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6 TI SWINWCIIIIIMI. I .I.I. I II I 2IOIG.IIMIIINISME, - - ..- . ' . . •. . .c. , . ,:. . . , ~.....„, ~ . , , .._,.„., ~ . , . . -. •,. _. .„ - .....,. ,-.- ....,. s .- - -..- ~_ 7Litrraturr. WISE TGNORANCE.—Tt is impossible to become either THE STEAM arr eminently great, or truly pious man, without the 40 • courage to remain ignorant of a many things. (From Sir john Barron NOTICES. THE PULTNEY GUlNEA.—Pultney, the great leader of The first discoverer, as we E the opposition, and afterwards the Earl of Bath, having, of the power of steam for movi .The Slave Captain; a Legend of Liverpool. By John in one of his speeches, made a Latin quotation, was cor- &c., as well as of its locomo Dignan, London : T. C. Newby, 72. Mortimer-street, rested by Sir Robert Walpole, who offered to wa g er a times, b een a su bj ec t o f d ou b Cavendish Square. Li ver p oo l, J o h n Di gnan, S out h gu i nea on the inaccuracy of the lines. The bet was has the story of the Marquis John-street. accepted, the classic referred to, and Paltney being found himself, been called in questic When we had the pleasure of noticing a former little to be right, the m i n i s t er threw the guinea across the table, before his time, and M. Arago work by Mr. Dignan—" A Romance of Liverpool Life"— which Pultney, as he took it up, called the house to the discovery for another, one we expressed our opinion that the writer was equal to a witness was the first guinea of the public money he had brated engineer in the time of : more sustained and higher effort ; and in this opinion we ever put i n t o hi s p oc k e t. The very coin thus lost and won dedicated a book, published ii were not singular. Although e v id en tly a h as t y wor k , i s s till preserve d , as th e " P u lt neY G u i nea, " in the count of Moving Forces, with thrown togethr in the author's leisure hours, and in the British Museum. for Use as for Pleasure. This intervals of arduous editorial labours, it contained AN IRISH RACE.—The jockey who rides against aby nearly half a century, to W evidences of unmistakeable talent and aptitude of mind popular horse undertakes a service of some danger, for ventions, which was not publish for. the production of works of fiction of the first there are no means, however unfair, which they will not prove nothing against the M class; and we sat down therefore with some gratification adopt to cause him to lose the race : they will hustle him, De Celts has mentioned steal to the perusal of the legendary tale which is now before throw sticks and hats in his way, in the hope of throwing I forces," of which I profess my us, and in writing which the autho r has perhaps been en- over horse and rider. . But when the popular horse wins, his treatise. But the charge of couraled by the favorable tone in which his first effort then indeed the scene is fine. No sooner did a certain his invention from De Caus h was received. Our rather hi g h expectations have been chesnut get ahead of the rest, than there arose a cry true, as it appears to be, deci fully realized by its perusal. In ' The Slave Captain" from ten thousand people of "The doctor's harse ! the him. Mr. Dignan has displayed all the requirements of a foxey harse ! the doctor's harse !" accompanied by such In an amusing Frenchwork, I novelist ; skill in construction, great power of conception, a rush as fairly swept the winner off the course towards par Henri Berthoud, I find aye and delineation of character, combined with perfect purity the weighing-stand ; and when, after the weighing, the letter, from Madame Marion d of taste and expression. Above all, the moral conveyed favourite was walked to a distant part of the ground, he the Marquis de Cinq-Mars, in v throughout the work is excellent. was accompanied by the same thousands, shouting " The " I have done the honours For the leading incidents and plot of the tale we must doctor's parse ! the foxy harse !" &c., &c. Never, except lord, the Marquis of Worcese refer our readers to the work itself, rather than weaken n this occasion, have I seen five hundred persons trying . rather, he has led me, from c its interest by any sketch of ou rs . Th e leading character, to rub down one horse at one ti me , w ith t en ti mes t h a t a l wa y s ma ki ng c h o i ce of the as the title suggests, is of a cl ass o f nau ti ca l men t o b e number anxious to assist, and only prevented by the evi- serious, speaking little, and lists found in Liverpool at the close of the last century, but dent impossibility of getting near enough. Hats, hand- tion. who are no w swept away, w i t h the trade which they fol- kerchiefs, coats, handfulls of grass, all were in requisition ; "We went to Becetre, where lowed. The scene is laid in our old Borough as it existed while the vast mass of excited people roared, screeched, covered in a madman a man ( 70 or 80 years ago ; and the description given of many vociferated the endless virtues of the horse and master, been raving, I verily believe y portions of it will no doubt interest the local reader. though probably not one in a hundred knew anything of asked his liberty to take. him to The pictures which it contains of the Africau trade are either, only that the horse opposed to him was owned by court where mad people are kep also faithfully given ; and neither they nor the characters an anti-repealer.—Paddiana. from fear, I observed, on the otl of the parties engaged in it overdrawn. We are intro- "As CUNNING AS A Fox."—The following illustration rier, an ugly face, screaming out duced in the course of the tale to several of the illustri- of this adage proves beyond a doubt that reynard, so much made a discovery that would ous men of whom Liverpool boasted in the last century, celebrated for his sagacity in past ages, has lost none of would carry it into effect.' An and still boasts. Of the more prominent characters in- his cunning in modern times. A gentleman in the ba- I asked the keeper. 