The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-03-19 00:00:00

AGRICULTURAL PANIC OR FOREIGN IMPORT- principal corn markets, with short supplies from the far- ATIONS THE CAUSE OF DECREASING mers. The. gap has been filled up by foreign importation; PRICES ? and the only conclusion whi c h we can d raw i s, that the • alleged panic exists in the minds of the consuming public. The farmer has held back his grain in the hope of receiv ing better prices; but the supplies from foreign sources have defeated his hope. It is sometimes ludicrous to ob rye with what pore- pous self-satisfaction some noble lord or honourable gen. tleman, attached to the Ministry, comes down to Parlia ment, crammed with statistics and returns, fresh from the manufactory is Whitehall, for the purpose of overwhelm- ng some unhappy member, who has ventured to propose step, as of " all', freights at 375. t y harrc ese infallible wcapor in h Ettevaturr. ----0-_ POETRY. LONDON. I love thee, London! for thy many men, And for thy mighty deeds and scenes of glory; For all great thoughts and things into thy story Drain themselves—of . the heart or hand or pen. I love thee in all hours : the most, though, when The. busy heart of universal man Seems throbbing through thee, without pause or plan, Yet. haply well, to God's all loving ken. Thou art the greatest thing on the earth's face That man bath rnnap • the., nrt Latta att4 Iv uitt. 111:111 can (1 Look on it, Lord l and greaten it with Thy gra, Hundreds of shrines therein are Thine ;—too fey Let the world worship God ! ye cities, bow ! And last and lowest, thou, proud London, thou! A RUIN. In a cot-studded, fruity, green deep dale, There grows the ruin of an abbey old And on the bill side, cut in rock, behold A sainted hermit's cell ; so goes the tale. What of that ruin ? There is nothing left ky-framing window arch, which cli m b s • Save or Up to its top point, single stone bereft Of prop or loud. And this strange thing sublimes The scene. For the fair great house, vowed to God, Is buried down and unhallowed; and we tread O'er buried graves which have devoured their dead ; While over all springs up the green-lifed sod, And arch, so light and lofty in its spar,— So frail, and yet so lastine•—''' tis like man VARIETIES. Why is a dishonest bankrupt like an honest poor man ? because he fails to get rich. Why is he who rarely speaks the truth like an insolvent debtor ? Because his lie-abilities are enormous. Why is a girl who has injured herself with a knife like a sword ? Because she is a cut lass (cutlass). Why is smoking like a ragged garment ? It is a bad habit. Why is an unenclosed piece of land like a good ma n 's conscience? It is void o f a fence (void of offence). Why is a hen walking like a conspiracy ?—Because it's " I augur well for you," as the carpenter said to the piece of wood. " You're boring me now," as the piece of wood said to the carpenter. Hood gives this graphic picture of an irritable wan— " He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, tor menting himself with his prickles." AN ANCIENT ARTICLE OF DRESS.—Amongst the dis _ of Mr. Layard in the excavations at Nineveh are " several hundred mother-of-pearl studs, in form exactly resembling shirt buttons." coveries MASTERY OF ANNOYANCES.—WouId you touch a nettle without being stung by it ?'take hold of it stoutly. Do the same to other annoyances, and few things will Toth with , d than c n of the riage, uni axed him to ma you marr La, sir, I ne her eyes. Li righ gues and support seat, and looks round him at every cheer which greets his as plainly u can read in his strut if he uttered it aloud, " You'll see how I'll s e and bye." Yet all this while the poor deluded stat opening Itle hirii e to some cunning sub-offichil standing below ths. display, and who has concocted the figures of which so proud, as a simple booby, who has bought watch at a mock auction and is large in the that it is the genuine metal, is to th e " t ou t er " who has sar to witness the conviction helped to take .ch a case as ti: •ed in the louse of Lord ht, in v Bich ti Lansdowne undertook to prove I e evidence of Go- and evidently sate d, under the im. ion in the ces of gra :lied its ports were at had mainly to thant )rdship far was the sv 'er pric qi that if tr word indeed; Teat and fore 3g over they had littl x, which existe only in t Lord Redesdale ;" and was evidently delighted with the success of his performance. Yet a more complete hotch potch of blunders and ignorance than the Merquis's speech could scarcely be found in the pages of Hansard, as we shall briefly end After a ft 'our to show generalities, his lordship referred to his ob servation at the commencement of the session, that " hs considered it likely that the importation of foreign corn would diminish ;" and proceeded to state, in proof of its correctness, that, "For a month after the ti te greatest diminution in t f his evpressing that opinion, lantity- of corn imported had mth of xcuituuy, 1 iSZU, mere was a Gifference of 200,000 quarters between the quantity of wheat then imported and the quantity imported in February, 1849. In the latter year the importation during the month of February amounted to 380,000 quarters; in the present year, during the same month, it was only 180,000 quarters." Did the noble lord here remind the house of the fact, which completely upsets his case, that, on the first of February, 1849, foreiffn 'lle first time ad uarter ? He at cargoes of wheat witted, t It was for t 6, at ls. pi had been prepared for most British ports at the re, tually kept out at se, before, in or y ; or that veF. er to enter 3out in ou I to ren portations of fore Of corn in all the countries s in this countr in which it was n send corn here." this c country of th product the country of the !Is had ac channels, freight I that the im- ord of Ijamoc arts of rent. ( t to con ny rule for it .1 hon. memo r in his r and Antwerp, to the por ta, amounted only t Ileman mad, ited that th, 348 in various protecti was only Is : pe •eely ent hear.) The '.. The hon. • ••••••• ‘1 , 4 • J). Lit had been of opinion from the first that under a system of free trade the price of wheat would fall to 355. per quarter; and he was not at all surprised to find that it had reached that price cor.ady. If he were told that low prices would check the sup. • -it this was true tc some extent ; t In ample suppl) At present the house tt that hal been foi* this country. The right hon. gentleman must have overlooked the fact that the harvest of 1848 was a defective one, and that no lees than 3,000,000 quarters were required to make up that deficiency. It ought also to be borne in mind that we had to send to Ireland about 700,000 quarters instead of, as usual, receiving a quantity from that country; and this would account for another 1,000,000 of the quarters which we had imported from abroad." We do not think that we need apologise for the length of the above extract. It disposes of the whole case ; and Mr. Wilson's reply was a most lame attempt to get into the general question of free trade. The remaining positions of Lord Lansdowne must be briefly replied to. The noble lord requested the house " to listen to him whilst he explained the state of the stock at present on hand." He said that— " As far as could be collected from the returns made from the different warehouses in London and elsewhere, the present amount of stock was only 242,028 quarters. What was it at the close of tl - - I t amounted to the large sum of hich the noble lord re ld nobody bonds year 1848 What are the w rs ? Principally bonded warehot houses to w heat at present. nlv men taken directly into consumption s that the shilling duty is paid, and it e warehouses. For example, in the ph 5, '272,000 quarters of all kinds of month et n were imp , .nnia of T,nrlc rters only, as the mile stated ; and 273,973 quarters went o consumption. By-the-bye, he forgets to remind us that the last return gives us 209_973 cwt. of meal and fl our as the imports of the month. - The quantities remaining in warehouse on March 5 are, train 35,148 quarters, and meal and flour 10,119 cwt. These quantities, however, are only those in bonded warehouses; and in a similar case would be the 1,354,000 quarters at the close of the year 1848, of, rain waiting for the Ist of February, 1849, when it could be entered at Is. duty. The marquis would not have been able to trace a tithe of the quantity but for its being