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And so to As al o: He is 6 n Tool, June 3, The Gr, Lady :test Plaque of 1 e Adve atures of a lon : David od Seivant 0 - 5 of this amu publication is very r .cy ; and if thoress The next' e the work Natural History of the Ballet Girl. By Illustrated by A. Waring. London: D bert Smith Dgue, Fleet- shilling's worth.• It is, nowever, )ur to his " Natural History of the i eviaent striving throughout to "g nay use I ' l - g"'";+." Ty neatly-got not at all equal in in vourite ex pressor sindination on the part of h ~t to be driven bey( nary pa people ect wil The subject has g Treatise on Diet and Regimen. By William Henry Robertson, M.D. Part 2. 4th Edition much enlarged. London : John Churchill, Prince's-street Soho. , in its original form, has been greatly profession and the public ; and the itt,eii with to us still more to deserve patron ). great perspicuity, embraces the number of different kinds of food, consideration of a VI tge of being perfectly intel the non-medical reade Blackwooa ['he first article North AmeriC Siberia, and Itt bey fixed on is an al let of Sir Geo. Simpson's overland journey l the world, abounding with varied and useful informa- tion : the author finds the inhabitants of Northern Europe more agreeable people than they are generally supposed. " Hone Catullianm," arrive at a climax : " the Curate takes a wife." In " Prosper Merimee," we are introduced to one of the writers for the Revue des Deux Mondea, from whose productions several racy extracts are selected. No. 3 of " How to build a House and Live in It," and a paper by Professor Johnston, " on the Nutritive Quali ties of the Bread now in use," are valuable articles on two of the great requisites of life. Fraser's Magazine " A Chronicle of Kenilworth Castle," recals a melan choly episode in the reign of Queen Elizabeth—the crimes if the Earl of Leicester, and the fate of Amy Robsart. 'his month's continuation of " Scenes in the Wilds of Isla)," is full of startling incid.,+, is a vivid presen— e of the social evils resulting from a weak govern -4 laws badly administered. " The Old Judge" Ns usual. The sketches of " Literary 'arl of Ellesmere and Mr. Monckton is as entertaining Legislators"—the Milnes—are excellent; an extract from the former will be found in our columns. Morgan Rattler on " the two Ita lian Operas," has grappled with the mania of the day ; and those who have read much of, but not seen, Jenny Lind, may mature their opinions by perusing what Mr. Rattler has to say upon the subject. IT NRIETIES At a late session a cause was tried which originated in D. dispute about a pair of small clothes. The judge observed t was the first time he had known a suit made on a pair of breechc Two water wagtails have built their nest in a nollow under one of the rails of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, near the Plumptre Station ; and though trains are passing hourly, the birds do not appear in the least alarmed. At a recent meeting of the Geological Society, it was stated that a thickness of half an inch of clay and sand intercepts the heat of a mass of eleven tons of white-hot melted iron for twenty minutes, so that the heat on the outside of the vessel is not sufficient to pain the hand. _ HILDRETs KNITTED BABIES AND MABOGAN an auction catalogue 1 for competition, " a ly circulated, were duly announced zitted Baby's Cradle Cover," and " a Mahogany Child or an Oaken Laundre !to Iron Cook's Boiler, s Clothes Horse, would have been tions as those which we have here - IRONING FROM THE SUN.—In proof of the intense heat of the sun on Thursday, a woman, on Worsbrough Com mon,-heated her irons in the sun to iron her clothes with. I I I I \ I. . I LORD ELLE 5 AND if it is far above the as , s at the cm e addre went of ti Itogether worthy o ian scarcely tw While siY admiration of t are one or two The sur " A war c ratified between this cour itates, and the jealousy wl direction which the trade c taking conduct of prin inguish- g Of the niry and hich had of those )wards England, he said , he sin- treaties would foster and improve gland was now freed from many restrictions, principles, impeded its free Eittrature. POET V T. J 68rn BIR was buil more Bold, went on deck, lay,) _ no scales on be hearty c 't and ti suci(N - 1 - LIVERPOOL COR ,CC, tO our CV NHDA - C ,tream, pily in the progress of which, bottomed on Those absur from the text-book of extent our commerce limit could be was a subject for tl leave to the however. ti of 1825 his talents alone for his promotion, imagine, e when he ex pressed this very vague hope, that in 1846, he, as Lord Francis Egerton, enriched by the favour of a kinsman to a level with some of the most wealthy in the land, would throne, but this time announcing to the world, not the first faint indications of a new system, but the total abo- their opinions, not one time but several times. Lord Francis Egerton might have looked back with justifiable pride to his own consistency, and have reflected that if he, too, had changed, his later opinions had been but the natural fruition of an early tendency.—Fraser's Magazine. A MEXICAN WARE.—The assembly to which Perico had admitted me presented a strange aspect. About twenty men and women of the poorest class were seated in a circle, talking, shrieking, and gesticulating. A fetid, cadaverous odour, hardly smothered by the smoke of cigars and the fumes of Xeres and chinguirito, filled the room. In the corner of the apartment was placed a table loaded with provisions of all sorts, with cups, bot tles, and flasks. At -a more distant table, the seated gamblers mingled the jingle of copper money with the technical terms of monte, and quarrelled for piles of ever- Wks and tlacos,t with the excitement caused by strong drinks. Under the triple inspiration of wine, women, and gambling, the orgie, which I saw at its commence- meni, appeared as if it would quickly make formidable progress ; but what struck me most, was precisely what iembly least. A young child, seemed to pre-, :spy the lv to hs lying on a table. His pale brow, covered