'Ah l ' sai troduced some are most beautiful conceptions, worked out rony of Ennishowen had a pet fox which he had kept for guess : it is the vapour of boil with great artistic skill, especially the character of the six months in a large wooden cage : his food consisted continued he, 'is Solomon de Ct Slave Captain's young daughter Matilda, and his ward chiefly of broken meat, bones, &c., and this caused him mandy, four years'ago, to preset) Euphemia. There are also a few masterly sket c hes of a to be much annoyed at night by dogs, which visited him of the wonderful effect of steam ruder sort. As a whole, " The Slave Captain" is one of with the intention of thrusting their noses in through the driving carriages, and a thousam the most interesting books of its class which has recently apertures in the cage and carrying off his " suppli es ." O ne but the car di na l d rove hi m away issued from -the pr es s ; an d i ts aut h or, having now small dog, in particular, though admonished by sundry From that time he- pursued t proved his power, will regard himself as pledged to fur- growls and snaps from the inmate of the wooden habita- went, so that he ordered him to ther efforts to gratify and improve his fellow to wnsmen tion to give over pia thievish propensities, and allow him as a madman, where he has been and the reading public, to enjoy his food in peace, nevertheless could not resist He has written a book on his ve the temptation of returning, in the hope, no doubt, of I have here.' Lord Worcester i Song of the -Zephyr—" Ico;ne in the Spring." Sung succeeding, as he had done occasionally before; in carry- and, after reading a few pages, ' by Miss Rainforth and Miss Emily Grant.. The Words ing off a savoury bone. Reynard at last, wearied with his no madman, and in my country, by Mrs. H. V. Lewis, the Music by Mr. H. V. Lewis. pertinacity, resolved on exchanging places with his canine up, they would heap riches upon We noticed this pleasing composition in commendatory tormentor, in order to let the latter feat the tedium of irn- I wish to question him.' He we terms, at the time when it was first published. It is light prisonment, and to teach him that the situation he seemed turned sorrowful and pensive. ' and graceful. to envy was not so very desirable as he regarded it. Ac- is very mad. Misfortune and ca; ______ a ___ cordingly, one night recently reynard slyly opened the tranged his reason. -You have tr .SKETCHES OF A TRIP TO THE CONTINENT, cage, and when the dog came, allowed hi m f r e e a d m i ss i on , you th rew hi m i n t o thi s pr i son ITALY, AND EGYPT. . taking care when he got him fairly inside to run out him- greatest genius of your age.' BY EDWIN ICEET y ESQ . self and make fast the door of the c a ge behind-him, key- From this time, it is s a id, th ( No. XVI. ing the intruder in durance, where he was discovered next never ceased talking of Salome! (Written for the Liverpool St an d ar d.) morning, all his efforts to extricate hi m self h av i ng p rove d might t a lk an d thi n k o f thi s pool One beautiful little church, i n th e f orm o f a G ree k ineffectual. The fox, instead of leaving the premis es an d true. The wr it er o f th e l e tt er, t cross, dimly lighted with sh a d e d, sma ll w i n d ows, h a d taking to thefields, remained until his young master made and the genius of w h om it t rea t twenty-five brass, woven skree n s, an d one l arger one, his appearance, when he leaped from a bundle of h a y an d charact ers o f th e ti me . D e C g through which the immured-for-life, vestal nuns, might gambolled play.ully around him, afterwards taki ng pos.. engineer and archite c t, i s k nown catch a glimpse of that wo r ld an d th e peop l e f rom w hi c h session of his former domicile. — .l% ondonderry Standard. of several ingenious works ; one HURRICANE ON THE GANGES.—Though the sun set in de Forces Mouvantes, Brc., above their vows ever excluded them. It is annoying to see so fire, evening had closed in beautifully, and night never through several editions, and w many of the beautiful pictures describing passages of the sat more serenely on this mighty river; all was still, save languages. He also published fo Jewish and Christian histories sadly mutilated by rude and the howling jackal's mournful cry. The restlessness of one of which, entitled Institutim vulgar silver-washed and tin crucifixes being nailed on to the sleeperalone e seen by some flickering lamp, omened cated to Queen Anne of Engle the canvas : sometimes a gay, trumpery coronet of base that something unusual was brooding in the midnight there can be little doubt, is genui metal disfigures the otherwise lovely face of the Madre di skies, as, with parched and open lips, he heavily breathed was well known among the beauv Dio. A curious picture ornaments one of their hospitals, by Morealis-Death seat e d on th e s k e l e ton of a horse, the exhausted and now uns a ti s fyi ng a i r . F ur th er warning C our t . Sh e was accounted awo priests, queens, and inst kings, there was none, till the el emen t s c o mmence d t h e i r f ear- w i t, an d was t h e friend and assn out his darts aea 0 beauteous maidens. ful conflict, and h eaven ' s ar till ery b urst l ou d and awful on Ni non. Arago asserts that De C "0, Mors! the ear. " The blackening sky like a thick ceiling stood ;" cover the power' of steam ; any a ' Quam amara est bolts of livid fi re s p rung f rom t hi s c l ou d y rampart, and di gester, ' was an inventor, aceo • Memoria tua ?" ran along the ground, dragging their chariots of thunder than Englishmen. If De I'Orme One huge wax candle, more than a foot in circumference, in their train, and sweeping all before them. The atmos- tester's story of the cover of thp bad an image of Christ fastened to it; and frequently phere, now still more rarefied by the lightning, and scarce up the chimney is indeed blown young married people, if anything ails the darling first- fit to support life, stood aloof, like the Red Sea of old, on sidered as a romance. We Engli born, bring the child, and a couple of wax candles ! to the right hand and on the left, ready to pour down at the to believe what the Marquis has d compensate for the cure and the blessing ! One monas- appointed signal : and on it came—a mighty, rushing and that his assurance may be reli tery was very elaborately ornamented : it was dated wind. In a moment every boat was driven from the not to set down . any other inc meecceit. In one of the many beautiful churches of Pa- shore, and dashed one against another, into the midst of moreover, that "if he had, in an lermo you may see a strange admixture of the mythologi- the now foaming Ganges. The roar of the hurricane; to nominate likewise the inventor cal figures of centaurs and satyrs, with Christian miracles ! the wild and savage yells of the native boatmen—their The confessionals at Palermo are more open than at Rome loud imprecations and frantic gestures ; the open jaws DREADFUL OCCURRENCI or Naples ; and the nuns at these, and the skreens, are and fierce eyeballs of the alligators, as they prowled around SUFFOCATION OF ' interesting. In that delicious climate, how well the for the expected prey ; and all rendered vivid by the flash- , •. ~. . .. _ . _ Tutint - inc7z ~,.. ..,., , ,,,..