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TOWN EDITION. The Great Brit anxiou,ly d for for severa► d a Iticipi pointed 28th, to kRIUVAL OF THE GREAT BRITAIN ihip, whose arrival has beer 9, came up the rive She did not, as wa k on the 25th ult., her ap until the afternoon of the se receive s port vas going aas br _ days later than t ich reached t 30th, when son wrong with the p ope rn-post very hard. ThE _ fter two or three good thumps shin then continued with very lo which wa. north easterly, and th to nice k❑ %%hen another of t ly one, (ft ght therepaire f another, v plate wlitc [he most was the❑ made 'wept from drag- he caila run on , _ only made 31 knots.— and was considered to g qualifications, and very good is noted the rema half arm from, t ; arm of the sm the circumstances. The distlnce s 157 knots by the log; on the Ist (1, 214; on the 3d, 18-1; on the 511), what was left of it, did wonders at tes past I sail s lea beautifully, tali quarter and beam occa: two ships rate of two miles an hour loo_ "is vccliul.rftil_ with ots, close as she could lay ail and mainsail, which lout a quarter past five ?rbroke, leaving only the f another about two feet as cut down as low as pos- le un t could carry as off P Bth the engines meat, aft The ✓wind say that and the ship scudded a spray on the larboard pally, but as eiisy or easier than ed. Oa the 11th come ap to at the close hauled "'Phis," says the spread of canvas, and her continued v the 17th, (ye k, and dirty, until t I they were favoured t one p.m. m. a pilot and two north-west light-ship, or water, brought the r Idol !day.) the ship pas passengers met in the dining ement expressive of the sense I's capabilities. This docu- e accident j the screw, g es on to e Great Britain as a sailing vessel ,at. Several vessels were over ,sed, and during a very heavy gale sted nearly 24 hours, an ex afforded of judging of her strength t, and the passengers state that the admiration of all on board, and emselves previously experienced on the Atlantic, that she will sustain her e of the ablest triumphs of modern archi , after declaring their opinion y, speed, and comfort, is unsur .,,,ncludes by expressing their high opinion of her —mander, Capt. Hosken, a.N., under the trying cir cumstances of such a passage, and by bearing testimony to his perseverance in difficulty, and his good judgment and skill throughout. The document is signed by all the passengers. and abili' Great B on tut vine t ' severe v% charactc tech. that pass, )F PASSENGERS Hope, Captain J. A. legiment, Mr. D. Whitley, Mr. W. G. F. Orde, Lady, and three children, Mr. Mr. G. Tomes, Mrs. C. Whittaker Mr. Tuckness, Mr. J. A. Cuthbert: _.., Mr. W. King. Mr. Williams, Mr. lenry Ibbotson, Mr. Henry Cocker, and —Total 23. From New Yor Ftnhert snn. 82nd T Hodnet T. O'Connell, t. Davis, R. I' J. M`Call, M Mr. Edwards. Unfortunately our files of papers have been sent to the Post-office, from whence we could not obtain them in time for the issue of our publication to subscribers, but we shall announce the intelligence which the vessel has brought in an early second edition. atraturr. VARIETIES EARLY HOURS IN VIE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—In the days of William 111. the House of Commons was accus tomed to sit at nine o'clock in the morning In the sea sion whicl to con ommenced Nov he hot ?d, 1695, Paul Foley, Esq., for having a second time elected ' recommended to them that, in order cid management of this session, they would please t a great part of the g, for t tap had been formerly lost by gentlemen's coming late to the house." After the speaker and the members had lakeu the oaths, the house adjourned, as usual, to the fol. owl- , g morning at nine o'clock ! THE PHILOSOPHER.—The philosopher falls into the ame error from which he would warn others: he bids us but to believe that much may small idea; and all the while ust to happen of which ;ument is from experience : he sees the works of nature developed before his eyes from natural causes: he concludes that none but natural causes have existed from the beginning: he believes a thousand things which he cannot see, that he may escape from believing one. It was commensurate wisdom, he thinks, in the Creator to do everything at once: he places the Supreme in the throne of a modem constitutional monarch: he allows him pomp and reverence enough, but no interference. He crowns his Deity with laurels, and then binds him with poppy.—Church of England Quarterly Review. hit; whole LADIES' SHOES. —As for the ladies, truly we have little to say; they have always done pretty well in the matter of their feet. For them shoes are indispensably neces sary, and, indeed, highly appropriate and b. , coming—so, too, are half-boots—and, fixed between these limits, the fair sex never have gone, nor, perhaps, can go, far astray. The nearer they keep to the form of nature in the clothing of their feet the better—it is a rule as true as the day, that a woman can seldom, if ever, artificially improve her form. But there is one curious circumstance connected with ladies' shoes, which, it appears, our fair country women are not competent judges of—at least we appeal to every man in England not beyond his grand climac teric, and with two eyes in his bead, for the correctness of our views in what we are going to assert 7 a lady's shoe, worn with crossing sandals, gently curving over the instep and round the ankle, is immeasurably superior to the plain, quarter-like, old-maid affair, worn with the old-fashioned tie or button. Did women but know how much these slender lines of riband add to their appearance, how well the contrast sets off the anatomical beauties of their feet, they would never put on a shoe without such an appendage. In the same way, the nicely fitted boot, displaying the exact form of the arching foot, and delici ously contrasted in colour with the robe or stocking, gives a prestige to a lady's foot, which can only be compared to the effect produced by the Hessian boot upon their lords and masters.—Blackwood's Magazine. CHAOS IS COME AGAIN.-0I all the moves to which we have been witness, the last railway move is the most stag-Gering. Some people have called it a panic, but it is, in truth, a pay-nick, and turns upon the difficulty of obtaining money for the deposits. Capel-court has been a scene of the most delectable confusion. Incledon used to sing of " Sally in our Alley." but the brokers say that the sally in their alley lately beats it hollow. What a tremendous agitating, devastating, spiflicating dash has there been in Capel-court since our last! How changed the aspect of things! Then were made thousands by Literally people were literally mad for a love f allotments, because they brought in cool allot m of Iprr hundreds with ti however have given the go at a discount o reatest ease in the world. Now, the tocsin has been sounded, and speculators etlers. All—all the lines are lemen, whose mothers did not ow struck with horror at the contemplation of the par in the shares. Thus paternal affection is in the ascendant, for boys fear to mar their fortunes, and are afraid of par. The venerable Mrs. Rothschild, we are told by the papers, is now nearly in her hundredth year, and her only hope is to live , out the century, as she „ says she should not like to die below par. It is useless to think of any business not connected with railways. The age of gold sinks into insignificance when compared with the present age of iron. Brass was once considered a requisite : now people think more of tin. — Go-a-Head Journal. LADY HESTER STANHOPE'S DRESS.—Her turban, a arse, woollen, cream-coloured, Barbary shawl, was 'lnd loosely round, over the red fez, or tarboosh, which red her shaved head ; a silk handkerchief, commonly by the Bedouin Arabs, known by the Arabic name , ah, striped pale yellow and red, came between the -hail, being tied under the chin, or let it fall 7f her face. A long sort of white merino cloak (meshlah or abah in Arabic) covered her person from the neck to the antes, looped in white silk brandenburghs over the chest : and by its ample and ma jestic drapery and loose folds gave to her figure the ap pearance of that fullness which it once really possessed. When her cloak happened accidentally to be thrown open in front, it disclosed beneath a crimson robe (joobey), reaching also to her feet; and, if in winter, a pelisse under it, and under that a cream-coloured or flowered gown (kombaz), folding over in front, and girded with a shawl scarf round the waist. Beneath the whole she wore -t pantaloons of cloth, with yellow low boots called nap:soles, or, in other words, ayellowlea tg w..ich slipped into yellow slippers or pa- This completed her costume ; and, although it .It, that of a Turkish gentleman, the most testi cle could not have found anyt'aing in it untie , wom an, except its association, as a matter of with the male sex. She never wore pearls, preci ous stones, trinkets, or ornaments, as some travellers have affirmed ; indeed, she bad none in her possession, and never had had any from the time of her shipwreck Speaking of her own dress, she would say,— I think l look something like those sketches of Guercino's, where you see scratches and touches of the pen round the heads and persons of his figures, so that you don't know whether it is hair or a turban, a sleeve or an arm, a mantle or a veil, which he has given them.' And when she wasseated on the sofa, in a dim corner of the room, the similitude was very inst.