The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-08 00:00:00

ON 4. COLON/A lIVIALLIGEA CI The 111 IN D' ---------- itt f i r -Otliba lA. AND CHINA. li r , 'igepee Jlll9 of the 19th of June has arrived. t ' . l , l u ie . Sei e e ,lattv e t „'!!eh it bring s is of interest, and in par le- of 04 e. vatilie state of the newly-acquired provinc oii iseeNsleat anPost fertile district which, under a go od N h il / tl earl -"" Properly cultivated, ' will become a garden, tatzti its h It pYaeified by the measures adopted by Sir C. !lßatter th e ese!lt governor. He has mad- terms with .s ees to _chiefs, and even Meer ShereNlahome . q e t , Ztiee:iltillelffered to make his submiss ion p ro T v ti d e r u e oe e e P ti t l t e h at ' s ftriiiyate property secured to hi . m e . e pacifi. di r e/ mu ch tlecoliwitrytian,iiii th e t Sickness prevailed teee, S it ch„ t h,e camp at Hyderabad. Several officers b een elred. Tiires Napier had an attack of fever,.but had q t o th c.° !ed b, ',;cornmunications by sea with Scinde a te oliteell'Jatiepgie Monsoon, but the route via Omere9 1 ,11 ualroeer would, it was expected, be speedi l y At ePtovi tisitYPttht..are easeue,s,,Or Scinde, which very much resembles Sto 'itorieego"9 flooded by the rivers and canals du titeit:e to ~,.4 ! , t heY will require little more than coTmhe gDeet larez r ' au uee an extraordinary reven9e: litlieted that ?!e(i'd 1,00 0,000 sterling, and it is to be e llati ° f th e ` w ill soon again reach that sum. The sub ttlt a Ire wat ers will • • per pre ,, it is feared, unless pro ttioe,„,_l44th,siet:lceo, increase the sickness of the troops, Oe""ttoi l tfl'erat is experienced, there is a well-fopnded he ts e i Of th e at the due precautions will be adoptedih is 4 4 e !llti p,‘o't3st remarkable events of the Is e t( r tiii in ~ test , e of the officers of the army which tioeateeeette,ealumnies of the Bombay Times, 0.. atmanydera ziap.,,'•t er , t he m of base g dishonoured the Zenana i 4t itl i ti:LOlll e v f h . . 1 hey presente d n address to Sir Charles . 11'Y re' 4 Tor Protection aag ainst those calumnies, N N tae l b eive f ille d a decided reply from their general. aerad five a is that the alarm caused by the That Of h t . eh taa, . 48 8 of Shere Singh had ceased. 1444i^''140°Yed • in traversing the north-east p a rt tke'c,tif 44'404, and in examiningpacific, the final departure of iitt a turd B OG e neraie .A • de2thei„iesh..... vitabe,. Ventura, and Cour , killitle..s. Ti!"red, would, it was thought, Shah Sooja were 41 10 " t 8 on the sons and brother of lead to Dost Cched, wb tue bo ns of the Sikh monarch. St3 l *be "I° Was in yer bad health, %tic Aft4 e ue is said to v have y resumed the government, rom had reached le °llitee° chiefs are represented as very far f * ere the jete'h.their allegiance to him -I,..44ail°,,al..edier?,°.kr of tranquilitylnditaheeapi prevails. . The re ~e,11.,e, i'''''anees at teetcloorit"'uere th e • i l til a Yof tk f.ntruster apptaolinoftetdhteo late g v e S e c n i n d d e i a e ian otod di s "e child chosen to succeed him was . a t_ vtophi`erfer, Possessed of his power. The British lit they id g I t tly etti so et , i ;' but i t was generally oung ,t1P00,111., hilta°,6eliged to send troops to protect they " e isi e u, I " e . Th d isturbancesat Gualor will , supposed that it is lie, %or °O ll r e . e to take pos kt e l ett tk e st fogquir hc Hon. Company tetelletlYtheaBttNitUt:dntherlY t rior. 1 11 - !itid or Rov er , e secon power de i fth e an i d h w e hich ll ther ingrechents titt-44kia trick tg_ . na ent at Gualior is nothing but a !ttioe Bet7ue and plots, and ir:,iftee still at JO Bundelkund the n active s v p e irit of dim!- ' and intelli- Ithi Ns t 's at th e ;_ v ork, but there are t o th ep, b ... uead of the troops there u . s irterivil'etiatheaase i t . i s e a mountainous D d i i s a t a r ff i e e c t , t i of tk be etS i gt of 01,20 not like industry, and . prefer having The great th e i ate a klel i ,u,nderii?g their neighbour.... i r fomket ...;Places is not to rout the insurtgheenmts in htt4.44retkiritesaaFo, but to know where to find iliet*, tt41,41134;°°.,gh left Agra on the 30th May for o C u a e w a ri a: 4'4 teis`.%triet e n, eit route for Calcutta. ih. lit tee p ki s e(;ikiiers had arrived from h om ß e e _ r m e or m de A r g in r g a Orek l,illslr. Cla r k 11- Prior to his departure t h 46 i 8 governor of the north- western c p ou ro r ; tellosN:tireel; vihtieenhtloeT,an was latterly envoy ful abolished. Successful n 0 I h ad ,_eince has been with h Rajah of Bhe at the lite rt 0 10 fr f le e t ; ti carried on t h e 'll;4l )tti the indung the navigation oft . he Sutlede, and eateettiet,Saint ac es touching on his territories. t e , ONty feu . the rnoonsoon was felt through India. 6. Ra j' fti ) 4 es_ every m uc h_ A gale c h 7 , 4 041 2iet Were its fury in the del coast. A li'p h 9yrri e j a a e e lost on the Coromandel towards the Bay of Bengal. ,Nth:Sit4ril ; it was felt at the Mauritius towards the IV at„ teak siahsed severe losses. to' 'sie r g e Ship th e was resumed on the ln 6th of June, ilialti,e4oceeffi le Thomas Grenville,. was consumed. I s et,o..ships wiet.eLsthave declined granting heavy policies to • - ^S fr, ''" Lascar crews. dpi,,rtealated°3 911ina is extremely scanty. .Repo a ls had but Nit.tp tehtehrd°,ll Henry Sir Pottin g sick ne aCcor kettat t 'l4 test l as exa ggerations. He was said,,,, t o be tij tin.'e th e , Pews o - r the beginning of .v.a.Y,.. tl , h k qri, the of th new 1 erial Com 'll 1) "vas ea e MP bout the began t Q 4e e• pected at Canton a missioner, bh,` N e 4 "earn oNp e e4 tta i.. e r has been ordered to get read y for e of the theitei:sit,4 the beginninz of July. p,, B° Sth - L botVit,bat Lord EllenboroughSi°su. goingiddle of 11 40ot ,';'est 4 , i s Tact may be doubted in the m back a l o h - iett e r oust:t en. °,0111`°: 111:Nrseltri°,,rn tong'Bo Xong i it appear r e e d " t v h e a n t baiu,ispia ,Se ," 1 EN ' l ,g.'r ~,e to north. There we Woosung, t o jtlthor. tyitisiiklang, sf.iiing openly, I:q,:tle'etitei!, hatg;iiod,s. They had been a t w w a ee rn e ed off by allowed li t tieth eri " ea eir aeleasv'ng persisted, they Henry 11/ta4edeouttaare busy in smuggling. t)'lttelitaivotireti to that trade, but in they were Sil t pki re Y r ta detain some ships,.but vain. ir Captain IV.,thei an d Biased • 1,. , teL,OOll -• goods are selling at long prices a a te t th .4 l?,."'Ke it i }s abondantly offered, but many Itrl4l,tsertch r e e st it should be too much alloyed. .tih:i.Aele.. I .4te L , inct .-rigone is going to Nixon : m te?, r iti e Ossi ee, . satisfaction for the persecution of the 4 (h;; h od : t leS. 1 14 h °ll e fojst.t4 Sai d to be Searee In China; not a pie ce Of a t 11._. I taPtli a Ta 011)„ SPAIN. 1040' h,,,atairo 8 °f Wednesday contain further deta a i r ls . „ . tri e :t f t "" 44'. There appears little doubt of the sues N4 1 ' , 4 :4 a t t Pat .in of Seville on the 23rd ult. t We t t e t ?t • li 4 : ere .nt'll'l'v_att. letter from Madrid that h t al a readv. ;Z 4 ilti°,l,,e" it PUtrteilling among themselves for whom ? tO d, , , i te s , es to „ hg down Espartety, 1 ., tio, 4 , o t d iptiort the pretensions of the . son of +li e ki e ts that a P aula to be the King Consort , Nar )titkforei: he drew his sword in favour of Queen !°Nth,atter has the support of Gen. Serran t o e . , P th 4 ; th ',4tiOZ , 01 ce the convention he entered in 14.1‘.1.eileitiperie.lt°13-: "s Ileaxrcdese d? M I l Thee xcuse 6e„,llet, /et ef.his word Ing 7 adrid, u to ar a . llow them to unpop Is i g tia rd (sav e e ill e , . ce vyri the su i cce t s e s le o g f ea t p h h e ie D d u i k s e . k , li t b ► e the A rr e o r rd 1n g t o . t i e ) Espartero had i l 4r We fa ll i Francam ' had broken out "fie N, at 'Roads' ree days. A fire N s 'p'ry of • nada, which had consumed an im -ISt,' th.elO ri . ! .11 1(s. t‘itAteti'llfth,b.;.rneuhran...als of . the 27th -state . that a Te htttpeOt4 ?lyric qnted in commemoration of the ; 4 1 , 4 4 t DttPol.l,itle°°' tayorine of the 30th, state that the 0101111,it41 4 eto ir i , t l , t re far from being content with the te ttlthst4rits i, °f the contest. Looking ~.' th; s ae ! , en thatil SPain, there appears but a . t e li t t e t . le hrhelver IN',eontest with ones is . coinl 1 It?,ot e ,_ati e g . tis w h e ic a I to, pre fierce one wil l . arise between to % it ' 4 s of Dt!p e , e 1. nave coalesced against him. Nip No e (11 84 . ot the subsequent days state . that °i lk tat 11:19° were beginning to manifest th still vktors. The siege of Seville was ttp l li e. t tr. ht , h ..t i lollkL i ll t u It t retl ) 4l az tan a ar of G ranada bas been destroyed by Wa ll ,l' th o °ll tit of kt i ti. 