with flowers faded with heat of the stifling atmosphere, his glazed eyes, and sunken, livid cheeks, already streaked with shades of violet, indicated that life had left him, and that it was some days, perhaps. since he first slept the eternal sleep. The aspect of this little corpse amid the shrieks, the laughter, the gambli and noisy conversations, amid nen who laughed and sang like savages, these men and we was heart-breaking. The flowers and jewels which co vered him, far from depriving death of its - sad solemnity, only made it the more hideous. Such was the shelter for which I was indebted to Perico's ingenious solicitude.. A general silence followed our entry. A man, in whom I soon recognised the master of the house and the father of " ' Crary, - radiant with delight ; and it was with a • look of pride that he pointed out to us the numerous guests as sembled to celebrate with him the death of h• son, an event considered as a favour from Heaven pleased God to take back the child before us that we were came friends. Thanks to Perico's loquacity, all eyes were fixed upon me. I had a character difficult to sustain, Perico having thought it necessary to affirm to all willing to listen, that it was impossible to kill people with better grace than I had done. In order to fill my part properly, I hastened to put my gloves in my pocket, and affect great ' that it was prudent to follow the 1 -ink of the asylum I have found his hand. "Is it not bet- assurance What do pout zd Perico, rub ter than wha derst lorcover, you will now un- a velorio. It is a resource on hanks to me, you will thus ac • titude of that worthy fat ) EDITION Standard-of f ice, Two o'clock MARKET ye been somev -THIS DAY ad, the .c.! to go enactments the political economist light react were now expunged To what ,--what, or whethe .ffixed to the spirit of British industry— illations of the political philoso7 boldts )f the day, satisfied tiraents far mo legree to TRE I,IURPOOI STANDARD. A FACT IN . BOTANY.—The eminent botanist, Will denow, remarks, that it is by the agency of insects alone that the flowers of the aristolochia clematitis can be fer tilised, although they are bi-sexual. The throat of the flower is fringed with a pile of delicate hairs, which have a uniform direction downwards—they have been compared to a well-known variety of the mousetrap—into this snare the insect heedlessly plunges, and having satisfied its appetite it makes the attempt to get out amain, but in vain. It thus remains a close prisoner, and buzzes to and ;ma, anal tt object intended by it The flower then ls to relent the process speedily re- y again -People's Journal, It is not general hat the CM s by the silk stocking nerallv r in Europe previous to large quantity of cotton stockings COMPARATIVE NUTRITIVE BROWN BREAD AND WHITE The solid parts of the human body consist, principally, of three several portions : the fat, the muscle, and the bone. The2e three substances are liable to constant waste in the living body, and therefore must be con stantly renewed from the food that we eat. The vegetable food we consume contains these three substances al most ready formed. The plant is the brickmaker. The animal voluntarily introduces these bricks into its stomach, ports them to hem into thei parts of t 3n of th be body mill throws into the hopper the u with, by the involuntary movemc caves in his several sa middlings, the pollard body, by a still more re; and - deposited here, th nea sepal MUSCUI )ony material in a third locality, v stored up, but where its p fluid parts of the I ame substances in a liquid fOrm, on their way to or from in them, saved soup, or Epsom sal our doctors delialit to vex n the pie matter which food must be the most nourishing which supplies all thes. lients of the body most abundantly on the whole, o t suited to the actual wants of the in In proportions r dividual animal to which it is giver question, then, in regard to this point between the brown bread and the wheat ? T white--the fine flour grain of wheat con: er is familiar—the in ld the who. which the mi: that covers it. the skin, whe of two parts, witt The in grain and the skin grain gives the pare wheat flour ; ated, for cannot entirely peel off Drne of it is . unavoidably ground up with his fl fting, I .paratcs it more or less co , owing their colou the propor- tion of brown I=ran that has passed through the sieve along with the flour. The whole meal, as it is called, of which the so-named household tread is made, consists of the en tire grain ground up together—used as it comes from the mill-stones unsifted, and therefore containing all the bran. The first white flour, therefore, may be said to contain no , • 1 1 / • _ _ll ,1 A.- 1 contains all tha he com .h do th body ? How muc grain. -1 the several constituents of la of each is contained also i t: Of th of the whol 28 lb, fin So that the hi-an is much richer in fat I part of the grain, and the whole grain (whole meal) richer than the finer p m of thes n the whole and together 't of flour in the proportion of nearly one-half.--2. The muscular matter: I have had no opportunity as yet of ascertaining the rela tive proportions of this ingredient in the bran and fine flour of the same sample of grain. Numerous experiments, however, have been made in my laboratory, to determine these prop6rtions in tbefine flour and whole seed ofseveral va rieties of grain. The general result of these is, that the whole grain uniformly contains a larger quantity, weight for weight, than the fine flour extractd from it does. The particular resu were as follows is in the case of v :—A thousand n than corn pounds of the whole g and of the fine flour contained of muscular matter respec tively,— Whole grain. Fine flour Wheat 156 lb 130 lb Indian Corn ton stockings ,s tine as , un part y are beautiful articles, which is much leveller and in this opinion a few of T. 3 of Manchester fully coin .kwright will filially supers, It is in general con- .blest operative yield si they t Iv OF USING BREAD MADE OF THE WHOLE nount of husk, separated by the miller grinds, and which is not sold for h. I think we do not over forming one-eighth of it pounds of wheat n, and one of pol- ase, varies try and pigs. pounds of fic vosition, e )nsurned b given to ar If the whole meal be used, however, eight or eight people will be 11 be obtai ked by the same weight of grain Which 6nlyfed - seven be fore. Again, we have seen that the whole meal is more nutritious—so that this coarser flour will go farther than an equal weight of the fine. The numbers at which we arrived, from the results of analysis, show that, taking all the three sustainer a coarse is one, a wide margin y seven. 