The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

i,ttrrature. POETRY SUMMER LONGINGS. (From the Dublin Unitersitg Maga Las mananas floridas De Abril y Mayo II my hear With the WOO, y heart is sick with I ling for the Alay— - To the ioung And the tit heart is sick ivith longing, g for the May. Ah ! my Heart is sore with si, All my heart is r Throubing for t Throbbing f Or the water Where in Glide tl - Ah I my I billows, away. eart is throbl Waiting sad. d g for the May Man is ever weary, weary, Waiting for the May ! MAY e cometh, she cometh! we have called her long. and.Natur and soon fill'd with she cometh ! with welcomings meet, and be ready her coming to greet! o bath a 1 on every side ?.'ll be ready, with harmony s lice to welcome, her coming 1 )u art come, thou art come ! my beautiful May ! , nrned in thy brightest array; y voice through the grove, ar thy soft, si come, in thy grand test display, — ]come, my beautiful May NOTICES .etch of the History of the House of Stanley and the [louse of Sefton, by David Ross of the Liverpool London : W. S. Orr and Co., Paternoster- Chronicle. The little work before us 1 is even Die wife ( Seilo House and ( a work of ti send word Punch ex} :oteil, 1 ndian, CHEAP POUL mg in v plea _ Wales, i travelli laisition, as VARII not kno - ' trees, an word of We of the pocket THE Exiti east. or to tt theMselves, ti far more supp up from r gh not posu the histor to Lincashire from the connexion of the two interest seventh Earl of Stanley le la fremouille, is story which ich tend to iobility of the hed sc Cooper, of Loud viz., as En a three-an .asked of a r mation of the miety of in- rson who stole it will .—Leicester Journal. as " the citizen of the h, French, n itinerant it of fowls. THIRTEEN to take Yench. as appear ouis Philippe wa Cont of P Civil List ,e Tuillerie His life t 1830. And 1 the dar and tr a cold in t :ainbleau, a total of :eed each t companion, and ;hoes, a n can enjo. things that the t, wait in doors id keep his feet lot in the The three r a man all over Wales without ham; —that of the arms, that of the eyes, t -747nnkli•nrirl S OF S .h of t Many of ‘ria, and the ;fling them a In this c ondition t and ,tes, as :ended f the poi 1 the peasant Hence it totally 101 ppearance. These I hazel trees, The water-pl bounded tly from th .tly from th throu ide, w Id be e f small size luarryy h a body of water a s no sl Long be co ,t to reclaim th haps the precedent has (. 1 aware of the car this instance, but we We rem( ter island mber all tha and remem hr results s also no proffered to . our landed proprietors, in the shape of easy loans, such as did not formerly exist; and to all these works of recla mation and improvement we give a hearty God speed !-- )man, T.--An a, and 3ntrol or v I SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Eleven o'clock THE STATE PROSECUTIONS. I COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, DUBLIN ~.. __ • The Court was much crowded, as Mr. O'Brien had to 1 appear in person, when charged with the information by the Attorney-General; and it was I appear by attorne Both Mr. Mitchell and Mr. O'Brien appeared. On Ir. O'Brien being charged with the indictment filed against him he pleaded not Sir C. O'boghlen, on the part of Mr. Mitchell, applied that he might be at liberty to appear by attorney, but on failing to make out any case, the application was refused, and Mr. Mitchell has again put in a dilatory plea in abatement, on the ground that an indictment has been found against him for the same offence as that for which the Attorney-General has proceeded by ex officio infor- and has been a the indictments should have been quashed, instead of having nolle prosequi entered upon them, as has been done by the law officers. Mr. Mitchell has been required to attend this day, when the Attorney-General will state the course he means to adopt. SMITII O'BRIEN AND EIS THREE COPITRIOTS MOBBED. las resigned the representation of the county of Limerick. The following are the reasons : —On Saturday, he and Messrs. Meagher and Mitchell were entertained at a soiree in Limerick. The Old Ire landers were determined to oppose them, and, in conse quence, a dreadful riot took place. The windows and doors of the building where they were assembled were de- molished, stones and missiles were hurled in throng] the broken window sashes, shots were fired by the confederates, who in self-defence, were obliged to tear up the seats and forms to protect themselves- Mr. Mitchell was burned outside the doors was frightful. Smith O'Brien received a cut on the head, and a severe contusion on his side, one of his ribs —an effigy of The scene being said to be broken persPd by the police and military had withdrawn, the mob broke all the cups, saucers plate, benches, and ornamental festooninv The rioters were at last dis- After the troops The mob would have murdered Meagher and Mitchell but for the police. When Mr. O'Brien appeared at the Queen's Bench yesterday, his head was bound up with straps and ell and Meagher were protected home by plasters tne mayor, the latter naying a drawn dagger in his hand to protect himself ; they were booted and hissed, and pelted the whole way to the hotel. Mr. Meagher was smuggled out of Limerick on Sunday At a Privy Council, held in D determined to proclaim the county of the city of Lime rick under the Crime and Outrage Act, and the procla • mafirrn wag noonrrlinerlyr i00r.e...1 ID. al- law, all persons not duly qualified must deliver up their arm 3 w t in nine days. Another proelaination was also issued, warning the people against taking part in the proposed Convention of 300 delegates, and also against the formation of a National Guard. HORSE-STEALING CASE that ? Mr. Rushton, vest( g rnan's character is a sufficient refeas BRINGING THE CASE HOMI de France —We read in the Gazette ys ago a wag meeting a peasant, ho was on his way to Bordeaux on business, said to him, ___ They are about to divide all i you had better go to the mayor for your share? The peas a division of the —, which joins head of the list.' " You ld then sal% meadow, and also your garden with it.' My garden ! my garden !' said the peasant in a fury, ' I will go and get my musket ;' and he set to watching his garden day and night; There is a host of persons like this peasant ; they wish to share the property of others an( FATAL ACTION OF CHLOROFORM.—The action of chloroform inhalation on the medulla oblongato has only been unequivocally displayed in` animals - poisoned with it by the rapidity and feebleness of the respirations, and by its effects on the heart's actions. It is in this way that the heart's movements, in the same manner as occurred in the experiments of Le Galloisand Wilson Philip. In all gorged with venous blOod a fact quite in accordance with this explanation. The action of chloroform inhalation on the different portion:, of the nevous system, namely the brain, spinal chord, and medulla oblongata, is, in many cases, subject to the control of the medical practitioner, and may each, in its turn, be made available for useful or injurious purposes. Some persons are much more easily affected by it than others ; and hence its proper adminis tration can only be fully carried out by such as are ac quainted with its physiological action. Its use by th public as a means of amusement, excitement, or stupefac faction, ought to be strictly prohibited.