The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-13 00:00:00

ititeraturr. POETRY THE DISFIGUREMENT OF HYDE PARK.-THE TEMPLE OF FOLLY Send out your ships—you need them all, Though not for cotton bales. ,sant from the Go—drive the clansmen from the hills, The pin - And senA to dwell Since nought but foreign work is In that they loved too well p it full of costly things Throw wide your gates to all the world, _ Yea, throw them wide to all— We know them Well—the bearded Russ, The German, and the Gaul ! he bountiful ley need givit hem What tht Another rule than that of old He taxes nor And favours but their foes. 0 wise and good ! 0 good and wise ! Hereafter on von The blessings c And that same mc Shall stand in a The fittest trophy of your worth,— Your honour, and your prais, They've stood in g,randet The axe is For foreii Will fu he root enough Elg;ish wood —Blackwood VARIETIES HOW TO DRESS WELL.--Dr. lady w:to was celebrated for dr ra n:rer's work— 3 bare ! Jnhnson,spealc well, re ing of a narked— )erson in she had here's a priest ! "The b st evidence that I can give you of her r this respect is, that no one can remember what In Irishman one (1 net his priest at a ni " Arrah, your riverenc praist," said he, point. to the mih•ston priest, Mike ?" why do you call th " Why, your sr, for it points the road riverenct it never ELOQUENCE.—At a meeting of journt ymen tailors at Cambridge, relative to a strike at St Ives, one of the speakers sa'd :—" What he asked for is justice, immortal and immaculate, which, though all the guilty globe should blaze, would rise above the blazing pile, with not one downy feather ruffled by its fierceness." A FINELY-TURNED. COMPLIMENT. —AS R lady of the Fortescue family, who possessed great personal beauty, was walking along a narrow lane, she perceived just be hind her a hawker of earthenware. driving an ass with two paniers, laden with his stock-in-trade. To give the animal and his master room to pass, the lady suddenly stepped aside, which so frightened the donkey that he ran away, and had not proceeded far when he fell, and a great The lady in her turn part of the crockery was became alarmed lest the man should load her with if not offer to insult ner, hut he merely exclaimed, ' ver mind, madam, Balaaw's ass was frightened by an angel !" abuse, " Ne- CALIF9RNiAN GOLD.—In the " Voyage Round the World," by Captain George Shelvocke, begun Feb. 1719, he says of California (Harris's Collection, vol. i. p. 233), " The soil about Puerto, Seguro, and veh likely in most of the valleys, is a rich black mould, which, as you turn it fresh up to the sun, appears as if intermingled with gold dust; some of which we endeavoured to purify and wash from the dirt; but though we were a little prejudiced against the thoughts that it could he possible that this metal should be so promiscuously and un vernally mingled with common earth, yet we endeavoured to cleanse and wash the earth from some of it; and the more we did, the more it appeared like gold. In order to be further satisfied, I brought away some of it, which we lost in our confusion in China." How an accident prevented the discovery, more than a century hack of the golden harvest now gathering in California !—Notes and Queries. A SCENE FROM THE OLD FRENCH REVOLUTION.—We met in an old collection which has just fallen into our hands, tween Senlis and Pont-Maxence is a public-house, well known for the probity of the owners. St. Just baited there one day with his suite, and ordered dinner to be "We have nothing but eggs and bread," said served the landlord. "And that turkey that I see, for whom is it intended ?" " For a person who occupies the first floor, and who has already paid for it," was the reply. "No matter, I must have it." " Permit me, citizen, to ask his consent, as it no longer belongs to me." " Well, then, tell him that a representative of the people wants it." The landlord proceeded to ask the permission of his guest, but the answer was a refusal. St. Just left instantly, proceeded to the next post, ordered the gendarmerie to' ride to the public-house, and arrest the 'whole of the occupants of the first floor. His orders were immediately obeyed. In two hours after they were guillotined l—lm partial de Rouen. ANECDOTE OF DR. CHALIKERS.—WhiIe very busily udy, a man entered, whc wation of an un expected interruption, by telling him that he called under great distress of mind. " Sit down, sir ; be good enough to be seated," said Dr. Chalmers, turning eagerly and full of interest from his writing-table. The visitor explained to him that he was troubled with doubts about the Divine origin of the Christian religion ; and being kindly ques tioned as to what these were, he gave, among others, what is said in the Bible about Melchizedek being without father and without mother, &c. Patiently and anxiously Dr. Chalmers sought to clear away each successive diffi culty as it was stated. Expressing himself as if greatly relieved in mind, and imagining that he had gained his end, " Doctor," said the visitor, " I am in great want of a little money at present, and perhaps you could help me in that way." At once the object of his visit was seen. A perfect tornado of indignation burst upon the deceiver, driving him in very quick retreat from the study to the street-door, these words escaping among others—" Not a penny, sir ! not a penny ! It's too bad ! it's too bad ! And to haul in your hypocrisy upon the shoulders of Melchizedek !"—Second volume of " Chalmers' Life." THE LATE SIR ROBERT PEEL.—Posterity, in forming, its judgment, cannot ignore striking and singular traits in the public life of Sir Robert Peel. His portrait cannot be painted in one point of view. His character cannot be dashed off with the broad lines and brilliant colours of eulogy, or the luminous purity of his motives contrasted with deep Rembrandt shadows of suspicion or condemna tion. He was many-sided, a political philosopher, not so much in distillations of wisdom, or in concrete policy, as Other men were impressib: in impressim,.... ___—_, by pre judice, passion, interests ; he could only be moved by tangible realities, by facts. To study him, you must study the time in which he lived ; which acted upon him, but which was still more re-acted upon. A superficial judgment. for or against, will not satisfy posterity ; nor a pretended impartiality—a mere balancing. It was the singular fate of the late Sir Robert Peel to have been at war, during his life, with all parties and principles in alternation. He exhausted alike the hatred of his friends and the eulogy of his foes. He convicted all his contemporaries of blindness, insincerity, or inconsistency. Himself charged with inconsistency, he still more signally caused the inconsistency of others. There was not a public man, or a public writer, whom he did not compel to think and say of him at one time the absolute reverse of what he had said at another. Tories, Whigs, Radicals, Churchmen, and Dissenters, idolaters of protection, and fanatics of free-trade, all were alike wrong in their con ception of this many-phased character. E ac h was i n turn wrecked by trusting to only one aspect of this politi cal revolving light.—Fraser's Magazine. A NEW VERSION OF AN OLD TALE.—If we had not the best warranty for the following amusing circumstance we should almost fear to find it placed among those apos cryphal anecdotes which are endurable because they are " characteristic." We can, however, vouch for its per fect truth :—" The reader is familiar with the story of Mazeppa, and i splendid theatre, Astley's. A few hours since, a sailor, evidently of the man-of-war breed, paid a visit to the theatre and occupied a seat in the pit. He watched the course of the story with attention. He sympathised with the true love of the Hetman and the fayre young ladye ;' he lamented the interruption it experienced, and couid not at all perceive the justice of the proceeding by which the Palatine doomed Mazeppa to be lashed to the back of a wild horse in the desert. In deference, however, to the presence of a large audience, Jack for a long time witnessed the whole proceeding with calmness, if not with patience. At length his indignation rose to a high and ungovernable pitch. Seeing Mazeppa, as he sup posed. exhausted with his long gallop over the steppes, he bounded from the pit and endeavoured to make his way over the orchestra in order to put an end to such tyranni cal treatment on the stage. He invoked his eyes and limbs to bear witness that he would not allow a gentle man to be so dealt with. He hadn't deserved it, and he (Jack) would be —no matter what—if it should con tinue. The musicians in the orchestra remonstrated with the tar, and endeavoured to persuade him that the whole was a sham—a mere make pretence. That wouldn't do for Jack : he had the