The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

)wnJ . Er. .}K; Li) prOtee' NINe• AST• ther deo 9 " he go ° dicti° ess 3. The fi e s a height' ;huieti t ' ;he Pre; icrtb, Back et!: x erais i c: seen irst e of fair' , )niP?t' - I ,; n tes , b itrive fi " n o utt t he ree_,` foliat bile the mo uld" e(1 n r epar— a t ay fropi .light 0 by glasses, • 1 or . o ith 0 161 inter oe of sire and ioif pense:;ip tree v °ei ol sPicna ester asi: nt couu' 1Y r 5• ti far 1"-:. a d'" o ot6 Oct. 17, 1848 SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Ten o'clock LATEST FROM IRELAND. THE WRIT OF ERROR. The Freeman's Journal of yesterday says, " The pre liminaries for the issue of the writ of error have been perfected by Mr. O'Brien's legal advisers, and the ne cessary documents have been lodged in the pro 3er quar ter for some days ; but it is said the Irish law officers are unwilling to let the writ issue. They have been silent all through the pest week. There was a sort of tacit under standing that on Saturday the course of the Crown would be detpr f mined. We waited for Saturday and still nothing bas been done." TRLkL OF OWINOUE. THE VERDICT. On Saturday evening the jury, having retired at half past seven o'clock, applied several times to the Court for assistance before bringing in their verdict. At length, at ten minutes past eleven, an intimation was conveyed to their lordships that the jury had agreed to their verdict ; and the whispered conversation which had been carried on in the court instantly subsided into a profound and an -lious silence. The jury were then directed to come into court, and having taken their seats in the box, the foreman handed the issue paper to the clerk of the Crown, who having called over the names of the jurors, to which they respec tively answered, said— " Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed to your ver -25,000 I ' diet ? " F oreman—We have. Clerk of the Crown—ln the case of Patrick O'Dono hue, yow !fay you, gentlemen, is the prisoner guilty or not guilty? Foreman (in a low but firm tone)—GUILTY. This announcement; owing to the previous statement of the foreman, that the jury were not likely to agree, evidently came by surprise on the greater portion of those present, and produced considerable sensation and excite ment in court. The prisoner alone seemed unmoved at this result, so unfavourable to his hopes. - _ _ After a short pause, JUDGE MOORE perused the issue paper, and then handed it to the Clerk of the Crown, and directed him to read it. It was to the following effect:— "We find ' guilty' on the first five counts, and 'not guilty' on the 6th. We unanimously recommend the pri- soner to mercy in the strongest manner, in consequence of his having withdrawn, and having disconnected him self from his associates previous to the attack at Farrin- The Chief Justice then directed the court to be ad journed to ten o'clock on Monday (this day), immediately upon which the judges retired. A rush was instantly made to the dock by several friends of Mr. O'Donohue, including Mr. Maher, his junior counsel, and his solicitor, Mr. Laffan, who were anxious to take their leave of him before he was conveyed back to prison. He shook hands cordially with them, and sustained a brief conversation with a cheerfulness and composure truly astounding, considering the painful posi tion in which he stood—a position which might well shake the fortitude of the most courageous man. As he was l eaving the court a person in the crowd leant over the dock, and, stretching out his hand to Mr. O'Donohue, addressi ng some words to him, the purport of which did not reach us. Mr. O'Donohue, however, turned round and addressed this individual in the following indignant terms : " Sir, I do not kno re who you are ; but the observa tions you have just made, induce me to think that you are little better than the witnesses who have sworn away My life. I think you are one of the Dublin detectives ; and I will not pollute my hand by touching yours." Mr. O'Donohue then retired to the department underneath, fro m whence he was shortly afterwards conveyed to the Prison van, guarded by a strong force of police. Ylittraturr. VARIETIES _ ANECDOTE OF FOOTE.—When in company with a num ber of gentlemen who were trying to outvie each other in marvellous statements, the conversation happened to turn upon a calamity which had not long previously occurred, the explosion of the powder-mills at Hounslow Heath. Many extraordinary stories were related, and amongst the number. one of the company declared that, as he sat baying his hair dressed, his servant and himself were thrown out of the, dining-room into the bedroom, where they broke a looking-glass to pieces. The story was smiled at as a problematical one ; but Foote, who had hitherto listened with seeming attention, immediately said be was not at all surprised at the circumstance, as he himself was forced forty feet from the place where he sat at breakfast by the shock he received at the concussion. " Aye, sir," said a young gentleman, " that was very strange indeed." " Not at all, sir," replied the English Aristophanes, " for on finding the room shake, I ran down stairs into the street to inquire what was the matter." SHOPPING, AND A SHOPMAN.—Shopping ? What a bore I I grant you, shopping is at times a bore, especially if you go to shop with ladies. A man is never more out of his element than when he enters the haberdasher's. There you stand, perhaps, at the door shop, for the time, a discarded appendage —a mere fag-end of humanity— whilst your fair friends plunge into the mysteries of silks, satins, laces, and mouslin-de-laines, winding up with the purchase of a yard of bobbin or a penny- worth of pins. I have admired the patience of Job, but am astounded at the endurance of a shopman. And yet is patience his Only virtue ? Verily, as Madame de Stael said of Bona- Parte, " He is a system, not a man ;" a regular combina tion of physical and moral excellencies. The labour of a Hercules, the winged heels of Mercury, the lying versa tility of tEdipus, the eloquence of Cicero, the good looks of Gannymede, the craft of Ulysses, the polish of a Paris - -all are mere items in the composition of a perfect shop 2Pan—Dublin University Magazine. A SMART DOG.—A shepherd once, to prove the quick ness of his dog, who was-lying before the fire in the house Where we were talking, said to me in the middle of a sen tence concerning so m ething else—" I'm thinking, sir, the 0W is in the potatoes." Though he purposely laid no stress on these words, and said them in a quiet uncon cerned tone of voice, the dog, who appeared asleep, im mediately jumped up, and leaping through the open Window, scrambled up to the turf roof of the house, from Which he could see the potato field. He then (not seeing the cow there) ran and looked into the barn where she Was, and finding that all was right, came back to the house. After a short time the shepherd said tl ItorWagaft;;a;dihe dog repeated his look out; but on the false alarm being a third time given, the dog got up, a nd, wagging his tail, looked his master in the face with 80 comical an expression of interrogation, that he could not help laughing aloud at him, on which, with a slight growl, he laid himself down in his warm corner with an offended air, and as if determined not to be made a fool of again. —American paper. MR. O'BRIEN DURING THE PASSING OF THE SEN TENcE.—Mr. Smith O'Brien, true to the last, profaned the awful scene with an outbreak of temper which proved as little his courage as it did his self-respect. He defied his Sovereign and his judges, and contumaciously repeated his offence, as far as words could do it, in a to n e wor thy of the most agitious malefactors at the Old Bailey, or the wretched offenders familiar to the authorities of Bow street. He still showed that utter want of meaning or consistency which has marked the whole of his career. When he recommended all Ireland to follow his example, did he mean that he had resisted arrest, or openly rebelled ? To urge a nation to avoid the police, to hide in the moun tains, and take up arms against a constable when pressed, is a ridiculous sort of suggestion for any sane man to make anywhere, much more one placed in Mr. O'Brien's awful position —on the very steps of the scaffold. On the other band, if he seriously meant that his countrymen ought to rebel as he had done, he might at least have had the grace to acknowledge the fairness of his trial and the justice of 173 verdict. But his speech meant neither one thing nor the other. It was simply an act of vulgar bravado and Peevish persistence in crime ; and to all intelligent persons will condemn the man, much more than an honest con fession would have done. Mr. O'Brien has added one t i ller° example to the great induction, that a causeless re- Delis generally a vain and foolish man.