The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-07 00:00:00

CHAR When by the wi There's not a bnug And hue. tt from its juic The world is iind not a getating• ife agair th creation teeming, n shall find thee v its fruits at lasl DIPLOMATIC CONVIVIi exception Sir Henry Pottin the British Pienil briefly not in nytomatic corrt s Sir V my Pottingr, r Keying came made themselves comforta ndarin caps and upper dresses, such parties in China rawing, room, whil dinner was t period Kett re 9 of my family w lesired Mr: M ome to China. To this I replied, n must first be attended to, but that ing Keying son from this day wined) shall her Pottinger, and until yo iucated, you must allow n his proposal I could mak( e picture i a strong wis but about oduced his ny whole family to take hack wi I had the rni He immediately n muttered som , gain placed th The whole of this ithout appari and formed qu - iie a s, otticia n to me for the gift I n: I, through Mr. Morriso Excellency rejoined His name forward Immediately to have Lads giving it I made matter was either way [we went to table. I s wife's likeness in return his principal attendant, nd directed him to send ich his EKcellencv had to Lady Potti should think of it, and let him hick he asked, What! am I he tw•o Kiang, and cannot get .st, to satisfy him, I told him )uld be, as his gift, bight - A.: randum . made of it proposed to sing a Tartar song, which I am told Lary at their convivial friendly parties ; and on ig that I should be delighted to ly.ar it, he began ery animated and loud voice. The ronniet. b e since been informed, were allusive to the )ad been concluded between the two countries, e to his great personal friendship for me ; and of it he took a rich golden bracelet, made in a puzzle, with two clasped hands, off his own He then explained to me that had belonged to his father, he wac eleven yoarc of ago ; upwards of forty years, and , at Pekin ; and that it Ti to him w} 'wiled his name in the palm of one of the hands in tic characters; and that he had some friends in every of China, who would, on my producing it, receive is his brother. In the course of the evening he told bat he expected to go to Pekin in three or four s ; that he would then send for me ; that in the ntime I must correspond with him, whether I re ied in China or returned to England ; that if Taou ing (the Emperor) saw me, he would give me ; eyed peacock's feather—the highest honour in China that I had gained a great reputation and n country, but in ever ge from the table, arid . re ain, I presented his Excel Tord 'a belt, which I had Malcolm to bri to him, and with He immediately buckled v warm night, and I hegge t with it on whilst he staved ;ate to go home. Just before my shoulders his own upper lade of silk that had heen Kielon, to his (Keying's s Prime Minister On the evenir troops were out, and after the is, they tired a feu de joie, and saluting the Imperial Com reatly struck with the whole admiration of the ar clarity of the men, as to their dresses, move- We afterwards sat down to dinner, a very he Chinese high officers entered iod feeling into the conviviality. many officers to drink wine, and at which 3d as his Excellency had be€ it was hinted to hat he ought to he care To-morrow Must Then turning to me in a whisper, when he i to recollect that I could not understand ed his chagrin that h could not .ed Mr. Morrison to explain n the joy of his heart, I must It. When the dinner was over , with all the honours, to the gland and Emperor of China, h had that day been ratified be might be eternal ;' in drinking ers most warmly joined. I dis- f the evening that Kevi.‘ was a ast amatet rticular to fashioned it to and sang to it in a low voic his excellency to favour the hich he did immediately with as Kvvang and Hienling (assis nmissioner) followed their chief's ill three called on different officers to vening passed away most jovially and bly, and we did not separate till a late hour. Just ample, and _ . before we did so the Cominissioner and two Chinese Akers gratified the company by playing one of their ravonrite games at convivial parties, by one party rapidly throwing out his fingers whilst the other guesses at the aambers they are supposed to represent, and whoever ki.Ses drinks a glass of wine, a forfeit which they most a.rrupulously enforced. On one occasion, wh en Keying and the latter'lost lready half f! jig his SELECTIONS ti~A ID-SERVANTS.—THE SCULLERY -MNID.—The scul ,id is generally the youngest, and in occupation too to allow of much decision on what her future charac may be. She is always in a heat and a hurry, resig herself to a kind of mechanical obedience, and fol 'ing out one order till a succeeding one calls her in a ally different direction. Her gown is of cotton blue, e wears a high pinafore, with worsted stockings, and hair not over tidy. She is scolded by tieing " daft," by the kitchenmaid for being lioy for being pert, and by the house o. The housemaid is her only friend, 'he mistress herself, who, at all She goes on, unconscious across her nose, the brickdust in _..e pint of water in her shoe, and the perplexity er brain. If she could stop to think, the chances are would burst out a - cry i ng ; b u t s h e takes things just :hey - come, and they come just now so thick upon her t she can distinguish no especial trouble. She has ' - to eat and drink, and almost before 1 ,15 don , and swallowed her supper she is --a of unhappiness.—Fraser' eper for b never finds her idle t the smea er eye, tt 30 fast asleep rnent, to is the custom a minutes in th served. Durk tracted to t rdinaly an his s, H nee:— he Im- Ind his ble by d to th I am t, Eittrature. POETRY THOUGHT AND DEED S RENN KRNN thouzht man ma' s shake SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Eleven o'clo:k BY EXPRESS. :(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) DUBLIN, Nov. 6th. Half-past Eight o' Clock, p.m The following are the proceedings this day at the CONCILIATION HALL LOYAL NATIONAL REPEAL ASSOCIATION. The usual weekly meeting of the Association took place this day in the Conciliation Hall, which was crowded in every part The chair was filled by P. Lalor, Esq., of Tinnekill ex-M.P. for the Queen's County. THE TRIBUTE. Before the arrival of the Liberator, Mr. CLEMENTS, in an eloquent speech, moved the fol lowing resolution on the subject of the O'Connell Com pensation Fund : Resolved—That the Loyal National Repeal Association hold it a paramounrduty, at this moment, to apply all its weight and influence to the suceessful furtherance of the National Collection for the O'Connell Compensation Fund, fixed for Sunday, the 19th instant : on that occa sion the Members and Associates of this National Body are especially expected to co-operate personally and ener r, our I getically with the respected and patriotic Clergy of their %tract several parishes, i n secur i ng resu l ts for this imperative to the measure worthy of the cr i s i s an d t h e cause. Dr. GRAY seconded the resolution, which, after a few words from Mr. Steele, was carried amidst the loudest acclamation. .ely en A very lengthy address to the people of Ireland, signed " Daniel O'Connell," was agreed to. It exhorts the people to judge calmly of the position in which Ireland is at present placed, and represents the giorious results that are to flow from a repeal of the union. It deprecates the idea of any intention on the part of the repeaters to esta blish Catholic ascendancy, in such language as the follow- A Catholic religious ascendancy is, if possible, more easily demonstrated to be futile. In the first place, the very principle of the repeal of the union would allocate to purposes of charity and education the ecclesiastical state revenues as each of the present vested interests should terminate. The value of a state church ascendancy is to get at the state revenues, and, as those revenues would, as they fell in, go to the state for ascertained pur poses of education and charity, there would be nothing to make the Catholic hierarchy desire an ascendancy for their religion over any other. The money being disposed of, the ingredient of ascendancy would be blotted out for ever. FATAL EXPLOSION.