The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

Oct. IS, 1844. LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL NEWS. The snbscription for the Manchester Parks now amounts to £22,500. LORD STANLEY.—The Gazette of Tuesday announces the elevation of Lord Stanley to the House of Peers by the title of Baron Stanley, of Bickerstaffe. BODY FOUND.—The body of a labouring man, name -.unknown, was found in the King's Dock Basin, on Sun day morning, and conveyed to the Dead-house. The Customs receipt at this port for the quarter just ended, is nearly £240,000 more than the corresponding quarter of 1843, having now reached £1,325,000. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday last Richard Rad cliffe, a man employed on the railway, in jumping from an en gine just as it was about to start, fell underneath the wheels, and received such dreadful injuries that he died the same morning, in the Infirmary. There is now building at Mr. Dobbs's chemical works, at Wigan, a stupendous chimney measuring 50 feet across the base, 480 feet in height, and 9 feet at the top, which will consume in its construction more than two millions of bricks. On Sunday evening Lord Tenbeim, late the Right Non. R. Curzon, preached at the new Baptist Chapel, corner of Myrtle-street and Hope-street, of which the Rev. Mr. Lister is the minister. His lordship is a dis tinguished preacher among the Baptists. DESPATCH.—The ship Lady Milton, Captain Sinnott, sailed from this port for Quebec on the 10th of August last. She took in a cargo of timber, and arrived back in Liverpool on Saturday last, thus completing the voyage in two months and two days, being the shortest on record. The anniversary meeting of the Liverpool Auxiliary to the Church Education Society for Ireland will take place, we understand, about the 24th November next. We have heard that the deputation from Ireland will consist of the Rev. R. J. M'Ghee and the Rev. W. M'llwaine of Bel fast. NARROW ESCAPE.—On Wednesday evening, a female, carrying a child, fell into the river in attempting to go on board thelNun steamer at the Woodside slip. By the promptitude of the parties on board sbe was, with some difficulty, recovered, as was also the child, which she held firmly in her arms, neither of them being injured beyond the fright occasioned by the immersion. The Magistrates of Rochdale recently committed a Mr. Hill to the House of Correction for practising as trology. The man of science brought an action for false imprisonment, and the case was to have been tried at the Liverpool Assizes. It has, however, been settled, the Magistrates having agreed to pay all costs, and to give the plaintiff £l5 as compensation. THE LETTER-BOX AT THE EXCHANGE NEWS-ROOM. --In order to meet as far as possible the wishes of the Mercantile body, Mr. Banning has agreed to make the following alterations in the despatch of letters from the box at the Exchange-room—namely, at 12 45 p.m., as at present ; at 3 p.m., instead of 2 30 : and at 5 15 p.m., instead of 5. THE STEAM-SHIP GREAT WESTERN.—The Great Western steamer sailed from this port, for New York, on Saturday morning last. She took out 140 passengers, amongst whom were his excellency M. de Bodisco, Russian Minister at Washington. lady, and family, Mr. Jung, bearer of dispatches from Paris, and Mr. Trapman, Dutch Consul at Charleston. SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO AN AGED FEMALE—On Satur day week, Dorothy Jones, an old lady, aged 101, residing at Bankfield-crescent, Bootle, unfortunately fell out of bed, and came in violent contact with the floor. The shock was so severe that both her legs were broken, and she was otherwise injured. Shortly after the occurrence it was deemed necessary to remove her to the Northern Hospital. PARDON FOR CAPTAIN PETRIE.—Last Saturday week, - her Majesty's pardon was received at Newgate for Capt. Petrie, of the barque Lydia, of this port, who was con victed at the last February sessions of the Central Cri minal Court, before Mr. Justice Coleridge, of an assault upon Josiah Lawton, one of the crew of the vessel, off the coast of Brazil, on the 19th of December last, and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. EXTRAORDINARY QUICK GROWTH OF WHEAT.—On The Ist instant a field of wheat, which had been pre viously pickled with diluted sulphuric acid, (containing 81bs. concentrated acid to the acre,) was sown at Mr. Muspratt's farm in Newton, the land having previously been manured with soda waste, (fifteen tons to the acre.) In two days the wheat sprung half an inch, and has since progressed in equal proportion. WANTON ACT.—On Wednesday evening last, during the performances at the Royal Amphitheatre, a respecta ble-looking man, named Thomas Roberts, threw a gill glass from the gallery upon the stage, which fell and broke within about a yard of the place where Mrs. Copeland (the lady of the manager) was standing. The offender Was taken into custody, and on the following day he was committed to take his trial. PART OF A BUILDING BLOWN DOWN.—On Wednes day evening the front wall of a building in Prescot-street, London-road, was blown down by the violence of the wind. The premises, which were formerly occupied by Mr. Bax endale, coach-builder, were in course of being taken down, and a great portion of the materials had been removed. The mass of brick-work, &c., fell towards the street, covering a space of several yards in extent. Fortunately, no one was injured. REMOVING SPIRITS WITHOUT A PERMIT. — On Tues day eveni ng a Mr. Charles Sheriff, excise officer, was passing along Scotland-road, he observed John Duffy with a large basket entering a public-house. Suspecting Patters were not correct, he followed, and found in the basket f our b ladders, containing three gallons of whisky. Not having a permit, the man was given into custody, and on Wednesday, when brought up, was ordered to pay the Mitigated penalty of £25, or go to gaol for three months. DEAT H FROM EXCESSIVE DRINKING.—On Friday an inquest was held on the body of Martin Carolan, Ad lington-street, aged 34 years, who died thc day previously. Th - deceased had drunk to excess for the last two or three months, and had complained for a week past of a pain in the head. He was attended by Mr. Broomilaw, surgeon, who, having made a post mortem examination of body, was decidedly of opinion that the deceased Lad died of 1 cohgestion of th e b ra i n, caused by excessive drinking. " Verdict accordingly. GUANO.—The arrivals are three vessels from Ichahoe and one from Mercury Island. The cargo of the North Pole, from the latter place, was offered by auction on Wednesday, when £5 15s. was refused. It was subse quently put on the market, and about one hundred tons sold, the price of which has not transpired. Sales of Ichaboe have been made from the warehouse at £5 17s. 6d. to £6 2s. 6d. For spring delivery there is nothing doing. The cargo of the Chimmra, from Mercury Island, is de clared for auction on Wednesday next. MONUMENT TO DR. DALTON.—At a meeting of the inhabitants of Manchester the following resolution was come to :—" That it is desirable that a simple and suitable memorial should be placed in the cemetery at A rdwick, over the mortal remains of this illustrious philosopher and exemplary Christian ; and that it is most desirable to ,fir. And a professorship of Chemistry in some public install "on in Manchester, to be named the Daltonian Pro fessorship,' one object of which shall be to illustrate the atomic theory, and the discoveries of Dalton, in connex ion with other b ran ches of physical science." HEARTLESS ROBBERY OF AN OLD MAN.—Yesterday week, at the Police Court, two youths, Thomas Harris and Rich ar d Arkwright, were charged with robbing an old man, whose name did not transpire. The complainant aaid that when he was going home by Nash Grove on Saturday night, the prisoners and some other fellows tae uto him, and some of em held ir ands over his m eyes and mouth, while the th others rifled his h pockets of all the money he had, amounting to sixteen pence in Copper, together with a pencil-case. He stuck to one of the prisoners, and the other was afterwards secured by a Policeman. They were committed for trial. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.—Dur 11.1g the past week the following persons of distinction ar rived at the Adelphi Hotel : —Le Compt Bodisco, Russian Minister at Washington, Sir Edward Sugden, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and family, the Marquis de Mari, the Marquis of Headfort, Lord Newborough, Lord Il cheater, Sir Piers and Lady Mostyn, Major Wynn, Lord Ililster, Lord Standish, Lord Chief-Justice Pennefather, Mr. S. C. Hall, Lord Stavendale, Mr. Justice Crampton, and Lady Kerry and suite. The Lord Chancellor of Ire land. Lady Sugden, and the ladies of the family left for Dublin on Friday night in the Iron Duke. ACCIDENTS AT THE WOODSIDE BOAT.