The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-18 00:00:00

ly IS, IS-18_4, id on Wednesday E O a est, as the fairy 03 erformed on him , 7 ginal. re with this imp ostori pretences, and re it ed superstition, vibi!, Le mind of the loam Itmeath Guardian. Great Britain as till laternal grandparente are residents of V' hyard of that toso ised by'd few of t ,j e , for the purpose ,le mausoleum. Dw, a great authoritf ties are not infallible, row Chronicle are ie ~ last two," note )rrect, the .3fercri ng•—Gateshead Ob' smiliar phrase, wh i l der the influenc e • be de r ived from t,b e , story motion is a t , when it is asleep. the phrase is deriv . ;nifies a mouse, an :omm on field-mou e• Ei dorme come an ps like a top." es eALTr.—The "" Albert, speaking% ibes the penalty P 3l )e around the per sol a the heights of Sell attack and defe ern lily saluted by a di;' t Charles Albert ie U. flinches from t 1; :!ellent m ar k in ~ at staff about bi " ' f e lence I overlook jesty arrives, as tbe e resolved, a nd 1 0 ,f ° and to be shot atl safe distance ces of all the othe, that the v icinitYl s to me, and I till If such occasions. , ver till this moue of the grandeur ae,..d stillness is perfe ctu eaf stirs, not a de out just no w, to tri myself, and indue"„ old trees were 0: ;quirrel, too, tten ced a r, and rei k i ified disgust, th at j arbance of the ll nust have been tbj fellows are redace" d of their existence their thousand be : „ A l5 ato the St. Afau nexp ec t e dly stru rc . ) ne, th e y w ill ese So me (p r obabli; ifted completelY ° ( 'ng the shoulders 11 xt reme l y as tball, g iterment: Other nd tapering Wall.; bank of the 'if' of deserted tislo,ge aitable to the ta re who is said to 0 ,„" e." So closet} ` i ' n ' t alluded to, thal;," omentary eXP o. 'esPondingly f!' O lank, w ith eyes le; bait.can resting ,t 5 and stirring or r , is one whic h, ft unrivalled. a. A colossal Pirler. c. I ever beheld , er.before-hea rd-e, h a few dozen to and and taken up a P,05, eh nature inte nae„ liage rests exa el 't , which are a forest its branches on, , ,opping the lottie rv . Whether t hls ice d thus by way ef a private pasti rae , and subsequen tll a loss to say ; it it rots and crunr low did it get it& ered any the m eat being a single degree injured or lability o f any hi t ': a perhaps for age " 'an s w ered, and t he ucceeding genera the contemplati on nove leisurely o n ;' )wnward, catch , who, the moment. gives vents o such 'mpelled, mercy for nay own ears, at as existing .cir ) do.— Whitt/ings" LY it with deliber• eiligent physiciau di sease winch h ate the treatment of c l ear l y disting uish lontaneou s f a vou r ' •eginen, or the la' ' ;he caus e of elite on have so poWer, undoubtedly tboef holds out hope ar physician the ty. Teis is,'l3°lee kck holds cut hop e iat becomes of the raised but to ' a , bartered the ft:, assurance 01 Ltive ease for t P c Is not the tici,eri: ends now e:tr,i, pes they in coal;), evil. If, a s : D a 9ll every opporilarlif ,as men sirok 5, ular medicine c!, hortening dise,o:oli 'ay., be true, 100 'e in danger, whde whose bodieS d for them Ave tad ry does. ~01, nimal rnagu e ` J 'ee , b ou t clairvoYol'o, man y falsehoool cent. of i n sen s ibi lit Y iously to do s cif , Ve purposed, hote nhulisro, the 0,10, 'erie, spectral 1.."0, ental phenouit'ifil rinciples of nievoo forbids this. A by d in this iveti"stic aurtailed cleaucip Than, and th e t wo ying that WOO; and presunlP t rho is ignoro°, to lOuglonan 110:e 10 LOW to Mangforg cast in those Apo to statestreltlich tate of life to „ sr Or 'lse, of houesrecl an—has des' nre' A Jeer f incurred that o mter than landsinteci unacquaillic otice, 3 or a loco% into ledicine rus„oria4 ror it is u I9 ,Y ms of cilluc'edicilic Ailing of PiCovoit ndividuals c" .stia cr ppiness, e v er, life, than the Ile mercies, every, , or than 11 ts of the inhabitao Heal Ind o f soc o ll [tiler their co, b a t vanitY and h em , that t heY.sh, ser y,, and a" zgazine., 4ISTB g 'cOr )1t1):P1V---1 Daajfiirec' of Fall ,Vin ci o f I) Rain. soo , N 0 o'lo ro -- iS.5.° - INfi." ___ l 3. ditto. d itto. 15th s/ ply 18 1848. Etteraturre POETRY TO ERIN ! HENRY E . GREEN, A PRIVATE OF THE 17TH LANCERS. reed flag of ruin encircles thee, Erin, curse of ingratitude crushes thee down, The hand that has cherished thy thousands when starving in i f„ s lP_lirne d, as it gives, with the oath and the frown. ,F.!tEe, sensate, the traitors that lead thee v h ,o, the brink of destruction. Deserted at last, Tn 9 1 e blood of thy children is crying against thee, Thou 'lt bitterly dwell on the days that are past. Oh! dream not that England's they legions will fail h " rt and hand in h er cause they undaunted would d ,?le t he cowards w h o urge on th e peasan t to battle j T r "en danger approaches w i ll leave thee an d fl y . irch a rmie3 may wave r , ma y joi n in the riots; A r i l ue English hearts worship their Queen and the thrc swrds ht teir country has placed in their Roy a l wail be dr o awn t in a the h cause of that country alone. Barracke, Dublin. July 5, 1848. NOTICES Northern of the Medical Cases treated in the Liverpool T„..,`,"ern Hospital during 1846 and 1847. By James — " 11 11, Ma) , Physician to the Hospital. Edin rn,gh Adam and Charles Black, 1848. i at i h o 0 Northern Hospital is an institution which has risen b ee ,tmPortanc e of late years. It has, however, already ti ta lit_ae one of the most useful in the town, being at all " OPen to receive the most severe and dangerous taedieal oc e as well as surgical cases, which are constantly acingsita in the busy and populous part in which it is Th e fr report now before us, which has been reprinted or e t b thi s ue Echnburgh Medical and Surgical Journal of jetermonth, for circulation among those who take an fur e a t in the management of our charitable institutions, iastit i P some interesting information regarding . this We a 'cm, the nature of the cases, and their treatment. h as .re glad to find from it that the demands upon the by addi ng)tal hich have been increasing yearly, can be met x i a 7.4o the number of beds, as accommodation still tai ns ! " a mach larger number than it at present con- Tle Yea number of cases admitted into the hospital last V s r.was 1 786, of which 760 were under the care of the ysicians, and 926 under the surgeons. The outpatients i_ L lng added to these make the total number relieved dur eu..gsthe year 2579. It would also appear that the cost of hospital, Patient is lower in this than in almost any other '°„,sPital, being, on an average, £1 lls. 10d. for each case. The rate of mortality was about one in twelve during b oth of the last years, and this bears a very favourable e ftoparison with that of most other institutions, especially Ihen the severe nature of the cases admitted into the 'Northern Hospital is taken into account. The intelligent writer thinks that, although Liverpool I s, well supplied with h os pit a l s , dispensaries, and other ' e noritable institutions, it has much need for more aceo tnorlation for fever cases, and he makes the following ob eervations, which we think well deserving of consideration : th ` e `There are no fever wards connected with the Infirmary, or re Northern or Southern Hospitals, so that when cases of thver occur in any of these institutions, they must be sent to to e "nIY fever hoipital in the town, which is a small building nr.ieeted with the workhouse, and not supported, as these z st ttutions are, by voluntary contributions, but under the 4nagement of the parish authorities. The class of persons m e a s ure just above the grade of paupers, are thus in a great , deprived of the assistance of an hospital when attacked a ',, e 'n a disease in which the advantages of hospital treatment iva ir rs obvious. It appears to me, therefore.. thnt fever 8 in connection with some of the existing institutions, or teeTsPital supported by voluntary subscriptions, are much i tch ; and, the lowest class being already provided for, that ad a n institution i n a tow n like thi s , w ith man y s t rangers e Persons residing in lodgings, would be still more services thWt:Vt could be ma d e i n whole or in part self-supporting, so a °X P e ri paying ing of acc a mod ommodationerate sum weekly, any one might obtain or ." Th e .„ greater portion of the report consists of cases ar to t g i, e ' under eight heads. The details of these we leave th,,,'° Profession, merely observing, that the author's me ,)". of treating rheumatism of which 149 cases were ;mkutted in 1846, and 155 in ' 1847, seems to have been tielle9s s uccessful. Several also of the cases of disease of ti a). l ungs and heart, a class to which he has devoted spe ss_cattention, will repay the perusal of the professional i a eger. Dr. Turnbull has evidently devoted much pains ' taking attention to the whole subject on w:lich he writes. D übr rh e ü brn University Magazine, (Jame s M`Glashan, in,) is s carce ly up to its u sua l mar k o f excel 11r,ee• _ The interesting memoir of Dean Kirwan, in lue ortrait . Gallery," is of itself sufficient to give va to.. the number. S , everal of the other articles are in ter eson g ; and nne--. A House and its Three Tenants" - i -Pl.