The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-09 00:00:00

_ . ___ _ ..,:.. _ 1 4.. . '' ' \ TIE LIVIIPO ...... _ ,:, ~ -FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. dissatisfied with me in November, 1848, for a difference ~,, CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. Y' , " ' ......................• opinion on a subject not relevant to the present quer ~,,,:` t...........••••••••• WEST INDIA MAIL. and from that time I was subjected to occasional , '"'"") marks , The Primate of Ireland has endowed a chair of cede- The leviot arrived at Southampton on Friday ; she of his displeasure. In January, 1849, about the .....-. , este he siastical history in Trinity College, Dublin, and appointed tringt9 4 7, B7B dollars, 200,000 of which are in California stated to me that a lady had influenced me 9 emAist him. the Rev. Dr. Butcher to fill it. told dust. She also brings 500 oz. of gold dust, entered For her sake 1 repelled the charge. . - lb .e fi nial was The inhabitants of St. Mary's, Torquay, feeling dis y weight. couched in terms too direct and unequive V • , est. This Me. tressed at the mode in which the tractarian incumbent JAMAICA, MARCH 10.—The English mails of February Forrest pronounced as unpardona bl e. . -le 'geld he could conducts the service, have resolved to erect a new church. The university of St. Andrew's has conferred the degree 2nd did not reach Kingston before the Bth of March, in not permit any man so to address h im,, writ Live with any consequence of the bad weather experienced by the Avon woman who id it. He imperatively demanded that we of D.D. on the Re v . J ose ph W o lff, LL.B . ( v i car o f I s l e d between Bermuda and Havannah. There is no political should live apart. I reluctantly, but fallv arta implicitly, Brewers, S omeree t s hi re. ) news of importance. The Colonial Standard notices the acquiesced in his pleasure. From thin, - time it was dis- The parishi on e rs o f St. Ju s t h ave , congratu l ate d M r . successful cultivation of rice in the morass lands about six ti nc tly un d ers t oo d th a t w e should sepweeee and live apart. Gorham on the successful issue of the suit with the miles from Kingston. The commercial accounts state M r . F orres t accompanied me to rat residence of Mr. Bishop of Exeter. The rev. gentleman has sent an ap that ample supplies, with a limited demand for consnmp . - Parke Godwin, and there left me to bean inmate of that propriate reply. bon, continued to depress the market, and no speculative highly estimable gentleman's Ftwase, and the associate of The Bishop of Exeter's chaplain has followed the ex feeling existed. himself and his amiable and greed lady. Not merely for ample of his chief, and has created much angry contro- There is very little news from Nicaragua. At Grey thi s , b u t fo r my first iretrnduction to this estimable versy in his parish on religious matters. The Bishop of Town everything was perfectly tranquil. The news from family, I was indebted le Mr. Forrest. They are his Exeter has refused to interfere. the interior was contradictory, but matters were said to own friends; for them be has always expressed, and 1 An address from the great body of the Evangelical be in a very disturbed state. believe entertained,:ants still entertains, the highest re- clergy is about to be presented to the Archbishop of Can- Th e I s th m us has lately been very unhealthy. Great spect. Alter we had 'been long separated, Mr. Forrest terbury, expressive of the gratitude they feel:towards his numbers of Americans continued to return from Cali- informed me that report attributed our separation to a Grace for the firm stand he has made in the defence of fornia. cause which reflected unfavourably upon him, and th a t the pure p r i nc ipl es o f t h e E sta bli s h e d C hurch o f E nglan d . In the British Guiana the revenue is said to be in every he must establish the existence of another motive. He About forty clergymen, belonging to Hull and Bever. sa ti s f a ctory state. The weather was favourable, and the suggested a diyerce, employed counsel, and at length, in . ley district, have presenten an address to the Archbishop colony quiet. At Nevis, St. Kitts, and Montserrat, the January, 1850,1 sought similar assistance. Our counsel of York, expressing their gratitude for his grace's appro. weather was very dry, and the crops were much affected met, and with my approval it was offered that I would not vat and sanction of the late decision of her Majesty's by h eav y drought. In Barbadoes the weather was very oppose Mr. 'Forrest's application for a divorce, or any privy council, in the case of Gorham v. the Bishop of dry, and the crop of sugar not expected to exceed 13,006 similar act which might conduce to his happiness, pro- Exeter. }Ad s . In Antigua the weather was most unfavourable; vided he would not impeach me with want of virtue. It The Rev. T. Mereweather, Dean of Hereford, who so the want of rain had jeopardised the crop, and rendered was said to be impossible to obtain a divorce without violently opposed the appointment of Dr. Hampden as the prospect of the planters and inhabitants most gloomy. making this charge, and many propositions for the pre- Bishop of Hereford, died on day morning, at the servation of secrecy were made to me. To all such pro- vicarage, Madeley, which he held with the deanery. He INDIA. positions, though accompanied by the offer of a provision was about 54. FIGHTINGS AND MURDERS. for life, I felt myself bound, by every consideration of On Friday the new church of St. Philip's, Bradford- We have received by express, in anticipation of the over- honour, virtue, and duty, to return an absolute and un- road, Manchester, was consecrated by the Right Rev. the land mail. our usual India letters and papers. The dates qualified refusal." Lord Bishop of Manchester. This church has been built are—Bombay, 2nd March, and Calcutta, 29th February. under the auspices of the Ten Churches' Association, and By these accounts it appears that a very uneasy feeling IRELAND. is the fifth which that society has been the means of continues to prevail throughout and conceening the Pun- —4— erecting. jaub. - The late assassinations at Lahore and Peshawur, The repeal rent for three weeks, ending last Tuesday, LLANDAFF EPISCOPAL PALACE.—The Ecclesiastical together with reported attempts elsewhere, have given amounted to the entire sum of twelve pounds, five shil- Commissioners have made arrangements for the house rise to the impression that the Sikhs, unable to get up a lings and eleven pence. Poor little gentleman ! Hadn't and demesne of Llandaff Court, so that the diocese will fght with us in the open field, are resorting to the system he better give it up ? Mimic grandeurs are at a discount. now have a resident bishop, after a lapse of upwards of of private assassination. On the 2nd of February about PROGRESS OF THE REFORMATION.—On Sunday week, 400 years, the last bishop's residence, then called the I,ooo'men of the Affreedie tribes attacked the camp of a in the parish church of Croagh, county Limerick, no less Bishop's Castle, having heen destroyed by Owen Glen party of Sappers employed in making a road through the than fourteen persons, who had been for some time under dower. The non-residence of the bishop for so long a bills between Peshawur and Kohat, at. a pass about 18 the spiritual direction of the Rev. William Archer, publicly time has been mainly attributable to the practice, now =ilea from the former; twelve of our men were killed, read their recantation of the errors of Romanism, in the done away with, of holding the bishopric of Llandaff with gna wounded, and the camp plundered. To avenge this presence of a large congregation. the rich deanery of St. Paul's. massacre a strong force under Colonel Bradshaw, with NERVE.—Dr. Langley, who was acquitted at Nenagh The Rev. M. Hobart Seymour has pointed out an ex the Commander-in-Chief and Sir C. Cempbell in corn- Assizes for the murder of his wife, in order, as was alleged, traordinary mistake in the Bishop of Exeter's letter, pany, _marched from Peshawur on the 9th, notice having to marry his niece, actually slept while the jury were deli- The Bishop quotes, to prove the primitive opinion on been previously given that the villages of offenders would L erat i ng on the i r verdict, and when a few moments more baptism, a canon of the F our th C ounc il o f C art h age, be always thus avenged. The force returned on the 14th, would decide his fate, whether life or death, for thirty which he says " has been received generally, and was having been completely successful. Six villages and a m i nutes, and i t was only b y laying a hand on his shoulder adopted by the General Co unc il o f Ch a l ce d on ." M r. great number of the enemy have been destroyed. There that his slumbers were broken. After the verdict of ac- Seymour proves, incontrovertibly, that not only was this was a good deal of skirmishing on the 10th and 11th, and qu i tta l h a d b een pronounced he exhibited a number of Carthagenian council neve r men ti one d a t Ch a l ce d on, b ut also in returning through the passes on the 13th. Our arsenic pills which he had concealed in the lining of his also that there seems to be no doubt that these canons loss is—Knsign W. H. Titwell, 31st Native Infant r y, waistco,t, and with the utmost composure s a id th a t h a d had never any existence. His lordship has already h a d t o 'killed ; Lieutenant T. W. Hilliard, 23rd Native Infantry, the verdict been an adverse