The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

Oct. 24 1813. %as._ ERAL MISCELLANY gd. ;-•'• ray .....,,, " 1 li guff e : ne regret to s .r. ' l og under very '1 " " - k°131 ack is the Provost elect n I„:4ciarlan having retired in his f li t . " Lk s . r „ "so, „_, . uF THE COACHES.— lto t o n o ch that had been left on the A k ~,,1 1e ! u (the Prince of Wales) ce; I ;it orn " ~,dlleS day the first stone of t '1 11 lici„ ...", ° use at Ipswich was laid b, Pal Authorities. 444 111 4, Br ead -isltr:e! Ward scruti n y en d e d on Thursday by v kr. ii,? l , Ar. Lawre nce , an d th e consequent re "R4'Rt'goes Hughes as Ald erman . ittL C . a LlTlA.—Friday's G aze tte announces 'Ray rnwaMil Legh, Esq has been appointed Captain . I'L , al Cheshire Militia ' , vice Parker, deceased. sehtlsehti4tt‘..the present time in a garden at Southport beis it ° h ° l e I's. Heath, a fine bed of strawberries, quite lis ge b Nis second crop this year. v.i..,thoopeat was formally prorogued on Thursday to ntis,,h"overnber. It is expected to meet for despatch 4 11pru te hts e t arlY in January. I%ll'°returcensus of Scotland, 126,300 natives of lre -46.9 Of t ed as residing in that country, and 37,000 flie n glnd. itlw in • la, tlir ou ,,,!_of winter wheat is fast being brought to a Ztim e Pout the north of England ; a more propitious kl/411,:i1p h g gout not been known for years. h : . en assisti ng at the mess of the' 52nd depot at 8! lit Nth": bar e received notice to prep a re th e i r co ffi ns , or f ' ack l tu S. 'a a k.." o le c„ l'Al ' OP' MIDDLESEX.—The total rental of Iti t 7itist e ' nt Y of Middlesex, as given at the present kt , 4k o ar, sessions, is £7,561,330, being an increase h hbk 'last year of £1,581,922. Or. t e t teTtosr.—We lent n from Kendal that the iiittleitlngiaotueyreesrite, who comes out in the Whig-Radical k , t trawl , ' will be opposed by Dr. Sleigh, on in- S c 44 Yor us ' tt t4 441 0 ,, of Doncaster has returned the whole of his 11. •, hY the Town Council to that body, and all t . 14,401Itert:ed during his mayoralty have been borne 10 44 _ Purse. IN ea!" AC CIDENT.—On Monday last a serious viiidi44rred at the Pasture-hill Colliery, whereby i i ;•..f, "Ma lost th e i r li ves b y a su dd en i n fl ux o f 11. 14Z" Paper. in nkl e talh2 A LPAlLlTE.—We regret to learn the failure Clil it f e 7t house town, extensively engaged in the 7.1 0 ,,,_ Its liabilities are said to be about £lOO,OOO. "wirie r , ‘ l ttitie ' • 11-Res io l4 Highland sheep has received a new impe- Tlllte communication between Aberdeen and Hull. iliittir , .°: a dozen to twenty as a treat at Christmas i t h tt " andred per week are now received. i is h ibt,„ 4 e * eil i the Marylebone revising barritter, de iletthew'9u favour of retaining on the registry the Ociali62.ldow-tax collectors, as not coming within Ntak,4B on of the 29th George 111. c. 41. 044:eurrio."—It is announced that the cur ofo,,,o; this periodical will be the last under the Niefiekirt_ tendence. It is stated that the editor and 10 oi s l are to withdraw, and it will henceforth be 4, 14 "her principles. 4',, to a V S PALACE, OCT. 10.—The Queen has been 14Q 1 , 1.494 a Elizabeth Marchioness of Douro to be 1% 4 1, i h lies ' In bedchamber in ordinary to her . ' a room of Charlotte Duchess of Norfolk, 11 4 'e:teq ue „ 4 1 1: 10. , 1 4 , v . ~ .ce of the late proclamation respecting h‘lt ko°_,bankers of Derby have issued a notice that kca. Iltendercedereign' 111 4 1 ? ligh l :"Y, they will be obliged to deduct sixpence and threepence for every half , 44 14 _ t , t 0 RioTs.—Three men, inhabitants of Cro- I N.!! a t hl't week apprehended and lodged in jail ',V,,,hresir„g e of being connactee wit'a the Resolis (ls m'lttucg open the prison of Cromarty, during li e i :l t s ki , 4 auc es.—lnverness Crurier. k : ' c oroh tEs E.—Last week, at Mr. Ferrand's sale , oi ntie ;:er f... - A. ur Rochdale), a goose 21 years of age, ' 1 1( 1 1 ; ° *te (1,", Years old, came under the hammer. 4 .. ° 4 ve become the property of Mr. Albert 1 4 14 % ii 4 4 4 iikok e si . 4 OW —Oa Saturday last Mr. Dearden t t4ill, ° llii 8 t the Jolly Carter's public-house, Heady e4bo;;ltio,i °u the body of Ann, the wife of James l'lleh'lkkiii e a,PPeared, had been killed by a cow, near 'sh opease,e "'muse. e or to % G u ., Ito tell game give power to sell it only at 11,1.015p211144 1 ' A poulterer of Exeter was summoned iiiii 4 ; 11 0 Tuesday, for selling game at differ- Joh t itiao":: one license ; ani the bench signified 1ti 41 4 ts "' enforcing the law strictly on this head. ,liik 41" +lam. Vika :key h.. %S. a young tradesman, twenty-four Oith‘,llfor: been committed to Newgate, charged 'A anet,nnier of his wife, by administering to seh'lrti o ' i c° consent, drugs for the purpose of pro 17t4Itt!ll TWA T ills at tIInONTAL UNION.—On Saturday, Oct.. .h . , ,w_ Methodist Chapel, Hunslet, Benjamin ) 1 4 1 4 0 4 4 4 ,ti0r2 . 3 United, before the Marriage Registrar, ,oa aa q r 017,.. his step-mother, his father having only t'lliiiiittlouths. The brideroom is in his 20th L 4 1 44 ep-naother and brides, in her 38th year. IN h a °l WA GES.—On the 11th instant, Messrs. chitlfisid:lcastle, and Co., f anc y manufacturers, Hof we de an advance of tw o pe nce a y ar d in 1, m ro t r i . l o the h! t e h m e p v l a oy ri . ous fa i b s rics they make, to all ot, s b , ii t ,, , r Th advance was totally (1, tpLhis,„ k x- - -This tax, it is now ascertained, will Vit'ell he of £5 100,000 per year. Sir Robert NO -'e introduced measure , estimated it, t._.4 Thistaxcthis . A I d eoti _ is now in the regular course of h • e p er Zquently augments the revenue nearly it tli h er . 9 rter.—Standard. ,k rk te arner on Sunday brought over from Lon ivktreottu. hundred paupers, and landed the unfor itiliii the on the quay ' penniless, shivering with Nat ty - 0 Most pitiable state it is'possible to con -liNtt th e i r the miserable beings had spent the greater vil e : op Ives in England. V I M tip‘RE P EGASUS.—A few days ago a bottle k el hi t , a p i g !' Waborne, on the Norfolk coast, which it 0 1, 1, i i ; c° ,, °f Paper on which the following had 11 1 24,;%, -,a,1 Probability by the gentleman whose 1 4, 11 8! '„ a `to, cost at the last moment:—" Pegasus— kkt4 k ad It e l i r 8 !inking! The bottle's empty,—'twill k V i tr ", so B , into eternity ! . Farewell h !- T ELT T o h st e . s ' e ' iti ll: t t z i c ''i a w r e o e n n g w a restored to in theirlis Ross-shire. re. grievances re. S st i: tli tlee l ll we cannot get w y ithhold our sympathy in the 041 4 Pla t a hich so many of the Highland tenantry ii ieir The landlords will yet see cause to lint'Ci ai tulwise resolution to refuse sites for 14'ttett I , 9°l ° Argus. tte Wii t ' s q• has been elected Tseasurer for the ki_tor B c a t tl the room of W. W. Salmon, Es., (Vo n ro auner attempted to throw syme blame . lk , li t i,C,l'. m F c ominunicatinc , his intentions to his li tpt l y cisi o : ci e 'rd before it was announced at the Ses- \ Will i h ,s,oIP stood alone in the Court as he un -Itil\!hievcol'' Loe county. ,k\ti,:usen s '''''ENT OF THE BE RGESSEg OF WIND- i , „,, ti n iallence of nearly 200 of the burgesses of i atll l ,4 ,B",4lected to pay the borough rate, made liti ce lea r they last, the whole of their names t. bekter°4l b g list at the revision which N u t he mayor and assessors on the 13th 1 41 4 thp ( fi t „ ed _ r i _ 4 1 t. Pa tae inot another instance in this kingdom isr, It i s ,t 1 to one in the Chain Cable Factory. k t Ikkeleeti in at of a workman, a smith, who, though h. k il :l4 l ,,Pro ro Y e t ars, is able . to work for and earn his k i l iktlkti tl la n at u babas and appearance,_ a Nas uey oo urst sight to be above /0 : lie is now I's '-' 0 4 year 4 0 4 , mu - S. ‘I th e t C' 'Went 11 " R. —A man of the name of Bryan l ltt 4 " e lkhi over to Dublin from Manchester to 1441tisZ tow o rn :et;og at Clontarf, has been arrested . k. 11, allti assists u!1 committed for triai on a charge ot i pa..._d in the wilful murder of the late 4 :1, "cett, o r li, kl , the Queen's county, in the year ‘ f or lt kb k lr k Y,ll l 4 Tho r , October 16.—The public sales an- W h t t e th ere - i d a y Check private business in the Tea t Le 44 toi t a: so me interest manifested to see wha 'VI, ig e • The to Price. The last overland mail t. 4; t 1, , , , r ,44 7 .I).s. 4leiveetrhieiss day week, beingconsumption e Q1)11 ' to4N '' . ...'eceding six weeks. k 4 ii i li tivil i l .lat th 'LAW LANDLORD.—We are given to klp_lit t Jatu a ,.! tenantry on the farms belonging to vr„,p of are disgusted at the appearance and ili t h li'lW trte u _c2.r noble landlord at the Donca . ster ir %Bay th e 'LluF , at Doncaster :—" He has raised NI °c t" t ., s Y , and now lie is linking himself tt144 %8 ii , i ur a repeal of the Corn Laws I" 1 1 ,ti, thi s 0 ';'3lr,iit. STEAMER.