-,-,rl t 'V' a the r —On Satu I the other a :ceptior that tile your t of the famil Wilsotrleft hi on of proeeec intent oily wpr but it% lazuli, an it that 1 imson velvet : t Yu and later. 1 while so c Lbic, oral i the village al Ind the old ca my-one feet t it—is, to s about the AAC. J ?. ROBOAM IRLAND. Deo et Vi back to tt to join in ti te firing of can vater, t lay, Wm 7oupte of One wist , n a carte in N , n two TA accused of st( wen boy be rely extinct encumt day to state, in a co- r4 7 ed, the lid ed, is secured on the outside by an staple, closed on them. In falling, afortunately happened, fixed into )n their rails ti boy was found the lid did not fit )ther parts and to the limited supply of air which had Seen admitted through this crevice is to be attributed his )reservation. They had endeavoured to support each )ther's courage as well as they could in their dismal dun- ExcisE 0 captured by the ment of one hal your obedient geon : and before giving up hope, one of them broke the blade of a penknife in the attempt to make an opening in the side of the chest. After they had exhausted themselves by unavailing shouts and cries, which were not heard on earth, they all joined in prayer to the hearer and answerer of prayer._ This is the last circumstance which the sur- ng an exa man wa Philipy y hour, ved us to a journalist, in calling the attention of the public to the recent desecration of the Sabbath by one who should have set a better example, to her subjects.," It is not thus old George 111. would have acted. I cou ld no t help remat ing that c six.bottl at the wharf in London, for .ecfed to I am, m viving sufferer recollects he soon afterwards became insensible. To account for no noise being heard, or no one being within call, it may be mentioned that the wood yard in which the stable is situated is locked up early on the Saturday afternoon, and is not again entered till Mon- enteral ~~115 'titan)). The Times, the Economist, the Weekly Chronicle, the Pe Northern Star, the Lancet, and some other periodicals, are now represented in Parliament. ,th At Worcester, on Tuesday, a young girl named Jane yens cu ble to I hair ON in 16J/, joy wholly i m its i THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE STEAM-ENGINE , (Frans Sir john Barrow's Autobiography.) The first discoverer, as we Englishmen deem him to be, of the power of steam for moving weights, lifting water, &c., as well as of its locomotive power, has, in later times, been a subject of doubt and dispute. Not only has the story of the Marquis of Worcester, as told by himself, been called in question, but the French, even before his time, and M. Arago in our time, have claimed the discovery for another, one Salomon de Cans, a cele brated engineer in the time of Lous XIII., to whom he dedicated a book, published in 1615, entitled, An Ac count of Moving Forces, with various Machines as well for Use as for Pleasure. This work is undoubtedly prior, by nearly half a century, to Worcester's Century of In ventions, which was not published till 1663. This would prove nothing against the Marquis's discovery unless am among his " moving ny ign ins Int the charge of the Marquis having learnt his invention from De Caus himself is curious, and, if decides the question against In an amusing French work, La France Historique, B(c., par Henri Berthoud , interestingerthoud, I find a very curio u s an d _ _ the Marquis de Cinq-Mars, in which sl. `' I have done the honours of Paris to your English lord, the Marquis of Worcester. I have led him, or, rather, he has led me, from one curiosity to another; always. making choice of the most sad and the most serious, speaking little, and listening with marked attten tion. ae• says, " We went to Becetre, where he pretends. to have dis covered in a madman a man of genius. Had he not been raving, I verily believe your Marquis would have '-ed his liberty to t-' ' -ndon. In crossing the t w - dead than alive .. observed, on the other side of a strong bar rier, an ugly face, screaming out, `I am not mad I have made a discovery that would enrich the country that would carry it into effect.' 'And what is his discovery?' I asked the keeper. Ah Fr said he, ' you would' never _Less :it is the vapour of boiling water. His name,' continued he, 'is Solomon de Caus. He came from Nor mandy, four years . ago, to pres2nt a memorial to the king of the wonderful effect of steam for turning machinery, driving carriages, and a thousand other wonderful things :: but the cardinal drove him away without listening to him. From that time he- pursued the cardinal wherever he went, so that lie ordered him to be- shut up in the Becetre as a madman, where he has been three years and a-half. He has written a book on his wonderful discovery, which I have here.' Lord Worcester is quite ravished with it ; and, after reading a few pages, ' This person,' said he, ' is no madman, and in my country, instead of shutting him up, they would heap riches r ""P tie was taken to him turned sorrowful and pensive. 'At present,' he said, he is very mad. Misfortune and captivity have for ever es trancr'ed his reason. -You have ma d e hi m ma d ; b u t w h en you threw him into this prison, you there buried the greatest genius of your agE From this time, it is said, the Marquis of Worcester never ceased talking of Saloman de Caus, and well he might talk and think of this poor maniac, if the story be true. The writer of the letter, the person it is written to, and the genius of whom it treats, were all well known characters of the time. De Caus was a distinguished -gineer and architect, is known to have been the author several ingenious works ; one of them is Les Raisons de Forces Mouvantes, Brc., above mentioned, which went through several editions, and was published in several He also published four or five other works, ne of which, entitled Institution Harmonique, he dedi ted to Queen Anne of England. The above letter, is well known among the beaux esprits of Paris and the She was accounted a woman of great talent for and was the friend and associate of the celebrated Arago asserts that De Caus was the first to dis cover the power of steam ; any one, even Papin, with his was an inventor, according to Arago, rather Ilishmen. If De l'Orme's story be true, Wor tory of the cover of thp cooking-pot being blown ...ney is indeed blown up, and must be con- Al as a romance. We English, however, are