—Memoir of Lady Hester Stanhope. of keffe, fez and aving pt PHILOSOPHY or SHAVING.—There is no part of the day which a man may turn to greater advantage than the period employed in shaving. We date our day—not from the turn of twelve, or from sunrise—but from the remo val of yesterday's beard. We cannot be said to belong to to-day, while we have so material a part of yesterday about us. Then the operation with a keen razor, and when the wind is not in the east, is really a pleasant ope ration. At no one period of the day is a man more tran quil. But with a dull razor and an east wind ! However, let us not think too much of the little unpleasantnesses of of life. A keen razor, and a fine morning, after a six or seven hours' unit terrupted sleep, occasion a great num ber of delightful thought?. Southey composed his Devil's Walk, on different days, with the lather of an easy shave at Keswick on his chin. When the wind is in the proper quarter, and the razor rightly set, the operation of shav ing is a sure incentive to travel. A well-set razor wafts us to Toledo, or Damascus, or Shf-ffiz!d, at the nearest; the ivory-handled badger's-hair brush to country sports and Elephantine caves; and the soap itself (real Naples it is we use) to soft Parthenope, and the tranquil bay of Na ples.—Fraser's Magazine. THE CHAMELEON.—The chameleon has been known from all antiquity, and has been long celebrated for its supposed faculty of living upon air, and changing colour according to the bodies to which it approximates. This ken supposition has found its way in several i, mist stances nto poetry, " As the chameleon, who is known To have no colour of his own But borrows fi om his neighbours' hue His white or black, or green or blue. And struts as much in ready light Which credit gives him upon sight " On that hope I build my happiness, I live upon it, Like the chameleon on its proper food, The unsu Hardie Sir Thomas More, Act ii. Observation at the present day has done justice to these fables of which the animal is the object. The colours of the chameleon do, in fact, change with equal frequency and rapidity ; but it is by no means true that they are de termined by those of surrounding objects. Their shades depend on the volition of the animal, on the state of its feelings, on its good or bad health, and are besides subor dinate to climate and to sex. Chameleons live on in sects, and principally on flies ; they seize them with viva city by means of their long and gluey tongues, and bruise them between their paws. Like other reptiles, the chameleon can remain for months without eating, which has given rise to the opinion that they live on air.— The Zoology of the British Poets corrected by the Writings of Modern Naturalists, by R. H. Newell, 8.D.. BENEFICIAL RESULTS OF DRAINING. — The evil effects arising from the existence of much marshy and to all. Not only does such a surface prevent the beat of the sun from being absorbed during summer, and thus make the winter far more severe, but when it does shine on such low marshy lands, it causes them to exhale noxious vapours, which are the fertile sources of plague and pestilence in the localities where they rise, and are often wafted on the winds of heaven, carrying disease and death to the dwellers in another hemisphere. Some of the finest spots in Europe arc rendered dangerous by this very cause. An intelligent traveller tells us that the beautiful villas in the Campagna di Roma are deserted during summer ; that no one dares to sleep in them : and that even the shepherds drive their flocks to the rising grounds and come into Rome at night. The locality is low and moist, and a vegetable effluvia is seen to rise to a certain height, in the shape of a fog, which is extremely hurtful both to man and be::st. Had the Italian the industry and the means to drain the soil of this lovely spot, the evil would speedily be removed, and the atmos phere completely changed. So, in our own country, the insalubrity of its marshy districts, and the extreme severity of the climate in some of its upland quarters, are capable of being much modified by the cultivation and drainage of the soil. This is a matter which affects not only the fertility of the land, but the welfare of the in habitants. Cold as our climate naturally is, were all its marshes drained and all its surface tile-drained, we would soon have a more genial and salubrious atmosphere. The results of experiments already made fully bear out these statements. Desolate wastes have been converted into pleasant pastures ; men have been rewarded by bounteous harvests, and in many well-authenticated cases, by a longer average lease of life. In the recent reports in the New Statistical Account of Scotland, the uniform reply to queries on this subject is—' Ague formerly pre vailed, but not since the land was drained.' Professor Buckland mentions, among other instances, a parish in Leicester in which he made careful observations as to the result of draining on the atmosphere and the health of the inhabitants, and in that portion of the parish which was well drained he found the average of life to be 224., while in the other part not drained it was only 13, or nine years less !—Hogg's Weekly InBlructor. QUEEN CAROLINE AND LADY HESTER STAN HOPE. — Some allusion having been made to Queen Caroline, Lady Hester asked me what they said in England about her trial? ' Do,' said she, tell me something about it. Did you see her? I suppose it was like Warren Hasting's trial?' She continued,—' I prevented the explosion the first tim of Cum' ner 1 and I will tell you how and called on me, and, in his accustomed man- e Duke " Well, Lady Hester, it will be all out to morrow. We have printed it all, and to-morrow it will be all out.' I knew what he meant, and said to him,— ' Have you got the Chancellor's leave ? I, for my part, don't like the business at all.. Why dont you like it ?' asked the Duke. Because,' answered I, ' I have too much respect for Royalty to desire to see it made a sub ject for Grub-street songs. I did not say this so much on the P— of W—'s account as for the sake of the P—ss. I dreaded the other disclosures to which a bu siness like this might lead. The Duke turned away, as if in thought, and 1 saw that the same idea sttuck him ; for, after a pause, he resumed his position, and answered, —' you are quite right, Lady Hester ; by God ! You are quite right : but what am I to do? We have gone too far; what am Ilto do?' Why, I think,' rejoined I,' the best thing you can do is to go and ask the Chancellor.' So off he packed ; and I fancy Mr. Perceral, and the Chancellor, and he, talked it over, and decided on quash ing the business. Why, Doctor, the papers were all printed, and it cost Mr. Perceval £lO,OOO out of the se cret service money to recover one copy which had been taken off his table. Going out in a hurry, and forgetting to look it up, he had left the book open in his room. It was not a thing to escape. Somebody stole it ; and I know to a certainty that it cost £lO,OOO to get it back again. As for the P—ss of W—, I did not care about her. She was a nasty, vulgar, impudent woman, that was not worth telling a lie about. I never could feel for her. If she had been a different kind of person, one might have made up one's mind to swear that it was one's self that was walking in one's nightclothes from one bed room to another, and not her Royal Highness. I always used to tell the ladies in waiting, if ever they saw me closeted with her, to contrive some excuse or other to come in and break up the conversation. 1 was deter mined she should never make a confidante of me. Some times she would begin, ' You know, Lady Hester, that Sir Richard,'—and then I was sure to begin to cough, or to interrupt her with, ' Oh, I am going out to walk,' or whatever happened to come into my head, so as to put a s' op to her revelations.'