—Times. MiiVc}On. -- :inliEOpTE.-There exists on Long Island, near Brooklyn, several manufactories of milk—the process of which should be known. One of these dairies covers . a space of 600 feet front by 300 feet deep, carefully closed in, so as to be as private as possible—the business of the People being to drink the milk, not to know how it is roade. In this enclosure 400 cows are kept all the year round. These cows are fed on the refuse slop of whisky d istilleries, and it is given to them warm. Each barrel costs six cents, but being adulterated with water and cheap feed brings the price still less. Such is the fondness of the pars for this vile compound, that after having fed upon it „T' a week or more, their appetites become so de; laved iat they will take no other food. The result is, their fi ak-producing organs are stimulated to a wonderful de re; they yield enormously, but soon become diseased ; ineir gums ulcerate, their teeth drop out, and their breath °e comes fetid. Though thus diseased, they do not fall ! w ay in flesh, but on the contrary puff up and bloat to an 2Pearance of great fatness ; their joints stiffen so that VeY cannot lie down, and rarely or never come out alive, Bad as this is, the milk is afterwards mixed with molasses Yorkand whiting, and then sold to the people of New for pure milk ! Any one may observe the thirty-six vaas that car r y it roun d ever y morn in g . It is of course v ery injurious to children, who use it in much greater uantities than adults. Some idea may be formed by com puting one barrel of slop to a cow, costing sixpence, and the milk produced being 80 cents.—New York paper. 4S. all men ?le who antler of ng a to' expends therebl them to n whose If doing are, arid vainly ded our r-W OO and de .hearted great!" rang In HOOP owmo 33 'Were I tain 01, )re than lerstood blin had e Roni tions of testants 300,0 0 225,00 0 e 875,001 utation, ;ao,at , UrpOSe S Silovri! ti dily as leading ;red 1 Dea ne► dent 0 3nce iD ,nt, ►ba d rdinarY 'exten hinn to I for tri ;rodue by Mr• groan/ se, and en ' o! 4S nla be h into BUNYAN'S ESCAPES. — Bunyan had some providential escapes during his early life. Once he fell into a creek of the sea, once out of a boat into the river Ouse, near Bed ford, and each time he was narrowly saved from drown ing. One day, an adder crossed his path. He stunned it with a stick, then forced open its mouth with a stick and plucked out the tongue, which he supposed to be the sting, with his fingers ; " by which act," he says, " had not God been merciful unto me, I might, by my despe rateness, have brought myself to an end." If this, in deed, were an adder, and not a harmless snake, his escape from the fangs was more remarkable than he himself was aware of. A circumstance, which was likely to impress him more deeply occurred in the eighteenth year of his age, when, being a soldier in the-Parliament's army, he was drawn to go to the siege of Leicester, in 1645. One of the same company wished to go in his stead ; Bunyan consented to exchange with him, and this volunteer sub stitute, standing sentinel one day at the siege, was shot through the head with a musket ball. " This risk," Sir Walter Scott observes, " was one somewhat resembling the escape of Sir Roger de Coverley, in an action at Worcester, who was saved from the slaughter of that ac tion by having been absent from the field."—Southey. FOLLY OF INFIDELITY. — The Times of Wednesday has the following remarks, which are of a character not often found in that journal f—" Man has for the most part mis conceived the use of the great facts which have been gra ciously placed within his reach through the instrumentality of science and research. In his fond conceit he would throw aside his allegiance to God, and, arrogating to him self the ccmmand of the very elements, would, from having learned to use, fool himself into the vain imagination that he could create the world afresh, and fashion it more in accordance with his finite understanding. To this end does the Age of Reason insidiously urge its victims ; nor are they few, for the plant is of rapid growth. Deadly though the poison is which lies concealed within the cap tivating exterior of this plant, we fear that there are few of its cultivators who have taken the trouble to analyze it and to test its properties with patient assiduity and an earnest desire to elicit the truth. Captivated by the per fumed atmosphere which ever floats around the object of their admiration, they are dead to all its inherent defects ; and pluming themselves on their own fancied superiority over those who acknowledge the trammels of loyalty, sub jection, faith, and allegiance to the Supreme, they on all sides spread their toils for the waverer and wanderer from the fold of the true Shepherd. Of these there is never any lack, and many there be who fall into the net thus laid for them, for the creed of the Freethinkers is, to minds untutored by education and moral culture. a most inviting study ; it can be be shuffled off or on, as the humour suits, with the slightest exertion of the wearer ; and, if it holds out no prospect of reward, it at least is silent as to punish ment. Little matter of wonder is it, then, that during the excitement of pursuit, and at a period when the life blood courses through man's veins and arteries with healthy rapidity, such notions as were professed by a Bo lingbroke, a Volney, or a Shelley appear in their holyday attire. If, however, we trace these men in their hiding places, and sift their secret thoughts in that fearful moment when the pulse flags, and the limbs refuse th e i r o ffi ce , while the restless soul, hanging between Heaven and Hell, can find no city of refuge, and compare their last hours with those of the meek but steadfast believer and the practical Christian, the tinsel will soon drop from off the worthless theory, and the doubting disciple of a creed which begins and ends in nothing will be rudely awakened to his danger, and fly for succour and protection from his own devices to the foot of his Saviour's cross." ECONOMY OF SANATORY EXPENDITURE.—We may now look forward with confidence to the time when Eng land shall possess real towns, approximating in complete ness cf structural arrangement to the cities of old Rome, revelling in the wholesome beauty of running waters, open everywhere to the life-giving influences of sun and air, with perfect mechanical appliances for removing all things which can offend taste or endanger health, and conveying them, suspended in the waters of a mimic Nile, to the surrounding agricultural districts, where they will cover cultivated lands with unwonted verdure, and make desert sands and barren moors to blossom as the rose. In the Public Health Act there are the necessary powers for ac complishing this, and much more. Such things are, so to speak, latent in the letter of the act. But the spirit of the act—the idea that is striving for expression and develope ment—the broad generalization which has this for its first substantial embodiment—what is it but the divine wisdom which has clothed itself in the homely English proverb, PREVENTION better than CURE ? This is the spirit which animates those material forms, the Model Lodging-house, the Bath and Washhouse, the Ragged School, and all the mighty works of the New Philanthropy, mighty even now in accomplished good, mightier still in promise. The car nal eye sees in these model lodging-houses mere improve ments in structural arrangement ; but the spiritual vision discerns a series almost infinite of combinations and asso ciations for bringing about in sober seriousness all that is good or desirable in the benevolent schemes of Owen and Fourrier ; first of all, association for cheap and wholes accommodation ' • next, association for economical con sumption; and, lastly, perhaps, (but this is much less de sirable and much more difficult,) for cheap production. To what extent this principle may be carried out, and of what developements it is susceptible, no man living can form a just idea ; but every one must see the intimate bearing which a good sanitary bill must have upon it, in the large facilities which it affords for all structural improvements. In one point of view, to which we have already briefly re ferred, the bill is peculiarly important. In common with the Metropolitan Sewers' Commission Bill, it gives the necessary powers for dealing with those mines of liquid wealth, the guano streams of England. Their waters, rich in all the elements of fertility, can now be conveyed to the land for the production of food, and to the confu sion of face of all who bold to the dispiriting theory of the pressure of population on the means of subsistent '.— Frazer. HAYDN'S EARLY LIFE.