—On Friday week a terrific explo sion took place at the manufactory of Mr. J. Merr ix, at "In the second place Catholic ascendancy would be ut- Birmingham, an occasional maker of fireworks.. No cause terly impossible—for this reason, t en Irish Legislature an be assigned for it, but Mr. Merrix, his wife and assist would be, two parts out of three, essentially Protestant. ants, were engaged in making those articles at the time. It is true that a majority in the House of Commons might Nine persons were conveyed to the hospital, and three of be Catholic; but there necessarily would be a very great these, including a son of Mr. Merrix are already dead, number of Protestants in that house. The Corporations and the lives oeothers despaired of. of Ireland, having Catholic majorities, have returned almost all the liberal Protestants who sought to be elected. On Wednesday, being the commencement of the regu- Besides, the Protestant portions of Ireland would return lar hunting season of her Majesty's staghounds, there was Protestants. On the whole, therefore, no measure inju- a brilliant meeting at Salthill. Upwards of two hundred rious to Protestants could possibly pass the House of horsemen were present, among whom were the Noble Commons unless the Catholics in that house were false— i Master of the Buckhounds, Viscount Seaham, and many basely and shamefully false—to the principles they have of the officers of the Life and Foot Guards, General ever avowed; and even then no such measure could pass Wemyss, and a number of gentlemen from town, who that house without a vivid resistance from all the Pro- came with their horses, by the Great Western Railway. testant members, and from all the Catholic members, who THE PEGASUS.—An application for a rule calling upon were liberal and conscientious. In short we are deeply the coroner of Berwick-upon-Tweed to return into court convinced that any Catholic ascendancy measure would be, the inquisition which had been held before him on the of necessity, rejected by a majority of the Irish House of body of a person named William Milne, one of those Commons." drowned in the late wreck of the Pegasus on Holy Island, The amount of rent was upwards of thirteen hundred was made at the Bail Court, London, on Tuesday. The pounds. A deputation of the Law Clerk of Dublin i object was, that the inquisition might be quashed, upon waited upon Mr. O'Connell to-day, and presented an several grounds which were stated. The application was address to Mr. O'Connell, accompanied with £lOO, to granted. help to defray tha expenses of the approaching prosecu- FORGERY.—Mr. Thomas Walker, an attorney residing Lions ; the deputation, who were received most cordially, at Dewsbury, near Wakefield, has been committed for intimated to the learned gentleman, that they intended trial at the York assizes, charged with having twice forged contributing a further sum for the same purpose. ! the signature of Mr. M. B. Bere, one of the commission ers of the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy, to a pro tecting order given to an insolvent who bad employed the prisoner to get him through the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy, and for which the latter had given the pri soner a sum of money in advance.—London paper. REVERSE OF FORTUNE.—The brother of the late King of Hayti appeared before the Lord Mayor, last week, to ask his influence with the p ress an d the public to procure him charitable relief. His brother had left him funds in the Bank of England, which his brother's Queen and widow had carried off to Turin. He had married a rich lady in Hayti, whose property was destroyed by the late earthquake, as his own influence was by the insurrection which followed, and he had no resource but an appeal to charity. DETERMINED SUICIDE OF A YOUNG LADY.—On Tuesday evening a young lady, named Clarina Graham, twenty-two years of age, committed suicide by cutting her throat, at her residence, 94, Beresford-street, Walworth• road. The deceased was living with two sisters and two nephews. Her mother had recently died, and her father was abroad. The loss of one parent, and the absence of the other, together with a reduced station in life, are sup posed to have led to the commission of the melancholy act. vo. QUEEN'S BENCH, DUBLIN, The court was crowded to excess all day, it being un derstood that Mr. Barrett's counsel would move for a mandamus to compel the magistrates of College -street Police Office to take the informations tendered against Mr. Hughes, the government reporter. Mr. M`Donagh, Q.C. made the application, and argued at great length in support of his motion. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opposed the motion, be cause he believed it was not made Gom' fide, but to pre judice the administration of justice. He did not wish to oppose an investigation, but to prevent the present ac cused parties being sent before the grand jury as witnesses before they had either ignored or found the present bills; when they had done either one or the other he had no objection to a bill being sent up against Hughes, and that his original information might then be sent up, but he earnestly entreated the public not to allow their minds to be poisoned beforehand. (The learned gentle man was much excited in tone and manner.) The Court finally ordered bills to be sent up against Hughes when the present bills against the traversers were cliaposca of. The grand jury adjourned shortly before five o'clock. Only one witness was examined, Mr. Vernon, and it is not likely that he will be up again. Not a single member has been absent on any day from its sitting to its rising. It is impossible that a finding can be had before Wednesday. 1 THE ROBBERY OF A CHAPEL BURIAL GROUND.-- I On Wednesday, at the Central Criminal Court, London, Isaac Bridgman and John White Bridgman, his son, were indicted for stealing a body from the burial-ground at tached to St. John's Chapel, in West-street, Walworth. The elder prisoner was the Minister of the chapel, and the younger one, his son, who was 17 years of age, and was studying for the medical profession. The elder pri soner was acquitted, and the younger one was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment. WILL OF ALDERMAN WOOD.—The will and codicil of Alderman Sir Matthew Wood, late M.P. for the City of London, have just been proved in Doctors' Commons, by B. Wood, Esq. (the brother), and W. P. Wood, Esq. (the son), the executors. The deceased gives to his wife, Dame Maria Wood, the furniture, plate, pictures, china. carriages, wines, spirits, and £5OO per annum for life, He directs £20,000 to be invested in the funds, and the interest to be paid to the Rev. J. P. Wood. The pro perty is sworn under £70,000. DEATH OF LORD RODNEY.—We have to announce the death of Lord Rodney. The noble lord expired at Ber rington-hall, his seat in Herefordshire, on Monday last. The deceased was second son of George, second Lord Rodney, and brother of the late peer, whom he succeeded in 1841. He was born on the 12th of April, 1794, and was unmarried. The title now devolves upon his nephew, Robert Dennett Rodney, son of the Hon. Captain Robert Rodney, Lieutenant in the Scots Fusileer Guards, born in May, 1820. FATAL ACClDENT. — Yesterday evening week, a most melancholy accident happened to three men in the employ of Mr. Butt, of Pertwood Farm, Wilts, attended with the loss of two lives and a third person much injured. On descending a hill with a waggon, about three miles from Mere, the driver, walking by the side of his horses, stum bled and fell. The other two immediately leaped out of the waggon to his rescue, and were knocked down and killed on the spot. The driver saved his life, but with broken limbs. SALISBURY, Nov. 3.