bird has been stuffed by Mr. Knight with the beetle within, and the reed In a minute of the Privy Council recently issued it is j around its bill, as a curiosity.—Hertford Mercury. said, alluding to the proposed measure of goverment edu- The Kent and Essex wharf was burnt to the ground on cation, " The Committee of Privy Council will not hold Monday ; it formed part of a row of wharves situated on themselves precluded from making provision for Roman the upper side of London-bridge, and immediately in Catholic children by new measures, if they shall deem it front of the new and extensive range of warehouses erected advisable. This reservation only tells us what we knew a few years hack by Alderman Humphery, M.P. It was before—that the present government, like the last, is dis- principally used as a receiving house by the vessels en posed to make grants or otherwise give aid to Romanists gaged in the coasting trade of Kent - and Essex, and as a whenever they can find an opportunity. Our present bu- depot for the produce of those counties intended for the siness, however, is with the present measure. London market. The wharf was the property and in the TREMENDOUS GALE.—On Thursday last, it blew a occupation of Alderman Humphery. The whole of the perfect hurricane on the west coast of Scotland, which buildings and their contents were destroyed to the was particularly felt in the Firth of Forth. We are in- amount, it is supposed, of £15,000. They were only formed that the powerful steamers on the Burntisland partially insured. The fire is supposed to have originated ferry made the whole of the usual passages to Granton from spontaneous combustion. Pier, &c., taking a little longer time, with the exception It must have been a proud day for the Marquis of of the six o'clock boat, the funnel of which was blown Anglesea and Field Marshal Grosvenor, when the Duke down, and in consequence of the accident the steamer put of Wellington, attended by the Head Quarter Staff, pre into Kirkcaldy, and lay there all night. We understand sented to those two veteran officers the batons so de that no passage was made during the day at the Queen's servedly bestowed upon them by their Sovereign in the ferry.—Edinburgh Gazette. last Brevet. Only one feeling of regret is associated with Sir Robert Peel, in his speech against the factory bill, this gratifying event—the absence of Field Marshal Sir said he knew ten persons at least who were now worth George Nugent, whose advanced age and indisposition £lOO,OOO each, who at one time had only 20s. to 30s a prevented his attendance to receive a similar reward for week. [The right hon. baronet's own father's case pre- his past meritorious services. We sincerely trust, how sented quite as strong an instance as those alluded to, of ever, that he will soon be sufficiently recovered to come the acquisition of great wealth by individuals who were at to town for that purpose ; and we are certain that the one time in comparatively straitened pecuniary circum- Commander-in-Chief participates in our wish.—United stances; his predecessor, who became the great builder up Service Gazette. of the family, having actually' worked over-time, at the COST OF THE GENERAL SURVEYS.—Among the Par cutting department of a calico printer, to provide himself liamentary returns lately issued was a very singular with funds to procure the first watch he had ever the pride one containing an item of most startling magnitude. It orrivilege to wear.] is entitled, " Abstract of the aggregate amount p aid in PROHIBITION OF EXPORT OE GRAIN FROM TURKEY. each year on account of the survey of counties and the —Official intelligence has reached this country stating trigonometrical surveys ; distinguishing the amount for that in six weeks from the March, owing to information England, Ireland and Scotland, since the commencement received by the Ottoman government that the interior of in 1791, up to January 1847, and the total amount for the country will have to suffer from the scarcity of grain, each kingdom and for the United Kingdom." And under the exportation of grain from the ports of Adrianople, the head of Ireland we find the prodigious sum of £Bl7, Tilistria, Nidisi, Canini, Avlonio, Delvino, Sirhala, Ro- 512. 14s. 61d. as the cost of the survey, and the engraving, dosto, Salonica, Pachalic of Broussa, Sarouhan, Aiden, I and printing, though the first expence was not incurred Corria, Trebivonde, Castamoum, Nicomedia, and Smyrna, till the year 1825 ! Out of this there has been received will be prohibited—the delay of six weeks being fixed in no account of maps and surveys sold to the public, nearly order that parties who were under contract to receive £25,500, better than one-third of the latter amount being freights at any of these ports may be enabled to execute derivable from the railway mania of 1844-5. them. AN UNITARIAN SAGE.—Amongst the reasons given by EMIGRATION.—A memorial, numerously signed by in- an Unitarian minister at Warwick, for protesting against fluential peers and gentlemen, was presented to Lord the national fast, the following is at least a cur i ous one, John Russell on Wednesday week. The main propositions ; viz.:—" Because setting apart a week-day for this useless which it embodies, and to which those who have signed purpose is a complete loss to the productive industry of it consider themselves pledged, are, first, the necessity of 1 this country at a time when such loss can least be spared ; systematic colonization, on a very large scale, from Ire- i• and because the day will be spent by thousands in feasting land to Canada, and of the assistance of the state to pro= ' and idle dissip a ti on , ra th er, than in fasting and humilia mote it ; secondly, the necessity of making religious pro- ' lion." This serio-comic person ends his protest with the vision for the emigrants; thirdly, the advantage of enlist- following counsel :—" If the day must be set apart from ing private enterprise, in the form of agency,,to carry out the ordinary duties of , life, I should advise my friends to the plan, and, fourthly, a willingness to accept ,an income observe it in mental improvement, social enjoyment, and and property tax for the purpose of defraying the cost of healthful and refreshing exercises for the body.' Accord the emigration.. . , ing to this pseudo shepherd of the people, it is useless to AF.ROSTATION.