The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-16 00:00:00

t ittraturr. POETRY SONNET For the Liverpool Standard.) zerefore, no thought for the morrow : for the mor ke thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto we of the morrow anxiously? Ardent for the day, the ills it brings ; 5%3 some, perchance, the Past behind him flings zaze upon the Future's murky way _ It wet with tears of yesterday. s unborn, Fear's willing slave, Xll employed. when they Le sting Regret ;ht and joy shall spring yranny decrease, cannot give, nor Ty e: riag the mimi (prai tke cliffs of Time,.l e, faithless, to despond) and calmly gaze beyond. SAML. HUGGINS 11th, 1847. SCHEME OF EMIGRATION FOR 1847 (From the Dublin Mail.) 11.le Brewers should to Malta go, "The Loggerheads to Scilly, e uakets to the Friendly Isles, - The Furriers all to Chili. Tim little squalling, bawling Brats, That break our nisbtly rest, Weluld be pack'd off to Babylon— To Lapland, or to Brest. ,c7nith.v74. f o o'er to Greece; is passage to the Guinea coast, Spendthrifts are in the Straits, piasters should to the Needles go, Wine-bibbers to Burgundy ; Gourmands should lunch at sandwich Isles "Wags in the Bay of Fundy. Musicians! hasten to the Sound— The surpliced Priests to Rome; still the race of Hypocrites At Canton are at home. rvers should hasten to Good Hope— To some Cape Horn is pain, .lators should go to Ok-i-o, ttnd Sailors to the Maine. Trie Bachelors to the United States! Maids to the Isle of Man. ?Let Gardeners all to Botany go, And Shoeblacks to Japan. vm. Vsms Emigrants, and misplaced men, Will then no longer vex us; hard all that aint provided for Mad better go to Texas. NOTICE construct the Industrial Condition of Ireland : rto Lord J. Russell. By James Ward, Esq., of " Railways for the many, and not for the ,c. London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Corn- bone pampblet contains some very sound reason ). one of the most important questions at present 4g the public, viz. : how the amelioration of the per condition of the Irish people is to be effected. The ows very conclusivelYthat the sums at present being I to the landowners of that country cannot fail to hem into greater difficulties, inasmuch as the bulk property tieing swallowed up by the interests on res, and their title in it generally only a life in security can only be given upon most extravagant y a life insurance, or some similar mode. His pro , that Government should step in with a measure m the whole of the debt upon the soil, by cora the mortgagee to consent to an equitable con of his lien on the land into a proportionate own if it, the basis of the operation being, that if he the state shall pay him off on similarly equitable ' The money to clear off the present incuinbrances ea at £5,000,000 annually, Mr. Ward thinks will tied, £35,000,000 sterling, as, upon the original ;or is paying an average interest of 14 mount could be raised at 31 per cent. ng and valuable matter in the end to the perusal of our which we recomm VARIETIES TITLE.—M. Soyer has been nicknamed by the The broth of a boy."—Punch. The present state of our rela ith Siam promises increased intercourse with that r. During the year, a British vessel, the Margaret I, loaded at the port of Siam direct for England lull cargo of sugar. This adventure will, it is t, lead the way to an extended commerce with a yso prolific in its sugar production. His Siamese y -is represented to be on a more friendly footing to English merchants at Bangkok than heretofore. )E WITH SIAN *lona Colonial Magazine. i'se.—The first fortified houses and stone buildings e read of were in Meath. The earliest chronological which the most veracious of the modern Irishhisto mfer, is about the middle or towards the end of the I , century, when Tuathal Teachtmar, One of the Sco- Milesian Pagan monarchs, reigned at Tara. He d Meath into a fifth province, as mensal lands or age for the monarchy, by taking in portions from Lf the other four ; hence the Irish listorians derive we of Meidhe-L-a neck—on account of its being by necks taken from the surrounding districts or ces. The fact of the Gospel having been first ed and received in Meath, is a proof of its civilisa na comparison with the other parts of the island at eriod.—Dublin University Magazine. EXTENSIVE Star. —An extensive slip has oc- Shakspeare's Cliff, which seems to be gradually nix up its establishment and leaving England in ;. This may be in, consequence of dab Hale hold ere has lately had upon his native country ; and 1, probably, is only crossing the Channel to seek a 11 more congenial lands. Whither will it go to ? settle on the French coast, or sail direct for New It would be curious to find Shakspeare's Cliff at with a board stuck up, " Removed from over the We are confident that Shakspeare himself would Eight all the more of if he had a firm footing in and that his drama and his cliff would rise much in the public estimation when pieces of it could be From the French.—Punch. E 'TOWN AND THE FARMSTEAD.—A dense town ation like that of England, has, or ought to have, me relation to the aggregate produce of , our soil, Ea well-stocked farmstead has to the productiveness arm. The towns of England ought to be the sur ang country what the farm-yard is to the farm—a factory of manure. But the town has this vast su ity over the farm-yard, that its occupants are fed setter food, and its stock of manure is increased by t every process of domestic economy and by almost manufacturing operation. There is this further pe ity ab6ut our towns, considered as sources of ma ,-that the farmer who is so fortunate as to occupy in the immediate neighbourhood of a town, finds his sheds built for him. The whole town is his farm, very house a shed which costs him nothing.—Peo- Journal. ILES or IRISH CHARACTER.—The most careless must have noticed, that our Celtic brethren are, intercourse, rapidly lowering the standard of )mfort among the English labourers. There is .egariousness and innate clinging to filth, such ance of tidiness among these people that they to every thing. Place them in a new, clean, airy 1 in a month, air, and sunshine will be shut out and filth. If they have drains they will -+ choked up, and they have no idea of ree a " run" for a pig, or as fo muck of the house. It in bad-conditioned alleys and <tched houses, and pack most n v crowded rooms, brpal-1-' hem tc street, except a le for the worn J r y recepl inhabit the most wr compounded of the miasma of a pig-sty and the smoke of a chimney;" and their beds and filth spots of the locaity. kTTJRE IN ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND GERMANY ley payments to literary men, England far sur her France or Germany. The booksellers ar ;land ; abroad, the govern!' a, we purposely exclude si as those of Dicker of their works Warr is extra- advantage is the side of England ickens received £ 3f his tiny Christmas stories, whereas Eugene received £4,000 for the ten volumes of his " Juif ordinary cu land making incomes at; literary men in ble to keep body and many• A few curious alwer receives £l,OOO, £1,500 for a novel, and 100 for one irticle, hos,' ay author ke, Augustin tier, A. De Vign lfrPrl rlo cr I how mu heet, o Engi rid Ger i and t ics (13 debitt was not paid for at all lames were an traction, r even w - her ,uch men as Cousin, te-Beuve, Gustavc lirardin, Miche Nodier, A. Du ;hat paid to Georg, receivir. contempo the highest honora- I court A. to be de- I subs( Id bestow. It is, in_ re statement, that the au'thor of an I to the den f a novel line, t ig\ it r s. d 0 9 I neon the defendant done to br ....:, to prove the debt or deniand. og duly summoned, must attend with ne time -n appointed, and if any , for eit' ise to give their at tendance voluntarily uopcenas may be obtained from the addition to his own evidet The defendant