The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-12 00:00:00

I revea grief 6nl Peter, ti 'oil have f " Generc a packet o she held tt finger and " This.', first wri free t " We can v. u forgive m, worthy - 011-}our . _ Sir Peter sough, bowed hat When t her head az:ainat. even he sentient sketcl lowing N. very p• and hull village school till 61 the arts of reading, given her a fine edu her mother rearing pot hments. I rich, bad bra so by the i hovered abo LikiNmoal a pleasant dream, M dashing pvetender, yeoman, but a youth the owner of the cle and the man sure to • bad Jarvis, of winni what they might, an, temper. " Father," said he, a twenty -pound note if I give him up, I Day says twenty pot Squire has set his I not to disoblige him, The old man reach we here, Jarvis," sal(' noted the sums atta added them up, "tin mas, there's the rent pound note in it, and I if I was called on to rupt, and have the then," a pt, and s work on Tlie and pressed young it o r mat dark eyes. 4 ' You have worked hard too, and I have you mind, you never you well to do. It is by : you shall never By the following Su cur, was to be seen c good round sum for market, wearing the air of and bad got in several at supper was finished, the jt Lis father had commenced afore-mentioned calf-bound of notes out of his pocket, "You showed me some Sehinight, it is now my to__ 4omething better besides." j fttratur NOTIC he Force of Paternoiter- r of the )cial and mor rid leading THE object of effected by towards t] the Hall 1 till the air was E they tapped for ad on ti and finish Off Ls first c London : E. Pal- vols. Bvo 'oluunes before us has nproyements may DI our ru and means to ihi 1 and other effort: ed, with an oni an agricu )uthful] nt of an Mr. C is flock, to ad —is a beautiful lady, refined he intere en into t followi if the write 3 visitors to ti balmy May morn- .cted their step, me distance from or fastened within, ; was instantly an and piece of wood 3 . ncerted a carpenter's a group of very my good sir," sai sere at all interests .00p of tints." since we hay the mysteries." I a great turn fo: very native talent mid be turned t( and the ' laying ii man : he over moth the edge little friend Jo, Q desti cornice to t look round the ly trade and be years er mind or body s broad aspect I even et 1 gaunt figure had it earth—did real ictim? but then !et from the mar id a devotion In .ying her deter- bowed at the Sir Peter, lies I have a )und and lost so o safer keeping : such tender sor her sway ?" " for ever ; but and her form that sought to lice, but spoke 'ear after year I your pleasures f I have risked wer over me—if of my poem], s—if I hive antici in your presence, it caprice— me unmurmur- You seek to be ! Would that pink not of me have once been of admiration, • it. Your hap tnce of a vision ye no counter , ed bet ween'fier tten. It was th meat. These ar sere. If I have ity of soul pros with hope, with icate your des ould reward my ::ruel insult has of a hand with pars ! You are lest of women may you prove it on the be where was the current in her ch, and pressed de stirred, not breathed, but y intensity of at home in her . actor. The fol- I creature, was t in all her la- Her father, a kept her at the I there acquired mitered he had !forward to be be initiated by ;mg, churnins, he family halm- then Jenkins 1s: tey on mortgage: !ager and earnest ;mon to his ingle. tom life has been t . erriest and most t a neighbouring t in the country, the finest horses: I a curious way; Irposes, be they uffied or out of lu haul me out or Rattle, but ind ; and Jack and that the ly. We ough it book, ;" Look -ers items, then of paper, and lnd at Michael * has one ten- hat,—so you see, I'll work on , ould be a bank it ases God,--and ad in iiis own, Ted in his fine D long, and hsto to let you: but , and I thought nd yours to lay a an only son." oriviteged house quire had given a had been to every not of pleasure, and when their on the table, and Pipe, he took W recess, and a roll said he, " this day count a bit, and to unfolded and diqn of the day had ed, "what have lnoys you—it is our letters had 'n joy a on the r played a sum that not only sufficed to cover all liabilities, but left a surplus to replenish . handsorriely the pouch in his pocket : "and let me thank you sir, and kindly too, for calling me to my senses in time." "I did'nt mean, Jarvis," said the old man, after a pause, during which he looked steadily in the fire, and tried to con trol the muscles of his furrowed face, " I didn't mean to put a stop to all your amusements." ‘ c I've hail enough of.them, sir,—you've been too good to me too long,—but I shall like work now better than play." did'nt mean it, Jarvis," resumed the father, and his voice lick, and he applied the tobacco stopper to his igour, " I liked to see thee ride better nor any .eked to see thee stroke the breasts of th” birds thee broughtest 'em home,—and I did'nt meant it." pipe wit: I I liked tc a worn out, and I breed f rdi the T the year I old - father thanks thee for it, and prays the __ ~ d with this first effort of all of es cellent lessons, ver .RIETIES. beta lain stationary. People hen opportunity offers to es If parents were really as I love God, as ti me means for ex- We are As a wh tne ice w the contr ng this love the.), mid not so much enforce it as should be loved and thanked, as lead t that He ould be associated in their minds with every idea of cheerfulness and enjoyment, and thus lay the tion for a pure, rational, and efficient religious le, the only source of permanent happiness.— PUBLIC OPINION.- and just )rld Has early taught to. si yiatue up Sh - ow their ated its 1 Lcified its stoned ii greatest men---how aviours, martyred ng it is is Apostles deuce, or even with ore, than ken are measured at heights and depths of t once I non or the [et them say, if they r they ought 16 v world . of their acqu, learn from ti a public opinion, i influence their t the jud conceit usually hat is not e judg Show ho Call th of criticisms current of ly seek excellence, whether When they have m listen to the flip ited, shallow judgment of the aintance upon it, and let them eh criticism ct, let t me, based upon suci striving for, or ought much to TOappreCiate a great great, still a great man, and therefore must be either bor- frequently the latter, as !nay of talent,— ie.— s ! Rarely serve ti mein even or the ur characte 'mate friends bow then can we expec praise or blamc would value i rally persecuted, st quiet of their new truths, are who bee nies the mouth- vho bas brains enough to , and who can talk, this is pays, and fame immortalizes.