use of his senses as well as other people, and he saw what was going on ; and shiver his timbers if he'd stand it at any price. The musicians, however, were too much for the honest man-of-war's man. Unlike Mr. T. P. Cooke, who scatters a whole army of opponents single-handed, Jack succumbed to the united orchestral force, not, however, without expressing a hearty wish that he had his messmate, Big Tom, by his side, he'd soon let them feel whether a British sailor would sit quietly by and see such a thorough gentleman as Mazeppa ill used. At length the blue jacket was in duced to waive his interference and silently await the re sult. Great, then, was his delight to find that justice was at length done to Mazeppa, and his true love restored to him, with all honours and rejoicings. He would now have given a week's grog to have been allowed to jump on the stage, and congratulate the worthy gentleman on his ultimate triumph; but as this was as much out of rule as his proposed vi et armis interference, he con tented himself with giving three cheers for the triumph of justice, and making the best of his way home to re count the whole matter to his old friend Big Tom. We need not say that the whole affair created the greatest amusement amongst a crowded auditory ; and it is very much to Mr. Batty's credit that he and his officers treated the poor fellow's unintentional interruption with kindness and consideration.—United Service Gazette. of Mr. Baity's ®. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. (From the Dublin University Magazine for August.) When Dover shall have been united with Calais, by the realisation of this project, and when the various line Snow in progress and contemplated on the Continent shall be completed, London will be connected by continuous lines of telegraphic communication with Brussels. Berlin, Ham burg, Lubeck, Bremen, Dantzig, Leipsic, Dresden, Prague, Vienna, T r i es t e , M un i c h, Augsburg!), Stuttgard, and the towns along the right bank of the Rhine, from Cologne to Basle; also.with Amsterdam, the Hague, Rot terdam, Antwerp, and every part of Belgium ; also with Boulogne, Lisle, Valenciennes, Paris, Strasburg, Bor deaux, Lyons, Marseilles, and all the intermediate towns. On the arrival of the Indian mail at Marseilles the lead ing journals of Llndon, at a cost which would appear fa bulous, have obtained their despatches by means of special couriers riding express from Marseilles to Boulogne, and by express steamers from Boulogne to Folkestone. All this will he changed. The agent of the Times at Mar seilles will receive from the Alexandrian steamer the des patches ready perforated on the ribbon of paper (a pro- . cess which may be executed before their arrival), he will take it to the telegraph office, where it will be attached to the instrument, and will be transmitted direct to London at the rate of twenty thousand words per hour on each wire. Two wires will, therefore, transmit three columns of fly , Times in eight minutes ! ! It a Loudon merchant desire to dispatch an important communication to his correspondent at Hamburg or Ber lin, he will be able to do so, sad to obtain an answer in five minutes, provided the letter and answer do not exceed a thousand words, and that his correspondent is ready without delay to reply. If the Foreign Secretary desire to send en important despatch to the British minister at Vienna, he is obliged at present to expedite it by a Queen's messenger travel ling express. He will then have only to get it perforated on a ribbon of paper in characters known only to himself and the ambassador, and for yard it to Vienna at the rate of three hundred words per minute. A project has been announced in the journals, which might be justly regarded as the creature of some candi date for Bedlam, if after what we have stated as being actually practised we would dare to pronounce anything of the kind impracticable. The project we i.llude to is to carry a telegraphic communication across the Atlantic! It is proposed to encase a number of wires in a coating which will not be affected by sea water, and to sink it i❑ the ocean ! One extremity of this electric cable is to be fixed at New York or Boston, and the other, we presume, at Galway ! On the occasion of the first meeting of the British Asso ciation held is Dublin, in 1836, Dr. Lardner, in a speech delivered in the Rotunda, startled the public by a predic tion, that "the day was at hand when a railway across Ireland, from Dublin to Galway, or some other western port connected wish a line of Atlantic steamers, would render Ireland one stage on a gnat highway, connecting London with New York." It is a tact sufficiently curious, that this prediction has been literally verified ; but what would have been said at that time, had the doctor hinted at the hare possibility of an electric wire crossing Ireland, and forming part of one continuous wire uniting these capitals, along which streams of intelligence, political, commercial and social. would he constantly flowing. ANIMALS IMITATING DEA7 II TO SAVE THEIR LIVES— During a visit to Cumberland we found several hedgehogs in Inglewood Forest. One of these, in order to destroy it, we put in the pond. It swam about in a circular di rection for some time, and reached the shore. Atter put ting it into the water a second time, it remained motion less, and apparently dead, and we left it on the grass. During the night, however, it walked away. The spider will imitate death to save itself; and canaries have been taught by some showmen to look as if they were dead. The most curious case, however, was that of a fox in the north. A farmer had discovered that he come along a beam in the night to seizes his poultry. He accordingly sawed the end of the beam nearly through, and in the night the fox fell into a place whence he could not escape. On going to him in the morning, the farmer found him stiff. and, as he thought, lifeless. Taking him out of the building he threw him on the dunghill ; but, in a short time, Reynard opened his eyes, and, seeing that all was safe and clear, galloped away to the mountains, showing more cunning thanZthe man who ensnared him.— Preston Chronicle. THE HONEY BIRD.—Mr. Cumming, the author of " Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Interior of South ern Africa," gives an account of this bird, which invites attention by unceasing chirpings and hum'nings, and then invariably leads the hunter to a wild bee's nest, on reach ing which it hovers above the nest, pointing to it with its bill, and then takes up its position in the neighbouring tree, awaiting its share of the honey, which the traveller obtains by stupefying the bees, by burning grass at the entrance Of their do tricks, and the pursuit in quest of honey frequently brings the traveller into the presence of a grisly lion or a crouch ing panther. Mr. Cumming, when once recreating him. self in quail shooting, was lured by the honey bird for a mile through the glades adjoining the Linopudo river, where, instead of finding honey he was brought face to face with a crocodile of vast size, no part of his body being visible above the water except his head. His glancing eyes were anxiously directed toward eight or ten large hull buffaloes, which. in seeking to quench their thirst in the river, were crackling through the dry reeds as they waded in the deep mud. Fortunately for the buffaloes, the depth of the mud prevented their reaching the stream, and thus the scaly monster was disappointed of his prey. THE GREAT WANT OF THE DAY.—There is a capital story of the late Mr. Ducrow in Bentley!s Miscellany for August. We shall never, in future years, read the list of bills withdrawn to accelerate the close of the Parliamen- Lary session without wishing for a Ducrow in the Cabinet. A foreign rope-dancer had been engaged at Astley's, and the newspapers and bills of the day announced that he was to ascend on the tight-rope from the stage to the gal lery. The rope was fixed in the morning for practice. Monsieur de Funambul appeared, felt the rope, tried its tension, found fault with this, altered that ; one thing was not right, another wrong ; in fact, the gentleman seemed disinclined to the task. Ducrow stood by en robe de chambre and slippers. His patience became exhausted. " I say, monsieur, that appears a very difficult job." " Mais oui." " Well, let's see if Andrew can do it." With the word, Ducrow was on the rope, and in one mi nute more in the gallery and back, down the rope, on the stage. The Frenchman looked aghast, nor did Ducrow's parting observation tend to relieve his astonishment : " There's a good deal of humbug about you, monsieur : that's the way to do it." Would that we had in the Ca binet a minister whose special function it was to shew his colleagues " the way to do it," and all nerve, alertness, and skill required for his post !