The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-29 00:00:00

itttrraturr. POETRY. LINES ON A LILY, SEEN DROOPING IN AN APRIL SHOWER. BY MR. S. HUGGINS. (Written for the Liverpool Standard.) - A lily was drooping—the rain had opprest (Though April's soft nectar) its radiant breast; Like some fair one, I thought, her pure love forgot; Or Virtue weeping is mortal lot. The bright drops distiled from each quivering leaf, - As the mourner in tears seek.s a transient relief. Few moments elapsed—and Phoebus had dried Its tear-drops, and laid its burden aside, And more bright then before was that floweret, selfsame, When its wooers the bee and the butterfly came; And the fragrance was sweeter embalming the gale, Nor breathing a murmur of Sorrow's tale. , Twas a lesson divine, and the fancy, inspir'd, Saw bright things of Hope. and of 'Virtue, untir'd ; And my lips thus responded:—So sorrow may break -O'er the innocent breast, and its anguish will shake Its trust for a moment, bat soon are reveal'd New virtues prosperity's glare had conceard 'Twas a shower, heaven,7prinkled; the heart to improve, ity the hand of a Father that chastens in love; • And, touch'd by the ray that enkindles the joy Of the seraph, his grief, ere its token be dry, Shall wake in his breast more divinely the flow 'From Purity's censor, meek Charity's glow; Call the treasures of Patience, of Fortitude's power, To hold by the truth in her gloomiest hour; Till Passion all conquer'd, and Pride pass'd away— True greatness still beams in Humility's ray I Liverpool, June 2411 r, EXPERIENCES OF A LIVERPOOL SURGEON TTTE NEW VILLA. (Continued from the Standard of the 15th instant.) The kitchen of -- Vilia was what is called a cellar kitchen; and that not of the.best class. In fact, it was an apartment which would not for a moment be tolerated under the provisions of any sanitary act, as a dwelling for the lowest class of our population. It was ample in size, it is true, sufficiently lofty, and replete with every neces sary convenience • but its ceiling was barely 18 inches above the natural level of the soil outside the house, those IS inches being made no by the two low steps from the gravel walk, and the additional st; p into the hall, the space occupied by the flooring of tine parlour above and the ceiling below being deducted. The advantage of these eighteen inches, however, were almost entirely lost by the ground up to the wall being artificially raised to form an imposing flower bed. The light was admitted by two low windows, opening into a kind of trap covered over on the outside by a grating. The only source of thorough ventilation was by means of the coal grid at the back, and by the staircase, when open. There was an additional inlet for the air through a small grating, in front of one of the door steps, which shed a dim light into the pantry. The floor, I need not say, was flagged ' • and the flags, although not precisely resting upon the surface of the clay founda tion, were so little removed from it by the few loads of broken bricks, cinders, and other rubbish, which had been thrown in to make a level surface, that it might be said to have been resting on the clay. The drain from the slopstone passed under the kifchen towards the front of the house, the scullery and pump being at the back. The side walls of such an apartment, which was at the least nine feet in depth, with the unchained soil of the garden round it up to within a few inches of the ceiling, cannot be supposed to have been very dry, unless some lining matter had been interposed—a stratum of cinders, or slates placed to throw off the lateral moisture. I -found it the reverse of dry. The plaster of the walls, which in dry weather, (as it was when the4ouse was first taken, I was told was, or appeared to be, thoroughly set and hard,) was at the time I saw it soft and steaming with a kind of dew which the action of the fire rendered most noxious—distressing to those who breathed it. The •fioor, in parts, betrayed evident symptoms of damp ; and, when washed, the portions so affected—probably those having the minimum portion of loose matter between the flags and the clay foundation,--were only dried after a long interval, and by the aid of a powerful fire. The at mosphere of the kitchen during this drying process was dose and most unhealthy ; and to a delicate constitution a constant exposure to it would be very prejudicial. As an aggravation of the evil it must be remembered that of ventilation, in the proper signification of the term, there was none in this very common specimen of suburban cellar kitchens ; and I am inclined to think that no cellar kitchens ought to be tolerated, in town or country, to which sufficiently spacious areas are not attached. It was about ten days after I had first prescribed for the maid servant of my friends, and before she' was thoroughly convalescent, that I was called upon by Robert 5 to attend his young wife who, he said, was strangely indisposed, upon which I hurried at once to obey the summons ; and for the first time I now heard of the exertions which Mary had been making to supply the want of her servant's efficient services, and ascertained the state of the kitchen in which, of late, she had spent so large a portion of her time. I need not say how inex pressibly I was shocked at the condition of the place, or how peremptorily I interposed my edict against her again venturing upon the execution of the task, to which she had set herself. I found poor Mary labouring under somewhat similar symptoms to those noticed as affecting the servant, but in a more aggravated form, as might have been antici pated from a disease arising from the same cause, but operating upon a frail and susceptible constitution. My first impulse was to remove her from a dwelling is which it appeared that good health was not to be had. Accordingly, she was so removed, well guarded against cold, to my own house, where, after a few days of careful treatment and change of scene and occupation, she became convalescent. For above a week more, however, she continued feeble, and affected with a susceptibility of the slightest chill ; and when, at length, she insisted Upon once more returning to her own home, it was the last caution that I gave to her husband that, as the weather was ungenial, she should be kept as much as possible within doors, and that, for a time, a constant fire should be kept lighted in whatever apartment she might choose. Here, again, was a fatal mistake committed ; and it has ever since impressed upon me the warning not to be satisfied with ascertaining the chief cause only of such attacks as that under which this poor creature had been suffering ; but to ascertain, if possible, whether there are any accessaries or collateral causes to be added. It is true that, in accounting for the first illness of my ward, as I may call her, I attributed its due influence to both. To the damp of that vile cellar-kitchen, its unwholesome flagged floor, and its streaming walls, I attributed the rheumatic symptoms of both the servant and her young mistress; but, in the case of the latter, the irritation of the throat I attributed to the action of the fire upon the recently plastered kitchen walls, by which, according to many authorities, the atmosphere would be impregnated with lime sufficient to create exten sive obstruction of the action of the throat and lungs. It never entered into my thoughts that there could possi bly be, in any house, apartments, not formed after the pattern of that subterranean kitchen, from the habi tation of which the same distressing results could arise. Mary S. returned to Villa. She was anxious, she said, to see how her little garden ground looked,—whether her rose trees had bloomed ; and, above all, she was anxious that Robert, who, although spending his nights at my house, was at his own house regularly to dinner, was made comfortable. No servant, she thought, could so well study his tastes, or administer to his comforts, as herself; and it would be a delight to her, even although not permitted to do so with her own hands, to take care that it was done by others. For some weeks, the weather having changed in the meanwhile to a high and dry tem perature, I heard no further complaints of her health. I saw Robert S— occasionally ; and in answer to my inquiries I learnt that, although still delicate and occa sionally suffering from headaches and slight returns of her first symptoms, she was not what a non-medical ob server would consider in a state of ill health requiring treatment. He had himself, he said, had a severe cold and sore throat—and indeed his altered looks vouched for the fact ; but he attributed this to the usual causes of such affections—wet feet or wet garments. Summer had passed over; autumn bad deepened the tint of the foliage, and was stripping bare the trees for the approach of winter, when I was called upon one morning to attend a double case of illness at the house of my friend ; and on proceeding thither I found the state of affairs most