The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-02 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. LAW INTELLIGENCE. WEST INDIA MAIL The Thames arrived at Southampton on Wednesday. The freight on board consists of 1,997,809 dollars, 91,597 Hof which are on account of Mexican dividends. The weather in Jamaica was favourable, and the canes looked well. A great many American vessels were in the harbour of Port Royal, and there was a prospect of an ac tive trade with the United States under the operation of the amended navigation laws. Mr. Dyce Sombre has placed a new petition on the files of the Court of Chancery, being the seventh appeal for an inquiry into the state of his mind. It is stated to be the intention of the• Government to put nn end to "special pleading" in the Superior Courts at Westminster, by bringing forward a measure in the House of Commons to abolish the form of pleading to actions, and thereby to diminish the present great ex penses in law proceedings. Demerara, in expectation of a loan from England, was -clev!sing the means of meeting the interest. The railway is getting on most prosperously. At Cuba plenty of rain had fallen throughout the island. It was resolved that the colonial duties on wines and spirits should be pledged to nay the interest, 4 per cent., and that a sinking fund, at the rate of 21 percent., should be formed for the liquidation of the loan, amounting to £250,000, in twenty years. _ The Stamfird Mercury mentions that in the Gains borough county court, on Monday week, the vicar of Gainsborough successfully sued a person for marriage fees. It appears that the bridegroom had borrowed the money for the license and fees, and when the ceremony was completed he refused to pay the latter, and spent the cash at a neighbouring public-house. JUDGES'SALARIES.—The Lord Chancellor has £lO,OOO a-year, and the Master of the Rolls £B,OOO. It is propo sed to fix the salary of the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench at £B,OOO, and that of the Common Pleas at £7,000, which salaries have been received for some time. The Chief Baron of the Exchequer has £7,000, and all other judges of the superior courts £3,500 each. Of course, the income tax is deducted from all these. The crops of sugar and other products have been large, and the vessels in the harbour were taking in full cargoes of the produce of the island. Sugar was selling at 2 dol lars penowt., and coffee at 15 dollars, with a further ad- Nance in price-:- Some slight intrigues and disturbances have taken place in the interior of Mexico, which have been promptly suppressed by the government. The gold diggers - , prepared for the return of spring, are returning to the diggings by hundreds, and every packet brings from a million to a million-and-a-half of dollars. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. Lord Brougham is the author of six out of the seven teen bills introduced into the House of Lords this session. It is said that Lord Cottenh am h as res i gne d th e G reat Smith O'Brien and hi s f e ll ow - ex il es h ave arr i ved at Tasmania. They h ave a ll accepte d a t i c k et of leave, ex- Seals, and that Lord Langdale will succee d hi m as Chan rept O'Brien, who p o siti ve ly d ec li nes to rece i ve i t. cellor. The Solicitor-General, Sir J. Ro m illy, i s s p o k en . The report is again in c i rcu l a ti on t h at t h e D u k e of of as Lord Langdale's successor. Brunswick is about to be m arr i e d t o th e P r i ncess L ou i sa, Three-fourths of the parties who vot e d f or E. D en i son , daughter of Prince Cha r l e s o f P russ i a , w h o h as j ust at- Esq , M.P., in the Selby district, have sign e d a requi tained her 2lst year. sition to the hon. member to resi g n his sea t, on t h e dof his supporting tree PIILEUS, MARCH 19.—We are in a st a t e o f uncer t a i n t y ground The Archbishop of Canterbury has recommended a here. Eleven of the vessels captured by the English have clergyman, who hesitated about retaining his living in the been given up. An English courier arrived at Athens yesterday, with dispatches from London. TEMPLE AT JERUSALEM.—IL church, after the recent decision of the p r i v y counc il, t o REBUILDING OF THE ~ : Ls hold his incumbency for six months, an d if a t th e termi nation of that period he held the same opi n i ons , t o res i gn stated in the Berliner Allge. m ei ne Ki rc h en Z e i tung that the Jews have obtained a firm a n f rom th e P orte , grant i ng the living. them permission to build a templ e on M oun t Zi on. Th e On Saturday, Lord Seymour, the ne w Chi e f Commis projected edifice is to equal S o l omon ' s t emp l e i n magn i - sioner Toetnectorof Woods and Forests, was r e - e l ec t e d M.P. f or ss. His lordship, in the course of his speech to th e licence. Millions of money a r e sa id t o h ave b een col lected for this purpose in America alone. electors, s, denounced in severe terms the conduct of th e There is a curious ar.eodote in th e N a ti ona l, conta i ne d Bishop of Exeter in his disputes with th e R ev . M r . Sn ore in a letter from Naples of the 17th u lti mo , accor di ng to and the Rev. Mr. Gorham. which it would seem that the P o p e h a d or d ere d a c h aplet It is said that many hon, members w h o vo t e d aga i ns t Mr. Hutt's motion would have voted in fa vour o f it h a d -to be manufactured at Rome, e ac h b ea d o f w hi c h should have carved on it the head o f a sa i n t. Th e c h ap l et arr i ved, they not feared being advertised as co-ope ra ti ng w ith M r . was blessed, and given to the Q ueen , t o th e e difi cat i on of Cobden ! Surely this must be a h oax : mem b ers o f t h e the court ; when lo ! it w a s di scovere d th a t the heads of British Legislature cannot be d e fi c i en t i n mora l courage. Bt. Peter and Paul we r e no o th er th an t h ose of Mazzini Many members had also received a disti nc t i m p ress i on and Garibaldi. from ministers that the debate would b e a dj ourne d, an d Jenny Lind is to receive £2OO f or eac h o f 150 concerts ; were in consequence absent. total, £30,000. She is to si ng i n America. Mr. Bene- THE EXHIBITION OF 1851.—1 n reply to an i nv it a ti on diet is to receive £33 6 s . Bd. f or eac h o f t h e 150 concerts; sent to him to attend a meeting for the arrangements in support of the "Great Exhibition making of total, 2500. These s ums are i nsure d. Th e rest depends on the result of t 1851," Mr. G. F. Young declines on the gro un d th a t it i s he speculation. We will t a k e o dd s that regarded by the Morning Chronicle (the o rgan o f F ree Jenny Lind comes b ac k w ith £60.000 ; M r. B ened i ct Trade), as "in a manner the inaugural f es ti va l o f f ree with £10,000; and Si gnor B e ll e tti w i t h £5OOO i n t h e i r trade." He thinks, moreover, that the fact of the choicest pockets. It is not generally known that Jenny Lind in. productions of foreign art and manufacture being ostenta tends to devote the whole of her gainings in America to tiously paraded before the inhabitants of our luxurious thebuilding of an hospital at Stockholm.—Musical World. metropolis, will inevitably tend to the practical result of The packet-ship New World, which sailed from New York on the 7th instant, arrived at Li ver p oo l on T ues d ay. increasing the taste for fo r ei gn p ro d uc ti ons an d to the In the Senate, on the 6th, Mr. C ooper attac k ed a letter encouragement of foreign at the expense o f B r iti s h in dustry. of Sir H. Bulwer regarding the duty on i ron, an d sa i d that COLONIAL BISHOPRICS.—It is proposed to erect addi the foreign minister failed in his duty when he attempted tional bishoprics, as rapidly as circumstances will permit, to make suggestions in relation to the domestic policy of in unprovideden that government, and chara c t er i se d hi s remarks as obtru- gage attentio districts ; and the first n is Sierra Leone. Westernplace that i willown sive and impertinent. Sev era l o th er mem b ers expressing under the superintendence of the Right Rev. s Dr. Short, the same opinions, Mr. Clay said he disagreed with what is to be erected into a distinct episcopal see. The island bad been said by those who had preceded him, and corn- of the Mauritius, where there are at present many Church plimented Sir H. Bulwer in high terms; and, after some of England clergymen, is also to be erected into an epee s discussion, it was referred to the committee on copal see. No provision has yet been made for the sees ,commerce. The cotton market continued inactive. EDUCATION IN CANADA.—Th e l as t num b er of the of Nova Scotia and Montreal a ft er th e i ncum b ency of the present bishops. The importance of providing a bishopric In Journal of Education for Upper Canada," published for the northern provinces of India has been pressed upon every three months, gives a very encouraging account of f of the present state of educ a ti on i n t h at prov i nce. The the Calc attention utta.