The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-10 00:00:00

w.ttirnurr. nto a gla. LUIVI 0 enturie t of cot to be worn b If the press, no verre, and the m provem ents ha lON THE ELE VENTS OF THE NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL VALUES OF LABOUR, CORN, AND MONEY. From " Observaii on the El Taxaiioh.") VALUE of a bushel of Wheat founded on number of 1 peck of r, for the e equiv ducts of RTIFICIAL VALUES 3 per ce T.l. 1. a bushe uantity would be r nd thu stored will revers the case, and as sing taxes on the )our must then rise in an equal ratio witL Ist of subsistence, and the equilibrium o 1 , e destr n the following pro Ant law of equi- t by the imp, n of 33 per cent. of s of labour, whilst ns at its r nsequently suct xed wheat would beantadonistic the empi 1 of untaxcd e 3 17/10 ,r that 1 Ind thu AR ACCIDENT. -•( THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, At the last rent audit held 4 Mr. J. Tollem ache, M.P., a reduction of ten per cent. in cash, or twenty per cent in bone manure, was made. James Hill, charged with forgeries upon the Ban Austria to the amount of £15,000, was on Thur mitt4d for trial at Warwick assizes corn The town. of Darlin of Parliament which •esoived to adopt the Act rates on all to (Dents of £6 and fracturing A young gentleman named Clarke, of Glentworth, Lincolnshire, was walking in a harvest field, together with a friend, a few days since, and seeing a labourer's scythe on the ground, tried their skill at mowing. Mr. Clarke soon desisted ; but whilst his friend was using the imple ment he unhappily sent the point into Mr. Clarke's leg, inflicting a serious wound. The anterior tibal artery was She lingered t tt the grand ball, s departure from C, successful reF. On Monde s the luxuriance of his crop of fruit were landed Steam ket Wharf ng• plums, green 'cc] from Antwerp. magic stow iivided , on be oast was held at Stocktor n infant of the died from drinking innke( hat has Slapestones, ever Deen esti sconse - erated on Wednesday by It consists of about twelve riling to the rit church , Esq., of Brookhil ther general interment. hbse name has lted with the defence .-.................. --_ The grave of Wordsworth lies in a secluded corner of ■ SittitnuNG MURDER Di ft WIFE...". OR Wednesday, TRANSMARikg TltLEGßAPH..—liliefree,lenctErlel the churchyard, close to that of his beloved daughter, Mr. ;', l .,kley commenced an inquest, at Harrow, on the is laid down across the Channel . _ tan ft Mrs. Quillinan. A simple upright direct conl slab marks the spot, body of Lotiga Dorvill, aged 32. and the sole inscription that it bears consists of the twO the 9th of August, she was walking with her husband, munication. The salt sea prisaed , . e _ og t diS words " William Wordsworth." Others of his family who had a scythe on hig shoulder, and who had lust re- between the British capital and t n ti,:i,,',. ea rs.,j It appeared that, on France; the salt sea is traversed by lc' Al sleep around, and though he has written epitaphs in verse ceived 20s. for mowing. Rhe asked him for money, and dependencies becomes a question 0 ti es w o i Lon 7 for others, (and none knew better how to do scripture,ll those he offered her bs.. which shd refused, upon which he may be brought within a few rolc u t 01 0 h 3/ of his own family consist of simple texts of struck her with a scythe upon the head with all his post may be si.lpersed_sed. A naerchac • qa, 1-;.,..house in ,up without note or comment. - ‘,---• skull. and inille:+: ,up ing a woun q-nday. given in the kstle Noward, ,t novelties, and which caused gn s cooking various dishes on t a to his countl.,4, _ own at the antipode s as he woi. Documents, nay. proper notarial attestation bi a man in London might s ip mid imit it for endorsement to St•Y e T; h for it oLanthority from Cairo_,2o", --f ~vrend thcroulfil ouse below snrroun , 1r Its If the depth cif the Atlantic.— „„ --through Russia, the Alenlialik lc, Montreal, and New OrleaPod T ° ,; r spiritingYo u m a u P f u or t t a al lii io r t e.t , e ;b l .I.CH/E OLOGICAL AssoctAtioliovi!! of this society c om at menced f 0.1 evening rocet ing 'ter t here which nelahl i spe i ce Rirh r tn e eho a evten d x. njeßtet a ßteih, oitrla p eeh, vmusi paper, isnnplei vicinity wj e nta ji r etototni vnolinetoilefsahlrlfuojimeyrast Jones, ng t ssdian r :na( a ieiTi; t esei nca i hiuu, n v ualueop e cnsot nursaifoysicmtpro,nfiartylom:iaolf. vrnee:na: the tatso c i thtty:o h tshet,:y a inauei e r in: nv. ;,.:teeerabc 0.1 eu:os vrtendi edns d lesi t I ino t repocio , oi f the celebrated Welsh chieftain, the stioi° t e r s. n discussion arose, which occupied the adjournment. On Wednesday morning. sions to various objects of historical andi.seuevenit Wales); after :whicno_tivi eStiinxhnreci utßGßiis.rswheiitvoYia. stdd (North At the evening niee Ffoulkes read a paper respecrii, ~ 14 between Ostorious and Caractacus, arg'itgel' l , the Breidden Hill, on the confines of 00 0, ' and Shropshire; and the Rev. Pr a . nrasb l ' secretary of the Historic Society of mills, ca,i. shire, gave a lecture upon ancient corn . jori to On Friday morning there was an Cl e. miog 9 ' district. So tl'orebee THE POISONINGS AT CLAVETOGraIe 811. 