—On Monday week Mr.Gypson ascended order a fast, because thousands will spend the day so from London in his new improved balloon, accompanied reenmw...-.A.,1 by Mr. Coxwell. The flight was continued for 'sixty miles to Sandhurst, in Kent, where a safe descent was effected, near the residence of Sir John Herschel, the illustrious astronomer. The aeronauts intended to cross the Channel, but a shift of the wind suggested the pru dence of altering their original determination. Lady Hers chel and some of her family having witnessed the descent, Mr. Gypson and Mr. Coxwell were induced to pay their respects to the distinguished observers of the aerial cha riot, and the gentlemen from the clouds having been hos pitably received, the merits and probable utility of aeros tation were discussed with enthusiasm and with conside rable competency and knowledge of the science on the part, of Sir John Herschel. The aerial voyagers at one period of their lengthy journey attained an elevstion of three miles, and some ingenious machinery, invented by Mr. Gypson, to raise and depress the balloon without loss of_Eas or.ballast, was worked with advantage. TRIUMPH OF THE CHURCH AT LEEDS.--A corres pondent of the Daily News says :—" A change seems to have come over the spirit of the dream of the people of Leeds. Wednesday was the day appointed for the annual election of churchwardens for the parish of Leeds, and although, for the last fifteen or eighteen years, the church.. wardens of the- parish have been either Dissenters, com monly so called, or persons more decidedly opposed to the interests of the church as an institution connected with the state, the parishioners have at length elected by a n overwhelming majority the entire body of the church wardens from the decided friends of the church. Before the votes were taken, one of the inhabitants urged very strongly upon the parishioners assembled the propriety of electing as churchwardens persons who would be opposed to levying a church-rate, as, according to the late decision of Lord Denman, a majority of the churchwardens, and a minority of the vestry, could lay a church-rate, as if it were required, in opposition_to the wishes of a majority, of the parishioners. To this it was replied that e t n h s e e r s e of would the be no more necessity to lay a church - rate now than there ( I h ad ur b ei e l en no f t or de th fr e a3, lu e s d t dozen years, y c e o a n rsg,re gat ast i h o, e n exp and w hich the churchwardens were legally bound to provide for by a rate or otherwise, scarcely exceed £2O. The proposer of the opposition list demanded a poll, which the Vicar said he would grant if he should receive a satisfactory guarantee for the expenses before four o'clock in the afternoon. bservec and other corn- be so minded, he tells tbem it wi] by indulging in social enjoyment fortable matters genial to Socinianism ! :MIGRATION.—In the course of his speech on the Fac tories bill, Sir R. Peel observed that the noble lord, the member for Lynn, was now a great advocate for the con struction of railways—that system of locomotion which was extending itself both in England and on the Conti nent. The greater that extension, the more would the means be facilitated of free egress.for the skilled manu facturers and artizans of this country -to- the receipt of higher wages abroad: The prejudices of the English arti zan to removal from his home, were fast declining from the English character. He read of higher wages abroad — he read, further, that the ancient hostility to an English man was no more felt or encouraged—he found lie could reach Rouen, or any other place in France, in twelve or fourteen hours, and these facts, together with a feeling partly of curiosity and partly a hope of gain, ought all to operate upon the House of Commons as reasons why it could not continue to control English labour as formerly when locomotion. was difficult., and when prejudices ex isted and prevailed. _ _ DISCOVERY OF A SUPPOSED MYSTERIOUS MURDER COMMITTED ELEVEN YEARS SlNCE.—Saturday week's Go vernment Police Gazette contains the particulars of a supposed murder, under most mysterious circumstances, committed eleven years since. In the month of August, 1836, a mare was found tied in.a coppice at Sedgberrow, Worcestershire. She was of the following description, via., dark brown with switch tail, star in the forehead, long in the - back, about fifteen hands high, three or four years old, and a fast trotter. She bad on a bridle and saddle, the latter a good one, with two new stirrup leathers and girths attached, Maker's name on the saddle, "C. Reeve, 3-lalmsbury."' . In .consequence of human bones having been recently. discovered near to where the mare was found, it is thought that the owner of the mare was murdered, and that. he was a dealer. A person suspected of the murder has given away an antique double-linked silver watch chain, and affixed to the chain is a watchkey, in the body of which is curiously worked in silver the figitre of a man, seated on a barrel, smoking a pipe. It is believed that the chain and key belonged to the de ceased, and every endeavour is being made to ascertain who that individual was. etntral The Town Council of Edinburgh have approved of the government education scheme. At - Gateshead on Tuesday, 11r. Hutt, h 1.1"., spoke of the general election in July as fixed and certain. The decline in the wheat markets of the French de partments still continues. DEATH FROM ANGER.