—We are gratified to 1) 11 712 4 4 oro.P.:endicl vessel, besides her other boats, lOy ht 'eet j o l 7 e d with two excellent life boats. These I ,4l k4 ( W l i til °Ple zoc n i ! . th, l 6 h f e e y e a t r 2 e inches ie abiroroandn, andunder n w de il r l \1 4 :%14 1 11 h ;ill ec r ° 9di and would float with fifteen i .h. i h sit i % t with water.—Glasgow paper. k"l6, l tb fi er boti e :7's-The London Times of Thurs. tl e i e I l o i l l th e ? 6 o ff r e r r e t spnders th ` e ' Nl r ' e e se c n a t n st i a n t s e e o rt f i ktl4lttatZ e t'. the mere arl ' men a it on of p any subject \kk Ito. effects to excite a spirit of contentious It I's r ,miseu,,,• ° a4 obviates any good that might I's 4 , 11 .i oil , P isi, titZPirl,A4n:'.."-The Glasgow Herald suggests L'k,, ~,,110 , orati- , : the miller's lease of Burns's Cot- V, 41, ''ltes, ti l l:10 ,f the Ayr shoemakers should keep &•\ the e c -t urd of the West, in view as their k, 5 , ,k ° 410 1 -Ice e °` some of our most admired lyrics •W bi rtk Per by profession, but there could be k it.'l46ur_u:Place of one poet being tenanted by Nttk::t; t l l 3...„,c Pap er. 118 1pL i k mace need not say that an elopemen q t t l i t tegersi ° to this count Devon) has been ki 4 i e tt i tzt, t h h e eaca°e"aert:ation during the past fortnight. .04 , 11 es btu, exceedingly distressing.. The l i iikil,ithiet the f band and six children, with a mar -01 t th e y t 0 theher of eight children. Her bus 1111.4ist w as north onshooting expedition, 184 . 1 b! 1 ' h. a PPris d of a he flight of his wife. 1 0 4 t 444 4 %1- w s if e is "d home, and t learnd tat she had . te t ip), , 0( i. her seducer, ' whom she had fol ey 6 , accompanied him thence to Liver gm embarked for America.—Exete severe illn linburg 1 frOm Bris- , sed new Mayor and THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. RUMOURED CAPTURE OF DOBSON, THE MURDERER. Yesterday night Mr. Leach, the constable of Hudders field, came to Halifax with the glad news (which we hope there is From liisstatement it would appear that iry reason to bel bcurhood.—Halifax Guardian Satur- MATCH FOR ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS.—ID a match for the above sum, p.p., which came off at Newmarket on Saturday, Lord George Bentinck's Captain Cook (S. Ro gers)beat Mr. Sainsburv's . Chotornion (Mann). 7to 4 the bushes, and beaten in a canter by I 5 lengths. The trainer of Chortonion incurred a penalty by riding with the horses i❑ the early part of the race. Asa further and gratifying proof of the improvement in this country, we are happy to state that great activity prevails at this time at the Great Western Cotton Factory, hi this city, to meet the demand for piece goods in the Irish, Northern, and London markets, where the fabrics of the above company are much in request. Between 1700 and 1800 hands are not only fully employed at the Works, but they are also obliged to pursue their opera tions during part of the night. 2 Brislol Journal. Some of Galileo's manuscripts, presumed to have been lost or burnt by order of the Inquisition, have been found at Florence, among the archives of the Palazzo Pitti. The Foreign Quarterly Review says :—" The manuscripts be sides being objects of curiosity, are likely to be useful to astronomical science, inasmuch as they contain informa tion respecting the eclipses of former tiones,—a course of the satellites of Jupiter, subjects to which Galilee directed great attention." LATE CARLISLE BANK.—The creditors of Messrs. Forster and Co., bankers, Carlisle, will be glad to learn that a further dividend is expected early in the ensuing year. The estate has already paid 12s. in the pound ; and it was stated to the Commissioner at the Newcastle District Bankruptcy Court, that by Whitsuntide the whole of the estate uncollected will be realised, and a further sum of about £15,000 will be divided among the creditors. On Monday the Earl of Lincoln, accompanied by Mr. Brnnel and Mr. Cubitt, inspected the Middlesex side of the river, from Vauxhall Bridge to Battersea Bridge, to ascertain the most eligible plan for the embankment of the river. Mr. Brunel was provided with the levels and plans that he had lately made at the request of government. There will be a carriage road alongside the river from Battersea Bridge to the two Houses of Parliament. — Globe. BANK OF ENGLAND.—Quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of England, from the 15th day of July to the 7th day of October, 1843, both in clusive : ASSETS LIABILITIES Circulation .... £19,561,000 I Securities Deposits 11,466,000 1 Bullion.. £31,027,000 £22,193,000 12,078,000 £34,271,000 THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND.—The direc tors of this bank have this week made a call for 30s. per share, amounting altogether to £6 10s. per share on 25,000 shares, every shilling of which is lost. The total loss in this concern is more than £3oo.ooo—indeed, with interest much exceeds that sum. The entire liabilities are now reduced to £71,000. When the bank stopped payment, they exceeded £1,400.000. The suspension took place in June, 1840. THE BRITISH QUEEN STEAMER.—Between six and seven o'clock on Wednesday evening, during the height of the storm, as the British Queen steamer was at the tail of the bank, on her passage across from Greenock to Helens burgh, it was found that she was making so much water as to render a continuance of the •oyage dangerous, and she was immediately put about fur Greenock Harbour. All the passengers, together with the crew, were landed in safety, and in a moment or two after the vessel sank. The chief cause of the accident is supposed to have been the Queen's coming against a small rock.—Scotch Reformers' Gazette. A THIEF HUNTED OUT.—Mr. Higgins, of Misterton, having been informed, on Sunday se'nnight, by his shep herd, that one of his fat sheep had been stolen during the night, immediately took his dog, a remarkably good one, of the sheep breed, to the fold, and the dog struck off the scent, and ran in a straight direction to the shepherd's house, where a part of the_ mangled sheep was found. Mr. Higgins at once charged his shepherd and another man who resides with him (and whose clothes he disco vered were bloody) with the theft. They were both fully committed to Taunton gaol to take their trial at the next assizes.—Somerset County Gazette. DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE HUMDER.—SIX LIVES LOST.—On Tuesday night, about ten or eleven o'clock, the Three Sisters, Maltby, master, was lying at anchor off Sunk Island, when she was run down by the fishing smack William and Richard, Hodge, master, dur ing a dark night and stormy weather. The master and mate of the Three sisters succeeded in saving their lives by clinging to the William and Richard as it was passing over their keel, but we regret to state that Maltby's wife, who was on deck at the time, and his five children, who were in the cabin, all perished.—Hull Packet. FALSE REGISTRATIONS OF DEATHS.—It has recently been discovered that a system of fraud has been carried on to a great extent in the metropolis by a set of designing persons who have falsely registered the deaths of individuals who may be pensioners of the East India Co., or annuitants of other public companies, in order that they might obtain the usual gratuity given for information of their deaths, and also, in many of the alleged cases, representing that the deceased persons had left large and destitute families, which has led to the granting of some allowance, either for the immediate support of the survivors, or on account of the supposed funeral expenses. An application was made on Saturday week, to the ma gistrates at the Mansion House, London, on behalf of the unfortunate Duke of Normandy and bis wife and family of eight children. The duke is now confined for debt in Horsemonger-lane Gaol, and both he and his family are starving. It was stated that the unfortunate man's claim as dauphin of France is undoubted, and that the strength of it was the cause that the French government repudiated him. Alderman Johnson ordered some assistance to be rendered from the poor box, and requested the reporters to publish the application, in the hope that the public would voluntarily assist the unfortunate prisoner. COMMITTAL OF A DISSENTING MINISTER AND HIS SON, FOR BODY STEALING.