— o Wee the Court kly Chronicle Directors by the Bish o p o f amount raised by local ass e s smen t s h as b een as large in Upper Canada, in proportion to the population, as in the state of New York ; the same has been the case in regard to the amounts raised by local voluntary assessments over and above what the law has required in order to secure the apportionment of the legislative school grant—which is also as large in proportion to the whole population in Upper Canada as is the annual common school fund in the state of New York. The number of student teachers attending the Normal School in Upper Canada is larger in proportion to the whole number of the schools, and of -..the whole population, than in the state of New York. The salaries offered to and obtained by good teachers from the Normal School are at least 25 per cent in ad arastce of what was offered two years ago. A JEWISH MARTYR.—A case of martyrdom recently Anc:curred in the empire of Morocco. The awful details *re gathtred from a private letter received by Mr. Abra iam Sebag, a respectable Jewish merchant residing in Castle-street, St. Mary-axe, London, whose brother hag fallen a victim to the barbarity of the inhabitants of that uncivilised country. J appears that Judah Sebag, a Jewish merchant, who resided in a town called Alig, near Ifogador, was maliciously accused of having spoken blas phemy against the Mahomedan faith. The cause of this malice was the jealonsy of some Mahomedan merchants. He was dragged before the governor, or rather the chief magistrate of the city, whose name is Lechusman ben Ilassam. The evidence against him having been heard, the sentence of the judge was, that he must embrace Mahomedanism or be burnt to death. Judah Sebag in dignantly refused to deny his religion, and nobly chose the alternative—death. The governor then imme diately ordered a large fire to be made, into which the man was thrown, and soon devoured by the flames. He was only 24 years of age enteral Alisrtllanv. The earthenware manufacturers in the Potteries are forming a Chamber of Commerce. According to a letter from Paris the postage between England and France is to be lowered to five-pence. The trade in the woollen districts is now becoming in active, as it has long been in the cotton manufacture. A vessel arrived in the Thames has brought 311 pack ages of horseradish, the growth of the Hanseatic towns. There were eight fires in the metropolis on Wednesday morning. Fifty-four young females in Newcastle Workhouse are selected for Australia. The Ist?. Mr. Ramsay, of Barnton, had his life insured in various offices to the amount of £BO,OOO. On Saturday, Mr. Green, the aeronaut, forwarded nine b a ll oo n s to the expedition about to sail in search of Sir John Franklin. The sale of wheat in the markets, which regulate the average prices, were last week 71,658 quarters, and the six weeks' average price is 38s, Id. At Warwick races on Wednesday, the winner of the two-years old stakes was named " Louis Napoleon," and the name of the jockey who rode him was " Prince." The Bradford working men are forming money clubs, to accumulate £5 each member, as a purse for a trip to London during the show of industry from all nations. At Wick, in Caithnesshire, owing to the cheapness of provisions, no fewer than nineteen couple were proclaimed in the parish church the other Sunday. The Port Dundas grain mills, Glacgow, were destroyed by fire on Monday. The loss is £15,000, and the pre mises were insured. Three new steamboats, the Queen, the Luna, and the Neptune, were laun c h e d on M on d ay l ast from the build ing yard of Messrs. Denny Brothers, Dumbarton. On Thursday George Bailey, parish clerk of Spalding, was found in the church- v e s t r y c l ose t suspen d e d to a hook by a cotton handkerchief. He had been desponding for some time. A gentleman in a railway carriage. last week, between Cariisle and Preston, was robbed of £l2 by a fellow-pas senger, who had given him a lozenge which lulled him to sleep. On Friday evening, Wm. Bell, Esq., surgeon, Chelten ham, cut his throat with a common table knife, in the presence of his wife. The coroner's jury returned a ver dict of "temporary insanity." Mr. J. M'Gregor, a resident engineer on the North Western railway, was killed on Saturday week, through the horse on which he was riding falling down an embank ment and rolling over him. The Stamford Mercury says that there is now growing in a garden at Corby, near Colsterworth, a sage-tree, of the height of six feet six inches, upon a single stem, with a beautiful green bush of leaves on the top. SNOW STORM.—On Friday and Saturday week the trains of the North-Western and Midland Railways were delayed several hours past their time, on account of the heavy falls of snow during the night. The total quantity of malt made in the United Kingdom between October 1848, and October, 1849, was 4,749,879 quarters. The total quantity used in the same period was 3,719,145 quarters. Lieutenant-Colonel the Earl of Cardigan has placed Major Jones, of his regiment, under arrest. We shall barn in a day or two the particulars of this fresh exercise of authority. IRELAND. Messrs. W. Lane and Son, of Cork, have stopped pay ment, with liabilities amounting to £100,000.---Dub/in World. A fearful row took place at Gortnaghy, Derry, on Tuesday, in consequence of a distraint for county cess. Many of the distraining party, as well as the others, were seriously injured by stones, spades, &c., and one person was so brutally treated that he died soon after. CRUEL DRCEPTION.—James Fullerton, a soldier of the 13th Regiment, was convicted at the Armagh assizes of having procured a person named Barry, to act as a cler gyman, and of having h ad a false ceremony performed, whereby he deceived a girl named Brown, into a belief that he had married her. He obtained possession of her little savings ; and she is now pregnant. She has resided with her mother since her supposed marriage. When she asked him if it were true that he did not acknowledge her as his wife, he bade her to go to h—. The girl is a Protestant, the soldier a Catholic. He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. THE NEW POPISH PRIMATE IN IRELAND.—The kind of influence which Father Cullen is likely to exercise over Pius the Ninth's Irish subjects may be guessed at by an address to the Romanist Clergy of his new diocese, in which he stigmatises those who seek to convert the poor benighted Irish to the reformed faith, as " the emissaries of the enemy of mankind,"—adding that "there is a class of criminals who never come within the jurisdiction of prosecutor or judge, but whose crimes are the most wicked in their commission, the most ruinous in their kind, the most extended in their effect;., the most notorious in their existence"—meaning, of course, the Alissionary Clergy of the Irish Church. g2A. sample of fine strawberries was exhibited for sale this week in the shop of Mr. Henderson, fruiterer, Pilgrim street, Newcastle-on-Tyne. This is remarkably early, as none have yet been exposed for sale at Covent Garden. A man named Foster, at Bacup, attempted on Wednes day to murder a young woman with whom he had been cohabiting, by cutting her throat. He afterwards cut his own throat. She is expected to recover, but he is not. On the 12th ult. Master Eyton, son of J. P. Eyton, of Kinsale House, Flintshire, was drowned through falling from a boat in which he was rowing with a companion on the dam near his father's lend-works. There were some serious disturbances at Wishaw, N. 8., on Tuesday, owing to the authorities distraining for poor rates on the colliers. The rioters smashed the windows in the house of the inspector of the poor. The bullion in both departments of the Bank of Eng land has increased from £17,273,285 to £17,279,943, being a difference of £6,658. The paper in actual circulation had decreased from £20,060,433, to £19,655,077, being a difference of £405,356. The surgeon of the Lincolnshire Lunatic Asylum lately took a number of his patients with him to enjoy the sport of coursing hares at Thurlby ; and so orderly and sedate was their conduct, that the others present could hardly perceive them to be in any wise deranged. A bullock, which was being driven to a slaughter house in Neath, Glamorganshire, a few days since, rushed into the parlour of an inn, where he demolished the table, and scared the customers ; but at length he was coaxed into the street, and speedily afterwards slaughtered. Among the recipients of the royal alms, last week, was an old man who had passed his 100th year of age, and another who had been decorated for service in the royal navy, in which he had received a gunshot wound. He is now disabled, and nearly worn out. On Wednesday, the 20th inst., a young man named John Norbury, son of the late Mr. John Norbury, of the Witton Brewery, Northwich, feeling himself rather unwell, went to bed ; on his wife retiring some time after, she found him a corpse. FIRE AND Loss OF FOUR LIVES.