so bonded. Besides, the limited quantity of grain which has come to us during the past month is, in part, accounted for by the rivers of the north of Europe being blocked up by ice. Last winter was a mild one. This has been the reverse: and there are plenty of offers of grain at greatly reduced prices to come f orward as soon as the navigation is open. From wha country, the marqu i s asks, is grain now to be supplied. France," he says, "cannot do it, for France is not able to supply herself with corn." Yet of that very country he . says, in an o th er part of his speech, that "the agriculturists are as sick with their repletion as are the agriculturists of this country !" W e can assure him that, whether France is an exporting country or not, she will always send us grain from her northern frontiers so long as the freight from the channel ports to England is less than the cost of transport by land to the interior marts of consumption. ' We have done with Lord Lansdowne on the same subject with Earl Grey marked that— ; and now a word The noble lord re- " It was admitted by every one acquainted with agriculture that in the south of England, at all events, the harvest in 1549 was the largest on record. (" No, no.") Such were certainly the reports in all the farming journals ; and he should call as his witness the noble lord who spoke last, and who, in answer to his noble friend (the Marquis of Lansdowne), said that the stock of corn was not low in the farmers' yards. He (Earl Grey) believed there was a large stock of corn. They all knew that since last harvest there had been 1,000,000 more quarters of corn sold than in the preceding quarter of last year. That fact appeared in the Gazette. If, then, the stocks were not low, and that 1,000,000 more quarters of B r iti s h w h eat — an d the Gazette referred to British wheat only—had been sold than during last year, it was pretty c l ear that the last harvest was a good one. (Hear, hear.)" If, then, the British farmers have reserved their wheat instead of pressing it on the market, how can it have been panic on their part which has pressed dow n Pr i ces ? For weeks past we have heard of flatness and decline in our ion, without having any of lino, There is a portentous solemnit' e walks along the lobby, papers in hand on in his ev and wh expressic as he nods to col length he takes his sr rised h ever annoy you re for the are you, my dear ?" " Very well, I thank you," replied. The visiter then added, " Now, my dear, you should ask me how I am." The child simply and -•-- • honestly replid, " I do n 't wan t t o k now. " a level in the BRIAN BOROIHME'S HARP.—It is well k nown th a t th e -wi prices cibtamable in great monarch Brian B oro ih me was kill e d at the b attle of ins' - se the com- Clontarf, A 1014. He left his son Donah his harp ; murdered his brother Teige, and being ,hew, retired to Ro me , an d carr i e d w ith _on, harp, and other regalia of his father. _cgalia were kept in the Vatican till Pope Clement the harp to Henry VIII., but kept the crown, which - gsive gold. Henry gave the harp to the first Earl ;), whose family it remained until the -. , -itury, when it came by a A petty journalist was boasting in company that he was dispenser of fame to those on whom he wrote. " Yes, ir," replied an individual present, " you dispense it so berally that you leave none for yourself." A formal fashionable visiter thus addressed a little girl VT _ reign countries to with the prices in y be otherwise ? )f Dantzi ut Dor gh famil county of Clar a that of fter whose death it on of Counsellor inericK. In .tinz it was presented to the Rigl illiam Conynvham, who deposited it in Trinity Coll t is thirty- 13 inches I ms of red the sounding-board is of oak ly ;, the extremity of the Divert Le I un [IT ED.- crystal set in s the followi curacy swore I lver, and he I , spondent of )te, vouchin clson, and then, in fu anger, died childless lipped into the bequest which all his wealth to her the A little amused at her uld not nc be altered I to th , . 1 , Ilich the gravest are prone, added, •,. ---- Jonathan.' The widow bright er thought of that,' said she, as before the funeral baked low applie - ••• Faut./V9 /JUL 111 returned, man and wife, and 'lived very happily rworde 1...,.... U1;57Pt LISHED LETTER OF DR. JOHNSON.—The Gen agazine, of this month, says the following in teresting letter of Dr. Samuel Johnson has never been in print :—" My Lord,—Being wholly unknown to your lordship, I have only this apology to make for presuming to trouble you with a request—that a stranger's petition, if it cannot be easily granted, can be easily refused. Some of the apartments are now vacant in which, I am encouraged to hope that, by application to your lordship, I may obtain a residence. Such a grant would be con sidered by me as a great favour ; and I hope, to a man who has had tl honour of vindicating his reat in one of his houses may not be improperly or unworthily allowed. I therefore request that your lordship will be pleased to grant such room in I Ham----- Majesty's nernment, a vyci wp wy sumo, your lordship's most obedient and most humble servant, SAMUEL JOHNSON, Bolt-court, Fleet-street, April 11, 1776." Endorsed, " Mr. Samuel Johnson to the Earl of Hertford, requesting apartments at Hampton Court, 11th May, 1776.' The answer :—" Lord C. presents his com pliments to Mr. Johnson, and is sorry that he cannot obey his commands, having already on his hands many engagements unsatisfied." The wish expressed in the above letter is not alluded to by any of the doctor's biographers. It seems inconsistent with his known pre ference for London as a residence: RENCONTRE WITH A REAR.—The lazaretto of Urdos, in the Lower Pyrennees, recently became the scene of a mnaf rn. most melancholy accident. Three woodmen of that com mune were betaking themselves to their place of work at an early hour in the morning, when they perceived upon the snow the track of a bear who had come down on the preceding night from the forest of Lazaque, at least as nearly as it could be judged. Desirous to ascertain in what direction the terrible animal had proceeded, they began to follow the course of his track. It was not long ere they became convinced that he was concealed in the midst of some bushes upon a small plateau, within a short distance of the lazaretto. They then returned with all speed in order to arm themselves for an attack on the brute, and M. Marturchan, the porter, provided them with a gun and a bayonet a piece. Mormela, one of the labourers, obtained 'one with a double barrel, being an expert poacher. The porter himself, willing to share the danger of the exploit, joined the little troop. Martuchan, Mormela, and a third, selected their posts, while a fourth commenced a baltue. As soon as the bear found himself pursued he rushed out of the bushes, passed close to the muzzle of Morrncla's gun, who immediately fired and lodged a ball in his shoulder. The roarings of the animal terrified poor Mormela, who was unable to take aim a second time, and fired in the air. At the same time the terrible brute rushed upon Mormela, whom he would infallibly have torn to pieces had not his comrades hurried up at the first intimation of the conflict and stretched the bear dead by a general volley. The most dangerous wound whickh Mormela appears to have received was one in the neck, by which an enormous goitre was torn off, which had inconvenienced him for a long time. The medical man who was called in and dressed his wounds gave hopes, however, of his final recovery.—Le Politique. From our Second and Third Editions of Tuesday last (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Mr. G. R. Robinson, M.P., has resigned the Chair manship of Lloyd's, owing to ill health. Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., succeeds him. POWDER-MILL EXPLOSION. A terrific explosion, or series of explosions, occurred yesterday at the powder-mills of Curtis and Harvey, the well-known gunpowder-manufacturers, at Dartford. At 3 30 p.m. a noise resembling the discharge of a whole park of artillery was heard, which shook the houses for miles round, causing the inhabitants to rush out under the belief that an earthquake had taken place. A dense cloud of smoke was seen to rise in the air. Mills and several bodies were observed to drop in different directions along the street. A second and third explosion followed, the latter causing such a concussion of the air that horses drawing vehicles a mile away are said to have been drawn down ; and foot passengers were scarcely able to keep on their feet. Several more explosions of similar violence followed in rapid succession. After no further damage was apprehended, the premises were entered. Seven of the mills or stones were found levelled with the ground, and dead and wounded workmen were lying about. The cause of the explosion is not known, and probably never will be, as the men in the corning -house which first exploded were all killed or so dreadfully wounded as to be unable to give any account of the affair. Five bodies were soon found, and the whole number killed on the spot is eight, and a great number of the wounded are not expected to recover. The excitement and confu sion were so great that no authentic details could be obtained. VIENNA, MARCH 6.—Premium on gold advanced lf per cent., being now 22. Silver is 141 pm. Exchange on London 11 florins 29. The gradually increasing dis tress of the management of the currency is regarded as almost the sole cause of this state of things. The new loan is 21 dis. Atheng letters of Ist state that the blockade is rigorously maintained. eat Dantzig d per quarter, II :er, it cal howeve THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. @men! Alisrtilann. - - FOREIGN HAY.-108 bundles of hay hays reached London from Rotterdam. The ship carpenters of Whitehaven are still on strike for an advance of wages. It is understood that Baring Brothers, of London, have taken £50,000 in Panama railway stock. It is proposed to constitute a line of steam service be tween Aberdeen and St. Petersburgh. Destitution to a considerable extent at this moment prevails in SAye, Lewis, and other islands. The Queen has given a pension of £lOO a year to Mrs. Bessy Moore, wife of the celebrated poet Thomas Moore. A farm at North Side, Isle of Man, which formerly was rented at 455. per sere, has been let a few days since at 255. On Saturday, the new Danish loan of £BOO,OOO was announced in the city. Only £300,000 will be raised in England. A cheque for £5O has just been received from the Duke of Wellington towards completing Wellington parish church. The French academy has awarded a medal to Mr. Hind, of London, for the discovery of the planets Iris and The directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have decided on issuing no more spirits to their seamen. Cappinahane, neariLimerick, once the splendid residence of Mr. Mason, has been taken for an auxiliary work house, by the Newcastle Guardians. Thursday week completed the 63d year of " the Duke's entry into the army," he baying been gazetted to his first commission as ensign, 73d regiment, 7th March, 1787. EARLY SWARM.—During the fine warm sun of the 7th inst., a large swarm of bees were safely hived in the gar den of Mr. John Wright, near Northallerton. Illicit distillation appears once more prevalent in various districts of the north of Scotland, and seizures of malt and stills are frequently made. Green peas, of fine quality, are still imported into London from Portugal. A quantity were purchased for her Majesty's table. A robin redbreast's nest, containing one egg, was last week discovered in the neighbourhood of Dykelands, near Ulverston. Three cadets of the Royal Military Academy, at Wool wich, have been dismissed, and six others are under close arrest, for fagging the young cadets. The poor-rates and local taxes of Sunderland average 17s. 10d. in the pound, whilst those of the city of Durham, only a dozen miles off, amount to only 3s. 44-d. INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION FOR 1851.—We regret to hear that little more than £20,000 have as yet been sub scribed to meet the expenses, estimated at £150,000. A recent advertisement in the Times, containing the names of influential persons favourable to the total ces sation of labour in the Post-office on the Sabbath, cost upwards of £lOO. PRINTERS' PENSION SOCIETY.—The anniversary fes tival of this laudable institution is fixed for Wednesday, May 8, on which occasion F. Y. Peel, Esq., M.P.. the son of Sir Robert Peel, Bart., has consented to preside. Several custom-house officers, holding subordinate situations as weighers, have been detected in systemati cally abstracting quantities of tobacco from the London docks. The Queen and Prince Albert forwarded the munificent donation of 100 guineas, in aid of the funds of the in tended new hospital for the diseases of the chest, at Vic toria Part A rat was killed in a granary at Perth recently, mea suring nineteen inches in length from his nose to tail-tip, twelve and a half inches from the point of the nose to its haunches, and nine inches round the body. The National Society for the Abolition of Burials in Towns has presented a petition praying Parliament to pass an act for the formation of national cemeteries far removed from human dwellin2s. ON DlT.—That the hero of the East, Major Edwardes, is likely to lead to the altar the beautiful and accom plished Miss Selwin, who is intimately related to, and re siding with, Dr. Grant, of Richmond Hill, London. Three men recently apprehended for attempting to pass forged notes at Brighton, pleaded guilty at the assizes at Lewes on Wednesday. They were sentenced to trans portation for life. On Saturday the new fifty-gun frigate Nankin was •a from the Woolwich Dock-yard. She was ned,in the presenceof an immens, multitude, by ,ughter of On Wedr y morning, two men were killed, and a y wounded by the unexpected explosion of t in a tunnel near Cork on the Southern and third dan germ] The extensive farm of Knock, a mile and a half from Paisley, was lately let on a grain rent of two bolls of wheat per acre, which, at the last fiars, would be some - about 30s. per acre—what was wont to be let at On Wednesday the Palace of Holyrood was the scene of unusual bustle - , cause to elect two representatives to the House of peers chosen to fill the vacant places were of Airlie and Lord Blantyre. A very interesting piece of biography is announced for immediate publication by that popular writer, the Rev. Erskine Neale, whose _Life Book of a Labourer and It is no le zes wiii oe in the recollection of most readers than a Life of the Duke of Kent. excitement prevails _in _the - neighbourhood of riolywen, in consequence of the discovery of several rich veins of lead ore on the properties of the honourable Mr. Mostvn and Viscount Fielding ; the latter of Ross-hall, near Shrewsbury. Her Majesty's Theatre was opened on Tuesday last. dA lir ~ mayer s opera or " Medea" was performed, with Parodi in the chief part. A new ballet, called "Les Metamor phoses," was produced, Carlotta Grisi undertaking the principal character. The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng land has increased from £17,125,860 to £17,133,356, being a difference of £7496. The paper in actual circu lation had decreased from £20,104,581 to £19,923,049, being a difference of £118,532. A female, two or three inches taller than six feet, lately arrived in Aberdeen from Inverness, and obtained em ployment at one of the public works. Large crowds now regularly assemble on the street between her lodgings and -he passes and re-passes to her meals The Lord Mayor of London has sent invitations to the mayors of 133 towns in England (Liverpool, of course, included), 13 in Scotland, and 8 i n I re l an d , to d i ne w i th Prince Albert on Thursday next. The object is to pro mote, as far as possible, the exhibition of 1851, besides being an evidence of municipal hospitality. FEW DISTUREANCE.