—Two little children, last week, in Merthyr, quarrelling for an orange, one, a girl, became so excited, that she fell into a fit and shortly expired. As Mr. Frewen has made kaown his intention to retire _ sentation of East Sussex, Lord Cantelupc has announced his intention of coming forward. from the rei Among the performers in an Oriental spectacle, now being represented at Drury-lane Theatre, are sixty horses, twelve camels, and several elephants. The Admiralty have afforded G. F. Muntz, Esq., M.P., an opportunity of testing his patent metal by sheathing a man-of war with it. An Edinbugh bookseller announces that D'Aubigne is about to publish a volume on Cromwell. It is entitled " The Protector. ; a defence from the latest documents." A few days since a postoffice order for one penny was issued at Brighton, and the applicant having paid three pence for it, posted it to Chester. Six hundred poor persons last week received Queen Anne's Easter bounty. The amount given to each reci pient was ss. in new half-crowns. large sales are made at 1031 for sterling, and 545 on 4 Insurances on sovereigns, about to be sent to New Paris. A large amount of paper, good mercantile notes, 'York, have been effected to the amount of £1,000,000, sixty and ninety days to run, were negotiated to-day at 7 for the month of May.—Morning Post. per cent. The following is from a correspondent of the Last week a field of dry grass, near Derby, was set on New York Courier and Enquirer:—"At Syracuse the fire by a spark from a passing train, and entirely con teams have been turned away from the depot by hun- sumed. dreds, because there was no longer room for the reception Major Beniowoski was on Friday tried and found guilty of the grain, the provisions, the endless variety of the of assaulting Mr. Urquhart, (the latter having called him productions of a western land, that hears of famine and a Russian spy,) at a meeting lately held at the Free knows only of abundance. The quantity, large at Buffalo, mason's Tavern, on the subject of Cracow. increases rapidly as the line comes eastward, so that the The Mining Journal has published its usual quarterly amount awaiting transportation at Utica is of a magnitude statement of the sales of copper ores in Cornwall, which that defies the forwarder. The markets at New York and compared with the previous return establishes an improve at Boston are sought for by thousands, who before the ment of £33,192, on a diminished quantity of 1887 tons. completion of this iron link never dreamed of attempting The Tweed increases the catalogue of losses sustained to reach them. The present condition of Western New by the West Indian royal mail steam ship company to York affords the most impressive call for railroad facilities five, including the Isis, the Medina, and the Solway, all i that ever has been made. I believe now, what once I large vessels, and the Actmon L a small vessel. doubted very much, that the Hudson River road will be POTATOES A HALFPENNY EACH !—On Monday four thronged with business. The grain trade of this city since pence per quartern was asked for potatoes exposed for the last fall of snow has been enormous. It is a positive sale at Hereford. This is about a halfpenny for each fact that, in a city of 45,000 inhabitants, such has been tat° the quantity of farmers arriving with the products of their po An e um ! erous meeting of the Birmingham Unitarian farms that no stabling could be had for the horses. Every Brotherly Society was held on Sunday week, when it was tavern and inn was more than overflowing, and it became unanimously agreed to petition both Houses of Parlia necessa.ry to go for miles out of town to find the necessary ment i n f avour o f t h e G overn ment plan of education. convennaces for the teams." A BLOW TO WHITEWASHING.—It has been decided by Mr. Commissioner Balguy, that an insolvent who a second time presents his petition for protection is bound to give notice to all his creditors under his previous insolvency. MUNIFICENT GIFT.—A gentleman called last week at The railway calls for April will amount to between three Messrs. Herries and Co., in St. James's-street, and left, and four millions sterling. under the initials Z.Z.Z., £5OO in aid of the funds of the A guard on the Great Western Railway has written a k Royal Free Hospital, in Gray's-inn-road. tragedy, called " Athelstan," which has been published A full bench of magistrates, at Norwich, have decided by subscription. that all Wesleyan ministers, whose names are upon the The foundation stone of the Edinburgh station for the circuit plan, are exempt from toll, when going to their Caledonian Railway, was laid on Friday, amidst great own Sabbath appointments. rejoicings, by the Duke of Athol. It appears now that the Wesleyan body have withdrawn Messrs. Brassey and Co. have commenced operations their objections against the education plan, in consequence in the neighbourhood of Warrington, in good earnest, in• of explanations made to them as to the intentions of connection with the Cheshire Junction Railway. government. NEWCASTLE AND BERWICR.—The traffic to Morpeth The Edinburgh Witness, and the Scottish Guardian — is satisfactory, upwards of 2,000 persons having travelled the free church organs—are divided in their opinions as to on the line during the first week of opening. • Another the government education scheme. The former is in portion of the line—that from Berwick to Chathill—w ill favour of it, and the latter against. be opened within a month, and whole line early in May. The impression that parliament will be prorogued some CHEAP TRAVELLING. - -On Thursday the Eastern time in June gains ground, and it is confidently said that Counties Railway started a fourth class train of open car- the dissolution will immediately follow. Are the Conser riages, for the purpose of conveying passengers to the vatives of Liverpool ready for a general election ? different stations along the line at the cheap rate of one ETHER SUPERSEDED.