inclined Jelieve what the Marquis has declared to be the fact ; I that his assurance may be relied on, that " he desired to - down any other men's inventions ;" and, , acted on them AT GLASGOISN TWO B( Mail of Tuesday details a tr t-rending c James Wil As the rtain if the ru which is attacheCl 6 the wood-yard, for purpose of procuring some provender for the animal, which had, it appears, been out in a park from the Saturday The provend feet long and about thr The Duke of Newcastle, and the clergy and gentry re siding in the vicinity of Worksop, have formed them selves into a society to suppress prize-fighting, as that neighbourhood has lately become the daily theatre o which pugilistic encounters have been decided. On Monday, two children, one four, the other two years of age, who had been left in the house alone a few minutes by their mother, a poor woman, in the Gallogate, Glasgow, wen?, found burning, on her return, and died the same evening. On Wednesday, Miss Marianne Hannah Enock, an adult, was baptized publicly in Leominster Church, by the Rev. Charle 3 'Walter Robinson, A.M., curate. This young, lady had been a disciple of the Society of Friends istence in the w LONGS name of 11 up to the period o A DELICATE SUIT IN CHANCE the long robe are likely to be engaged - in a case, in the The gentlemen' of ianal will be strikingly deve loped, and the infallit Adiertiser .1i ty of a meeting of the inhabitants of that place to agree on an address to Sir R. Peel, to be presented to the right hon. Baronet on his passing through the town on his ensuing (his first public) visit to the county of Durham as the guest of the Marquis of Londonderry. One of the houses which failed last week made eighty thousand pounds, at the commencement of the season, by their successful dealings in Indian corn ! All this has been lost, and their capital besides, by an unfortunate miscalculation of the fluctuations of the market, and the state of the weather. THE MA} lane at 525. per about two months ago- s.—Wheat may now be bought at Marl luarter, scarcely one-halt' the price it was uctuation without :parallel in ss. per bushel At the Central Criminal Court, on Monday,John King, 44, formerly an under librarian in the British Museum, was tried for sending:a letter to Miss Lynn, a literary lady, threatening to accuse• her of disgraceful' actions: He was found guilty, and sentenced to seven years' transporta- The soi-disant nephew of the Duke of Wellington, " Eilam," has again figured in the newspapers. He sum- moned Esther de Villars to the BloomsbUr; County Court, for the sum of £l5 money lent; but, failing to make h appearance, the noble youth has been found liable i in costs, including £1 to the lady for her attendance Mr. Richards, one Of the highly-talented troupe of artistes, styled the Collins family, has been drowned at Scarhoro'. He swam out to a considerable distance, and, on returning, it is supposed,• he found the resistance of the ebbing time more powerful than he anticipated, and, be coming alarmed, lost his strength, and sunk. A WISE RESOLVE.—Sir JOhn Guest. Bart.. intemiS_ it hall at Merthyr, and £5O for a new clock for the place in that town, instead of spending money in dinners balls, &c., as is usually the case on the return of member: taParliaMent Such is the appearance of the orchards at present in the South of Devon, that prime old cider is selling at 20s. per hogshead. It is fully expected that new cider wiil be sold at 15s. per hogshead. The apples are growing fast, and the crop promises to be both excellent and abundant.— Exeter Gazette. RATE OF DISCOUNT.—On Thursday, many parties en tertained a strong expectation that a reduction would be made in the rate of discount by the Bank of England, but this did not take place. It was, however, understood that advances are contemplated to,be made within a short time upon bills and securities at five per cent. The governor of the Bank of England, has been, as a matter of course, succeeded by Mr. Morris, the deputy- governor ; but, as yet, no appoi n t men t h a s been made of a successor to Mr. Morris ; and some considerable diffi cuty has arisen in inducing any of the directors, imme diately in succession, to accept the office. A few days since, as some workmen were engaged in pulling down an old neglected chimney, in_some premises at Stockton, they were astonished at discovering a swarm of bees, by which they were vigorously assailed ; but they were amply compensated for the attack in the I tity of honey which eventually fell to their lot. Edwin Darwin, a young man of most respec nections in Birmingham, has been committed for trial a the next Warwick Assizes, charged with manufactu •ge quan- had - sent off nine cases of the coin proceeding with rapidity, i a close by the middle of Sep The wt. most propitioii; age, livit I threa w boy thinking she had gone to put !cution, tried to put an end. to his ex mentioned. :There i n the village of Elton )orn at Cc es from fight lasted nearly was de• Is, when kdwar t the fight were totally Ilse g jeweller, attempted to cross at Challow Marsh, when the .d over him were found in the On Wednesday afternoon e quiet neighbourhood of gentleman, supposed to ;d - by several labourers The men, suspecting hi ed, on reaching the drew out of his pockets two head, fell backwards into the river. The body was recovered shortly afterwards, but life was found to be quite extinct A LADY Sr ment of Thur of the river, in connection with the settle count, it was understood on Wed ly of title, long notorious as a lefaulter to some amount ; be however, the matter was said le gambling of married women ?nee on the English Stock Ex is regards tl No 1d prow ,se of basin to have is payable on ginger wine, of which the lady was not awa Her friend in London petitioned the commissioners, a said that it was in ignorance of any duty on ginger wined the same was sent, and prayed that the 1 might be restored. The foil from the board in London 1847.—Madame,—Th ine caught I your letter requesting wing is the off Excise Office. ! the restoration of with your request; and t the seizure in question to r, the ( he whir I blini t their exertions to pr Henry Ang. 31,1847, WRITING UPON NEWSPAPERS.—An opinion Las gone AN UNFORTUNATE HEDGEHOG.