—Dr. H. Bennett's Edinburgh Monthly Journal. shops are respectable enough ; but there is neither the fatted ox, nor the well-fed wholesomely pastured sheep, to produce the jolly sirloin of old England, or the elegant saddle and venison-like haunch we can command in a small post-town in our favoured country. I saw some on clean w hanging ribs or legs to tempt healthy appe onstitute one plain substantial dish. The legs re invariably cut out with the tail depending ./ • or brisket, conveying by turns the whole liscence of cold round and cauliflower pickles, fin its varied pre here was no spectacle of the kind. The meat I uncomfortably, grotesque is disjointei plorably le butchers Outline; even c doomsday book inferior ife They cut a entitle it a laped, and de- lave no more idea of the c, than they have of our gibbous lump from any . . " clods and t a blow or two with the chopper, and iftik." It contr bulk 'On being tin or gridiron, b ny a shifting, is indented, and full of little cavities, into which the infatuated cook pours oil, or butter melted into an oil, and a spoonful or two of shredded parsley ; and this " horror" is served hot, selon lei regles, tough as a pelican's leg, greasy as a tallow tub, „ is fat, sans gravy, or Harvey sauce, sans horseradish, is shalott or oysters, of any of those little relishing adjuncts which on our tables requite the teeth for occa: tionally extra labour and the outlay of tenpence on each pound of bcefsteak.—Musgrave's Parson, Pen, and Pen- BRITAIIi ys Ma- Less it is lame d of th e majority of the )rded another to icnal Guari have wa- le government would not have been intimidated; t revolution would have been averted ; public - the savings' bank, the place of deposit public funds, the investment of the mid- :edit preserved 3f the poor—the Ile classes—savid from destruction. When we contem plate the dreadful monetary crisis which has been brought Dn in France by the revolution ; when we behold the Bank of France suspending payments, and all the chief banks of the metropolis rendered bankrupt by the shock ; 9 flying from its me i° stalking through ith horror, ness at the es in this ts of the The un- Diso - n of D. F. M. C you doing here the land of the rich, - 1 and put down your n ` Monsieur leMaire, as there is to b land, I wish to ha my garden. Put down my name a the meadow of M Tfiemayor turned ov placed in a frying wisting movement, of Glas that al to make that which her con id destitution in crowns nd impressed with a deep, which h editions to involve us in similar calamities. m,—the cheap defence of übsists amongst us. T 1 bought 1( still, tha infidelity has not destroyed the m . - - 1 bond s of society— )t crushed the insti- , ne of revolution I ions of freedom amongst us. There are hearts to love sir country —arms to defend their Queen—not less ong our civil than our military defenders. The pillage nn the first outbreak of the disturbances there. their speedy suppression by the energy has not been lost on th e emp i re. It is n "sand constables came forwari abitant twenty the in vain that to be enrolled in one day in GI society, and the whol Iy enda nd eleven thousand in Munches- classes virtuous part of the lower. tions in both, Great Britain may be *der or momentary alarm, but it can agered, or undergo that worst of vvolution. Nor will she, with such be less prepared to assert the ghould circumstances render 'he has no internal reforms arv. S !ve peaceably, by the means Her giant strength slum of war, in the noble words on one of those stupendous _ on their shadows in perfect still- Aess,—how soon, upon any call of patriotism, or of ne cessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion—how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage—how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder !"—how soon would the flag of Waterloo again be unfurled to the breeze !—Blackwood's Magazine. of Mr. Canning., masses, now repo tream- THE LIVERPOOL ST/01111D, i THE CONTENTED AND THE COMPLAINERS, (From the London Tzmes.) How many of the men who paraded down Whitehall with flags emblematical of " Death or Liberty " periodi cally sell that Liberty to the highest bidder? How many regard their vote as a thing to be sold ? Again, is it that bugbear the oppressiveness of capital ? Talk with the workmen—ask them separately what they think of the scheme of Communism—the majority will, despite Mr. Owen and M. Blanqui, reply, that the partnership scheme is a humbug, and the division of property a robbery. What is it, then ? The property qualification ? Consti tutional writers allow that the admission of some intelli- It working men into parliament is in harmopywit , h o t t l h le e spirit o state. Destitution, and would be beneficid This, then, is at least worth considering. But this is only one of the many things insisted on. What is that that prompts other complaints, so violent, anti other de- sires, so various ? In solving this problem we must fall back upon our every day experience. Who are the men that complain ? What are their social conditions ! Take two men, John Higgins and Jem Stubbics. Higgins works with a great _ . contractor near town named Jones. Stubbins is lourney man to an upholsterer named Tibbs. Higgins came up from the country, having lost his father and mother. new father or ton, and never Huggins's employer is a man who began in the same condition as himself, and has worked his way up. Stubbins's has done the same; but there the similarity ends. Higgins's master is kind, courteous, and genial ; Stubbins's is hard, surly, and—as his men phrase it— " rayt her high." The former looke after his men, has built them cottages, which he lets at a just rent, and a school for their children ; he has also set a little savings bank on foot, in which they deposit their earnings. His wife gives tea-parties to the women, and looks after the school. The other never took a moment's interest in his labourers, except when he wanted to canvass them for his own Radical candidate, and Mrs. Tibs—a ci-divant lady's maid—is very fine and grand. Higgins's fellow workmen are devoted to their employer; Stubbins's hate theirs. The consequences are what might be supposed. Stubbins and Co. are a dirty, discontented set; dissolute in their habits, violent in their language, and irrational in their opinions ;—Huggins's for the most part, intelligent, in dustrious, prudent, and saving. When there is a depres sion in trade, the former strike, the latter fall back upon their earnings- When there's a row, the one class joinin the procession, the other keep the peace. On the me morable 10th, the one were at Kennington Common; the other were sworn in as special constables. When Mrs. Tibbs's bodoir caught fire, all Tibbs' men laughed at the fun • when Mrs. Jones's conservatory was in the same predicament, all Jones's men rushed to the rescue. Jones's men are in the main content ; Tibbs's think they are per sonally injured, because they don't sit in parliament, and pay themselves for the trouble. They hate the Throne, they hate the church, they hate the aristocracy • but they hate with a ten times bitterer hatred the class of employ ers, whom they believe to be men without hearts, with out sympathy ; living on their labour, and thriving on their wretchedness. Jones's men hate no order of society, because the only superior order they know of they find friendly, genial, and sympathetic. Indeed, it is by means as symple and ordinary as these teat the welfare of society is cemented. Half the griev ances of any one man, and more than half the grievances of any one class, are sentimental ones. The Higginses and the Stubbinses are each a numerous body. _Were all masters as indifferent and as hau mother ghty as Tibbs, all artizans would be as dissolute and as violent as Stubbins ; but were all masters as kind and thoughtful as Jones, all mechanics would be orderly, peaceful, and well-disposed. It is not merely by legislative enactments or grand projects that poverty is conciliated and discontent appeased, but by the gentle influence of unpretending good offices, which permeates one rank after another, consolidating all into harmony unity, and mutual dependence. CHEAP DISCOUNTS.