—The German newspapers state halfpenny per mile. that Professor Schonbein, the inventor of gun-cotton, has . RAILWAY AFFAIRS. A negotiation is said to be in progress between the I discovered a new composition, which proiTuces the same Northern Counties Union and the Glasgow, Dumfries and effects as the inhalation of ether, without causing any Carlisle for the purchase of the former by the latter ; the danger. The nature of the new invention is not described. object being to have an independent connexion with the BODMIN ELECTION.-Mr. Wyld, the map-seller, at east coast of England. _ _ - Charing-cross, is canvassing the electors of Bodmin, in At the - SurreyAssizes, on Monday, Mr. William Chad- anticipation of a speedy dissolution of Parliament. Mr. wick (Chairman of the Richmond Railway Company) got Cockburn and Mr. Butt, both of the Western Circuit, are a verdict, with £5O damages, against Mr. Herapath, pro- also spoken of as candidates. prietor of Herapath's Railway Journal, for a libel that FREAK OF NATURE.—At the Lion Inn, Quatford, near had appeared in the columns of that journal, imputing to Bridgnorth, is to be seen an egg with two distinct shells Mr. Chadwick a misapplication of the company's funds. with a space between each of about half an inch, such FORGED SCRIP.—The directors of the South-Western space being filled with what is commonly called the Company announced on Friday a discovery, made only on white. the previous day, of certain forged scrip of the issue of JENNY LIND.—A letter dated the 31st of March an- November last. These scrip purport to be under the nounces the arrival of Mr. Lumley the previous day at hands of two of the directors, and the treasurer of the Munich. The opera chosen by Mademoiselle Lind for C om pany; and, as far a s the directors are at present her de'bett has been put in rehearsal, in order that she aware, the forged scrip are confined to certificates of one may appear as early as possible after her arrival in London. share each. FAMILY DISCORD.At the Sussex assizes, last week, SUNDAY TRAINS. — From the Railway Chronicle of there were no less than four actions springing out of family the 3rd instant, it appears that the receipts of the Edin- feuds, viz., one by a father against his son, one by a son burgh and Glasgow line, from the beginning of the pre- against his father, one by a son against his mother, and sent year to the 27th of March, were £42,280, whilst one by one brother against another. during the same period last year they were only £3.1,011, I t i s sa id t h e C omm i ttee o f P r i v il eges o f th e W es l eyan the number of miles open (namely, forty-six) bei ng th e b ody have b een in comm unication with the Committee of same both years. This will be found a very interesting Council on Education, and the explanations and assu fact, if compared w ith th e rece ipts of other companies for rances they have received have, it is believed, secured the same periods. The apprehended loss, by honouring their cordial acceptance of the Government plan. God, turns out to be even a pecuniary gain. On Monday evening last, a soldier, of the Coldstream At the meeting of the London and North Western Rail- Guards, fell from one of the Greenwich boats into the way Company, on Friday, for the purpose of sanctioning Thames, and was drowned, together with his comrade, the bills at present before Parliament, Mr. Glyn, the who leaped overboard and perished in trying to save him. chairman said that he believed the pressure on the money The former had been married that morning, and the bride market would be really of a very temporary character. was on board. This opinion, coming with the weight of authority which A gentleman, of the name of " William Chadwick, Esq., belongs to everything connected with mercantile matters of Ardsey, near Doncaster," has actually published a to which the sanctioo Of Mr. Glvn may be given, found a pamphlet. with the title " The whole retail trade of the ready echo within the walls of the meeting-room, and United Kingdom is endangered by the proposed govern _ will, no doubt, carry consolation and confidence far went measure of EnucATioii." Surely the force of folly 1 ) -eY0144 its precincts. , can no farther go. LIVERPOOL STANDARD, April 13, 1847. Sir John Ross has written to the Royal Astronomic a Society, stating that he had made proposals to the Admi ralty to attempt to reach the North Pole, in order to measure an ace of the meridian. He proposes to winter at Spitzbergen, employing his officers and crew under the direction of the talented son of the celebrated Professor Schumacher. At the proper season, it is Sir John's in tention to attempt to reach the North Pole on sledges drawn by Swedish horses, being a modification of the plan proposed first by Dr. Scoresby, and of which that highly talented individual has given his most unqualified appro- THE INCENDIARY FIRES AT SOHAM. - MrS. Munson,. who was remanded some time back for setting fire to some premises at Soham, Cambridgeshire, in the occupation i m , Mr. Cooper, of that place, was on Saturday last committe d for trial at the next assizes. During the examinatio n ' which was holden at Soham, her son Josiah was anxious l y waiting outside the room to hear the result. It was foun d necessary, however, to send for a witness from Mildenball; in the interim, the Magistrates sent for Josiah, who caw° boldly into the room, wondering, apparently, what thel wanted him for; and his surprise and mortification rag be imagined when Mr. Wilkin, solicitor, said that he P . : % peared to prefer a charge against him for havino. a stack of straw, on November 1, I°' "" "' e to f Mr. T. Peck : of , the property 0 several outbuildings were dei•:tnyed ; upon which charge the prisoner stood remand' ed until Saturday, when he was heard at the Crown bpi Soham, and was fully committed. FORTUNATE ESCAPE.