The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-21 00:00:00

It is cal rer the s AN ET itt raturt. VARIETIES culated that the total number of the Jews spread ,urface of the globe is 6,000,000. NAL TALKEI Sidney Smith observed of y, that he onl7 wanted a few brilliant flashes of that or says the A York Stan- 13th day of July, 1847, two uction in the city of Wash le deposited in the trea- 'hat's that letter X. ,sked a school- name, you blockheaA boy " 'tis dadd sum—The B that there Boston C( rived before this house Wait for me I 1, and new wind, " He ent( AN EGG- BURIAL OF NAPOLEON'S REMAINS.--I saw Napoleon's funeral, a showy martial pageant, befitting the Imperial soldier. The escort was a hundred thousand armed men; the followers, half a million of both sexes. For hours, the broad, long avenue of the Champs Elisees was choked with the moving throng. It was a solemn moment when the funeral car came slowly by. There, within a few feet, lay the body of the man, the tramp of whose legions had been mournfully heard in every great capital of the con tinent—whose words had been more than the breath of a dozen kings. His shrivelled dust passed through trium phal arches and columns, emblazoned with the record of his hundred conquests. Of them, there was nothing left to France but the name ; of him, _ nothing but those cold remains. Not even a living member of his line was pre sent, sadly to share in this tardy show of honour. The day was cold, and so were the hearts of the multitude. Those bones, let out of their ocean prison, brought with them no hope for the nation. When they are buried, there will be an end of Napoleon. His name will here after be but a gorgeous emptiness—his memory is not vi talised by a principle. In his aims there lay no deep hope, whence his fellow-men, battling for rights, might for ever draw courage and strength. While he still lived, his schemes were baffled, and what he founded had already passed away. His plans were all for himself, and hence with himself they fell, and left scarce a trace behind. He gave birth to no great ideas, that, fructifying among men, would have built for him in their souls: an everlasting —it's X." I've on Post states of Smiths on scertain what branch a certain property in Eng journed, as the pl ace wa S WITH A HIGH )US to attend. -LAND.—The It is The lected their in Europe, by an American @mutt RNAL ADVIC The Chelto to forget that the earl is his brother home. He say not its unequalled might. Therefore, with all his power he was weak : naught of what he wished came to pass, and what he did with such fiery vehemence, with still more startling swiftness was undone. His thoughts were not in harmony with the counsels of God, and so they perished with himself. The Emperor will have his conspicuous place in history, but the man will not live in the minds of men. For the most potent king of the earth, what is he, if he be a false man ? That one so false could rule, is a Wriosites token of the confusion of the times.— Scenes and Thoughts it into the dePtll;oiti7u-tii-,-;ncii;eln-e; 13415reilanP. Jenny Lind will sing at Bristol on Monday , and Tuesday The extensive brewery of Messrs. Rawson, at Sheffield, was completely gutted by fire last week. Mr. Stone, surgeon of the Doncaster Union Workhouse, has died of fever caught from the Irish immigrants. A New York paper: states that Tom Thumb's receipts in Europe amounted to £150,000. 'aminer, in The' brewers of Sheffield have announced a reduction of 3s. per barrel in the price of ale, on and after the 27th instant. Alderman Hooper will be the next Lord Mayor of London. He will be elected without opposition. Alder man Wood declines to stand another contest. A steamer has begun running between Hull and Gluck stadt, on the Elbe, whence several cargoes of cattle, fruit, and vegetables, have lately been imported. INCORPORATED NATIONAL SOCIETY.—The number of returns under the :Queen's Letter now amount to seven thousand, and the sum collected is £21,557. The corporation of Stockton have given £25 towards defraying the expences of the cricket match to be played this month, at Stockton, between eleven of all England and twenty-two of the Stockton Cricket Club. BLACKBERRY JELLY.—Blackberries, (which are now in season), make a delicious jelly of finer flavour than that of any other fruit. It is made in the same manner as currant jelly. 1 - 4, d,est fountain in the w , lis in the ground, ..us of the Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth, where a single jet is blown up to a height of 267 feet—more than 100 feet higher than Niagara falls. THE EXPLOSION OF THE CRICKET.—At the adjourned inquest on Tuesday, it was found that the accident was caused by the engineer tying down the safety valves. The inquiry was further adjourned. On Thursday a fire broke out at Cwm Avon, near Cardiff, which destroyed a great portion of the factories of the Cwm Avon Works. The loss is variously calcu lated at from £6OOO to £7OOO. The late explosion of gas in St. Matthew's Church, Bristol, has resulted in the death of James Bailey, the sexton, who expired on Sunday morning at the Infirmary. He has left a widow and six children. Mr. Granville Harcourt, M.P., and the Dowager Coun tess Waldegrave, daughter of Mr. Braham, are to be mar ried on the 3rd October. This will be the bride's third appearance at the altar. Dr. Wiseman has received from Rome the appointment of Vicar Apostolic of London, pro tern., till the arrange ments consequent on the death of Dr. Griffiths are com plete. The Amphitheatre, Hull, has been licensed for dramatic performances for one year, excepting the months of De cember, January, and February, to Mr. Egerton of Man chester, the late lessee. The Marquis of Bredalbane gives premiums for the best formed and best kept dunghills on his estates in the high lands ; but those tenants who plant them before their doors are excluded from competition. Mr. F. O'Connor has recently purchased, by private contract, for the National Land Company, the Filkins Hall estate, near Witney, Oxon. It consists of a man sion and 600 acres of land.—Globe. Sir Peter Laurie has given notice in a court of the London Common Council, that he will move for a sum of money from the Corporation funds, to be devoted to the erection, in the city, of a monument to Shakspeare. Bees are said to have accumulated more honey this season than for several years past. A hive was last week taken by Mr. J. Carrador of Sawrey, and though it was only swarmed on the 3rd of June last, yet it contained no less than sixty-five pounds of remarkably fine honey. It is now positively settled that the draughts of Prime, Ward, an Co., on failed houses in this country, will all be protected ; and it is believed that none yet remain to come forward of any importance as regards amount, or with respect to the protection of which there will be any doubt. DISTRESS FOR WANT OF RAlN.—Several thousand persons at Merthyr, Rhymney, Dowlais, Tredegar, &c., are out of employ, in consequence of want of water for the machinery. The same cause makes flour much dearer than it would be if all the mills had a proper supply of water. It appears that even in the county of Northumberland there are large stores of old grain. One extensive farmer in Bamboroughshire has no less than 1,700 bolls of wheat —another 700—and another 500, which might have been sold at the rate of 120 s. a quarter in the month of May, but which will now produce half that sum. STEAM ON THE SEVERN.—An iron steamer, named the Propeller, has been built at Bristol, and is intended to ply between that port and Lydney and Newnham on the Severn. She is a beautiful boat, drawing only three feet of water, and on Monday week made a trial-trip be tween Bristol and Newnham in three hours. A singular robbery was lately committed in London, by an under butler, who absconded with a quantity of plate that had been entrusted to him, and left in its stead pieces of wood wrapped in bags, which resembled in appearance the bags containing the plate, and caused the theft to remain undiscovered fora short time. A few days since, while some boys were amusing them selves in a field near West Bromwich, in Staffordshire, by setting fire to trains of gunpowder, a spark communicated with some powder contained in the pocket of one of them, and he was so much injured by the explosion, that he died within a few days. FORGERY ON THE SHEFFIELD AND ROTHERHAM BANK. —We hear that a forgery of the five pound notes of this bank has been discovered. In the forged note, the entry, date, and signatures are lithographed, instead of being written. The forged notes that have been seen are all dated Sheffield, the 30th July, 1847, Of this date, the bank have only issued notes numbered 1 8001 to I 8400. FALL OF A GRANARY AT LEITH.