—Poor, freezing wi . h cold in a miserable garret, he studied by the side of his old broken harpsicord : the ardour of his genius alone left to animate him in contending with the difficulties of the way. At length, he was fortunate enough to obtain some lessons in Italian singing from his introduction to the family a Ve netian nobleman, Ambassador at Vienna. The famous Porpora was still retained in his household, and Haydn most eagerly sought his favour, in the hope of obtaining also his instruction. Humiliation, and many a " hope deferred," he had to endure; for Porpora was ill tem pered beyond conception, and although poor Haydn rose early every morning to brush his coat and shoes, and ar range his whig in the nicest order, in expectation of pro pitiating him, he had seldom more than the polite epithet of " fool " bestowed on him for his pains. And this was to the future illustrious author of the " Creation." At the age of nineteen, his voice breaking, he was expelled from his class at the St. Stephen's Church, where he had sung eleven years, and his only asylum was in the house of a whig-maker named Keller. Unfortunately his residence there had a fatal influence on his after life; for his host, too desirous seemingly of making ample provision for his young guest, proposed uniting him to one of his daugh ters, whilst Haydn engrossed in his studies, having no thoughts of love, made no objection ; and afterwards keeping his word with scrupulous honour, the union proved far from happy. On leaving the house of his friend Kel ler (we do not know for what reason), for six long years he endured a bitter conflict against penury so piercing, that often during winter he was compelled to lay in bed for want of fuel and other necessaries. An opportunity at last presented itself of improving his circumstances ; for by chance the Prince Esterhazy, a passionate amateur of music, was present at a concert which very opportunely commenced with ne of Haydn's pieces. The delight of the prince was unbounded, and he immediately appointed the composer sub-director of his own orchestra, and he demanded who he was. Haydn, in fear and trembling, advanced, when the Prince exclaimed, " What, is that the little Moor ?" (alluding to his complexion.) Then, ad dressing him, added, " Go and dress yourself as my cha pelmaster. You must never appear again in my pre sence in the plight you are now. You are too little, and have a pitiful looking face. Get a new coat and high heeled shoes, that your stature may correspond with your mind." Haydn was too happy at his appointment to feel much ehargrin at this equivocal style of compliment.— Ainsworth. ANCIENT MINING ON LAKE ►SUPERIOR.—The last Lake Superior news gives a farther account of the dis covery of evidences of the working of the copper mines of that region by a people now extinct, a notice of which was published some time since. ' It says the indication which led to the discovery is a sunken trench upon the line of vein, which being drifted into disclosed a mass of native copper lying in this vein, estimated to weigh about seven tons. The remains of large timbers were found, by which this had evidently been propped, and beneath it were .se veral cart loads of ashes and cinders, showing that the miners had endeavoured to reduce the mass by fire. Sc- veral of the implements used in the mining operations were found, consisting of stone hammers, a chisel, and a gad of copper. The perfect state of the point of the latter to indicate that a process of hardening the metal was known, for the hammer end was most battered. With the copper of this were some large particles of silver. The chisel is ingeniously constructed, so as to admit a handle. No iron instrument was discovered. That the mining operations were conducted to a greater extent than is practised by any existing tribe of. Indians is apparent from the fact that the trench sunk upon the vein extends more than a mile in :ength. The accumulation of earth in the trench concealed the depth of the workings, except in the small part reopened ; but here the depth was found to be twenty-four feet, and the width eight feet. Similar trenches exist in the neighbourhood, which were traced for several miles. Not the least interesting part of the discovery is the evidence of the great antiquity of the workings. Large trees were growing upon the earth that had accumulated in the diggings—one of which, directly over the large'mass of copper, proved to be four hundred years old ! Beneath it were trunks of trees that had pre viously decayed or fallen in, and the whole depth of soil that by the process of time had accumulated upon this antique furnace was eighteen 'feet. This mine is about four miles east of the large mass of copper which was re moved from its place some years since, and is now in the national cabinet at Washington. These mementos of an cient aboriginal industry are deserving of more than a mere passing notice. They may be considered as adding to the proof that, before the discovery of America, a race existed on this continent among whom the arts had reached a higher grade than with the wandering tribes that have succeeded. The Indians now living in this region know nothing of the people by whom, or the time when, these operations were undertaken. They evince a concerted effort which does not now characterise their present feeble efforts in the arts. It is somewhat singular that among a people so observant and persevering the use of iron remained so wholly unknown, since some of the ores, which exist in vast abundance, and upon the surface, in the Carp river region, are found to. be easily reduced to a valuable steel by the heat of a common forge. A knowledge of the use of iron might have changed the destiny of that people, as it may be said to have done that of the race who now triumph, in the pride of a rt and power, over their almost Peralled_memorialser—New York Commercial Adverlieer. THE LIVERPOOL RTANDIRD. LORD BROUGHAM'S LEri ER ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Lord Brougham has addressed a public letter to Lord Lansdowne, the President of the Council, on the French e, the letter of Burke, on I,volution t is, in one the former revolution,—changing only the perion and the time,—events being as it were identical. The comparison must, of course, be to the disadvantage of the noble lord ; but that is no fault of his ; for who can .write like Burke ? Lord Brougham has seen the sort of political science that is found in the working classes of society, when appealed to as statesmen and rulers,— of which weakness and folly, all nations and times bear ample tes- iepublicans of Pa led Aristides,—the Chartists of Man nen Chester and Birmingham, are all of the same gene of circumstances—the Bens hominum. The letter is writ ten with great power of language and concentration of sentiment. We have now only room for a brief passage or two. HOW THE REVOLUTION WAS EFFECTED ;empting to reform the system by lawful means, . „ or to change the ministers who had given offence, or to exact punishment by the course of justice for that offence, the indig nation of the multitude in Paris suddenly bursts forth, because the police threaten to stop a dinner and a procession ; an armed mob resists the authorities; an accident renews the conflict, after it had of itself died away ; another accident occasions un necessary shedding of blood; the populace, further exaspera ted, march to the National Assembly, and, without the assent of any regular body whatever, proclaims a republic, of which no one had dreamt an hour before, and nan.es as its chiefs some half-dozen men, of whom no one had dreamt at any time, as rulers of the state t Then this work of some half-dozen ar tisans met in a printing-office, and leading on two or three thousand in a capital of one million souls, and a nation of five and thirty, is at once perceived to have the very probable con sequence of uniting the ten or twelve thousand felons, chiefly discharged galley-slaves, who are always under watch of the police, but always hovering about, ready for any mischief; a national alarm is excited, that the monarchy having been de stroyed in one contest, all Paris may be subjected to another fire, pillage, masacre. So, by universal consent, the inhabi tants of that great capital submit to the absolute dominion of the dictators thus suddenly appointed by a handful of armed ruffians, headed by a shoemaker and sub-editor, and adopt, as it it had been their own work, the new government thus pro claimed by that most insignificant hand, without even affecting to ask the consent of any human being, or even to apprise any one beforehand of what they intended do—nay, very possi bly without having five minutes before formed any precise in tention at all. Yes I yes I—this is the truth—the terrible truth I The like of this was never before