°l nises to be extremely so. We extract from an arti e entitled " China and the Chinese :" THE USE OF THE FAN IN CHINA. Caon T h nst e an u t s . e oil the fan in China in summer, is universal and Your tailor comes for orders, he raises his leg andd pulls out his fan, not from a case, but from his stocking, commences fanning himself with great composure. Should yoeurncompredore appear before you to receive your commands, suds the at of Your oom too hot for him, and he either opens his fan, which he has in his hand, or pulls it from h .. i _S n .stocking, and uses it with equal nonchalance. Your ser- V ts waiting on you at d dinner, will hand you a plate with one an fan themselves withthe other. The fan is similar in lipe to that usually adopted by our ladies, and is to be seen In all, except the lowest coolees. DRESS OF THE CHINESE LADIES. th ey women of all classes are very fond of trinkets, and wear th e 4l anY silver and jade-stone rings, bracelets, and anklets, as tile Y can afford—but gold is neve r use d b y them. The dress of ta a , u PPer classes is nearlyas handsome as th a t o f t h e manda pr eel put every part of th eir d ress w i ll b e found of a different L ue head-dress of all classes is nearly alike; except that the arig;ier orders wear the best description of jade-stone, and ena the e iled ad silver pins set with pearls. They do not wear linen; inad u :ld n er-jacket, being the dress worn next the person, is of crape ' and has tight long sleeves, embroidered round e wr ists and neck ; over this they wear another jacket, which viriade either of flowered satin or crape ; the sleeves are very broil e and short, reaching only to the elbow; an embroidered eri encircles the bottom of the jacket and sleeves; the em ineh,,erY is either of gold, or silk and gold—the border is three the i?. l eep, and is a different-coloured silk or crape to that of ex e 4;,,e! l / 4 et, which is lined with a third colour. The trowsers are Thee we and long and are embroidered round the an " as similar manner to , the jacket, although not to match it. Irersti re at object in a lady's dress is to con:ibine as great a Ov er t of colours, and variety of , embroidery, as possble. har* t he trowsers, the wife wears a rich satin petti coa t, very 41 1(1, -°I nelY embroidered. This can only be used by the wife, melt', never be worn by unmarried daughters or handmaids. l'ery'u?es hive heels about an inch high, and the uppers are rottm et al?orately embroidered in gold and silks, and bound andl 3 l , with gold tinsel. They do not wear stockings, but red den del+ ribbon is bound round the foot and leg. Like he 1 44. ; :',e,Y wear under their jackets a silken girdle, to which is 'O6 ec„ wiY attached an embroidered bag, which contains the i r .. 'nbr and pipe. They alwa) s carry a fan, which is either sota4idered, or made of feathers - , and is either of an oblong, dre s , or pointed form, and does not fo . ld up. Although the 1 1 ,igiii a „, 13 anything but becoming, affording no opportunity to s ymmetry or form, being perfectly loose, and fastened Int° ll , nd the throat, still the tout ensemble is very pleasing. iaqe t ,,` B , and children of all classes, are invariably dressed in ',vhi ch - and trowsers, the materials being the only variation, Sl ,l%e s always in accordance with the wealth of . the parents. hai;""nren have the head shaved, leaving two circulai: spots Matt e ,'" °lle on each side of the head, before the ears, which are . into tails. At eight years old the hair is allowed to row 1 4 i1 i e 4 o l), or crown, and the rest of the head is shaved the platt d -hen the Years ol is of sufficient length. The it twfemales is allowed hair to grow, and is platted into a tail 0 . —.0.-- VARIETIES 4 1 ," il Eri do two and two not make four ; WLen they make eatv.t w Le °' brig °k OUT !--As a canal-boat was passing_ under a 41„g,e, the captain gave the usual warning by calling in ," Look ou t !" when a little Frenchman, who was_ ° , 41 the Lle cabi n , o b eyed the order by popping his head out 9f nt win dow, which received a severe thump by co m i ng in jgect With a pill ar o f th e b r id ge . H e d rew i t b ac k in a " 4 . Pet, and exclaimed, " Dese Amerikins cry look 1- e mean when d look in." iIOI .I E UNFORTUNAT E C IPHER.—A merchant at Mar e"es, havi ng a b us i ness correspondent on the African } lad csast, b e th ought him, that as some members of his family b s hown a partiality for monkeys, he might gratify them AVendin g for one or two specimens of these animals from Pr D ro i ca• Accordingly he wrote to his correspor i i r d e en spe. ,_scure two or three of the finest l and mos a t n it e d e d and transmit n th t eir toll i a e r g seil e e w s Ch admired ordered r tl l a j tj tv h e e e rn n e t rc e ha P dn . the ou (in English h figure n s 2 and 3, made the o very promi teat, while the u remained scarcely visible. Some months t e at, a ship porter came in all haste to the old mer ,,e'ant, and announced to him that his menagerie had " Menagery !" cried the merchant. " Yes, f il lenagery, a whole cargo of monkeys hid arrived to 1, : ti osignment !" The merchant could scarcely crP- 11 "I, 4llo uncement, until the letter of his h' il t into hi s h an d s . I n t h at ep i stle the i l l:Ian of the most uncompromising exactitude, excuse. exieself very earnestly f or no t havi n ons, g been able, with all terti to procure more th an 160 monkeys, in place of 1:,3 ordered, but promised, as soo n as possible, to fulfil I'e e ntire demand. The f ee li ngs o f t h e honest merchant ta a j be guessed whe n , on mov i ng d own to the quay to ba'sfY himself on the subject b ocular inspecon, he bis 160 monkeys, all j dulycaged and littere ti d, and at him with the most laudable pertinacity. It Nethe r ' l le moment when a man might reasonably doubt th ether it would be best to laugh or cry. So much for vequ . t alue of ciphers.—Le Follet. QUALITY," AN ABSURDITY. — Suppose you try to fn o duize the globe on which you live—suppose you labour, R1 0 : 1. tile impulse of your visionary dreams, to make this e a spheroid, with no hill, or valleys, or the least th e lntie :lation of inequality, that it may thus protest against 'fro,,,inequality in circumstances, which you would banish 1) 0 ;'. society : you have no sooner done so, if it were ~piaT,ble, than the lightnings strike here, and the earth van" explodes there ; the hills are increased, and the to e " are deepened, and the very equality that you tried 'cre ator te turns out' to be the inequality that the great pos,,originally,oand well and wisely made. Sup the',,/ell try plan in another sphere. Go, in are t aason of autumn, in some of the for:ests of ouy exct; Place a man at each tree, and tell him to cut it for est / twelve feet squaresuppose, when ii1te,,,11.2 completely squared, you write upon it Equality, o cre at , ll .4 it to be the type of the equality you want fiv t e )31 0 ,,7, 1 11 the circumstances of human society slt s 's the juice begins to rise from the root', wait the the, rains begi n to d escend upon the forest ; you will tweetsuad each tree throwing out its branches at " its own wil l , " and laughing to scorn the levelling efforts th coes 4,?9/lell h ave made in the midst of them, and the dead at 1 remain as you left them. The very inequalities sprinetist in the globe physically are the sources of the elleltL s we drink from—of the fertile valleys—of the thilg billsof the shadowing rocks—so that equality als o surface of the earth is not only impossible, but gie s ,„tpedient. Should not, therefore, all these anal). ud e Tuvince us that circumstantial equality is impossible. Qlrable, and inexpedient ?—Dr. Cumming's Lectures. corresr Afriein negotiant Knowledge indeed is as necessary as light ; but it has been wisely ordained that light should have no colour, water no taste, and air no odour, so knowledge should be equally pure, and without admixture. . _ • • 1 Too much leisure leads to expense ; because when a man is in want of objects, it occurs to him that they are to be bad for money, and he invents expenditure in order to pass the time. PUN UPON PUN.--" Why is an honest man like a car penter ?" said one gentleman to another. " I can't tell," was the answer. " Why because he is a plain dealer." " Ah ! I see it now, you have made it a deal plainer," was the reply. PUTTING A THING TO ITS PROPER USE.—" Your a regular muff, sir," said a traveller to an Irishman, in a great passion, while disputing in a London coffee-house. " Thank you," replied Mr. O'R. coolly ; ' if lam a muff, I have done my duty : I've made you warm." AN ArroaNEy 7 s'l'uN.- l An old gentleman accused his servant, among other thefts, of having stolen his stick. The servant protested perfect innocence. " Why, you know," rejoined the complainant, " that the stick could never have walked off with itself." - " Certainly not," said the attorney for the defence, " unless it was a walk- ing stick." A COUNTRYMAN'S OPINION ON THE " SIX POINTS." —We shall come to a pretty pass if we are to have a fresh election every year, pay men for being elected, and yet let any idle, good-for-nothing fellow who never had industry to earn anything, or thrift to keep what he had, be quali fied to be a member. Members will be like blackberries, growing in every hedge, if this is to be the way of it. Why, I know some half-a-dozen of these chartist fellows, who are always talking in at the " Star," where I put up my team, when I go in with the corn to Foxtown, who would then all be for being parliament men. To hear them talk to us, you would suppose they were the only folk in the universe who knew anything about right or wrong ; and yet, I could never find that any one of them ever stuck to any honest business long enough to pay his way. Then they are terrible fellows for getting hold of other folk's money, for their " great schemes," as they call them ; they talk very big of the pounds of money they send up every month to their chartist member in London, who says he is buying such a lot of land that he will give fifty thousand of us, if we will pay him a little ready money at once, an acre or two, and a house, and tools, and I don't know what besides, some day or other. These fellows who call themselves agents for him, to my way of thinking, are not of the sort I should like to trust my money to,—let alone the sending it on such a wild goose chase.—Politics for the People. VEGETABLE INSTINCT.