—On Sunday night week, the front wall of a granary, situate in Lawrie-street, Leith, suddenly fell into the street, throwing out about 200 tons weight of grain. The building was three stories in height, and the floors were laden with grain to the depth of about seven feet each, which appears to have been the cause of the unfortunate occurrence. DEATH FROM AN OVERDOSE OF LAUDANUM TO AL. LEVIATE PAlN.—Wednesday a married woman, about thirty-five, years old, named Mary Tolley, residing in Medway-street, Horseferry-road, expired in the West minster Hospital, from taking an overdose of laudanum to alleviate the pain she was suffering from an attack of rheumatism in one of her arms. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Thursday night, about nine o'clock, a fire broke out upon the farm of Mr. Robert Verrey, of Everson, near Ross. The outbuildings and 11 ricks of corn and hay were destroyed, occasioning a loss of about £l,lOO, which, however, is partly covered by an insurance of £6OO. The fire is supposed to have been occasioned by an incendiary. A TRIPLE SHOT.—The Inverness Courier states that the Hon. P. Tolbot, while hunting for ptarmigan on Cur vullian-hill, Strathconnon, fired at and shot a blue hare. On the instant that the gun was discharged, a covey of ptarmigan was in the line of fire, and two of them fell along with the hare. Such a feat, if tried to be done for a bet, might take years to accomplish. In pulling down the deanery at Lincoln, two very ancient open fire-places and chimneys have been discovered, which are conjectured to be part of the original building of Dean Gravesend in 1254. Both are of wrought stone, with tiled backs, and have been made for the burning of wood upon the hearth ; and each chimney forms the half of a four sided pyramid, with the apex ending in the ceiling of the rooms. ALL ENGLAND V. YORKSHIRE.--The grand game be tween eleven celebrated cricketers representing " All England" and sixteen Yorkshire players, which was com menced on the Victoria Cricket Ground, Woodhouse Moor, Leeds, on Thursday, the 9th inst., was brought to a close on Saturday evening. The state of the game on, the previous evening, at the end of the second day's play ing was, Yorkshire, first innings, 137 ; All England, first innings, 186, with two wickets to be resumed on Saturday morning, when the score for the All England party was increased to 195. The Yorkshire players then took the bats for the second innings, and scored 88 ; after which their antagonists went in and won the game by eight wickets to go down. .A.I9THER CASE OF POISONING.—For several days the magistrates of Tiverton and Mr. Leigh, the coroner, have been engaged in investigating a charge of murder against a young married woman, Ann Fisher, who is suspected of being concerned in causing the death of her husband, Richard Fisher, by administering to him a quantity of ar senic. The parties had only been married about three mon ths, and the prisoner had endeavoured to get posses sion of some savings of her husband, but was unable. The deceased was well on the 27th ult., and asked the parish clerk's advice about the documents the prisoner had got possession of; the next morning the deceased was a rpseA druggist's apprentice deposed t o t wo women co purchasing . arsenic: CAW gf wiwul he thought was the pd. goner. r columns with details he Locos have c ,uffering a shocking fright, and have car es of the Legislature by the skin of their A the J .suits at Rome is tare where a violent wind is ever blow eason of it. One day the wind and the a walk in Rome, and being at last ar ; of the Jesuits, the devil said to the sere, I have a word to say within." in emerged from the house. for him at the door xs, et des Legendes )SITION A good story is told by a friend of egg-hatching by steam. While the operation was going on in Baltimore, and while hundreds were examining its wonders daily, an old lady called at the door, and paid her quarter for admission. Once inside, she took the gentleman who conducted the apparatus by the button, and wanted he should tell her all about it; how the machine worked ; how much it cost ; where they whether or not it was really a fact kens running about the floor She then gave a detailed were to be bong} that the brood of h pout tr machines would do the thing le'd buy one. After she had the gentleman proceeded to Tin were deposited the eggs in ion. The old lady looked with " she exclaimed, " do you use is the answer. " Then," said She," I consider this a perfect piece of imposition—a lownright swindle, to pick the pockets of honest people ! Why, anybody can hatch chickens with egos. I can do it myself, and not charge nothing for the sight either." And the old lady made her way out in a mighty huff, muttering to herself, " What impudence ! to charge a woman two shillings to see chickens hatched out of eggs ! heaper ;how her th La me! astonishmer eggs .?" " Certain American GIVING A NT A CH •As for that Wit- tals, there was no bearing with him either; for as bad as he was before, I declare if that Duffy hadn't so inoculated him with all the airs of a grown-up footman, that, upon -4 he seemed to think it a positive disgrace to So I told him, very quietly, I had my wort., work for his living been turning it over in my mum, ably vraau to better himself, I should be very happy to exert myself to find him an excellent situation, and make it a moral duty to give him a good character, which, I said, he knew as well as I did, he didn't deserve. And nicely I caught it for my kindness, after all; for, bother take it ! he went on so shamefully in his new place, that I declare if his brute of a master didn't begin an action against us, for giving a servant a bad character; and we had to compro mise it by paying goodness knows how much ! However, 1 determined that this should be a lesson to me not to give any more good characters in a hurry, but to speak the truth in future. So, when that Duffy, who was out of place again six months, came to me, as thin as a Ger man umbrella, and as meek as a pew-opener, to hope that I would look over what had past, and say a good word for him, I told him pretty plainly, " Oh, yes ! I'd speak for him, and do him perfect justice, he might rest assured." Accordingly, I just gave a plain, unvarnished statement of all his goings on, and shameful pilferings, when, of course, the party refused to have anything at all to do with him. And then, bother take it, if he didn't get some pettifogging lawyer to bring an action against us for libel (truth is a libel, Edward says)—so that, positively, this time we had to pay goodness knows how much more again for giving a servant a good character—drat it ! This very naturally convinced me that the only safe way of acting was to refuse to give any character at all to servants. Accordingly, when that stupid, stupid cook—whom I'd little or no fault to find with, excepting that she was so taken - up with Wittals and Duffy that I thought it best to give her notice to go when they did, lest she should set the new servants against their place—accordingly, I say, when she wished to know when it would suit me to see the lady with whom she was going to live, I told her that she needn't think of sending any of her ladies to me, for I had made up my mind not to say one word about her conduct either one way or the other. And then—drat that common law, which Mr. Edward will have is the perfection of common sense—we had another plaguy ac tion brought against us, and had a third time to pay as much as would have bought us two beautiful opera pit 7.)r the season, for taking the bread out of a per ms mouth, and refusing to give a servant any character tickets at all.—The greatest Plague of Life. AN Lusa HANGMAN.—We may mention, in passing, that one circumstance which contributed to the strange contradiction exhibited at an Irish execution, turning that awful scene into an opportunity for merriment and jest, was the character and dress of the hangman. That func was generally disguised in a fantastic manner, --suited to the occasion. On his face he wore a grotesque masque, and on his back an enormous hump, in the whole resembling Punch in the puppet show. The original design of this apparent levity was to protect the executioner by the disguise, and it was in some degree ne cessary. The use he made of the hump was curious. It was formed of a large wooden binvl dish, laid between his shoulders, and covered with his clothes. When the criminal was turned off, and the " dusting of the scrag boy " began, the_hangman was assailed, not merely with shouts and curses, but often with showers of stones. To escape the latter, he ducked down his head, and opposed his hump as a shield, from which the missiles rebounded with a force that showed how soon his skull would have been fractured if exposed to them. After some antics, the finisher of the law dived among the sheriff's attend ants, and disappeared. This grotesque figure, surrounded by two or more human beings, struggling in the awful agonies of a violent and horrible death, was regarded by the mob as presenting a funny and jocular contrast. Many anecdotes are recorded of the levity of hangmen eminent in their day. The last and most notorious of the craft was " Tom Galvia." He is not very long dead, and in his old age was often visited at Kilmninham gaol by persons who indulged a morbid curiosity to see him and the rope with which he had hanged most of his nearest relations. One of his practical facetim was to slip the rope slily round a a visitor's neck, and give it a sudden chuck, which would nearly cause the sensation of strang ling. He was brutally unfeeling in the discharge of his horrid duty, and when a reprieve would come to some wretch whose hanging he anticipated, he would almost cry with disappointment at the loss of his fee, and say, "it is a hard thing to be taking the bread out of the mouth of an old man like me !" He was always impa tient at any delay made by the convict. When the wretched Jemmy O'Brien was about to be executed, he exhibited the greatest terror, and lingered over his devo tions, to protract his life thus for a few moments. Gal vin's address to him is well known. He called out at the door, so as to be heard by all the by-standers, as well as by the criminal, " Mr. O'Brien, jewel, long life to you, make haste wid your prayers ; de people is getting tired under the swing-swong. '--Sketchesoflreland6oyearsago. THE MASSACRE OF VASSI.