'l ß - P i rth,,,.` u , e sub scriptions in favour of the Ve 'lt ' 1 14,r l 'ake of Guadaloupe, up to the 31st 0 t ,,, ta . tiN tti t g ed kbb - to % tti d -th ti l t e , Was condemned to death at fr o vott egrade,;, f°r the murder of his nephew. t t ,: p,!h _ 1 1) 4 , " N ew b y the Pope and will be executed. l'ittP:trwiit)lii,riitohiyaeleabland. have brought . intelligence t iti 1, 44. ,ton. Sh e . n, on a trading voyage 0; i kik t h 1 1 ,,t.lev ett was capsized by a tremendous t. t tl 4 r tw p er capsized belowc were saved, but a ti l lifkt. tt i ~0 children perished. The loss 11 1 Y tli' r( ' ) '"3° ' l , , tl bli t ,lktot k a p ot A ult _ r , "011.1 TIES OF BOTTLOGNE.-011 : I t C lli tt e l ,tti li eb B r f . the% errandCootion of Folkestone and lit!ly t tilOtt aal ated the Southeastern Railway ii,:ilit, 4 l) *P acket s . I ( ) ) Pening of the communication . t T ta 44114 publi c s etween the ports of Folkestone . %,!t f,tq,, , er h pa '.e.breakfast and other festivities, ") \4 tt.- vv.11,;... viltnn Tavern, at Folkestone. 11 4, t 10 1 ,p)„.-Il iub. till q 1 4 % ' 4 th e ` llB . - -At the last sitting of the it44llSt tiltily,a, tasrvaealtrse of a conversation on the 11 1 0 try h _ etured in the Island, it would ap liat! of 4 9ipe o ut n made such rapid progress, that I R4 I lel, Iti tit 4114 a ", all kinds of vegetables, and even ith ' '' t ik t 14 itt 1114 114r 1)1. °0f of this ' that there are 200 1 4 , 4 - b 4 1)e j„. actuted in Jersey i annually without Otlt t ckliljtt,.. , :lee. ki ttl. t it V lig t osjhe Li • Iqi 4 t tled Ala ege Journals give an account of lc Vs %ap t k a e t a few days back in that town. hp ?i , ' ttr id . er ft . 1 1t, i n a . , 1 4 )4 i rki .With a garrison there, was coming si 4 t) tol .k_thred „ ..._eotnrade, when aM. Dutelleux 0, Niti e lltl'l . tit re i . Why he ooked at him so inso 4lqtlopt:lt hi 4 he itl:4`jed, that "l So far from looking at \litttlt,‘ of voi ce q riot even observed him." The \ l , l4l ti t tlieS 2 eu'ancl seeming determed to insult . I V,:' the '4B4lteded' Which ended in n a challenge. 1 41 4 .4 0 rd _ Party, having claimed the choice t Ot: 01 1,;' , hi ii er 4 few pa decided on. They met near 4 li t : tl.4 " fi ler t aS ; SeB M. Kant having stretched 1 4.,,,k 4 , tti,t 44--Attp.i.„.444o.n,rushing in, came right on 11 4 0 q ~,_.l ori,„s• ugu the right lung. He . die • d `tiP•l4lo4 '‘arit . s"11141 prosecution has been inst. ),,, .... e ...i ti tow- a oun.,,r N44el7ilLßtusn% C0,, -11°°11 .--T. C. Tupper, Es q" a ,ettllk duCntY, Mississippi, killed a man q t tPP 4 ' 4 it c 9 thu," the session - of court. The lh, pktts,tNllr:-..,„ Adetails the circumstances of the I,llN,V:ht,i4tit,:(lli,sndisreinsylls pending in which Mr. Tup tithq4ii,lloll n e e wi tnes gLon was a witness. during 16!' t ,‘ h '1, 4 Elt,, t lded t h 8 ver y minutely, and . All Tl, ..t. Ori n . , ue witness, who went out of thV114,4 41 o;* t'h ~., he w ould kill' if h e men ,,,,t. ,' ati o _e witne Tupper l'l i 'li n ' , 4 1 ,, ^, e 4, ,as returned to the court-room Yluti i, l 'i t , .;, , t ‘tie r , ' s nort so to be convenient , 4' l . ', l; l i c i ' Il 'e t 'q t he ar as c., vl li 4. 4, 4 gy , e5,t1,11,... R,Uirent of the ,t , , v .t,. 4 11-,,,, t , :.*h i , ti ",,Y, Erringtop 1 1 1., ,, 1, , r,„ ~ iell f ., ,st ruck t. 5, hos. :.. , _'. 1 1 ,, - "N. - BANKING AND COMMERCIAL NEWS The Bank of Messrs. Dixon and Dalton, of Dudley, one of the oldest and wealthiest establishments in that part of the country, has suspended payment. At the half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of the London and Cour ty Bank, held on Thursday, a divi dend was declared at the rate of 5 per cent., free of income tax. At the meeting of the Australian Trust Company held on Monday a dividend of three per cent. for the half year was declared, leaving £1,685 to be carried to the re serve fund, which it appears now amounts to upwards of £5,000, and is invested in Government securities. The accounts received to-day from India and China, by the overland mail, are satisfactory ; goods of British ma nufacture are selling freely, and large shipments of pro duce were making for this country.—London New Price Current. IMPORT DUTY ON IRON IN GERMANY.-A. London house has received the following intelligence from Ger many :—ln consequence of a request of the Rhenish " Lanntag," which has been held in Dusseldorf, the Zollcongress of the United States of Germany, assembled in Berlin, has concluded to charge the importation of all bar•iron and iron rails with £6 per ton, which will be put in force on the Ist of November. _ _ SCOTTISH INSURANCE COMPANIES.—The loss of the Columbia Steamer, and other vessels, has had the effect of further depressing the shares of our Marine Insurance Companies; but a few buyers of Scottish Marine Shares having appeared, the Stock of that Company has rather rallied. The holders of Glasgow Marine Stock, previous to the meeting of to-day, were offering from £1 to £2 per share of bonus to be relieved of their obligations by re sponsible parties. The result of the meeting is, that the whole paid up capital, which amounted to £36,000, has been lost, and a further sum of £30,000 is required to liquidate their losses. £2 10s. per share is to be called up. The directors were instructed to take the steps pre scribed by the contract, for the purpose of determining whether the company shall be dissolved or carried on. — Brokers' Circular. BIRMINGHAM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.—A meet ing of the Chamber of Commerce was held last night, for the purpose of taking into consideration the present com mercial depression of the country. Mr. R. Spooner oc cupied the chair. The meeting at first was thinly attended, but afterwards increased till the room was full. Con siderable discussion arose, but rather in the manner of conversation than debate. The general feeling seemed to be, that neither her Majesty's government nor the oppo sition were likely to do anything to relieve the accumu lated and still accumulating distress of the country ; indeed, that nothing could give effectual relief except an expansion of the currency. Various resolutions were proposed, and, after discussion, withdrawn ; and the fol lowing was at length unanimously passed, moved bp Mr. P. H. Muntz, and seconded by E. Barker:—" That her Majesty's ministers have repeatedly declared that the present distressed state of the country arises: from over production, and that there are no measures within their power to relieve the present commercial difficulties,—Re solved, that a meeting of the bankers, merchants, manu facturers, arid traders of this town and neighbourhood be called by circular, to take into consideration the long continued difficulties of trade, and to adopt such measures as the present alarming crisis may require, on Wednesday, the 16th of August, at the Waterloo-rooms."—Bir mingham Advertiser. COMPARATIVE EXPORTS OF MANUFACTLRED GOODS IN 1842 AND 1842.—(From Sir Robert Peel's speech on Friday night.)—l hold in my hand a return of the exports of British produce from the united kingdom for the six months ending the 6th of July, 1842, and on corn par,og the declared value of the exports of the present with the declared value of the exports of the preceding year, though there has not been that improvement which I could wish, still there has been a manifest advance. In short, there has been a manifest improvement in the ex port of some of the great branches of our manufactures. In the year 1842 the declared value of the exports of our manufactured cotton goods was £7,087,000. The decla red value of our exported manufactures of the same des cription up to the sth of June, 1843, was 7,983,000. In the linen manufacture there has been a slight increase also. In 1842 the declared value was £1,294,000, while for the present year up to the sth of June last it amoun ted to £1,361,000. In the woollen manufactures, which in the course of the last year had been materially depressedl the declared value of exports in the first year was £2,226,000, and in the last £3,035,000. Not speaking with resoect to the woollen manufactures, and their export to the United States and the Brazils, but to all countries, there has been a considerable increase in the amount of exports. (Hear, hear.) The improvement is still more marked, if I compare the exports in the last month with those of the month terminating on the