—A fire has occurred at Osborne Newton, near Kingsbridge, which resulted in the destruction of the farm-house of Mr. Moysey, and the death of four of the inmates, who were dug from the ruins next morning. At a coroner's inquest, held in London, on Monday, the jury referred to the great and increasing number of illegitimate children, and gave it as their opinion " that it is the duty of government to provide a suitable national asylum for the reception of illegitimate children." The church of Calverley, near Bradford, was lately entered by some robbers, who broke open two large and strong iron safes, one of them by filling the lock with gunpowder, and blowing it to pieces; but they obtained no booty save a su-plice. A Derby journal states that a man named Poxon, who had stolen some fowls, and had been overtaken by some persons who pursued him in the neighbourhood of Castle Donington, on the 18th inst. leaped into some deep water at the junction of the rivers Trent and Derwent, and was drowned. Last wee Court Thea The crowd was exc Jenny Lind gave a grand concert in the of Dresden, for the benefit of the poor. essive, and the excitement as usual prodigious. A fanciful and very German way of express ing enthusiasm was adopted—a flight of white pigeons, which were let loose and fluttered about the room ! We confess ourselves unable to expound the mystical meaning of the compliment, CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. The foundation atone of - a new church at Musbury, near Haslingden. was laid last week. The site selected is close to the Helmshore Station on the East Lancashire Railway. Four - Scotch Bishops, viz., Bishops Skinner, Torry, Forbes, and Trower, have addressed the Bishop of Lon don, thanking him "for refusing to concur in a decision whereby it is propounded that the regeneration of infants in Holy Baptism is not the clear and unquestionable doc trine of the Church of England ; and that a minister of that church may reasonably deny that infants are re generated by Holy Baptism." THE GORHAM CASE.—A number of members of both houses of parliament, together with other gentlemen, all being lay members of the Church of England, in the Bishop of London's diocese, have forwarded an address to his lordship, entreating him to take counsel with his right reverend brethren, concerning the application of a remedy to the evils apparent in the Church, and especially concerning the adoption of means (which may enable the Church to declare its doctrine touching the sacrament of baptism. The Bishop of London has replied, stating that be is fully alive to the necessity of taking the course that they suggest. The address is signed, among others by Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Baillie, Lord John Manners, Mr. Roundell Palmer, and Mr. Page Wood. COURT AND FASHION. The Carnarvon Herald says :—" It is more than ru moured that the highest lady of the land has determined that one of our dear countrywomen shall have the dis tinguished honour of acting as foster-mother to the ex pected royal stranger." A bill is to be brought into Parliament for settling Marlborough House upon the Prince of Wales, and her Majesty has signified her consent to allow that build ing for some years to come, b e ing devoted to the reception of the Vernon Gallery of Paintings, and other works of similar character, and thrown open to the public as an ex hibition of art. _ The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere are passing the Lolidays at Haichford-park, near Cobham. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. At the adjourned meeting of the East Lancashire Com pany, it was resolved to create a new capital of £304,000, in £5 shares, to be styled preference fifths, to be distri buted pro rata among the present proprietors. These shares are to bear interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, until the 30th June, 1855, when the Company are either to redeem them at par, or they are to become per petual 5 per cent. s t oc k . The directors were also autho rised to borrow £lOl,OOO. • Mr. James Cook, in his very able market report, gives the returns of dividend-paying lines of railway as dividing from 11 to 5 per cent. per annum. The London and • North-Western is the only one that pays 5 per cent., and the average is about 2/ per cent. The number of miles completed is 4,252, and in progress 2,598. On the first of May, 1848, there were employed on the railways 188,177 persons, of whom 147,325 were labourers. At present, the estimated number is 100,00 Q, THE LIVERPOOL STAND throe A widow named Nanny Mole died last week at Bewd ley, where she had for many years received relief from the parish ; but after her death the family were agreeably sur prised to find that she had amassed a sum of £l7O, part of which was found in an old stocking, and £lOO in the Bewdley bank. There is at present residing in Southampton an old man named Wade, the last survivor of Captain Cook's companions in his voyages round the world. He is ninety-nine years of age, and is in possession of all his faculties. He was present at Captain Cook's death, and himself received a spear wound from one of the islanders. Hundreds of acres of the fine meadows along the banks of the Trent Valley are now covered with the beautiful purple crocus. The crocuses are each year succeeded by buttercups, those by cowslips ; so that for seven months in the year these meadows are a continual bed of wild flowers. In answer to some inquiries, through the medium of the Builder, Mr. Scott, the editor of the Morning Adver tiser, says that about £5O has been sent to him as sub scriptions to a free-trade testimonial to Sir Robert Peel. Mr. Scott wishes to be satisfactorily rid of the money. There appears little or no prospect of its being increased. THE IRON TRADE.—At the usual meeting, on Thurs day, of the ironmasters of South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire, preliminary to the general quarterly meetings of that body, the trade of the district was described as flat and inactive; but, notwithstanding this depression, an adherence to the prices of the present quarter was recommended and adopted. A slip dropped from the experimental balloons lately sent up from the Admiralty, has been returned, with the following communication from M. Cceurdoux, the Mayor of St. Denis, bearing his official seal :—" The enclosed was picked up a little to the west of St. Denis, on the 2d inst., but T am unable to state at what hour it reached the earth, no one having seen it fall." The Carlisle Journal says that at Lathes, in the parish of Aikton, near Wigton, there is an estate which has been tenanted by a family of Taylors for 403 years, during the whole of which time each successive tenant's name has been " William Taylor." The estate has descended from father to son without a single interruption, and there is now another young " William Taylor," who is presumed to be able and willing to hold it at his father's death. An attempt was made, on Wednesday, to burn down the Surrey Theatre, in London. A basket filled with pieces of canvas, saturated with oil and turpentine. had been placed in one corner of the ward-room, and its con tents fired, through a hole in the wall of the building, from the outside. Fortunately the fire was discovered before it had made great progress, and was promptly ex tinguished. THE MORNING CHRONICLE AND THE EXHIBITION OF 1851.—" The exhibition of 1851," says the organ of Sir Robert Peel, " will be in a manner the inaugural of free trade." If the statement be true, we warn the Royal Commissioners in time of the danger of perpetrating their rash experiment. If the announcement be false, let us clearly understand that it is so, and that we have done wisely in regarding the proceeding up to the present mo ment in the light in which it was originally placed before the people. FRENCH MANUFACTURES.---A tea urn of a very hand some description, being elaborately wrought in solid sil ver, and believed to be one of the value of £l,OOO, has been imported into this country by a steamer from France. It is understood that this superb specimen of French workmanship is destined for public exhibition, in a col lection at present accessible in the metropolis, for the purpose of especially exhibiting specimens of French manufacture. This is one of the first importations of the kind as a specimen. The Glasgow Courier records an anecdote of a gay and widowed serving man, worn by the flight of fifty sum mers, who was dislodged one night, by force of burning straw, from a neighbour's chimney, whither he had been drawn by the attractions of a maiden of seventeen. Un dismayed, the gallant servitor, doffing his shoes, the same night crept silently into the house, and finally into the chamber of his dulcinea; but again a sad reception awaited him and he was ejected. Next morning his shoes were found and despatched to him with a label. " There's nae fool like an auld fool, and nae wooer like an auld widower." FAIR UNDER THE THAMES.—Monday being the anni versary of the opening of that great undertaking, the Thames Tunnel, the directors, in celebration of the event, gave a grand fancy fair beneath the waters of Old Father Thames. The entire length of the tunnel and either shaft were decorated with myriads of variegated lamps, the panels being filled in with a variety of paintings, re presenting the most interesting vie vs along the banks. Rows of stalls, covered with ornamental articles, shows, refreshment booths, the Wizard of the North, Ethiopian Minstrels, and bands of music, were the amusements offered. GROG IN THE NAVY.