—On Sunday, the Ist of March, 1652, the Duke de Guise, attended by his family and by the Cardinal de Guise, left Joinville for Paris. It appears that during his stay at Joinville, his mother An toinette de Bourbon, had complained of the insolence of the Huguonots, who presumed to hold their preachings at Vassi, close upon the gates of her castle. " The Duke began to mutter," says the historian, " et a s'animer dans son courage, mordant sa barbe ;" biting his lips as was his custom when he was angry, and " such were the dis positions," says De Thou, whose account has been chiefly followed, " which seemed to prepare the miserable event that ensued." The route of the Duke unfortunately lay through Vassi, where he arrived early in the morning, followed by his numerous and splendid train. His design, " design he had, appears to have been to disperse the Hu if assembled, but not to offer violence to any person in particular. As he entered the town he heard a bell ringing, and asking what that was for, he was an swered it was to call the Protestants to meeting. Upon that a loud and confused cry of joy was heard among the crowd of valets, lackeys, and other attendants travelling with him. "It seemed like the cry of a body of military adventurers rejoicing in the prospect of plunder." As the Duke proceeded, he was met by some of the principal offi cers of the place, who to prevent disturbance begged of him to pass the building where the assembly was being held, without stopping ; but while he was in discourse with them, several of his people had approached the meet ing-house, (it was a barn which the Huguonots had pur chased, and might hold aboutl2oo people,) and had begun to abuse those assembled, " calling them dogs and rebels to God and to the King. High words were returned by the Huguonots, and the affray began. A shower of stones was thrown by the Duke's servants, who soon tore down the door of the chapel, and rushing furiously in, sword in hand, fell upon the assembled multitude, striking down and massacring all they met. A dreadful confusion en sued. The women and children rent the air with their shrieks and cries, vainly endeavouring to escape ; the men calling loudly for help. A few only put themselves on their defence, for they were all, in obedience to the edict, unarmed. The tumult was so great that the noise reached the ears of the Duchess de Guise ; who, travelling in her litter, was a short distance in advance of the rest ; and she instantly despatched an express to her husband, to entreat him to spare innocent blood. Her messenger found the Duke standing at the door of the barn, endeavouring, some say, to allay the disorder, but at the moment a stone un fortunately struck him on the face ; and his people, seeing the blood stream from his mouth, and glad of an excuse for further violence, now set no bounds to their fury. In spite of his prayers and menaces, the carnage was horrible, the rage of the murderers being only appeased when not a creature remained in the chapel. Sixty were left dead upon the spot, and more than two hundred wounded or male prisoners.—Th e Protestant Reformation in France, by the author of" Father .Darcy." 4 ionary ii uonots rawers VI THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. A Rev. Dr. Dillon has assumed the office of a Bishop, in what he calls the " Reformed Church of England,' and on Sunday week, at White's-row Chanel, dressed in full canonicals, ordained a Mr. J. Eliott to the office of minister of a chapel in Friar-street, Blackfriars. The service used upon'the occasion was that of the Church. It appears that the ministers of this " Reformed Church of England" amount to five individuals. NUMERICAL STATE OF WESLEYISM.—From the re turns just published of the number of members in the Wesleyan Society, it appears there are in Britain 339,379, being a decrease upon last year of 2,089 ; in Ireland, 24,633, being a decrease of 2,913 ; and in the foreign sta tions, 100,303, being an increase of 253 ; total number of members under the care of the British and Irish confe rences, 464,315, being a decrease of 4,749. ' The Globe states the liabilities of the ducal defaulter at the incredible sum of £1,800,000, and says that all his grace's establishments are to be broken up. The parties at whose suit the proceedings were taken were said to be " a wealthy Jewish firm ;" but the Times denies this, and states that " the mistake clearly arose from the fact that Baron de Rothschild is High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, and was bound to put in force the writs obtained by the creditors of the noble duke. PORTUGUESE ONIONS.—The arrivals of onions from the southern states of Europe have commenced for the season, and are taking place in such large quantities as completely to stock the markets and shops of the metro polis, and to be obtainable at one-third of the price which we have known them to command on former occasions. In addition to numerous other arrivals, six vessels from Oporto have brought 3057 boxes and 753 baskets full of this article. MR. CHAPLIN, M.P.—Mr. Chaplin rose to be one of the largest coach proprietors in the kingdom. To give some idea of the magnitude of his establishment, which grew from small beginnings, it is only necessary to ob serve that he and his partner (Mr. Horne) were, prior to the opening of the North-Western Railway, proprietors of sixty-four coaches, and 1500 horses ; and that the annual return of this business produced upwards of £500,000 per annum. The Birmingham Advertiser, of Thursday, gives an account of a " frightful coal pit accident, and miraculous escape." Nine men were being lowered down the shaft of a coal pit, near Dudley, and the chain by which they were lowered became detached from the top gearing when they were about half-way down the shaft, and they were precipitated to the bottom (falling about fifty yards), but only one was killed, and the other eight escaped with little or no injury. On Wednesday week, the venerable mansion at Whit tington, in Derbyshire, known in 1688 as " The Cock and Pynott," came to the hammer, anticipating 'the sale of Shakspere's house by one little week. In was in this house that the conference was held which resulted in the glorious revolution, and it has been called since then the Revolution House. The sum obtained was £725, and the purchaser is a stonemason and an innkeeper, named Woodhouse, who has long tenanted the premises. DORSETSHIRE GALLAZ&RY TO THE FAIR SEX.—In ti 11' parish of Sturminster Marshall, Dorset, one of the over seers is a female, an old widow, named Sarah White, who keeps a farm, but she considers that her fellow-parishion ers of the male sex have rather annoyed her by the ap pointment, than paid her a gallant compliment. The population of the parish is about 1000, so that the paucity of persons qualified to- serve the office could not be the ex cuse for imposing the duties on the old lady. It appears to have been a mere whim of the vestry meeting. FEMALE PETITIONERS AND THE HOME SECRETARY. — The romance of " Jeanie Deans" has been embodied in fact. Three female relations of the Burghead fisherman, implicated in the late food riots, travelled to Ardverekie with the view of petitioning her Majesty to commute the rather harsh sentence of transportation and imprisonment passed on them. But in Sir George Grey the simple fisherwomen found no Duke of Argyle, as they were rather unsentimentally told by him to go home, and send a writ ten petition by the post. AGGRAVATED INCENDIARISM.