-THE QUEEN'S HOUNDS..." Last Wednesday was a private meeting for the Queen hounds, at Salt Hill ; the throng of amateurs was veil considerable. Among the recreationists from scholastic toils and plagues was Master Woolls, of Uxbridge, who being mounted upon an old hunter, was much disposed to go his length. The horse, however, soon found that he was not to take the lead, but was to fall back in the ruck; this created restiveness, and, at last, he bolted with his young rider, making straight running for the Great Wes' tern Railway, then some two or three fields in the front' the two first fences were cleared in racing pace, but the' boy seeing he was now advancing upon the line, and that, there was a train fast approaching, threw hi m s e lf ou t of his saddle without much injury. The horse, however, WO, not to be daunted by the loss of his rider, b u t p ur sue d his straight-a-head career, charged the railway fence , being a stiff quick hedge, and post and rail, and cleared over the line just in time as the train came up ; one instant and the animal must have been struck down 1)1 THE MISFORTUNE OF RICHES.—On Monday a man named John Parfleet, living at 74, Lucretia-street, New cut, Lambeth, while in a state of intoxication, reeled down a cellar keep, in Kent-street, Southwark, sustaining several severe injuries. On hearing that he was about to be conveyed to the hospital he positively refused, saying he was a gentleman, and could afford to pay for his own doctoring. He was accordingly carried on men's shoulders to his own dwelling. It is said that on tho 28th ultimo he received a legacy of £ll9, and since then he has been continually inebriated, and fined twice, to the amount of £6, for assaults, and had £5 to pay for damages com mitted whilst in that state in a china-shop. The new Italian Opera Company, at Covent Garden, commenced their campaign on Tuesday evening, with Rossini's grand opera " Semiramide," before a house crowded in every part. The refitting and alterations of the house would appear to have been effected in the most judicious and elegant manner. Mr. Costa, the conductor, Madame Grisi, Signor Tamburini, (who, after a four and Lacy with his accustomed finish,) were each enthu siastically received and applauded ; but the great triumph of the night was the debut of Siunora Alboni as Arsace, whom the critic of the Daily News (the highest authority) pronounces to be the finest contralto singer ever heard in England. THE LATE MR. YOUATT, AUTHOR OF " THE HORSE." —This talented author had been long collecting materials for a complete history of the pig (a subject hitherto much undervalued and hardly written upon), and a few wseks before his lamented death he placed the manuscript in the printer's hands, and it is now published. We find in it the same research and agreeable style of composition that please so much in his account of the horse, and his other works on domestic animals. The work is handsomely got up, with excellent engravings from Harvey's drawings, and as it is certainly as useful, it bids fair to be' as popu lar as any of those celebrated productions of his pen. A few months ago the same useful writer gave to the public a new edition of his " Complete Grazier," a most valua- the engine EDUCATION.—A public address was given, in the Christ Church Sunday-school rooms, Bradford, on Monday eve ning week, by the Rev. W. Morgan, Incumbent of Christ Church, to the parents of the children who attend the Sunday and week-day National School, and to others, who were freely admitted without any restriction. The room was quite filled, and all present paid the greatest attention to an historical detail of the progress of education since the formation of the Society ror Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1698, to the rise of Sunday-schools in 178 1 ' and there increase, and also to the National School So ciety, instituted in 1811, and incorporated in 1817. Various documents were quoted and referred to in illus tration of these and other means employed both II Churchmen and Dissenters to instruct the children of the poor. But, notwithstanding all these efforts, a statement was made of the total ignorance and the inefficient know ledge of large masses of our population, which 'occasion immortally, crime, and misery. The Government plan of education was afterwards fully explained, with an earneeS exhortation to study it without prejudice, and in itself without the garbled accounts of party writers and an' onymous hand bills. In conclusion, the clergymen left it to every man's conscience what steps to take respect ing it. As soon as he had finished this address, whicb took up more than an hour, one of the Sunday-school teachers, without any previous arrangement, proposed that a petition in favour of the Government plan should be forwarded from the meeting to both Houses of Parlia ment. This was seconded and put to the vote, and it wee unanimously carried. We leave our readers to judge from this fact what the judgment of the common people would be on the subject of the Government plan if they were not misled by the garbled statements and mispepre' sentations of those who prefer falsehood to truth. MYSTERIOUS POISONING. - -A.TTLEBURGH, TUESDA I NIGHT.