The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

Etteraturr. EXPERIENCES OF A LIVERPOOL SURGEON H IN A COURT (Concluded from our last.) How often we are disgusted with hearing the pha- zisaical lamentations of the wealthy and the comfortably housed and circumstanced amongst our fellow-men, over the wretched population of our unwholesome streets ! They forget that there are causes, within their own power to remove, which are hourly hurrying that population They forget too that, in other shapes, —the most apparently temperate of n—guilty of excess, and resorting to stimulants for into intemperance they are themselve - - the relief of such excess. Is the man who turtle, until the physician is called in to remove the con sequences of his self-indulgences, less vile in his propen sities than the poor toiling wretch, who takes ardent spirits, at first only for the removal of that lassitude which over toil creates, although at length he sins in the quantity of ' Is the man who stimulates his appetite gorges on nis potatic stored ,RectiOn with w anxious efforts )mforts her flurried wild way ith curries, 1 oy a pu _ pers, and pickles, when able to itmospliere and healthy exercise, although _ from the same description of crime, which he is so inst his poorer neighbour ? _ He is not. ready to charge The difference between the is only that which exists be tween the expensive orgies of the frequenter of the club, or the hotel, and those of the denizen of the tavern or the tap-room ; between the refined indulgences of the driwing-room, and the more coarse and vulgar debau chery of the hovel. This poor fallen creatur had not arrived at her present state without many a hard struggle—many an hour of sincere repentance and its practice, followed, alas ! with sad, sad lapses into the indulgence of her frailty. The life" of an excavator, or navigator, to which her husband had been driven by the early failure of his circumstances hick provides much of the coin ce for the families of a yeoman, is not on( even decencies )f existe those who follow it. For four years that of this family had been a wandering one ; and, whilst- so, they had known little more of settled habits than is afforded by a few months' residence at a time at some common lodging house, or in some cheap apartment in the town, or vil lage, nearest to the place of the husband's employment. During the last eight years of his residence in Liverpool, whilst his employment had been principally in sinking foundations and in sewering, they had been located in filthy dens, such as this in which I now found them, with bad exampl, ndecency, and vice raging on the animal vigour and insensibly deb;sing the minds of both to the level of those of the mass, into which they had been cast. I need not trace thd course of the unfortunate wife and mother's fall. Perhaps it was hurried on by the contrast, ever presenting itself, between her present lot and that which she deemed Teas lost to her for ever. It is a well-known fact, that the lapse into intemperance of a mind of superior order is less easily retrievable than that of one which never feels sensibly that it has fallen at all. To the waking miseries of the one, there is superadded self-reproach and loathing of the contamination seen around. The being who has never seen any higher gratifications than those of a debauch, or any higher comforts than those afforded by a full meal in a wretched and impure dwell ing, scarcely feels, when he has sunk into habitual squa lidness, that he has fallen at all. But the most strongly inducing cause, in the present case, I have no hesitation in affirming, was to be found, directly, hi the impure air and the noxious gases which she had been for those eight years constantly inhaling, and froth the effect of which she had found in ardent liquor a temporary relief. Add to the craving of the constitution, thus created, the effect of example. Consider, too, that she was placed amongst a population, by whom the exhilaration produced by drinking is regarded as the only one within their reach ; and to Whom the mere change, from the dark and close smelling apartment, or the filthy court, to the gaudily prated and well-lighted gin-palace, with its bright rnaments, is of itself ca- array of br pable of pr pon the mi to wonder I why she fell, or to feel curious to trace ti he two girls, to whom I have referred, what need I say With associations and examples such as those amongst which they had been thrown in their spring of life, if such beings can be said to enjoy any such spring, is little to be wondered at that they were utterly degraded and unnaturally heartless. They thought they law passing away, upon that sick bed, the only being :chose authority had ever been powerfully interposed to -qities ; and it is much if their feel* ok their vicious prop Lgs were any other than those of gratification at the speCtadle of his sufferings and the thought of his probably approaching end. It is painful to think that there can be in human nature such sad and revolting features. They do occasionally present themselves, however; and although statesmen and dreamer well meaning men, —may point at imaginary causes, and devise cumbrous pri;on regulations and other similar devices for:the removal of early crime, the medical man, or any man privileged to visit the wretched hovels of our poor and to observe the contaminations with which they are surrounded, will readily arrive at a conclusion thatP the curative effort must be made in another direction. We may talk of education for our poor, and parks and places for their recreation ; but we must first afford them com fortable homes, if we wish to preserve their minds from moral abominations more offensive than the material ones of the. worst and most filthy sties in which ever a pig herded or a reptile crept. Without such an improvement of their condition, the schoolmaster and even the clergy an toil in vain ; and prison regulations are a mockery. courts, our alleys, and our cellar habitations, are lino crime faster than the best-devised efforts, from pe to succeed in providing a cure. To the medical man, the object of whose care is the body, operated upon by the same influences, this conclusion has long been patent. When will it be able to pierce the theoretical cobwebs, which interpose to prevent truth and common sense from reaching the minds of our statesmen ma philosophers ? Of the character and mental capacity of the patient limself, it will naturally be gathered that ,my first visit ifforded me no opportunity of forming a judgment ; and unfortunately he never rallied sufficiently to enable me to lo so. From his poor wife, however, I learnt that he had been throughout life an affectionate husband, and less uldicted to vicious indulgences than most of his class. Originally he had been a stout, and indeed.a strong man; but severe labour, and the exposure to the atmosphere and the elements, peculiar to the nature of his daily avo cations, had told fearfully upon his constitution. For three or four years past, he had been occasionally inca pacitated for work by rheumatism ; and this deprivation its necessary consequence, a want suppoit, which had induced considerable ion, and, no doubt, predisposed him for succumb - - In addition, I found that ffected by the incorrigible veloping themselves in his t, also by the weakness of the ticient n seriously and vice, that he manifested an affectionate leniency st creditable to him. Such a mental and bodily con- s serious impediments to the cura ical man ; and, in the case before 111 the first two days, however, the treatment pursued the operation intended ; and I expected, with some - on of the system would be pro mptoms, under which he la ter which there was a pros- b oing on around him was re -11 forget the looks of grateful hick the poor man now began to regard Rd I never of his erring partner to administer to he busied herself about the apartment, his eyes would follow her, with . , anxious tenderness which can scarcely be described ; I when she went out, upon any of those errands which ) constantly occurring in a poor man's household, aost a groan would escape him, and extreme listless- manner un her return, after %v scrutinise her ever fondness Lotion with a gaze of mingled Alas ! such jealous question- I. conduct was, in part for which thesc )ortimit ny of these temporary aces from hi • either of the unnatural girls ever y her place, or appeared in the ht of their parent's suf- it was not fated that the favourable symptoms which I have notico should continue : indeed it was scarcely to b;il antieipated,- surrounded 'as the patient- was by every influence which could operate hostilely upon his constitu without a breath of fresh air to invigorate the nd inhaling, in its stead, the miasmata generated hbourhood of his close and • filthy dwelling. the third day from my firstvisit; 11( rapidly. The effect of the ion of his now hopeless , was most distressing to which had borne her up so completely left shoCk, which tt state produced _ notice. The feveris upon hi Iler; and she seeme l dstil - nned and stupified, as if incapa ble of Comprehending the possibility of an event so dis istrous to her—a feeling, by the bye, which the medical man has frequently to notice in those bereaved, or about When the truth at length reached her _d her grief had found vent in tears and )nd lamentations poured into the now insensible ears of -nap, a more calm and composed manner re vas the composure of settled despair. The had nothing left for her to care for, or to ,e, by death d, however, rned ; si 'he last scene of this everyday tragedy in the a . sad one. id been visiting a very urgent neighbour pooroccuricl to d at a late hour in the evening, w h en l e t to call and ascertain the condition of m approaching the entrance to the court in which patient. 