—A public meeting was held here yesterday, to further the project of a railway communica tion between Salisbury and London, by means of a branch line, to join the South-Western Railway, at Bishopstoke. The statements submitted to the meeting were of a satis factory character, and an estimate prepared by Mr. Locke fixed the cot of the line at less than £250,000, whereas a former estimate when a similar project was in contempla tion, was put at £400,000. The meeting was unanimous in support of the measure. MURDER.—A murder was committed in this town on Thursday afternoon. Between 2 and 3 o'clock, a report got abroad that Mr. Wilson, wife of Thomas Wilson, spirit-dealer, Springkell-street, had died very suddenly under suspicious circumstances. The report unhappily proves correct, as it is rumoured that her throat presents marks of strangulation; and her husband, on whom the suspicion rests, and who, we beleive, made no attempt to escape, was immediately committed to prison. The un happy woman - was seen at the shop-door a few minutes before she met her untimely fate.—Greenock Advertiser. Loss OF THE FRANCIS, OF LONDON.-01:1 the 29th ult., the brig Francis, of London, Joseph Parker, master, of 135 tons register, and six men, at four p.m., was found to be in a sinking state about thirty-five miles off Tyne mouth, the greater part of her ballast washed away, and pumps choked. At nine a.m. the brig Esk, of Newcastle, hove in s gbt. At ten a.m. she hoisted a signal of dis tress ; got the long-boat out, and the whole of the crew, at great risk of life, went on board the Esk. The Francis shortly after went down in about 50 fathoms water, every effort to save her having failed. ROYAL PATRONAGE OF THE PRESS.—On Saturday last, while the engine was being attached to the train at Paddington, the following incident occurred :—Her Ma jesty, on seating herself in the royal saloon, perceived at , some distance a person who is privileged to attend the terminus with newspapers, and directed that he might be called, for the purpose of procuring one. Much amuse ment was created by the reluctance of the man to approach royalty ; he was literally forced along, to within ten yards of the saloon door, where he stood stock still. Some of the papers were then pulled from a large stock he had under his arm, and presented to the Queen, from which her Majesty selected a sporting paper and another.-ob server. THE SELF-PRIMING GUN.—Messrs. Needham. the gun makers, of 26, Piccadilly, London, have recently ob_ tained a patent for an improvement in percussion lock s , by which the caps are, by the motion of the lock, placed at once, and without the trouble of putting them on the nipple, as in common percussion locks, with the fingers, n a small cavity beneath where the nipple generally i s , and there held fast till exploded on pulling the trigger. The contrivance further provides, that directly one cap i s exploded it is forced from its cavity, and another cap i n . stantly takes its place. The caps are contained In a hollow groove along the side of the stock , . which grove i s covered with a small plate of brass, which does not i n . crease the bulk nor render the stock unsightly. The groove holds sixty caps. which lie in it in such a W ay that it is an impossibility for them to stick in or block up the passage to the lock, and there is a small and simple instrument to feed or replenish the groove or reservoir when empty. THREE THOUSAND POUNDS STOLEN.—One of the most daring and extensive robberies whieh has occurred in Yorkshire for many years was on Thursday last com mitted in the piece -room in Bradford, belonging to Messrs. Birchall and Sons, merchants, of Leeds. It appears that Messrs. Birchall brought with them on Thursday's market upwards of £3OOO, wrapped up in a parcel, which one of the partners locked up in a drawer until he went to Lis dinner, leaving a young man in the room. The man im mediately after went to his own dinner, leaving the key in the door, in the expectation of the cart arriving in the meantime with some pieces. Mr. Birchall himself re turned in a short time, and found that the lock of the drawer had been picked, and the money taken away. The warehouseman was taken into custody on suspicion, but no case was made out against him, and he was discharged on bail. He is the son of a poor, but honest labourer at Wibsey. It is a matter of surprise that so large a sum of money should have been left by Mr. Birchall, under such circumstances. SALE OF Two ISLANDS.—On Tuesday two islands, named Rasey and Bona, situated in the Hebrides, were sold by auction at the Auction Mart. They were for many years the property of the M`Leods, of Rasay, and com prise about 18,000 acres. The net value of the estate, in cluding the mines and the timber, was about £73,000. There were 52 farms, the rent arising from which was about £1,200. They were capable of rapid improvement, in consequence of the facilities of communication from them to the metropolis, the journey now being completed in less than 36 hours. The estate was put up at 20,000 guineas, and eventually knocked down at 35,000 guineas. MURDER IN THE ISLE OF MAN.—On Saturday week, a man by the name of Thomas Cowley, of Baldwin, who has for twelve months betrayed symptoms of aberra tion of mind, murdered his wife in the following man ner :—lt appeared that on that day he was about leaving home as usual, when his wife followed and endeavoured to prevail on him to return, and on his approach to her he took up a large stone and threw it with such violence at her head as to cause an extensive fracture of the skull, ALARMING FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE.—On the even of which the unfortunate woman died on Tuesday morn- ing of Monday last, about six o'clock, two boys were sent ing last. On Wednesday an inquest sat upon the body, to draw a flagon of naptha from a cask on the ground when the jury brought in a verdict of Wilful murder floor of the weaving shop adjoining the Union Mills, against Thomas Cowley."—Manx Sun. near Douglas, Isle of Man. By some mischance the spi- HER MAJESTY'S SHIP RATTLER.—A trial trip has rit caught fire, and the boys having given the alarm, the been made in the Thames of this vessel, which has been three partners, Mr. William Dalrymple, Mr. Thomas fitted with Smith's Screw Propellor, when some of The Maltby, and Mr. James Kelly, hastened to the spot, and Lords of the Admiralty and Captains of the Navy, as well every attempt, without effect, was made to extinguish the as scientific men accompanied her. The result was highly flames. Ultimately the cask exploded, at the same time satisfactory as to the powers of the screw as a propellor; forcibly closing the door, and confining the whole of the and the advantages of its application to war-steamers were parties engaged in the attempt to extinguish the flames admitted as allowing a whole broadside of guns, in addi- within the room. Fortunately the door was forced open, tion to two long ones generally now placed on steamers' and all the parties, with two exceptions, escaped. Mr. decks, to be carried. This i s th e fi rs t s hi p o f war to Dalrymple and Mr. Kelly were severely, though not dan which the screw has been applied. The arrangement of geroney injured. We regret, however, to state that two the machinery, size of screw ' &c., have b een ma d e un d er of the parties, Mr. Thomas Maltby, and Thomas Quayle, the directions of Mr. B rune l. the foreman, perished in the flames. Their bodies were SINGULAR DISCOVERY. We understand that the not found till next morning, and then they could only be workmen employed in pulling down an old dwelling-house identified by part of a watch being found beside the re at Gotham, in this county, to their great surprise, found mains of Mr. Maltby, and part of a wooden-soled clog be the probate copy of the will of a man named Burrows, side those of Mr. Quayle. The whole of the weaving shop who had resided there many years ago, he having owned was burnt to the ground. the property. It was fou n d s t uc k b e t ween two wa l ls in A SCENE IN HIGH LIFE.