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lost truly (lc to be " movement and actioi activities of drawn tar near( have been brought into those far than with these and imperfection of the one than for the of exhibited, has ..,._ commenting upon it as he 1 ination, and the componem o,_ .. .cand v, tell them that if two perso ibly revealed. But the homogeneity of the water-drop out with dangerous weapon., remains before sense till uncl - -ed—lies, as Orion nebula his death, the survivor, in the ( each, and resisting all dered g uilt y of murder. _ so long lay, defying - direct efficient sear' of present nearness. stances of_the case into th ,raw"--- instance, which t ---= nsibly vanishe ;er exam- _., eye of the law ' was consi nearer a They would take all the circum pp from our '-- consideration, and return such a verdict as justice required. He felt bound to ob it serve, that in the course of his (Mr. Justice Erle's) expe ..,pnere , but we find that now in its rience in. courts of justice, he never knew an accused party urpos , the men i elements theie but lie before us two receive a better character than the prisoner at the bar, ,110. s e stead of one, each with its own but if they thought the offence proved, it would be their 3b , ite specific activities. The resolution which has been accom- duty to return a verdict of guilty. wi' ma tpushed for the nebula still baffles us here. We see not The jury, at the conclusion of the Learned Judge's ad- fu' a, the constituent particles ;we can take no note of the dress, retired to consider their verdict. After an absence ; ri( )01 succeeding epochs. We take cognisance of motion, activity, of twenty minutes, they returned into court and delivered f .?. verdict of " Guilty," but the jury strongly recommended CO 1 and energy alone by long and painful processes of remote ,or 3 induction and uncertain inference- Th distance and the "." '''' --; • ,o' Icl firm, lent have begun A deathlike silence followed the announcement of the have, lerefore, come ve rdict, durin g which the counsel for the prosecution and he .g 3n ; wh 1 e the molecule the defence held a conversation together, and some law /V 8 s. , n swiftly ansummating books were handed to the Learned Judge. ix removed , -, and The prisoner, on being asked in the usual form what he I. i E It is here that the trust had to sa y why sentence of death should not be passed vr 3 upon him, he having been convicted of wilful murder, re arterly for August.,ipot, and rendered every servir spectfully bowed to the Court, but ,made no reply. building was burned to the s.—There is a strange, • Mr, Justice Erle then said the prisoner had been con- quarters of an hour. ailing the loves of our v i c t e d o f the crime of Murder, but the jury, in considering A JEW TURNED PIG JOBBER , OI L DIAMOND CUT their verdict, had strongly recommended him to mercy, in DIAMOND.—A novelty which caused much merriment in -time, which recommendation he fully concurred, and should th rr at e a icnoun take care that, without delay, it was forwarded to the pro- pig marktliprraemongreildleaty,slajot.ramloaaptead a pig the little ancient borough of L e omi t nster, a o ra ccu et of some per quarter. Under the peculiar circumstances of the try bumpkin considerable magnitude for sale, but 'finding offers scarce itobinson Crusoe, unpresentable as he now appears in his case, as they had been disclo . seclin evidence, he h ll a id d T t o y t , feel that he was called upon, in the discharge get something in the shape of silver for it, even if it were and lifelike bustle in loves . rough and shaggy coat of skins, was one of our first tl to pass the awful sentence of death. He must observe, for the purchase, and no chink produced,. he rerlyed to nundred women were all How our hearts thrilled within us when he discovered the I however, that the prisoner at the bar had been convicted not coin ; and a hawker of watches, steel pens, &c. having presented himself in the market, was accosted by tin —lions into boxes, no doubt for prints of naked feet in the yellow sand ! Then there was of a great, a most serious crime—the crime of murder ; countryman as to the merits of the dackey, as he termer n f a markets; in another a man with Paul and Virgin ia, so ex q uisitely simple—so sweetly and in a country where human life was held so sacred, in Lising a mule he was selling by auc- plaintive, that it wa s a luxur y to weep. The Arabian • o st cases the heaviest penalty known to the law f l Alit •he asked him if he would have a swop — to wit, the pi tail decorated with gay, flaunting Nights, full of the wild and wonderfu l, even to weariness lowed. her on in this beautiful and more —but, somehow , we never g rew weary in those days. i' ferent to the very uncertain one of Griselda — not the Griselda of the German dramatist, g n one group nineteen shoemakers Frederick Halm, so ably translated by Q. E. D.—but our - - 1 in making ladies' - 1 ' own English Griselda—the ideal of patient womanhood We can, indeed, rend asunde ;nt elements of it, to whose union we ascribe L characterist n, is much venerated, if carved foliage, rich fruit, it too redundant ; and to activities of that littl homogeneous structures in 'fill explosion, vitnt into t Cathedra ,nook the buildings in the immediate neighbourhood, ant caused the inhabitants to run out of their houses ;- greatest alarm. The poor fellows were burne' dreadful manner, and one died soon after. number contrived to scramble out of the place, into a pit of water adjoining, their clothes being all on fire. The others were. taken away almost lifeless. The building, which is about fourteen yards long by six wide, contained a large quantity of oil and tallow, which set the building on fire. The two town fire-engines were on the Possible, but the whole in a mos rwo of the on some T VI con as rema anew removed from us actlvitie ground in about th .ead for Onlyinemories of the list time Would swim darkly up the brain Jr wa ker, who is a J The Learned Cot isel for the de was a dood one, but he musn't buy pi stions of a merciful nature, as to absence of all ration or motive, in which he fully concurred. Justice Erle) also fully believed that the prisoner was fully deserving of the excellent character he had received by the )xious to deir palates another countryman, thinkin a dupe, egged :eito eicha .e silver mployed )up, of t I distinguished witnesses who had been called had pursued an honourable path tl fter not be a doubt, but these favourable ci Tht he rough life there could bow- watch for the pig, under a promise of given for the animal immediately on the exchang Id chatting aw "dat was very dood, though he toodn't fink of diving up de valuable silver watch for de grunter, but dat he void take 13s. add de little bacon for it." The 'cute country man, without any hesitation, consented, and the barter was confirmed. Alas ! the time-teller was not cased, as ry of Griselda is Under all the c ever, rema no clot d details ; but it cumstanc( especially. Few of death tl rely ordering judgment :uring him_that the sen: is true t who ar "Rri There is alw ;entorian voice, pra. ribbOns : a little ft I counted ors, busily were stitching v Wanderi: z from t M....Z. , .