—On Wednes day night, when the wind was boisterous, a servant girl named Ellen Griffiths, in stepping from the Woodside steamer, at the steps at this side, stumbled on the stairs, and while part of her legs projected beyond the step, the boat. which was pitching at the time, crushed the poor creatures foot and ancle. to fragments. She was taken home in a car, and her leg was amputated under the su perintendence of Dr. Thorburne, Mr. Hutchings, and Mr. Banner. She bore the operation with much forti tude. On the same evening, a woman and child fell into the water between the boat and the Woodside slip as loe same boat was leaving the ferry. They were rescued l o an exhausted state, and taken to Gough's hotel. COTTON GROWN IN CHESHIRE.—On Wednesday week a fioe specimen of Sea Island cotton was exhibited in the Exchang e N ews - room . It was grown by M r . M aur y, a t is residence, in Liscard, and the specimen exhibited con !dated of two bulbs—one open, exhibiting beautiful cotton; like the other closed. The cotton looked so natural, so much a sample taken from a bag, that several gentle men refused to believe that it belonged to the plant to w. in hich it was attac h e d ; an d one o f t h em was so pertina cous his scepticism, that Mr. Jones tore open the closed bulb, and exhibited to his astonishment similar cotton in its natural prison. Mr. Maury, we believe, will be glad to show the cotton tree to any gentleman call ing. It is kept in a temperature of about 80. ATAr. CeIt:MISTS AT THE DOCKS AND PIERS.—On Friday fell. William Tomkinson, organist of Egremont church, e into the river, at the Prince's Pier, whilst crossing zgrottn the New Brighton to the Egremont boat. He was to out, in about five minutes, by a waterman belonging the flat Prince, and taken to the Receiving-house, in a veryexhausted state ; but he was so far recovered, about twelve o'clock on Saturday, as to be able to proceed home. •Le A.teiut twelve o'clock, on Friday, a boy, named Thos. r _ cuoster, fell into th e Trafalgar Dock, but was speedily Clare ed from his perilous situation and conveyed horse to oce-court —The same day William Jones, one of the labourers at the new to the deckof nor injured.— north docks, fell off a plank on a flat underneath, and was very severely Wood side slip .‘s the half-past nine boat was leaving Wood anxiett; ton get Saturday morning, an elderly man, in his preci pitated in ° fi the on ri board, missed his hold and was The engines were immediately re versed, and he was taken out and brought on deck in a Thoroughly saturated state. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE PLAN OF BIRKENHEAD.—The Liverpool Stan dard of Tuesday gives, in a supplement, a typographical sketch of the extensive improvements at Birkenhead. This specimen of workmanship is certainly a curiosity, and is as creditable: to the skill of the manipulator as it is to the advancement of the arts in the noble town of Liverpool.— Worcester Tournal.—[We are sorry we cannot find room for the many notices from our other provincial con temporaries of our novel production. They are as grati fying as they are numerous.] OPENING OF THE MANCHESTER CUSTO3I-HOUSE.— This establishment was opened for business on Friday. The establishment consists of a solicitor, comptroller, six clerks, a landing surveyor, two landing-waiters, lockers, &c. Mr. Powell, late comptroller of the customs at New castle, has been selected as collector; and Mr. Shelly, late warehouse-keeper at Liverpool, has received the appoint ment of comptroller. The majority of tho officars have been selected by the commissioners of customs, from the Liverpool officers. We understand that a considerable business was transacted.—Manchester Courier. Fiats.—On Thursday morning about half.past ten, a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. W. Alletson, tallow chandler, Bevington Hill. The damageamounted to about &10. On Friday night a fire broke out in the stable of Mr. Lathom, Vauxhall road, but the police being promptly on the spot, the flames were soon subdued. On Sunday morning a fire broke out in the shop of Mr. John Simpson, chemist, Scotland-road, opposite St. Martin's Market. How it originated has not been exactly ascertained, but the flames were extinguished by the police before the en gines arrived. The counter was partially burned. The stock was insured in the West of England Office for £7OO. FATAL ACCIDENT.--On Saturday an inquest was held before the Borough Coroner, on view of the body of a child, five years of age, named Eliza Winsmore. It ap peared, from the evidence, that, upon the morning of that day, the deceased was run over, in Great Howard-street, by the Tally-ho omnibus which plies between Liverpool and Bootle, and belongs to a person named Bradley. The driver was taken into custody upon the instant, but was subsequently discharged, Mr. Kaye, the proprietor of the Courier, having deposed that no blame was attributable to him, but that the death was purely the result of acci dent. A verdict to this effect was returned. BIRKENHEAD FAIR. — The quarterly fair for the sale of horned cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, &c., took place on Tuesday last. The show of cattle was, on the whole, pretty good, and a number of parties from the neighbour hood, as well as from Liverpool, Prescot, &c., attended both as sellers and buyers. Cows, of which there was an excellent supply, realised high prices, especially good milkers; pigs were scarce, and a considerable advance in price consequently took place. There was a large stock of horses, but purchasers were scarce, and complaints were very general as to the paucity of the business transacted as well in this as in other departments con nected with the fair. BIRKENHEAD POLICE COURT, THURSDAY.—SeveraI parties were summoned for allowing goods, &c., to remain on the footwalks, contrary to the provisions of the im provement act. They were warned, and acquitted on pay ment of costs. William Parkinson appeared to answer a summons for laying down a gas pipe, and connecting it with the Gas Company's main without giving notice. As it appeared that it was done in ignorance, and with no in tention to defraud, the case was not pressed—the object in bringing it being to warn the public.—A man, named Dann, was fined 20s. and costs (or fourteen days' im prisonment in default), for a violent assault on Mary Min shull, on Monday night, at Arrow. THE LARGEST POWER-LOOM SHED IN THE WORLD. —Messrs. Ainsworth and Son, cotton Spinners, of this town, have now nearly completed their most extraordi nary power-loom shed. The building covers one and three-eighths of an acre of ground, and will hold 1650 pairs of looms, which will require 825 hands to superin tend them, and 75 horse power to drive them. The shaft ing connected with this monstrous shed is now finished : its length is 6,500 feet. When the whole of the looms are in motion they will require 28,000 feet of strapping. There are 3,000 feet of gas piping, and 825 lights will be required. The roof contains 340 windows, or sky lights, and is supported by 325 pillars. When the whole of the looms are in motion, they will turn off 50 yards of cloth per minute !—Preston Chronicle. BANK OF MANCHESTER.—The annual meeting of the proprietors of this unfortunate concern was held at Man chester on Wednesday. The report read on the occasion stated, that the committee of shareholJers appointed at the last annual meeting to investigate into the affairs of the bank had arrived at the conclusion that the balance sheet presented to the shareholders last October correctly showed the position of the bank on the 30th of June, and that the balance-sheet of the 31st of December showed a considerable realization of assets, and a consequent reduc tion of liabilities from £440,236 to £314,778 during the half-year. By the balance-sheet made up to June, 1843, the liabilities amounted to £440,936 6s. 10d. and the net amount of the estimated assets was £388,577 16s. 5d., showing a deficiency of £52,358 10s. sd. The total results of the statement made up to the 30th of June last was as follows : £ s. d. Total assets - - - - 1,183,677 1 3 Deduct estimated losses - - 937,125 3 1 246,551 17 7 Liabilities - - - 217,573 14 2 Showing a surplus of - 28,178 3 5 The surplus thus shown, added to the previous deficiency, makes a total difference of £81,336 I4s. 10d., which is accounted for by the receipts on the first call of £2 per share, amounting to £5,896 95., on the further call due in January last, amounting to £88,497, and the return of directors' allowances; amounting to £1,452 165., ma king a total of £95,846 ss. The expenses of the year, amounting to £14,501 lls. 2d., being deducted from this amount, leave the difference as quoted above. On the 30th ult. theiliabilities had been further reduced to £204,440. The report was adopted. HOLLINS GREEN REGATTA.