—A gentleman in this abroad, that, by a recent act of parliament, marks or neighbourhood had a tame hedgehog in his garden which / names may be written upon newspapers without subject- in seeking his food, was at the same time a promoter of ing them to postage. This, however, is a mistake ; the horticulture, by destroying many noxious insects. One day old law in this respect is still in force, and no mark or lately he unluckily went near a hive of bees, and a num writing of any kind is allowed, either upon the paper or ber of them attacked him with great fury ; he defended cover, except the name and address of the person to whom himself by standing on his hind feet, and striking with it is sent. his fore paws. Finding, however, that the bees were get , FEMALE HEROISM. —The Spectator calls attention to ting the best of it, he coiled himself up in his bristly ar the heroism lately exhibited by the sisters Martha and mour, but in doing so, enclosed some of his enemies, who Margaret Llewellyn, as not less worthy of notice than stung him severely. He then unroll e d hi mse lf; an d re that exhibited by G race D ar li ng. D ur i ng a storm off newel the fight for some time, but eventually retreated the coast of Fishguard, several vessels were driven ashore. I into a bush. Next morning the poor h e d ge h og was f ound One was in view. Th e b oatmen ranged to nut . .7.._a _, • them, anc • these animals can resist poison, they are n proof a, throw a rope to the°st;:a-nied-;11 y which they were of ti narting. sting iom the I umane Nixie iff onl On Thursday, as a man [ay eve= usual num T of. persons were attracted to Cremorn, tempted to pull ith his teeth_ sole through the meshes of en the fish darted into his less the ascent of two mouth and before assisiam, e Coronati on b a ll oons —th e one directed I f t o s r - f. i s e e a . d It went throtigh the mouth into th e laryn.,,. Charles Green, and the other by his in the gullet, and the fins being extended trans- The affair was called an aerial I fixed it in that situation. The man became totally flyer_ Victoria and ti by the veteran A brother, Mr. H. ( )ailixms, v he was a loons travelled the term was appropriate. The win(' s .___ aid was sent for (a distance blowing very fresh from the north-east at the time of the of four miles), but when! the medical man arrived, he ascent, seven o'clock, and the machines were carried found life totally extinct, and declined operating to re through the air in the direction of Wimbledon Common; move the fish, judging it necessary not to interfere before with PART extraoi IDGE DEFORE nary speed', the Victoria taVl4E.king th ANTIe lea w d rru_ 'Ph n inspec 1 tion -e had been made by th e coroner an d jury. ,-. -.14.1. le attempts of "I...dical 1 navailin. , n to withdraw OUT A C tridzes ERTIFICATE.—On. Monday week, a covey of par- confirm( 'ere enjoying themselves in basking in the sunshine, viclual w ancaster and Preston Railway close to the iree fingers, and it irs. The ill-fated indi young man, and has left a wife and three for many when a train cam for the p, and, before the I widow wa,•aa, a.♦ waaaa.o ualt; A/111.1. was Killen dead, and a another, no doubt, mortally injured, although it contrived ti to get into an adjacent crop of uncut oats, and-so escaped it being secured. It is also somewhat remarkable - that, at a I h later part of the day, and nearly at; the exact spot, the same, or another covey, had actually to be flushed off the line by one of the workmen employed upon i CHB BRUTE I . — An instance of animal manity, unequalled in our remembrance, e our door lately. An unfortunate dog, sport for some fools, had a pan tied to sent off on his travels towards Galt. He ge utterly exhausted, and lay down before il, and v DEATH OF GENERAL SIR GEORGE CocKuuniv.—This renowned veteran, but rather eccentric politician, died on _ tne steps or ivir. t oung . s tavern, eyeing most anxiously the horrid annoyance hung behind him, but unable to move a step further to rid himself of the torment. Ann dog, a Scotch colly, came up at the same time, and seeing nf his Cron- "'"1 - —,u himself gen tly d own b es id e ~ . The deceased was the author of several pamphlets of a him, and, gaining' his confidence by a f ew caresses, pro decidedly deistical char ac t er . li e h a d b een an ultra- ceded to gnaw the string by which the noisy appendage democrat until a few years ago, when he came round to was attached to his friend's tail, and, with about a quarter Peelism. Some dozen years since he got his coffin made, of an hour's exertion, severed the cord, and started to his and on the breastplate were engraved his military and legs, with the pan hanging from the string in his mouth, family , titles, with the words " Di e d d ay o f , and after a few joyful capers around his friend, departed 18—.' This remembrancer of the fate of all men Sir lon his travels in the highest glee at his suscess.—Edin- George kept in his bed- c h am b er , expose d to t h e view of burgh Chronicle. --ed. He wa s an exce ll ent ne i g hb our, b ut was A c T I 1 • - Saturday week it is enacted old and new wheat were exhibite j d, r and ifie v cii;posrtiOn party to whom it i evidently was to sell at l ower p r i ces than the previous week. shall he entitled to A good sample was disposed of by AT- " - len eral r. Lew' bushel, to M ,e from the party ing the letter; • and that the signature to it shall be idered sufficient evidence of the writer, unless the ---- e can be clearly proved to be a forgery. The effect clause will. be to render Mr. Ady li a bl e f or t h e • • lys sends xl sample was sho . h that tleman sear of his sellir being the corre them unpaid, the number refused by the parties to whom a addressed must be considerable. Perhaps the ngenuity of'the gentleman may assist him even yet in his they a an farmer was pointed out who ha ;d 16s. 3d. per bushel for hi 15.," yet actually sold off the paying diminish his 'cor: Just when t over i t brave and c ras of t plauded the Hall, A..Cro: the market. A very Dyer, of the Nnowl, v We did noti marking that identical wheat for STRANGE CAS spondent of the Times that in _,vatic Asylum, in Hampshire, tenant in the navy had been confined for twenty He was an incurable 'unatic, subject to violent ---rns. and rer Le Haslar Li paroxy blind. period of time called to ask after him , he v nted to hi aou ears to have had a ita ' ll.palsof " some sse f which per diem was applied to his own se rest was paid to his wife, ision for herself.: In twenty' she had ney are a ( linrdra How t Ich a r )e cond( _ „ MORE HEAVY FAH announced the stoppage of Mc firm of long standing and high respec______, misplaced confidence in th e i r f ore i gn correspondent... liabilities are stated at £145,000. The same paper of the following day made public the failure of Messrs. Alexander,. Dickson, and Co., of Belturbet, near