-SISI 7. it tr aturr. of bro D EGYPT 1 Stand, .ny fish n the deei under ti .ts hug( ; the people ( nd less four mile evening hours pluptuous, re covered ,t quality one Chiircit I Ldred w counte TO THE CONTINENT •culean of most Ca refined than Alter landing from ~ we got to a Monte Here even the mountain of to Monte Pel t resided in his nterior of the f IVI er. many pic a this command- much resemblir ghest rank here con- rigid countrywomen 3 of wild and lawless ;emble the Maltc th the Italian race ook through you, a much China silk crape ndant from their hair. wn by pulleys to any n the - windows and Lnd the women have ode of letting down, parcels, and baskets; ation between It is a pretty these convey- le with, replaced in a 7ont of the house. The are very novel ; and you under the shade of their king, mantua-making, Jost free, natural, and rather amused vith perfect impuniti,— turbed, and the leathern autiful real kid t threepence and four- You may tnd rolling them up with Ltning ; always a smile and , eth to the stranger, more npence for a dozen. In cious little cigars for six purchased ten peaches for ivalve and bivalve shellfish are of curious forms and of great h prices in England, are sold in des and cockles here. One fish, open as we do oysters, is [hough I much question if in St. John's Market, they tired and white wax or full length : those respective cities ; but •ast encouragement bestowed upon these works of y last a thousand years with thousand ; but these delicate ian art scarcely as many days. those of Italy, in, and more a marble alto relievo. and twisted columns of FATHER the fai with a T Natural Hiitor MORE WOND. mating the We know i may make our m even amc know, for example, ti reveali ;reat company ting to gra host, and t imate with expansion of in speaking of ct, or t heretofore we objects, to cc xe been call before the mind as e conceived pansive and contractive eye, as (I( the hand can handle upon earth almost constrained to ask, the true majesty of indefini were not attainable by us realm of the molecule in a g Lcredible lovely c intlictin dofJn o, and arc= - o} al H d conduct, and by the rank of ad - - uards ; and the ment of d married - two sisters, and it THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. LlBERTY.—Liberty is not idleness :itis a free use of I THE FATAL DUEL AT CAMDEN TOWN. time to choose our labour and our exercisa.—ln one word, CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—AUGUST 18. to be free, is not to do nothing, but to be the sole arbiter of what we do, ar so great was placed at the bar, before Mr Bullock, to plead to an are quiet and peacebly we get on, indictment charging him with the wilful murder of David for ourselves, the better for our Lynar Fawcett. ighbou He pleided not Erle, &Toff Lnied by the 3 take care Lord Mayor, took his seat on the be was then again placed at the bar. (lent charged the prisoner t of July, 1843, at the parish of St. Fam The in d the ls with having, on Mary, Islington, made an assault et A;‘,-1 .ed a pistOl at I ther-' 1, loaded with powd wound, of which n died Happy the Clark appeared for the The Attornc h is I b ionally ator, to state to them tt J and I ier he I cussion in the put ce that would I by that evidence, an 4 he decision they ,tices of the c 1 le d 1 iutant in the regi lea, or I rank of Lieutennt- These ge took pla , loved them to d papers. 1. All f} read or I sist on reading would appear that there had be occasions their between them, to which he she bring about a because they did not at all affect the present inquiry last ever to be could not offer any extenuation of the act imputed to the Johnson prisoner. It appeared that on the Friday before the Ist of bore, of July there had been a dispute between the deceased a literary and the prisoner, and the result was that a hostile meeting , icing a took place between them in a field near the Brecknock Id not any fu - rther allud obtained by ti must have when, on ,uICI call " !ft, met r peril No ; to read I facts of the chair to I the evidence to see if there was an] apters," I a charge of murder, and he knew t .e of escape from jury as gentle- ydo the same ; but mild not admit of any doubt urged men and men of honour would anx 3 I've he feared that the evidence " Yes upon the point. He should E.. you were actually present at 14 Duld also compel him to call as a Ns to it. I tlemer ho actec d. Fawcett, who would adly conflict, and that yern rnent PFisoner 1 1 the deadly weapon, d prisone tion. ke charge it, and observed the tatai result. tue jaw was, 3f unhappily, equally clear upon the point. It made an al l. lowance for an act of violence committed in the excite ment of passion ; but where there was time for , reason to • HE SCrlpuun truguu nut, iv llaY V Ull, vy vAS a.. s to attempt esti- They had no right whatever to speculate as moralists Iff firmaments. on what the law ought to be. The present law might, is t probably, have hitherto been found insufficient to repress deficiency, and offences of this description, and some alteration might pos sibly be advisable ; but it appeared to him that the degra .. a is it tor RICH IS Wehave 1 GUI 111 luuul G. The evidence has been presented to the public on a for- Mr. Adderley, of Doctors' Commons and Upper Clap ton, who died on the 2nd of August, has left a legacy to Sir Peter Laurie of £5OO, as a mark of esteem and respect for his important public services as a magistrate. WOOD PAVEMENT.-011 Monday the whole of the wood pavement from Northumberland House to Charing-cross Hospital was removed and carried into St. Martin's work house ; it is being replaced with granite. ROBBERY OF THREE THOUSAND POUNDS If , -aived by the pa" On Friday intormation was rec Bank of England notes, namely, one of £lOOO, of £5OO each, had been stolen from No. 36, Halt street, Mayfair, London. EXTRAORDINARY DISPATCH.— __ of wheat contained in a nine-acre field, near was cut, bound, and secured on u. gr : o . T o n .r d :ni b li y s a r b h o il d i, some 70 Irishmen, in the short space of two hour 1 , Doncdster Gazette. A. few day go a crop uithrope, A report of the assassination of obtained some circulation, both in tt the provinces, on Tuesday and Wedr altogether without foundation, and is sup, been invented for stock-jobbing purposes. One of the waggons of Wombwell's menagerie, con taining leopards, was upset at Folkestone, last week, and the animals were in a very infuriated state, when Chapman, the Lion Queen, at once entered the dens, and reduced them to order. JENNY LlND.