1, I was a little shocked to find his two girls en u g c a h g d e , L some others, in boisterous romps with a cumber of ~.,,,,;_brutalised boys ever to be found in such locali- ar ; and a shudder at their heartless -e which I thought it worth while to bestow upon them I passed by 'them, and entered ' It was still, and almost in apartment of my p a darkness, the lig discern any object. Stirring stick, I made my wa lt of t hastily the embers With my bed, where the first object which struck me was the prostrate form of the poor wo man, one arm encircling her husband's shoulders, and the other extended as a pillow under his head. I stirred her to wake her up ; but in vain. She was in a heavy sleep -the sleep of intozicatiou! I felt the face of the other THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. occupant of that wretched bed • and he, too, slept—no more to wake on earth. He had been dead some hours; and, by his position which a glimmer of the reviving fire enabled me to ascertain, his last sigh had been breathed in the unconscious face of that victim of intemperate excess. Even in death, previously to which reason, 1 concluded, had returned to him, he had not ceased to love her, and to look over her sad frailty ; for his arm, now cold and nerveless, was thrown over her insensible form. I had not firmness to stay and witness the miserable awakening of that unhappy woman ; but, gently closing the door, I left her in that appalling contact with death, and passed into the street. I did'not go away, however, without communicating the fact of their father's decease to his demoralised daughters, whose boisterous mirth it stilled at once; but it was not until I had addressed them in terms of angry authority, that they retired sullenly to their wretched home. I never learnt anything of the subsequent life of either the widowed mother or those two girls. The workhouse, or the grave, has doubtless received the former by this time. The latter, it is too much to be feared, have contributed their quota to the increase of the vice which fills our prisons, and thus visits upon us, in increased expense, the results of our sinful and selfish neglect. Would the widowhood or the or phanage which we are called upon to support, be half what it is, if we attended, as we ought to do, and as I trust we are about to do, to the sanitary improvement of our town ? ___...___ V ARIETIES Chester is said to be the oldest city in England. Ac cording to Sir Thomas Eliot, it was built by a great grand son of Noah ! " Bless me!" said an old lady, throwing down a news paper and wiping her spectacles ; " here is John Doe and Richard Roe at law again—they've had a suit reg'lar every year or so, for more'n thirty years, to my certain knowledge !" CONTRADICTION.—Men resent nothing more than con tradiction on a point which they themselves feel uneasy about. Truth may be disputed with impunity : a sophism can only be torn from out the mind with a violence that lacerates and embitters.—Ranthorpe. ANGLO-AFRICAN JURIES.—The grand juries are usually composed of Europeans and the most respectable Africans —thus amalgamating intelligence and judgement with in ferior qualifications ; hence, their deliberations are con ducted in a sober and orderly manner, and their decisions are generally in consonance with the evidence; but excep tions sometimes do arise, and national prejudices or pri vate animosities occasionally give the black juror a majo rity, incapable and unaccustomed as they are to listen to nicer appeals of conscience comparatively - with their white brethren. This is bad enough, though purity itself in -position with petit and coroner's juries, the con stitution of which must be a source of regret to all who honour this bulwark of British freedom ; and to a just judge at the head of that judicial establishment a never ceasing cause of unmixed dissatisfaction, from the fre quent accidentally erroneous, and often intentionally un just, verdicts. It would appear from some of their deci sions that they were habitually indifferent to the solemn obligation of an oath, the sworn evidence being not un frequently a matter of minor consideration, when in com petition with the momentary impulses of their private feelings, particularly when they have partial or vindictive purposes to indulge, the manifestations of which being expressed by bursts of passion. Of petit juries there are three panels entirely composed of liberated Africans, who. for want of intelligence, too frequently decide, even in cases of life and death, by a verdict that would greatly astound their lordships in Westminister-hall, if not at first impressed with the idea that it could only be meant as a black joke. When one of their own nation or colour is arraigned for any crime, no matter how deep the com plexion, though proven guilty, acquittal in most follows as a matter of course: but should a white man come under their tender mercy, though evidently innocent, he is con demned!—Simmondes Colonial Magazine. THE FOUNTAINS AND CHURCHES OF Rom' as everywhere, we were pursued by the shameless —Here, pauperism that disgusts and pains one the whole time, and makes the ruined aspect of the great outward things about one cheerful compared with the abject degradation of that which God has made in his own image. Oh ! I world ; and, when I blink of England and America I thank God that I was born in the on- and shall live in the other. Driving home we went to the Acqua Paola, the fountain in Rome where the volume of water is more sa tisfactory. The very ornaments with which they adorn them, gods and goddesses, dolphins, shells, &c., interfere with the effect of the beautiful element itself ; and though of course, there is no comparison between the graceful forms of the baein of the Acqua Paolu, Trevi, &c., and the simple turf bank that surrounds the fountains in the park at New York, the volume of water thrown to a height of nearly sixty feet, and falling back in .a cataract, is a finer thing in itself than a whole Olympus of carved stone divinities. From this fine fountain, by the side of which one enjoys a noble view of Rome, we went to St. Peter's ; and here I was only astonished at finding how perfectly I knew it ; how absolutely like what I had imagined it was ; so that, except that the roof was a little higher than I expected, I felt as if I had been there a hundred times, and in no way exceeded or differed from my . expectations. The four-post bed (the one idea those horrid canopies over the high altars ever suggest to me) in the middle arrested the sweep of the eye from end to end of this majestic temple, and disfigured it painfully to me ; but, except that there is nothidg in the whole that was not simple, sublime, and absolutely satisfactory in its huge, beautiful proportions—l was not prepared, and was proportionately thankful, for the absence of all the tawdry, tinselly, holy trumpery so perpetually hanging about the different shrines in Catholic churches, making them look like old curiosity shops, and disfiguring both their beauti ful forms and the beautiful materials they are built of. — Mrs. Butler's (Fanny Kemble) Year of Consolation. LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S APPROACH TO CONSERVATISM —Meanwhile, Lora __ on towards the place of a sound Conservative as Sir Robert Peel has gone off in the direction of the movement. He is no longer the advocate of extreme measures. The fa mous Irish Appropriation-clause is dead and buried, never to rise again. There is not a whisper about an extended suffrage, either in Great Britain or Ireland. Corporation reform has reached its limits ; and the constitution of 1831. seems to be complete. At the same time his lord ship is not idle. He has conceded to the Church a point which the professed friends of the Church peremptorily refused. St. Asaph retains its bishop, and, unless com mon report belie him, Lord John is about to sanction the creation of four new sees in England, besides. His Irish also, whether sound or otherwise, is at least impar- There is no attempt to elevate one party above ano . The Tail has lost its influence, and its voice has me mute, or, if heard at all, it seems to produce no Undoubtedly, we cannot approve of ments made to meet the exigencies of the effect upon any one Irish• famine at the outset. We think that, considering the genius of the people, they were as in theory as in their execution they have proved fruitful of abuse. But we are far from accusing Lord John of seeking this end, to avoid which, indeed, in dealing with Ireland, seems to be, under any circumstances, impossible. In like manner, his Irish Poor-law is not only not a party measure, but if carried, as we presume that it must be, it will become law in defiance of a powerful party opposition. And when we look elsewhere, what do we find ? Schemes devised and plans brought forward, which have no ground whatever to stand upon, except their presumed applica bility to the wants and wishes of the community. Consi- der what is doing in regard to National Education ; to im piovements in the morale of our military system ; to the theory and practice of colonization ; to the improvement of the criminal law. Could Peel, or Canning, or Pitt himself, have managed these things better ?