7 )urished equally by tl wheat of the country, in other is, would in this form go one,fourth jarth 'ent.—Professor Johnston, in Blackwood's illagazim than at A. COLONI Of the material out of which the animal muscle is formed, the whole meal or grain of wheat contains one- strength, therefore, it must be more valuable in m equal proportion.-3. Bone material and saline ?nat tily. . ne +bacch minPrrtl constituents. as they may be called, muscul, of the animal body, a thousand pounds of bran, whole meal and fine flour, contain respectively,—Bran, 7005 ; 5. So that in regard to essary to all living ani- whole mec I.; fine mals, but especially to the young who are growing, and to the mother who is giving milk—the whole meal is three times more nourishing than the fine flour. Our case is now made out. Weight for weight, the whole grain or meal is more rich in all these three essential elements of a nutritive food, than the fine flour of wheat. By those whose only desire is to sustain their health and strength by the foP , - Lney eat, ought not the whole meal to be pre ferred ? To children who are rapidly growing, the browner the bread they eat, the more abundant the supply of the materials from which their increasing bones and muscles are to be produced. To the milk-giving mother, the same food, and for a similar reason, is the most appropriate.- -Professor Johnston, in Blackwood's Magazine. THE POPE, O'CONNELL'S SUCCESSOR FOR CONDUCTING IRISH AGITATION. (Prom the John Bull.) Newspaper authority, we are aware, is not always to be depended upon, especially in questions of theology ; never nne.ll;lnn n nnA - n;va , hnnwlorio.a , of what. ia 4ILIGICOM, CUL.. UV alL.y.suc a LA,. Lutz* •• acceptable to their readers; and we may generally con clude with tolerable safety, that what is put forth in a leading article is not regarded as very unacceptable to a large portion of the readers ; in short that, more fre quently than not, it speaks their sentiments. The following paragraph is from the leading article of the Tablet (Roman Catholic newspaper) of last week; and, though we can hardly suppose there are many Ro man Catholics who would quite approve of setting the late Daniel O'Connell one step above the Pope, still we think Roman Catholic sentiment, that political agitation is a part of the Roman Catholic religion, and that the Pope will take up, as a religious question, that which O'Connell had been agitating as a political one Whenoldage(says the Tablet) lays upon him (O'Con nell) its enfeebling touch, and he can toil no more—so mercifully has God provided—the Catholic Agitator be holds provision made for consecrating his work by a higher adoption, and for carrying it cm to a more com plete success by a holier agency. He leaves behind him not an heir of his blood, nor of his race, nor of his nation. But from another race and another country, and in an other state of life, God raises up and gives him to hail a successor, who by position and opportunities is far greater than himself, and in the programme of whose mission the completion of all that O'Connell had commenced is but one page out of many." Now, if it be true that the Pope is expected to succeed O'C 1, in the ---- ,onne capacity of "Catholic Agitator," and our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects are never to let us have any peace till they have brought about a repeal of the Union, there are but two alternatives left for those who love peace. The one is, to keep them under, so that they may not be able to do mischief;. the other, to con vert them, so that they may no longer wish to do it. It appears to us, therefore, to be undeniable, that the first question on which every one who loves peace ought to seek full satisfaction, when he is- solicited for his vote at the coming election, is whether the candidate for whom lie is requested to vote is determined to prevent the Ro man Catholics from disturbing the public peace, as well by firmly resisting every proposattending to increase their power, as also by giving efficiency and encouragement to the clergy of the Established Church in Ireland, in all their endeavours to educate the- rising generation in a knowledge of the Bible. .15311,45UPfe.....1.....WV , ARM Orncral. the two shilling Four lives were lost in Croft coal pit, near N ainngexinpalodseiofenroefeifinrieng h d fPewrepdarayastisorsea' by rei;e - - PROMISE OF EARLY HARVi —On Tuesday E thot ear of wheal Df. the current growth, was exh in the Leeds corn market ay, the bodies of man and wo- roped it The Great Western steamer left Southampton on Wed nesday, for the West Indies, with mails and passengers CRUM} OF COMFORT In, the course of last wed dividend of ltd. in the pound has been paid on the estate of a bankrupt in Bristol, agaiust whom the fiat was issued 15 years ago. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Novas.IMPORTATION.—On Monday, the ship Colum bia, which arrived in the Thames from Havre, brought over 241 hampers of green peas, of French growth : the crop is very plentiful in France. An Inverness paper mentions that a very large eagle, which measured seven feet three inches across the wings, was lately taken in a trap on the summit of a hill:in Strathspey Active i king at Portsmouth, for Si JoriUßicharason's expedition to the Arctic regions, i eareh of Sir John Franklin, and several seamen. hav which are generally throx make an excellent vegetable for the table, if boil rlu; leas of rad A WHOLE FAMILY POISONED.