—Among the latest arrivals of vessels from foreign parts,. is one named the Jenny Lind, from Miramichi. with a cargo of wood goods, thus evincing the - metropolis and itl The story i. spread of her fame and genius to countries far away from the scene of her triumphs. On Sunday week, during the thunder-storm, as a man, his wife, and two children, were driving a chaise in the neighbourhood of Highgate, a flash of lightning struck the horse, and killed him instantly. The party were tnrown from the chaise, but luckily escaped unhurt. The stocks of grain and flour are accumulating to such an extent in the metropolis, that the warehouse room at command no longer suffices for their reception. It is said that recourse has been had to Greenwich for partial accom modation.—Globe of Friday. During a thunder-storm which visited the neighbour hood of London yesterday week, the lightning was at tracted by a brass wire which bound the seating of a chair, in which a gentleman was sitting reading ; but fortunately he was not seriously injured, although his thigh was some what burned. WEIGH YOUIt BREAD.— Richard Whittaker, of Great Ducie-street, Strangeways, was convicted on Thursday, inthe sum of twenty shillings and costs, for selling bread in Lower Brouehton. short of weighf, and for not having a beam and scales with proper weights in his cart (mired ver act 6 & 7 William IV cap. 37—Mancesler paper ~ as re- Louis - Henry Goule, formerly a superintendent in the rural police, who was tried two years ago for the murder ~,;f‘, of ni,phnm_ and was; acauitted on the ground or Ms wire at IJUniam, auu wa •- of insanity, but ordered by Mr. Baron Rolfe, to be de tained till her Majesty's pleasure respecting him should be known, has been liberated by an order from the Secretary of State for the Home Department. William Gates, one of the chief clerks in the office of the Income and Property Tax Commissioners, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, in London, to a charge of forging receipt for the repayment of £l3O, to defraud the Go- There were three or four cases against the le was sentenced to twelve years' transporta- The first evidence of the substitution of imprisonment for transportation was afforded last week, when forty con victs arrived at the county gaol, Reading, from Millbank. Theo arp to he taurht the trades of shoemaking and tai- other day resume her sway that excuse was not allowed, and the -•-.- , 7 “A ‘,- ---6- - Nut about deliberate duellist was looked upon by the law as a mur- Loring, and receive sucb education as is provided by the -ords, Great derer; and although some apologists might be found who Prison regulations. They were all originally sentenced to premiums, dis- would offer excuses for this servile deference to the bar - various terms of transportation. Tv. Toby."— barous customs of society, there could be no doubt what EQUALITY !-The Rev. M. M. Clark, a coloured minister the law was upon the question. Arguments of this de- of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, states, that . . •, . .-i- • -. • • he has travelled in Britain one year, and has received the most friendly attention. Just as he turned his face , " the land of the free," having purchased a cabin passage here we mt in the ship Constitution, he was informed by the captain ciency, r that the owners would not tolerate such a passenger in the lations, w' first cabin. Mr. Clark is a citizen of the United States. ill our ~ •s—less than a dation of a conviction upon such a charge would mos, A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE PILLORY.—TiIe other day Mr. be found sufficient likely worthy to take itslT pl ace _Radford, well-known characters, in the act of stealing his potatoes, made them lay the stolen property on the road between Ison Green:and New Basford ; and gave them the choice of being prosecuted, or of standing each over his own heap in the sight of all passers-by. The rogues preferred the latter alternative. and accordingly " stood it" about an hour and a half, to the great edification of __ _ .. _ CORN SPECULATING. — It is stated, On good authority, that one of the London houses which failed last week made eighty thousand pounds at the commencement of the season by their successful dealings in Indian corn 1 All this has been lost, and their capital besides, by an un fortunate miscalculation of the fluctuations of the market and the state of the weather ! _ . Locomotives are gradually destroying exclusivism. What will be thought of the Duke of Wellington, Lord John Russell, Sir Robert Peel, the musician Jullien, a subaltern's lady, and a newspaper reporter, being jammed on- I in the same railway carriage. Yet this was an actual effect of the railwa Cambridge. The tour-mills ASsiiritml 'stem - at the royal install known as '' Ray Mills .ead station of the G I Western Rail adjoining brewery, were destroy The loss must to the stock of corn, flour, malt,Si - c., t large stock of 1 hole o The premises are insured in the West of England. A MAN KILLED BY A QUOIT.—Ori Wednesd inquest was held in London, in the University Hospital, on the body of Joseph James Watkin 47. The deceased and his brother with otl Mr. CLARKSON addressed the jury for the prisoner. Witnesses were examined on behalf of the prisoner And, IA to conc ome years, and had 1 ce i n prisoner's manner and character, sible there was a better hearted man in •edth most humane disposition. A... The Earl of Arundel s eye, and c tion fa! h they ix ies of ob he joined the r nit material occasions to inquire into the condi. ight. But, he had always found that the prisone attempt to in his conduct both as a man and a sc, alone that himself by his own merit from the ra -resented Lieutenant in the Guards, and was rest,.,.,.__ tent, or knew him. He was a kind-hearted, benevolent; humane man. ictured . 111 ----:,. -T 4 the regiment of T' imes of the ly and easily Colone Bouven I, as h comma' n it mon .., which 1 with the regiment at Waterloo. I have known the pri - again we are soner twenty-four or twenty-five years. His conduct - igher conception of an officer and a gentlem an w as under my notice, a '-I '-I space and time, i consider it unexceptionable in every particular. He w. elation of the not at all addicted to quarrel. +i es ___ Lord George Alanners, also an officer in the Blues, gave similar evidence as to the prisoner's conduct, and said he ~ • _r_..„:„..