witnessed among men. I will not say men living in a state of civil society, but among any collection of rational beings, connected by the slightest tie, and joined together for the common purpose of their joint defence, or their joint operations of any kind whatever. That a total change in their social condition should be the sudden work of a moment— a change prepared by no preceding plan—prompted by no felt inconvenience—announced by no complaint—that all which had before been adopted by the approval more or less general, of the nation, at any rate submitted to in peace by all, should be instantaneously renounced, rejected, cast off, and every ves tige be swept away of what had existed with unusual acquies cence, and an entirely new order of things—an order in all particulars new, devised without the least deliberation, struck out a heat, created off-hand as quick as a ready speaker can off-hand utter half a dozen sentences unpremeditated—that a few minutes by the clock should intervene between the old, obsolete, annihilated, and the span-new, untried and even un thought-of—truly this is a convulsion to which no former re volution ever known in the world offers the least parallel. The following, on the benefits of agitating the masses, is true in all times, seasons, and countries : The trade of the agitator, the professional mischief-maker, should in every possible way be discouraged. As long as every votesidle, g h o i o mte f f r t .- o f i t s t t l i e r r p i n e g r 7 .1 n p t c h a e n p e b o e p a l e s s o u n r e a d n t y h g a i t . o i u f n h d e , only le r d a e s a cantir, p r eacher of g rievances, or a quack distributor of re medies,'he will both become a popular favourite and earn a subsistence, rely upon it there will never be wanting many to follow this very easy and not very honest calling, and many more to be the dupes of their nostrums. At no period was this abuse carried so far as during the last few years in England, but especially in Ireland. The repeal of the Union has been a livelihood to many; to one it was the source of great gains. Partly on the money it yielded in large sums, partly on the traffic which he drove with your government for places to his family and followers in purchase of their votes which he com manded, he contrived, during a considerable portion of his life, to live on the people, as a pensioner on the poor, with the name of a disinterested patriot. erneral A vessel has arrived in London from Calcutta, with 800 sacks of flour. A verdict of the coroner's jury on the body of Mrs. Armitage attributed her death to congestion of the lungs. The Sheffield Mercury has ceased to be published, and is incorporated with the Sheffield Times. The Surrey Theatre is in such a state of decadence that the scenery, " properties," costumes, decorations, &c., have been brought to the hammer. On Wednesday, Holland's extensive flour mills, situate at Stanley Bridge, Fulham, were totally destroyed by tire. The loss is estimated at £5OOO. A vessel, named the Queen, has arrived in London, from Lisbon, with an entire cargo of grapes, comprising 1319 boxes. The city of London has voted an allowance of £5OO per annum, as the salary of the medical officer appointed to superintend the health of the metropolis. The sale at Stowe, which terminated on Saturday week, realised £75,495. What is to become of the mansion and estate still remains a problem. The splendid glass chandelier in the centre of the Sur rey theatre, which cost two hundred guineas, was sold on Wednesday for only twenty-two guineas. _ _ It is now said that £12,000 ayear will be saved to the Duke of Buckingham out of his estates, and that the Marquis of Chandos will succeed to £30,000 a year. A Chartist, named Wynne, has been committed for trial, charged with attempting to shoot Policeman Cor nick, at Queenhithe. Five persons, who evidently caught the cholera in Hamburg, have died in Hull, but the pestilence has not broken out in any part of the town. No less than three women were, on Wednesday sen., brought before the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house, charged with attempts at self.destruction. A MAN TO BE PITIED.—The Rev. H. Butler, the in cumbent of Wantage, Berks, has forbid the Church Mis sionary Society to hold its auxiliary meetings in that town. A disease has appeared amongst swine in the neigh bourhood of Hull, which is attributed to the excessive quantity of diseased potatoes that have recently been given to them. THE CHOLERA IN ENGLAND.—The epidemic has ap peared in London, Woolwich, Hull, Sunderland, and Edinburgh. The greatest number of cases have occurred in London. On Friday night week the mansion of G. Pritchard, Esq., situate at Broseley, Shropshire, was broken into, and a large quantity of silver plate and other valuable pro perty stolen, amounting in value to upwards of £2OO. Nineteen acres of land, rather more than a mile from the town of Wisbech, were sold by auction on the sth inst. for the large sum of £2,260, being nearly £ll9 per acre. The copyright of the Musical Times was brought to the hammer on Friday, and was purchased for £1,710. The publication realizes a clear income, after paying all ex penses, of £l,OOO a-year. The Oxford Chronicle mentions that terror was caused to the inhabitants of Folly Bridge, where. Friar Bacon once studied, by the appearance of a ghost. A large party gave chase, but the apparition fled, jumped into a boat, and escaped down the Isis. A LAZY DEFENCE.—At the Plymouth Police Court last, week, a boy, charged with playing pitch and toss on Sun day, said be was innocent, as he always lay in bed on Sundays. This defence was, on inquiry, found to be li terally true. A CHAIRMAN'S WEDDING.—On Tuesday one of the United Brotherhood of Wheel-chairmen entered the bonds of Hymen with the object of his affections. The "happy couple" went to church in two wheelchairs, and returned Gloucester Chronicle. The Middlesex magistrates have declared war against racing sweeps. _ _ _ _ . A SHIP AT CAMBRIDGE.—On Wednesday week, the sloop Mary Ann, a small sea-going vessel of about forty tons burden, arrived at Cambridge with a cargo of coals. With the exception of the steamer which plied to Lynn some years since, we believe this is the only sea-going ves sel that has come up to Cambridge within memory. A singular but painful accident lately happened to a gentleman named March, connected with the Russian Consulate. He was descending from the outside of an omnibus when his ring caught by the hook of the side bar of the box seat as he was in the act of jumping off, and the sudden wrench that ensued actually tore off his little finger. He has been doing well.since. Doc. STEALING. —At the Middlesex sessions, on Satur day, three men were indicted for having taken six guineas as a reward for restoring three bloodhounds of the value of 300 guineas, belonging to Lord Alexander Russell, which had been stolen. Two of the prisoners pleaded guilty, but it appearing that some compromiSe had been made by his lordship's groom, the prisoners were discharged, on giving security to appear for sentence when called on. BOOTY LEFT BEHIND.—On Saturday night or early on Sunday morning a dwelling-house on the Marine-parade, Dover, in the occupation of Captain Sir Thomas Trigge, was forcibly entered without creating any alarm. The thieves succeeded in packing up valuables to the amount of £l,OOO in a bat, when, it is supposed, they wei turbed. as they decamped, leavin. , their valuable behind, and taking only £7 in gold and some silver. EXTRAORDINARY DELIVERANCE.