—Ahother instance of this kind occurred in Cheltenham parish church, on Sunday morn ing. Just as service was commencing, a man named Wil liam Frederick Parker, attempted to thrust himself into a pew, and in consequence of being frustrated, he became disorderly, and was given in charge to the police. A fatal occurrence has occurred at Bourton-on-the- Hill, near Stow, to a servant residing with Mr. Phillips, of the above place ; being up at night, waiting for her master, she was found in the cellar so shockingly burned that death put an end to her sufferings in a day or two. By what means, or for what reason, she found her way into the cellar is unknown. The proposed submarine telegraph between Dover and Calais, conceded to Messrs. Brett and Co. by the French government, is approaching completion. The tower for the battery, officers, and general works at Dover is nearly erected, and the isolated wires are in a forward state of progress, and are expected to be sunk across the channel in the course of the next month. The Kendal Mercury says that a few weeks since the minister of a church in a secluded dale allowed a stranger, whom he supposed to be a young ordained clergyman, to preach in his stead. It has since been discovered that the preacher is not in holy orders, and the consequence has been that the parties have been indicted to appear in the ecclesiastical court. On Thursday, the 7th instant, an animated debate took place between the Rev. Dr. Cumming and Dr. Faa, the Roman Catholic priest, lately come to Barnet. The meet ings were crowded, especially in the evening; at least one thousand persons must have been in the hall, besides hun dreds who could not obtain admittance. The Rev. A. I. Hanmer, a Puseyite clergyman, informs " the inhabitants of Tiverton" that, " in consequence of a change which has gradually established itself in his opinions, his ministerial connexion with them is now ceasing." Whether his new opinions be well founded or mistaken, his conviction of their truth is strong ; and he is consequently bound, he says, to act accordingly. Lord Bateman, a young nobleman, owner of extensive estates, in Herefordshire andNorthamptonshire, is making considerable improvements in his cottage property, by rebuilding the cottages on a convenient and healthy plan and adding a garden of a quarter of an acre to each. He is building schools for the children, and a few days ago be addressed his Northamptonshire cottage tenants on his future plans. A Banffshire journal relates a curious anecdote of a horse. Its rider having dropped his cane, alighted, and away sped the horse. Being lame, the owner could not arrest his flight, and, therefore, dragged himself slowly homeward. Suddenly, after the lapse of half an hour, back came the horse, alone, trotted close to its master, submissively stood still until he had remounted, and then cheerily cantered homewards at full speed. ARSON.—At Lincoln assizes, yesterday week, Edward Whitfield, a youth, indicted for setting fire to a straw stack and cow hovel, on the sth of January, on the pre mises of Mr. William Dolby, at Swayfield, was sentenced to 15 years transportation ; and John Plummer, 22, in dicted for having set fire to a house and several stacks, at Market Deeping, on the 18th September, was sentenced to be transported for seven years. Frederick Watmough, said to be an illegitimate son of the late Duke of St. Albans, has had to enter into recog nizances to keep the peace in consequence of sending threatening letters to Mr. Harrison, the secretary to the Duchess of St. Albans. It appeared that the allowance of £lOO a year, which had been paid him during his father's lifetime, had been discontinued by the duchess, and that he was in great distress. SHEEP WORRYING.—On Thursday night week, a flock of sheep were on a ley on the farm of Mr. Robo tham, in a field by the side of the canal, in the neighbour hood of Macclesfield. On the following morning, some were found dead, and others with their legs and skin lacerated ; all of them having been more or less bitten by some dog. Nineteen of the sheep have died from the injuries received, and ten others had their legs broken. FISHING FOR RATS.—A new branch of industry has sprung up in Newcastle.% Juvenile disciples of Isaak Walton—the shade of the old angler frowns upon us while we write—may be seen in the streets, patiently re posing by the side of a grate, with a line and baited hook in the sewer, to catch rats. Their prey are sold to the jackals of the rat hunters, men who keep hundreds of rats in store, and sell them to sportsmen.—Gateshead Ob. pryer. f PAUPER IRISH.—At Cardiff police-court, last week, Benjamin M'Carthy, master of the Helen and Ann, of Kinsale, was charged with bringing over in a vessel laden with pit wood from Kinsale, some sixty miserable Irish, which he landed at Penarth. There was not accommoda tion for ten persons on board, and all the passengers were in a deplorable condition, without food or comforts of any kind. The magistrates convicted defendant in the penalty of £lO and costs. SUDDEN TRANSFORMATION OF AN UNITARIAN.—An Unitarian preacher in the metropolis, a Mr. Linwood, has caused considerable scandal among his congregation, by having suddenly declared himself a Trinitarian, and be come the editor of a publication " devoted ennestly and perseveringly to the upholding of high evangelical princi ples, and uprooting the principles of which Mr. Linwood had been, for a considerable time, the strenuous public advocate." BANQUET TO MAJOR EDWARDES, C.B.—This day (Tuesday) will be a gala day in Shrewsbury, when the Shropshire hero will make his triumphal entry into the chief town of his native county. A procession will meet the gallant soldier at Lord Hill's column, consisting of the mayor, members of the corporation, yeomanry ca valry, oddfellows, &c.. &c. It is supposed the Major will make his entree on horseback. The public banquet will take place at the Music-hall. WHOLESALE ILLICIT DISTILLATION.—On Thursday, at the Court of Inland Revenue, Joseph Gibson, No. 65i. Hatfield-street, Lambeth, was charged, on several infor mations, with having unlicensed stills in his possession, and with carrying on the trade of illicit distillation. The officers stated that the utensils found on the premises were capable of producing 26,000 gallons of spirits annu ally. the duty on which would amount to £lO,OOO. The defendant was amerced in the full penalty of £l2OO, and the seizure was condemned. SUPPOSED MURDER.—On Monday, William Campbell, a miner, at Grasswater, between Cumnock and Muirkirk, was found dead near that place. He is believed to have been murdered by an Irish labourer, with whom he was drinking pretty freely on the previous night. There were several cuts on his head, and apparently a great struggle had ensued between them, near the place where last seen together. It is supposed that the body was dragged into a bourne, where it was found. The Irishman is in cus tody.—.Ayr Advertiser. One night last week a poor woman at Burwell, Cam bridgeshire, dreamed that her child was dead, and that the funeral was taking place; that she followed it to its last resting-place, and standing by its grave in the chapel yard, heard the minister perform his sad task. In the agony of her fright she suddenly awoke, and looked at the child. It appeared in a tranquil sleep, but on touching it, to ascertain if it was so, she discovered that the vital spark had fled. The infant was quite well when it was put to bed. SINGULAR CASE OP HYDROPHOBIA.—A considerable time ago, a young girl near this town had a cut in her hlnd, which she permitted the house dog to lick with his tongue—a very prevalent custom among children. Some time thereafter, the dog went mad, and was immediately killed ; but, within these few days, the girl was also seized with the same dreadful malady, and after suffering severely, sometimes requiring the united strength of two or three people to keep her in bed, she fell into convul sions, and shortly after died.—Aberdeen Journal. FIRE CAUSED BY A CAT.-0/1 the 27th ult. a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Thomas Maw, of Bol ton Westgate, which was ascertained afterwards to have originated thus. Their cat is in the habit of sitting in the fender, and on the night in question, a cinder fell out of the fire upon poor puss's back ; she being unable to get it off rushed out of the house and into the barn, where rub bing amongst the straw, it fell off and ignited the straw. The barn was soon in flames ; but owing to the prompt assistance of the neighbours, the fire was got out, but not until damage to the amount of £lO was sustained.—Hull paper. At Chelmsford assizes, Hitchcock, a young fellow who had before been convicted of felony, was found guilty of firing a farm at Braintree, whereby a lerge amount of property was destroyed. The sentence was fourteen years' transportation, for which the impudent culprit thanked the judge. Mary Savell, a woman of thirty-one, was tried for firing a stack of oats' at Great Chishall. Last year the grand jury ignored the bill against the woman, and she was discharged ; she thought this was the same as an acquittal, and she avowed her guilt ; this led to her second arrest, and the present trial. She was convicted. Sentence, seven years' transportation. PROFESSIONAL CONFIDENCES.