one, he would have swallowed acknowledge one mistake in his letter, and this in con and four Europeans, severely wounded. Coke's Punjaub the poison. nection witd it does not stamp his lordship as entitled to Infantry have behaved well, and suffered severely. Sir the accuracy which is usually accorded to him. C. Napier was to leave Peshawur about the 17th. ASSIZE IVIISCELLANY. Murder and robbery are rife at Peshawur. Two artil- RAILWAY AFFAIRS. crymen were set upon and killed on the night of the 6th At Carlisle assizes a widow has been awarded £3OO • of February, about 500 or 600 yards outside the fort. The from the county bridge surveyor for the death of her hus- Mr. Brunel is having constructed for the South Wales thieves are frequently fired at, but only one has hitherto band, upset in a gig by a stoneheap on the high road. Railway a great iron bridge to be thrown over the Wye, been shot. A witness, a labourer, at the Kingston assizes, stated at Chepstow, 600 feet in length, with four arches, one of The north-western papers report disturbances at Wus- that he was making hay in December ; and being asked 300 feet, and three of 100 feet each, so as not to interfere seerabad and Umritsur, and anticipate them in the neigh- what month this was, replied, " September." with the navigation. bourhood of Bunnoo. A gunpowder plot is said to have On Wednesday, at the Warwick assizes, a firm, iron COMPLETION OF THE RAILWAY ARCHES ACROSS THE been discovered at Lahore. Attempts to assassinate the merchants at Birmingham, obtained from a merchailt and TWEED.—On Tuesday se'nnight, the key -stone was Deputy-Collector of Deena Nugur, and Mr. Blythe, banker of that town, £5OO damages for having stated that Placed in the last arch of the railway bridge which for Assistant-Commissioner at Buttala are reported. Both they were " done up." , three years past has been in the course of formation for gentlemen are said to have been wounded, and some of Instructions have been given that the Birds, who were the purpose of connecting, by a permanent way, the Ber the attendants of the first killed. acquitted at the Exeter assizes, on the indictment for the wick and Newcastle and North British Railways. murder of their servant Mary Ann Parsons, shall be in- WIGAN COMPETING WITH NEWCASTLE.—The direc- A gallant Paris feuilletoniste, criticising the new de'but dicted for an assault on their unhappy victim. tors of the London and North-Western Railway Company of the Countess_de Rossi in the Conservatoire, insists that At Gloucester assizes, Alfred Dancy, a boy only 14, have entered into a contract with certain coal proprietors she must be, `.` not Madame Sontag, but her own daugh- was f oun d gu il ty o f s h oot i ng another youth, at Bristol. at Wigan to forward coals to London at the rate of y. per ter," and that she and Mr. Lumley have imposed upon He was sentenced to ten years transportation. The jttry ton per mile. This will amount to about 9s. per ton for the public. found him guilty of manslaughter only, as they believed the whole distance from Wigan to London; and, as the At Thorn, in Prussia, the waters of the Vistula have he fired the pistol in the heat of passion, but the judge terms of the contract are that 200 tons shall be forwarded overflown, and have inundated all the adjacent count r y. sa id th a t if h e h a d b een f ound guilty of murder, he should daily, the income from this source alone will be about £4O In some places the water is thirteen feet deep, so that a certainly have left him for execution. a day, or £12,520 a year, excluding Sundays. great number of persons have perished, and the damage BREACH OF COVENANT.—At the Chester assizes, on done is immense. Tuesday, .Mr. Swallow, of the Waterloo Hotel, Great COURT AND FASHION. A Melancholy accident occurred to Mons. Roche, the Crosby, sued Mr. Heyes and another for breach of cove- ---4,—. aeronaut, last week, at Saintes, Bordeaux. The balloon nant, whereby defendants undertook to repair and paint On Saturday her Majesty and the Court returned from in which he made an ascent came in contact with a chirn- the hotel in question. For the defendants it was alleged Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace to await her Ma nley. He fell into the street, and had both his thighs and that the action had been brought with a view to get rid of jesty's accouchement. one ofihis arms broken. the lease altogether, and the jury gave a verdict for the A lion, lioness, tiger, five gazelles, and two pairs of Mrs. Heald (Lola Mantes) arrived in Paris on Thurs. plaintiff with a farthing damages. ostriches have been received by the Queen, being a pre day evening from Boulogne, and on Monday left the At the Kingston assizes, last week, Thomas Denny, aged sent from the Emperor of Morocco. Hotel , Victoria, where she had been staying, until the 32, was convicted of the wilful murder of a new-born male illkeeee. Chateau Beaujon, in the . Champs Elysees, which has been child, of which a woman with whom he cohabited had taken by Mr. Heald, could be prepared for her reception. been delivered, by stabbing it in the throat with an awl. LAW INTELLIGENCE. 4r. Heald was to arrive at the Chateau Beaujon on A painful feature of the case was that the prisoner's own ---4 Monday Ann. ft ' , hail .ird.t.,...,.....0 ..-,. --- —_c ..L_ • • . All ndarPqg to Mr Tlio+;‘.. , P.M.,,....a :- --- !__ ______ .. BREAM OF COVENANT.—At the Chester assizes, on Tuesday, .Mr. Swallow, of the Waterloo Hotel, Great Crosby, sued Mr. Heyes and another for breach of cove nant, whereby defendants undertook to repair and paint the hotel in question. For the defendants it was alleged that the action had been brought with a view to get rid of the lease altogether, and the jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff with a farthing damages. At the Kingston assizes, last week, Thomas Denny, aged 32, was convicted of the wilful murder of a new-born male child, of which a woman with whom he cohabited had been delivered, by stabbing it in the throat with an awl. A painful feature of the case was that the prisoner's own son, a child eight years of age, was one of the principal witnesses against him. Mr. Justice Maule passed sen tence of death, observing that he could not hold out the slightest hope of mercy. TERRIFIC COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN BELGIUM.—Mons, March 25 :—The number of workmen in the mine at the time of the explosion was 85 ; 11 only were able to save themselves, and they were seriously wounded, the 74 others were all killed • 46 bodies have been reco vere d, and from the state of the mine there is no hope that any of those remaining will be got out alive. The part of the mine where the other workmen are known to be has not 'been penetrated on account of the foul air it at present contains. One workman has lost his life in the attempt to render assistance. BRAZIL AND THE RIVER PLATE.—The ships Sappho and Pilot Fish, which have arrived at Liverpool, have brought accounts from Buenos Ayres to the 25th of Janu ary, and from Bahia to the Ist of March ; but the intelli gence is of very little interest. General Roses, in his last message, had declared his readiness immediately to ratify the convention with the British government ; and it seems to -be thought that the documents to be brought by the next mail packet would show that Mr. Southern's negotiations were progressing favourably. From Brazil there is no political news of any interest. PROGRESS OF THE LAVA OF VESUVIUS.—The whole of OL that magnificent and extensive wood, Bosco Reale, is now Tuesde. -destrotwd ; not a vestige remains ; and the f a i r cro p s of numerou. springirk , wheat, the pasture and arable land, where are the sports ~ they ? • They no longer form a part of this earth's su r - return :—A i face. ;The lace of the country to within a short distance 5 sovs. forfeit, . of Pompeii is changed, the roads, the landmarks, the means 10 sovs., and the of communication from one point to another, are oblite- four miles of count'. rated,llrlieS buried under a superstratum of from twelve Mr. Green's ch m to to fifteen feet of lava. The lava has now nearly reached Brown, 3d.—THE HUNT STAKES the sec, and it is said covers a superficies of about fourteen 20 sovs. added, for horse. , °- miles. It is the cpinion of the cognoscenti that no fur- with Sir T. P. 1 "- ' Cher damage; it danger need be apprehended. the ste- - ' SYMPTOMS OF THE COMING CRISIS IN PARIS.—The President reviewed the troops at Vincennes on Monday. Ile was accompanied by the Minister of War and Colonel Edgar Ney in his carriage. The Prince on his return was greeted with discordant yells and screechings. Crowds of men in blouses howled out, " Vive la Republique Demo cratique et Sociale I" and at length one of the escort hav ing touched a man, to make him get out of the way, the carriage was at once surrounded and the Prince was in the most imminent danger. His self-possession and pluck never deserted him for a moment. He remained as calm as Wile were presiding at one of his own dinner parties ; and at length the escort made a vigorous dash, and the Prince was extricated from the clutches of ces Eons Parisiens. —v---- SINGULARDEATH ORTRANon IN THEUNITED STATES. A requisition has been got up by the advocates of pro -Thete has been considerable excitement at Frederick, tection, and is in course of signature by the electors in Maryland, in regard to the sudden death of Mr. George South Essex, calling upon Sir Edward North Buxton, one A. Cole. A correspondent of the Hoggerstown Mail of the members for the division, to resign his seat. says : After being kept for a period of four days, he was The Portsmouth correspondent of the Times throws placed in Mr. Hart's vault, in the Lutheran grave-yard, out a rumour that Sir Francis Baring is likely to retire 'with the lid of his coffin open, as there were very serious from the admiralty, and that Sir James Graham will doubts whether or not he was in a trance. His disease, once more become the first lord. Sir James ,Graham the doctors say, was erysipelas, the only indication of refused the post, when it was offered to him, after the which was a small pimple on his lip, causing much swel- death of Lord Auckland, and it was then accepted by Sir ling, and of which, in the short space of three days, he Francis Baring. died. Many persons have daily visited his remains, and THE ADMIRALTY AND SIR CHARLES NAPTER.