—AII account ap peared, a few months since, of a captain of a small vessel near Weymouth liming, in a state of delirium, one night got into the boat and pushed off, leaving one man in the vessel, who used every means to discover him without He was, it appears, picked up by a vessel bound , America, whither he was carried, and has since re turned. success to THE T. Y. DESPATCH, OR THE TRAITOR'S REWARD. —Mr. Thomas Young, ex-private secretary to my Lord Melbourne, is now a secretary of the Post-office with a salary of £1,000; while Mr. Joseph Parkes, his clever coadjutor, who was, at the time of the Reform Bill, an obscure attorney at Birmingham, but a Dissenter, is now a Chancery taxing-master with a salary of £2,000 a year ! Pretty fair rewards these for agitating for a revolution. DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY BY LUCIFER MATCHES. — On Tuesday, as a little boy was amusing himself by light ing lucifer matches, near a stable on the premises of Mr. John Birdseye, of Kelvedon (Essex), some straw ignited, which instantly communicated with the stable, and being some distance from the dwelling-house, the whole was in flames before any assistance could be rendered. A valu able pony was burnt to death, and the harness, &c., en tirely destroyed. Hew LONG A MAN MAY LIVE AFTER HE IS WORN OUT. — There is now living in the parish of St. Philip, Bethnal-green, an old soldier of the name of Geo. Lewis, in the 94th year of his age, who was discharged from the Ist Regiment of Fuot Guards, , then commanded by his Royal Highness the late Duke of Gloucester, on the 20th of May, 1802, after a service of 26 years, and, as his dis charge expresses, because he was very lame and worn out." . . DREADFUL DEATHS. —A few days since, two men employed in a pit at the Dee fields, repairing the brick work of the shaft, a chain attached to two pieces of strong wood across the shaft for the purpose of supporting the brickwork whilst they were underbuilding it, gave way about three feet, and the brickwork it supported, at which place the two men were employed at the time, fell in wards, and closed upon them. When extricated they were quite dead. Another murder arising out of disappointed love was committed near Leeds on Sunday night, by a young man, named Malkin, a wood-turner, aged only seven teen, who cut the throat of a carder in a flax mill at Hunslett, named Ingham, only sixteen years of age, because she had declined to continue an intimacy that had sprung up between them. This is the third murder we have recorded within the last month arising from the same cause, and by persons in similar stations of life. THE LATE MAJOR WEMYSS.—This distinguished officer, whose late melancholy demise at Durham we re corded, as senior captain. led the final charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo, the result of which was the final over throw of the power of Napoleon. During the conflict, Captain Wemyss had no fewer than three horses shot under him. Though severely wounded in the arm, he bravely led his followers into the midst of the conflict, and so greatly signalised himself that he was promoted to the rank of major, and rewarded with a pension. The ironmasters quarterly meetings commenced on Tuesday, at Walsall, and naturally enough felt the influ ence of the panic prevalent, with renewed force with re gard to railway shares, in the city, on Saturday and Mon day. Letters from Glasgow communicate that the price of pig iron during the week, has had a downward ten dency, and may be quoted 445. 6d. for No. 3, sellers. The market closed very inanimately at these rates. Un der these circumstances, it may be considered a settled point that prices will remain unaltered for the ensuing quarter. A VERY HARD CASE. - Mr. Charles Butler, once a well-known and highly respectable chemist in St. Paul' Church-yard, has forwarded us a statement of ' tunate case, and requested us to aid him in recovering his position in society. He was wrongfully convicted of felony, sent to the hulks, found to be innocent, set at liberty, pardoned, and—ruined ! The law, or its admi nistrators, had fallen into an error, and Mr. Butler was forgiven, or pardoned, his imputed felony ! The brand, however, was upon him, and there it will remain, until the public feel the injury done to him as to themselves, and make him reparation. SINGULAR CASE.—The Worcester Chronnte publishes a singular instance of mortality in the case of a shop keeper in that town, who, having had a bad finger, put a blister to it; soon after which it is said he handled a po tato that was diseased, and it is presumed that the effect was poisonous, for his finger and hand soon presented a serious aspect, and he went to the Infirmary, where mor tification ensued, and he died on Saturday. A post mor tem examination of the body has been made, and the in ternal appearances are said to be healthy, leading to the conclusion that death could only have been occasioned by the introduction of some poisonous matter to the system. SHOCKING ACCIDENT. — On Monday, at the village of Brynsiencyn, near Carnarvon, Elizabeth Jones, a char woman, brought from Carnarvon six pounds of gunpow der. As the evening was very wet the powder got damp, and when Mrs. Jones reached home she placed it before the fire to dry: There were four of her daughters sitting by the fireside at the time, and the powder having taken fire, a fearful explosion took place, the roof of the house was blown off, and the inmates dreadfully scorched. The poor sufferers were found with their clothes on fire, and their blackened skin and flesh hanging in rags from their bones. The youngest daughter died soon afterwards, and little hopes are entertained of the recovery of the others. A BANKRUPT CORPORATION.—The corporation of Exeter is in such straightened circumstances that there was much difficulty in getting any one to accept the mayoralty last November. It appears that his worship is often called on to advance money to pay the police, that their jailor's salary was in arrear, and that officer had been paying his turnkeys out of his own funds, that the expenses of witnesses and prosecutors were wofully be hind, and that the other day three witnesses from Abing don came al he way rain for payment, and tur led away without it. Even the prisoners in jail are in rags, hitched together by string, because there are no funds to provide clothing. Sinuous ACCIDENT TO A TOURIST IN WALES.— four o'clock on Tuesday night, at Pont-y-Celyi Bettws. about five miles from Llanrwst, a gentleman named Evans, from London, was nearly killed. The un fortunate gentleman rode a very vicious pony ; he was met about a mile from the place, proceeding at a rapid rate. It is supposed that the animal must have suddenly shied at some object in the road, and pitched the unfortunate gentleman over a precipice nearly sixty feet deep. Some stunted bushes fortunately broke his fall, but he has, we are sorry to say, received a fracture of the right arm and several ribs of 'the same side, and a concussion of the brain.' He was found in an insensible state about four hours after the accident. There is, we regret to say, no A TRAVELLED MAN.—There is at present residing in ,Perth a man named Thomas Maxton, who has been employed as a wright upon the Moncrieffe estate for the last thirty-five years, and who has during that period, with, we believe, only two exceptions, travelled three and-a-half miles out and three-and-a-half miles in and from his work every lawful day. Seven miles a day is forty-two miles a week, and 2184 miles a year; 2184 miles a year, for thirty-five years, is 76,440 miles, which this man has travelled in the pursuit of his daily avocation, besides the journeyings to and fro which he has been obliged to take from one place to another of the grounds and which, at . a moderate calculation wi fifth more—making in all a total of 91,7'. amount to a ,es wLuc 111GaWAY ROBBERY NEAR BROUGII.—On Monday night, as the daughter of Mr. John Dent, of the Blue Inn, Stainmore, and a young man, an acquaintapce of her's, were rerurniug wgetner trom Drougn 1 - 1111 Yam, they were overtaken by three men, strangers. Tl,e men, however, seemed to have a perfect knowledge of Miss Dent, called her by name, and made themselves very familiar, and, after they had proceeded on the road a short distance, announced their character, by demanding the purses of the lady and her companion, which being refused, they at once proceeded to use violent measures to accomplish their purpose, threw both of the parties down on the road, and took between three and four pounds from Miss Dent, and about thirty shillings and a silver watch from the young man. The night was so very dark, that we fear the rob bers cannot be recognised, if apprehended. DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE.—On Saturday John Lanham, of Maiden-lane, King's-cross, London, came home intoxi• cated, and having had a quarrel with his wife, who was also the worse for liquor, he took down an old musket which hung c;A'er the mantelpiece, deliberately loaded it With powder and small shot, and fired at her. Several of the shots entered her jaw and lips, and her screams na turally attracted a number of persons to the spot, who gave expression to their indignation. This proceeding excited the ire of Lallham, who reloaded his musket, and, coming out into the road in front of his cottage, tired indiscriminately amongst the people, and a woman, named Eliza Carter, and two boys were severely wounded. The miscreant (who is said to be 86 years of age) loaded his piece a third time, but it was wrested from him before he could fire it off. FEARFUL WOUNDS FROM ERYSIPELAS CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS !-Mr. A. Coles, for five years in the employ of Mr. Oliver, coach-maker, Twickenham, had been ill, off and on, fourteen years, and for the last seven was continually under the care of one surgeon or the other, besides being a patient for a consi derable tim3 at one of the hospitals for settled eysipelas,. in both lega-, which discharged quantities of water, and, humours issuing from several large wounds. His age , being seventy-two it was expected that the complaint would Lill him, and yet this poor man has been perfectly cured faziameeks by:Hollowuy's Ointment and Pills., A WIFE .BOTIIERICD DY A New LAW.