—Daily News. A DINNER PARTY, AT WINDSOR PALACE. —M -, an officer of great intelligence, and associated in a work of much interest connected with the ancient Scrip ture History of India, arrived a short time since in this country, and his arrival, together with some observations on the work in which he was engaged, appeared in the London papers. A few days after he was surprised to receive, at his hotel, through the Lord Chamberlain, an invitation, or perhaps we should rather call it a command to dine at the Palace at Windsor—an honour which sur prised him, as he was only just arrived from India, and had never been presented at Court. He determined, of course, to comply with the august and agreeable com mand, and proceeded to his tailor, who fitted him out in the usual adornment befitting him for the high company amongst whom he was about to appear. At the Castle he presented himself on the appointed day, and was received by the tall magnificent footmen in scarlet liveries, one or two of whom stood on each landing, and, silent as mutes, but more gorgeous, pointed their fingers in the direction he was to take ; following up the grand stair case, the course this line of brilliant finger-posts pointed out, he entered one ante-room, where he was received by some high officer, and mutely directed to another, and at length found himself in one where some gentlemen simi larly attired to himself were waiting in a group. He presently recognized one of them, an eminent historian, with whom he had been acquainted. Here they remained conversing for a few minutes, when suddenly the folding doors at one end of the room were thrown open, and, preceded by the Grand Chamberlain, with his rod of office, her Majesty, leaning on the arm of Prince Albert, appeared, and without pausing to take any notice of her guests, passed quite through the room in which they were, and out through corresponding doors which led to the dining or banquetting room on the other side, the com pany silently following. They took their seats, Prince Albert next her Majesty, and the other guests down the table, which was not large, as the dinner party was a limited one. There was no general conversation—the guests spoke in subdued tones to each other, her Majesty spoke to none, and the Prince only let fall a few words to some one near him, until at length the few words gradually grew fewer. This, however, was not so awkward as a silent dinner party might seem under other circumstances, as the magnificent band of the Coldstream Guards, in an adjoining apartment, were playing the finest airs, and good music is any day better than indiffer ent conversation. Nevertheless it was' a chilling scene, and as soup, fish, and flesh were handed round by the " tall fellows" in crimson, some no doubt thought they would prefer, as a general rule, less grandeur and more cordiality. Dinner concluded, her Majesty remained a short time, then arose, and again preceded by the officers of state, returned to the drawing-room, as I suppose we may call it ; never having spoken all the time to her company. The Prince's mood, however, became more hearty as soon as her Majesty had left, and he led in a general and lively conversation on antiquarian subjects, in which he displayed large reading and great intelligence. While they were thus pleasantly and intellectually engaged, it was announced that her Majesty expected their presence to coffee, with her ladies in waiting. Here matters again relapsed into the same splendid state silence as in the early part of the dinner. Coffee was handed round, and each guest mutely sipped his cup, regarding Majesty, if one might speak so, from a distance. While M— was wondering when the signal to depart would be given, the Grand Chamberlain ad va n c ed, an d i n f orme d hi m th a t h er Majesty had given orders that he should be presented, he therefore came forward to where her Majesty was seated in the same room, and with as much form as though he had not met her at dinner, he knelt and touched with his lips the hand that was offered, and this ceremony gone through, again retired, fully expecting that this was an end of a stately but somewhat stupid day. But it was not so ; for, a quarter of an h our su b sequent l y, he was in formed that her Majesty, who retired to a kind of alcove or recess, about as deep as an em b aye d w i n d ow, w i shed to converse with him ; he accordingly presented himself be fore his Sovereign, who, no longer in formal state, imme diately entered with vivacity and intelligence i n t o conver sation on the particular andinteresting, and, in m a ny re spects, learned subject in which he had been engaged, sheaving in all her inquiries and observations a well-stored, clear, and cultivated mind. When her Majesty had con versed for some time, and sufficiently informed herself, she rose, and M— retired, and soon after he and the other guests departed.—Bristol THE Laiiiion STANDARD. Otneral Altsrtilanp. The will of the late Sir Robert Peel was proved on Saturday, and probate passed for assets under £500,000. Pigeons are now used as Sabbath letter-carriers between London and Southampton. A salmon, weighing 38 lb., was caught in the Trent, at Holme. a few days since. During the last three months 200,003 pine apples have been received from our colonies. Several packages of hops were received in London last week from Lisbon—the first from that country. The Isteplulese Ambassador arrived at Edinburgh on Wednesday, and returned on Friday. It is stated that in London glass is now being exten sively used instead of iron for cellar grids. A little boy, twelve years old, was killed by the light ning, on Thursday, at Halifax. The inhabitants of Newcastle have determined to make the day on which her Majesty will visit the town a general holiday. At one of the London police-offices, on Monday, a man was fined 10s. for wilfully tearing from the dooi of a church a portion of the list of voters. A common sized barn-door fowl, at Keynsham, has, during the week, laid eggs measuring eight inches by six and a half, and weighing upwards of four ounces each. During divine service, on Sunday week, an old man, a naval pensioner, instantly expired in the parish church of Arbroath. Mr. Longbourne, agent to Lord Milford, was drowned, on Monday, whilst attempting to ford, on horseback, the river Cleddy. in Pembrokeshire. There is now growing on a farm in Langtoft Fen, Lin colnshire, a barley straw bearing five ears and fifty-two kernels. Nineteen turtle reached London by steamer from Cork last week, being the first importation of turtle from Ireland. On Monday the freedom of the city of Edinburgh was presented to Lord Gough, who is at present there on his first visit to Scotland. The public profession of three young ladies as nuns, took place on Friday week, at the Roman Catholic Chapel, Clifton. The public will learn with satisfaction that the two penny fee for admiqsion into St. Paul's Cathedral is really to be forthwith abolished. , Grain Ins actually been carried from Copenhagen to the east coast at ls. 3d. per quarter, while 6s. 6d. has been obtained for the same, and latterly from 3s. to 3s. 6d. At the Westminster County Court. on Saturday, a por trait painter recovered £l5 from the Nepaulese prince for his portrait, The convict, William Ross, declared at the Yorkshire Assizes guilty of poisoning his wife, is ordered for execu tion to-morrow. Two sons of Mr. Wilkinson, grocer, Leicester, one aged twenty, and the other a little younger, were drowned whilst bathing on Monday. A steamboat rage took place on the Humber last Sun day, when the engineer of one of the boats seated himself a considerable time on the safety-valve! to the great alarm of the passengers.—Hull Advertiser. The Ef st India Company entertained Lieutenant-Gene.. ral Sir William Gomm, K.C.8., at dinner on Saturday evening, in honour of his appointment as Commander-in- Chief of the Bombay Presidency. On Wednesday week a servant woman and a little girl went into the water of Bala Lake, near Llanyeil Church, to bathe. They unwittingly got into deep water, and were drowned. The Pilot, steamer, which was unfortunately sunk in Lochlomond about three weeks ago, by running on a rock, has been raised again, and repaired, so as to be as complete as ever. THE " CITY or GLASGOW."—This superb steam-ship sailed from the Broomielaw on Thursday, at noon, on her third voyage across the Atlantic. She had a full comple ment of passenger , arid goods . Sir William and Lady Cockburn have presented to the parish church of New Radnor, Herefordshire, " the new casting of the church bells," as a monument to their deceased son There is now in the possession of a woman residing in Taunton, a very remarkable kitten. It has been favoured by nature with four ears on one head, two bodies, eight legs, and two tails. It was born alive. On Monday the British Association of Edinburgh con cluded its labours for the year by fixing Ipswich for their next annual place of meeting, and elected Professor Airey to be chairman. MR. NEWMAN AND THE POPE.