—The regatta took place on Tuesday last, the company was numerous and respect able, and the sport good, the boats being well matched. The distance to be pulled, out and in, was from opposite Hollins Ferry House, on the Mersey, round a buoy moored off at liixton Hall pier, about three miles. Every available point for si.:ht was crowded to excess. The Warrington Royal Forresters band was stationed on the Cheshire side, and in their new unifo r m a dd e d muc h t o the gaiety of he day. One of the Old Quay Company's vessels, which was decorated with various colours, was engaged to bring down the Manchester division, and ar rived about eleven o'clock, amidst the acclamations of the assembled throng. The stewards and judge were punctual to time, and precisely at twelve o'clock the start took place for the Lancashire stakes, and resulted after a good race in "Mr. J. Skelmordine's Little Thought Of, beat ing Fenoless, Lady E.aerton and Mazeppa. The Rixtcn stakes next came off—a splendid race—Mr. Burrows Crusader beating, the Mystery, and the Mersey, by 50 yards. The next race was for the Cheshire stakes, and was the best contested of the day. The result was Mr. Nowell's Briiannia 1; Miss Lucy 2. The Mystery dis tanced. Then came a diverting duck race. The duck, Catch me if you can; pursuing boats—Little thought of, and Mr. Jones's Fearless.—Catch me if you can was in a very small boat, provided with a pair of small sculls. The two pursuing boats being of great length, could not turn so quick as the smaller ono, and on several occasions in coming in contact with each other, gave the duck the advantage of getting away from them. Eventually Little thought of caught her and demolished the prize. —The stewards and their friends adjourned to the lied Lion Inn, accompanied by the band playing a lively tune. The evening was spent in right good fellowship. DOCK UOMMITTEE, THIIRSDAY.—T - de SIM-COMM tree of works submitted a letter from Messrs. Thomas Vernon and Co., containing a statement of the terms upon which they wished to rent the land pointed out to them on the Harrington Dock estate, and, also, a resolution come to upon the subject, which was to the effect that Messrs. Vernon should be allowed to hold the land in question (about 300 square yards) rent free, until the land at the north be ready for their reception. After a discussion which lasted upwards of an hour, the votes were taken, when there appeared for the recommendation of the sub committee, nine, namely—Messrs. Kendall, Bold, Tobin, Sandbach, Smith, Holmes, Royden, Trotman, and Nicol. Against it, seven, namely—the Chairman, Messrs. Mid dleton, Ripley, Holt, Aikin, Barclay, and Evans.—Mr. Evans hoped some limit would be put to the time the land was to be rent free, and, after some conversation, the time was limited to eighteen months, and a clause was ordered to be inserted in the leases, to the effect that no compensation would be given to parties who should be required to remove.—A letter from Mr. Cato, requesting that the rent of land occupied by him might not be in creased from Is. to Is. 6d. per square yard, and asking for a lease, was referred to the sub-committee of works. — A letter was read from Mr. Wilson, objecting to the clause in his lease of the land at Brunswick Dock, which prohi bited him from sub-letting it. The committee decided that they would never lease land with power to sublet ; and it was urged by Mr. Ripley that the land ought only to be let for the purpose of shipbuilding.—The Chairman said that although the necessary . notices had been given, yet it was found impossible , consequence of the number of ships in it, to let the Prince's Dock dry these springs, but that it would be done the first springs in November. — The sub-committee for the marine department presented a . new telegraphic vocabulary, prepared by the marine surveyor, and recommended that it should be printed at the expense of the trust, and sold to the public at the cheapest possible rate. After some conversation, the de cision on this point was deferred for a week.—lt was or dered that two assistants should be appointed to the line of telegraph, in order to supply the place of sick and absent men.—The marine surveyor reported the death of Mr. Evans, superintendent of the telegraph station at Holyhead. Referred to the marine sub-committee to consider and report. Mr. Aikin said that, after an ac quaintance with the deceased for above a quarter of a cen tury, he must say that they had lost in him one of the best public servants—as good a man in his position as any he knew.—Recommendation for the placing of mushrooms, capstans, life-buoys, lamps, &c. on the island at the en trance to the Canning Dock, was approved.—The number of days the flags denoting the docks to be full bad been flying at the pier -heads, during the last quarter, was stated as follows :—Waterloo and Victoria Docks 49, Prince's 57, George's 90, (in this the dredging machine had been at work 64 days,) Canning 32, King's 27, Queen's 31, Brunswick 25, Coburg 22, Union 23. Mr. Evans said he went by the Canning Dock frequently, but he had no re collection of seeing any want of room.—At the suggestion or the master pilots, with the approval of the marine sur veyor, the bell-buoy was ordered to be removed half a mile further in the same line.—Two letters, as to landing berths for tobacco vessels, was referred to the harbour master's sub-committe e .—A reso l u ti on o f th e finance committee, as to W. Kelly, was re f erre d t o th e s ecretary. —Tbe committee then adjourned, having sat nearly two hours. WALLASEY CHURCH. —The Rector and Church wardens of Wallasey have issued a circular to the parishioners, announcing that they have received the sum of £9OO, for the purpose of adding a new aisle to the church, to contain four hundred and eighty sittings, which are to be entirely free, and that they intend to carry the donor's intention forthwith into effect. The venerable old church requires rebuilding, and many of the parisioners, we have no doubt, would " come down handsomely," for the support of such a proposition. Would not this be a capital time to moot the question ? CASE OF STABBING.—On Saturday an elderly female was brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of having stabbed another female, rather advanced in years, with a knife. The complainant, who had her face bandaged, and appeared to have been wounded very severely, said that her antagonist, without any provocation whatever, had taken up the knife and " carved " her nose. The prisoner's defence was, that they bad been drinking to gether, and quarrelled in argument. Mr. Rushton, after remarking that many of the outrages which came before him had their origin in intoxication, ordered the prisoner to pay a fine of 50s. and costs, or to be imprisoned forty two days. PUBLICANS AND BEERSEL LEAS FlNED.—There were only two informations against beersellers, and one against a publican, heard at the Police-court on Friday, thus ex hibiting a remarkable diminution in point of numbers. William Rimtner, beerseller, Mill-place, Shaw's-brow, was fined 10s. awl costs for having sold ale at half-past eleven o'clock on the night of Saturday last; and Row land Williams, beerseller, of Bixteth-street, was fined 20s. and costs for permitting drunkenness in his house at two o'clock on the morning of Saturday last. The pub lican was Mr. Henry Jordan, of London-road, who was convicted in the penalty of 40s. and costs for permitting drunkenness on the morning of Thursday, the 26th ult. RATHER SUSPICIOUS.—On Wednesday, an elderly man, named William Finch, was brought up, charged with stealing £1 in gold and four half-crowns from the house of Mr. Mossop, Vine-court, Circus-street. The evidence against the prisoner was, that he lived opposite to Mr. Mossop, and that early on Monday morning he was seen, partially dressed with a striped nightcap on, to come out of the house of Mossop, lock the door, and go into his own house. The money was safe on Saturday, and it appeared that the same key opened the houses of both complainant and prisoner. In his possession was also found £1 in gold and 17s. 6d. in half-crowns, but he accounted for this by saying he was a treasurer to a Fo resters' Lodge. He admitted to the officer who took him into custody, that he had a nightcap such as was described by the boy. Mr. Rushton did not think the case conclu sive, and or'lered the prisoner to be discharged. RE MICHAEL M`DIVITT, A BANKRUPT.