—On Thursday last, the Rev. Isaac Bridgeman, the Minister of a Dissenting Chapel at Walworth, whose case has been several times before the Court, was finally examined, with his son, a medical pupil, before Mr. Cottingham, at the Union Hall Police Office, on a charge of having removed the coffin and dead body of the late Mr. Tawney from the burial-ground of Mr. Bridgeman's chapel. Both the defendants were held to bail for their appearance to take their trials at the next Old Bailey Sessions for the misdemeanour.—Leeds paper. APPROACH OF WINTER.—On Tuesday morning, Ri vington Pike and the hills adjacent, appeared to be thickly co7ered with snow. The Welsh hills also wear the ap pearance of winter. At Burton last week, and on Mon day at Ulverston, there were heavy falls of snow. In Scotland the excessive rains and boisterous winds have also been succeeded by cold dry winds and occasionally severe frost and snow. The country generally begins to wear a wintry aspect. The Westmoreland hills are co vered with snow, and the grouse shooters have in conse quence forsaken their employment. BELL AND STEEPLE.—The law adviser of the Irish government bas given an opinion, that there is no law to prevent the erection of bells in Roman Catholic chapels in Ireland. In England, there is a law which grants to leration to Roman Catholic priests on certain conditions ; but there is an express reservation, that those immunities shall not be enjoyed by priests who worship in buildings having a bell and steeple. We believe it is this enactment which prevents a striking clock being placed under the steeple of the Roman Catholic Chapel in Cookridge-street, in Leeds.—Leeds Intelligencer. SERIOUS ACCIDENT :TO LORD SHERBOURNE.—We regret to hear that a serious accident occurred to Lord Sherbone on Saturday morning last. His lordship was riding out, accompanied by Mr. William Harvey, of Brad well-grove, and the Hon. John Dutton, when his horse suddenly shied and plunged furiously, by which his lord ship was thrown with violence to the ground, breaking his collar-bone and two ribs. Messengers were immediately despatched for surgical assistance, which was promptly rendered, and we are happy to hear, by the latest accounts from Sherborne, that his lordship is progressing, though but slowly, towards recovery.—Chellenham Chronicle, THE BANK OF MANCHESTER.—There was a meeting on Friday of the proprietors of this bank, when a report was read. It appears that there are still liabilities to the amount of about £400,000, and that to meet this another call of £2 per share will be necessary, and a call for that sum was agreed upon. Mr. Burdekin, as it already ap pears, took with him about £lO,OOO of the funds of the bank. The present call is caused by the winding up of several large accounts, much more unfavourably than was anticipated, especially those of Hiltons, of Darwen, and Joseph Raleigh, of Manchester, with which concerns the bank was a creditor for nearly £200,000. The proprietors will thus lose nearly, if not altogether, one million sterling. FIRE AT SUTTON HALL—On Saturday morning last about nine o'clock, flames were observed to issue from a barn, forming part of the farm buildings adjoining Sutton Hall, the mansion of Joseph White, Esq., near Chester. An engine was obtained from Hooton, and messengers were dispatched to Chester for further assistance. Mr. Hill, with the Fire Police and their powerful engine, be longing to this city, set off at a q - uarter past ten o'clock and arrived at Sutton, a distance of eight miles, in 25 minutes. So rapid had been the progress of the devas tating element, that the whole of the farm buildings, ataining a quantity of wheat and oats, were destroyed ; cheese, after a good deal of exertion, was saved ; and efforts of the Chester Police successfully prevented COI th th th c fire from communicating with the Hal'. - - A LITTLE BOY POISONED AT PLAY.—OD Sunday last some little boys were playing together near Wakefield, when two of them, called Willian Spawforth and James Wood, the one aged 12 and the other 10 produced a liquor in a small bottle, which they called Spanish juice. water, and poured some of it down Francis Lumb's throat. Spawforth's grandmother having left home for the day, he took the opportunity of searching her cupboard for a file, when a playfellow who was with him, found a bottle containing oil of vitriol used for dyeing silks, which he tasted, and finding that it blistered his l►ps offered it to other lads apparently for a joke, telling them it was Spanish juice water. The unfortunate deceased, more confiding than the rest, swallowed a small quantity, and although every effort was used to destroy the effect of the poison, he died the following morning. The deceased was about five years of age. The two lads were appre hended and remained in custody till the Coroner's in quest, when a verdict being returned of " Died from tak ing oil of Vitriol not knowing what it was," they were liberated. DEBBY CLUB Fort LADIES!—The present rage for speculation on the turf, and the great success which has attended the establishment of Derby lotteries, has sug• y of a highly-r spectable tav a favourable opportunity it mettle, determined to form j softer sex were qualified for , or th-; government of th , rid it was resolved that the DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—EIGHT PERSONS DROWNED. TWO FISHING-BOATS LOST.—MONTROSE. Oct. 11.—It is our painful duty to record the loss of eight fishermen belonging to Ferryden, this morning, between two and three o'clock, about 18 miles off the land, in consequence of the wind, which was gently at N.E. by N. having, in an instant, chopped round to S., whence it blew with ter rific fury, and capsized two fishing-boats, from which five men out of six belonging to the first, were rescued by another boat which was close by at the time ; but the se cond crew, consisting of seven individuals, all met a watery grave. They have left nineteen orphan child ren and fourwidows. In the last mentioned boat was James West, master, his son, and a young man, who was to be married next week to West's daughter, NARROW ESCAPES.—On Monday evening, the lfith of October, during a severe gale from the south-west, the smack Yeoman's Glory, belonging to Mr. Gill, M.P., Plymouth, went to Mevagissey Bay for shelter. Having no ballast on board, her crew possessed little control over her, and she unfortunately ran into the fishing-boat Mary, However, the fluke of the smack's anchor hooked the boat's gunwale and enabled the owner, John Andrew, aged 63, and his mate, Thomas Lee, 78, to get out just before she went down. The smack conveyed the poor men to Plymouth the next morning, when they were re ceived by the officers of that useful institution, the Ship wrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society. On the even.. ing of the 17th John Andrew, who is a a stranger to Ply. mouth, fell over the Custom-house quay, but the tide being low, the water reached only to his waist, and he thus escaped death by drowning a second time in twenty_ four hours. GALVANIC ELECTRICITY.—The .galvanic apparatus made by Messrs Kemp, of the South-bridge, was on Fri nay last again successfully asplied to the simultaneous ignition of a number of shots for the purpose of disinte grating a large mass of stone in the quarry of Rosyth Castle, about two miles above the Queensferry. The shots were arranged in a line along a ledge of rock 70 feet long, 9 feet broad, and between 7 and 8 feet thick. Being loaded with moderate charges of gunpowder, and connected by the conducting wires with a large and powerful galvanic battery, and all the other preliminary preparations effected, immediately on completing the galvanic circle, 11 shots, which had been charged with about 351 b. of gunpowder, were instantaneously fired, and so great was the concen trated power of the simultaneous explosions, that the whole mass in front of the bores was instantly separated from contiguous rock ; the separated portion containing a mass of not less than 3,780 cubic feet of stone, and weigh ing upwards of 260 tons.—Edinburgh Witness. ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE ON LONDON BRIDGE.--OD Thursday afternoon a most desperate attempt at suicide was made at London-bridge, by a soldier belonging for merly to the Royal Artillery. He precipitated himself head foremost from the parapet. In his descent he came with his breast first against the buttress of the bridge, and fell into the water, nearly into a boat which was passing at the time, in which was a custom-house officer. The soldier rose to the surface, and was immediately seized by the person in the boat, and brought ashore. He was taken to St. Thomas's Hospital, when lie was able to state that his name was John O'Brien, and that he for merly belonged to the 7th battalion of the Royal Artil lery, but that ten days since he was discharged for mis conduct. He was immediately examined by the surgeon, who discovered that his breast-bone was broken, and that his face was greatly contused. On Thursday evening he was in a state of delirium, and was not expected to live through the night. WHAT Is THE. END OF CORN-LAW AGITATION.