The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

Dec. 5, 184$. IL fttraturt. VARIETIES. Mrs. Somerville, in her Physical Geography, says that the honey bee was introduced into America not many years ago, and is now spread over that continent. One hundred and forty unpublished letters, addressed by King William 111. to Henry de Lorraine. Prince of Vaudemont, were recently sold for something like 6s. 6d. a-piece. The Musical World has a curious letter from R. Schu man, from Leipsic, pointing out a canon attributed to Mozart, which is note for note the same as Non nobis Domine, said to be by Bird, asking if there be any evi dence in England proving the composition to be by Bird, either from the date of publication or otherwise. The awful results of war are not confined to the bloody scenes of the battle-field ; but disease—slow, consuming disease—more than any of the instruments of war, scat ters death among those engaged in the trying fatigues and exposures of military duty. Of those who have died in active service of Mexico, the proportion of those cut down by disease to those who fell on the battle-field is about five to one.—Gen. Taylor's Address. RAFT LOAD OF MONKEYS.—We find the following story in La Democratic Pacifique :—" A state corvette, just returned from a cruise in the Indian seas, brit:l9 - s news of a rather curious incident. At one of the islands a dozen monkeys were caught and brought on board. Their gambols were mightily relished by the crew. One night, however, when the ship was out at sea, some of the monkeys managed to get into the commandant's cabin, scattering ink over official charts and papers, and perpetrating other mischiefs, so that he ordered them all to be flung into the sea. The sailors, however, were much grieved at this, and on their remonstrance, the com mandant gave permission that a raft should be constructed on which the poor animals might be left with some chance of being drifted ashore. The sailors fitted the raft with a small raft and a sail, which they set easterly in the direc tion of the land. They placed on the frail skiff a store of biscuit and water, and then were obliged to abandon the twelve prescripts to their fate. The crew, much moved, waved their hats, wished them a bon voyage, and watched them out of sight. . THE CHEVALIER PAUL JoNEs.----The following adver tisement in the Times brings back to popular recollections the name and the deeds of a faithless son to his country hen She latter was so pressed by foreign foes as w.. the aid of every arm she could call her own :—" The under signed, having been appointed deputy public administra tor of Admiral the Chevalier J. Paul Jones, the first com modore of the American navy, Member of the Order of the Cincinnati, Chevalier of the French Military Order of Merit, Knight of the Russian Order of St. Ann, &c., and who died in Paris, in 1792, hereby gives notice to the heirs of the said Chevalier Paul Jones to transmit their claims for adjudication, that they may participate in the late decision of Congress, and approved by the President of the United States, granting 50,000 dollars to the heir, of the said Chevalier Jones. The undersigned is also authorised to receive the claims of the heirs of the officers, &c., of the first American squadron of 1779, consisting of the ships of war Bon Homme Richard, Alliance, and Pallas, commanded by the said Chevalier Jones, that they may particip to in the bill before Congress for 200,000 dollars, should that bill also become a law. All claims, attested by documents, to be directed, prepaid, to the undersigned, on or before March 1, 1849. THE REMNANT OF THE " GRAND ARMEE."—Did the tears of exiles fertilise, Siberia would be a teeming land. Since its first subjugation by Ivan the Terrible, how many a Russian magnate, lord of thousands of serfs, owner of millions of rubles, proud of his position, and confident of imperial favour, has suddenly found himself travelling eastward under escort, banished and a beggar. How many mournful trains of minor offenders have plodded their weary way across the Uralian chain, guarded by barbarian Bashkirs, to labour in the mines of Nerchinsk, or to lead a peasant's toilsome life on the margin of the Frozen Sea. From those vast and :ce-bound re gions, escape can rarely be accomplished. But at inter vals, during the last five-and-thirty years, bearded and toil-worn men of martial aspect have crossed the German frontier, and astonished those they accosted by wild tales of suffering, and ignorance of the most notorious events. Some have inquired for Napoleon, and wept when they learned he was a captive, or dead. Circumstances of cur rent history, known to each child and peasant, were to them a mystery and a marvel. These strange wanderers, escaped from long bondage in Siberia, were amongst the last survivors of that countless host led northwards by a Corsican's ambition, and whose funeral pile was lighted in Moscow's city.—Blackwood's Magazine. MAN'S Foon.—What do men really live upon ? The answers will be various enough. The Guacho, who in the wide pampas of Buenos Ayres, managing his half wild horse with incredible dexterity, throws the lasso or bolas to catch the ostrich, the guanaco, or the wild bull, con sumes daily from ten to twelve pounds of meat, and re gards it as a high feast day when in any hacienda he gains a variety in the shape of a morsel of pumpkin. The word bread does not exist in his vocabulary. The Irishman, on the other hand, regales himself in careless mirth on his " potatoes and point," after a day of painful labour, he who cannot help making a joke even of the name he gives to his scanty meal. Meat is a strange idea to him, and he is happy indeed if four times a-year he can add a herring to season the mealy tubers. The hunter of the prairies lays low the buffalo with sure bullet ; and its juicy, fat-streaked hump, roasted between two hot stones, is to him the greatest of delicacies. Meanwhile, the in dustrious Chinese carries to market his carefully fattened rats, delicately arranged upon white sticks, certain to find a good customer among the epicures of Pekin ; and in his hot, smoky hut, fast buried beneath the snow and ice, the Greenlander consumes his fat, which he has just car ved, rejoicing over the costly prize, from a stranded whale. Here the black slave sucks the sugar-cane, and eats his banana ; there the African merchant fills his wallet with sweet dates, his sole sustenance in the long desert jour ney ; and there the Siamese crams himself with a quanti ty of rice, from which an European would shrink appalled. And wheresoever over the whole inhabited earth we ap proach and demand hospitality, in almost every little spot a different kind of food is set before us, and the " daily bread' offered in another form.—The Plant, a Biogra phy, by Schleiden. PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND.—Prince Edward's Island, situated on the coast of IN ova Scotia, contains about 1,300,000 acres, and a population of about 50,000. The soil is generally fertile, light, easily worked, and adapted for every agricultural purpose. It grows excellent crops of grain and potatoes. The quality of wheat grown is superior to that of New Brunswick. When the French had the island, it was considered the granary of Quebec. The oats grown are better than the average produce of England. - The island is long and narrow, and has many fine harbours. No part of it is twelve miles from the water, which is full of fish of various kinds. In many places carts may be taken down to the water's edge, and filled with lobsters; cod, mackerel, and herring abound all round the coast. The climate is extremely healthy, and the country beautiful ; but the long winter is an ob jection. There is, however, plenty of employment in winter for labourers, in clearing land, procuring fuel, fencing, and getting timber for shipbuilding. A good deal of shipbuilding is going on ; 200 vessels were built in 1847; in consequence of the long, narrow shape of the island, and its numerous harbours, a man can always be near enough to take wood to a s here is sufficient water-power for corn and sa,-v - mills. The Le gislature provides schoolmasters in every district, and good churches are open to all denominations of Chris- tians. The wages of common labourers are 3s. a day. Mr. Cunard, the contractor for the trans-Atlantic steam boats, holds a large estate in this island, which he dis poses of in the following manner :—He extends roads through his waste lands, and lays out lots of fifty acres each along the sides of the roads, in such proportions as to always have ready a good stock of these small farms for sale or lease ; he is ready to let elch of these farms years, paying no rent for the first three years, I then 6d., then 9d., and then Is. an acre, with enabling the tenant at any time to purchase the hen 3d -The veneration shown to at twenty years' purchase THE MADONNA IN ROME the Virgin by the lower classes is inconceivab cupies so prominent a place in their minds, that th no room for a just sentiment of the Deity or his works bow to Where there is one knee bent to God, th - ousant her,—with them she is the ruler of the world. We con stantly find her picture at the corner of the streets, under which a lamp is kept incessantly burning. There is not a nook or recess anywhere in which some pious person has not erected a tinsel altar under her figure, so that passers by can kneel and say a prayer or two, and then n,ove on. OAK-TREE WITH A CARRIAGE-WAY THROUGH IT.