—On Wednesday even ing last a school room at Horton Bank jointly supported by the Independent and Wesleyan bodies, was set fire to ; this being the third time an attempt has been made to destroy this place. The master' on Wednesday noticed that all the Bibles were removed, but said nothing about the matter ; but on Thursday morning found that they had been piled up in the roof and there set fire to. The burning mass had fallen down co the floor. Several ano nymous letters of a most disgraceful character have been sent to one of the trustees who resides at some distance from the place.—Bradford Observer. THE RIVER THAMES.—On Thursday morning, there was one of the lowest tides ever known, even in the memory of the oldest steam-boat captain. In the very centre of the river, close to Waterloo-bridge, the mud was some feet above the water, and at one o'clock the river steamers were compelled to cease plying for the first time since their introduction on the river. The scene at the Adelphi Pier was graphic in the extreme, almost worthy the pencil of a Hogarth. Beyond the usual float ing pier for landing passengers, a plank about ten feet long was rigged, and secured by an upright, over which ladies and all were compelled to climb by the presiding Charon. RtrssiAN GRAIN.—Of the recent arrivals of grain of various kinds from the continental states of Europe, du ring a period six days, there arrived no less than fifty seven vessels at the port of London alone from the Rus sian ports, which were, with one or two.exceptions, en tirely laden with grain. Some of these veseels brought nearly 4,000 quarters of grain, while others brought some thing less than 1,000 quarters each—to take an average, therefore, of 2.000 quarters for each cargo, which is within the mark, the quantity of grain imported from Russia alone into the metropolis in one week, exceeded 100,000 quarters. HARVEST-HOME This good old custom is not yet ex- tinct in this country ;-in proof of which we have to instance the festivities at East Hampstead-park, in Berkshire, the seat of the Marquis of Downshire. In a letter received from that neighbourhood the writer says :—" We had rare doings here this day (Friday)—the harvest-home. The Marquis of Downshire had a fat bullock killed for the oc casion, which was roasted in joints ; plenty of plum-pud dings, and home-brewed in abundance. About 300 farm ing men, workmen, women, &c., employed by his Lord ship, sat down to the dinner. After the feast the village band attended, for country dances ; and cricket, and all sorts of rustic diversions, concluded the festivities of the occasion." SUICIDE FROM MENTAL DELUSION.—On Wednesday James Sharp, aged fifty-two, a lawer's clerk, committed suicide. The deceased resided at Holloway, and had, for some time past, been labouring under morbid delusions of the mind, and seemed to imagine that he was pursued by enemies wherever he went ; in fact, while proceeding along the streets, he often fancied that some dreadful out rage was going to be committed upon him. Latterly he became so much depressed that the night previous to his attempt at destruction he told his landlord that he could not stand it any longer ; for Saturday week, while in bed, he seized hold of a razor and inflicted a dreadful wound in the throat, extending almost from ear to ear. Imme diately afterwards he called for assistance, and was con veyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. On Tuesday morn ing he expired. GREAT DESTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE. — An awful fire took place at Burlington, near Shiffnall, Shropshire, about noon on Thursday, in the stackyard of Mr. Berns% A boy, about thirteen years of age, was serving the thatcher, when a. box of lucifer matches, which had been given to him to take to his mother by her orders, ignited in his pocket. He immediately threw them on the ground, under a. stack of barley, and the fire communicated to the stack. Everything being very dry, it was out of the power of the few hands who collected to stay its progress. Fire engines were on the spot in less than an hour, but not a sheaf could be saved. The whole contents of the stackyard, which is 70 yards long and 50 wide, amounting to about 27 stacks, was totally consumed ; but the whole building was preserved. It is expected the total loss will be covered by insurance. CUSTOMS INTELLIGENCE.—The honourable board, by their order, dated 16th instant, direct that the practice of admitting, for home consumption, spirits reduced with water in the bonded warehouses, be discontinued, inas much as spirits can now be imported in casks of twenty gallons contents each, thereby affording to all parties the opportunity of purchasing the article in small quantities, as imported, and of afterwards reducing it when in their own possession, equally as free from adulteration as if reduced whilst under bond. By the honourable board's general order, dated the 13th instant, it is deemed expe dient that bond should be given, in all cases, previously to the shipment of surplus stores, without payment of the duty, as well as for all such goods, including British plantation rum, as may be removed from the bonded warehouses for that purpose. On Friday, communications were forwarded to the ma gistrates of the county of Middlesex, requiring them, after the 28th instant, to commit prisoners for trial, as also those remanded for further examination, exclusively to the new model prison, Clerkenwell, named the "Middle sex House of Detention," which, after that date, will be ready for the reception of such persons. This prison con tains 1,000 separate cells, each fitted with stool, table, hammock, and lavatory, similar to the Pentonville Model Prison. The entire erection is in the form of a cross, the centre being the chapel; each wing contains 250 cells. Persons under detention will be kept strictly apart ; even the exercise grounds, and gratings for the reception of visiters, are so constructed, that they can neither see nor hear each other. A library of works, chiefly of a religious tendency, is to be provided for the use of the inmates. SIGNS OF THE " TIMES."—The Times newspaper last week devoted two of its columns to a highly laudatory re. commendation of the new work entitled " Grantly Manor" by Lady Georgiana Fullerton. This work is neither more nor less than a three volume novel containing a most in geniously veiled apology for, and recommendation of, Roman Catholic principles and practices. The talented authoress is herself a " recent convert" to Romanism, and is niece to the Hon. and Rev. George Spencer, brother to Earl Spencer, formerly chaplain to the Bishop of London, and now a priest of the Church of Rome, and a monk of the barefooted order of "Passionists." This, perhaps, may be accounted for from the circumstance of Mr. Mose ley (brother-in-law of Mr. Newman and formerly editor of the defunct British Critic), having been added to the editorial staff of the Times since Mr. Walter's death. The house in which Shakspeare was born was sold on Thursday, at the Auction Mart, by Mr. Robins. It was purchased by the committee acting at Stratford and Lon don for £3OOO, there being no opposition bidding. The following interesting lots were sold at the subjoined prices : —Visitors' books of autographs, 9 guineas ; a curious tab let, with a portrait of Shakspeare, £5 ss. ; five carved walnut-tree chairs, with needlework backs and seats, £5 ss. ; a curious antique carved cabinet, elaborately worked, £lolos. ; an elaborately craved Elizabethan chair, cane back, £7 7s. ; a small bust of Shakspeare, carved from the veritable mulberry tree, to the truth of which Mr. Sharp deposed, £lB IBs. ; a spectacle case, also carved from a mulberry tree, £l5 15s. ; an elaborately carved oak cabinet, with richly decorated *ant slid sido and corner pillars, £lOlO. ADVANTAGES OF STEADS.—We hear of frequent in stances of the rapidity with which shippers of stock at this port for the London markets have their return made them, the following deserves to be noted :—Mr. P. Wilson Flesher, 34, New Market Hall, on Tuesday week, bought a flock of lambs at Middleton, of Rattray. upwards of forty miles from Aberdeen. They travelled on foot all the way here, stopped ten hours on the road, and were shipped by the steamer Duke of Wellington, on Wednes day evening, to Mr. Benjamin Venables, Newgate market, London. The accounts of sales were received by post, and the cash in Mr. Wilson's pocket on Monday forenoon. —Aberdeen Journal. CHARGES OF FORGERY.