—The following very happy exposition of the fraudulent fallacies of the Anti-Corn-Law Leaguers, was lately made by a noble lord at an agricultural meeting in Suffolk—Lord Rendlesharn—who so justly represents one of the divisions of that county. His remarks were to this effect :—" I cannot for the life of me understand to what end the corn law agitation is directed. Is it to raise the price of corn, or is it to reduce it ? If it be the object to raise the price of corn, where is the gain to the manufacturer? If it be the object to reduce the price, why tell the farmers that free trade will undoubtedly give them a higher price for their corn, and their labourers better wages? If the price of corn be raised upon one class, it must clearly be raised upon all. How are the labourers to gain except at the expense of the farmers, and how are the farmers to gain at the cost of the community ; and how are manufacturers to gain and thing by a free trade in corn, if the effect of such change is to benefit the farmer and to raise the price of corn !" JUNCTION OF THE ATLANTIC AN PACIFIC OCEANS. —The contract entered into by the Barings, of London, with the republic of New Grenada, for the construction of a ship canal across the isthmus of Darien, provides for ceding to the company the line for the projected work, with 80,000 acres of land interior. These princely mer chants do not appear in this transaction as the agents of the British government officially ; but they are British subjects, protected by the government, and, doubtless, many important advantages will be secured to Great Bri tain, both political and commercial, by the completion of the vast work here projected. The completion of a ship canal between the two oceans thus projected will mark an era in the world's age. The event will stand forth to give a distinctive character to the century. It is to be a five years' work to endure for ever. The wh-'.e aspect of com merce will be changed by it. It will accelerate the revo lution now going on in China more rapidly and more thorougly than all the force of British armament, and not there only will it work changes, but in all Polynesia and Australasia, and the western coasts of South America, which are uow reached by doubling Cape Horn.—Balti more paper. DREADFUL CALAMITY.—CROMER, OCT. 11.—This morning, at about one o'clock, a gale suddenly rose, and at two it increased to a perfect hurricane. In the after noon of yesterday, as the weather was exceedingly fine and calm, a number of fishing boats, each containing a crew of four or five men, left Cromer in search of fish, and, as the elements were highly favourable, there is no doubt they went off to a gre.t distance, for in such cases they often push their voyage to an extent of forty or fifty miles. Many of these boats are open and undecked, and not more than twenty feet long, and the largest afford but very slight protection against the weather or other casu alties. This morning none of the number that went out were in sight, and, up to the present hour, two o'clock, p.m., nothing has been seen or heard of them. There is one melancholy exception —a boat which contained five men has been washed ashore at Backton. near Minsley ; one body only has been found, and there is not the least doubt but that the whole crew have found a watery grave. One poor fellow has left a wife and six children. It is difficult to ascertain the number of boats absent, but it is commonly said about twelve or fourteen. Their fate is, of course, doubtful, but very serious apprehensions are entertained on account of them. Some vessels are in sight, and one, apparently a large brig, has a signal of distress (a flag in her main rigging) flying. Messengers are sent out along the coast, and it is feared dreadful ac counts will be brought in in the morning. A vessel, the Friendship, from Goole, laden with chalk, has also come ashore at the same place, with a smaller kind of craft called a billybuoy, which was run ashore, and the mate, a Cromer man, lost his life. PRINCE ALBERT'S FARM.—Some two or three years since the Prince Consort purchased of the executors of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Glocester an im mense tract of land, extending over several thousands of acres, consisting principally of heath land, in the immediate vicinity of Bagshot, with a farm attached, known as the Rapley Farm. Upon this extensive property it is the in tention of his Royal Highness to try the experiment of breeding and rearing the blackcock, or cock of the woods, which is extremely plentiful in various parts of Scotland. The splendid live birds which were forwarded to the Prince as a present from the Duke of Hamilton about two months ago have been sent to his Royal Highness's do mains at Bagshot, where there is every probability that the experiment of rearing and breeding them will be as successful as can be desired. The blackcocks which were presented to the Prince were bred by the Duke of Hamil ton upon his Grace's estate in the Isle of Arrac, in the Frith of Clyde. On Monday afternoon, immediately after luncheon, her Majesty and Prince Albert left the Castle in a carriage and four for Swinley, about three miles from Bagshot, where the saddle horses had been previously sent from Windsor, and the Queen and the Prince pro ceeded from thence to Rapley on horseback, and rode over a considerable portion of his Royal Highness's property. The game was found to be extremely abundant, especially hares, not a gun having been fired on the Prince's estate during the season. Her Majesty and the Prince returned to Swinley, and from thence to the Castle in the royal carriage and four. It is the intention of Prince Albert to inclose and cultivate a considerable portion of his large property in the neighbourhood of Bagshot. Two INFANTS DRUGGED TO DEATH BY A SERVANT. —On Saturday evening last, a young mother was deprived of two young-children by the culpable, and indeed crimi nal, conduct of a servant. Tie facts are shortly these : Mrs. Rogers, of Bangor-street, Carnarvon, wife of Mr. Rogers. commercial traveller, being engaged in the shop, had entrusted her two female infant children, one eighteen, and the other four months old, to her two female domes tics, and, in the course of the night was much alarmed by one of them being in strong convulsions, and the other in a dying state. Medical aid was called in, and the ser vants subjected to a rigid examination, when one of them named Ellen Griffith, in whose charge the children were more immediately placed, stated that she had given to them a small portion of gin, in order to make them sleep, and that was all the explanation that could be extorted from her. In the course of the night both the children died. On an investigation before the Coroner, it turned out that the girl Griffith, in order to keep the children quiet, had given them nearly a pennyworth of laudanum, which she had purchased of a druggist. The .jury re turned a verdict of manslaughter agatnst Ellen Griffith and she was committed to the county gaol to take her trial at the next assizes. Circumstances have transpired, in connection with this event, to establish that the practice of servantA drugging infants committted to their charge, prevails to a very great extent in Carnarvon, and the neighbourhood, and particularly on Saturday nights, the usual time for courting, according to the custom of the country. One druggist made the degrading confession, that he generally dispensed laudanum to fifty or sixty ser. 'mit girls on a Saturday night. LEICESTERSHIRE.—SIIEARSLEY MURDER — it will be in the recollection of our readers that a person named Mes senger, hitherto residing at this place, and moving in a ,ossessed of trial at the that the body was not discovered until the reaping o the corn was let to some Irishmen, who, going over it, found the head of a man dreadfully mangled, and the body in a ditch about three yards otT. Several petitions for bail having been forwarded to the II ome-effice, the magistrates assembled in quarter-sessions on Tuesday last, received a communication; therefrom, authorizio t , accept bail to the amount of £2,ooo—viz., the prisoner himself in £l,OOO, and four sureties in £250 each, with 24 hours' notice. them to STRANGE DISCOVERY.