0 11c3 tion has been caused in this district 1 s pring f her t: e. of Sarah Chesham, who at the W l l - tird er ,:oftnet 1848 was tried and acquitted of the„o o ,",.,t,for: rl suddenly, children. The arrest took place at t": c ing c'' oen' c r i, cretary of State, on suspicion of her `7Bnoreritig i t he P, d husband, Richard Chesharn, by acliplin-bsild: redi d him three or four months ago. Th e - n g ". the" 00 soner was a farm labourer, and a s tre s held lonic ic and a coroner's in A . bag containing rice. with whY l bo re 59nalt mixed, was found in the risoner s eeti .6 ITO bi qU eSt Vra 90 0 Ad Br td) P Lor de ee rhe °„ io 14 .s found in t oniach, hut Pr ie conter f, 31; pesrs On Frid into t taken by two men i house ( near 0 Williar the Bishop of Pet James Watsor been for almost half a cents of Protestant truth in Ireland, died on the 3ad instant at the advanced age of eighty-six I on Thursday at Holyhead, from hich she received by heinz Miss Elphins the effects of the iniuries thrown from4t carriage in which she was riding with the Hon. W. 0. Stanley, M.P. A man named Hainsworth, of Queen's Head, York. )mmitted for trial, charged with au SillTc, manslaughter OT field, or the spot has been I whom h, rn he found playing in his so severely that he died on On Thursday last William Malcolm co nmitted suicide by lying across the rails of the line at Newburgh, just as a train was approaching. His feet were taken off a little above the ankle, and he died in less than thre. hours. PEACE CONGRESS.—The Indian chief, Icah-Ge-Ga- Gah-Bowh, with Garnett, the fugitive slave, Elihu Burritt, and other delegates to the Frankfort Congress, will visit Bristol on the occasion of the great peace meeting and bazaar, to be held in the co A set of richly embroider on a novel principl Russell, by a number of or in testimony of their apnrol ministerial polic The impetu have 4 ace curtains, manufactured n presented to Lady Jokn tives residing at Snenton, on of Lord John Russell's nd Flax Association ha given to the woollen and linen trad great that the manufacturers have more orders for t home market on hand than they can possibly execute fo many months. f Yorkshire is sc 1 from - ice of £86.386 Terence of £75.2 In noticing her / r'azette of rtments of the Bank of Eng. 6,855.959 to £16,769,573 being 'he paper in actual circulatior )87,759 Mal;ty le, the 3ed Carlin; lea at bite c ughter at irelnna or five inches in NOVEL CC evening of her one of the gTE lerriment, was M )le with his Lilliput first time, part of their supper cooked in the ball room. The favourite dish amongst the ladies present was " les celifs an mirroir," so called by M. Soyer, half a dozen of which seem to have been done every two minutes with the greatest ease and cleanliness, and were partaken of _eat i with delight by the company present. le was 1 0-- —lt - -- when e sufferer, MNIDUSES.— amp be interesting to kt>, these vehicles, the use of which is daily extending, introduced into this country. Mr. C. knight, in " Volume of Varieties," p. 171, observes :—" The om nibus was tried about 1800, with four horses and sia wheels ; but we refused to accept it in any shape till we imported the fashion from Paris in 1830." And Mr. Shillibeer, of the City•road. the inventor of the patent funeral carriage, in his evidence before the Board of Health bn the general scheme for extra-mural sepulture, incidentally mentions that la( in cheapening vehicular tr: tablished the omnibus in I " had had much experience it, habing originated and es gland." -a- - FATAL ACCIDENT ON BEN NEVIS.—On Monday last a young gentleman, named Henry Grant, son of Mr. Dun can Grant, of Newhall, Glasgow, started with a party of friends from the Caledonian Hotel to ascend the moun- tain, and on the way down, regardless of the "ay.. uy ovum, mstance. t ney rm. lowed more leisurely, and on arriving at the glen about eight o'clock, were surprised at not finding him there be fore them. A search was at once instituted, and about seven o'clock on Tuesday morning his body was found lying at the foot of a precipice at the turn of the glen. From the injuries received the unfo r t u n a t e gentleman must have expired instantaneously. He was of most ex emplary conduct.—Greenock Advertiser. THEGREEN-EYED MONSTER.-At the recent Mon mouth assizes, the wife of John Ryan, lodging-house keeper, was subpoenaed to give evidence in a murder cas The paper was directed to Mary Ryan, wit imaginary John Doe, and the husband f the usu requently heat ing this person's name purposely mentioned as the in tended companion of his wife to Monmouth, made vat titular inquiries as to his character, which the police in geniously answered, excited John's apprehensions c horns to such a pitch, that he swore that he would not it Mary go to the assizes with that vagabond Doe, even i the judge went on his knees to him ; and he absolutel followed better half to Monmouth, to prevent said, a " crim, c Yeovil Mercury: SUBMARINE TELEG graphic communicat !en established rily suspended, in eonsec] , ff Cape Gri directors municat the breal an to revolv lh he was n 1 d, hefi KIN G.- Majesty ressor Taylor, iy there vin --_ - rrhe coroo_t., yes justified in returning the magistra administering the poi.r: 3 e po , carry that into effect, the f nia; n. The bet resolved up on to e ed phin f the way on chop only lingered ,t Glen- he other and Rio d CAMBRIAN cause death e dra'kft, of drfo , ""F" t6 , 9 itlw" e t•' 1 ° 15 1 a fiel fl URI) 1 • „ rig . jo - T : • AP On Wednesi agad 81, a r ut a pE a widower, but property, but had a I in the most bountiful mann of himself, a housekeeper, and servant girl. N can be given for the dreadful occurrence. Henceforward all letters addressed to the United States, and not directed to be otherwise sent, will be transmitted by the first packet, whether British or United States, which is despatched after they are posted. Let ters specially directed 'by British packet,' by United States packet, or by any particular vessel named, will be fo'rward'ed in accordance with the desire thus expressed by the writers. The postage upon letters and newspapers is precisely the same, whether they are conveyed by British or by United States packets. EIgORAVING ON MARBLE.