-G. Hayward and W. Alex ander have been final?) , examined upon the charge of hav ing forged a cheque upon the banking-house of Glyn and Co. for £l4O, in the name of John Fenton. This was the case in which Daniel Forrester, the officer, supplied the evidence which would have been otherwise defective, by searching amongst the papers of the prisoner Hayward, and finding a piece of blotting-paper, on which was dis tinctly marked the "blot" of the name "John Fenton," as it appeared on the cheque. The prisoner wrote to Mr. Fenton, whom he did not know, in order to obtain this signature. The handwriting of Mr Fenton was closely imitated in the cheque. The prisoners were committ.ed for trial. SUDDEN DEATH. —Captain Witham, of Lartington Hall, near Barnard Castle, had a stroke on the morning of the Bth instant, which resulted in his death the same evening. This gentleman had become ill about four o'clock in the morning, but he did not ring his bell until about six o'clock, when, in giving the alarm, he fell on the floor, and was found there. He was able to ask to be placed on a chair, which being done, medical aid was pro cared with all speed, and he was somewhat better for a time, after being bled, and no immediate danger was ap prehended. But during the day he became so ill that life was despaired of, and in the evening he died. Mr. W. had been in the enjoyment of robust health, and on the day previous had visited some of his farms, and the town of Barnard Castle, and appeared in excellent spirits the same evening. He has fulfilled the duties of ma g istrate for some time, and formed one of the bench at the petty sessions at Barnard Castle. His age we suppose to be about 43 years. AWFUL FIRE.—On Thursday last a most extensive fire occurred at Needingworth, a village near St. Ives, in the county of Huntingdon, which has rendered it one scene of misery and desolation, upwards of 80 houses, including farming-houses and cottages, being entirely destroyed. The fire was first observed about twelve o'clock at noon, and originated through a poor idiot servant g irl throwing some lighted straw into a yard ; the wind at the time blowing a hurricane, wafted some of the straw to the thatch of the cottage, which was immediately enveloped in flames; it then communicated itself to an adjoining farm, and in a few minutes the whole of the property, on the right hand and on the left, was one terrible fire. The farmsteads destroyed are six in number, together with the produce of nearly 3000 acres of land; and about 70 houses' and cottages. The amount of property destroyed must be very considerable, and a large proportion of it is insured. Several engines were upon the spot, but in consequence of the wind and the scarcity of water, were quite useless. CUTTIVAT:ON OF THE BEAUTIFITE.--It has been the fashion with prudes and pedants, time immemorial to run down the advantages of external appearance—thus the phrases, " Outside show," and " Skin-deep beauty," had obtained a sort of currency which gave them, and others of similar insport, an appearance of grave authority. The present age is bold enough to question this dictum, and exen to go as far as to extol the study of' externals as a duty to society, which should have presented to it agree able objects, and now contends that the cultivation of the beautifid holds a place second in importance only to the promotion of the good. This it is which holds out encouragement to those who labour to put the public in possession of means to this end. Oldridge's Balm of Columbia, as the most effective preservative or renovator of that most beautiful ornament the Human Hair, takes first rank, and as long as its valuable properties continue to be known and appreciated, must take the precedence of every production intended for exterior improvement in this direction. FEARFUL CONDITION OF BURIAL GROUNDS.—At a meeting in London last week, Mr. Walker, surgeon, in the course of an excellent address, made the following remarks It was well known that an acre of ground was capable of furnishing decent burial room for only 136 bodies annually but was that rule observed in the burial grounds of the metropolis ? In some grounds upwards of 3,000 bodies were buried annually in an acre of ground. (Cries of Shame'?') The shameful extent to which the metropolitan burial grounds were overcrowded with bo dies, would appear by some facts extracted from Mr. Chadwick's sanitary report. The annual average of burials per acre, in the following churchyards, was—St. Andrew Undershaft, 1,278 ; Portugal-street ground, 1,021; St. Dunstan's-in-the-East, 1,821: St. John's, Clerkenwell, 3,072 ; St. Mary-at-Hill, 1,159 ; St. Swi thin, Tooley-street, 1,760. The condition of the Dis senters' burial grounds was quite as disgraceful, for the same authority showed that the annual burials per acre were—at Wickliffe Chapel, Stepney, 1,210; Enon Cha-- pel, 1,080 ; Parker's Chapel, Dockhead, Woolwich, 1,613 ; Moorfiela, 1,210; Cannon-street-road, 1,109. • „ , A LETTER OF GRATITUDE.—John M'Lean, 'the high land historian, has addressed the following letter, dated 6th Sep. inst., to Col. Anson :—" Sir,—l had the honor to receive this morning your note, inclosing a donation of £lO from her Majesty the Queen, to relieve me in the various difficulties connected with my advanced age. I was born on the 6th of January, 1747, the year after the battle of Culloden, when civil strife happily terminated in this quarter of her Majesty's dominions. Though now more than one hundred years of age, I retain the full use of my mental and bodily faculties, and I bec , leave to assure her Majesty, that none in her Majeay'S wide dominions prays more sincerely for her happy, lengthened, and prosperous reign, and for every blessing to attend her Royal Consort, and her rising family. It cheers my aged heart to hear of 'a Queen of Scotia's ancient line sojourn ing among her Highland hills, whose inhabitants were long distinguished for their devoted attachment to their native kings. Long, long may the Queen enjoy the satis faction of witnessing the unabated attachment of a loyal people ; and often, often, may ,she revisit the favourite haunts of her royal ancestors. The infirmities of age compel me to employ my son to write these lines, flowing, believe me, from a heart full of gratitude. May I beg the honor of her Majesty's accepting the accompanying copy of part of my Reminiscences' of the events of other years."' PREJUDICE AGAINST LOCAL TRADESMEN.—A very amusing and conclusive proof of the injustice of the pre judice which often induces persons to condemn country tradesmen as cheats, and to go to a distance for their goods, has just occurred at Chepstow. A tabby, or female gossip of that ancient locality, entertaining a very low opi nion of those " horrid cheats," the country grocers, oom missioned a gentleman-acquaintance—(a Platonic friend, no doubt)—to purchase twenty pounds of metropolitan tea, the best that could be had at five shillings per pound. The gentleman, knowing the unreasonableness of all such suspicions, executed his commission by giving the older to a Chepstow tradesman, who supplied his usual five-shil ling tea. This was conveyed to the lady, who with her neighbours pronounced it to be excellent, beyond measure superior to any thing of the kind which could be procured in the neighbourhood at seven shillings per pound ! The gentleman having fully enjoyed a laugh in his sleeve, let out the secret, whereupon the ladies, clinging to their pre conceived nations, like many in the present day, com pletely altered their opinions, saying that the tea was in different, or that at best it was only the super-stratum of a chest, the lower part of which was filled with sloe-leaves. To reason, therefore, with such individuals, would be a loss of time, but to sensible persons, the incident may show the unreasonableness and the injustice of people of property going to London for their goods, and passing by the heavily-taxed and the honest local tradesman.—Here ford Journal. GREAT yAILIIRE IN LONDON.—The Times of Wednes day morning announces the failure of Sanderson and Co., the well-known bill brokers, in the following terms : "The suspension of Sanderson and Co. the discount brokers, was announced on Tuesday afternoon, and has given rise to the utmost anxiety. It was known that the firm were amongst the heaviest sufferers from the failure of Lesley, Alexander, and Co., of whose paper they are supposed to have held about £170,000; and this event, coupled with the subsequent occurrence of disasters, by which they were also understood to have been compro mise d, caused a strong feeling of uneasiness to be enter tained regarding their position. Under these circumstan ces, a severe run took place upon them for the withdrawal of money held at call, which resulted in their stoppage." The same journal of the following day, makes the follow ing statement :—" The liabilities of the house to London depositers by whom bills are held as security, are under stood to amount to £BOO,OOO. The total of country liabil ities of a similar description has not been stated, but they are most probably very extensive. The debts of the firm against which the creditors hold no securities, amount to £200,000. The private property of Mr. Sanderson is estimated at about £140,000, and that of Mr. Morris, his late partner, including life assurances, at about £60,000. Under these circumstances, the parties who have investi gated the state of the concern, speak favourably of the ultimate prospects of the liquidation." A circular, which has been issued by the firm, states that Mr. Sanderson entertains the most sanguine expectations, that ultimately the creditors and customers will sustain no loss whatever. THE BANK OF ENGLAND.