sth of July, 1842. Th, declared amount of the value of cotton exported in July last year was £1,084,000; for the month of July in the present year it was £1,445,000. The export of linen last year was £201,000 ; in the present year it was £271,060. As to the woollen manufactures, there had been a remarkable increase, for in June last year the de clared value of woollen manufactures exported was £408,000„ while in the present year it amounted to £790,000. Therefore, comparing the six months of last year with the six months of the present year, there has been an indication of a considerable improvement in the amount of the exports of the manufactures of this coun try. But now with respect to the cotton manufactures. It was stated last year that the cotton trade was so bad that we might make up our minds to a still greater de pression. Has that prediction been verified? (Hear.) The extent of consumption of cotton has been exceedingly great. I have in my hands a return showing the number of bags of cotton imported into England and Scotland, and taken for consumption for the first six months from the year 1835 to 1843, both included. From this return I find that in 1835 there were 451,984 bags of cotton taken for consumption ; in 1836, 474,902; in 1847, 497,302; and in the present year, 1843, the number was 688.584 bags. (Hear, hear.) Look, then, at the declared value of our exports ; in the first six months of the year 1812 our ex ports of cotton yarn amounted to 58,000,0001 b, and in the same period of the present year to 62,000,0001 b ; our exports of cotton thread in the first six mot Alts of last year amounted to 935,0001 b. and in this year to 1,324,0001 b. The exports of printed calicoes in the year 18-12 was 123,781,004) yards, and in 1843, 145,295,000 yards. As to the exportations of plain calicoes, the increase had been enourmous, for in the first six months in the last year there had been exported from this country 152,827,000 yards, and in the same time of the present year there had been exported 253,318,000 yards. (Hear, hear.) Can it then with justice be said, that the measures taken last session, either with respect to the corn laws or the tariff, have been as fatal to the interests of the great and im portant branches of the manufaztures of the country as was confidently predicted ? Intelligence has been received of the blowing up of the Diana, South Sea Whaler, while on her homeward voyaye and the death of Captain May, who commanded her. The Diana has since been brought into St. Helena, where a coroner's jury found a verdict of " Murder, against some persons unknown." THE TEA TRADE, July 31,—There has been a firm market for teas since the last auctions, and the quota tions are rather tending upwards, as the consumption is large. Last week the deliveries increased to 541,3601 b. the letters by the overland mail are not yet delivered, con sequently the position of the tea market at Canton re mains to be ascertained. IRON AND COAL TRADE.—We are sorry to learn that the iron and coal trade in Scotland never was so bad as it is at present, and no prospect of a change for the better. The prices are reported as not only to be without profit, but altogether ruinous to the masters. We learn to-day, from a valued correspondent, that half of the furnaces in Lanarkshire will very soon be thrown out of blast, and that one of the firms making malleable iron have given their men in that line their warning to quit, without even proposing a reduction of wages. The same is taking place in the collieries in different parts of the country.— Glasgow Post. THE CUSTOM-HOUSE FRAUDS,—The report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the recent frau dulent proceedings by Custom-house officers has been published. It is very voluminous, consisting of about fifty pages. and it is, therefore, impossible to advert to all the branches of inquiry to which the commissioners di rected their attention ; but we subjoin an analysis of the chief points of information elicited. A long statement is given regarding the accusations that were made against Messrs. Burnby, Hastings, Poole, Berners, Foote, and Blake, landing-waiters, and also against Mr. Homershaw, who is since deceased. The result of the inquiry estab lishes the startling fact that a well-organised system of fraud has been in operation for several years past at the port of London, attended with great loss to the revenue of Customs, by means of dishonest practices on the part of various officers of that department—some of them car ried on by means of dishonest practices by the officers in league together, but chiefly by their being in secret connexion witn dishonest traders. It is also established that this extensive and long-established system of fraud has been carried on with impunity, and without the know ledge of the Board of Customs, mainly in consequence of the disregard of their proper duties by the landing waiters, and other officers in the surveyor's department. The fraudulent transactions which have been investigated are classed in the report under the eight following heads : —`` 1. The granting of false certificates by the export officers whose duty it is to ascertain what goods are ship ped. 2. By granting a false certificate of the quality, or existence of goods for exportation, to obtain an amount of drawback of duty far exceeding what is legally due, or a drawback for an imaginary exportation of articles. 3. The dummy system, or the substitution of a package of low duty goods for a package of high duty goods. 4. By the negligent or wilful undervaluation of goods where they are subjected to ad valorem duties, and the dishonest or careless and faulty enumeration of the goods when their amount is to be stated. 5. By the improper computation of the tares of packages. 6. An under valua tion and under account of goods, so that an under duty is paid by means of making a proper entry in the rough books on examining the goods, and obliterating that entry so soon as they were safe in the warehouse of the impord place of the proper elr o y w , a du fa ty lse wi 7 ter, substituting, in insufficient entry of the coods, denoting a „nit, 1-as paid, instead of the prpoer duty to the crown. 7. The of goods by the substitution of fresh 'al leaves in the landing waiter's' Blue Ent entr TEE mrErccr, STANPAIRD A SIGNIFICANT SIGN. — The present workhouse in Sheffield, forme:ly an extensive cotton mill, is to be con siderably enlarged ; the estimated expense is £lO,OOO, which will be advanced by the tr asury in Exchequer Bills. at 4 per cent. The loan is to be repaid by annual instalments. The body of a gamekeeper, in the employ of George Wilbraham, Esq., of Delamere House, Cheshire, was found in a lonely road near Chester, on Friday week, in such a mutilated condition as to Leave no doubt that he had been murdered. The name of the unfortunate man was Matthias Bailey, and he has left a wife and four chil dren. At Durham assizes Thomas Lawson was indicted for the murder of his brother William Lawson; it appeared they had quarrelled about some money matters, and the prisoner struck deceased three or four times on the back of the head with a stone, from which he died. The jury found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter. and Mr. Jus tice Wightman sentenced him to transportation for life. An unfortunate child, at Colmar, staked himself on a hay-hook, and died on Wednesday. For two days he re mained in a complete state of somnolency, till he made one sudden turn, uttered one cry, and expired. On the autopsy being made, it was found that the instrument had entered his body to the length of ten inches, and that it would have been impossbile to extract it without causing his instant death. An influx of water, involving the destruction of pro perty to the value of fifty thousand pounds, and the total deprivation of employment to several hundreds of work people, took place on Tuesday evening, at the colliery of Mr. J. Fitzgerald, situate in the township of Pendleton, near Manchester, which supplied nearly 1,000 tons of coal a day to the Manchester market. WINDOW DUTY.—The following is a parliamentary return of the duty on windows, for the year 1841, asses sed for the twelve towns in England paying the largest amount ; Bath 21,898. Birmingham 11,093, Brighton 15,216, Bristol 15,056, Cheltenham 6,755, Clifton 7,850. Leeds 7,514, Liverpool 30,790, Manchester 19,157, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 5,710, Norwich 7,141, Plymouth 11,391. On Tuesday evening, Mr. C. Green made his 286th ascent in his Albion Balloon, from the gardens attached to Cremorne House, King's-road, Chelsea, accompanied by Captain Currie, this being bis 41st ascent. The greatest elevation attained was about 7,500 feet. The landing was accomplished about seven miles from Chelms ford, the distance gone over being about 37 miles. HERRING TRADE.