—The investigation opened by Mr. Pilgrim, the Norfolk coroner, on the 30th ult., respecting the death , of Mrs. Mary Pearson, aged 50, and Mrs. Elizabeth Eve' rett, aged 56, who were poisoned by means of arsenic' being secreted in their food, was resumed this morning a t ten o'clock, at the Greyhound Inn, Tibbenham, a village about eight miles distant. James Warren, an intelligent lad, aged 18, servant to Mr. Joseph Pearson, was the fie' witness, but his evidence was so unsatisfactory that the coroner ordered him to the care of the police.—Eliza Sage' 17, another servant, stated, that on the day in question she filled the kettle for breakfast. —Coroner : If poison, has been found in the tea kettle, can you form any opinion. as to how it got there ?—Witness : I cannot, sir ; she wv a good mistress to me, and I am very sorry if that is the case. The water that remained in the tea kettle on Sal' a day morning the doctor took away. I filled a bottle wit the water from the kettle on the same morning to wor.`;', my mistress's feet. I put the kettle in the copper hole the back house on Saturday night. I placed it on the O v e on Sunday morning before I went milking. On t 1; Thursday before her death, my mistress took -me up In l e ' her room and showed me some mice holes in a closet ; sP, put some poison in the hole, it was mixed up in sow e r thing in a basin. I swept out the closet, and some piec e of the poison were amongst the dust which she threw %. the fire, and there was no vessel on the fire when s!, threw it there ; the kettle was not near it. On the Sla,; day night, Mrs. John Pearson, a sister of the deceas; called at the house and directed me to fetch another t e kettle for tea, as she was afraid to drink out of the 0 8 7, 6 that had previously been in use : she was afraid to 1 1 e ttle tea made in it. The medical gentlemen had the k on; which boiled the water on Sunday mornin A s :q fie d, one was given them at first, but the mistake was_l:ecpirth, and the right one entrusted to them. Mr. G. o 7 3 f a rch. surgeon, of Norwich, deposed that on the he made a post mortem examination of :elntodies of th e arsenic. had died deceased ; he had no d ou bt th ey from , He also ex am i ne d some tea-leaves and a tea-kettle, an found arsenic i n a ll. T he procee di ngs w ere then 1# j cairn ed ble assistant to the occupiers of land ; and it may be said with that work (embhcing a complete body of husbandry), " The Pig," " The Horse," and his other works on rural subjects, the agriculturist has nearly all he requires to complete his farmer's library. THE REVENUE.—The returns made up at a late hour on Monday night are again favourable. In every de partment except the Stamps and Crown Lands—in the Customs, the Excise, the Taxes, the Property-tax, and the Post-office—there is an increased return, the total in crease upon the year being £1,538,168, and upon the quarter £403,632. Under the head of Property-tax ' the increase upon the year is £379,840—a most satisfactory amount. The Post-office revenue shows an advance of £lOOO a week during the last year ; and that compre hensive term, " Miscellaneous," shows an increase of £129,173. The first feeling in the mind on reading these gratifying details, is the pleasing anticipation of a reduc tion of taxes, and especially must it be satisfactory to the present government to remove the impost of which they so thoroughly disapproved, the income-tax : by a law, however, which affects all mundane affairs, the cup of hope is only raised to the lips to be dashed to the ground. The interest of the eight millions added to the public debt will absorb the increase, and hence we are in a posi tion contrasting strongly with that of a year or two ago— the national receipts are but a very trifle more than the expenditure. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF UNION-HALL, BARNARDCASTLE. —(From the Daily News.)—" I was originally erected for the disciples of Father Matthew, and have since un dergone as many metamorphoses as Mr. C. Matthews. The brethren of the fountain—the teetotallers—soon for sook me ; and from a temperance hall I was transmogri fied into a theatre. One season settled the business of the unhappy manager ; he did not venture on a second. Mr. J. Barker's followers, however, had the courage to take me in hand ; but they, too, very soon gave me up. Next—presto !—I became a theatre once more ! Mr. Thorne took me ; and I never was so well attended be fore. He made a pretty penny by me, if one-half that I have heard be true. After his departure, T under went a series of rapid changes. I was a concert-room—a lecture-room—a bazaar. I was distracted by trombones and bored to death by twaddle ; and every now and then I was puzzled by ejaculations of ' going ! going ! gone !' followed by the tap of a hammer. At last, however, I have the prospect of peace. The [Roman] Catholics have taken a lease of me ; I have been converted into a chapel ; and a bishop has preached within my walls." - - INTERESTING WILL CASE.—At the Shrewsbury assizes yesterday week, a question was tried as to the validity of a will. On the thirtieth of December, 1844, there died in that town, at a very advanced age, without wife or child, a Mr. William Brayne, who many years ago com menced business as a brazier and tin-plate worker, and by industry, economy, and luck, had amassed, at the period of his death, a fortune of £30,000 or £40,000. His nearest relatives were two nieces and a nephew. In Sept., 1844, he made a will, bequeathing the bulk of his fortune to the grandchildren of a Mr. Bather, his uncle, who had lent him• £5OO at the commencement of his career. In his attend on him. ade four days Un tlis (team, the niece pl.( before his death, and signed only with I name, though lie had been an educated man. and hat EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SELF-DESTRUCTION s.