— Walpole's Memoirs of Geo. 111. MONKEYS. — A.n impertinent curiosity runs through all their actions ; they never can let things a!one, but must know what is going forward. If a pot or a kettle is set on the fire, and the cook turns her back, the monkey whips off the cover to see what she has put into it, even though he cannot get at it without setting his feet upon the hot bars of the grate. Mimicry is another of the monkey's qualities. Whatever he sees men do he must affect to do the like himself. He seems to have no rule of his own, and so is ruled by the actions of men or beasts, as weak people follow the fashion of the world, whether it be good or bad. No monkey has any sense of gratitude, but takes his victuals with a snatch, and then grins in the face of the person that gives it him, lest he should take it away again ; for he supposes that all men will snatch away what they cut lay hold of, as all monkeys do. Through an invincible selfishness no monkey considers any individual but himself, as the poor cat found to her cost, when the monkey burned her paws with raking his chesnuts out of the fire. They never can eat together in company with out quarrelling and plundering one another. Every mon key delights in mischief, and cannot help doing it when it is in his power. If anything he takes hold of can be bro ken or spoiled he is sure to find the why of doing it ; and he chatters with pleasure when he hears the noise of a china vessel smashed to pieces on the pavement. If he takes up a bottle of ink he empties it on the floor. He unfolds all your papers and scatters them about the room, and what he cannot undo he tears to pieces; and it is ...._____ ful to see how much of this work he wilt do in a few minutes when he happens to get loose. Everybody has heard of a monkey whose curiosity led him to the mouth of a cannon to see how it went off, when he paid for his peeping with the loss of his head. In a ship where a relation of mine was an officer, while the men were busy in fetching powder from below and making cartridges, a monkey on beard tozk np a lighted candle and ran down to the powder room t 3 see what they were about; but, happily, was oaertaken just as he got to the lantern and thrown out at the nearest port hole into the sea with the lighted candle in his hand. Another lost his life by the spirit of mimicry ; he had seen his master shaving his own face, and at the first opportunity he t oo k u p th e ra zo r to shave himself, and made shift to cut his own throat. When the wild monkeys have escaped to the top of the trees the people below who want to catch them show them the use of gloves, by putting them on and pulling them off repeatedly ; and when the monkeys are s upposed to have taken the hint, they leave plenty of gloves on the ground, having first lined them with pitch. The monkeys come down, put on the gloves, but cannot pull Clem off again ; and when they are surprised, betaking themselves to the trees as usual, they slide backwards and are taken. * * A late neighbour of mine in the country kept a monkey who took to riding his hogs, esp ec i a ll y one o f Cam, which he commonly singled out as fittest for his use ; and, leaping upon its back, with his face to war d s the tail, he whipped it unmercifully, and drove it ab ou t un til it could run no longer. The hogs lived under such continual ter rors that, when the monkey first came abroad in the morning, they used to set up a great cry at the sight of him. A well known nobleman once had a wild horse whom nobody could ride. I know net wh a t yo u r lord ship can do with him , " said one, " but to set the monkey upon his back." So they put a pad to . the horse, and set the monkey upon it with a switch in nis hand, which he used upon the horse, and set him into a furious kicking and galloping ; but Pug kept his seat and exercised his switch. The horse lay down upon the ground ; but when he threw himself upon one aide, the monkey was upon the other ; he ran into a wood with him to brush him off; but if a tree or bush occurred on one side the monkey slipped to the other side, till at last t he horse was so sickened, and fatigued, and broken-spirited, that he ran home to the stable for protection. When monkey was removed a boy mounted him, who managed the horse with ease, and he never gave any trouble afterwards, -- Sharpe's London Magazine. THE LIVERPo The facetious Mr. Murray, of the E"inburgh Theatre, set the modern Athenians in a roar the other night with a new reading of the air-drawn dagger apostrophe in " Macbeth :" Is that a Railway that I see before me, TheiPremium toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee : I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Hast thou, then, no Provisional Committee — And but a Railway of the mind: a false creation Proceeding from the Scrip oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in Shares as palpable As the Glenmutchkins (great applause) and now with Equalising calls for present payment, . _ Width was not so before. 'thLit's quite another thing. LANCASHIRE V. COCKNEY LAND.—II must be confes sed that the bulk of our city people, however smart in their own particular lines, are deficient in that keenness of perception by which a genu'ne Lancashire speculator scents danger of +r off. A regular city man sees very clearly everything within the circle of which his own nose is the radius; he goes on in hopeful blindness so long as no alarm is felt by those around him; and he does not run till aroused by the tramp of hurrying feet. But the true Lancashire speculator reads something more than the share list and the city article ; he watches the returns of the revenue, and the accounts of the harvest,—a single paragraph often conveys to him a very significant hint; he remembers, compares, reasons, and when he thinks the time is come, he acts.- So, when the revenue returns of the 10th of October exhibited a deficiency, it was im mediately followed by the evidence of a strong disposition, on the part of the more knowing of the Lancashire specu lators, to sell oat. This became more marked, as the rumours increased of a failure in the potato crop, and as the rise in the price of grain indicated a deficiency. The Lancashire movement at last alarmed Capel Court; and at this critical moment the Times adroitly sounded the alarm.—Railway Examiner. PERILS OF SEA FOWLING.—A father and two sons were out together, and, having firmly attached their rope at the summit of a precipice, they descended to their usual occupation. Having collected as many birds and eggs as they could carry, they were all three ascending by the rope—the eldest of the sons first, his brother a fathom or rwo below him, and the father following last. They had made considerable progress, when the elder son, looking upwards, perceived tke strands of the rope grind ing against a sharp edge of rock, and gradually giving way. He immediately reported the alarming fact. " Will it hold till we gain the summit?" asked the father. "It will not hold another minute," was the reply ; " our triple weight is loosening it rapidly !" " Will it hold one ?" said the father. "Itis as much as it can do," replied the son ; " even that is but doubtful." " There is then a chance at least of one of us being saved ; draw your knife and cut away below," was the cool and intrepid order of the parent. " Exert yourself, and you may yet escape, and live to comfort your mother !" There was no time for discussion or further hesitation. The son looked up once more, but the edge or" the rock was cutting its way, and the rope had nearly severed. The knife was drawn, the rope was divided, and the father and brother were hunched into eternity !—Stanley's History of Birds. A GOOD STORY TELLER.—GaIt seemed to me to be by nature a male Scherazaide. He had the gift of narrative, so rare, so fine, so seemingly simple, but so inexplicably difficult ; repartee is nothing to it ; the power of relating a story, without affectation, or weariness to your listener, is one above all price. IN omen excel in it more than men : but then they are aided by the varying countenance, the soft voice, the quick apprehension of an auditor's feelings. They are, it is true, apt to hurry ; and hurry is fatal to a narrative. Coleridge had it : at his friend Mr. Gilman's, at Highgate, what heads were bowed down to listen to his half-dissertations, half-narratives ; his eye mildly glistening all the while, his white hair falling about his neck, his accents thrilling in the ear of young and old, gay and grave. Moore has it, but in a very different mode ; his stories are short and pithy, without the thoughtful moral of Coleridge, or the strong situations which Galt delighted to depict. For Galt was melodra matic in his tales ; there was always a surprise, a mystery, an anomaly, at all events, at the end of them. He spoke in a low, monotonous voice, with much of the Greenock accent marring its sweetness but adding to its effect ; and he bent his high forehead down, and his eyes, long, nar row, and deep-sunk, were fixed steadily noon those of him to whim he addressed himself ; and he Went on, stopping at intervals to catch an exclamation from his listener, and to return it with his own dry laugh. His narrative was simple, succinct, unambitious in phrase, and had the charm of seeming to be thoroughly enjoyed by him who spoke it, as it usually was by those to whom it was spoken. Bentley's Miscellany. CONSEQUENCES OF PITT'S RESIGNATION.