—A short time ago two human skeletons were found by persons engrged in digging the foundations of some houses in Gallowsacre.lane, Clifton, and consigned to the custody of a medical gentleman. Conjecture was busy as to who the parties could have ;vas wanti AS SZ-11: nest wes held, helm-, shaw deposed, that he was John Platt and Co ,-CAUTION TO BUILDERS deceased was twenty-nine years of age. 0 n the hours of six and bricks laid on iron t I hey were end Thr: stage was round, and over it tl the pans with turpentine in height from the g ,04111, l•ViiUtiiiilng Winer, N‘incii mimeo place where they were working. The tank by four brick walls." Whilst they were in t the pans the north wall gave way ; the tank immediately fell, and, in falling, knocked down the stage on which they were working. Witness and his cornnanion effected their escape as quickly as possible, by scramblin fallen materi a l s . Th e y soon a f ter h ear d the sound of some, one calling out from underneath the rubbish, and shortly discovered that it was a man of the name of Rigby. They then heard some one else calling out, and at once pro ceeded to render him assistance by clearing away the rub bish. The latter turned out to be the deceased, who was taken to the Southern Hospital in a most exhausted state. Rigby had not been completely covered with the materials. The walls by which the tank was supported had been erec ted about four months ; and the tank itself was about six or seven yards in length, the same in breadth, and about three feet in depth. John Gibson, who was working with the last witness gave a similar account of the accident. Thomas Bolton, engineer at the works of Messrs. Platt, stated, that, about a quarter of an hour before the acci dent, it contained water to the depth of twenty-six inches. When filled it contained water to the depth of nearly three feet. It was supported by five iron beams let into the walls. Wm. Johnson, the engineer, who made the five iron beams, stated, that each of them was capable of bearing fifteen tons weight, the weight being laid on the whole length. The weight of the tank and the water it contained would be about ninety-five tons, sixty of which would be on the beams, and the remainder on the walls and other shorter beams. The whole weight on the beams would be fifteen tons less than they were capable of bearing. He had found, on examination since the accident, that the whole of the beams had been broken, and that the tank had been completely cut through. This must have been caused by the tank resting for a moment on one of the beams. He considered the beams quite sufficient to bear the weight for which they were designed. From the ap pearance of the ruins he thought that some part of the bearings of the beams had shrunk, the consequence of which would be, that more weight would be thrown on one beam than on another, and this would have the effect of throwing the wall out; but he had not examined the ROYAL WEST INDIAN M AIL S TEAM COMPANY of p the accident. lace minutely enough to say that this had bee n the ca u se . The half-yearly meeting of this company was held last Mr. Samuel Hohne deposed that he was a builder. week. Captain Chappell, the secretary, read the report, About the latter end of February, he saw an order in his which attributed the loss of the Solway, near Corunna, book for some bricklayers, who were wanted by the to an error in calculation, acquitting the Captain of all Messrs. Platt ; and, on ascertaining that they had been blame. It stated that a further curtailment of the steam- sent, he called, as was his custom ;hen new work was to ing operations would now be effected by a modification of bent, done, and saw Mr. Benjamin Platt, who told him that the different routes, as approved by the Admiralty, but he wanted him to build a boiler-house. A few bricks had the advantages could not be shows at present, as the been set at the time. Mr. Platt had a plan in his hand, modifications did not come into effect till the end of June. and, after some general observations, witness left him, The disbursements and receipts account for the half-year as lie was engaged with the men in setting out the work. ending the 30th June, showed a balance, applicable to in In a few days after he called again and found that the surance and wear and tear, of £31,341 15s. 7d. Many foundation of the place was being built along with the ex reductions in expenditure, thought practicable at the last tern walls of the building. He saw that the external meeting, bad been carried into effect, and the last call walls were being built in one solid mass with the walls of having been paid up, the directors had reduced the debt the sower ; and, on examining the plan, he found that the to £120,000, being £140,000 less than the sum owing at walls ere two bricks in thickness. As the materials this time last year. Every vessel belonging to the corn- were old, he advised Mr. Platt to have the walls two feet pany was now in a state of thorough repair and effective thick ; but the latter said that he could not spare the ness. The directors hoped that, from the omissions of so , many places in the routes, there would, in future, be less room and that he did not intend t o carr y th e building to any great height. Witness told him that he had better cause for accidents, and, under the circumstan c es, th e y build a square engine chimney, and turn the whole of the proposed that on the termination of the present year, or flues into it ; but, to the best of his recollection, Mr. as the policies of the respective ships expire, the company Platt replied that he could not spare the room : and, in should set aside a fund of 5 per cent to meet the contin reply to a question as to how he intended to build the gency of insuring their own vessels. A board of manage flues, he replied, by protecting them on brackets. Some ment had been appointed, who reported weekly to the further conversation then occurred as to what would be directors. In conclusion, the directors held to their first the best draft, after which witness told him that the bricks opinion, that, with the encouragement of her Majesty's were not good ones, as they were made out of the old Government, the concern would, at no distant time, Park clay, and advised him strongly to get new ones to fairly compensate the parties who had embarked their capital in the undertaking. The s t a t emen t o f accounts mix with them. Mr. Platt f oun d hi s own mater i a l s. Witness went there afterw a rd s an d f oun d t h at a vast num showed the total receipts of the h a lf-y ear t o h ave b een £158,048 14s. 7d.. of which £120,000 came from Gov- ber of pieces of brick, which were very wet, were being ernment, and only £38,048 14s. 7d. f rom f re i g ht an d used, and he then told him tha t __ he disliked the way in whi c h passage money. The disbursements w e re £123,706 19 s. the building was going on. Mr. Platt replied, in a j o ki ng After a long discussion, the report was adopt e d. sort of way, that he was his own archit ec t, th a t th e build ing was a small one, and he said, to the best of his (wit- THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—The active and indus- ness's) belief, " We'll risk it, "or words to that effect. trious habits of the Duke of Wellington, now in the 75th As he found that Mr. Platt was with the men every day, year of his age, are well known. The following is a recent and giving his own instructions, witness did not interfere instance of his grace's vigorous activity at so advanced a much in consequence ; and on referring to his book, to period of life :—Upon the Duke's arrival in London on see if notice had been given to the Building Surveyor, he Monday, the 2d inst., from Walmer Castle, en route to found that it had not, and he accordingly served notice Windsor, to attend a Privy Council held that afternoon upon that officer. This was on the 6th of March. He at the Castle, his grace unexpectedly met a messenger thought it was upon that occasion that he asked Mr. from her Majesty at Apsley-house, the bearer of an invi- Platt what sort of a roof he was going to put, and that tation to dine with his sovereign on the following day at they had some conversation about iron roofs. Mr. Platt the splendid banquet given by her Majesty in honour of said, that he intended to put a cistern on the top, which the arrival of her illustrious visitor, the Grand Duke would at once form his roof. Witness beleived that he Michael of Russia. His grace proceeded to Windsor, at- was only once there afterwards, when the building was tended the Privy Council, and immediately it broke up twelve feet high, but he spoke to Mr. Geoghan, one of