The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-04 00:00:00

Ebt Etbrpool g-t-,tantar. TUESDAY MORNING. FEB. 4, 1851 Tux tains some of Saturday last, con- Manchester Courier, aborate at ics, allowing the real nature of our present commercial position, which are worthy accurately w red b candid pi an, befi 7 every ted the p. r, for gran correctness doiibtless t e held up before us by a rninistelial party during tF of Parliament, open long for qu itself is much to, porary, we feel sured, material facts in a cc )nclen We commence with the export compiled fro R. Burn, of are classified the able lancheatt the rea( lance of Mr, rinted e exports c 'Ts durin 1 of the :en as r how t y printed Ca Let us see on of Free• we have f plain Free-tra per cent upon ti h colonies, from ush el of er cent. To ques which exports A benefittedb •ed with last us, we the in itprl R ler cent , there is ad year. To ena shall COI" and imper We im poi of f 9, 194 of fort of trade in 1848 sisted of f country t Dt:crea: 8 and 9 , en a 1 ,dvanced about calculatior te, have little to con s the r and. highly col in the von .which we hay now ent )118112e9 )ut the manufacturing d a a state of dullness and s one of the c )n for the I ed. Mere a ne by training to the - e officer of half ous duties s the cost f our educational minution of ou diture ) stood in the count been rear, he plei. of Religion deman , its pec e healing hand Of the teacher, and licine to be sugar-coated to suit palate. Infidelity even and has demanded that, from any 'ation to be provided by the State. has had the truths of the Gos - pel—of the creation, his fall, and his redemp- together excluded ; and w•e ling to accept from the State such a lame ance of its duties, in the shape of a .ely secular education. We are to en the usual elements of such an system of a teach our c o strive to make them industrious ding from them all knowledge of tuth that their present sphere of pan of time and space, in which earn for themselves an eternity of ssedness or of suffering. education, a action a system is incompatible with the thing worthy of the name of educa- ing of ar tion, or t realise by its fruits any of the advantages which we ought to expect from a great xtional effort, can scarcely be questioned. There ' • n history, not a principle in science, ;heory, which may not be objected cted with, or leading to the thought Archbishop Cullen, on the part of holic brethren, would prohibit the teaching of astronomy, because the Church has declared that the sun goes round the earth, whilst is not ;, or a t of, Religion is Roman ( :aches the contrary I'he same eminent xould ignore the fires of Smithfield, the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and the horrors of the Inquisition. The Scot would ignore the dis graceful sale of Charles the First to his enemies. The Celt would refuse to read the early annals of his country unless his hundred Robber Kings were painted as the flower of chivalry. History would thus, like astronomy, be, of necessity, a sealed book. Nor would even language itself—the medium by which thought and history are conveyed from authority 4ures b ,ed no Id China, alsc ath An s been to see 1 t of the asia and 25 ; and in manufac- n by of rs. I av one generation to another—be exempted from the har of the jealously religious, or rather sectarian. Etneral 4+ltEe.rtilanp. In illustration of this fact we may quote the fol- Sir Ralph Lopes has made a return of 30 per cent. to lowing from an able article in the Ch urc h o f E n - the tenants of hi s W es tb ury estates. gland Quarterly Review, recently publi s h e d :--Snow fell fo r a p er i o d o f t h ree h ours a t H o l m fi rt h, i n Yorkshire, on Friday morning. " How is the principle to be carried out of not con- Sir Francis Larylev, brother to Lord Wenlock, was straining a student to receive religious instruction in the found dead in bed on Thursday. form of any denomination, without expelling every alio- The shooting at Berkeley Castle concluded on Saturday ion, or every argument or statement that can last, when six gentlemen, in three days, shot - 831 head of ,ear upon religious opinion, altogether from the lecture- game, three-fourths of which were pheasants. ;cms. To this we altogether refuse our consent, even The new steam line of the Peninsular and Oriental Coro though we be at liberty to teach religion fully elsewhere. natty, between Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, and We believe that the recognition of religion and of the Shanghai, will commence about the Ist of May. ' 4 true church ought to pervade all educa- It was decided on Friday at a Court of Appeal held at the Guildhall, Westminster, that omnibuses may legally We believe, for instance, that when the professor of carry passengers on a longitudinal seat on the roof. ASSiCS is lecturing on the uses of the Greek article, he Major-General Fearon, C. 8., an officer in receipt of a fught to teach that the right doctrine of this article con- reward for distinguished services died from suicide on firms the doctrine of the divinity of Christ. We contend S un d ay l as t. , that the instructor ought to show the connexion ; but, On Sunday, John Leech, cowman to Mr. Palin, of Sta upon the principles of the Toronto University, the stu- pleford Hall, was gored to death by one of Mr. Palin's dent may object to his instructor's teaching him the doc- celebrated prize bulls. trine of the Greek Article at all, because it is an argument Government are about to commence an inquiry into the 'n support of Trinitarianisns. state of the distressed districts of the Highlands and Is "We believe that a lecturer in history ought not to lands of Scotlands, and their " local resources." ;n from the history of the Jewish nation, and that he Captain Routledge, called the prince of swindlers, died Horsemonger-lane Gaol on Wednesday, after a severe sion to relig true faith a lion. ought therein to recognise fully its miraculous and provi. „. dential character. But upon the principle of the Toronto illness. University, a student may say, "lam a christian, for I The hippopotamus has caused an increase of ',186 believe Jesus to have been a most excellent person and a in the last year's receipts of the London Zoological profound philosopher; but I am not a supernaturalist, Society. _ruse to attend lectures in which lam taught to At North Collington, Notts., Mr. John White offi aieve in miracles, and I require that the lecturer be pro- elated as p ar i s h c l er k for seventy years, and did not retire hibited from teaching me any such doctrines.' until he had attained the great age of ninety-seven. "We believe that the lecturer in geology ought to bear A screw steamer is to ply fortnightly between Glasgow in mind how his theories may accord with the Mosaic and London, and is expected to perform the voyage, -Hunts of the creation and the deluge, and that he ought " north about," in three or three and a half days. '"is pupils that they so accord ; but the tendency On Thursday week, a gentleman, calling at the office of If revelation is i the Leicester-square So u p Kit c h en , d rew f rom hi s fi nger may th-refore 1a t 'Rome' and I ref Will be to lea nam.. diamond and ruby ring, which he presented pursue the lights of science irrespective of it, and leave to to the secretary of that institution in aid of the funds. <. religious instructor to establish the connexion. But A few days since en infant, seven weeks old, was killed 'ng the supposed light of science, uncontrolled by at Dewsbury, by being smothered in a bed which was religion, it is extremely easy to be led into direct contra- turned up by a person who did not know the infant was dictions of it ; and we know how easy it is in this way to there. in rursu ave our whole faith in Christianity uncle lying oue syllable t niutr s ;il A it is in vain 'ctly against it, to devise an ied, without On Tuesday the eighth d e t ac h men t o f thi r t y d eserving ~ tly needlewomen sailed from Gravesend for New Zealand. " They were accompanied as far as Gravesend by the Right r Hon. Stuart Wortley, Hon. A. Kinnaird, &c. Five deer, from the Earl of Mount Edgecumbe's park, uction )ncession afte tminst I maker, for £9103.4d During iarbou (1, - while th was effected on Fri Belgium and back. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. During the late gale, a barque, arrived from Africa, ran before the wind, under bare poles, for three days and nights, at the late of nine knots per hour, the captain and crew remaining all that time lashed on the fore-rigging, being unable to keep the deck from the heavy sea which swept over the vessel. Usually there were two or three feet of water upon the ship's decks. . - - QUICK PASSAGE TO AND FROM CALCUTTA. —The ship City of Glasgow, Captain Muir, performed thevoyage out and home in seven months and twenty days. This vessel is the property of the firm of G. Smith and Sons, of this city, whose ship, the City of Calcutta, performed the voyage from the Clyde to Calcutta in ninety-four days, and the voyage home in ninety-five days.—Glasyow Paper. EUROPEAN SCREW STEAMER.—This fine steamer has made a very successful run to London on her first trip, having made the Downs in 71 hours, and after a deten tion there of 11 hours, reached London in 91 hours from Greenock—winds strong ahead the whole way. Taking season and circumstances into account, and the present boisterous state of the weather, we infer that the passage will, in ordinary circumstances, be performed in about 70 hours.—Glasgow Paper. The Bev. Andrew M'Ewan, minister of Severn Church, Barrhead, has been fined for poaching. It appears that hares frequented the gardens of the rev. gentleman in great numbers, and tatted themselves on his greens. The Earl of Glasgow's gamekeepers thought that, though the hares were fatted at the minister's expense, he was not to presume to eat one of them. Keeping a strict watch, they discovered a snare in his garden, and having disor- . dered it, they saw him set it right. This was his offence. A RAILWAY TRAIN - ATTACKED BY A BBLLOCH.—The mail train on Wednesday night narrowly escaped being thrown off the rails, between Ileadcorn and Pluckley, by a bullock which had strayed from a drove while crossing the line. The drover had succeeded in turning the beast towards the gate, when the mail train was approaching, on which the beast made directly towards the red lights on the engine with its tail in the air. It ram full tilt against the engine, and was dashed to pieces, parts of the body having been picked up at a distance of 30 yards from the place where the collision occurred.—Maidstone Jour nal. TRIBUNAL OF COMMERCE.—On Monday, a deputation from the merchants, bankers, and others of the city of London, waited upon the Lord Mayor upon the subject of establishing a tribunal of commerce, and presented to , his lordship a memorial in favour of the project. signed by upwards of one thousand persons. Mr. Levi repre sented to his lordship- the vast importance of such an establishment, stated that England was almost the only country in which a tribunal of commerce did not exist, and expressed a hope that his lordship would consent to take the chair at a meeting proposed to be held on the subject. The Lord Mayor assured the deputation that he would give the matter his best consideration. EXTRAORDINARY DEATIT.—A man named Millard at Wells, after drinking hard, entered a public-house yester day week, and sat close to the fire and fell asleep, his head dropping down close to the end of the grate. A per son coming in considered that in leaning down so close to the fire the man would be hurt, and therefore attempted to wake him up ; and the landlord came to his assistance, when they raised the unfortunate man up, and in doing so discovered that whilst his head had been "drooping," in sleep, his neckcloth had been caught by a hook that draws out in some grates for the spit to rest on, by which he had been hung •He made but a single groan after being raised up, and life could not be restored. THE PLEASURES OF MATRIMONY.—In a place not fifty miles from Leeds, there live a couple who have not been married many years, but during that time have more than once separated, and have managed to agree. again: Last week, however, they once more " differed in their opinions," a separation again took place, and the husband sent the bellman round to say that he `i will not be answerable for any debts which his wife may contract." What renders the circumstance remarkable is, that at the same time the bellman announced "that Mr. - will 'l#2, answerable for any debts which Mrs. - his laugh. , aemb w MUSH .v.aa u. ter, may contract." This contradictory announcement has caused a good deal of merriment in the place. JENNY LIND'S PARIAN EAR-DROPS.—In December last Mr. H. Timms, of Burslem. sent a pair of Parian ear-drops for presentation to Jenny Lind, in America, and within the last few days he has received the following grateful note of acknowledgment:— "Dear Sir,—l beg hereby to acknowledge the receipt of your kind letter, and to return you my sincere thanks fr , - - beautiful present accompanying the same.. " It was with a feeling of real pleasure i received a kind remembrance from dear Old England, and a proof of the great skilfulness to which its manufacturers have arrived. I consider your present remarkably beautiful, and will, in wear ing the same, thankfully rememtrer the giver. "JEIs.INY LIND. I " Richmond, Virginia, Dec. 21, 1850." At the Mansion-house, London, on Saturday, Thomas Brown, a person of gentlemanlike appearance, was charged with having cheated whilst playing at cards. On the pre ceding night:a ball had been given at the London Tavern for the benefit of one of the excellent institutions con nected wit h.thelicensed victuallers of the metropolis, and some of the company, of whom the prisoner was one, played several games of cards in the course of the night. It appeared that the game played at was limited 100, com mencing with eighteenpenny 100 and ending with guinea 100. The defendant, being suspected of unfair play, was watched by some of the company and was seen to secrete ace and pictute cards in his collar, and to play them when they turned up trumps. In the course of the evening he won upwards of £2O. The defendant was committed for trial. SINGULAR. MONOMANIA.—A shocking death occurred a few days ago to a little girl, whose parents reside in Short Acre. For some considerable time the child, whose name is Sarah Aldridge, and whose age is twelve years, has been subject to fits, and about a fortnight ago she was discovered hanging by the neckfrom the chamber window. She was rescued from her fearful situation, and every care taken to prevent a repetition of the act, which was for a few days successful. Ultimately, it appears that the poor child, who was still bent on destroying itself, obtained a quantity of chips, and placed them in her pinafore, and set fire to them. She was perceived by some neighbours, who succeeded in smo thering the flames which enveloped her, but she was so dreadfully burned that death ultimately put an end to her sufferings.