—The herring fishing is going on prosperously in all quarters of the west coast, but more especially in the sound of Kilbrannan, near Campbletown. The fish are of a superior quality, are extremely moderate in price, they are purchased by the curers at 2s. 6d. per long hundred. The price per barrel at the Glasgow mar ket is from £2 to £2. 55., but it is expected that the price will soon be considerably lower.—Ayr Observer. Dennis John Blake, the late landing-waiter, who was so deeply implicated in the late Custom -house frauds, and whose name has been repeatedly mentioned in the legal proceedings adopted by the Commissioners of Customs against Messrs. Candy and Dean, and other parties, was attached in London the other day, and is detained by the crown for £B,OOO, the amount of which he defrauded the government. He has a fine estate near Dublin. WiNnsoß BRIDGE TOLLS.—The tolls of this bridge, which cost nearly £20,000 in its erection, dividing the two towns of Windsor and Eton, were let for several years previously to 1841 at £BOO and £9OO a-year. In that year they were, for the first time, put up by auction, when the former lessee gave £l,lOO for them ; and last year the sum obtained by the trustees of the bridge was £1,500. On Friday they were again let by public competition, when they were knocked down for £1,400. A subscription is raising in London for the orphan family of the late Mr. Elton, who was lost in the fatal wreck of the Pegasus. Amongst the donors we observe the Queen, £25 ; Miss Bourdett Coutts, £ 10 ; Mr. Mac ready, £2l ; Proprietors of Punch, £lO ; and Mr. Charles Kean, £lO. A benefit is shortly to take place at Drury Lane Theatre for the same object. - - - - - It is said that the expenses of Van Amburgh's exhi bition are upwards of £3OO a day. His tour in the North has been very profitable, and he is reported to have netted the following sums :—At Alnwick, £370 ; Belford, £150; Kelso, £300; Coldstream, £200; Dunse, £150; and at Berwick, £250; whilst at Blyth, Morpeth, Wooler, and other minor places, his receipts were very satisfactory. STAFFORDSHIRE. POTTERIES, AUG. 2.—This evening four colliers were killed at the Bapilan Deep Ash Pit by what seems to be an act of great and criminal carelessness. They were being lowered into the pit and they had nearly reached the bottom, the action of the sawney (small en gine) instantaneously reversed, by which they were drawn up again with such frightful velocity, that they were pro pelled a height of 40 yards into the air. MAMMOTH ENGINE.—On Thursday week the enor mous cylinder of 144 inches in diameter for the great engine designed to drain the Haarlem Lake, was cast at the foundry of Messrs. Harvey and Co., at Hayle, Corn wall. It is 1y far the largest cylinder ever cast ent►re for any purpose. The operation was completely successful. More than twenty.five tons of iron were melted for the occasion! EXTRAORDINABY GROWTH OF MUSHROOMS.-011 the morning of Friday week, Mr. Taylor, of Golcar, weflt out early to search fot mushrooms, and to one field in particular, but could not see the least vestige of one. On the same evening he repaired to the field again, where to his surprise he gathered two, each of which measured 21 inches in circumference, and must have sprung up and attained that size in less than 12 hours. A very destructive fire occurred at Abington, in Cam bridgeshire, on Thursday last, by which the fine buildings of the very extensive farm of Thomas Mortlock, Esq., were entirely consumed. One part of the premises con sisted of a large barn, 180 feet in length, which along with 140 quarters of wheat, threshed and dressed, w as destroyed. The amount of damage is £2,000 but the property was insured in the Sun office. On Tuesday, whilst Mr. O'Connor was addressing a chartist meeting at Frome, about fourteen miles from Bath, in the loft of a large warehouse, the floor suddenly gave way and the whole assembly was precipitated to the floor beneath. One young woman had her leg broken, and Mr. O'Conner had his left leg ane hip inlured ; his coat was torn from his back, his trowsers were i educed to shreds, and the sole of his boot was actually split in two. No life was lost. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—In May. 1838, the society was formed with about 250 members. in Decem ber 1838, they had increased to 600, and its income to £1,128. The following data indicate its progress since then :—Dec. 1839, members 2,oo7—income, £2,226 ; Dec. 1840, members 4,262—income, £3,598 ; Dec. 1841, members s,2B2—income, £4,794; Dec. 1842, members 6,soo—income for last half year only, £,450. The meet ing for 1844 is to be held at Southampton. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.—At the Marylebone police office, London, last week, a long inquiry was gone into before the sitting magistrate relative to a charge of attempting to extort money from a highly respectable gentleman, by bringing forward the most indecent charges against his dsughters , which he threatened, unless renu merated, to make public in court of justice in certain pro ceedings which he asserted he was instituting against the keeper of a brothel. ALLEGED MURDER.—On Saturday afternoon, an in vestigation, which lasted several hours, was gone into at Spitalfields, London, before Mr. Baker and a respectable jury, touching tha death of Eliza Slater, aged 18 years, who, it was alleged, had come by her death in consequence of the brutal treatment she had received from a man named Facey, with whom she cohabited. The coroner said that prima facie the evidence amounted to wilful murder, but he should adjourn the case for a post mart fm examination. The man had absconded since the morning of her death, and has not since been heard of. "THE LEAGUE."—We understand that one means adopted by the league of furthering the anti-corn. law agi tation is this. They offer to the " liberal " journalists of the district a report prepared by their own reporters, agreeing, at the same time, to purchase 1000 copies of his paper, of which number 500 are sent to the league, and 500 are left for distribution with the p rinter. If! this statement be true—as we believe it to be—it throws con siderable light on the vaunted " success "—such as it is— which has attended Mr. Cobdeu's proceedings.—Cam bridge Chronicle. THE MINING DISTRICTS.—The state of the mining districts does not improve. While works are successively thrown out of employment in South Staffnrdshire poor rates increase enormously : one colliery is mentioned on which the rate is £4OO ; on a single pit it is £25 ! There is an extensive miners association, which was originally established at Wakefield ; Newcastle-upon-Tyne is now its head quarters ; and it is said to number between thirty and forty thousand enrolled members, and to extend to extend to Scotland and Ireland. A general strike for wa ges is contemplated. - The Socinians have induced Sir Robert Peel and Sir James Graham to introduce a bill into parliament for the purpose of quieting their possession to those extensive trust estates, of which they have so long held unrighteous possession. The consequences of the solemn affirmation by the House of Lords, assisted by the judges, of the Lord Chancellor's decision in Lady Hewley's case are in tended to be neutralised by this monstrous enactment—an enactment so monstrous, that we marvel that either Sir James Graham or Sir Robert Peel could have listened to it for a moment. ESCAFE OF TWO PRISONERS.—Wm. Osborn, charged with shooting at his wife with a pistol, with intent to murder her, and Richard Petchell, charged with swindling a farmer named Budds, of Little Clacton, in Essex, of a valuable mare, at Colchester fair, on the sth ult., effected their escape last week from the prison in Colchester. The prisoners contrived to steal a chisel, with which they cut away the window sills of the apartment where they were confined, so that they removed the iron bars and let themselves down into the new inarket•place by their bed clothes, leaving their hats and boots behind. LARGE SEIZURES.