his returned to town by the Great Western Railway, and left principal men, and told him, that they were using too London by the Dover Railway, arriving at Walmer Castle many of the rubbishy bricks. Geoglian's reply was, that the same night; the duke having an engagement at Mr. Platt was a very odd man, and that he had told them Walmer, which he kept with his habitual punctuality. to use the old bricks up. Witness thereupon observed to The duke left Walmer the next morning, proceeding in Geoghan, that, as Mr. Platt gave his own directions, his his carriage to Folkestone, and thence to town by the going there was of no use; and he never went after that railway, intending to have reached the Paddington termi- period. He had not surveyed the building since the acci nus in time for the half-past 5 o'clock train to Slough. dent; but he was of opinion, that the walls as built, were Upon arriving, however, at Paddington, the train had left not capable of sustaining a weight of 115 tons. He was some few minutes. and there was no other train to start not surprised that morning when he heard of the accident. until half-past 7 o'clock that evening, which would not His impression was, that the cause of the accident had have enabled his grace to reach Windsor Castle until been from the expansion of the walls by the heat of so half-past 8, the hour at which the royal dinner party were many furnaces, and in consequence of the flues being in to assemble in the grand banquetting-room. As his grace in the interior of the walls. was in his usual travelling attire, and as there would not Mr. 'William Metcalfe, house-surgeon at the Southern have been time to have dressed for dinner after his arrival Hospital, stated, that the deceased had been brought at the castle, the duke lost no time in returning to Apsley- ,there on Friday evening, with a compound fracture of the house, where he made his toilette, proceeded back to Pad- skull on the right side, of which injury he died in about dington, left for Slough at half-past 7, arrived there at as hour after his admittance. 12 minutes past 8, and entered the royal residence at half- The inquest was then adjourned. past 8, just in time to mingle with her Majesty's illustrious been, and from subsequent inquiries, there is very little doubt that they were the bodies of two Irishmen, named Burnett and Payne, convicted of the murder of Richard Ruddle, coachman to Sir Robert Cann, on the 2Gth of October, 1713, nearly MO years ago, and hung and gib beted on Clifton-down, near the scene of the crime. The victim on that occasion was, it seems, mistaken for a farmer named Winter, whom the murderers expected to cross the Down with a large sum of money in his posses sion. On the death of Sir Robert Cann, who used great exertions to bring the perpetrators of the deed to justice, the bodies were taken from the gibbet, and it is supposed interred in the spot where they were discovered. g over the DIMINISHED INTEREST ON EAST INDIA BONDS. — The following notice, relative to the rate of interest upon India Bonds, was posted at the Stock-Exchange late on Wednesday afternoon. It had no material effect on the price of those securities ; indeed, it appears to have been anticipated on Tuesday, when horn 775. pm. they de clined to 745. pm. They were done on Wednesday as high as 795. pm. and as low as 745. pm., while in one or two cases bids were made at 735. pm.:— " The Court of Directors of the East India Company do hereby give notice— " That the present rate of interest (X 3. 10s.). three pounds ten shillings per cent. per annum, on the Compa ny's bonds will cease and determine on the 31st day of October, 1844. " That from and after the 31st day of October, 1844, such bonds shall carry an interest only of (X 3) three pounds per cent, per annum. " That holders of bonds will be allowed to bring them in to be marked for continuation at the said interest of (£3) three pounds per cent. per annum until the 18th day of September, 1844, and that such bonds as shall not be marked for continuation as aforesaid on or before the 18th day of September, 1844, shall be liable to be paid off on the said 31st day of October, 1844, on which day all in terest will cease. "JAMES MELVILL." . . _ . . guests (as he reached the lop of the grand staircase,) who ADJOURNED INQUEST YESTERDAY. were then proceeding to the magnificent banquet in the Mr. Samuel Holme being again called, said he had made Waterloo Chamber. a survey of the building in company with Mr. Welsh the -. . . . 1 A DESPERATE LIAP.—A few days since as a Twy- architect and Mr. Benjamin Platt. They measured the ford constable was conveying a prisoner (who had been building, and found it 38 feet 3 inches long, and 24 feet sentenced to three months' imprisonment) from that place 6 inches broad, inside measurement; a large cistern had to Abingdon gaol, by the Great Western Railway, the been placed on the roof of the building, supported par prisoner, shortly after the train started, and while it was tially by the wall, and partly by 5 iron girder beams, the proceeding at the rate of upwards of 30 miles an hour, depth of which was in the shape of the Roman letter T suddenly leaped from the carriage, tumbling over head inverted. The depth of the beams was 1] inches, the and heels into the road. The constable, upon the impulse breadth of the bottom part 74 inches, and the sectional of the moment and without reflecting upon the danger he thickness an inch. The bearing of the beams being 24 would ince, immediately jumped out after him. Those feet 6 inches in the clear. He found also that the beams in the train who witnessed the foolhardy conduct of the had been laid on bond timber, which in one place appeared two men imagined that both must have been inevitably to have shrunk a little where the beams rested upon it. killed. Extraordinary as it may appear, neither was in The bottom of the cistern did not cover the whole breadth the least injured, and the prisoner was again captured by of the walls as appeared by the line of mortar on the bot the courageous constable, who walked along the line to torn, but appeared to have varied from 6to 7 inches on the next station with his prisoner, and proceeded thence the two ends. This would cause an inequality of bearing to his place of destination, where they arrived at a some- on the wall, and the pressure would be on the internal what early hour in the morning. Upon reaching Abing- breadth, instead of being on the centre of the wall. Wit don, the constable was advised by one of the town police ness thought from the scantling of the beams, that it was whom he met to give his prisoner something to eat at a highly probable that when the cistern was filled with wa public house hard bv. This suggestion was adopted by ter a sinking had taken place. If a slight expansion had the constable, who knowing, from his late experience, the taken place in the walls from the heat of the furnaces, slippery propensities of his charge, determined to keep a the natural tendency would be an inequality of bearing on very sharp look out upon his movements. They had just some one or more of the beams, which would cause a despatched a hearty meal, when the constable left the rush of water to the lowest point of the cistern, and an room fora few seconds, the prisoner assuring him that accident would be the result. The beams would break, upon his return "be would find him as right as the which had been the case of all of them. He was of opinion knocker at Newgate." However, during the absence of that the beams were not calculated to support that weight the " the trustful Dogberry," the knave quietly jumped of water in such a position, and had no doubt if there had out of the window, unknown to any one about the house, been a row of iron pillars beneath them, the accident and got for the time clean off. The surprised and alarmed would not have occurred. He was at that moment using constable started off one way, over hedge, ditch, fence, nearly double the quantity of metal in warehouse floors of and stile, and the landlord and hostler another; but no 14 feet bearing, and he thought a combination of the tidings were obtained of the fugitive. The police of causes he had named had been the probable reason of the Abingdon, however, who were rather more wide awake accident occurring. He could not describe the or i g i na l than the unlu c ky w i g ht f rom T wy f or d , got scent o f the construction of th upper part of the building, and he had worthy in the course of the afternoon, and captured him not been in it since it was about 12 feet high, until that shortly after dark the same evening. He was then safely (yesterday) morning. Mr. Platt was not a professional housed in Abingdon gaol, whence it is not likely architect. Witness and partner found the mortar, which he will give the slip until th e ex pi ra ti on o f hi s sen- was mill mortar, and of th e s t ronges t description.lt was tence. usual to use old bricks in buildings when they were on oo He w - not aware w FEARFUL STORM AT SEA.