—Birmingham Mercury. At the meeting of the Marylebone Vestry on Saturday, Mr. Churchwarden Stephens moved "That the receiver of pew-rents be directed not to let any pew or sittings to any persons unless householders of the parish, and the preference be given to the householders who are resident in the district." The following notice was also given : " In consequence of the number of householders in the district wanting seats in the church, I request you will make known to all persons who are occupying sittings, and not householders in this district of the parish, that they do upon sufferance only, and that the same must be vacated." Sir P. Laurie attributed the former empty condition of the churches to the " mummeries," and their present crowded state to their pulpits being occupied by men of piety, learning, and sound principles. Mr. W. 'Williams, M.P., thought that they should regard the past, present, and the future, in the present proceedings. The churches were filled because ministers of piety, and op posed to new-fangled systems and innovations had been placed 'over the churches. A CALIFORNIAN ADVENTURNR.—On Friday, Mr. H. M. Wakley held an inquest on James Bayley, aged 33. Eighteen months ago deceased went to Sidney as a chief mate on board the Anna. Upon reaching Sidney he and the crew deserted the brig and made off to California, in the hope of being suddenly enriched. At California they worked incessantly, and in a short time amassed a large quantity of gold dust. Deceased left the " diggings" to spend his treasure in drink and riot, While so indulging himself, cholera cut down all his messmates, which so terrified him, that he returned as quickly as possible to London, bringing with him 4,000 dollars in gold, which he sold ir► Cornhill, and then pursued a course of dissipation, untill he had spent all his money, with the exception of £3O. On Wednesday he was attacked with apoplexy, of which he died in a few hours, Just before his death he made his brother promise to buy the Union Jack, and lay it over his body, which the brother did, and the Union flag was spread over the body in the coffin. Mr. Fogarty, surgeon, said that the apoplexy was produced by dissipa tion, and that it caused death. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY.— It will be recollected that Mr. John Goldsmid was tried at the last Middlesex Sessions, before Mr. Sergeant Adams, for an assault alleged to have been committed by him on George Tide man, an excise officer, and after a long trial found guilty, and sentenced to imprisonment for three months. Immediately after the trial Messrs. Lewis, who defended Mr. Goldsmid on the occasion, having felt confident of 'the innocence of Mr. Goldsmid, proceeded to obtain evidence in addition to that given at the trial, with the view of laying the whole testimony before bir George Grey. They produced 15 declarations upon the subject, and forwarded them to the judge who tried the unlucky defendant. While these were in the possession of Mr. Serjeant Adams, the innocence of Mr. Goldsmid was placed beyond all doubt by the appearance of Mr. Hoggins, the person who had, as was stated, committed the assault, and who came forward to relieve the indivi dual erroneously charged from the imputation against him. Mr. Serjeant Adams, immediately upon hearing the statement of Mr. Hoggins. and Messrs. Lewis having re duced that statement to a declaration on oath, addressed the Secretary of State, and the result was that within half an hour of the presentation of the document Mr. Goldsmid was liberated from custody with a free paidon. Tug GLASS HOUSE TYRANNY.—The monster Glass 'louse, or " Crystal Palace," is about to be handed over b► Mr. Paxton to the Commissioners, who will forthwith proceed to make arrangements for replenishing it with all the wonders it is to contain. Articles for exhibition are about to flow in from all sides ; and the impression on the public mind is that manufacturers and dealers are all eagerneSs to contribute their share towards the magni ficence of the show. Now, thereby hangs a tale, which, as we hate all sham and humbug, we deem it our duty to unfold. It is not all gold that glitters, nor are all offer ings voluntarily made, free. We happen to know an in stance—and we doubt not there are many such—in which one of that privileged class, an exhibitor, who looks upon the whole affair with profound and not unnatural disgust, has spent thousands upon the show which he is to make under Mr. Paxton's glass. Being asked why, with his views and feelings on the subject, he puts himself to so enormous an expense, he replied—" I know it is money thrown twiny; 1 shall never see one tithe of my outlay back again, nor do 1 expect to derive airy benefit indi rectly from this exhibition by way of increase of business ; but I cannot help nuself. I have a certain standing in my own tine, and it would never do for me to yield my place, or to suffer myself to be outdone. lam compelled, therefore, in order to keep my position, to expend thousands, without the slightest prospect of reaping any advantage from it, or of being reimbursed." This is the real secret of the alacrity displayed in sending in articles. Men who, in their hearts, :curse the whole concern, are compelled, by the necessity of their position, to make sacrifice which they cau iU svfford.-I,e4n Salt. ly ten to attempt, by m of education, - - - - - nave peen snippea on ooarct too Ualltope, for New Zea which religious teaching is to form a part, and land, where it is intended to endeavour to propagate the which shall be universally acceptable, has now been breed of English fallow deer. proved by experience. To suit the peculiar views Among the number of applicants for relief from the of every sect and party we should have to lop off poor-box of the Thames Police-court, last week, was a widow named Jackson, who, it i s s a id, was b orn i n 17 48, portions of the decalogue until nothing w ou ld be and is consequently 103 years old. lan- nrtri ef•-iirc. rsn+ +.n.4,1 ;•••••••••1 •Nsvv. ........,..1 .....i.:l _ _4. _ _ _ "---- """. nu. Dissatisfied with the government experiment, the lead a principle or a truth would be left intact. No ing ship-builders and ship-owners have formed themselves emasculated system of this description will ever he into an association for testing the comparative merits of able to grapple with the mass of ignorance and iron and wooden vessels for warlike purposes. The Secret of of the United States Navy has given no crime with which we are surrounded. We cannot e the moral tice that the frigate St. Lawrence will be in readiness to sail for London on the Ist of February with articles for nrld's fair. man by appealing to his reason t `Rke him a better man, a better I the by indoctrinating him into I A miscreant, aged twenty-four, is now on remand, in the truths of science, or the most subtle principles London, on a charge of blowing up hs mother with gun of philosophy. W must dealwith his powder, as she lay hopelessly bed. He was heir t o Wes heart and nr,n. „ .n _ 4 , ; . 