‘ We do not believe that they could : we are confident that, under the to attempt it. Where are we, then ?—we who, for fifteen years and more, have fought the battle of the constitution under a Tory banner, and played no mean part in keeping the Tory party together ? Exactly where we have always been,—the uncompromising . advocates of genuine Tory principles, the friends of social improvement so long as it shall be judiciously carried on, faithful to the Church, loyal to the throne, and true to the people. But as to party, banners, leaders, cries, and so forth, we hereby proclaim our severance from them all. Henceforth 'we shall look not to men nd to some of th now un- the consideration of parliament we proceed to address Fraser's Magazine 'OR EMIC NTS TO CANADA —There are two ordinary routes taken by emigrants to our North American possessions—the one yid New York, Halifax, ,r 'Roston : and the other through the Gulf and River St. Lawrence, and thence (should the passenger's taste or in terest lead him to the West) direct to . Toronto, which may be designated the capital of Upper Canada. In his own case the writer proceeded outward. by New York, and homeward by way of Quebec ; so that he has gained a practical knowledge of both voyages. Those who wish for comfort, and who prefer the economy of time to that oriiiiihey, he %mad' recommend - to -- visit New - Yorir - or - Boston. The former is a city truly worthy of notice—its splendid bay, its fairy scene, and its majestic rivers, are all objects of interests, and tend, in no small degree, to furnish an antidote to the unpleasantness of a passage, although sometimes short, at all times monotonous. Nothing is wanting in the excellent trans-Atlantic steam vessels to secure the comfort and safety of pessengers ; and, although the regular " Liners " or sailing packets possess far less speed, and consequently much less cer tainty as to the period of their arrival, yet, as it regards their arrangement, nothing can be more complete. The fares as money are much lower ; while the fare as to pro visions is fully as good as that on board of the Royal Mail —.s. But, is it has been already stated, our finances ust (if prudence be consulted) ever rule the route to be Many respectable families, however, prefer the .y, via Quebec ; and without doubt, as far as scenery is concerned, we are at a loss to say which is most to be admired. The banks of the noble St. Law rence are richly wooded, and although the villages and clearings are neither as numerous nor as good as those on the Hudson, yet they are not without interest ; while the cities of Quebec and Montreal have no competitors be tween New York and Toronto. We cannot, in any case, recommend to those who may be straightened in their cir cumstances, the passage to New York; for although tra velling in the United States is undoubtedly cheap, yet the distance is so great, and the changing from boat to boat In. from carriage to carriage so frequent, that the expense more direct wa . . becomes a matter of gra;e consideration. Many of the best of our British ships are constantly sailing from every port of n o t e i n t h e three kingdoms either to Quebec or Montreal. Some emigrants are induced to embark in the 1 first ships," \ expecting, as a consequence, that those 'which sail first mist arTiTefirsi ; but this is far from be ing the case. It is true that they may reach St. Lawrence before many others which leave at a later period ; but the probability is that they way be detained by, or damaged in the ice—the risk is much greater than the probable ad vantage of an early arrival —and 'it is therefore recom mended to passengers not to embark earlier than the be ginning of April,—.Rev, G. W. W07.'8 Canada as it is. THE NEEDLE.—Haw often have I blessed my needle for rescuing me from the temptations which assail the other sex. Bright and innocent little implement, whether plied over tasteful luxuries, or gaining the poor pittance of a day, thou art equally the friend of her whose visions tend to wander amid the regions of higher abstractions, and of her whose thoughts are pinned down to the tread mill of thy minute progress. Quiet rescuer from clubs and midnight revels, amid the minor blessings of woman's lot thou shalt not be forgotten ! Still come, and let thy fairy wand shine on her ; still lend an ambitious joy to the play-things of the girl; still move unconsciously un der the glittering smile of the maiden planning thy trium phant results; still beguile the mother whose thought roves to her boy on the distant ocean, or the daughter watching by the sick bed of one who has heretofore toiled for her; still soothe the long dreary moments of faithful love ; and though a tear sometimes falls on thy shining point, it shall not gather the rust of despair, since employ ment is thy dower.—Mrs. Gilmer's Recollections of a Southern Matron. MIXED COMMISSIONCOURTS OF SIERRA LEONE. — The Mixed Commission Courts form a conspicuous feature in the history of the colony of Sierra Leone, from the cir cumstance of its being by their fiat that thousands of negroes have obtained their freedom. They are termed mixed, from those nations with which England has treaties for the abolition of the slave trade having a right to send commissioners to judge in their respective cases. This right, however, has seldom been claimed, except in a few late instances by Spain and Brazil. But it requires little penetration to perceive that they came, not for abolition, but to preserve vessels engaged in the illegal traffic. Spain is not to be trusted ; and the Brazilian flag, like charity, "covereth a multitude of sins." The expiration of the Brazilian treaty has already given a powerful impetus to the trade, and the harbour of Sierra Leone has become swarmed with vessels bearing that flag. This treaty does not, like that with Spain, allow the condemned vessel to be cut up; by it, they must be sold, hence, the same vessels have been known to come in for adjudication seve ral times under a new name, as per example sharp sailing brigantine, within the year in which she was con demned as a slaver, was purchased by a German house in the colony, freighted, and sent to Hamburgh, and in a few months returned as a prize under a new name, proving that she must have made a voyage to Brazil, or elsewhere, and was again sold to a slave-dealer. She was then a second time purchased by the same house for £6OO, and no doubt will make her appearance a third time for adju dication. The "Atala" is another instance. This vessel was purchased by a Mr. Machado, a Brazilian merchant in the colony, and fitted out for a voyage to the Leeward coast, but in a few months put back as a prize as the "Ecuador."—Simmonds's Colonial Magazine. TAKING A TUCK OUT.