—A method of ornament black marble has recently been discovered, extracting the colouring matter of the ma go reason which is by without injuring its surface ; and by extracting the colour to a greater or less degree different shades are produced, giving it the effect of engraving ; indeed the method pur sued is nearly the same as aquatint engraving. Another mode of ornamenting black marble is by scratching the polished surface with a steel or diamond point, which produces a white mark of different degrees of intensity, according to the depth of the scratch, by which means, in skilful hands, beautiful engravings are produced. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—On Tuesday week an old man, of the name of Rae, residing in Arbroath, proceeded to sea in an old crazy boat, and was driven off the coast in the storm of that day. Not making his appearance at nightfall, considerable apprehensions were entertained as to his safety. Wednesday passed over, and no appear ance. Thursday with the same result. All hopes of his safety had now fled, excepting the faint one that some vessel had picked him up ; but he made his appearance in his cockle shell of an ark on Friday, about noon, in the proceeded to his assistance, when they found him almost exhausted state, drifting onwards to the rocks LIBERATION OF MR. DUNN, THE BARRISTER above persevering admirer of the " greatest heiress" h the three kingdoms was liberated from the Queen's Bend years and a half. H er an' incarceration of three ntenced at the Guildhall, in 1817, to three years imprisonment fc to a tcy, in filed by him in the Court made Miss Burdett• Coutts of £lOO,OOO, tendering as tor in t le to d In ad( ,t the 1 )n to the abov ind solver] Mr. I ) the r in four Lord Loy 33 b.rac aa, ant touched strait al re can at time ben ,tion was decided on. Ti ntleman, named CHG. ire() manufacturer of Paddock, Yorkshire, )d to his existence by cutting his throat with a In elderl The deceased gentleman was poss t of relations to whom he behaved `old consisted Lovat, 40 bra( same moors. Itag, Z with another 1, or, as by the queer i of Halton ; ear; and 1 133. 4d, e3es; 'fiat after 1 friends nd the corpc t to go so o nted" ration. ften to by the i to "CU is surplice at ftirrral , Lr it when he mef a corpße one was requested to read a rrnon • one was desired to )ody of the church ; he was not doing so, and the mayor m one wai treatm E himself tribute( bailiffs to pay elling him ; one clergyman was lr of a comely and seemly length, iamanin one was, very properly, presented for cutting the great thorn" growing in the churchyard ; and ; so much dissatisfied, either with his living or'his nt, that it is recorded of him that " he conveyed away without leave-taking !" Liverpool con- I to the cost of a peal of bells at Walton ; and the vere ordered to be diligent in collecting all fines, or a peal of bells in Liverpool. That necessary e church, the clerk, was at one time paid ills on corn ; then he had to collect his fees • he was required to ring the cerfew -- • and was ordered to appendage of ti out of t from do bell ate lit o'clock every evenirn be diligent in his fees.— THE i. was allowed to the clerk of 'Walton Church for —Baines's History of Liverpool. OF ENEEn. - - - Fraser's Magazine for the present month has a clever, pungent introductory chapter to what we anticipate will prove a good moral satire, entitled " The Age of Veneer." We make the following extract :—" At present, the successful practitioners of the art of veneering are rampant. The average modern Englishman (we speak not of exceptions) is becoming superficial and unreal in everything. In mind and body he is veneered. By a skin-deep adoption of the outward signs and shows of excellence, he thinks to pass for the more perfect being which, we will do him the justice to say, he aspires to be. No doubt it is in some respeCts a noble desire of his, but the means are ignoble. Nor is it possible thus to ignore all the conditions of culture and development. You cannot suddenly convert a boor into a gentleman ; you cannot, by merely telling a people that they are chanced, transform them from coarseness of taste, and an almost exclusive admiration of the merely physical, into virtuosi, men of science, adepts in litera ture,l and patrons of, and p ar ti c ip a t ors i n , th e arts. on cannot, by the magic of mere hope or assertion, dissemi nate among the middle and lower classes the tastes, habits, and means of enjoyment, hitherto exclusively possessed by an aristocracy. It is well to try ; but it is better to begin with small certainties, and go on by degrees. Otherwise you will only cover society with a crust or varnish, hiding but corruption and premature decay. You cannot achieve great reformatory results without time and progresi. Yet such is the miracle this age is bent on working. The original materials of the national character being too coarse, and too little ornamental, you borrow the aid of outside show. The modern John Bull is veneered in toto. He is veneered in his political, religious, and economical ideas and principles ; for all his new ones, at least, are only skin-deep, adopted without due inquiry, and paraded for sh ow i n the eyes of man kind. He is veneered in his n ew -b orn patronage of the ;n music, of which, as a science, he has no concep -;nt of taste not knowing good f rom b a d ; in painting, of which he much affects a love, but neglects the simple sterling beauties of his own school for mon strous exaggerations, the work of men as tasteles s as himself ; in sculpture, which he takes blindly upon trust. In his scientific knowledge (except where there is a spe ciality) he is essentially veneered ; being taught that he can skin over his illogical intellect with vague theory sh o t with technicalities, and th a t h e can cram into a mere corner of his mind a general acquaintance with all, when any one is enough to exhaust a b e i ng ' s w hole 111 e. And so we might go on running the f anc if u l p ara ll e l ad infini tum. He is born under a veneered