1. _ 1 „, some property possessed by his mother. a bete subject, 1 1 4 up o •-•••••• ""'.7 "" """ f " rn . - On Tuesday as two men were proceeding with a loaded s the sublime plan of his own waggon down a steep street in Colchester, the waggon ny, as taught in the revealed word acquired such an impetus that the men lost all control, • and it passed completely over them, killing them both. has, we eon- The Dorset Chronicle says that the Portl an d Break water, now extends 920 feet from its a but men t, 12 f ee t Break s for con- above high water mark, and 150 feet wide at its:extremity. of God himself The state, as an educating b id, a perfect right to reject all demand pn or reserve upon ti he quer :a averages 1080 tons s of the Bibl le state is christ Its every it Ted round with the as On Friday a general meeting of the soap trade of Great Britain was held at the London Tavern, London, to adopt - -"Pmorial to the Lords of the Treasury for the repeal of duties. Gentlemen connected with the trade and different parts of England attended. don in both departments of the Bank of En ,,as decreased from £14,526,447 to £14,430,566, a difference of -aper in actual cir ,, to £20,657,072, tion of christian principle h, of which th nixed bead i established th e --, realm is the from Scotian and ruler. the education of the chets of one sec' ' £95,181. The 1 from £21,153, s a straightforward one, v nas dec op, in Bank- street, .ers, who fled upsta but, after some diffi. it was induced to leave with. Wednesday, issued thews (the come- Ir. Charles 11 lays, for contempt of court, in not ms taken out against him by a boot- pwards of fifty tubs of con : up by the coast-guard from ers were vl iting an cc on goods intended for the exhibition lay. The amount was £40,000 from The insurance included all risks by re and robbery, at the rate of land and sea, including 15s. per cent. The Birmingham Journal chronicles a fierce and deadly combat between two rams in a field on the Priory Farm, near Studley. After a l ong fi g h t , t h e contest was ended by the death of the two combatants, the necks of both being dislocated a Wils ;q., of Rigntaidon-park, is to be the estmorelarid for the forthcoming year one. honour having been declined by ' thorpe, Esq., of Newbiggin-hall, on the plea of having served as High Sheriff for Cumberland. Ma. ALDERMAN GIBBS.—This gentleman resigned his aldermanic gown on Tuesday : litigation with the naro- Tof William Crlaen: chial authorities of St. Stephen's, albrook, and private affairs, are said to be the cause which led to the step he has taken. On Wednesday, the Mayor of Durham opened the beautiful and spacious Town-hall, in that city, by a mag nificent banquet, at which, among several hundred gentle men, were Lord Seaham, Lord Adolphus Vane, Sir W Eden, Bart. H. J. Spearman. Esq., M.P., &c. Lord Durham has spent £1,400 in draining his e s t a t es . . during t on the outlay 'ears , the tenants being chirged 5 per . Last year Lord Durham allowed •ent to be'expended in drainage, build- J per cel ings, and manure •TEIR PURSUIT OF NIARRIAGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES. —ln a parish in the suburbs of London a marriage took place, on Tuesday week, under circumstances which are, perhaps, unparalleled. The bridegroom and bride, and the party who acted as father to the bride, were severally ind, while the bridesmaid DEATH OF A CONGREGI only one eye ! forms us t ATION. - A correspondent in- John Johns, who hat the poor man. namec , t place, diad on the 24th instant, and was buried on aday last at Buckland Monaclioium.—Plymouth Journal. The Worcester Chronicle relates that a young woman, equally ignorant; superstitious, and cruel, recently tied a stuck full of pins, as a charm to secure some man to whom she was attached. _ Tections of MELANCHOLY gIIDDETISEATH. — On Monday morn ing, at the Priory, Abbot's Leigh, Mrs. Johnson Browne, who had been confined about a month since, was break- fasting in her room, apparently in good health, when she laid the teacup down, and, fainting away, expired before the servant who was in the reom could call for help. At Southampton police-court, on Friday, a beerhouse_ keeper and his wife were remanded for hocussing a seaman and confining him in a room until he was so reduced that he will be a cripple for life. The prisoners stole £7 from him, stripped him of his clothes, and severely scalded his arms and - thighs. Tux ConN TRADE.—The importations of foreign grain, pulse, and flour into the United Kingdom from sth January, 1850, to sth January, 1851, consisted of—Wheat, 3,778,434 qrs. ; barley, 1,042,799 qrs. ; oats, 1,167,165 qrs.: rye, 94,078 qrs. ; p eas , 185,560 qrs . ; be an s, 449,491 qrs. ; maize, 1,286,280 qrs. ; wheaten flour, 3,858,331 cwt. TuE PRESS OF 1850.—The number of publications that have issued from the London press alone, may be estimated at 4,400. The papal aggression has contributed 180 publications on that question during the past month ! The works of fiction number nearly 500 throughout the year. 250 books were written last year en law subjects ! 200 books of travel, and so on A monument to the memory of the late Earl Talbot has been erected in the parish church at Ingestre. It consists of an altar tomb, with a recumbent full-length colossal effigy of the noble Earl. He is represented in the robe of a Knight of the Garter, with his arms folded, and clasping to his breast a copy of the Holy Scriptures. The work is by Westrnacott. In a letter to a contemporary. Professor Newman says it is a mathematical certainty that, if the existing popula*- tion of tne world were to increase f or a b ou t e l even or twelve centuries at the same rate as the British population has for some time past, no room would be left on the solid earth for men, women, and children, to stand upon, al lowing one square foot for each. During the war the average quantity of wheat required to be sold to pay one million of taxation amounted to 220,791 quarters. The quantity required to be sold to pay one million of taxation, according to the prices of 1850, amounts to 497,925 quarters, or 56,343 quarters more than double the quantity required to be sold during the war. An extensive fire took place on Tuesday, in the carriage dela& of the London and Brighton Railway, at the New cross station. This erection, which was almost exclu sively of timber, was nearly 300 feet long, and one-half of it was, at one time, a mass of flame. Some twenty or thirty new carriages were burnt, and damage done to the amount of several thousand pounds. On Tuesday an inquest was held, in London, on the body of Mr. Sedgewick, for ninny years Chairman of the Board of Stamps. He dropped down dead on his return home to Kensington, after dining with Chief Baron POI - on Sunday. • Dr. Richmond- gave it as his opinion that death arose from disease of the heart. • Deceased-was seventy-two years of age, and has left an only daughter. A most dreadful murder has been perpetrated at Miry- Port, Cumberland. The victim is Ann Clarke, who lived alone in a cellar under the house of the Rev. Mr.