The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-17 00:00:00

The roses an With their But though 1 When Midsr Turning p They hfing, o In ruby ar How delic What pl And see a 6 And the ThOri'OA not be child t garden s and sv ra tt )ETRI RUITS. LIZA C ;' site hut an falls with dew, a string Itckens which a ' beaten in union wor 1 paap the blo Imphed aid lov greatly injured by IRISH PECUL Tence to the cum red but d into tlic arid hi prevailed— s victo J to su of this pecul 'i m M flAmprl vered; vet th( 1, the m TARITY of the ease with disgrace of having beeh short while since. In a ;ome of the able-bodied by - a few stow in rushed to the rescu absequ ich mar a day c s of tl i to b en's net THE LIVERPOOL gTANDIII% AN AGED REAPER.--Betty . Muckalt, of Lindale-in- Cartme!, widow, aged 83 years, has regularly attended 'the harvest this season on the Castle Head Estate, the property of Robert Wright, Esq., and reaped and tied up 10, 11, and as far as 13 hattocks of 10 sheaves to the hat tock, per day—in all she reaped 81 hattocks. A few days since a young gentleman was practising the discharge of fire-arms on the high road near Surrey, when the first ball he fired missed the mark, and lodged in the elbow of a groom on the opposite side of the road. The bones of the arm were completely smashed, and amputa tion had to be resorted to. _ _ On Sunday week the alarm previously excited by the partial sinking of the centre arch of Blackfrian-bridge, London, was considerably increased by a further decline of the same arch having evidently taken place towards the Middlesex shore. It is believed that, should any further sinking occur, the authorities will direct the closing of the bridge. _ _ EXTRAORDINARY SIGFIT.—OR the morning of Monday se'nnight, about five o'clock, the travellers on the road between Greenwich and Woolwich were astonished by Seeing the highway actually covered with millions and millions of young frogs or tadpoles, similar to the-flight of locusts which invade and devastate whole countries at a sweep.—Maidstone Journal. SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—SORIO two or three months ago as Locke, porter, of Gloucester, was cutting a corn on one of his feet, he accidentally passed his knife too deeply, and caused the corn to bleed. The leg subse quently mortified, and Locke, who is an old man, after had his limb amputated last Satur- suffering grea THE MUSSEL TRADE the b —During the last three weeks arcross have been reap- jog a rich harve4, by supplying mussels for the London market. From 20 to 30 tons are sent off every evening, and for these the men are remunerated at the rate of ls. rakes them a handsome return for s are retailed in London at one penny per quart ROBERT ON Owen' " EXHIBITION OF 1851."—Robert s opinion of this unfortunate world has not im- He says, in a letter to a contemporary—" The d in all the districts into which proved world, as i it has bee and folly. rtificially divided, is a compound of misery It everywhere exhibits absurd farces, incon nedies, and cruel tragedies." He then asks, .s, "Why the most, a'tive )e adopted upon r 1 principles R ELECT tis a medical 'ood, he witn, sed a very remarkable phenome fectly dark, not a star being visi ill of electric fire, apparently as circumference o t, fell from the 1 c light A WARNING TO RATE-PAYFRS.—An old. woman in a parish near Caine, who had been receiving parish relief for forty years, has just been discovered to have hoarded up £175 in cash, which she kept concealed in her room. On further inquiry it was found that she also possessed £4OO in the savings-banks. _ _ _ _ The Bishop of Oxford, Mr. Page Wood, M.P., and Mr. Roundell Palmer, Q.C., M.P., have consented to act as adjudicators of a prize of one hundred guineas for the best Essay on the Laws respecting the Protection of Women, offered by the Society for Improving and En forcing the Laws for the Protection of Women. . . A poor Hindostanee, a hawker of tracts, committed sui.: cide at Wincanton, in Somersetshire, last week, because his wife had absconded with another man, while they were at Bristol. taking with her about £4 in money, and 1.000 tracts. He obtained the use of a knife to cut his food, and with it cut his throat. A blacksmith, from Ryehope, having mortgaged some property for the sum of £l5O, took the cash down to Sunderland, where he commenced to drink and rick about in cabs for a whole day, until he entirely lost himself and fell asleep. When he awoke he found himself in a low public-house, and all his riches had taken wings and flown away. _ At the Birmingham police court, on Friday, a boy named Henry Smith, only twelve years of age, was charged for the fourth time with having been found drunk and incapable of taking care of himself. It ap peared that he was in the habit of boasting of the quan tity of liquor that he could drink with impunity, and his father stated that every means had been vainly tried to reform him. _ _ MIRACULOUS ESCAPE son, very dull ( on Monday ,—Sophia Quibbs, an aged per bad a narrow escape from death ossing the railway to go to the She wa Catholic Chapel, when, on account of her affliction, she did not hear a coal train coming up. She was struck by the engine, and pitched on her back between the rails. The men who saw her cried " Lie still," and 33 waggons passed over her without doing the least injury to her, ex cept slightly grazing one of her ankles.