—A sad and fatal occur rence took place in the village of Kensall New Town, Harrow-road, on Sunday week. In consequence of some arsenic having been put into an old flour bag, it accident ally became mixed in a rhubarb pudding, by partaking of which M. Hickman and five of his children died. DANGER FROM LUCIFER MATCHES.—A little girl aged six years, who lived with an aunt in Gray's-inn-road, Lon don, was left alone on Saturday,and got hold of some luci she set fire to her clothes. She Two your coin Colleg with wh ig gentlemen, one an under-graduate of Lin e, Oxford, Mr. John George Stilwell ; th Furnivall's inn, a gentleman o: who had been spnding a few day wvned while bathing in the river Isis near Nuneham, on Monday last life in endeavourin 3 save his c 11Ii:. Stilwell 1, SWIM, NOTION OF When we enterer FAUAIERYS a small, thin a a suit of bla avenged u )n. He had been a, with a sour, the party with a grievance, for w termination to 1 next el rESS. - bilious cloth, was entertaining ;hick he expressed his de pon the government at the at Halifax, it see ,uence he was just retu, ng, to solicit some little petty local office at Aylsford, where he resided, to which he thought himself eminently entitled by his valuable political partisan services, but which, to his dismay, he found had cant. Loud and low were his denunciation led, from Itephen plaints. " I don't pity you a morse The best office for a farmer is being his own overseer and the best fees those paid by his orchards and fields There is nothing so mean in folks like you and me as office-seeking, unless it is in wearing broad-cloth instead of homespun, as if a man was above his business. Now look at me," and he rose up and stood erect : " I am six feet four in my stockings, when unravelled and bolt up right, and six feet five when stretched out on a bench ; and, from the sole of my foot to the crown of my head, I am dre sed in the produce of my own farm. I raised the flax and hackled it, and bred the sheep and sheared the proud of or a farmer according things, ought to be known by his dress, like an officer or a parson; and then when folks see him they'll know he ain't run up a bill at a shop, and ain't cutting a dash in things he ain't paid for. I've known some very mean men in my time There was Deacon Overreach, now e was so mean he always carried a hen in his gig-box ;hen he travelled to pick up the oats his horse wasted in man, wt mg. And then here was Hugo Himine his wife dig potatoes to pay for the marriage licen Lawyer," he continued, addressing himself to Barclay " I must tell you that story of Hugo, for its not a bad one , and good stories, hire' potatoes, 'ain't they used to be when I was a boy. Hugo is of mine, though considerably older than I be ; and a mean neighbour he is, too. Well, when he was going to get married to Gretchen Kolp, he goes down to Parson Rogers at Digby to get a license. " Parson," said he, " what's the price of a license ? " " Six dollars," says he. " Six . _ as plenty as a neighbour dollars ! " says Hugo. " That's a dreadful sight of money ! Couldn't you take no less ? " " No," says he. " That's what they cost me to the secretary's office at " Well; ho Much d io you ax for publishing , then ? " Nothing, say s parson " Well;" says Hugo, "that's so cheap rean't expect you do give no change back. I think I will be published, How long does it take ? " " Three Sundays." " Three Sundays ! " " Well, that's a 'Ong time, too Stiodays - only make a fortnight, after all : :ays Hugo But three two for the ie inside ix dollars is a great sum of money for a poor man to throw awa; as mean as a newsheard sheep, whel Parson, nd a-looking about .11 at once z right thought came into says he, " I've changed my mind. here's the six dollars. I'll tie the knot to-night with my teeth." "Why, what innatur is the meaning of all this ? " says parson. " says Hugo, " I've been ciphering it out in my head, and it's cheaper than publishing bans, after all. You see, sir, it's potato-digging time ; if I wait to be called in church, her father will have her work for nothing ; and as hands are scarce and wages high, if I marry her to-night she can license, and just seven shillings over; for there ain't a man in all Clements that can dig and carry as many bushels in a day as Gretchen can. And besides, fresh wives, like fresh servants, work like smoke at first, but they get sarcy and lazy after awhile." "Oh, my !" said Miss Lucy ; " did you ever hear the beat of that ? Well, I never ! " " Now that's what I call mean," said Stephen. " Mean ! " said Miss Lucy, who was greatly shoCked " I guess it is mean ! I never heard anything half so mean in all my born days ! " " Well have, then," continued Stephen. "It ain't near so mean as a farmer running about the country, dressed up in super, fine broad-cloth, a-looking out for a little office.":--The Old Judge, or Life in a Colony, by the Author of Sam Slick, in Frazer's Magazine. MRS. SICINNERSTON'S NOVEL-READINC ARMS THE BED.--I told her to fill the warming-pan, SERVANT bit of tallow (despite all Mr. Edward's low sneers) just the size of a pea rubbed over the bridge of my nose, is— as my lady readers will agree with me—as good as one can fly to when one's got a nasty cold coming on a thing one. When I got up stairs: there was my lady in her sulks, of course, warming the bed as if she had fallen asleep over it. So as I wasn't going to put up with any of her tantrums, I went behind her, and telling her that I would show her how to warm the bed, I seized hold of her arm and pushed it backwards and forwards so- fast that I could h all -bble again in solder of the nasty two- Is had got melted, all through so close to the aear the water v dreaming at the time that the - diss Betsy's standing as she had, and that I was actually of it all over my bed, as fast as if the thing watering-pot. The worst of it was, too, that the beastly new-fangled warming-pan must have held -a gallon if it i I did a spoonful; and seeing that Miss Betsy wanted to get ~. thought, 1 worm,— shaking the leaky thing up and down the sheets—parti cularly on my side too—until I had.tied my flannel