„•,,1.,,•1,, inoffensive, humane, DIUC• I was liest forn And here out it come Colonel I t with Lear activit _„ ess quence of any violent act of the accused; and secondly, if Ise peen more fully vanquished for they were satisfied on that point, whether it was premedi -v. The homogeneous structure, tated, and attended with malice on the part of the prisoner. 'Nr denizens of creation once The Learned Judge then minutely read over the evidence; ' before our cl"-- - --4 ed. It was his duty to .. - 1 nov -elled, and hey went duel, and one met qua —awing the some hundred spectators.—ivotungnam Jour/tat. dhe did not believe Mr. Wells, of Redleaf, Kent, whose death was an -nee ;he was of a nounced a few days ago, has bequeathed to the country his famous picture of " The Glorification," by Guido, , ant to which he purchased from the late Sir Thomas Lawrence fnr one thousand two hundred guineas, The whole of _ . . p. which the prisoner lately belonged in 1664, an a naa Ire- m ost offers opportunities of seeing him. He was a man of the ancient pictures collected by Mr. Wells, with this ex n most inoffensive and mild habits. ception, are to be sold by auction in the course of the ve The Marquis of Anglesea had known Lieut. Munro ensuing spring. The modern pictures, amongst which k v ever since he (Lord A.) had held the of Colonel of are several by Landseer, Stanfield, Collins, Wilkie, &c., , offi c e are to remain as heir-looms in the family. ___ -, and FATAL FIGHT BY BOYS. ,e, dnesday two boyF, _ ...ost exemplary aged respectively eight and nine years old, fought together lien He had raised in London upwards of half an hour, they having been set nks to the post of on and encouraged by three men. One of them inflicted 4- Pd by all who on the other such severe injuries that he died shortly after wards. At the inquest on Friday, it was proved that the -nen forced the deceased to fight, though he was unwil --id that they gave him a quantity of beer. The in quiry was adjourned. The men are to L._ ..Len into cus tody, and it is supposed they will be committed for man slaughter. THE SECRETS OF THE GAS-1-10USE.—If gas-works really do yield gas at an almost nominal price, compared with 'what the companies charge for it, one would naturally expect that, in such cases as those of publ;- which may happen, as a few of them do, to own gas, and make no secret of their accr profit, the secret would inevitably come out Builder) have long been looking for ju :nstitutior :its of cost and iow we (th Mercury, it appears, that at the V/ak rection the gas is made on the premise. at 54d. per thou sand cubic feet ! The actual price demanded in the me tropolis is 6s. for the same quantity. DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—On Sunday week, in Ash ton-under-Lyne, seven men and a boy, in the employ of the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway Company, went into the company's store-room and stables, a temporary building erected of wood, near the tunnel which is being made under the town, for the purpose of hunting rats, which infest the place. In order to drive them out of the holes they got a quantity of powder, which they put into holes at the bottom of the building. In the store-room was half a cask of powder, used for blasti.„_ • did not act with sufficient caution, but allowed this cask to remain near one of the holes. On its being ignited like the others, the blaze came in contact with the barrel of i nowder, and theresult was a hly de 1, it a ; the chandeliers Dickens says, like of pompous n, the c le for its wood, painted lik kerchief in inpathetic feelings ; .nd martyrs hairy n Mary." of the few hours ward voy and two-third in fact, about sixteen days TRAORI RY HONEY PALI - ue •• natives " of Widmerpool, in this county, were much astonished the other day at discovering on the floor of their church some thing very curious in the shape of a round brown cake, Its suspicious colour and extraordinary 1r a time kept them at bay, but at length the very soft withal effluvium arising ti , frOm being anything but in(idorous —nay, being " sweet as honey or the .honey comb," seve ral of the more venturesome and less delicate were induced not only to approach but also to taste it ! To the astonish ment of all it was found to be real honey ; but how did it come there ? To solve this problem was a puzzler for a long time ; but at length the secret was found out greatly to the delight of the whole village. For some time past, had made their homes unknown to any one, a hive of be ing nnea their waxen lance had broken the ten store to nearly 100 lb. of ho: oor to create the astonishment and ve have described. Altogether pretty iey fell to the lot of the fortunate dis- q Guardian EXTRAORDINARY FLIGHT OF INSECTS.-011 Friday, the whole of the coast around Scotland was visited by one of the most numerous flights of insects on record. They consisted of at least five species of lad bird, and they fibers as for miles along the during hiving. The sea ,ns of them, the grass and hedge that afforded shelter from the hails the appearance of these insects, as they are known to be the destroyers of aphides, a race of flies the most in jurious to vegetation. At an early hour in the morning, the whole of the line of Kentish coast was found to be th them, to the annoyance of all parties ; and, • e the reader a correct idea of the extent and welcome settlers, five bushels were ;ate pier, and nearly the same from bour.—Essex Herald. At the recent meeting of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, Lord Feversham, after giving an account of the manner in which he had drained an exten very large and deep drain, a mile and-a - He wished to impress upon landowners sity of throwing down their fences—not for the sake of gentlemen riding after the hounds, but for their own good. By having so many hedges they had less land on which to grow their produce, and in a dry season sparrows and other birds took up half the seed. Mr. J. Outhwaite, speaking on the same subject, said,— " That he was the occupier of a farm of 485 acres, and since the year 1839 he had, by the consent of his land lord, Mr. Sackville Fox, taken down eight miles of old fencing ; and he could assure them that it was the interest of every tenant-farmer, if he could get the consent of his landlord, to adopt the same plan, for he was satisfied that hedges were nothing more nor less than a great nuisance , and an obstacle to all improvement in agriculture. They broughtcould not have good cattle without green crops ; and i f turnips in particular would not, as they undoubtedly fence or large trees, surely t essential to the welfare ble to walk without crushing numbers The insects evidently came from the wind having veered round to that point during ery true friend of agriculture, however, burgh, and doomster to the High Court of J usticiary, was standing at the bottom of the Fishrearket Close, in the Cowgate, a person named Edey, a broker, came up to him, and, after some altercation, gave him a severe blow upon the breast, which stunned Scott so much that he fell insensible to the ground. He was immediately carried into a shop adjoining the spot, but he did not survive the assault many minutes. Edey, who was drunk, has been arrested, and committed for trial. BATHS AND WASHHOUSES.