Belfast, distillers and dealers in grain, and the liabilities are stated at £200,000. Some houses in London and Liverpool are creditors to a large amount of the latter firm. On Satur day we had announced the failure of Messrs. W. and J. Woodley, of London, corn-brokers, for £90,000, but it is understood that the assets will yield a considerable plus. A few months back Mr. Woodley was abot retire from business with an ample fortune, and th( sent difficulties of the firm are attributed to the ( stance of a party who was sent to America to chases having ex( Castellain and Co., ;. not ent attempt to furnish " valuable informz the postage of his letters will certainl Arnerican frigate, Macedonia, )rmerly conquered f s country, and now sent over sere with a it the tail of it n the Clyde. sunolv of provisions, was waiting arrived when the gut s about from the shoar in evt., - nding with the huzzas of. the multitudes, two seamen to board the American frigate, the one summit of the four-top-royal, andthe mast. Immediately a third • mast ; he too ran Lis. as- here re- .nded ti 1, on lg to early by Lincol I been c letter tl : It l The Hull. Packet lc - e - o - f 1 found 1 Durham C Luke Dennis."-111, _ ..,onicle notices 4. ture of a locust at Bishop Auckland as follows the nfternoon of Saturday last, as the ostler of ti t-lead Inn, Bishop Auckland, was sweeping f the inn, he found what he called a " great up he found to be a very fine locust, and is n session of Mr. Joseph Duff. It is supp , to this country in the egg or pupa stf , ' or by the importation of some afterwards come fr* THE 1 idous work is given t )sed to of the Rev ae front of fly," which following description y a correspondent of VARI mug of :hosen la pre curry, cc of Parliz ig aloud !pia of p y Cou Ire 24,000 pores in a i pear leaf. n the ruins of Nineveh that enamel wa: Imonly supposed. t appeared that in bad been already le to paint a board worth 1 ailway station, harply an le," exclaimed the ng the time on this line." rst instance that occurs of May 11, 1571, when one man, of small capacity to edges that he had given the and others of the borough for which he pounds to be returned member, and was ilium elected ; but for this offence the borough , the member was removed, and the officer 1 imprisoned.—Com. Journal, 1571. the as early a peech of M The Times, in commenting John Stuart, the eminent rriister and member for Newark, exposing ►nfusion, and contradictions in almost every ament now passed by the Legislature, and for the remedies he suggested, quotes as an ithy brevity in old days (before the march of intellect commenced) the following simple and beyond mistake intelligible Act, " Heeredes maritentur absque disparagatione." (Stat. 9th Hen. 111. chap. 6). One of equal intelligence, and beyond all legal quibble, exists against the desecration of the Lord's day in the reign of an early Scottish James, "If one man fisheth on the Sabbath day he shall be whipped." NATURAL GAS JETS.—A correspondent informs us that in the village of Wigmore, in Herefordshire, there are fields which may be, and two houses which really are, lit up with a natural gas. The vapour, with which the subjacent strata seems to be charged, is obtained in the following manner :—" A hole is made in the cellar of the house, or other locality, with an iron rod ; a hollow tube is then placed therein, fitted with a burner, similar to those used for ordinary gas lights, and immedi a t e l y on applying a flame to the jet a soft and brilliant light i s ob tained, which may be kept burning at pleasure. The gas is very pure, quite free from any offensive smell, and does not stain the ceilings, as is generally the case with the manufactured article. Besides lighting rooms, &c., it has been used for cooking ; and, indeed, seems capable of the same applications as prepared carburretted hydrogen. There are several fields in which the phenomenon exists, and children are seen boring holes, and setting the gas on fire for amusement. It is now about twelve months since the discovery was made ; and a great number of the curious have visited, and still continue to visit, the spot. Chambers's Journal. t,—a gr 4 aurchyari he moun, solemn ar and the 1 dead, yet our subje( strong lovi saints and J--and these were gene] •oup collected to hea d, seating themselves ids covered with fresl nd beautiful words, life ; he that helievetl shall he live !' " Bui ct, and feel that we martyrs of of Bible rem a mossy si , to listen the rest [e, though to tho, urrection selves further off from Heaven d -ecal the death-beds of little ch: tge, to whom those sweet hymns ;he night," and who are singin, nave an old hymn-book which wo is weight in gold ! so bright and .t we are ,r above e for the ts of the Hood to find our were then or those of ripe-r o be as " songs in in Heaven! We .e would not part with for are the recollec tions interwoven with its solemn - and sacred melodies. Neither must we forget to mention, in connexion with this part of our subject, the Prayer-book, which we once thought it such an honour to be permitted to carry, and looked upon with a loving reverence that years have had no power to abate. But the bright binding and the gilded leaves have become tarnished and ti-ne-stained—ay, and tear-stained—since then. The sweet voice is hushed that mingled with ours in prayer and psalm. God forgive us if we sometimes forgot to pray in listening to its gentle responses; for every Prayer-book has its fassociations. Leigh Hunt tells us, that his love of books is s o grea t, th a t he has " a fond custom of writing upon one in preference to a desk, although he begs to say, for dignity's sake, he has a desk !" and observes, with great truth, that " it is not at all necessary to love many books in order to love them much. How natural it was," writes he, "inC. L. to give a kiss to an old folio, as I once saw him do to Chapman's Homer." Yes, it was very natural ! And we have done the same thing ourselves before now—only not to Chapman's Homer. Petrarch died with his head rest ing on a book ; and many have envied him a death so much in unison with his poetical and romance-loving life. For ourselves, dearly as we like books, and romance too, for the matter of that, there is but one on which we desire to lean in such an hour; and, resting on its sweet pro mises of redeeming grace, so pass away in peace ! Book love is the spirit of hearth and homestead ! the great agent of civilisation and refinement. Its ministers are " a glo rious priesthood !"