I I of the witnesses party reft I cleA_ any books or J ic, not o: but for the prod! nay be required to give evidence ay be recovered ay be sued for 'the debt or demand to 'wares to set off any debt due to Ihim by the plaintiff, he must give notice thereof to the derk, and at the same time deliver to the clerk two copies - set off five clear days before the ~p ecial defence Where i d I of the partic to rely on toe sl limit Loos, or 1 unsatisfied judgment or order for the payment of any debt, or damages, or costs, may summon the party against whom such order may have been made, and the party summoned may be examined upon oath, touching his estate and ef fects, and the manner and circumstances under which he contracted the debt, and as to the means and expectations he then had, and as to the property and means he may still have, of discharging the said debt, but if he shall not attend upon such summons, or shall refuse to be sworn, or to disclose any of the things aforesaid, or if it shall appear that such party has obtained credit under false pretences, or by means of fraud or breach of trust, or has wilfully contracted such debt or liability, without a reasonable.ex pectation of being able to pay the same, or shall have transferred any property, or concealed the same with in tent to defraud his creditors, orif it shall appear that he has, or has had, since the judgment obtained against him, sufficient means to pay the debt, and if he shall refuse or neglect to pay the same, he may be committed to gaol for any period not exceeding forty days. And where the defendant in any suit shall have been personally served with a summons to appear, or shall per sonally appear at the trial, and judgment shall be given against him, the judge has the power of examining the defendant as well as the plaintiff and other parties touch ing the several matters before-mentioned, and of commit ting such defendant as he would have had in case the plaintiff had obtained a summons after judgment obtained as before-mentioned. If any action be commenced after the passing of the act in any of the superior courts, which ought to have been commenced in the county court , and the plaintiff shall obtain a verdict for less than £2O, if the said action is founded on contract, or less than £5, if founded on tort, he will not be entitled to recover any costs. An important alteration is also made in the law of land lord and tenant. Where the tenant of any premises of the value of not more than £5O a-year shall neglect or refuse to quit at the expiration of his term or interest therein, or after the same shall have been determined by a legal notice to quit, he may be summoned before the court, and if he do not appear and show cause to the con trary, and shall refuse to deliver up possession, the court may, upon proof of the holding and of the determination of the tenancy, issue a warrant to give possession of such premises to the landlord within ten days from the date thereof. The office of the clerk will be open daily from 10 o'clock in the morning until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. THE GAME LAWS, It is proverbial that there is truth in jest, and we say with Punch, in all seriousness, " It would be a delightful item to read amongst the subscriptions to the Irish and Scotch destitute fund : " The Abolition of the Game-laws-2,000,000 bushels of wheat." But great as is the amount of human food destroyed in this country by game, that by no means measures the ex tent of the evil. There is a parliamentary paper lately issued which discloses, in part, the wide spread demorali sation caused by the game-laws amongst our working population in the rural districts. This consists of the ab stract of " a return of the number of persons convicted of any offences against the game-laws at any petty sessions, quarter sessions, or assizes ; specifying the penalties or punishments inflicted, and in which county, and upon whose property the offences were committed." This is in continuation of a similar return made in 1844, and shows a, number and severity of punishments in flicted for the preservation of game which is perfectly astounding. During the year 1844, 1845, and part of 1846, '(for the return was made before last August,) ILO less than ELEVEN THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY-TWO persons were convicted in England and Wales of offences against the Game-laws ! ! Of these, 11,006 convictions occurred in England, and 386 in Wales. Of the English convictions, 209 took place at the Assizes, and 10,797 at Petty and Quarter Sessions, or before judges deeply, passionately interested in game preservation. The number of poachers convicted by game-preserving squires, sitting as judges in their own cause, in England, cannot average less than 4,000 ; for the 10,797 of the return were convicted in less than two years and-a-half, and the re turns from several of the counties omit altogether the convictions at Petty Sessions. It is impossible to contemplate the conduct of the landocracy with regard to game and the game-laws without wonder and awe. It is sheer fatuity. Thou sands are dying of famine in Ireland, because food-corn cannot be obtained in sufficient quantities ; seed-corn is not to be nurchased in Ireland for money. Yet landlords persist in the preservation of game to the destruction of several millions of quarters• of game yearly. Last year, from the extreme dryness of the season, was peculiarly favourable to the increase of game, so that not only was there vast devastation committed by these noxious vermin on the farmers' crops last harvest, tut we hear that the injury _ the young wheats have received from game - - throughout the country during the late severe winter, is quite without parallel. A tenant-farmer in Wiltshire, for instance, writing to the Economist, says that he has had seventy acres of wheat eaten completely bare by rabbits and hares, and that with the most favourable season for its recovery, his loss will cex nost moderate estimate, twelve bushels per acre beyond this destruction of produce, we have th be, on t by the returns above referred to, and all this for the pro tection of the sport of a few - persons who require such barbarous means of dissipating ennui.—Daily News. .ncy, covertur be under any st the relief of iliac ve notice ion may be tried by a ff or ice thereof lerk two d ire a neNi which su I giving sE curt, and to ti copy- The plaintiff and defendant, and all other per.— an reprint it else- be examined upon oath or upon solemn affirmation obtain for it a price those cases in which person: are by law allowed to make which the reviews paid. affirmations, instead of takin, novel writing considerably I Where the court shall ma) our position,- because the of money, not part with t ur essays.- shall 1?Q plade t a av vaa y amizatzu Wullaal ZULU). I major 1.1 3 Y party who as obtained any indep jury, if either the pla a practical enforcing of the al b Are, and shall give nt.....: Irish Poor Law, however distres , before the day of trial. If either party ful fact, that we have the evidenct., isfied with any decision of the court, and Alston, the incumbent of St. Philip's, A.. - trial, application may be made to the to the present condition of his parishioners. trial shall have taken place, or at any (he says,) at this moment many familie s who have Sc... —wen clear days' notice thereof bread to eat, who are utterly without beddin g , a nd the -her party. children almost naked." Fresh families amongst th -wraons may weavers are daily being added to the number of thos. in previously out of work ; and from all that I can lean from the manufacturers themselves there appears to b( 6 oaths. but very little prospect of any fresh work being giver an order for the payment out till after Easter, if then." This is the present con. amount is recoverable by execution against dition of a London parish of 14,000 inhabitants, th 4 ling it. i he Rev. Geor Anil pauperism WHAT ARE OUR PROSPECTS ?