-If a pan of water be placed within six inches on either side of the stem of a young pumpkin or vegetable marrow, it will in the course of the night approach it, and will be found in the morning with one of its leaves floating on the water. This experiment may be continued nightly until the plant begins to fruit. If a prop be placed within six inches of a young convolvu lus or scarlet runner, it will find it although the prop be shifted daily. If after it has twined some distance up the prop, it be unwound and twined in the opposite direc tion, it will return to its original position or die in the at tempt ; yet notwithstanding, if two of these plants grow near each other, and have no stake around which they can entwine, one of them will alter the direction of its spiral, and they will twine round each other. Duhamel placed some kidney beans in a cylinder of moist earth; after a short time they began to germinate, of course sending the plume upwards to the light and the root down into the soil. After a few days the cylinder was tamed one-fourth round, and again and again this was repeated, until an en tire revolution of the cylinder had been completed. The beans were then taken out of the earth, and it was found that both the plume and radicle had bent to accommodate themselves to every revolution, and the one in its effort to ascend perpendicularly, and the other to descend, had formed a perfect spiral. But although the natural ten dency of the roots is downwards, if the soil beneath be dry, and any damp substance be above, the roots will as cend to reach it.—Farmers' Magazine. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.—A most extraordinary scene occurred at Nant turnpike-gate, near Llangefni, on Friday, the 30th ult. On that day Hylton's collection of wild beasts in caravans, drawn by several horses, came from Llangefni to the turnpike-gate, and 6d. for each col lar was demanded as toll. When this claim was paid the gate-keeper refused to let the collection go through unless 2d. more for each collar was paid, upon the ground that only 4d. had been paid for each when they passed through on their way to Llanerchymedd. The person in custody alleged that whatever had been demanded had been paid at that time, and that if a further charge had been then made it would have been paid ; but that the property had since that time changed hands by being sold to another party when at Llanerchymedd. The gate-keeper was de termined not to open the gate, and the keeper of the wild beasts was fully as determined to pass onward ; and each party loudly insisted upon the correctness of his own view of the case. A respectable farmer who happened to be in the adjoining field was referred to as to the respective rights of the parties. The clause in the turnpike act was clear as to 6d. a collar being chargeable where the carriage drawn was upon springs, but the wild beast man insisted that there was nothing in the act to compel him to pay tolls for another man's property or beasts. The pikeman called to his assistance the lime burners and carters from the adjoining quarries, and the caravan man summoned his trusty keepers. Words grew louder and blows fell faster, until at length the battle became general ; bloody hands and broken heads were seen and felt : staves and the butt ends of carters' whips were met with long poles and short truncheons. The issue of the battle was for a considerable time doubtful. The pikeman's wife and children were crying and roaring in the house, whilst the wild beasts in their respective dens were sending forth terrific yells. The elephant, after removing the gate, was unchained, came to the rescue, decided the day and cau sed the discomfited Monaiteg to fly in great disorder to wards Glynhwrfa, leaving the pikeman and his gate at the mercy of the victors, who subsequently passed onwards with lighted pipes and flying colours.—Chester Courant. RELUCTANCE TO ENTER THE CLOISTER.— A curious instance occurred at Rome, and was narrated to us by a general officer who was present at the time. A young lady was destined by her parents for the cloister. She had regarded herself as the wife of one to whom she was much attached. The parents not approving this marriage, placed her, as is usual in such cases, in a monastery, where she could never see him, and she commenced her noviciate. Before doing so, however, the young gentleman found means to communicate to her, that he would attend in the church at the conclusion of her noviciate ; and that if she still loved him and preferred marriage with him to the taking she veil, he would be there to claim her, and give her the home and protection which her own family would deny her. The year rolled slowly away. The noviciate had ended. The profession was publicly announced—the bells rang merrily as for a bridal; the first flowers of spring were blooming on the floor of the monastic chapel. The Cardinal had arrived; the young novice, fair as the young moon in May, knelt with her white veil floating be hind her, and her eye glancing eagerly from face to face in the assembly, till it rested on him, whom for that long and sad noviciate she had never seen, and whose presence at this moment assured her of his faithfulness in the past. The service proceeded till the Cardinal asked the usual question as to her willingness for the life of a cloister; she at once declared her unwillingness. The Cardinal was astounded. The assembly was greatly excited. And on her being again asked for her reasons, she pointed to the young man who was present, and said boldly, " My wish is to be married to that gentleman." She was the next instant on her knees before the Cardinal, beseeching him to forgive her, and to permit the marriage. The feelings of the Cardinal and all the assembly were deeply moved. The service ceased. The Cardinal declared that she must not be received into the sisterhood, as she had herself re fused her consent. He made enquiry, and in the end himself married the young couple. And thus she found at once the home and the protection she required, and the want of which would otherwise have consigned her against her own wishes to the cloister for ever. This, however, is a scene that cannot be of frequent occurrence.— Seymour' 8 Pilgrimage to Rome. WHAT HAS FREE TRADE DONE ?—The House of Com mons, by a majority, have voted for the repeal of the Navigation Laws. Free trade will soon have done its work, so far, at least, as the House of Commons is con cerned. It is gradually but unceasingly advancing, and swallowing up successively all the great interests of the empire, save that of the capitalists, as it moves forward. The agricultural interests will find themselves deprived, in February next, of all protection ; and the British cul tivator exposed to the competition, without any shield save a nominal duty of is. a quarter, of states where wheat can be raised, with a fair profit in average years, at 18s. a quarter, and brought to this country for 10s. at the very utmost of freight. As soon as we have two fine harvests in succession, it will be seen to what state this system will reduce British rural production. The West India interests have been next assailed ; and our colonies 'mon whom free labour h; - ' eeen forced, upon a compen sation being given to the proprietors on an average of a fourth of the value of their slaves, are speedily to be ex posed, with no protection but a differential duty of ss. 6d. a hundredweight, diminishing ls. 6d. a year, till, in 1854, it disappears, to the competition of slave colonies, where sugar can be raised for £4 a ton, while in the British colonies the measures of government have precluded its being raised for less than £lO a ton. As a natural con sequence, cultivation is about to cease in those noble settlements ; the forest and the jungle will speedily sup plant the smiling plantations, and £100,000,000 worth of British property will be lost beyond redemption. Do mestic manufactures were at the same time assailed, though with a more gentle hand than rude produce. Protective duties on them were lowered, though not en tirely removed; and the consequenceis, that at this time there are 8,000 hands wholly unemployed at Manchester, and above 10,000 at Glasgow, and distress to an unparal leled extent pervades the whole commercial and manu facturing classes. Nothing daunted by these calamitous results, so exactly what the opponents of free trade pre dicted would ensue, so diametrically the reverse of the unbounded prosperity which they promised the nation as the consequence of their changes, the Free-traders, in pursuance of their usual system of preferring their own opinion to the evidence of facts, are preparing to apply the same system to the commercial navy of the country, and, by the repeal of the Navigation Laws, against the opinion of Adam Smith, to depress our shipping interest as much as they encourage that of foreign states, and endanger our national existence, by crippling our own means of defence as much as they augment the means of attack in the hands of our enemies. Not content with rendering us dependent for a large part of our bread on foreign nations, they are determined on measures calcu lated to deprive us of the means of maintaining our naval superiority, or upholding the national independence. They are set upon saving the nation a few millions a year in freight, though the consequence is, that we shall, be alike unable to withstand a pacific blockade or- hostile aggression, This country has already suffered greater losses, and been more severely crippled in its resources, by the effects of three years of free trade , and fettered currency policy, than by the whole efforts of, IralicQ during a war of twenty years.