—Pitt was in his zenith when the machinations of Bute and the Princess suddenly paralyzed his efforts, and rendered bis position as a minister of the crown no longer serviceable to the King or to the country. He resigned, and' the nation was thunderstruck, alarmed, and indignant. The city of London proposed to address the King to know why Mr. Pitt was dismissed ; but it being replied that the King would tell them he had not dismissed Mr. Pitt, but had wished him to continue in employment, the motion dropped. Some proposed a general mourning ; others, more reasonable, to thank Mr. Pitt for his services; but this too was damped, for the favourite agents were not idle, and insinuated that Mr. Pitt had acted with mis chievous views ; for they who were incapable of great views were excellent in undermining. The King was advised to heap rewards on his late minister. The Princess pressed it eagerly. A peerage, a vast pension, the government of Canada (as a mark that it was not to be restored at the peace), were offered to him. He had the frailty to accept a peerage for his wife, and a pension of £3,000 a-year for three lives. The Rifts were scarcely received before their acceptance was notified wheresoever a knowledge of the fact might bring the patriot reproach, It was of the highest consequence to Bute that the gifts should be regarded as a bribe, and nothing more. How else could the popular heart behold the injury inflicted upon its darling with ratience, or suffer another to usurp his rightful seat? Pitt's acceptance of the boon was published in the earliest Gazette, and it was the first time that a pension had ever been made public through the medium of its pages. Idols, however, are not so easily abandoned. The notice of the pension appeared in the Gazette of the 9th of October, 1761. On the 9th of the following November the King and all the Royal Family dined in the city with the Lord Mayor. Thither, too, went Mr. Pitt and Lord Temple, in a chariot together. To them all acclamations were addressed, and the dis tinctions paid in the Guildhall to Mr. Pitt, to the total neglect of the King, bestowed all the honour of the tri umph on the former. Little was wanting to turn the pageant into a tragedy. Riots ensued, and many persons were insulted. The favourite had taken the precaution of having a guard of butchers and bruisers, and by the defence of that convoy alone escaped mischief.—Memoirs of George the Third. APPALLING MURDER A horrid murder, accompanied with most extraordinary and revolting circumstances, was perpetrated at the ham let of Alsager's Bank, near Audley, Staffordshire, on Wednesday last. The victim of this frightful tragedy was a man named Adolphus Fielding, a quiet inoffensive per son, who for many years past had lodged with his uncle, in Stoke-road, near Newcastle. Fielding, it appears, was respectably connected, but for some time past had appa rently procured the means of subsistence by hawking lace, cottons, and other trifling articles, from house to house, the villages and hamlets around Newcastle forming the sphere of his honest and unobtrusive exertions. On Wed nesday morning, while plying his vocation at Alsager's Bank, he called at the cottage of a widow named Col dough. In the cottage with Mrs. Co'dough lived John Dean, and; Francis Mycock, who cohabited together as man and wife, a little boy, their son, and a man, the son of Mrs. Colclough. At the time the ill fated Fielding called with his wares, John Dean and the little boy were alone in the cottage, the other inmates being tem porarily absent. What transpired between Dean and the deceased, previous to the destruction of the latter is for the present unknown ; whether any conversa tion took place is not ascertained ; but soon after twelve o'clock the little boy ran from the cottage in breathless haste, and meeting his mother said that Dean had "touched the man that brought the teapot." This was an allusion to the nrcumstance of Fielding having, a few weeks since, sold Mycock a teapot. Mycock, in consequence of Dean's previous conduct, anticipated the worst, and running to the cottage,lshe found the door partially open ; peeping stealthily in she was I orrified at the fearful sight which there presented itself. On the floor was extended poor Fielding, a lifeless, headless corpse ; Dean was ferociously chopping at the remains with an axe hammer? The af frighted woman immediately raised an alarm, and the neighbours surrounding the house attempted to force an entrance, but they feared to approach the infuriated homicide. After some time. a man named William Scott took courage, and entered into the cottage, having first provided himself with a rail as a wea pon of defence. Dean approached Scott in a furi ous manner, knife in band, hissing like a serpent, and tl-e fragile rail breaking in the encounter, Scott re ceived a stab near his throat, and barely succeeded in es caping with his life, Dean then barricaded the door, and proceeded to further and unheard-of atrocities with the body. He dashed the brains of his victim through the broken panes of the window, and remorselessly placed the bleeding head on the fire ! The spectators on per ceiving this last revolting act, suggested that a quantity of water be poured down the chimney of the cottage, in order to extinguish the fire. This being done, had the immediate effect of driving Dean up stairs, to escape suf focation. The little chamber to which the a retched man retreated is approached by a step-ladder; this he took the precaution to draw up after him. The door was then broken open by the spectators outside, one party entered the cottage, and another, at the same time, proceeded to remove a portion of the thatch from the roof. Police- constable Webb jumped through the opening, and pounc ing upon Dean, with the assistance of those around, se cured his prisoner, and took him to the police-station at Audley. A coroner's inquest was held on Thursday, when a ver dict of wilful murder was returned against Dean, who was committed for trial at the assizes. For several days previous to the murder, Dean had exhibited signs of insanity. On Monday he went to his work as usual at Apedale, but was sent away in conse quence of not performing it in a proper manner. Instead of chiseling a stone, he applied a hammer to break it in pieces. He then carried a razor with him, and holding it open in one hand, he solicited a maid at the hall to go into a shed with him, saying tie would show how " pigs were killed." On Tuesday, Dean, Mycock, and the boy visited some relations of Mycock's at Stone. They returned in the evening as far as Hanford, where they slept at the cottage of a relation, and arrived back at Meager about eleven o'clock on the Wednesday morning. Mrs. Colclough having occasion to go to Newcastle, had left the cottage, and Mycock wishing to execute an etrand at the village shop, left Dean and the little boy alone. in the house. Within a few minutes after this, poor Fielding was murdered. The general impression is that Dean is decidedly insane. L STANDARD. THE COURT Ii" FASHIONABLE WORLD. The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland are entertaining a distinguished party at baby Castle. The Duke of Sutherland has resigned the Lord-Lieu tenancy of Shropshire, and Lord Hill will be his Lord ship's successor. The Duke of Newcastle and the Ladies Pelham Clinton have returned to Clumber Park, from a visit to Viscount and Viscountess Combermere, at Combermere Abbey, where a select party assembled last week. The Dowager Marchioness of Westminster will, it is expected, on the Marquis of Westminster and his esta blishment removing from Grosvenor-square to Grosvenor House, occupy the later mansicn. The marriage of Sir Thomas Hesketh, Bart., with L , cly Arabella Fermor, only daughter of the late Earl of Pomfret, is, we understand, to take place immediately on the worthy baronet's attaining his majority in January next. Prince Albert, the Duke Ferdinand, and the Princes Augustus and Leopold of. Saxe Coburg, accompanied by the Count Dietrichstein and the Marquis of Salisbury, left the Castle on a shooting excursion on Friday. The distinguished party returned to the Castle soon after two o'clock THE LATE LLOPENIENT Captain lbbetson, and his fair fugitive