—Sir nil express their doubts. Though in this state for more Charles Napier has published in the Times a correspond than two weeks, his cheeks are as rosy and fresh as when in ence between himself, the admiralty, and Lord John good health; his lips, at first somewhat blue, now have a Russell, consisting principally of the gallant Admiral's - very natural and life-like colour, and his limb s are as own letters in which he labours to repel an imputation of pliant as ever, not having the rigidity of death at all ; his indiscretion which had been fixed, as he conceives gratuit eyes are not at all sunken, but natural as when in robust ously, upon him by Sir F. Baring. All the parties whom health. •T here is not, as yet, the least appearance of de- he addresses express a high opinion of his professional cit y, and no offensive smell. His parents visit him dallY, character, but Lord John adds to this that he shares the to ascertain if any change has taken place, either for the doubts held by the first lord of the admiralty of his dis better - or worse. Though doctors s a y h e i s dead, many cretion. These doubts are distinctly confined to the con persons in the community doubt it. He was fifteen or duct of the gallant admiral in publishing a series of letters sixteen years of age, fine looking, and intelligent. On in the Times respecting the constitution of the admiralty Sunday he was in excellent health, enjoying himself with board, and the management of the navy. his7companions ;on Wednesday night he was declared a AGRICULTURE AND THE POOR RATES.—At a meeting se)rpse.—American paper. at Godstone a few days since, a respectable farmer, Mr. DREADFUL STEAMBOAT DISASTER.—The Alabama, Page said, " the poor were fast sinking into a state of 2lontgemery journal, has a full account of the dreadful semi-barbarism ; for it was impossible that the farmers accident to the steamer Orville St. John. She was burnt could pay the rates, and they were .sinking fast into a state about four miles below Montgomery. It is supposed that of degradation. Had her Majesty looked out of her there were 120 persons on board, many of whom leaped palace-window she would have seen three incendiary fires into the river, and were drowned, others perished in the lately. Tatsfield, where I live, is a small parish, and we flames, and others were crushed by the guards of the boat have only four ratepayers ; and last year we had to pay falling. The ladies threw themselves into the river, and £143 for establishment charges, and £33 for the relief of most of those on board were burnt. Mrs. Hall, with her the poor. (Loud cries of `shame, shame," disgraceful.') daughter in her arms, were drowned. The clerk of the lam one of the guardians, and I have been to the corn boat (Mr. Mear), in attempting to save her, was nearly missioners and have explained all about it; but now, we drowned. The only article on board that was saved was would not make a poor rate, and they are going to put in the trunk of Colonel Preston. There were a number of a distress upon the overseer. (Shame, shame.) Now, I returned Californians on board, who lost their all. Col. say, if anything will bring abbut a revolution, it is such Rodman Price, of the U n it e d S tates navy, agent from Ca- things as these. First people get discontented,' and then lifornia, lost his baggage, with which were 43250,000 be- they go on and get disaffected, until at last they break longing .to the Government. Mr. Maul, a returned Cali- out." fornian, was very, severely injured. F. H. Brooks, of MO- AGRICULTURAL COMPETITION.—It is perfectly certain, bile, rumoured to have been lost, was saved. In addition and will not be denied, that such prices as 205., 225., and to the money lost by Mr. Price, there were S°lo,ooo be- 245., for wheat, have often been heard of in the world, longing to Mr. Knowland, and a l arge sum b y Mr. though we are ready to admit that they have not yet been Schmidt. A considerable portion of the sum in charge of- the ordinary or average prices. But the effect of the Mr. Price was golddust in the safe, and may be recovered. throwing open the English market will be found to be The register of passengers was lost. The clerk of the boat very great. It will place corn in the same position as has furnished a list of the names as far as ascertained. cotton, and the result will be just like that of the cotton Hugh Hughes, mate; Peter, steward; Esther, the chain- imports. There is a m ar k e t open which will, just now, bermaid. The second cook and eight negroes were saved, take corn in any quantity, at 325. or 335. It will be grown also all the crew, with the exception of the second ma t e . and sent there in abundance. Soon the price may fall to Another account supposes there were 50 lives lost and 31s. or 30s. But the valley of the Mississippi can grow 46000 dollars. Many persons are still missing. —New any quantity at that price, and gain a profit. Just as York Courier. cotton gradually declined with the advancing growth, so Tun, FORREST DIVORCE CASE—THE REPLY OF will corn. But the growers do not cease producing—they ilns. FORREST.—Mrs. Forrest has replied, in a com- only send the more the lower the price falls. Well, then, Inunicittion to the authorities of Pennsylvania, to the : the English farmer must address himself to the work of statement of her husband. She says—" The imputations vigorous competition. Will the free-traders seriously re contained in the petition of Mr. Forrest, now on the files commend this ? A farmer in the Western Valley buys of your senate, and printed in the numerous journals, are the fee-simple of his land at a dollar per aere. He gets of such a character that silence on my part is impossible. for this price a soil so fertile that, to use their own saying, Though I would cheerfully suffer any other evil rather "If you stick a crow-bar in the ground overnight, it will than say or do aught in opposition to my burband, in this sprout tenpenny nails before morning." He throws in particular matter I cannot give even a tacit admission of his seed year by year, and reaps a large harvest, which is charges which, if established in a due course of trial, all his own. A net price of 12s. or 14s. for wheat will would justly exclude me from virtuous society, involve make him a rich man in ten years. And against this sort ray innocent young sisters in shame, and bring the hairs of farmer you would pit an Essex corn-grower. This man" et my beloved father with sorrow to the grave. To do has first some 30s. an acre to pay for rent, and about 15s. and suffer all that Mr. Forrest desired save this, I have per acre for rates and taxes. Then, to grow corn he must freely Offered ; but to submit to this d egra d at i on I have " farm high,"—i. e., spend largely in artificial manures, declined, and must still decline. Silence might seem an Ac. Is it not quite obvious that this is just as hopeless a admission, and, therefore, I am constrained, though re- .eompetition as it would be to start one of our London lactantin to make this statement. Mr. Forrest was .vab-horsus against an Arab of the desert ? An address to Mr. Justice Talfourd is now in course of signature among the bar of the Western Circuit, expres sive of 'their full confidence that his lordship's summing up in the late trial at, Exeter was strictly legal, and that the comments of The Times were wholly uncalled for. The Birds have absconded. SLANDER. ON A CLERGYMAN.—At the Gloucester assizes, on Tuesday, the Rev. J. S. Karr, vicar of Berke ley, sued a Mr. Ruther, a labourer, for compensation in damages for slanderous words which he had uttered. The defendant had been a labourer in Mr. Karr's service, but was dismissed. He afterwards frequently stated that Sarah Knight, Mr. Karr's housekeeper, had been in the family way by Mr. Karr, and that he had given her medicine to make her miscarry. It appeared that the housekeeper in question usually slept at home with her husband. Sho did miscarry, and was attended by a re spectable medical-man, who was employed by Mr. Karr ; and, though there did not appear to be any grounds for the slander, it was stated in evidence that they were very familiar with each other. The jury found for the plain tiff, dame' The commissioner of the Sheffield Bankruptcy Court has declared that he will not feel justified in giving a first class certificate to any bankrupt who holds shares in a joint-stock bank. At Wincanton county court, neat Wolverhampton, a schoolmaster recovered a quarter's payment from a lady for her two sons' education, though they had not attended the school, she not having given the usual notice of their intended removal. ti es one shilling SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. OEMSKIRK STEEPLE-ClLZSE.