—Wednesday being the day appointed for the public sitting for the al lowance of the bankrupt's certificate by the commissioner, Mr. Moss attended on behalf of the bankrupt, and Mr. John Yates, jun., for the assignee. Mr. Sergeant Ludlow having inquired if any creditor appeared to oppose, and no one answering, Mr. Yates, on behalf of the assignee, said that he was instructed not only not to offer any oppo sition, but to state that—after the fullest investigation of the bankrupt's conduct—he thought he was fully and fairly entitled to the certificate, having, in all respects, duly conformed. The learned Sergeant afterwards addressing the bankrupt, said—" Mr. M'Divitt, I am happy to re mark, that you have passed this court in a very creditable manner • and it must be gratifying to your feeli ngs t o know, drat you obtain your certificate with the entire ap probation of the solicitor to the assignee." THE DISTRICT BANKRUPTCY COURT.—Under Lord Brougham's new act ; a discharge of debtors, whose debts did not amount to £2O, has taken place, and the conse quence has been several re-commitments to prison by the bankruptcy commissioners. Two instances of this oc curred in our own district court last week. A man named Simpson, who had thus been discharged, came before the commissioner (Mr. Sergeant Ludlow) for a final order and relief from all his debts, when he was opposed for a man named Jones, on the ground that he was also in gaol for an assault on Jones, the damages and costs amounting to £3B ; the damages, however, being less than £2O. By a section of the act, insolvents convicted of certain of fences (including assaults) are ineligible to take the bene fit of the set. The commissioner held that he should be sent back to Lancaster Castle. Anotherinsolvent, named Boyle, was also re-committed to prison under similar cir cumstances, and also on the opposition of the same Mr. Jones. FATAL ACCIDENT.—An accident of a distressing na ture occurred on Tuesday evening last, between six and seven o'clock, to three persons who were intending to cross the Lancaster Sands on their way to Flookburgh.— John Moore, fisherman, of Flookburgh, was returning from Lancaster on Tuesday evening, with two carts, each drawn by one horse. Two other young men were also with him, riding in the cart. On arriving at the Lancas ter Sands it unfortunately happened that the travellers were considerably out of time, the tide then flowing rather strongly. Moore, however, imagined he might proceed on his journey, without incurring any serious risk, and did so • when melancholy to state, th e water was soon after found to have increased to so great a height, as to baffle all their endeavours to get through it, and the pain ful result was that Moore and one of his passengers, and both horses were drowned ; but the other man having stuck with determined tenacity to the tail of one of the horses, was afterwards rescued from his perilous situation in a very exhausted state. RABIES IN A HORSE.—On Wednesday afternoon last, a horse, appearing to be labouring under great nervous excitement, and belonging to Mr Garner, Kent -street, was brought to Mr. Dawber's veterinary establishment, in Houghton-street. On closer examination, it was observed that the animal manifested some very curious symptoms, which inclined to the belief that he was affected with ra bies. On further inquiry, it wus stated that the horse, under natural circumstances, was remarkably quiet : but during the day had become extremely vicious, with a de sire to attack any person that came near him. On making an attempt to give him a little medicine, he threw himself into the most violent convulsions, and fell to the ground, apparently much exhausted. Every precaution was used to secure the horse; and owing to some sedatives Oa t ha d but been given, he, for a time, seemed more composed; early on the following morning a most aggravated form. He was, .from time to time, ely • his looks were strongly convulsed; he sweat profusely; mouth of the most savage description, frothing at the mou ;he the symptoms. returne . d in CoonmssioN Thursday,Eßsm.—r. A John o t h h n e a h t o t u a r c s k , e t d il t i li d e ea r t a h ck p , ut a n manger, end t o halter,his walls,miseries. erl a e n s. d even rE p d lication was made for a new body. All these dreadful symptoms . continued . for a few . uti . s c oPu o im a l t ve in n is N g ei ' G ; ti f Atn o hNg r eD fora hfS p a Fi O trwh h eEa i o na n bAo:ap of Oldhall-street. Mr. Cun ningham, surveyor of that district, stated that an estimate given in for " coating" a given portion of the street, about three weeks ago, was £5B, and owing to the great traffic over it, another " coating" would be required before Christmas. The cost incurred to keep this street in re pair, as at present, was better than 2s. per yard per an num. It cost yearly half what it would cost to lay it with small sets, which would last for thirty years. It was un derstood that the commissioners decided upon having the street laid with sets.—A communication was read from Mr. Hoyle, in referen;e to the commissioners having re jected the whole of the flags which he had supplied accord ing to the contract.—A communication was read from Mr. R. P. Carter, Green-lane, complaining that in con sequence of a well which had been sunk in his immediate neighbourhood, his supply of water had been drawn off. After a conversation it was concluded that the commis sioners were not liabie to make compensation for water so taken, and, moreover, that much doubt existed whether the water had been so exhausted. A LADY ROBBED OF HER WATCH IN THE STREET.— Yesterday week, at the Police Court, a boy, named George Miller, was charged with having robbed a lady, in open day, of her watch and its appendages, together with other minor articles. Miss Christina Marshall, the complain ant, said that she lived in Myrtle-street South. On Saturday last, about 12 o'clock, she was on her way homeward from St. James' Market, and had reached Canning-street, when some one came up to her, and she felt a hand about her person, and immediately missed her gold watch, gold seal, a gold locket and a key. She immediately screamed out, and told a person who came up, of her loss, but the boy ranToff, and she could not notice him so distinctly as to identify him. A boy who happened to be near said he saw the prisoner snatch away the watch, with which he ran off. He afterwards observed him showinv something to another boy, and he then ran towards Parliament-:street. Mary Eleanor Treavenor, a servant, said that she was going into Back Canning-street, when she heard a lady scream. The prisoner was pursued by some boys, and by witness, and he took up a stone and threw it at the boys to keep them back, and finally escaped. From information afterwards received, Police officer, Samuel Tuck, with a description of the prisoner's dress and appearance, he went in search of him, and saw him in Fcntenoy street. On seeing the officer he ran off, but was pursued and found in an entry seated on a heap of coals, and one shilling in his pocket. The prisoner, who had been nine times committed, was sent for trial at the Sessions. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday last at noon, the neighbourhood of Paradise-street was thrown into a state of considerable commotion by the rumour that an explo sion had taken place in the house of Mr. Jones, chemist, No. 5, in that street, and the appearance of a female, en veloped in flames, rushing out of the shop door. The passers by seized the female, who was Mr. Jones's servant, and, by forcibly throwing her on the ground and rolling her in a flannel garment, succeeded in quenching the fire, which had, however, burned her hands and face and the upper part of her dress. On entering the premises it was found that Mr. Jones himself had his right hand much burned and blistered, and that his brother William, and more particularly his sister, Miss Jones, a fine young woman, were dreadfully iburned in various parts of their bodies. Mr. W. Jones was singed in the face, hands, arms, and thighs, and the legs of his pantaloons were com pletely burned away. Almost all the clothes worn by Miss Jones were also destroyed. The servant and Mr. W. Jones were soon after taken to the Infirmary, and though Miss Jones could not be removed on account of her sufferings,•she was sufficiently recovered to be re moved there in a covered car on Sunday, and they are all doing well. Mr. Jones states that his sister's clothes caught fire in the kitchen, a small apartment over the rear of the shop, and that his brother, the servant, and himself, having rushed in to save her, were injured in the manner described. He further stated, that there was a jar in:the oven containing a chemical preparation of turpentine and wax, and that overheating must have accidentally caused the boiling over of the ingredients and the bursting forth of the flame. The door of the apartment was, it appears shut, at the time, and the confinement of the dame would no doubt, have caused its ravages upon the injured parties to be the more intense. He denied that there was any explosion, but a female living in an adjoining house stated that she heard a very loud report. Little damage was done to the premises. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, as J. Cunningham, a carpenter, was walking along the edge of the staircase at one of the new buildings, Hamilton square, Woodside, the brickwork suddenly gave way, and precipitated the unfortunate manfrom a height of forty feet, and when taken up, he was found to be literally crushed to pieces. He was immediately conveyed to the dispensary, but be only lingered for a few hours. THE OUT-PENSIONERS.—On Thursday last, the out pensioners of this district assembled at the Barracks, in Duke-street, where they underwent an examination by Captain Greigg, the staff-officer. They were reviewed, on Saturday. in the large fields to the rear of the Colle giate Institution, before Major-General Sir Vim. Warr, the commanding officer stationed at Chester. Sir William arrived at George's pier about twelve o'clock, and was there met by his relative, Mr. William Rathbone, in whose carriage he proceeded to the review. The hardy veterans went through their various evolutions with a precision which plainly showed that, although they had been discharged from active service, they had not forgot ten the military discipline to which they were subjected in their earlier days. Sir William expressed himsel highly pleased with the regularity of their movements and general appearance. A full band was in attendance, and played several military airs. On Thursday next the out pensioners will be finally inspected by Captain Greigg. HASTY HONESTY AND DEPLORABLE ROGUERY.—A correspondent says, "On Monday week, a mercantile clerk lost a bank note for £5OO, on his way from Change alley to the south end of Castle-street, at haV-past two in the afternoon ; the loss was immediately discovered, and in an hour afterwards the owners of the note offered a re ward of £25 for its restoration. About six o'clock the note was handed to the printer of the handbill, the £25 paid, and a receipt given. The owners, of course, were well satisfied, and naturally supposed that the finder would be equally content with his reward ; but, to their surprise, they received, on the following morning, a mes sage from the gentleman, to the effect that be wished to see a partner in the house, and when his summons was obeyed, he expressed great dissatisfaction at the £25 re ward ; he thought he deserved more ; indeed he said he could at any bank have got 500 sovereigns for his prize; or, at most, if he had gone to London, it could never have been traced ; and a friend of his had called him a fool for not going ! after many fruitless attempts to ex tract a further sum, he descended from his high ground, begged for a suit of clothes in addition, assured in his own mind, that this would not be refused him. The gentle man holds what is called a confidential situation in an of fice, and dresses in the height of fashion. Of course he had to content himself with the paltry £25." MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—An inquest was held at the Qneen's Arms, Liscard, on Tuesday last, before Henry Cburton, Esq., on the body of Richard Chapman, aged 30, a clerk in the house of Messrs. Clegg and Co., of Liverpool. It appeared that the deceased, who had been for some time in a declining state of health. was crossing the river about three weeks ago by one of the Seacombe Ferry steamers, and, owing to the weather being wet, had taken shelter in the cabin, but, finding the heat oppressive, had removed to the stairs and stood on the uppermost step. A person in the cabin was heard to order him either to go up or come down, but, being un fortunately deaf, he did not hear him. Immediately the person took hold of his coat-laps, and dragged him down in a very forcible manner, the shock of which acting on his mind, as well as his body, had the effect of bringing on a crisis, as be gradually got worse until his death. Dr. Donlevy, of Liscard, gave evidence that the deceased had tubercles on the lungs, hut that he was not in a state previous to the accident to warrant that his death would occur soddenly, and his opinion was that the shock he received had materially accelerated his death. Verdict— natural death ; but in the opinion of the jury very much accelerated by having been forcibly pulled down the cabin steps of one of the Seacombe Ferry steamers by some person unknown. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday evening a lament able catastrophe took place in the timber yard of Messrs. J. and W. Bellhouse, Oxford-road, Manchester. About six o'clock, two sawyers, Benjamin Clayton and Simeon Lord, were engrged in sawing a log of timber, which, "a short time previously, had been placed between two piles of timber for that purpose, when (in consequence it is supposed of the ground in one part giving way) four large logs fell from one of the piles into the space where the men were at work; killed Clayton on the spot, and injured Lord so severely that he died in a few hours afterwards. The inquest was held before Mr. Chapman on Friday. It appeared that the logs had been piled in the usual neat and apparently secure manner, but there was a strong wind at the time, which, together with the settling of the ground and the sinking of a sleeping, caused some of them to fall. The jury returned a verdict of " accidental death." Clayton, who was dreadfully crushed, was 46 years of age, and has left a widow and family of children living in Buxton-street, Chorlton-on-Medlock; and Lord, who sustained a compound fracture of the leg and other injuries, ancllived in Brunswick-street, Salford, was36years of age, and has left a widow and one child. Tun LATE GALE.—The barque Ocean Queen, which sailed on Tuesday for Savannah, has put back, hay ing been in contact with the schooner Nymph, for Lynn, on Wednesday night, off Holyhead. The Nymph, with her captain and two hands, went down : two others of the crew were saved by the Ocean Queen. The following vessels have also put back :—The Crown, for M leaky ; the Ben Nevis ; the Lady Courtenay, for Corfu, with loss of bowsprit ; the Remittance, for New York, with loss of maintopmast, &c. ; and the Inconstant, for Halifax, with foremast sprung.—A violent sale raged on the Irish coast on Wednesday night, wind S.E.—The Liffey rose several feet beyond the ordinary level of spring tides, and flowed over the quays of Dublin. The shipping suffered considerable damage.—ln Halpin's Pool a schooner, laden with oats, became a wreck. The fine steamer Shannon was dragged from her moorings at the same place and thrown nearly dry upon one of the slips; one of the wheels and a paddle-box destroyed. At the Island of Ciontarf a man named Cromwell and his son lost their lives. Cromwell, who rented the island, and kept boats, lived in a small but strong wooden house, and while they were asleep (as is supposed) the building, inmates, &c. were swept away by the sea, which had co vered the whole surface of the island. Several pleasure boats were wrecked in Clontarf Bay. A great deal of large timber growing along the north coast was blown down. The Marchioness of Stafford, coal laden, was driven on the Wicklow beach, and became a total wreck : crew saved. The Susannah, of Chester, bound to Bris tol, was driven ashore at Five Mile Point, Wicklow. The brig Amity, of Avr, bound for Dublin with coals, was wrecked off the Skerries. but the crew were saved. A vessel belonging to Halifax, but whose name we cannot find recorded, was lost off Port Rush. She was laden with palm oil; and the captain, his wife, and one of the crew, were drowned. FATAL ACCIDENTS ON THE RIVER.—On Wednesday, the Hesperus, bound for Africa, was lying in the river, off the Magazines, preparatory to going to sea, when, about eight o'clock in the evening, the wife . of the chief mate, wishing to see her husband, engageda boat, manned by two hands, to proceed to the vessel. They had not gone far, when she was, at her own request, put ashore again, the sea being very rough at the time. The men then put off, and reached the ship, for the purpose of bringing the mate ashore. Accordingly, he, together with the steward, boatswain, and one of the coopers, embarked, andthe boat left the vessel, with theview of returning,when, it is supposed, she must have been upset by a squall of wind, as it was at the time (and, indeed, all day) blowing hard, from the south-east. It being quite dark, the ac cident was not witnessed by any one, and, it is conjec tured, that all hands, six in number, must have perished immediately. One of the boatmen, William Richie, has left a wife (who, for the last three years, has becn in a delicate state of health) and five children, the eldest not ten years of age, totally unprovided for. The name of the other boatman is Hugh Jones, also married, but no family. On the same evening, and about the same time as the above accident occurred, a boat, having on board seven seamen, left the ship Glasgow, a North American vessel, then anchored off Seacombe, and they have not