companion, arrived at " Gretna Hall" Tavern before half-past two o'clock on Thursday afternoon. At the moment of the arrival of the fugitives " mine host of the hall," who unites the somewhat irreconcileable charw:ters of boniface and priest, in his own person, was presiding at a dinner, the guests at which consisted chiefly of a staff of engi• veers, who are just now pursuing their avocation in this hitherto peaceful neighbourhood. A very short interval occurred, however, before a person entered the room, who delivered what appeared to the guests to be a sort of mys terious message to the chairman, but which in reality was simply a summons to attend " a lady and gentleman who had just arrived from London, and were waiting his pre sence in the saloon up stairs.' " With & promptitude which says much for the business habits of mine host, he immediately vacated his post at the head of the table, and forthwith proceeded to grant the desired interview. The first introduction over, thegallant captain, in the presence of his fair companion, inquired of the worthy host whether it was true that he himself " performed the ceremony of marriage when requested so to do." Mine host replied with great alacrity that he had done so for some years past, and should continue to act in a similar capacity, un less prevented by Lord Brougham, who, he believed, had attempted some interference with his prerogative last year. The worthy " clerico-victualler " further informed the gallant captain that his register-book' boasted the names of all classes—from the Prince to the peasant—and ex pressed his confident opinion that a comparison of the results of a given number of marriages solemnized respec tively by himself at Gretna, and the reverend rector of aristocratic St. George's, in London, would greatly pre ponderate in favour of the former. There appeared to be no inclination to doubt this fact on the part of Lady Adele and her gallant companion; and boniface, request ing permission to retire for a few moments, speedily returned attired in full canonicals. • The first procedure was to obtain the names of both parties, with a proper description of their respective resi dences. Here for an instant a difficulty was apprehended. Lady Adele confessed that at the moment, she could only recollect three of her Christian names, though she believed she had more. Our host soon calmed her Ladyship's mis givings, by declaring that all the names were not neces sary, instancing a case where the same omission bad been declared valid—that of the Prince de Capua, who, pos sessing a string of something like sixteen names, when asked to state them at Gretna, could only recollect about one half the number. The names obtained, next came the question of witnesses. It was highly desirable that DO person in the house should be requested to attest the mar riage, wilt, might by possibility have a knowledge of the principal actors. This was impressed upon mine host, who promptly remarked that the Carlisle postilions ge nerally considered it their privilege to act as witnesses on similar occasions, adding, that if the gallant captain bad , no objection, one of them would be a perfectly competent witness, while his own ' better half' might be the second. The proposition was at once entertained, and the parties alluded to were summoned to attend. The clerical cha racter was now altogether assumed by mine host, and the ceremony commenced by a declaration on the part of both her Ladyship and the gallant officer, to the effect that they were single persons, and that they had come to Gretna freely and willingly, of their own accord, and without force. The priest, (for the time being), addressing the gallant officer, next said, "will yon take this woman to be your lawful wife ?"rhe gallant officer, without wait ing to bear the remainder of the sentence, cheerfully re plied, " I will." The officiating officer continued—" T o live after God's ordinance, in the holy state - - of matrimony. Will you love her and comfort her , and cherish her in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all others, remain faithful to her so long as ye both shall live." The gallant captain again plighted his troth to her ladyship, with great apparent sincerity. Similar questions were then addressed to Lady Adele, who duly responded, maintain ing her self-possession throughout in the most remarkable manner, and, notwithstanding the excessive fatigue she had undergone, appearing in high spirits: The gallant Captain next took the left hand of his fair companion, and having placed the ring thereon, mine host joined their hands together, and declared the parties man and wife in the following terms :—" Forasmuch as this man and this woman have consented together before God and this peo ple, to be man and wife by receiving this ring, I hereby declare them to be such in the presence of God and these witnesses." The marriage way. then recorded—in _ the_us al _ manwar upon a printed form, prepared for the purpose. As a good deal of curiosity may be supposed to prevail on the subject at this moment, we append a copy of the document, to gether with the signatures, exactly as they appear in the original " Kingdom of , Scotland, " County of Dumfries, "Parish of Gretna. ", These are to certify to all to whom these presents may come, that Charles Parke Ibbetson, of the parish of St. Pancras, London, in the county of Middlesex, and Adela Corisanda Villiers, of the parish of St. George, London, m the County of Middlesex, being now here present, and havinmdeclared themselves single persons, were this day married, after the manner of the laws of) the Church of England, and agreeably to the laws of Scotland. " As witness our hands at " Gretna Hall," this sixth day of No- Taber, 184,5. "C. P. IBBETOY. " ADELA VILLIERS." J. LINTON." JANE LINTON.. ROBERT COPLEY.'' " Solemnized by ' Witnesses The signatures were not particularized by anything re markable. That of the Captain was written in a fine, bold hand. while Lady Adela's might have been written with a " Crowquill small and ne;," were one to judge from its delicacy and finish. The ceremony concluded, the newly-wedded pair stole a few moments to refresh themselves, preparatory to proceeding further northward. The afternoon was now waning fast, and Gretna having served its turn, the fugitives were naturally anxious to leave the " Hall" some distance behind them. At four o'clock, the best horses the stable afforded were put to the carriage, and the Captain having, with a bounteous hand, satisfied all claims upon his purse, handed his youthful bride to her seat, and springing into the carriage himself, the happy pair drove off together in the direction of Edin burgh. It is understood that her ladyship and the captain first met at Almacks. GENERAL MISCELLANY, The illness of Mr. George Stephenson, the engineer, is not of the dangerous character represented. . The import duty on foreign . corn is now 14s. per quarter. - The very picturesque buildings called " The Verandahs," eight in number, at Felixton, near Ipswich, have been destroyed by fire. Their value was about £5,000. Pork is sold at Merthyr for from 8s 6d. to 9s. per score. Two years ago it was sold there for ss. 6d and 6s. per score. A privy council will he held on Thursday, when parlia ment will be further prorogued to an early day in Ja nuary. Last week, a corpulent lady died in London from hav ing swallowed a fish hone. The coughing caused the rup ture of a blood vessel. A royal sturgeon was caught the other day irr the Med way, and purchased from the fisherman by the Rochester Corporation os a present to the Queen. Two new malleable iron-works are now building at Mo therwell, Lanarkshire, and Glasgow, which will produce weekly from 700 to 800 tons. _ The wife of Mr. R. Croft, jun., of Aydiiire, near Dar lington, committed suicide on Monday afternoon, by suspending herself from one of the spars in an outbuild ing attached to the premises where she resided. At the adjourned petty sessions, held at Crewe, on Monday, Mr. Bourne, miller, of havington, was fined £lO and costs for having in his mill 3191 b. of alum, for the purpose of adulterating flour. On Wednesday a man and woman at Leeds were fined, the former £2, and the latter £5, for brutal treatment of their child. The child was describedtas " black and blue all over, with not a free bit about her." A son of Mr. Callen, the picture-dealer, Goswell-street, London, died on Sunday of hydrophobia. Four months ago he was bitten by a little dog, with which he was in the habit of playing. On Thursday, Mr. Baker, one of the metropolitan co roners, held no less than six inquests on persons who had died in an awfully sudden manner. Their ages varied from 44 to 55. Three of them were of the latter age. In the