—Thisaffair came off on Tuesday, and was honoured by a fashionable and most numerous attendance. The land was in prime order, and the sports turned out super excellent. The following is a return :—A HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES of 10 Soya. each, 5 sovs. forfeit, with 50 soya. added. The winner to pay 10 sovs., and the second horse to save his stake. Over four miles of country. Mr. Reed's ch h Champagne, Ist; Mr. Green's ch m Laura, 2nd ; Mr. Cowell's b m Nelly Brown, 3d.—THE HUNT STAKES, of 3 sovs. each, with 20 sovs. added, for horses that have been regularly hunted with Sir T. P. Hesketh's harriers. Over three miles of the steeple-chase course. The winner to pay 4 sovs, and the second to save his stake. 12 st. each. Capt. Ander ton's b g Cunning, Ist; Mr. Balshaw nd. b g Wicklow, 2nd ; Mr. Harris named b m Sweetbriar, 3rd. —SELLING STAKES of 3 sovs. each, with 10 sovs. added. Over the same ground as the Hunt Stakes. 12 at. each. The winner to be sold for £lOO, if claimed, &c. If entered to be sold for £BO, allowed 4 lbs. ; £6O, 71bs. ; £4O, 101bs. ,• £3O, 141bs. ; £2O, 211b5.. M r . R ogers ' s b g Hazard (£6O), Ist; Mr. Maloney's b g D o ll D ust, 2nd ; Mr Hayes 's c m The Merlin (£3O), 3rd.—A SwEEpsTA - for beaten horses, for which seven started, was canter, by Golddust. won in a POLITICAL ............. MISCELLANY. TIE POLITICAL EXTRACTS. FREE TRADE IMPOSSIBLE UNDER A RESTRICTED CUR RENCY.—Liberty is favourable to production ; therefore, whatever restrains production is an unwise policy. Trade, therefore, ought to be perfectly free, but so also ought the instruments by which trade is ca r ri e d on . Were Parlia ment to enact a law permitting ships to be constructed of any tonnage or draught of water, and at the same time enact another law limiting the depth of water into which ships might be launched, it is plain that the two laws might be antagonistic, and that the construction of a lar ger class of ships would be prohibited ; but not less absurd is it to proclaim the principle of free trade as a rule of conduct, and prevent that principle being carried into ope ration, by limiting the monetary instrument of exchange; for the circulating medium of currency bears the same re lation to the distribution of commodities in the markets of exchange, as the floating medium of water does to the na vigation of ships. Withdraw currency, trade stagnates ; withdraw water, the ship is stranded. Therefore, free trade in commodities, without free trade in money, is fal lacious in theory and a contradiction in practice. Free trade evidently implies more trade than can be realised under a system of protection, or recent debates in Parlia ment must have been an idle waste of words. But it has been shewn that trade can only be carried on by the aid of currency, unless we return to barter ; more trade, there fore, requires more currency. Nevertheless, Sir Robert Peel, Lord John Russell, and Mr. Cobden, the champions of free trade, all insist that the trading and commercial , 1 classes shall only use a stringently limited number of monetary instruments, while they p r omis e th ose c l asses a prodigious augmentation of business. These gentlemen commit the mistake of willing the end and refusing the means. What judgment would the shareholders of a railway pronounce on the sagacity of their directors, who, having published in their report a confident assurance of increased traffic, refused to increase the number of their carriagei, wagons, or locomotives. Yet such directors would not be more foolish than those advocates of free and more trade, who persist in the use of metallic money, which is inexpansive in its nature.—Tract No. 5 of Na tional Currency Reform Association. THE ANOMALY OF ABUNDANCE OF MONEY ATTENDED BY COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL SUFFERING.—It is a fallacy to suppose that a heavy accumulation of gold in the cellars of the Bank of England, a low rate of interest, and millions of unemployed bank notes, are proofs of mercantile prosperity. When foreigners leave our gold and take payment of their imports in goods, it clearly proves that our.goods are cheaper than our gold, and that the producer can not add the tax to the intrinsic value of his commodities. It is a state of low wages and low pro fits, inducing that kind of cheapness which is expressed by a great deal of labour for a very little money. The phenomenon of money being a drug, while the people are pennyless, has been admirably described by Mr. Thomas Attwood, and to those who unfortunately are unacquainted with his writings, the following statements will be as novel as they are unanswerable : " The rise of the value of money in its principal is attended with a correspondent fall in the value of its interest or use. The money which exists in the country, instead of being scat tered and diffused generally throughout the general uses of industry, is disproportionately drawn up from those uses into the money markets of London ; and there it lies, inactive, in the hands of bankers, and brokers, and retired capitalists ; or it is employed in jobbing and dealing in the public funds, or in lending upon short and undoubted securities, where few are willing to borrow, and still fewer are willing to employ. The money of the country, instead of being employed throughout the country in enabling the population to produce and consume the masses of their own, and of each others' productions, is drawn up from those great and vital operations, and is deter. mined in masses into channels where its holders have not the means of employing it themselves, nor the confidence to lend it permanently to others, who, in their turn, have not the con fidence necessary to induce them to give it operation. A kind of apoplexy is thus promoted in the circulating system; the head is deluged, whilst the great limbs and interests of the country are starving. The money market is glutted in the way of temporary and secure loans; whilst the markets of property and labour are everywhere deficient in that supply of money which is necessary to give ' remunerating prices,' to enable the property and labour to interchange with each other, and to discharge the debts, taxes,' and obligations imposed'on them. It may, perhaps, be asked, how is this apoplexy produced, and by what means is the money of the country determined into the money markets of London? By what means is the money sucked up from the employment of industry, and from working the great processes of production and consumption, in order to glut the markets of interest, and there to lower the interest of money, at the same time that the principal of money is raised in value? To understand this clearly, clear ideas must first be obtained. The principal of money must be essenti ally distinguished from theinterestot money; or, in other words, the purchase or ownership of money m us t b e di st i ngu i shed from the mere borrowing and lending of it. In one case, the ownership •of money is transferred in exchange for property or labour. In the other case, the mere temporary use of money, or the mere right of employing it for a short period, is trans ferred in exchange for some given rate of interest per cent. Entirely different as these two operations are, nothing is more common than to see them confounded together in men s minds. The :banker, the broker, and the jobber speak of the plenty of money; and they mean thereby the facility of borrowing it cheaply upon good securities. • But when the farmer, tLe ma nufacturer, and the labourer speak of the plenty of money, they mean thereby the facility with which their consumers pay them their debts, and with which they obtain good prices for the sale of their' agricultural and manufactured produce and their labour. ' This kind- of plenty of money,. this facility of acquiring the .ownership of money, may exist, and sometimes does exist, at the same time when a great scarcity of money is found to exist in the market where the use of money is borrowed and lent; and, eke nersd, the plenty of money in the market of interest , may exist (and ,does now exist) at the same time th a t a great scarcity of mouey exists in the markets of property and labour, where the ovvneirshy of money is bought and sold." —2:rad Aro..sq/"Raiimeal Currency Worm Association. MELANCHOLY CASUALTIES AT SEA. We regret to state that a violent gale of wind 'visited the western shores of the United Kingdom on Saturday week,. and resulted most destructively to human life and shipping. The fine steam ship Royal Adelaide, Captain John Batty. plying between the ports of CO* and London, left the former port on Wednesday afternoon week, with a full cargo of goods and :206 :passengers, touched off Plymouth on Thursday evening, left that port for London on Friday morning at three o'clock, and was totally lost on the Tongue Sand, off Margate, at eleven o'clock on Saturday nigl t, when every soul on board perished. She was seen by Charles Gilman, a Deal pilot, towing a large barque, after having passed the Tongue light ship, about fifteen miles from the coast off Margate, when she was about three-quarters of a mile distant, and firing signals of distress in rapid succession. From her position she was evidently on the sand, but as the wind blew a perfect gale, Gillman said it was quite impossible to render any assistance. They threw up rockets in reply to the signals, in the hope that they might be observed from