--- An anecdote is told of the late Duke of Portland, father of the present Duke, and grandfather of the late lamented Lord George Bentinck. His Grace, who was a celebrated man in his day, had a large party at dinner, and after the cloth was removed, the wine having circulated with the usual freedom, the company was somewhat elevated, when an immense oak, celebrated throughout the whole coun try, and the ruins of which are still to be seen at Welbeck, became the subject of conversation. The duke offered to bet five hundred guineas that he could drive a carriage and six right through the heart of this magnificent repre sentative of England's forest glories. A gentleman took him at his word, and the subject was dropped for the even ing. Next morning his Grace recollected, not with the most pleasant feelings, the transactions of the preceding evening. The oak which he had virtually doomed to de struction with one of the finest ornaments of his estate, and rather than devote it to ruin, he resolved to sacrifice the five hundred guineas. Accordingly, he intimated the design of immediately delivering a check to the gentle man who had taken the bet, when he learned that nume rous bets on the same subject, amounting to a very consi derable sum, had been made by other partieg, in justice to whom he considered that he was bound to attempt the feat. Accordingly, an archway, sufficient to admit a carriage, was chalked out on the ample trunk of the tree; a tunnel was excavated through the solid mass, and his Grace, on the appointed day, in the presence of a large company of ladies and gentlemen, was actually driven in state in a carriage drawn by six beautiful horses right through the oak. The remains of this giant of the forest, magnificent even in ruin, are still standing; and, but for this foolish frolic, the tree might have flourished for many ages to come on the ducal domain of Welbeck. LAW IN RUSSIA.—In Alexander's reign the Jesuits had made themselves all-powerful in some parts of Po land. A rich landholder and possessor of 6,000 peasants at Poltzak, the Jesuit head-quarters, was so wrought on by the artful assiduities of the Society that he bequeathed his whole fortune to it at his death, with this stipulation —that the Jesuits should bring up his only son and after wards give him whatever portion of the inheritance they should choose. When the young man had reached the age of twenty, the Jesuits had bestowed on him three hundred peasants. He protested vehemently against their usurpation, and began a suit against the Society ; but his father's will seemed clear and explicit, and after having consumed all his little fortune, he found his claims dis- owneu oy every triuunai in me empire, inclutung eve General Assembly of the Senate. In this seemingly hope less extremity he applied to a certain attorney in St. Pe tersburgh, famous for his fertility of mind in mattera of cunning and chicanery. After having perused the will and the documents connected with the suit, the lawyer said to his client, " Your business is done ; if you will promise me ten thousand rubles, I will undertake to pro cure an Imperial ukase reinstating you in possession of all your father's property." The young man readily agreed to the bargain, and in eight days afterwards he was mas ter of his patrimony. The decision which led to this sin gular result rested solely on the interpretation of the phrase, they shall give him whatever they choose, which plainly meant, as the lawyer maintained, that the young man was entitled to such portion as the Jesuits chose — t which they chose and retained for themselves. i. e., to the The Em . peror admitted this curious explanation ; the son became master of 5,700 peasants; and the Jesuits were obliged to content themselves with the three hundred they had bestowed on their ward in the first instance. A HIGHLAND FLOOD.- - That stream (the Findhorn) which was so calm, and bright, and sunny, when the ot ters floated down its current in a still summer's morning, was a fierce and terrible enemy in its anger ; and, for a great part of the year, the dread of its uncertainty and danger was a formidable cause for the preservation of that profound solitude of the forest which so long made it the sanctuary of deer, roe, and every kind of wild game. The rapidity with which the river comes down, the impassable height to which it rises in an incredibly short time, its in certitude and fury, would render it an object of care to ," unaccustomed, like the Highlanders, to wrestle mountain torrent, and, excepting in rare instances, to swim or manage a coble, it inspires a dread, al mounting to awe, and none except ourselves ventured to keep a boat above the fishing-station of Slui. Pent within a channel of rocks from fifty to a hundred and eighty feet lity of diffusion ; and the length of course ancealing beyond the horizon the storms by which it is swelled at its source, its floods then descend with unexpected violence. Frequently when, excepting a low wreath upon Beann-Drinechain, the sun is shining in a clou nd the water scarce ripples over the glittering ford, a deep hollow sound—a chill approaching roar may be heard in the gorges of the river; and almost before the wading fisherman can gain the shore, a bank of water, loaded with trees, and rocks, and wreck, will come down three—four—five feet abreast—sweeping all before it in a thunder of foam and ruin. In ordinary cases, after two days of rain, the stream will rise twenty or thirty feet —it has risen nearly ten fathoms in its rocky gulf ; and once upon this occasion it mounted fifteen feet in a quarter of an hour. When the dawn broke, it appeared sweeping through the trees, which the evening before hung fifty feet above its brink—a black roaring tempest loaded with ruins and debris, from which were seen to rise at times the white skeletons of trees peeled of their bark, beams and couples of houses—a cart—a door—a cradle, hurrying and tilting through the foam and spray, like the scattered " float some of a wreck.—Stuarts' Lays of the Deer Forest, Sje. A SHIP AMONG ICEBERGS.