— Peelings T Y AND WEDNES. )n Tuesday r and Wednesday morning this town 1 its - vicinity, including the outward channels, were visited by a severe gale of wind, amounting, at times, almost to blasts of a hurricane. Happily we have few -7! - - disasters to record so far as human life is concerned, but several vessels were wrecked or otherwise damaged, and " houses and other buildings were denuded of .an indication of the coming _day, by the declining state of the the wind throughout the morning was at - 1- in the afternoon, after a short inter omey pots given on Tue arometer ,-south-west, val of calm, the draft came from due west, but afte in heavy puffs,—a sure presage that a gale of some violence was approaching. The puffs increased by six or seven o'clock to violent gusts, and at length, towards midnight, it blew a steady gale from almost due west, or perhaps a point or two to thg northward of west. About two o'clock the wind became very violent, and so continued, generally in gusts or squalls, until four in the morning with little abatement. Many parties in houses exposed to the storm were under great alarm during the night, relinquishing all idea of sleep, and congregating for mutual comfort and allayance of alarm in one or more apartments of their respective dwellings. Strange to say, in many other houses less exposed from their position, or otherwise sheltered by higher buildings to windward, the inmates slept on soundly, and were surprised in the morning to find that so much alarm had been excited amongst some of their near neighbours. The gale was severely felt about the Old Church, especially upon Tower Buildings, which face the Churchyard. Some of the lead was stripped off, like paper, from the roof. From one of the windows of Trinity Church, St. Anne-street, nearly all the glass was blown in. A chimney was blown over at the Crooked Billet, in Exchange -street East, but the roof fortunately resisted the weight of the fallen materials, otherwise a female servant in the attic would probably have been killed. swards In the river the accidents were numerous. The sloop Duchess of Kent in attempting to make the entrance of the Nelson Dock for shelter was, through the force of the gale, rendered unmanageable, and sank from concussion on the walls. She was from the Tsle of Man, and the crew were happily saved. A flat from Runcorn, laden with grain, sank opposite the Collingwood Dock. The few parties on board, including a female, were saved by the active exertions of boatmen. There were, however, comparatively few large vessels lying in the river, and these mostly nearer to the Cheshire than the Lancashire Soveral of them dragged their anchors. Amongst was the fine new New York packet-ship, the Man- Aich bad arrived only the morning before. She rs to be in jeopardy of running . peen the landing-stage and the Luckily she held on, by two anchors, _ great exertions by the active management of the captain and others on board. The life-boats were all Ictive, and succeeded in saving lives of persons on wrecks, le outward banks. The Woodside boats, which generally every hour during the night, found it neces sary for safety to knock off from one o'clock till five in the morning. No great inconvenience to parties was occasioned by this cessation, for few or no passengers would have " tempted the stormy frith." The great landing -stage had to undergo a test, though not a very severe one, on this occasion. The " jabble" of the sea and the force of the tide had, however, an effect upon her. She worked very heavily during the most violent part of the storm. Her buts were slightly started and opened at the north eltd. But the general structure, in cledi • 'he lirirh7e9, stood it out well, as did the moorings. uii tue Birkenhead side of the river the damage was greater than on the Liverpool side, especially in parts exposed to the draught of wind soughing down Wallasey Pool, which was a leading hollow or valley in the line of the gale, which commenced from the W.S.W., was at its severest at about W., and hauled to N.N.W. Much of the glass in the windows of the S.E.._ Hamilton-square, Woodside, was blown in, and a consi derable portion of it in round or oval holes, without frac ture of the remaining part round the framework. All the houses in the locality facing the gale were equally injured. The covered market at Birkenhead was also damaged. The cast-iron frames, or sash-work, of the roof windows were in many places torn off, and fell directly down, or were carried to a distance on the top of the roof and broke the slates, or otherwise damaged the building, and by the fall of materials much of the pro perty in the stalls. Luckily, no person was injured, and the general framework of the roof, all of beaten iron on the tension principle, remains entire. Christ Church, at Oxton, recently erected, suffered severely from the gale, about three yards of the top of the handsome spire being blown down. The belfry of the Scotch Church, in Grange-lane, was also overturned, and fell through the roof of the building. Great damage was done to private houses and other buildings all over the district of Oxton on-the-Hill. ppeared for many ho lber t Doc or on ti side of Two flats were sunk in George's Dock Basin, and one of the quarantine hulks off the Rock Ferry was driven from her moorings to t he Lancashire side. At Egremont Ferry, the south slip was much injured, large portions of the stonework at the bottom being hurled in ruins on the beach. This, however, does not disturb the transit, as the main slip and stage, stretching to the eastward, remain in good workable order. At Seacombe, the moveable landing stage was lifted by the force of the tide from the rails on the slip, across which it lay fractured, in the form of a bridge. The steam engine attached to the stage was thrown down, but is recovered, and may be readily repaired. The injury to this ferry was done by the back set of the up-coming tide against the north wall of the Birkenhead docks, which at all times causes sanding up at Seacombe slip, and threat ens, in fact, to annihilat e th e f erry. T he tide, both here and at other points of the river, did not recede for a long time after high water by the almanac, so great was the force of the wind in pointing it up. Most of the suburban villas, and numerous houses and seats in the country, have suffered more or less damage ; and the furious assaults of the tempest on detached and unsheltered houses in the country caused extremeanxiety and terror to the inmates. From a signal made soon after nineo'clock on Wednes day morning, it was ascertained that the Diana steamer, from Waterford, bad gat upon Great Burbo Bank. A steam-tug, with a life-boat in tow, proceeded to the spot. She is got off. The passengers were saved. In consequence of the breaking down of the Seacombe stage, by the force of the tide and gale, and the Egremont boats necessarily running but seldom in the day, in Sea combe, Egremont, New Brighton, &c., many parties wishing to cross to Liverpool (or return home) had to dwell make their way to and from