—The ratepayers of the united parishes of St. Andrew, Holborn, above bars, and St. George the Martyr, have determined to resist the proposition for erecting baths and washhouses within their boundaries. A proposition for their establishment was brought before the parishioners on Monday evening, and was rejected by a large majority. Mr. John Robert Tay lor, the proposer, then demanded a poll, which termina ted on Thursday afternoon, when the clerk to the union announced the state of the gross poll to be as follows • Mr. T covered quantity of t FENC .msgate aylor's resolution 189, against it 554'; majority gainst the resolution 365. (Well done dirt.) An ingenious attempt at smuggling has been detected at the Custom-house, London, last week. Six casks of arsenic were consigned by a Hamburg steamer to " Henry Brent." An officer examined the casks. One was filled with the mineral ; but each of the other was fitted with an outer tin case containing arsenic, while the centre was filled with tobacco, packed round with pigs of lead to give the requisite weight. The value of the tobacco, with the duty added, was £545. Henry Brent was up in custody at the Mansion-house on Monday, and or dered to pay a penalty of £lOO, and to be imprisoned till paid. sive moor I half long, s would not, grow near_a gr —On Saturday %lATRIMONAL DISAPPOINTMENT arren. and 16, last birthday, and Christiana doptioii of this plan was ichd. I of ti FATAL FULFILMENT OF A DREAM farmer A fatal accident • 21, presented themselves at the parish church of St. Just, curred near Fronie, on Thu in Penwitb, for marriage by license. The vicar, however, the wife of a man, na was too prudent to be imposed upon ; prod:ucing from the of Down h ea d , h a d 2 ;twice is connected, 9c .eamt that .y last. It appears that 3, carter to Mr. Perrett , ;, while engaged in„his _ vestry the lad's mother, a highly respectable widow, who work, the waggon had gone over her husband and 10pe.... eldest daughter ethauegv,htiefer with denied that her consent had been given, and a family bible, him. This dream she told him, and seemed to feel thav, which contradicted, in his father's writing, the age of 18, it would be fulfilled, and they were both very low spirited ni Having g t are g o their to o as stated in the license, the reverend gentleman declined to act. The fearful guilt and consequences of an affidavit before the surrogate, so opposed to the facts, having been in n uaTle n d e h q e u r e n 1 i c u e s . b a him for the sake of company, which he did. Nothing pointed out to the misguided Benedict, the disappointed particular occurred during the journey thither, add - ai r ced, and had to tread their steps through 'clo had returned as far as Ammerdown, at abo u t seven. o -Wing, when the horses started off, and ill"bbs at -nn -, 13 out and stop them, but his smock-froc .. -1 in liberating himself he pitched heal- _ c " . -is passing over him, caused a me - of the wife's dream. "-I-°; after the accident, but din ; sad as it was, did not enc, her father fall,• jumped out _ ad the wheels passing ov er ,ot. A widow and eig h t u to the care of a merci pair were ells uth Journal Monda elderly man I an I c- torenw of Skye, who was in Glasgow on a visit to his daughter, lanchol residine at No. 53, Catherine-street, And erston, in a fit Door fe I literal a the window' of the apartment in which he w ht of three When street, a vered by t ts , of the men, he was Insensible from the effE two pa fall. / were broken although he was rum hoi cie imsfortui were pla fng at quoits in the grounds of the Brecknock Arms when, lonth as the deceased N slavers thr to pick up &quoit, one of th his quoit, which struck dem - head, inflicting such injuries that he died from the effects SIIAKSPEARE TRAVESTIED. Recently, during tin performance of Hamlet, at the Theatre-Royal, Greenock a young man, who had taken the part of: I les at a k dew: got on pretty correctly till he nid here short notice _ is, " I have a speech of fire 'aiting a few seconds, Mr. D-, who was playinf ' Oh ! you have a speech of fire, havE Atter the King, replied you?. Well, blaze away, by all means." Th which the scene-shifters put a period to, delig audience a hted the COILN.—We have before adverted to the extraordinary , circumstances induced in the corn trade by the serious re vulsion that has lately occurred, but were scarcely prepared to find an article of steady and daily consumption literally going " a begging" for want of an owner. Such, however, is the fact; and, at this present moment, houses drawn upon for corn afloat are declining to receive the cargoes— involving, of course, the acceptance of bills drawn against them, and public notice have been circulated inviting parties to come forward as consignees. It is said that such an instance has not been known for years.—Standard. T lIE PICTURE TRADE.--Daring the year 1845, the num ber of pictures imported into the United Kingdom, accord ing to the customs' return, was 14,001 ! Let us suppose that only two-thirds of that quantity, or 10,000 per annum, have been imported during the last twenty years. We have received, then, at a - low calculation, no less than 200,000 pictures from the continent, during that time ; or, if we admit the larger number as an average, viz., the number actually imported during the year 1845, we should then have received above 298,000 pictures in the last twenty years.—Fielding ontheßestorationof Old Pictures. THE MESMERIST OUTWITTED. - At a recent mesmeric lecture, in Exeter, by Mr. Hicks, one of the experiments most signally failed, to the chagrin of the lecturer. Hay- ing, as he fancied, mesmerised a table and a man's hand, and by some means held the two so effectually together that it all depended on his single will whether they should ever again be parted, he placed a shilling in tempting proximity to the hand " in a fix," and exclaimed, "There now, my man, if you can take up that shilling, you may have it." " Thank you," said the honest fellow, as he very coolly dropped the coin into his waistcoat pocket. MURDER OF A HANGMAN.—On Thursday, as John Scott, the " locksman" (Jack Ketch) of the city of Edin- Aug. 24, 1841. A DISGUSTING AFFAIR.