distressing. The servant—(it Was not the same I had before attended : she had left some time be fore, an altered and broken-down woman)—l found la bouring under symptoms of a very complex kind. With the increasing damp of theseaSon, the kitchen had re sumed its unhealthy character ; and to its streaming walls and cold wet floor was superadded another fertile agent in producing disease. I have mentioned that the drain from the slopstone and the scullery, which were at the back of the house, passed under the kitchen towards the front, a few yards from which, I learnt subsequently, it debouched into a stagnant and putrid ditch. This drain, from its deficient construction, (being only formed by a few bricks laid in a square form and without mortar,) had gradually become almost choked with kitchen refuse - matter, which had been allowed to accumulate in it ; and it now gave back its noxious gases through the slopstone, Poisoning the air, not only of the kitchen itself, but of 'the entire lower part of the house, producing nausea, violent pains in the head, and the usual symptoms ob served under such circumstances. Even the few weeks, during which the poor girl had been submitted to the contamination of such an atmosphere, had wrought in (her a change which years might not have effected. From , a fresh country girl, as I was told she was when she first entered the house, ruddy with health and cheerfulness, sie had been worn down by continual attacks of the damps and the malaria of that kitchen to a sickly and attenuated skeleton, racked with cramps and ague and u tt er ly incapable now of performing the mos t ordinary household tasks. With such a case of course it was im possible to deal, whilst the patient was surrounded with all the influences which had produced the complication of maladies under which she was suffering ; and her prompt removal became imperatively necessary. She was taken to a relatives house in the town, where I attended n from her until she was able to be removed t d o o t u h b e t which she had come. But I much _ _ w hether she would ever again be the same healthy person she had once been. I have noticed the servant's case first, not because it received my first attention, but because I shall have o dwell more at length upon tha t of her poor young mis tress. I found the latter suffering under symptoms, not violent indeed, but apparently of that confirmed descrip tion which at once convinced me of the almost hopeless task of restoring her. Cold had been superadded to cold, slight at first and therefore unattended to,, until it had fastened itself upon her delicate frame ; and to cold had now been superadded some degree of fever, and, in a diminished degree, the effect originally observed to arise from the action of the warmth of the fire upon the newly plastered walls of the kitchen. How this had arisen— how a sleeping apartment could be in a state to produce such effect, I now for the first time learnt ; and it is too common a case in new houses. The bedroom, which had been selected by Robert and his wife for their own occu pation, had been intended to be finished in a superior manner, so as to be available either for a best sleeping apartment or a drawing-room. Accordingly it had been judged proper by the economical builder to defer the papering until the spring, when the plaster would be better set and-hardened. How we sport with human life to save a few pounds, and even a few shillings ! This room was not deemed fit to receive a tawdry covering of paper, but it was fit nevertheless for human beings to live in ! _ _ _ I at once ordered the removal of my patient to another and drier apartment, until the feverish symptoms under which she then laboured should be subdued, and her re moval from the house altogether could be safely attempt ed. At length I succeeded in this object; but it was not until the poor young creature was so fearfully prostrated; that the short and distressing cough, to which she was continually subject, seemed almost about to tear her feeble and wasted frame asunder. Accordingly she was removed to healthy apartments in town : my own house was offered, but she preferred evidently some residence in which she might have more unreserved and Continual communication with her husband, from whose face, when he was present, her eyes scarcely wandered for apaoment, or her thoughts when he was absent. And much he needed all the comfort and support • which his fdnd part ner could bestow. From the first moment that he was aware that danger was near—that 'there was a possibility of the dream of his young life being dispelled, and that the cup of happiness of which he .had so briefly tasted might be dashed from his lips—he seemed utterly stricken down and unmanned. His business pursuits were at once abandoned. From morning till night he took his seat by that sick bed, often . poor Mary's attenuated hand locked in his, and the tears that. he could not shed burning his very eyelids. It was .his step that moved so noiselessly about the room, when he thought • she slept ; it was his hand which administered her medicine with an undevia ting regularity, and his arm which raised and supported her when that terrible cough racked her with agony. There is something unspeakably affecting in the spec tacle of manhood so bowed down to administer the offices which seem so much more naturally to belong to woman. We are rude naturally ; and even to those whom we most love, our affection is of a cold and unbending nature.' But the sight of those so loved stricken with illness, and fading before our eyes, has power to melt the sternest of us. And beyond all price is the reward which we receive, in the grateful and love-beaming looks, the gentle pressure of the hand, and the blessings upon us breathed from the sufferer's heart, when the lips can no longer utter them. Poor Robert S- received this reward in all its fulness. I will not fatigue the reader of these sketches by dwel ling upon the progress of the malady under which my poor young friend, as I had foreseen from the first, was rapidly sinking. Repeated attacks of colds, brought on by the damps and other noxious influences, to which she was subjected in that wretched house, acting upon a na turally delicate constitution, had brought on decline, against which I felt it in vain to strive. Indeed, Mary herself was almost aware that her hours on earth were numbered. Would that I could say she was resigned under that conviction ! She was not so ; yet it was not that she was without a Christian's hope, and the know ledge that there was a brighter and happier state of being in store for her. It was a hard task to bring herself to view with calmness the thought of resigning the newly tasted happiness of companionship with one beloved. I could see this feeling betrayed, hour by hour, in the tear ful eyes, with which she watched every motion of her broken-hearted husband, as he devoted himself to the duties of the tenderest of nurses. I could see it in the anxious and searching gaze which she would fix upon my self whenever I visited her—a gaze which seemed to say, " Doctor, is there any hope that I may be spared to bless him ?" Alas ! I could give no such hope. It is one of the most painful parts of the medical man's duty to be honest and truthful towards patients situated as this poor girl was ; • and I trust 1 have ever performed it, at all events when the imparting of a knowledge of the extent of the danger has not been prejudicial to the chance of a patient's recovery. As a rule, however, buoying up the spirits with false or unwarrantable hopes, is bad. It may sacrifice a soul, which might otherwise have weaned itself from the world, and made its peace with eternity. The question was at length put to me—timidly—im ploringly—by Mary herself—" Could I preserve her for even a few months ?" She would die happy, she said, then,—then, after she had left behind her a being whom Robert would love the more, that its poor mother was in her early grave. I never allowed her husband to learn from me anything of this additional bereavement. Poor Mary lies in a neighbouring church-yard ; Robert S— left this town a broken-hearted man, and, if still living, is located in Pernambuco, having sailed for South America as soon after his loss as he could arrange his affairs. The villa, which wrecked his happiness, is fast becoming a wreck itself, being untenanted in the hands of a mortgagee, who will, no doubt, discover soon enough that better securities for money may be had than such stucco-fronted and elaborately adorned edifices. VARIETIES. It is generally the fate of a double dealer to lose his friends and keep his enemies. SLUGS.—Gardens may be completely cleared of slugs:in. two or three days, by means of a few handsful of brewers' grains laid as bait. - Tun EMERALD.