petti coat nicely over my night-cap, and finished all my rum 4-water, and had put all my things by, just out of - Ation, to keep her up there as long as I could, and ready to get into bed. When Miss Betsy had A cme, and I had let down the night-bolt—l declare I had been dawdling about so long in the cold, that I was quite frightened lest I should have taken another chill—putting out the candle, I jumped into bed as quick as ever I could. And then, oh lud-a'-mercy me ! what a pretty pickle it was in, to be sure. If the linen sheets weren't pcsitively just like sheets of water, and the whole bed as wet as the bed of the River Thames. I tumbled out again like ler stand may easily imagine, when, -dr if all my — night-clothes weren'f'as wet and cold as a dog's n ose, and the worst of it was, they would keep clingny to me as if they were so much wet blotting paper rasped to the bell, and pulled, and pulled, and in n must have ti Light either that I ha the house on fire, c verlaid my dear litt n of flour panion, who could Morpoth has con Lt, to promote some time Viscount at a public meetu on the I2th in 1, it will• be recoil guine -On the EPIDITY i On I the hardy seamen of ti: me of those unfortunat, succeeded in conveyit inz ashore the three SE y years of 'On the pyevious Su I a verdict of m Clowes, of Duke-street, Lam 2nd of Octol were in vain em ; but hu upon th, rope to the wreck lendacon Mon ay he drank u Men named Josey t whom the coroner they hay laughter, an, assizes for the count of Westmorland. A. second edition of the Ledbury trick of " buying , where a farm horse," was practised at Monmouth was induced by two confederate sharp, to give his chequ for £3O. They were pursued as far as Chepstow, wher the police-officer unfortunately dislocated his shoulder i getting out of the vehicle conveying him and the dupe( but one of the fellows was token, and bein [Dade to r by fl dulous ;riculturist to c 1( MAGISTRATES VERS n Manchester ied upon his wife, wh were wrec P.: to the induced two The manity CORONER a man beat and jut 3 The borough coroner held an in. . _ quest on Wednesday night, and the jury decided that shi had died foorn inflamation previously existing, and dis. tharged the husband. The husband was brought before he magistrates of Manchester on Friday, and, after in I for trial foi sequently expireu ation into the case, he was commit wilful Murder A lad, ,named Davis, who had been previously twice convicted, was sentenced at the Old Bail.-- tey, On I to be transported for seven years for larceny. The pri. soner implored the court with tears to make it fiftem instead of seven years, and he sobbed out, " Pray do your honour."—Mr. Commissioner Bullock said, " No no, seven years will do on the present occasion." Th, ner muttered, as he was removed from the dock id the seven They don't s THE BODY OF TH recollected that last a missing from Snowdon, and the conjecture then was that he had fallen over some precipice. We have just heard that the body has been found and identified. He had fallen down a precipice 300 feet high, on the Snowdon side of the road. The bones are all shattered except one arm. It has been identified by a pocket handkerchief and a part of his shirt with his name on. The bone were scattered in all direction THE R oniN.—Mr. Morris, of the Lion Inn, Holt, hap pened, after his last angling excursion in autumn, 1846, to hang up his fishing shoes on a nail in the alcove of his were engaged at a game in the alley, a robin was observed to fly into one of the shoes. On examination a nest with five eggs was found in this singular receptacle, and the pair of robins flew out and in with the utmost confidence. Great care was taken not to disturb them : the eggs were duly hatched, but the young ones fell a prey to the cat. — Hereford Journal. THE PRICE OF CORN.—In London the prices fell 10s. to 12s. on Monday, and the reduction was sustained on Wed nesday. At Birmingham, on Wednesday, a reduction of 4s. was effected. At Leeds, on Tuesday, Friday's rates were barely sustained,which were a reduction of 8s to lOs on Tuesday week. At Bassingstoke, on Wednesday, " wheats could not be sold except at a reduction of 50s. to 60s. per load," and barley experienced a reduction of 3s. to ss. per quarter. At Hull on Tuesday, a reduction of 10s. was submitted to, but buyers were few. At London, on Thurs day, a general reduction in the price of bread took place, the 41b. loaf selling at Bid. and 71d. A Row IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—On Thursday, Mr. Patrick O'Connor, son of Alderman O'Connor, ex mayor and a justice of the peace of Sligo, was charged, at Marlborough -street police-office, with using abusive and insulting language and behaviour to Mr. John Patrick Somers, M.P. for Sligo, calculated to provoke a breach of the peace. The quarrel was about a debt alleged to be owing by the one to the other. They disputed about it in the lobby of the House of Commons, and very abusive language was used, a threat was made and a stick was flourished in a menacing manner. Mr. O'Connor being unable to find bail was sent to prison. A WINNER ON THE DERBY.—An amusing incident is recorded of a winner on this race. A person at Ponte fract, having £5OO depending upon:the event, and in great anxiety to liave the eirliest possible intelligence, hired a horse and gig, and proceeded to the electric telegraph office, at Castleford, a distance of three or four miles. Cossack being announced as the winner was such a stroke of fortune for him, that he at once lost all recollection of the manner in which he had come from Pontefract, and proceeded home again, with all possible haste, on foot, without it ever once crossing his mind that he had left his horse and gig, until he reached his destination, and wanted a pocket hankderchief from his top coat in order to wipe off the perspiration from his face ! HORRID MURDER.