-At Richmond Petty Sessions On Saturday, Mr. Baird. the inspector of the V division, stationed at Richmond, laid before the bench a printed bill, calling the attention of the public to a match about to take place in that locality, which cOuld have no other effect than creating a scene of moral degradation most offensive to the respectable inhabitants of Richmond. The following is a copy of the notice, which has been extensively circulated : " A novel match will take plabe at Mr. W. Smith's, New Ship Inn, Richmond, Monday, an has August 23," 1847,'at 6in the evening. A - getitl_ matched a man for 101. to kill 21 rats, with one hand tied behind him. He is to catch them in the pit, and bite each rat dead with his mouth against a dog. N.B. There will 1 sh mail which left New York on the Ist days by the Cambria, has been upon the t he would inch revolting to see that the 's beaten two ;arently again beaten and rea, :hed New Liverpool on the 20th, and Halifai on the if no accident intervened, she would reach Boston on the 2nd By way of glossing of thirteen days inparatively long passge New York eralil say; it omit- Adding the five longitude, the tore than nted the out- p. child ?rovidc Bath Chronicle severely contused. He cannot give any very ...,, count of how the accident occurred , further than stating - F ATAL FORCE OF IMAGINATION.—The following sing''' . that he had a confused sort of idea that he was about to lar circumstance is one of many that occur withouffinding walk out of one door into another.--Glasgow Citizen. any publicity, notwithstanding the number of newspaPe rs f E XTRAORD INARY GROWTH OF WHEAT. — Louis Phil - w hi c h are ready to snap up every inconsiderable trifle ° lips, a gardener at Hastings, sowed last autumn 410 grains the day. We relate the fact as it was received from Car, of red wheat on one rood of ground , in dri lls 12 inches tain Corbin, the admired by all who make a practice 01 apart, and by single grains near eight inches asunder. going to Ramsgate by water. The captain, as is his wont , This produced within a few days past the enormous quan- went his rounds among the passengers to receive their tity of five gallons, being at the rate of 100 bushels per fares. Upon taking the amount demanded from two ladie s acre. The quality of the grain is good, and it weighs one of them discovered in consequence that she was on 601bs. per bushel. The weight of the straw was 681bs. her way to Ramsgate, and not, as she thought, to Margat e7 The ground had been previously planted with potatoe s, Captain Corbin seeing her sudden alarm, assured h er ti e which, being blighted, were dug in. Sixty - two str aws the difference was comparatively . nothing, as the we ather and 1,744 grains were counted as proceeding from one was fine, and the sea as smooth as glass. She, how ever grain. The ground had been manured in the winter o-f expressed the utmost dread of the North Foreland. CaP t• 1845-6 with a quarter of a load of rough dung , an d the Corbin heard but little further on the subject, naturally wheat, when young, dressed with one gallon of soot. imagining that in a little time she would laugh at her ill-- DEATH OF A WOMAN FROM FIGHTING.—On Friday grounded fears. Upon being told by her companion that evening, a lamentable case of death by fighting took place she was off the North Foreland, the lady in question fell at the Lye ; both the parties were single women, about 19 back in a fainting fit, from which she neverr - d• rpcove .. years of age, and jealousy appears to have been the cause of the quarrel, the parties being competitors for the com pany of a young man named Bromyard. But few blows appear to have been exchanged, and but little injury was sustained by either party, except that which caused the death of the one named Foxall ; how the injury was pro- duced it is difficult to determine. The other, Perry, was in fits for several hours after tiv. became known to her, and She was removed out of the steamer at Ramsgate, and placed in a fly by order who himself obtained apartments for the r ' and her distracted sister . E paid her, but she died . naryupon o the fts ca a p rr a L i a . l , insensible lady Every care and attention wile the same evening—an extraordi instance of the folly of allowing the mind to be overcome by horrors of its ~,,,-, ---4- , -- sad effects of the f tEIGATE.—on --" hinrS daY Lepstow, Surrey, situate. is thrown into a state ot lee of a most ah ulzi ne in rtzlish and Irish r ea r -1.5. to the pr hours. Pw ' 37 l e d 3 11 bort SECOND k the day reaper location of the and their wiv It appe and Gloucestershi crowds of visitors began to arrive at an early hot they amounted to five or six thousand people. Lowbands Estate forty-five cottages have been bu allocated to that number of occupants, many of judging from appeara labour of a country life no means fit During a cessal argus O'Conno: rain which preva Donovan, and o any, on the advantag' .e, are fled, or two other del s of the rand plan ad I from the Pulal On th 1 to the anC rid wait nen, ar a I cut his 'arm off with 11 ironoi I and the next moment Fisher sine a song, or pay for a pot of ale, he (Fisher) " -hook." M'Carthy refasey. who had the sharpened htl pon and inflicted a most defend head, who raised his left arm to del e ', o • 4 forward and gave 131 ft arm. which cool. in his hand, raise( gash on M'Carth3 I himse when Fishe LATION A 4e number c Lbout middy at Chepstow, Surrey, where after a Inced singing and drinking, until a 'Pao ailed upon to sing a sot id h i ne b o ro r t e st r , t ab a r :; , e ce c it" iched a ; hen th ,house, one of the iingleac M'Carthv that if he did made me sh myself back to quiet solemn, grand, and pea du demonstrations or a tence wouia not De carricu 111 W there are many Griseldas now be placed in the hands of the proper authorities, and devoted, as self- ; upon them would devolve the duty of fixing the punish als, diversified meat that ought to be inflicted upon him. neek, for- The prisoner was then removed from the bar. the countryman fancied, with pure silver, out consmeu u German burnished metal only, its cost price to the fortu nate "hawker" being about 12s. Thus he got Mr ~.renes trom the heat and noise, quietly to commune with God and your own heart—to pour forth the silent emotions of gratitude and love to the great benevolent Being and munificent Author of all things, visible and invisible—the only one wise God, so little understood, and in whose holy and benevo lent name and attributes so much misery, cruelty, to wal id ne:lertlieles ring each her fourthen of d circumstances, with th Squealter clear, with - a shilling to spare, and atte disposed of him to a publican in the town for 16s. only by ti giving spirit. The strong love in Griselda's heart cast out all pride ; and the beautiful moral of this most touching history is wholly lost in the German version. But we must not omit our chief favourite 7 everybody's favourite ratifying the bargain, but me tanks me bit de countryman REVENUE RETURNS.