—J3/achpood, THE LIVERPOOL STAND,VR;IY. EXTRAORDINARY DISCLOSURE-IMPORTANT TO RAILWAY SHAREHOLDERS. At a time when an increased desire to invest in railway undertakings is being manifested, the following important disclosure, made in a petition presented to the House of Lords, may not be without value. The petitioner stated that he was a shareholder in the North Wales Railway, the act for which passed in 1845, since which two instal ments of 10 per cent. had been paid up. We give the remainder of the facts in the reported words of Lord Monteagle "Soon after a change in the direction of the company took place, and one of the first proceedings of the new direction was to lend the money of the North Wales Railway Company for the purpose of completing another railway with which the North Wales Railway had nothing to do. Many of the mem bers of the new direction were also directors of the London and Richmond Company, and to this latter company the mo ney of the North Wales Company was lent. But, as the North Wales Railway Company were not empowered by law to lend, nor the London and Richmond Company to borrow, the course taken was not to lend the money to the London and Richmond Company in its corporate capacity, but to private individuals connected with the company on their notes of hand. After a time the Richmond Railway was made, and sold to another company. The directors of the North Wales Company, having lent the money on insufficient security, and contrary to law, nevertheless thought proper, when this took place, to repeat the experiment, and they lent the money of the company to two other individuals. A shareholder applied to inspect the accounts, and after some resistance he was allowed to have ac cess to them. Their lordships would hardly believe in what manner those accounts were kept. He held in his hand a copy of the very account in question, and he found these entries, — "Loan to A' for investment, £1,500." "Loan to B' for dit to, W 1,200." "Loan to 'C' for ditto, £4,000" "Loan to D' for ditto, £8,000." " Loan to E' for ditto, £3,000." " Loan to F' for ditto. £1,003," " Loan to G 9 for ditto, £1,000." In fact, the account was a cypher which explained nothing. The parties asked for an explanation as to who were repre sented by the letters "A," "B," "C," "D," "E," " F," and " G," but that was refused. These were the two main allega tions contained in this petition; namely, first, a misapplication of the funds from the purposes for which they were intended by Parliament, from the North Wales Railway Company to the London and Richmond Railway Company; and secondly, the manner in which the accounts were kept. The answer of the directors to the latter charge related a most curious fact. They stated that this mode of keeping accounts,—namely, that of putting forward an unintelligible account to be inspected by the shareholders, and keeping a private ledger for their own use, was the common course taken by other railway companies, and they justified themselves by this most extraordinary plea.." To us it really seems incredible that any other compa nies adopt a course such as these North Wales directors declare that they do. If it is so, however, it would be only prudent for every man, before investing his money in the stock of any of these new companies, to ascertain where is the money which their shares represent. etntral Out of 62,000 persons apprehended by the London po lice last year, 28,000 had no occupation. During the last eighteen years, the streets of London have increased 200 miles in length, nearly a mile a month. The metropolis was visited by a severe storm of thunder and lightning on Friday. A vessel arrived in the Thames from Canton has brought the somewhat remarkable importation of 140,000 Chinese insects, for the purposes of natural history. The London bankers are discounting commercial paper 1 per cent. below the minimum fixed by the Bank of England. Two children, aged seven and eight, were drowned in the Severn, near Worcester, last week, whilst amusing themselves with a fisherman's bo tt. The Secretary of State has given orders to the commis sioners of the metropolitan police to have all the constables taught the sword exercise. A poor woman died last week at Ipswich, from the ner vous shock occasioned by a bee stinging her while she was superintending a swarming : _ _ _ The Commissioners of Woods and Forests have ordered several hundred chairs to be placed in the London parks, for the accommodation of the public. The Admiralty Court have decided that government is to pay for the brig which the " Birkeneead " steam-frigate ran down in the channel. The frigate was short manned. A committee has been appinted at Hull to take mea sures for the preservation of the public health, in the event of the town being visited ay cholera. On Saturday last, a young man, preparing to sail from Dundee to London, was fined ss. for smoking a cigar at the harbour, after being warned that it was contrary to law. ARSON.—At Buckingham assizes, on Friday, James Johnson. farm servant, was sentenced to transportation for life for setting fire to some farm buildings of his em ployer. On Friday, the bodies of two persons, a male and fe male, were found about two feet below the earth in a cel lar in Whitefriars, London. The bodies were lying close to each other. James Weybury and William Willoughby, railway ser vants, were tried at Abingdon, on Saturday, on a charge of manslaughter, it being alleged that, by the removal of a horse-box, they caused the late fearful collision on the Great Western Railway. They were acquitted. It is in contemplation to establish two more camps si milar to that on Kersal Moor—one in Yorkshire, and the other on the southern or western coast. The troops are to be regularly drilled, and will have all the appliances for a campaign, easily movable at an hour's notice. In a garden at Durham, there is now growing a plant of " Victoria" rhubarb, which measures about sixteen yards in circumference, while the stem is above six feet in height ; and the whole of the plant is estimated to weigh fourteen stones. Ina garden at Loughborough there is now a currant tree, on a bough of which are growing both red and white currants, though no artificial means have been employed to cause this singular difference in the fruit of the same tree. kconier, named Blythe, has been committed for trial at Bilston, for the wilful murder of his wife. Whilst in a passion, the prisoner struck the deceased first in the face, then threw her down, jumped upon and kicked her several times in the lower part of the person. TN HEAVEN OR IN PURGATORY ?—We are at a loss to reconcile the confident assertion of Dr. Wiseman, that Archbishop Affre was, with St. George and St. Alban, looking down from heaven upon the consecration of St. George's Church, with the fact that at that very time Prayers were offered in all the Churches of France, for the deliverance of his soul from purgatory. The Ipswich Express mentions that on Friday last an old woman living at Bradfield St. George, who was attend ing some bees that were swarming, was stung by one of the insects on her right thumb. She entered her house, sat down, and exclaimed " How bad I feel !" instantly fainted, and expired half an hour afterwards. POSETITE DESOLATION.—The Western Times states that at Teignmouth a blight seems to have gone over the pews, noising seems to thrive but the altar, which is overloaded with vases, and has all the appearance of a sale shop for the gatherings of Roman antiquities. A woman threw herself out of a train on the Bury St. Edmund's Railway, near Witham. The train was at full speed. She was carried, bruised and insensible, to the workhouse, where she has since died. It was supposed that she was insane. . . The Banffshire Chronicle says that some time ago, a boy at Portsoy got a lien's egg from some of his compa nions, and carried it about with him in his bosom. One morning lately, he astonished his parents by exhibiting to them a lively chicken, which he had thus hatched, and which bids fair to become a fine fowl. The horse trick will never become stale amongst persons who do not take a newspaper. The Gateshead Observer relates how, at the late Stagshawbank fair, a local preacher was inveigled, under the old pretence of a quarrel, &c., to purchase a horse for £3O, which he was afterwards glad to sell for £4. LOUIS PHILIPPE'S FORTUNE.—The Quarterly Review says that there is no trace of the ex-King having anything in the American funds, and that all that his Majesty pos sesses out of France is £lO,OOO in the British funds, yielding about £3OO a-year, and that the Queen has about £5OO a-year in the Austrian funds, a legacy from an aunt, one of the archduchesses. FRUIT AND BLOSSOM.—There is, at the present time, at Fryery, near Bath, a pear tree in full blossom, and it has also a splendid crop of fruit on it. The tree is nearly white with blossom. It is a fine large tree, near the beautiful spring of mineral water which Mr. Brooks, of Hinton Abbey, lately discovered. The tree has a great many buds, still breaking for blossom. The Brighton Gazette anticipates a plentiful supply of prime oysters for the future, a bed, apparently inexhaust ible, having been found in the Channel, many miles in length. Parties at Shoreham are fitting out smacks for the express purpose of engaging in the oyster trade ; and insteacrof oysters being sold at 3s. per hundred they will not realize more than half that sum very shortly. The Sheffield Iris, the oldest newspaper in Sheffield, and formerly the property of the esteemed James Mont gomery, Esq., has just changed hands. As a commercial undertaking, its ultra-radical principles have failed to make it pay in the hands of its late proprietor, and it has now become the property of the proprietors of the Sheffield Times, who purpose to continue its publication on Thurs days. FALSE IMPRISONMENT.—On Friday, in the Court of Queen's Bench, Mrs. Elliot recovered from Mr. Topham, a manufacturer, of Derbyshire, and Mr. Richardson, a publisher, of Derby, £l5O damages for false imprison ment, they having given her into custody on a charge of having stolen a sovereign when giving them change in her capacity of waitress at a dining-house. The jury also allowed her £2 17s. for money paid to a surgeon and an attorney. The Record states that two Protestant readers belong ing to the Reformation Society, who were distributing their tracts to the visitors at the opening of St. George's Roman Catholic chapel on yesterday se'nnight, were attacked by the Romanists, who—" Fell upon them, and kicked them in the most merciless manner; one of them is laid up in bed, every rag of clothing was torn off him and had not the police interfered he would have been killed." EXTRAORDINARY ROPE OF GALVANIZED IRON WIRE. —Mr. Andrew Smith, of the wire-rope works, Mill-wall, Poplar, has just completed one of the most extraordinary ropes ever manufactured; the rope is for the Fowey Con sols Mine, is upwards of 567 fathoms (1300 yards) in length, and weighs 4 tons 14 cwt. ! We understand it is composed of the best and longest wire ever yet prepared, and admirably adapted for the purposes for which it is intended—the wire being in one entire length. THE LONDON SHERIFFS ELECT.