since been heard of, though the boat herself has been picked up near the Magazines. [lt appears that on the evening in question the Iron Duke steamer, on her way down the river to Dublin, came in contact with a boar, which must have been one of the two mentioned above, and the passengers in the steamer have published the following account of the collision :—Having come down slowly by the docks, and just having passed the iron ship building yard, the captain being on the stage keeping a look-out, and one man at each paddle-box, with certainly more than two men looking-out on the forecastle, several passengers being at the time about the stage in front of the chimney, the night dark and blowing hard, a cry was passed from the forecastle, " A boat right n-head." Immediately the words " Stop her, hack her," were given by the captain, which were at once responded to ; but the boat haring been so close under the ship before she was seen, from the darkness of the night, had not time to clear her, and, while the engines were in the act of being stopped, was run on by the steamer and swamped, having been struck by the larboard paddle of the steamer. The ship was at once stopped, blue lights were burned, life-buoys were thrown over, and the boat lowered with a crew to look for and render assistance to the un fortunate people who had been in the boat ; but after searching about for a long time—fully three quarters of an hour—were obliged to return without being able to discover any trace either of the men or the boat. The passengers unanimously acquit from all blame the captain and crew of the Iron Duke. It appears also that about the same time these accidents occurred, the hands on board her Majesty's steamer Redwing, at her moorings off Monk's Ferry, saw a man in the river either clinging to the bottom of a boat or to some spars. The unfortu nate being was calling for assistance, and a boat was im mediately lowered from the Redwing and every exertion used to save him ; but he disappeared in a moment. The boat which was swamped by the Iron Duke was found in the Rock Gut. The unfortunate being who hailed the Redwing was, therefore, in all probability, one of the crew of the Glasgow's boat, because any remnant of the boat of the Hesperus could not have reached the anchorage ground of the Redwing, off the Monk's Ferry, in the then state of the wind and tide. The how of the boat which, was in collision with the iron Duke is broken, and, to wards the stern, the bulwarks on either side, together with the seats and the upper stern-board are swept away. The most probable exposition of the manner of the occurrence is, that the gig ran bow on to the larboard bow of the Iron Duke, accounting for the shattering of her bow; and that, brought round parallel to the side of the steamer by the collision, she was carried stern foremost under the paddle-floats, accounting for the ext ens i ve d amage near the stern. The remnants of the boat may be seen at the south end of the Prince's Dock, outside the walls. By these accidents thirteen lives have been sacrificed. A HINT TO HOOK-BORROWERS. —Of persons who bor rowed books, but did i not return them , Lord Eldon said, "that though bnckward n accounting, they seemed to be practised is book-keeping." GENERAL MISCELLANY. The total import of foreign oxen and cows this year amounts to 5327 head. Sir Henry Pottinger arrived at Grove's Hotel, Albe marle-street, on Tuesday, in excellent health. The agents of theiinti-Corn-Law L eague ac t ua lly ma de no less than 700 objections at the City of Exeter *Regis tration, out of which they sustained twelve. The demand for Tartan dresses, which has been on the increase for several years, has received a vast impulse by the visits of her Majesty to Scotland. FIRE AT Cat WE.—On Friday a fire broke out in an outbuilding of the Holly Sheaf Farm, in the occupation of Mr. Farber. The loss is estimated at £l5O. A subscription has been entered into for the relief of the relatives of the sufferers at Haswell Colliery. The amount already announced is nearly £l7OO, the owners of the colliery having subscribed five hundred guineas. At the third and last Falkirk cattle tryst, which com menced on Monday, from sixty to seventy thousand sheep were exhibited, and prices were lower by front is. 6d. to 2s. a head than in September. On Friday last, a boy, ten years old, at Rhiw Coch mill, near Holyhead, came within reach of the wings of the mill while making their revolutions. He was struck down and killed instantaneously. ARRIVAL; OF LORD ELLENBOROUGH.—Lord Ellen borough arrived at Portsmouth, en Friday moniug, in the Locust steam-ship, Lieutenant Commander Lunn. The vessel is performing quarantine at the Mother-hank. The Artesian wells at Southampton (one thousand three hundred feet deep) have been completely successful. The water rises to within forty feet of the surface, and by the aid of powerful engines no less than fifty-five thousand gallons a day are poured into the town. THE MOTHER OF HILLS.—We are sorry to hear that the Jubilee Column, on the lofty summit of Moel Vamma, is in so dilipidated a condition, that unless instant means are taken to put it into a proper state of repair, it will scarcely stand through the winter. LIBERATION OF A CHARTIST PRISONER.—Joseph Cappur, the well-known Chartist Blacksmith, of Tunstall, convicted of sedition at the special commission in 1842, was released from Stafford gaol on Monday last, after undergoing his term of two years' imprisonment. JEWISH MAGISTRATES.—Mr. E. Lousada, of the Peak, Derbyshire, and one of the deputy-lieutenants for the county, has qualified as a county magistrate. Mr. Benjamin Cohen, at Richmond, has also been placed upon the commission of the peace.—Voice of Jacob. The Windsor Castle, an iron steamer, soon after leaving the royal squadron on Tuesday week, struck on the North Carr Rock, between Dundee and Edinburgh, and was totally wrecked. The passengers, two hundred in num ber, were providentially rescued. THE HASWELL COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—Tbe pro tracted inquest on the bodies of she sufferers by this awful visitation closed on Friday, when the jury brought in a verdict of " accidental death," stating, that they did not attribute blame to any one. TERRIFIC FIRE.—On Wednesday a most extensive fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Mace, farmer, one mile from Gravesend. A homestead, a large building filled with grain, a pea rick, two of beans, and two stacks of wheat, the piggeries, stables, &c., were consumed. A deaf and dumb man is in custody. On Wednesday last a boat, containing eleven persons was swamped by passing over the ridge of rocks called " The Bridges," off Devonport. Eight of thaeleven were drowned, one of them a female, who had just bade adieu to her husband, a seaman on board her Majesty's ship Rhadamanthus. FATAL MISTAKE.—Two Scotch lads went into the woods near Crieff, Perthshire, last week to shoot a roe that had been trespassing on the corn stacks. One of them perceiving a movement in a bush, incautiously fired, and passed a rifle ball through the body of his companion, who died next day. ' • SUNFLOWER:—A new society devoted to the cultiva tion of this flower says—" Let a man but devote his ener gies to the cultivation of one hundred acres of sunflowers," and he shall see, what he shall see—his profits in one year shall be from £2,000 to £2,400, after paying his la bourers handsomely I" HERRING TRADE.—The total quantity caught for the season is estimated at 90,000 barrels, of which there have been exported to Ireland, 38,997 ; do. to the Conti nent, 33,066. Leaving unshipped 17,936 barre's. The total number of boats employed here during th season was 906, and of hands 10,561.—J0hn 0' Groat's Journal. UNITARIANISM.—Upwards of £4OOO is already sub scribed towards taking down and rebuilding Mill Hill Chapel, which was formerly built and occupied by Trini tarian Nonconformists, but is now, by virtue of the ab sence of all creeds, and of the Dissenters' Chapels Bill, in the hands of the Unitarians. The same body, in Leeds, have also appointed a town missionary. Hop-picking has been brought to a close nearly through out the county, and we are enabled to state pretty confi dently that, taken on the whole, the produce has fallen from a fourth to a third short of what was expected. The quality in some instances, however, is better than was anticipated. From Mid-Kent we learn that the crop falls short of expectation by a third, and even a half, in a few cases; and the estimate of duty now varies from £127,000 to £l3o,ooo.—Kentish Obse►ver HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCE.—We last year took notice of a maniac belonging to Strathpeffer, known by the name of Big Hector, and the abominable manner in which he behaved during the sacramental fast days in Ferintosh, and the danger to the public of his being left at large. We are now informed that he lately visited Edderton, in the eastern portion of this county, where, having taken hold of a child (a girl), he ate the flesh off her arm, and the pour sufferer, when relieved was, and stilt is, in a very painful and dangerous condition.—Rosskire paper. THE BRIDE OF STRONG WIND.—We state`l, last week, on the authority of the Sentinel, that the English bride of the Ojibbeway Indian had returned to the pater nal roof, in consequence of the parties not having been able to agree. A gentleman, who called upon us a few days ago, has informed us, that this report is incorrect, he having seen a letter, which the bride had written to her father, stating that the happy couple had landed at New York, and giving evidence that they were living on the most affectionate terms.—Albion. ARRIVAL OF MRS. PRITCHARD AND FAMILY.---Mrs. Pritchard (the wife of Mr. Consul Pritchard), with her three daughters, have arrived in this country. They came on board the barque Cape Breton, Captain Caerr, which left Valparaiso on the I Ith of June, and arrived at Cork on the 3rd of October, bringing government dispatches from the master of the Basilisk, onboard of which Queen Pomar e has taken refuge, and from Admiral Thomas on the South American Station. Mrs. Pritchard and her daughters came over to Bristol on Saturday, and reached London the same evening. ROMANTIC SUICIDE.—George Gardner, the young man who was arraigned at the Warwick Spring Assizes for the abduction of Miss Jane Page, the daughter of Mr. William Page, of Stretton, on the 10th of February last, from a boarding school at Warwick, and bound to keep the peace, committed suicideby poison on Wednesdayweek, at the house of the young lady's father, whither he had gone for some unexplained reason, but probably for the commission of the sad deed. The conduct of Mr. Page to the young man during the time he was in a dying state was severely censured at the inquest by the jury who brought in a verdict of Felo de se. Louis-Philip is the first French sovereign who has visited England in peace. King John of France was taken prisoner by the Black Prince, carried to London, and lodged in the Palace of the Savoy. Francis the First promised a visit to Henry the Eighth, and Henry the Fourth held out the same hopes to Elizabeth ; but oh, structions, intentional or unavoidable, intervened. Nei ther Louis XVIII. nor Charles X. were kings—they were mere refugees—and we may safely say England, never till now, bad the honour of a friendly visit from a King of Franc This is a new feature in the remarkable history of this remarkable man. FATAL ACCIDENT FROM FIRE-ARMS. — On Tuesday . last Lieut. Col. Charles Davies was shooting near En glish Bicknor, and when in the act of getting over a hedge, his gun becoming entangled in ttle briars, went off and lodged the contents of both barrels in his right side. He immediately fell, and on the keeper (who was accom panying him) coming to his side, and attempting to raise him, he exclaimed" It is of no use, I am a dead man!" He then prayed earnestly to God to have mercy on his soul, and on the souls of his relations. The keeper ran to the village (which is only a hundred yards from the spot) for assistance, but before he could return the unfor tunate gentleman had breathed his last.—Cheltenham Chronicle. BREWERS,VICTUALLERS, AND BEERSHOP-BEEPERS. —lt appears from a parliamentary document, that on the 10th of October last there were 2,644 brewers in the United Kingdom, of which number 2,318 were in Eng land, IsB in Scotland, and 138 in Ireland. There were at the same period 86.073 victuallers in the United King dom, of whom 57,698 resided in England, 15,449 in Scot land, and 12,926 in Ireland. In Englaud, there were 31,227 persons licensed to sell beer to be drunk on the pi emises, and 4,252 persons licensed to sell beer not to be consumed on the premises; there were 27,009 victuallers who brewed their own beeer, and nearly 14,000 beershop keepers who also brewed their own beer. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT. --On Friday morning, d ur i ng a sale in the attic of the Bull's Head Inn, Di g b e th, t h e beams 230 f the Boor gate nwaeyarly in the middle, an d th e com pany, all precipitated i n t o t h e persons, were club-room below, and enveloped amongst furniture, &c., broken fragments, clouds of dust, Btc. The screams and confusion were terrific. Several were so much injured, that they had to be sent to the hospital. Several of the parties, both in the attic and club-room, escaped almost by a miracle. One man was saved by jumping on the leads in front of the house. Curiously enough, the vehi cle in which a Mrs. Hare was sent to the hospital was up set, and another to which she was transferred lost a wheel, before she got to her destination. BROUGH-HILL FAIR, WESTMORELAND.---ThiS impor tant fair was held on Monday and Tuesday. There was a tolerable supply of Scotch and MAI cattle, considerable lots of which were sold for wintering, at prices fully eight per cent. below the prices of last year's fair. A goodly number of English cattle of all kinds was exhibited, but the sales effected were at declining prices. Practical agriculturists affirm that fodder for cattle during the ap proaching winter will be scarce, by reason of the oat and barley crops being so short in the straw, and the turnip crops scarcely average ones. There was a good deal of business done among the Scotch and other kinds of sheep, but the prices, like those of cattle, were looking down ward. The horse fair was a very thronged and brisk one, and a large number of very superior animals were shown for sale. PROFITS OF TIMBER.—The late Mr. Fleming, of Hampshire, was one of the largest landed proprietors ia the county, owning at his death 15,000 acres, and so richly wooded has it always been that he is supposed to have cut no less than £300.000 worth of timber, from first to last, and yet left the whole as full as the land will bear. Mr. Fleming's expenditure in the town and neighbour hood of Southampton averaged £lB,OOO a-year, and im mediately after his departure for the Mediterranean the loss of such a large expenditure was most sensibly felt.— Hants Advertiser. A somewhat interesting native of India, "Mohem Lal," arrived in London by the last overland mail. He is the same who travelled in Central Asia in disguise with the late Alexander Burns, and subsequently published his journal in Calcutta. Since that period he has been de voted to British interests, and was greatly instrumental in effecting the deliverance of our prisoners in Affghanis ran. We hear he has been received with marked atten tion by the chairman of the East India Company, Alto, after honouring him with a visit, invited him to dinner at his reside: ce. He will shortly proceed to Scotland, to meet the parents of his late lamented friend Sir Alex ander Burns.-21forning Paper. PROPERTY IN SHARES:—On Friday last, at the Auc tion Mart, Mr. Shuttleworth put up for sale by auction 100 shares in the " 'Thames Tunnel," upon which £5O each had been paid, amounting to £5,C00. The attend ance of capitalists was rather numerous, in consequence of the same auctioneer having several other lots of value able property to dispose of ; but they appeared to " resolve unanimously" that this was a bad lot, and after a very sluggish and slight competition, they were knocked down to an extensive shareholder in the undertaking, at the exceedingly low price of six shillings per £5O share, realising only £3O, and £4,970 less than had been paid for them. The sale was a bordifide one, the shares hav ing been put up by the executors of a deceased gentle man. THE HASWELL EXPLOSION.—With the exception of the Wallsend explosion, in 1835, that at Haswell has been more fatal than any on record. The following is a list of all the accidents which have occurred during the present century, in Northumberland and Durham, in which fifty lives and upwards have been lost :-1812, May 25 : Fel ling, ninety-two lives lost, by explosion.-1815, May 3: Heaton, seventy-five lost, by inundation.-1815, June 2: Success Pit, Newbottle, fifty-seven lives lost by explo sion. -1821, Oct. 23 : Wallsen I, fifty-two lives lost by explosion.-1823, Nov. 3: Plain I'it, Raintan, fifty-nine lives lost by explosion.-1835, June 18: Wallsend, 102 lives lost by explosion.-1839, June 28: St. Hilda, South Shields, fifty-one lives lost by explosion.-1844, Sept. 28: Haswell, ninety-five lives lost by explosion. This is a fearful catalogue: and cne, we trust, which will not appeal to science, to benevolence, and to the legisla ture, in vain. SUGARWUTIES.