—Shields Gazette. GRAND A detac and of ( hole of he Hol Ch - urch, B FIRE . AND I chandler and b( day evening. first d and att way to the apartments where her ing. A like attempt by other A woman n of her fruit nesdav, wa Cooney, who was sitting by the side -stall in Whitelion-street, London, on Wed by a woman of respectable appear- ance, who requested her to take care of her infant for a moment, while she called on a person in the neighbour hood. The fruitseller good-naturedly complied with the request, but, to her consternation, the woman never that the deserted infant was ul AN arket, a bet made f Mr. Will George Knight, two master bakers, that the latter would not, without any assistance, make up and set in his own oven 150 loaves in 30 minutes. The wager came off last Thursday morning, in the presence of several bakers and Mr. Knight made and set in, in a proper the short space of twenty minutes manner, 164 loay , and a half, which after the rate of eight ir, by 11 minutes on the by the secretary of ti John Ross, giving ;In Hudson Bay Company from Sir Is of his expe ! letter is dated Sir John Fl toe, 1850," where Sir Jo had succeeded at that place in ierstood the Danish lan th for his arduous voyage, ux who u in that, to follow the usual course up the cast side of 11 The Scotsman stat letter to Prince Alber .hat the Duke of Atholl wrote a Scotland, lay the four s he were first mad ciined to be initi ing to the customs. at Edinburgh unl The Prince d and 'wrote to Provost stating the reason why he could not participate in the ceremony. Men learned in the of Scotland convinced the Prince that law and customs Duke of Atli°ll's statements were groundless, and Edinburgh had the pleasure of seeing his royal highness officiate at the Dlained to the Marlhoroueh- n that that man at the door told ti women entered the shop, bougl ; the shopman threw the coil nanded ls. 1 ; snatches Mr. Bing long the lot was one with- ;helter f the v 17. besi t of S !otch I Stallur, terian e. but ble fire destroyed an s occupied by M R. tuticr, ick. on Thu Butl 3vered by ted in vain to make her ix children were sleep lso failed, until the bright as the A several being only v hbourhood.] f 'UNPOWDER. he com- Ts and Miners, under .hief engineer officer of the dis- hat, and as ens. It occu parations for the great explosion three months. The cliff is hete ch sixteen tons of into the cliff and 400 feet along 600,000 tons of chalk will be nd tumble into the sea by the ject of the exptri grandest ever witnes are now completed, and he 19th instant ANCE.—One evening 1 week, a Carmarthen, w Le tomb h an motion upon li he de( he bon( ri a most curious i PATOR." r of pr A pub- g a testi )r, Thomson, of t in fay incumb y f print q.. presid, d, anc r. An( Baines, Georg€ in St. Pi the pl OF LIP tailor, with conspirir akinz wine witl Londo n whom sf carried on busir shop to Goose the furniture lacte over to him, after k place, resulting in the poor woman from her shop. Her stlcl and the good debts due to her £46, mal left a balance in her favour of £3l, with furniture and fixtures. The result wa she had lost er stock. fixtu £ll6, which nd her If had not ents of the case, tl creditors had not been paid, and s sixpence kit. After several adjourn] prisoners were committed for trial at the a ADVENTURES OF A PARROT.—A favour parrot, the property of William Bullock, Promises to become a sagacious and valuable bir been for the last month domiciled with a lady vicinity of Ailstone-hill, in order to finish his education in the certain drapers in Ox wind6w - marked " 1 also was 1 back the dr in the County Court On Sunday a horse took fright at the top of Sno London, while dragging a four-wheeled I.haetori. shop-front t the shutters of the torn down, the large lisped, the gas 1 the aperture made 'in . the entered the driver), ment. his wite, The horse st the haber nd child, were thrown upon the pa fell upon the stallboard of the wind( parties received very tri . injury, but. the horse was badly hurt. The phaeton SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE On Wednesday whilst a man was engaged sweeping a yard in Broad-street, near which some fowls were feeding, he observed a bird sud denly dart dowr seize one of the chickens, with which a off. when t man lifted his besom, and th he was flyir in flames, is chile d by handing them through a window to a man on a ladder outside; but he ugh it does not seem to scaping from the house .r, or, naving done so, returned to save some of his propert TRENCH CONTRACT FOR ENGLISH CAVALRY HORSES. For the last few weeks a great number of English horses _ o have been exported to France on account of the French government. There are several agents at present in this country for the purpose of making some very large pur chases of chargers for the remounting of the French bird d )pped his intended prey, but flew round and lighted on a tree in the immediate vicinity of the abduc ion, where it remained intently watching the frightened ►rood, till a gun was procured and the marauder was hot. It proved to be a fine specimen of the sparrow hawk, and perhaps deserved his fate for the temerity dis in his attempt at murder and robbery —in open ;lay - light—on a market day—in the face of a credible wit ness—and the police within hail !—On Friday last a simi lar attack was made upon a goldfinch in Widemarsh street. The cage containing the bird was pounced upon by a hawk, which shook it so violently as to force it from its fasteninps, and it fell to the ground. The creature did not leave its contemplated prey till scared away by the . . In the Insolvent Debtors' Court, on Wednesday, Mr. Joseph Stammers, the manager of the Wednesday Even ing Concerts at Exeter-hall, applied to be liberated on bail till his hearing. He commenced his musicEl project with £6OO, but " the receipts of his business were insuffi cient to meet his expenses," and his schedule now shows £3,742 of debts, and no property or credits. In 1849 his receipts for the concerts were £1,450: this year, £2,226. Among his expenses was nearly£l,ooo for rent of Exeter hall, and among his losses w, re those by the non-per formance of foUr of his concerts, although he was obliged to pay the performers. The Commissioner fixed the Ist of November for the hearing, and gave the liberty asked, taking surety for appearance to the amount of £l,OOO. MOB VIOLENCE.