—It having come to the knowledge of the Commissioners of Excise that large quantities of grain, purported to be high-dried malt, but which was in fact. but "scorched barley" (having never been sub jected to the malting process,) were to he found upon the market, they issued instructions to several officers to in ,estigate the subject. The result was, that several large malsters and corn-dealers had extensive stocks of grain of this description which was seized by the officerA, and Inicurits to bereeen 400 and 500 quarters. A consider t,.portion of it was [nought from the neighbourhood is ill gal article bad been disposed t tie effect of the sale of this article It, in it IP, rig the appearance of of Croydon, wLere tl DESTRUCTIVE FIRES IN LoNuoN.—Within twenty four hours (from six on Saturday morning to six on Sunday morning) four of the most destructive fires that have for a long time occurred in the metropolis to,,k place ;—the first in Pore-street, Eirnenouse, destroying property to the amount of --ElOOO ; the second at G:een bank, Wapping, which entails a loss of £12,000; a third in New-street, causing a loss of £12,000 ; and a fourth in Great George-street, Westminster, destroying property amounting to £BOOO. THE FIRST DAY OF OYSTERS.—On Friday, at six o'clock, the sale of oysters for the season commenced at Billingsgate, which was crowded with vendors of shell fish, and, when the hatches were opened, there was a tremendous rush to obtain the first supply. The supply was below the average, and the demand was not so brisk as usual. The inferior oysters, which had not been laid on the beds to fatten, produced from Bs. to 10s. per bushel ; the " Commons,, an oyster generally vended by the retail dealers at the stalls, 14s. per bushel ; the pearls, £1 125.; the Kelly's, 165.; and Scotch , £ 1 10 s. LORD STANHOPE TAKING THE PLEDGE.—At one of the London meetings, held by Father Mathew, for the purpose of administering the teetotal pledge, a semi circle was formed, and 300 men and women knelt and received it. Amongst the number was Earl Stanhope, who la boured under considerable agitation, and was directly afterwards embraced by Father Mathew, who, in tha en thusiasm of the moment, kissed his cheek. The noble Earl smiled, and grasped Father Mathew's hands, ex claiming, " God bless you, Sir." The delivery of speeches and the administering of the pledge was proceeded with until dnsk, when Father Mathew left the ground. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—Mr. Frederick Ancona, a draughtsman in the office of the Patent Elastic Pavement Company, London, attended the meeting of scientific per s ons at the w rks near Waterloo-bridge, on Thursday af ternoon, and on returning, in company with two gentle men, he observed, " I will bet you a shilling that I will walk along the parapet wall," and immediately jumped np in the recess of the bridge, and in getting on the wall it is imagined he was seized with vertigo. He fell over and was never seen after. So sudden was it, that his friends had not moment to prevent this perilous attempt. Loss OF THE PEGASUS.—The following is a statement of the number of passengers and crew of the Pegasus, according to the latest estimate in the best informed quar ters : Cabin passengers Steerage Crew, including fireman Total Saved Drowned . The National Society appears to have abondoned its intention of holding a public Meeting on occasion of the defeat of the Factories Education Bill. A list of contri butions is being privately circulated, which already gives a total of £32,082. Her Majesty subscribes £l,OOO. The Queen-Dowager and Prince Albert £5OO each. The Dukes of 'Jorthumberland and Portland, and Sir Robert Peel, £lOOO each. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishop of London, the Chapter of Durham, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Harrowby, Lord Francis Egerton, the Hon. Sidney Herbert, Mr. Abel Smith, and Mr. Holtord, £5OO each. There are also two contributors of £3OO each; nine, of £250 each; twenty eight, of £2OO each ; and 115, of £lOO each. EXTRAORDINARY DISSIPATION.—At the Exeter As sizes, on the Ist inst., an action was brought by a gentle man at Exeter, named Strong, against a solicitor in Tiver ton, to recover between £5O and £6O for money lent. It appeared that in January, 1842, the two started for Ply mouth, and though they remained there but one day and two nights spent £ll2. They had teams of four horses cn the road, and plenty of champagne at breakfast, lun cheon, dinner, and supper, and tea to qualify the wine. The bill at the hotel was £2B, and they were driven about in flies all day. Twelve pounds were paid for the horses; and there was a breakfast for seven people, which cost £7. The action was brought to recover one-half of these expenses, the plaintiff having found originally the whole amount, and the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £56. WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.—The public and private services at the Wesleyan Conference, held at Sheffield, have been well attended during the week. An influential committee has been appointed to consider the affairs and prospects of Wesleyan Methodism in Scotland. The list of candidates for the ministry is very conriderable; and the friends of missions will rejoice to hear that fourteen of these have been raised up on the Foreign stations. In several districts, the Conference regret to find a defalca tion in the New Auxiliary Fund. In an interesting con versation, it was stated, that the conduct of the VC esley ans, during the disturbances of last summer and autumn, was, without a known exception ',yal and peaceful. T' the question—What preaches have died since the last Conference, the names were called over, when it appeared that thirteen have died in Great Britain, three in Ireland, and eight upon Foreign missionary stations. CAUTION TO EMIGRAN TS.—A short time ago a lad named Moffat, who was anxious to emigrate to America, made application at the office of the emigration agent in this town, and paid four guineas as the amount of his pas sage money to New York. He was, in return for the money, furnished with a ticket, purporting to be an au thority for securing him a berth in the ship Elizabeth Stewart, which was to sail in one or two days from Li verpool to New York. Armed with the document. the lad proceeded to Liverpool ; but on his arrival there, found it was of no value whatever—the paper was repu diated, and the poor fellow found, when too late that he had been cheated out of his four guineas—his all, as it would appear, for he was iniebted to the captain of one of the Liverpool steamers for a free passage back to Glas gow. The Government emigration agent in Liverpool wrote to Glasgow on the subject, and the man who com mitted the fraud is now in custody.— Glasgow Paper. HORRIBLE STORY.—One of the most dreadful and cruel means ever heard of to destroy the life of a child, and get the body eaten up by pigs, has just come under the notice of the parish authorities of Bermondsey. It appears that on Monday night a woman was observed to go into one of the secluded meadows in the Grange-road. It was discovered next morning that she had left a child about eight weeks old on the grass, and in the meadow there were about 30 or 40 ravenous hogs turned out. How it is they did not scent the body of the poor child is astonishing, for if they had death must have been the almost instantaneous result. The child, when found in the morning, was in a dreadfully emaciated state, ap parently from the want of the ordinary nourishment of an infant, and is expected to die. The parish officers have offered a large reward for the apprehension of the woman, as there is no doubt, if the child dies, it will be a case of wilful murder. REMARKABLE ESCAPE.—On Monday afternoon, as one of the trains on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway was returning to Glasgow, a boy, the son of a gentleman connected with this city, who had been leaning on the door of one of the carriages, fell out—the door flying open —and was precipitated over a steep embankment, about two miles beyond Linlithgow, into a hayfield below, where a number of haymakers were at work. Of course, no one in the train who witnessed the accident had any other idea but the boy was killed on the spot. Judge of their sur prise, however, on stopping at Li n lithgow, and the grati fication of the parent,—who could scarcely be prevented from leaping out of the carriage,—to be informed that his son was in the hands of the haymakers, altogether unin jured, with the exception of a scratch on the face, caused by rolling down the embankment. We believe that no blame is attributable to any of the guards, as the door had been left unfastened by a lady who had gone out at some of the stations on this side of Ediuburgh.