the• shore, bat the night was coming on thick at the time, and he believed there was too much reason to fear they had never been seen. The following morning she was observed by the master of the Malcolm Brown, screw steamer, when she appeared to be a complete wreck. The gale prevented her being approached within three-quarters of a mile, and she appeared as if her stern was gone; also her masts, funnel, and everything swept clean off, and not a soul to be seen on board. The frame work of her two paddle-boxes was standing, and the stanchions of the bulwarks, but the boards were gone. A dreadful sea always exists during gales in this 'portion of the Prince's Channel, and on. Sunday morning it was sweeping over the wreck terrifi cally. Two of the bodies have since been picked up, with life preservers around them, but they have not been identified. The Royal Adelaide was about 450 tons bur then, and had two engines of 140 horse power each. Like all the vessels belonging to the same company— the most extensive Steam Navigation Company in the world—she was well found, and so strong and substantial in every respect, and with a skilful commander and fine crew on board—nearly all whom belonged to Liverpool— that the loss of her can but be attributed to those decrees of Providence which no human foresight or experience, with all recent improvements in steaming or sailing, can, overcome. It is supposed, but the fact cannot be pre cisely ascertained, that upwards of 200 persons were on board. It is now certain that all of them must have perished, and very few of the bodies have since been found. One is stated to be the mate of the ship, and another a person named Coe, judging merely from the name of Coe being written inside of his boots. The spot where this wreck took place is one of the most dangerous on that coast. It was within a few cables length thata German emigrant ship went to pieces in October last, when nearly 200 lives were lost. Some reflections are thrown out by several newspapers to the effect that the prudent course would have been, in such weather, to come to anchor for the night in Margate Roads, but that the owners give their captains instruc tions to drive on at all hazards so as to make the speediest possible passage. Without seeing any gentleman belong ing to the City of Dublin Company—who have their main establishment at this port—we contradict such a state ment. The company, in fact, from the vast number of vessels they possess, both on these coasts and the Indian seas, are their own insurers, and can have no interest in precipitating the destruction of their property. We have sailed by many of their splendid vessels, again and again, hence to Dublin and back, and we know that their cap tains are instructed most strictly to observe the utmost caution in case of apparent danger. Many of them have been upwards of twenty years in the employ, and are, in reality, correct pilots and able handlers of their vessels. We can therefore attribute the loss of the Royal Adelaide to the misadventure of Captain Batty in not being able to distinguish, during the haze of the gale, the light of the Tongue Lightship, and thereby mistaking his due course. The force and direction of the tide might also, in such a gale, have its deceiving effect ; and the whole melancholy affair resolves itself nearly into this—that in the ordina tions of Providence, in the hazardous pursuit of naviga tion, " the pitcher goes often to the well, but is, by chance. broken at last." On the Irish coast the same gale was most destructive. The barque Theresa Jane, Wright, master, from Liver pool to Maranham, with a general cargo, went on shore on the Mew Island, on Saturday night week, and has since become a total wreck. The captain and six men were drowned. The smack Earl of Arran, belonging to this port, went on shore in Church Bay, near Glenarm, and has completely broken up —crew saved. The barque Burrell, of Lancaster, William Foster, master, went on shore on the rocks of Coney Island Bay, near Ardglass, on Friday night week. A number of other casualties are also reported as having occurred on the coasts of Ire land, and elsewhere, which are briefly noticed in our ship ping intelligence in another column. The sch;oner Peggy, of Portgordon, was driven on shore in Cloughey Bay, on Friday morning wee k ; an d a small Isle of Man vessel near the same place—the crew of the latter all lost. At Ardmore Bay, on Saturday evening week, the brig Grace, of Newcastle, laden with corn, from Al exan d r i a , went on shore, and became a complete wreck—crew saved. Loss of the American Packet-ship John R. skiddy. This fine vessel was wrecked on what are called the But tons Rocks, on the night of the Ist instant. Th e f o ll ow . ing letter, shown at the Underwriters' Rooms, on Friday conveys the principal facts :-- _ "Gahre Gorey, 3rd April, 1850. "Gentlemen,—lt has become my melancholy duty to inform you of the total loss of the J. It. Skiddy, on Ulascarrick beach, county Wexford, on the night of Ist April, at a quarter past eleven, being very thick and rainy at the time, and having mis taken the light on Arklow Bank for Tuscar. I had seen Bard sey Island at nine o'clock the same morning, and steered a course which I judged would carry me about midway between the Smalls and Tuscar, but by some unaccountable means the ship drifted materially out of her course by the tides. I am happy to inform you that the passengers and crew were landed in safety, also the greater part of the luggage in good order, and shall probably save the remainder in a damaged condition. I have also saved the sales, rigging, and part of stores. The ship lies within two hundred yards of the beach, bulged and very quiet, the water over the lower deck. If the weather keep moderate, some part of the cargo may be saved, in a damaged condition. I have abandoned the ship to Lloyd's agent, who has men now employed bending the sails, &c. I think the natives of this part of the country are the most abandoned set of villains it has ever been my misfortune to fall in with. They commenced robbing and plundering the moment they came on board; and as a Loa load of luggage or stores landed, they were immediately seized on by the lawless villains, in defiance of the coast-guard and police.—Yours very respectfully, "J. SHIPLEY." A well-written letter, from a passenger named Parrott, exposes the gross and inhuman conduct of the natives on the coast, in plundering the ship of her cargo, and the passengers_ of their clothing, money, &c. It is to be hoped that these wretches will be brought to justice. We have already noticed the wreck of the ship Howard, from Mobile, on one of the sand-banks near the mouth of the Ribble. The bales of damaged cotton lately lying between the George's Dock west sheds and the Baths at George's pier were a portion of the cargo, and a considerable portion of it is so little damaged as to be still merchant able. The Wolverhampton Chronicle, referring to the state of that district, says, "wages are low, and profits next to nothing. Poor rates, in this district, are higher than before known, except in periods of deep distress, and the multitudes of applicants for relief have increased beyond proportion with the increase of population, and much be yond any ratio which can be traced to the recent visitation with which the district has been afflicted. Last week, 2,982 persons were relieved by the Wolverhampton Poor law Union ; the sum of £l4O lls. 3d., or above £7,000 yearly, was expended in out-door rlief, the highest amount known, except when cholera or Irish fever raged amongst us. It is impossible to look upon this state of affairs as satisfactory." TAXES : HOW TO LESSEN THEM CONSIDERABLY. STRONG ARGUMENTS AND STARTLING FACTS WHICH CANNOT BE CONTRADICTED.—The numerous and accu mulated profits which real consumers have to pay for various articles, afford a good opportunity of laying bare the position of some houses compared with others; and it is our purpose to elucidate how and why it is—convinced that we shall be enabled to throw a strong light on this hitherto neglected subject, and prove the enormous taxation tphus laid on domestic expenditure. In order to hold this system up to public investigation, we shall endeavour to show, in the first place, simply the number and extent of the profits that all classes are really burthened with:-Ist profit arises from ma nufacturers buying articles in the raw state ; 2nd profit arises from merchants purchasing from the manufacturers; 3rd pro fit arises from London or wholesale houses buying from our merchants; 4th profit arises from small retailers having to purchase from.wholesale houses; sth profit arises from small tradesmen's exorbitant charges to the consumer 1 Now, upon a just calculation. thesefive.profits amount to at least 50 per cent., or ten shillings in every twenty! thus involving a prin ciple so extravagant to the pockets, that it needs only to be enquired into to be thoroughly understood. But as there is no rule without an exception, we will next allude to one establishment where the artizan can get his cloth ing at first cost, and where the proprietor has no interme diate profits to pay; need we say that we allude to B. HYAM, national tailor and clothier, 63, Lord-street, Liverpool. He manufactures extensively for his own branches in every stage, from the raw material to the most superbly finished coat, at "one cost" and at "one profit." This, then, accounts for his vast success and the extraordinary low prices at which he can afford to sell his clothing; in fact, it is well known by the public that he sells the most superior description of garments lower, infinitely lower, than any other smaller establishment charge for interior. Now, we ask the reader a simple question —Does it not sound to reason that HYAM has advantages for supplying the million 40 per cent. lower than others? Certainly he has 1 and this he unquestionably does—thus saving the pockets of all, more than any person could imagine, did they not dive into the minutiae of the mysteries of clot ing. Again, HYAM having twelve of the largest tailorin: a . clothing esta blishments in the United Kingdom, viz.:— , idon, 36, Grace church-street; Liverpool, 63 and 65, Lord . reet ; Manchester, 26, Market-street; Birmingham, 23, Ne. -street; Glasgow, 48, Argyll-street; Exeter 193, High-stre• ; London, 86, Oxford street ,• Dublin, . 