—Throughout T ues d a y and the premises improper bricks and hadwerebeen d. rejected as —nor aware that hether they Wednesday a most awful storm r ag ed a l ong th e eas t ern were put in. Witness objected to so many pieces of old coast, causing a tremendous sea. The loss of life and bricks, and requested Mr. Platt to get new bricks and property was truly distressing. Among the many casu- use them with the old. He afterwards saw new bricks alties that occurred was, we regret to say, the total loss on the premises. He advised Mr. Platt to turn all the of the commander, which took la British built shi pp B ce about six o'clock on Wed- ooter, C. G. Cowley flues into one general stack, but he de c li ne d d o i ng so , an d nesday morning, on the rocks off the southeast po r ti on gave his own directions respecting them. Th e ex p ans i on of the wall would be above the furnace, a n d no t b e l ow of the town of Margate. The unfortunate ship, which was a very fine vessel, 550 tons burden, and which stood it, but it was impossible to say now whethe r th a t h a d b een in the class A 1 at Lloyd's, was the property of Captain the case or not. It is not usual for a perso n no t an ar chitect to erect buildings without employing an arc hit ec t. emigrant agents of Leadenhall-street, for the conveyance the The men sent by him to Mr. Platt's were as goo d work ofmen as any they had. It was not w h a t i s ca ll e d a c h eap emigrants on the part of government to P or t Philip. job. They were not rest r i c t e d i n cos t, as it was d one b y Owing to her size and construction she was we ll adapted day work. On his sur v ey thi s morn i ng h e f oun d a centre I for that line of traffic, every accommodation being made wall, which would m a k e th e b u ildi ng s t ronger . A n i ron that could give comfort to the pas sengers d ur i ng th e ir tedious voyage. On Monday last she sailed from the tank was heavy, and su c h an acc id en t m i g h t h ave oc curred in the best of buildi ngs w h ere a wa t er tan k i s use d. London docks, having on board 94 emi g ra n ts besides the crew ; they consisted of 21 women, 44 children, and the Mr. William Rishto n sa id h e was one o f th e surveyors by the Co r p ora ti on un d er th e b u ildi ng ac t. M r . rest men, chiefly belonging to the labouring class. The James Woods was the other, a n d they di v ided the to w n, voyage to sea was as favourable as could be desired, and witness taking the south di s t r i c t. Wit ness r e c ei ve d a it was the i n te n ti on o f th e ca ptain to proceed to Cork for notice to survey from Mr. Holme, and frequently visited the purpose of receiving the remainder of the emigrants, but bad weather threatening, she hove to on Tuesday them. On the first occasion they were about two feethigh. The walls were built conformably to the act o f night in Margate Roads and anchored, orders being given parliament, and were half a brick thicker. He was not to make her as snug as possible. . The ship wore the gale aware what was to be put on the top. The walls were of the usual kind, and he thought them of sufficient strength it out, e a n nd a fheoaprefisdwhelarestednrtoervteahmeerdfrtohrnat her r e a w n o e u h l o d ra r g id e e , to bear the weight of the tank, provided the girders had and she was instantly hurled stem on the chalk rocks, been sufficient; about half a mile distant from Margate town, between Mr. Holme explained that cases arose i n w hi c h b Clifton Baths and Kingston, the sea at the same time beams, from a knot or an air hole, m i g ht b ear a great a weight for a long time, and yet mi g ht a f terwar d s f rom t h e and lna t the e be shock rea d b i e l I T a was kin confusion o o n y f e u r s i her on o d n e eks. board, As conceived, as to carry away her rudder she instantly filled. The swaying or bending of the beam s , b rea k w i t h a com yi n gs o great decks were now crowded by the unfortunate emigrants, paratively small weight. Mr. Rishton—re-examined—said that he had no doubt and a scene of the most heartrending character presented but there were warehouses 60 feet in height that bore with itself, every one of them expecting every moment to e the same thickness of walls only, that carried a greater swept into the sea, and either be dashed to pieces or c 7 the building was erected, and since the works have been weight on each floor, than the tank in question. drowned. Captain Cowley entreated of them to be !ran- Tho rn a Bolton being recalled, said that during the time quil, and fortunately they obeyed, and after h of time several Margate loggers came off, and d landin in operation, Mr. Platt was in the habit of having been them safely. The poor emigrants were in a most ue succeleanVes . g daily in the building and about it. He was there about in taking every soul off the ill-fated ship, an four hours a day. been procured, they were, without loss of time, conveyedseveral The Coroner summed up, and quoted many authorities plorable state, being completely drenched. Carts havinc , as to the law of the case —expressing his own opinion, as on to Margate, where they were billetted at the derived from the evidence, that there was no incaution on public-houses. the part of Mr. Platt to render him amenable to a verdict FATAL ACCIDENT. On Saturday an inc, coroner, to it Thomas Occl the employ of of manslaughter—: to their ow - n conclusion cidental death ari,lng 3, and it v of skill in their constr lie thoroughfares, wit A fire-proof of the arc of which the floors are formed. L dell as w ic gallenl adopted, not only in the strength of the bearing beams, but in the proper*security the arches ; and be felt convinced that if future ware houses, of brick and iron, alone, were erected in a slovenly and unskilful manner, accidents of a serious nature will occur, and it will be extremely difficult to ascertain, from the nature of the material!, used, and their proper adapta tion, where the blame ought to rest. lie felt it right to hazard these remarks as a necessary caution : for, al though accidents have happened, and no doubt will happen again, even in well-constructed buildings, front causes difficult to prevent, yet buildings constructed on the principles of being fire-proof, are peculiarly deserving of great care, and it is absolutely requisite that skilful architects should be employed to superintend their con struction. The Coroner felt exceedingly obliged by the valuable practical remarks of Mr. Hoime, and hoped that atten tion would be generally paid to such a subject from such an authority. He hoped the reporters would give to such valuable suggestions every publicity. Mr. Welsh, the architect, who was present, desired to corroborate the opinions expressed by Mr. Holtne every respect, and stated that he agreed in every word which had fallen from that gentleman. VEssEL WRECKED: FIVE LIVES LOST.—The sloop Henry and Thomas, of Mary•port. bound from Dublin to this port, with a cargo of flour, oatmeal, wheat, &c.. was driven on the beach at Penllech, on the west side of Red wharf Bay, during a heavy gale, about eight o'clock, on Thursday morning week, the 12th instant, and totally wrecked. Out of six persons on board only one was with difficulty, and by the most strenuous exertions, saved. The persons who lost their lives in this calamity were the captain and his wife, a young man, aged twenty-two, the wife's son by a former marriage, and two youths, of the respective ages of seventeen and fifteen, sons of the un fortunate couple. Joseph Daniel, aged twenty-four, the only survivor, is a son of the deceased captain by a for mer wife. BIRKENHEAD INNKTEPERS.—On Tuesday last at the Quarter Sessions, Knutsford, an appeal was made by Mr. Henry Gough, the keeper of the tap of the Wood side Hotel, who was convicted before the magistrates at Birkenhead for opening his house on the evening of Sun day, Sept. 24, between the hours of six and eight, during which time divine service was being performed in the church of Birkenhead. The alleged offence was proved by Wm. Porter, the superintendent of the Birkenhead Police, who acted under the instructions of Mr. Richard Fry, the churchwarden of Birkenhead. Mr. Fry was called upon, and, after describing the mode of service in the church of which he acts as churchwarden, said, on cross-examination,—I laid this informatio❑ of my own accord.