-The true emerald was most probably unknown to the ancients. The enormous green masses frequently spoken of by classic authors as emeralds are supposed to have been fluor spar. The late Mr. Wilberforce believed that Sir Samuel Romily and Lord Castlereagh became deranged from over exertion, the consequence of continuing to labour on Sundays as on other days. A New York paper states that a man named Neville is in custody for taking " a drop too much"—namely, for marrying Miss Amelia Drop, whilst he had another wife living. 1-16 w TO READ WHEN ON THE RAILWAY.—By holding a card or slip of paper over the line below that which you are reading. the eye is freed from the disturbance caused by the motion of the carriage, and you may then read with comfort. A BRAVE OLD OAK.—There exists in Normandy an oak tree called La Vieille Chenesse, at Lettry, in Calva dos. It is supposed to be the Nestor of the forests of Normandy. It is upwards of nine yards in circumference at its base, and is nearly hollow, though still crowned with verdure. A chapel in hewn stone has been con structed lately in the interior, where sixteen persons at least may place themselves. A fete is held round it every year, which is very attractive. This is something like our own Fairlop fair, which will be held on Friday_next. MODEL WORKHOUSES AN D M EDICAL TREATMENT OF THE POOR.—Only the other day he was shown through a workhouse, which was regarded as a model of excellence. A sample of the food was produced, which appeared to be better than what the dietary table allowed. The master was asked whether he always adhered to the dietary table ; his answer was, " Whenever I find the p o o r are be ginning to get weakened by my adhering to the dietary table I to the allowance, but I take care never to let the Poor-law Commissioners know it." (Laughter.) " A complaint (said the master) was some time ago made to the commissioners upon the subject, and an assistant commissioner came down and walked round the walls of the building, but he never came in, and we have heard no more of the matter." Now, he (Mr. Ferrand) knew not what the report of that assistant-commissioner might be in that case ;—perhaps he would not make any report at all. Then, with respect to the medical treatment of the poor,—he would ask Her Majesty's Government whether they were prepared to allow the present system of medical treatment of the poor to continue ? There was not a sportsman in England who would suffer his dogs to be treated as the poor were treated by the present system. The remuneration received by the medical officer in many unions did not exceed 4d. or 6d. each cage. He would anneal to his hon. friend the member for Finsbury (Mr. Wakley) whether any medical man could perform his duty to a poor patient at such a shamefully inadequate remuneration ? He was told by a medical officer in his I own neighbourhood, that he had in hand the case of a man whose life he could have saved with ease, but it would cost him more than his salary to do so, and therefore the man must die. He would repeat it,' the medical officer declared. that by giving the patient medicine he might save his life, but it would cost him his salary to do so.— Mr. Ferrand's. Speech on the New Poor-law. FLY-FISHING. — INSTINCT OF FISH.—The chief point for the fly-fisher to attend to is, the colour he uses in making his flies. Neat tying is as nothing compared with colour. The natural flies on which trout and salmon feed, are bred on trees, on the banks and at the bottoms of rivers. They change with the seasons. Every month gives birth to a different description, varying in shape and colour. The great art for the angler to learn is how to mingle and arrange his colours so as to imitate, as nearly as possible, the natural insects he intends .to represent. Experience can alone make him proficient m.' this ; and if he learns to tie his own flies ; and becomes an adept in selecting and combining his colours,. ha will have a commanding advantage over those who, from ig norance, are obliged to rely on the judgment of ethers. Some writers assert that the resemblance.between natural; and artificial flies is altogether fanciful ;. that a trout or a. salmon does not rise at and take the artificial fly, because it represents any natural insect ; that fish are never de ceived by imitations, and that they are always more suc cessful in angling with flies in shape and colour' as different as possible from the natural flies that may be on the water. We cannot imagitae how any experienced angler could broa,ch such an absurdity. The instinct offish is undoubtedly re markable, but it is going too far to-say that they cannot be deceived—that skilful imitations of the insects they feed on will never allure them. Ephemera combats this heresy most successfully, and we entirely agree with him that theless imperfect an imitation, the more attractive will it be found in fishing.' We-know of no inquiry more interesting than an investigation of the habits and instincts of fish. The angler who desires.to become accomplished in his art, must make them his study. By patiently noting facts, and a careful observatiou, he will in a short time ac quire a stock of knowledge which will be found most use ful, without which, angling is a chance, not a certainty. For inst a nce, s uc cessful ang ling depends on the state of the weather—on the selection of flies—on the adapta tion of the angler's resources to the height and colour of the water. You need never fly-fish with an east wind, nor when heavy rain is overhead. When the water is clearing, after a flood, fish rise eagerly, and take freely; but when ever you see trout throwing themselves out of the water, or splashing your flies with their tails, you may wind up, and go home. These, and a hundred other observations, all referable to the habits and instincts of fish, can only be made practically available by experience, One golden maxim is, invariablf to fish up a stream, and stand as far from the water as possible. Trout are argus-eyed. The faintest shadow startles them. Drop your flies softly on the water. Observe the natural fly how it skims along. Endeavour to make your imitations follow its motions..-- kuNin University Magazine. T lIE LIV ;RPOOL STANDARD. TIIE FOOD CROPS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. From a long and apparently a carefully-written article, in the New • York Morning Herald of the 15th instant, arrived per Hibernia yesterday, we have gathered the fol lowing information with respect to the prospects of the grain crops in that country. Speaking of them generally, our - contemporary says : We have watched closely, and published impartially, accounts of the crops from the first appearance of their vernal life till the present time, when we begin to hear of the husbandman's re turn for his agricultural labors. There has been all along an undue amount of croaking, either brought out -by the fears of the over-anxious, or induced by the traffickers in breadstuffs, in order that their own selfish interests might be the more speedily advanced. It would, to be sure, be as unwise as un true to say that there are no blighted spots in our wide terri torial fields. The drought which prevailed in the early part of the season, was in some sections prolonged until the hopes of the farmer, in respect to his wheat, were cut off; but in many of these sections, as in Maryland for instance, American enter prise brought the hoe where the harrow had already been, and in pace of sickly and stunted wheat and kindred grains, a vi gorous growth of maize was soon sending its promised shoots upward, as if in derision of the demon blight who seemed thus foiled in the attempt to cut short the hopes of the tiller of the soil. We have, of late, had a most delightful alternation of rain and sunshine; and except from confirmed grumblers, we have good accounts of the effect whiclihas been produced upon the fields of growing grain. One other fact is worthy to be mentioned here—that in many tobacco growing regions, the early season being unfavourable, no pain's were taken to nou rish that " weed," and two-thirds of the room heretofore allotted to its growth (in some sections of Maryland for in stance) is now occupied by spring wheat, rye, oats, and Indian corn. - From the Eastern States the accounts are stated to be most cheering ; and it is predicted that the coming har vest will yield a greater quantity of bread stuffs than that section has ever before produced in one season. New Jersey and Delaware will always do much towards sup plying the wants of Europe. As a proof of the activity of the farmers there, our contemporary says : One man who usually plants five acres of potatoes has put in sixteen : another has doubled his usual quantity of wheat, and a third has improved four or five times the usual quantity of corn ground. Indeed, we find a statement to the effect, that the surface of ground in New Jersey, planted this year with corn, exceeds that of last year by one hundred thousand acres, which, at a low estimate, ought to yield four millions of bushels, more than equal to one-fifteenth of the whole deficiency of the potato crop in Ireland,! for 1846. This, as an exoess over last year will he an important item, especially when it is considered that, at the opening of navigation this year, New Jersey, a!