Woodside by the embank ments and bridges—all unfinished—across Wallasey Pool. The journey was along by the copper works, and by the lower embankment from the Birkenhead warehouses to Scacombe: it was most perilous, the wind being so high and the road so unsheltered that many were thrown down and not a few turned back in despair from one to the other terminus. The gale continued with considerable violence throughout Wednesday, and though the barome ter began to rise from an early hour in the morning, and got up nearly an inch in the course of the day, it was late in the afternoon ere the wind began to shew any very per ceptible abatement. Even then the wind was so strong that the Egremont Ferry steamears did not ply, excepting at distant intervals, when the gale lulled. About three o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, the American ship John P. Whitney, Captain Gledden, (a - -- -0 7 tons burthen), ran aground on a sand trance to the Victoria Channel, and al- ick three different times on various banks, near mby, before she went down. Notwithstanding the the weather was so thick at the time, that it -, sible to get a pilot on board. The crew endea by 1 - - • life _ , launching their .e-boat, Jut, on account of the heavy sea running at the time, she before any body got on board of her. The bout twenty-four in number) together with eight then betook themselves to the ship's two era afterwards picked up by Capt. Webster, Bull tug-steamer, and landed in Liverpool in yen o'clock on Wednesday evening. As the up the cargo floated off. She was insured, not learned to what amount. On Wednes welve o'clock, the north-west light-ship went )y the fury of the gale was forced inwards to ..rds the edge of the bank. She was subsequently )rought up near N.W. spit. where she rode heavily. r• was swan' and WE safety a vessel b: but we ha day, about t Aeutenant Lord, the marine surveyor, went outside and ttempted to get out the duplicate light-ship, but was ) so, from the state of the wind and the heavy He then proceeded in a tug-boat to the [lnning -ship, and found th a t f or a ll practical purposes she exhibited her lights as usual. Early on Thursday morn- ing, the marine surveyor proceeded to the light -ship with a steam-tug and life-boat; and, at a quarter to twelve o'clock, the telegraph reported that the steamer was alongside, and she was again taken back to her station, and safely moored. Way House, a small inn between Egre- Brighton, the Magazine life-boat landed, the Dit Addiso afternoon, nine passengers rescued from na, including three females and two soldiers. Mr. _, of New Brighton, hearing of their predicament paid for all necessary refreshments for them, they being much exhausted and benumbed with cold. Another gen tleman, of Sea Bank, Liscard, sent money to each of them to carry them to I • Liverpool Captain Evans, of the life-boat, and his crew, used Ml during the gale to save life, and all of em were much A flat called th L " weather-beaten." he Mary was seen bottom u p on the main _nd no account had been received at the Magazines up to fternoon, though it is hoped they escaped he strongest part of the gale blew from the W.N.V itside of the Rock Lighthouse Sev Tnursday .1 fishing-boatswere sunk on the beach near the Many casks of flour and Indian meal were washed near to or on shore, both on the Lancashire and Cheshire sides of our estuary, from the J. P. Whitney. Much wreck was also floating up on Wednesday, consisting of planks, beams, &c., with copper nails or fastenings attached. We heard of no bodies being found on the Wirral coast. The Magazine boats picked up several casks of flo , d ,ps of the same article, not much damaged, except zeriorly, the outer wet flour forming a compact cake. No. 9 pilot-boat met with a misfortune. Before day ht on Wednesday morning she was the fourth boat and was going like a duck before the wind, appa 'ill safe, when a sea struck her, and carried away sail and punt. She was nearly thrown on her 4, and was obliged to return to port for a refit. Ile Sam steam-tug towed up, on Wednesday, Jout eleven o'clock, one of the lower masts, rigging, &c., of a large vessel, probably the J. P. Whitney. The Iron Duke, belonging to the City of Dublin Com pany, left here on Tuesday evening, at the usual hour, She accomplished the passage to Dublin in twenty hours, her average time being ten hours and a half. The Admi ral, Glasgow steamer, was 35 hours on her passage. At Rock Ferry one of the windows of the front sleep ing apartment in Mr. Branch's residence, was blown en- her ma The Un tire into the room, frame-work and basement. The top of the window fortunately came in contact with a ward robe, consequently it was supported in its upright posi tion ; not a single pane of glass was broken. The whole must have been smashed but for this circumstance. The violence of the gust which caused this singular accident blew the furniture about the room in every direction, upsetting a dressing table, and dispersing its brittle ac companiments on the floor, not a single article of which, however, was broken. A. stack of chimneys fell at Monk's Ferry Hotel, and ' an old and faithful servant beneath the ruins. She -11 hurt, but is now progressing favorably. THE STORM IN OTHER QUARTERS. was mu. At the Isle of Man a windmill took fire by the friction of the machinery through the force of the gale, and the entire building and out-houses were burnt down. Considerable damage was done in London and its neighbourhood, and several small vessels were driven from their moorings. Dublin also suffered. In Limerick several houses were blown down, and Captain Warner, of the Energy, was drowned on Tuesday night, when pro ceeding on board his ship. The storm did much mischief at Manchester, carrying away roofs of large buildings, and many trees were torn up by the roots. A train on the Blackburn and West Yorkshire Railway was blown off the line, but without loss of life. At Preston the storm upset five of the arches in course of construction on the valley over the Ribble. A tall chimney fell through the roof of a bakehouse in the West end Shambles, and a baker at work within narrowly escaped. The storm raged fearfully in Nottinghamshire, and was accompanied by thunder and lightning. A tall chimney fell upon the house of a Mr. Smythe, in the Park, at Nottingham, and buried him and his lady in the ruins, but they were extricated without much injury. Other parties who were overwhelmed in ruins also escaped. At Blackpool the brig Portice, of Sunderland, went ashore—crew saved. At B ra df or d the gale was severely felt, and the saline water was blown against the windows. Great damage to several buildings was done at Wakefield, but no lives lost. Huddersfield, Rotherham, and Don caster were equally visited. The destruction of roofs, windows, garden-walls, &c., was