—II, is impossible to convey a correct idea of the beauty, the magnificence, of some of the scenes through which we passed. Thousands of the most grotesque, fanciful, and beautiful icebergs and icefields surrounded us on all sides, intersected by numer ous serpentine canals, which glittered in the sun (for the weather was fine all the time we were in the straights) like threads of silver twining round ruined palaces of crystal. The masses assumed every variety of form and size, and many of them bore such a striking resemblance to cathe drals, churches, columns, arches, and spires that I could almost fancy we had been transported to one of the float ing cities of fairyland. The rapid motion, too, of our ship, in what appeared a dead calm, added much to the nagical effect of the scene. A light but steady breeze ig, with considerable velocity, through a f ponds and canals, which, from the immense quantity of ice that surrounded them, were calm and unruffled as the surface of a mill-pond. Not a sound disturbed the delightful stillness of nature, save the gentle rippling of the vessel's bow, as she sped on her way, or the occasional puffing of a lazy whale, awakened from a nap by our unceremonious intrusion on his domains. Now and then, however, my reveries were disagreeably interrupted by the ship coming into sudden sionally when we arrived at the termination of one of those natural canals through which we passed, and found it necessary to force our way into the next. These con- ship's hell ring ; but we heeded this little, as the vessel was provided with huge blocks of timber on her bows, called ice-pieces, and was besides built expressly for sail ing in the northern seas. It only became annoying at meal-times, when a spoonful of soup would sometimes make a little private excursion of its own, over the shoulder of the owner instead of into his mouth. As we proceeded, the ice became more closely packed, and at last compelled us to bore through it. The ship, however, recollected, while thus surrounded, filling a bucket with water from a pool of ice, to see whether it was fresh or was exc llent, and might almost compete with the water of Crawley.—Ballatyne's Hud- from the famOus sp AN ENCOUNTER ON THE PRAIRIE.—No enemies showed themselves as yet, and the hunters proceeded quietly up the river, vast he the crt r made by most of the white travellers mly destroy these noble ani- e butchery. La Bonte had practice in the art, and before the buffalo enough to perfect h as a first-rate hunter ne nom ieit me camp a band of cows for that to - Wards they g the bed of a dry hollow - in the prairie, when he observed them suddenly jump away towards him, and immediately after a score of mounted Indians appeared in sight, .whom, by their dress, he at once knew- to be Pawnees and enemies.. Thinking they might not discover bim, he crouched down in the ravine; but a noise behind causing him to turn his head, he saw some f THE L IVERPOOL STANDARD. TRADE PROSPECTS. [Bankers' Circular.] We see no reason to alter the view which we ventured to take last week concerning the immediate prospects of temporary improvement in trade in the manufacturing districts—that word temporary may mean four, six, eight, or ten months, according to individual impressions, and we would not fix on the shortest of those periods. Con sequently, although we have been censured for presenting a too sanguine view—a censure not specifically neutralised by an opposite—yet we adhere firmly to what we have said, because some of the most cautious and considerate merchants have commended it for moderation, and for not passing the boundary which the facts and circum stances of the case, as they come under their own obser vation and experience, would completely justify. The manufacturing and mining affairs of this country are, however, in so peculiar a condition, so liable to in terruption from political causes, or from a policy likely to be pursued by the best customers of England, which is in direct antagonism to that which is, or rather has been, for seven years in vogue here, that we think it right on the present occasion to extend our views beyond a short period of comprrative prosperity, for the purpose of en deavouring to ascertain what is likely to come after that temporary period of relief. We hold with an overwhelm ing force of conviction to the opinion that we have been for many years reiterating, viz., that the operation of the existing free trade policy of England, with the existing monetary system of England, will produce effects so un bearable, that one or the other, and we think both, will be changed within two years from the present time. When we say changed, we do not mean changed to their opposites : judicious currency regulations, which the Acts of 1844 and 1845 aimed at but did not accomplish, are requisite ; the removal of obnoxious import duties xhich teased and perplexed without yielding revenue, might be necessary : but we mean that the uncircumspect head long measures which have been forced onward on an in dividual anthority, will be wisely modified and be placed on a foundation not incompatible with the welfare of the people, and that within two years. * * * *. We have dwelt long on our distant prospects and their ultimate results ; it is a prolific theme of deep interest for us. Our immediate prospects for immediate demand and more employment for the people are, however, improving, and are exhibiting symptoms of endurance which could last week. The French are showing a 1- " iv and nav fr•-• .ningtiess and a capacity to buy and pay for imported goo - els. For nine months they have imported no spelter ; they are now buying fair quantities in Hamburgh at im pro”ed prices. They are also importing more copper. They are, moreover, beginning to import and work up more cotton and other raw materials. And a fact seated in the Morning Chronicle speaks emphatically con cerning the restoration of confidence and the power of consumption in Paris. It is this :—" The prosperity o Paris is generally in proportion to the amount of the octroi duties. When they are low, Paris suffers; when they are high, Paris prospers. It now appears that the octroi duties of last month are, for the first time since the revo lution, equal to those of the corresponding month of 1847. In October, 1847, the amount of octroi duties collected amounted to 2.916,420 francs ; in October, 1848, they amounted to 2,608,983 francs. The produce of the first fortnight of NovenTher amounts to 1,575,819 francs. The produce of the first fortnight of November amounts to 1,575,819 francs, which is at the satisfactory rate of 105,053 francs per day." For these and other reasons (to which we may advert on another occasion) we hold to the opinion we expressed last week concerning the prospects for trade in the manu facturing districts, which we repeated on commencing these observations. The volcano that has burst out with such fury in Germany will, we trust, be stopped, and it certainly would have been some months since if an extra ordinary degree of energy had been exercised by the go vernments. A great majority of the middle and higher classes of the people are on their side—especially in Prus sia ; and all would be so, if a moderate degree of intelli gence and liberaiity, combined with inflexible firmness, characterised the administration of their rulers. e wi THE ARMY AND NAVY When we find an ener ;etic association of men com- bined for the purpose of depreciating the merits and demanding the reduction of our military and naval forces on principle—industriously exaggerating their cost and extenuating their usefulness—mixing up truth and false hood, a few right and judicious suggestions with much that is erroneous, rash, crotchetty, and violent, we feel that the cause of reform is suffering a great damage at the hands of pretended reformers, and that the staunch advocates of old abuses may justify them by the state ments and theories of their opponents. According to the gentlemen who met at Liverpool last week, the terrible evil in the country is its taxation. Its taxation is due to its wars and its army, and its wars and its army to its aristocracy. This seems a fair summary of all that they stated there, or are likely to state any where else. We are paying annually twenty-seven mil lions of debt incurred for past foreign wars, and twenty millions more (this is an exaggeration of 3 millions) fcr present defensive establishments. The former were com menced, as the latter are continued, for the sole benefit of some five or six thousand officers, who are sons, brothers, or connexions of the aristrocracy. This is, we believe, a fair relation of what is believed by the mem bers of the Financial Reform Association, and what they wish the thinking population of England and Wales to, believe likewise. Now, we are not going to contend that a public debt of £770,000,000 is a public blessing, nor that the taxation of 26,000,000 persons to the amount of £53,000,000 is not heavy. We had much rather the truth should be told. We may be angry, sorry, indignant, or anything else, at our burdens ; but we need not lie. If the truth, then, is to be told, the people of this country are responsible for the debts of this country. No people were so fond of war, and none—for a number of years—gained so much by it as did the English people. For full a