30, Dame-street; I istol, 42, Wine - street; Bristol, 6, Union-street; Leeds, 42, ' *ggate ; Hull, 17, Market place—and all in active operation t makes it worth his while to manufacture his own goods of • ery description ; thus com bining -in himself the true titl: of manufacturer, merchant, wholesale and retail vendor for is own immense and widely spreading temples of corumerc . Another point of importance we next take up : a tradsma in a gigantic line of business like HYAM, even not posses ng the advantages above stated, can even then sell cheaper t an small shopkeepers. They must have a shop, shopmen, gas ent, and numerous other expenses incidental to business,. w .ich nearly amount to as much as a larger shopkeeper (such Hyam), whose returns are probably a hundred times as muc , Again, look at the immense expe rience, the sound judg . nt, and the unbounded capital a pro prietor of twelve such . ammoth establishments must p ossess in making up goods, t, a small tradesman, who only h as to make a handful at one ; why, it is like comparing a m o l e hill h to av a e mountain. ,,small, chWeihcielsttapu s electrc has es from, t "small" shops must " small" cha nce o f getting suited, And a much "smaller" one of obtaining satis faction. Let all, therefore, who would only pay "one profit," oo TO HYAM'S. T who wish to throw money away, cer tainly should go to mail tradesmen • but it is the public's interest to patronis an . establishment ' raised for the good of the inhabitilafts of is populous 'district, and, in return, the for w h the ir a h ebepnveafie proclaimed i m and d slimnever the ~f orsake nat itehaealctaaui tailor and aill proprietor pledges imself to svork :his talents and immense c re u s s o to u m rc e e r s s clothier of aseat rttitio.'' T c'‘igrituittiral anb florttrultural COLUMN, Tt is hoped that gardeners have had their eyes open during the patt winter, and have made notes upon the atmospheric changes which have produced so much mis chief amongst the evergreens and other plants out of doors. It must be obvious to all that in this neighbour hood at least, the injury has been much more serious than is usual even during a very severe winter. Evergreens of all kinds have suffered more or less and some so severely that it will take years to res t ore aim to their pristine vigour. Coniferse have suffered most severely, and many of doubtlul hardiness will have been quite lost. We have had winters of almost double the severity of the last ; but we never recollect a more destructive one, nor is the cause by any means apparent. W e h ave had intense frost, but it did no injury; an abundance of snow that was beneficial; and we have had much wind ; the last has apparently been the sole cause of the mischief. Still, however, the injury inflicted has been caused by one or two gales only, and those from the north and west—by no means the coldest points of the compass. We are usually met with the remark, that it is the salt spray car ried by the wind from the sea that occasions the scorched appearance of the evergreens. At first sight this appears plausible enough, but it is by no means proved, and re quires further examination before we fully adopt the sug gestion. The following observed facts militate against the salt spray hypothesis. In the first place we had two gales ten days apart, the former one was most violent, and yet no great injury resulted • the latter, by no means consider able, acted almost like the breath of a furnace, and scorched every leaf it touched : both were from the same quarter. Secondly, we have seen the same injurious re sults at such distances inland as to preclude the possibility of the injury arising from that cause. One instance we particularly remember the large Araucaria at Kew Gar dens, suffered in this way to a very great extent, the influence of the wind being shown in a most remarkable manner, only the lower parts of the tree suffering. At the very same time other specimens of the same species received similar injury in various parts of the country— amongst these we may mention the noble specimen in our own Botanic Gardens. These facts seem to prove that there is a peculiar in fluence in the wind itself, which produces, under some circumstances, a peculiarly injurious effect on vegetation, the evergreens especially, for those around Liverpool now remind us of the burnine , winds of the desert, and look "Like plants wheie the simoon has passed." The first gale we had at the commencement of February carried with it a visible quantity of saline matter, but did not produce so great an influence upon the plants ; but the following one, which was much more moderate, and did not appear to be the bearer of salt particles, had an immediate and most injurious effect upon every plant in leaf. Further, it has been observed that the gales which frequently occur from the end of summer to the middle of autumn sometimes carry so much salt, as absolutely to form an appreciable crust on the surface of various fruits ; but they have not been noticed to injure the leaves of trees or shrubs, which, from the wood being then not fully ripened, would seem to be probable. These points are important, and deserve a much more searching investigation than they have yet received. CORRESPONDENCE. To the Horticultural Editor of the Standard. Sin,—Your remarks last week upon the Liverpool Botanic Gardens gave much satisfaction to myself and others of your readers. We feel that we have been too long kept from the full enjoyment of that establishment, which, as ratepayers, we contribute to support. I perceive that Mr. Beckwith has been mainly instrumental in pro. curing extended admission to the library and gardens, and the public will have reason to thank him for this service when it is properly understood. It must, however, be a matter of regret, that the value of the Liverpool Botanic Gardens collection is so little appreciated, for as you observed, it is one of the finest in the kingdom, and per haps the most valuable out of the metropolis. This want of appreciation is natural only to those who seek a plea sure-garden, and find one devoted to science. Such parties expect to see masses of verbenas, pelargoniums, and similar gay bedding plants, but I have never been able to discover a single inch of room for such purposes, or an unoccupied frame in which they could be raised; so that they could not be had without displacing some portion of the general collection, which, be it understood, is public property, and cannot legally be interfered with or removed. Thirty pounds is as small a sum as could possibly be granted for the purpose of adding to or re pairing the inevitable losses of such a collection. A five guinea orchid would make a great hole in such a sum, and how many orchids might be suspended in the stoves and are wanted, for in these beautiful plants the collection is unquestionably very deficient. Yet notwithstanding the smallness of the sum it would I imagine do much more if the gardens were better known. This could only be accomplished by a little liberality on the part of the Corporation, who should employ a clever botanist to make a classified catalogue, which could be printed and distributed through the kingdom, and then hundreds of collectors would immediatiately offer ex changes. This is the cheapest way of enriching a collec tion. As a'proof of this, last month the chief gardener of the Emperor of Austria, who has charge of the gardens at Schonbrunn, was in Liverpool for the purpose of seeing the collection. After he had spent a day in examining it he expressed the greatest pleasure, and declared it was one of the best he had seen out of London,:having found more rare specimens in this little-known collection than in the mach-vaunted ones of Sheffield. Glasgow, Tlublin f Cam bridge, or any other place. These, sir, are important facts, and though the present Council may not appreciate them, the world is improving, general information is spreading, and the time is coming when at least a respect for science will be felt by our municipal dignitaries. There is another circumstance to which you alluded slightly, though I think you could well have made it the subject of more severe remarks. It is the removing of plants when in flower to the Town Hall, for the purpose of decorating that building. This is a most unwarrantable practice; first, because no person or party has any right so to dispose of the public property. No wonder com plaints are made of the want of gaiety in the gardens and houses, when the flowering plants are removed for the pleasure of a few, just as their appearance would be most likely to gratify the many. I conceive that as a ratepayer I