great. Many persons escaped as by a miracle from destruction by falling mate rials. The loss at Doncaster, including a flour-mill, is estimated at £l,OOO. A writer who dates from Leicester, dating Wednesday evening, says—" After a few days of moderate weather, with little variation of temperature, we were visited with a violent north-wester, which has continued during last night and to-day. From eight to nine in the evening the appearance of the heavens was somewhat singular, a beautiful aurora borealis was flick ering in the eastern horizon, and masses of black clouds gathering in the west, which shortly after emitted heavy rain accompanied with violent gusts of wind. The latter gradually increased till midnight, when a perfect hurricane commenced, which unroofed cottages and stacks, blowing in windows, and tearing up trees by the roots, or riving the main branches from their trunks." At Boston, Wisbech, Gainsborough, Birmingham, Lincoln, and other towns, much damage was done to buildings, but we h a ppily nd no record of loss of life. The Northern Whig states that the storm did great damage in Belfast. In the workhouse of that town three boys were killed by the stone and bricks of a flue, which fell into the room where they were sleeping. Upwards of a thousand pounds' worth of damage was done to the Queen's College. About two o'clock, while the storm was raging with great fury, the chimney of the house of Mr. William Cowan, of Whiteabbey, was blown down ; it fell in through the roof to the bed where Mr. and Mrs. Cowan and a young child were lying. The child was killed ; but, fortunately, Mr. and Mrs. Cowan escaped with very slight injuries. The old oak at Winwick, which has weathered the storm for four centuries, was blown down by the strength of the gale THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. services, or An English gentleman, residing in Sutherlandshire, was found dead in the snow in Strathmore, on the 16th ult. He had resided at an inn for some years, and never mentioned his, name. The floor of the Greek Church, London-wall, recently opened for public worship, is entirely covered with a very superior fabric, manufactured from the cocoa-nut fibre by Mr. Treloar, of Ludgate-hill. The Rev. Sohn Lowe, Rector of Ardley, Oxon, was thrown from his horse last week, the animal rearing up and falling back upon him, when he received such severe injuries that he is not expected to recover. The Plymouth Guardian notifies the discovery of a very rich and valuable lode of silver lead ore, on an estate of Mr. Wymond, at Landulph. The ore produced 10 in 20 for lead, and 200 ounces of silver in the ton of ore. COMPETITION.—The village of Croston contains a po pulation of 1500 . pei sons, and for the supply of this num ber with the necessaries of life there are no fewer than 22 provision shops. A few days ago, an ice-house was destroyed by fire at Doncaster. A spark fell on the straw with which the place was lined whilst some men were, placing some ice in it. The names of the gentlemen appointed sheriffs for the neighbouring counties are—Cheshire, Sir Arthur Ingram Aston, G.C.B. ; Derbyshire, Robert Arkwright, Esq, ; and Yorkshire, William Rutson, Esq. Captain Horatio T. Austin, C. 8., has been offered, and has accepted, the command of the intended new north west expedition to proceed in further search of Sir John Franklin. The Mark Lane Express devotes a whole column to the list of noblemen and others who have submitted to a reduction of their rents, varying in amount from £lO to £2O per cent. On Wednesday sen., Mr. Toke Simmons, of Canter bury, for a wager, galloped his celebrated brown horse, Walter Gay, twenty miles, leaping in the first seven miles twenty hurdles, within two minutes and a half of an hour. SHAMEFUL HOAX.—A paragraph lately appeared in the papers, stating that an accident had happened to Mr. Lumley's right hand. Anxious inquiries were instantly made at the residence of Jenny Lind ; when it appeared that she had met with no injury whatever.—Pasquin. The bullion in both departments of the Bank of En gland has increased from £16.784,201 to £16,811,159, being a difference of £26,951. The paper in actual cir culation had decreased from £20,877,135 to £20,831,396, being a difference of £45,732. One hundred and seven prisoners were committed to this prison (Lanark) during the last twelve months. Of these, 38 were charged with the crime of theft, and, to my knowledge, 22 were intoxicated when they committed the deed.—Mr. D. Lennie. Mr. Peter Warren, of Moor Wood Farm, near Disley, has a fine brood of chickens, which left their shells on the last day of December. It is remarkable that the hen set herself in a cart shed, where she was exposed all the time of sitting to the inclemency of the weather. An infant and an older child, at Tring, have perished by poison which the mother gave in mistake for medicine. The father of the children had carelessly left the poison, apparently arsenic, in the same place where magnesia was kept ; and the poor mother took the wrong packet. Lord Albert Denison 1 - :rys pi:rchased in one lot, for ten thousand pounds, the whol: , of the plate belonging to the late Queen Dowager. The Queen bought two dessert Id the other of The Wesleyan 2 - chapel property amounts to nearly eight millions of money, all made over to the Wesleyan Conference; and, what to them is of great importance, they are not liable for any of the enormous debts owing by the chapels. The John and Ann, one of the seven fishing vessels which left Hull on the 22d December, and had been miss. ing from the 27th, and were believed to have been lost with all hands, arrived at Scarborough yesterday week, with the crew all well, having taken refuge in a port of Norway during the storm. On Sunday Elizabeth Bradford, the wife of a carpenter at Exeter, drowned two of her children, females, by push ing them into the canal; she had intended her son to share the same fate, but his cries bringing assistance, he was rescued from the water. The woman is supposed to be insane. he gross 'Mlle of the A - destructive fire broke out on Saturday night at the village of Ashwell, Herts, which destroyed twenty-six cottages, the malt-houses, a handsome Independent Chapel, the produce of six large farms, and parts of two houses. The calamity has rendered thirty-two families houseless. FATAL EFFECTS OF FRlGHT.