—The Pope, to express his sense of Mr. Nt wman's services in the cause of theo logy, has conferred on him the degree of Doctor in Divinity by diploma. Lord Lincoln has arrived at Portsmouth, in his yacht the Gitana, from a lengthened cruise in the Mediterra nean, and a journey through Egypt, Arabia, and Pales- During a fire which consumed the buildings of Parso nage Farm, near Newport, Essex, on Monday week, two cart horses, a sow and pigs, and some pigeons and fowls, perished in the flames. A girl named Morgan, about six years old, was killed at Swansea on Monday week, by a large stone striking her forehead in its descent from a wall on which she had been climbing in company with other children. At Marlborough Police-court, London, on Friday, three notorious dog-stealers were sent to the House of Correction for six months, with hard labour, for stealing a Scotch terrier and 13 spaniel dog. Pot-ash Farm, Norftilk, is announced for sale. its former owner was Mr. Isaac Jermy, who, with his son, was murdered by the tenant of the farm, James Blomfield Rtish. A flock of twenty-three sheep. sheltering under a tree at Upper St. Leonard's, near Gloucester, on Thursday evening, during a thunderstorm, was struck by lightning and killed. Fourteen hundred Parisians arrived, on Monday, in London, on a pleasure excursion. Some difficulty was experienced in finding lodgings for so many. The ma jority being of the working class, en blouse, and wearing beards, they attracted much curiosity. The thriving town of Seaham Harbour was all bustle and animation, on Saturday week, in consequence of the arrival of its noble founder, the Marquess of Londonderry, accompanied by the Marchioness and other members of the family, at Seaham-hall. On Tuesday Parkhurst prison for juvenile offenders, was partially destroyed by fire. One of the wards three stories high was levelled to the ground. The loss is £3,000. The prisoners had a narrow escape. Thirty of the prisoners were in custody for setting the place on fire. Prince Albert has fixed the day for the banquet to the Lord Mayor of London, at York; it is to be on the 25th of October. The Lord Mayor of London has fixed the 25th instant for the civic banquet to his lordship at Southampton. Ernest Jones, who has just completed two years' im prisonment for the share he had in the seditious move ment of 1848, was feted last week at Halifax. He has received a purse of fifty sovereigns to set him up in Iwitsktinn - On Saturday, the La Clarata, from New Providence, arrived at the St. Katherine's Docks, with no less than 30,000 pine apples and 600 Queen conch shells, which are used in the making of beautiful cameos. The remainder of the cargo consisted of rich dye woods. A man at Weston-super-Mare, a few days since. dis posed of a considerable quantity of pieces of old iron, casually picked up, at a shilling each, which he assured the purchasers were fragments obtained from the ill-fated Red Rover, after the explosion. At the Exeter assizes, Robert and Sarah Bird, who, it will be remembered, were acquitted of the murder of Mary Anne Parsons, by brutally ill-treating her, were found guilty on the minor charge of assault with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm. A law point, raised in this case, has been reserved for the decision of the judges. During the sitting of the House of Commons on Sa turday week, a stranger was observed behind the bar, to whom several members paid marked attention. On in quiry we were informed that it was the Rev. Geo. Cop way, otherwise Kah-ge.ga Gab Bouch, an Indian chief tain. There was a total eclipse of the sun on Wednesday af ternoon, but it was invisible to any part of England. The penumbra first touched our globe at 56 minutes past six in the afternoon, and left the same at 11 minutes after midnight. The eclipse was central and total over a large extent of the Pacific Ocean. At the Dundyven Ironworks, Glasgow, a new furnace has been erected, which heats its own blast upon an im proved principle, and effects a great saving of futl. This furnace produced upwards of 245 tons of cast-iron in the week before last, and it is fully expected to yield a still greater produce. _ _ - The balance sheet of the income and expenditure of the United Kingdom for the year ending July the sth, 1850, has just been published. The income is stated at £53,429,672 10s., the expenditure at £49,991,313 12s. Bd., leaving an excess of income over expenditure amounting to £3,438,358 17s. 4d. BLASPHEMY IN LONDON.—A correspondent of the Christian Times states, that in Smithfield on Sundays, groups of men are gathered together, listening to various demagogues who utter the most daring blasphemies. Some are profane infidels, others profess to be Red Re publicans. Many of these men have Bibles, which they ridicule in the most awful manner. Mr. Hancock, a solicitor of Yeovil, has served a notice on th churchwardens, requiring to be provided with a pew in the parish church appropriate to his station. Theßishop of Bath and Wells has told the churchwardens that they are bound to seat every parishioner ; and if they refuse to comply with Mr. Hancock's request, that gentleman in tends to proceed against them in the Ecclesiastical Court. On the 13th ult., while a man named Goode, employed in chemical works at Birmingham, was standing astride a a boiler of scalding acetate of lime, for the purpose of stopping a leak in a steam pipe, his foot slipped, and he fell into the liquid. He succeeded in extricating himself, and was conveyed to the hospital, where he lingered in great pain until Sunday week, when he expired. MORMONITES.—A man, supposed to belong to this de luded sect, was endeavouring to shake the faith of an honest boatman, employed on the river Severn, when he received from him the following answer :—" Why, the Scripture says, that if even an angel from heaven was to preach any other Gospel than what the apostles preached, he was to be accounted accursed." NOVEL BAZAAR.—On Monday week, a sale of useful and ornamental articles took place under the arches of the South Eastern Railway, Neckinger-road, Bermond sey, in aid of the debt incurred in fitting up the arch 114, as a ragged school. The novelty of the place selected attracted a numerous company. The place was tastefully arranged, and ladies presided over the stalls. One day last week . a boy, named Bromless, was playing in a field at Hedley Hill, Durham, with some companions, whilst a man was engaged in mowing. One of his com panions pushed him within the range of the scythe, and, before the man had time to stop the motion of the instru ment, the lad had received suli Eel/ere injuries as to cause his death coon after. SINGULAR ACCIDENT AT WELLS.—On Thur3day last a large sculptured statue, weighing several hundred weight, in front of the cathedral, fell to the ground with a tremendous crash. The Sheriff's coach had been stand ing on an adjoining spot, waiting for the judges and sheriff for some time, and had only moved off a short time before. The journeymen tailors of the metropolis have deter mined to establish what they term a "Tailors' Guild," with a view to protect themselves from the sweating sys tem, and the other evils of over competition. Prince Albert having been requested to patronize the proposed institution, has given an encouraging answer; but his royal highness declines actually to connect himself with it until he sees how it works. At the Southwark Police-office, London, on Monday, Mary Grogan and Anne M`Carthy, on being sentenced to a month's imprisonment for using obscene language in the public streets, took their heavy shoes and threw them with great violence at the magistrate's head. It subse quently took ten constables to drag the prisoners to their cells, and, in doing so, their clothes were torn from their backs. THREATENED ASSASSINATION OF LORD JOHN Rus- SELL.—W. P. James, the young man upon whom a let ter, threatening the life of Lord J. Russell, was recently found, was brought up again on Thursday. Since the last examination, several letters of a threatening nature addressed-to other noblemen and gentlemen have been discovered at the prisoner's lodgings. He was committed for trial. At Watlington, on the 11th ult., a marriage was cele brated in the Wesleyan Chapel by a local preacher, in defiance of the regular minister. It appears that the new Marriage Act entitles Dissenters, who have obtained a registrar's certificate, to demand a chapel and employ whom they please to celebrate the marriage. The chapel gate had been secured by an extra lock, which had to be forced by a blacksmith for the occasion. On Tuesday, at Alnwick, the annual show of stock of the Northumberland Agricultural Society took place. The exhibition was held under the most favourable Ras pices, his Grace the Duke of Northumberland having taken a very active part in it. After the show a banquet took place, the Duke of Northumberland presiding. Sir George Grey and other influential persons connected with the county were present and spoke. ALLEGED DEATH FROM QUACK MEDICINES.