have quite as much right to pluck the flowers or order home a few plants to decorate my house. Secondly, the plants cannot be so moved without much injury, and thirdly, the removal involves a considerable loss of time, and it always appears to me that the labour employed at the Gardens is, without such interruptions, very inefficient. The Corporation would best study the interests of the township by enlarging the gardens, build ing new houses for plants, and establishing a Botanical Museum, which you some time since so strongly advo cated. They would by these means insure themselves the respect of all intelligent men, and would advance the in terests of science. A neglect of these means can only lead to an opinion not very creditable to their understand ings. —I am, sir, YOUR CONSTANT READER. I enclose my address, and will gladly furnish you with further particulars if you require them. PERIODICALS FOR THE English Botany (Sotverby's)—Re-issue MONTH The thircivolumeTsgotnpietedlWthe present number; which contains some of our most lovely native plants, beautifully coloured. The genera illustrated are Chlora, Acer, Daphne, Polygonum, Paris, Adoxa, Elatine, and Butomus. Maund's Botanic Garden and Fruitist The illustrations of this elegant work are Leschenaultia formosa, Schizanthus Priestii, Silene pendula, and Laro chea falcata; and the excellent new pear, Bergamotte D'Esperen, one of the longest keeping of the fine-fla voured varieties. Hooker's Journal of Botany, and Kew Garden Mis- cellany. This serial will be received with much pleasure. The plate is the most interesting yet published ; it represents the flower, leaf, wood, and bark of the Lagetta lintearia, or the Jamaica lace-bark tree. There is also a speci men of the lace, and a negro whip made from a branch of the tree. The botanical information is both important and interesting. Curtis's Botanical Magazine Contains a most beautiful new Gesneria—G. Seemanni— from Panama ; Tupa crassicaulis, erroneously called in the nurseries Syphocampylos canus ; a charming new species of Fuchsia, called F. bacillaris, which bears an immense profusion of gay little flowers, not unlike those of F. mi crophylla ; Anigozanthos tyrianthina ; Pachira alba—the Carolinea alba of other writers ; Rhodoleia Championi, another beautiful introduction, which will probably form a valuable addition to our conservatories. The Gardener's Magazine of Botany, Horticulture, and Floriculture, In point of illustration, this new publication ranks next to Curtis's Magazine, whilst its letter-press is more copious and valuable than we have ever seen in so cheap a publication. The coloured plates are excellent figures of Geissomeria longiflora, /Echmea discolor, Echeveria re tusa, Pentstemon heterophyllus (a beautiful thing), and Camellia Japonica var. Drysdalii. The wood-cuts are numerous, and most beautifully executed. MISCELLANEA. On the Culture of Chorozemas.—The Chorozema is generally considered difficult to cultivate; but it can be gro sn well by pursuing the following method :—The soil should be a sandy peat, well broken with the spade, but not sifted. The best time for potting is March or April : care must be taken not to overpot the plants, or injure the roots while potting; the soil must be made very firm and compact about the roots, and the pots well drained ; then they must be placed in the greenhouse, in any airy situa tion, and not crowded among other plants. It is also well to keep them in the greenhouse during summer, but in hot weather they should be shaded for two or three hours each day during sunshine. They require a reason able supply of water—that is, they must not be sodden. nor left to dry. They may be propagated in the following manner :—The cuttings should be taken off while the' wood is young, and carefully prepared ; take the bottom leaves with aisharp knife, and make a clear cut just through' the joint ; the cutting pot should be drained, and then filled to within an inch of the top with the soil before mentioned ; on the top of this put a layer of white sand, into which put'the cuttings, making a hole for their re- ception with a small stick ; when the pot is full, give them a little water with a fine rose, after which place a clean glass over them ; in this state they may be removed to the. propagating house, where the temperature should be 70 deg.: they should be shaded from the sun, which can be done by placing a sheet of coarse paper over the glasses. As soon as the cuttings are rooted, which may be known by the appearance of growth, they must be potted off, but care must be taken not to injure the roots ; then they i ii 0 iS'il. A , ...................,..... , ‘ pi l l 9 ) cot', must be shaded again for a week or ten days u,, make fresh roots; then they must be gradually 7, and placed in the greenhouae with the old Pla rl . The- h Mc. Arden, Foreman, Castle-hill Gardens. ~. Out arta, 4 . , THE USE OF ACORNS.---Farmers in variou s P o re, „ton, , —,.01 )(11 1 1 t r i . :111111-11ruecutei4. Germany, particularly in some districts of Sal°f 1 cessfully employ acorns for the winter fattening ~ ,e O. i;:qor of ~' has i English farmers, however. either totally negleettt7to lbe cole eran use them almost solely for the feeding .and fa distf to lie eont tacal hogs. In Hertfordshire:and in the New Forest 0) 4 1 : 01 , of Net f Hampshiie, hogs, in many instances, rece_L ve : r e r ear Paice tact Ea other food than acorns, and commonly Walt' good' s Pl -4 11 li ne ''''' ness, fatness , and weight, and yield a decidelm_hr ri ;!, 1 ° Yell i ° -- aY, well-flavoured pork. Yet such as are. fora , loe; withdrawn from the acorn diet, and have the o rP 4e7 erelr .`1 fro completed by four or five bushels of barley I t )tir to 4 tac ti. , T a l e "i d Qred a meal to each, are judged by some some Perf, - ,, 5 0 . )' 1+ t ht' nosnta ofv' pork of still better substance and superior l'a — u r cb : ~:rl : 9 R; - s farmers of Gloucestershire bestow nearly as %or ''', til e ray Si upon the fruit of their oak trees as upon the P . or 7 l i All ov . a i tte' of tfihnediraonrychhalse. market,They syeeltdoumsuaslelylletshtiemiratesotoef,lo t r e i tl e, do bl a ` Pt:ac `master wb fr ee o ai m gnhs 1 : : .a and n6dd. rttehoned2yse.rripengegar regard dh b e u it s rh h e e bni l aco , aancscoic;r;d:iin.dgidtiroy the r i g ; it i t bu t: t c,etia,a ' z il listt : : : al e al l r .s r i ai , 811; beans at once for fattening hogs, for increa n - 1 , 0 1,, lir r e ' No t , ' clopcedia. it sel jnli l ,. l " 5. coi tt ing OPERATIONS FOR THE /" 5 k i i l ' 11 4 111 1 ) son; Stove Conservatory, dre.—Fire heat rag tf tiolew R e ,epee tiuued in the greenhouse, except where tnanY P ° l 4 ' which eq ti A t aPt • 1 5 just been re-potted, and a little fire heat is r - 5 121P' 1? 41r. t t'on. start them afresh. In the stove the necessary ,) it i s 4. WTI A I bk estir n should be completed as soon as possible. the ta4 1 5 0 1 11 ,N ,pkvd t Flower Garden.—Sow annuals of all kinds , hitiffi I f her P perennialson K es it o c n k ea Kitchen gentle shGoaurl bottom ddebne. c heat osmowpl ea asparagus, e ; dp t aa h ras e planting gsuoosn, ase as p. ()°; 5 le s to , th e l been Continue planting out cabbage, cauliflower ,4BBlll :: to t':77,'5.,41'4'11:1,14°1,C-Qiiothslaler, plants, and sow successional crops of peas, !Jo"' /54,1 '11, 41 , e ttat:,*lst wa celery, and spinach. ed 'tt.`o%. ANSWERS TO CORRESPOND SS" 11: 4 ° 0 16 een ' kl "H. Andrews."—You can easily form sta.- - 0 . ; tld ep e r, Pc ji g n. e g r L a pi n ol i ay u idi m t. L a ; r et: well y eulrl c a daa n drakp also teeind ef b roa e rr it g ah ra ei s f e t ax e p d e , r i b m e i f ; t a b s know how they answer : some of the large 40 0 E, `"dOs'e E l . and the dwarf sorts for scions. N 6 14t 0 fine clear/ krtop" o a r 4 St e but neither would do for show flowers —they I t Th itt lioi,, t he A too starry. Of ''ead, the lb • k•:t i i t 4c'rary k shn h i be t 13 s°ll er p en PI ' 4 14 gie, th 404 h utuat v'e etu s wh 41, 11 rIze s sel 4 " itip , h e t keit T ti n'a ver i te Pday b r k lq tre t jark, of ,hed fortStlnderStZ 4114 11 4 Y fro "Y ' til 4 Rott, Zip ' l r a ert 1 ,7 1 1( 0 ) n t,l4fitritthi tqUaatilt tk ° 4 Po v r al v € ak to t. kb f ! or 4 t 3T afte r r Pier for e a d lai r ( e j one r te c ir ls d4 4 4 1 1 in to tb it nGe It, t o Lerg o „' (I' 4 4d 4 ' 14 14' 1 i I ,6iv e to h a ,, repNt 4s ellt ug In t o b 8 re • Tt ~.e t tort s , '''red w e 'rlde ° '" , l V 4i ?rid re(l to ( 4 4 4 LO Y Wee `b 41 ‘ 411 4 ti k g a l e 4), wit , out 4ft e : . ran CE Part thi p e l, th e th e rtsh,,, crew 2,"att, Th e I 'll 4 Y. k ex t 4 tl, t Srt Altt tei t i r Ao it 11S T' and ° Liv, t: arrive, t :t th r Z Lira i's4ti;l : f ;;t i : 4 l : llll ;: l'i r e at ec i l' a °3 od ;b a t n r .tnd l e t . 1' hapoals' a o ni ti l ' t ' aek il t ike 0 4 forsl49P n °4 t fo Iv erP tb, i ket t ° th e y Hutt th e d oek 4 Orp o , Y ; „„ S ' dOci tf ,tt ‘ e "... kli: t 4t4 ) 5 1,' 11 a rne gulf Port or t lt 4 ll t ° 1), to Pt 9 Ith4l th e c "tb p teq ality a nd ktitNilla t , s arid 1 1 ,°11 btlc S hcOre 'eetl;' e s Pl i r o t tzte n ven'e lel t 4 °l(td a f 4ll co] 111,Qti ot elq, °lvan rgrc h l frc tth., I I:, a , :, 1;. :‘,:trib t afe h ett : ,,,iottto f t, ktN, i Dur 19 ,3 Ak ti kt 14 . , 0 Lis le boe oe, s . • 0 4, "0 4i Ntli ti Nts . , 14 ° :4t e ° 0 4 tc; d i 9 . 3 E ' had e .. ifa is tart petuo. F. D. P. Astley, Esq., of Fell Foot, has magistrate for this county. 