-EFFECTS OF FREE TRADE (From the Times.) While the falling off in our exports during the past year amounted to £2,018,291, as compared with 1845, the consumption of foreign provisions and articles of luxury for the like periods presents the following totals : Increase in Cattle 34,426 Provisions (cwts ) 507,219 Grain... . . (qrs.) 1,344,675 Flour .. (cwts.) _ 632,479 140,572 84A 106,146 336,923 2,960,510 2,904,492 4,305,185 3,536,911 Cocoa Coffee :. (lb.) 2,589,984 .. (lb.) 34,318,095 (cwts.) 4,879,780 .. (lb.) 44,183,135 372,343 2,463,296 348,068 `Z2I - ,846 46,728,208 2,545,073 Tobacco & snuff (lb.) 26,322,251 30,001,908 .. 3,679,657 brandy, and Geneva (gals.) 3,543,798 .. 4,239,735 .. 6 95,937 The excessive consumption of these and other articles has, however, only led to a drain of bullion to the extent of three millions and a half, while, upon a moderate com putation, they would appear to call for three times that amount. This is to be accounted for by two facts—the first being that we have not imported and paid for as much as we have consumed, since, conjointly with our importations, we have been steadily eating up former reserves, so that our stocks of all kinds—coffee, sugar, rice, &c.—are low ; and, next, because we have dimi nished our importations of raw material in a remarkable degree, and hence, while paying for provisions, have lessened our usual payments on this score. Here, too, in like manner, we have been drawing upon our reserves. Our manufactures have been carried on with hemp, - flax, and cotton which had been paid for in former years, and we have left ourselves at the present moment short of all these articles, the stock of the latter alone on the Ist of January last, as compared with the preceding year, being 545,790 against 1,060,560 bales.. We are not only poorer, therefore, by all the bullion we have lost, but by all the stock we have thus consumed. This process cannot go on any longer. We have now no accumulations to eat into, and must, consequently, pay for what we use. Consequently, therefore, with our im portations of corn and other provisions (which are now going on at a much greater rate and at much higher prices than in 1846), and just in proportion as they beget a de mand for our manufactures, we must have importations of raw material. Large purchases of hemp and flax are alleged to have been made in the north of Europe for spring shipment, and cotton from the United States is only delayed by the want of ships. Wool from Spain and the Mediteranean, saltpetre, oil-seeds, &c., from India, and a host of minor articles have also been kept back by the same cause, and will pour in upon us to make up our deficiencies directly any relavation shall take p)ai (if such could be foreseen) of the universal influx of grain. In this way just as one cause of demand diminishes the other will increase, and the balance will be kept up against us for a period to which at present it is impossible to fix a limit. We thus see that no call that can possibly arise for our manufactures can have the effect of preventing a continu ous drain of bullion. That a large trade will occur no one can doubt, but at present it is scarcely even in pros pect. From India and China each account comes less fa vourable than before ; from Russia we are told that " no great demand can be expected for British goods under the present high duties" in that country ; while even from the United States, the point whence relief will most rapidly come, we hear of a shrewd conviction that we are approaching a period of low prices, and that consequently for the present " the less they order from us the better." And under these circumstances we are to struggle until August, when a favourable harvest may interpose. The money value of the potato crop of Ireland alone is esti mated at £16,000,000, and the non-recurrence of a failure similar to that of last year must depend upon the sudden subsidence of a disease which has been gaining strength for many seasons all over Europe, —or, turning to other resources, and granting a favourable harvest, we have still to tremble at the prospect of a neglect of cultivation. In the House of Commons, on the Ist instant, Lord John Russell " regretted to say that there was no satisfactory evidence that that quantity of land was being sown with corn which should be in preparation to meet the absence of the potato," while a few nights afterwards it was found necessary to refuse an application for a general supply of seed to the people of Ireland, on the ground of its having been ascertained that even what had already been done towards that end had led the farmers to consume their seed corn, and to trust to Government for getting more. And even if all these difficulties could be swept away, there could still be no chance of a low rate of interest in England for some years. Let the slightest decline take place in the value of money, and a week would not elapse before France, Austria, Prussia, Portugal, and other con tinental states would bid a rate that would at once attract our capital, and bring our market towards an equality with Spain, the United States, and Mexico would also appear among the borrowers, nui ror tne iaei, uiw Lucy could not obtain trust on any terms. Italy would take three millions for railways, the German States would also come into the field, and when all these desires had been supplied, the claims of India would remain to receive attention. Not to dwell upon such minor circumstances as the effect upon the circulation consequent upon payments of coin in Ireland, in place of payments in kind, and also of the hoarding and departure of bullion that would result from any extended emigration, we come finally to the one grand point which, amidst all these considerations, has to be kept in mind, that the amount of railway works to be completed during this and the next is to exceed, according to the promises of the parties interested, the extent of construction of any former period. About six months foil; hundred thousand. At the lowest computation we may take this at five hundred thousand for the ensuing Lord George Bentinck will tell us that the money to these men vc but he will find that, so far from being spent at home, it will be spent at New York and Odessa for corn ; in Ohio for pork ; and in France, Brazil, and Cuba for brandy, rum, and sugar. The means of reparation of the bone and muscle expended on our earth -C tt 9, nr., .ks figure annu increase in the items in the above comparative tables to a far greater extent than the Irish famine ; and as, when the lines are completed, they constitute a species oimanu facture which cannot be shipped in payment of their cost, we have no alternative but to pay in gold. We are thus inevitably led to the conclusion that a far greater drain of bullion will take place than has yet occurred. Turn where we will, it is impossible to see a single cause to avert tras reiuu. LI LUG 11111 V LI/ greatest pressure may come, it is not easy to determine, but at the furthest it can scarcely be deferred beyond May, June, or July. Few persons can weigh the difficul _ ties'Cvhich with singular fatility seem now to press from all sides towards one common point, without seeing• that two or three years must pass before position, or again recover confidence 'e can resume our NEW COUNTY COURTS. The following outline of the mode of proceeding to b adopted under the recent Act 9th and 10th toria; c. 95 for the more easy recovery of small debts and demands in England, will be found useful. All claims and demands in personal actions where the debt or damage does not exceed £2O, must hereafter be sued for in the county court, except where the plaintiff dwells more than twenty miles from the defendant, or where the cause of action did not arise within the juris diction of the court within which the defendant dwells or all be a party. and in a of these cases the plaintiff may at his option proceed in the superior courts, but in actions of ejectment, or for any libel or slander, and in certain other cases, the court has no jurisdiction. Any ........