—Lord Melbourne, who is the staircase. This same property has been long held by spending the autumn in comparative privacy at Melbourne Earl Howe, in consequence of the inability of the parties Hall, Derb shire, y given a ball hire, bas latterl on to make any title to the s ame; b u t it i s now conce i ved y ings each week, for the e n t er t a i nmen t s o f his servants several even , that his lordship will, upon a p e di gree b e i ng produced, and such of their acquaintance as they thought proper to and the title of the heir-at-law established (who, we hear, invite. On a recent occasion of the kind, some of the resides in Nottingham), readily relinquish the possession. principal servants, conceiving that it was inconsistent —Nottingham Journal. with the gnity conrred the elevated si- CURIOUS REMEDY.—A few days ago , a carr i er ' s horse cations di which the y held t p o on mix them wi th the coachmen, having got disabled and become useless, from a sprain or housemaids, and other inferior dependants of the esta luxation, its owner resolved on finishing its career, and blishment, resolved to " divide the house," and thus pre accordingly it was taken to the j e tty a t th e p i er , and corn- serve their dignity and " caste." F or carr yi ng thi s reso mited to the " vasty deep." In place of submitting to lotion into effect, they laid claim to the musicians engaged be carried to sea, the animal speedily get to land, and was for the occasion, and consequently left the others without subjected to a second plunge from the jetty, from which a piper to dance to. This circumstance led to a regular it again came to land, but completely restored in its dis- fracas, in which the relative positions of the parties were ordered limb. The horse was then taken to its old guars changed in double quick time, the "upper" servants be tent, and has since wrought as well as ever. It is probe- coming the " lower," and vice versa. At this moment ble that the efforts which the horse made in swimming the affair assumed a very serious aspect, and but for the reduced the dislocation, but as to the real cure, we must timely appearance of the steward of the household, who refer it to the learned in such matters.—Rosshiee Adver- drove the whole party out of the room, it is impossible to tiser. conceive what might have been the consequences.—Not- The village of Cotherstone, which is situated in a pic- tingharn Review. turesque and romantic part of Teesdale, a little below the junction of the B au ld er w ith th e T ees, an d so l ong famed TRANSPORTATION.—It will be recollected th a t a b ou t for its very rich c h eeses , an d f or th e custom w hi c h i s sa i d a year ago the Rev. Stephen Aldhouse, M.A., l ec t urer o f to have prevail e d th ere o f " c h r i s t en i ng ca l ves ;" and lat. St. Allhallows, Lombard-street, London, w a s conv i c t e d o f C terly for ha v in g su p p li e d th e name o f M r. B owes ' s famed bigamy, at the Central Criminal ourt, and sentenced to race-horse ;is now rapidly rising i n t o no ti ce as a co l ony seven years' transportation. after his removal fro m Newgate he was placed on board a transport moored off of the Society of Friends. A number of Quakers have Sheerness, and was there employed as tutor to the chil been long settled there, who chiefly follow the simple and dren of one of the officers. He had not filled his post rural occupation of agriculture ; now it is becoming the long before an order arrived from the Home-office for the abode of numbers of wealthy members of that religious of seven or the l lony of body on retiring from b us i ness . At present a very e l egant sh Van ipment Dieman's Lan y d, ear convict and Mr.s f Aldhouse pena was co drafted mansion in the Gothic style of architecture is erecting on them" a the bank s o f th e B au ld er, f or F ranc i s Gibson, banker of among in the past week Saffron W a ld en , E ssex , letter from him, n which he depicts the friend received a miseries of trans portation in forcible language, the convicts being dread- AGRICULTURAL FIRES IN SURREY.—There were three fully coerced, irrespective of their previous station in instances of incediarism raging at one time on Thursday lif e , or thero, offence of which they were convicted• He night the 2d. The first was at Park Farm, occupied by states that he is set to break stones, and is to continue at Mr. Harwood. Very soon after another farm-yard, very t h at em near the former and i n th e same occupat i on, b urst out in will be applied for his own u se . H e ex p resses a hopeploy for two years before any portion of hi s earn i ngs a blaze, and one of th e eng i nes was sent i n that direction, that his communication will ha ve th e e ff ec t o f conv i nc i ng but so rapid was the comb us ti on th a t t h e w h o l e was soon in flames, and several ho rses an d bog s his co u ntrymen that transportation is not the light punish same evening a large bar n c l ose t o th e public-house at ment which many of them imagine it to be. East Clandon was on fire, and application made at Guild ford for the engines, which could not be complied with, as all of them were away at the two first mentioned fires. There can be no doubt as to the character of these fires, there was one last week about half a mile from the two first-mentioned, and an attempt the week befora. FLOOD IN THE IRWELL.—On Saturday evening week, in consequence of the heavy rain, the water in the river Irwell rose to a considerable height above its ordinary level, and came down with such force as to wash away a stage erected by Messrs. Pauling and Henfrey, contrac tors, at Hunt's-bank, Manchester. The balks forming the stage floated down the river in one raft, with great velocity and force, and came in contact with one of the uprights supporting the temporary foot-bridge at the end of Bridge-street, communicating with Salford. The re. stilt of the concussion was, that the upright or supporter was broken in two near the middle, leaving the bridge unsupported for about sixty feet ; but, in consequence of the precautions taken, no person was suffered to pass over the bridge. Another wooden temporary bridge is to be immediately erected, and the loss to the contractors will be about £2OO. WESLEYAN COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION.-The Special Committee appointed by Conference to consider the subject of day schools, was summoned to meet in London on Tuesday last. We perceive from the fifth report of the Wesleyan Committee on Education, presented to the last Conference by the able secretary, the Rev. Robert New ton, that the day schools of the Wesleyans, as well as their Sunday schools, are yearly on the increase. The following is the return :—Boys' Day Schools, 14] ; Girls' Day Schools, 121 ; Infant Schools, 28 ; making a total of 290 Day Schools, with 20,804 Scholars ; and 3797 Sunday Schools, with 401,383 Scholars; making a grand total of 4037 Schools, with 422,187 Scholars. The whole present ing the following summary, viz. : Increase of Day Schools Increase of Sunday Schools 242 Total Increase of Schools Increase of Day Scholars.... Increase of Sunday Scholars 2,271 23,383 Total Increase of Scholars 25,654 Loss OF FOUR LIVES.—We regret we have this wee/ to record another serious accident on the Humber. On Monday night last, the ship Andromache, Hunter, of this port, having arrived in the Humber from Quebec, with a cargo of timber and deals, during the heavy squall swung across the current—capsized, and, falling on her larboard beam ends, engulphed the mate, steward, and seven of the crew in their berths under the hatches. A foreigner, named Henry Horsens, went over with the ship, and was not seen again ; a similar fate attended the steward, who is supposed to have been washed out of the cabin window, as he got out of his berth. Some men afterwards boarded the wreck, proceeded to cut through the starboard side of the forecastle deck, almost the only part then above wa ter ; and, by this means, seven men were extricated from their perilous situation in the forecastle • but the eighth, a youth of sixteen, named G eorge Revell, was unhappily drowned in his berth before the assistance from the Bee arrived. The wreck, being timber laden, retained the same position until about nine o'clock the next morning, when, having been in some degree moved by a river boat, it righted ; and, being taken in tow by the Eagle, steam tug, was brought safely into port with comparatively less damage than could have been expected. It was then found that the mate, Charles Ross, aged 35, and the youth, George Revell, 16 years, had been drowned in their berths.