—The committee, of which the admiral of the fleet was chairman, to inquire into the effects of the present issue of spirits to the seamen of the navy, and to suggest what alterations they might deem it requisite to propose, in order to diminish the numerous cases of drunkenness in the navy, have delivered their report, and have separated. Their recommendation is, that the present allowance of spirits be reduced to one half, and that, as a compensation, an addition be made to the pay of able seamen and petty officers of 3s. 6d. per calendar month, and to ordinary seamen and landsmen an addition of 2s. 6d. a calendar month. WRECK OF A MAIL-BOAT AND Loss OF LIFE.—T he cutter Experiment, trading and carrying the mail between Guernsey and Alderney, was wrecked on some rocks about two miles from the eastern coast of Guernsey. She had a full cargo, consisting of flour, drapery, salt, and clothing. Besides the crew, were twenty-seven passengers. The darkness of the night, the violence of the wind, and the cries of distress from the passengers, were dreadful. The first boat that was launched was swamped, and the captain and five men were drowned. The tide ebbing, all on board got on a rock, which is covered at high water. They there burnt their clothes to make signals, but no assist ance could get near them. As the tide rose, they were obliged to leave the rock and get on to the rigging of the wreck. Four of them, while clinging to the rigging, were paralyzed by the cold, and relaxing their hold, perished. The survivors were rescued at six o'clock on Sunday morning, nearly dead. CHICORY.—The estimated quantity of chicory now in use in the way of adulteration is stated, on good autho rity, to be 11,500 tons, which all goes to the public as so much coffee, thus deceiving the consumers, and depriving the revenue of a sum of £460,000, which otherwise would he paid into the exchequer. At the same time, it is bringing the coffee trade into disrepute, by causing the completest trash to be sold to the public in lieu of coffee. Hence the best coffee the world produces is brought to the British market, and at the same time worse coffee is sold in England than any other country in Europe. This is operating with a most injurious effect on the consump tion of coffee. Last year, it fell off to the extent of 300,000 lbs., involving a direct loss to the revenue of £60,000 ; and this year, from January Ist to March 16th, the decrease has reached the enormous quantity of 1,500,000 lbs., entailing a further loss to the revenue of £13,000. SINGULAR FACT.—A somewhat novel fact occurred at the terminus to the South-western Railway, at Vauxhall. A carrier-pigeon was seen in an exhausted state : it was caught by the hand, and died shortly afterwards. A label was appended to one of his legs, addressed to his Grace the Duke of Wellington, which stated thai. three pigeons were thrown up at the island of Ichaboe. The distance is computed to be between 2,500 and 3,000 miles from the place where the pigeon appears to have been liberated to its destination in London. The bird, with its appendage, was immediately forwardel to Apsley-house, and the Duke of Wellington, by an autograph note, the next day courteously acknowledged receipt from the party who sent the bird. It has been stuffed, and in the process it has been discovered that the bird was shot ; otherwise there can be no doubt that it would have reacbad home. It is supposed not to have had strength left to cross the Thames. A LITERARY NOVELTY.—We read in this morning's Literary Gazette, that its editor for thirty-three years, and connected with the public press for ten years before, is preparing for publication his "Auto-Biography, and Literary Times for more than Forty Years ;" which, from his intercourse with almost every distinguished individual during that period, and his political and social, as well as literary, acquaintance with their transactions, especially with authors and publishers, he hopes to make as instruc tive and interesting a publication as any of its kind which has yet been published. There can be no doubt of the interest which would attach to such memoirs, from the unrivalled opportunities enjoyed by the writer, who wit nessed and critically appreciated the first appearances of Byron, Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and a host of cele brities in the literary world. We believe that when the prime minister, Perceval, was shot in the lobby of the Commons, Mr. Jerdan alone had presence of mind enough to seize on the assassin (1812).—Globe. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF BIGAMY. —ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.—The magistrates at Upton-on-Severn petty sessions have been engaged in adjudicating on a case of bigamy, committed under very peculiar circumstances. The accused bigamist is one John Curtis, a labourer, of the village of Strensham, and he stands iijlarged with hav ing married a second wife during the life - lime of his first, whose maiden name was Anna Maria Wilkins, and whom he married Lt Strensham in 1835. Curtis and his wife lived together until the year 1840, when they came to a mutual agreement to separate. Upon this separation taking place, the wife, who was of a masculine character, determined to " change her condition" otherwise, and forthwith she assumed male attire, and proceeded into an adjoining county, (Staffordshire,) where she engaged with a farmer as day labourer. She subsequently paid her ad dresses to a housemaid employed in her master's esta blishment, and they were actually married, and lived to gether for several tears, the secret of the supposed hus band's sex being undivulged. At length, however, the housemaid, tired of her female husband, removed to a distant part of the country, while the heroine of our story remained in Staffordshire. In the meantime her real husband, Curtis, married again, and the f ac t was very shortly aft erwar d s conveye d to the ears of his real wife in Staffordshire, upon which she assumed her proper female attire, had Curtis taken into custody, and appeared to prosecute him for bigamy. The magistrates having heard the evidence, committed Curtis for trial. kTo LADIES.--The skin is one of the most vital portions of the human frame : its intimate relation with some of the most important functions of life is shown by its being the seat of numerous complaints and diseases; and it obviously demands the most constant care and attention to preserve its minute vessels in healthy action, and thus to ensure its elasticity and well-being For such a purpose Rowlands' Kalydor is a specific of the highest value and importance. Composed of exotics of balsamic nature, free from any admixture of mineral substance, grateful in its use, and unfailing in its effects, it will be found the most valuable toilet requisite yet offered to the public ; and its virtues in preventing all cutaneous disfigurement or eruption, or in removing them if they have appeared, will prove its best eulogy, and establish it still more strongly in public favour.—See Advertisement, A CHURCH BURNT.—About eight o'clock on Friday morning, St. Anne's Church, Limehouse, was discovered to be on fire. In a short time the whole building was en veloped in flames. The efforts of the firemen were of little avail, as shortly before eleven o'clock the steeple and roof fell in. The church is entirely gutted, but it is said that the communion plate, parish register, and re cords have been saved. The loss is estimated at between £20,000 and £30,000. The church is understood to be insured, and it is thought that the fire was caused by a de fect in one of the chimney flues. It was one of the most splendid edifices in the metropolis; was about 120 feet long, and nearly 70 feet wide with a lofty belfry and steeple. It was built by Sir Christopher Wren. A CLEVER TRICK.—Early one morning about a fort night since a boat was rowed under the Hoe, when the crew hoisted out a chest, not unlike one of those "last mansions of mortality," yclept coffins. Some of them proceeded with it towards the town, when a by-stander-- and rumour states attired not unlike a preventive man— was asked, " Which is the way to the burying-ground in Westwell-street ?" The by-standers, like the quaker, answered the question by asking another, "What have you got there ?" The reply was, " Oh, one of our ship mates is gone off, and we are going to bury him !" The road to the burying-ground was then pointed out ; but by a dodge, the chest was taken to the railway station in time for the early train, and in a few brief hours the chest was " far north." Those who laugh the most at the hoax, say the chest was full of cigars, aye, real Havannahs !—Ply mouth Journal. A ROMANCE IN MINIATURE.—A young Scottish pea sant has been enacting the romance of bold Lochinvar. He loved the daughter of a farmer in one of the isles of west, to whom he had been sent for initiation into the mysteries of agriculture, and she loved him. But a fac tor, of riper age and ample weans, stepped in and won the hearts of the girl's parents by his display of worldly wealth. The youth was, by advice of a rich uncle of the girl, ordered away, but he returned in a few days, and placing the lassie in a boat, boldly rowed away with her. The pair were driven by a sudden storm to the island in which lived her uncle,—that cruel uncle ! He seized her and locked her up. The youth wrote to a relative at Syke, and in a short time a boat, manned by fourteen stalwart Highlanders, appeared. They in a body de manded the girl, and, on refusal of their wishes, took her away by force, she, however, being a very willing partici pator in the abduction. They made the main land, were forthwith married,' and are now enjoying their honey moon in Edinburgh. SINGULAR CHARGE.