—A most extraordinary act of self ue g ‘ _ ~as committed last week in Leeds, by two you u „ persons, Joseph Bolland and Maria Wilson. Bolland a labourer, 19 years of age, and lived with his parents of Lincolnfield-place. Maria Wilson was about 17 years a s age, had lodged with Bolland's parents, and Bolland paying his addresses to her. She had been employed e ! a factory, but left these works before the occurrence, tf o had not procured work elsewhere. Late on Wednesu night last, Bolland's jacket and the girl's slip were foun t by the side of the river Alive, at Lower Fold, and ne t , morning their dead bodies were discovered in the ric er ' They were locked in each others arms, and tied togetheo with a handkerchief, which the young woman had wt . round her head on the previous day, the knot being "'„' hind Bolland's back. At the inquest a sister of the u . ,"; ceased female said that both of them called on the P'", vious morning at her father's house, and washed the f or selves. Maria had bought some print for an aproor e t herself, and said she would give it to witness to make baby a slip, as it would be the last time she (decerts'"ot would see the baby. She told witness she would n o t again see her alive, and that she was going on tramp' n u o l, would not tell witness where she intended to go to. ~,° „ t o laud said he thought about going to Harrogate. no seemed low spirited. Maria said she would do away ode herself if neither she nor Bolland could get any work. r , then told her to hold her foolish talk. Witness also P e i , suaded her against anything rash. Bolland sai d he. et pected work in the morning. When Ma ria left she ki.sts witness's baby,and repeated it would be the l a st time 0,. child would see her alive. Both she and Bolland crief", Maria had b e e n in low spirits since she was out of wo r !e She did not appear to be in the family way. Frown evidence it appeared that the female deceased had set, that they w er e go i ng t o b e marr i e d on M on d a y, and We land said he thought they w ou ld. Sh e also said to ano tb r, person that a man had offered to t a k e h er t o F ra nce 11 0 work) and that she thought of go i ng . It was s t a ted tor he too had said he was engaged to go to France. or Wednesday night they both left two acquaintances, a f ile r and girl (Drisdale) at the bottom of Dyer-street, and bidding them " good bye," went in the direction o f 0 14 Peter's-square. They were not seen afterwards. B e `fr parting, Bolland kissed the girl, and both he and the AJ male deceased said it would he the last time they she ~";# see their acquaintances. The jury were of opinion Iv" they had drowned themselves while in a perfect state sanity, and returned a verdict accordingly. s tV FREE TRADE. — It has been well observed by of Morning Herald of Friday that "the first free trade Y. do establishes the important fact that vast importation" not by any means ensure to th e impo rt i ng peo ple no t England] corresponding exportations ;"—that it is i t' fair to assert that the famine in Ireland prevents fo r tlO present all rational conclusions as to the effects of, free trade policy." •The writer then proceeds to SI Blackwood of the month, setting forth that the 0 3 ; 1 0 has accelerated the effects of such policy, rather I_,ifig retarded or impeded them. We make the follosj extract :—" What has the famine done ? It has eau to fifteen millions worth of domestic agricultural prodoll' be exchanged for fifteen millions worth of foreign ag 1 : 1 1 i!I tural produce. The potato crop which has perislit:W l Ireland is estimated at fifteen millions worth. But j O7 A 1 agricultural produce, to an equal or greater amouni , _ sio Leen imported ; six millions of quarters, between gr P ',4 all sorts and flour, have been entered for home coonn,i' tion, in seven months preceding sth February , ," Taking these quarters on an average as worth 50 s.et: consumer, we shall then have six millions of qu v ol 4 worth fifteen millio ns s t er li ng . The distress that pre t e, therefore, is not o w i ng to any deficiency of food, f or t, r. .or animals, in the United Kingdom, for as anuci:6 come in of foreign produce as has disappeared of dolei We have been always told that all apprehension aboo imports being paid in gold, and not in manufactU re. c; chimerical ; that the soone r th e inferior lands I .` „ ' British islands go out of c ulti va ti on , the better , fry il ample food for the inhabitants will be obtained o 4 foreign states ; and that the agriculturists throw°4 employment by the change will be rapidly a bsorb t ' - e d i ,, more profitably employed in sustaining our e i ,cl l manufactures. Well, the thing has been done, ' a e c 4 e ? ,j: desired consummation has taken place, from an •,,stio neous cause, even more rapidly than was a ntietr or e!,• The free traders contemplate the substitution ofleolii for British agricultural produce to the extent of ri man lying prostrate on the ground, fast asleep, with the twenty millions as a most desirable result ; but the 4, !°4l portrait of Mr. Cobden, framed and glazed, under his ' lamented it could not be looked for for three vorit: h e arm. With some difficulty the sleeper was awakened, but years. It would take that time to beat down the„ o ft as he was evidently not a commodity which the guardian farmer, to convince the cultivators of inferior lanos t 014 of the night could with propriety pass duty free, he placed folly of attempting a competition with the g re , a bei l 'ill° both him and the portrait in . bond eleven o'clock the districts of the Continent. Providence has don°, ' to e, ' to, same morning. At that hour he was brought before the at once. We have got, and at a railway speed lea` of magistrates at the court-house, when he said his name blessings of the new system. Free trade was t o r tes'` was George Fowler, and that he was.a glass blower. He the much desired substitution of 6,000,000 00,11 t 1 .e also stated that he had been at York on S un d a y, and ac- home for 6 , 000,000 quarters of