—A return moved for last sc f by the member for Lynn shows that the enteral ;ffligtrilanp. .oses exclaimer -=~. _ . itgrlm's Progress. we nave somewnere rcaa a ... r,•l '..le London °alien lowereu Lae }um, va Lim -siu• .‘,... duties in which no alteration has lately been mad charming story of a little child who knew nothing of alle- ld. on Thursday. amounted, in 1841, to £35,113,160, and in 1847, t gory, and, taking it all for reality, actually commenced Forty-four inhabitants of Crompton and Royton have £39,293,986, exhibiting an increase her pilgrimage through the wicket-gate in her father's been proceeded against for haymaking on the Sunday. produce of the duties which have been grounds. How natural that was ! We love to think of The Lords of the Treasury have authorised the admis- pective1y,X16,487,232 and £12,232,726 in 184 z ... the many weary and yet happy pilgrims still travelling sion of wheat bran and Indian corn bran duty free. exhibiting a decrease of £3,162,227 on Customs, £930,.. OUT ? " asked an L__ .e homeward even to this day. The Tria ls o f Mar g aret The Times of Satur da y contained the following quaint on t h e E xc i se , an d £155,309 on th e Stamp duties (Great other day. Lindsay stands last but not least on our list, valued for advertisement :—" B. wishes to see G." as for Britain) ;in all, £4,254,506. —The net increase on the JENNY LIND POTATOES.—A fine sample of potatoes, its quiet pathos and deep religious feeling, as well . The floating island in Derwent Lake, Keswick, made Customs duties unaltered in the period between the sth of with blue eyes, were cried up with this name through the the sake of one whose g;ft it was. Many and various are its appearance above the surface of the water about a fort- January, 1842, and the sth of January, 1847, amounts to streets last week, at 10d. per score. The idea of a score the several links in the golden chain of memory and asso- night ago. of Jenny Linda for 10d. !—Exeter News. ciation. We have known Book-love to be independent of The capital employed in the coal:trade of Northumber- £2,097,453, and the net decrease in the duties which were SCARCITY OF ENGLISH ROYAL MONUMENTS.—Ever the author, and lurk in a few charmed words traced upon* land and Durham is estimated at nearly ten millions altered during the same period to £3,162,227. The net since the accessio n o f th e h ouse o f G ue l p h, ro y a lty h a s the title - page by a once familiar hand—words of affec- sterlin g . receipt of the Customs in the years 1842 and 1846 amounted, respectively, to £23,515,375 and £22,278,317, freed itself from one of the most universal and honour- tionate remembrance, rendered, it may be, by change and Farmers who thrash barley with machines are strongly Able; though somewh a t expens i ve, d ut i es o f ki n d re d ; an d bereavement, inexpress ibl y dear ! Flowers in books are r ecommended to wind sackloth round the beaters of the thus exhibiting a decrease of £ 1 , 237,058— The net increase on the Excise articles the duties on which have remained this too without observation, much less censure. The a sweet sign, and there is a moral in their very withering. machine, otherwise the grain will be considerably injured. p o orest of mankind mark th e grave o f parents, w if e , an d Pencil-marks in books freq uentl y recall scenes and senti- T h e q uantit y of wheat sold last week in the towns of unaltered amounted in the same period to £ 1 , 341 , 671, and c hildren, by . some humble memor i a l : t h e richer 1 £936,970 ; consequently the balance of the two ac counts gratifying exhibits a net increase on the gross account of £ 409,296 ; ments, and epochs in young lives that neve r co me a g ain. England specified in the Act was under 48,000 quarters, the net decrease of those which have been altere d to tablets or raise tombs to their relatives. So to The fai nt line p ortra y s passages that struck us years ago and in grain the transactions appeared to have been the heart is this duty, that rarely if ever is it omitted from with their mournful beauty, and have since passed into a limited. any other cause than poverty. A foreigner visits the royal P the Excise receipts having amounted in the year 1841 to Prophecy. Thoughts and dreams that seem like a mockery The Hull Packet of Monday contains an account of £14,602,847, and in 1846, to £15,012,143. The net in depository in St. George's Chapel, and asks where are the now are thus shadowed out. But memory's leaves are the accidental drowning, while bathing at Hornsea, on ro y a l monuments ? But no son , daughter, brother, ne- not all blanks, or tear-stained, but interwoven, thank Thursday, of Mr. Joseph Marshall, of the firm of Thomp- crease in the unaltered Stamp duties amounts to £ 407,824, phew, or n iece of the present dynasty , has erected a fu- God , with m an y a bri g ht p age. Pencil-marks in books son and Marshall, solicitors, Hull. and the net decrease in the altered to £ 155 , 309 . The de creasenereal monument of any k ind to the kindred dead. Even have sweet as well as sad recollections connected with A Northumberland elector was in Boulogne on Mon- in the assessed taxes between 1842 and 1847 amo unts if affection did not produce such a testimonial, it might them. We point them out to one another, and call to the day morning week, and vot ed for Sir Geor g e Gre y , at to £240,891, the receipts in 1 841 having been £ 4,715,353, Post have been expected "from regard to ancient custom, and mind particular periods in our past lives. They also serve . Morpeth, on the opening of the poll on the following and those in 1846, £4,474,462. The increase of the from a desire to conform to the habits of civilized life, to register the change that has gradually and imperceptibly d ay . office receipts amounts to £468,317 as compared with 1842. The only monuments to our kings and their descend an t s , st o l en over our own thoughts and feelings. There are VALUE OF SMOKE.