Arches Court, last week, a female was sentenced to twenty-four hours' imprisonment and a week's suspen sion from the church, for " smiting and brawling in the parish church." Wanstead Park, once the celebrated seat of the Earl of Mornington, is now converted into a brick-field. When the whole of the brick earth is exhausted, the site will be covered with elegant villas. A considerable pension has reverted to the Crown in consequence of the demise of John Backhouse, Esq., Under Secretary of State for the Foreign Department during the administration of the Earl of Liverpool, Mr. Canning, and the present Earl of Ripon, and Earl Grey. The value of money on the Continent has fallen. It is, however. rapidly rising here. On Thursday, in Lon don, the money brokers were giving three-and--half per cent. for it on open account, and five per cent. was a very frequent rate of discount charged on mercantile paper: , . . A verdict of " wilful murder" has been returned against a man named M'lntyre, at Hull. He was in the habit of ill-using his wife, and on Sunday week kicked her upon a most sensitive part of her body, which resulted in death in three hours. He has absconded. _ CAUTION TO POTATO EXPORTZRS. — The schooner Anne Coppens, which arrived lately at Antwerp, from Londonderry, with a cargo of potatoes, has been ordered out of dock by the authorities, as the potatoes emitted an unwholesome odour. It was found on examination that they were unfit for use. The Judges met on Saturday, to consider the case of the slavers of the Brazilian schooner Felicidade, and after hearing the arguments of counsel, adjourned without fix ing any day to deliver their opinion. A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against a police inspector of Chipping Norton. He was conveying a man to the lock-up house, when he struck the prisoner a blow from which he died on the following morning. On Thursday afternoon, a new iron steam-ship, con structed for the Portuguese government and called the Duke of Oporto, was launched from the building-yard of Messrs Miller, Ravenhill, and Co., at Blackwall. She is 160 feet long and 386 tons burden, and is to have a pair of oscillating engines, of 120 horse-power. During the fog on Thursday on the Thames, the Wa terman, steamer, came into violent collision with the Bee, steamer, and the former sunk, but all the passengers were saved. By the collision, both were locked as closely to gether by the paddle-wheels as is sometimes the case with two street cabs. A correspondent of a London paper calls upon the middle and higher classes of society to enter into associa. ... tions to use niipotatoes in their families until the next crop removes the danger now threatened. He says that the' individuals may adopt the plan, little sensible good will accrue unless potatoe abstinence associations are formed throughout the country. Lieut. Waghorn states that three days and a half were lost in his late express via Trieste, in the sea passage, and expresses an opinion that in three or six trials, twenty five days will be the average between Bombay and Lon don, and when the new steam-ships for the Bombay line are completed, that despatches will be in London on the twenty-first day from Bombay. The government are prosecuting in Scotland eq though more quietly than in Ireland, the investigations necessary to obtain satisfactory evidence of the state of the crops of grain and potatoes. A circular letter has been addressed by the Lord-Advocate to every parish minister in the kingdom foraccurate returns on the subject, which is an admirable expedient for the attainment of the truth. FATAL FIRE.— 011 Sunday morning, at one o'clock, a fire occurred at the baths of St. Agnes-le-Clair, Finsbury, by which nearly the whole of the building was destroyed, and Mrs. Moore and her son unfortunately perished, and several persons were seriously injured. The adjoining premises were very much damaged, the contents being al most consumed. A SMART PACE.—The runaway match accomplished so cleverly last week by Captain Ibbetson and Lady Adela Villiers, was the quickest yet on record. The fugitives left Brighton on the afternoon of the sth, by the half-past five train, and were mar , ied at Gretna Green at four o'clock the next day;, the di►tance exceeding 400 miles. The lady's brother started some twelve hours after, but a twelve hours' start on the railway renders pursuit idle. SALTPETRE FOR THE CURE OF BACON.—The use of this salt is very strongly condemned by Professor Re &risque. His theory is, that the nitric acid of the salt is a deadly poison, and that the diseases common to ma riners are owing to the use of this salt in the brine. He advises its entire disuse, and recommends sugar, which renders the meat more wholesome, sweeter, and equally as durable. DIBBLING WHEAT.—We lately mentioned the libera lity of Lord Kenyon in offering a premium of £5O, for the best crop of dibbled wheat, to be harvested in 1846, of no less than five acres, grown in the parishes of Wrexham, Marchwiel, Gresford, or Holt ; we have now to add that his lordship has also offered a premium of the same amount, £5O, on similar conditions, for the best crop in the Hundred of Maylor, Flintshire, or the township of Northwyod, in the parish of Wem, Salop. ESCAPE OF A CONF/CT.—On Monday evening, a con vict escaped from the Warrior, hulk, at Woolwich. He tied the ropes of two hammocks together and lowered himself a depth of thirty feet into the mud of the river, where he left all his clothes, with the exception of his shirt and shoes. His name is Samuel Bridges,. aged twenty-four years. He was found guilty at the Worces ter assizes, on the 15th of July, 1843, of stealing an ass, and sentenced to ten years' transportation. A FALL IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—On Friday the bakers of the metropolis reduced the price of bread, of the second quality, ld. in the 41b. loaf, being equivalent to a reduction in the price of wheat of lls. the quarter. Good household bread can now be obtained at from 64d.. to 7d. the 41b. loaf, although in some neighbourhoods the price is kept up to Btl. Excellent Flour may be had at Bd. the quartern. The price of the best bread remains unchanged. A ROMAN VILLA."..The remains of a Roman villa, of considerable exteut', have been recently discovered near Wheatley, Oxfordshire, and some excavations have been made under the direction of Dr. Bromet. All that has yet been made out is a hypocaust and a bath. These re mains are distant about a mile and a half from the pal ce of the Bishop of Oxford; at Cuddesden. His lordship has taken much interest in the excavations, and has re quested Dr. Buckland to superintend the continuance of them. RUABON. — The whole of the colliers of this neighbour hood have turned out for wages, and the New British Iron Works are nearly at a. stand, the manager having refused to give the slightest advance ; the present wages being only 2s. 2d. per day, the snifflers, in consequence of the healthy state of the iron trade, require an advance of 6d., but are willing to meet the company, which the manager declines, and, consequently, the men are all leaving the county. A LONDON FOG.—The fog, on- Friday, exceeded for denseness anything within recollection in the vicinity of Hackney and Clapton. Near Twigfolly, nearly adjacent to the former, a labouring man walked into the Regent's Canal, but was happily rescued. Most of the omnibuses up the road from Clapton refrained from i unning during the morning, and one which ran on the footpath on enter ing Hackney was overturned, without. however. any chiarticcrumg to the passengers.. WINTER ASSIZES.—We understand that it is defini. nitively determined to hold a winter assizes and gaol de livery for the counties of York and Lancaster, 'eer Majes ty's commissions for which will be issued immediately. We hear that there are to be two judges at each assize town, and that consequently there will be two Crown courts sitting at the same time. It will be determined to .day whether the same judges take both Yorkshire and Lancashire ; but it is expected that four judges will be included in the commission—two for each county. In that case the two commissions will be opened at the same time. It is expected that the commission day for York shire will be soon after the 2d of December.—Leeds Mercury. _ _ SLAUGHTER• HOUSES.—A case was lately brought before the Metropolitan: Buildings Act Commissioners, as to whether a small slaughter-house, at Crouch End, Hornsey, was a building of such a nature that, in accordance with the 55th section of the act, no structure could be erected nearer to it than 50 feet; the referees decided, " That if the slaughter-house be used for the s.laughtering of animals for hum - an food only, and be not used for the business of general slaughterer, but in connection with the trade of a ietail butcher, and particularly with the trade of a butcher's shop thereto adjoining,. then the said slaughter-house is not to be deemed to-be a building used for the business of a slaughterer, or for a business noxious or offensive within the meaning of the said act "—The-Builder. PATENT BREAK.