—A woman living in Ashlerinquired last Sunday of one of the police if he could give her any tidings of her " mon" (meaning her husband), andsaid she wished " Parliament was fur enough for alteringthe laa," (alluding to the new w publicans to L o their ho now in opc ,uses closed . . the whole of , Sunday morning) : " she could always find her mon till the last Sunday or two, for he always- got drunk in a morning, and was in bed the remainder of the day ; but now she bnow'd no more where to look for him than the mon in the moon. But the Parliament folks eared nout what trouble they gee poor craturs."—Leicesteraire Mercury. JENNY LINeS• VISIT TO A YORKSHIRE FARMER.— During her recent visit to this part of the country, the nightingale had expressed a great desire to see an English farm -house on's, of Grafit-liOv in One MAN ON FIRE.—At Exeter. last week, a workman ac cidentally broke a bottle of turpentine in his trousers' pocket. Happening to come in contact with a light, his saturated clothes took fire, and he was so frightfully burnod that he died shortly afterwards. THE TIMBER PLUNDERING IN THE NEW FOREST.— The inquiry is far from approaching a close, and a party most seriously implicated has absconded. The officers have found timber " irregularly" obtained at the north ern yards and at Jersey. ENGLISH TOLL-GATES.—A CONTRAST.—From Wor cester to Bromyard Downs, a distance of fourteen miles, the charge for a horse and gig is two shillings—from Wor cester to Birmingham, twenty-six miles, it is only nine pence ! The moderately careful and the courageous have no thing to fear from the closest contact with cholera pa tients. In Hamburg the cholera nurses are perhaps the only persons who never take cholera. They are familiar with it in all its stages, and are not afraid of it. On Sunday, two boys, named William and Thomas Dennis, the one aged eleven and the other sixteen years, sons of Thomas Dennis, tailor, Sheffield, fell into the river Dun, where it is crossed by the Wicker Viaduct, and were drowned Mr. George Parsons, Mount-pleasant, Redditch, gathered from one grain of wheat, planted in his garden, forty stalks, which yielded the enormous quantity of two thou sand two hundred and twenty grains of very fine red wheat. James M'Wheelan has been sentenced at the Ayr Circuit Court to death, for the murder and highway rob bery of one James Young, in the Blackhill-road in that county. The watch belonging to the deceased was found on the person of the prisoner the day after the murder, and his clothes were stained with blood. NOVEL APPLICATION OF SCIENCE TO THE ARTS.— Abandoned females in London, and dexterous thieves, have adopted a novel mode of robbery. First forcibly embracing with their arms the destined victim, a hand kerchief imbued with ,chloroform is pressed against his nostrils; and with his senses disappear also his valuables! DONItOSIN CASTLE.—No less than 90 tons weight of superb furniture lately arrived at Dunrobin Castle, from London, and amongst other things, two carpets, each of which cost £5OO. These preparations are convincing proofs that her Majesty and Prince Albert purpose visiting Dunrobin next season. The accounts from Scotland, regarding all crops, in cluding potatoes, are most encouraging. The rapid ad vance of agricultural science in that country is well wor thy of imitation. The small decrease in the produce of the income-tax (£25,000) is a proof that the general trade of the country is not so very bad. A few days since, an aged insolvent was discharged by an order of the judge of the Taunton county court, after he had been imprisoned during eight years at the suit of his own son, to whom he had given a note of hand for £5O, which he failed to pay, after he had assigned all his property, worth about £l,OOO, to his children. Tile National Guards of Havre have honoured the Mayor of Southampton.with a French invitation—to come and dine with him. The offer was- accepted, and the martial visitors having- been forwarded by rail to London, ate roast beef at Mr. Douglas Jerrold's chop.house,,wlere they gave as &Avast, " the fraternity of nations."' near Hunmanhy, was fiied upon to g What her ideas of a substantial English farr ratify her ment was almost unbounded, as sl from one room to- another ; the kitchens sitting-rooms, bed-rooms, larder, and dairies, each seenlei equally to Lively showr one-roomed buildings appropriated to the same purpose it her own country. She was attended by a travelling &malt companion, her secretary different out-buildinzs were also visited, and afforded as BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIA( in the Bloomsbury County Court, by Ann Elliott, the daughter of a laundress residing in Hart-street, Chelsea, against a respectable solicitor of ,• Camden Town, to re c o ver th e sum o f £2O as ompensation for a breach of promise of marriage. thn —On Saturday the plaintiff not'being adequate tO s the, expense of enterin an action in 3r. court The defendant afternoon, during the summer of 1835, walking throng! , the Lowther Arcade, when he accosted the plaintiff, to whom, after a little conversation, he made a proposal of marriage, and offered to allow her as pin -money £25 per annum. The plaintiff accepted the offer, but at the per suasion of the defendant consented, prior to the nuptials, to yield to his embraces. Subsequently, the defendant refused to perform his promise, and was united to another female. His honour allowed the plaintiff the full amount claimed, with costs, at the same time expressing regret that a person, bred to the profession of a gentleman, should have so far digressed as to take a mean advantage of the plaintiff. THE CIVIL LIST.—The Times has a lot ply to a resolution of the " Financial Reform Aqsocia tion," condemnatory of the expense of the Queen's civil list. No long article, however, is necessary. The Queen's civil list, is her property, her estate, by a derivative title as old as any in the country, if it is not indeed the oldest, except the title of the Church. The civil list is the equi valent received by the head of the Royal Family in ex change for the hereditary revenues enjoyed by the Royal Family from the Norman conquest. The exchange was effected shortly after the accession of George 111., and so good a bargain was it for the people, and so bad a bargain against the Royal Family, that the people have profited, and the Crown has lost by it more millions than we like to state without referring to the parliamentary return, but w think that the millions amounted to about 90 g article in re- Dine years ago, and the sum must now be greater. The civil list then being, by bargain, the Queen's estate, as the equi valent for a larger and better estate, what right has any man to question her Majesty's mode of disposing of it Who that is not prepared to justify robbery can talk of diminishing it by a single shilling ? CONTEMPT OF THE PRESS.-At the recent public ban quet given at Cheltenham to Sir Chas. Napier, the usual compliment of a ticket was forwarded to the gentlemen of the press resident in the town. To the amazement of the latter, however, they were given to understand that whilst the banquet was to take place at six, they were not to be admitted till eight o'clock. Resenting, like men of education and spirit, this species of flunkeyism, or per- mission to enter after their bette rs h a d f eas t e d, the resi dent reporters returned the tickets, and hence the ac counts of the banquet which appear are given by stran gers, who submitted to the servile conditions. Among the anomalies of the age, nothing strikes us more forcibly than the power and influence attributed to the press of this country, and the little respect entertained for those connected with it. No doubt something of this is attri butable to ourselves, or rather to that spirit of competition whirls iq ripopecc,”” 'sr". 4,4 :11 fi :r her victories no less renowned than war"—if a man may serve his country as well or better with his brain and pen than with a sword—if honourable men—men of education nnrl Z.. LI tsalanf .-A -a pany for the highest, what degradation can it be to even the warrior glittering with honours and covered with scars, to sit down with a reporter ? A scandal which has attracted some notice in the world of art has been distinctly explained by the Athenceum. In the last exhibition of the Royal Academy was a pic ture entitled " Shipping, &c., off Hurst Castle, Isle of Wight," set down in the catalogue with the name of Mr. Reinagle, R.A., as the painter. The picture was selected by a £25 prize -holder in the Art-Union. It was recog nised, however, by the friends of a young artist, Mr. i J. W. Yarnold, as his prodnction; he had painted it and his unfor- I sold it t^ f,-.