—On Wednesday, at Marlbo rough-street Police-court, London, Mr. Reuben Amiss, tailor, Conduit-street, was summonad for an assault on Mr. J. Cunningham, a gentleman of fortune, residing at Kentish -town.—Mr. Wontner, who appeared for the com plainant, characterised the charge as one of a novel and extraordinary character. The complainant, it appeared, on the 6th of the present month, went to the defendant's shop to see his nephew, who was in partnership with the defendant. The nephew was not there. Complainant waited in the shop, and saw a man whispering to the de fendant. The defendant came to him and told him be should not wait any longer; he then drew a damp hand kerchief over his mouth and nose, and pushed him into the street. The handkerchief smelled as if it had con tained putrid meat. Complainant had hardly reached Regent-street before he felt an extraordinary sensation in his head. He partially lost his senses, and how lie got over the road he was unable to tell. He was put into an omnibus by a friend, and when he reached home his eves, nose, and mouth, were discharging profusely. He fa: as if he had been severely salivated. His mouth broke out into sores on both sides, and he had been ill ever since.-- The defendant denied the charge in Coto.—The case was postponed till Wednesday. MEDITATED EMIGRATION OF FARMERS. —Bell's Weekly Messenger says," We have a letter at this moment before us from a Herefordshire farmer, who states that many occupiers of land in the counties of Hereford, Wor cester, and Gloucester, have it in contemplation to raise a fund of £6OO, by subscription, and more, if required, to pay the expenses of two scientific men, who thoroughly understand the:quality of soils, and can be depended upon, to take out young men to make a survey of the Western States of America, in order to purchase one million acres of land ; to allot it in different sized farms, according to each man's capital; the locality to be in a congenial cli mete for corn growing, and for breeding sheep and cattle, and to be worked after the same course, or shifts, ►as in England, near a navigable river, so as to export their corn and provisions to the best markets. They are induced, he says, to adopt this course, because they see no other prospect, if they remain in England, but the loss of the whole of their capital, which they are not contented to submit to, any more than they are willing to spend their last days in those Union houses, for the buildiug of which they have paid their hard-earned money, in the shape of accumulated poors' rates. It is useless for the merchants and tradesmen of this country to treat this intention of multitudes of the agricultural interest as Utopian and foolish, or so absurd as to be most unlikely of prosecution. They ought to know better. The stagnation of business at this moment tells them the truth, if they would but listen to it—that their ruin is involved in the prostration of this great interest. Already have symptoms become apparent, that a considerable reduction in the prices of the articles in which they deal has been determined upon in many districts." NOTICE. Blackwood's 211agazine for April. Edinburgh : William Blackwood and Sons ; and 37, Paternoster-row, Lon don. By the kindness of the publishers, we have been favoured with an early copy of Blackwood, the political mentor of our youth, and at this moment the most consis tent and able advocate of the industrial interests of this country. From its first number to the present, which bears the impress of 414 publications, we cannot remem ber a line in glorious Ebony which its conductors have cause to wish erased, a position take❑ up by them in politics, which they have not triumphantly maintained, or a prophecy as to the operation of any measure which has not been justified by experience. The number be fore us, from which we have taken the liberty of extract ing rather largely, is a valuable one ; and will add another blow to the staggering onslaught inflicted upon the free trade empirics by the memorable article contained in the number for January last. The opening article, entitled " The Ministerial Measures," is a very talented one ; but of home truths and telling arguments, " Mr. Caird's high farming Harrowed" is equally clever; and disposes effec tually of that potato-loving commissioner and advocate of " high farming." The miscellaneous articles are of a very attractive character ; and the number is enriched by another " Christopher under Canvas," in which we have an interesting discussion upon Shakespeare's play of Othello. .._..... 4 ,,_ POLITICAL EXTRACTS. STATE OF TRADE. DIA NeIIESTER.—The increased demand for the various descriptions of 40-inch Shirtings, latterly induced by the fall in prices, has been continued throughout the present week; and the makers are now well supplied with orders, many of them for a month or two to come, at the rate of is. per lb. The value of most other classes of goods, however, has at best been but barely sustained. It is only by taking a little less than before for printing cloths and 34 to 36-inch Shirtings, that a very limited, though perhaps slightly augmented, amount of sales has been effected. In domestics the flatness continues unre lieved; indeed, a great desire to sell has shown itself within these two days, no doubt in consequence of the resumption of "full time" by such extensive producers as Messrs. Fielden Brothers. The depression in the Yarn market, great as it was before, has been more severely felt during the current week. The spinners have made some further concession to the buyers in the general run of mule and wa t er t w i s t ; b ut t h e l atter have shown little disposition to meet it : a want of confidence has still been the prevailing feeling, and the transactions have been altogether of limited amount. ROCHDALE.—The market has been rather thinly attended, and the business transacted has been rather more limited than it was on the preceding Monday. The Wool market continues slack, and prices have rather a downward tendency. LEEDS.—The Woollen trade has not been quite so brisk this week as it was lately ; but the manufacturers are chiefly work ing to order, arid the stocks are low. B RA DFORD.—For pieces a fair average business continues to be done. Probably more buoyancy may be expected after the result of Leipsic fair is known, which commences on Easter Sunday. At this mart great quantities of goods are sold, and orders taken for the manufacture of which Bradford is the em porium. The demand for America is beginning to show signs of activity, In Wool there continues to be a fair business done, and prices are slightly in favuur of the buyer. The de mand for yarn is steady, and prices firm. HALIFAX.—The attendance in our Piece Hall on Saturday was not so large, nor was much business done. As prices seem likely to recede, the merchants are very shy of purchasing; and what goods are sold, are quitted at rather lower rates. The same may be said of yarn; the shipping houses buying very sparingly, and the spinners having to submit to a reduc tion in price upon all new contracts. There is not much doing in Wool, and the quotations are on the decline. Hun DERSFI ELD.—There is little change in our market since our last, buyers still continuing timid. There s eems to b e some hope of the price of Wool sinking; till which, combined with more favourable weather, a better state of things cannot be expected. AGRICULTURAL PROSPERITY.—The prospects of the cultivators, both at home and in the colonies, are gloomy in the extreme. The price of wheat is now known : it has been judicially fixed, at least in Scotland. The fear prices in that country are, on an average, £1 16s. for wheat, and 14s. for oats ; instead of 51s. for the former, and 245. for the latter, which they were three years ago, before the Trish famine set in. Good wheat is selling at this moment in the Haddington market at £1 13s. 6d. a quarter—lower than it has been for a hundred and fifty years. Black cattle have fallen in the proportion of ten to six, or forty per cent ; and although the rents of sheep farms have as yet, from the high prices of wool, not been materially affected, yet it is well known that they too will ere long share in the general decline. Rents are in most parts of Ireland irrecoverable : the misery in many of its Unions equals that of the worst period of the famine. Rents in Scotland will at next term-day be postponed : the tenants, acknowledging their inability to pay, gene rally are already asking for time ; and it is well understood on both sides, that, if the present low prices continue, the arrears, now fast accumulating, will become irre coverable.—Blackwood's Magazine. DECLINE OF HOME INDUSTRY.