—Glasgow Chronicle. The Durham Advertiser of Friday last states that it is " convinced against its will" that the late radical victory in that city is to be ascribed to the unwarrantable inter ference of the Marquis of Londonderry. It concludes a long article on the subject as follows. " Though 45 electors of the Marquis of Londonderry have on this oc casion voted for a Chartist, it was not from their own wishes, but upon compulsion. Several were willingito go to the poll even at the eleventh hou'r, :in favour of Mr. Purvis, but as their votes could not then turn the scale, the agents of the learned gentleman would not endanger the loss of their employment, merely for the purpose of diminishing Bright's majority. Many of those in the in fluence of Lord Londonderry refused peremptorily to vote for Bright, and were left unpolled. One hundred and sixty one voters remained unpolled, either through threats or blandishments, and had the election remained free— had there been no bribery on the one side or intimidation on the other, Mr. Purvis would have been returned by a large majority." PREMATURE INTERMENTS.—We have more than onee called the attention of our readers to the hurried manner in which interments are gone about in the north, amongst the poorer and middle classes especially. The following case which occurred a few days ago, in the church yard of Wick, shows pretty clearly that an interment of this kind had taken place, and that, too, while the person was alive. On the grave-digger removing part of the lid of a coffin, whilst digging a grave, he was struck with the strange manner in which the bones and skull were placed, and calling another person to look at it, they removed gently the whole top of the coffin, the arm-bones stretched up over the head, and the latter turned on its side near the thigh-bones. The chips and shavings, too, which are usually placed under or about the head, appeared to be all pushed down towards the legs. From inquiry, it was ascertained to be the remains of a man who was buried about twenty years ago, and said to have died of a faint ing fit, and from the attendant circumstances, no doubt is left in our mind that:lre was interred while in a state of syncope.—John o' Groat Journal. THE SALMONIDaE.—Every fact that tends to elucidate the obscurity in which the natural history of the salmon is involved will be read with interest, and therefore we have great pleasure in announcing to our readers that the extensive experiments made by the lessees of the lower fisheries of the Eden have been so far successful that a gilse weighing about 51b. was caug ht fish ery on Thursday morning which had been ma r ked as that was fry in 1842. The back fin was taken bu to m ff,_ ertion h o t f the at the Staintownheea a common expedient in other river:a s s 11 p back fin is gone, but nature has 1 tailwhich was cut away. A caudal fin was also cut off. In e tl v ) idee n t e t c y a itn e e m n d etaakreffort to supply the portion of lace but the mark is plain where new g rowth has taken pl thanof the h e fi had been injured is less This is conclusive of it the granulation commenced, aecatnintisiehasiiidee ontltileirt. ! the p lact, that the salmon tripe visit butis singular that out of nearly 511:0e0ior nativea we i r iv e e r i l -s n ' tr' , ed so very few have been retaken. D u ring the present week the take of fish in the S ulwny and its tributaries has been enormous, and for the lint 'THE GREAT BRITAIN We recen tl this magnificent sl STEAM SHIP. floating e sorze _particulars of her s becoTde an o iterest in this port—the Rrobabilit Wili be that her destination eventually, if not a priori, to run between it and New York—we now furnish some The bottom (under water when lor.ded) is elencher built and double livened in the longitudinal laps, atm singly, but sufficiently strongly, in the buts of the plates— the joints being flush (to maintain the smoothness of the streaks), with a jointing fillet. The keel plates are from inch thick in the middle to 1 inch at the ends; and ail the plates under water are from ith to -LL inch at the top, except the higher plate, or streak, which is -Wis. TW wards the extremities, and quite aloft, the thickness is reduced gradually to 7-16ths. She has no projecting keel, as woodsn ships have, under the main or middle portion of the hull, the first lengths of plates on either side being rivetted on the upper edges of the keel plates. Towards the extremities, however, she has ample depth of keel, and is withal so tine and sharp, that she will, no doubt, be found to have sufficient hold of the water for all ractical purposes, particularly as the edges of the plats, or laps, will, as in a clencher-built boat, greatly coduce to this purpose. The ribs are of angle iron, 6 inches by 31. They are about 14 inches apart in the middle, and gradually increase in distance to 18 and 21 inches at the extremities, by 1 inch thick at the bottom of the vessel, and 7-16ths at the top. In the part forming the engine-room, for the purpose of giving additional strength, 9 additional ribs are introduced, and 16 ad ditional reverse ribs rivetted to the original framing. rendering them double, or backed. The boiler platform is of plate iron, resting on ten iron kelsons formed of iron plates placed on edge. The centre kelsons are 3 feet 3 inches deep. The hull is divided into five compartments by substantial water-tight bulkheads— a plan first introduced, and still continued, by our towns man, Mr. J. Laird, iron shipbuilder. The decks, of which there are four, consist of the upper deck, two cabin decks, and a cargo deck. The first, only, runs the full length of the ship, 308 feet; the others being of course cut off in the middle by the intervention of the engine and boiler rooms. The second deck consists of two promenade saloons, of which the after or first class one is 1101 feet by 22 feet, and the forward or second class one 67 feet by 21 feet 9 inches. There are sleeping rooms on each side ;—these are well lighted and ventilated.. On the third deck are the dining saloons. The grand saloon aft is 981 feet in length by 30, and the second class one forward 61 feet by 21 feet 9 inches. They are both 8 feet 3 inches in height, and there are sleeping rooms along the sides of each, of which there are 26 with one bed, and 113 with two beds—making 252 berths. The fourth deck is for cargo. The beams for the support of the several decks are of 3 inch angle iron, with a joint bar of 5 inches by 1 inch, rivetted on the side. They are about 21 feet apart. The deck planks are fastened to the angle iron by screws from below, and firmly secured to the vertical ribs. To prevent the hull from springing hori zontally there are diagonal tension bars between the angle iron bars and the deck planks. The engines were constructed under the superinten dence of Mr. Brunel, and are stupendous pieces of mechanism. The main wrought-iron shaft (from the Mersey Iron Works), the largest ever yet made, weighs about 18 tons. The diameter of the screw will be 16 feet, and the shaft will be turned by a chain belt passing round two drums, by which the speed of the first motion will be nearly quadrupled. Of the screw, Mr. Hall, the cele brated engineer, in an able article on the vessel, published in the Mechanics' Magazine, remarks : " Taking all circumstances into consideration, it does appear that if by the use of an equal weight of fuel the " duty " performance of the screw be nearly equal to that of the paddle-wheel, and that the whole of the machinery be so constructed as to be lasting, and not unpleasant to passengers, it has the merit of being free from some serious inconveniences of the paddle-wheel, such as great topheaviness, opposition of the paddle-boxes to the wind, &c., and possesses these advantages besides, namely, that strength in the upper part of the ship is not required to support machinery, and that the deck is clear—a great comfort to passengers, and of great convenience in manage ment of sails and working the ship." The principal promenade saloon is lighted by ten sky lights, and a deck or dome light. The walls are painted in delicate tints, and along the sides are oaken chairs. A. row of pillars, supporting the deck, runs down the middle. Besides the state rooms on each side, there are, adjoining those to be devoted to the ladies, two neat private cabins, or boudoirs, for their use. The dining saloon below is a fine and very large apartment, elegantly, but not gaudily, fitted up. There are twelve columns of white and gold running down the centre, with ornamental capitals richly carved in the Arabesque style. Twelve similar co range on each side, some distance from the w ills GENERAL MISCELLANY In the Clifton Zoological Gardens, a pointer bitch is now suckling a young leopard. A field of wheat was cut in the neighbourhood of Ips wich last week. The price of whiskey at the several distilleries in Cork has been fixed at ss. 9d. per gallon. Lord J. Russell paired off with Sir H. Douglas against the Scotch Church Bill. THAMES TUNNEL.