—Recently, as a little boy, about eight years of age, the son of Mr. Rigg, Wes leyan Minister, of Bath, was sitting in a room, with other children, a cat suddenly sprang out of a cupboard near him. The poor little fellow was so terrified that he be came very ill, and died on Monday week. At Gloucester, on Tuesday, a man, named Gill, was convicted as a rogue and vagabond, for keeping an illegal lottery. He had a wheel of fortune, and !parties paying is. had the chance of a prize ranging in value from two pence to perhaps ss. or Ms., none of the tickets being blanks. Sampson Seares, an old man, died lately in a garret of a public-house in Marylebone in a most wretched condi tion, apparently starved to death. He had vegetated in i the garret for years, receiving 3s. 6d. a week from a servants' benevolent society; yet he had no less than £lBOO in the funds. A Treasury Warrant appears in Tuesday night's Ga- L zette, which orders that in future a uniform rate of four : pence shall be charged on all letters, not exceeding half an ounce in weight, and posted in this country fur Bel gium, or on such letters sent from Belgium to this coun try, or to any of the British Colonies. CHANGE OF FORTlTNE.—Anthentic legal announcement has been made to Thomas Strickland, carpet-weaver, living in Kendal, that he is heir-at-law to the estates of Miss Burns, of Cringlemire, near Bouth, who died re cently at Cheltenham. The value of the real estate is stated at £14,000. The fortunate successor to this pro perty has hitherto been in poor circumstances. The London correspondent of the Manchester Guar dian affirms confidently that the price of grain will sink lower and lower until spring, when its cheapness will be surprising. He also says that the more judicious of the London bankers and solicitors are of opinion that before one or two years are over our heads there will be a great change in our landed proprietary. A STEAMER BURNT.—On Wednesday, the Isle of Arran steamer, which plied between Ayr and that island, was discovered to be on fire, and so rapidly did the flames spread, that she was burnt to the water's edge, when she sunk. Nothing whatever was recovered from her. She was 80 tons burden, and was all ready to start from Ayr on her voyage. In the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, the two men, Cape and Pile, accused of obtaining money under false pretences, by inserting advertisements soliciting subscriptions towards the projected exhibition of works of art in 1851, were acquitted, the prosecution not having prepared any evidence to show they had given orders for the insertion of the advertisements. GAS.—On Friday, the bill of the London New Gas Company for better supplying the city with gas, and other places adjacent, was declared to have complied with the standing orders. The capital proposed to be raised for the purpose is £250,000, in 25,000 shares of £lO each, with power to borrow £25,000 ; the price of gas to be limited to 4s. per 1,000 cubic feet. The promoters propose to con. struct their works outside the city. By a return just issued from the Post-office, it appears that the total number of letters delivered in the United Kingdom during the past year was 337,500,000, while the total in 1839, under the old system, was 76,000,000. The increase has been steady since that period, but it was smaller in 1848 than in any other year, owing, doubtless, to the interruption to trade caused by the disturbances on the continent. Lieut. the Hon. Francis Egerton, son of the Earl of Ellesmere, promoted from the rank of mate, May 4, 1846, appointed to the Raleigh, 50, May 18, 1846, and subse quently appointed flag-lieutenant to Commander Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.8., commander-in-chief on the south-east coast of America, has been promoted to the rank of commander on Sir Thomas's haul-down nomina tion. LoNdevrrY.—The Times of Wednesday says,—" The united ages of eight persons, whose decease is announced in the obituary this day, gives a total of 663 years, being an average length of life of nearly 83 years each." Next day the same paper mentioned the following curious coin cidence :—" Our obituary of this day again announces the singular fact of eight persons having attained an average age of upwards of 82 years, their united ages g i N i ng a total of 658 years." DISTRESSING CASE.—On Monday last, a plasterer, named Hunt, a steady man, living at Bath, destroyed himself and infant child by drowning in the river Avon. The unhappy man was afflicted with a wasteful, drunken wife, who had several times been imprisoned for theft. On the day when he destroyed himself and child she had been again apprehended, and the husband on hearing of it became greatly excited, and shortly after put an end to his existence. A married sunday-school teacher in a Dissenting chapel at Spittal, near Berwick-on-Tweed, having eloped with a female who also attended revival meetings, the parties were burned in effigy by the inhabitants. The man was represented with two fiices one of which was looking at a prayer-book which he held in his right hand, while the other, which was painted black, was grinning at the wo man, who was represented as delivering religious tracts, which were clasped in her right hand. The old oak of Ross, which has for centuries been an object of attraction to the town of Ross, was destroyed by fire on the evening of Wednesday last. The " old oak of Ross" is supposed to have been 1,500 years old. The circumference at base was 15 yards, and 11 yards at three feet from the ground. Its destruction was caused by some boys lightlgaire in its trunk ; and notwithstand~ ing the efforts of the people, assisted by the town engine, it was all but totally destroyed, nothing being left but a heap of blackened ruins.—Bristol Journal. A daring act of robbery has been committed during business hours at the Worcester Old Bank, at Worcester. A tradesman sent his son with a quantity of gold and silver to the bank to pay in to his account. The youth, aged about 18 years, was engaged counting out the silver on the counter, and placed the gold on a piece of paper by his side. On opening the paper, however, a few minutes afterwards, he found that his little parcel of gold had been exchanged for less valuable coin, and that the thief had decamped. No clue has been obtained to lead to his detection. THE LEAD TRADE.—The large demand for France has been followed by the arrival of extensive orders for haveto St. Petersbur g, and sales to a consi derable during the week for that market at improved prices. The se sa l es h ave so com pletely exhausted the stocks o f th e large producers, that spring s h extent im en t they now decline entering into fresh contracts, except at a further advance of 20s. p er t on upon the rates of the late transactions. This makes the total advance since the month of October last about £2 10s. per ton ; and, should the present large export demand continue, much higher rates will yet be obtained.