—Wm. Tait. a disciple of Dr. Coffin, was indicted at the Carlisle assizes for having caused the death of William Hewitt, at Parton, near Whitehaven, by administering to him a quantity of a poisonous drug called lobelia inflate. He was acquitted. The judge stated his approval of the verdict, at the same time expressing a hope that persons of insufficient education and skill would abstain from ad ministering dangerous medicines. In an account of s bazaar recently held at Aldmons bury, near Bristol, in aid of the funds for the erection of a church, it is stated that " some of the more expensive articles were disposes of by raffle ;" " a lottery, with no end of prizes, proved a most attractive part of the enter tainment ;" " and those who liked were enabled to have their characters told at Punch's office, efficiently presided over by the Rev. Caddell Holder." We need hardly ask, is this quite in character ? ACTION AGAINST A NEWSPAPER.—Another criminal information, against. Mr. Latimer, of the olynzotith Journal, was tried at the Exeter assizes, on Tuesday. The libel was in reference to a charge of adultery by a dissenting minister in that town ; but the action was brought by a protestant clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Prynne, who assumed that the allusions applied to him. The jury returned a verdict of " not guilty," which was received in court with cheers. The market value of the iron, copper, tin, lead, zinc, &c., raised yearly in this country, touches the sum of £14,000,000 sterling ; and the total value of the gold ga thered up in bath continents scarcely covers £13.000,000. It to the value of our mineral products we were prompted to add (as in all strictness we might) the value of the salt and coak brought to the surface, and sold annually in this island, the gross total of our mining produce would be set down at £25,000,000 sterling per annum . ANTIDOTE FOR CHOLERA.—At this season of the year, persons exceriencing pains in the abdomen, in the absence of medical advice, should put three or four drops of spirit of camphor in a wine glass of water, and if relief is not afforded in the course of ten minutes the dose may he repeated. A correspondent, who employs more than 500 persons in his factory, invariably applies this remedy, and it would seem effectually so, as in no one instance has he known the antidote to fail.—Essex Standard. MONUMENT TO THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.—A large meeting was held at the Mansion-house, on Tuesday, to consider the propriety of erecting a monument to the "good Duke of Cambridge." The Lord Mayor was in the chair, and resolutions in support of the object of the meeting were proposed by Lord R. Grosvenor, Mr. B. B. Cabbel, the Marquis of Granby, Earl Talbot, and others. It was determined to ask Prince Albert to preside at a similar meeting to be held at Willis's rooms, and subscriptions to the amount of above £3OO were declared in the room. Mr. Felix Le Sage, a very clever performer at Fran eoni's Circus,_ Glasgow, met with a serious accid en t on , Wednesday. He had made his wonderful leap over a man on horseback, through t circle of tobacco pipes, and alighted on his feet on the mattress prepared for breaking the fall, but in such a very awkward position that by a sudden twist one of his thigh bones snapped. The acci dent was unobserved by the audience, the sufferer pre serving his equanimity most marvellously. He is gradu ally recovering. The Gateshead Observer has recently received " a lock of a lady's hair"—a lock snow-white, blanched by a hun dred and nineteen winters. The person from whose tresses it was cut is Mrs. Benton, who was born near Raby Cas tle in 1731, and can still walk in the garden. She re sides at Elton, with her grandson, a farmer. Her daugh ter keeps a public-house, and her husband's mother still survives, in her ninety-sixth year ; so that she is proba bly singular in the extreme longevity of both her mother and her mother-in-law. DISTRESSING SUICIDE. -At Shipston-on-Stour, on Monday, a lady, named Elizabeth Rees, who kept a ladies' school in that town, committed suicide by suspending herself by one of the ropes which were used as swings by the pupils. She had lost considerable sums of money in railway investments, but her friends had, in the course of the previous Friday or Saturday, posted a letter, the con tents of which were of a nature to ease her disquietude as to her pecuniary embarrassments. This letter, however, did not arrive until late on Monday. VORACITY OF THE PACE. —A tIeITITI from London was fishing in the Stour, at Christchurch, on Monday last, and hooked a small pike about a pound weight. The fish ran into a bed of water-lilies, which had to be cleared before it could be landed. Up3n bringing it to the bank, it was discovered that another pike, about six pounds weight, had fastened on the smaller one just under the shoulder, and held so firmly that it would not leave its prey until kicked off, when it broke away a large piece of the shoulder of the smaller fish, which was quite dead. THE VALUE OF WEST INDIA PROPERTY.—Wednes dav, Messrs. Farebrother and Co. put up to auction the freehold sugar plantation called " Needs Must," situated in the parish of St. Peter, in the island of St. Christopher. The estate comprises 225 acres of land, of which 166 acres were cane land. The average yearly produce of sugar was 75 hogsheads. it was subject to certain claims estimated at about £lO,OOO, and to a balance of about £1,400, due to a consignee of the Court of Chancery, and was sold by order of the assignees with the consent of the mortgagees. It was knocked down for £2O. POISONING BY A DISINFECTING FLUID.--A very sin gular trial came on at Ipswich last Monday, in which a woman named Mary Robinson was charged with the mur der of her son, by administering to him a quantity of Burnett's Disinfecting Fluid. The case, from its novelty, excited much interest. Burnett's fluid contains 50 per cent. of oxide of zinc, the poisonous properties of which are of course well known, but no one had ever previously been deprived of life by its means. The evidence as to the guilt of the mother appeared in many respects con clusive ; but on the whole the jury were not convinced of a deliberate attempt to murder, and a verdict of not guilty was returned. ORANGEISM.—On Sunday week a number of the brethren of the Grand Protestant Association of Loyal Orangemen, from Bradford and Queen's Head districts, met at the lodge room at the Kirk and Heifer Inn, Thornton Heights, and there formed in procession and walked to the new church at Denimlm Gate, where an excellent sermon was preached t o th em b y the Rev. Mr. Eggleston, the incumbent, from the words, " Let bro therly love continue." At the conclusion of the service, a collection was made in aid of the funds of the Sunday school in connexion with the church. The brethren again formed in procession, and proceeded to the lodge house, and after partaking of suitable refreshment quietly retired to their homes. Rim's IN FLINTSHIRE.—The Telergoch miners have been committing serious disturbances, having made a for cible entrance into the residence of Captain Francis, the agent of Milwr Mining Company, at Halkin, threaten ing to murder him if they could find him. The aspect of things grew so serious that it was determined on Monday to send for the military from Chester, and a detachment of the 38th Foot, under Captain Smith, have taken up their quarters at Holywell. True bills have bee n found against six of the rioters, but the only two who were in custody have been allowed to traverse till next assizes. It appears that Captain Francis enforces the eight hours' system, and the Telergoch men have expressed a determi nation to allow only six hours labour a-day. JENNY LIND'S BROTHER.—It will be interesting to many of our readers to hear, that last week John Lind, mariner, of Stockholm, son of Hans Lind, schoolmaster, and brother of Jenny Lind, the " Swedish Nightingale," was married in the register-office, in this town, to Mary Gee, of Pillgwenlly. John had not seen his sister for many years, until he accidentally met with her the other day iltLiverpool, on her professional visit to that place. Jenny presented him with a handful of pocket-money, uut John, like his other two brothers, is able and willing to work for his bread, and if his sister were to offer him an annuity to exempt him from labour he would not ac- Fept of it He spoke in the most affectionate terms of his sister, stating . that she had supported her father and mother since she was 16 years old.