—A general Court of Pro prietors of this Bank was held on Thursday, to declare a dividend, and transact other business. Mr. Jas. Morris said that the directors had resolved to recommend that a dividend of 41 per cent., interest and profits, should be paid for the half year ending October next, which would leave a sum of £26,412 to be added to the rest. It was not a dividend of 41 per cent., but a dividend of 31 per cent. and a bonus of 1 per cent., that the proprietors who had a life interest only might participate in the profits of the half year. The amount of the rest would be £3,270,754, after deducting the dividend. Mr. De Winton called at tention to the late suspension of payment by parties who were directors of the bank. Within eighteen years six, out of nine gentlemen who had passed the chair, had since been insolvent. This state of things ought not to coati nue. He was of opinion that the governor of the bank should be elected for four years certain, and that he should be paid a salary for his services. He also thought the time had arrived when some alteration should be made I in the bye-laws of the corporation, and he should, there fore, move the following resolution :—" That the Court of Directors be requested to convene a meeting of the proprietors, for the purpose of considering the bye-laws regulating the election of a governor, &c., with a view to their amendment." The governor said that the directors were not prepared to convene a meeting of proprietors for the purpose mentioned ; but if a requisition, signed by the necessary number of proprietors, were presented to them, they would feel it their duty to do so. After some conversation, Mr. De Winton withdrew his proposition, zeal the meeting broke up without a question being asked as to whether the bank had sustained any losses by the late failures, BIGAMY EXTRAORDINARY.—On Wednesday Daniel Sinclair, mate of the Mary Auckland, a fellow who has been twice previously convicted of bigamy, was brought up at the Thames Police-court on a similar charge. He persuaded a young lady that his convictions exonerated him from the previous marriages. He affected great sanctity, and she consented to marry him. For the de fence it was urged that the lady contracted the marriage with her eyes open, well knowing that the prisoner had another wife alive at the time. Mr. Yardley said he would remand the case, to get further evidence of the first marriage. He would accept bail in two good securities of £lOO each. SINGULAR BEEntvE.--While the reverend incumbent of Mellor was in the vestry room, attached to the church, one day last week, his attention was drawn, by hearing the humming of some bees, to one of the beams which crossed the ceiling of the room ; on closer inspection, he discovered that a considerable length of honey-comb had been run along the top of the beam, the bees- finding in gress and egress to their novel hive through the mouth of an old waterspout, which had long since ceased to answer the purpose for which it had been erected. On removing some of the plaster from the ceiling, the reverend gentle man was enabled to obtain about thirty pounds of beauti ful honey ; and afterwards several pounds of wax.— Blackburn Standard. A deputation from Newcastle-on-Tyne is about to proceed to London from the commercial body there to represent the monetary pressure prevailing through the The Morning Pose reports the specific object of " The depression in the coal trade is stated country to be so great at the present moment that, unless some relief be afforded, sixty thousand workmen must be imme diately thrown out of employment. It is understood that the suggestion to be made to the Government will be for the issue of £5,000,000 of bank notes for six months, on the deposit of valid securities. If this measure be not adopted, there is, unfortunately, too good ground to fear that not only the collieries of Northumberland, but the mills of Lancashire, will be stopped, and the great trade of the county indefinitely snspended." Surrey has lately been the scene of one of the most fearful crimes of violence of which the practice of pre serving game has been so prolific. At East Horsley, near Guildford, a few days since, George Targett and James Martin, gamekeepers, were found by a person passing acci dentally through• a wood in the preserve, in the last stage of exhaustion, through wounds which had been received in an affray with• poachers. Targett was apparently life less, having been stabbed in the chest, and did riot recover his consciousne extreme dangez Martin had been stabbed it he was much exhausted by loss of blood, and his life is yet in great peril. The desperate nature of the struggle the poor men had with their savage assailants, is proved by the fact that the hands-of both were dreadfully cut and maimed, in the efforts- they made to wrest the deadly weapons from their adversaries. The guilty persons are said to be known, and two of them are in custody. LAUNCH OF A STEAMER.—On Tuesday was launched from Messrs. Wigram's yard, at Blackwall, a new steam ship, the Scotia, built for the Chester and Holyhead Rail way Company. She is of 600 tons burden, and is to have engines by Maudslay and Field, of 400-horse power, "m -ing the largest amount of power, in proportion to ton nage, of any vess e l y e t b u ilt. Her lines were generally admired, and every confidence was expressed by the builder and engineers, that " they shall be able to get 20= miles an hour out of her," and that she will make the passage between Holyhead and Kingstown (63 miles) in. three hours and a quarter, and four hours in all weathers. Several of the directors were present. The Caradoc, one of the government boats, built for the express purpose of performing the Post-office service between Holyhead and Kingstown, by Mare and Co., with engines by Seaward, 600 tons 350-horse power, was tried on Monday ; she ran between Gravesend and the NOre, against tide, at the rate of 154- miles an hour. THE DROUGHT.—The quantity of rain that has fallen from the Ist of January to the 14th of the present month is smaller than during the corresponding period •of the year 1842—50 remarkable for long-continued and intense drought. During the period of the year 1842, to which we refer, the quantity of rain that fell, according to a rain gauge kept a few miles to the south of Edinburgh, was 16.05 inches, and, during the present year, 15.17 inches. The present drought, however, may be said to have com menced in November last year ; and, comparing the rain fall of the periods commencing Ist November, 1841, and ending 14th September, 1842—being 23.37 inches—with the period commencing Ist November, 1846, and ending the 14th instant being 19.24 inches—there has been a de ficiency of rain during the latter peri d of no less than 4.13 inches as compared with the extraordinary year of 1842. But if it be compared with last year the deficiency is still more remarkable, the rain-fall from the Ist of Ja nuary of last year to the 14th inst., being 32.066 inches, and this year 15.97—a difference of no less than 16.096, being a deficiency of almost exactly one-half. Rivers and brooks are, consequently, greatly diminished, and the want of water, both in Edinburgh and elsewhere, is be coming ominously inconvenient. PICTURE-FRAMES BY MACITINERY.—The ultimate desideratum in the popularization of Art is to bring it as an educational means to the hearths of abodes humbler than those under the roofs of which it has hitherto found a resting-place. Towards the framing of prints the re duction of the duties on glass has done much, and the invention we are now about to notice effects, we do hope, the rest in this long-desiderated object. The invention is that of Mr. Bielefeld ; and the result at which he ar rives is a really good and ornamental frame at the lowest price (eightpence per foot) at which the meanest wooden shelter in which a work of Art ever found refuge can be manufactured. This is, as usual, effected by machinery. Any of the common forms, technically termed ogee, ovolo, bevel, hollow, &c., can be enriched with the most delicate work, similar to engine-turning, or by relieved arabesques of any design. The principle is new as applied to manufacture of this kind : it is simply to pass any length of frame under a roller in which is cut the desired pattern. This roller, the radius of which is but a few inches, is turned out of a rough cast of gun-metal, and is driven by a steam-engine. The wood Which is passed der it is necessarily soft—say the best pine —and re ceives at any length the impress of the most delicate tra cery which can be engraved on the metal. The advan tages of this are sufficiently apparent; but there are yet others which may be