- though so near to our market, had an immense surplus of wheat on hand. Pennsylvania, it is said, will yield more than an average crop; but from Ohio the accounts are contradictory. Michigan, which exported 1,000,000 barrels of flour last year, it is expected can spare at least half that quantity this year. In Northern Illinois, the wheat crop partially failed, but the land was planted in lime with Indian Corn. From Winsconsin we learn that : The number of acres sown with wheat greatly exceeds that of last year. The blight reached the southern portion of Ra cine and Walworth counties, but all through the northern, middle, and western sections, the standing grain presents a luxuriant appearance • and it is confidently expected that the surplus for export will greatly exceed that of any former year. Last year's export from the territory was something over half a million of bushels. The Wisconsin Sentinel says --" There can be little doubt that the export of wheat and flour from Wisconsin for the present year will reach a million bushels." In Maryland the drought was against the wheat in the early part of the season; but the plant has improved in some parts of the State, and elsewhere corn has been substituted. Many of the tobacco fields are set with wheat. Virginia and North Carolina are doubtful as to ability to supply us ; but in South Carolina an abundant harvest is expected. Some of the wheat is already got in and sent to market. Georgia is not expected to be an average ; but there is time yet for improvement. "The corn and cane in Alabama and Texas, is represented as suffering for want of rain, but as we have accounts of saving showers in Louisiana, we can but hope that they have reached those States also, and that there is no longer reason for comp!aints, but that both the maize and sugar cane are now ,growing finely. " We hear no complaints in relation to the grain craps in Tennessee, and hence we conclude that there is no reason why the Tennesseans should complain. Tennesse raises the most corn of any state in the Union. Her last years crop amounted to 67,738,447 bushels. Kentucky is another great corn grow ing State, and we hear no complaints of any importance from her. _ _ _ "The wheat fields throughout the provinces of Canada look encouraging." Our contemporary concludes by saying— "We have thus endeavoured to present a faithful summary of the prospects of the coming crop, throughout the great wheat and maize growing districts of the country. We have, in most instance ,, , merely recorded the statements and reports which prevailed in reference to the subject. Throughout most parts of the country the fate of wheat for the present year, so far as its growth is concerned, is fixed, and the farmers have no new evil but lust to fear. In relation to the corn crop the case is quite different. It requires a peculiar climate to perfect it, and a warm June and July sun is no less requisite than a forbear ing October, for an early frost will materially injure the kernel. Of this grain, then, it would be idle to predict whether we are to have a large or small yield. But from what we are able to present, we certainly can see no reason why consumers of breadstuffs in our own country should be subject to the enorm ous tax which the greatest prospective scarcity ought only to subject them to." ibentral I+llsrOany. Prince Albert has given X 25 for the caxtbn memotial. A. CONTRAST.—Green peas are selling at is. per peck, and old potatoes, three parts rotten, at 2s. per peck. The patients belonging to the ship Swatara are now in a state of convalescence. The Queen has conferred on Father Mathew a pension of £3OO a year. A large Roman Catholic Chapel is now being built at Guernsey, with money supplied, it is said, from France. On Saturday last, Miss Woodford performed her tight rope dancing on a rope stretched across the river Ouze, near the Waits, St. Ives. Some individual, with a curiously constituted mind, has sent a £5OO note to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to be devdted to the service of the country. Gibson's statue of the Queen arrived at London, from Rome, on Wednesday, and has been removed to Buck ingham Palace. A correspondent of the Builder recommends that side boards, tables, and other articles of furniture, should be made of glass. THE FAMINE.—A, medical officer of one of the Cor nish parishes has appealed to the Board of Guardians for an increase of his salary, on the ground that the poor of his district take the medicine with the greatest avidity. The British and Foreign Institute, founded in London, by Mr. J. S. Buckingham, has been closed for want of funds, a want which was partly caused by the circumstance that several members neglected to pay their subscriptions. DEATH BY LIGHTNING.—Two persons, a man and woman, who sought refuge in a barn along with a crowd of persons in Tamworth, on Tuesday last, during a thun der-storm, were struck dead by the electric fluid. THE LATE THOMAS Hoon.=Lord John Russell has announced her Majesty's gracious intention of conferring a pension of £lOO a year upon the children of this highly gifted, but unfortunate author. Yesterday week, the foundation-stone of a.building de voted to the purposes of vocal music, under the superin tendence of Mr. Hullah, was laid by Viscount•Morpeth, in Charles-street, Long Acre, London. A singular and fatal accident occurred a few days since, at Ticehurst, in. Sussex. Some men were amusing them selves by throwing a heavy skittle ball, which struck a young blacksmith on the head with such violence that he died within a few hours. The Hon. Mr. Hardinge, son of Lord Hardinge, has p o u f b th li e s h b e a d tt a l e collectionwhichhiosf d fat r h a e w r i n fo g u s , g h a dm w o t g w ht h h ih ec Sikhsur vi ews e dur ing the late campaign on the Sutlej, and portraits of the leading Sikh officers and ministers. THE VALUE OF LANDED PROPERTY. — On Tuesday the freehold estate, called South Ockendon-hall, situate at a distance of about eight miles from Romford, Essex, was disposed of by auction, at the auction mart. It comprised, besides the residence, above 668 acres, and - it realized a rental of about £1,170 per annum. It fetched £24,620. RIOT AT WINDSOR.—A " riot took placest Windsor, on Tuesday, in consequence of an attempt to dig a well in a field called " Bachelors' Acre," which the bachelors of Windsor have a right to frequent at all times. The well was stopped up, and the police driven off by a mob of bache lors, armed with clods and stones. 'EATING FULLER'S EARTH.—The Medical Times gives an account of a young woman, employed as a glass polisher, who had acquired such a morbid habit of eating the ma terial used by her, that she swallowed in one year and a half, no less than twelve hundred ounces of aluminous, or Fuller's earth. Lord Robert Grosvenor and Mr..Spooner attended 011 Tuesday at the Home Office, with Sir George Grey, to present a memorial to the Queenfrom the women of Eng lafld, signed by one• hundred thousand, praying that the bill for preventing trading in seduction may pass into a law. FATAL COLLIEWr EXPLOSION--On Tuesday,' a dread ful explosion took- place at the Felling. Colliery, the pro perty of Messrs. f!arr and Co., by which four men, two boys, eighteen horses, and two ponies were killed. The colliery is situated near to the Newcastle and York Rail way, on the north side, about, half a mile from Gateshead. THE LATE TREED.—The Nassau Observer says, that two Harbour bland vessels arrived at that place with be tween two and three hundred jugs of quicksilver, saved from the wreck of the British steamer Tweed. They would have saved much more had they not been driven off by Spanish men of war, after having worked bid one day. A reward of £5O has been offered for the apprehension of William Parsons, police sergeant, and Isaac Hickton, police constable, lately, in the K division, charged with, conspiracy and perjury at the inquest held at Dagenham, in the county of Essex, upon the body. of George Clark, a police constable, who was brutally murdered on the 29th June, 1846. The correspondent of the Daily News. at Rome, who is no other than Mr. Mahony (the celebrated Father Prout • of the Magazines), writes that Lord Ward had an interview with Pope Pius IX., a few days ago. His HolineSs wil lingtobeaffahle, but somewhat at a loss howto compliment his visitor, felicitated his lordship on " his easy circum stances." On Thursday week, at the Central Criminal Court, there were two trials for murder, in both of which the were verdict was for manslaughter only. M`Donald, a carpen ter, having got drunk with his wife , killed the woman by "throwing her down stairs. Thomson , a labourer, also wwhhielelidvrued with hirnlc,d. the th death the o f criminals Anne Ford,re sentenced a woman to be transported for life. A LARGE FAIR. —Brampton-hill fair, Westmoreland, one of the most extensive fairs in the north, commenced for sheep, on Tuesday last, and upon no previous occasion was there such a show as on the present. In some hands there were not less than from three to four thousand in a drove ; and persons capable of forming an estimate, stated that there were not less than from thirty to , forty thousand head of sheep exposed for sate. The senior admiral on the list, the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, G.C.8., G.C.M.G., and Knight of the order of the First Class Red Eagle of Prussia, Vice Admiral of the United Kingdom, and Governor of Greenwich Hospital, expired at Richmond on Friday morning, at two o'clock, in the 80th year of his age. ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—An accident of a very extensive nature occurred upon this railway last Saturday morning, and attended with great loss of life, not, we are happy to state, to any human be ing, but to a great number (about 90) of sheep and calves. The guards of the train, however, experienced a very nar row escape. The accident resulted entirely from the repre hensible practice of having an engine behind the train to assist in propelling it. In the course of the week, May 24 to 31, the price of home-grown grain fell off on the average about 12s. per quarter. Prices had previously experienzed a decline of 4s. from the highest point. From the 31st of May to the 7th of June, there was a rally in prices to the extent of Bs. per quarter; and from the 7th to the 14th of June there was again a reduction to about the same amount, owing principally to news of large arrivals being expected from America. The funds are rising as the price of grain falls. An old man, 81 years of age, was brought up last week at Leeds, for being drunk, and fined ss. He travelled about the country with a cart load of watches, trinkets, and £282 in gold. Whilst tipsy he boasted of the wealth he possessed, which of course soon spread through the neighbourhood, and on the following day, whilst he was drinking in a public-house, some thieves robbed the cart of the 282 sovereigns and all the watches, which the old man had been thirty years in collecting. Mr. Duncan, the African traveller, has reached this country, after escaping all the vicissitudes of a compara tively unknown country in South Western Africa. He has had several attacks of fever, and escaped death under several guises. He has, however, reaped a rich ethnologi cal collection, which he intends immediately to lay before the Ethnological Society. He has minutely studied the distinctions of the various tribes of negroes of the south present, compared with the uncivilized men of the north of Western Africa. IMPROVEMENT OF IRELAND.-On Monday, the annual meeting of the Bristol and Clifton Association for the Moral and Religious Improvement of Ireland was held. The Chairman said that the society aimed at improving Ireland through the operations of the Irish Society, the Scripture Readers' Society, and the Sunday School So ciety. The Dean of Ardagh spoke as a deputation from the Irish Sunday School Society, and said he felt as if he had some plea for doing so, inasmuch as he had for more than 50 years, since the time he was a boy, been a Sunday school teacher. The Rev. T. Nolan, of this town, also delivered a very able speech on the occasion. RYE BREAD.—The Guild of Bakers at St. Petersburgh have, with the sanction of his Imperial Majesty the Em peror, at their own expense, sent over to this country ten master bakers, with instructions to offer their services gratis, to bakers in this country, for showing their pro cess of baking down bread from coarse ground rye meal without, as well as with, the admixture of other bread stuffs, even of potatoes. Rye bread prepared in the Rus sian way is said to be savoury, nutritious, and wholesome, and constitutes a favourite article of food, not only of the lowest, but also of the middle classes in Russia as well as in Germany. THE " TABLET " AND THE TRACTARIANS.—Aunrcy- LAR CONFESSION, &c.—The above Roman Catholic jour nal states that the chapel at Magdalene College, Cam bridge, is being " purified from the desecrations of the last three centuries." It also says that a disclosure has been made by Mr. Faber (the pervert), to the effect that one of the results of the furtively introduced practice of auricular confession, in the English Church, has been that things which have been revealed in confession have been talked of in society. This is attributed by the Tablet to the persons receiving such confessions (the number is va riously estimated at from six to twenty), being some of them married men!— Church and State Gazette. THE GENTLEMEN OF KENT AND THE GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND. — This interesting rivalry, which occupied the attention of the cricketing world, at Lord's, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, was brought to a close on the last-named day. On the first day England had scored 181 against 183 of Kent. On Tuesday the match was resumed before an increased assemblage, England going in for a second hands, and when " time" was called, had scored 201, with two wickets to go down. Wednesday opened with England adding 24 to its score, as will be seen by the subjoined state of the numbers at the " close of the poll." England—First inning, 181 ; second, 225. Kent—First innings, 183 ; second, 67. England, there fore, won by 156 runs. The gross revenue of the Post Office, arising from every source, for the year ended sth January, 1847, was £2,004,007 15s. ld. The total number of letters to and from all places beyond seas, taken at London, Liverpool, Hull, Dover, Southampton, and Portsmouth, for the year 1846, is estimated at 1,640,456; the total number of newspapers, ditto, at 2,698,376 ; and the total amount of postage for the same is estimated at £624,788 12s: 3d. The costs incurred and the sums paid to railway companies, mail and stage coaches, horse posts, and foot runners and messengers, within the United Kingdom, were £379,888 6s. Old, including £23,961 7s. 3Ad. paid for tolls. The costs incurred for the distribution of letters in the metro polis and other large towns of the United Kingdom, was £76,654 6s. 4d. The gross revenue derived from postage and all letters from parts beyond seas. was £301.640 13s. CHEAP BREAD AT EIGIITPENCE THE FULL QUARTERIsT LOAF.—We have received a printed statement from Bir mingham, with the above title, which is in the following terms :—" Two pounds of flour (best seconds or thirds), 6d.: two pounds of cold cooked hominy, ad. ; harm, salt, and water, id. ; charge of baking, 4d.-Bd. ; bake it ex actly as usual.—To cook hominy, weigh a quantity, wash it, and let it soke all night in soft water ; next morning strain it, and to every pound of hominy, add five pints of soft water, and let it boil briskly for one hour or a little more, till quite soft. If the water be hard, add a piece of carbonate of soda, the size of a pea.—Cold cooked 'ho miny can be prepared in various ways,—either warmed up plain, and eaten with salt, ,or sugar, or treacle ; or fried in dripping ; or in bread, cakes, soups, fritters, puddings ; or as a stew, with bones, fish, meat, or vegetables.—lndian meal (which is hominy flour) makes excellent bread also, and is prepared exactly in the 'same way.—lf every body used but two pounds of flour in each quartern loaf, and made up the rest with hominy, meal, or rice, the little supply of flour which remains in England would go twice as far. The rich eat hominy and other•mixed breads, and why should not all classes do the same. BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.—This society commenced its annual meetings on Wednesday, at Oxford. The first meeting of the ge neral committee was held in the Town-hall. The chair was taken by Sir R. Murchison. A proposition was made to re-unite the mechanical with the mathematical section, but, after some discussion, the mechanical section was permitted to have existence for at least the present ses sion. From a conversation which took place, it is ex pected that the next meeting will take place at Swansea, as a Royal Institution for South Wales had lately been established in that town. An introductory general meet ing was held in the theatre, in the afternoon, Sir R. J. Murchison, F.R.S., in the chair. He was supported by the Marquis of Northampton, the President of the Royal Society ; the Prussian and American Ministers ; Sir T. Dyke Acland, Bart, M.P. ; the Earl of Enniskillen, Sir J. Herschell, Bart. ; Sir John Richardson, Sir James Ross, Dr. Faraday, Professor Owen, and many other of the leading members. The preliminary address was deli vered by Sir R. H. Inglis. He alluded to the progress made in various branches of sci e ntific inquiry since their last meeting, at the head of which was an important as tronomical discovery, in which human intellect had tracked a path in the highways of the universe , which had been arranged millions of years before by the great Creator. He also alluded to several important discoveries in chemistry and electricity. At the close of the meet ing, it was announced that Baron Humbolt was restored to a state of convalescence. The most remarkable feature of the corn market of, this country is the enormous extent to which we have de pended upon foreign supplies for the last three months for our immediate consumption, and the great falling off in the quantities of home-grown grain coming forward from the farmers. In the week ending the 9th instant, the official accounts show that the imports into the United' Kingdom had been : Wheat and flour 80,564 quarters. Barley 10,002 Oats 18,962 Peas 1,371 Beans Indian corn, 111,370 And the aggregate imports in each week for the last two months have, averaged upwards of 200,000 quarters. On the other hand, the quantities of grain received from the farmers are smaller than were ever known at any former period sinca the law of 1828 was passed. The following is a comparison of these quantities between the last week and the corresponding week in the two last years : Grain returned as sold in the 290 Markets by which the average price is regulated. Same week Same week Last week. in 1846. in 1845. Wheat Barley Oats. Rye Beans Peas The contrast thus shown is very striking.