century war was popular with the majority, or only unpopular when unproductive. Pepys relates the gloom and distrust which prevailed in the city at the Dutch war; but he also tells us that the merchants were angry, first, because it was an inglorious war ; secondly, because it was not a French war. Again, the only means by which William 111. could consolidate his power and party in England was by a French war. Unpopular himself his war with France was popular. Detested by two-thirds of the nation as an alien and an usurper, he enlisted their sympathies in his struggle with Louis Quatorze. A Whig Ministry could never have weathered the storm and tempest of opposition in Queen Anne's reign, had it not been for the victories of Marl ^iigh. Nothing can so clearly ;- Ii - 1- iliaicate the neat to winch party passion in those days rose as the interruption it gave to the series of triumphs which had begun at Blenheim and Ramilies. These were cherished years after by the people, who never ceased to contrast the pa- cific qUietude of the Georgian era, with the splendour which glory and conquest had shed round the reign of Anne. Everybody knows the hatred and contempt to Walpole's scrupulous avoidance of a warlike policy exposed him. At one time he was for giving up Gibraltar to the Spaniards, and was prevented only by his dread of the popular fury. It was the mass of the people who delighted to hear him libelled as the " spaniel of Spain"—who assailed him for resisting their own pro- judgment and his prejudice equally condemned. It was by his obedience to popular clamour and by his realiza- influence Which his ca priciousness never forfeited nor his inconsistencies effaced: It was the boast and the theme of his panegyrists, that he had taught our armies confi dence and our navies victory. The American war was popular till it became inglorious. On Franklin's first Le I visit to England he found the national bias against the and h mour, in a fruit lar with three-fourt 'en in the face of disgrace and discomfiture, men were found to subscrit never, perhaps, did men contribute so largely to any en terprise, as merchants, bankers, landed gentry, and other of their c did towards the a t's project ever was such ent St. Vincent, and Trafalgar. There was not a respectable corporation of England that did not shower down gold snuff boxes or diamond-hilted swords upon Jervis, Nel son, and Collingwood. Liverpool itself has perpetuated the names of Rodney and Nelson in her streets. Talk of the aristocracy having encouraged wars for their own in six terest Why, it would have been impossible for any Omen! Otsrellann. --r-~ The barque Arrietta, from Cuba, for Swansea, with ore, was wrecked in Swansea Bay on Monday night. Parliamentary notices may in future be forwarded through the Post Office, under certain regulations. Shrawberries and violets are now growing in the open air, in a garden at Strangeways-terrace, Truro. Mr. Steegman, a German, has been elected to the office of Sheriff of Nottingham. A farmer's pocket was picked of £350 at the Monmouth fair, on Wednesday week. When Jenny Lind visited Bristol Cathedral on Sunday week she was honored with a seat in the Bishop's throne. The Corporation of Durham have resolved to petition against the introduction of the provisions of the Health Act into that city until the local acts are found insufficient. A female prisoner in Gloucester gaol died last week in consequence of exhaustion, from having persisted in tak ing insufficient food. THE LYME PARK CATTLE.—A fine well-fed wild bul lock was slaughtered last week, at Lyme. and a hind quarter forwarded for presentation to her Majesty. "An Appeal to the Public," is the title of a small affair produced at the Lyceum, which exhibits the bustling talent of Mr. Charles Mathews to advantage. On Friday night the Southwark Flax Mills, belonging to Messrs. Chapman and Co., were destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at £2,600 and the firm is not insured for a penny. On Friday a destructive fire took place in the premises of a Mr. Powell, optician, Gray's-inn-lane, London. A man and woman lodging in one of the upper rooms were suffocated. At Kirriemuir, Scotland. lately, a girl about 9 years of age, died of suffocation, from a dose of turpentine which her father was attempting to pour down her throat for worms. Dr. John Stewart, of Cumnock, Scotland, died recently from inflammation and fever, produced by a slight burn on the wrist, by the accidental dropping of some melted sealing wax upon it a short time previously. During the course of a trial at the Central Criminal Court, on Monday. the Recorder intimated that a publican clearly connected with a Derby Sweep lottery, is liable to a penalty of £5OO. Last week the chapel erected in the Duke of Buc cleuch's grounds at Dalkeith was broken into, and a num ber of valuable articles used in the service of the church were stolen. We (Daily News) could point to one church, not many miles from Guildhall, in which there are as many as five lecturers appointed who preach to congregations varying in number from five to thirteen ! A Hull paper degcribes a full-grown crab. bearing on its back two score and a half oysters, apparently as firmly imbedded in its shell as if they constituted a proper part of it. THE CASUAL POOR.---According to the official returns it appears there were 17,500 cagual poor relieved in the the workhouse of St. Martin-in-the-fields last year, At the Criminal Court, London, on Saturday, the Ba ronness St. Mart was found " not guilty" of the charge of having stolen two rings, value £4O - , the One more of the last frail links by which hope hung in the matter of the party who have so long disappeared with Sir John Franklin has given way. The latest of the whal ers have come in—and brought no tidings. Floating or camping they have seen no trace of the lost expedition. A few days ago, a pensioner at Carlisle cut out of his left arm a flattened piece of lead, about the size of a six pence, being a portion of a ball which shattered the upper bone of the arm at the battle of Waterloo, he being at the time in the 73d Regiment. The great cluck for the Victoria Tower of the new Houses of Parliament is to strike the hours on a bell of from eight to ten tons weight, chime the quarters on eight bells, and show time on four dials of thirty feet in diameter. _ _ _ The Queen. Dowager has ordered an agent at Cowes to distribute among the widows and poor the two months' supply of coals furnished to the houses which her Majesty engaged for that period, but which she only occupied for as many days. The bhaitist trials in Edinburgh, closed on Saturday, when the court, by a majority of four, Lord Cockburn alone dissenting, repelled the objections to the sufficiency of the verdict. The sentence upon each of the prisoners was four months' imprisonment. At a vestry meeting held last week, at Barnard Castle, it was resolved, by a large majority, to support, by legal proceedings, the right of the parishioners at large to ap point the sexton ; and it was also determined to levy a rate to meet the expenses. A good deal of excitement has been created at Gorbals during the last few days, from the circumstance of a man named George Johnston, a master baker in Thistle-street, having absconded with a sum of money amounting to nearly £lOOO, which belonged to a Forester's Friendly Society, of which he was treasurer. A large meeting of dissenting clergymen and laymen was held in Glasgow, on Tuesday, for the purpose of op posing the proposed endowment of the Roman Catholic priesthood, and also in opposition to existing endowments of every description. Mr. A. Hastie. M.P. for the city, was called to the chair. SCARCITY OF COPPER ColN.—Such was the extreme scarcity of copper money in the town last week, that it was quite impossible to get " change for sixpence." One individual, of somewhat more than ordinary perseverance, contrived, after s search of some hours, to get a four pcnny-pieceand twopence.—Banff Journal. GUTTA PERC El A .—This article continues to be imported in very large quantities in order to meet the extensive de mands which are made for it. A vessel just arrived in London from Singapore has brought the largest importa tion at one time, consisting of 3,294 packages, 710 lumps, and 10,441 blocks of the article. PALTRY SPITE.