—On Friday, a good deal of interest was created in Farringdon-street, by:the exhibition of a very simple break, which may be applied to the wheels of railway and of common carriages, and of other machinery. It acted admirably. It would have the effect of stopping a train (without the slightest reference to speed) almost immediately ; and had the guards or engineers been, pro vided with it. the late fearful collisions would have been avoided. With reference to gigs, it is applied by a turned bar revolving upon a pivot fixed above the axletree of the wheel, which bar being let down brings the turned part in front of the wheel, which being carried on by it im mediately fixes it ;. in this case it was let down and drawn up by a chain. The patent belongs to the Rev. Mr. Maberley, of Stowmarket. THE ECLAIR STEAMER.-It appears that out of a complement of 146 officers and men, 110 have been at tacked with fever, of whom 7/ died (exclusive of Mr. Saunders, the pilot) and 39• only have recovered—a fatality greatly exceeding that of the Niger expedition, where more persons- were attacked, but less died by nearly one-half. The results of that expedition were that out of whites, 130 were attacked with fever and 40 di e d, o r 1 i n 3.25 of attacked. Only 15 persons escaped the fever ; but some of them afterwards suffered from disorders which were probably brought on by the voyage. In the second attempt to ascend the river by one steamer, out of eight white persons seven were attacked, and two died. As an indication of an acclimatizing influence, it is remark able, that out of 158 blacks eleven only were attacked with fever, and - not one died. In the case of the Eclair the Kroomen have entirely escaped the fever. THE CHDRCH AND THE RAILWAYS.—A curious scene of excitement took place here on Saturday night and. Sun day morning, on occasion of affixing the railway notices on the church-doors. Some members of the North Church, which before the disruption was a chapel of ease, in connexion with the established church, entertained a notion that if papers were allowed to be put up the build ing would henceforth be held to be a parish-church, and they would lose all right of property in it. They deter mined, therefore, to resist the parties employed for this purpose, and by guarding the building all night, and re pelling every effort that was made, they effectually suc ceeded. Next day messengers at law were procured, and the Sheriff-substitute, accompanied by some legal gentle men, proceeded to the spot. Church service had begun; but the bill-stickers were speedily recognised, and the gate was locked upon them. The railway party, not to be outdone, scrambled over the gate, and the intimations were pasted up. They were soon afterwards, however, torn down.—lnverness Courier. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.—On Friday Edward Pow. ell, son of the clerk to the solicitor of the Mint was brought up at Marlborough-street Police-office, charged with hay ing attempted to pass a counterfeit sovereign. The charge against the prisoner excited general surprise, in conse quence of the official character in which for a length of time past he has been accustomed to make a weekly ap pearance at this court. Each Thursday is a sort of gaol delivery of those offenders termed "smashers," or titterers of base coin. The prisoner was accustomed to attend this court on these days, to take evidence against parties against whom a case was established, and to recommend the discharge of others, against whom the evidence was nut altogether conclusive The prisoner, in fact, though of youthful age, was accustomed to perform the 'ull func tionsof the solicitor to the Mint. The magistrate in giv ing his decision to send the case to the sessions, said that the prisoner might as he asserted have had the bad money found on accidentally in his possession as it was his ordinary duty to have bad coin in his possession, but a witness declares that after having refused the coin, on the ground that it was bad, the prisoner immediately took out three more counterfeit pieces of coin, and made a tender of one of them. The declaration that the first sover eign was bad would naturally have suggested to an inno cent person the mistake of having brought out bad instead of good money. The prisoner, however, offers other bad money, and here then a proper question arises which a jury ought to decide, namely, whether the prisoner had or had nut bad money about him with the intention to defraud. Nov. 18, The quatitily . of herrings brought into x ar.. - ,_ n d e d Tuesday week is said to exceed 18 hat has eve! been la The 01 8 206 an. there in one day, either known or recorded. tity amounted to 500 lasts; and taking gives the extraordinary number of 6,600, 000 Two boats, belonging to Mr. Shuckford, brought ilt,T The fish lasts, which at £2O a last will give him ELM. are very fine.—Norwich Mercury. i p ublic FREE-TRADE BANQUET AT BIRMINGHAM.'" -.; . pn on banquet to the Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., ice s g` v— Tho Thursday evening in the Town hall, Birmingham.. and newly elected Mayor, W. H. Smith, E —sq., presidect,_ Mr. Alderman Phillips, the late Mayor, occupied th e !vs_ chair. Among the company present, were Earl PlAe:s Messrs. Scott, Thornley, Cobden, and Bright , 1 ‘ t ,. 0 Most of the Aldermen and Town Councillors ot 2.,, Borough, Colonel Thompson, Mr. Fox, and n early ri other gentlemen and manufacturers of Birminghsei,e.'u„. the neighbourhood. The galleries were filled with hee ls, Amongst the speakers were the Chairman, Mr. 'Villiers, Mr. Cobden, and Mr. Bright. p le dged A FACT.—The incumbent of a parish in Fife to tw elve himself, when he received the presentation, about ' months ago, that he would not use a manuscript ill L , 1 ,,, pulpit. the " paper " bein ,, particularly obnoxious Ito b it parishioners. A stress of weather on several late occon. ons made him have recourse to the " life-boat," ari d 6 f a r dry unequivocal hints showed that his conduct was ~,, from being approved of. The other Sabbath, hoffev.'ni the manuscript was boldly produced, and while ter )l . l „ t fa io ll n en ha in v t in o g a b p e o e o n l q n n e l a e r y w y h e i o c n h v i e t each ahteirrine. over a leaf, his eye caught sight of a number of his bear over thil ers in the act of moving to the door. The cause e • n g off-break was the circumstance of an old horse hsi l i, a to in the church, he whispered to some of his neighuvn., - a t come along with him and assist in rescuing t h e n iv hisfroms on cheeks,it s attributing perilous m ad e the an mh position. uomve b ml Thehumble movement ot ol coo the n s forcoibe n n ho c x e si o s t uo r sff i c e, : e pe: rA: P e ri i i t i promised stopped e d t short, o banish anainsdh the with hated tears of m a penitence i c t r e i n p c t e i li run sll n t i i n o g l e . - coal:a d d yweclastogriatzsinL'naenrd. i:::Nut—f:l3ll7s3 ing !—Fife Herald bill of A SUMPTUOUS DIrrNER.^ The following ' s the 1 "doll fare provided at the dinner of the Lord Mayor cn . `","„intS last week :-250 tureens of real turtle, containing each ; 200 bottles of sherbet ; 6 dishes of fish, 30 ee l ' . he s 4 boiled turkeys and oysters, 60 roast pullets, bite's6o‘ard of fowls, 46 ditto of capons 6 ditto of Captain “• pith Selim's true India curries, 50 French pies, 60 pige° l3 0 53 hams, ornamented; 43 tongues, Z quarters of bo l a lamb, 2 barons of beef, 3 rounds. of beef, 2 stewed rill %l of beef, 13 sirloins, rumps, and ribs of beef; 6 dishei"44 asparagus, 60 ditto of mashed and other potatoes. ~ ditto of shell fish, 4 ditto of prawns, 140 jellies, romps, 40 dishes of tarts, creamed, 40 dishes of allu i r pastry, 30 ditto of orange and other tourtes, 20 Ch aill. Re• baskets, 60 dishes of mince pies, and 56 salads. 24 moves.-80 roast turkeys, 6 leverets, 80 pheasants'o geese, 40 dishes of partridges, 15 dishes of wila fow„,,. peafowls. Dessert.-100 pineapples, from 21b. to 1 0 each ; 200 dishes of hothouse grapes, 250 ice creams, dishes of apples, 100 ditto of pears, 60 ornamental W',l cakes, 75 plates of walnuts, 80 ditto of dried fruit 8 % preserves, 50 ditto of preserved ginger, 60 ditto of , rou. 50 blannoa cakes and chips, and 46 ditto of Grandy cherries. the CIRCULATION OF MONEY.