—MARSHAL HAYNAU AND MR. AL -The Morning Herald of Monday last, in animad verting upon the conduct of two of the metropolitan jour. nals relative to the late assault upon Marshal Haynau, FORD.- says :—" By an odd coincidence, it so happened, tha the very next number of the Times contained a report o a somewhat similar act of violence. A clergyrrt - Doncaster took the strange and injudicioo - calling a public meeting to discuss . course. By this ill-judged step, he so provoked th that they followed him through the streets, threw at him, and designed to throw him into a pond. purposes were wholly benevolent, and his error wa tirely one of judgment. But the Times could narrat, burst of public feeling without a word of censure fo mob, although that mob had attacked an English cl man, in the mild performance of his duty, in h' )rutality the evils of the r howev€ y. Let a similar me nnistat and it becc thy of the most condign punishment. line one whom Baron Ro im , rshal Haynau.' ;had ch call `my fri A PaiT man of good address, named Crosby. vs the Manion-house, on Monday, char , ught up obtained money from sev Croi ceedin his station, respectability and connexic a gentleman of fortune, formerly in the Is Jackson, of the German Naval Service, am all been deceived by the gentleman, who is repr( i oihers,-1 as a man of extraordir necdote ffairs. and with a v He representi address and f ,ecurate knowl Mr. Taylor t succeed Ad r rally, that I- :if Sir John Ror county in the Home Department, and would tak sii)le. He obtained numerous I Oar nd others written to t was discovered ti a boatswain had emp ABSENT I the Crosby rds a foreign alleged personification c the view of the Times, wor Ind why ? Evi Royal Navy of naval RETVRN OF A LONC of an early lov chronicle, has Cardif , accord Ldventu For no less than Evans had perished ,t 1 v °ea landed at Sheernes pidly accu quarrel with the captain of vessel a few days previous .vans a arty love faithful inamorata DEFRAIJD.-Or five children water` inquiry tacit►y d ) WITH CONSPIE Bff O. A shortly aft( that Long 'ded tt ward, at h his cor —One of t to his d Sep.l7!t I ADVENTURES OF TWO HUNGARIA? ---- „diet' , It was on the second evening after Raga's e . 'l 9 on . that a carriage stepped at the door of a noblecatousom sion in the county of T----. This country b°, l ido , situated in one of the finest parts of the noble va,,,,i,! the Waag, aside from the high road familyi voi s fe z .- ty much visited by connexions of lads 1011bbol, used to enjoy the hospitality of the family nobility from a distance, and by frie in the Cl hood, w ho, in the cheerful pleasures of social intebetio an d t ei u t , ties of the surrounding country for se veral . . in tO autur9n. During a whole year all had been W ai t , to Debreezin ; his beautiful wife and her younqh;t o mansion ; its possessor had followed Kossuth fro , eta kept house alone with a few trusty servants. _.,,De. ladies bad hastily stepped on to the balcony to no . - - "-^, and what guest co uw ic y • -.lle. .....ti few..ndered into the solitude of their rei.u.,. iar„ minutes the stranger stood before them, a"" , e " intrr , a letter from Debreezin. The tnaster of the 10 0 00 duced him as a flyrend and patriot, adding that he '',; to 6 B C h bao. . 0 of great importance, g' • T e hi , d to Vienna, and forwarded thence to . , o gt The ladies were requested to do all in tr. : t oga . him. Half the night was passed in ta ti ln o l : 0 e ether, and relating occurrences. The PI r, his io 7 as here first informed of the execution of hO i friend and tutor, took a solemn oath t° ac er 0 His passionate spirit, which might entlag t t oe, ' - difficulty of reachirg Vienna at t"l' dc oblf ' the line of the Waag Boa,Ore 5 ie importance of the 1,:,‘ tows aa...00 ....wes with the adventur _ Dili , l . the journey and executing the goo _, O l The scruples of their guest were g:.:•,0 e' - out on foot, •ht heft"' tgg eof circumstance : the same nig t hese n early hour the following morning, , wo raga! Y ssburg• Two day sand tnt" o , 0 0 r tie fed v journey, which, at othie,b ~..,, heir fine i - ea in horses, tin woul hay clad easa,l•„. pig/.1? I bearer of paper to assisi hed, togeth, with a ladies s c compu , Do tal° r— quently they had to climb steep mo . _ 4O O , the picket of 'an Austrian 011tp0St i i ere the , ' 'A i , it.tuied by fatigue, they reached the spot the xpected to find an open patb, they descobasci to t T ue , agry lowa half the night in a thicket, almost as ance a horse patrol of the enemy, an d d with fs fle 0 a g oob.h; i with hur in nervou.s, groan. =y - Hungary. One rog They had, in thetaanrbk, kne' g $1 , ~ e Ise t he. If n Who g ID. o p 411 110 6 / Ai ngth troseteha,eid:p they ea ire , e;ri, t for roo ur re d oc!. All prep-Fatl.27,svtinr7 r_ei 55 led byra female. b e k :io , n ea b p A )10V s, bs: bat bathe v 0 00 leo! . .nnu , 10 The two, the) . ,bo, iar To la 10 1 '""pies-"too , r u'des' from beite o rf th..;n e g thi to guardian, der„oo,- t their runty. O t o u ry,. n li t° be uae of' the govg ernme nt, B° d des aback f"i-beir of r ran ee a ba ck N ti i t he es e denbtirained there theY re ,i 1;, I ra •is 1 by O - woo' r ids) Ocoe on 'fronc l ton , :,,v TIE DV Ir Well declivity of tutO ln '' n wa s re red 9 cotle,„3 narrowly of Dover ' ..a the carriage was precipitated 0 be 0 Thic a , the aii east ;isle:, de. The post-boy lost 01110 r asa 0 0 0 re th e i d. o da horses fell, and the post -boy was thr° o c ey os a 0 t '.gze, but escaped unhurt. rflon the :0e of at the tine wallop.' avant 5 0 