—Forty thousand four hundred and fifty-nine persons passed through last week. On Friday last a fine young woman leaped off Waterloo Bridge into the river Thames, and sank in a few minutes. The Government rum contract, for 100,000,000 gallons, half East and half West India, has been taken at Is. 54d. per gallon. Professor Lee, of Edinburgh, the greatest of modern linguists, acquired his chief knowledge of languages whilst working at his trade as a carpenter. A contract has been entered into by two influential firms—one in London, the other at Liverpool --to con vey 5,000 poor emigrants to Australia. Within the last few days, between fifty and sixty lambs have been found dead upon the Sedbergh Fells, which had apparently been worried either by a dog or by foxes. On Thursday evening a dinner was given to Sir B. Brodie, at which a medal was presented to him in honour of his resigning the surgeoncy of St. George's Hospital. Government has made a grant of £l6O to each officer of the Canadian provincial forces engaged in the war of 1812. We regret to hear that Mr. Matthew Paterson, dyer, of Halifax, has been obliged to suspend payment. The liabilities are stated to be above £20,000. A lady died the other day in one of the carriages on the Blackwall Railway, it was supposed from exertion in mounting the stairs to obtain her ticket. Mr. Black has retired from the editorship of the Morning Chronicle, which he conducted for many years with great talent, knowledge, industry, and success. The accounts from Staffordshire are rather more favour able ; iron may be quoted about ten shillings per ton better. A reward of £lOO has been offered by Government for the apprehension of Joseph Dobson, the murderer of his father, at Mount Tabor, near Halifax, The Fanny, a vessel belonging to Preston, was lost last week. The captain was saved, but two of the crew were lost. On Wednesday, a porter at the Stoke Prior Station was run over by a train on the Birmingham and Glocester Railway, and so much injured, that his death was occa sioned thereby. Last week, Mr. Cobbold, Broughton Park, Edinburgh, received from a friend in Colchester, through the post office, a couple of live snakes, being the second time such a fare has been conveyed through this medium. The small steamer lately placed on Loch Katrine, for the accomodation of tourists, was scuttled and sunk, a few nights ago, by the boatmen, with whose profits it interfered. Between the 21st and 27th ult. there entered France from England—at Boulogne, 1314 travellers and 5 car riages ; and at Calais, 634 travellers, 2 horses, and 10 carriages Sir C. Nightingale, Bart., who died suddenly the other day, has left the whole of his property to his medical attendant, Dr. Greville, to the exclusion of his own family. On Friday week the wheels of the mail coach which runs between Andover and Southampton, took fire in conse quence of not being properly greased before starting. The coachman refused to continue the journey. THE OPERATIVE FRAMEWORK-KNITTERS. ---• After much struggling, the poor framework-knitters have ob tained a government pledge for an inquiry into their alleged grievances. —Dublin Mercury. At a petty sessions, held at Morpeth, a few days ago, there were no less than forty shopkeepers, innkeepers, and others, summoned and fined for having in their pos session imperfect weights, measures, and balances. We understand that Mr. Banks Stanhope, of Revesby, Lincolnshire, gave 200 guineas to Mr. Parkinson of Ley Fields, near Newark, for his bull calf, Cramer, which won the prize at Doncaster on Wednesday. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. — We understand that Mr. H. Wallack has become the lessee of Covent-garden Theatre, which will be opened under the new management in the latter end of September.—Morning Chronicle. At a special meeting of the Leeds town council, last week, Mr. John Arthur lkin, solicitor, was appointed town-clerk and clerk of the council, at a salary of £650 per annum, vice Mr. Edwin Eddison, resigned. A LIBERAL LANDLORD.—At last weeks collection of rents upon the Perth estates, Lord Willoughby d'Eresby granted to all his tenantry, without distinction, an abate ment of 22A per cent. In the county of Cornwall there are 370,000 inhabi tants, 10,000 of whom are miners, and 70,000 teetotallers ; and of this large body there were but five prisoners for trial at the last assizes ! Thus abstinence lessens crime and abates misery. We have to announce that Lord Stuart de Rothsay, the English Ambassador at the Court of St. Petersburgh, is about to be recalled, and his Lordship's place in that capi tal is to be supplied by the Duke of Beaufort. —Court journal.—[This is denied in a provincial paper.] A convict, in Cambridgeshire county gaol, committed suicide on Friday week in his cell, by mist en ling himself from a bar above the door with his braces and stockings. He was under sentence of transportation for fifteen years for an assault upon his wife with intent to murder her. An insurance was effected at Lloyd's, last week, by. Messrs. Cavan, Brothers, on behalf of the colony of De merara, on 24,783 dollars, being the savings during five years of 230 Hill Coolies, who are on their return from Guiana to Calcutta. The Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, which numbers upwards of 1600 members of the legally-qualified of the medical profession in every locality of the kingdom, held its eleventh anniversary on Wednesday and Thursday last, at Leeds. A SINGING MOUSE.—A mouse has been recently caught that possesses the surprising faculty of imitating the notes of the nightingale and various other birds with perfect ease and fluency. It is in the possession of parties in London. A BAPTIST BISHOP.—A contemporary records that at the annual meeting of the Baptist College, held on Wed nesday, in Westgate Chapel, Bradford, " Mr. Thomson, Bishop of the first Baptist Church, Hull, read the Scrip tures and prayed I" A public meeting was held in Ulverstone, last week, for the purpose of effecting a reduction in the price of milk. The object has been accomplished, and the farmers have agreed to charge for skim milk, Id. and new milk aid per quart. _ Several thrifty wives, on the occasion of a recent bank failure in Leicestershire, wished to "prove" for notes of the broken bank, which they had hoarded unknown to their husbands ; but the commissioner told them they must send their liege lords. Mr. Escott gave notice in the House of Commons, on Monday last, of his intention to move that it be an in struction to the Committee of the Turnpike Bill to ex empt from the payment of toll all vehicles conveying ma nure. EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday last, a horse drawing a chaise in Southwark started off at full gallop and jumped on an iron post at the corner of a street with such force as to rip its stomach completely open. The animal died in a few minutes. The troop-ship Alert, belonging to the Admiralty, was wrecked on the 4th ult. off County Harbour, near Goose Island, about 80 miles from H alifax, whilst on a voyage from that port to England. She had 25 seamen, along with 200 soldiers and 95 women and children, all of whom were saved. The total loss is said to exceed £20,000. The Standard, alluding to the fact of the Anti-corn law League having been in habit of ordering thousands of copies of their favourite newspapers, says, " this is the way in which some of the Liberal journals have contrived for some time past to increase their circulation: the fact, however, has been long known in London. PROSPECTS OF THE HARVEST.