—Morning CAr.onicle. DESTRUCTION OF A PACKET-SHIP BY AN ICEBERG. — The packet-ship Eulalia, belonging to St. Sebastian, while on her passage from Havannalx to Galway, was over whelmed by an iceberg. She had 37 passengers (a great many of whom were, women) on board, with a crew of 14, including the master. She was a fine looking vessel, barque rigged, 300 tons bßrthen, and was laden with a cargo of miscellaneous articles. Her voyage was favourable till she made latitude 42. 15. north, longitude 52. west, when she met with a heavy field of ice. This ocurred on the morning of Friday, the 21st of May. The master, observ ing the perilous state of the ice, bore the ship round, and attempted to clear it, but this was found impossible, and about nine o'clock a tremendous iceberg struck the ship amidships, cutting her down to the water's edge. The shock was fearful, and the terror and dismay of the pas sengers were painfully great. Not a moment was lost in lowering the boats, and placing the passengers in them; for, on the pumps being sounded, the ship was found to be fast filling. The crew lingered on board at the pumps in the hopes of keeping her afloat, but were compelled to make a hasty retreat, the ship reeling over on her beam ends and instantly sinking. Two boats, containing the captain, 14 of the crew, and 14 passengers, succeeded in getting dear of the wreck, but the third, with 20 persons in it, most of whom were women, was drawn down with the vessel, and every soul perished. The boat, it appeared, was fastened to the wreck by a rope, which the crew, in their fright, fearing the ship was sinking, had forgotten to unship, and it was impossible to cut it, the passengers having no proper implement. On the following day, at five o'clock in the evening, the remaining boats were picked up by the schooner Newport. The loss of the Eulalia and cargo is estimated at 45,1100, THE CROPS IN SCOTLAND.—A few days ago I was in formed by an experienced farmer, that he had recently travelled from Gatehouse to Creetown, and he does not remember to have seen more promising crops of barley, oats, potatoes, rye-grass, and turnips. The arable land is in a high state of cultivation, and it produces as fine barley as there is to be found in any part of the stewartry. We recently saw some splendid fields of oats on the farm of Longlands, in Twynholm ; and, thus far, in the vici nity of Kircudbright, the potatoes are very promising.— Correspondent of the Dumfries Courier. DUCAL EMBARRASSMENTS.—There has been so much erroneous gossip circulated in clubs and newspapers rela tive to the private affairs of a nobleman of the highest rank, character and influence, that it may be as well, without affecting to enter into details, to state a few facts which will put the matter in a more just light than seems hitherto to have been the object of those who have handled it. The circumstances, for the greater part the result of the mag nificent establishments and lavish expenditure of a former head of the family, are, unquestionably, large; but it is absurd to suppose that the patrimonial estates in Buck inghamshire, Hampshire, Ireland, and the West Indies are not more than sufficient to meet the difficulty were it doubled, or even quadrupled. The perfectly good under standing, too, between the duke and his hei r w ill ma i n ly facilitate this desirable consummation. The latter, to whom the sole management of the entire property has been consigned, has already taken prompt and decisive measures. We believe we may add, that the sale of the Irish property (a large nominal rental, but under present circumstances, singularly unproductive) has been decided on; and that this step will probably supersede the necessity_ of any further sacrifice. There is no truth, we understand, in the rumour that Arington was to be brought to the hammer.—Britannia. JOSEPH ADY DEFEATED AT LAST.—A summons was heard on the 18th instant, before Mr. Serjeant Manning, the Judge of the New Court, at Whitechapel, in which the notorious Joseph Ady was the defendant, on the plaint of Mr. G. R. Dodd, a solicitor, of New Broad-street, city. It appeared from the statement of Mr. Rhodes, the clerk to the plaintiff, that the latter, some time back, received from Ady one of his circulars, promising, as usual, some valuable information on the receipt of a fee of XI, which was afterwards paid to him on his giving a receipt in writing, coupled with an undertaking to re turn the money in case the Premised information proved erroneous or useless. In return for his fee Joseph sent the plaintiff a number of papers, consisting chiefly of un claimed dividends and reports of cases in which he had figured as defendant before the magistrates, and, as he asserted, proved his innocence of the fraud imputed to him, together with some absurd cautions against joining certain public companies, all of which were utterly use less to the plaintiff, who, in consequence, demanded the return of his money, according to the condition upon which he had paid it. This being refused by Ady, the summons was taken out against him, and the Judge, after hearing Ady's solicitor, who made the best of his bad case, decided that the money should be repaid to the plaintiff, with all expenses, within a week from the hear ing of the summons. A COACH ADVENTURE.—On Saturday night last, whilst Macquire, the driver of the coach which arrives in Huntingdon about half-past ten, after setting down a passenger about that time at the house of Mrs. Eady, opposite• St. Mary's church, was again mounting the box, the horses started on before he had obtained a secure footing, and he was thrown down and slightly injured, at the same time losing hold of the reins. There was now only one passenger remaining, and he was inside ; and the horses finding themselves at liberty, set off at a gallop through the town, passing the George, where they ought to have stopped. and proceeding in full career up St. Peter's-lane towards Ripton. The gentleman inside, who had now become Conscious that the horses were with out a driver, and not knowing whether they were ap proaching a river or a precipice, took the resolution of jumping out of the coach, and we are glad to say that he accomplished this dangerous feat with little or no injury, although a little stunned at first with the fall. Several parties were immediately in pursuit, and all who knew the road and its various turnings expected that in the darkness of the night the whole would have been found upset in a ditch; but, strange to say, the horses pursued their way through King's Ripton; by the narrow roads to Wistow mill, and thence into the village of Wistow, where they were found standing quietly and uninjured near to the church. On examining the harness, it was found that only one of the traces was broken, the reins, which had been hanging about the horses heels all the time, being uninjured, and the coachman's great coat and whip precisely in the places he left them. The box was now mounted by Gailer, one of the George establish ment, who first came up, and the coach was driven back to Huntingdon, where it arrived about three o'clock on Sunday morning. The distance run by the horses islittle short of seven miles. CAPTAIN WARNER'S INVENTIONS.