—Hull Rockingham. PRESENT STATE OF THE IRON TRADE.—The furnaces stated in the following paper have been blown in since the 25th of September, and if about six more are added to this number, it will include all that are likely to be put in operation in Staffordshire until some further and consid erable improvement takes place in the price of iron. It will be no slight temptation that will induce parties to incur the expense of opening the mines which, the recent pressure on the trade has bad the effect of shutting up. The make of iron in Sou►h Staffordshire is not likely to be, therefore, materially increased. The late advance is well supported, and the demand appears sound and free from any speculative character ; indeed, some of the stocks which have been recently purchased with this object are being re-sold for consumption : FURNACES IN SOUTH STAFFORDSIRE HLOWN IN SINCE MICHAELMAS THIRTY_CHILDREN NEARLY POISONED IN EDIN- Name of Work. Shut end ... Shut end ... Brettell-lane Woodside .. Withymoor . Crookhay .. Wednesbury Darlaston .. Firm. James Foster B. Gibbons W. and J. Wheeley . . Bramah and Cochrane, Best and Barrs . T. Davis.. Lloyds and Foster.... E. Addenbrook. .... Totals Weekly make. —Birmingham Advertiser PORTER'S PATENT Axel-mos.—The great loss of pro perty and life by the late gales on the coast has directed attention to the consideration of the various means and appliances which may be rendered more efficient than they have hitherto been to prevent or mitigate such cala mities. Amongst other matters, it has been observed, many of the wrecks that have occurred on the coast arose from the efficiency of the ground tackle upon a lee shore, which naturally leads to the inquiry how it happens that so large a proportion of our mercantile navy still continue to be defectively found by their owners in this rerpect, when the means of improvement is now well understood, and can be applied with scarcely any increase of expense. On reverting to the accounts of the disasters which have been reported since the gale of last Wednesday week, it will be seen that, in the great majority of instances where vessels were driven ashore, the catastrophe might have been prevented if they had been properly found with anchors and cables on the most improved plan in proportion to tonnage. In order that some idea may be formed of the relative strength of the new and old anchors, we shall give the re sult of some of the testing experiments made at the dock yard at Woolwich, from March, 1841, to February of the present year :—Patent anchor. 5 cwt., Admiralty proof 8+ tons, sustained 214 tons ; 91 cwt., Admiralty proof 11 tons, sustained 42 tons; 28 cwt., Admiralty proof 274 tons, sustained 604 tons. The test was applied by Bra mah's hydraulic press, and in every case was performed in the presence of a number of naval officers and engi neers, whose characters placed them above all suspicion of having any undue bias. These experimente, however, furnish only the idea of a small part of the advantages possessed by the new anchor. BURGIT.—On Monday forenoon, a number of children in the neighbourhood of Jamaica-etreet, Edinburgh, made a very narrow escape from being poisoned, by an occurrence which arose from a very simple inadvertency. A shop keeper had ordered a large quantity of a species of foreign nut (not unlike the gall-nut of the Scottish oak, which is used for making ink,) to be thrown out on the street. having no use for them. The nuts unfortunately tempted the children playing about the street, and &general scram ble took place for the poisonous substance. They had all partaken more or less of them : some of them, indeed, stating since that they had eaten as many as twenty. The injurious consequences were soon manifested, one child after another being seized with fits of vomiting and retch ing, palpitation at the heart, coldness at the extremities, and other symptoms of having swallowed poison. Luckily, medical assistance was speedily on the spot, else the con sequences must have been frightful. In one building nine children were ill, and in some families two, and even three, had to be attended' to. It is understood that about thirty in all had partaken of the nuts ; but it is gratifying to state, that however violent the symptoms were at an earlier period of the day, they were all in the evening in the way of recovery. The nut is described as of a very bitter taste, which makes it the more wonderful that the children should have been induced to partake of it. DARING BURGLARY.—About two o'clock on Saturday morning the residence of the Rev. Robert Meek, rector of St. Michael's, Sutton Bonnington, was burglariously entered by five men clad in smock frocks, whose faces were masked with black crape or cloth, and who stole therefrom two dozen large silver forks, four sauce ladles, four silver butter knives, a gold watch, a silver one, and a very large quantity of other plate, together with £6 in money. The burglars effected an entrance by breaking open the front door by a crow bar. Mr. Meek was awakened by the noise, and having discovered that the thieves had effected an entrance he slipped down a flight of back stairs to obtain assistance from the village, which is near the rectory, but he had only proceeded about 120 yards when he was attacked by two men, who inflicted several dangerous wounds upon him, and then dragged him back to the house. The thieves broke open the drawers, and ransacked every place in search of money, but only found the sum we have mentioned, though in the course of the previous day Mr. Meek had received from his tenants nearly £l2O, which was placed in a desk which stood upon the drawers the thieves ransacked in the bedroom, but fortunately a large Bible was placed in front of the desk, which concealed it from sight, and the money escaped discovery. The gang remained in the house above an hour and then went off together. Three of them have been apprehended, but remanded until Mr. Meek is able to attend their examination.—Nottingham Review. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Sunday weeksa vessel laden with flour and potash, from Canada, got aground near Blackpool. The wind blowing heavily at the time, one of the small boats was got out, when the mate jumped in, and was followed by Major Sparke. of the sth regiment of infantry, who had distinguished himself in China, for which (as appeared by his papers) he had been promoted ; a young lady, named Leach, who had been paying a visit to her brother, a clergyman, in Canada, next got in, and was followed by a sailor, but they had not proceeded far when the boat was upset. The Major clung to an oar, which sustained him for some time, but was afterwards washed off, and sank to rise no more. The lady clung to the leg of the mate, who swam a short distance with her, but, becoming exhausted, was obliged to extricate himself from her grasp, when she also sank, within a short dis tance of the shore. The highest praise is due to the mate, who, before the lady clung to his leg, had supported her, with his arm round her neck, until his strength failed him. When the poor fellow was picked up, he was so exhausted that doubts were entertained of his recovery. The sailor got upon the boat, which was floating bottom upwards, and was washed ashore,. The captain and. the rest of the crew (about eight in number) remained on the vessel, and landed safely when the tide was out. The name of the vessel is the Aristocrat. Every endeavour was made by the persons on shore to render them assistance, but the sea raged so furiously that all their efforts were in vain. The Major was on his way to his friends, at Woolwich, and the lady to hers, at Berwick. The body of the Major was picked up the following night. SHOCKING SuiclDE.