—The Board of Guardians of the Andover Union have withheld their advertisements from the Times, in consequence of that paper expressing an opinion on their proceedings. We talk of the freedom of the press in England, but is not this infinitely more tyrannical than any continental censorship ? HONOURABLE CONDUCT.—A dinner was given on Tuesday night, in London, to Mr. J. B. Graham, by the creditors of his late father, in testimony of their approval of his conduct in liquidating the claims not only of his deceased father, but those upon the firm of which Mr. Graham, sen. was a partner. A RELIC OF OLD TIMES.—A golden bracelet, of the intrinsic worth of about £2O, which is thought to have been deposited at the time of the conflict between the Romans and the sons of the British king, Cunobelin, was lately found by a ploughman on the estate of Mr. It. Fox, near Wendover, Bucks, and is to be presented to the British Museum. SHAM GENEVA GLOD WATCHES on their guard in respect to a b.ar —The public must be yea. _...ution, in base metal, electrotyped, of the small Geneva watches, with a gold face and engine -turned back. They are imported for the special use of the duffers, and are worth from 15s. to 20s. each. The articles are being offered to the pawn brokers, as pledges, for £2 or £3, their apparent value being £6 to £B._ Archdeacon Hare, in his recently publish examined at great length and singular acut «nem te which warn hrrn,”l,4- ..A ;.. .L. eness the lirgn debate of last session in tavour of admitting the Jews into parliament. In this question he is opposed to his friend the Bishop of St. David's and others who advocated their admission. ents is well-timed, as the ain in the ensuing session. as . ure will be introdueed ag - 14LANDILLO BRIDGE, CAR;ARTHENSHIRE.- 7 ThisnOi;le structure is completed. At the Carmarthenshire quarter sessions, Mr. E. Haycock, the architect of the bridge, presented his report,, from which it appeared that the 0 feet span, is built principally of black rnarble, ense of about £18,000; while Gloucester Bridge sod Chester £40,000. ton, on Wednesday, the Grand Open Stec. was won by a length by Mr. Fuller's Knight of beatine the Doctor, Alfred, Chandler, Red At Leamit plecha Lancer, Prince - George Trumna A lcoranrlPr KhOndooz 3 to fagstyrince George, taken ; 4 to 1 6 to 1 agst Venom, Ace of I :^"ve. Betting— gst Red Lan- 3wynne ; 8 to 1 - A sign that cholera is - on the wane in London, was afforded on Tuesday by the fact that the Board of Health issued no report of cases. The deaths, from all causeq, in the metropolis during the week ending Saturday last, were 1,207, being 53 over the average. Of the total num ber who died during the seven days, 118 were destroyed THE SEASON.—On Thursday last a quantity of new potatoes, varying from one to four ounces in weight, were got from an open garden belonging to James Green Armi tage, Esq., situated at the very foot of Holm-Moss. a lo cality known throughout Yorkshire as the ne plus ultra of bleakness, and almost eternal snow. The remainder of the growing crop are in a very thriving condition, and free from disease. MELANCHOLY DEATH OF MAJOR Ross.—This gallant officer of the Royal Horse Artillery. eldest son of Major- General Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross, K.C.8., Deputy Adjutant-General to the Royal Artillery, died on Sunday last at Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he was stationed on the recruiting service. His death took place from injuries he received a few days previously by falling from his horse when out riding, the animal having rolled upon him. Major Ross was a comparatively young officer, being by seniority Second Captain in Captain Gilbert's troop of Royal Horse Artillery, although holding the brevet rank of Major in the service. ter, from Sier nd ground nuts, was he north west coast led, when a ks; and she was al- recove way, and 1 boxes At Crawford ilasgow have o of money gar left Kingston.' " There can b currence articles SECOND EDITION. Standard Office, Twelve o'clock. DREADFUL FLO9DS IN SCOTLAND. DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. On Saturday and Sunday very heavy snow and rain fell in the southern districts of Scotland, and all the rivers and streams became swollen to a terrific extent. At La mington, on the Caledonian line of railway, about 36 miles on this side of Glasgow, the wooden railway-bridge which there crosses the Clyde has been washed away, the embankment on each side having been carried away by -On Friday, the brig I the river. , about nine miles further, on the same line, another wooden bridge across the Clyde has been carried away in a similar manne The passengers to and spective places, and get across the country in the best wag es is one s ot water, bered. No doubt we shall hear of the loss of very much property besides that mentioned. FEARFUL M ISSACRES on SHIPBOARD. The following two communications appeared on the notice board of the Exchange News Room, this morning, "Londonderry, Dec. 3d, 1848. " The Sligo steamer ' Londonderry, from Sligo to Li verpool, has just put in here, with 53 people dead, said to lered on the pas! g of robbers, 5 went on board to rob some emig its who had a deal The military and police have mounted guard." " Mail Steam Packet ' Trafalgak,' Liverpool, October sth, 18t8. - , " Shortly before the mail for Liverpool left Dublin yesterday, a telegraphic communication was received from the northward to the following effect :—• A dreadful oc . currence took place on board an emigrant ship, which had recently left Ireland,—the poor class having attacked the farmers for the purpose of plundering them of their money. Dur.ng the conflict a heavy storm obliged the aster of t' m, ,ne vessel to put into Derry - , where no leis than 40 persons dead were found on board. These ' added. ' were all the • re Trafal- no doubt, we think, on perusing these d scarcely ,e within the range of proba- bility, that nearly a similar number of persons should be murdered on board each of the vessels named, and that both should afterwards put into Derry. Besides the steamer was not an emigrant vessel. The strong probability is that the murders took place on board the ship, and that as she was overtaken by a storm, she either put back (if she could) or had been spoken by- the steamer, which took off the bodies. DOUBLE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—On Thursday morn ing last, a little before six o'clock, the inhabitants of Pex wood, were thrown in great alarm by seeing a woman in the road almost destitute of clothes. Two men, named Folds and Crowther, went up to her, and found her to "ae Miss Taylor, who had evidently been attempting to drown herself in the water-trough. They conducted her into her house, and it was soon discovered that her brother, John Taylor (with whom she lived), had been also attempting to put an end to his existence by cutting his throat. Mr. W. Foster, surgeon, of Todmorden, was immediately sent for, and he found that the man had cut the skin and in teguments over the jugular vein, but had not damaged it. He also found that he had tied a stringround his arm and inflicted several cuts with the intent of bleeding himself to death.—Halifax Guardian. FASHIONABLE SWINDLING IN EDlNBURGH.—Consider able excitement has been occasioned in certain quarters in Edinburgh, by the apprehension of a person on a charge of forgery, who has during the last few months mixed freely in the higher circles of society here, and lived in a fashionable and expensive style at one of the principal hotels in the city. It appears that he had assumed a high degree of military rank, and had extensively patronised various establishments in town, chiefly clothiers and mer cers, from whom he obtained a large supply of Articles, at first by paying cash down for the goods he purchased ; but having succeeded in establishinc , his credit, he then transacted business on a more enlarged scale and sud denly left the city without settling the numerous claims _ _ gaihst him. The immediate cause are was, however, the discovery of of his abrupt depar t) forgery of which he naa oeen guilty, ror a mime(' sum, the party whose name he employed being at present on service in India. He was traced to Hull, and having been apprehended there, a telegraphic message transmitted thither by superintendent of police here, he has been conveyed to the gaol in Edinburgh.