—Mining Journal, etntral Alfordlan)). Small-pox prevails to a considerable extent at present in Gateshead. A new mill near Leeds was blown down by the violence of the wind on Tuesday. At Sheffield, on Wednesday week, a child, three years of age, died from having inhaled a quantity of steam from the spout of a boiling tea kettle. Her Majesty's steamer Onyx went on shore at Dover on Wednesday, and is very much damaged. She is an iron vessel. A few weeks ago, Mr. Richard Bratt, of lisnbury, near Macclesfield, one morning killed two splendid deer—right and left shots. The Shrewsbury Journal says that some infatuated persons in Cardington, Rushbury, and other parishes, are signing a petition to the Almighty to chain the devil, &c: Thirty-three thousand five hundred and fifty-seven persons have been relieved, in London, by the Leicester Square soup kitchen during the month of January. It appears that the extent of the pecuniary demands on the Greek government on the part of Sir Thos. Wyse does not exceed £40,000. An explosion took place on Tuesday last at the Dudley Wood coal-pit, Cradley Heath, near Stourbridge, by which four persons were killed. A vessel, supposed to be the Thetis, from Newport to Limerick, was wrecked in Cardigan Bay during the recent storm. Eleven of the crew were drowned, and two—one of whom was the captain —were saved. A preliminary meeting, at which Lord Dunfermline attended, was held at Edinburgh, on Thursday afternoon, for the purpose of organizing and commencing a subscrip tion for a public monument to the late Lord Jeffrey. Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P. for Whitby, has pre sented a hundred guineas to the Whitby Mechanics' In stitute for the purchase of Lardner's Cyclopeedia, Mur ray's Home and Colonial Library, and other works. • Last week, a person who had selected a watch at a shop in Bishopsgate-street, London, threw some gunpowder on the gas lamp, and escaped with the watch during the consequent smoke and confusion. Captain Washington sat last week at Cork as govern ment commissioner, to inquire into the intended wet docks of that town. He was satisfied with the evidence for the project. _ _ BRISTOL.—The number of vessels arrived at and cleared from Bristol, from and to foreign parts, during last year, was 823. The year before it was 678 ; and in 1847, 593. The total tonnage of vessels sailing to and from foreign ports was 7greater by 18,771 tons last year than the year before. MARBLE TILES.—The vessel Orion, arrived from Leg horn, has brought as a portion of a g e nera l cargo 4, 6 9 9 marble tiles. The vessel in which the importation took place belonged to Holland, and therefore this is an in stance in which a Dutch vessel has been employed to bring an Italian cargo to this country for home use, which would not have been allowable under the former law of navigation. ANOTHER GAME-LAW MURDER.—The Lincolnshire limes says another victim to the game-law has been made in the person of Richard Tasker, gamekeeper to the Rev. John Dymoke, of Roughton, brother to the Queen's chaplain. The keeper was shot by poachers. From information received from the dying man, the police traced footmarks to' the village of Horsington, and suc ceeded in apprehending three brothers, named Bowring, on suspicion of being the parties concerned in the murder. PLOUGHING BY STEAM.—A patent fora steam plough has been taken out by Mr. James Usher, of Edinburgh. The machine is constructed to plough six furrows at once, thus doing the work and saving the expense of six double horse ploughs. The neceesary great weight of the ma _ .ed at three tons, may be thought awn ; but this is in a great degree obviated by the use of a large roller, which is so placed in the centre as to balance the machine, and prevent the wheel's sinking The cost of the entire apparatus is estimated at £300. Ba_nirshire Journal. chine: whiCh is esti an obj SANITARY IMPROVEMENT OF THE METROPOLIS.—On Wednesday, a highly-influential and numerous meetin- by the Metropolitan San iciation, was Freemasons'-hall, Great Queen-street, under the ncy of the Lord Bishop of London the president ght rev. prelate. pjauded.on taking the t were al It the lay week aroused. who w ported on the r - - Lord Robert Grosvenor Earl of Carlisle, the Ea ght by Lord Ashley m, the Bishops of Winc't borough, and R ED Exc an active omcer 01 deemed it right to examine several baskets of were at the railway station, Gateshead, off to the south, and in the centre of one of them he pounced upcn a large grey hen. Delighted with him - cess, he drew forth the prize, and, hastily un,, he eagerly immersed his fingers in the liquor, and tr ferring it to his mouth, found. to his mortification the great amusement of the spectators, being whiskey, as he fondly hoped, the 1 and unrefined cod-liver oil. ready to be 'ling it that instead o DARING BURGLARY..—EarIy on Friday morning, three burglars effected an entrance into the house of the Hon Miss Ann Bristow, Sandbanks-house, Hailsham, Sussex by breaking through the lawn window. The fellow were armed with bludgeons and pistols, and having corn. pelled Miss Bristow and her two female servants, the only occupants of the house, to arise from their beds, the] commenced ransacking the house, one keeping the watcl over the affrighted women. They secured about £2O( worth of silver plate. Being disappointed at not finding money, they made use of horrible imprecations, threat. ening to murder them. They helped themselves to gin rum, and brandy, eating a large plum cake, eventual': going off, and getting clear away with their booty. INDIAN MANUFACTURES.—Preparations for the India contribution to the great Exhibition of the Works c Industry of all Nations are already begun. ft T. remarkable manufactures in Western India damasks ; blackwood furniture, and open cai inlaid work of ivory, coloured woods, and metal, work, especially in agates, jaspers, and cornelians ; work ; arms,—hows, arrows, swords, shields, and m.. locks." And many others have been prepared. Et, province of India ought to send its own peculiar manufac tures, and some specimens of its industry. They will fore no insignificant addition even to the grand spectacle whic will be presented, and many of the rude machines of tl natives will be found to be as remarkable for their ing nuity as the more perfect contrivances of European ficers.