—I declare it really wasn't pru dent to trust that Emma to do a thing, and even that little lamb of a Kitty of mine was scarcely safe with a stupid, like her, in the house. For I recollect once, I had been thinking the simpleton had a great deal of spare time on her hands, and might just as well do a little needlework, as sit twiddling her finger and thumb on an evening, so I told her that my little poppet of a Kitty was growing so fast that all her things were getting too short for her, and she really wanted a tuck out in her best frock, and would certainly look all the better for it, so I would thank her to attend to it that night, and let it be done before she went to bed. In the evening, I was in the parlour, boil ing down some quince pips to make a nice fixature for my hair, and all the while I could hear that s*eet little che rub of mine down stairs crying ; so I said to myself what the dickens can that, idiot be doing with the child in the kitchen at this time of night, when it ought to have been undressed and in bed a good hour ago ? Off I trotted to see what precious bit of stupidity my lady was at now. When I reached the kitchen I thought I should have fainted, for there sat Emma, with my little angel on her knee, dressed out in its best frock, and with its dear little innocent face daubed all over with treacle, just as if it had been tarred. " What on earth have you been doing with the child, Emma ?" I exclaimed. " I thought as you said it was to have a tuck out in its best frock, ma'am," she replied, " it could have nothing nicer than plenty of bread and treacle." And then to my horror I learnt from her, that when I told her I fancied the child would look all the better for having a tuck out in it's best frock, bless and save us, if the stupid oaf didn't imagine that I wished it to have a grand feast in its Sunday clothes ! "Oh ! you stupid, studid thing !" I said, " and what business have you to go giving the darling all that mess, when the doc tor has ordered me to let it have nothing but slops ?" " Nothing but slops, mum !" she exclaimed, with her mouth wide open with astonishment. " Yes, you stupid, nothing but slops," I answered ; " don't you even know what slops are now ?" "In course I do, mum, —augh !—oh, la !" she replied ; and from the way in which she turned up her nose, and the wry face she made, I could easily see that she fancied that the dear babe was to be fed with the grouts of the tea-cups, or whatever else might be in the slop-basin, when the breakfast things came down.—The Greatest Plague of Life. CASE OF SOMNAMBULISM.—AItogether, the most in teresting case of somnambulism on record, is that of a young ecclesiastic, the narrative of which, from the im mediate communication of an Archbishop of Bordeaux, is given under the head of somnambulism in the French En cyclopaedia. This young ecclesiastic, when the archbishop was at the same seminary, used to rise every night, and write out either sermons or pieces of music. To study his condition, the archbishop betook himself several nights to the chamber of the young man, where he made the fol lowing observations. The young man used to rise, to take paper, and to write. Before he wrote music he would take a stick and rule the lines with it. He wrote the notes, together with the words corresponding with them, with perfect correctness. Or, when he had written the words too wide, lie altered them. The notes that were to be black, he filled in after he had completed the whole. After completing a sermon, lie read it aloud from begin ning to end. If any passage displeased him, he erased it, 11 has marched as steadily j and wrote the amended passage correctly over the other ; on one occasion he had to substitute the word "adorable" for " divin ;" but he did not omit to alter the preceding " ce" into "cet," by adding the letter " t" with exact precision to the word first written. To ascertain whether he used his eyes, the archbishop interposed a sheet of pasteboard between the writing and his face. He took not the least notice, but went on writing as before. The limitation of his perceptions to what he was thinking about was very curious. A bit of aniseed cake, that he had sought for, he eat approvingly ; but when, on another occasion, a piece of the same cake was put in his mouth, he spit it out without observation. The following instance of the dependence of his perceptions upon, or rather their subordination to, his preconceived ideas is truly wonder ful. It is to be observed that he always knew when his pen had ink in it. Likewise, if they adroitly changed his papers, when he was writing,,he knew it, if the sheet sub stituted was of different size from the former, and he ap peared embarassed in that case. But if the fresh sheet of paper, which was substituted for that written on, was ex actly of the same size with the former, he appeared not to be aware of the change. And he would continue to read off his composition from the blank sheet of paper, as fluently as when the manuscript itself lay before him; nay, more, he would continue his corrections, and intro duce the amended passage, writing it upon exactly the place on the blank sheet which it would have occupied on the written page.—Blackwood's Magazine. CANADIAN DISCOMFORTS.—The accommodations for the "beast" were usually good, but those provided for the "man" were not always of the most tempting kind. The beds were sometimes good, but much oftener bad, while the meals, except in the city and some few of the towns through which I passed, were the least inviting that could have been placed before a hungry traveller. Let the reader imagine to himself —sour, home-made bread — tea which resembles, in flavour, a decoction of hay, and sweetened with what 1 never could endure, the maple sugar of the country—a rasher of bacon or ham exceed ingly salt, and oftener rancid than sweet, and as thick as a beef-steak ought to be, but never is in this country— potatoes infamously cooked—eggs fried and overdone in grease— a saucer or two filled with preserved apples, em browned in the same eternal maple sugar—a few other fruits, such as raspberries, currants, &c., spoiled in the same manner—a couple of large plates of potted butter, with huge particles of salt oozing from them like drops of hoar frost from a damp wall—cheese resembling hard prepared bees' wax, and tasteless and tough as leather— let the stranger, I repeat, imagine this gafirnatias of eat ables, (he must not forget to add huge slices not of crisp, but soddened toast) and he will know what sort of a break fast or supper he may expect to find in Canada, should he ever be induced to travel through it. Sometimes a fowl is added to what they pertinaciously insist upon calling "supper," if you partake of it after one o'clock in the day; but . which you, having only breakfasted, may incline to regard as your dinner ; and this, if plainly roasted, , is passable enough, but I confess that I never saw a piece of beef (for they have no joints) or mutton, or veal, placed on one of those "country inn" tables that was not smothered in grease, and altogether most uninviting in appearance.—Eight Years in Canada,_*c. s loo O k F ed T a li t E was I .A. WORD Ty.—Th A CITY.—The qualitynon o 'r f H ev E ery P t A h U i n P g E PER ETERNA L ververy in different, the prices enormous; and the shopkeepe r s, with an audacity and dishonesty inconceivable to a stranger, invariably take half the original price they demand for everything. The filth and stench of the streets give one an imaginary fever as one drives through them. I wonder these people don't have the plague every year in this city. The great, wide, beautiful stairs leading up from the Piazza di Spagna immediately to the door of our lodging are the favourite haunt of all the painter's models—old men with grizzled beards and hair, and lads with blue-black locks, falling all round the most wonderful eyes ever beheld ; girls in the picturesque costume of the lower orders here, with splendid heads and shoulders, and scarlet jackets, and daggers thrust through the braids of their hair—here they sit and stand, and lounge and 101 l in the sun, scream ing, shouting, laughing, gesticulating, or dozing , like cat s , with half-closed eyes, upon the warm stone steps; or, with true brotherly humanity, exploring the animated nature of each others elf-locks—beautiful, beastly crea tures. With those specimens of all that is finest in form and colour lie a rabble of hideous deformities, whose sole occupation is to extort money from every passenger that walks, or carriage that drives, by them. Women with huge goitres; men, with withered arms, hump-backed ) blear-eyed, fever-smitten, halting, squinting; idiots 101. ling out their tongues and goggling their eyes ; the blind, the maimed ; babies in arms and old creatures on crutches, all swarm round the wretched wayfarer, and, with vocife rous outcries, persecute him for alms. Words fit only for dogs do not repel them, nor the threatening arm and lifted hand. They have lost all sense of shame, or of in jury. They are triple-cased in the impervious callous ness of the lowest degradation. The beauty of the women of the middle and lower class of Rome is something really wonderful: the richest colouring, great purity of features and nobility of form, particularly in the outline of the head and its position on the shoulders. Their persons are generally clumsy, however, and their feet and ancles extremely ugly, thick, and ill-shaped : their divinity cornea no ower than their shoulders. Mrs, Buller. THE OPERATIVES AND THE FACTORY BILLO.