—III the House of Commons, on Friday, Sir H. Douglas said that "he ad hered to the opinion that there never was a greater impo sition practised on the credulity of the people than this long range : and the noble lord had given strength to the imposition by applying, in describing it, the scientific terms of " range," " bombardment," and " projectile" to what he knew was neither snore nor less than a balloon. (Hear, hear.) The fact was, that the whole world was laughing at our gullibility. (Hear, hear.) Then as to the absurdity of the invention. To carry up these pro jectiles of 8001bs. weight balloons of 33 feet diameter would be necessary, the silk for which alone would cost £3OO. The large balloon would cost £450. But Mr. Warner proposed to let off flights of these balloons of such size that the cost of each would be £3,000. (Hear, and laughter.) Could anything exceed the absurdity of such a scheme ? The honourable and gallant member proceeded at some length to'read several calculations and certificates from military officers, all tending to prove that. Capt. Warner's experiments at the Fair-oak tree had been total failures. It had been said, "It is true the experi ment has failed on shore, but at sea, with a steamer able to sail in the wind's eye,. the result would be quite diffe rent." Now the dome of St. Paul's, was only 100 feet in diameter, and that of the Pantheon 130, and seeing that some of these balloons must be 80 feet in diameter, he should think that a steamer going in a stiff breeze, with two or thiee of diem triced up to her masts, would find it rather awkward navigation. (Laughter.) He would engage to riddle them with spherical shells at one thousand five hundred yards. Then, if these balloons were lost the bombardment would prove rather expensive. But, he forgot, that was not part of Captain Warner's scheme ; he had a plan to save his balloons. They were to be projected, discharge their shells, and to be drawn back by a line. Now, seeing that the range was to be four or five miles, he would leave the house to judge what length of line would be necessary, and, besides, it should , be a considerable strength, quite a young hawser. (Hear.) What would the noble lord think of commanding a squadron armed with these enormous balloons ? (Hear.) With respect to the invisible shell, he had no more faith in it than the long range. He believed it to be a trick, and that it achieved nothing which could not be done with gunpowder. He had thought so when he witnessed the experiment with a punt, and this opinion was only con firmed by the explosion of the John O'Gaunt. In that case Captain Warner had distinctly promised Mr. Sornes th whereas at th e vessel i t was done toy means be blown o f shells, by a up theongrana a , l s t e a me r, and had ex tow line. He could on l y re p eat the opi n i on he - pressed when he first read the astounding statements of Captain Warner, namely, that if the man believed them he must be mad, and. if he did not, an impostor. He inclined to the more charitable conclusion, and believed. that the propounder of such a scheme must be labouring under some extraordinary mental hallucination." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. On Saturday, a man named Thomas Bond was com mitted for trial, charged with stealing threebarrels of flonr, the property of Messrs. Woodward and Co. A: WILLING WIFE.—A fisherman was summoned at the Police-court, charged with being drunk. His wife, who appeared for him, said, that when he was sober, ,he was one of .the quietest men in the world ; but when he got drunk, poor fellow, he did not know what he was do ing. He was fined ss. and costs, when his wife, loving soul, said, " You must take me for it, for he's gone out fishing." CELLAR RESIDENCES. -- A number of individuals were summoned at the Birkenhead Polite-court on Tuesday, for infringino , the provisions of the Birkenhead Improve ment Acts by letting their cellars separately as dwellings. The magistrates granted a week in order to give the par ties time to clear their cellars; and on the eiviration of that termthey will be subjected to a fine of ss. per day so long as the cellars are let as habitations. No less than nine persons were found in, one cellar. EMBEZZLEMENT AND ROBBERY IN LONDON.—On Saturday, Soloman Warshaw, a foreigner-, was charged with having embezzled the sum of £2, and stolen ten coats, the property of Mr. Forger, tailor and draper, of Regent-street. The principal evidence was that of Mr. Daniel Graetis, who stated, that, in consequence of the prisoner having suddenly decamped from the establish ment in London, he followed him to Liverpool, and found that he had taken a berth on board a ship called the Mary. Pleasant, bound for some foreign port. The prisoner was taken into custody, and the coats were found in his possession. Mr. Rushton ordered that he should be taken to London in custody of an officer. SMUGGLING TOBACCO. — John Burns was, on Wednes day, brought before the magistrates, and fined £lOO, for smuggling tobacco.—On Thursday, Wm. Henry Evans, steward on board the ship Columbus, from Pernambuco, was convicted , in the penalty of £lOO, for smuggling 23 lbs. of snuff and 131 lbs. of cigars, and, on Friday, John Morris, a passenger in the ship Liverpool, from New York, was brought up at the Police-court charged with smuggling tobacco. It appeared, from the evidence, that there were three barrels and half barrel of Indian flour in the vessel, marked J. M., which the prisoner claimed as his, and sought to land, but suspicion arising in some way, the barrels were removed by the custom-house officers, and,, on being opened, 100 lbs. of Cavendish tobacco. was discovered in two of them. The case was brought home to the prisoner, and he was fined in the amount of 4100. INFORMATION UNDER THE BUILDING ACT.—On Wed nesday, Mr. John Robinson, one of the building survey ors, appeared in support of an information against Mr. Thomas Stanley, for building an addition to the outer wall of his house, in Wilbraham -street, contrary to the provisions of the 4th section of the building act. In an swer to a question by the bench, Mr. Robinson said the premises were perfectly secure, and no danger could pos sibly arise from the mode adopted by the defendant ; but, according to the oath he had taken, there was no other course open to him but to lay the information. After hearing the case, Mr. Rushton said the defendant had been guilty of an informality, so far as regarded the act, but as no danger could possibly arise from the alteration he had made, the case would be dismissed. Mr. Robinson did right in laying the information, and should act in a similar manner in all future cases, and allow the magis. trates to deal with, them, June 29, 1547. S TEALING LEAD.—A young man, named John Williams was yesterlay charged at the Police-court, before Hugh Hornby, Esq., the sitting magistrate, with stealing a small quantity of lead from a house in Tontine-terrace, Prince's Park, the property of Mr. Richard Edwards, of Newing ton, who has the contract for the plumbing, &c., and who stated that he had over a few we e k s past lost about £4O worth of lead from the houses in the row. The prisoner, who received a good character from his former employers, but was committed for trial. STEALING A WATCH. — Jamas Lawler, second engi neer belonging to the Medina, steamer, charged a man, named Wm. Lashley, with having stolen a watch his property. The watch was stolen from the cabin of the Medina a few weeks ago ; on the same day the prisoner came on board to speak to Lawler with whom he was ac quainted. It appears the man was taken up at the time and discharged, but was again arrested on Thursday, it having transpired that he had sent his wife to pawn the watch at the shop of Mr. Howard, of Christian-street. He was committed for trial. PICKING POCKETS IN THE COLLEGTA.TE INSTITUTION. —On Friday, a dull, stupid, country-looking fellow, who gave his name Jonathan Oldham, and who is supposed to have come from Macclesfield, was brdught before Mr. Rushton, on the charge of pocket picking. Bates, an active officer of the detective department, stated that he was in the Collegiate Institution on the preceding after noon. About seven o'clock in the evening, he observed the prisoner, who came behind him and raised the left side of his coat. This act confirming the suspicions he before entertained, he watched the man until ten o'cltpck, when the company were about to leave the place; he•lost sight of the man for a short time at this juncture, and ran down the hall stairs. Upon seeing him, the prisoner made for the library, where Bates took him. Upon searching him, quite an assortment of articles was found upon him, including a pocket-book, card-case, keys, pocket-handker chiefs, gloves, et id genus omne. The greater portion of these were concealed under his shirt. The exertions of the officer had only been successful in the case of a pocket book, which belonged to Mr. R. Shannon, draper, of Scotland-road. The depositions in this case were taken, but the man will remain at the Bridewell to afford an op portunity of other cases against him being proved. The prisoner, whose appearance is the , very reverse of that of the members of the swell mob, declined to say anything in his defence. GROSS IMPOSITION ON MEDICAL OFFICERS. Mr: Callan, one of the parish surgeons, appeared before Mr. Rushton, on Friday, to lay the following charge against a woman who stood in the dock. Mr. Callan stated that the woman called upon him that morning, and requested to be furnished with a certificate that her husband was ly ing at home ill from the effects of a broken. rib. In answer to the magistrate, Mr. Callan explained that it was cus tomary for the parish officers to supply poor patients with such certificates, which, upon presentation at the parish office, were the means of gaining relief to the holders. In the present instance he suspected fraud, and though he made out the certificate in the usual form,. he retained possession of it. It was handed to the magistrate, and set forth that John Taylor, of Fontenoy-street, was lying ill. Mr. Callan had instituted inquiries in the neighbour hood of the street named, and the result was, that no such person as the presumed patient exists. FrOm what was stated, it transpired that, occasionally, paupers had been furnished with these medical certificates, although their abodes had never been visited, an onussionLwhich Mr. Callan said was unavoidable from the number of his pa tients-700. Mr. Rushton said the number.was much too great, and inquired if the authorities had 'been made acquainted with the fact.' He replied they had;-and that they had given him permission to engage another assist ant, (he already having one,) but as yet he had been un able to procure one. He further stated that 500 of the number were fever patients. The woman was put down until further inquiries should be made. IMPORTANT TO EMIGRANTS.