—The village of Calver, in Derby shire, was on Saturday night, about nine o'clock, thrown into a state of the greatest alarm by the report that a young female, about 20 to 21 years of age, had committed suicide, by cutting her throat with a razor, in the most determined manner. The parents of the wretched girl are in respectable circumstances, occupying a farm under the Earl of Newburgh, and they also carry on the grocery business in a small way. The subject of this melancholy oceurrence was named Anne Gregory. About 16 months since she had an illegitimate child, which died, by a young man living in the same village. He gained her affections —effected her ruin—then deserted her. The same unfor tunate female was, on Tuesday evening week, delivered of another illegitimate child. A woman was sent for to act as midwife, who, when she came, refused to do her the office until made acquainted with the name of the father of the child ; upon which she said a younger bro ther of her former swain was the father. The parents were naturally much distressed and angry at their daugh ter's misconduct. On Saturday morning the child was found dead in bed by its mother, who, it appears, was unconscious of its fate. During the absence of Mr. and Mrs. Gregory at Chesterfield market, the constable of Calver went to their house, and ordered that the child should not be interred without a coroner's inquest being held on the body. The unfortunate girl was much affected on this being made known to her. She said the world would cast reflections on her concerning its death, and her mind was wrought up to the desperate consolation of committing suicide. About half-past eight she was down stairs, and making herself gruel. She then went up stairs, telling a sister to fetch the candle when she knocked at the floor. Her parents soon afterwards heard her scream. and immediately proceeded to her room, and discoyered that she had cut her throat. She had thrown a sheet over her, and the sad act was found out by the blood streaming from the bed on the floor. She lived three hours after the perpetration of the horrid deed, and died while the surgeon was in the act of sewing up the wound. A letter was found under her pillow, which was given to her medical atten dant (Mr. Fenton) to read, who was much affected with the distressing recital. An inquest wss held on Monday, and verdicts returned to the effect that the child died from natural causes, and that its mother destroyed herself du ring a fit of temporary insanity. The coroner severely censured Richard Wilde, the person who the wretched girl stated was the father of her last child, for his heart less conduct.—Derbyshire Covrier. MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECKS• • t sa l Never within the memory of the oldest inbaletaa,Ai. most experienced and weather-beaten sailors, did , tg e w i e. gan bar present a more awful, distressing, one, beet rending scene than on Saturday week. It 1 0 ' but on Saturday morning it became a complete blowing a hard gale almost , the whole of Friday night, hurricane etowa from the W.N.W., and early in the morning the rot , and neighbourhood was thrown into a state of the l r t epo rt est excitement and alarm, in consequen ce of 3 of the side of the bar. It soon transpired being generally circulated that a:sloop had run do w e a sel that Bbl ...I,d was the "Packet," a constant trader between B.listelbot, Cardigan. The crew consisted of three men an Short. w We-. and there can be little doubt they all perished. vide j to after the news arrived in the town thousands cro b o i l a few feet of the topmast was in sight, Yet the beach and there saw another vessel, and & li g. ore seen three men clinging, havin, as it afterWarf k 'clec peared, lashed themselves fast tort. About four. htia , it is impossible to describe the thrill of horror wh ic _cfel to that_ o r waded the assembled hundreds, when one poor felloasoak seen to drop off from exhaustion, and immeiateli,„ hii to rise no more. The other poor fellow was left ' , v oi d fate, with the gale nothing abated—the tide flori& l a st the night with all its horrors coming on — t o hire toles/ for ever. On Sunday morning he was taken off a ' corpse by a fishing boat. day, for several vessels were strewed in the effiag' Ito , 0 fate. . But these are not the only disasters of this eve n o tful d making right for that shore which had prove(' s 0 00 their fellow -creatures ; the first, however, that tt?, g a r. the bar, at a considerable ebb, was the schooner _ t oe garet and Ann," of Cardigan, Thomas Griffiths,. P'rpool. laden with iron, and bound from Card iff to Livessbote She struck violently several times, and is noni cu l a rlf near the Perch, in rather a perilous situation, Par t r giag• if another gale should come on. The cargo iscliselis jon, The next to make the attempt was the brig Ononcar• of Wicklow James Rowland, master, with a gene attack ly go, bound from Liverpool to Marseilles . She s the several times most violent , and keeping too Le r sre ast Pembrokeshire side, struck lower down than the L en over and Ann ; she is open to the same danger a s the 5 l".sed• should it come to bl ow . The cargo is now being dl sca and which is estimated at about £30,000• „ i t esal e i The schooner Mary Hughes, of New Quay , 11 "," ar ga e bound from Bridgewater to Lancaster, With a - k se/ e . wi N th ex th t e c l a o rn ss e of th flour, wheat, oatmeal, and coals. She also stru e _ e oele The schooner Superb, of LlanPlly, ral times, but drawing less water the preceding ' she got over. „ mi ster , and main boom, got safe / Vo l ' c w i aa y t t e on, : :::r. rfor. , •th bowspritthe schooner Lynx, of Brown, master, bound from Liverpool to Limerithe bar, a valuable cargo of general goods, in attempting , ro stit she struck several times, and got at last quit e ° ere % the the sea breaking her ' in over an awful manner; _ nolo% took to the rigging, but were soon relieved hl-'l.cir. boat. The vessel has since become a complete wt` fste of Painful as our task is, we must yet record A th t e be Ford two other vessels—the one a small smack, eal leu j e rsel t° of the Isles, George Imey, master, bound fro' , onse" probahl r l c ks oa Whitehaven, with a cargo of apples. quainted with the coast, and seeing so marl ' v. ., bet ra, r ; the beach, the captain did not attempt the ba' n .,' o r, tnv his little bark ashore on the sands under Oa"; iroal e Pembrokeshire side of the ba The crew, takleoontieir diately to the boat, were all saved ; but the gale coat' ing mostly the whole of the night, she became a. h . V wreck, and the apples scattered the whole beil t ne , tbe close this scene of disasters and loss, a btig ay sigh t; Lavinia, of Pool, T. W. D ' hove In ergo omtny, master, oil ~ she was bound from Charleston to Liverpool,'" 001 of china, clay, and stone, and, through the Il e COI of the gales, was driven on the rocks under Po i ._ it tet s tle, and sunk ; it is supposed she will beeom. , w e a wreck. The crew were all saved ; but bad s h e p erk little nearer Kemes Head, every soul must hav e r NELSON-STREET ASSEMBLY-ROOMS. --14-e a u t n be 10; nthat this ithisdistrict, t l)e better s n m known perhap s o x vv 4 n ,6oo. ec n a a n - rl is d d - b e fE: Pot from m ATIO I N 2 to oF xl C s A a TT b L en e d .— . sold l ma of Science," is about to be purchased by the ‘. l c attle' beenfrom t C b o e rr fi u n n e n s a t , y w et er r e ec l e a i n v d e e d d fr in nin Li s v p er a p in o . ol las Said to 11 " are 0 ; 04 f A poor fellow was drowned at Parkgate c. e g it V ivi to . night last, by the swamping of his boat de e as iaos gale. A gallant struggle was made by his ca ul t re save him but unhappily without effect. this the' le WHITBY THEATRE.