-It wag said—could not the people work what time they choose ? This sounded very well, but the 'reverse was the fact. They had no choice. The employer had the power of co ercing them. The labourer could not resist, for the means of living were at stake. There was only one way he could resist, even for a time—by combination. Were their lordships prepared to make these workmen feel that there was no other means of protecting themselves than by combining against their masters; for, when once these combinations were formed, they were often turned to un lawful purposes. And if ihe whole body of factory ope ratives were driven into combinations it would be a just ground for apprehension and be such an object of terror as would force from a reluctant legislature those measures to which they considered they were justly entitled. It had been said that they might drive manufacturers out of the country. Let them take care they did not drive the manufacturing population into foreign countries. What had caused our manufacturers to flourish so much beyond those of other countries ? First, the security of all pro perty ; next, the wonderful physical strength of the la bouring population. If they took away from the people the confidence which they at present justly reposed in the legislature, by refusing to accede to their just and reason able demands—if they refused to allow them the means of improving their moral and physical condition—if they still persevered in turning a deaf ear to their prayers— they would, in his opinion, be unsettling the very basis of national security. It was said that they ran a great risk, and might drive capital out of the country. Was it not a great risk to injure the physical qualities of the labouring classes—would not that be withering the right arm of England and sapping the very foundation of her st• e igth ? This world was governed by moral principles, and retri bution followed upon crime. Depend upon it, though it sometimes seemed otherwise, that which was morally wrong could not be politically expedient. There could be no trifling with the moral law. That policy which was wicked and unjust, although intended to increase wealth, was in the long run found, even in a worldly sense, inju rious—if they neglected the public welfare, and threw overboard considerations of morality and religion, in order to make the nation rich, they would only succeed in making the nation poor and the people debased.—The Bishop of Oxford's Speech on the Factory Bill. AN AMERICAN CLERGYMAN'S OPINION OF THREE LIVERPOOL CLERGYMEN.-When I entered St. Jude's it was completely filled with a most attentive congrega tion. With difficulty I made my way through the crowded aisle to the pew where I had a seat secured. Mr. M`Neile was himself reading the morning prayer. Such finished and impressive reading I had never heard before. But when he entered upon his sermon, I was even more amazed. His subject was the offering of Christian sacrifices. In his exhibition of it he was so discriminating, evangelical, clear and intelligible, that, while a child might comprehend him, the most instructed Christian could not fail to be edified and informed. Were there no attractions of manner, his subject and mode of discussing it, so intellectual, spiritual, and adorned, would have made him the first of preachers. In this aspect of his preaching he is much like Our revered friend Bishop M'llvaine, of whom I was often reminded as I listened to Mr. M'Neile. The whole congregation seemed intent upon the subject which was before them. Every one was searching the Scriptures as he referred to them, to see if these things were so. Even the people who filled the aisles were all holding little Bibles in their hands in the same employment. But great as was this attraction of matter and subject, that of manner was not less. His voice, action, and power of eloquence, certainly transcend all t hat I had ever heard before. Tall, dignified, elegant in form, with a full head of hair, nearly white, graceful and commanding in figure, with an unusual compass and variety of voice under perfect command, he must have taken the very highest stand as an orator in any walk of public life. As a preacher, combining the unrivalled ex cellencies of subject, mind, and manner, I should not hesitate to say this is the very highest standard of preach ing among men. Nothing can surpass it.• And yet I hardly express to you my own feelings or judgment in this high commendation. The Lord's Supper was cele brated after the sermon ; and, as Mr. M'Neile was alone, I went into the vestry-room to offer him assistance. He had had a previous communion at eight o'clock in the morning, and yet there were probably from four to five hundred communicants present. It was a very solemn and impressive occasion, and reminded me more strongly of similar occasions in my own church than any which I have elsewhere witnessed. In the evening I assisted Mr. M`Neile in the service, and heard another admirable ser mon on the use of the law. I shall never forget the solemn and impressive prayer with which this faithful man commended the work before us, and my unworthy ' self, to God, in the vestry-room, before we went into the church. There is no trifling about him or any . of his duties. All is serious, affectionate, and faithful. In preaching, he is wholly extemporaneous. He holds a little pocket Bible in his hand, and from this he speaks with the wonderful power which I have attempted to de scribe. This evening a crowded congregation hung upon the words which fell from his lips. Perfect stillness reigned throughout the church. Surely, I thought, God is in this place. Oh, that I might catch something of this living fire, and gain improvement from the privileges of this day ! I had still other occasions to hear Mr. M`Neile, and was only confirmed in the opinion which I had formed of his power and influence as a preacher of the gospel. My private acquaintance with him, in per sonal visits, still deepened the impressions which I had received of his character from his public labours. Ano ther most interesting man in Liverpool is the Rev. James Haldane Stewart. We have long known him by his wri tings and his efforts to revive the influence of true piety in the church. His personal appearance and conversation are most consistent with the beautiful and simple piety of his writings. He is a tall and venerable man, perhaps seventy years old, quite bald, with his scattered white hair giving the aspect of great age, his countenance and manners the very model of meekness and love; in all his conversation deeply spiritual and instructive, proving a most edifying companion to all who are able to appreciate the excellence of his character and the evangelical purity of his religious sentiments. I did not hear him preach, but I saw him often in private, and felt a growing reve rence for his character and influence. Another very in teresting man in Liverpool is the Rev. Mr. Jones, of St. Andrew's, for whom I preached on the second Sunday which I spent in that place. I was indebted to him for much attention, his whole manners and character being marked by a kindness, and gentleness, and affection ex tremely winning. His church, which is in the centre of the town, is in a most flourishing condition, and he him self exceedingly beloved by the large congregation who have gathered under his care.—Recollections of England, by the Rev. Stephen Tyny, D.D., Rector of St, George's, New York. engral Aitatllany. At a public meeting in Darlington, on Tuesday, it was resolved to economise in the use of food. During the past week, 95 vessels laden with corn ar rived in London, from different European ports. The freedom of the city of London has been presented to " the hero of Aliwal,' Sir Harry George Smith. On Saturday a fight took place at Cramlington, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, between John Walton and Joseph Simms, pitmen, when the former was unfortunately killed. On Saturday week, Dr. Mesham, one of the physicians to the Infirmary at Bedford, committed suicide by taking poison. His circumstances were embarrassed. Some atrocious villain fired a bullet through the win dow of Dr. Turley's library, at Worcester, on Tuesday. The Dr. was sitting at a table at the time, and had a very narrow escape from being shot. THE OAK HAS WON.—When the ash-tree opens its leaf before the oak, a wet summer usually follows ; and when the oak-tree opens its leaf before the ash, a dry summer usually follows. The oak is first this year. DISTRESS IN BRADFORD.