—Allens Overland Mail. EXPERIMENTAL BALLOONS FOR ARCTIC A few days ago an experimental balloon, the view of distributing messages in the Arctic . the hope of informing Sir John Franklin or ar,. party of the exertions bei ng ma d e t o re li eve him, vt, off from the Admiralty about noon. The lower pa. the balloon was picked up in a meadow in Rotherhithe at a quarter before two o'clock, and the paper attachr to it, containing an intimation that a reward would given to the finder on presenting it to the Admirr The man who picked it up brought it to Whitehall received the sum of £3. The lucky recipient we George Dickens, and had a medal for serving in the horse, frigate, in the action with the Badder Zaffer, L 1808. The upper part of the balloon was picked up by another man at Charlton. Robert Curtis Burd and Sarah, his committed for trial for the wilful mure Parsons, a girl of fifteen. It will be remembered the prisoners occupied a lone farm house at Gawland, in the parish of Buckland Bewer, Devon, and obtained the ' ceased from the workhouse as a servant. Her 7. examination after her death, was found covered witl, wounds, lacerations, and abcesses ; and on her head the marks of more than one blow sufficient to cause death by an instrument produced in court and described as—" A strong stick of about a foot in length, to which were fastened eighteen sharp stout leather thongs, about two feet long. This formidable scourge was capable of in flicting the most cruel laceration, as bad as the army whip, and worso than the cow-hide of the American slave owners." The mob were ready to tear the prisoners in pieces as they were conveyed 1, •ed work ; lapidar called wife, ha der of Ma: , ody, on PROHIBITION.•—• The followir EXTRAORDINARY verbatim copy of a hat 'ecently distributed in t village of Ha' r'eNvooi " In consequence of the continued ctice of overcrowding and taking lodgers into the cot tages upon the Harewood Estate, more especially within the village of Harewood, contrary to the express agree ments and regulations ; notice is hereby given, that any cottager, being a tenant of the Earl of Harewood, who shall, from the date hereof, take in any lodger, or whose son or daughter shall marry and bring home to the cot tage, wife or husband, without having previously ob tained permission from the Earl of Harewood, shall receive notice to quit, which notice will be strictly enforced ; and, if in the employment of the said Earl, shall be discharged.—William Maughan, agent. January 15th, 1850. Harrison, printer, Leeds."--[The noble earl must have been studying Miss Martineau of late, This is one of her schemes for preventing an excess of population.] NARROW ESCAPE OF MR. G. THOMPSON, M.P.—On Tuesday morning, about six o'clock, the inmates of the Craven Ar "ms Hotel, C oven t r y, were a l arme d b y the cry of " fire, which, upon inquiry, was found to proceed from the room occupied by Mr. George Thompson, M.P. for the Tower Hamlets, who had been lecturing the pre vious evening upon financial reform at St. Mary's Hall. It appears that the hon. gentleman, on retiring to his apartment for the night, had probably put the candle by his bedside for the purpose of reading, when he uninten tionally fell asleep, and did not awake until ho found himself enveloped in flames. Sir Joshua Walmsiey, M.P. for Bolton, who slept in the adjoining room, hear ing a disturbance, hastily rushed out on the landing, and, to his horror, discovered flames issuing from the room occupied by Mr. Thompson. We are happy to state, however, that the hon. gentleman escaped without injury, and also that the house and furniture are fully insured in the West of England Insurance Company. The loss is estimated at £lOO. LONG-STANDING DEBT LICWIDATED.---AbAtli 20 years ago a small dealer in Dumfriesshire, at the time of his death, stood, no matter where, indebted to a shopkeeper £lO 15s. But as the deceased's affairs, however well intentioned, had got a little into confusion, the debt men tioned was forgiven as bad, if not forgotten, for a quarter of a century. Judge, then, of our informant's surprise when a respectable female called on him a few days ago, and requested to know " bow much a certain relation of her's stood in his books ?" This question our friend could not answer at the time ; in fact, he had entirely for gotten the transaction ; but as the lady promised to call again, he referred to old-dated memoranda, and on the second visit produced a bill for the amount n'•-• and found the money instantly forthcoming. Pleased beyond measure the shopkeeper wished to restrict his claim to the even money, £10; while his visitor talked so strongly of the interest due, that it was with the greatest reluctance she at last accepted a crown of discount in name of luckpenny.—Dumfries Courier. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN LAMBETH.—A fire of a most destructive character broke out in the timber yard of Mr. George Myers, Ordnance-wharf, Belvidere-road, early on Thursday morning, which completely destroyed his offi ces, saw-milts, workshops, and stables containing four horses. The efforts of the firemen were unable to stop the progress of the flames which extended to the patent india-rubber web warehouse and manufactory of Messrs. Nickels and Co., in Guildford-street, and these were burnt down and their contents wholly destroyed. In a short time the backs of houses, Nos. 7 to 12 inclusive, in York-road, caught fire, and were nearly eestroyed. The back-front of a number of houses in Belvidere-road were also much injured. The flames were not subdued till noon. Mr. Myers and Messrs. Nickels and Co.'s pre mises were insured, as were also some of the houses partly destroyed. There are some very painful circumstances in connexion with this calamity. Of all the workmen employed by Mr. Myers, not one has saved a single tool, and there are upwards of fifty men who have lost property of this description to an amount varying from £8 to £l2. The total amount of property destroyed is estimated at upwards of £50,000, and the insurances aro stated to fall short of that sum by about £12,000. YOUNG HOPEFUL.-At Lambeth Police-office, on Fri day, Rowland Benjamin Green, a beardless stripling of 19, but who appeared much younger,. was placed before Mr. Norton, on a charge of obtaining £4 on false pre- J, and also stealing an accordion of the value of 30s. . Margetson, a gentleman residing in Prospect-place, Peckham-rye, deposed that on the lOth of December last the prisoner called on him with a note, which purported to have been written by his mother, requesting the loan of £4 or £5 for a few days. The mother being a tenant of his, and a respectable woman, he (Mr. Margetson) gave the prisoner a £5 note, for which he had given a re ceipt in the note itself. Some days after he discovered that Mrs. Green knew nothing of the transaction. On this the prisoner was taken into custody. Prisoner : I told my mother I had got the money from Mr. Margetson. Mr. Norton : Yes ; but that was after you got it by false representations. Prisoner : Yes, sir, it was after I got the money. Mr. Norton : Are the articles to which the duplicates found on you refer, your own property ? Pri soner : No, sir. Some of them belong to my wife. Mr. Norton : Wife ! why, how old are you ? Prisoner: Nineteen, sir. Mr. Gunn, (the magistrate's clerk) : I think the clergyman who married such a boy ought to be ashamed of himself. Mr. Norton : How long have you been married ? Prisoner : About six months. Mr. Nor ton : To whom did the horse and gig found in your pos session belong ? Prisoner : Ohl that I hired. I was to pay twelve shillings for it, for the