constitution, receives a veneered education, and passes his life amid a very corrupt social system, veneered over with noble pretexts of morality. He lives in a stuccoed house—or fragile structure of rotten timber and porous bricks, faced with the real stuff ; he sits on veneered chairs, in veneered garments ; and he eats off veneered mahogany, with electrotyped plate. He imbibes with his breakfast his day's opinions from leading articles, the ne plus ultra of veneering and criticisms which do not even pretend to be anything but sup er fi c i a l ; and he passes his social hours in the midst of a ve neere d ga i ety an d refinement, and a still moreflagrantly ve neere d h osp i ta li ty. In his death, as in his life, h e is equally ost en t a ti ous an d d ecept i ve, f or he is buried in a joint-sto c k b ur i a l groun d , a sort of veneered imitation of the solemnity of ancient sepulture. amount ken, at n. At in ham er over Om' satin he mouth is a r ing 114<e that of Er I eould di le, rather su Ily feel judge to be ye that if it In feet in diameter st capacious organ, and Of alligator. The small size a nothing like the blowine dot bony---and from the bro n condition of the external coat of scales, I am satisfied before. observed, that the beast is now in its ' After .a little time it appeared evident that he as we could perceive him rapidly drifting - ‘.st side of Dunworly head ; and I one -yr feel with more rashness than dis resolved to try the effect of fire-arms in capturing -.re prepared, brought simultaneously The nose I t 1 a soft flesh-likesubstano at ti: h I ni him. Fotir riff to bear on +1 and directir animal's head, all tQ aim fo coating v Ind giving the word myself the eye turned towards us, utaug. ,1,7111, leic plc..va Ina vuncy , Lae SUMS taking eviuent effect. His first movement was to shake his head and wink the wounded eye in a rapid manner, and then, as if to cool the painful wound, he suddenly dived. since when T havn't had the slightest trace of him, either by my own observation or through others.—l am, your obedient ser- ROGER W. MAYERS. Since the above letter was received, says the Constitu tion, the following information on the same subject came to hand : Monday last a party of gentlemen belonging to this city were enjoying a sailing excursion, in the Antelope yacht, belonging to Mr. Wheeler, alone the coast from Glan dore to Kinsale. Passing the Old Head of Kinsale, the day unusually fine, they observed an extraordinary commotion of the sea, apparent to every one on board. The bay of K; - , le was at the fi' In a f-- time .ed with fisn. _ew mo ments they perceived a large serpent-like fish on the sur face, that could nabe less than 120 feet in length. In shape it resembied a king funnel of an immense steamer. Unfortunately they were not sufficiently near the monster to give a description of the head and body. After lying on the surface for a few minutes it suddenly dashed ahead with a velocity, as far as could be seen for a distance of two miles, of at least 60 miles an hour. It then disap peared. It was believed that the sea serpent must have been in pursuit of the shoals of fish that thronged the bay. It is a singular circumstance that notwithstanding the unusual quantity of fish that was observable the Kinsale hookers were most unsuccessful, as it was stated that they did not obtain a single take during the evening. The gen. tlernen who have witnessed the visit of this monster, and whose statement is detailed above, may be relied on a 3 above all suspicien. Eriitval lirtllaiw, General Haynau left Lon Ton on Friday, still suffering from the injuries received at Barclay's brewery. The tobacco pipe makers of Leeds have struck for an advance of wages. A new Roman Catholic cathedral was consecrated in York on Wednesday. Hannah Curtis, who murdered her husband at Glouces ter, is to be transported for life. Offers have been made to purchase the Lincoln Theatre, for the purpose of converting it into a hall for lectures and public meetings. The Hermann steamer arrived from New York at Cowes, where she landed her passengers, and proceeded to Bre men. Her advices were anticipated by the Cambria. During two days last week Hannah Clarke, an old woman aged seventy-nine, might have been seen shear ing in a field at Hellsfeld, near Kendal. A man named Lucy was suffocated at York, on Thurs day, by falling into an open cess-pool in one of the streets. There is need for sanatory reform here. An equestrian statue of the Queen is about to be erected in Glasgow,—the first equestrian statue of a woman in Great Britain. A straw bonnet maker of London has sent out a man dressed in a straw hat, straw coat, straw waistcoat, and straw pantaloons, as a puff to his shop. Forty-six churches have been erected and fifty clergymen added to the Roman Catholic mission in Scotland during the last ten years. On Tuesday night, above twenty sheep were killed while straying or, the South-western railway, near Esher, by being run over b y a tra i n. Aninnkeeper at Darlington, named Coates, destroyed himself a few days since by shooting himself, in conse quence of suspicions as to his wife's fidelity. The Master-General of Ordnance has given an assur ance, through Sir G. Grey, Bart., that, for the present, at least, the ramp Arts of Berwick would not be disposed of. The reports from all parts of the country concur in stating that the weather for the l a st f or t n i g ht h as b een most favourable for the ingatherin g o f th e h arvest. The Douglas Mill, belonging to Messrs. Gilroy, at Dundee, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday morn i ng . Nothing but the bare walls remain. On friday a fire broke out in the goods yard of the Nottingham railway station. It is reported that the con sequent loss will be upwards of £l,OOO. amework, and be bis perilous situation was discovered he was nearly rangled. Assistance was procured, but the poor little llow lingered for about two hours, when he died. A WATER DISPUTE AT BATH.