—A shocking murder was commit ted on Wednesday, in Bryanston-square, London. The deceased is Mary Stowell, an aged female living in a back kitchen, No. 40, Adam-street, and the murderess, Mary Ann Hunt, lodged with her. On Wednesday morn ing, the woman Hurst was seen wandering about under suspicious circumstances, and on being taken into custody by an officer, it was discovered that she was making away with two bundles of wearing apparel belonging• to the de ceased, who was found dead near the fire place in the kitchen. It appeared that Hunt had endeavoured to strangle the poor old woman in her sleep, as the rope was found round her neck ; but failing to do so, she struck her several times severely with a poker, and her head was covered with bruises. The prisoner has been remanded. RIOTS ARISING OUT OF THE HIGH PRICE: OF FOOD. — On Tuesday last, an alarming riot broke out in the city of Wells, originating chiefly with women and boys. They called upon Mr. Fry, a respectable baker, and demanded that he should lower the price of bread. He endeavoured, but in vain, to reason with them, and they broke windows, damaged his premises, and destroyed his cart: and waggons. A troop of Yeomanry Cavalry were mile(' in, the riot act was read, and the people at length returnee to their homes. At Nottingham a similar disturbance -4.rday week, also headed chiefly by women took place yetiL,—__ and boys. .eney went to a number of bakers shops, anc had bread given them ; in other cases they took it, anc broke the windows. They did not, however, generally offer violence. There was a total observance of organiza tion amongst the malcontents, most of whom eventually dispersed at the bidding of the police ; and on the follow inn- clay rte./. 4-1.- 1- -A. . rough-street police-office,:tho other day. " Mr. Ardeil, alias." Mr. Smith," wliose real name is the Hon. Hem Arundel, the son of Lady Arundel, s charged wit clear, When Mr. Art.— —..en into , custody he violet', assaulted the policeman. For this offence Mr. Hardwik said be would not inflict a fine, but at once commit a defendant to prison for a month, with hard labour. Son little time after a gentleman applied for the substitutic 4 on the ground ind a fine of five poun del was t 'ore infl of a fine instead of the imprisonmen. r. Arundel' had just imprisoned a coachm and he would make no distinel tibn of the offenders. After, appeared to plead for her son, AVARICE PUNISHED.—.AII for assaulti g," the pol lion on account of the I this Lady but in vain Armld significant Tonday transpi ght not to p which we ou ..lane, there Wav ed. On • the s ntity of wheat v there was a sample of imported into this country from America some wt The speculator, fancying that he could procur prices in France than in k'ngland, declined to aces per quarter, and ordered the vessel off to Havre. ived there just in tit bund to be abundan June 8, 1847. A RELIC OF THE FAMINE OF 1800. 7 0 n IVl:ondar two pieces of bread, made during the famine of ti", when flour was 7s. a peck, and preserved by their "er, were shown to us at our office. One is a id. loaf, the other a roll. The loaf, which is in good preservation, is about two inches square, and even when unshrivelled by time could not have made more than two decent Mouthfuls. The roll is partially decayed, but so far as can judge, it could not. when fresh, have exceeded the 'usions of a finger biscuit, to which in shape it bears , blance. • Both have a hungry, famine-like aspect, when compared with a roll and loaf of 1835, wrier of these relics ha- -- lirved. Bad nementos of a a sight us to wl: bygone fame ream( hoped will be a temporary pri Journal EFFECTS OF FREE TRADE.—Th it is sincerely to be Ltion.—Birmingham still a demand for fancy lace for Germany and Belgium, and a little for France ; but, we regret to say that from information we ived, which never fails us, this will. ere lone. re- have re a heavy check ng to a s the expo'rtation of machine's is wholly employed in the trade': Some idea may be n one of these I of the tittirila 11 .1 am doin_q well , le at Me e !nil am we conseauf ;aid for the traf- to the town that gave me birth." It Valenciennes grown see the slop straight ?lat nets froni llinyhon Journa SOUTHW z for 1 y country, not a litilit ,uch finer gauges with an exception or two, being 12 n, and ised to erseded d rodsdam. HOST HORRIBLE DI Monday H. A. Fitzjames, a boy between eleven and twelve years of age, was charged with attempting to poison his mother and her infant three months old. Ann Fitzjames stated that she was the wife of a traveller, now abroad. On Sunday morning she had coffee for break and about half an hour after partaking of it she s of hot became violently ill water, and became better. She afterwards made some inquiries about the coffee of her daughter, a little girl, and from her she heard that her son, the boy_ at the ba had thrown a quantity of precipitate powi which ~contained the water with win 'ee for breakfast, and that it caused hr tingharn: Can you tell the reason wh into the jug e made the uch a wic —had you chastised' him, or given him any cause to be provoked with you ? Mrs. Fitzjames, None that lam aware of—he has certainly been a bad boy. and has, on different occasions, abstracted money and other property . M rs. Fi tz j ames man i fested great disin clination to disclose all the circumstances, and Inspector Hornsby was sworn, and s a id th a t M rs . Fi tz j ames, w h en giving the boy into custody, mentioned that the boy had attempted to poison hip master; and her infant, of three months old, was then in a dying state, from precipitate powder and broken glass,. which the boy had mixed up in its food. On being questioned by Mr. Cottingham, the bov trumped up some story about a man named Jones having given him arsenic, which he told him would kill his mother, and he would then get her money. The boy refused, according to his own account, to take the poison, and denied having administered any to his mother. He was remanded for a week. CONSEQUENCES OF DRUNKENNESS.