1 A Preston paper s a y s th a t l as t wee k a duck is° jet black eggs. i gh t costs, youngfor m ,, e l n ift w in e g r , e , fi a ned you at ng W w ig o a r : o l4 , 4 o/ 0 and E Monday. „ a tioo At a tea party on M on d ay, t h e congres'We John, Blackburn, pre sen t e d to M rs. Wh ee ler, b respected pastor, a beautiful portrait of her bl oat ) On Saturday last, the body' of a man svo i g , r a , complete state of nudity, on th e b eac h a t Pr" Pool, Cheshire. The teachers in Crost on S un d ay sc h oo l, nea r ', have have presented th e i r curate, t h e Rev. W. R. with a handsome silver communion service, on anniversary of his ministry among them. • suc On Easter Tuesd a y, th e Ch art i sts, having t be • voting one of thei r own b o d y i nto the c h a i r at held in Manchester Cathedral, successfully A ° Pl re-election of Messrs. Bi r l ey , Morley, "'be present churchwardens, an d supporters of t Division Bill. rl The Liverpool Murders, or John Gleeson t his Slaughtered Victims, is the name Of a ,t drama, represented lately by strolling-plaYef s w ie kirk. Amongst the incidents represented d to mysterious and appalling vision which apPear e just before his execution." 0 5 PLOU'GRING MATCH AT LATHONL—,, n 1 n v ri 1 a ploughing match t oo k p l ace at Lathoult cor p patronage of Lord Skelsmersdale. Sixteen ; t ide d entered, and after a spi r it e d compet i t i on , the ' 0 9 1 Morris, of Skelmersdale-hall) conferred the peg upon Hugh Shuttlewortb, of Dumbill's Farts , ton Castle. ST. HELENS COUNTY COURT.— At thi s Wednesday, Mr. Pearson, medical officer V e r o 5:•'; sued the Prescot B oar d of Guardians for '', 3 ofl: extra services during the visitation of choler * 's lll ,, verdict in his favour. This decision will ml o o°' some other officers of the union who have 1 ) ., oPe' like services, and who will no doubt deman d pensation from the board. Or - 11 , , i URN r.—The power-loom weavers nt.`„ 1 , -, Hartley's mills, Heap, near Bury, struck, s ,' r . ; week, against an attempted reduction of w 3 'eir amount of upwards of fifteen per cent. X, Th em '` " , the la COUNTY Os e tu v rN e i k n Te i y. n . g TREASURER, Rh l a et r A g tus e ur meeting sca rcoef. &c.—At turn-out s rht supported o sb u ey t s s sti oti:r power-loom fustian looms now at a stand. 'f a d 3, was held at Heywood, when it was resolved tot, thirty mills in Heywood. y county, which is to be held on Wednesday n e ,,,p4; 1 1,,,j ton, it will be moved that the election of a c .', 2 ' , f t surer take place on the 2d of May next, that ei r il £5OO per annum, out of which he is to paY bl i, 5 0 1 (11 1 4 defray the ordina r y t rave lli ng expenses, and t'il0;0; sureties for £lO.OOO for the due ppe4,,,mer , ' ti o lot i ot ? ) Mr. T. B. Addison has given notice of s if 0. 4 0 , 1 1 Lancaster Castle be henceforth used exclusi/ee, confinement of female, and Preston House ez r ot 4 a! tE for male prisoners, and that for this purpose, fill house correction be provided in the Castle of V c TRAVELLING AT THE EXPENSE OF GOT ° , 0 00: 0 very curious trick was exposed at the 13 ,f' t be,- 0 9 Manchester, on Saturday, by Mr. Beswie.n, of ' f o# p tendent. A watch was stolen, on the 2al' o siap4 last from Mr. Birbeck, of Fennel-street, bY f et,l4 his service named Elizabeth Wilson. Tli,e,: r - tini; description of the suspected person, were ati v o lic e l Hue and Cry, and also republished by the:',,sro l sister kingdom, where it is usual to expose th e - ,;so ) , ° r d,f, j ments to public gaze. In the town of g o o Vieir w i woman came forth and surrendered, conies , 10 0 fr be the Elizabeth Wilson proscribed, and a,4 0 ti1, 4 the crime. She was taken before the Hon. ' he 110 ,Jr, and subscribed a deposition, stating that s '; it V l ' the watch, had taken it to Dublin, and the n ', tri pawned by a girl named Rose Malone at a Poe 50, in Gaol -street for £4, which they divided r , with Rose Malone till they parted at Mullingsr go' f itl i n m stt m oor u vye n r i i ca sto t a e f d featbc t hr o i cMhateairon.nchte:shtgeeert,waalsn s b p r e o e u t ,ci s boto o t f te l , e w iwt x la h g p s o e l cs n e eo se of £4, and now it has been foul' a 5,54 0, had formerly lived in Aranchester, selling enough to take her to Ireland ; but now, "06*, turn, she resorted to this ingenious cheat (W ee r iii o 'i f t! justice. There is no such street as Gaol-s tr t os 4 ir d and when passing through Mullingar sln. ' 0%0' 4 loss to point out the places she talked a'', for kO l manded, being probably liable to indictment .-- . goods (her meals, at least) on false pretence'' pi , ter Times. A JO 4 1° THE PREMIER IN MANCEIESTER.—Lo r " I ,: tb e j Pi, arrived at Manchester on Tuesday evening, ". - e it'e 0 0 rec rif le 4 ing express train from London, and was ; f ellt railway terminus by a large assemblage 7,`,sewoe l o i waiting. His lordship and his lady, with ofiC occupied ,the whole of Wednesday in vi - s hoP it y manufactories, public buildings, and Nv° r o a t :" 101 l chester,-a n d were engage d in a similar waY d , I', ;s e ing day. At P ee l P ar k, L ar k - hill, Salin r a dclre'pro had signified his willi ngness t o rece ive the jalr!,.§ Salford Corpor a ti on , vo t e d on t h e pr evinul r i: "'JD library of the splendid -mansion in theS,ip 0 .90 upon as the reception-room of his lord; 1,,a04 'Oil The address was presented and read by ;fir. oaL e f9 the mayor, in answer to which his loresni a P i o 9 . propriate reply: At noon the party arrived a t t i ?, hall, Manchester, where, in the presencen dopy C9uncil and a distinguished assemblage. , I , l r . 1) , ° ,/,,? presented by John Potter, Esq., the may sa itl:l Russell read a lengthy reply, in which , 1 , 1 ,4 e brit much gratified by the approbation you ": 10 oPbor t j 4 my public conduct. lam glad to have ' a'o .1 bY O o F of more correctly estimating, although jo ter,, r ll/ 4 cursory inspection, the magnitude of the I are connected with the borough and Pc sr l i ich,e4 Manchester. There are two modes iti, oo 3 o o ment can foster and promote trade and .`„,,' o st P r y first, which is the least direct, but the 1 00 iin ot i j its effects, is by securing to every man, o f Pe, o f e , ministration of law, and the enjoymen t — o o`eet e ; o l political freedom ; the other is, by the re4 r ic o o ~ tions and monopolies affecting trad e ' our t O manufactures, - It has been my ende a ways,,4 pp humbly but earnestly, in both these he ebw i ise4 interests of labour; but I cannot give t _. eff e6 P., the efforts of statesmen, even far ni°V; o ets, s tP4 mine, for the advancement of these..o_l4 haves j spirit, the independent mind, the patient inventive skill, of the people of this l'a,, 1 : ;" tbe vi ey't main causes of the growing popula_t i r ha ve u si cli;,DlP wealth, and augmented power. Y ° a m end JOY 1, honour to observe that, in seeking to _ ss ible ~,, 0 t4 7 ' I have endeavoured to make the least P,‘°,,iced to of existing arrangements; and I ana,r_cl o o. :do,i' r 0 a ppro o ll' d W yl y:o9 my caution has met with your dent that in no part of the empire w ; ion it _ 5 0 ,1 ;,f, an extreme policy, in whatever direr im the iire r vo y be more sensibly and calamitously felc ri ' d the l io et, 1, 1 1 of business, the diminution of trade, ~ o f o ' 4 o - i:t) of confidence) than in this great cent pfl e V e r i ej While, therefore, I am a warm frien a ,V o irtis.ii i',,poi j 4 convinced that it is above all things, ,` e 0 1T,,,, t it ‘ p,„,* reforms which we may propose shouVji: e d icli t l' or d 9 P F 9 and, when proved to be desirable, ette,'"" ills i f 0 0 . , 0 4 ,d bance to the peace of the country mo st °, l 1p . .4 also presented with addresses froni,„„ ba_ re lN i bodies of the town. After his 10rc, 1 17 - 0 $ O O O Manchester Exchange he i ns pecte s a Qm ith,... e d .t , j - Messrs. Potter and Norris, messr ;,! - ' re ter 4 o . P r dril M'Conneil and Co., after which o°, cla.tf r jsi'Lrifil Benjamin Heywood to his residencenrbis W o orP A }, lordship, with lady John Russell a I. r idaY - . 1 ,:t hester on _ .6 0 .t. j vate secretary, left Mane covpsfA, London. , A 51 30 0 .13 0 1 1 0,() AN EFFECTUAL CURE OF A i ..,,, I ,01 , ) ••"" 01' eP! ‘ i ASTHMA BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS•• ,r In c0 a,,,, „ t Lion-street, Milford, was affliet el ,,,,, a tical re Dev r cl , l' years with a most inveterate """ er wi wse i c e 3 th eli be dl r?, several eminent surgeons, u" - ieve; .i tely ea at various times, could • et re' d f o rtni; c t c, re' t i ' 'ills, an crie Ala ~ 4 upon trying Holloway effected a Pd, an v id 'Or this superior medic' • ; has . t C i o o u n g h is h a as s coughs, col. •, wheezings on the r _,`„,,py' 5 I breath ma . soon be cured by LW"' ceasedfree s that ' e asthma o the an r li 7: l el o tsi c ti F a ; Ti t l iii e go ' h :or i , ,1J I s' ,, k k !in f th ''oo l. l‘oor of 4 /4 ^ "th 4C °la, Lt 'ells eas( 41t,D1•04art a°ls to 4 rtirl el. of .ci Pa t' t (ll44r ter etl in . 4. 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'tk4 14, 14 e t i t r e , t 44: Eka " , ° wer, t44 7 t1l b -°41 1 3 a1 tr Jec t• 4 4 th t ) 111 Y 4 k.! tioZilas INV! 01i 4r le pi t.t tht th, o aPpii r 0 11 / 4 p IT t aZ b le a e quir k ith ttl t t ot t to f t t h i k k A\ ''' ; o ll, ll) tt c t t . 1 00 oi. ti k P uret 14 ; )41 q k tt' st r etti st a i tli t i Ni ti le I° k kt l4l l 'e 'sel a'l i f 1 / 4 f lk t tcll t ,.!a 00 the r, k t l kt „ thies s t Zing t ile ' 4 l l°ll ‘,0 , 6 e t licti b e th c e al N'tt 4: 0 4 , at 147 .. 1 tics 6 1 i Itl4l l lel let :1 1111 4 4 th, . 4 811 -° Ett 14 aid f the 1, 1 1 (4f ti.h c 't iN :14, all. tliE \ :y k td Pari 1 ,, Mr. Cor i tr o p e, W 11 44 Vro