—On the 10th of November next the act passed in July last to alter the duty on sugars will come into operation.. The several duties to be paid are set forth in the statute with t he enactments respecting the importations of sugar from China, Java, or Manilla, or from the British possessions. By the third section it is stated that from the 10th of November next her Majesty, by an order in Council, may declare, with respect to any foreign country or countries, that it having appeared to her Majesty, from sufficient evidence, that the sugars of such countries are not the produce of slave labour, such sugars shall (from and after a day to be named in such order) be deemed and taken not to be the produce of slave labour, and from and after the day named the brown Mus covado or clayed sugar (not being refined) of the countries mentioned in such order shall be admissible to entry for home consumption at the duty of £1 14s. the cwt., with 5 per cent. additional. Certificates and declarations from masters of ships are to be required respecting the growth of sugars. DESTRUCTIVE FlRES.—Monday week a fire broke out on the home farm contiguous to Mertham House, Surrey, the seat of Sir W. Joliffe, M.P., by which the stabling, and a very large quantity of hay. straw, &c., therein, were consumed. The fire also spread to a range of shedding, upwards of 100 feet long, which was soon destroyed along with a valuable bull, brought from Ger many for the purpose of increasing the value of the En glish breed, which fell a sacrifice to the fury of the flames, as well as two horses, and from 12 to 18 pigs, and a couple of spring carts, with a valuable assortment of agricultural implements. On the same day a fatal conflagration took place at the residence of Mr. W. G. Hayter, M.P., Wells. The fire originated in an outhouse, but soon communicated to the mansion, and before the engines could effectually subdue the devouring element, the roof over the servants bed-rooms fell in with a tremendous crash. Here, we re gret to say, lay an invalid, whose body was found soon after the fire was extinguished burnt to a cinder. The damage is estimated as exceeding £3,C00. WEST INDIAN ROYAL MAIL STEAM COMPANY.---. This company held their half-yearly meeting on Thurs day last. It appears, that, between the reduction of ex penditure and the increased traffic, the concern has done about £40,000 better th i s half-hear , ban it did in the our reiponding one of 1843. A portion of the saving is, how ever, due to a less distance run. Some opposition was given to the report and management by Mr. Ridgway, but the general feeling was one of satisfaction, and, in the end, Mr. R. seconded a vote of thanks to the chairman. To avoid the uncertainty of repairs, a contract for £22,000 a-year has been entered into with Mr. Filcher, the emi nent shipbuilder of Blackwall Referring to the accident to the Tay, the Chairman said, that the expenses, inclu ding salvage, were about £lO,OOO, and that they had dis missed the captain, though they had had an excellent cha racter with him, and had, in other respects, found him to be a good offic.sir. A new steamer of 1,000 to 1,200 tons is to be built for the greater work imposed on the com pany by the Admiralty. Some allusion was made to the company's claim on the estate of Acraman and Co., which depends on the issue of a new trial. TURN-OUT AT LEEDS.—A turn-out of the persons em ployed at several of the principal flax mills in Leeds has taken place, owing to the operation of the New Factory Act, which came into effect on Tuesday week. The per sons who have struck work, amounting to about - 3000 in number, are nearly all girls and women, classed as " young persons ; " but they have caused 300 or 400 male adults to also cease work through the consequent stoppage of the machines at the different mills. Under the old regime it was customary for the whole machinery of the mills to be kept running from six o'clock in the morning to seven in the evening, with the cessation of an hour for dinner, Thus, taking into account that the factories c l ose d on Saturday at four o'clock in the afternoon, the hands worked 69 hours a week. The new statute requires an hour and a half at certain intervals allowed for metl times, and in consequence of an attempt to make up the 69 hours, by beginning wotk earlier in a morning, and leaving off later at night, the hands have struck.--[The Leeds In telligencer of Saturday announces that the strike has been brought to a close, some mutual concessions having been made.] PREACHING TO THE DEAF AND DUMB.—On Sunday afternoon week, Mr. Henry Roxby, formerly of Hull, but now residing at Huddersfield, and being himself deaf and dumb, attended by several others labouring under the same deprivations, and a few friends in possession of these invaluable faculties, proceeded to Cliffe End, about two miles from Halifax, Yorkshire, to the house of a working man and his wife, both also deaf and dumb, where Mr. Roxby preached to them from 1 Cor. c. xi., v. 2. The assembly consisted of ten deaf and dumb per. sons. The sermon lasted about three quarters of an hour, and was delivered with much expression by the finger alphabet and by signs, which to those who bad their hear ing were not very intelligible, but to the deaf and dumb were perfectly so, and the sermon appeared to give them great pleasure and satisfaction. A Hull paper states that Mr. Roxby is perfectly understood by all the deaf and dumb persons present. Part of the liturgy of the Church of England, several portions of the Holy Scriptures and two psalms were expressed by signs and by dactylology, as were also a short sermon and some prayers. All the deaf and dumb persons appeared highly delighted. INAUGURATION OF THE DUKE'S STATUE AT GLAS GOW.—Tnesday last was fixed upon for opening to the public the statue erected by the citizens of Glasgow in honour of the Duke of Wellington. The statue had been raised on its pedestal in front of the Royal Exchange on the previous Saturday. All the streets in the neighbour hood were densely crowded, and numberless banners flaunted in the vicinity. About two o'clock on the first mentioned day, Sheriff Alison, Sir Neil Douglas, the Commander of the Forces, the Lord Provost of Glasgow, and Col. Fleming of Glasgow, ascended a temporary ele vation; and after a brief address had been delivered by the learned Sheriff, the signal was given, and the covering which had hitherto concealed the statue of the hero and statesman was lifted up. The opening was greeted by a round of enthusiastic cheering, and succeeded by the booming of the guns of the horse-artillery. The likeness of the noble duke is admirable, and his position is that of dignity and repose. The steed seems worthy of its rider ; and, in particular, the spirit and expression of the head and neck are natural and classic. The bas reliefs round the pedestal are extremely beautiful : they represent on two sides incidents in the Duke's career, and op the other two they are emblematic of Scottish life. Baron Maro chetti, of Paris, is the artist. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE,—One of the most destructive fires that have occurred in the metropolis since the burn ing of Toppings Wharf, occurred on Monday evening. The scene of its operation was a large space of ground behind the London Road, Southwark, on which was erected a large number of shops, occupied by various tradesmen, and known as St. George's Market. Before any person had time to get out of their houses, the flames extended to a long range of butchers' shops on the west side of the same rov, all of which were speedily enveloped in the same element. The fire next reached three or four tall houses on the opposite side of Bute li,icsneil roa.cimirkgohawwrtk,eareasinh-disoft:crdsoeeeenestd... tinned its course di with as siaagbrrgleeeas half-pastwfua shed s, rr yee destroying in its pro huatns ware ho use awf T ully fe s u s lls s y : next e i g n nr a d ea t r n t y a tdo c:k w t e a n d r e myriads of sparks were sent flying in every direction, and falling upon the houses in the vicinity, caused the utmost alarm and consternation to prevail throughout the neighbourhood. The flames next broke through the windows of an extensive house belonging to a chair maker, and owing to the very inflammable nature of the stock contained therein, the building was, in the almost incredibly brief space of ten minutes, one corn. plete bu rn i ng mass. N otw ithstadding that the firemen were beset on every side by the continual falling of rocfs and heavy beams, they worked without the least inter-. mission until nine o'clock, when it at last became ap parent that the flames were yielding beneath the power of the antagonist element they were casting upon it. In the course of another half-hour all further danger of the fire extending was dissipated. Thirteen buildings, in the whole, 100 feet long by 35 feet wide, and used as butcher's stalls and miscellaneous tradesmen's sheds in the market were destroyed, together with their contents, including five sheep and a horse. Several other buildings in Batcber-row were also seriously injured. o n na o f nt rd •