- - E o a dealer tor a few shilling.._ fhe case' was brought before the Royal Academy. The Academy called on Mr. Reinagle for an explanation. He denied the charge, and intimated that he would rather resign than submit to inquiry. Mr. Yarnold was then invited to substantiate his accusation by evidence. Mr. Reinagle no A modified his denial ; he said the picture had been re painted by him, so as to become actually the work of his hand. " A strict examination of the picture by the Academicians, who had in the mean time very properly refused to give it up to the demands of resulted, we understand, in so unsatisfactory a comment on this plea as to leave no doubt on their minds that the honour of the Academy had been stained;" and they re ferred Mr. Reinagle, by resolution, to what he had said about resigning. He resigned. SINGULAR_ CASE OF SUCCESSFUL C ONCEALMENT 6 1 SEX ..—On Saturday week there died at Macclesfield, a woman named Sophia Locke, who had for many years wandered about the country in male attire, professing the trade of a tinker and scissor grinder, under the name of John Smith ; the father, who was a gipsey-traveller, had several children besides deceased, who was horn in a cave near Croker Wood, Sutton. It appeared that her true sex was known to the Biddulph Moor people, who, it is believed, are the descendants of a gypsey tribe, but they always kept it a profound secret. Mr. Bland, the medical officer of the Macclesfield Union, first suspected her sex, having received an order from the board to attend her previous to her death, but it was not until after that event that his suspicions were verified. About 14 years ago she became acquainted with a woman, whom sbe persuaded I . _ aeu uy a promise of maintenance to live with her, which she did till deceased died. They had travelled all over England. Last year they were in Worcestershire picking hops. They lived very happily together, and the deceased, who could earn half a guinea a day sometimes, used the wo man very well. The body was interred on Sunday last I Christ Church, as John Smith, and 14, w to witnp.o attending to witness the funera excited crnsiderable interest. he case seemed to hay SINGULAR AND FATAL FIRE IN LONDON.--An inquest was held on Wednesday at Muswell Hall, Hornsey, the residence of Mr. Walter Burdoe, on the body of hiq mn_ ther, aged 87, who was found dead in the hotise. Deceased was in the habit of having a rushlight burning in her bed room all night, and was so apprehensive of thieves that she always locked the door on the inside. On the sth instant she retired early to bed. In the coarse of the night Miss Burdoe (her daughter) wa s awakened by a smell of burning, and alarmed her father. He went to his mother's room door ; it was locked, and be saw no light. another candle, and, as she spoke collectedly, ho retired, thinking all was safe. About five in the morning he was roused by a maid servant crying that there were thieves in the house. The noise was found to arise from the crack ling of the burning bedstead on which t l-- '1 lady was The door Ras burst C 0 3 combust so great that every object was . dai:kened. She had got out of bed, and was found, sitting in her night dress behind the flames of the curtains, &c. by putting the carpet upon the bed, and afterwards placing it under the bed for removal at daylight. There they had gradually smouldered, and door to unfasten it and raise an alarm, Mrs. 13urdoe was overpowered with the intense heat and sank down.—The jury being assured that, at all events, the fire which caused the death of the deceased lady was purely accidental, re turned a verdict to that effect. ADVERTISING FOR. A WIFE.—An adrertisement having appeared in one of the London journals. a week or two ago, for a wife possessed of £5OO, it was ansvv i years of age ; t lat the adverti lit have an in- pearance and character were found to be satisfactory £I,COO would be of no consequence. An api was made for him to inquire at the bar of a tavern in th ointment The evening came—and, true as " Salisbury.clocic came our man of metal, dressed as neat as neat could be. He was met by a witty friend, who opened the proceed ings by a private interview in the bar parlour; while ano ther went in search of a " fair frail one" to personate the bride in perspective, and who was to assume the name of Jane Brown—her papa being obliged to leave town that morning; and certainly a better actress could not be found, with her fancy bonnet arid white veil. Jane was introduced to our money-hunting advertiser ; his eye quickly surveyed her as she sat in a retired part of the room, purposely darkened to aid the bashful modesty of Jane ; he fairly chuckled with delight as he gallantly handed her papa's letter for recognition. To the ques tion, " Is that your papa's writing ? " Jane gave a bash ful nod of assent. The young man who played the part of Jane's cousin, and he who was the friend of the family, with genuine Irish wit described his respect for his old friend Brown, and the handful Jane's mother had with her in the measles, poor dear woman ! Oar hero now drew forth a large bundle of l e tt ers , an d s a id he had been all day going orn place to place to answer them ; he gave the address of his uncle, J—n K—, Eq., Bed fordshire. Things seemed going on capitally till the waiter hinted the reckoning was 9s. 6d. for sundry glasses of " cold without," port negus. and cigars ; the cousin and the friend of the family of course could not be ex pected to " tip," and our " yokel" was minus " tin." The gas being about to be snuffed out, he came to the bar, where as jolly a lot had assembled as " ever set the table in a roar." One offered his sister, another actually wished his mother so good-looking a husband, while Jane was escorted to the corner of the next street, having first been amply repaid for her part in this laughable plot. Our hero now began to " smell a rat." but he was so hemmed in he could not escape. While the waiter was requesting of him the score, another was charring a couple of corks, and in less than no time a change came o'er the spirit of his dream—lie came a perfect Adonis, and left a perfect Juba !- ACCOUNTS OF THE BOARD C the Board of Trade for the month ending tl tember. issued to the public yesterday mo falling off of .£539,331 in the exports as con) corresponding month of 1847. while on the c consumption of imported produce The total decrea In January a ie returns of sth of Sep iug. show a million and smaller leclared es men ,• 1,„...,1 actureS, of the year is £5 .t the next s was an mcreas ing off, May al a half. The decreas than any of the six preceding value of the last months export w tioned as follows :—Cotton manuf ware and cutlery, £53,236 ; linen man machinery, £61,823; metals, £64,966 .DER AND of the last month is, howev yarn, £40.500; woollen m yarn, £31,600. ROBBERY NEAP le road side, near Sun mut the nd had been e appears )yed to a stranger n Tarn, quite insensible, head, from blows evidently :1 till thi 11th ins leceased was an Iris] drive some cattle fulfil Brouah Hill fair to on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, whe hay loft at t with ' who o men dressed as •• navvn company with him near the place where he was found, and are suspected. He was seldom sensible from the All that time he was found, and speechless, or could be ascertained from the deceasei man, name I John Patrick, and that he I a wife and family AN IRISIFI BLUNDER.—A short time ago Messrs. Powley, of Thrimby Grar in a field by the Shap and Penrith having left his e g grass ck,and was presently picked up by a " nat wi.o deposited his own Tipperary vest in its place, think ing, no doubt, that an exchange would .b The servant having occasion pre no robbery. rds to return to the place, was rather new red plush turn( It eautioOsly for some time, amined it more minutely, he turned out from the pockets four precious " yellow boys." Paddy, however, had not travelled far before he recollected his blunder, and on returning found that his antiquated forsaken friend had been robbed of its glitter ing contents. He demanded the precious metals, but was refused ; and on being threatened with a prosecution for stealing the waistcoat, was obliged to decamp, screaming out whillilcus, mingled with wild notes of distress and imprecations, which no one but a thoroughbred Irishman could pretend either to utter or interpret.— Westmoreland Gazette. FATAL ACCIDENT WITHIN SIGHT OF THE QUEEN.