—A few days since ap ication was made to the Master of the Rolls to restrain to Corporation of Bath from supplying water to any street therto supplied by the freemen—the latter having en wed by Act of Parliament to give a good supply, and le Corporation being bound not to interfere with their Light in rights. The Master of the Rolls refused the injunction. At Castletown, in the Isle of Man, on Saturday, some children were playing at " hide and seek." A little girl looked under the bed, with a candle, to find her brother. The bed-clothes caught fire, and the motherwas so severely burnt in endeavouring to extinguish them, that she ex pired on Monday morning. The two children were also severely burnt, and the little boy isnot expected to recover. A LONG SHOT.—On Thursda j y last, as Henry Marshall, Esq., was shooting in the neighbourhood of Derby, with a gun made by the celebrated Westley Richards, he killed a partridge at the great distance of 117 yards. The bird happened to be flying in a direct line with the covey, from which Mr. Marskill killed his right and left, in addi tion to the one killed at the long distance just mentioned. NEW MODE OF ADVERTISING.—The inventive genius of the metropolitan advertisers has adopted a rather novel and amusing mode of bringing their wares before public notice. On Friday a dog, covered over with advertising placards, perambulated the Strand and Fleet-street, attracting particular notice, and exciting much amuse ment. T'ie Lord's-day Society, in Carnarvon, have offered prizes of ten and three pounds for the best and second best essays on the Lord's-day, its due observance, the evils of its violation, and the blessings which result from keeping it holy. The essays to be in the Welsh language, to be written by operatives, and not to exceed 20 pages octavo, in brevier type. The merchant steamer Brunswick, of Plymouth, Capt. Thomas Russell, in making her accustomed passage from Guernsey to Torquay on Wednesday morning, about half past one o'clock, it being very dark, unfortunately ran down a boat hailing from Brixham, which was drifting for pilchards. Two men aged GO and 63, sunk with the boat, but the third, aged 22, son of one of those drowned, was saved by the Brunswick's boat. On 'Monday night, the village of Harbo)s, St. Ives, was thrown into the greatest confusion by the sudden outbreak of a fire, which involved in flames and reduced to ashes a large farmhouse, with all its stock of hay and straw, and eleven cottages, the inhabitants of which are now sheltered in the church, which was in .tantly opened for their reception. It originated from some children playing with lucifer matches near some hay and straw. By a parliamentary return just issued, it appears that there is in the hands of the government the sum of £1,107,09G 13s. ld. arising from forfeited end unclaimed shares of prize-money, grants, &c. In October, 1849, there was paid to the Woods and Forests,' towards the Royal Military Asylum, the sum of £20,000 from these monies. [This arises mostly from the claimants being dead before the prizes were awarded.l THE DUKE OF CLEVELAND'S GIFT TOWARDS A Ro- MAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL.—We questioned the truth as to the spirit of a paragraph which has appeared on this subject, in our last Journal. The simple fact of the case was, that the duke had sold the site of the projected new chapel to the parties at the high valuation of land in that borough ; but, in consideration of the largeness of the sum, returned one hundred pounds out of the same. — Shrewsbury Journal. CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—A few days since, while some men belonging to the Old Gas Company were putting a gas branch into a shop in Candlerigg-street, London, they fell upon a rat's nest beneath the pave ment, containing one yard of pack-sheet and a letter ad dressed to Mr. William Scott, cabinet-maker, Candlerigg street. The letter was dated 20th August, and the seal was unbroken. Strange to say, the gas men were putting the pipe into the very shop of the individual to whom the letter was addressed. How either it or the packsheet found its way into the nest was a mystery. FATAL OCCURRENCE.—Mr. Rees, the wife of a trades man at the Hotwells, when taking a walk on Monday last with her family in Leigh Woods, gathered something.she supeosed to be mushrooms, but which unfortunately was a very poisonous sort of fungus. On her return home in the eveninc , she cooked them and g av e th em t o h er th ree children and e ' an apprentice, and ate heartily of them her self. The consequence was .they were very soon seized with the usual symptoms of poisoning, and Mrs. Rees and her youngest child have since died, and the others remain in a helpless condition. • DESTRUCTION OF A LIME-LADEN SHIP.—On Tuesday week a schooner, named the Farmer, of Sunderland, laden with a cargo of lime, sailed from Sunderland for Scot land. On arriving off the Coquet Island she was dis covered to be on fire. The captain immediately resolved to put back, and they had reached Tynemouth, when an explosion took place, and the decks blew up. The dan gerous state of the vessel being observed by the crews of two steamboats, which came alongside, they towed her into Sunderland harbour, the flames all the time rising several feet in height. The vessel was moored, on the Potato Garth, and continued to burn far several hours until she became a total wreck. Sir Arthur Chichester's sport in the - Loc - hcarron forest during the month has been unprecedented. In one week be has brought down seven deer—one particularly a very fine stag—and mortally wounded other four ; all good shots. His sport on the moors has been equally success ful. One afternoon he shot 20 brace of old cocks, and caught a number of salmon the same evening. DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT NEATH.