--Edinburgh Courant. n terms o London, on Friday MANY WIVES.—At the New Court, Henry Brammell, surgeon, pleaded The second wife, who was in court, and in such a dread ful state of mental and bodily suffering that she was corn oelled to be brought in a chair, said that the prisoner lived with her three months after his marriage, and had nearly ever since been at sea. She had seen him when at home, and he had sent her money when away. Since their marriage he had sold her furniture, plate, linen, and all she possessed. Two other indictments--one for mar rying Emma Georgina Rose at Calcutta, on the 13th of October, 1847, and another for marryinc , Hannah Amelia Bland, in September last, at Liverpool, he pleaded guilty to. The Recorder than said, upon the first indictment he should sentence him to seven years' transportation, and. commenting upon the second indictment added that was called upon to pass sentence upon a second indict ment. He should avail himself of the discretion the act allowed, and sentence the prisoner to seven years' trans portation upon the second indictment; the second sen tence to commence at the termination of the first. MANSLAUGHTER BY A MOTHER.—On Tuesday an in quest was held in Tottenham-court-road, London, on view of the body of Ann Pullen, aged 144 years, who, it was alleged, had been murdered by her mother, a widow. Jane Pullen, the accused, on being examined, said she saw deceased last alive at half-,past seven on Friday return till half-past ten same night She admitted that she had fastened her with a cord to the bedpost. When she returned home she found the door still locked. On opening it all was dark and quiet. She ca ll e d to h er daughter, but received no answer. She then went to the place where she had fastened her, and finding her dead, Mr. Joseph Layman, landlord of the • cut her down . - a servant out of place, with them ; but she went out on Thursday, and did not return till Saturday night. About eleven on Friday night the accused knocl saying, " Ann is dead—what shall I do him up lying on the bed. He advised alioctortOb;Wnl" ,nd accused said, "What is the use, as she is dead ?" %id, " This is a very serious case, and there must be iquest." Accused rejoined, " Something must be , for 1 did it." She said she had left her to mend even o'c some of her things. She returned at finding she had done nothing, she put the rope round her neck, and fastened it to the bedpost, so as to prevent her from sitting down, tying the ends round the foot of the bed to prevent her from untying it. She had put the rope round and rouna ner necti.—ine surgeon who had examined the body stated that there could be no doubt that death was caused by suffocation from hanging; he found no food in the stomach of the deceased.—Thejury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the mother who was committed for trial. MDLLE. LIND'S PROVINCIAL TOUR As Mdlle Lind's SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF LIFE.- Seawitch, of London, Freeman, ma one, with a cargo of African oak, a totally wrecked in Pontifex Bay. on of Guernsey The vessel on striking r wave carried her into a trot men, who were on the afterpart, were swep where they remained till davbreali when they were re cued, the tide having left the forepart of the w and dry. Part . of the cargo, together with two su of gold dust and some jewellery, have THE OAK FARM IRON WORE said to have been entered into between th_ the bankruptcy of the late Oak Farm Compan) Stephen Glyn, Lord Lyttelton, and Mr. W. Gladstone, the proprietors of the estates, by which further litigation will be avoided : £20,000 is named as the sum agreed to be paid by the proprietors in lieu of breaking up the ma chinery ; and, although, from their heavy claims, the ,gnees in and Sir greater part of this will revert to themselves ' yet the ere:. ditors will sooner have a dividend declar e d now in the district of South Staffordshire 1( There are arnaces in Wearmouth, on Friday week, and on that day and Satur day five deaths occurred. This is not surprising, as within a space of fifty yards no fewer than fifteen middensteads exist in the most disgracefully filthy condition. and the whole place is a scene of destitution and dirt. Thence the epidemic extended to Monk-Wearmouth Colliery, where, from Saturday to Monday, inclusive. twelve cases occurred, five of which terminated fatally. Since then, other six died. making ;wo persons It 3 the colliery has for and deatl the deaths in all seven, and th - e remaining cases twelve Owing to the above sickne the present ceased wort LERA.—In the official rrtnrn of de don for the week endir I in Lon- Saturday last, the cas ported of two children, of the ages of two and a woman aged 45, who died of Asiati infant suddenly, the child in four days, anc house, and the other opposi " This court has 21 houses, wl each. Most of these houses contain two families width of the court is only five feet, witt age. There is one water tank for the habitants. The inhabitants are very r persons have been taken ill." Nottingham is visited by a " suicidal ( lowing close upon the death of the Rev handsome young woman, who had be Aulton, a lace-manufacturer, poisoned num, on learning that her protector w Gadd, a young man, had formed :hment Ei, the D man in named Cant ; Gadd's friends were a ing her; the unhappy couple declared t not live to-ether they would die together some arsenic, and put it into two little ( baked at Cant's house. They ate the soon in a dreadful state, but medical aid a portion of the poison, there was a chance of their reco very. which were and were STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE. ball, of Chard parish, one day la, pond, and was supposed to be droa taken out of the water and the , Everybody believed the child dead e..• whose affliction was very great. She took and held him before the fire. After neat the child showed symptoms of returning upon which some change in the position of place, when it was discovered that the ch been in the fire and was dreadfully burnt having been called in did what child was getting on very well. the mother placed him before the fire for she went into the garden, and on her return b.._ ror-struck to find her child burnt almost to a cin,. It is a singular coincidence that a girl, the cousin of the above-named Edwin Havball, a short time sin— r - the fire, and one of her breasts wua sumed ; in her agony she ran to the millp.,. pain by bathing the breast with cold water, in and was drowned.—Devon Chronicle. ADVENTURES OF A PACK OF HARRIERS.- pack of harrier?, kept in the neighbourhood on the trail of a hare, followed by a fir rather sorrily was nece (bout th iv took A surgeon ry, and the moment whilst tinted, v Imn.f - entirely con d to allay the i she fell ,st week a Dyrham Wood, which was forbidden favourite fox cover of the Duke of Beau plunged into the wood, and were soon in full cha fine old fox. The pace was so good, that the furtl ran the further the sportsmen were left in the rem stiff fence entirely barred the further progre latter. In vain the huntsman blew his horn til nigh burst his cheeks. The little pack, with a burn] scent, continued the chase unattended. What them or the fox is not known. The pack were seen s. after dark altogether wending their way homewara, Being hungry, they attacked a flock of sheep in the Vale of Coldaston ; a fat one was selected, killed without cere mony, and every bone cleanly picked. Having thus re freshed themselves, the pack moved homewards, and arrived at their kennel at daybreak, just as their master was up to greet them. . _ CHARGE OF FELONY AGAINST A COUNT Central Criminal-court on Friday, Maria Carlota Alv( Cabral, aged 50, married, and Maria RA ried, were indicted for stealing a brooch of linen, valued at £2, the property of I At the her dwelling-hous lar, masculine-looking woman, is a Portugueae Count in her own right, and the younger prisoner vant. The prisoners, it will be remember Portuguese and Spanish boarding-house, square, and sundry articles were found in the apartment of the elder prisoner belonging to the prosecutrix, but which, it was contended, were only such things as might be occasionally required by the elder prisoner as an in mate. This view of the case was also taken by the Re corder, who said the charge struck him as I but a larceny ; and it was rather hard to lony for having a few more thin [I, lived in a •ge a p n use than the acquittal, which was also taken upon the indictment a regarded Rosa, who had only acted as the servant of the elder prisoner. They were ordered to be immediately discharged from custody. BURNING TTIE SCRIPTURES IN BIRMINGHAM.