—The theory of the Manchester school is, " Give us a sufficient amount of imports, and the exports will take care of themselves." They care not how widely they may prostrate the industry of the country, so as they get a profitable trade to them selves. But the point they have now to consider,—can they secure this profitable trade to themselves, if the in dustrial resources of thi s country —i n other words, their I 1 TAXES: HOW TO AVOID THEM.—STRONG ARGUMENTS AND pp a consumers n i fa l y ] l i i n ve , customers' means of paying for their goods —are daily de- n ST u A rn f e tT ro L u h s N G an k d 'ACTs WHICH C p A r N ot O s T w M(O h r t , el' i li A DICT 1.,: D . — The dining ? that our imports are constantly increasing, is y for various accumulat ed article, afford a good o true : it is what the Protectionists always predicted would bare s the position of some houses comparedwith others; and be the _lase. But that increase is no index to national it is our purpose to elucidate how and why it is —convinced prosperity : on the contrary, it is the forerunner of na• that we shall be enabled to throw a strong light on this hitherto neglected subject, d and prove., order enormous taxation thus laid tional distress, because it implies a progressive supplant ing of our own industry by that of foreigners. The fol- on domestic expenditure. In ei v i e ea r ‘ t ,o o ur lio; e d s t' o is w, h system ii t s o t lowing extract feom the returns for Janua r y 1850, ending Place, simply the number and extent of the profits that all sth February 1850, will show how largely the productions classes are really burthened with :-Ist profit arises from ma of foreign countries are trenching upon those of our own : nufacturers buying articles in the raw state; 2nd profit arises Month ending sth Feb. 1849. 1850. from merchants purchasing from the manufacturers ; 3rd pro- Silk, thrown, lbs 13,847 71,600 fit arises from London or wholesale houses buying from our Sheep. wool i c thusu lar l Gloves, pairs 159,776 270,091 purchase from wholesale houses; sth profit arises from small Silk broad stuffs 13,036 22,124 yto involvingth the w a o rpkriiong tradesmen's exorbitant charges to the consumer! Now, upon ----Ribbons 8,946 13,768 a just calculation, these five profits amount to at least s 0 per Potatoes, cwt. Bacon, do. i e p n i t e . , s o or ex t t en ray s o h g il a l o in t g t s o i th i e e p ve e r e y ke t t u s •e( p it s y rt ! Beef, do. thoroughly Pork, do. IN e It is the same with nearly all the other articles. How our ‘ l ' i i s ll e r i i . eitk , i;ll uadtefitrostoeneestesatanbaliistiment where the artizan can get manufacturers and artisans are to go on, any more than mediate pi ti ofits to pay; need wY e l esraeytt proprietor allude ltloasiiinolinter our farmers, striving against this prodigious and rapid in- national tailor and clothier, 63, Lord-street, Ilverpoo l L YA lT4 crease of foreign importations, it is for them to say ; but manufactures extensively for his own branches in every stage, probably experience will, ere long, enlighten their under- from the raw material to the most superbly finished coat, at standings on this subject. Indeed this inevitable reaction "one cost" and at " one profit." This, then, accounts for his of domestic distress in trade, aswell as agriculture, against NaTfsetrr to ocessse sell his i t s h e i extraordinary low prices at which he can clothing; in fact, it is well known by the the Free Trade system, has already set in. We make public that he sells the most superior description of garments the following extracts fr om th e c i rcular of Messrs. T. and lower, infinitely lower, than any other smaller establishment H. Littledale and Co., of Live r p oo l, p er h aps th e greatest charge for inferior. Now, we ask the reader a simple question brokers in the world, for Monday, 4th of March, 1850 : —Does it not sound to reason that H YAM has advantages for Import of cotton, supplying the million 40 per cent. lower than others? Certainly From Jan. Ito From Jan. Ito he has ! and this he unquestionably does—thus saving the March 5, 1849. March 5, 1850. pockets of a ll, more than any person could imagine, did they Bales Sales of do. Home consumption .. 305,040 Stock at this dat e .... 384,230 Here is a decline from three to two in all branches of the 26, Market-street; Birmingham, 23, New-street; Glasgow, 48, cotton trade, since the two first months of last year, ex- Argyll street; Exeter, 193, Hili t ..stree L Bristol, on4d,on,46.,,eoxford cept in stocks, in which there is an increase from four to stree t; risto , Union-street; lia T. s cl t Leeds, 42, Briggate ; Hull, ll 17, 1 -street ; , - larket five and a quarter. We recommend this to; the attention place—and all in active operation, it makes it worth his while of the gentlemen in Manchester who introduced the Free to manufacture his own goods of every description ; thus coin- Trade system. We shall not imitate their example by bining in himself the true title of manufacturer, merchant, saying it is a " cott o n lord question," with w hi c h the pub wholesale and retail vendor for his own immense and widely lie generally h as no conc e rn . In th e c l ose of the same • I s s p - e r nextending temples of commerce. Anoth er p oint of i mportance take up : a tradsman in a gi gan ti c li ne of business circular it i s th us s t a t e d i n their g enera l remarks " The .--- —like YAM, even not possessing the advantages stated, month of February affords little matt er f or comment. It can even then sell cheaper than small shopkeepers.above They must has been a particularly dull month in business, and, when have a shop, shopmen, gas, rent, and numerous other expenses contrasted with the energy and speculative excitement of incidental to business i , which nearly amount to as much as a January, the sudden change appears the more striking. larger shopkeeperf l g u e n r drtim e s a ( s su rn c u i e ts H y o am , Aram,) whose loo a r t e t t i n ie rri i s are probably There is probably no one cause to which this can be attri- rience, the sound judgment, and the unboundedmcaTaleaexpProe-- buted, but principally, no doubt, from a re-action, the in- prietor of twelve such mammoth establishments must possess variable consequence of over-activity. The old complaints in making up goods, to a small tradesnian, who only has to of railway depression and Continental disquiet may have make a handful at once; why, it is like comparing a molehill to a mountain. Whilst purchasers at " small" shops must had some influence, but the large arrivals of some articles, have " small" choice to select from, "small" chance of 2 April '2, „, si 41 . tea, for instance, of which twenty-fi ve cargoes h ave come getting suited, and a much "smaller” one of ° 7 o l' Ir,,e "a tar, n „ to hand in five we e k s , an d th e near approach of the im- faction. Let all, therefore, who would only Pay vi At aeil to "" port season for sugar, coffee, and other produ ce , t a k en i n GO TO HYAM'S. Those who wish to throw P l ‘ ) o th e e ' A llo t t f li eewevrt ? et P s e e e r connexion with the advance of prices at the opening of tainly should go to small tradesmen ; but se ij o " r proprietor ees the year, have deterred the wholesale houses from operat- interest to patronise an establishment rai ar , , in re,' „ dt the , hal ing beyond their immediate wants. Great complaints are made of the bad state of the country shopkeepers in the the inhabitants of this populous district , and, s o 1 .. , ~ , 0 , , s aesto pledges e n himselfe t hinted a a r s kfie d ever forsake thnear . r agricultural districts. We have closely questioned some customers who have proclaimed him the 44 natio On m ond asses of our wholesale grocers and tea-dealers, who assure us clothier of Great Britain." 4, liaa„ a Y I __.-- i tela,,, , 4ver.s that there is no disguising the fact that such is the case, W, ir''' s ese a and that the general answer received from travellers is, DESTRUCTIVE FIRES IN GLASGO Y fill ed P( !,:c. Ih bY b ' they can get neither money nor orders.' The serious CHESTER, LINCOLN'S-INN , E if. i od e N ew p i falling off in the deliveries of sugar, coffee, tea, and cocoa, to work his t ATILNER'S " HOLDFAST " and Fl A ll dieoPe, t tn ‘',,, il l depa r for the two m onths of this year , compared with those of IVI. ING SAFES are the strongest, best, and (IV' at --4 ' stea the last, but too truly confirms these complaints, and are guards in the world ,gains fire, robbery, and 41111 4 ,01 . I -14 perhaps the most alarming features in our present pros- them keep the books, ' deeds, and cash of the pr's; tt 'l%*titPo pects. As given in Prince's Public Prices Curre n t o f Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, &c., who Kno ur oll 'eti t , z , st ot. I the first instant, they stand as follows : riority to any other others. Five of them have s io 6 " ,zt th u` this 1850. 1849. 1348. contents unscathed out of the ruins of large a re,. D o' 1 h e 6 tli i ll Sugar 37,006 43,408 42,368 alone this year, wherein scores of other safes h . _ , :, 1 ,1' 7,7_e som e e „„, Coffee 3,795,712 4,907,691 lbs. out. Twenty-five offices were burnt out in Lin'" t h irt! . •:', at i ,, 4 ll ' Cocoa 450,774 558,888 „ January, in one alone of which the title.deeds. o .