—Up the vale on Thursday last, the son of May, the ostlerat the " Castle," was driving two men and a woman in a return car from Merthyr; and in descending the Poutwallby-hill, about three miles the other side of the " Lamb and Flag." where the navvies were blasting on the railway, an explo sion took place as they were crossine the bridge ; the horse shied, and whirled the car against the temporary railing on the bridge, which gave way, and the horse, car, and its contents, were instantly hurled down a precipice of forty feet ! One man was killed on the spot. Young May died in a few hours. The woman's dress acted as a parachute, and conveyed her in apparent safety to the bottom ; and the other man, who was dead drunk, walked away, a little the worse for the fright. But it is since found that he sustained internal injury, from which he expired on Monday morning. The woman, too, is not evpected to survive. The car was smashed to pieces, and the horse a little scratched on its hind leg. May was buried at Lamptwit, on Sunday. afternoon, the road being literally crammed from the Union to the top of the Cemetery.—Bristol A STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY.—At the Sunder land Police-court, the other day, in the investigation of a case wherein a watch had been discovered which was stolen from the person of an officer of the River Wear Police, about twenty months ago, a singular revelation was made concerning two parties. A brief recapitulation of the case will he interesting. On Monday se'nnight a man named George Snaith, presented himself at the shop of Mr. William Wilson, pawnbroker, Pilgrim-street, in Newcastle, and desired to sell a watce. The pawnbroker refused to give the price asked, but agreed to lend INs. on this and another watch. As is the custom, the pawn broker, prior to lending the money searched his books where lists of stolen goods are registered, and then dis covered that the ffrst watch spoken of was that stolen from Mr. Ralph Apnison, an inspector of the River Wear Police, on the 17th January, 1849. Mr. Wilson at once sent for an officer and gave Snaith into custody ; Snaith was at once taken in eharge and sent to Sunderland, when he stated he received the watch in part payment for board and lodging, from a sailor named William Ridley. A Sunderland officer was duly despatched to take Ridley into custody; wherever he might be found ; and, curiously enough he learned that Ridley had signed articles to go a voyage to Quebec, and the vessel was just about sailing. The officer followed him down the river in a steamer, and took him into custody. Ridley at once admitted that lie gave the watch to Snail h, and said lie had bought it from a sailor a long time before. Evidence was adduced to show that Ridley had been in possession of this watch almost immediately after the robbery, and had left it with a publican as security fot debt about that time. The magistrates, therefore, had no difficulty in sending Ridley to trial, and Snaith was admitted Queen's evidence. The singular part of the story remains to be told. Ridley is nephew to Mr. Annison, from whom the watch was stolen. Annison received great violence from the thief, having been knocked clown from behind by some heavy weapon, and afterwards cruelly kicked in the face by the feet of the robber. He was thus rendered unable to swear to the thief ; it was quite dark at the time and much blood flowed from the wounds on his head into his eyes. Annison was taken home by a Mr. Clarke, a baker, who heard some one moaning in the street as he lay in bed. On the following day, his nephew, the prisoner Ridley, went to his house to see him, pretendedly out of sympathy : although he had never been in the habit of visiting him. The fact was that the prisoner had been twice convicted of felony, and there fore his uncle—the stern officer of justice—never gave him any countenance. Perhaps from this slight the prisoner felt he owed his uncle a grudge. Well then, Snaith having been admitted evidence and discharged, applied through his solicitor, Mr. Cooper, for the restoration of the £2O which he had deposited as security for his appearance on the day of the remand to answer the charge. But the police step in and say, " you, Mr. Snaith, kept a house of ill-fame in the Low Street, Sunderland ;"you were sum moned to answer an information to that effect, and you unceremoniously decamped from the town. Notwith standing this, your case was gone into, and you were fined in two penalties of £5 each ! Hence we want £lO out of the £2O deposited,"—and they got it ! Snaith left Sunderland about two months ago, and is now en gaged as a provision-dealer at the Ouseburn, in New castle-upon-Tyne. AN ABSCESS IN THE BREAST CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—About three years since, MTS. O'Flaherty, of Mill- street, Cork, accidentally bruised her breast. For months afterwards, the pain increased, and the part became fearfully swollen. Various applications were tried without giving,the least relief; and ultimately an abscess formed, dischirging a great quantity of humour, which debilitated kerrconstitution to an alarming extent. At this stage, iviady strongly recommended her to try Holloway's Oiitment and Pills, having witnessed their good effecta r on former occasions, which advice she fol lowed,, aid these fine medicines answered mos t satisfac torily, for the wound was soon healed, and her health is now completely renovated. on the aitheF r:onktifnorto,tcoof T i 0/0 doattered over bout Holland uleh a ri n ANTI -RACES ng , Called by the !lad all there t Tc ro uro 9 ; pe ntant ones were Pu ce , of t e at bt' ,esPl- Ate id , foodlbloptaweinligneigucires:tvice rrlanies1:11:3(1:, \.ol;ifij Tuesday last:—" THE RACES. tecou'i, ha annah.n Sq" - - e pveMW.:r 5 ~b 0 „m,A .