—Mr. Smart, a a respectable tradesman of Judd-street, Brunswick square, charged his wife, at the Clerkenwell Police Court, on Saturday with threatening his life. The defendant, the wreck of a beautiful woman, was assisted into the prisoners' box, her emaciated frame shaking in a most alarming and painful manner. Her husband stated that for many years he had been married to the accused, who had borne him a large family, seven of whom are still living. She had deserted her home for intoxicating liquors frequently, and he had as often forgiven her, notwith standing he was at the same time in danger of his life. On the previous day, whilst drunk, she made an attack on him, threatening to do him a serious injury, and, for the protection of himself and children, he had reluctantly . given her into custody. The magistrate asked the de fendant if she wished to make any remark? She looked imploringly at her husband, and exclaimed, "Oh forgive me, and henceforward I willnever take spirituous liquors!" The Clerk: You have frequently made a similar promise. —Defendant: But this time—the last time—l solemnly swear that I will reform—that henceforward no one shall have occasion to find fault with me.—The Magistrate: Have you any complaint against your husband ?—Defend ant (lifting up her hands): Complaint! Oh, no! he is the best of husbands; and how awful that I should thus disgrace him, and myself, and poor children! "But," added she looking at her husband, "will you once again receive me beneath your roof? Will you bless me with a home again, that I may have an opportunity to be grateful to you, and to bless you and my poor children?"—Com plainant (crying): I will forgive you, and forget all if you do as you say. The prisoner was then discharged, and led out of the court by her husband. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY.—OH Tues day, the special general meeting of this society, held in the School Room in the Borough-road, was crowded with members, &c. There were present Earls Walde grave, Burlington, Fitzwilliam, and Chichester, Lord Monteagle, the Bishop of Norwich, Dr. Lushington, Sir G. Rose, and a great number of clergymen and members of deputations from auxiliary societies. The meeting had been looked forward to with great anxiety, it being to elicit from the governors and committee their opinion whether they intended to receive the government educa tional grant or repudiate it. The chair was taken by Mr. S. Gurney, and the business was commenced by Mr. Dunn, the secretary, explaining to the meeting why they had been called together; after which the Rev. J. Burnett, who spoke at considerable length against the reception of the grant, to receive which he thought would compromise their independence, moved a resolution to the effect, that " the society should remain neutral from expressing an opinion, and rely on its own efforts for its support." Mr. Alexander seconded the proposed resolution. Dr. Lush ington, in a speech of great argumentative power, replied to the gentlemen who had preceded him, and moved an amendment that the _ meeting, approving the course hitherto adopted by the committee in reference to go vernment aid, and relying on their expressed determina tion to maintain the principle of independence of the society, deemed it best for the interests of the institution to confide to the discretion of the committee the accept ance or rejection of any further aid from the state. The amendment having been seconded by Lord Monteagle, and supported by Mr. J. Labouchere, the Bishop of Nor wich, and others, was put from the ohair, and carried by an overwhelming majority. HAIL Stroms.—While accounts of the state of the crops and of vegetation generally have recently been so favourable, we regret we have this week to record the effects of lightning and hail storms of unprecedented severity, experienced by the inhabitants of Outwell, Up well, Emneth, Watton, and Warple. On the afternoon of Friday the 28th ult., between five and six o'clock, the state of the weather threatened a thunder storm, which, about half-past five, broke over the. district of the country embracing the above-named places. .The storm was indeed of unusual violence, accompanied with hail, or rather falling ice, which has proved most destructive to the crops in this district, and also to other property. At Outwell the electric fluid did considerable damage to the house of Mr. Booth, the female servant receiving i" cli Glass in all directions has been demoliffbcd' - onservatory at Beaupr6 Hall, the residenc e , P---1 I 0 injury ownley. The storm proceeding 01 1, raged over that village with terrific v iolence deuces of its destructive power extending for about a mile. Much of the wheat is cut down, and the fruit trees are actually cut to pieces. In the south of the church; the windows are entirely destroyed, the r esidences of Mr. Samson and Mr. Thomas Bird having not a single pane of glass left entire. The cottages of the humbler recifionts in the vilifirres *have sign aniTered. Large pieces or ice were pICKCU up, or unusual weigut. storm passing onward to Watton and Warple, left Wis bech, subject only to heavy rains, accompanied with much thunder and lightning. A. ship, which has subgequently. nun n+PrPti fitP chwvn no ;4- A•nrn. le imag eurntance of its being imps , the deck without shelter, fro; I.which fell. Throughout the he men to keep districts subjected to this injury has been sustained. ful visitation we tear mu and lire stock of that beeu • - wanton] beeri destroied with inuslietry prices were givii I by the eleetrie'fluid at - Cainbrid hronlel, ing woman, named Lucy Garlock, of the Worship-street Police-court, on Saturda Mr. Broughton, charged with tity' of property treet, City care-worn: look- placed at the bar laying stolen a large quan nislied apartments she had low lady named: Edwards , The complainant stated louse foi out Si /c Da gentle' Lected with some time fo hare become in" se of a had resided in t family of th, )w ever, the prisoner ajppc Our 'informant says, how far it answerec but if it did, and the present heat continues, th ovens will be put out of use, as the folks will bal annot say cakes on the door step, and ft walls.