—Mr. Townsend : You are, then, an informer ? —I considerered I was acting right in being so.—Are you not interested in this conviction—who is to pay the ex penses ?—The magistrates, I suppose, will pay the cost. I never was at Bidston Church ; it is not the superin tendent's duty to go there. Do not know whether there is church evening service at Bidston or not. I know that lately convictions were laid against several publicans of Birkenhead; I never ga'ned one against the defendant. Birkenhead, I know, is a parish of itself.—Read that summons. A previous information by Mr. Fry against another party was then handed up, and he read aloud till he came to the words " in the parish of Bidston, in the said county, in which said parish of Bidston the chapeiry of Birkenhead is situated." The supression of these words excited a strong mark of disapprobation in the court. —The Chairman, after deliberation with the other magistrates, said, there is no case; the service required is in the afternoon, and not evening. Suppose, as in Ches ter, where the-Cathedral service commences at seven in the morning, and a succession of services follow in the other churches at various hours throughout the day, if such proceedings were adopted there, as are attempted at Birkenhead, the public-houses would hardly ever be opened during any part of the Sunday, and hardly a sin gle traveller could obtain any accommodation. The con viction is quashed. ANOTHER ASSAULT ON AN OFFICER OF THE WORK HOCSE.—On Friday last, a young and rather good look ing girl, apparently of about 15 years of age, named Mary Reynolds, was brought before Mr. Rushton, at the police court, under a charge of having grievously assaulted Mrs. Coleclough (or Colecroft) the superintendent of what is called in the establishment the female classification ward. Mr. Lowndes, solicitor, appeared on behalf of the parish authorities, and opened the case. It appeared that on Thursday, about noon, the prisoner had had a quarrel with another girl • that blows had resulted ; and that on Mrs. Coleclougg (as stated by herself) interfering to quell them, she was attacked by the prisoner, and her collar and cap torn off. Mr. Dowling, commissioner of police, inti mated to the magistrates that some irregularity had taken place in the workhouse with regard to the taking of the prisoner into custody, which he thought it proper to call attention to. He said that a police-officer (344) had been sent for, and that when the charge was made on his arriv ing at the house. he had stated that, as it was early in the day, the case might be brought before the court that day, (Thursday,) butte governor (Mr. Evans) h a d re f use d t o prefer it then, alleging as his reason that the prisoner should have " another night in bridewell," meaning (as we inferred,) that he should confine her over night as a preliminary punishment before he brought her to the po lice.court to have the case investigated, and her punish ment duly awarded by law. The police officer was called, and fully corroborated this observation of Mr. Dowling. He said that he found the prisoner locked up ; that he stated that be believed there would be sufficient time that day to have her brought before the magistrates, but that the governor refused to let her be itsken away, on the ground before stated. The words used by the governor were, " I'll not let her go ; I'll give h er a n i g h t ' s lodging here first." The governor being called upon by Mr. Rushton to reply to this charge of irregularity, said that he had a complaint to make against the police officer, and entered upon a somewhat disjointed statement, accusing the officer of not telling truly the whole of the facts. He said that Mrs. Coleclough was then suffering so much from the injuries she had received, that she could not then attend the court, she being in a fainting state for some time after the assault, and that this was the main reason which he had assigned for not bringing down the prisoner. The officer reiterated his statement, and said that another officer was present. Mr. Rushton said that what the governor had stated was a proper enough reason for the case not being brought on the day before, but what was stated by the officer as having been said, was not so.—The Governor said that the Bridewell-keeper and the officer had refused to book the charge; and that he was himself prepared to come to the court at the time, but (he repeated) did not in consequence of the illness of Mrs. Colecleugh. Mr. Rushton said the Bridewell-keeper and the officer had acted properly. It was their duty to obtain correct in formation before a charge was booked, and the reason as signed for the detention of the prisoner over night did not appear satisfactory. She ought to have been brought to that court on the previous day, and might have been re manded, until Mr. Coleclough could appear. The gover nor admitted that in speaking to the officer he was under considerable agitation, arising from the assault. Mr. Rushton inquired of Mrs. Coleclough how many paupers were in her department, and on being told 57, he said it was quite impossible for one female to manage so large a number. The prisoner, on being asked by Mr. Rushton what she bad to say, stated that another girl had quar relled with her, and had thrown sand upon and struck her ; that she had retaliated ; that Mrs. Coleclough had come up and struck her first with a rule for ruling books, and that she had certainly then, but not before, turned upon her and tore her cap. Mr. Rushton said she must pay £5 for the assault, or be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three months. The prisoner said where could she get £5? and left the court shouting in a manner in dicating a revengeful feeling. [We should be the last to endeavour to extenuate the conduct of refractory paupers, but conviction is forced upon us by this and other recent cases, that the present management of the workhouse, under, as we suppose, the new poor-law system, is most injudicious, if not oppressive, and calculated to produce continual collision between the officers and those placed under their care. The governor appears to labour under an impression that the house is to be regulated as a sort of gaol, rather than as an asylum for the poor and desti tute. It was but recently that a pauper who had been re leased from the borough gaol for an assault, and where as he laboured under disease he had been put to the light oc cupation of picking oakum—went back to the house, and though still ill, and with a certificate from a district surgeon, to the effect that he was unfit for hard labour, he was immediately, and without any surgical examina tion, ordered to go and break stones, and a hammer was put into his hands. The consequence was, that the pauper—certainly a passionate and unruly man—commit ted an assault upon the governor and one of his officers, for which he is now again suffering punishment in prison. The case as it came out before Mr. Rushton showed the existence of au indiscreet, if not a vindictive, feeling to wards the man ; but on his being tried at the Sessions, all the witnesses heard before Mr. Rushton were not brought forward, though enough transpired to induce the jury to append to their verdict a remonstrance, as re garded the conduct of the surgeon of the house (since retired), to the effect that he (the prisoner) had not been treated over and above humanely. In that case, as in the one now before us, the respective prisoners could call no witnesses before the court with a view to mitigate the charge against them, and the full weight of the evidence went against them—the officers of the house appearing in court, and taking their places on the seat near the magis strate, in place of being put into the witness box—a custom that would be more honoured in the breach than the observance. Discipline and subordination are cer tainly required in a workhouse; but it is something new for a governor of such an establishment to assume the magisterial pre liminary ffnd upon e him sel f ie if h e offender would be too leniently dealt with b y th e proper authority. On the last point lie need not i n f u t ure b e under any apprehension, for we un h app il y see a diiposition sufficiently strong in auth or it at i ve quarters to carry with brought beforepu noffice , ish a m legal eanntd u takep otribu nal—as a n o ample rigour the tender mercies of the new poor law.] it, however, to the jury to come a verdict o " Ac- )I the Coro r. ti i o~t fr otr er °le; er i c r fne , f cr ef !dr re(c; cote' ed. 000 , do 4, lo ° r 3