—UPRCiARIOTTS Ow- vo ila!) be beo D. Comm ber of ino sh amateurs t h o ! i f a l _:.s h u:::::1 : 1 ,P i L no l d l c Utl Y John itti t h e estvislegvn' at t endantl u l a ip - - 0 ; 1 - th —l e rii"::.herry, ch,.:, o h n l attend. C Beedatn C Green, incumbent o id: e harleswortb • f Partle of ' P r ' , vicar o i icar os ..ats' vicar of curate ; William Warne , c h .Tb°°,atory James E. Haiii l c ia a ycock, William Jess °P ' 1 1, !Ze Dottri(!t:to bent Y, Independent minister.; J.:„ n oin.te„„.tr, Baxter, &c. &c. At thew tinlerihe n•lftellf, meeting uw , the Guildhall was crode,d,,Yovel°l7oo. ;110 being Pards of 1,000 persons, chieflY or '''t coaf asl ..Tieptesent. Amidst a good deal of canes'' them Whiteithhichair,al the Rev. C. R he had made a . If but ,o . with such •R. - dig , ' ted hroi °e 'b nirt s a O O Ilford presented L ., t e A , disgraceful interruption ,o ist f r otn Plo! , Person .-- s assembled that he had to °I gr• ee nst s ti who is described .. d that _. , . adjourned for twelve months, 'a m otion W"tbe b" f t 11 1 with applause, and, on being seconded by ote 0 0 1, William had i l:I ' l b i. h ,Coope r a eCra a a m u n a s - ma e U dh pa pa a n r a di passed o t t a e a na e ß r r d l , memberis ' a t n a o At s ) h t , na h effe e ic-ktr h gßo o hh: was if h a' ee, d b c a wrCv a t°t i. ii chairman is t r r entc.ur i i b e a ns . n t d ° l 9 : 33fl ' 4 -f e ' sl:°l . ,e bl i r A euinti yr i I' 81'1.-itc A i t c :e°l : 0 ' r-f ' n Aj j' i 5 : iCle° o p G:v 11:111. the 'st d e r' 'ni t : f° r t ° 4 ri i o n is' 14.: i r e4B i d ' 7 lit . 1 5 e j , jo ell. :T l ; ' dance ofo Inn, who a the meeting, the ent • Drug' lattP i to was entertainment which he p o to t s carried amidst loud laughter a n b Pr Ply to ° ~ of chairman then declared the meeting - _.,,,A b; d' p that day (AM he I 'no proposed a vote of thanka,tn sad, 3 ". p twelve months, which was •--. I , ja ty e pPood of hooting, and a threatening demonstratto , s , e o tt mi. i m i c i , r. Denison, .. the platform. Fortunately, however, i's"pdfilbr:o the meeting was diverted from the retiril4., the obi of ofant,i-race party by a mob orator rejoicing r h o fr r ' General Jackson." Mr. Alford 09 ° , h ° , 04' 0 1 received in the street by sellingy in ivrtital°' 1°1" party were • • tlemort, `" - ne'r'," joined by that gen plot - tb toi ) them to Mr. Baxter's house, on the w ere of getting beyond the last gas 10105 ston e a n d tared the drawing-room of his house, 1' .c.<4 One hit Mr. Baxter on the hea d '4o ° C . injury was sustained. A liA"ra.,,r°l Wednesday three foreigners, one of °I br" por out DESPERATE ATTACK UPoN GOO. l ' 1,00) 10,, moustachios, presented t.em selves ~ t he 1 , at the eV Messrs. Barclay and Co., London, I°f% tot `ccti hooting an d,,,,, - lin ati bi g e;:,!r;ccoA' .. ,3 1 inspecting the establishmen Accorch, t o 01 4 practice of visitors, they were reenesitrei, tbeftbe,fi, names in a book in the office, after yr 1 o ctileg 1• 0 0 a# the yard with one of the clerks. On in s)/ of the 1t It roe ) tors' book the clerks discovered that ollote.00P;00,0 was no other than General Haynan, the on 10 0. pi of the Austrian forces during the o,nngiess t s,/ became known all over the brewery . 01 coptnaroti minutes, and before the general and his ~ on or' crossed the yard nearly all the labour.e_L: 0 0,4 tot P j were out wilh brooms and, dirt, aboutnitbets eer', with the Austrian butcher," and other eifito soettopeof an alarming nature to the general- He Men s ,,ilorOtit with dirt, and, perceiving some or I ",,,:ije, r" bei when forcing the doors open 0 1 IV attack him, ran into the street to Dar..-e„, co .0 1 a largeconsisting of the brewers 0' _ s , 0 1 0 1 0 oP 'C 0 1 and others, armed with all sorts of vas l P - frantlfc) they belaboured the general. lie roll, irotrse pa is r furious mob rushed in after him, along Bankside until he came to rushedhe ue 4 , a nti P o te l f i o 4i ment of Mrs. Benfield the landlady, beb'e utterchgo Ili upstairs into one of the bedrooms, t° t s oon g o , 1 11/ who , or bol If/ that time to several hundreds, his name and the reason of his entering I ! _,,to doe . '.' Austrian butcher," but fortunatelY f°l.lober rooofill Is very old-fashioned and contains a vast n f 00 64 0 which were all forced t tb nt ° b in openaexcep which the general led The rOolgl, ~ was conce • d g o . De ,bei-tyt alarmed about her own propertY as w-es9e'llo't life. She accordingly dospatched 0 Doe of t e j 0 , Southwark police station for the assistasorif.,ooo/1 and in a short time Inspector *lfilltb grettil George with a number of police, an With ° 1 •oto r ; p l dispersed . the mob and , got the genera .._O, 1 0. A. police galley was at the wharf at thell7,boo4", he was taken and rowed towards oMer'liessv forotil the shouts b. lerktiO, and execrations of the ra n i tbo o ecr ) are very indignant at the conduct o'. I nto re9l , 0 4:0 doubt ast •ti • ' •be tern 1- r doi , li g' tic inquiry will en f Sate o f . coo origin of the attack. The Vogl 0 ~.,„09 ott., condemning this assault, says that a ' A -- frooLi r first dropped upon the general il P - hes. mte..