—Leeds Intelligencer. TOMB OF THE PROPHET Ent Chaldean side of the river, and otter a village called .Zeit-ehiyah, with steaks on the top of ston —On the Muntifil, few pain Ind a ruined mosque, and beyond this wa; • the for interesting object on the lower 1.1 6 .. celebrated Jewish scribe and priest Ezra ; who, about the y e ar B.c. 458, led the second expe di t i on of the Jews back f r om the Babylonian exile into Palestine. The tomb is ol the form common t c al dome, roofed ). imams of the ioleuni, and over the door surmounts a square are two tablets of black in the Hebrew be mat a:trrounded b it in the enclosure grows tt Etary palm mment as seen from the , had a striking ap: the sun shone upon Jerusalem to cause of t known in the pl.( certainly on the way to Si Ezra died and was buried at alem with gr licence, but the traditions of with T4lmudic grimag43-to the tor. occasion this state thky al Answorth's Ascent of the Tigris .y return to the iney i zreat bl insure hiir emptied i this barb, who, h glass of chinguiritc n, which compels a father to ref the mofhe the Wall pidly during th Ives out to ' , Dorn, as if envying the aleel of him )tested, beneath the faded flu Praser's mts profanation of death ❑other medies wotil :I's hod n the ust Amid be throN;n into the v rer to y serve the colour ord Ward has just paid to the Prim 1049 for four pictures of acknowledged f Caning . One i Dy Fra Angelici;, mid represents the Last Judgment ; and another is a sketch from the hand of Rembrand . John Preaching in the Wilderness DEPLORAw -On Smut ACCIDENT ruing a boat ng to Cape Clear, which was returning after a day's was run down by one of the Government steamers T Cape Cle about three wee lamb, or found a brute of a man under the bed ; f he came, gasping away, crying out, " Who the matter, Caroline ?" and five Miss Betsy sauntered, as leisurely as if nothing hannened. " The" matter !" I cried, pulling off the bed- minutes afterwards heß s t, that was sow might have wrung i Look I hen I let it go.:1 fell will a flop upon the had been a batter-puddinv late with the wet 3ay if it isn't li like to sleep upon it all night, as there isn't another in the are the only sheets that to lie Upon - to-night, for 3etsy there, she must not only think fit to give 11 the clean ones I had home from the wash this to the first person that chose to come and ask but to make the thing complete, she must needs ,nd just becausi m wicked you! you'll be the dead me. you will! How vot to stand there and look me - it :pest ti floor to open and swallow and how you, to( tinued, turning to Mr. Sk—n--st—r s a common cab: )cried into he grave it that , wicked woman, and not send her about moment, is beyond my limited Greatest Plague of Life, in all t Ind out of five men on board, four were , meu of Bradford, after hay ns 15s. for places at the ;ht ago, have just been in- Al man, named John Skinner, arced with the wilful murder uesday last ; by throwing her out of an pper-room window, a height of thirty or forty feet, into Ile street. of his wife, • on 'I FEATS OF A GOOSEBERRY GROWER.—Benjamin But: terworth, of Broad-lane, Castleton, Rochdale, aged 64 years, has been a gooseberry grower thirty years, during which he has won 84 copper kettles, 14 brass pans, 2 sil ver cups, 2 sets'of silver teaspoons, 2 gardening spades, 1 pig, 1 ham, 1 metal tea-pot, and a silver cream-jug. He has also won as many as 103 prizes in one year. _ A dreadful murder was committed in Kidderminster, on Sunday morning, on a brewer, named Phillpotts, by a journeyman ironmonger named Lloyd. The deceased and prisoner had been drinking at several public-houses, and had quarrelled. When they were going home, and Lloyd was at his door, he aimed a blow at Phillpotts with a clasp iinife, severing the windpipe. The prisoner is in custody. lge, was on rived in the ' she wa The wheat with whi dered for sale. No necessary to for his willeaf easily have obtained four satisfied with that p: leculati macie for it. There were nd, if the owner should tine .e, he will not get more than ; ng a reduction of 35 laden was on Monday ter clu what Ile cou •acter broke ( jug to • Mess he Lai road, Lambeth Nlaudsley The engines prompt t supply of water obtained fro mains, which v (. - littered over the burning prerni ontinued to progress right and L greatestthe vehemence, and before two o'clock it 1 tendd to the boiler shops, the-pattern stores, t lofts, the smiths' shop, and several other conipar Each of these buildings was filled with goods va many thousand pounds. At one period, every h Gibson-street, _Kynasto . n 7 street, and the surround: appeared doomed to destruction. o'clock, however, owing to the indefatiga, the fireten, all danger of any further ext flames was at an end, but they were far extinguished. The great loss to the firm 10 destruction of the pattern lofts, with their valuable ca tents. Here were stowed away the patterns of vario castings—some of the most valuable and intricate descri tion—made during the last 20 years. The cast of th , patterns alone is said to have exceeded X 250,000 scarcely a vestige has been saved of au: £lie property was ipsired for XlO,OOO exertic from being er one of t irtment on t her rent, which was gr 1 that the place had been cc cle that could be convenie up on precediug day to demand ly in arrear, surprised to ripped of even' off. it beini tematic ain! policeman w number ofwdupli .e produced by tb e. dr. Broughton ivi ?r, who could gi!le !omit of 1 A resp pects, was in e person, the forward, a"' Sat the 1 quenc rifidelity ittended proft her hinba a short time to but she soon left her and her infant with lid they had since undergon e : ivation, although she clain i°- le property in her own rig ht, ancery suit is now pending: was certainly a very distr ess to commit the prisoner u p o n induce some of her friends to torward.ed ; and snake ample restitution for the pro of she had purloined in which case, as the prisoner did. o° f _ :e appear to have absconded, he should dispose summar l Y ° d the charge under the Pawnbrokers Act. The prisoner; who appeared greatly affected at her situation', and 'KO" bitterly, was thee removed to the cells. cting which a Cl alitoit said that i 1 mg case, but it was his dut , the charge unless she could