—Bridgewater Times. THE NEPAULESE HUNT.—This famous hunt still con tinues. No sooner is a sight caught of the Nepaulese Princes than the whole company raise the hue and cry, and run in full pursuit of them. The Chiswick Fete was a grand day of this description. There could not have been less than ten thousand persons in the field, including a goodly muster of the fair sex, who enjoyed the sport rarely. The Nepaulese Ambassador was hunted under a scorching sun for full two hours, in the most determined manner. He got to the Duke of Devonshire's kitchen garden, amongst the cabbages, and could not get out again. As it was, he kept dodging in and out, from tree to tree, running from one tent to another, in the hopes of eluding his pursuers ; but all in vain ; they never left him for a minute, and, wherever he went, there were al ways some hundreds close upon his heels. Ultimately the poor, panting Nepaulese Ambassador was caught, and carried off in a carriage, to be unc ar t e d aga i n a t some future festive occasion. DEATH PROM THE BITE OF A CAT.—The wife of Mr. Jugging, publican, Sans-street, Sunderland, died on Tuesday last, from the effects of a bite from a cat, which she received upon the back part of one of her hands, about four months since. The wound was poulticed at the time and healed, after which no notice was taken of it. On Saturday week she complained of a severe pain in her right hand and arm, which continued till Monday, when symptoms of hydrophobia became manifest. She lingered in great agony till the following day, when death terminated her sufferings. She had been confined about seven weeks ago, and the infant has a mark upon the right hand corresponding with the pi3ce bitten by the cat. SUNDAY NO SABBATH.—Our attention has been called to the following passage, of which Lord Arundel is reported to have delivered himself in a recent debate respecting Sunday trading, &c.:—" Lord Arundel said, he did not regard the observance of the Sunday as anything but a precept of the church, and not as an ordinance of Divine authority." We were aware that, to the great mass of the Romanists, the Book of God is a sealed volume; but the upper classes of that persuasion have, from time to time, indignantly denied its being so to them. Now, this first-born of England's premier Duke—the head of "all the Howards"—is either among those against whom the Bible is closed, or he has turned to small account the lati tude afforded him. Has his lordship ever opened the book in serious earnest ? If so, he could hardly pass over a portion of it so intensely fraught with interest as the Book of Exodus. CONVICTION FOR MURDER.—At the Hereford Assizes, on Tuesday last, Maurice Murphy and Patrick Sullivan, two men of repulsive appearance, were charged with the wilful murder of Jane Lewis, at St. Wollas, Newport. The principal evidence against the prisoners was a volun tary statement by the prisoner Murphy, who said the reason why they killed the old woman was that they thought she had some money. He then said Sullivan hit her on the head with a hammer—then with a stone. Sullivan then repeated his blows. They then dragged her into the wood and searched her pocket and found she had no money. Sullivan then took her shawl off and cursed her, and gave her another kick on the head. After they left her they were afraid they had not killed her quite. He said be had told the priest all about it. The prisoners were found guilty, and sentenced to death. FREE TRADE IN SHAWLS.—In these days of pros perity, nearly two thousand weavers are idle in Paisley. That itself is a curious circumstance, but it is guaranteed and vouched for by the most extensive shawl manufac turer in that town. The next fact is, that the home market is flooded with French and German shawls. Two years since the import trade in shawls from Germany to Glasgow commenced. Since then, and as at that time anticipated, it has gone forward steadily, until, it is stated, that while two thousand weavers in Paisley are idle, the marke is flooded with these goods, which pay an import tax of ten per cent. and no more; but this tax is to be remitted on all shawls entered for the great exhi bition of 1851, of which the public are expected to pay the expenses. However our own people fare, rare must be taken of the shawl weavers of Paris and Vienna. _That is the practical decision at which the government has arrived. INSTANTANEOUS TRANSMISSION OF LETTERS —A correspondent of the Athenceum has revived an old sug gestion for the speedy conveyance of letters. " Intro duce," he says, " into a solid metal tube communicating between the places a metal sphere or canister Ned with letters, &c., (or a series of them linked together)— exhaust the tube by means of a stationary engine similar to that used on atmospheric railways —and in a very short time it will deliver its burthen at its destination. This plan, though, of course, not so rapid a mode of commu nication as the- electric telegraph, has, amongst advan tages over it, theses it cannot meet with interruption from the state of the atmosphere ; the tube being buried in the earth is not liable to be injured by interested persons. which wires are ; the nature of the corres pondence need be known by no one unconcerned, and not only more than one, but any numbet almost of letters may be sent at the same time." PRESENT FROM A LADY.—Easton Church, near Win chester, is a beautiful Norman Church, and has recently been restored. Not the least valuable present made to it was that of a font, executed entirely by the hands of a lady, resident in the parish. It is of Caen stone, the de sign being taken from the well-known old font in New Shoreham Church. It is two feet and nine inches square, and has a massive centre pillar and four spiral shafts ; the sides have each a different pattern, deeply cut; the stop per is of bronze, in the form of a laten cross. The artiste of this valuable gift . was employed somewhat less than twelve months in its completion ; she determined that no other hands should share with her own the labour, and rejected, therefore, all aid, even in the mechanical part of excavating the basin or preparing the shafts for the chisel It was begun in June,. 11349 ; was used for the first time on Sunday, the 23d June, at the baptism of the infant son of the respected rector. THUNDERSTORM.—On TI 'slay the " f Y city o _ orn visited by a terrific thunder storm The Diocesan Train ing School was struck by the electric fluid whilst the pupils were at prayers. The lightning struck the bell-tower ino doubt attracted by the bell), which it split in two, glanced off in a tangent, :aid struck a chimney, hurling some heavy stones from it to a distance. On striking the chim ney it at once penetrated the roof, entered the school room above mentioned, cut up the gas-pipes, the gas in which was, of course, immediately lighted, and thus the roof of the school was instantly set in a blaze. A dread ful consternation ensued, but the fire engines were quickly on the spot, and extinguished the fire. A gentleman was struck by the fluid and severely injured. The Roman Catholic Chapel, now being erected in George-street,. Walnwate. was struck nn thA 4i.,. auu bile cross which surmounted it was partly thrown down, and pre cipitated through the roof. A number of workmen were engaged in the building at the time, some of whom were thrown to the ground; one had his side slightly touched; and another his hand grazed by the fluid. PRESENT APPEARANCE OF THE FENS.—Those who have not travelled over the fen country of late years (say from Deeping to Spalding, Spalding to Wisbech, thence to Cambridge) would be astonished at its appearance. Never did this surface bear such an abundance of sustenance for man as at this time. The wheats are for the most part beyond all precedent. It is clear that the husbandman, during the past year, has worked with energy and hope, for scarcely an ill-managed farm can be observed, or a slovenly nook. An evident improvement has taken place also in the breed of stock, which the land feeds to enormous weights. In the cottages, farm houses, and buildings, a decided improvement has taken place. As is well known, the wide expanse of fen encircled by the high countries, at some remote period was a bay of the sea:. there are numerous marine deposits, and from the sooty soil gigantic oak trees are turned up, which speak of ancient forests the growth of centuries. The bones of animals now extinct are frequently found; also vessels and weapons of an ancient race of men. There are likewise the remains of old monasteries, and abbeys, and in present beauty are many village spires, with their mani fold traditions.