—Not long since, pending cheap discounts, I was standing in Brunswick-street, when a certain Mr. came up, and, addressing the party with whom I was conversing, said, " Please, , lend me Bs. 6d. to buy a stamp." The borrower was one who ought not to have thought of such a thing as drawing a bill, and my friend declined lending the Bs. 6d. ; but in less - than twenty minutes, the would-be borrower calm again to me, and said, " Look here l" (taking off his hat, the crown of which was full of bank notes, hundreds of pounds, in fifties, twenties, tens, and fives,) " see what the. Bs. 6d. has produced me." Such was cheap discount in Liverpool, not yet twelve months gone by ! Indeed any man, tearing a slip off his shirt lap, and scratching it with a pen into the shape of a bill, could, during the time of low discount. get what sum he pleased ! Is it any wonder, then, that cheap discounts should generate undue expansion? Is it any wonder that commerce should be near avnandad and that nanipa ahnnid rnmc.. SIVP and will • . . come ? On my plan, such things cannot occur, as no currency can be obtained but after full value has first been paid for it ! The placing the monetary system of this great country in order is beneath . (query, above) the occupied with-keeping their places—and faction. I eould amplify, but refrain !—Pamphlet by Mr. Pickering. EVERY STATION NECESSARY.—Let us never forget, lave already impressed upon you with some —that every station in life is necessary degree of success that each deserves our respect ; that not the station itself, but the worthy fulfilment bf its duties, does honour to a man ; and that we only merit esteem in so far as we ap rirnanh nonrpct fn fhn nPrfPot nprfarma non of flua eint;no assigned to us in the order of things ; that therefore the scholar has reason to be, of all others, the most modest, because an aim is set before him of which he continually falls far short—,because he has a most elevated ideal to reach, which commonly he approaches only at the greatest distance. There are many tendencies and powers in man, and it is the vocation of each individual to cultivate all his powers, so far as he is able to do so. Among others is the social impulse; which offers him a new and peculiar form of cultivation—that for society—and affords an un usual facility for culture in general. There is nothing prescribed to man on this subject ;—whether he shall cultivate all his faculties as a whole, unaided and by nature alone ; or mediately through society. The first is difficult, antes society ; hence, in the social state, `, e I each inc avidual rightfully selects his own part of the com mon cultivation, leaves the rest to his fellows, and expects that they will allow him to share the benefits of their cul ture, as he permits them to participate in the advantage of his own ; and this is the origin and ground of the distinction of classes in society.—Fichfe's Vocation of the Scholar. WHAT TEMPERANCE CAN Do.—ln Mrs. Hall's book on Ireland, occurs the following passage, which a person :—We entered, one day, ork ; a young woman was It was as neat and corn- without emotion knitting- stockings at the door fortable as any in the most prosperous district of England• We tell her brief story in her own words, as nearly as we can recal them:—" My husband is wheelwright, and always earned his guinea a week; he was a good work man, but the love for the drink was strong in him, and it wasn't often he brought me home more than five shillings out of his one pound one on a Saturday night, and it broke my heart to see the children too ragged to send to school, to say nothing of the starved look they had out of the little I could give them. Well, God be praised, he took the pledge, and the next Saturday he laid twenty-one shillings upon the chair you sit upon. Oh ! didn't I give thanks upon my bended knees that night; still I was fearful it wouldn't last, and I spent no more than the five shillings I used to, saying to myself, may be the money will be more wanted than it is now. Well, the next week he brought me the same, and the next, and the next, until eight weeks had passed ; and, glory to God ! there was no change for the bad in my husband ; and all the while he never asked me why there was nothing better for him out of his earnings ; so I felt there was no fear for him, and the ninth week, when he came home to me, I had this table bought, and these six chairs, one for my self, four for the children, and one for himself ; and I was dressed in a new gown, and the children all had new clothes and shoes and stockings, and upon his chair I put a bran new suit, and upon his plate I nut a bill and re ceipt for them all just the eight sixteen shillings, the cost that I'd saved out of his wages, not knowing what might happen, and that always went for drink. And he cried, good lady and good gentleman, he cried like a baby, but 'twas with thanks to God ; and now where's the healthier man than-my husband in the whole county of Cork, or a or decenter or better fed chil- dren than my own THE VILLAGE OF EVEATON. - What havoc the last half century has made in that once beautiful and pic turesque village ! Within a mile or so of the shore, the spectator gazed on a vast expanse of water, woodland, and mountain scenery. People who delighted in seeing farther than their neighbours, used to point out the distant hills of Cumberland and Yorkshire ; the Calf of Man they asserted to be visible, even to the spur on his heel ; and also the frowning moun tains of Flintshire and Denbighshire, which streak the horison in the west, were triumphantly referred to as a proof that the denizens of Everton were high:in the world. And they were so, literally and figuratively. A poet of no mean celebrity—one whom Sir R. Peel has deemed worthy of a pension, declared to the writer, only recently, that in the course of a long experience he had seen few sweeter places than Everton was when he resided there thirty years ago. Nay, a late popular novelist has gone even beyond this, and declared, traveller as he was, that Everton was the prettiest village in the world. The stranger will be sorely perplexed to discover such beauty in the black, begrimed, unsightly mass of buildings that now bears the name. The great democracy has trenched on the aristocratic lawn, and the stately mansion has acquired, by contiguity, a vulgar tinge. The onward progress of society is read in the rise and metamorphosis of Everton. Commerce is a sore destroyer of sylvan oeauty. The merchant, from his residence on the brow of the hill, overlooking, by its commanding elevation, the entrance of a noble going argosies, as they are borne to and fro on the bosom of the Mersey ; but in the valley below, the ver dant meadows that formerly stretched to the water's edge, filling the air in spring with the delicious fragrance of the hawthorn, and in summer with the not less grateful odour of new-mown hay, have given place to crowded streets, smoky factories, and the tall chimneys whose chemical exhalations have long since put to flight the poetry and beauty, the exclusiveness and splendour in which Ever ton once gloried. Viewed from that grassy vale, and more particularly towards the close of the day, the hill itself presented a strikingly attractive appearance. The numerous windows of the handsome houses that adorned its side, glittering with the rays of the setting sun, and gorgeous in their brilliancy, contrasted beautifully with the dark clumps of trees and bright patches of greensward that diversified the slope. Crowning the summit, and about the spot where the church has since been built, stood the beacon, which, though remarkable for antiquity rather more than for beauty, formed a pleasing abject in the landscape.