-... ..., person, — therefore, having a claim or demand against another will apply to the clerk of the district in which the defendant resides, and if the sum sought to be reco vprm .1,,d1 exceed £5. he must deliver to the clerk as many copies of a bill or statement of the particulars of his demand or cause of action as there are defendants, with m additional copy to file ; but where the debt or sum sought to be recovered shall not exceed 5, no such bill ar statement of particulars is required. The cost of such T OF DEMAND Excee £5 - I Ex nl not meal exceetilt i. d. I s, 410 I 7 I s. d. 1 4 bailiff's fees for the service thereof ; this is all that is necessary to be e case to trial, when the plaintiff must MI LIVERPOOL STANDARD. (Sentra! liftigrellanp. At the Privy Council on Tuesday, Wednesday the 24th instant was appointed as a general fast. THE Cuckoo.—On Monday the voice of the cuckoo wag repeatedly heard in a plantation near Derby. The select committee on the navigation laws re- assemble of the B on Tuesday In the Devonport workhouse on Wednesclay, a portion of the lower jaw bone was successfully taken from a man during the application of ether. _ _ Tuesday [)y Lord leaped throughi - an open window, and installed himself in the Archbishop of York's palace, at Nuneham Park. Mr. Astell, M.P. for. Bedfordshire, died on the 7th .t the axe of 73. He was a director of the East instant India Company JOllll carry, a bupermunentry win:enni, night or two since to the Hereford Gaol, while in a state of intoxication, and was found dead in the morning. On Wednesday a man was killed, and several others seriously wounded, by , the explosion of a boiler at the iron-works of Messrs. Davis and Bloomer, .at West Bromwich The North of England Joint• Stock Bank has stopped mment. The mincinal office is at Newcastle-on -Tyne, s, belonging to died last week at Leeds, by a lion, on the 12th of an their verdic ge was the coroner, who returned to the room, whe; the foreman of the jury declared a verdict of " Manslaughter against John Butler s the assistant overseer of Panabourn," wh( ng gaol by the coion File inquest lasted five hours. An inquest v was committed to R( his trial DEATH FT Tuesday last widow ki STARVATION ;, at Stepney, on view of th :man named Ann Eastbam, on Saturday week, from the want of The body w in a room She ha( within it a vestige of furniture of her husband, supported herself and a son years, by needle-work, until she lost her eve-si him and she obta r slept 01 iu fluently crouched up in a corner of ing condition, because she could not had not eaten any sort of flesh months. They considered the A obtain vic eat for if they could obtain o worth of l• herring a shared w i used to per day. On Sund a shi. veil provide-4 i d - ahartpeuniworth of br him. She always gay, a te herself. Their principal rare ova;. water. His poor mother had frequeh illness during the cold weather, and exprt,.._ that she could not live much longer. On Sand last he observed an alteration in his mnpiainet ;ed, her he, was dying. He went out for ass's, eturned his mother was quite dead." A eath, accelerated by privation and the want of tig Aries of life was returned. nee, and when' verdict. A lion tamer, named Isaac a" . Batty's travelling menagerie from . wounds inflicted upon him December last On Wednesday the arch of one of the principal rooms in her Majesty's palace fell, in its fall carrying away the joists of the room. Several men were very seriously injured. _ The Sunday Times says that they have very good authority for saying that Government has prepared a bill and populous districts . ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE.—The whole of the beautiful swans belonging to Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq., M.P., at Frampton House, were killed on Saturday week by some reckless villains.—Dorget Chronicle. Extraordinary activity prevails at the various ship building yards on the banks of the Wear. The various branches connected with shipping are also exceedingly prosperon: The journeymen block.and mast makers of Sunderland, following the example of the 'Ship carpenters, have de- mandeCand procuret 6d. a d ay on t Christopher Graham, Esq., of Dulwich, died on Mon day, aged 82, in consequence of his female s administering to him an embracation of laudanum phor. and ammonia, instead of the proper draught - ;lay 1 - -+- the wife of - - ;ervant _ast, _ a glove-maker, residing in Nottinghamshire, was delivered of three fine _ One of them is since dead; the other two, and their mother, are doing well. well, Coax TO FRANCE.—Notwithst ling the )f grain which unfortunately preva Kingdom, no less a quantity than 1400 qua wheat were on Thursday shipped from the port of Wood bridge, bound to Dunkirk. At the last return under the Income no fewer mitten that minor ollenc 3ritain WHY THE POOR DO NOT PAY THEIR RENTS.—From the evidence of Mr. Jeremiah Little, an extensive builder of third and fourth-rate houses in the metropolis, it appears that " the average losses7on the rent of such house are one fifth, and that three out of five of these losses are from the sickness of the tenants, who are working men." Seventy-four bodies have been taken out of the pit near Barnsley, where the explosion took place a few days since. Three are known to be still in the pit, and one, it is feared, will never be extricated, such a vast quantity of the works having been blown upon the place where he was employed. Mr. Austin applied to the House of Lords last week, on behalf of sir. R. Montgomery Martin, for divorce from his wife, by reason of adultery committed by the latter with Dr. Sheridan. Mr. Martin was the editor of the late Marquis of Wellesley's despatches, and has also written a valuable work on the colonies. J. Peart, Esq., who was one of the town commissioners, and had, for many years, taken an active part in all mat ters connected with the public welfare of Cheltenham, died on Friday morning, while attending the monthly meeting of the board, at the Fleece Hotel. Deceased was in his 75th year. DISTRESS IN IRELAND.—The Society of Friends of Philadelphia has sent three remittances of £5OO each for the relief of the poor of Ireland. An Irish Society here has sent £4OO, and as large subscriptions are being made, more will follow. The remittances for the relief of Ire land from New York have been very large. At the Reading Assizes, on Friday, Charles Smith, a clerk in the tax office in that town, was tried for malici ously wounding Jane Morris, with intent to kill her. The prisoner said she had done it herself, which she after wards denied, but subsequently said she had. Smith was found guilty, and sentenced to be transported ten years: The corn markets throughout the country exhibit a continued tendency upwards. The demand for France is still large •at Mark-lane. •Some 12,000 quarters were sold on Monday for shipment, at something like ss. per qr. advance on the prices of the previous week ; besides 2,000 qrs. of foreign, which fetched an advance of ls. to 3s. STARTLING DISCOVERY.—The other night, at Ponty pool, a worthy couple on retiring to rest discovered under the bed a man wrapped up in a blanket and with a knife in his hand. He was consigned to lodgings more becom ing such an intruder, at the round-house. The object of attraction appears to have been a cash-box. DRAINAGE OF LAND.