—Stamford Mercury. DEATH OF FOUR PERSONS FROM EATING POISONOUS MUSHROOMS.—On Monday an inquest was held at Wis bech Fen, upon the bodies of Patrick Hunt, an Irish man, 18-years of age, and Winifred Garvey, 28 years old, wife of Garvay, also an Irishman, who had died after eating some mushrooms. The quantity cooked does not appear to have been more than a small tin child's sauce pan, of less than a pint in capacity, would hold. This was in the afternoon of Friday. The persons did not ex perience any serious effects that day, and went to bed as usual. About day-light on Saturday morning, Hunt was attacked by violent sickness and purging, accompanied by great pain in the stomach and bowels : soon after that Mrs. Garvay was seized with the same symptoms, and then the child also. Neither the sufferers nor their friends appear to have thought any danger was to be ap prehended ; however, the disordered state of the bowels continued all day ; and on Sunday evening Hunt became suddenly worse, and died about 8 o'clock. On Sunday morning Mrs. Garvay died ; the child lingered until Mon day morning, when she died also. The fourth death was that of Thomas Dowd, an Irish child in another family ; and it seems he also partook of mushrooms, but not a portion of those eaten by the three first attacked, nor gathered at the same time. A FEMALE AERONAUTT—Mrs. Graham, with three of her daughters and her son, ascended from Bayswater, on Monday week, in a new balloon, called the Victoria and Albert. The party descended safely in Richmond-park. Mrs. Graham has written as follows to cne of the papers " I cannot omit noticing the extraordinary admiration of my daughter Alice, who accompanied me on Friday night from Vauxhall-gardens, at the astonishing view of Lon don, at midnight, being the first and only attempt made by females to conduct the management of a balloon at night, and so much pleased am I with the nerve ex hibited by those of my daughters who have hitherto ac companied me, (four in number,) that if, on trial, I find the others of equal spirit, which I doubt not, I feel dis posed (God willing) to ascend with my seven daughters at the Great National Exhibition of 1851." On Wednesday evening, Mrs. Graham ascended in a balloon from Cre morne Gardens, London, during a violent wind. After a perilous voyage, she descended in a field near the South Eastern Railway at Edmonton. Whilst Mrs. Graham was in the act of walking round the machine to see that the valve was properly open, s ome p erson ap proached too nearwith a light, which ignited the escaping gas, and in an instant the balloon was in one mass of flame, Mrs. Graham and every one present having to run for their lives ; she escapeed, but not before she was much scorched about the face and her bonnet and shawl burnt. A GIPSY FORTUNE TELLER.--At the Warwick assizes on Monday, Matilda Cooper, William Hill, and Thomas Madden were charged with stealing at Leamington, a quantity of wearing apparel and jewellery, the property of Dr. Jeaffreson, of that town. Another count in the indictment charged the pris oners w ith receiving. The principal witness against the prisoners. who are gipsies, was a girl named Strange, the servant of the prosecutor, who had, in an unhappy hour, consented to have " her planet ruled" by the female prisoner. For this perfor mance she paid the prisoner a shilling, but afterwards on being shown a paper covered with stars, she was induced to part with eight other good coins of the like value. This last payment, however was not sufficiently . large for the services to be performed, and the foolish girl was threat ened and cajoled into delivering to the woman dresses, shawls, li nen , some va l ua ble jewellery, &c., belonging. to her mistress. The female prisoner had succeeded in ob taining as many as seven dresses, five petticoats, three ia b rd ac c k as w h h , e & n c t . l3 , ethe "planet whole o f brooches, wh ich were,a ri ring, lcoocukrestes:4 come in l was ruled." The prisoner soon afterwards disappeared. The police, however, not honouring the celestial know.. ledge of the female prisoner , apprehended her ;. and suffi cient evidence was adduced to prove the concert of the to other two prisoners in the robbery. It should be stated that the witness Strange was at one time in custody, but discharged, as her master and mistress stated that they did not consider that she had acted; with intentional dis honesty, although guilty of such gross folly.—The jury fonnd a verdict of guilty ; and his lordship sentenced the gipsy trio to two pears' impristwunent,. with hard labour. 13 , 10' Loni'll• —u, gal IMPUDENT ROBBERY fete/IS lot v i n o oi -- 4 1 night, the house of the Rev. I, r... tilolt being iuti was beset by a party of ruffiane, Mr. , ir i eg their u,,i by the noise, upon looking out arid kite. as innoeYill siness, was boldly answered their iiitjed ''' o derstld money they would have —naming, al ° l e d ' i g , coln i . . certain amount. The rev. gentleman 5. 4 tieni 01 ui,! comply with their request : but, seeing ti- ~e Since , 0 mined, spoke to them nearly as follows : 4eyoo_,, good men, you seem so very resolute, I will re , o tat . r, offer—(upon which he contrived to hand them t,. ne reigns) —now, if you will take that and depart is f o ie, with ball, two guns, and a blunderbuss; well. If not,' listen—l have by me tsvo pistol'oise, to shoot the first man who attempts to enterir:icah° t ei necessary, all of you." The firm tone in a n „ n et: unique oration was delivered, with the delit;riciihti, net of the speaker, had the desired effect. 1 es eesb le took the money, and left the rev. gentleman in P possession.—Hull Herald. .411 C./ D et 0 e MO* tV R. ....coRESBY ON THE WAVES Or T A, t One of the most interesting papers in section i e. er, British Association meeting, was that of the ° e. Scoresby, 'on Atlantic waves, their inagnita e ho s de 0 0 - and phenomena." The observations were tin ~ ,,,,,0 0 10 the Cambria steamer, on her passage from 1 1 1 `,V. leaf non I New York, in March, 1848. in lat. 51 eg. _ 0 f e, 33 deg. 50 W.; wind, W.S.W. Most of the l e w ee above 24 feet, and at least one- balf were uP t° t he le Molt 30 feet above the trough of the sea. After it,":i s l i ttle , hard for 36 hours, and after the storm had sehon!,`, o to oth' he still saw ten waves more than 26 feet a bove_'_" s i n a . r 4 el e ' j He also noted the periods taken by the t° hate p-, taking the ship, having reckoned 20 waves'', 5,0011 in five minutes and a-half. The average _ t the 1 .. sixteen and a-half seconds. He also found r o__f t bef o lv i creasedwire re T du h c e ed pre t s o e of a regular wave passing from stem to stelziee teithd 5, (which was 220 feet long) was six seconds. ~.: ..‘ ti d t he ),.., 1 the highest crest was 45 feet from the tr(4,etagnvii:o)oser" tance of two crests (that is, the length 1 Iv. bo° feet. The velocity was 32.67 miles per roe! to 9 0 theA pamphlet has recently been PI! o f t he l o ot wine.desirableness of a large reduction peon brings thit about £1,800,000, and the writer Mu e r b „ t tie. f i n r iite r and more delicate description s fret ifist.lsooo,ooo, considerable sum. He points to the 0 3 00 'french; of Charles 11., when our opula,,tiellf w hicll' ec „ e i a on °f we took 90,000 pipes of wine, P 40,0u v° ; ',1, a P°P—fortion while the total we now take, 5q,,,,-e;cb the P P ite ,itis 29,000,000',, is only 60,000 pi pes, °L ` This rh s 4 - et baso, of French in 1847 was but 4,359 eiP e t• e t of the' p eso' t m r aintained, is owing far inore to the effect horY bran'o. eaty than tm any other cause, sin F ed hd, fr ° ,, duty that has subsequently been lec'efor th e h e 'l l (' re° tive of economy, induced a prefereece th , ,t w oo crith ill qi d wines. Among the advantage: o f trade with from a larger consumptien, the inago-e,,, r n rev: l i lew various wine producing countries of so9l:wees sdactinest, the withdrawal of one of the tempaToe ilia con I, persons in easy circumstances to rest g o° are pointed out. v iol) yote , „edit a c se k STRANGE SCENE.—On Saturday - - „ ra fie d,„ n e- ). ' action took .place a t the door of the T og it r co ' 01 113 , I don. It appears that a very elegantlf do r to a nd s wearing g l asses , was st„di" a t the p,l'ondere!terlsho; with a foreign-looking moir-dachioeo 1 .49 a do e • e' es widow lady. Just before the d o ors otret.sel ge,tirorbr drove up, from which alighted a nod c ' o , t e ' rh la - ' eg e and a young female, the former of eit,ii., Oh tr av elog t i t of the bystanders, seized the young 1 1 t o th e .