„„ .1 vier ° 10010 ilsol storl4. and missiles of every IE I , moat O Do without scruple. The ferocity of his ~t t ocite d e ft) with• their confidence, and they w on " bis 0 to hand. His hat was knocked over oboOsbe Pitched from one place to another ; b i tita Ng ell from his back, and one mans seising endeaYeured. to. cut it off. , i anthrefitpeiniii;::_cotopf:: the poor fellotv had performed nearly fort Stokes bas experienced but very little in novel aerial excursion. THE CHAUTIST COLONY AT SNIGY_ Feargus O'Connor has commenced legal p the purpose of reoswering rents from the 152 allottees at Snig's End, near Gloucester. On Wednesday last, bailiffs proceeded from that city to serve 52 writs. The colonists, who had got intelligence of the coming storm, he meeting on the preceding evening END. coceedi4 arrang&ients. On the Appearance of the bailiffs they intimated that they would " manure the land with their blood before it should be taken from them." The bailiffs did not make a levy, being convinced by the statements of the colonists that it xvniihi hp csa.uk ampl because a most determined resistance would have been offered to them, and the colonists are now awaiting with some anxiety the next step of Mr. O'Cannor towards his " children."—Cheltenhain Journal. RAPID INTERCHANGE.-It requires a shorter time for the actual transit of a message from London to the Frepch coast than is necessary for tracing upon the paper the shortest word in the English language. Some three thousand years ago Homer talked of " winged" words; we doubt if even he imagined they would ever cleave their way through space at such a rate as this. Communica tion with Paris is not even a question of seconds. At present no doubt a message must be first forwarded to Dover ; at Dover a delay will take place, another at Cape Grisnez, and so on through France ; but these are mere points of detail now that the chain of communication has been carried across the bed of the ocean. Some few ar rangements are all that is requisite in order to render a sustained conversation between two persons, the one in Landon, the other in Paris, not merely a possibility but a fact. GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL.—Some time since we bad much pleasure in noticing the gallant conduct of a young gentleman belonging to the Lady Catherine Barham, on a voyage to the West Indies, who volunteered into the Sardinian brig Providenza, met upwards of 1,000 miles at sea, with the yellow fever raging on board ; master and mate dead, and several of the crew dead and dying; and who, although only eighteen years of age, safely navigated the brig to Genoa, at the risk of his life, with a reduced and sickly crew of Italians, not one of whom could speak English. So fatal was the nature of the disease, that on the'arrival of the vessel at Genoa, the Custom-house officer who was put on board died in a few hours. As a sequel to the occurrence, the Sardinian Government has transmitted a gold medal to Mr. Wood, the gentleman alluded to, as a reward for his " profes sional skill and great personal risk." THE ANTI-STIFF-HAT-ASSOCIATION.—In theßirrning ham Herald there is a letter from a gentleman signing himself " Hatophobia," who suggests the organisation of a society to discountenance, by example and precept, the wearing of hats. He says :—" As a sufferer from the per verse fashion of wearing hard, black chimney pots on the heads of all who would not appear singular, I observe, with great consolation, that our French neighbours pro pose to exhibit a variety of hats at the exhibition next year. Certainly no part of British male costume—ugly as it is, from hat to boot, and senseless and costly as it is ugly—no part is more odious than the covering we are doomed to wear upon our heads from year to year, and from generation to generation, as if we were as perversely determined to stick to one fashion as Turks and Quakers, without the lightness of the one and the shadiness of the other. I have resolved myself to set the world at defiance ; and if the hatters are so obstinate as to invent nothing more comfortable than heavy felt and pasteboard pots by the time of the exhibition of 1851, I shall do without them altogether. I trust you will lend your powerful aid in favour of the anti-stiff-hat movement.' h I sy e A z d u e P a PI CambrianeAr wasOd nr drovers, e r e i re d se a d y, t , 00 t fo h kfi e followingvpela sovereigns oh t l hu seln ta A pl l vr o aelt E si lu dicrous occurrence,. illustrative of a method of punish la h ß se N i d road leading from Barnet to St. Albans. On Wednesday and some silver by a gang of thimble-riggers. The Welshman on reaching Barnet fair, told his mates, who vowed to take sum mary vengeance on the delinquents. On Friday the fair having concluded, the Welshmen were wending their way with their unsold stock to Ilollybush fair, and had but just cleared the town when a school of these swindlers were observed plying their avocations at the end of a lane. On seeing them a sart of council was held, when it was determined to seize upon and mount them upon the unbroke animals. It is necessary here to state that the mod e o f d r i v i ng horses adopted by Wesh drovers differs m a t er i a lly f r om that pursued by English men, inasmuch as the Welsh horses run as free as on their own mountain wilds, with a few of the drivers mounted and armed with long thonged whips to keep the herd in some kind of su bjection. Notwithstanding the efforts of the drovers, the gang, with the exception of the person who worked the pea and thimble, effected their , escape ; him, they succeeded in capturing, and instantly mounting him on one of the ponies, fastened his legs, so that he could neither dismount nor be thrown off; the drove was then p ut in motion at a quick unev e n gallop, peculiar to the mountain breed, amidst the o:touts and yells of the drivers, who at intervals gave the cu lp r it sun dry lashes with their long whips, nor did tY,ey desist until the drove reached South Mims (a distance of four miles), where the prisoner was released, thomughly galled,, chafed, and back sore, to return to hi compsli • msl 'n iniquity. 4 v ht t , 40 . 01,1 `.44 "ent 14 4 Ni Ih6, 0 till "`ltt ti ers a„ l It ' : q h i , i t It e ' l4l t i taii !() 1 117,!q: k 114 i °II t P°ll, 'Sa j~4 ~~h ~, , p ~e~ ~~. 1 ~` t ` ~ Y (\ „~~ l\ i~~~ los 1 .° ll t