—The Slave Captain. THE " GAGGING ACT." Up to Saturday week, when the bill inflicting the penal ties of felony on incitements to insurrection received the royal assent, Saturday had been the regular market day for treason in Dublin; but a magical change has been wrought amongst the Jacobin writers. The Freeman's Journal, we need scarcely say, is dumb ; indeed that paltry pedlar in sedition had become as gentle as a sucking dove two days before the passing of the act. The Nation, which had been rampant for battle last Saturday week, now coolly reasons the question, " What if we fail ?" with all the coolness of a philosopher, and has no stomach for an attack on any one but poor Johnny O'Connell. Mr. Duffy says, in a letter extending to nearly, five columns, " A revolution, I know, to be inevitable. No policy and no force can avert it. * * * I love peace—l fear dis order—l hate anarchy. I believe the public opinion of Ireland to be as well disposed to peace at this hour as ever it was or ought to become. * * * All Ireland, from sea to sea, is arming to enforce our natural right to this island. Heaven send us a peaceful victory. But if not, my conscience is clear that we are able and entitled to take it. If we cannot save our country by peace lam for war." The rest of the Nation is tame and spiritless. The fire, if not totally extinguished, seems well nigh raked out. The United Irishman did not appear on Saturday until a late hour, in consequence of the parties who printed the paper declining to continue to do so, as they had been in formed by eminent counsel that they could not do so without the risk of an indictment. For thus accounting for the delay, Mr. Alitchell says,—" We have been obliged to submit to the degradation of having our proofs revised by a lawyer, in order to satisfy the parties before this number could appear. We can only promise our readers that no lawyer's pen shall touch our writings a second time." Mr. Mitchell complains that the " censers" have ruthlessly erased all the felonious" passages in his writings, extracting, in fact, the oyster, and leaving the public nothing better than the pearly shells." A "leader" in the United Irishmam, ungraced by felony or treason, is as dull as Hamlet without the principal part. enteral fftisrellanv. An abundance of ripe strawberries were exhibited in Edinburgh market last week. The distress in Leeds is so great that one in ten of the population is maintained by the parish funds. The Earl of Yarborough has given £lOOO to found a "Yarborough Scholarship" at the Royal Naval School, New Cross, Lincoln. The foundation-stone of the monument to celebrate the landing of Prince Albert, at Ramsey, in the Isle of Man, was laid with some pomp on Monday. In the Court of Chancery, on Wednesday, Lord Brougham introduced Prince Metternich. They both sat for some time beside the Lord Chancellor. At several parish and district meetings in the metropo lis, more particularly on Easter Monday, oppo-tunity has been taken to express undiminished loyalty and gratitude to the active guardians of order on the 10th. The Commissioners of Customs have decided against the appeal made by the Duc de Stackpole, and that no bleman's splendid schooner yacht, the Gipsy Queen, has been declared forfeited to the Crown for smuggling. The Countess of Mornington, in Thursday's Times, again appeals to the public for alms : her husband, the Earl of Mornington (the " Long Tilney Wellesley Long Pole Long," of Fitzgerald) having left her destitute. The citizens of York were hoaxed on Good Friday by a public announcement that a man would ride in a bucket, drawn by three beautiful white swans, down the river Ouse. Multitudes attended, to be disappointed. On Wednesday, a prize fight for £2OO took place be tween James Massey, of Manchester, and Jas. Edwards, of Cheltenham. The locale was near Newmarket. After 53 rounds, Edwards came off victor. The Loid Chief Baron of the Exchequer decided, on Saturday, that a creditor cannot split a debt, which is above £2O, for the purpose of enabling him to recover his claim by several suits, brought in the new County Courts. It is said that Mademoiselle Jenny Lind will make her first appearance for the season, at the Italian Opera, on Thursday next, as Amina in "La Sonnambula "—the best of her characters. This will be the anniversary of her brilliant debut last year. The York 4Jourant was published for the last time on Thursday. It first appeared under that name in 1719, being a continuation of the York Mercury (said to be the first newspaper established in the county). It is now to be incorporated with the York Herald. FRENCH CONTRACT FOR HORSES.—The Provisional Government having issued a decree that they intend to enter into contracts for 28,000 cavalry horses, several French contractors are at present inthe north of England, making purchases_ On Monday, a fearful explosion of fire-damp took place the deep pit at Victoria Iron Works, Monmouthshire, • by which five men lost their lives instantly. T w o o th ers were seriously injured—one so much so that his recovery is despaired of. ESCAPE FROM GAOL. —On Sunday morning, John Bryant and Edward Edwards, two prisoners in the convict gaol, at Springfield, who were awaiting their trial at the ensuing assizes, effected their escape. They have not been heard of since. Two hours before the artillery in St. James's-park, London. announced to the Cockneys the birth of a prin cess at their doors, the bells were ringing in honour of the event at Berwick-upon-Tweed--the intelligence having been received at the latter place by electric telegraph. CIRCULATION OF THE BIBLE. — The following has been the circulation of the Scriptures through the British and Foreign Bible Society during the last three years in the following large towns :—London, 126,391 ; Liverpool, 81,342 ; Manchester, 129,241 ; Leeds, 49,975 ; Bristol, 54,955.