-Book less, a dissenting minister. The perpetratoi of- the mur der is still undetected, and the - whole affair remains in mystery. Deceased was found stretched on the floor on Monday quite dead, with a towel tightly twisted over her head and under the chin. The annual soiree of the Glasgow Athenaeum was held on Tuesday night, in the City Hall, which was densely crowded. His grace the Duke of Argyll occupied the chair, and made a lengthened speech, which was followed by others from the Earl of Eglinton, Sir John Maxwell, the Lord Provost of Glasgow, the Lord Provost of Edin. burgh, Sheriff Allison, Sheriff Gordon, William Campbell, Esq., A. 8. Logan, Walter Crum, Esq., &c. .ae balance the at mount ma, r n of the What then, in li sonic, has it to d V or another .? Its duty 1 e n u e M allowing all f I Del ration . to the prejudices f thou he doctrines and fora to insist that t nularies of the efit rtn an e system of ec [ational funds, LIVERPOOL QU ay, before Gilbc ITER S of God, and the truths c avy, containing, i and rose SSIONS that s ,r-two cases, a hundred and twenty o and the residue misdemeanors. , e gentlemen s orn on the Grand Jur I is as follows 'RAND JURY Exchange• William Bower, broke James Bell, broker, " - -nas Barton Turner 'Martin Blytty ExChar St. Anne Thoma , per, broke broker, Cook-street amfordl Butheram, merchant, Exchange -Mt Bates Richardson, ship-chandler, VV ler Shatid, merchant, Old Ct ti-yard Ratcliffe Woodward, merchant, James-stree THE CHARGE le of the inhabitant: After a lapse of little more than hundred and thirty pressing t Ihow every dis some districts position,' on the part of of the town, to attack hen they are merely doing their A the peace, and acts 01 out '2t - to find so mar symptoms .of lawl 'e found to have - exceeded their duty, the authorrities lity, activity, and vigilance, of ,mention one c short time ago at the ses ,ea►unr an omnibus window, and while _ were found upon him ; there was Dcket a memorandum, having upon it the oson. Tnrk'a Bend_ Shuipl.in M.nobAct.. three doubloons went there, anc ucceedec in capturing three person the h. rwo of the were returned transports they. were again LnumpurLeu ; Inc Itura, not naving been before convicted, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. But the police of Manchester knew more of this man, and when he came achester. I mention thi;as an instance and activity of the police of this town. b at the depositions, one of the most prevalent seems to be picking pockets. You will have 'fore von of this description, cases in which are charged ; in one case £l3O had hut fortunately it was immedi- waiting trial in 111 of the intelligenc many cases be boys, girls, and worn been taken from a person, ets are brought before me, I have never an; hesi- g the law in force. At the last sessions a ho bad picked the pocket of a person of ''• '•ruse ; as soon as the robbery was tation in pu ) went but the person who took the watcii was iencd in this case that the person who had is a professor of legerdemain, and he swore tively to I !entity, as to leave no doubt on the his guilt, and they had no hesitation Fie magistrate t of eve having - been en- had no hesitation in transporting him. At the sessions before a man was con victed, whose practice was to ride in omnibuses, and rob ladies ; he, too, was transported. There aro a class of persons who seem to make it their business to lie in wait for unwary emigrants ; there are two cases of this nature in the calendar. In one case a man, wearing a ribbon on his bat, with the word Atlantic upon it, in duced a person to entrust to him his luggage, he stole it ; in the other case, a man went on board a steamer from Ireland, and carried off two boxes under pretence of taking them to an emigrant all There is in ". -- - • town a large quantity of property deposited in ware houses; it is rarely seen by the owners, being entrusted entirely to the warehouse keeper. A great deal of plunder takes place in consequence of this system. In a late case a man, carrying ou business as a corn merchant, having an office, a stand in the market, and a regular agent. was proved to have conducted his business by bribing warehouse keepers to plunder their employers : this man was transported. In another case somewhat similar a person was imprisoned for twelve months. Ido hope these cases may have produced some effect, because in the present calendar I find but one case, and that a slight one. There is a case in which a husband and wife are charged with felony; now, in general, when a woman commits a felony in the presence of her husband, the law presumes that she is acting under his controut ; but if a woman takes a principal.part in a felony in the absence of her husband, she is then guilty. There is ,a case in which a car driver is charged with stealing a £5O note, which occurred through a female having dropped it in the car. Now there is a difference between the ancient and modern view of the law of larceny; the modern law is more strict than the ancient was. There are cases in which some difficulty might occur in charging a person with larceny who has come into possession of property by finding : but in the present case it may be sufficient to say that it has been decided that a hackney coechman, or a car driver, who finds a parc e l or a £5O note in his carriage has no right to appropriate such property without inquiry, and if he does he will be guilty of larceny. kconclusion, the Recorder expressed his pleasure at seeing so many gentle men present to discharge the office of grand jurors. He was too well acquainted with their intelligence and judg ment to trouble them any further. Lord Byron has contradicted the report of h is having left the Church of England for the Church of Rome. On Thursday night Sir John Barrow's monument was struck by lightning, which partially destroyed the cupola and damaged other parts of the building. cannot tr ' ROYALTY IN A COAL PlT.—Some months since two ladies and a gentleman, Germans, applied to Mr. Laws, the resident agent at Springwell Colliery, near Newcastle, for permission to go down one of the pits and inspect the method of working the coal. He very readily acquiesced in their wishes, provided them with proper clothing for their subterranean excyrsion, and descended the shaft with them, and showed them through the streets and alleys of his underground dominions. Having hospitably entertained them at his house, he then dismissed them, highly gratified with what they had seen. At Christmas he was agreeably surprised by the receipt of a letter from Count Groeben, chamberlain to the King of Prussia ' re calling the circumstance to his recolle ‘ tio n , thanking him for his polite attention, and informing him that he was one of the distinguished visitors, and the othe rs were th e Princess Leignitz, widow of his ate Majesty the K'ng of Prussia, travelling incog. under the name of Countess Wilkan, and a lady of her suite. The count further in formed Mr. Laws that her Majesty had sent two fruit baskets of Bohemian glass as a present to his lady, as a souvenir of their visit to Springwell.—Berwick Warder. IRON SHIP BUILDING ON THE TYNE.