—FrOM returns presented to Parliament, it appears that the total amount of public money applied for, under the provisions of the act 9 and 10 Victoria, cap. 101, is, as reards England, £238,069 ; and as regards Scotland, £719,i04. The applications re ceived since the 17th ult., but not advertised, amount, for England, to £58,747 ; and_for Scotland, to £664,821. A LONG WAY ROUND.—A letter'a short time since was received by a person in Wales which, from an error in sorting in London, had performed a voyage round the world. It was directed to South Wales, and by mistake, was forwarded to New South Wales. It was then re turned by a ship mail, landed at Penzance; and endorsed " Not known here ; try South Wales, England," where it actually found its proper owner. THE DEMAND FOR MONEY.—A significant fact, as to the direction in which the pressure for money is now making itself most severely felt, may be mentioned in the circumstance of a sum of £90,000 having been borrowed of a Liverpool bank within the last few days, on the security of South-Eastern Railway shares, and for which the parties have been obliged to submit to terms equal to seven per cent.— Times. DISTRESS IN THE METROPOLIS.—In a second-hand book shop in George-street, opposite the Middlesex Hos pital, there are exposed for sale several Bibles and Testa ments, over which is the following placard :—" Distress in the Metropolis.—These Bibles and Testament's were sold by workmen who, unable to obtain employment, sold them to purchase food for themselves and their starving familie;." EMIGRATION TO TEXAS. —Emigrants are warned that her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Galveston, in a despatch dated January 6th, states that, from the experience of a six years' residence in Texas, he does not hesitate to pro nounce that certain statements which have recently ap peared respecting the salubrity of the climate, the fertility of the soil, and the richness of the mineral productions of Texas, are greatly exaggerated. Messrs. Brett and Little, of London, announce in a circular the discovery of a far more perfect and effective telegraph than any hitherto conceived. They assert its peculiar applicability, not only to railways, but likewise to docks, mines, and other extensive public works, manu factures, and even private establishments. They give it the title of " Electro Telegraphic Converser," and speak in confident terms of the extraordinary advantages of their discovery. At the Oxford assizes, Wm. Cave was found guilty of the manslaughter of Hannah Treadwell. The prisoner is a married man, but cohabited with the deceased, who was a widow, and latterly in very reduced circuinstances. She was in the habit of pestering him for money, and during her importunity on one occasion he shot her with a gun, which happened to be in his . hand. The jury, thinking lie had received provocation, found him guilty of the Mr. Mott, the well-known ex-assistant poor-law com missioner, was brought before the Insolvent •Debtors' Court, at Lancaster, last week. He was described in the schedule as a brewer and commission-agent. The insol vent owed £25,000, and said that his property was worth £31,000. The schedule was exceedingly voluminous, principally on account of the explanatory notes. Several creditors had given notice of opposition, but it was sub sequently-withdrawn,- and he was discharged. MYSTERIOUS DiscoyErtv OF HUMAN REMAINS.—III forming a new ditch at Dumbleton, in the county of Gloucester, was recently discOvered the skeleton of a man. It appears that in August, 1836, a horse, having on a bridle and saddle, was discovered at a village in the ad joining parish of Sedgbarrowi but the missing rider has the person who then probably fell a victim to violence in AND A We learn with pleasure that the Committee of the Suburban Village Association, of which Lord Morpeth is the chairman, have arranged with the Eastern Counties fo r the conveyance of not less than 500 passengers each day, from and to a village that it is intended to erect on the London side of the Lea Bridge Station, just 54 miles from the Bishopsgate Station. A plot of land of about 100 acres in extent, the property of Lord Mornington, has been selected as the site of the village. Building opera tions will be shortly commenced upon the plan of Mr. Moffatt, the architect of the association. THE CLAVERING POISONINGS.—At Chelmsford assizes, on Thursday last, Sarah Chesham, 36, a good-looking woman, the wife of a labourer, was indicted for the wilful murder of Joseph Chesham, her son, by administering to him a large quantity of arsenic. There were two other indictments for murder by the same means against the prisoner, one for the murder of James Chesham, another of her children, and another for murdering Solomon Taylor. The case appeared to excite very great interest, and the court was crowded during the trial. The jury, after deliberation for a quarter of an hour, returned a verdict of not guilty. GENERAL FAST.—The general fast has been appointed for Wednesday, the 24th instant. It has been suggested to us that, in accordance with the object of this solemn act of humiliation, the money saved by a strict observance of the fast ought to be applied to the relief of our suffering brethren in Scotland and Ireland. It is plain that in whatever family the fast shall be strictly observed some thing will be saved,—something considerable in wealthy families, but more or less in all families. Now, would not it look almost like sacrilege to put into our own pockets the profits of an act of religion in which we• ap proach the throne of heaven to implore relief for starving millions ? The amount that would be obtained in this way for the relief of the sufferers may be estimated by the fact, that it every family in Great Britain should con tribute a single shilling, the total would be more than two hundred thousand pounds (nearly as much as has hitherto been contributed to the general relief fund)—a benefaction which would make- no one a single farthing the poorer.—Standard. THE GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHlP.—This noble steam-ship was on Thursday put up to auction at the company's offices, Bristol. The company was by no means numerous, and the auctioneer, Mr. Fargus, in offering the ship for sale, said that she had been built nine years ago, and, having been recently overhauled by one of Lloyd's principal surveyors, her timbers had been found to be in as good condition as they were the first day that she . sailed. She had cost £58,000, and her furniture and other articles, which were to be sold with her, cost (with the exception of her silver plate, and which was not to be sold) £3,000, so that, her entire cost had been about £61,000. The Great Western was of 500• horse power, and 1,700 tons burden. She was justly celebrated as being the first steam-ship that had ever crossed the Atlantic from the English shores (the Sirius having sailed from Ireland) ; since which time she had made 90- successful voyages, one of which was the shortest upon record. The biddings were then= commenced, but only £20,000 having been bid for her, the auctioneer was about to bid X 25,000, and had begun to do so, when he was stopped. by Mr. Knapp, one of the solicitors of the company, who said that the reserve price had better not be stated,, and the vessel was withdrawn. REMARKABLE SRIPMENT.