—A guardian of the poor states that one in seven of every man, woman, and child, in the township of Bradford is receiving parochial relief. One relieving-officer, Mr. Booth, has 1200 families on his book. The members of the Carlton Club, adopting the noble example set by our most gracious Sovereign, have directed that, during the existing scarcity, none but the seconds flour be used in that club. At the recent lettings of grass lands in the neighbour hood of Cardigan, by auction, the rentals have consider ably increased upon that of the previous years ; the com petition for the same being very great. MISTAKEN MERCY. —A man was indicted on Wednes day, at the Old Bailey, for stabbing his own mother, and endangering her life. He pleaded intoxication, and conse quently got off with a fortnight's imp!is9nmen: In a late Gazette it was announced that a dividend of three thirty-secondths of a penny would be paid to the creditors of a bankrupt ; so that a creditor to the amount of £64 would be entitled to receive sixpence. The Chester Courant says that within three days the House of Commons was twice counted out, that the mem bers might rush from debates on the currency to exchange their gold for the notes of Jenny Lind. • -The Earl of Winchilsea, on Monday . drew the atten tion of the government to the alarming state of the country, in consequence of the scarcity and high price of food, and suggested the propriety of establishing public granaries. Mr. Barry, the architect of the new palace, has received orders to provide, without a moment's unnecessary delay, fourteen additional committee rooms, in order that the committees may get their business out of hand as rapidly as possible. The Doncaster Chronicle says that the stock of corn in the hands of the farmers of that neighbourhood is ex tremely low ; so much so that the stack yards more re semble the commencement of the harvest than three months in advance of it. In Bradford, Yorkshire, the owner of the Soke Mills claims to grind or provide all the corn or meal consumed within the limits of a district called " the Soke." A joint stock company (the vicar at the head) is to be got up in opposition. _ _ _ . . The Rev. J. C. Miller, rector of St. Martin's Birming ham, has resolved to devote one Sunday annually to en force the claims of each of the charitable institutions of the town. It occurs to us that the adoption of this prac tice nearer home would be productive of much good. ECONOMY OF BREAD.—A correspondent of the Times suggests, that, as was ordered in 1799, bakers should not be allowed to sell any bread which had been made less than 24 or 30 hours. And he very truly observes that stale bread is not only more economical, but more whole some and nutritious. SALE OF MR. BECKFORD'S TOWER.—This unique spe cimen of its late owner's taste, together with an acre of the surrounding land, was lately " knocked down" by the auctioneer's hammer, for the almost nominal price of £lOOO. The purchaser is Mr. W. Knott, landlord of the Freemasons' Tavern,in Bath. _ _ EXPORTATION OF CORN FROM ENGLAND. — The French war steamer, Gomer, passed by Dover, on Monday se'nnight, having seven large British vessels in tow, laden with corn, bound to Cherborough, and on Friday after noon the same steamer passed with nine other vessels in tow, similarly laden, Nay 25, 1847. EXTRAORDINARY Esc Ant.-011 Thursday night a wager boat was run into by a steamer on the Thames, and cut right in two. The rower, on seeing the impossibility of clearing the steamer, had the presence of mind to jump from the boat before the steamer struck her, and dive completely under it, coming up on the other side unhurt. HIGH PRICE OF WHEAT.—At Reading market on Sa turday last, 36 quarters of wheat, the property of Mr. Crawshay, the extensive Welsh ironmaster, and grown on his estate at Caversham, near Reading, realized the enor mous and almost unprecedented price of 120 s. per quarter. The parcel was bought on speculation. Niw MODE OF ADVERTISING.—A large number of penny-pieces are in circulation in Birmingham and the neighbourhood, on which is stamped, in prominent cha racters, a recommendation to purchase a certain cheap periodical. We would advise the perpetrators of this act of disfigurement of the current coin to beware of the Mint authorities. CONTINENTAL COMMUNICATION.—The Directors the South-Eastern Steam-ship Company intend to rue one of their splendid vessels between Folkstone and St. Valery. The object in view appears to be the saving of forty miles by diligence from Boulogne to Abbeville, the port of St. Valery being only twelve miles from the Abbeville railway station, and the distance by sea from. Folkstone to St. Valery, about fifty miles ; thus Paris would be reached in less time than either by Brighton and Dieppe or Folkstone and Boulogne. EXTRAORDINARY BIRTHS.—On Sunday last the wife of a poor labouring man, named Godfrey Butterworth, of Wike Common, was delivered of three fine girls. The names selected were Faith, Hope, and Charity, and they were the same day duly registered by Robert Broughton, registrar for the district. The children are all doing well. On the 12th February, 1846, the same woman had twins (two fine boys), which were called Joseph and Benjamin ; so that in little more than 15 months she has brought her husband five children, all of them born alive, but the two boys afterwards died.—Leeds paper. NARROW ESCAPE OF THE ST. VINCENT.—This perfect 120 gun ship left Portsmouth harbour at eleven o'clock on Saturday, for Spithead. She was taken in tow by the Centaur steam-frigate • and when off Blockhouse beach, one of the hawsers br oke, and left the St. Vincent nearly unmanageable, but by promptly letting go an anchor she was saved from getting on shore, although it was thought she did touch the ground. The officers of the dockyard and pilots did not deem it prudent, with the wind S.W., and a critical point of the tide, to run the risk of taking her out ; she was anchored ahead of the Victory, and soon after warped in safety to her former berth. If she The members of the Senior United Service Club gave a splendid entertainment at the club-house in Pall-mall, on Tuesday, to Major-General Sir Henry Smith, to celebrate the return of that gallant officer to his native country, after his arduous services in the East Indies. Lieutenant General Sir Andrew F. Barnard, G.C.B. and G.C.H., presided, and Earl Waldegrave occupied the vice-chair. The Inverness Courier, of Tuesday, contains a detail of the loss by fire of a bark at sea, and eleven lives lost, when off the Western Isles. Several others were dread fully burnt, but escaped in a boat. The crew were Americans, bound to Leith. The accident was caused by a candle falling on some dry oakum while drawing some rum. Tim CROPS.—AII the provincial papers speak in high terms of the growing crops. The following are speci mens :—ln the Fylde the corn looks well, and kitchen gardens are flourishing. In Shropshire " the appearance of the wheat and barley crops is indicative of a profuse harvest." In Kent " the beautiful warm showers have had hung for a very short time, the most disastrous conse quences must have ensued, as the ebb tide soon began to make with great force ; and as she was between Point Beach and Blockhouse when she touched, she must, front her great size and draught of water, have turned over on her side, and been damaged for ever. It is reported that put a new face on the country, and all the crops pro mise abundance. The early potatoes look healthy." So much foreign grain has been stored at Perth this winter, that granary room is hardly to be had, and im porters are re-shipping to other ports partly from want of the necessary accomodation. Glasgow is similarly situated, and some who had sent cargoes thither, and found no sale, are intending to re-ship them to the Baltic, where prices are fifty per cent higher than when originally put on board. the tides will not admit of her going out of harbour for a fortnight. A SLIGHT MISTAKE.—THE SOOTT JENNY LIND ! The Quarry Walk, Shrewsbury, has been crowded every night during the past week to listen to the sweet and brilliant strains of the spirit of Jenny Lind, which it is reported pours forth most eloquent music from the yew tree at the skirt of the plantation under the residence of Mr. Badger, on Kingsland, opposite the Quarry Centre Walk. We (Shropshire Conservative) regret, however, A CONTRAST.-In November, 1831, the price of a bushel of flour in this city was Gs. Gd. ;—on Monday, May 17, 1847, it was seventeen shillings ! Very shortly, we regret to add, the price will probably range between 20s. and 30s. per bushel.—As a proof of the laudable de sire in Hereford to economise in the smallest things, we may notice that we have seen handbills affixed to the , to state, that . the lovers of nature's music have met with a sore disappointment, as last night, about a quarter past eleven o clock, when nearly 800 persons were present drinking the luscious strains from the immortal warbler, a cough was heard, and something, in colour approaching his Satanic majesty, seen to move; when lo !! a little weep was brought forth with a Whitechapel Birdcatcl. _ _ wails, not with paste, but skewers.—Hereford Journal. The London Dock Company has lately opened another stack of warehouses with vaults beneath, at the western end of the docks, nearest to the city. They have been built at a cost of about £BO,OOO, and combine light, space, and convenience of all kinds for the transaction of busi ness. The arches of the vaults are supported by iron columns, and have a light and roomy appearance, whilst they are so far from the water side as to be effectually free a yr nnechar _ner's whistle in his tiny fist, with which instrument he had. been for several evenings beguiling the proud Salopians from their convivial parties, and beds. This has given a, quietus to a contemplated " Nightingale Club," which•waa in the course of formation by the Choral Society. THE GuN CoTToN.