—T0ta1, 441,905 copies. On Wednesday the entire of the valuable timber, prin cipally oak, standing in the woods at Stowe, Foscott, Thornborough, Finmore, Hillesden, Falcutt, and Ashwell, the property of the Duke of Buckingham, was sold by public auction at Buckingham. The sale produced up wards of £22,000. At the Dempster's Court, in the Isle of Man, the other day, the judge, barristers, and litigants, were not a little amused at the appearance of a new candidate for forensic honours, in the shape of a monkey, which, seated in the lawyers' seats and looking at the bench, chattered away until rudely expelled by a servant girl, who came to look after the runaway pet of her mistress. Mr. T. Campbell Foster, formerly " The Times Com missioner" in Ireland, now a barrister on the Northern circuit, has promptly and emphatically denied that he ever made an overture to write articles from Ireland for the Northern Star, or any other newspaper than the Times. This denial has been occasioned by a statement made in the House of Commons by Mr. F. O'Connor. One of the clerks at the General Post Office lias been dismissed for refusing to be sworn a special constable during the Chartist demonstration. Of course he is, in his own eyes, "an injured Englishman." Reasonable people, however, will hold that if a man refuses to protect the property on which he is employed, it would be only natural to refuse him the custody of it any longer. Charles Dickens and other amateurs will shortly per form " The Merry Wives of Windsor" and " Every Man in his Humour," in aid of the purchase and preservation of Shakspere's house, and of an endowment for some worthy dramatist whose means may not be equal to his merits, and to whom the custody of the property at Strat ford may be confided. The returns of the Registrar-General record the death of a child, aged two years, " from inflammation of the stomach and smaller intestines, combined with fluid black blood in the right side and large veins of the heart, sup posed to be caused by mephitic vapour from a cesspool opened, of which the contents were carried through the house." Two days elapsed between the date of the latter occurrence and the death. NECESSARY EVILS.—A gentleman was constantly in the habit of calling his servants, before their faces, " ne cessary evils." He quarrelled with one of them, who left him in a rage, said he was sick of service, and vowed that he would never enter it again. A few days after his old master meeting him in livery, said, " Poh, you are gone into service again after all." " Ah, sir, I have found that masters are ' necessary evils'." A correspondent of the G ardeners' Chronicle mentions that a robin is now rearing her young in a sawpit, where the sawyers work every day, and could at any time lay their hands on the young or the parent bird, which dis plays no fear, but comes when the men are at dinner to pick up the crumbs. A wren had followed the example, and had built her nest under the same shed ; but the jealous robin would not allow the wren to lay her eggs, and at last succeeded in driving her away. On Tuesday, Mr. Thomas Steele was brought before Mr. Jardine. at Bow-street, for an attempt to commit sui cide by throwing himself over Waterloo-bridge. Mr. Steele, having solemnly pledged his word not to attempt the crime again was dismissed,.,havig been bound over in Lord Brougham has sent £5 to Peels Coffee_ as his contribution to a fund raising to relieve Mr. )ecuniary difficulties. _ _ •om his FALSE GOLD COIN OF COLUMBIA )n Saturday, at th was examined on a charge ofbeing concerned in a con spiracy to commit an extensive fraud, by imitating the current coin of the Republic of Columbia. The spurious _4_l ea +i C;7. llf 71 1..-.10 THE BREAD-FRUIT TREE.—There is at this time in the conservatory of Alfred Orrell, Esq., of The Grove, Cheadle, a fine specimen of this extraordinary plant; the tree, which is of noble dimensions, being laden with fruit of a rich and delicious flavour. After a Chartist meeting at Greenock, on Saturday week, a portion of the mob came in contact with a large body of police and specials, stationed in one of the streets to stop the way. The mob made a bold rush against the police and constables, who made a vigorous use of their batons, and attacked them with such violence that a num ber of very serious wounds were inflicted. " REBECCA " REDIVIVUS.—The agrarian disturbances which characterised the southern portion of the princi pality. of Wales in the years 1843 and 1844 have again manifested themselves in precisely a similar manner. The new county roads board does not operate in the way it was intended to do. A new toll-house was finished on a cross road near Llandilo on the 19th ult., and during the night of the 21st ult, the toll-house was completely demo lished by the Rebeccaites, who literally left not one stone standing on another. A FAIR CONFESSION.—Our attention has been arrested by a sentence of the Economist of Saturday, a paper abun dantly infected with the current liberalism of th e age , an d little given to mark the superintending hand of Divine Providence. The effect of present events on the mind of the editor, is set forth in the following words :—" The government of society has long been held up as the high est work of human genius ; we begin to doubt, since indi viduals and the multitude have alike failed, whether the task be not beyond the faculties of man." A SERIES OF ACCIDENTS.--On Monday se'nnight, as a refractory cow was being driven by Mr. Home to the house of Mr. Allen, butcher, Brettell-lane, Brierley-hill. the animal became infuriated, and attacked everything in her course. A gentleman was thrown out of his phaeton, and the pony drawing the latter tossed in the air. Her driver was subsequently thrown into a ditch, and another man was forced through a shop window, and seriousli hurt. At last, after an attack upon other persons, finding it impossible to drive the cow to her destination, she was shot in the road.—Ten Towns Messenger. EASTER MONDAY.—ANOTHER BESPOKE LONDON Row !—Mr. Cochrane's second day in London, as the Don Quixote of the poor, was only fit to be recorded by Punch. The very genius of a row, he specially enjoined peace It was a failure extraordinary,—with Easter Monday into the bargain. It was Mr. Coch rane " trated, ' instead of the Poor Law. There were pictures of the poor—dying !—sleeping on the stone floors !—men and women in separate cages—&c. The police prevented any great assemblage : Sir George Grey was " not at home," nor Mr. Cochrane I for his affair was all abroad. EVASION OF AN OATH.—A revolting case of subordi nation for perjury has been disclosed in the Deemster's Court, Isle of Man. A farmer, who had been summonei for non-payment of £47 rent, suborned two men to swear that they had seen him pay the landlord. He had met them on Douglas quay, and took them to a public-house. The witnesses sat down. and while drinking their glasses, the defendant took out of his pocket a piece of chalk, with which he drew the figure of a man upon the table, and wrote the plaintiff's name across. He laid down £47, and the witnesses then agreed to swear that they had seen the money paid to plaintiff. THE CHARTISTS IN EDINBURGH.—The Chartist de monstration held on the Calton Hill on Monday evening proved a total failure. There might have been 600 or 700 persons on the hill ; but, owing to the unfavourable wea ther, the meeting adjourned to the hall in Adam-square, where, after the assemblage had been kept waiting a con siderable time for the committee, a memorial to the Queen, praying her Majesty to dissolve the present Par liament, was ultimately adopted. Delegates were then appointed to represent the Scotch Chartists hi the great " National Assembly," to be held in the metropolis on the Ist of May. ATTEMPTED MURDER AND ROBBERY.