0,, mmectiately came up and asssisted the g thl s, 5 01 steel aboutf o for two sale du feet,r tinrehigtstoit°nhaf l e issrictistaimcgur:sr, 5,10-o,Pave:riail!ibs:llo!o:: of his carriage. Th e ve t er an genel cinespose ~ 0 . " :-- —mph he has b ee n ne d be -isg'_%;cl rner Castle, ver n about a quarter of a a the Deal-road, the post y took fright at the the roadsiot royal navy who wer l'he fol In t charmt them I v to A ladies lourr valley on tt Of th An Aust Old P. servants of and Henry t the rose.' the Pope and Queri A VITT'', e most r le cha ieillard racter in Hospice (IC At the ti His facult , n in the ye; i 109 years of age able ex paired, and he was a ren ample of manifests our wend( as organisation which sor human frame, and which nd that such delicate struct the nerve and hearing may be used for 0 Bit wearing out. Until witl Ile when I saw Jankens. ae space hin two be had vely. His hand equently wrote letters to When in his 109th year, lie thought to work nd steady, an fr his distant very rea! do - you r t give up work " I enjoy ray life _ )ui the whole day long, singing, smol ovsell. I spend my time very gaily ! ' I inquired ' replied ing, and His men nected Zvi ions of events con- of Louis VI. ; for when dier in t iustrian servic 'ormen one of tart' escort which conducted Marie Antoinete into France. e an old song, which had been composed in honour of the Royal nuptials, and which he said was very popular at the time. It was in the usual style of such effusions ; a mere string of hyperbolic compliments, in praise of the beauteous " Princess," and the " Illustrious Prince." It sounded like an echo from the grave of old French loyalty. Jankens sung this song in a remarkably clear, strong voice.—Dickens's Household Words. . THE FIXED PRICES OF GOLD.—An ounce of gold in this country, when taken for taxation or any other pay ment, represents some 751 days' labour at its fixed stand ard value of ls. Old. a day, as compared with the standard value of corn at 335. 4d. per quarter ; but at the existing taxation value of agricultural labour of ls. Gd. a day, it represents 53 days' labour ; and the Bank of England, in giving their notes in exchange for gold bullion, will vir tually be giving for Russian gold 53 days of English labour, costing £3 17s. 6d., for Russian labour co s ti ng 40 s . (equal to 26 days of English labour) ; and for Califor nian gold they will give or exchange 53 days of British labour for one day of American, or £3 17s. l 0 d. for the product of probably less than a single day's labour. A s labour is the source of all value, and consequently of gold and silver values in this and all other countries, we ask, How long will it be possible to carry on such an exchange of British labour for Russian and American, without un duly enriching those countries, injuring ourselves, and reducing this country to a state of paralysis? All capital is simply condensed labour, and the value and price of gold has hitherto rested on the supposed quantity of labour required to produce a given quantity or weight. We can neither eat, drink, clothe, or shelter ourselves with gold. The 20 millions that are now accumulated in the vaults of the Russian Government are as useless as the waters of the Dead Sea, so long as those millions lie in the vaults; but sent to this country they become living waters, that are day and night trickling their dividends into the pockets of the foreigner. The hitherto assumed productive cost of gold is now about to be succeeded by a greatly reduced actual cost ; consequently a revision of our standard will soon be sought for by the Directors of the Bank of England, who will not continue their notes in exchange for it at £3 17s. 9d.: in such case gold must be left to find its market value as a commodity, and we may have to return to paper money, assisted by silver, which will re-establish the mercantile pound of account as it existed prior to the change effected in 1819.—San dare's Elements qj Taxation. I. "TI e by the ies were tit _that vig basiu •om the Church of London fr •, cried trom apopie s the train was prod If putt dit , p - ose of him to a use of a tavern in nary feats 'ednesday 1 ,ham and back, 120 Mil der sixteen ye indon jouri d from the al, forty edles have re- breast of a youn N , ;ill car ips about to sail for Canterbury, in New y out every variety of English singing Atlers intend to set at liberty on land- The 11 r. J. V 'bed, a . Allies, Vicar of Launton, in a work nnounces his intention of resigning his just publ preferniel submi Laing to the Roman Catholic Church. EYRIE space, an dernande BITION OF 1851.-27,774 feet of floor or counter rid 24,243 feet of wall or hanging space, has been 2d by the 509 intended exhibitors for the metro- Parkhur nately i er attempt has been made by the inmates of st prison, to set fire to the building. Fortu t was discovered by a turnkey before it had time en Jan s of the county o f Northumi to the In for the lc chisive Commissioners - for I he drainage of land; )an of the large sum of £474,000. The bullion in both departments ot the Bank ot Ene land has decreased from £16,769,573 to £16,706,943, being a difference of £63,630. The paper in actual cir culation has decreased from £20,987,759 to £20,742,343., being a difference of £75,266. The Duke of Athol still closes Glen Tilt against all who have not a pass from himself, alleging that the late deci sion of the Court of Session only opens the glen to the three individuals who were pursuers in the late action against him. _ _ _ _ LIBERALITY. - It has been determined to enlarge Guinea-street Hospital, in Bristol. One gentleman alone, Mr. Eaton, has contributed towards it the munificent sum of £5,000, and Mr. George Thomas no less than £l,OOO _ An Irishman, in the employ of a farmer