-ThrOllgh The Times, "a surgeon" discloses somewhat novel attempts made by the police to associate the medical profession in a system of espionage. A circular was left at his house, stating that a family accused of a robbery in Kent was supposed to be in his neighbourhood, the wife of one thief being near her confinement ; and he was invited to give infor mation if he should be summoned " o her aid geon very properly declines. and he denounces the en oachrnent on professional privilege. A little reflection will confirm his right to object, and, it is to be hoped, stop this attempt to obtain police auxiliaries. EXTENSIVE RODBERIES OF PLATE AND JEWELS.—On Friday week intelligence of the fnllnwino• Luc may, was receivea o the police:—From Thomas Dawson, Esq., Norland-street,y jewels, value £250 ; from Norris, Esq., Bedford-place, silver plate, value £2OO ; from Alfred Jones, Esq., Lower Grosvenor-street, silver plate, value £80; from 86, Cam den-road-villas, silver plate, value £B5 ; from Mr. Prit. chard, Tavistock-street, seven £5 Bank of England notes; from the Egremont Hotel, Brighton, jewels, value £190; and from the house of Mr. Edward Turrock Luis, Staf fordshire, £3OO in gold. THEEXECUTIONER AND HIS MOTHER.—We mentioned last week, that Calcraft, the , executioner was summoned ucluzu one SlLring magistrate, at Worship-street, for refus ing to support his mother, 73 years old. It was shown that he was in the weekly receipt of a guinea from the corporation of London, and that, in addition, he followed the business of a shoemaker. In defence, he pleaded want of trade and physical debility, so great that he could not pull his coat off or put it on without help, and that other members of the family were better off than he. The ma gistrate, however, made an order on him for the weekly payment of three shillings, amid the protestations of Cal craft that the order might be made, but it would be of no avail. He however took his mother away with him. A KEEN SPORTSMAN.—A Nottingham paper states that during the height of the gale a few days ago, a poacher was seen with his gun, watching the river side, about six o'clock in the evening, on the Scaftworth side of the river, opposite Scrooby. Presently he was observed by a person on the lookout to shoot at a wild duck as it was flying past. The shot !ook effect, but the bird unfortunately fell into the river Idle, on the opposite side. The man seeing de lay was dangerous, immediately stripped, and in a very short time swam across and succeeded in gaining posses sion of his prize. He then took to the river again, with the duck in his mouth, for his clothes and his gun, and reached the opposite bank in safety. The watcher not being an expert swimmer, durst not follow, and the man got clear off with his booty. CHARGE OF STEALING £l4OO. —At the Manssion house, London, on Monday, Walter Watts, the lessee of the Olympic Theatre, was charged with having stolen a cheque for £l4OO. The prisoner had been a clerk in the Globe Insurance Office, and is suspected to have stolen therefrom the cheque in question (which was on Glyn and Co.), and to have proceeded at once to another bank—the London and Westminster —where he paid in the money to his own account. A good deal of mystery hangs over the affair, from the fact that the prisoner acted so openly, had been since the time constantly in his usual places of business, and had surrendered voluntarily when he heard there was a warrant out against him ; but it having been deposed that he paid the money into the bank on his own account, he was remanded for the production of other witnesses. Some of the London papers mention rumours to the effect that the prisoner has committed frauds on this office to the extent of uywards of £BO,OOO. The system of "great circle sailing," by which consi derable distances are saved in making long voyages east or west, especially towards the poles, is simply dependant on the principle of the shortest distance between any two points on the earth's surface, being that described by a line which, if continued, wouldoform a circle dividing the globe into two equal parts. For instance, in sailing from the Land's End to the north-east of Newfoundland in the same parallel, a due westerly course would be much longer than might be made by describing a course to the north, as a continuation of the former would produce a circle dividing the globe into two unequal parts. The saving of distance by this method obviously diminishes on approach ing- the equator, to the south of which of course the curve takes an opposite direction. The system, however, requir ing a constant variation of the ship's course is not a!ways adopted. but is very valuable to understand for long voyages in high latitudes particularly. THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—On Thursday, a very hand some brig, 265 tons, was launched at Aberdeen. She has been bought by the Admiralty, and named The Lady Franklin. She is to proceed immediately in search of Sir John Franklin.—On Friday, Mr. Green, the aeronaut, forwarded nine balloons to the expedition about to sail in search of Sir John Franklin. Lady Franklin had pre viously been in communication with Mr. Green on the subject. On Monday an experiment was made in the presence of her ladyship, Mr. Holland, M.P., and others, at the house of Mr. Green, with a balloon containing 32 packets, consisting of 3,000 slips of silk and paper, which were to be detached at the rate of one every five minutes. The balloon was between five and six feet in diameter, and was filled with hydrogen gas. After the balloon had proceeded a short distance, the packets began to be libe rated at short intervals. It took a southwestern direc tion, and some of the packets were picked up at Chiches ter. The balloon then proceeded towards the Channel. Mr. Green has forwarded to the commanders some appa ratus for generating the gas. CONVERTS TO ROME.—The Record newspaper pub lishes, conspicuously, a communication from a corre spondent, stating that two daughters of the late Rev. 11. D. Leeves, agent to the British and Foreign Bible So ciety, and chaplain to the British Minister at Naples. were publicly admitted into the Church of Rome by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Malta, on Saturday, the 2nd instant. One of these ladies is said by this writer to have been a governess in the family of Dr. Pusey. The Record cor respondent adds—" A grand mass was celebrated in ho nour of the event on the day on which these young ladies were admitted into the Romish Church. It seem s th a t they went to the Bishop of Gibraltar on the p rev i ous week, demanding of him the right of confessing and of plenary absolution from him. The Bishop replied th a t, as a servant of Christ and Bishop of the Church, he was quite prepared to receive any statement they were desirous of making for the relief of conscience; and, as far as ab solution was concerned, he was, on due p roo f o f repent.. ance on their part, willing to pronounce a declaratory absolution, but nothing more. Indeed the Bishop is un - - derstood to have spoken to them in a judicious, sensible, and truly scriptural manner, but they have fallen into the been duly snare with their eyes open, and aft er h av i ng and faithfully warned." e le Sstil °8115;:' : , fOfth 18:11 19 11 "‘ I March , , arch 19 _____„--.........