—its worshippers a countless multitude of all ages and countries. Here and there false teachers have risen up, and clouds of bewildering sophistry and error are ever darkening and sweeping over its clear he misphere; and it is for this reason that we would have all upon their guard lest they should be tempted to make shipwreck of this most sweet faith. " A blessing," writes Harriet Martineau, " upon all writers of voyages and tra vels !'' A blessing, say we, upon Book-love, and Book lovers, and Book-w r it ers , all over the world !—so that their aim be the good, the beautiful and the true ! p r esser's Magazine. , Steel was accide'ntally shot dead by heisWeetheart, whi] he was cleaning the touch-hole of a loaded gun with a pir A Norwich auctioneer advertises the slim of twenty seven inns, public-houses, and beer-shops in one day, at the Norfolk Hotel; Norwich. Miss Bonifase, of Shopwick, near Chichester, grown this year on her farm, from three grains of wl the extraordinary number of 106 ears or stems. John Thompson, convicted at the Cumberland Asl of the wilful murder of his wife by poison, was hange the City of Carlisle. on Rear-Admiral Phipps Ilornby has been app,,._ command in the Pacific, to succeed Sir George Seym, and will hoist his flag in the Asia, 84 guns, at Sheernc The organ factory, of Mr. J. Walker, N street, Tottenham court-road, London, was destroyed fire, the origin of which is unknown, on M on d a y morn i n , week. The total damage is estimated at nearly £20,000 The Yorkshireman. in a report of "ninon rare, men. o. 27, Frances- tioned that in 1722, Mrs. Aislbir, of Stildley, gave as a race prize, a teapot and canister, value £l2 ; and in 1724, a piece of plate, value £l5, women to be riders. A gold medal has been presented personally to Mr. Waghorn by the present Pope, in recognition of his efforts as a promoter of international intercourse. It is the first medal ever presented by a Pope to a Protestant. A public dinner will be given at Edinburgh, on the 14th of September, to the Earl of Dalhousie, prior to his lordship's departure for India. The Duke of Buccleuch will be in the chair. The sugar factory of Messrs. Craven and Lucas, of Wbitechapel, London, was partly destroyed by fire on Wednesday last. The loss to the proprietors is very A sculler's match for £lOO a side is to take place on the Thames, on the 20th of September, between Robert Coombes, the champion, and Robert Newell, who aspires to that distinction. At Nottingham, an old woman, named West, has been committed for trial, for murder, in procuring abortion by instruments, in a young woman, named Henson, who applied to her. A Durham paper mentions that on Tuesday week, a sermon was preached at Bishop Auckland, by a boy eleven years old, named Livingstone, who is said to have expounded his text with much eloquence. Pears are so plentiful this year that we on Monday last bought 44 (small ones, of course, for a penny ! There will be more perry and cider made this year than up to the present period was supposed. Last year there was no fruit to be had.—Hereford Journal. A correspondent of the Times complains that, during Lieutenant Munro's trial, the gallery was farmed ! At the commencement of the trial ss. was the price for a seat ; afterwards 2s. 6. The condemned cells and the exhibition of their inmates are to be farmed next. CONVERSION OF DIAMONDS INTO COKE. —At the meeting of the British Association, Dr. Farrady exhibited some diamonds which he had received from DumAs, which had, by the action of intense heat, been converte4 into coke, n, of t south, to tryJ by, midshipinan of m of his - duty as 'mate of court found the prisoner guilty, mged by the neck at the yard jesty's ships. This sentence, which )f the court to pass on the prisoner, d into effect, but will be commuted to ighment" (transportation for life, per as her Majesty may please to direct. TATAL FIGHT BETWEEN Two BOYS.—The case of the lad recently killed in a fight at sumed on Thursday, when the four men I and abetted were present. Evidence of and the case was adjourned. Mr. Blair, sur- THE LA who had the partic umed on Friday iid he made a post mortem examination of the body of the deceased, and was of the opinion that the ex citement produced by the fight, and the beer given to him, had produced congestion of the brain, resulting in death. The jury unanimously returned a verdict of man slaughter against Robert Auty, the survivor in the fight, and against Joseph Johnson, Joseph Cater,,William New son, and William Aiger; and the coroner issued his warrant for their committal to Newgate. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.-At a numerous and highly respectable meeting of the parishioners of East Stonehouse, near Plymouth, convened on Tuesday, Captain Toby, R.M., in the chair, for the purpose of giving expression to the general feeling of esteem and regard in which the Rev. T. L. Hill, M.A., late officiating minister of St. George's Chapel, Stonehouse, is held by his congregation and the inhabitants of the township, the following resolu tion was proposed by Mr. A. Narracott, seconded by Mr. May, and carried unanimously :—" That the amount of subscriptions (.£5O) be presented to the Rev. T. L. Hill, in a purse, accompanied with a testimonial on parchment, with a list of the subscribers." To be presented in their names by the chairman, treasurer, and secretary. The purse, which was very elegant, was worked and presented by Miss Boyle. TIIE BERKELEY QUARREL AGAIN.—Lord Fitzhardinge has addressed the Umes, in reply to its comments on his conduct. He says—" I thoroughly feel the propriety of the sentiment you have expressed respecting the spectacle of fraternal strife. The painful exhibition was not com menced by me, and has not been carried on by me, and these lines will close my part of the controversy—a con troversy into which I have been reluctantly led to protect myself." Mr. Grantley Berkeley has addressed the same paper in reply to the noble lord's former letter, and sub mits the following reply, which he received to his attempts at reconciliation :—` On reflection you must be aware that so soon after a defeat your proposal is premature ; if Four desire is sincere all steps must c o m e f rom you. rom one who has seen, and has been consulted on your , letter, and is a well wisher to both parties," W. Roivett and Co • PAINFUL SCENE.