—As all conjecture as to the nature of this immensely powerful agent has now been set at rest by the publicity of the specification of the patent, any official facts with reference to its actual utility must prove from damp. FOREIGN CORN.—The number of vessels which arrived at the port of London during the past week from ports in Europe, laden with grain, was 95, the cargoes of which were mainly wheat and oats, and were from the following European States, viz. Holland, Denmark, Prussia, France (Marselles), Sweden, Hanover, Oldenburgh. Malta, Mecklenburgh. and some others, the principal of which, however, were from the Hanoverian dominions, Denmark, and Prussia. of interest. A course of experiments, to test its relatives strength with the very best Ordnance gunpowder, have just taken place at the Holyhead Mountain, Anglesea ; the Holland Slate Quarries, Penrhyn ; and the result shows that the saving by the use of the gun cotton is at least 30 per cent. ; added to which is the great advantage, that the miners, by its means, are enabled to obtain the most enormous blocks, and this with little or no waste. In an official report which appears in the Mining Jour nal of Saturday week, it appears that a f` huge mass of 60 THE INDIAN WAR.—A package has arrived in the East India Docks directed to Lord Hardinge, the Governor tons weight was gently ptished from its firmly bound bed by the explosion of only eight ounces of cotton, and that General of India, containing a bedstead and hangings, and also a quantity of Indian armour, the former of which is a present to His Excellency from the Maharajah Dhu leep Sing, and the latter has been taken in the late en gagement with the Sikhs; the whole of which will be de livered for or on account of his lordship, by the special di rections of the Treasury, duty free. THE SHIPMENT OF GOLD.—The quantity of gold taken out on Wednesday by the American steamer was £190,000, but it was not taken from the bank, but had been received from Paris by an eminent continental banking firm here, to be shipped on French account—no doubt as the most profitable remittance which they are able to make in pay ment of the corn, &c. which they are receiving in such large quanties from the United States. It is understood, also, that the bullion in the bank is daily augmenting; and that it cannot now be much below £lo,ooo,ooo.—Mo rning Chronicle. no splintering of the slate took place, which greatly as tonished the workmen." To obtain blocks of slate, alone, of such immense size, will in itself effect a vast amount of good; that material being in great and in creasing demand, even at its present price, for articles of building, of furniture and works of luxury and the arts. USEFUL RECIPES.—The following are recipes and in struction which are at the present time extensively used, and with great advantage and economy, in the town and neighbourhood of Carlisle, and were furnished by Mr. J. D. Carr, of that town :—Plain boiled hominy, or Indian corn shelled : Tie one pound of crushed hominy in a cloth, allowing plenty of room to swell, and boil three hours. This pudding may be eaten with sugar and melted butter or treacle sauce. One pound of hominy will make a pudding sufficient, as a meal, for five or six persons, at a cost of not more than 2d., when Indian corn is selling from 565. to 60s. per quarter.—Hominy milk Soak half ANOTHER SPECIMEN OF ONE-SIDED CONSCIENTIOUS -In the House of Commons on Tuesday, Mr. Wil a pound of crushed hominy in water twelve hours, and then boil it in milk over a slow fire two hours. It must Rams opposed the adoption of the Report of the Commit tee of Supply, on the ground that the amount voted for the expenses of the Ecclesiastical Commission (X 3,450), being for the benefit of the church, ought not to be paid out of the public purse. The hon. member forgot to state, that this sum became due owing to the state interfering with the revenues of the church. But Mr. Brotherton reminded him, that if the public were thus paying £3,000 for the Ecclesiastical Commission, the church paid X 36,000 for registering births, deaths, and marriages, .a measure adopted for the benefit of dissenters ? Nevertheless, eigl.t members voted with Mr. Williams. DREADFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT LEEDS.—SEVEN be about the consistence of rice milk when brought to table.—Rice hominy pudding : Mix the hominy, which has been previously boiled, either in milk or water, with. eggs, a little sugar and nutmeg, a little suet, and with or without currants and raisins, as preferred. Tie up in a basin, and boil two hours. It is excellent either boiled or baked.—To prepare hominy as a vegetable, boil whole hominy plenty of water four hours, and strain it through a culander for the table. This is a beautiful looking dish, and forms an excellent substitute for pota toes. Equal parts of Indian and English flour make ex cellent household bread and cakes. RAGGED SCHOOL UNION.--011 Tuesday a very nume- LIVES LOST.—Yesterday morning week, a terrific explo sion of fire-damp occurred at a colliery belonging to Messrs. Harding and Co., New Hall, Beeston, about two miles from Leeds, by which seven individuals have lost their lives, and another has received injuries from which he is not expected to recover. The explosion took place about nine o'clock. The miners in the course of their labours broke into an old pit, from which the con fined and inflammable gas issued, and this communica ting with the lights used in the_ pit caused an almost in rously attended meeting of the above society was held at the Hanover-square Rooms, when Lord Milky took the chair. Amongst the number on the platform were the Bishop of Norwich, Lord Kinnear, the Hon. W. Cow per, M.P., the Right Hon, Fox Maule, the Hon- h an Baptist Noel, an d a num b er of clergymen' T Lord briefly, b u t very emphatically, addressed the meet ing. The report stat e d th a t there were 16 ho oep It daily, morning and afternoon, 33 opo n on the Sabbath, s oe noble c morning, afternoon, and evening ; 44 buildings con in stantaneous explosion. Six of the unfortunate persons who were at work in the pit were killed on the spot, and two others were got out alive and conveyed to the Leeds Infirmary, one of whom has since died, DEATH OF A BOY FROM EXCESSIVE DRINKING schOols of both sexes, which are situated in the lowest and most wretched localities of London. The total num ber in these are about 5,000 children of both sexes, and 456 teachers. A special fund had been established for a school of industry or juvenile refuge, in one of the most Saturday week, a boy named John Hall, aged nine years wretched and low localities in Westminster, to vhiciia and five months, was amusing himself with other boys in lady in the first instance subscribed £2OO, and sabse front of the office of Messrs. Ridley and Thompson, spi- quently £3OO, with a view under the latter donation of rit merchants, Newcastle, but causing some annoyance to receiving 50 girls. A legacy of £2OO had been bequeathed those in the office, they were ordered away. Unfortu- by Mr. Strut Avery, of the University Club. The report nately, as an inducement to them to go away, a glass of was adopted. The financial statement showed the re rum was given to each of.them, when they departed. The ceipts to be for the past year £824 6s. 10d., leaving a deceased, however, returned again, and asking for some balance of £172 18s. lid. The special fund for the juve-. more drink, a bottle containing rum was given to him by nile refuge fund, £857, which, after defraying all ex a traveller for the firm, and the boy applying the bottle penses, and a contingent fund of £3OO, left a balance of to his mouth, drank nearly the whole of the contents. £2Ol 13s. 7d. After leaving the office he was overcome with the liquor THE MIRFIELD MURDERS.—The local magistrates and and fell down, and was taken up quite insensible, con. police officers are strenuously exerting themselves to dis veyed home, and put to bed, where he died on Monday, cover the perpetrator or perpetrators of the deed 'of blood without having spoken in the interval. A verdict of which occurred there on Wednesday week, and the full par manslaughter has been returned against the traveller. ticulars of which appeared in the Siandardof Tuesday. At A WEALTHY PAUPER.