„ A NEW SUBSTITUTE FOR GUNPOWDo.. - IL Napier, of Swansea, has announced to the seie:itific insti- Sunday (week), three lads, named Ray, ' har e, 0 , 1 - A Mr. r REMARKABLE ♦ ESCAPE ; ----- ABERDE tution of that town, that.he has discovered a new .:xplosive hart, all apprentice seamen, left Aberdee n k i ng to 4 substance, which he designates " white powder," „•aving pilot boat on a pleasure sail. A storm rj! r b e lefeA. ee e 0 ten times the force of common gunpowder. it ie eu.vne night, after holding out to sea, they made Vf.. t ettir' t ! e k til posed of the following ingredients :-One part yelleoe.' but seeing another boat all but swampetl i f Ne t „, r er iii tl ; Miss they desisted and again went out to see,r the lite Wak efield effiel prussiate of potash, well dried ; one part sugar, well dried; two parts chloride of potash ; these materials are finely ground separately, and then intimately mixed. M eee :ey, they found themselves near the ,f; rhe yli!ne a cluai , and , ih. i. ven by the wind towards the north. n icora y ,4,enty. three II Huttick and Simpson, the eminent literary auctioneers, the/ of Piccadilly, are to sell this week a highly-interesting men. The; had laid themselves down in r aw 10', t ' k, te ,, il r s tat def collection of autograph letters, formed with great taste the boat, but 3:.!1e wind veering round> OA p od 0 0 "Zed to e wr t.ed th and judgment, by George Linnecar, Esq., of Liverpool ; rating, on Monde,v afternoon they set see dr: , , ore ~ ee i 7 , 0 pa. his ad to eet ee !ion of which was known to one IL ,. bet toe , ~.i; t r h at yea, n,,ted th a very extensive series of letters of artists, described as in lying down, eihaustee'l by cold and bunger , e, the P !4 , f t,, ° a his ; ' s ad most beautiful condition, accompanied by portraits and southwards as far as tine mouth of the Tao' The,' 0 ) t ,; , a ar umho ese ft appropriate illustrations ;" to which is added an interesting there being discernible on Tuesday reorning• cbor , 7 t ; ff 's as a, attorney her portrait by Hogarth ; the well-known drinking-cup of structed of iron bars in the boat a rode m a i:teen f ° g3 l _ ftt Ylen a iv °rne Y John Evelyn, the author of Sylva [of whom the present they threw overboard, but after dragging --- by then, do c( olN and h • stay member for Surrey is a lineal descendant,] and some other of rope it did not reach ground. They theL loc i it he d efeva e was r articles formerly in his possession. SINGULAR COINCIDENCES.-A widower, named Ben- 0 l i u )1 i 4 t rig t adgeaspinaird,rtifhteedbotoatsbeaeibnyg the current . withr eco r s 'e a s i t e : D A; jarain Atkins, of Brockdish, some years 'ago married a mid-day a breeze to landward sprung 110, en e , joko i of 4 Of 1 8 ' 4 1r 1 Ess Shwidow, named Mary Fuller, both having a family. which they set the sail and were drifted w eattet u at ll ° , att ori ° he I ortly after William Atkins, his son, married his mother- jumped ashore among the rocks eeenait 9 0 eel) tie ''iiiead . e Y at in-law's daughter, and they all lived comfortably together exactly forty-eight hours after leaving Aberdee were e l , itti it chef he ca till May last, when oftenboh the women were taken ill, and During this time they tasted no food> OA dlytte 9 e lii ii t „a in a 81 d• '] died within an hour ch other, and were buried in the I fatigued with cold. They were, however> i"'? iet e 't t to " 'eft Sh r "st al same grave. On the 30th of September, in the same by a gentleman in the neighbourhood of & tr iv et!' h st l•tev pleld, year, the said Benjamin Atkins married another widow, place, by whose generous offices they Were Jool, tlt e p e se Wte. a kefi( named Elizabeth Drewmilk, late of Svleham, in Suffolk, and travelled home on Wednesday. - 4 46er "f - node ° . s ie who had a single daughter Rachel Drewmilk ; and on THE EXPLOSION AT HOUNSLOW.-A corre'r / e0 ale ''' the d r e r neE Sunday last Atkins' son was married to the said Rachel Brighton says that the late fatal explosion at sea l to N 1 an ; e ,'eada i Drewmilk, at Brockdish Church, by the Rev. G. Erance. was distinctly felt and heard in Sussex, at aAt pet , ~ 1) ae t Ler '" his s' At .i , t ltli 'er ' -Norwich News. Hounslow of between 50 and 60 miles. -- d on, ta n that:vritt> 3t4eig`ttli4seaeuadvittt tree:. ti et 'u,e at it c h a tui, tl A circular has been issued to the creditors of Messrs. upwards of forty miles off, three reports wer e ee t f: r i 1,, ,7 , 4a t che Barclay, Brothers and Co., of London, whose suspension, heard, and a correspondin number of shocks ;: esg ir h t ,tie r ii . at h e with liabilities for £400,000, took place on the 13th of so that the inhabitants ran of th • houses , 4 %0 val, c y s t ag . out their jr li e re t ta ct ,. ai October, 1847, announcing a second and final dividend of that they had felt shocks of an earthquake. , k i t e, e and : f r , t w ,' -l ag I ) 2s. 6d. in the pound. The circumstances under which Mr. Heslop, a teacher of languages, while wal k IPr j tlaj,, tl Ai et ' ). !; b i this further payment is to be effected reflect honour upon the residence of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsroid, ~;, b ilt. th pi " , "il. l ' 'let the family connexions of the house. An offer, on the part near Brighton, heard a noise of distant thunt.l e oil, ° fin ale of Mr. Hedworth and Alexander Barclay, was to give up the sky was clear, he imaned it was the lie t i:i s o l4 ; ' alt,e7 , , " t ' s oert 1 all claim to dividends on their debts, and to put at the tillery. It was then twentyto four by "A I P Ilt. - `ttt,. price minutes oP e ), e th, -' , 4i l . el disposal of the estate a sum required to pay a further and Mr. Smith, a gardener and nurseryman at then T he Oa 1 ,a!1 t ,, rlq A n. 4 final dividend of 2s. 6d. to the other creditors. The offer of Brighton, also distinctly heard the noise.. s es;,," ute t tep si Nee involves a total sacrifice, on the part of Messrs. Hedworth concluside evidence, however, that the explosn'lalin Itcl.kid id .ed 4 and Alexander Barclay, of about £40,000. MATRICIDE BY A SUPPOSED MANIAC.-The village f of Little Eversden, about eight miles from Cambridge, has Tuesday, a paper which wasp rinted and in t, ° 14 1 L° thjaad°,:;',be: b o e l t lo w w ee in n g s p o ar a a n g d ra 6 p O h m , ciloepsiefrdofmrorathethsepostusissfetxreAisaik,eernr? ' ,to topy dtrit iee lsiok i ti st oresas been the scene of a frightful crime, perpetrated by a la- the news of the explosion rea c hed Lewes :--- i ,„ - . A ~.1 7 .; the c f`, l t h e i bourer on his mother, on Tuesday. The deceased, Mrs. have reached this office from several persons iiv'm ne 'rl N ti 'iltdaf t :'eetl a Carrington, an aged woman, the mother of the man im- ferent parts of Lewes, who depose to havinge elr tt 9 io • ItlTsc.:r e t ,alle plicated, was killed by the blows of a spade. The mur- a slight shock, as if of an earthquake, at aloe # tl)t et 'aall ''sera derer, who is of very weak intellect, had attacked his minutes to four o'clock on Monday afternoon. lifor4, lOt t „ ti oatL i feel nit, father, who lies dangerously ill, and his mother had no train passing through the tunnel at that ling r i dee ;tho t , t ° l 4, 1 4 but attempted to prevent his violence, when he attacked her over, the shock was felt in parts of the town n°, 0 1 0 W et , tt e z lav e ~ and occasioned her death. After a long investigation, by the passage of trains. All the persons a llude 1 !ita El ulat ,„th o f during which the prisoner showed no signs of intellect, rienced the shock at the same period of tiniee,toso lotii,thipi t 'ain g i i the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder." various other places there are similar accounts, 51 .4 4 14 1 to L i ber, SINGULAR SUICIDE.-A widow, who kept a watch ing as to time, but varying a little in descriPti °l 'iliki kvi °P rtie ."' her maker's shop at Shrewsbury, lately surprised her neigh- heard a noise, others felt a shock, whilst others bo alf h:,, Wei, ~ vet" Itti l4 elis ‘ItY d i bours by suddenly marrying a man named Kelvey, who and felt the effects of an explosion. en .olt td .ea had been little more than a week in her service, and was FIRE ANNIHILATOR.-Several successful es,P it oo-, 4 the ,t, th e Ito in vi previously an entire stranger. On Thursday week she were exhibited on Friday last, at the London ;',' e Air i tolZatit„ a zt t ee appeared before the magistrate, and complained that he Vauxhall, before a numerous company invited t o fib' 'elld' a ,° , &ele of t had ill-used her, by striking her very savagely. In de- Mr. Phillips's new invention for extinguisnleoe klet tha tlo t fault of hail he was committed to gaol. When locked After several experiments on a small scale, f 8 the 9 10 . te e „'tkp d „he hup he appeared very cheerful, and exclaimed that all was of the company was directed to a compartment e bie t e l 1 10!Nile t i , : 41 4 h e right. Next morning he was found dead, having hanged open building, quite twent feet hih inside, wl' o f I 3 "ker th at thi, himself by his braces. It is surmised that he contem- fitted up with partitions and temporary . . ee 0 0 tt r li thr. i .,, joisting d 0 , !" to t ale re gard ,' plated murder as well as suicide, as a knife and a halter wood, well soaked with pitch and turpenrieK! ed io to bet tilt i '.. I were found in his possession. hung besides with rags and shavings sash . ode to e . ter a l ette r At York Assizes three men, William Brayshaw, Wil- manner. The torch was applied to this erectioni o r, 11 4 4 oft Dart et Liam Cannon, and James Taylor, were convicted of sacri- flames, which ascended immediately, at l en l i cic t°,4 Illai rl i am l ' i f iden„ lege, at St. George's Church, Leeds, in stealing there- with a vehemence which drove the spectators they tt ts /I c ,,,,a4 to i from five bottles of wine, a communion-table cloth and distance of forty feet, and was already beyond eO 6 tet e : / CNA that napkin, some wax candles, three clergymen's scarfs, and of water. The inventor then brought forth on e 4 tit i et rt ist th at two books. It appeared on the evidence of one Furniss, hand-machines, and threw out a volume 0 %. 