-011 Monday, between two and three o'clock, as a watchman named Brassett, sixty-four years of age, was on duty at the Leith and• Glasgow wharf, London, he was suddenly attacked by three men, who came on shore in a boat. They struck the poor old man on the head, as he believed with a life preserver or some other blunt and heavy instrument, which soon rendered him insensible. Believing, it is pre sumed, that life was extinct, they thrust him into a cellar, and fastened the door on the outside. They then pro ceeded to ransack the place, breaking open an iron safe, which they rifled of its contents. The poor watchman lies in a very precarious condition. EVASION OF THE LAW.—We have heard of many modes of evading the law, but Thomas Turk, a man who was deprived of his license to sell beer at our police-court last week, has adopted a plan somewhat new in the annals of beer selling in Newport. Having a " good run" of custom, and being, moreover, possessed of a pretty good " plant" at the Tyrant's Castle, in Pillgwenlly, Thomas Turk resolved he would not retire from business so quietly as some people might expect ; and he now evades the law, and carries on " a roaring trade," by selling nuts at three half-pence each, and giving away a glass of sparkling beer to the nut-buyer ! This system is carried on an ex sensive scale nightly.—Monmouth Merlin. At the Thames Police-office, on Monday, James Bolton was sentenced:to eight days' imprisonment, for practising the following novel cheat at Stepney fair. About three pennyworth of coppers were placed on small pegs, which were to be thrown at with a small bar, when, if all the half-pence were dislodged, the thrower, who paid a penny, pocketed them; The prisoner, who was the proprietor, was ready to take the chance either as a staker or a thrower, but always took care that he should win, in each capacity, except when be occasionally lost on purpose to give an appearance of fairness to the game. When he tnrew himself the halfpence were lodged lightly on the pegs, but when others threw, the lo wer half-penny was made to adhere by means of some composition. PENURY OF LOUIS PRILIPPE.—The Count de Neuilly lives at Claremont in a state of almost penury, denying himself those small luxuries which had become all but necessaries from long use to a man of his time of life.— Even with the most rigid economy, however, it is said that his income is still insufficient for his inaintenance, and that in a year or two, if he survives so long, he will be com pletely destitute. It can, however, scarcely be the inten tion of the French Government to , sequestrate the private property, not only of the ex-King, but of his whole family. The doWers of his sons' wives are said to be almost entirely invested either in French funds, or in land in France, and whatever claim the nation may have upon the Royal estates, it can by no prOcess, that we are aware of, be ex tended to property thus acquired--Times. _ • . . - DESECRATION AND ROBBERY.—The minister of a pretty church, which rises almost in the shadow of an embattled " fortress of the fen," not 100 miles from Con nigsby, was called upon by a party of "navvies" on Sun day week, to christen a child. While engaged in his duty, another of these sons of clay and iron, evidently a mate of the christening party, entered the church, and, acting on the principle of " exchange no robbery," took the rev. gentleman's new hat, and left in its place his own—one of those bettered coverings which we see on the heads of " Emeralders" during the harvest season—brimless, almost crownless, and wofully " wanting a nap." We are told that the trick is an old one ; and that the same child has been christened on, a former occasion at a sacri fice to a worthy parish clerk of a great coat.—Stamford Mercury. ROYAL, COLLEGE OF CUEMISTRY.—Dr. Sheridan Mus pratt delivered an interesting lecture, on Wednesday evening, at the monthly meeting of the subscribers and students of the college, at Hanover-square, on the manu facture of the carbonate of soda, sulphuric acid, and hy drochloric acid ; and in a series of successful experiments, showed how the deleterious gases evolved in the process, and which were so destructive of vegetation, as to have caused an action for-damages to have been brought against the Messrs. Muspratt, proprietors of chemical works in Liverpool, upon that ground, might be condensed, and their unhealthy action thereby greatly diminished, if not altogether prevented. Scattere through the rooms were many specimens of daguerreotype portraits and landscapes, of Talbotypes, and o silver and copper electrotypes, all of which were greatly and deservedly admired. DAMAGE BY. RIOTOUS OR TUMULTUOUS ASSEMBLIES. —Sir W. Clay's bill, for amending the law relative to re medies against the hundred in England, only contains two provisions.. By the law, as it now stands, compen sation can only be obtained against the inhabitants of a hundred for damage done, where the offence amounts to felony; and it is considered expedient that such inhabit ants should be made liable to yield compensation in like manner to parties damnified by the acts of persons, riot- ously and tumultuously assembled, which may not amount to felony. For this object, it is provided by the bill, that in every case where any building whatever, or any part thereof, shall be destroyed, or shall be in any manner damaged, or where any commodities whatever therein shall be destroyed, taken away, or damaged by any riot-. ous or tumultuous assembly of persons, the inhabitants of the hundred shall be liable to yield full compensation in damages to the person or persons injured. A PLAGIARISM.—The Tablet (Popish paper,., menting upon Lord Brougham's attempt to 'become a in com- naturalized Frenchman, while he retained the privileges of a British subject, says :—" One thing disappoints us in this affair : the notion is not original. Lord Brougham professors of that religion S have redUced to practice an analogous theory. When they travel abroad they frequent the catholic churches, arid are very devout at mass, sing vespers, and ask bishops for their blessing. They are ex tremely catholic. But when they return to this country, they never enter a catholic chapel, and spyay slightingiy of the mass. They change on their passage : catholics abroad—protestants at home. Lord Brougham did but borrow their theory and apply it to civil politics— A per;on, describing himself as the Rev. B. C. D. F. Fairfax, has been victimising the parishioners of Raw marsh, near Sheffield, where he had been officiating sonic months on behalf of the rector, who had been spending the winter in Ireland. He obtained the curacy by an swering an advertisement in the Ecclesiastical Gazette, and showing ample testimonials ; but_ having obtained Hay 1848. POST-OFFICE DELINQUENCY.—AB inquiry has take; place during the past wee k, re l a ti ve t o a packet of W e addressed to Mr. J ame s B oo dl e , soli c itor, Cheltenham', b ' _ Mr. Coppock, of Lo n d on , th e parliamentary agent for the petitioners against the return of Sir W. Jones. Mr, Cop pock sealed the packet and posted it ; on its arrival3l Cheltenham Mr. Boodle discovered that the packet hat been opened. The parcel containing some itai: ‘ , documents relative to the pendi ng election, an ulci rl the was set on foot, when it was discovered that one of t. clerks, a partis an opposed in politics to the liberal nar,Z had had an hour's access to the packet by himself. statement of the clerk was, that he found the packet 01,!: in the bag, that he took out the bundle of papers from tu,', envelope, untied the tape w ith w hi c h th e y w ere tied, an read " only the endorsements." f th e CHARTIST INTEL LIGENCE .