—At the police-court, on Tuesday, Mr. George Saul,—perhaps better , known as B. M. Byrnes and C0.,--passenger agent, Waterloo-road, was summoned by Wm. Spence, to show cause why ha refused a passage to Quebec ; and subsistence money on shore; the vessel in which he had engaged having sailed. The amount claimed by Mr. Spence was £l5, and the question was whether Mr. Saul was bound to take charge of the passengers who had been shipped by Mr. Francis Pinkerton, of Belfast, his agent; but whose agency he contended had been withdrawn. From the evidence of Mr. Pinkerton it appeared that he had acted as agent to Mr. Saul since the beginning of March, and that he had issued 240 or 250 tickets on, behalf of Mr. Saul since that time. A list of vessels, including the Intrinsic, in which the emigrants should have sailed, was furnished to him by a person in Mr. Saul's office, named Shaw. He had received several letters to say he was to forward no more passengers, but he had brought 72 by the Sea King after-' wards, all of whom had been received by Mr. Saul and for-' warded to their destination. Mr. Spence, the complain-' ant, said' he received a ticket from Mr. Pinkerton, at Bel fast, for which he paid £l4 lds. 6d. After he paid his. passage, he came to Liverpool, and presented his ticket at Mr. Saul's office, where he was told that th e s hip f or that date had gone out. Mr. Saubsent a Mr. Hume with hill; to' procure a lodging. Next day he went to Mr. Saul again, who told him he did not like to be annoyed by beg gars. He had turned some out who came from Belfast. His ticket was dated Belfast, 10th June, for the ship In trinsic, to sail on the 16th June for Quebec. At the con clusion of the investigation, Mr. Radcliffe addressed the bench on behalf of Mr. Saul, and said if the magistrates so decided, they were prepared to pay the expenses of the passengers, and forward them by the first opportunity to' Quebec. Mr. Rushton commented on the proceedings of Mr. Saul, and concluded by giving him the benefit of a doubt, inflicting a nominal fine of £lO, and directing that all the passengers be fully satisfied to the approval Of• Lieut. Hodder, the government agent. LIVERPOOL NOT MORE FEVER-SMITTEN THAN SOME OTHER TOWNS. The tradesmen of Liverpool are feeling severely the effect of the imputation cast upon our town, that it is the" great recipient of what is now very generally termed the " Irish fever." We have enough of fever, it is true; rather too much of it. But we are not solitary in that respect. We are the recipients of the mass of Irish paw pers swarming into England ; .but we are not on that ac count the exclusive recipients of fever-smitten Irish' Fever, it is confidently said, is not imported, and the for cases found on board the Irish packets seem to favour the assumption that it is greatly generated here in the unwholesome lodging-houses to which the Irish resort. It is even more rife in the manufacturing towns of the interior than in Liverpool. Manchester is full of it. In that town additional fever hospitals have had to be pro vided. Leeds has fever in abundance, and of an aggra vated type. In fact, wherever these poor destitute peOPi r travel to, fever is abundantly propagated. We give tho following report from Warrington " THE heist' FnvEn,--This malignant disease is noif rapidly spreading to almost every yard, court, and Oa, throughout the borough. Th e nuisance committee an d ttohweinrsohifiipce, w rs it h h av th e e b v e i e e n w indefatigable g t in ie hornt l heir exe rtions cleansing and re mov i ng all nuisances threntoout the der from getti ng t o such a head as to baffte Although fever is ragi ng in its worst form in th ose p laces occupied by Irish lod g i ng h ouse -k eepers , they still pers ist ' in filling them with trampers of the most filthy descr i pT tion, in several instances the polic e officers have found many as forty persons lodgirig in one room of very sm a l., ed b ic le al d s i kll skill. dimensions. The effluvia arisin g f r om this dense mass e' beings has been such as to cause .the most unpleasel l , feeling. Mr. Cruikshank, the relieving officer, reportew to the board of guardians, at their meeting, on Wednes day; that the accommodation for the patients at the fever hospital was now insufficient,. and that more room wa r ` required. The board then ordered that Messrs. HelsbYr the builders, be directed to make another new shed, off' larger size than those already erected." Another from Rochdale Typhus and the black fat! . are very prevalent in Rochdale and the neighbourhae a " On Monday two deaths occurred in one house in Castletu° from fever, which the parties had caught pt one of the loic Irish lodging-houses. Fever wards have lately he e .., 11 erected on a large space of w as t e groun d a t C ron keysbe" a short distance from the town." It-is only justice, moreover, to the tradesmen of Liver pool, that we should impress upon strangers, the fact th at the sickness of which our weekly returns give e vidence: as existing in this town, is not to be met with in tho u ` parts of the town which are chiefly resorted to by,visitoq coming on business or-in search of healthy recreation. is principally to be found in filthy places into which 01 ',,f one- in a thousand of the respectable inhabitants _` . ' o Liverpool ever enter,, and into which it is certain. that P stranger need go. " UNIVERSAL YACIIT SIGNALS."—A handsome (1 well got-up work under this title, by Mr. George Ackers, has just been published, and from its efficient and comprehensive character, the system P u bs posed will in all p ro b a bility b e a d op t e d b y a ll yac ht el , in the kingdom. As stated in the prefatory rent to Capt. Marryatt's flags are adopted, enabling yaell';',ed communicate with each other ; as also, by, those posse' is of Capt. Marryatt's book being able,to exchange sig",till with vessels in the merchant service; and, what is" - of more important, the saving of much trouble to offiee'f i tg, the navy, enabling them to communicate with all ,e f c thc, having this work, by the use of one book only. r (;''' fi e , sake of simplicity, the code consists of sixteen flags te e by omitting all duplicate numbers;the use of substlcio is avoided. Any yacht club may make this code PIO' by altering or changing the numbers attached to the o ast, The work is divided into a number of well arranged I' bic!' . embracing all the necessary and useful subjects on wael communications between vessel anti vessel may be tto ce' rable at any time, and under almost any ciructon s , t o l a The variety of words and ev,en whole sentences th at an thus be expressed are arranged in vocabular fora' ,Fn readily found, either for translation of a signal 01, 7 5 tl out, or to be made, or for reply. Semaphoric also given. Coloured figures of all the flags are sv-P O 5 oc and the work, which is well printed in large types transe cupies 264 pages,) whether as regards utility oF -" ro e' ment, possesses much that is interesting Determination of blood to the head, R1) 0 0 ° 40 effectually prevented by the occasional use of Fra'` o f the Pill of Health, which, by strengthening the actiol_estiooe; stomach, and promoting a healthy aqd regular Et t g ow s . to nautieavi- & cc , of the food, prevents a recurrence of those sr's% brain' this alarming disorder, giddiness, oppression of t" singing noise in the ears, head-ache, Sze- TeY for l ° excellent aperient, without griping or prost ri li i ,orst e .. strength, create appetite, relieve languor, and 1 ! 1 .Y,Z, oge l e the spirits; while, to the free liver or sedentary , t e lrf or s great and important advantages. Sold by all v ; no of medicines. Price ls. 114, per box. See t 4? , o verit . Thomas Prout, 229 Stri t nd, London," on , the— ment stamp. 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