— On Monday about three o'clock, the Fairy, royal yacht, had arrived near the Spit buoy, from Osborne, on her course to Portsmouth, having on board, the Queen, Prince Albert, and the royal children, who were soon after landed and went by railway for Windsor, when her majesty's trip was rendered peculiarly painful, from a deplorable accident which happened in sight of the royal yacht. A shore boat, with seven persons on board, proceeding to the Grampus frigate, lying at Spithead, had, in a sudden squall, unfortunately upset, when five women and two men were engulfed in a rough sea, with every prospect of certain death. The Gypsey, custom-house cutter, how ever, while returning from the Grampus, observed the . . accident, and a boat and two men immediately put off to the spot ; and after much beating about, on account of heavy sea and wind, picked up Li,cke, a waterman, and saved his life. The accident having been perceived on board the royal yacht, she was, by her majesty's com mand, instantly stopped, her barge lowered and promptly steered to the scene of the disaster. Two itidividiials were taken on board, and immediately conveyed to Ports mouth, where medical assistance was afforded, and one woman named Moore recovered, but the other could not be resuscitated. Out of the seven, therefore, only three were brought ashore : it is feared that all the others have met a watery grave. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN AND THE ARCTIC VOYAGERS.— It is a week since only that we afforded our readers the gone out in search of a solution of the mystery that hangs over the fate of Sir John Franklin, previously to their issuing again from the mysterious ground on which that the missing adventurers were lost sight of, at the thresh old of that same ground, an indication of their wherea bouts has suddenly turned up. A letter, just received by the Admiralty from the Chief Factor Macpherson, dated March 1, 1848, says There is a report from Peel's River that the Esquimaux saw two large boats (query ships ?) to the east of the Mackenzie River, full of white 'men ; and they (the Esquimeaux) showed knives, files, &c., to the Peel's River Indians which they had received from these white men. Could these have been Franklin or Rae ?' Mr. Hargrave, of York Factory, to whom Mr Macpherson's letter is addressed, says. in tell: The admiralty his int, itgence to ti. , . It could not have been Rae in his last expedition, as his boats did not go beyond Committee Bay.' Mr. Hargrave adds that, But little credence can be given to Esquimeaux reports.' We do not see, however, any good reason for rejecting a ru mour so welcome, and we gladly give it put- suming that the boats or ships seen were 14 ilicity: Pre -6e of Frank s good as regards success, and better still . as respects ince they must have been very near the coast. It has been ascertained that open water exists during the summer season, from the Mackenzie River to Be.hring's Straits; and we, therefore, dare venture to hope that the expedition may have effected the long desired N.W. pas sage this summer, and that the galla n t party n.ay be even at this moment approaching our shores. The anxiety re specting the lost party had grown finally to be very great, and the public will cling eagerly to the hope so suddenly presented. A very short time must test its value. THE GREAT SEA. SERPENT.—When the Daedalus fri gate, Capt. 31•Quhae, which arrived at Plymouth on the 4th instant, was on her passage home from the East Indies, between the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena, her captain, and most of her officers and crew, at four o'clock one afternoon, saw a sea serpent. The creature was 20 minutes in sight of the frigate, and passed under her quarter. Its head appeared to be about four feet out of the water, and there was about GO feet of its body in a straight line on the surface. It is calculated that there must have been under water a length of 30 or 40 feet more, by which it propelled itself at the rate of 15 miles an hour. The diameter of the exposed part of the body was about 16 inches, and when it extended its jaws, which were full of large jagged teeth, they seemed sufficiently capacious to admit of a tall man standing upright between them. The ship was sailing north at the rate of eight miles an hour. The Daedalus left the Cape of Good Hope on the 30th of July, and reached St. Helena on the 16th of August. The captain of the Daedalus has written to the Admiralty and says—" On our attention being called to the object, it was discovered to be an enormous. sea serpent, with head and shoulders kept about four fed constantly - above the surface of the sea, and as nearly as we could approximate by comparing it with the length of what our maintopsail-yard would show in the water, there was at the very least sixty feet of the animal afieur diem(' no portion of which was, to our perception, used in prO pellinF it through the water, either by vertical or ionfarundulatiOn It passed rapidly, 6i our lee quarter that had it been tinian'of - I should easily have recognised his feature eye; and it did not, eithe r i n approael ...• • y acquaintance iththe naked the ship or uiier passea our wake, deviate in the slightest de gree from its course to the S.W., which it held on at the pace of from twelve to fifteen miles per hour, apparently on some determined purpose. The diameter of the ser pent was about fifteen or sixteen inches behind the head, which was, without any doubt, that of a snake, and never, luring the twenty mi- , es that if Pontinued it continued in sight of our glosses, once • below the surface of the water; its colour a dark brown, with yellowish white about the throat. It had no fins, but something like the mane of a zai.urr a uunen or seaweea, WEISOCU auoui, 115 back. It was seen by the quartermaster, the boatswain's mate, and the man at the wheel, in addition to myself and officers above-mentioned." PLAIN SPEAxrNG.—On Friday week a banquet in ho.: nour of Sir C. Napier, the hero of Scind?, took place at Cheltenham ; Lord Ellenborough in the chair. On Sir Charles's health being proposed by the chairman, he stated . the hondur done him was much enhanced by the'eulogium pronounced by a gentleman whom the whole empire of India admired and worshipped. He (Sir C.) saw many officers around him whose intrepidity had gained Mtn so much honour_ and hi, should novo,. th,n;» roke t iy with so much slaughter, But he saw his gallant Welsh artilleryman, (Lloyd,) whose iron guns vomited forth death on the enemy. (Cheers.) He saw also another who fell wounded while cheering on my friend to battle ; and young WMurdo, who gallantly threw himself sword in hand into the very midst of the enemy. (Cheers.) He then said, I feel utterly unable to express my feelings of obligation to those troops to whom, under Lord Ellen borough, and, after his departure, under Lord Hardinge, I owe whatever merit attaches to a zealous soldier who has tried to execute that portion of the duty which is assigned to military men, leaving the disposal of events to that great Power who, in the words of the poet, " binds Nature fast by faith, leaves free the human will." (Cheers.) Gen tlemen, I will not detain you any longer by my nonsensical gabble. (Cheers.) I therefore drink all your good healths ; and I thank Lord Ellenborough for all his support of me, I may say, in the coarse language of military men, against a set of damned scoundrels, (laughter;) and without whose support I should have been crushed by a rascally press and a rascally government. (Loud cheers.) In after wards proposing the toast of the "Army in India," he he said he served 54 years in the Queen's service, great part of the time in India, and might call himself a sepoy. He went to India an ignoramus in 1841, thinking that India might be invaded by the Russians, but my mind was changed in a very short time. I found 300,000 men in the Indian army equal to any contingency. (Cheers.) I found 300,000 men who had the same courage, the same discipline, all appointments necessary to carry on war as the British army--the accoutrements the same, the drill the same as ourselves ; their courage equal to our own, and if they are inferior in strength, not inferior in their determination;—(hear)—and that is all in war, and that equal to ourselves. (Hear, and applause.) They were all officered by Britons, and instead of idly resting on the banks of the Indus, they were capable of advancing to the Oxus, against all the armies of the west, and scattering them far and near, The Affghanistan affair was an error of the generals, and still more an error of the politicals. (Cheers.) It was an error of politics to go there ; and it was carried out with a multiplication, of errors on the spot (cheers). I believe that it is impos sible to restrain the advance of civilization ; it is stronger than barbarism and will force its way on in spite of poli tics in general. r onisliedto perceiv into a filthy grey r :s, and surveying A last took cinirage and'ex