0 .04 ,Ith n ' l tln e q b s reto who pleaded guilty, and appeared as witness for the vapour, which, in half a minute, entirely sill"Fi ctre, !te t ",,th i '' , 1847 , Crown, that the prisoners obtained entrance into the flame and combustion; and to show t i li: D t oti " ort e ep , ? itsott43i,"tailliii,,heanv% church, and concealed themselves in a pew, whilst some which now filled the space was quite workmen were engaged in repairs, and, after the latte r Phillips mounted into the loft, and passed an d i ,e6 ,4-e,,,kni; t uet ae t had secured their plunder, unbolted one of the doors, and through the midst of it with a lighted candle in,..bed,:l uttil at A res fmi escaed. Brayshaw and Cannon were sentenced to one The machine with which this effect was acconir co ' 0 1 - 0 i. tep d f lwi t et. year's imprisonment, and Taylor, who appears to have rather larger than a good-sized coffee-pot, an,"„„ily c ° o ;°"?.,"iffer e e , a eh 01 been a ringleader, and at whose house some of the things of three tin cases, one within another, and in th teri li er 1 44; 41 7 e li i ; but were discovered, to be transported for ten years. rnunicating. There was a small quantity of w ee , se, 4 4 4 ..1 h a ecti on STANFIELD - HALL AGAIN.-Within the last few days, bottom of the machine, and in the centre case 7 1 ,19 I be „ t oe, ,le lov e , Stanfield-hall has again been the scene of another attempt posite cake, containing, in the middle of it e,,, to 1 N ell pe e at I o \,l, , Tet s ee . a ed , a t () T O uth eee ' : t6 - 4kith t h h .e def .' : the i rtg s i i t te th e , kach ti hav °tll,l le ti p to h e e tak e Ott art 4 N ei co w an aat Of . leti on i a d dli b e d 's w early i een th t l'ad ea t l,lt Vgant 1 It t't t h e leti' lris ' ,‘e t i e ,ear t i v ers, al , tiet b 'edth' such I 'll o 'or e defe r , tii 'e h B %iei Oted a ,Dpio„". tt le e l od4): th e In % 4 fa t , b4 d 'thi , B e 9 be b`l4t, contend ti , 4 3 1/, se :nte n d t `kt t'eatei b and re Jip 4 tt e , i ed to e 11 4d4ti k : th ab k 0 1 1 coilrsan• T t „ °l l4 l ead s e Of tir C th,' had v,' suel ,Vlt, a , 'e, wit 'h a t h e ,', and .., ,hat he Nd rici he he al'')Daidered telttle a do t'D th I e Alai tt et . d ' pi t l ete te te ., et> „ >1 Ot o ,„" r a, in &j e t, anew t 1 ,71 , 0 s iti s ,.er t Oe s ele,eur 41 , 1 e. , ..A;aOD) s Ni i lk N 'q. 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"(, thN ,tat t jtiteo „, h„e t a ltl t ,_tt lile .2: ,Ot, e m . lot, a 7 l l _nt s l e i ; i Ai4:4,' til e Za of tr 4; Oast 0 , 11 1 tl W R I NOtid g ° la ( ee,,tltt ,Dr0,,,.,1d 0 l Rh L i ., 4 , . 1 .,. ri l , -tor g el ' te q ' t lat ladt b, 4 4 illy 1 1 :N gild' ' h e I, 'Ali ale i i Of In t at el°' sofa; (st' te i th e -tae t • t 'le ttee 911 00, , e.. af t of . i _ ereorieni on the part cm _ We understand these parties came down f and proceeded to the hall. The four 'reston,anc 'rom London, ulphuric acid and chlorate of potash. In orcie' he machine into action, this phial is broke,ocioe, ;aseous vapour is generated so rapidly •• . • - _ went to the and in ,5,.1i,1 behind unseen. Mr. Stubbs, who is in charge, askea them what they wanted ; they replied to see the house. He admitted them, but having some suspicion, or not liking the appearance of his visitors, he barred the door. After a time he suddenly missed nnp /If -- with great imnetuosi y. r. Phill ips e t machine of mil , size could be made according to a pf pose for which it was intended, and that a eV r t. at length f orme d to carry the invention into eye bil• - " Death . °..ftheferi''‘6l-4 It 111 the back passage. Leaving the others in the staircase. hall, he went into the passage, and found Lamer, Pres ton, and the other party coming along, having been let in by the visitor he had missed. He turned out this person somewhat roughly, but found the others too strong for him single-handed. He consequently sent for the curious things to light." The truth of this °u— the'' has been recently confirmed in Huddersfield by lowing strange circumstances :—Some 25 Yet r lode l o stranger, a Scotchman, came to the town, tooti on eo, , nd, after a little inquiry, took premises and c lje °l 9 l thA uito busine ca. °trier Of course the aff a i r h as created " so LIM me little sensation. The parties are, we believe, now at Wymond ham.—Nonvich Mercury. assistants Lldcss, in wnicli name he has trade in Huddersfield up to the period of his "' Ar a ° 0 10 occurred some fe w wee k s ago . F rom the f.'"lfetanof reaching the town, h e p a id at t en ti on to seve - t i, fat and made off er s w hi c h were d ecl i ned. At keg girl, who obtained her livelihood by deliver i° ;lo"gif sale, listened to his overtures ; but as her ree rl e b - e ° ;lot' cations were scarcely deemed high enough for ' hos Scot," he took the precaution to send her to//iltr e di school and other places of instruction, to gl i o ,tir be a help meet for him. In due time she 10 9 1 01? ° A . $l4 ) the name of Black. Fortune seemed to srs" 0,0 Scotchman, for his business visibly increaseu'ioss"beo his means of enjoyment —a dwelling of higher e e a to 01 occupied by the couple. At length there seen' st ini t ie y turn to this good fort une , an d most people we re • o st tbe to hear that a fiat in brnkruptcy had issued sP u o de l f ro pl ander Black. The fiat was prosecuted ; it of t he bs u r g t? old bankrupt law, when the examination or ";,. 0 11Y.,'"or was taken in presence of the creditors, ge,u — vs town where the bankrupt resided. While Bis e itetio n "i s c; nation was proceeding, the sheriff's officer in a k bst 1 0 having reason to believe that all the property " s o", possessed had not been given up, left the roon 3, Div in search of the (Huddersfield) wife, to wh e r icl presented that he had been sen t b y h er 11 °, 5 : ha (tbe that money ;" and that un l ess i t was sen t, band) would have to be committed to York C 35 po Or ide d representation operating on th e f ears of the prs°lo tracted wife, she went t o th e hidi ng p l ace , s° sbe l tbi £l,OOO in gold, whi c h s h e d e li vere d to t'%eforsAile officer, and which was by hi m spee dily . la id n t ti e assembled creditors, t o th e i r great as t oni shine p light. This bankr u pt c y b e i ng wor k e d t o the fso n certificate obtained, our Scotchman commenced again in the same line of business—borrowi n g" DV enable him to do so, from the sheriff's officer w' o dso to , cunningly stript him of the secreted .£1, 00 °; ;81 1° 0' 9 faith in Black's integrity seems to have been o t ot t o ordinary kind. It should here be m entioned a of r io3 affair Of the £l,OOO so preyed u p on the 0311 1 / # Huddersfield wife, that she was for a consider ° ea lSr n pi; an inmate of a l una ti c asylum ; and in a f e w Yn k her release sh e died, leaving our Scotch town s` diecil'or rently a widower. A few weeks ago he also 0, then came the revelations we have now to ' l le tune had again s m il e d upon him, and, having to dispose of, he willed small portions arnongstt de ova bers of the family he had married into in Hu, t her e :1 ; 0 1 ! some other portions to his housekeeper. and an d 1 : 1 111I' parties whom he named, resident in Scotland , he described as his nieces and nephews. To t o n e 0 , 0; old friend, the sheriff's officer, was InorlP, cata e dall executors. When one of the "- nephews„ n i s be,e'l„ Scotland to look after his interest, he came rur Pv t V proofs to show that Alexander Black was net t h e t; the party who had been so long known hL t i ,„ real name was —, what, for the sake of `",", neh'pc;: Scotland, we do not here mention ; that the J e t Pot was the veritable son of the ostensible Alex ° ,6ll ll lr i that the said son had four brothers and sisters cr ife°o . ; that the mother of these children, and the firs t beisg/ 0 said Alexander Black, was also still 0 4, upwards of 80 years of age ; that at the time i.eb obj Black" left S co tl an d, h e l eft a secon d wife u 0 0 0° is also still li v i ng ; th at h e had fle d f r om S i rts 01° account of these marriages, and his whereabocury, known for a cons id era bl e per i o d . —L ee ds co on t oi. THE GREAT E XHIBITION OP IBsl.