„, ' , acre., ", "' 0 i ttli "4 is Tea 5,375,648 5,502,931 „ landed estates were burnt, which would all have De rt io tae lis i — Blackwood's Magazine. in Milner's Safes. From some hundreds of ce os ift . 'aal w ar Y re following is selected, as one out of many lostnxiceptia ere kp Y• MI everything was consumed in the buildings e , O ne pinted Milner's Safe contained : MO l 'io N it aY last "Clyde-street, Anderston, Glasgow , T O its r , aad "Gentlemen, — At the calamitous fire yesterdaY , were ~,areap ad which our premises, and stock of oil, tallow, . ~ •,, on a destroyed, our books were preserved in the 30116 4 0 ill t lie '"°111 1 Safe, purchased from you. We have great Ple B i 4i . r e s. e Tour n. bearing testimony to the great efficiency of t11 e „,,,01 04 . Ar res t k ,has b e "CHARLES P - it ‘v tlitti "This Safe was most severely tested, the bra ss or tt l lnti,- e Y' brass work about the lock were melted off." s ty, tin Fehta s "Glasgow, 10th . e ma, .1 " Gentlemen,—The books and papers which '', i n t, A Fire-resisting Safe, which was subjected to a most 1 1 '' for several hours at the late fire in Gordon-street,, beisg,, sa vet o p io.! last, were wholly preserved—the property 1 treme importance to us. We have, therefore, g r . e ra ialb' d communicating this fact, deeming your Safes 0 .0t6e , 111 protection against fire, and an invention with v s cannot be too well acquainted. servants' j( " "We are, gentle men, your o b ed i en t ser va .G, "KER, DOEW Messrs. Thos. Milner and Son, Liverpool." bur Dl' The outside of the a b ove S afe was complete ly bar "Triumphant Resistance to Robbers.; be t# "Gentlemen,—Our Milner's Safe was attemPte d ,, rd., open last night; but notwithstanding the great 0.4 p violence with which the robbers have worked at t ' u tlY back of the safe both of which are beaten in a nd c dte the outer plates in numerous places,) the lock I s e mained true, and sav e d th e contents. You may sell' Milner's Holdfast Safe, No. 6. "Glasgow, Dec. 21, 1848. - FATAL CARRIAGE ACCIDENT, ; An inquest was held yesterday, before r. Curry, the borough coroner, and a respectable jury, M on view of the • body of Elizabeth Simpson, an aged female, who died in the Infirmary on Thursday last, from the effects of inju ries sustained in consequence of being knocked down, and the wheels of a vehicle passing over her body, on the pre vious Sunday. .From the evidence of several witnesses, it appeared that on the Sunday in question, about the time persons were leaving church, the deceased, who was nearly seventy years old, was crossing Seymour-street at its junction with London-road, and that while in the act she was knocked down by a phaeton, driven by Mr. Pem berton, the solicitor, who was returning from church. The casualty occurred just at the turn of the corner from Seymour-street to London-road, the carriage being driven from the former into the latter road. A car-driver, named Thomas Youngas, who witnessed the accident, considered that Mr. Pemberton was driving at a speed more rapid than prudence should have dictated under the circumstances. He thought that the vehicle was proceeding at a rate of ten or eleven miles an hour. They (car-drivers) generally drove in the town at the rate of five or six miles an hour. A witness named Maylor, who was crossing the road at the time, a little in the rear of the deceased, stated that he heard a shout," but did not know from whom it pro ceeded. Deceased appeared quite stunned and in a crouching position, ran her head against the shaft of the vehicle, and was consequently thrown beneath the wheels, which passed over her. This witness continued in explan ation, that when the woman ran against the vehicle she was only about a foot frcm it ; he therefore should describe her movements as " bobbing" against the carriage. Mr. Pemberton, he said, did not " draw up" until the horse had got to a distance of fifty yards, but when he (witness) looked to Mr. Pemberton he was in the act of drawing up. In taking the evidence of Mr. C. B. Wilson, the house surgeon of the infirmary, (who with two pupils was prss ing at the time of the accident,) the coroner observed that there had been some little difficulty in obtaining brandy in order to be administered to the woman, in consequence of the parties who were applied to having refused to furnish it without the money. He (the coro ner) thought no publican who had been apprised of the circumstances of the case would have made such an ob- t jection. Cilv t - T 4 3 , We for ' 4 Joh • kritn e I% litt go? itu nl i rs t: t 44 tell b ell to '1 Nati" rd. th , tb e( et,, JAS. RICH ARDSO SI nie . "Manchester. August 13 `;i 4 4 ? a kt a, Gentlemen,—ln the late Fire in Market-stree t ' „ ! . tk e , e th e i,. tirely gutted the whole block of buildings of w ic f n o ;',o . t l or e, to r t 4 house formed part, I have sincere pleasure in i, r !, blei 4 kit held f ee that my books, together with a . quantity of Patna our 0f,,.e1d kl'ic, watches, &c., were preserved uninjured in one 0 ~',1 6 11 c . k '4e s t °4 l` tie esisting Safes, which I strongly recommend to tbe ;', 4e of , ar of L "I am, your obedient seror G ' . o, • f or the 0 1 ,, "THOMAS HAI vt- 4 4 Y, c seco m ' • ~ Woollen Merchant, New Brown -street and Mar ak t Apt t ,„h " Messrs. MILNER and Sox." 1, 4 4 lis ~,1 1 tho In the numerous accidental Fires and experia':, to 4 ito t j, a ster' which Milner 's Safes have been exposed to—ererY psR• laie of Ur ifig( of Safe in etc—Fire-proof (so called) or otheriviS, e ; t ioo', )tifiml„ peel)stri burnt out beside them, confirming the recommen.^oert,' ' be',„!lle at , scientific and practicalauthorities who have tested ` f tr 4 )0 , fe at '''U fe et " the Patentees, during seven years' active working ° e ipsg e t, h e , and t e t tent, on a rapidly extendino• scale, have spared noP, d to ,4 ,4 6 . en d e ,. Lire in effecting improvements,'by which they are enab;eol Iti,:'R4i'lgned themselves at all times to supply the most complet e i• , r t W " a / - C depositories for Books,_ Documents, and Valuahlea,l 0 4 t ap Ye, at eb the strongest Wrought-Iron Safes, Closets, and 13 7510, ~,t muds b v „ world, lined with their unequalled Fire-resisting ~14 ( . It', Wh o e ',, 4 Out of upwards of 20,000 of their Safes in use 8 1,0 i No ~a 4 eft 4€ Manufacturing and Commercial Houses in Great P, o rf l r , , ltcl e , Seer i class best able to appreciate their value—numerous V tittle the h vere trial in accidental Fires have occurred, from Wo l ' a bic,"lte, - in Li Milner and Son select the following as instances, iti;010 t: i dt of lief a., 1 , are of opinion that no other Safe than their ov' ',,,, , d, %a, t, f a i t preserved its contents unburnt : . gt e' Ole Fire at Mr. J. B. Blackaller's Ship Chandler) -set N I wegth ling-street, Liverpool ; a strong and fierce Fire; ~ t*, Y s e , her si severely burnt outside. bal"; t i , Pr Ete. ,N, Fire at Messrs. J. and W. Walkers', the extensive 1,00 1 le etie i 4 "Ll'ag an Birkenhead; buildings entirely gutted, everythivo d 10 re a t e4 s, a n them, including the contents of a large Iron Safe al t o) 4 %li nt c standing beside Milner's ; the contents of Milners ! Ib til ,' hilt el% and in use now. 'lt , It a g WY tth Urd a „ a Fire at Messrs. Garniss and Co.'s, Park-lane; ,s 1 mill le,, e 44, , ,nac Fire; again the contents of Milner 's Safe the Owl T ee ay '', l ,"' Ilea on the premises. ~.4 : e 5 t„ ; ' li e atm Fire at Plimsaul Brothers, of Plymouth; a Y e ' ~ , t D . A, O 7. ), TE A and destructive Fire; a large Iron S'ife, cov l e i r i e l d ne " e ;, Vl' i 4 o,, (l , e . p eo ' il t , tie h u " s t work, with double ire►; doors, burnt out ; preserving its contents. , .40 bot 4, I,!sterd Fire in Queen-street, Glasgow; a great number t but hi ' s, t, 'ls to Closets burnt out ;no books saved throughout..to.`, o o" it i J ) de,l. r ettai n excepting Messrs. S. R. a d Thomas Brown's, in o „'d f t Lisdi ': 'tied A • MILNER'S FIRE -RESISTING 'SAFES, CHESTS. 8 1,0C: 5 0 ` it , th .oi suitable for all classes of Buildings, ImpregnabL,e t , SO th e ~e Cash Boxes, at the Works, 50A and 54 Lord-5t.