—Some time ago occasion was taken to point out the many advantages of the Tyne for Iron Ship Building, and the certainty that it would become the largest iron ship building port in the world, and that this branch of business Would shortly become as much one of the great staple trades of the district as the coal or iron trade. Since that period, one of the largest and most eminent firma in London, Messrs. Miller, Ravenhill, and Co., have established an iron ship-building yard here, and are now busy building a magnificent screw steamer, and it is understood are likely to have four more large steamers on hand before long. Messrs. Coutts and Parkinson are now building three more East Indiamen of the largest size, being about one thousand tons each ; two of which are for eminent ship-owners, who are fully convinced of the enormous advantages possessed by iron ships over wooden ones in point of strength, lightness, capacity, safety, speed, durability, and economy, not only in the first cost, but also in keeping them in repair; and what is more striking and remarkable, is that these gentlemen are Clyde ship-owners, a fact which speaks highly for the science and workmanship of this establishment. Mr. Toward has launched a great number of steam vessels for the continental trade, and has only one difficulty to con tend with, and that is, to get the vessels built quick enough to supply the demand. Mr. RobsOn, of Gates head, and Mr. Marshall, of Shields,- are also very full of work ; indeed the prospects of this trade are such as bid fair to more than realise our most sanguine expectations, orders and enquiries flowing in from all quarters, and very many from the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and other parts of Europe.—Newcastle Journal. GIGANTIC FOSSIL REMAINS.—Last week the labour ers employed in the brick yard of Mr. Thomas Johnson at the north-eastern extremitittbf the Racecourse discove red several of the bones of a gigantic animal of the saurian species. They consist of two maxillaries, numerous ver tebrx, the head of the h umerus , and apparently part of the paddle. There are besides, several casts in the clay resembling an irregular cellular tissue, remarkably deep and' perfect. They would seem to be the impressions of the bossy surface of an extremely rugged skin. The most perfect of the two jawbones is about two feet in length, somewhat in the form of a spatular, the root branching off into a fork. The other extremity is rounded off, but with a small division in the centre. On either side the jaw is a row of 34 sockets for the teeth, two or three of which still remain in a broken state. The sockets are dis tinct from each other, and are about a quarter of an inch apart. The extreme end of the jaw seems to have been additionally armed with jutting-out teeth in the manner of those of the rabbit. The width of the jaw at the ex tremity is about two inches, at the root between four and five. What seems to have been the upper jaw is in a far less perfect state than the other, both extremities being Feb. 4,185 L Enbentorol Altrbaniral Qtolitmn. PATENT LAW REFORM.—The committee appointed by the council of the Society of Arts held their ninth meeting on Saturday. The following resolution was agreed to by the committee with regrrd to the importa tion of inventions :—" That the importation of any patented invention practised abroad shall not confer a title of registration, except in the cases of the proprietors or inventors, within twelve months from the date of the foreign patent ; and that no invention of which the patent has expired in any foreign country, or which has been published fer a period of twelve months in any foreign country, or which is in free public use in any foreign country, shall be capably of being registered in the United Kingdom." THE EXHIBITION ASSISTANTS.-A number of sappers and miners have arrived in London, and are to be quar tered in Kensington Palace. Their duty. will be to take charge of different sections of the articles to be exhibited in the Palace of Industry. Two hundred of the corps are engaged, who receive from the commissioners two shil lings a day each. _ _ _ Mr. George Little, late of the firm of Brett anti Little, is now preparing to take out patents for some highly important improvements in electric colloquial telegraphs. If we are rightly informed, Mr. Little's discoveries are somewhat wonderful.—Mining Journal. WYLD'S GREAT GLOBE.—A building is about being erected, chiefly of wood, iron, and glass, in the centre of Leicester-square, for the erection of this extraordinary globe. QUESTIONABLE SAFETY OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE STancreue.--Daring three of the weekly evening meet iegs of the Society of Civil Engineers, the mode of con struction of the building in Hyde-park for the Exhibition of all Nations has been the topic of consideration. On the first evening Mr. Digby Wyatt read a paper on the sub ject; on the second, a very animated discussion ensued, Mr. Turner, who constructed the conservatory in Kew gardens, and who was o ne o f th e re j ected competitors, exhibited a very magnificent model of his design for an Industrial Palace, and contended that the building was insecure. This statement received an apparently satisfac tory answer from Mr. Paxton and Mr. Scott Russell. On Tuesday last, however, the subject was again opened by the Astronomer Royal, who expressed his opinion that the building was not sufficiently secure, and his fears that it would some day come tumbling about the ears of the people like a pack of cards. This expression of opinion from one who has ever been respected as a high authority on' mechanical and physical subjects cannot be neglected. Mr. Fox replied to the statements in a clear and simple manner, and we are quite disposed to believe that the fears of Professor Airy are groundless; but the Executive dare not, for their own sake, shirk the question. They must fairly and fully meet it; and, by competent judges, the public must be satisfied that they may venture within. the Crystal Palace, when it is laden with the world's in dustry, and the throngs of the world's visitors, without fear of accident to life or limb.—Literary Gazette, of Saturday. PATENTS GRANTED. Burgess, William, of Newgate-street, London, guttt percha dealer, for " improvements in machinery for cut ting turnips'and other substances." Clift, Samuel, of Bradford, manufacturing chemist, for " improvements in the manufacture of potash, soda, and glass." , Elliot, George, of St. Helens, Lancashire, chemist, for " improvements in the manufacture of alkali." Loradoux, Auguste, of Bedford-street, Strand, for " certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for raising water or other fluids." ' (Communication.) Mead, Charles Roper, of Charlotte-cottages, Old Kent road, Surrey, mechanical engineer, for " improvements "-” cutting turnips, carrots, mangold wurzelr bles." in apparatus f and other vegeta St. John John Ransom, of New York, in the United States of America, for " improvements in the process of, and apparatus for,-manufacturinz soap." Sievier, Robert William, of Upper Holloway, Middle sex, gentleman, for " improvements in weaving and printing or staining textile goods or fabrics." INDEPENDENT ASSURANCE COMPANY.—THE Foul' Joserns.—On Saturday, before his honour Master Till 'ley, the settlement of the list of contributories was pro ceeded with. Mr. Roxburgh, on the part of Mr: Hutton , official manager, appeared to show cause why Mr. Joseph Turnley, lighterman, should not be placed on the list as having applied for thirty shares, and bad them allotted. and paid the deposit, but had never signed the deed. Mr. Joseph Turnley, solicitor, stated that the Joseph Tumid" upon whom the summons had been served bad never ar plied for shares, or had any thing to do with the company' There were, in fact, four Joseph Turnleys, viz., Joseph the son, Joseph th e cous i n , an d J osep h the gradfather, all lightermen. (Laughter.) The case was then adjourned , for the production of the right Joseph. THE SEAMENS' STRIKE.—At Tynemouth, on Mondatf 70 armed policemen took possession of the quay wit h drawn cutlasses, in conseq uence o f outrages on the P a" , of the men upon a crew who had signed articles-at u nder' wages. Order, however, was restored to the town in the evening, and the policemen were withdrawn.