-Several packages of butter, part of a parcel which has within these few days been imported into the port of London from Hamburgh, have, without being landed here, been re-shipped on board a vessel about to proceed to Newfoundland. It is now well known, for the fact has been repeatedly mentioned in our columns, that large quantities of butter are imported into this country from North America, principally from the United States, and also in a lesser degree from the British provinces in that quarter of the globe, but the shipment of butter which has previously been imported from this country from and is the produce of the Hanseatic Town named to North America, is an anomalous instance of the remarkable events which occur in commercial matters, and especially in relation to articles of food, and one which, from the various features it presents, demands our especial notice, as being of a very remarkable character ; in the first place, from the singularity of the article con veyed ; and, secondly, that a British colony should be supplied from a foreign source by way of trans-shipment from or through this country with a staple article of food. The fact which we have recorded proves that of the large _supplies of food which daily arrive in this country from the continental states, the whole is not consumed here, and therefore it assumes a degree of political as well as domestic interest and importance.. Loss OF THE TIBER, PENINSULAR AND .ORIENTAL STEAMER.—The Tiber left Lisbon-on the morning of the 20th ult., at eight o'clock, with about twelve cabin pas sengers, a few second-class, and several Gallegos return ing to Vigo. She was the bearer, it is said, of important despatches, for the Commodore of , the inner squadron at Oporto, and for the Consul ; and Captain Bingham, who commanded the Tiber, in endeavouring to make that diffi cult port in a dreadful fog, unfortunately ran his ship on shore at a point of land near Villa-de Conde, about 12 miles from the city. No want of diligence or skill is im puted to the captain, as he kept the most active look out, and fired guns repeatedly, when he judged he was in the neighbourhood. The last time he cast the lead he found he had 17 fathoms, and he supposed he was off the 1 - moment before he struck. The event took place soon after noon on the 21st, and bore an hour elapsed the ship broke up and became a total. wreck. The Gallegos, in endeavouring to lower the ship's boats, stove them all, and every soul on board would have perished if th e p eop l e ' from the shore had not gone off in boats and saved nearly all .the passengers and crew. One old Spanish general was washed off the deck and lost. Captain Stevens, late of the Superb, 80 gun ship ; Commander Pascoe, late of Jackal steamer ; Mr. Niele, a merchant of. Belfast ; the purser and stewardess of the Tiber, and a young English Strong suspicion is now created I lady, governess of a family at Cadiz, all escaped .without other — damage than the loss of their luggage Bingham also escaped, and another captain belonging to the company, whose name is not given. The conduct of the country people was admirable ; they refused reward, and rendered the most useful services. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.—In the consideration of this subject, let us not be led away by the mere name of humanity. God forbid that the sentiment of pity should ever be banished from the councils of this country, but let us be careful that, in our ardent love of mercy, we do not embrace a shadow. Justice is true mercy. Vengeance and pardon alike belong to the Divinity ; but human laws, to be beneficial, should be inflexible and severe. Uncer tainty encourages crime by making punishment a lottery, and too great leniency is an injury to society by making criminals indifferent to detection. If the only object of criminal laws were the reformation of offenders, the punishment of death would be nothing short of an absurd ity. But reformation is merely an incident, and, though an important one, it is never to be regarded otherwise than as a secondary consideration. Protection is the ob ject of criminal laws—the protection of society- With a view to this object we seek to prevent the commission of offences, because, after they are committed, the punish ment of the offender, however just and necessary, i s neither compensation nor satisfaction, to the sufferer. Prevention, therefore, is the means by which alone pro tection can be attained, and it is the duty of a government to use the means with a,firm an d steady hand. Whatever feeling, therefore, is found to be strongest in the human breast, that feeling must be acted upon for the benefit of society. Unfortunately it happens, that hope is generally so much stronger than fear, that the expecta th ti e on is o s f ue inj oi the hope i p .a u t n e t y Ourwill ü b r e i t y l e , a t dhienng, Is ienn diminishing and increasing the fear,—ln reducing the probabilities of escape, and rendering the consequences of detection as terrible as possible- Captain COMMITTAL OF AN ASSISTANT.OVERSEE4 FOR MAN SLAUGHTER.—An.inquest was held at the Bell Inn, Aid worth, near Newbury, Berks, on Tuesday, the 9th instant, h Mr J A I,ran aPr 0111VATICAV r”, cr;tsm -c Mary Josey, an aged woman, of that parish. Ittappeajred in evidence that the old woman was addicted to tippling, and had gone to:Reading by th e carr i er ' s car t on Saturday, the 6th instant,. and, it would appear, got very drunk on the occasion. The same evening, about seven o'clock, she was discovered by two men in a cart, in the parish of Pangbourn, in a helpless state, and incapable of taking care of herself. They moved her to some cottages, but the inmates refused to take her in. Thomas Rose then took charge of the poor woman, while George Ricketts, his companion, drove the cart to Pangbourn to p rocure assistance and applied to the assistant overseer , M r. John Butler, who refused to- have anything to do with her. Ricketts again urged the absolute necessity :ffotarkithnegsacamree :‘ For God's sake Etose cau of her. Shortly afterwards object,, and, addressing Butler, said, attend.to the woman, for I think she is dying." Butic still refusing to interfere, Ricketts and Rose went back t the place where they left her, and found that two reel had removed her to: .a cow-shed belonging to Mr. Hewitt a guardian, by his permission. Next day the woman wa:, taken home, being cold and insensible, and died soot afterwarcy. After hearing a great deal of evidence, the REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.-012 Friclor s i a reduction of one halfpenny in the price of the 41b. 10 was made by the London bakers generally. FLOGGING.—At Portsmouth, a seaman in her Majestf ir service, named John Savage, has been adjudged 1)1 court martial to receive 50 lashes on the bare back with* cat-o'-nine-tails, to forfeit all pay due to him, and to h° imprisoned in Winchester gaol for twelve months, for being absent from his ship without leave, and having been found concealed in a locker on board the schooner Alert , of Youghal, lying in Portsmouth harbour. LIBERAL CONDUCT OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.—A respondence between Mr. E. Salter, of Hulme, Man' chester, and Dr. Kay Shuttleworth, the Secretary of tilt! Committee of Council on Education, on the subject of admitting, for the present, other than trained masters to the enjoyment of pensions under the late minute of Coun cil has just be published. It will be seen that the splendid meeting at the Court House has borne its first fruits, and that that " unconstitutional_body " the Privy Council, eager to pay every proper deference to the popular will , It is intended, as will be seen, to extend to all deserving schoolmasters, who under the present system have not had the advantage of a trained school, those advantage* which at a later period will be very properly confined to trained masters. IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE WORKING CLASSES.'"' The working classes are doing their duty. During two successive evenings the subject of education has been dis' cussed with great moderation, intelligence, and talent, at meetings consisting of 500 or 600 working men. A num. ber of admirable speeches, of which we are sorry to be unable to present a report, were addressed to the meeting by Messrs. Mackintosh, liolmes, Hole, Craven, and Dr. F. R. Lees, and the Rev. James Hamilton, of St. Mary's Church, Quarry Hill. Various resolutions were passed affirming the necessity of education—the deficiency of the present means—and the propriety of the State providing a sound secular education apart from a religious education. A petition was drawn up echoing the resolutions. - All the speakersrecommended the government measure as a great step in the right direction, hut declared that it did not go far enough. Rather, however, than be without any effect ive education, they professed themselves willing for the moment to accept that. This is as it should be. It rnaf easy be supposed, all expressed their intention of appearing on Wednesday next, to assist the poor man's right to 0 good education. God speed his cause,—Leeds Intelli gencer. SHYER'S CHEAP SOUP FOR THE POOR.