- tary, related an extraordinariOccurren.ce which had taken place during the past week in that town. A poc woman, a Roman Catholic, residing then ter who attended one of the Birmiugh this school she had received a Nem which she had been reading to her moth( coming in and seeing it, tore the con covers, put them into the fire, and held t his stick till sufficiently consumed, rer would so serve all s had a d ks that cumbent of St. P " The priest acknowledged to me that tament, and also declared that he woul or tract which he found in the houses o nist in my district, and upon my assuring him that I should pay no attention to his command, and that the law of the land would protect my person, ho said he would order his people to use scurrilous' language towards me, and to offer me insult, if J .- ventured to pass their doors. Upon my appealing to him, and asking ' how he dared to they fly. Votive pictures, similar to what has been de scribed in the church of St. Augustine, are hung about her, even in the streets—offerings for their hair-breadth escapes. Effigies of the Virgin appear in every church, but some are held in higher estimation than others. Oc casionally extraordinary miracles are reported to have taken place—every one of which increases her popularity. Lately it was currently believed that she had opened her lips and held a short conversation with an old lady who sought her aid. Thousands flocked to the church where this took place, and continued to do so, till another mira cle equally wonderful drew their attention elsewhere. The most certain way of gaining the favour of the Virgin is by presenting her with some article of dress. In the chapel near the Grotto Posillippo I noticed a richly em broidered pocket handkerchief which she held in her hand, and learnt from the sacristan that it had lately been pre sented to her. When Lady Drummond was in Naples she was importuned by the priests for a donation towards dressing up the Virgin for a festival. Her ladyship did not choose to give any money, but offered an old light blue and silver court dress, which was gladly accepted. After this the idol was paraded through the streets, to the admiration of the people ; decked out as it was in the cast-off finery of a heretic. A similar request was made to the Duke of Saxony, who had just been married. He said, " I have no money, but I can give you my wedding coat, which I shall not use again, if that will answer your purpose." My friend afterwards saw it adorning a saint in the chapel of Loretto, and noticed that they had taken off the -jewels, and replaced them with sham ones.— Sights in Italy. SAGACITY OF A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG. - A few days ago, a merchant of Newcastle-on-Tine had occasion to send his servant on horseback to Blenheim-street, accom panied by his master's dog. On arriving at his destina tion, he dismounted ; but before going into the house where he had been commissioned to go, he hung the bri dle of the horse on a small iron crook at the door. Im mediately after the horse shook the bridle off the crook, and galloped away at full speed. The dog, however, fol lowed, and, on coming up to the animal, he seized one of the stirrups, but being of a patent construction, it sud denly opened, and he lost his hold. The horse still con tinuing his course, the dog at length succeeded in seizing the bridle, just as the horse reached the cattle market, which fortunately brought him to a stand still ; and the faithful dog could not be made to quit his hold until the servant came to his assistance.—Newcastle Courant. more were riding on the bluffs. The cunning savages had cut off his retreat to his mule, which he saw in the possession of one of the Indians. His presence of mind, however, did not desert him ; and seeing at once that to remain where he was would be like being caught in a trap, (as the Indians could advance to the edge of the bluff and shoot him from above,) he made for the open prairie, determined at least to sell his scalp dearly, and make " a good fight." With a yell the Indians charged, but halted when they saw the sturdy trapper deliberately - • ifle on the wiping -stick, take a need. Full well the Pawnees a mountaineer seldom pulls his bullet to the mark ; and, certain t must fall, they hesitated to make the , adily the white retreated with his fade to g the rifle to his shoulder the instant that one advanced within shot, the Indians galloping round, firing the few guns they had amongst them at long dis tances, but without effect. One young " brave," more daring than the rest, rode out of the crowd, and dashed at the hunter, throwing himself from the saddle, and hanging over the opposite side of his horse,—present ing no other mark than his left foot, discharged his bow from under the animal's neck, and with such good aim, that the arrow, whizzing through the air, struck the stock of La Bonte's rifle, which was at his shoulder, and, glancing off, pierced his arm, inflicting, luckily, but a slight wound. Again the Indian turned in his course, the others encouraging him with loud war whoops, and once more passing at still less distance, drew his arrow to the head. This time, however, the eagle eye of the white caught sight of the action, and suddenly rising from his knee as the Indian was approaching, hang ing by his foot alone over the opposite side of the horse, he jumped towards the animal with outstretched arms and a loud yell, causing it to start so suddenly, and swerve from its course, that the Indian lost his foot-hold, and, after in vain struggling to regain his position, fell to the ground : but instantly rose upon his feet and gallantly confronted the mountaineer, striking his hand upon his brawny chest and shouting a loud whoop of defiance. In another instant the rifle of La Bonte had poured forth its contents ; and the brave Indian, springing in to the air, fell dead to the ground, just as the other trappers, who bad heard the firing, galloped up to the spot, at sight of whom the Pawnees, with yells of disappointed i vengeance, hastily retreated.—Blackwood. steady aim as they know, to their trigger without that one at 1 onslaught. the foe, brine fore and after the peace of Amiens, by mOre - than half the tax-paying classes of the empire. Inaccurate in one set of facts, these reformers are equally inaccurate in others. The army is not officerid by the aristocracy—i. e. by the members of any narrow and restricted class. It is officered by gentlemen, and we hope it may always be so, unless the - financial reformers can prove by the example of foreign States that it is better to officer the army wholly from the ranks, and thus put the country wholly at the disposal of military adventurers, who have no civil ties and no civil sympathies. Mean while we should advise them to study the Army List, that they may discover how many of the officers owe their com mand, and—what are still more obnoxious—their titles and decorations, co their own services rather than the in vidious possession of an " historical name." Our m ilit ary system may be too mercantile ; it certainly is not too aristocratic. _ _ _ Inaccurate in their facts, they are naturally loose in their inferences. We have the old stuff reproduced about colonies, and the hacknied comparison of our trade with the United States and that with our own colonies. That this mode of reasoning should be tolerated anywhere in England is strange, -but monstrous that it should be iis tened to in Liverpool. Why, the history of this city is actually imbedded in the history of our colonies and our navy. You cannot read twenty pages of any history of the West Indies or the American war, without stumbling on the name of Liverpool. How much of the money which has expanded the little creek of Liverpool into a large city with magnificent edifices and towering ware houses—how much of this, gentlemen reformers, was the produce of those possessions which you disparage, and those wars which you denounce? And pray, where, but for this acquisition of territory, which your much-abused and much-worked army (an army just equal to that of Belgium, and one-fourth of that of France) has gotten for you—where, but for this and the spirit of colonial enterprise which you discourage, would have been those United States, whose commerce you vaunt and ex t o l? Where, but for the army, which in the piping tim es o f peace you so contentedly slight and despise—where would have been the gains of your fathers and the booty of your forefathers ? Gentlemen reformers, look at home, and then look wide abroad, before you coin facts to give cur rency to follies, and, under the pretend of easing the burdens, impair the strength and dun the honour a England.