—We understand tha t "gills; b ut is now let for the ensuing season to Mr. W•ft'srpoel'pe manager of the Liver and Amphitheatre in 0 1 . v ois of now of Sheffield, who will open about the Est ma Jackson Baker was scalded to death cember with an excellent corps dramatique• ca kr 5113. CHILD SCALDED TO DEATH. OD SatßldaY " ov e ertg:; C ll S I I I e n d . — w V m e . r d s i e T t A N a c i c E i d y e , n s t a Fox-HOUNDS „a by h er' ing of a coffee-pot, which was being ren' ev " on was gall an t oe' mother from the fire. The deceased father's knee at the time the unfortunate se ei ~,, announced b a Stanley'sr baronet etassembled a s hounds,th e fi aa r tss strong m onn e ng e t n ti nn,g mustera o n l otnhfg amongst friendse. f a o 1 i ro a l v i f f cl a ep a t: ' ; 1 1. 0. bW ia b so e ' r e e °1 1 : A n lo e t y or ..,,, n ek,,,,,di e many Liverpool gentlemen, including Lia r n I` l eLat• Cockerell, Dawson, Ham, Hetherington, -„ '0(4 1- Dyson, and Brancker, Esqrs. The foxes 'so.' otbil ful, and the sport very indifferent. It o e d, ANTI. MONOPOLY ASSOCIATION.—The lane on 00 meeting of this indefatigable society takes P i e r - o ast k q.f nesday evening the eighth instant, at 11 , at.',,lelt s .", f s art o'clock, when the president—Thomas TLin„T is al . I .'" c ap: M.P.—will officially take the chair, and w"„ .. ,1t W e : il iS Esq., M.P. will address the meeting. Altbe" s ' s cisti l its not agree with the principles on which the seta wbiAesirl based, we cannot but admire the energy Wi d a abtt i ase' council conduct its operations. It gives n e ,,,tter" - , E I, dence of their sincerity, which is worthy of a "' b l e seeL / t on Wednesday . THE GREAT WESTERN STEAMER.--"ThiSAllt tbiularsor which left New York on the 19th ult., arr i L e ; teeLlos . r , from New York. She brings papers from die, bs..;yersi Y. at noon, in twelve days s''',"b a e ci",, , thei days later than those brought by the Ac e , the ''..ser contain very little news. The elections le lt get." of States were still going in favor of the O vvhigs• „ he r OL I sation had been cre a t e d a t Ki ng ston and O ' ove r " - Canada, by the announce men t that the se atof g k $ was to be removed to Montreal. vie e 'of . 01 el e n F ri , ne 113 6 FATAL ACCIDENT AT RUNCORN•- 0 person residing in Runcorn, known by th e Or'. 0 , " Charles the Baker," met with his dea t „ s pl thlie' evening in question the deceased was in ce,, m i s aa I.' 0 , ' man named Job Wilson, at the Lord ) -` e ii ,g art e i ster house, and, in consequence of a dispute ha ll „agog d la e most dreadful manner. He lingered scuffle took place, during which a kettle of h,,,, e ase o str was knocked off the fire, which scalded the2Z es dsf,, re most T ie bO s 'osfi when he died from the effects of the inie r Yested ee t,!' ceived. An inquest was held on the boat ° e ta ' des t of and the jury returned a verdict of " Acci dell h re ar ea se HUBARD GALLERY, BOLD-STR3ET .-4.7„e bl e b a t it° who would not wish to have a faithful and W."' Wh e ar to' of themselves or friends at a moderate cosi s i s tel;h 6 tel e more pleasing for a brother to present to : a w e ("bytsre deed any relative to another, than theP lc- orest:oll 6.l one) of those they love and esteem ? 1 f el S il e ' in the way of gratifying those pleasurable e ther , bt t f oltb part of one member of a family towards se° o es ° o rie e ; This difficulty no longer exists,' as, the difficulty of procuring accurate resernh'emierste item' human face divine," at any thing like a r e " bat we cads 0' is ve from a y he -. s it seen of Mr. Norman's talents, we s houkt n e- Pral °I ble of giving every satisfaction to those isli" JO : the ;be establishment for the above purpose. , mv be ll l,v s lo% S c. FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLLM.—Thu rs— 'nf OP - tbe fis o appointed , for the interesting cerernoeY ", for ne„ buildings recently erected in Myrtle-stree" s le I. ' lie' Fee casC 0' commodation of the childran of the Slu e 0 5 t he Asylum, a procession was formed at the ioa ble l o f 1 , pital, headed by the children of that inTenhject!selesa, After proceeding to the Exchange, tbeY l, a rra t ool e h i tion, and followed by the interestine. little _ oab iaL,,,sol„ . ., day's proceedings and the old Church Pa l s eco,7lo o 7 i , the Mayor, several members of the Coe ec s i adg ea che ci ber of- the principal local and other clergY as F ree fly to St. Peter's church, where a sermon l o eese'door, of to receive contributions were held the Right. Rev. the Lord Bishop of the _ *v est 40' 0, the Countess of Sefton and Mrs. J e ffreys , 00 0 2 ar y .a l a t le the ladies' committee, attended by the Rev , 1 ' P s pil and one of the vice-presidents. At the,: ' O - . 1v4 4 ;/ler . dd. were held by Lady Stanley, and the O h 14,01 1- p er Wilbraham, attended by the Rev• 11 ,, ° ,„ g of tbe t 1 Mr. Joshua Edwards. The handsome e ' - s e ~vie vo t r al s. Jo" was collected after the sermon. AftV, - 0 rs.--ort.cre cession again formed, and left the 0 1° her e 5 'pies th p res ss iklo te . frey, as president, and Mrs. Thomas o'clock. It proceeded to the asyNte' oci‘ e. 'end it y %%hoe io tieet t be tary, were in waiting to receive the r tic j ipel Malr,,,f s lie; patronesses. The Bishop, with the Pr' Oa 1 4 ~e ' on eluding the Earl and Countess of Seftl a ll," . 0*""00 0 Revs. H. Hampton, F. Ould, Dr. Tatter s pe.fssg.t o ool J. Jones, J. Aikin, Esq., W. Bron d i s ! o rds , , c , the_,, s ea' Banner, Esq, Dr. Jeffreys, Joshua 0 , 414 h ` e prr o,'" others of the clergy and gentlemen he' a ben ° t he ;Pal ° , took their places in the ',e, hool-roorm v o „ 11 . tte e,, os , ings were opened by prayer, offered 1',. / , 0 31:0 1 or s o , the absence of Mr. James Aspinal l ' North. Mr.J. Ed wards, in the name of the e ''' cbs iro r istter committee, presented, in, a feeling a e ,, e ly-f r IS 4 4 0 th a. ap pro s 1; 0 1; 0 1) dress, Mrs. James Aikin with a haridsksylue:e'semops,' colour drawing of the elevation of the a re rePS ac e° , the children, in their clistinct;ve approaching the institution. The P ie r o; Al• c i l erc' e loo PI vied by the following :—" To Mrs. i ja th e ili cree r , s ,4 " P ect. dres: 4, tur e vf k a. o , in 1 rt , ' moray of her beneficence in project -e t s co* is , c re male Orphan Asylum, and her zeal 6 I ding t be . 10 0, fully presented, on the day of its V s r . ia,,, s pl render it successful, this view of the b e u n l ieg, bi o elslo.- ' e , mittee. James Aspinall, President. ~ ~ t he en e tol' paid to her, was so overcome that neJ as f u ll i i g he t ;ft , in acknowledging on behalf of Mrs- I .. klic ..m w as ne e - u' vos e tbel ceed. He said that when the hear f et ; se t u b eitl lil fee 4 l cult to give utterance to what was approached those pure and under circumstances which ought t° t, rte rl I,' s aid!..o e , ing, the spring being touched, tears I dw a!f in the;so! and he could only thank them. gra bra Yat e s s aeOl e I; a rare circumstance to find a mati,eemein arts e neg s be e h p position. He forgot to say that lkir: Aikin was bo la t 6 a Sailors' Home, whilst Mrs. ''' hat. A fter Die b r a t li e ' r ai ti' d tender Pa_rrtesat:fg.wet6;;;. founding such an institution as t d by the o d, ti.- 9 , v suitably and admirably athi ress d e s elogY ' a Bie b° o l sl: children sung a hymn and the , b y the .d be ~ e, benediction had been pronouce., by be pr o p ptire.