— At a me et i ng,. 0 it Chartists, of Newcastle, held on Friday, a Mr. Watla delivered a long address, i n th e course o f w hich he 5,1 1 ,, they had determined to a g it a t e p eacea bly till the ruin'," classes were brought r oun d t o th e i r v i ews , and that gave his vote in the Convention that there should u synonym.country T m h e s e ti o g observation held ted Friday of al loavuegrb ttile when one of the m ore l earne d o f th e Ch ar ti s t s , asha ru the at such a display of ignorance, pulled the speaker by 31r. coat, and whispered " simultaneous meetings," and „,t Watson, on resuming his discourse, attempted to cerr. - , himself by repeating the substance of his last observat'f b 'g and introducing the term spontaneous meetings. In blundering style the Chartist delegate proceeded for Rea!' ming half an hour, till, at length, he concluded by a resolution which he was unable to read. DEATH FROM FRIGHT.—Two mischievous boys, rola ing in Simon's-square, Nicolson-street, for the purP° s '; amusement, seized a little fellow ab ou t e i g ht years of ag; who was also resid en t i n th a t locality and was know n . ~, them, and entrging him with some trifling depredatl n a from his aunt bound his arms with a piece of cord, proceeded with him to the police-offi ce a t St. Leona ( ' ' Before they reached that station, however, a passu n g er attracted by the distressed conditi on o f th e b o y, relearn him from the grasp of his b u llyi ng compan i ons , and se„l, him away home in a very a g it a t e d s t a t e . The little te' cl low was put to bed, but he became rapidly worse, at, during some periods of nervous excitement cried out t" mad° cut the cord and let him off. Every exertion was in his behalf, but the unfortunate child expired on vv •A ` f nesday from the effects of the fright he had received' The boys, who had acted in so thoughtless a manner, O r : taken into custody, and the case is at present under . 1. vestigation.—Edinburgh Register. or PROPULSION OF STEAM-VESSELS.—Mr. W. A re Kingston -upon-Hull, has taken out a patent for an y chinery for propelling vessels, consisting of a shaft, el; nected with the engine, projecting th roug h the sides _ usual ; this shaft carries t w o d ou bl e - en d e d cr anks,. levers, at right angles to each other. To the crank-Pil ls ; upon the ends of the crank-levers, are attached bars , ° I , rods,. being attached to pins upon cranks, or levers, 11 14 e two similar shafts, one of w hi c h i s s i tuate d b e fore i',„A driving-shaft attached to th e eng i ne; th e ot h er situaZ behind that shaft—the centres of the three being in same horizontal line. Upon these horizontal bars placed floats, which act as the propellers, and are alvi t 'i in a vertical position, w h e th er i n en t er i ng the wa ter, during their passage throu g h, or l eav i ng it ; or they In' d i t be so arranged, that d ur i ng th e i r b ac k war d movemelin they may present their ed ges t o th e di rect i on of teuti77 which may be done by means of eccentrics upn, n , ll crank arms, and formi ng th e floats themselves, similar Venetian blinds. 9 0 An old woman, named Hannah Williams, nearly years of age, was found dead in her bed at Gloucester lash week, in a state of the most apparent destitution : rho h_ been living for some time past on Is. a week, with a from the union, and the charity of her neighbours. her death, however, was found a hoard of money le„';'„ r ; ous places, amounting to £ll4 2 s . 2d., including Xiu j e j silver and £2: in copper ; and, although the poor af,,,, e creature had been shivering with cold throughout all inclement weather of the winter and spring, there tr"; found on the premises a large stock of coal ( mor e tbaL ton and a half in wei g ht) th e accumulation of many cu r ' ritable gifts ; whilst, in var i ous par t s o f t h e h ous e, we. found stored away. the remnants of unconsumed food, u c/ t ; dently the relics of what she lied received from time,,, time from the workhouse, an d i n g ift s f rom f r i e nds w i l c i c believed she was in excessive need. Th ere were 1 11 ° u, , pieces of bread, numberless pi eces o f b acon grown "rusty from long keeping, bits of cheese, remnants of per - I ,h &c., some of very recent a cqu i s iti on , an d ot h ers 01 9 age as to have become long since unfit for eating , . was LAMENTABLE OCCUR'RENCE.—Great sensation, 0 4 created on Tuesday mor n i ng l as t, i n th e neighbouretsif of Minster yard, by the di scover y o f the u.rs of Mrs. Cookson (widow of the late Dr. Cookson) , O l io well, at the top of the garden belonging to the house r eal which she resided. Th e un f or t una t e lay retired to r about nine o'clock on Monday, being before her used time. On the followin g morn i ng th e servan t wa s alarm ay a on finding her mistress's bed- room d oor p ar tly open, on on looking into the bed, perceived she had qu i tte d it. be. , proceeding to the garden she fou n d th a t the l)ucicu t t he longing to the well had b een remove d. K now ing that to , deceased was subject to fits of abe rra ti on , she at once s ilo pected that she had destroyed herself. A person gut The the bucket, descended; and soon found the b0dy..„,„ 0 , deceased had complained very much of her bead on Inu ot , "Temporary he insani d tr' s / day,cause, You onauldl hatewt h e e pt wmp E bitterly. iza , S , h a e n h a a o d n a h ls e o r said to replying that serve did not, why should she," the deceased rejoined, STRANGE ATTACK.—Last week ,Ti. Lhoski, an A u str ii i::„. was charged, at the Marlborou g h Police-office, svit b „doWS ing annoyed Prince Metternich, and broken soroeV;tson , at the Brunswick Hotel, in Princes-street. and manager of the hotel, said thet Prince Mettu,, r- ,,a colon suite were now stopping there. The prisoner "; w ho is to the hotel, and requested to see Baron Huge" used attached to the suite of the prince. The prisone,. la very energetic language, and at last he left the het" n e t, tr a minute or two some stones were thrown from the s ~ The jury returned a verdict which broke two of the windows. The to Mr. Watson : Do you know that you harbour a rPr i ; in your house ? Do you know that Prince Metternic!.6,4 a traitor to his country, and that he has been arraigie before the Hungarian Diet, and dare not show his„ big there ? Do you know that he has not only imbrttellp hands, but his arms up to his armpits, in blood ? , Hardwick asked the prisoner what he was ? Prison t : prisoner now 01 am a doctor of philosophy. I have received monel, r - eh re the Austrian goverment, £3O and £5O at a time. is £5O coming to me to which lam entitled. Mr. "Iry wick asked the p r i soner h ow h e obtained a li v i n g ? prisoner said h e h a d wr it ten several wor k s , and lad fine(' contributed to the quarterly reviews. Mr. Har dwi f id the prisoner 6s. for the damage,. and required him to bail for his good behaviour. MR. COCHRANE'S PAUPER DEMONSTRATION.--i" nt been impertinently and falsely st a t e d i n a n Advertis eme, that Sir George Gray would not i n t er fere to prevenali; numerous procession of the inmates of workhouse f o r others through the public streets to the Horne-ofee'ces the purpose of laying a host of " bastile" griev au p . before the Government, but the h on . b ar t. took 6 .., 11 4 . 