near Stafford, lately put a loaf of bread in a bag, and suspended it to a beam in a barn. A day or two afterwards, the Irishman found that a mouse had taken possession of his loaf, and had given birth to five little ones. A man named Glover died suddenly in the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, last Monday, whose neck was broken on the previous Saturday. It was supposed that the movement of the body displaced the broken bone, and caused immediate death. _ _ _ Lord Lyttelton protests against the absurdity of the idea of his seceding to the Church the head of which par dons all the sins of those who pray before the " Winking Madonna," and which winking a prelate of the same Church holds to be an imposition. The executors of Sir Robert Peel have remitted fees to the various medical gentlemen who endeavoured to al leviate the effects of the fearful accident, which was the means of terminating his life :—To Sir Benjamin Brodie, 250 guineas; to Alexander Shaw, Esq., 100 guineas, and to the other gentlemen proportionate sums. At the Plymouth police court, a few days ago, a barber named Isaac, against whom a complaint had been made for mutilating a little girl's hair, by cutting off severa 1 long ringlets, when he was only requested to thin ou t the hair, was fined 4s. and costs, and ordered to return the ringlets. The Times has published an official list, drawn up by the Austrian Government, .of 467 persons w h o were pu t to death by the Hungarian insurgents, in 1848 and 1849, in Hungary and Transylvania, partly by mobs or private individuals, and partly by order of the Magyar commis sioners, or by their tribunals and courts-martial. found wa CH FAX week frog at ls. for The c Zealand ,tal catal luent , en ext cavalry regiments, both ior 12,000, at the price heavy and light. The contract is of £25 per horse for the light ea- • valry, and £2B for the heavy troops,—cuirassiers, carabi ' - -- , nos, artillery, &c. Before they are sent off - -vamined by experienced regi veers, dragoons, artillery, Sct they will be thoroughly mental veterinary snrg, 3f the French army, who come over to this country for that purpose. In conse quence of this demand there is scarcely a vessel that arrives from Ireland which does not bring over from 30 to 50 horses of the very best breeds for this particular ser vice.—Times. days ago, in the columns of a London paper:—" To Elderly Gentlemen. A young lady of highly respectable connexions, rather.above the middle height, of an amiable disposition, agreeable temper, &c., is desirous of forming a matrimonial engagement with a gentleman (from deci ded preference) some twenty or thirty years her senior. To one of sensible mind, whose tastes and disposition resemble her own. and who could conscientiously, having no fortune of her own, offer her to share with him the refinements an uxuries of ife in exchange ful society and undivided affection of a confiding wife, this advertisement, which is of no common character, may be appreciated, but it will require an explanation before it can lose tse truly unfeminine cast it must ac quire in the eyes of its readers. It is requested no gen tleman under fifty, and none from idle curiosity, will made and courted, and inviolable secrecy imposed and relied on ere an interview be granted. Address, with real name, &c." SHOCKING MURDER IN ESSEX.—An inquest was held at Itomford on Friday, on the body of a female child, four years of age, named Elizabeth Plail, whose throat was cut by its own mother on Wednesday, under most extraordi nary circumstances. On Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Plail was seen, through the window of her house, to take up a razor from the table, and call the child to her, and, taking it in her lap, to cut it across the throat from the right ear round to the left. She then chucked the child up nearly as high as the ceiling, and rolled it down again upon the floor, under the sofa. She then tossed the razor at it, and went and sat down on the sofa. She pulled the child from under the sofa, and took it up a second time, and threw it up again to the ceiling, and then it rolled behind the door. She afterwards came out into the yard at the back of the hou Id called to one of the witnesses, " Bill, Bill, fetch a policeman, for I have killed Margaret." She was described as having been passionately fond of the child, almost worshipping - it, and as being unhappy and diseased in her mind, a medical gentleman having attended her for hypochondria, which he ascribed to a diseased liver, during the last fortnight. There is no doubt of her insanity. BURIED AND RETURNED AGAIN.—The Sun supplies what it calls " a suspicious case :—Early in the year 1842, when the cholera was mowing clown a plentiful harvest in Glasgow, Mr. —, a clerk in the employment of a well• known firm in that city, complained one evening of symp toms which seemed to give him some uneasiness as to his fate. Next day be was later than usual in appearing at his desk, and just as his employers were about to send to his home to inquire into the cause of his detention, his brother called to inform them that he had been taken ill over night with the cholera ; that he had died at an early hour that morning, and was already buried. Cases of this kind were so common that no further question was asked. Shortly after his death, his employers discovered that he had embezzled money belonging to them, to a considerable amount, although the precise amount of his peculations could not be readily ascertained, owing to the ingenious manner in which he had (to use a railway phrase) "cooked" his accounts. Some property which he had left behind him was applied to make good his de falcations, to the amount of £1,500 ; but there was rea son to believe that the total