—We b9 a o t that the greatest exhibition of an r , .. , will be :01 herself, floundering alon g u n d er a Free-trsee d o lso,; 1 ,t, tion. If, as the Greek poet tells us, " g e° got e gling with adversity is a s i g ht w o r thy of the d m ica us m t b en e t th ? e spectacle of a great nation in tee SINGULAR HIGHWAY ROBBERY NEAR APPLEBY.-011 Saturday week, Mr. Joseph Richardson, of Milburn Mill, was robbed on his way home from Appleby market. He left Appleby very much the worse for liquor, with, he be lieved, seven sovereigns and a half in his purse, which was in his inside breast pocket. He was met at a public house at Longmarton by his servant boy, Joseph Collin, and when he left there the night was dark. Th. hn‘, 10.7 71 . the horse, and Rich ar d son ro d e on t h e end of the car an fell asleep. When they had proceeded about half a mile, the boy observed a man coming up behind the cart ; he did not pass as he expected, and on his looking round again he saw the same man and another on the cart be side his master. One was pulling him back and the other was in front of him, but he could not see w h at t h ey were doing ; they might be a minute in the cart. The boy was so alarmed that he durst not speak, and Richardson's over-dose of liquor had rendered him as insensible to feeling as to sight, for he was not aware that anything had oc curred until they got to Gullam Holme, when the boy told him that he had been robbed, which he found to be too true : his waistcoat was open, and his purse and money DR. LAYARD'S RESEARCHES.— Dr. Layard has effected an entrance into a room in the old Nimroud palace, containing an extraordinary assortment of relics— shields, swords, paters?, bowls, crowns, caldrons, orna ments in ivory and mother-of-pearl, &c. The vessels are formed of a kind of copper, or rather bronze—some per fectly preserved, and as bright as gold when the dust is removed. The engravings and embossings on them 'are very beautiful and elaborate, and comprise the same mystic subjects which are found on the robes of the figures in the sculpture —men struggling with lions, war riors in chariots, and hunting scenes. Now, a serious question occurs to us—are these precious relics, when they arrive at Busrah, to be entrusted to any ignorant or careless ship captain, who may be ready to convey them to England ? We have not forgotten the fate of the last cargo of curious ivories, glass, &c., which suffered such wanton outrage on the voyage and at Bombay. If the government really feel an interest in Dr. Layard's pro ceedings, a vessel should be sent from Bombay expressly to receive his consignments ; but we fancy there is little chance of any such step being taken. At Koyunjik, Dr. Layard has uncovered a very interesting series of slabs, showing the process of building the mounds and palaces. FRAUD IN OBTAINING A SURGEON'S DIPLOMA.—On Monday last, at the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh. William Duncan, surgeon, Amble, Northumberland, and Alexander Cumming, surgeon and druggist, Broughton street, Edinburgh, were charged with forgery, and a con spiracy to procure a diploma from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, t o ena bl e Willi am D uncan to practise surgery and pharmacy without his actually appear ing before the examinators appointed by the college to take the candidates for diplomas upon trial, by means of Cumming assuming the character of Duncan, and under going the necessary examination. In furtherance of this design, Cumming obtained from the conservator of the college, a printed form of a schedule required to be filled up, and appended to it the signature of " William Dun can," and thereafter delivered it to the president of the college, pretending that he was the person whose signa ture was attached to the document. Cumming afterwards attended and passed the usual examination appointed by the college, on the 4th December, 1844, and by repre senting that he was the William Duncan represented in the certificate, be obtained a diploma in Duncan's name, qualifiying him to practise surgery and pharmacy, which he immediately delivered to Duncan, to be used by him as a diploma in his favour, and which was accepted by Duncan for this purpose. The parties were apprehended about the beginning of January . last. The indictment set forth that Duncan and Cumming, in carrying out their conspiracy, were both in Edinburgh, but no evidence was adduced to show that this had been the case in regard to Duncan, and he was consequently acquitted. Cumming was found guilty and sentenced to one year's imprison ment. SHIPPING THE INDIAN MAIL AT SOUTHAMPTON.— Emerging from the dock gate are seen three immense railway vans, drawn by powerful horses, escorted by a mail guard dressed in the scarlet livery of the postmaster general, and preceded by policemen, who force back the crowd from the side of the vessel. These railway vans contain the Indian and Mediterranean mail. The mail consists of about 200 boxes, and sacks of letters and newspapers. The sacks are for places in the Mediterra nean, and the boxes are for parts beyond Egypt. Boxes are used because of the convenience and safety with which they can be transported on the backs of camels across the desert of Suez, previous to their being embarked again on board ship in the Red Sea. Letter-bags cannot be so conveniently packed on camels' backs as boxes, and they would be liable to be cut open, and their contents ex tracted, by the Copt and Arab camel guides across the desert. The boxes and sacks weigh between four and five tons, and they contain about 100,000 letters and 20,000 newspapers. The wood of the boxes is about three - quarters of an inch in thickness; each box is about two feet long and a foot and a half in height and breadth. The covers of them are securely nailed down, and sealed in such a manner that they cannot be broken open with out the seal being destroyed. About fifty of the boxes are for Bombay, forty for Calcutta, twenty for Madras, thirty for Ceylon, and twenty for Hong Kong. Those for Bombay are painted white; for Calcutta, blue; Ma. Bras, yellow ; Ceylon, black ; and Hong Kong red. The object of painting them different colours is for the conve nience of selecting them for any particular part from the mail room on board, where they are all stored away together. As soon as the mail arrives along side the packet, about twenty men are busily employed putting it on board, and the admiralty and post-office authoritie s are checking off printed lists of its contents. While f ins gers and their friends on board, who are now taking leave ' is going on time appears to be on the wing by the par,sen- A of each other. An unbcoionAßlTesdinisosroisritmeuelaitnifuriyLs"CfrKosiCifos. 6d. T HE MAN OF THE There never was yet any useful plan. e 00; That had not for its guidance some bra v One truly gifted with the mind and will 7 7' To bear up nobly against every ill , g To combat tyranny, and fight with viron 0 • And migt feel i n op himself posi inio opposition, moralfixe dcourage , s t r 0 . ~, /,_ ~ TT T LF oeoh o aoatcrkthhl Looking would f mogs k uotbl t hfde h eye e t onwh t nveo r dy i nw c cd k ohae s rnerkds o pi interestf norpgefrssetuveponaftrgiieli,l di ,asi with 1 for al nain h ee 7.; ; et ; r a I That reads the secrets of futurity, erg sal' And heeding not what thoughtless tri Who never see beyond one little day tun ate Appear'd an idle and del ive dreagl;...„o"taih The smooth highway, vein'd o'er witPlo" Was but a project that was sure to fall' 0 ; The magic labours of ,the talking nd t wirgateri Would, like the lightning, flash, a Aud all the usages of olden day Were held too sacred to be swept swan sta te, Customs absurd must vex the land anudate: ! so Merely because they own'd no moderl.lo,o P And so our grandsire's and our grand a 0„ Must rule the vigorous and thinking P' Away with ali , snch antiquated stuff l „ft, A To nd b Like clouds of night at dawning ni t o o Foremost beholden:long the clothier _„„ One far rOhown'd for elegance and o'er l and' One who/bath scatter'd raiments 0'er...12" wH Behold aottkthpyo lt wt oe by- g i ;rye schemes preju prejudice must we've no b w o bow ,d s d s e i n vb o ee 7 : : y y . . 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