- The mill' tary were under arms at Tynemouth Castle, and ready at a moment's notice. The mayor has written to the Admiralty requesting them to send immediAtely a yrs?' steamer down to protect the vessels in the harbour. The clerks from the shipping-offices were obliged to go 0 : board the vessels rea d y f or sea at Shields on Monday, an d get the men to sign articles there, as they refused to e n ter the offices for the purpose. Freights were up at Is. 6A a ton, and a number of others fixed their vessels for the London market. A l ong memor i al to the.' Board °` Trade, relating to the shipping-offices received the sigl tures of 2000 seamen an d s hi p - carpenters on Monday a n Saturday, making abo ve 4000 sea f ar i ng people'-beloogi?;, • to the Tyne and Wear a l one w h o h ave polled ag ainst ta_ , shipping-o ffi ces and regul a ti ons o f t h e B oar d of Trade their present form. A deputation from the united n. of North and South Shi e ld s seamen have waited n 0,4, the mayor of Tynemouth, an d explained their grievant to him. They say they want nothing but peace e ce , order, and affirm that the attacks on the shipping D'''; • and the brig commerce were made without their cog ° D i; zance. Some of the shipowners in the north have giv e the advanced wages, and more it is expected will fodo e the example. Referring to Hull, the Herald, of Th o ,l day, says ;—" During the week the agitation has exten ded to Hull, and a pretty general strike has taken place. 1 40 grievances complained of are a recent reduction of Ra ts, and the operation of the shipping offices, the latter f lio pecially being looked upon with hatred. As far as t 'be port is concerned, the Mercantile Marine Act mal bhe regarded as the principal griev a n ce comp l a i ned o f by 'at men, for the wages here are no t or i ous l y higher tharY 4 other ports." Altogether the re are 6000 or 7000 meo . strike. APPREHENSION OF. MRS. SLOANE.—This was effe",tea in the following manner :—Mr. Sloane w as ee dde st missed from London, and accor di ng l y Superinteno„, Hodgson, and Daniel May, who was thoroughlP quainted with Mrs. Sloane's person, started of to f4 ;6 5 logne, where they, found Mr. and Mrs. Sl oane , an d _`,3, Devaux, who were on the point of returnin g t o EngisAij to be in readiness, it is believed, to appear a t th e 1 ; 1 Bailey next week. As they were walki ng f rom t h e sta ti o towards the pier at Boulogne crow d s o f people flooke d t A l irs. esp s o l t oa t n o e t s h ee at t s h h e e m m . isSseodhergreatti fwoaon on d st g hetrepidation. es eendlt the steps on to the vesse l, an d fell a considerable distan t ' but fortunately received no material injury, as she caught by the ste war d o f t h e vessel, when near the d"heit Superintendeni; Hodgson and D an i e l M ay t h en too ls o ra places in the boat, and in a short time they arrived 5$ to at Folkestone, where an immense crowd were waititlio receive them. Mrs. Sloane left Mr. Sloane and , Devaux in the cabin, and was making her way-to the s d way station, inwardly c ongra t u l a ti ng h erself that she 'Ol. passed unrecognised, when the officers presented the r' selves before her. Sh e di sp l aye d a great amount of $OO vousness, and when addressed by her name she bees o o very much affected, and almost fainted away, With lee difficulty she was conveyed to the railway, station, w o e' she was allowed to remain in a private waiting roore he ge til the depa r t ure o f the express train, by which it had ',led arranged she sh ou ld procee d to L ondon, and thus eac s lo% I the unpleasant an d d angerous cons equencestof procee' tr ie through th e s t ree t s , as t h e news had been sent by eked' telegraph, and the London station was accordingly era l e ed during the wh o l e o f th e ear l y partuf the moeniato expectation of her arrival. As soon as possible coo Sloane was taken to Westminster ( on T ues d ay ), °I het Mr. Justice Erle was then presiding ;- the warrant for committal was signed, and, a lth oug h d ue not i ce h a d ' s oli given to her solicitors, Mrs. Sloane was not prepared,i her required bail, and was th ere f ore committed to ,, , h ef gate. She was dre s sed ra th er s h a bbi ly, and altoge presented a most wretched appearance. e o MYSTERIOUS MURDER. —On Tuesday last an leg ° , e l . ' was commenced bef ore M r . B adger, coroner for the Sled field and Rotherham district, on the body of a manD sl ;(l' Joseph Firth, lying dead at the village of . Thurgotio The deceased, who was a bachelor, was connected ' ,Of the management of a colliery in the neighbourhood ?li t e place where the inquest was held, and for severa,v be eo immediately precedin g Frid a y i n l as t wee k lie haft, ;JO out " on the spree," drinking at B arns l ey , an d on o' o o morning, about two o'clock, he was found lyiPS ,reto, footpath, about 100 yards fro m hi s own cottage. 005 colliers, who were going to thei r wor k, f oun d hi s° ingt° on their first seeing him ask e d hi m if h e was not el get up. He replied " Yes," but was unable to get Ile himself. The men; took him into his own house an o pi' him, supposing he was on l y labouring urtler the 5 . 4 0° fying effects of the li quor h e had drunk. There virTers one in the house a t th e t i me, b ut about an hour or;bl4 woman who lived next door to the deceased went if' bicil house, having h ear d hi m fall out of the bed into I'4 the two men h a d p u t him, who then left for their w°,,DO a neighbourin g colliery. The woman asked Firth "00 was the matter with him, but all be said.in r eply 0 e " Beer,," making signs as if he wanted so me . Sh e De 9 1) 4 alarmed by the man's condition-, the more so its 1 44 observed a wound in his head, and a medical IDEr til quickly procured, who did everythi ng h e could ti° unfortunate sufferer, who, however, never; died on Saturday morning. On a post martens e. the nation being made, a sma ll l ea d en b ullet was fennel Tt:e4 head of the deceased. It h a d entered at the bac k head, passed through the upper portion of the brai s :le) was lodged firmly against the left temple. The ` where the deceased was found was near a stone s ti/e ,:oc it was at first supp ose d t h at ho had fallen down °"( L" the stile and injured himself, but the discovery 0 ,0 1 bullet in his he a d revea l e d t h e true cause of the bro.° fellow's death. He was a b ou t 43 years of age. M is at present known, the last person with him "' o brother, who says be saw him part of the way Thursday night at 12 o'cicok, and then left him, ing that though in liquor he was quite able to o `,it way. From no report o f f i rearms having been heed the persons who live near the spot where the deceit° Ur found, it was con j ec t ure d b y some t h at an air gu o be been used. It does not appear that any money 1151 :1 taken from the deceased. The inquest was adjourn"- gone been conEid The remains, however, show that it must have , less than three feet in length. It seems to be formed of two trunklike bones of great strength, diverging like the other, into a fork at the root, and uniting and bl into one at the extremity. These curious relics of a re mote age were found in a vast bed of 'stiff blue clay 30 to 35 feot below the surface. They extended length of about Ifs feet. In the same neighbourhooli, at a considerably - less depth, have been found tl_e fos_ remains of the elephant, Ammonites and belemnites are also occasionally met with.