sum misappropriated by him considerably exceeded that amount. Immediately after his death, his brother deposited £l,OOO in notes with a Scotch bank. It was known to those familiar to him that the deceased brother was very fond of new notes, for which he always exchanged old ones whenever an op portunity afforded. This occurred eighteen months ago. On Sunday, the Ist instant, a man, with overgrown whiskers and portentous moustache, appeared in the church, a shDrt distance from the pew occupied by the family in question. Service had scarcely commenced, when this personage observed the two boys whom the de ceased had taught, whispering earnestly to each other, with their attention rivetted upon him. He no sooner observed this than he became very uneasy, and after the first psalm had been sung, closed his book, and walked out of the church. Since that time he has neither been seen nor heard of. It is thought that this must have been the presumed victim of cholera, and what has been buried as a substitute for his body is about to be sub jected to an exhumation.—[The Glasgow papers, which ought to be well informed, throw discredit on this story.] screams of some feet of the spot.- e females who were standing within a few —.Hereford Journal. THE RECENT POISONING AT BRISTOL.—In connexion with the recent melancholy occurrence at Bristol, whereby a poor woman and child lost their lives from the incau tious partaking of certain poisonous fungi, we may men tion that in the same city on Saturday week a large bas ket of what were stated to be mushrooms was publicly exposed for sale. From some information, however, which reached the clerk of the market, he caused the basket to be seized, when it turned out that there were vegetable fungus commonly called " chessaroons." They are to be found in'great abundance in the neighbourhood. Though not so deadly as toadstools, and indeed making under t of the ie instruction of a clever feathered elo, same species ; but whilst having his al cleansed at an - early Boor on Saturd tment opportunity of escaping and flying off on a little tour of inspection and enquiry. He was followed across Scutmill road ; but from ten o'clock all trace of him was lost until four o'clock on Sunday evening, when, from observations which fell from him, he was discovered in one of the elms in the Cathedral churchyard. Towards seven he was ob served in a tall elm tree near his late residence on Ailstone hill, but could not be tempted to descend from his ele vated situation. The next day he again visited the churchyard, where he remained evidently highly pleased listening to, and doubtless remarking on, the chanting and the organ's peals in the Cathedrai, till the conclusion of the afternoon service, when he returned to Ailstone i. poplar elf on very good ketchup, if cooked and eaten as mushrooms, they are of a very deleterious character. Although in , . On Tuesday he was discovered regaling him,_ outward appearance they are not distinguishable from some fine apples in Mr. Bonner's orchard, of which he mushrooms, the skin, on close examination, will be found appeared to be very fond, but had previously commenced to be much thinner, and by breaking the root short off, his dessert by clearing a filbert tree of its fruit in an ad and squeezing them, a yellow juice is exuded, which is not joining garden. His place of rest for the night was not hill, and took up his quarters for the ni the case with genuine mushrooms. A WOOER IN DIFFICULTIES.—At the Central Police court, Glasgow, on Monday week, John Mackintosh, a mason, was brought up on a charge of assault. It ap- I pears that the defendant, who was paying his addresses to a servant girl with a spirit-dealer, was in the premises of the latter on Saturday evening, on his accustomed errand. His stay appears to have been protracted beyond the usual time, so much so that it was necessary to conceal from the knowledge of the spirit-dealer himself that any one was in the house. Footsteps were heard approaching, and the lover hastily concealed himself in the kitchen bed, but, as it proved, too late to escape discovery, the master and another male friend having pounced upon him and dragged him to light. The mason in the emergency acted with rather more valour than discretion. He commenced a merciless attack upon the spirit-dealer, and in the course of the scuffle broke several panes of glass in the window. The police also on being called were treated in no very gentle manner by the amorous stone-cutter, one of them having his lantern smashed before the assailant was finally secured. Mackintosh was fined in the sum of a guinea and a half; failing payment, 30 days' imprisonment:— Glasgow Citizen. RATHER STARTLING.—Some time since a respectable inhabitant at Burgh died and was buried. His affec tionate widow had a tombstone erected to his memory, and in the first force of her grief, probably looking to the time when she should join him, had the following words inscribed :—" Also Martha, his wife, who died aged, years. Here the iverry are at rest." One evening, recently, an old acquaintance of the deceased gentleman and his lady, having returned to Burgh, was contempla ting the gravestones, when he read that his friend of other days was numbered with the dead,—alas ! and his wife too. He was lamenting the departure of his two friends, and wondering why so much delicacy should be observed regarding the lady's age, especially after her death, when a shadow passed across the tombstone, and a rustling of garments was heard. He raised his eyes, and there, clad in sable weeds, was the figure of her who, if he could believe the record of the tomb, was numbered with the dead. Awe stricken, perhaps terror stricken, he instantly retreated : one look he cast over his shoulder, for he might have been the victim of an optical delusion : but, no ; there stood the sable figure by the tomb, its pale face gazing after him. He hastened to his inn, and there made inquiry. To his great rzlief, he learned the true state of the case. The lady, he was informed, was still alive, and mourning her bereavement. THE ATTACK ON GENERAL HAYNAU.