—Mr. Bousfield and Mr. Mills, who were on Midsummer-day elected Sheriffs for London, have declined to serve in the office. Mr. Bousfield has paid the fine, upwards of £6OO. Mr. Mills, it is said, disputed the validity of the fine, and will be proceeded against by the_ City Solicitor for the amount. A Common'ilall will be held - in a few days for the elec tion of two other persons to serve in the office. The fines in such cases are appropriated to the improvement of the city. CRICKET.—KENT V. ENGLAND.—This match com menced on Monday last, at Lord's, and did not terminate until Wednesday. The great feature of the game was the introduction of Hinckley, on the part of Kent, which was most prosperous. Asa bowler he is first.rate, having been instrumental in taking six wickets in the first innings, and in the second the whole ten succumbed to his powers. The following is the result of the contest :—England, first innings, 120; second ditto 74. Kent, first innings, ;',O; second ditto' 40. England thus won by 55 runs. THE SALE OF BREAD.—A bill is now before the House of Commons, which is designed to regulate among other things, the sale of bread. It is proposed to compel bak ers to mark, upon each loaf, its weight ; and if, within thirty-six hours from the time of being baked, a loaf is weighed in the presence of a magistrate, and found to be deficient, the baker is to be liable to a fine of ss. for every ounce so deficient. There are some other exceedingly objectionable provisions in the bill ; but as there is not the remotest chance of its being passed into law, it is not worth while to allude to them. LIFE POLICIES OF ASSURANCE.—A Bill has been brought into the House of Commons for the purpose of making life policies assignable at law. The Bill provides that from and after the passing of the Act, life policies may be assignable at law, and that the assignee of a policy shall be entitled to recover from insurance compa nies. Memorandums of assignment are to be endorsed on the policy of assurance, and the age of the person whose life is to be insured is to be deemed that which is stated in the policy. Policies of assurance are to be receivable as evidence. THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER.—The income, from all sources, last year, was £69,735 15s. 10d. The principal features of expenditure are thus made up :—Salaries to the head officers of the duchy, £4,977 10s. ; salaries of the new Stannary Courts, £1,157 10s. ; salaries to per sons employed in the collection of the revenue, £2,159 Bs. ; surveys and maps, £1,943 15s. ; • repairs and perma nent improvements, £5,280 19s. 4d. ; payments to Prince Albert, £41,728 2s. 6d. ; investment in the purchase of beneficial interests, . £2,ol3;—balance remaining in the hands of the receiver-general, £7,493 17s. A NEW SYSTEM. Or CANVASSING.—Some idea of the excitement produced in the neighbourhood of Swansea during the late election may be formed when it is known that it even invaded the sacred precincts of the pulpit. On Sunday night at Cadle Dissenting Chapel, the worthy minister who officiated (Rev. Evan Morgan, Penydarran), after dilating,, like his great prototype before the Roman " righteousness, temperance, and judgment to, come," in the plenitude of his holy(?) zeal, directed his hearers' attention to passing events—the election of Co. roner. After descanting upon, the incomparably superior merits.and elaims of his favourite, he ended by bursting into a violent exclamation, Russell for ever,,Russell for ever," to the great astonishment and merriment of his Woadeting audit , 4ss 7 -Ljertford ./OurnaL CONDITION OF THE PAPAL STATES (From the Rev. Hobart Seymour's Pilgrimage to Rome.) IDOLATROUS WORSHIP, At the top of this magnificent mass of white marble is the front of the church : and it was on this spot I stood to witness "the blessing of the most holy Bambino." It was one of those sites once witnessed can never be effaced ; there on the mind it must remain ineffably graven for ever. The elevation of this spot was such as to command a view of a large portion of the space and ascent of the Capitol ; and further below all the wide place Or street by which it is approached. together with the long flight of steps ascending to the church : the whole were thronged to excess. The masses of the people were wedged together as closely as possible, presenting to the eye one compact body of living things from the Capitol above, down the slope, to the space below, and then up the marble steps to the church. There could not he less than five thousand persons, every head uncovered, and every face upturned, gazing intently upon this scene in front of the church. And such a scene 1 _ There, Wt the y height of an hundred and twenty-four steps above the people—there stood the priests in their splendid robes. On one side were arranged about forty monks : on the other hand about as many more : and clothed in their sombre dresses and waving their blazing torches in their hands, they presented a scene of the most striking appearance. In the midst were the more immediate officials, holding aloft their gi gantic torches : and in the centre of these again were the priests, surrounding the High Priest, who held the little image—the Bambino, in his hand. At least one hundred torches, each in the hand of an ecclesiastic, glittered and flamed around. The monks stood in their places; the ecclesiastics gathered together; the incense was waved and enwrapped all for a moment in its clouds and its perfume; the military band filled the whole place with a crash of music, and the soldiers of the guard pre sented arms, as the Chief Priest lifted the little image—slowly lifting the Bambino, rising it above his head. In an instant, as if the Eternal Jehovah was visibly present in the image, among the vast multitude gazing from far beneath, every head was un covered before it, and every knee was bent to it, and almost every living soul was prostrate before it. He raised it slowly a second time; he raised in the same manner only more slowly the third time; and the muttered words of prayer ascended from the vast multitude, and told how deeply and universally rooted among the people is this worship of the Bambino. I felt as if my blood was frozen within me at so awful a spectacle. THE ADORATION OF THE CROSS. The Cardinal and his assistants left the altar, and placed the cross on a cushion, on the floor of the chapel, a few paces from the steps of the altar, and retired. And here the ceremony commenced indeed. Two or three Cardinals approached the Pope, they stripped off his splendid robes, they removed his glittering mitre, they took off his em broidered shoes, they laid aside his spangled gloves, till he stood before his throne without one emblem of his royal or papal of fice. There stood the old man bareheaded and bare-footed, and stripped till he seemed to retain little else than a loose white dressing-gown, the dress of a monk of Camaldoli. There he stood, not alone, as if the act were a voluntary humiliation, but in the hands of the Cardinals, who, intending to help him and uphold him, seemed to be his guards to force and compel him. There the old man, no longer looking like a Pope, descended from the throne and seemed like one led away to be punished, or to do penance. I could not help thinking the old man was, in a great measure an unwilling actor in this scene; there was much uneasiness in his manner; there was dissatisfaction in his face; and his whole appearance was that of a man who was obliged to act against his conscience, in complying with a cus tom of the Church. Having conducted the Pope to the end of the chapel, they turned and faced the cross, which lay on the floor near the steps of the altar. There they made him kneel and adore it. They raised him, and conducting him some two or three paces nearer, they again made him kneel a second time and adore the cross. Then again they raised him, and leading him nearer still, they again the third time made him kneel and adore the cross. Here at the cross they raised him, and then again he knelt, then rose again and then knelt again. Prostrate before it—on knees and hands, he kissed it, and, according to custom, left an hundred scudi of gold as an offering beside it. He was after wards conducted to his throne and robed, while the most ex quisite music from the choir accompanied the whole ceremony. When this is completed by the Pope, the same act is per formed by each of the Cardinals, all without shoes, adoring and kissing the cross. These are followed by the bishops, heads of orders, &c., all-adoring it in like manner, and all making to it an offering of money. The Deacons then spread the cloth on the altar, light the can dles, and reverently place the cross, no longer on the floor, but on the altar amidst the candlesticks. Such is—THE ADORATION OF THE CROSS :—An act of wor ship that moved me intensely, infinitely more than anything I had witnessed at Rome. It was an act the most solemn and impressive, and bore every characteristic of IDOLATRY. AN ECCLESIASTIC NONPLUSSED. I went, accompanied by many others, into the grotto of sub terranean chapels, which constitute the vaults on which St. Peter's is built. We were conducted by the Sacristan to the altar, which is said to contain the bodies of the two martyred Apostles. It is directly under the great high altar of the upper church; and there in the darkness of that subterranean