—For thoo who have the chance of procuring a few potatoes once a week, they may be used with advantage in the following manner.:— No. 3,-POTATO SOUP.—Having prepared the soup according to receipt No. 2, (already published,) when nearly tione, wash half a pound of potatoes, pick out the black spots, if any, and cut them in small dice, put them into the soup to boil for twenty minutes, or a little longer, until done; then put s quarter of a pound of common flour into a stenpan, moistened with a gill of cold water, so as to form a liquid paste, stir it in the soup quickly with a spoon ; let it boil another five minutes , and the soup is ready, and will strongly taste of potato, the short time of ebullition preserving all the aroma of that incon' stant root. Having promised to make my receipts public, for the benefit of the laborious class of society, I think that if 1 1 man could treat his family once a week with a food called potatoe soup, each member of it, who had previously fed on that root, and who are now nearly deprived of the food, would worship the day of the week when such luxury should be displayed on their humble table. _ _ _ No. - 4, PEA SouP.-41ive a quarter of a pound of fat bacon, (if you have none, take a leg of veal, beef, or pork,) cut it into dice, peel and slice two good-sized onions, or three small onesf fry them with the meat until lightly brown, then add • half pound of vegetables, either carrots or turnips, well washed, bu t not peeled, also leeks or any other vegetables, which you fg gently; then add one pound of yellow pea s , p rev i ously soa k some hours, and eight quarts of water, three ounces of salts half an ounce of brown sugar; let the whole boil gently for two hours, stirring it now and then. Put into a stewpan half pound of common flour, mixed into a liquid paste, quit e smooth, with cold water, and pour it into your soup, stirrinC the contents with a wooden spoon, so as to mix it well; bO again a quarter of an hour, and serve. Since I gave publication to ray two first receipts, I : found that all the soups, if made one day, and warmed the day following, arenot only much improved in quality, but also in quantity, merely requiring to be warmeu slowly, and stirred now and then before using. • Reform Club, Feb. 27. A. SOYER! VIE PEACE SociETT.-- 7 -Amon . g the numerous associtr tions of well-meaning persons with absurd and impractv cable views, is a certain.society established for the promo tion of permanent and 'universal peace. We should be very far from ridiculing any reasonable project for bringit* all mankind• into a state of universal harmony, but % fear the thing is not to -bb done by the parties occupylq rooms at 19, New Broad-street, whence they date they circulars. From this abode of tranquility has recentll issued a petition to the House of Commons against tie increase of the naval and military expenditure. The peer tioners declare, that they "look upon the military sp y and military preparations and defences as the wealine, rather than the strength of a nation, and upon all ineren of military establishments as tending rather to augni the probabilities of war than to diminish the m ." Tile!: is some-trnth in the latter part of this par agra ph, for l e the eventesfind sdeplorable on our y first o four certainty making rta no milita r y preparat i ons , should ln quarrel with a foreign count " that the '" probabilities of war " would be turned into' tP no of a thorough thrash„ a• War would be a misn- .omar applied to a case in wino" - c o attack on one side could be met by no means of resistant, on the other. Our only chance would be a plea ad wise! o f cordiam, which, however - consistent with the principle,o the Peace So c i e ty, wou ld'h ot b e at a ll i n un i son with "the national character. We, of course, do not hold witl?,,x iculor s o o u p r i e ni o that weat preparations nesA ma f n o r w d h e o fe h n a c e s g ,E ln l oo o r r s ridiculous to his house ic es palpably mo re secure against deli` — ` be than one who has none, unless the forr er a ens wo r th safe in the reputation of having nothing h a , anybody's while to deprive him of. We do not apprebq! seeing us prepared for ahy attack that might be made us ; and we rather incline to the general belief that th e better our means of defence, the less is the likelihood 01 our having to make use of them.—Times. • IS THIS-- JUSTICE TO ENGLAND ?—A few facts wi A , serve to show the direct pecuniary relation of the Engle" working man and the Irish landown e r. I re l an d no w P 3: nothing—literally, not a -sixpenc e —t o th e British Exert:' quer. Any special grant for Irish purposes is; therefor:; given entirely by Great. Britain—not a fraction o f it Ireland. Who, then, are the persons that actually 11,:g and the persons th a t ac t ua ll y rece i ve ? Everybody low ( that the working m en o f E ng l an d pay t h e gre i t b u lk of the taxes. The Customs are paid on foreign articles ° s, general consumption exchanged for British manufactur e 4 The excise ds on articles of general consumptio n .. StaraPij licenses, postage, are taxes on trad e an d ma tt ers o f gene utility. Ralf the property-tax is on t ra d es an d pr e a sions ; as also •is a considerable portion of the assess taxes. Eve n the sma ll p ro p or ti on o f th e revenue wh ic o is derived from property and luxuries, if such things windows, for example, are to be called luxuries, is direc,,ot a tax on e m pl o y men t. But we do not hesitate to sal t: o f the worki ng men o f thi s i s l an d p a y a t l eas t n i n e-tent e h the reven ue , th a t is, n i ne h un d re d th ousan d s ou t of y_., million, and that of the ten millions now s pent on !';' o land, they p a y n ine. Taxation is now so indirect, and effects are-so circuitous, that they may not be able to try the pressure which they that they will and do p a y t _ 4 ?: nevertheless feel; but they DIM Our word for it , present unparalleled act of gener osity, by receiving much less wages, having so m uc h less employment , and htoe at lhtheha improvementvti n h g e so ing so much more for the necessaries and comforts of too much salubrity ol less s f Ld teh e ir v ei o mr ted by a willing legi 6 l a tbe is. o s ral tre t, ts t!le a ir nd ed th uc e at b i oo o ,, r l o , l - 11 :: . their cities. On the other hand, it is equally cle"' Alea the Irish landowner is the recipient of whatever is last to Ireland. A miserabl e popu l at i on t h ere bids ap ers one another for the occupation of land. The aucti on _ c o whether hatted or bonnetted, mitred or coroneted, kO t ior down his 11P1V.2 tn the hin4i.st hirlrinr whn is aeneralli most beggarly-looking wretch in the company. The victim contents himsef with the refuse and the offal' al transmits all the good to his landlord. His subsiste n t is a fixed item. Everything above, be it little or gre! ft goes to rent. Give millions to%lreland, excuse milho),, spend , millions, and it is all the same. The horses , r!,,, cow s, the pigs. and the peasants have thei r several allo"f ance s ; all above is the landlord's. The controverSY the. session, therefore, is whether, to what extent, °_,. o " how- long, the working men c f E ng l an d an d -'S cot l an d =Main the Irish proprietors, in addition to- theit, wives, a n d th e i r c hild ren , th e i r poor ne i r o i k Sovereign, and the state ours, their ministers, tliv.j .