foreign grain ' T he 1. counted for his found as described by saying that he years. But the potato rot has done it in one. had got too much liquor. On being ask e d w h ere h e h a d trade rot could not have done it nearly so exP'l'; ,am got the portrait, he said he had swopped something eft but it would have done it as effectually. It e i o atre for it at the Mulberry Tree, Hunslet-lane. The olice- mistake, therefore, to represent the famine in ir,,,,hic"A man informed the bench that the prisoner had given three the west of Scotland as an external calamitTe rt aoldis f different accounts of the portrait. Mr. Marland oh- concealed the natural effects of free trade. P c i 4 o , l served that he bad perhaps such a great partiality for Mr. brought them to light at once.' "—lf, as t i ;," eife i ar; Cobden that he had taken it without permission. A mes- suggests, we had been further advanced in and Pe r/ senger was then sent to make inquiry, and it Was found free trade, -and had neglected agriculture, all he° It that the statement as to the swop was correct. The pri- inferior land to out of cultivation, what ? senor was therefore set at liberty, and the portrait was our fate and position in a period like the VT 5 ' given up to him. I a question worthy of all remembrance. TWO PERSON this will the nephew and two nieces claimed the house in which he lived, and to test the validity of the will, the Bather family brought the present action to recover its possession. In this they failed . ; however, after a long investigation, the jury found for the defendants. A DANGEROUS LUNATIC.—On Wednesday night week an Irishman of the name of Barney Fitzpatrick, who had formerly been confined in Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, rushed into the streets of New Brunswick in a very ex cited state, and created a great disturbance. Sergeant Gibson, T 27, knowing his dangerous character, endea voured to appease him and persuade him to go home quietly, but without avail. Mr. Millard, the landlord of the Catherine Wheel public-house, who knew him well, then went up to him for the same purpose the sergeant had tried in vain, when Fitzpatrick instantly rushed upon him arid assaulted him very severely, the whole time threatening his life; and there is no doubt that he would have carried out his threats to the fullest extent had not Sergeant Gibson ably assisted Mr. Millard in defending himself, but it was not until the assistance of five police men had been abtained that Fitzpatrick was overpowered and conveyed to the station-house. On Thursday he was taken before the Brentford magistrates. The Beuch were at first disposed to commit him for trial for the attempt at murder, but it was eventually considered that the best course would be to send him again to Hanwell Lunatic Asylum. The Bishop of Exeter has discountenanced, and preached and published a sermon in opposition to "a grand Easter Ball" at that city, as a means of increasing the Irish and Scotch Relief Fund. Regarding the dearth and famine as a signal visitation of the Almighty at a time of our greatest national prosperity, his lordship objects to such an attempt at the reparation of the sad consequences of our sins as arises from ball-room selfishness, frivolity, mockery, and dissipation. The Bishop, in a communica tion to the Mayor of Exeter, stated that he felt it his duty to animadvert upon the subject, but wholly dis claimed personal imputations on any one. His worship, in his first reply, alluded to the loss which the charity was likely to sustain in consequence of the discourse, to ob viate which as far as lies in his power, his lordship intends to give, not the profits merely, but the whole proceeds of the sale of the sermon, which is sold at one shilling each, purchasers giving more for the sake of the distressed, if they think proper. The Mayor, however, with grea deference, thinks the Bishop wrong in denouncing an assemblage of individuals of the highest character for the purposes of benevolence and refined amusement. EDUCATION.—It is astonishing to observe the extent to which this subject is dividing the press, as well as parties. The Dissenters are told that they are afraid of _their con gregations being churchified,—as one of the resulzs of the extension of knowledge : this they deny ; contending that inspectors, being paid by the State , will give a State in fluence to the machinery. It is said that ministers have given way to a certain point on this question, and that some sects will be at liberty to choose their own in spectors ; thus jobbing away the public money in holes and corners. The Wesleyans are rather split on the sub 't • t • the Unitarians and Scotch Free Church go i ng w ith jest the Government measure. There is something - question able in the Whole proceeding ; parliament not having a due control over the details. We do not exactly know where this greatly improved class of new schoolmasters are to be found,—where and when they are made, or where educated. At present they can only be considered as the pupils of the very demagogues denounced as in competent. Officering a new corps of recruits out of the ranks, is appealing from the greater knowledge to the less ; but the nation is to be made, one way or another, more gramatically, geographically, and astronomically virtuous. We rather doubt the fruits than grudge the DIFFERENT FATES OF MR. COBDEN AND HIS POR TRAIT.—WhiIe Mr. Cobden, M.P., the great apostle of free trade, is in Rome, endeavouring, it may be, to per suade his holiness the Pope to drain and cultivate the pestilential marshes of the Tiber— " Where Campania's plain forsaken lies, A weary waste expanding to the skies," the league portrait of Mr. Cobden is destined to play a part in adventures in fields and courts nearer home. 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