—A brutal exhi bition took place on Tuesday in the shape of a public meeting, convened by " the National Democrats," and held in Farringdou-hall, Snow-hill, for the purpose, as announced, of taking into consideration " the noble con duct of the workmen employed at Barclay and Perkin's brewery, in having given expression to the feeling of de testation felt towards the assassin and woman-flogger, Haynau, by all true Englishmen." The room was crowded. There was a sprinkling of women present. A Mr. J. Pettie was called to the chair, and proposed :hat a Hungarian should open the proceedings with a song. The Hungarian accordingly sang, in a stentorian voice, the Italian " Marseillaise," which was received with applause. The placard calling the meeting was then read, the men tion of the workmen at Barclay and Perkins's being re ceived with cheers and that of Haynau with groans. The following extract front the conclusion of the Chairman's speech will convey a fair idea of the character of the whole address. After describing Haynau in the most outrageous terms, such as an inflictor " of cruelties which even devils out of hell could hardly have perpetrated," he continued in a similar strain calling him a monster, a bloodstained Austrain and General Hyena, and declaring that " there was only one place fitting for him, namely the depths of hell." The other speakers used similar outrageous ka rmic. .• known, but on Wednesday he called for a few - more apples and continued enjoying his fruit till seven o'clock, after which he flew to his original habitation when he entered as coolly, and feeling as much at home, as if nothing had occurred ; soon after which he commenced a conversation with his friend and tutor, probably narrating all he had observed during his ramble.—Hereford Journal. SWALLOWS AND THEIR YOUNG.—While passing a gate leading into a field a few miles out of Dumfries, on Thurs day (week), we noticed some birds sitting upon the top bar, which appeared at first sight to be strangers. On approaching nearer, we found them to be swallows, well feathered, but very juvenile. There were six of them sit ting in a row, and comical looking creatures they were. They were too young to have any fear, and stared in re turn in a most precociously bold manner, until one of the parent birds that had been hovering over head swooped down and made some signal, upon which they all flew upwards ; their weak little wings, however, could not bear far, and, slightly concealed by the adjoining hedge, we had the satisfaction of seeing them return to their perch. After a great deal of shaking and hopping, and some in cipient chirping, they were all settled comfortably, S and in a short time every one, like a little squad of soldiers who had received the word of command, stretched out his neck and opened his wide bill in a backward direction. This was on the approach of the parent bird, which came up with an insect and popped it into the mouth of one of the youngsters. The other five, if disappointed, showed no temper to the more favoured one, but patiently 'waited their turn, which occurred about twice in a minute, both the male and female bird being engaged in the duty. The feeding went on as long as we watched, and a more . pleasing scene we have never beheld. The young birds are generally fed in the nest, when only their little bills are visible, but in this instance the whole process was quite distinct. On presenting the food, the old ones uttered a peculiar chirp, apparently indicative of pleasure. The young birds must have been, of course, a second brood, and they will require good feeding and training to be able to take their place in the great migration of the swallow tribe.—Dumfries Courier. CESSATION OF POSTAL LABOUR ON THE LORD'S-DAY. —SEPTEMBER 9th, 1850.—The Committee of the Society for Promoting the due Observance of the Lord's. day, in anticipation of, and in preparation for, the great struggle which they shall call u p on th e i r f r i en d s to make in regard to the cessation of all postal labour on the Lord's -day, previous to the next session of Parliament, would urge the importance of adopting the two following measures: — First, that individuals should give notice to the post masters of their se vera l t own s that no letters be de l i vered ss in habitants of villages connected with post towns the Memorials to the Postmaster-General, requesting dis at their houses on the Lord's-day. Second, that address edre suspension of the Sunday delivery throughout recommending during their labours, and dis tricts. These two measures the Comm latter, w 404 Sunday suc cess, so much so, that in regard to the. have gl.fi ; been rural posts-320 wholly, been suspended. The Committee, however,only as preparatory recommending these measures, do so shall have to make upon every one to the great call they connected with the who values the inestimable blessingsd previous to the next due observance of the Lord and eighty-four ye to postalthe Legislature, praying Lord's -day. The Committee are not dis couragedlabour on the n h ' e a - e entire obtainingti re c e s P s a e t t i i o t of s what has taken place. The cause they from is righteous cause. The numerous signatures advocate a meeting of Parliament, in a tt ac hed to the Petitions , p resented to Parliament during he last session , demonstrate the extensive desire of the people in favour of it. The objections made to it are com t paratiVeY few, and were again and again satisfactorily answ ered. The one , the supreme answer, however, to ev ery objection is the command of God—" Remember the Babbsth-day to keep it holy." ger, exhibited a cool, steady, and " 4 ,i_boY, only words were addressed to the P°' him to nttaceed at once to Walme gone c erf ,l ' t hi9 „car in .50pr resi de :4lo l c./,100,` .OPEMENT, A 114,13,, b h u e t r sel O r n:d e e d f wi th av have been deeply pained of late by the ' des c ot bils's • ante of.their le daughter, and that, too ,e " that .9'. Hither 0.0 a young female, iv. which A toe We 'l4 family. It would seem, from the Part" - 3 dist'lool°' been enabled to collect in referenc r.on 13''n DP' f 0 case, that some short time since, aPe •.