—On the 19th instant, a labour- present there are two men in custody, on suspicion of ing man named John Jarmy, and his wife, were admitted being concerned in the three murders. These two per as in-door paupers at the Wangford union-house at Ship- sons in custody are both Irishmen, hawkers of pot s , re siding a few miles from Mirfield. One of them is meadow, and, as is customary, they were t a k en t o sena rate apartments to exchange their own c l o thi ng f or th a t Michael M'Cabe, about forty-one years of age; the other is Patrick Reed ; about twenty-one. They were both of the union, attended by the usual officials. Th e ma t r o n , seen in the neighbourhood of the house of the deceased who was present with the woman, observing that her Mr. Wraith about the time when the murders must have pockets were very heavy, asked what they contained, to which she replied, " Only a few rags" ; but thi s no t sa - been committed, and it is said that a strong chain of cir tisfying Mrs. Hammond, she examined the contents, and cumstantial evidence will be adduced against them at the found sewed up in different parcels £ 1 3 2 45., consisting coroner's inquest, which is expected to be resumedat of 111 sovereigns, and the remainder in silver ; there latter part of the present week. The remains of the were also three savings-bank books , in which were ac- deceased Mr. and Mrs. Wraith were interred in one knowledged deposits in the Norwich Savings Bank to the grave, and those of their unfortunate servant maid, Caro amount of £l6O, making a total of £292 4s. ! There line Ellis, in another on Saturday, amidst a large con.. were found also nine silver tea-spoons, a table-spoon, purse of spectators. It is not true, as reported in some and a pair of sugar-tongs.—lpswich Express. journals, that the mother of Ellis died suddenly in conse.. quence of the news that her daughter was murdered hay- HER MAJESTY' in g S THEATRE.—The attractions of Jenny been communicated to her Lind eaks continu _Me undim Postinished, or W rather t o i ncrease . Thus her illness arising from the shock' She, however, is very ill, to her nervous syst em by, sp the orning ofWednesday thereon, and of the awful death which h a s b e f a ll en h er c hild . her general characteristics !—" The day before yesterday, FURTHER NOVELTIES IN GLASS.—Sir Robert Peel's before the office doors were opened, a crowd had assem- anticipations of the extended use of glass appear to.be on bled before them, and in their effort to get first served the da way towards a complete l fulfilment. Only the other they broke the glass door. Not only from all parts of the the Builder, to add a new country, but from the continent, persons are constantly grace ya t p o r t o l p ie os p al ian w o a - s fo m rt a e de by covering the key natas .with arriving to witness the performances of the great vocalist; varicoloured glass ; and other projects, such as. the- con-. nor can they accomplish the object of their journey at duction of illuminative gas through pipes of glass, with once, so difficult is it to obtain a seat of any kind. The groun d an d closely-fitted jointings, have been suggested sensation the fair Swede excites is in no wise extraordinary throu g h the same medium.. It now appears, howe v e r , when we reflect that she has all the sweetness of Sontag, that not only milk-pans (yielding, by the bye, an a ddi, with far more vocal power, and all the dramatic energy of tional crop of cream, it is said) and cream-pots, jars, and the great Malibran, with the advantages over the latter that flower pots, tiles, grape-glasses, and various other horti she never exaggerates feeling, and that her voice, instead cultural and floricultural utensils are already made of of being a beautiful contralto forced into an unequal so-" glass, but even also su c h un lik e l y i mp l ements as rolling prano, is throughout even, round, clear, and bell - toned. pins, and a heterogeneous list of other manufactures MR. COHAN'S CONCERT IN LONDON.—Mr. Cohan be- hitherto usually wrought in wood, or clay, or metal. Bee log well known in Liverpool. the following paragraph from glasses, too, and propagating-glasses, seed protectors, &c., the Times, London paper, will be perused with interest are now made of this useful and elegant, as.well as cheap by many of his friends :—This entertainment attracted an material, which scarcely requires the establishment of overflowing audience last night to the Hanover Rooms. anything like truth in a recent report of the discovery of The concert-giver is a pianist of the modern school, unit- a mode of rendering it malleable, in order to constitute ing considerable mechanical pretensions with a style and it a most formidable antagonist and substitute for all taste peculiarly his own. He played several phantasias of kinds of manufaCture, not only in metal, and wood, and his composition, the most remarkable of which was a pot- ,clay, but in other materials, including gve.c., silk an 4 : pourri called The Greek Revolution, an essay combining worsted—for we may add, what may not be known to the fragmentary plan of the ancient Battle of Prague with some of our readers, that beautiful fabrics, even as it is, executive difficulties that Rotzwara never dreamed of. have been actually woven with a mixture of threads of Mr. Cohan was quite at home in these pieces, and was re- coloured glass and silk. warded by liberal applause. He further distinguished ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.—One of the rural police al), himself by a very able performance of one of Beethoven's prehended a young Irishman on Friday, the 7th instaety. violin sonatas, in which lie enjoyed the valuable co-oper- stealing some shirts from a farmhouse at Craignish, where ation of Mr. Blagrove ; and also in the exposition of an he had lodged the night previous. He gave his name_ an. adagio and scherzo from a MS. sonata composed by him- Tom M`Lean, from near Derry ; but on his'wav Here, self, and written with a better purpose than the fantasais en route, to Inverary, gave hints of hisintention to change of which we have spoken. A vaaiety of vocal pieces sus- both name and sex, and actually proved to be a lady in tained by the talents of Misses Birch, Dolby, and Rans- tights; and, from her own statement is the same Ann ford, Messrs. Hart, and John Parry, completed the pro- M.Lean, from near Derry, who followed her " soldiet gramme, which appeared to give general satisfaction." laddie" from that place to Gl a s gow i n ma l e attire—got en- CONTINUED DISTURBANCES IN SOMERSETSHIRE. — listed in the same regiment ; but on her s ex being disco- We regret to state that the food riots, which originated at vered was sent to the right-about ;on whi c h s h e t oo k to Taunton, appear to be spreading over the county of Somer - work in and about Gl asgow , an d on t h e harvest-field. , , &c set. At Glastonbury symptoms of incipient disturbances and ultimately joi ne d th e C am b r i a, steamer, .in which she have manifested themselves, and though, fortunately , the twice crossed th e Atl ant i c as cook ; but on the last home mischief was confined to stopping bread carts, the occur- ward bound. passage she was sent before the mast, in con rences are too ominous to be lightly regarded. The cart sequence of which she left the ship, and found her way to uarter, and engaged herself to a countryman of hag of Mr. Collins, baker, of Wetton-mill, was stopped on this q Tuesday while delivering bread in the High-street, and the own, who is in th.z stoneware trade, with whom she served driver had to return home at once with his vehicle. On in the threefold capacity of cartman, boatman, or basket the previous day, the bread cart of Mr. Puddy was stopped man, and sharing her 'bed with the other boys. Weary at Ashcott, and the driver desired to dispose of hi s b rea d ing of this life also, she decamped, in the absence of both at Bd. per quartern ' with which command he was obliged master and. mistress, taking with her a well-stored basket to comply. At Coker, a village a few miles distant from of glasses., which she sold at low prices through the Yeovil, a disorderly mob smashed in the windows of an country, till she perished the pack. She then enlisted at inoffensive baker named Podger, and here the affair be- Inverar - y, where, after a night's carouse and good lodgings , came so serious that a magistrate (Mr. Batten) was called the party found themselves minus their recruit in tne from his bed at a late hour, and considered it necessary morning, she having managed to make her:escape, but has to swear in a number of special constables. At Taunton liciw been apprehended for the above tfieft. She Pe g the disturbances were renewed on Monday, and the pen- over her history since she adopted the tights (now twelve sioners charged the mob with fixed bayonets. Three men months) without a blush, and - with the greatest fluency named Stone, Valiance, and Brake, have been committ/„d She is rather a good-looking boy, five feet six inches high , to gaol for trial, the two former charged with partici•Jat- ruddy complexion, with jet black locks, about ninetee n ing in the disturbances, and the latter w ith obstr d ai n , years of age. Irish Tom turning out a girl, has created a the pensioners. At Yeovil some apprehensions o f di s - great deal of merriment and astonishment here, particn: turbances was felt, the more especially as large_ gangs , : d larly to her old master and mistress, with whom be was . : railway labourers are at work in the irainecila' f great favourite for the six weeks he lived Yfith th"1:1. - the town. *.e v g'! ' o , . Adtnburgh Regis(er, xe r ), 11