chapel, these two Apostles were said to sleep their sleep of death. The Sacristan with much reverence called our attention to the spot, and I asked him whether it was indeed certain—whether, inas much as learned antiquarians have doubted, and even denied it, it had ever been clearly ascertained by ocular search, that the remains of St. Peter and St. Paul were indeed deposited there. He replied that there was no doubt of the fact, and that they certainly were there. My wife reminded him that the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul were said to be in the church of St. John of Lateran, and that we had seen them exhibited there in pub lic; and she asked how they could also be in St. Peter's. He replied that it was indeed very true, that the heads of the Apos tles were at St. John's, but that the bodies were at St. Peters. My wife again reminded him, that in some other churches we had seen the arms and legs of these Apostles ; and suggested that they could not, without unnatural multiplication be also in St. Peter's. He replied that it was very true that the arms and legs, &c., were in other churches; but that the bodies were cer tainly at St. Peter's where we now stood. I then took occasion myself to ask, whether the whole bodies, without the heads, arms, and legs, were there, for that I had seen some of the ribs, shoulders, vertebrae, were exhibited in other churches. He an swered still that the bodies were beneath the altar, beside which we were then standing. I suggested to him that there could only be some parts or portions of the bodies, as other parts and portions were claimed elsewhere. He admitted in reply that such was the case, and that it was not the bodies, but only some fractions of the bodies, that were buried beneath St. Peter's 1 I then again asked whether it was possible to see them, and whether any one had searched and found them,—an easy matter it really contained in that altar, and an easy way of confuting all gainsayers. I placed my hand on the altar and repeated my question, in a manner free from mere scepticism or irreverence; and he replied that, though they had searched for them yet they had never found them, because they were bu ried so deep—too deep to find them. They were " molto pro rondo," very deep in the earth ! 1 thought the difficulty of finding them could be more easily solved, by supposing their absence,—that they had never been there. This conversation passed in the presence of at least a dozen persons, and it shows how very slender are the claims to authenticity, on the part of some of their most valued relics. THE JESUITS.—Wide as the poles apart must ever be the Jesuits and all bible societies. But against thrones as well as bibles are hurled the Jesuits' denunciations, for " the whole school of theologians, and ecclesiastical yers," say they, " n4aintain, and it is a thing most cer Lain, and a matter of faith, that every Christian prince, if he has manifestly departed from the Catholic religion, and has wished to turn others from it, is immediately divested of all power and dignity, and all his subjects are free from every obligation of the oath of allegiance, and they may and they must drive such a man from the sovereignty of Christian men as an apostate; a heretic, a deserter of th e Lord, an alien and enemy to his country." And all this was written in direct application to our Queen, and then she is told, from the same authority, that she has no na tural right to the throne, as she and we suppose she has, but that in fact she has usurped it, the free will and ordi nation of the people giving the only right to it. When a king was assassinated, " splendid boldness of soul," cried a Jesuit, " memorable exploit." And yet a nobleman, a few weeks since, publicly asserted that the Jesuits were lovers of order, and stedfast supporters of thrones; he should read the Jesuit Mariana's works, and especially the chapter which treats of the speediest and safest way of getting rid of an adversary. " What matters it," he asks, whether you kill by the sword or by poison ? especially as treachery and fraud are conceded in the faculty of ac tion." Like all ascetics the Jesuits speak contemptuously of women ; others had done this before their time, and enough had been said to satisfy any women-haters on this matter - but the founder of the Jesuits would not be sa tisfied till he had drawn this comparison between women and the devil, " our enemy the devil imitates the nature and'manner of woman, as to her weakness and froward ness, for as a woman quarrelling with her husband, &c., thus the devil." And yet this is the man who is said to have received thirty visits from the Virgin, and of whom " a council of Spanish ecclesiastics of Tarragona declared that " the Holy Virgin in the sanctuary of Montserrat, conceived to, the sacred Ignatius, and having embraced him in her bosom, opened and imparted to him the bowels of her mercy ; and in such a manner, being enveloped in, thowomb, she cherished him, and fed him with the food of heaven, and filled him with her divine spirit."-9 , The .Tesuits,7 Bentley's Miscellany. zi FREE-KIRKISM IN ENGLAND.--This body is declining. ' THE. STIFALFIELDS BALL.—Drury-lane Theatre pre- They have just given up their college, and the two soi- rented on Friday a most splendid scene. Everything that disant professors, like the ouvriers-of Paris, are idle and royal and'noble patronage could bestow had been brought at large. Regent-square an d Woolwich Chapels belong to bear to , reuder the occasion worthy of its object, and it by trust-deed to the Established Church, but as yet the is to be presumed that the Spitalfields School of Design Free Presbyterians occupy them. will reap no small harvest from the festivity. The cos- How Pooh's RATES ARE INCREASED. — Robert Blake, tames of the visitors, who were about 3,000 in number, the man who cohabited with Hannah Parker until she were almost entirely British, and mostly military as far murdered two of his children (for which crime she was as the gentlemen were concerned. They exhibited con executed a short time ago at Newgate), was brought be- siderable beauty and variety, and extended in fashion as fore the magistrates at the Birmingham police-office on far back as the Norman conquest. The Queen Dowager Thursday, charged with having deserted his wife and and most of the lady patronesses were present on the child who have at times been relieved by the parish au - occasion, in addition to a host of distinguished persons. thorities of that borough since January, 1843. It ap- The decorations of the theatre were very beautiful, the peared from the evidence of a relieving-officer that he ap- Prevailing tones being white and gold. A la rge gar l an d prehended Blake at Mr. Plummer's saw-mills, Golden- of flowers under the chandelier was supported by rose lane, St. Luke's, on a warrant ordered by the guardians coloured festoons, which were arranged with great tast e . of the poor of the parish of Bir m i ng ham, and that hi s The band of M. Jullien attended, with its leader. wife and children had received relief amounting to £llO BACK FREIGHTS : COALS, SALT.—The re are plenty of Os. 7d. He was convicted, and s en t enc ed to t wo m on ths' back freights in the neighbourhood of Br i stol. imprisonment in the house of correction at Warwick, and Cardiff, the depots for coal for steam-ships with hard labour. This man's criminality\ has been very each of which we believe about 500,000 tons • Newp - ort and from expensive to the public. DEATH FROM TAKING BELLADONNA SALVE INTEL NALLY. — Considerable interest has been excited at She are exported, are within a few hours' sail; or the vessel may lie in the Bristol Docks and be loaded from barges at two shillings per ton. Salt from the Worcestershire field by the cireumstar Greaves, residing in Love-lane, who, being an out-patient understand at about two shillings per ton higher than at of the Infirmary, went to-lane, that institution on Tuesday for Liverpool,—and then it must be remembered there are his medicine, when he received from the porter a box of neither dock or town dues on exports in Bristol, though pills, a plaister, and a quantity of salve, composed of the there are both in Liverpool. We are sorry to hear, how extract of belladonna, the last of which, according to the ever, that a vessel was recently compelled to go round to statement of the porter, he was i n st ruc t e d t o sprea d on Liverpool for a cargo of salt, there being no supply here.. We hope this will be remedied. The salt trade is a very the plaister. It seems, ho wever , th a t f rom some mis- important one—it was the making of Liverpool. More apprehension or other on the part of the old man , lie took a small portion of th e p o i sonous sa l ve on T ues d ay than 580,000 tons are exported per annum from that port. night, under the idea that it was an electuary. The con- —Bristol .21firror. sequence was, that after endu r i ng grea t agon y, h e exp i re d SHIPS' ENTREES AND CLEARANCES. — The East India the following day. There appe are d t o b e a wan t o f and China Association have just published the statement of British ships which have entered inwards and cleared sufficient caution at the Infir mar y, w ith regar d t o t h e fixing of proper labels on the medi c i ne di s p ense d. outwards, from and to places within the limits o f th e FIRE INSURANCES.