„ble Ye the a rm , and endeavoured to lead her evelhat tri-teigioce, savine " Tilly, Tilly, you silly Oa, po r ie teri ere i have given me. ” The you ng fady 0 e re te d I°, g iced e: but th e man with the moustache atterePd the arid bf ' was threatened with the police' which lead eie -ta 9 t he , it es feet. and the brougham drove O. th t she wee Person who recognised the wid ew ' tr a ee t ' alit leo' 'ls keeper of a house 'in Northum berland-stbe brooe. ht ero t j wards transpired that the oretwalit O f , i n her e 4 f re eh ° ' s the guardian of the youne WV , 11° l ' e xte nsic ch °l° ll' year, and heiress to 1'25,000, beSldeS 1 _any gr,tos:. property. The man she was i n co! 'P et ; tO" fig' *7 tile fig' French dentist. had been je lo The parties living and' it was discovered they were ill 'e O r° r brother and sinter. ,4( li e the do w_i • ti,A. to be EirMßlTioN,lBsl.—OnThurs • e tru e nr , w 0 , t he asked the House of Lords if it weionsingt--sesc oil leading from Hyde Park-corners to for , he oter,ened_n, paved with heavy granite block , ' also col' t he In Grea • . . lig .so t Exhibition ? The noble lor:i ro peet' VI.; ,ayes the decision of the Attorney-Gene! ~, i n IlY ae „1 or n e posed injunction against the huildin-__ / 0 110,', bee° b , ared that if such o ecedents wer e , v igo __, o st e. t • r f b. COUlltrY . the .. ,,ogS constitutional Sovereign o• t is Geneeu., tee be- of by the • assistance of the Attorne7c• solute Monarch in .--" Wh en c oo "he 0 Europe • , there Within t t ot forward the subject `dead silencc ~_s o keg there * Y .'.,,,,,5t i, l 2 h icli to e d 2n st .Bptletrygoafn 05:: 09:i 4 d, vet yr:es:old:. ftrghb d; ets it; er_oiredrfvl lordships'*walls-Idead s, absolute prostration of the , d : es t 09 ( Grea l ro pre t Y place even in the minds of the P ra fi ntrY,D le 9l tiog 9° ' ' prince' is mentioned in this tl e °- i ded t'' in ;:h00 4 5 of the House of Commons; showrstaPiVer; Woo, tion.) The Lord Chancellor fer . an d , ., bo duct , a sh l' • .11 of. the Attornev-General'sAO whit • ee° alluded several times to Lord Br u s ls uP . I I . he l' ‘ , t oil able and learned friend ;'' a °. m " cou ld fl- whe ll used the term `honourable frien Brougham did not fail to lecture T ose be s ' sero bly aware of the ordinary forms of th e d , osa a r c os, • o rra ti l e pbto b lie I,s , 0 1 -, - ri p every man was noble." voll< (i f si ted iNeP.„• v" . . n g THE NEPAUMESE A M BAS% v f i n •Ate ,.,- nephew to the ate p • e P'" l- f Go°''' „ 0 .0 Pl u •;. 0 0 ' e rim ~..a . o ~e ar s -7,1 e, t , .; bro• Singh, who, with his regime"' oar Y` - : uo. — a - to the Dur hn b i3 g a e. hero, u j i n u n s n i t g i ontta some years back. Aboutthat lug . e lls°. - ;off killed man ( hesitated, and tslspeedily v p a e t o i p o l n e , a a n n d d S d r e e m e a .l n u d t e , g d a t n h d e r h o : nister, had conspired against tbe liveswhereue"roaltbe m to in th is e te K r theta—for what reasonagT know Ott,;,ol(ler. be/14070er as he w fray h his double-barrelled rifle over his s ' .- 0 11111 C°l) P e n 'l OU r en sued „ b e e r : (be h a re p ear i • V i t i er minister, and charged him with the, _,. o re,' ii pog le e bloody fray then se pten o ncT'tlie s ' 0 0 ley . u nc - we fie spot. A: bl ir.un(hezaohdeiosnrc)gi gun, discov er ne rdsbcoetnenhd ci sit.re oi, fowl:elect:: 5., ,i 5 005 0:11..0 gatbeae ster. or seven) who were with hill:: inTelietc).0;:15:::::e: cut to pieces. Sree Jung., with the ° r , ioae boter, was ctoroinori: g eo ltl s e i r e ' 9ejf•P rr Tbe bloody 1 b li r oIl:, rot vie e bro el l as, is gun up ,it e ras o ne • c p monarch, however, thinking it better,"no doju t igh t ito spirit, told him, in reply, that he ha j a he in tb. e d bscoo mo te if prim which, `staying no further question, h ? biaise' 0 11 Pbo• Mini King, told thoelednhiins stthoeryri, drnenclarg. sean,i,,,, at ..te 01,0 the Durbar, and immediately preciairee' is of i 'd cb , ;area 0 1, ..,,st° THE IN-I)LlAetNierPfoS7-OFInFZE.---Tne ' I . - g in t ' ( liali ro; of India have been lifting up their voiee,be la .., ( jo ~ rug , demanding post-office reform. l l it is e i r ' 4 , c ll 7 l o office has three damning effects; fir st I .'t is fe r Ytos br civ secondly, it is,very expensive ; thirdlYd_roat he,e4oo, In the first of these matters the improvioa,t;,,euto means kept pace with the progress o f °pi for t r iler e : P oi tion of the people. and the gein,erwael dbeerren..:endtlloo tio ab r n hmenp n ngt i o c ; a n t b i , on . in ' the " seco m -, common from tnhoe ismteaprmov.ecnent for . we n suspect that there has been no ..,,,,,, to R I it A ordinary letter now sent from -I°,°l',o ft° sll bu t t ,., costs is. 9d. We may send the same l' or 10:; e flou; 0 many year.stv; pproveroeico, lc I t . tr c o osts nearly 2s. to convey it from one Pr p et srriewsPo 00100 Southampton, another. We may send a s tamP e Bonb gP ai sl / 1 0 Southampton, either to Calcutta or t°,, Ds o t ii. t . 0 uetit:her rteocißombay or to Calzuttalideno 0.., will have to P°74ed n', tO tt o newspapers of the country, priv„, 01 5 tO t o Paper (as the postage is charged by vole , colctit i 9 u . ,„ W. for the privilege of journeying irons j oie I 'o l 7 o northern provinces. The whole sYste%regiS.'oo3, which calls for elaborate revisio Bement,and w_, c h; h sr e ,,ieb,s fore, even to catch at aoun ", ij,lloto,- the Calcutta papers, to thee ffect that 1 , ? 1 :1 ,to I ' o o' poprite,nt in India, if he vivid. o r t , i t h e i i sanctioned the appointment of a cornEos9°, t he r ° un T ob H s E er W ved E into the state of the post-office throughou it ,co, Morning Herald. dee , tl5 „. gs`' The r011„„40007, tor, .SLEHYeANwaCsONspFeedItEnyCL.-- a It , e ,s of the Conference was proceeded with or , the Friday lass. Some excitement was c e o f the 'veP e i, day by the sudden appearance of on e the doobject ii ministers—Mr. Dunn who had passe`,,i frIS ° „ffer,, b e ri etecteuio, tO psis t oo to entering the chapel was stated to have bah he ie Pa subscription to the le alited fund, of scu hen ~00 himself still a member . g On Saturday, r e , 8 „tit)! District came under review, the name °f district In_,,e 0! was announced, and the minutes of the ,nea 0! . ,;', _,' k on his case were read to the Conference. ,_t"' oeetn;eos appeal against the decision of the distfl u the . e.„00,, debate arose on a proposition presented DY,_, b s ( , : i t i!!' of the Conference, that James 13rornleY,p .).:01,.1," DO; since the trial, had forfeited the right of te'Freftereelo consequently, that right should nosiv,_f t 311 , li , 11 to The points of this proposition were, v'"„,elisiell,oo had refused to submit to the act °,. f t , 511 ,, Tore il ,,„ li c ed, i l l ,r continuing to preach ; and that , o. "" t he P'" ol "bf appeal, it would be virtually sanctioning the th e ~de of those who were seeking to subvert rico 0 1 ,700 P t : trier meetings. on that, an anoencloseenl43. 11fervrteitri:1 Dr. Beaumont, and seconded by Georg 0 1 015 f o sb° u o to the effect that, though the rigbt of aPp,.,lo.eec!,, boo_ yet that the Conference, as an act of in,,"„„tyoo'„ grant it to him. For this amendment, T o ' 0 " , threvore .1 only were held , up ; for the original nsgitio,t gr . , gp dred, probably, held up their hands ; 6 CeCbifylng i 4 1.° •• me, and provoke much sP 0 1. ,r disposed of. Ds l;i o vP' " lls d le e y u ' l s o c f as t e . (which had been expected to , oe , c ei ul ; sP ee 0 CONSTITUTIONS, HOWE-an AVEA% Ol' WO le f' ; throu e l orld , 1 f l'• gbout every part of the civiliz s r o re ° .0 1° A PILLS.—The extraordinary sale of these ~ tlr,iow the 05Pigorrj their s t u he system, and eurrish the soundes properties are such as to P urify th e 0' disorders. In cases of weakor debilitast;iBoelotsh9d:,.iilirrifi.cers,Airift,e;:o digest 9 to , 1 0 , , , on, deyanged stomachs, Ole, _ e aw t io o. ffering from 10, t ens of spirits, nerv°'''efctiOP',: et'. complaints, , &termination of blood to tn;le rec. el epileptic fits, will find in this truly vid ull ter ll/ ,, certain, safe, and efficacious rem aiseaso, 10'010 SKIN DisEASES.----The numerous „ate!, e f .0 " skin diseases," to which the butnon 1".0 tionsi,etber,„ creating annoyances and compelling ` have e to elj tli' l most painful and harassing description to hs A t held by the faculty to be the mos t &teed hootrol Indeed, various have been the rem r _, - ,, r , wit ,de,,, public and private practice of e proters:l', its t , o ",. el , one having been discov either surcertg. 40 operation or certain ' Its intended eote"raletl 9 e c tions of the skin, family restorativoei the bobtor'oo, 4, ton's pill of h "is not only one clelSe extant for effe'cting a certain and seee"Yth'e elosidi Or ceedingly mild in its operation that , ~, a e ..- female, and children of the most tender female, this medicine with perfect safetY. L . \ 1. Al l e l ? 4 ' P tt A No4 r Tt, ortY °at m ost e g to t.! 2 C 'tio", °4 I N P a 4 of Pt!, ' it4l tt t 4 i '.141 1 .41 4) I tr tiN• hi 4 1: l it 1,„