—A tunnel-chimney , • • The increase on the Irish stamp duties, as compared with the exception of the statue of George the Third in some books which forcibly recall calm and tranquil scenes length, has been erected in Annandale. Its fume will yield with 1847, amounts to £147,345. The actual decrease of 'Windsor Park, by George the Fourth, and of the beauti- of_ by-gone happiness. We hear again the gentle tones many thousands of pounds sterling per annum. Truly, nary the payments into the Exchequer on account of the ordi revenues constituting the public income of the ful mausoleum which the King of Hanover is building in of aence familiar voice long since hushed. We_cani•e- here it may be said that " syiokedoes n_pt e n nd in smoke." " United Kingdom amounts to £362,710, as compared with memory of his consort, have been erected by the public ; member the very passage wherereader p dThe brother officers of Lieutenant M have ab the r.tusc awhilehim u ro s' and in the instance only of the Princess Charlotte's mo- to play the critic, orwhere that eloquent voice suddenly the 1842, when the e t amounted to £47,9 17 , 52 le year rec ip s 1 : purchase a commission . scribed a sum of money to . in faltered nument, which was raised by subscription, has one been , and we all laughed to find ourselves weeping, and the Horse Guards (Blue), in which he served so many •ofstaple manufac were sorry when the tale Kingdom of the four great articles our placed in church or chapel. There is absolutely nothingthepoem came to an end. . or Books read for the tures, viz., cotton manufactures and cotton yarn ; woollen —not even an engraved slab—to tell where the ashes of first time at some particular place or SINGULAR OCCURRENCE. — A cask of water belonging period of our existence may thus become manufactures and arn, linen manufactures George the First, Second, Third, and Fourth, and William .P . , . 1 tl, hallowed for to a gentleman in this t9wn _ . . was found in the course of e ,, ei mole, or we ove 'em because ethers loved them 1 'yarn, and silk manufactures, amounted in the five months the Fourth, or of any one of all their numerous progeny, this meek, with a quantity of Ice 011 la Willlce,—Cuii,. . 02 191 • and in the five epose.—Specator. , also in by-gone days.—Blackwood, Wan. 1 ending June 5, 1845, to £15,8 , , months ending June 5, 1847, to £14,831,478, Persecution, imprisonment, torture, and death, Have been perpetrated ; but a happier era has already dawned of £4,180,f upon Christendom tered v 1 TRAVEL' " Sure, which the entrance shman at the Cove try station th of pauperism, auct ioth bones of the limb, which '7 • • aS shockingly mutilated. By this time some sist 3 " ounded man was carried into. t r use in a state total insensib iut .1 wound day week a defamation ea tried in the Bristol Cor Court It was brought by Ma Duffett a White Hart pub' saying she was a young woman of improper cnartuner, rli uer ii uvula cia aco acu • and that he had committed adultery with her. There was JOSEPH ADY AGAIN.—The name of this celebri9 10 defence. Evidence in support of the case bad b een p ersona g e was a g ain brou g ht before the Lord Mayor 'tile iven by four witnesses ; who proved that while in a week, when Sir P. Laurie brought forward considellp , •blic-house the defendant, in exceedingly gross terms , cor res p ondence which he- ad just received upon the ,et et The ject of the old Quaker's tricks. The following ans'crto the was sent by a gentleman to Ady, who had transmi tte ti oi , him one of the•well-known circulars offering inform °. :/ twenty shilling,:to _.,ter-street, Old Broad-street. Sir,—ln rep 'd your note, I have had some experience myself ia, e ,:;) , l like the one you offer me, and the parties have a' bsb been satisfied with an undertaking that a p er ventage S o lo be allowed on the amount recovered. Upon these V i ol lam ready to agree with you—viz., 10 per cent. AtlY; Sir, your obedient servant, J. W. WELCH. JosePb to Esq." Next day, Mr. Welch received back his let Joseph Ady, Esq., with the following little conov el t lif. the end of it, in the well-known handwriting of Os 1 7 penser of unclaimed dividends :—" M. W.—So os e tha ti do, but met with so many unfaithful promisees (j) could not live, as I abhor all lawsuits, and am too on e to run after my debtors. Consequently I have partnership with a person who brings knowledge 111 . 41 6 concern, and a resolution neither to give nor t ake B e' and he is a person who prefers 20s. in hand to ev,. niise whatever. Respectfully, J. ADY. Air. "ro ° In another letter which his Lordship received 'icor' vicar and prebendary, the reverend corresponae, O plained of the conduct of Ady in sending to his :„„biow, of the lithographed circulars, stating that her that had embarked in a most dangerous undertaking , 101 l the on the receipt of 20 5., the writer would pointy atb disease and the remedy. To that letter was ant, At: following postscript, to which the writer claiml L" a tention of the lady :—" One of the bishops vs ' s " ca pc milar case. He paid my fee, took my advic e ' n al e e ctrO c f unscathed. Go thou and do likewise. —P bo urs e t J. ADY." The Lord Mayor, in alluding to thia.„ t he Mr. Ady, said, that he had good reason for bter''' , l, Ats tile press had nearly brought these labours to cl e e St'o b° the partnership indicated an alliance that fatal to the business, leclared the plaintiff to be guilty of incontinence. proceeded to deliver judgment, and sail hP reran wag unpnuivonal. Chancel' orth hundred For the sma SUM 0 LLLLLLL _ the case in the least. -The law was clear on the subject, and the case must take the usual course. Ile must pro nounce for the defamation, with the usual sentence, which is, that the guilty party stand in church in a white sheet. He must condemn the defendant to pay the whole of the costs. Sunday, the 22nd instant, was fixed for the defendant to do penance, in the plaintiff's parish church. —Bristol Journal. AFFECTING CASE. — At the Reading Police-office, on Friday last, an unfortunate young woman was brought before the magistrates, having been found on the race course at six o'clock that morning by one of the police men in a pitiable state. It was with some difficulty that his worship could persuade her to answer any question ; but what was ultimately elicited she stated that she had been educated in a convent at France, and placed there by the - "Viscountess Fitzjames, and that he name was Clara Amboise. She had found her way to the race-course, and from her appearance had been evidently very badly treated, her eyes being swollen and her clothes torn and dirty. She had come from London, and had been in Reading for the last few days, and we understand that she had been vending small tracts, and a person in the town had re lieved her and told her she would endeavour to place her in a situation. She also stated that she had known a young female that formerly lived in a respectable semi nary in this town, and they were both together in the convent in France. The unfortunate girl had evidently received a geod education, and appeared to feel deeply her deplorable situation. His worship desired Mr. Read ings to take care of her for a few days, and to supply her with necessary comforts, in order that inquiries may be made, and the unfortunate young creature, if possible, restored to her friends,—Berkehire Chronicle. Vinche