—By a retur n j us t p r i n t e d b y or d er Company's charter, during the six months en di ng th e of the House of Commons, containing an account of the 30th June, 1847 and 1848. The figures for London sh ow sums paid for duty by the Offices for fire insurance, we find a decrease in the vessels entered inwards of 69, and 24,130 that, in the year 1847, the following sums were paid for tonnage. The Liverpool return exhibits a decrease of duty by the undermentioned offices :—Alliance, £31,644 ; three vessels, but an increase of 4,906 tonnage. There is Atlas, £32,779; County, £50,001 ; Globe, £32,494; Impe- a decrease also at Bristol and Hull, but the principal de rial, £44,831 ; Phoenix, £90,137; Royal Exchange £75,336; clime is in the Clyde. More favourable results are shown Sun, £180,482 ; Liverpool, £12,658; Liverpool Royal In- by the clearances outwards. All the ports have increased surance, £10,229 ; Manchester, £17,373 ; Birmingham, except Liverpool, Bristol. and Hull. London has in £10,207. The sums insured on farming stock, exempt creased 43 vessels, and 17,391 tonnage. The Liverpool from duty were, at the Alliance, £1,093,329 ; Atlas, decrease is only two vessels, with 432 tonnage ; and the £991,225 ; County. £7,231,552 ; Phoenix, £5,041,226 ; the Bristol and Hull decrease six vessels, with 16.352 ton- Royal Exchange, £4,663,136; the Sun, £8,134,113 ; Li- nage. The points for which the greatest number of yes verpool, £59,350; Liverpool, (Royal,) £56,672; Man_ s el; have left, are Bombay, Ceylon, New South Wales, chester, £396,292. It appears, too, from this return, Mauritius, Arabia, and the Cape of Good Hope. that the insurances in Ireland, of all descriptions, are ut- CLEVER TRICK SPOILED.—On Satur d ay, a country terly trifling in comparison with those in England. looking man bustled up to a heap of potato baskets in MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A CONSERVATIVE ELECTOR. Smithfield market, and, placing his hand on one of them, On Saturday week the dead body of Mr. John Mulcock, said to the bystanders, " Here give us a hand with this." fly proprietor, of Cheltenham, who had been missing since T h e reque s t was at once complied with, and the man Thursday, the day of polling at the recent e l ec ti on con- w alk e d off w ith the half - load of potatoes on his back. The test, was found in a pool, in a lonely spot near the Pitville owner, who had seen the whole proceeding, was for the Gardens. The water was quite shallow, the he a d b e i ng moment astounded at the cool au d ac it y o f the fellow • but in 18 inches of water, and the feet on the bank. It wa s he quickly followed, and accosted the man with " Holloa strongly suspected, therefore, that the unfortunate de- where are you taking those to ?" "To David Matley's ceased was dead before he came into the water, that he and it is c art, " was the p rom p t re p l y . " B u t they' are not David remarkable that he had been heard to de c l ar e Maley's." "Indeed ! Which are his then ?" ask e d th e should never survive the defeat of Mr. G ar d n e r , his f av o- innocent and surprised porter. A moment's investigati on rite candidate, and that he should be killed by the vel- revealed that another basket from the same lot had been lows (Mr. Berkeley's supporters).—His w if e d e p ose d a t furtively abstracted, and the man was given into custody. the inquest that her husband never thre a t ene d t o comm it On the same morning he was brought up at the Borough suicide—that he always came home whe n ill, an d th a t hi s Court. His name was Edward Coates, and he stated that h pecuniary circumstances were not in an y wa y d erange d. he belonged to Stockport. His defence was that he had mistaken the potatoes for David Matley's; but this was When he came home with the flys after th e p o lli ng , h e was covered with dirt which had been thrown at him._ proved to be a falsehood, and he was sent to gaol for one Hereford Journal. month."—Manchester Examiner. PROTESTANT SISTERS OF CHARITY—TRAINING IN- THE ORANGEMEN OF LONDON.—The Orangemen of STITUTION FOR NURSES.—On Thursday, a meeting the Woolwich, Greenwich, and London District cele was held at the Hanover-square Rooms, London, for the brated the anniversary of the Battles of the Boyne and purpose of establishing a Training Institution for Nurses, Aughrim, by dining together on the 12th instant, at the and the encouragement of acts of piety and charity upon Crown Inn, Trafalgar-road, Greenwich. The District the system of the Scours de Charite. The Duke of Master from London presided, and related various inte- Cambridge was in the chair ; and amongst the persons resting details from the late meeting of the Grand Lodge present were Lord Nelson, the Earl of Harrowby, the in Manchester. Letters were read from the Earl of Bishop of London, the Bishop of Norwich, and the Bishop Enniskillen, the Earl of Roden, Lord Kenyon, Colonel of Salisbury. The Duke of Cambridge said it gave him Sir W. Verner, the Grand Master, the Grand Chaplain, great pleasure to assist in the formation of the present and various others. The health of " The Queen, and institution; for as president of the G erman Hospital, in long may she reign in peace and happiness " " The which trained nurses were employed, he could s p ea k Queen Dowager," " Prince Albert," " The Orangemen from experience of the great advantages of the sy s t em . of Ireland," " The land we live in," " Our friends all The plan was commenced some time ago by a G erman cl the world over," and number of other truly loyal toasts, clergyman, and the King of Prussia was now at the head were drunk with great enthusiasm, and many important of a large establishment of the kind in Berlin. The statements made respecting the operations of the body all Bishop of London said that good nursing was of as much over the country, and in various parts of the world. One importance to the sick as good medicine ; and how could fact was worthy of note—that every Orangeman may be they better supply that than by training women anxious looked upon as a special constable in a time of need. to devote their time to ministering to the wants of the THE CHARTIST TRlALS.—Ernest Jones was on Mon helpless, to provide temporal aid, while at the same time day found guilty of attending an illegal meeting at Bon ner's Fields on the 4th of June, and with riot. Fussell they imparted spiritual consolation ? There was a very flourishing Protestant institution of the kind on the banks was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, and required of the Rhine ; but it was their intention to take as a to keep the peace for five years ; Williams, two years im model that in the Canton de Vaud, Switzerland. prisonment, and keep the peace for three years ; Sharpe, THE IRON TRADE.—The second of the quarterly meet- two years' imprisonment for sedition, three months' f or ings of the iron and coal masters of South Staffordshire unlawfully assembling, and to keep the peace fo r th ree was held at Wolverhampton on Wednesday. The prin- Years; Vernon, a similar sentence; Looney, t wo years ' cipal firms were represented, but there was a marked imprisonment for sedition, two months' f or un l aw f u ll y contrast between their dealings on this occasion and at assembling, and the same amount of sure ti es as th e o th er the last July meeting. Twelve months ago there were defendants, (his own recognizance i n £lOO, an d t wo o th ers more orders on the books than could be executed at £lO in £5O) to keep the peace for tw o y ears . Wh en th e sen a ton. On this occasion few orders were reported, and tence was passed, Looney lau g h e d, an d sa id " V ei y well— prices low. Since the preliminary meeting, a few days that will do." Jones was sentenced to be imprisoned for ago, there has not been any improvement which would two years, and find two sureties i n £l5O, an d his own re justify the masters in regaining any portion of the 30s. a cognizance in £2OO, for his future good conduct. When ton reduction which was then agreed to, and whatever the sentence was pronounced, he said, " I wish your lord sales were made were at the reduced prices. There was ship good night, and may you sleep with the motto of the not, however, much business transacted, as the principal Charter round your neck, and no surrender." In answer sales and purchases are generally reserved for the meet- to inquiries as to where the defendants would be confined, ing at Birmingham on the next day. Throughout the Chief-Justice Wilde said in the New House of Correction district there are a great number of men unemploy e d an d for Middlesex. on half work, and the distress is very great amon g st th em . AN INTRUDER ON SEA BATHERS.—A few days ago, as At Birmingham on Thursday the meeting was numerously one of the fishermen of Hunstanton, Norfolk, was em attended by the chief masters and iron merchants in South ployed catching crabs near the shore of that watering Staffordshire, Wales and the metropolis. The prices re- place, he observed something of a most formidable size solved upon at Stewpony, and confirmed at Wol ver ha m - approaching him in the water. The tide was rece di ng , and the man, who was without companions, was within ton, were fully maintained. A considerable number of extensive orders were taken, and the settli ng of accounts fifty yards of the shore, but much above the waist i n th e is said to have passed off satisfactorily. Upon the whole, sea, when, nothing daunted, he struck a severe blow at h the present aspect of the iron trade may be said to be his new acquaintance, which he soon discovered to be a shark. A regular combat ensued, the man aiming heavy more cheering than was anticipat e d. REQUIREMENTS FOR EMIGR ATION .—En g Iish people blows at the head of the fish, and the latter fighting with h are not generally aware of the very small cost at which a his tail, with which he !struck the fisherman two or three young man or a young married couple can t ran sfer their times severely on the chest. The man, fortunately for fortunes to a region where a labourer will find his reward. himself, never lost his footing, his presence of mind, or There are not many young men who cannot save five his strength, and ultimately succeeded in capturing the pounds in two years with only denying themselves what monster. The tide continuing to ebb, the shark was left they can well do without, and that sum will pay for their on the dry sands, where the old man was seen standing passage and keep from any port in Great Britain to Que- with much satisfaction, over his captured enemy. The bec. Twenty ponnds will do the same for a married cou- shark measured nine feet in length, and was presumed to ple with three or four children. From the Irish ports, and weigh about 30 stone. The spot on which it was first with a merely sufficient scale of provisions, the expense is seen was close to the place frequented by bathers, a ma considerably less. To Australia, of course, the expense is chine having on that day frequently conveyed parties much greater ; but so, also , is the advantage. It is a very there. common observation, that if by any luck a working man EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF IMPOSITION.