—Northampton 11.1ermint: ending from THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY ELOPEMENT.— _.„ cumstance has created more gossip in Nottingham and its neighbourhood, for some years, than The Draper's Wedding, (which we noticed in our last,) and that partly owing to the attempt made to bury the matter in oblivion. In additio' to what has been already mentioned, the fol lowing extract from a Nottingham paper may be added as a sequel :--" The bridegroom is Mr. Robert Oldershaw, draper, Long-row, .Nottingham. When the deception was exposed, and the ambitious draper was made aware of the cruel hoax which had been practised upon him, his vexation knew no bounds ; and the consequence was, that the newly-created wife was banished from the pre sence of her husband, to return to the humble dwelling of her parents. The tales told of the affair have been most romantic and marvellous, and we admit that some parts are hidden in mystery. How a young roan, and a respectable tradesman of unquestionable quickness and parts, should have fallen a dupe to an intriguing woman, is very difficult to conceive, and can only be accounted for by supposing him to have no common share of the bump of vanity, as the phrenologists would say. Certain, however, it is, that he arrived in the town early in the morning, in a chaise and pair —that the clergyman of the parish church was summoned—the clerk, who was unwell, was aroused from his bed—and the license being produced the marriage was performed, not, however, without a word of caution from the worthy vicar to the young heroine. The clerk acted the part of father, as we are assured, and gave away the blushing bride. Whether it was the ad. monition of the vicar, or what else, we cannot say, but something so operated upon the lady's nerves that she was incapable of signing her name without assistance; and when that was done she fainted away, and was with difficulty taken into the vicar's house, where restoratives were applied, and some time elapsed ere she was able to take her seat by the side of her enamoured husband in the chaise, to be drawn away from Nottingham. The pretended Hon. Harriet Lumley is reported to he Harriet Gretton, the daughter of Samuel Gretten, labourer, of East Bridgford. She is 28 years of age, a fine figure, with black hair ;-and was certainly away from the village at the time, but returned back to her father's roof on Wednesday or Thursday. There can be no doubt the fair inamorata has been frequently in Nottingham, often in a riding-habit, on a fine horse, and with a servant in livery on horseback behind her. Where these sprang from, as from fairy-land, wo do not presume to say. Report points to a red building in the Park (the Barracks) as the source from whence they came, but that may be only like one of the thousand-and-one tales of this strange story. It is reported that some suspicion was excited by the roughness of her hands, but she very adroitly silenced this by observin,g,.that one of the things which her friends at Rufford had not approved was her great fondness for gardening, and that she had often been chid for her devo tedness to the cultivation of her beautiful plot of flowers. It is said that some time since she made an attempt upon several other respectable tradesmen in Nottingham,.when she passed herself off as Lady Bentinck, and that is the name she is often called in her native village.”-Not tingham Review. BAPTISM OF AN AFRICAN INFANT.—SHAMEFUL BEHAVIOUR OF A MOB.—II! our last week's impression we intimated that it was the intention of the Bishop of Worcester to administer the rite of baptism t o a c hild o f a native of the Amaponda tribes, of South Africa, which had been born in Leicester at the close of the past year. The ceremony accordingly took place on Monday last, in the Cathedral, at the conclusion of the afternoon service. It would have been a pleasing duty for us to record this interesting event, did it not equally become our duty to notice the disgraceful scene with which it was accom panied. On our entrance into the Cathedral we found the choir filled with a large congregation, the greater part of whom appeared to be highly respectable, and who had assembled for this purpose of witnessing the ceremony. The people in the nave conducted themselves in a manner anything but fit for the sacred place in which they were assembled ; in front of the baptismal font, and in other parts of the building, was collected together one of the most disorderly rabbles that could anywhere be seen. As soon as the service was ended, and•the people were seen to issue from the choir, a rush was made to the font, and the crowd, in a few moments, became exceedingly dense, those behind pressing upon those who had secured good places in front, until at last these were obliged to give way, and were precipitated over the forms placed near the font for the accommodation of those who were to take e p n arsut ensued ;le forms thie,cere were nmny.A upset,sce n e and m of andconfusion, children, being thrown from their feet, were scrambling pellmell, on the floor together ; the recess in which the font is placed thus became filled, but the crowd still continued to jostle each other, and for ten minutes or more kept shouting, whistli ng , an d quarrelling with each other, in a manner which would have almost disgraced the gallery of a low theatre. We certainly thought, when we witnessed this tumult, that all idea of baptising the infant in public would be abandoned ; but we were mistaken, for after some time the bishop made his appearance, accompanied by some of the officials of the Cathedral, the mother of the child, dressed in the costume of her country, the sponsors, and the child itself, and the ceremony was—to say the least of it, injudiciously—pro ceeded with ; but so great was the noise and ,coi?fusion that the voice of the bishop, although he evidently exerted himself to the utmost of his power, could not be heard at half-a-dozen paces' distance, and more than once his lordship was obliged to stop until order was partially restored. The ceremony was thus, after some trouble, got through, the child being named Leicester England, and its sponsors being Mr. Tyler, (their con ductor, Mrs. Tyler, and Mrs. Edwards. At the conclu sion of the ceremony, the partiewsapirnoogtceaescdoceodmeaptgloeisrhtehtdoe Chapter House, to register the child ; but th e i r j ourney obtainthither, a in gli consequence of curiosities, ecrowd being n without some difficulty. This duty being at length com pleted, the mother and child, together with those who accompanied her, were—to avoid the crowd gathering in the nave—conducted through the cloisters into College Green, where the carriage which brought them to the Cathedral was in waiting for them. On their entrance into College Green, they were greeted by the shouts of the crowd there assembled, and the ringing of the College bells. They then proceeded in their carriage, which was covered with the skins of wild beasts, to the house at which they were staying, preceded by a brass band, and the same night returned to Nottingham. where they are being exhibited, having come from thence in the morning expressly for the purpose of having the rite of baptism performed by the Bishop of Worcester. The mother of the child is a native of the Amaponda tribe of South Africa, the father being a Zoolu Chief, from the mime region.— Worcester Mina, ars, ti tic th e t , i nt Dettx