mentioned. The wood comes from the machinery ready for gilding, or complete as an imita tion of ebony or Florentine bronze, and also in colours; and having preserved on the. surface the design in all its sharpness, which would be deteriorated by the ordinary method of whitening and sizing. The process is a patent, and so recent that the extent of its operations is by no means developed, although the inventor will apply it to the manufacture of frames- for pictures of all sizes. For many years there has beenno improvement in the mann-. facture of frames ' • at least, none to render an acceptable frame accessible to limited means. The want has been a source of complaint, when so many of the most beautiful productions of the burin are no longer very costly. An outcry may be raised by. those employed in the manufac ture according to the old method ; but, under the auspices of the genius temperis, it is the good of the many we most advocate ; and considering the cheapness of good prints— of that class likely to come into the possession of the mid dle classes—this discovery is most apposite to the time. The results of this machinery will soon be—if it be not at this moment—such as to enable him who buys a print for a shilling, to place it in a worthy frame for another shilling—or very little more. And when we speak of a shilling print let no one suppose we allude to an, inferior work : some admirable productions of Art may now be attained for that sum ; may we not refer to those which appear in the present number of our Journal, and those which we hope to.present to our subscribers ?, The con sequence will be, ere long, that framed prints will occupy walls that are.now either bare or covered with injurious or unmeaning papers; and that fine examples. of Art will instruct the dwellers in houses where expensive luxuries cannot enter: : we consider that to produce good and cheap FRAMES is. second only i n importance to producing PRINTS good and cheap.—Art Union Journal. DINNER. TO THE EARL OF DALHOUSIE.—On Tues day night, a dinner was given in Edinburgh to the newly appointed' Governor-General of India, on occasion of his departure to assume the reins of government. The chair was occupied by the Duke of Bucclench, and among the other noblemen and gentlemen present were the Duke of Argyle,. Earl of Rosebery, Earl of Devon, Lord Dunferm line, Lord Belhaven, Lord Kinnaird, the Lord Advocate, the Right Hon. Fox Maule, &c. &c. The Earl of Dal housie replied at considerable length to the toast of his health. In the course of his remarks he said, " I have always held that every public man who has once served the crown, is bound in duty not to withhold at a future time his services, when invited; on public grounds to do so, provided he can do so without sacrifice of the political opinions which he has entertained, and which he still maintains, as sound and true in his estimation. Twice since their accession to power have the present confiden tial advisers of the crown, invited me to give my advice, co-operation, and aid to, her Majesty's government,— once as a member of the administration, and once in ano ther capacity. Twice have these offers been made to me, and twice have they been declined ; and if the offer of the assent of the crown. to the appointment made by the court of directors of the East India Company had been accompanied by the condition that I should give them pa litical support, or should even observe political neutrality, I should have felt it my duty once again to have declined. I am sure that there is not a gentleman who sits at these tables that will not believe me when I say that I would not consent to sacrifice any of the political principles which I deem to be sound and pure, even though it were to place in my hands, as it was in this case, the administration of an empire.. I hasten to add,"that no condition whatever was annexed to this office. When the assurance was given me that the acceptance of this appointment would leave me in entire and unquestioned possession of my own per sonal independence in reference to party politics—when I was assured, as I was promptly and unreservedly, that my acceptance of office would establish no party claims upon me—then I felt that I was bound to test the principles which I entertained and had previously enunciated ; and I at once resolved to risk the misinterpretation and mis construction of motives—the risk and possible loss of the confidence of my old political friends ; and, in addition to this, to sacrifice, as my noble friend has said from the chair, much personal and domestic comforts and encroach ments on my political position in this country—even at the sacrifice of every atom of this, I felt that I was bound, as a servant of the crown, to give my assistance to her Majesty's advisers, when I was asked to do so, and es pecially when asked in times of difficulty and confusion as these ; and I at once consented to serve the company who so honourably tendered me this office : and I rejoice to return to the service of a sovereign whom I served before, and who, in the amplitude of her goodness, had rewarded me so far beyond my deserts. It is hardly necessary for me to state that the moment I assume the government of India, politics axe unknown to me. I feel most deeply the great and distinguished honour which has been con ferred upon me in the appointment which I have received, ' and lam mostly keenly alive to the tremendous responsi bility which has, in consequence, been imposed on me." Sept. 21,1847, THE QUEEN. — Strange Coincidence.—Perhaps it is not generally known that the wild and romantic spot where our beloved sovereign at present is residing is the id-ntic,al place where Fergus, our first Scottish monarch, delighted to sojourn, and where, not many yards behind the beautiful lodge of Ardverikie, his remains lie, also those of two succeeding monarchs. In those days it was chiefly upon the most elevated situations that the inhabi tants of our country resided, in consequence of the plains and valleys being then infested with wolves and other wild beasts. The proper meaning of the name " Ardve rikie" is Ard-Fergus (Fergus's height); or, in the Gaelic language, Ardferigie. From this circumstance, we are not surprised that her Majesty, if aware of the fact, should choose this Royal residence of the " olden time," in the " land of the mountain and of the flood " as a temporary abode amongst us.--Ross-shire Advertiser. ATTEMPTED MURDER IN MARK-LANE.—John Oven,. ston, who attempted to kill Mr. Crawley, in Mark-lane, was finally examined at the Mansion-house, London, on Wednesday. He was scarcely able to stand. George Crawley said—" I have offices at No. 12, Mark-lane. On the 14th of August, on going to my office, I found the prisoner and a person named Nathan there. I asked the prisoner whether he wished to see me. He nodded his head, and I said if you will be good enough to step into the inner room I will speak to you. He went into the room, and I followed him. His back was towards me. I closed the door. He turned round, and I heard a shot, and immediately made my escape- I was shot in the jaw. The only thing I had observed in the prisoner before he fired the rtißtrd urns thou I,Z. 1.... A 1-4 --- iureu Luc Flaw' was, xnat ne shooK his head, but there was nothing about him that caused any suspicion of his inten-, tion." Mr. Samuel Harris, 13, Fenchurch-street, sur geon, said—" I was called to see Mr. Crawley in our sur gery. He told me that he had been shot, and on looking at him, I found that a bullet had lodged in the jaw. As there was no heamorrage I advised that he should go to the hospital. The prisoner was committed for shooting with intent to murder. 'litmus FEVER IN GLASGOW.—It appears that Glas gow is suffering from a severe visitation of typhus, and the police and parish officers, as here, have been the first attacked. The Glasgow Constitutional saysl.--" We re gret to hear of the death of Mr. Colin Gordon, one of the two night inspectors or division officers of police, which event took place on Sunday morning, from typhus fever. The deceased, along with his colleague, Mr. Robt. Hender son, who survives, had for many years been entrusted with the charge of the night watchmen of the Glasgow division ; and the successful exertions of these two men, in detecting and preventing crime, and = Al- ,cring au stracted property, have been frequently noticed with approbation- in high quarters. Gordon was a modest, persevering, and intelligent man, and few in a h•Amble public station have done so• much good. It is to be hoped that the Police Commission will not fail to remember that Gordon contracted disease in the discharge of his duty, and that a widow and children are bereft of their bread winner."—[The brother of this meritorious officer his for many years been engaged in the Journal-office, and has been equally remarkable for steady and exemplary conduct.l ROMISII HIERARCHY IN ENGLAND.