0 0f portnnity, in his place in the H ou s e o f Conita ° " - c i by removing any impression th a t m i g ht h ave been caus e to . such unfounded assertion. Mr. Cochran.", howeve r peared in a ,Trafalgar-squ are on M on d a y, an d ente ri ghe cab with van behind contai n i ng " Ill us t ra tions" ° , b " Bastiles" and the Poor-law., advanced with a Efl ,., a leS 1500 persons to Whit e h a ll. A b o d y o f po li ce -cons': t he appeared, and they fled i mme di a t e ly. Th e man de d van finding his progress effectually stopped, denin r oS payment for his services of Mr. Cochrane, wki,,„%tra' immediately satisfied, and the bearer of the " go tions" quietly retired. Mr. Cochrane was allowed love on in his cab, his " tail" having been cut off as 8 4 his stated, and went to the Home-office, where he le,'„,'"ot petition, the hon. baronet presiding over that departA - n dea not being visible to such an undesired guest. Thus e `:red the affair, the only casualty being a broken head reeelio by one of the crowd, more, however, from accident t design. t he . RELICS OF A WANDERING JEWELLER.—Dari ng w ed' month of December last a wan d er i ng j e weller, 11 . 3 , 9 i:t Daniel Stewart, a native of Irel a nd, di e d a t his lode t Ty in, Keptie-street, Arbroath. Stewart had been freque n e the habit of visiting Arbroath with the two small b° - ", 0 3 0 jewellery with which he travelled ; but his a ppeara 6e ' e hr apparel, as well as his penurious habits, led to the e v ;ces' e skin that he was far from being in affluent circurnst%o o, After his death, his landlady, accompanied by 6 I/3 o od' business and a magistrate, had his effects sealed uPl e to their very great surprise, found that, instead of the 1-016 trumpery articles which they naturally suppos e ne ctio l : formed his stock in trade, there was a very large of valuable gold and silver watches, diamond frog in die' and pins, not a few of the rings enamell e d and s° Ise': monds, besides other articles of grea t va l ue . The r for tb at the same time found two deposit bank receipts b a vi" sums of £2OO and £26, respectively. No relation s be de' appeared, and in the absence of an y s e ttl em ent by t i c rfo r t ceased, Mr. Robertson, the Sheriff-substitute of t and Mr. Forsyth, the Procurator-Fiscal, arrived ti t' tb B ' breath, on Wednesday last, and took possession of The entir n e x6ov. w e, less than b r o , .1. s wearing apparel was valued yesterday by A u jolv i c and curiously enough, as if to mark the contrast wi• b th, stock in trade exhibited to the meanness of. his gf . 04 ' . 6 ' 1. latter was found to be worth the enormous sum °A " ,09 ,„,010 sterhp A CHILD STARVED BY ITS MOTHERk— nn - Ge.,- last, an inquest was held at Birmingham, ° II fio':fe lrbroath Guide. Nheatcroft, a little boy eight years old, the sou i;i 9 named Wheatcroft, and a woman who passed as Can Cal l 0 and who had been residing for some time in N eva W e d street, and whose death was alleged to, have a pCa r M aP starvation and ill-treatment by hits parents. i o as ot from the evidence of several persons th..t suslo c .drea been excited that the deceased and two other chit aw l tb the same parents were treated with great cruel t t' g d 0'. 1 0 % examination it was found that they were ma r i o f W er e wales on their backs, and that they coraplain e t hen va ' no in the house, while their father and or d e cel o g. ' left without food for two days. T" e a tteil r ritet penditure, on the time approaching Tor nun to resign ins had a large cut on his fo r eh e ad, s u ch asap o . trust the creditors became pressing, and suddenly he was would make ; all three were perfect skele ton 0 0 , 01 0 missed from the parish, and has not since been heard o f. f a th er h a d b een seen b ea ti ng th em w ith a ctr i fil i el The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign '3lst of March, the door of the place in r ele o 3 o ; Parts and other religious societies are also sufferers. Being . confined was broken open, and the childr,.% c hit o n e a young, unmarried man, " tall, slender, of dark com- The mother was also in the habit of beating `'`' ° D roa' plexion, with large expressive eyes, and jetty hair ;" being, she had been seen to. put them in a cellar, a nd is c c - ifer moreover, supposed to be nobly barn and rich, he attracted occasion to throw a sheet over their bodies , a h t a I `, l e aa , great notice from the ladies : not only so ; his zeal for the pany with another woman, named Cleaver, lie , Os church, kindness to the poor and those who did not attend match, and stick the prongs of a fork his ministry, made him one universal favourite with the and tell her it was the dvil. Notwithstaaloireajestli villagers. The tradesmen supplied him with goods to any medical care bestowed on the deceased lie that that e ar amount, and he,was surrounded wiih all the comforts and Sunday last. The medical evidence show. n o bi c the elegancies of life. By and bye there came down to the had resulted from water on the brain, occc.l° L i o n of re' clerical residence two persons, one of them a " page," and tinual irritation of the stomach, the coAtilhe jorl er oo the other a relative, whom he called " Johnny Deer," or stomach being occasioned by want of fwd. 4 . 'the P i . 00 " dear," a term of endearment somewhat applicable; turned a verdict of " Manslaughter agailltd, tha t , since there are shrewd suspicions that although in male calling herself Sarah Wheatcroft," and " u- ea hle. , attire the wearer is of the feminine sender, 'olatu Panaikred Gecne Wheat - croft wgts.aANin tlickg 00 sovereign, with the imprc of 1832, and of '• IREM, Popayan ion of the arms of Columbia It is believed that ik off. M. Jullien, whose name appears as a bankrupt in the Gazette, owes between £9,000 and £lO,OOO, principally arising out of his connection with English Opera at Drury Lane 'where his extravagance as a manager precluded the impossibility of a profitable return. It is stated that he offered his creditors to put aside £1,500 per annum out of his professional earnings—but failing in conciliating all, and an attempt being made while at Dublin to arrest him —he determined upon going through the Gazelle, and his assets are now stated at nil. herborne workhouse " One of the officials of the S having nothing better to do, has ex barefaced delusion. He wrote on an egg, " Prepare ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" —placed it in hen's nest, and pretended the bird had produced it Numbers of persons believed in the prodigy, and trembled The local journal says that " several of the mini s t erL actually alluded to the matter in the pulpits." On Mon day, a notice was posted " on the union gates" that the matter was an April fool hoax. At Brighton Police-court, last week, a man, named Lowton Lucas, was committed for trial for the novel trick of abstracting money in the following manner went into a pastrycook's shop for a bun, for which he laid down a sixpence, and received sd. in change. The sixpence was afterwards observed to be dangling over the till, and, on examination, was found tied round with fine horse hair, to which a long end was attached. On being taken into custody, three or four others, similarly prepared, were found in his po4ol, rFt p; Ylo n t ti lav • Ig". P 14 4 4 'lief] PA I 40( Auki - cir a (s.qk P 1t 1 4 1 4 4 , TI 4 RI ( 344 iki k ti 1141.4 Tli Liv 4 lo t 164 , 4 'Yr, NI, I ti at at i t St. p 13 00 3 , 11:1 1 3 b Alb: AR tR 11 1 pa ekte ,Plat Fe k A lbt! t. 41 1 a a A ' 4l A t n e k -I ~°ne ei a P/ ' Ibt4ll4n, I kt eith le 1 11 . ./9 `4l ej l' di Il a , lo 4t), , t}t.