—CLAIR becomes posssessed of £5O or £lOO in this country, it VOYANCE.—J. Goennern, alias Dr. Von Goennern, of No. 22, Great Pultney-street, Regent-street, was charged does him more harm than good, as he cannot invest it profitably, and is therefore tempted to draw upon it till it on Monday, at Marlborough-street, London, with having is gone. The lesser sum will take a married couple com- obtained money from Lord Crewe by false and fraudulent fortably to New Zealand, or any Australian colony. Some pretences. An anonymous letter had been received by of the most painful incidents of rural life are those which the Mendicity Society, calling attention to the imposi arise from the possession of such sums by bequest, or tions of Dr. Van Goennern, whose history it gave. He whatever means. We feel assured that our labourers was, the letter said, a tailor by trade, a native of some would be more apt to save, if it were not for the fact that village in the duchy of Nassau. A few years ago he had those who do are seldom the better for it. Emigration acted as waiter at a coffee-shop in Paris, from which after presents an adequate object. We hear already of emigra- four weeks he was discharged. He then entered the ser tion clubs in the Potteries and elsewhere. These are the vice of a soi-disant Marchioness with an Italian name, only land companies that will do thcir members any real now in England practising as a clairvoyant in street, good. They will give him not only land but good wages. but at that time in Paris. The tailor having acqui r ed COLONISATION.—On Tuesday the " Society for the enough of the mystery of clairvoyan ce t o se t up f or hi m - Promotion of Colonisation" held their first meeting in self, he came to England with a German g i r l, f r om a London. The Earl of Harrowby was in the chair ; and, house of ill-fame in Paris, whom h e p asse d o ff as hi s sis ter, and who is now in Han w ell L una ti c A sy l um . Whil s t among the speakers on the occasion, were Lord Ashley, Lord Monteagle, and Lord Farnham. The society is to carrying on this trade, he g ot £3OO f rom a bli n d gentle be self-sustaining : they are to select the parties wishing man in the Isle of Wi g ht, un d er pre t ence o f purc h as i ng f to emigrate, and they are to promote their object by a for him costly remedi es di scovere d b y hi s c l a i rvoyance loan of money, on, as far as we can see, the guarantee of sister in her sleep. H e a l so o bt a i ne d f rom a G erman poor-law unions and landlords with over-peopled estates, merchant's clerk, on preten c e o f b r i ng i ng ou t s ome dis coveries made by means of clairvoyance, a sum of £2OO. the emigrants subsequently to refund the money ad- After advertising for six months that he attended soirees vanced. " Before us," said Lord Harrowby, `` were co lonies thirsting for population; around us were masses of for the purpose of exhibiting the extraordinary powers of operatives dying for want of employment. The industry, clairvoyance possessed by his sister, Fraulein Von Goen intelligence, and enterprise of the British people pre- nern, the girl proved enciente. He then introduced her eminently qualified them for colonisation. The spirit of not as his sister, but as his wife, at Liverpool, Manches independence and self-reliance of the Anglo-Saxon race, ter, &c., after which he came again to London. He their literature, our extent of seaboard, were all circum- wrote to the Baroness Rothschild, stating that, by means stances more favourable to colonisation than characterised of clairvoyance, he had discovered a great misfortune which would happen unless she paid £ lO to avert it ; and any other race. The greatest difficulty was 'the expense of carrying out a systematic plan of emigration ;—the strange to say got the money. The woman, through great golden bridge by which our impoverished thousands drink, dissipation, and her efforts at clairvoyance, became could be conveyed from want to plenty could not easily deranged, and was removed to Hanwell. The tailor made be constructed : . but he thought the principle adopted by use of the event to excite the sympathy of his country that society met the requirements of the question, and men. M. Staudigl, the singer, sent him £2O; and the would be likely to render the system self-suppo r tin g . He Rev. Dr. Steinkopf gave him introductions, believing wished to see the younger sons of high families trans- I him, to , be a distressed physician; but having de . . )te to planting themselves and their families to our colonies, and a better class of emigrants than had hitherto gone out would follow in their wake. Then the resources of our distant possessions would not be left to he accidentally de veloped, as heretofore; and the institutions of the parent state, which were unrivalled in their vigour and stability, would grow up, and bless and consolidate those rising communities at the other extremity of the globe." How TO MAKE A BUDGET.—Reckon your expenditure half a million too low; reckon your income half a million too high ; the country thus gains one million. Then take from the income of next year another half-million, and add it to the incoale of this : the country will thus have gained a million and a half. Then give up a half million of projected outlay; and you may take to yourself the credit of having added two millions to the national income —if you can get it. THE COLD EARTH CURE.—The "cold earth" cure seems destined to rival the " cold water cure." One day last week, an old man from Shields, arrived at his native place, High Coniscliffe, near Darlington, suffering very much from paralysis, which had deprived him of the use of one side. He said he was told to get himself buried two feet deep in his " native soil," and he would be cured. The poor fellow, strong in faith, got a man to dig a hole by the Tees. side, into which he got and was covered over for a couple of hours, his head only being visible ! He had not been long in his grave before he broke out into a profuse perspiration. He complained of excruciating pain in the side where before he had no feelingtat all, and after his exhumation he declared himself better, could walk nimbler, and h a d some f ee li ng i n hi s s id e . A correspon dent of the Durham Advertiser, who thinks the "cold earth" cure " not to b e l aug h e d at," says, on the autho rity of an informant at Darlington, a Maltese physician was, some forty years since, on a visit to the father of my informant, who, in the course of conversation, asked him what treatment was prescribed in an attack of the plague, to which the physician replied, in his imperfect English, " We do take the peoples that are seized, and do bury them in the ground till they do swear." Swear, doctor ! Swear did you say ! What can, swearing have to do with their cure ? You probably mean sweat instead of swear." "Ah ! yes : sweat, that is. the word ;.vie,do.bury_ them in, the ground till they do..swcAt..!' his friends - to put - them on their guard. Among the persons whom he defrauded were Lord Fitzwilliam, £2O; Lord Crewe, £2O; W. Evans, Esq., M.P., £32 ; Lord Bexley, £lO ; Prince Albert, the Queen. Dowager, the Duke of Cambridge, the Countess of Pem broke, C. Forbes, Lord Morpeth, and many others. To Miss B. Coutts he sent some Berlin wool work, pretend ing that it had been done by his wife during her confine ment in Hanwell. Many more had been appealed to. He had a clerk that wrote forty letters daily. The letter stated that on the next morning he was going to forward a letter to Lord Crewe, 2, Hill-street, stating that he had supported himself as an artist, and enclosing a sketch which he had bought for 2s. 6d., thanking his lordship for the £2O he sent him last year, and applying for aid to pay his passage back to Germany. Inquiries having been made, and the authenticity of some of its details ascer tained, Horsford was employed to watch the prisoner from his house in Great Pulteney-street to Lord Crewe's, in Hill-street, where he was taken into custody. On being searched, a gold watch and three sovereigns were found on his person besides a quantity of memoranda , bearing out to a considerable extent the statements in the letter. One of the papers contained the names of Lords Skel mersdale, Fitzwilliam, Durant, Crewe, the Duke of Leeds, Mr. 0. Gore, Mrs. Huskisson, Major-General Gardener, Lieut.-General Sir J. Gardener, T. Southern, Esq. M. P., Lord Brougham, and others from whom the prisoner had obtained or expected to obtain money. The prisoner ad mitted he was not a physician, but said he was a school master, and was going back to Germany as soon as he could get money enough. He could get plenty of respect able people to prove that he was what he represented himself to be. Mr. Bingham said the prisoner had better bring the persons who were able to speak to his character forward at the next examination, (as it was his inten tion to remand him until Monday. The prisoner was then removed. Horsford having gone to search the pri soner's lodgings, in a short time returned with the infor mation that the prisoner lived apparently in great luxury. A £lO cheque just sent from W. Evans, Esq., M.P., was found, which the prisoner had not yet got cashed ; also scores of letters from charitable noblemen and entlemens A letter with two sovereigns in it was also bud 161.4 b. prisoner at Lord Fitzwilliam's. 8 . 4 NT))