—In the city article octb Herald, Nov. 10, we find the following On die ts -4 1y of October last year, the government securities he' the bank amounted to £15,408,775, and the other securities•to £8,387,508; and on the 26th ult. t t : lci government securities bad decreased to £13,203i 1 ,t 8 ;' 11 the private or othersecurities had increased to Eld , w l L a ily This is a very important change; for, although, we ' i l e a no precise account of the description of securities,' e 8 6 5, " other securities,"' it is fair to infer that the change' c oun t in part at least, arisen from the extension of the discouthe, business of the bank. The opinion, however, 15r i ti ; t he t banking circles in the city, that the principal part ()!, „ o s expansion has been by branches in the provinces, rind o ut at the head-quarters in the metropolis. The totes - f o g from the department of issue, at the same period' year, amounted to £27,545,730, and at the corrEspondlu.ls: period this year to £27,415,690, being so small a ditferetr: that it is not worth naming. But the notes rema in unemployed in the banking department on the 26th P e t . 1844, amounted to £6 1 224,845, and on the 25th tu t. , o s' £5,389,575. By this it appears that, instead of th. r „ ; being any ground fur the clamour that money is becoall% scarce, there is nearly a million more bank notes hands of the public than at the corresponding period 0 last year, when everything in the country was tranqui l ' private.,_aer EXTRAORDINARY. CASE OF MUTINY, On Tuesday, at the Thames Police•office, Mr. Clar k ': son, the barrister, said he was anxious, as e arly .°1 possible, to apprise the sitting magistrate ( Mr. BrodetlP) of some facts of which he was just informed. The ill; portance of the case would, he was sure, excuse f a c t s abrupt manner in which it was. introduced. The fec; were these :—The crew of the Tory, while on her 1 1 ° °1 1 ward voyage from Hong-Kong, rose on the captain, wile in a piratical manner attempted to seize and carry cff, t ,, o vessel, but though the attempt was frustrated, more t.1',.; one murder had been the result, and the present apP i r tion was to have officers in attendance to take the P,,r1.; ners into custody immediately on the arrival of the in the river. " Some of the parties, (continued Clarkson,) are in irons on board the vessel, which is 1 0.. on its-way from Deal, and hourly expected in th e rive` . , I am informed sbe is a vessel of 608 tons, commanded n, Captain Johnstone, and having a crew of thirty rile n ' The aot of piracy was attempted whilst she was off Ascen sion Island, when the crew, headed by the mate, rose I; on the captain, threatening to take his life and nesiseto themselves of the ship. The mutiny had extenqr such a degree, and the project was so tar ripeneu, that such only two or three of the hands stuck by the captain, an l , the determination of the mutineers was so great that tj was found impossible to foil their intent without s ever e serious acts of violence. When• it was represse d, thet a mate, anticipating the consequences of his attempt, sei s s . the first opportunity which offered, and jumped overboar, A man, named Mars, who had been one of the first to Pt/ in the-mutiny, repented of his conduct, and exposed the whole plot to the captain, on which. the other Mutineo brutally murdered him. Another man, named Reason, who had also given information to the captain, died denly,..and, as it was supposed from the symptoms, at having poison administered to him. On arriving at De the captain applied to the authorities there, and assistance was afforded to put the refractory parties in irons! At the examination before the magistrates on Thurs day, the captain deposed that the cargo of the vessel so! overboard the i v a secondemr b o ß a a r md mate.ba e n r d t wa sß 0 worth £BO,OOO, and that she was navigated on the viler:, from Hong-kong to London by a orew of twenty-six we c i and one William had by jumpeds M . a Mars i i lf, an d the other was murdered. A man, named Thomas Rea s° 4 was also dead. Nothing particular occurred on %,i ) homeward voyage from Hong-Kong, until he fell in vri ii `, a French ship, the Anenia, in about 1.50 S. lat., whe ll had occasion to send the chief mate and others to tba French vessel in a boat to obtain. a. supply of water 8 8 0 provisions, of which' they had begun to run short. their return the boat was damaged, and something l ° ,,v a y place relating to it of no particular moment. Nezt ir u p i, (the 24th of September) he was informed by Barry "i 0 verton, one of the apprentices, that a plot was laid to te a t a d his-'life. He then put some of the men in irons; A g il t , . drownedtti lhemh first ai m te s s e wereat e ll e ; disturbance took place; one of. the mates jumped le board and was drowned, and the other was strangle d th e some unexplained reason by the mutinous portion of , 11 :a crew. After that all continued quiet until the ship r eacn' e the island of Fayal, when another disturbance took p iac it; and another man lost his life ; and a third disturbanc e : 4 e which many of the prisoners were wounded, took P''id when the ship was lying off. Plymouth. The captain 6 °,, _ that he had not treated the men harshly, nor done 8 . . ° 4 - thing to cause them to rise against him. The prisoilla; however, told a very different story. They charged u b t hee with drunkenness and most wanton cruelty, and w it " of' murder of the mate (Mara). Barry Yelverton, s o the prisoners, and an apprentice, who is described a,' his intelligent and respectable youth, in the course if" statement said—" Mars was then sent for and IL°Zipt irons, and the captain said he wculd cut an inch on "nst every half-hour, and he cut him with the cutlass T o ,it cruelly; he cut a piece off his head half the size 14 , 4 0 hand. The captain, sir, took Mr. Mars into his 00 cabin, in which place he-got a strand and a heaver w he there did with him I can't say, but we could bear 11,lit sing out as if he was choking. The captain then brnu ibe him into the principal cabin again, and set him eiturpt cabin door, and sat on the locker-heads himself, and tu ciC pitching the cutlass at him. The cutlass sou-mat:oo,9n" D er in his skull, and sometimes in his breast." The Wi g c o. then went on at great length to detail other circo reat°"„ er from which it appeared that the captain had been titorthe ing with the apprentices to give a false colouring tY„....ei transactions, and particularly as related to the zniir.u—tbit Mars ; and that in order to get all the prisoners inwit.. court implicated, and prevent any of them becoming fir nesses for the other, he concocted the disturbance a t „, 4 01 mouth, and; told French (one of the prisoners) , to fire;beir pistols at the men. Some of the other prisoners, in. -. te a defence, stated that the captain was constantly intosict Be. after visiting the French barque, and that he ba d °i n ner. veral men with a cutlass in a most barbarous I°B4 the They also alleged that it was to escape the tyranny " d.•••• captain that the chief mate threw himself ov erboar The prisoners were remanded for a week. SINGULAR CASE.—On Thursday week, Mr. ...lie7 l ; Weiss, music seller, of Church-street, lost, some% it between Brownlow-hill and Bedford-street N°1"olcil purse, containing a £2O and a £1 note, with Om e r g O" and silver. For its recovery ha offered a reward 0 o rr The purse was found the same day by a lad who w e f l n u_e ga o r f d t e h n e , n an o d te , s a ; ft b er ut s h Gra e weenhtnetkoattehreinsgh,op of B er t ia• able to read, and who was consequently ignorant 001 King, a young man who sells ready-made clothes it ) p d " to ag reed tc : n 0 10s. for a pair of trousers. There was another the the shop a r t u t l h le e d t n im ut e. m rT.he Weiss'slad in purse, orde rs,thojcpbalisidn-Igirts; stantly seized hold of, and said, after having looke, it, that he would give £4 for its contents. The nioi e ,: cepted Either the tbe o n ff ex er t , G a r n t d h t e h s e a r m e ethdeaymittitrte.rweneidsesdisfso.urezqe ATI; bills, offering a reward of £lO for the purse, alla on being informed of this, supposed naturally enong it must have contained a very con siderable a to s t ' i t oe k s ; forthwith went to King again, and demanded money. King then gave him 65., and asked hitn i , an oath that he would not communicate any 01 h l6 cumstances. This the lad refused to take ; ha'," rid e presence the purse was burned, and the two stee. ,rba which accompanied it were flung into the street.e e pd lad then told his mother, the mother told the 10, 11 F.,' 0 , isr officer Keogh was sent to the house to search. 03'01os; formed him that there was only £lO on the Pr e f ood• but, on searching King's wife, a £2O not e wt5.,,,,e King was thereupon taken into custody , an" ..--dati. Wednesday brought before Mr. Romp and t. 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