— Times. tinue to be much more lie dreaded c FATAL AFFRAY.- -Gll Saturdays a band of Irish navies, employed on the Clydesdale Junction Railway, went into a public-house in the village of Mddingston., parish cf Bothwell, where they had a quantity of whisky. While together in the house referred to, it appears that a dispute had arisen betwixt them, and that ultimately they cime to blows. One man, named Joseph Wilson, was so severely injured in the scuffle that he died from the effects of his wounds upon Wednesday. • ELECTRIC LIGHT.—The first experiment of this light out of doors was made on Tuesday evening, ia front of the National Gallery. The apparatus, of which the most conspicuous part was the concave reflector behind the light, was so placed as to illumine the whole of Trafalgar square, the rays reaching as far as Northumberland House. If the illumination can be sustained, there is no other means of lighting the streets that can at all be com pared with this electric light. The Sheffield Times says that that town is fast losing all its trade, and though many leave it no one comes to it as a residence. Nothing answers there—everything fails —though the town is beautifully situated, with plenty of canal and railway accommodation. If our contemporary bad not been such a free-trader, he would have found out that the foreigners have taken away the prosperity of the town, and would have put the saddle on the right horse by blaming free trade. PRACTICAL JOKING AT THE LONDON STOCK Ex- CHANGE. — An acc;dent has just occurred at the Stock Exchange which it may be hoped will check the silly love of practical jokes which has so long disgraced that esta blishment, and which is a reproach to the vigilance of the committee. One of the members attacked yesterday in sport of this kind was thrown down and received hurts which rendered him insensible. Upon medical aid being sent for it was found he had been seriously injured.— Times. MONSTER TORTOISE.—Captain Dady, of the Duke, a large vessel, owned by Messrs. Hoghton and Co., of Liverpool, and now delivering a guano cargo in the Junc tion Dock, has exhibited within the last few days a tor toise of extraordinary dimensions, being about five feet in length, of the capture of which, upon an island in the Pacific Ocean, a wonderful account is given. The crea ture lived three months after it was taken on board the Duke, and used to move upon the deck with the captain and two or three others of the crew upon its back, Hutt ,4dvertiser. t portion of it since she left Dublin, her perfor s at which place we noticed at the time, may not- be Testing, She sang, after leaving Dublin, at a con- second visit to that town in the course of this autumn), which was attended by a very numerous and enthusiastic audi- Music Hall, Birmingli Thence she went to Brighton, where she sang at a morning concert, on Monday the 30th ult. and per formed in " Sonnarnbula" and " Figlia del Reggimento', on the following Wednesday and Friday. The morning concerts were very well attended, but the operatic per formances were only indifferently so. These were Mdlle. Lind's last operatic performances on her tour, as M. Roger was then compelled to leave this country to fulfil his engagement at Paris. On the Wednesday following, there was a concert at Southampton, which was well Atended ; and on Friday, one at Clifton, in the assembly The room, which will hold 'about 1000 persons, was crowded with a fashionable and enthusiastic audience ; it was splendidly decorated for the occasion, and, as a room for singing. Mdlle. Lind expressed herself highly pleased with it. This was followed by concerts at Bath, Cheltenham, Gloucester, and Leamington, all of which were numerously attended by audiences. who received Mdlle. Lind very cordially. An intended concert at Cambridge was obliged to be relinquished, in consequence of Mdlle. Lind having been indisposed for a few days. On Friday she sang at Oxford, in the theatre of tl'e Senate House, which will accommodate 4,000 persons, and which was well filled. Last night she sung at Leeds, for the benefit of the members of the band and chorus accompanying her throughout her tour. We have heard that, after singing at Leeds o .Mddle. Lind is tb sing at a charitable concert at Birmingham, (at which she gives her services gratuitously), and we believe that she will not sing any more in the provinces at present, with the exception of the two concerts in Manchester, for the benefit of the Royal Infirmary. Although Mdlle. Lind has received several invitations from the principal resi dents in the different places she has vilified, she. has in variably declined them on account of the shortd6i of her stay, and has gone to an inn. In Mancliester, however, she is expected to remain p ro b a bly 'f or som e weeks, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Sails S nbe, Crumpsall Hall. We believe she will remain the _during the Christmas holidays, enjoying a little quietd retirement , after her tv long and arduous campaign , tail' again called to the metropolis by the opening of t einext operatic season. This is in all probability her last visit to England. .. rooms my pulpit, and not to preach to him.' I me facts, and leave your readers to draw their own i from them." CHOLERA• ^ IMPROPER Frid, G, .ay an inquest was ht. .xoodman•s-neiu~, don, on the body of a child named William Keating, aged 4 years, who died after a few hours' illness, with al the symptonas of malignant cholera. The inquest was called at the instigation of Mr. Liddle, the medical officer of the district, inconsequence of his having been called to attend no less than five cases of Asiatic cholera in the court where this death took plat that the court was about 70 feet in let kt each e The co feet wide (a person standing in th might touch the houses on both was impeded by a dead v houses . were crowded and dirty were overflowing. He had r natural death from Asiatic cholera. marked that the court was one of witnessed, and it appeared impossible to remedy the defective ventilation of it. He said he would write to the parochial authorities respecting it. Mr. Liddle ob served that it was highly expedient that an officer of health should be appointed to the Tower Hamlets, who should have power to compel the owners of property to render the houses which are let to poor people whole some, and if the property be so bad that it cannot be remedied, then it should be condemned. The law now gave power to surveyors to condemn property that was dangerous from dilapidation. The same power ought to be given to an officer of health, to condemn houses which endangered the lives of the inhabitants from poisonous emanations. The coroner said he believed there was a law which rendered an owner liable to the charge of man slaughter if a case of death ensued from the unhealthy condition of a dwelling-house. AN IMPORTANT CURE BY THE USE OF HOLLOWAY'S ,PlLLs.—Extract of a letter from a gentleman residing at St. Helier's, addressed to the editor of the Mirror de Jersey, dated June, 1847. " Sir,—For some time I had suffered from a severe malady, for which I sought the advice of the most eminent of the faculty. but to no pur pose. I resolved, therefore (and in sheer despair), to give Holloway's Pills a trial ; by the use of one 'box I found myself better, and by a short continuance of this inappreciable medicine, I was perfectly cured, to the great astonishment of my neighbours, who supposed that I could not possibly have recovered.