—On Tuesday last a somewhat inter esting scene occurred on the quay of the Humber-dock, in consequence of the arrival, from Quebec, of the chests, hammocks, and other personal•effects, of the crew of that ill-fated vessel the Cove, of this port, which w a s wrec k e d • unusually painful, from the circumstance tliai7; less than seven poor widows, all relatives of the deceased, were assembled to identify the very articles which they them selves had made up for the comfort of their partners in life ; and on the spot, too, where, only twelve months ago, they took their last farewell. Such a scene as' this can scarcely be described, and even among several hardy tars, who had braved many a storm, and had often witnessed the deaths of their comrades, its effect was very striking. It will be remembered that this vessel proceeded, some years ago, to Davis's Straits, commanded by Captain Ross, with Mr. Humphrey as sailing master, in search of the missing whalers, and very early in the month of Oc tober last she was wrecked upon Red Island. Eleven of the crew, eight men and three boys, took to the skiff, hoping to reach the shore, but have never been heard of since. The master, the cook, and the carpenter remained on board, and were saved. The ship with her stores were condemned and sold upon Red Island, but the chests, hammocks, &c., of the crew were left at Quebec, but have now been brought over in the Indus, by Messrs. R. and T. Gill, of this port, late owners of the Cove.—Hull Packet. AN ILL-FATED FAMILY.—One of the most cool blooded murders ever perpetrated in this neighbourhood, took place on the morning of Sunday last, at Langshaw Farm in Heaton ; Betty Pilkington, an aged and respect able female having been killed by her husband, Robert Pilking ton, an old man 56 years of age, with a bar of iron or poker, the particulars of which we give elsewhere. The history of his family is a most melancholy one, and causes amongst such of the inhabitants as are acquainted with it, horrifying thoughts. Pilkington's father, in the middle stage of life, was hung for stabbing a fellow -creature ; and not long after that melancholy event, which ought to have acted as a warning to the remaining branches of the family, his son—brother to the present monster in human shape—was transported for causing a man's death by kicking; and, to add to the catalogue, Orrell, who was hung for poisoning his children some years ago, was cousin merim to him. About three or four months ago, we h a d t o record a lamentable event which occurred at Dock coc k er , public house, on the boundary of Halliwell and Heat on , s on e e n r termin ated recovered,i fo n atb theu ed t in which a man named Kershaw had been st ruc k on t h e head with a fi re poker, by John Pilkin g t on, son of the present homicide,seunnt under sentenced ree an d tao andaberration r naet which mono months' tf a n d s inte llect) imprisonment p w nigh t his existence. Kershaw, howev er , ( a l though at times labouring J o hn Pilkingtou was committ e d f or trial at the assizes, and w as offence. He had been out upon b ail previous to trial, and on his departure left hi s mother •in charge of tlte farm, which was the scene of th e present murder. srattonea in a boat in the middle of the Menai Straits, a few hundred yards distant from the new bridge on the south side, and suppose it finished, we shall see a wonder of the world of this kind ; first, there is the r rising out of the water fo after which the bridge I on the Britannia Rock, tamed. This rock can be seen The - breadth of this pier is 62 at low water feet by 53 ae are 7 t feet in breadth and deepness,l , and they rise, stone upon stone. until the pier is 230 feete high. At the distance of 460 feet on each side of this: centre pier there rise, near the water's edge, two other piers of the same gigantic breadth and height ; while on each side of these two piers, at the distance of 250 feet, there rise two walls. Continuing outwards, the wall on our right hand, on the Carnarvon shore, does not extend its ponderous bulk far back, for the land is high and hold, and the railway comes along its elevated brow, and at once lays hold of the bridge. But on our left hand, which is the Anglesea shore, the wall is the forehead and end of a mighty embankment on which the railway is raised to the level of the bridge. There, then, are the four spaces be fore us, across which, in the iron tubes, the railway is laid, namely, two spaces oft each side of the centre pier of 460 feet each (let the reader measure 460 feet. on a street or on a road, and he will wonder at the vastness of this structure ;) and two more spaces of 250 feet respectively, at each end. The tubes are eight in number, each of them 30 feet on the exterior side, and 27 'nigh in the in-. terior. Each is 14 feet wide, and they are laid in couples parallel to each other. In the whole, with the breadth of the piers and the landward buildings, the length of the bridge is one-third of a mile. In height the three piers. are, as already said, 230 feet. Measuring from low water mark to the bottom of the tubes, the height is 130. feet, the tubes being 30 feet on the side, and the pier 70 feet above the upper surface. As ornaments to the two walls which rise upon each shore, are four lions, two at each end of the bridge, The lions contain about 8,000 cubic feet of stone. They lie couched, and yet the height of each is 12 feet, the greatest breadth across the body is 9 feet, the length 25 feet, the breadth of each paw 2 feet 4 inches. The tubes are made of plates of iron of various thicknesses, riveted together. The iron increases in thickness as we proceed towards the centre. The roofs of the tubes are formed of cells, and also the floors. These cells are formed of iron plates set on edge, the cells of the roof being within a fraction of one foot nine inches square, and those of the floor being one foot nine inches wide, and two feet three inches deep. The rails on which the trains run are laid on these cells of the floor. The flat bottom, the two upright sides, and the flat roof of each tube are formed of plates, the thinnest of which is a quarter of an inch, and the thickest three quarters of an inch. The weight of each of the four long tubes will be about 1,300 tons ' • the weight of each of the four sh or t ones a b out 600 tons. In the whole there will be at least 7,600 tons of iron used. The masonry was contracted for by J. Nowell and Ca, at £130,000; but from alterations in the plans it will cost £200,000. They expect to finish the masonry by August : 1848. It will CoAtain 1,500,000 cubic feet of stone, Jy 3 anc 4 4 -arty' Pt. 4 14 r etiv oh, i 41tv 440., I,',tersl 4 Iti`lit)gju kitry ' bad, aod Apt t on _ ktod J ose Cad (.1)11,44 " 1,1 k i ,, 4 fat bust C: I Y 1 , ,, 4 171 Ail'er,