• (olio t o _., Ptuan Dibb f P L ncashire tbP loth , o a win „ ,„d, 0 n e o o f f hthisetdraadueg,htuenrds under the tMiler.surpatiergi lowed almost innumerable avocati o n -, an c hesi ft ., r,1,1 ) , barber to a flour dealer, book vendo a 1! o f ';,,k l o i w tt n ] esirsotoelfir, s thOu sdbOLlobut__ :u I at . )1:1 A seller), became acquainted with the a°lll/.5 tow% 0 0 ' r g e ett, tailor and draper, 13read-street, ill ° li e f 0 1/ .40 4 b i-t en k l r e e y m , on sult of this intimacy was the marri"ed the 1 ' de s / been a family of five children, two 01 foie the i!i3•0°010 Padgett had opened a shop at Preston, of u de rti and Di bb was engaged as an assistant heer.etothe 70 o guise of religion he ingratiated sel l 1 „, 0 01 11 40. nettte,r,:enorlei ol!sergoini hitherto pof his new relations, but of course.,fdact ~te, been suspected, no improper ,1,-;tbsbcoasut ..._ On Saturday week, him and the youngest sister of his wife , a heel 513 ,39 s o t w hilst h i e i r le l ft ho 1s 1 ;; 011 1 ;$. exist.up to the time of their absconding. ha s , o ili ,‘ oo d half-past four in the afternoon. There sce ari l 73t ow , o n pvr e ee a ds r ut L wm e oe e d d , s , and the parcels,ycocutnibtgos x:eoi:ol;:b.3:elibile: roi,isvPooo:ootvi, rel, it i s whether she had pilfered any cash o r o oir Wakefield Journal. re fi re ° f tt) f CO c THE STEAMER QUEEN ASHORF---,W:;oepg;',t);,°°,cd'it .ounce that this beautiful vessel, " C 0 r01 39 0 f i oo Aberdeen, Leith, and Clyde Ship Ping Qu ee o "jee S s o ashore on Inchkeith on Thursday. Th e , e tt Abe!. tila,j, became thicker, and on of about 700 tons measurement. She ',, ~bi00":4 Wednesday afternoon, at four o'clock:;,,avy Ithe!„11 slight haze hung over the land, but le;olPtbvaro s t ! e As the ship proceeded on hewingcourse_ ',, Roc c,01.",0 t ' ari. to 1)15'0,14 mouth of the Firth, it became so dense fi,s The 0 3 °r i ll look-out beyond a few lengths of the sh'Psiesvd, e el, ; 0 , very judiciously ordered the vessel to ..eAeced ,° l :,, 0 0 0 1 proceeded up the Firth at a greatlY i.eraeblieit'oe?, perhaps half-way between the May 8 0a es o la t , e ,,io bl it l in consequence of the fog having necoo l _,., 0 0-,ion et t the man at the helm could with diffieulq P',,reesTellic,„3 the speed was further reduced, while ecei,!, t a toii . ,' o°oo pas the resorted to. The calculations of CaPla",:h eirea'ooP,t•• very correct, so far as it is possible itt Pautooj tachlivet,i to judge, for no sooner had he given coro,__eest Iie101)°,03 ship than she grazed upon a rock right 0u',,,, b e -,11•0;,e The damage received by the vessel Was uProe too ror __. „olio. t tO' ~ ; .., bilge, near the entrance, and from co de ) . 0 0 . 0 iO O again struck further a-midships, The 8 .4051° thOti while proceeding at half -speed. 1 .1 10 ON : 40 ot ‘ t helo9 tunately slight, and the sea perfcctlY c'„,,,ore,eo°Ao' Though, of course, some fright occurred ano SP be 9 . •vurY L i d Aot.p tu•• sengers, there was not the sligtest! , eot i ,iii r board. So dense was the fog that 10_11 T he, ~, lO f anguished even after the vessel struck' _ 0 0 0 "bel t 1 6 the ground about three o'clock in the ,Ircorry happily proved to be h lf tiood•CaPlal"et or Jibe n? on deck during the nighta -nd being igecdlid, r °° cl• pi amount of damage the vessel'a had sustaiae ire 4, •n% l eg of" 6!, firing signal guns, in case assistance eti, w oEt A 0 !,,jO , boats were speedily on the spot, and too ,soac 0, voi sengers on dell ' e ar e ft board, when they were i . aa s t tP 01 haven. In the meantime the captain at i g thP o ili er ', tuted as to the damage an d At'''Ther r*rt received, , 4ed rel s ePw. sel _could proceed on her passage, ateua-ut IP an p n deep water. This was accomplished, Th e d,,, an hour after the accident took iai, coc:ri„ divided into water -tight bulkheads, a. ° Ijodr ,; 0 0 1 her leakage was not so great in the Wal e , e 0 jlwo o li, sel. The forehold, where the chief d010.6Apt,50 le filled with cattle at the time of the seel vist er 'aa i,4 they were standing up to the middle la be ing o odp o all safely landed ; the rest of the ca r e Os t glt is( On Thursday the damage done to tbeslt.l4 pat e A 1:10 repaired, and she has been rem owed to 1 • JO,' I• l ' ' __plot ~ a a thorough reparation of her plates 5c,,,030,t, ,i'' WHY THE SEA SERPENT LEFT ITS osserPeoferilci you heard," aske d f o b, " that toe sal ea jytery peered off the coast of Ireland, sp a ws cl il ' el 4 1 to scratch itself cks c a ll ve I me' oi t f „ I against certain ro ~. 0 ~. $ o ~ have heard it," answered N0,, 0 t le';' h; 0, heard," said Hob, " that the ses-aerrsaid ,°•retfi scales upon the rocks." " have, 010s-dicy 12 have discovered why the sea-serf b. ''ilibe°. -10.:, behind it " Why ?" asked Hoh i, seeirlep electric wire, the wag Nob replie, t l e', ta mice has been doubted, the serPe°sea weigh the evidence."--Ttencfi, S t p, ~Aet pi a : t,ng h An. At it , 8 kti tt ,; t ttze o ' f c 'f 1 ))f t i eet N o „ %,„ 1 to t. ? f al to~ fif q ek kled ,4d' t ar ' i th ..E m o u P St an: her rr