• r ) by et or principal part of the companY. r-. ro be the treys, president of the la dies coin _... c i s pnle r , sti p vided for the children (filtY-s" in m i lt u tee• ill of 10 0e' Mrs. Aikin entertained the Bishoe and ~ t be v lour friends of the institution e t dill"' . GENERAL MISCELLANY, An Order in Council, recently issued, directs that the six minor canons of Westminster Abbey shall each in future receive an annual stipend of £l5O. On Thursday last, workmen commenced taking up the old pavement in the Old Shambles, Preston, and they are now busily engaged in preparing for the wooden blocks. The staff of the League, with Mr. Cobden at its head, left Manchester on Saturday morning for Salisbury, to meddle with the election there. WIGAN MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—The triumph of the Conservatives in this borough is again complete. Con servatives, 10 ; Radicals, 0. THAMES NAVIGATION.—There landed and embarked during the summer, at the Red House-pier, Battersea fields, 121,237 persons, besides children in arms. Mr. Peter Nichol, of the Leazes, Newcastle, bird-fan cier, has this year made thft novel importation of two hundred of that handsome bird, the Goldfinch. James Chadwick, Esq., elected Boroughreeve of Man chester, on the 18th October, having refused to serve, has been fined £5O, and Wm. Wanklyn, Esq., elected in his stead. THE TEA TRADE, Oct. 30.—The deliveries last week were rather smaller, being 438,5091 b. The trade since the conclusion of the public sales has been quiet, at the re duced prices then established. Last week, Master S. L. Hilton, aged fifteen, a student at the Military College, Sandhurst, was killed by a blow on the head, received from a fellow• student, when flourish ing his stick at play, in the game of hockey. TILE BOY JONES.—The boy Jones, whoso often broke into Buckingham Palace, is on board the Warspite. Having lately attempted to desert, he was detected, and received a severe flogging. The principal Banks in Newcastle-upon-Tyne have re duced their rate of discount on bills not having more than three months to run to four per cent ; and their rate of interest on deposits to two and a half per cent. THE LATE GALES.—Four bodies from some of the wrecks on the Southport coast were washed up on Mon day night last. One of the vessels was a coaster from Ireland. The first cabinet dinner since the prorogation of parlia ment, which was to have taken place at the residence of Sir James Graham, in Hill -street, Berkeley Square, on Wednesday next, is postponed until Wednesday the 15th. The last stone of the tower of the new Royal Exchange, London, was set by the contractor on Monday last, on which occasion all the workmen were entertained, and some bottles of champagne were drunk at the top of the scaffold, in honour to such completion. We are gratified in being able to state that her Majesty's Custom-house officers at this port have been more busily engaged during the last 15 or 20 days than for several years past. The increased activity is more especially ob servable in the import trade.—Hull Herald. EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL.—The week before last the trial of twenty-two thieves, for the perpetration of no less than fifty-seven robberies, took place in Paris. They were found guilty, and sentenced to hard labour at the hulks for periods var)ing from thirty years to four years. A few days ago. Mr. Beaumont, a highly respectable solicitor, at Warrington, forwarded a £lOO note in the course of business, and, as it has never reached its desti nation, it is supposed that it has been lost in the Liver pol Postoffice.—Chester Chronicle. The Bombay Times, of the 29th of July just come to band, contains a curious and elaborate calculation, made by one of the Hindoo pupils of the Elphinstone College, in which, not only the absurdity, but the impossibility, of Mr. Henson's aerial ship, is mathematically demonstrated. The stock of bullion held by the Bank of England dur ing the four weeks ending the 14th of October was £12,086,000, showing a decrease of £164,000, as compared with the preceding month ; and an increase of £2,285,000 as compared with the corresponding period of last year. A GREEK VILLAGE.—The village of Moria, straggling at its commencement, but gradually presenting a more compact array of rustic habitations, occupies a valley not to be equalled by any thing that I have seen in Scio, an island which has a reputation for pre-eminent beauty : from the tall tree to the plant of Bacchus, that, diffident of its strength, seeks support from its vigorous neighbour, every thing grows here with a graceful luxuriance. After traversing many districts, known to have been once fertile, but now waste and desolate, under the withering rule of Islam, the traveller cannot persuade himself that even a spot like this has not lost some of its charms, and will say, " How delightful this little valley, still so beautiful, must have been in Lesbian times !" Yet here I could not dis t cover any memorial of the Hellenic race, except a large stone, bearing a relief of a pair of wreaths and an urn. Over one of the wreaths were the letters Odamos : the corresponding inscription of the other is defaced ; but no ' doubt it was the Doric Abolla.—Literary Gazette. Lloyd's Shipping List contains fearful evidence of the destruction to life and property caused by the late gales. Not less than sixty total or partial wrecks are recorded under date October 28 and 29, and the loss of life, though nat yet ascertained with accuracy, will we fear prove to be great. FOUR MEN DROWNED.—IsIay, Oct. 23.—0 n Friday night last, four young men, belonging to Bowmore, were drowned in Lochindaul. They were out at the fishing all day, and towards evening the wind being south-west, blew very high, and it seems that the boat, when coming home, was upset. KENDAL ELECTION.—The contest for this Borough is expected to be a close one, the canvass of Mr. G. Ben tinck, the Conservative candidate, being a very favourable one, and the Quaker electors of Kendal being a good deal annoyed at the exposure of Mr. Warburton's electioneer ing tricks at Bridport. The reports of the Municpal Elections in various parts of the country, show that, generally speaking, much less interest is taken in these contests, than used to be the case. In some instances however, much spirit has been displayed ; and the Conservatives have been the victors in the majority of cases. On Wednesday, while the great bell of the cathedral of Notre Dame was being rung, the clapper gave way, and the enormous mass fell down through two floors of the tower and lodged at the third. Three persons were in jured, and one of them, a ringer named Mazarin, so much so in the head, by a splinter from the scaffolding, that it was necessary to carry him immediately into the hospital of the Hotel Dieu. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, Nov. 3.—Our raw sugar market continues with animation ; and purchases are only made for immediate purposes, but we have no alte ration to notice in prices, which continue steady at from 565. to 675. from very low brown to good bright grocery descriptions. Average price of sugar, Oct. 31, is 345. 44-d. per cwt. It is not generally known that Mr. Cobden, M.P., re. ceived his education at an academy at Bowes, for the " board, clothing, and tuition" of young gentlemen, kept by the late Mr. Clarkson, where he gave promise of con siderable talent. The Bowes schools have since been im mortalised in the faithful and graphic narrative of " Nicholas Nickleby" from the pen of Mr. Dickens. EXTENSIVE FIRE.—At midnight on Thursday, the Roodee Paper Mill, near Chester, was discovered to be on fire. In an hour the whole front range was in one con tinuous flame, and the mill with a large quantity of paper was destroyed, but the foundry adjoining was saved. The damage is estimated at several thousand pounds, but the property is insured. A poor mechanic at Bristol, of the name of Bacon, has nvented a pump and fire-engine, which, for compactness and power, is unique. It draws water at 22 feet from the surface, and throws to a great distance. Its cost is about £2O, and it possesses an hydraulic power equal to a large engine worth £l7O or £lBO. An experiment was made last week in the presence of several scientific men, and gave satisfaction. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. 7, 1843' Nov ~Ea i ,~ R ael ~' L ate d Dltt bo a k ° ►a ~. ~~l ~~'h