—It is said that Dr. Wiseman has brought instructions and authority from the holy see for remodelling the ecclesiastical arrange ments of his communion in England. Rome has hitherto possessed in England nothing more than a missionary esta blishment, placed under the superintendence of Vicars Apostolic," who are nominally the bishops of sees now in partibus infidelium : and do •not assume the titles of the dioceses in which they egercise their authority. The pre sent order of things is now to cease ; Roman Catholicism having, in the opinion of its rulers, attained a sufficient extension in England to -warrant the re-establishment of the hierarchy, with all its ramifications of ecclesiastical government—deans, chapters, archdeacons, ecclesiastical courts, &c., as it existed prior to the reformation, and at present exists in Roman Catholic Ireland. There will be, it is said, two archbishops for Canterbury and York, with eight bishops subordinate. These new Roman bishops will not, however, assume the titles of the sees at present occupied by the bishops of the Established Church, but will take their designations from other places not hereto fore episcopally dignified : as: Birmingham, Nottingham, Derby, Liverpool, and other populous centres of Roman Catholic influence. Dr. Wiseman himself, it is said, will succeed, under a new title—that of Bishop of Westmin ster—to the administration of the affairs of the London district, in the room of the late Dr. Griffiths, Bishop of Olena. THE POISONING IN THE ISLE- OF ELY.—The examina tion into this mysterious affair (a slight account of which appeared in our paper last week) was resumed on Wed nesday at Manea, Isle of Ely. It will be recollected that three children named Mary Young, Whitwell Aubery, and Eliza Hartley. were left in the, care of a woman named Ann Barnes while their parents were out harvesting. The children died suddenly, and from certain suspicious cir cumstances Ann Barnes was suspected of having poisoned them. The bodies had been exhumed by order of the Coroner, and the following evidence was taken :—Mr. James Dean said he exhumed the bodies on the 10th of September. That of Whitwell Aubery presented no un usual appearance, but internally, the small intestines were suffused with a bright yellow colour. The lungs a nd liver appeared healthy. Removed the alimentary canal, put it in a sealed bottle, and delivered it to Captain Hampton. The next day examined it with Mr. O'Conno r, and'discovered the presence of crystals. Mr. Dean th en entered into minute details of the tests he had applied t e o assertain whether any poison was in the b o d y o f th „ - , child. " The result is,' he concluded, " that there is "- 7 doubt on my mind that the child Aube r y di e d of arsen i c : Mr. Dean next described the process by which he arrived at an opinion in regard to the death of Eliza Hartley. That opinion was that the child-had died of arsenical poi son. As regards Young's child, Mr. Dean had no doubt that it had an additional dose of arsenic just before death. The other two children had but one dose, and nearly got rid of it before death. This accounted for the crystals resulting from the tests in the case of Young's child and not in the others.—The Coroner to Mrs. Barnes : I ant bound to tell you that a great deal of suspicion attaches to you.—Mrs. Barnes : lam surprised at that. If I had poisoned the children I should have been the silliest woman alive. I had 9s. 6d. a-week to take care of them paid regularly. lam quite clear of the crime, as God's my witness. It is true my neighbours taunted me with poisoning the children, and- I felt very hurt. I begged my son, in the presence of that gentleman (the register), to have a post mortem examination, but he refused. -- After some further evidence, what is called an " open ver dict" was returned. Loss OF Two WHALING SHIPS, AND SUFFERINGS OF THE CREWS.—Mr. R. Coffinson, of Hull, has received a letter from Mr. Lee, mate of the Bon Accord, of that town, dated Egosmende, Danish settlement, Davis' Straits, July 28th, 1847, in.which he states that the ship was lost in lat. 75 N. t on the 3rd July, after having caught two fish-25 tons. He also states that the Alfred, of Bo ness. was lost about the same time and place. The day before they saw fourteen sail, about ten miles north of them, and the writer enumerates a number of whalers met with, and which, up to the 29th of June, had gene rally been unsuccessful several of them being clean ships, and others which had taken but one or two fish each. Mr. Collinson, who arrived at Hull from Hamburgh, on Wednesday states, that there were in that port fourteen of the crew of the Alfred, who hod arrived from Davis' Straits, via Copenhagen, and reported that the whole of the crews of both two wrecked vessels were saved, except one of the Bon Accords, who died previous to her loss, and another of the same crew by falling from an iee berg, Both were Shetlandmen. Mr. Lee gives a long and in teresting account in another letter to his wife, of the sufferings of the crew of the Bon Accord, after. she was lost. From this we abridge and extract some of the m___ ; au l facts. When the ship was l os t, it was blowing. a hull" - cane from. S. W., with constant snow. Two floes cam ° together and crushed the ship. He, with a strength he thought he never possessed, carried his father,,the caPtait l F like a doll, and handed him over the side. He returned down to the cabin far his father's watch, hut the deck and beams flew in all directions, and he with difficulty cut up again. The Alfred was a short distance from them ; she got the nip first and the ice went right over her. 1 10 continues—Oh, what a sight, ! To see 98 men upon the ice, some o, them cursing the hour that gave them birth. I first looked at the wreck, and saw there was no shelter there. Then, with horror, looked to the ice, and oh what' a. sight met my eyes. There was my poor aged parent wringing his hands, and tearing the little hair that he had , off his head, praying to God to take his life. These' eyes, I hope, will never see the like again. We were 1% hours on the ice, before we got a seat made for my father, and a fire made. I then went down to the wreck, and saved his chest and bed-rug, one cask of pork, one cask of bread, one cask of flour, four casks of ale, and 20 gal lons of brandy, which we took to his tent, and got the crow's nest there also, to make abed cabin for him. WO then made a tent for the men, and a fire. I got an, emptY bread cask, and made a tent for myself, but being wet through and cold, 1 could not sleep. I got up, and walked on the ice to get warm, being almost perished- I went in to the men's tent, and they had a fire that would have roasted a drove of oxen, but there was no chance of getting near it. They were laid one upon top of another, but at length the fire disappeared through the ice, and when they awoke they were stagnated. I then travelled over to the Alfred's tents, and there they were a great deal more comfortable, for they had saved their bed-. clothes and chests all dry. The next day was spent in getting our boats ready for launching over the ice, con stant snow, and blowing as hard as ever." The boats were at length launched in a hole in the ice, on the morn ing of the 6th July. The writer then lost his eye-sight for two days, from the reflection of the ice, and his suffer.. ings were such that, but for the thoughts of his wife and little ones, he would have lain down and died. Five boats started southward in company, one of them col' taming his father, but he lost sight of the whole four ill the night. On the 7th three of them were again seen , and they sailed together, and at ten o'clock landed 0? Duck Island, a small barren rock. There they mot° some tea, and afterwards got to a larger island. 1 0 found afterwards that the master of the Alfred was on cule side the island and he on the other. After innumerab lu adventures and dangers from storms and cold, and landilt, they fried and made a hearty meal. On other island successively on different islands, they reached an island on the 9th, on which they found five dozen duck eggs, wil l c 9 . they afterwards got a considerable quantity of egg,' Several of the boats that had got behind came 111 3 they landed at Uppernavick, worn out with fatigue in 1) ._,. ing, &c. There they were all kindly treated. On tau_ 17th they landed at Lively, after a passage of five d a l from the island they last left. Here too their suffer i q. were extreme. Finally they reached Egosminde on T o ; 25th, and got on board the Danish brig Peru—to on Denmark on the 20th August. He concludes—l ara i d s the cabin, and treated very kindly. Robert Wilson the only Englishman with me, there are 15 of our e on board altogether, and seven of the Alfred's, then of ours are at Uppernavick, 330 miles north of thi s • amafraid they 'will not all get home this year, there ary 60 altogether, and the captain of the vessel says lie call only talw 30,