• nation.— Ti THE COURT 0 0 ht. The Court still remains in the Isle of queen. and Prince Albert, ao by the Prin plantations of Osbornt junior members of the• Royal fainil xe Weimar, me: Her• 3 ,CCOLLIP t be Iced 1 0 , tine 1 exerci 7 tlre - vli - niiy - of Mons. Juilien.will --------- nother grand concert in Wood: will z, at the , oeer o n nw t h l i l e r i -11 rjoi_ morrow night ,minent wilt appear in Liverpool incaa attention to the dramatic readings f o r zt the Concert Hall, Lord New Arm bi Mr. L' —rs to offer 11' W k in% desirous of embar"blo he Bristol Loan Company am ;ous inducements_ to 'he People's Journal Yfig its and a most i n teresS The memoir is read by all who se ladies upon the stag e i" truth more startling „ 1 sister on are . respee v e, ial capita' !cl their OP arrative, and sI TREATMENT OF THE. HUMAN HAIR " An appeal to reason and common. ty Under th,e, er tsi .tense, in a 6 , ° , r , ~titon, hair-cat' o , jir7 ,eently furnished `his great ornair e i is well worthy of perusal' iotr al Pltnarinv-in. rnalrna big re an hair No. 10, South John-s6cet, 1 this visited there during the last e This noted hotelzot c o litigable caterer , a to-day. All vib uie ril e ears must have (1 ,,,,t ; i" , ti Tax Act than thirty surgeons practising in London their professional earnings amounted to £14,000 per an num each ; and of these, three were upwards of .7E203000 The masons of Sunderland are at present claimin 275. per week, and to be allowed to leave off work at four instead of fiveo'dock on Saturday afternoon. The demand has in some instances been granted, and such is tht demand for workmen at present, that it is not unlikely it will be complied with in all. The town council of Louth, Lincolnshire, has taker proceedings against a gentleman who, after declaring tha he would pay the fine for non-acceptance of the office o town councillor, afterwards rendered it necessary ti enforce compliance with the law. This is the first cas of the kind which has occurred since the passing- of th Municipal Reform Act Last week, Lord Dundonal :Tet official trial to ascertain ar plan unclerwen the off lution of intenze gas, in projecting sne ,nd it resulted on an average in t shot to the distance of 701 lear that balls of greater di a tub,. ter would far ex A the range of our common artillery. N. public meeting of the inhabitants of H s held on Monday evening last, when vernment petition t 1 all r inst the proposed ca I upon. - Government promis e es to s in the education of the youthful pop Lpicnt inhabitants who attended the above t ired this offer to be unjust !" ISTP.P.SS IN LONDON.-It is well, for the sake c some foul affray. A LADY'S TENDERNESS OF CONSCIENCE AX-PAYER.-The Chancellor of the Ex chequer has acknowledged the receipt of £lO from a lady, on account of customs duties, which she had no wish to evade, on articles of dress imported into this country ; also of £142 remitted to him by an anonymous corres " for the public service." The be paid into the receipt of the OLUNTEER pondent from —Li !TIM° ‘11 . ;1 I Exchequer. ETON 141oNTEm.—An adjourned meeting of the "Old Etonians" took place on Tuesday, at the British Coffee Housejor the purpose of petitioning her Majesty not to sanction the abolition of the good old custom of Eton Montem, which the provost and head master of the col lege had attempted to do away with. Lord John Man ners (who was in the chair), the Earl of. Falmouth, Lord Clive, Lord Castlereagh, the Vice Chancellor of England, and other persons. of distinction, having addressed the meeting, the memorial was adopted. A. YOUNG CULPAIT. - At Lincoln assizes, on Wednes for day, John Teft, a boy not thirteen years old, wa shooting William. Rainforth, a labourer. The prisoner was employed with Rainforth in a barn. The boy having neglected his work, the prosecutor scolded and struck him. Teft took up a loaded gun which the farmer had just put down, and presented it at Rainforth. It missed fire; but the precocious culprit deliberately recocked it, fired, and wounded the man in the shoulder. The jury convicted, and the judge passed sentence of transportation for 14 years. WATER tiEssEs.—On Sunday, six large bags, similar to what hops are put in, were filled with this wholesome plant, and were lying at Winchester station ready,to be sent to London, the weight of each about 1121b5., or I,cwt. They had been gathered in the neighbourhood of Aires ford, seven miles from Winchester, by the poor, for a greengrocer living at that place, who has engaged to send all he can procure to London two or three times each week, or oftener if he can get them. It is stated they are extensively-used and boiled as spinach. SOMETHING THAT SHOULD NOT BE.—During the last 3eks- considerable exportations of grain have taken —e to the continent, and chiefly from the eastern ports of this country. Early last week the New Superior, from Boston, arrived in the Thames, with a cargo of corn, intended for the London market, which, without being landed,, was immediately bought up- and exported t o France. The Sisters, Gridham, laden with corn, left tew we pla last week for Rouen, and the Nelson, Hewitt, was z with grain at Boston for the continent. ...::castle-upon-Tyne, Geo. Matthews was found guilty of the murder of Daniel Hives, at Long Benton, near. Newcastle. Both parties were " navvies," and had Bost, loadi At N. had a quarrel, and deceased followed Matthews for the purpose of giving him into custody, when the murderer turned round and stabbed Hives in the thigh, about an inch and a half from the abdomen. He died almost in stantaneously. Matthews was found guilty, and sen tenced to death. The execution of Welsh (whose con viction was mentioned in our last) and Matthews is ap pointed to take _place to-morrow, at Morpeth. FOOD RIOTS IN SCOTLAND. - The -latest accounts from Ross-Shire =how that food rioting still prevails to a dan gerous extent. A new method of preventing the shipment of grain is to break open the granaries and mix the dif ferent kinds of corn, &c.,—a plan which has been twice resorted to in the above county. Dingwall has hitherto been the chief scene a disturbance in that quarter, and, accordingly, 100 men of the 27th Regiment, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Goodman, have arrived there from Invergordon, carrying with them thirteen pri -1 soners, eight of whom were females. Walden ;harped with ti the 221 d of loaded with ng at him with a gm The de( I was alsOa boy employed ppeared that both were at play kind a tree, and the prisoner pointin. When the deceased emerge is fired, and the unfor bon. , the pi te boy r potato 1 yrshire Ag; re followinz nun rs of the inhabitants of Ireland dependent on tht rain, in addition to their hi the Highlands and Isl.( In the rest of Scotland In England and Ni In Ireland 1,000,000 oth( 4,000,000 peasantry, 1,500,000 Making in all 7,000,000 Taking 11b. per day of grain, as necessary to sustair each individual, and 300 days as the period during which] they may be dependent on grain alone for their food, tin quantity required will be 1,406,250 tons, or 6,562,500 qrs of grain. To carry the above quantity across the- Atkin. tic, or from the Black Sea, would require 2,812 ships, a 500 tons each, for four months. To man these ships pro perly Id require 56,240 men March 16, 1847. Lost importan rdanco with the econor spirit of t of # .ave your crusted port at 55., and everything l' b, tionately cheap. 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