—" One who has whis tled at the Plough," says, in an article in the Morning Chronicle, of Thursday last, that judging from the ap. pearance of the crops, as seen from the line of railway from London to Liverpool, there is a prospect of penny loaves being bigger than ever. A man of the name of Henry Hendery, and a young woman named Hannah Sancto, threw themselves into the river Medway, near Rochester, the week before last. It appeared at the inquest that the parties were to have been married, but that some obstacle was raised. They were found clasped in each others arms. The carpet trade of Kidderminster is now, and has been for some months past, in a most excellent state. There is scarcely a loom unemployed, and the men are now pressed by their masters for work, instead of, as at this time last year, when the masters were pressed by their men to give them work. DEATH ON DARTMOOR.—Last Tuesday week, a far mer's boy went to look for some cattle on Dartmoor; he was overtaken with sudden rain and tempest, and the mist was so thick that he could not find his way home. It was not until Saturday last that he was found, and then he was quite dead.—West of England Conservative. It is said that the head of an eminent fancy goods' firm in the city, recently exchequered for participation in the custom house frauds, has absconded, after many futile attempts to obtain a compromise from the government, and for which he is said to have offered a ♦ery considerable sum.—Globe. EDUCATION.—A committee of the Wesleyan Metho dists' conference has been appointed to report upon the means of diffusing " sound Scriptural and useful" know ledge by the establishment of additional week-day schools. The Rev. R. Newstead, J. Dixon, C. Prest, and J. New ton, with Mr. T. Farmer, are among the members of the committee. The number of children at present educated at the day schools of the Wesleyan body is 20.804; at the Sunday schools, 401,383; at an expense for the whole of £:21,167 7s. 2d. FATAL. COLLISION AT SEA.-At midnight, on Satur lay week. the Concord of Teignmouth, hound from ort (Wales) to that place, was run down of Padstow, id and rain. by the John Esdaite, CO tons bound to Biistol. Captain fleet c men were btlow ,corm c , at the fully painted like enainel:with oriental birds, flowers On either side are seven doors, orening into as ges, each of which communicates ivith four There will be three rows of dining many Massa sleeping rooms tables, capable of accommodating 360 persons. The Great Britain will be rigged with iron wire shrouds, stays, &c. which is remarked upon by the Bristol journals as if were a novelty. It has been in use i❑ many of the large steam-ships of this port—the Licerpooi, the Urt ental, &c., for some years, and is found to meet every expectation, requiring less displacement, with grestet strength, and so maintaining its tension, that when once well set up, it stands for years. The mainmast is 74 feet above the deck and 34 inches in diameter. The main topmast is 55 feet high. The funnel is 24 feet in circum ference and 39 feet high. The boiler (in three divisions) is 34 long by 22 feet high. The cost of the Great Britain was last year estimated at £79,116; but it is probable that before she is com pleted for sea, in every point, (which will be some months to come,) it will be about £lOO,OOO. It is expected by several scientific gentlemen connected with her, that her rate of going, by means of the screw, (which has already been successfully applied to many vessels,) will be from 14 to 15 knots an hour. All her masts, with the exception of the mainmast, (the second from the bow,) are made with joints on deck, similar to those of our fiver flats, so that they may be lowered down during head winds or in storms. As a whole, tl.e Great Britain is certainly a very noble ship, and in every respect an ho nour to the good people of Bristol. FALSE WEIGHTS AND MEASCRES.—Under this title the Mercury of Friday week has the following paragraph : " On Friday last, a great number of tradesmen, including bakers, grocers, publicans, and ethers, were fined in heavy penalties, at the Mansion-house, London, for using defec tive and fraudulent weights and measures. It must be highly gratifying to the inhabitants of Liverpool to know, that there is no suck thing as a.false weight or detective measure amongst them. We take take it for granted that they enjoy this o:emption because, with a regularly-ap pointed staff of nspectors and assistant inspectors, such a thing as an information is seldom or never heard of." We wish it were in our power to subscribe to the opinions expressed by our cotemporary, (in the passages marked in italics,) who considers himself " the best local as well as political instructor " in the town; but in this instance he exhibits a woeful lack of information, and jumps at a gratuitous conclusion, unhappily unfounded on facts, with the greatest self-complacency imaginable. We are not quite so immaculate in " the good old town" as he assumes in his sapient imaginings. How stands the case? Why, no later than the Ist of June last, no fewer than twenty-eight persons—including market-people, shop keepers, coal, provision, and potatoe dealers, &c., were brought before his Worship the Mayor, at the Sessions House, for having defective or false weights, or measures, or scales, and for other practices by which their customers were defrauded. Most of the delinquents belonged to the market, and only two of thfln were acquitted, the whole of the others being fined in various sums of ls., 2s. 6d., 55., 9s. 6d., 205., and £5! These were proceeded against by one inspector only ; and we can add, for the informa tion of our cotemporary, (though the task is necessarily a painful one) that one tenth part of those who resort to such practises are, from circumstances, placed beyond the reach of detection. It is a notorious fact that the poor in particular, and small housekeepers in general, who,have to purchase in small quantities. in the markets (often when they are crowded) and in small shops and coal yards in . their own localities, have continual cause to complain. The butchers' meat, soap, sugar, &c., are oftener defective in weight than otlferwise ; end coals and potatoes by retail are. if possible worse. Few persons have weights and scales to detect the fraud ; but that it exists no onelwho looks into " the annals of the poor" can deny, and our contemporary may readily satisfy himself of the truth of this assertion. The rich do not feel the injustice done to thern so much, and rarely put their purchases to the test, but they, too, are often wronged. We by no means deny that they are not many exceptions amongst shopkeepers and others,—many who are just and true to all their deal ings. These also are sufferers, for low prices are submit ted to by their dishonest competitors in the trade, who make up for the difference by short weight. In the public markets, particularly on Saturday nights, the practice is common, and many are obliged to submit for want of time and opportunity to bring the offenders to justice : com plaint, too, is often only met by abuse. Besides have we not recently had numbers brought before the magis trate for blowing calves' heads, stuffing lean legs of lamb with mutton suet, &c. ; and is not chiccory mixed with coffee and sold at the high price of the latter? A more strict surveillance is certainly called for, though we are not prepared to point out an effective plan, so man} are the modes of evasion. But let us hear no more of the people of Liverpool gratifying themselves that they are not exposed to be cbeated as are the Londoners. Like our contemporary in his politics, too many of dealersour if put in the balance would be found to be wanting. EBRA TION OF MARRIAGES. —By a recent par_ r t , _ p .n we find that the number of places of . wo hi I REGISTERED PLACES OF WORSHII; Worship to the 30th which 117 in Lancashire, 171 was 1 992 • of June, 1842, , Middlesex. In Cheshire there in Yorkshire, and 115 in d The 187 in this county ' a r L a nta C rreturn , are thus registerede,were 3 Bpi fo e r s religious denomination : classified according to theirtrhe:icsetelretetra.tioi of marriage, presbyterians and unitarians ; 11 pres ePhruerscbiffermiargl3ishchurch of Scotland ; 3 united secession tia ß n a ; P l f l i lb ts ap : tistsmt o - bvrerians, not otherwise defined. independents : 52 inde -7 particular or Calvinistic, c l o t ng :3,3 r nli e :. g eri a la.)h t rlc i oi o tt,a), ; : i iii a svAt l tii i svnr s eni t .}ti . oic; (Arminian rn as t s h o o c d a ) i t s ' i t o s ti N : , l ;_ s:. dentn "' e is w connection, n d , l o e a d i . „ Welsh, 0 ; Lady Huntingdon's connection* W . ,' • ' , Ps ; 63. Foreign churches : 0 ; 414 frf v ; I s i:ca or S , vedenborgian, 5 ; ChritCjir . 1 ; urolc,rrilied or ljgo In Ell 'land Atvl 1 78 eV; •••• . a -1