„,,'",,01, ' , 11,,,`! to hs ' 4 , sto to 57, Cable -street, Liverpool, and London '.'" fe h ''ltice h e /t . a Moorgate-street. for, e Cl 48 CPrt Mr. Wilson spoke to the fact of the woman bleeding at the nose when taken up; she was conveyed to the In firmary as soon as possible, Mr. Pemberton having pre viously despatched his own medical attendant to the scene of the catastrophe. He had also seen Mr. Wilson subse quently, and had directed that nothing should be denied her that might conduce to her comfort ; the woman, however, after rallying a little, relapsed, and expired on Thursiay. The result of a post mortem examination was that death had been caused by a fracture of the skull on the left side, and proceedingidown to the base. John Newsham, a car driver, witnessed the occurrence from the stand in London-road. The carriage was on the wrong side of the road, and in his (witness's) opinion Mr. Pemberton was to blame ; the speed at which he was going was too great. He admitted that Mr. Pemberton did all that humanity could suggest after the melancholy occurrence. Deceased's brother stated that she was subject occasion ally to attacks of deafness, and that her sight, in conse quence of increasing years, was impaired. Mr. Atkinson, who appeared professionally for Mr. Pem berton,after evidence had been heard in support of the case, appealed to the coroner as to whether any case had been made out to institute an inquiry .on the part of the jury, inasmuch as it was held that, in order to make out a charge of manslaughter, it must be shewn that by reason of his " gross negligence the driver had lost command of his horses, and that depended on whether the horses were unruly," &c. He called Mr. Pemberton's servant man, who was on the box at the time the accident took place, to shew that it was unavoidable. After the Learned Counsel had addressed the court for the defendant, the jury retired to consider their verdict. After a lapse of about a couple of hours, they returned into court ; but, in consequence of some informality in the framing of the verdict, they retired a second time. When they re-entered the court, the foreman delivered a verdict of " guilty of manslaughter" against Mr. Pem berton. CHUBB'S PATENT FIREPROOF n — W; O IRON SAFES, CHESTS , BOXES, & g T HESE Depositorie s a ff or d complete s ec t valuable Property from Depredation or Fire. e rtirr They are made in th e b est manner, and beinv ,geo Wrought-iron, combi ne d w i t h effective and well-n conductors of heat, an d secured by CH ÜBBPatent Locks, will resist Intense Heat, the falling of ° fele brickwork in case of Fi re , or t h e skill and force A' determined burglar. Thei r Fi reproof qualities are Tic') and have been subjected to frequent severe tests. ;0 19i No instance has been found where they have been e # 4 which the co n t en t s were injured. 31,•, Braidwoodt , 4 10 dent of the London Fire Brigade, stated, a few 10 ; in a discussi on b e f ore the " Institution of Civil P'„ that in every Fire in which he had found safes ° manufacture, the Books and Papers were Presert in nearly all cases where ethers were used their co* destroyed. No bettertestimonial of their safety can 400 0 , than the many tho usan d s w hi ch have been in use.' parts of the world fo r severa l years and have giVe" o ol satisfaction. CHUBB'S PATENT DETECTOR LOCKS tir e of every purpose to which a Lock can be applied. perfect security, and are extremely simple and do': T have been characterised by the Comptroller of he' t ,A, Stationery Office, J. R. M'C u ll oc h , Esq., asthe 00!;‘ made," as will be se en b y t h e following extract fr ° , O r , deuce taken before a recent Select Committee of t . i l „ Commons :—" It is a ll owe d by everybody who kno:;„0 about the matter, that Chubb's Locks are the best now." They are consequently now used in all theu Offices. A 6" io CHUBB'S PATENT BAR LOCKS form a sin , _p l ns securing the Doors of Warehouses, &c., as they P o strength. CHUBB'S PATENT LATCHES, for Street D ° l r 9 l l lug houses, &c., are perfectly secure against anYpedi open them by means of false keys or picklocks. Latches, and those called " Patent," in general 115 `;,00; the slightest safety, but may even be opened bl.f , keys dissimilar to their own, and. as an outer doornAtm should be properly secured, CHUBB'S PAM° i are strongiy recommended as the most effectu al safety. They have neat and portable Keys, and price. fP CHUBB'S CASIIBOXES and JAPANNED DS are all fitted with the Detector Locks. . B 57, 87'. PAU C L'SCHUB CHURCHYARD , , LuAy, 0 16, MARKET-STREE T, MA NCHESTE'' AND 28, LORD-S TREET, LIVER p O°Y BY THE QUEEN'S ROYAL LETTERS I' fti ENROLLED IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHA' i kllZ ° 4l ert,7 at °c ~ to o , !he 41114 i ai ls h 1 1111,;•th pro On ; 1 tqllte the 1 vide '44 e aderc thAk'' C 'elate ci tN t.t‘ li Pi tt 14 t w ,P tist ee Kif li t h a ei teett ktO t.y q tW w eiV ~ 4 0 . Ifi,.-. e Mr. Atkinson immediately stated his purpose of apply. ing for a copy of the depositions. The Coroner suggested as to whether the learned coun sel would take advantage of the judges being in town. Mr. Atkinson replied in the affirmative, and expressed his satisfaction that some arrangement might thus be come to which would avert the necessity of a journey to London. 4 tP:. 4).. te .'1 4: 0 e 4 at N' t u tisCrary s Jui: s of 4 keat a i LY , ed t e sqe Wh t he cert. ° t.,theye facts l !ts t r o t lti e ! th 11 1 )4,4 toe piltiekt D epre ] oh tt AI es , Ji pegs t 4 41 P . ' taa Ye ()I IN lt ere t4 ians th 3 ecl s_ e "On kii `u . ip t , sk .uer; tql .ipbs kai l ls tt O tt er ti Of Wa At Ott Pia P ER, ` 4 44 e et b eect it Z 4 (t h O I S r a vh, 40t NV eri a 0 416 cie " oeh i., d e rit c t q ei e l ; l is th e ril tp ea ell( tYt). ° 141,F i e ha q b 41 ai llt : 1 2 1 rnei tip `‘ , l `nan e j 4 b W, 14i tt ie a id of I ' S / . N.; /144' 1 014 1 411 DPOI le tt reo . rah er 'li ef It Sur `; Y, ~y, 1:(11 Ire 1LtIlo e ets ,e bane!tt(4t!lap'°l't The Coroner expressed his readiness to take Mr. At kinson's word as to the surrender of his client on the fol lowing (this) morning. He further intimated that he would delay returning the inquisition until the afternoon of the same day, in order to afford facilities for bringing the particulars before the judge. TANN'S PATENT S AFB WROUGHT -IRON FIREPROOF j CHESTS, BOXES, AND Doo.- rt S , o r Are made enti re ly o f S TRONG WROUGHT IRON, a n- I THE PATENT RELIANCE LOCK'' Invented expressly, and use d exc l usively, for Tann's , IT Proof agai ns t Fi re an d Bob b ery r e 9 T" principle on w hi c h t h ese Safes 000 AM Fire -resisting is that of vaporization, the Ch a ti ns 7 6 filled with a Chemical Compound, which remains a very high temperature; the water of crystalV (tor 09 driven oft; and protects the contents of the 591e ire ci ,,), them moist) at a much greater heat than is r e Viiis t ; o rf destruction of the most substantial building- yeslip ductor will be as effective in case of Fire 50 or 100 to as on the day the Safe was first made—an advan 0 . 40 other non-conductor hitherto invented possessel; to manship and interior fittings are superior, all°F cent. less than th e usual prices. f i Strong WROUGHT -IRON CASH and 1/01 , fot: . 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HARRISON & CO., 14, -LORD-STREBT LIVERPOO L, SOLI: PROPRIETORS FOR THE 01,11" retl 101,%114 ec 1 e e d the g of e , as el tt o lad( badffk Po U .4Ploa ,stt heio, k, 1 4, d . ec i tt7 s f Poo b ad 1 1 ,0 b h , I ,S bth "K q 4 14 0 1. t, t wo 4; t; 4 te E hts l ' Er eeni s Llt l d 111 E q °ll llt. 4 kl toe se t se Ito t 4 IEP° t ilat " E hrt for s 4O of t 4 et Pays %ti - ii.; l 2 / 3 N a 3'tli la pt tiq, e og 4 3t1 o re t' th e 14 1 1 :14 40s4iePo ko e 't o E illip e El l' /A_ 6. 11) ) ! TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL .001", SlR,—Some mont h s ago it was remarke"o,lo,Aell more of you r con t emporary papers , that ame°6701111:01 ral measures to be promoted by the Town ope r lif session of Parliament, was to he a bill for th e t s eel ef ee il y li e o t s i t l o o c k-s mentiont re e t into made oGreatfan any step Homer- i s n t g re e , 1) : 11 take n i f th r , hereto, it may he observed that the opening, 0 pal in question would effect improvements both 1 9 - g id. fft a sanatory, and a moral point of view, in it - Should this obtain publicity by your favour , "coli ii i i ee haps, meet the eye of some members of t be b"iec sirous of a idi ng i n accomplishing the referred to. Tours, respectfully. L LE" JAMES St. Matthe w 0 TH REVENUE. ------ :., ~.,... that is totes the quarter enclitic , April sth will silo' ° ore', of above £lOO,OOO ' - ! i last decd,, he Observer sa)s as compared with t le. e . e „,, ing quarter. With the •of triul n ' ro 0' exception a iop A LI ; the stamps, all the other items will show an t to l'ell The - • • excise will exhibit an increase sufflcien otalti balance the loss upon the customs. tee The deP tbe c oi l taxes will al so s h ow a tr ifli ng i n crease on oil! 13 ts iil f i quarter. The increase in the pro perty-t ° ,ls,o b i ' 4 , i to something near £lOO,OOO. There will he,,ceirt-0-4eill increase under the head of miscellaneous r! .. j e c 0 0 item for the sale of old stores will show a l l e cti° _ . O from £lOO,OOO to £200,000, a proof of there u Ger.7l l on in the public " establishments." „„ a o', , roil 1 i G 7 H I. TTA. . ERE HA BOOTS.—Tivo Ma,- ' l l to. , i iit l 'lr wearing gutta nercha boots, left Brusse ' l , , o' o 4o railwa y. lie placed his feet on the zinc °lied , i' re hot water, with which the carriage was stil.' l3 bell., . „s 4 asleep. On • •the station ofa lni ' t 111 ' r eff t arriving at d t ll9 to 1 0 ..1 to alight, but, to his astonishment foun til l e d d i e fe stuck fast to the warming pan, and as he,P er oid," 1ii 5 ,,01 :hem the soles split into shreds. At lasto to drarbaP/ aughter of his fellow-travellers, he had ent his ilie poi ilit of his boots altogether, and, having' s ...akere all n before, had to wrap them in pocket-10;:'e 0 0 19 ------- - '.— at pitiable plight i ani's Atiessenger, tat 'l °6 Q6l 4 toib ° Nel Y , 1 ! )ti llth s adv arl 4 1 41 ( CS - t 11 1 go 411. elin. t4 11 :31 ittli.(4)4ViV 1 _ O tl 9 '' e ) es " e l I t pethleg)SZ ,o el! thir e lo rl !lik tt ! %C f : 4; ll lPrihi : n. no t O % 53 t °tli 1 1 5 4 % 4 5 ‘lOit ar e s ' m e !'Otal? R l l: p r % tP, l j n ,Dly Y tttAttisi‘7 4 ttepo W 5 bta way to l'aris.—Galig