afternoon's ride. Mr. Norton : Well, upon my word, you am it hopeful youth. I shall remand you until Thursday. .man of th warmly ap fO lil i STANFIELD-HALL AND POTASH , _l, ' of this property, with the lands POTASH it will be recollected, Rush endeavoari,eo murder of the Messrs. Jermy , ha s t _.c e a the possession of the estates. ' The ,r o g One of the courts of law. Stanfielv: j tinue tenantless, presenting a wretebr" mice. Several abourers have been°, d to live in them, with their families la: but we understand the offers in evert 11 fused. The policeman, Point. who al , has been dismissed from the NoriJlk.l officer, Colonel Oaks, on no other grt )u ;l ing Mr. Cann in the controversy with. i. for the possession of Rush's blunderbago under the fiat of Rush's bankrupts Y ball of the weapon, delivered over to theroa of the county. It is said it is to be $ 01 " the creditors. _,, STATE OF THE SHIPPING TFADa' , zette has followed up its article of the falsehoods of the free communications tra'el ds f h r i o P ni b t u b a e d P iD i t' s uerland, Runcorn, Dundalk, Drog he stow, Woodbridge, Pwllheli, and evidence it is, unthrtnnately, most Cl ' ships are unsaleable—that prices tion of ate of the shipping h a ve b'' been discouraged; _hat the coasting 13 discourages the foreign trade—that capital is Or business—that sailors and artisans am occupation, and those who are ig has been reduced be cOntent'with reduced withstanding ti condition. A dec 'llt, Igo. NE INI eh u ~i' lt tl:p hiirol v t° r eS o f,k t sl td eE , cone ,; G: fl rge ; :i tt ' e — nril heir e d r a e t f h arged hi h y a4,hi ) pi :l o p n e i n_i Ist er L s d had Sot pvailJawyeather, eau t ds oblige, teri ori tu not be esi ' th• e to h g ) ji itty day e faisc iv s lvt !t r .: 3. • oc4„. 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C, t, 4, wzlirg .1 1 t e4i1 11 5, 4 04, 1 > LkLy "ti, 15 4 - 4 ,, ta ee. `,`ary , 1 4,;'tt ' Rea t • R r e ,„_ -I • k i tern 4 111' ! a 11,.; Ph , V 4 4 0 Oo e4,qtler 41 'r 5 C,, 1 ttt 4 4 4,:`,t'l t l i hl 1 1\?:',t4 14 04 t,ti oe ,at 4 4t l , 4 4, ;to ll ' • 11, °}11.4 em bro, • .1 - and ship and insurance agent aersonal and practical knowl' 'epreser AT qEt"-- ESCAPE -- Annabelle, Mr. John Patterson cosio passage home,from Trinidad to Clyde' s she was one day goihg through, the about three knots an hour, with a . t shark was observed following the v e t h was immediately called for, bait,ed ol ho and thrown over the side, when the 8 i v hold of it, and was hooked. As i s us b , a bowling hitch was passed round thev by the mate, to secure it. While in the the mate, Mr. Dow, now . commanclel,"t lost his balance. fell averboard, an d - i d sack of the sbark—thas both shark k o ' - liiaQter, Sees iended by the rope. danger to which his mate was eNT-"' taking hold of a rope in one hand,,e.t by the other. At this m om ent, in 'aiti got clear of the hook, b u t b e fore it "" on its back, as it is under the nece' instep can seize its prey, the m a ster and instepon deck by those on board.—Whenllolo deck he was as pale as d ea th, and a' Glasgow Mail. '5 l QUARTERLY RETU RN O F T HE i'„led, —The quarterly re t urn , j us t puho s 1 6491 uarter which ended S e pt em ber, 9 , 0 0 rife, the r li e I —and even in proportion to so f es in the corresponding quart er every quarter since the sum ef t mers of 1839, 1844-5-6. birt ified in Cheshire and Loco s jo 1, Middlesex, and other plec e a%lo ipton, Liverpool, Leeds, and 1 severely from c h o lera, tbe,T 1. The births in the metroP° ll Liverpool, and in Hull, wher e io summer quarter, were fewer of 1849, than in the COrre s P The deaths in Cheshire and er ending December 31, IS'''. age. In Liverpool this was strii'l hths in that quarter being 1,8 47, 3, Rresponding quarter of 1848, , ‘ enu, t .ponding quarter of 1847. In ‘ ; ,.,,, e 'ber‘ were 834, against 1,030 in the Dec e ,', - 0 A" " A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER vele CER OUTWITTED.—The quiet 11, was visited, a few nights sinctcel in the form of a sheriff's Pi,eir from Leeds, in quest of t' whom they had arcertaired to be te n j,, under the roof of a friend resident in Lien chol caPtur c c, Expecting to make an easy _ " century behind the age" a place as: t ' a ti wended their way from the railsraY - n og (some two mil es or thereabouts), c 4.100 for the rain which was falling on anticipations of the pleasure they ni s io l at last taking undes their kind an Their tion their unsuspecting victim. '-',,„ pV A was to forward to the house of tii i ; e 9, Mr. - was staying a parcel aci'' 0 1.4' appearance of which, however, was ° t diately to put both host and gnO s iti j i" Shortly after the delivery of the afa re f ori as the object of search was retiring, ", 0 ?),, knock at the door caused our friend : o lt in the direction of his bedroom nertV` tho view of eff ec ti ng hi s escape t Y , medium of the window th an by COW.fe . biuuthers light " on his pillow; 't ,entative of the majesty of the ls"tC every nook and corner of the hoil se? o ta safely domiciled under the hosppo o , resident about a mile out of S—• te dioo all the livelong night, keeping a r o osr watch on the pl ace w h ere th e y etili jjef, of their solicit u d e t o b e secrete d, o u A r A p hied back to Leed s on th e f o ll ow ing ""ble' intended prey, and affording a memo Roland for au Oliver."—LeedsOljeiiessV4 LETTERS AND ATITOGRAPHS. g Simpson, of Piccadilly, were selling , 100 varied and highly interesting Collec' autographs of distinguished charaetel;l l ,9 curious lots were the following :—L 3 • 0 0 1 4 cel of letters and documents illustrat ic to inventories of her valuables ,• sale cpc, Nelson's effects ; jewellers' bills, (a„ er order with hair, £3 Bs. ;) curiousls; c if bill of sale to J. Smith, signed by -' - '„ eil tu . o Memorial presented to the Prince R e btioli d ton, urging her claims to the atteartiad alleging that she had spent, in su,,PP:oofol the British consulate a t Naples, xl;',ki £30,000 of her husband's fortune, WO Nelson to pursue and d es t ro y the ' l 'l4 which neither would nor could basic „ 1" ( ;' for the aid mem or i a li s t procure d a detailed account of her services, an 0'12) she might have exe rc is e d an ec onomy r pi ( of Naples that would h ave secu red her yet such calculation she wou ld have g , nal prudence under the c i rcu mstanc e red was to maintain the dignity of ou o r i ,to master, to advance his inte r ests an v alf,'l and alleviate the toils of his brave, ! ° 0 11", 0 1 tent clime. In place of h oar ding at , 010 sions, it was my sole pride, my gl9if,blild to have expended what private file,' eV '0 for my own immedi a te co m f o rts.' i itoOd would ever keep telling Sir W. 11 ,1 0 0 1) the world, that the b a ttl e o f the .0 1 0) his." This interesting lot was sold for co or tof an autograph letter, two pages q u -0 0 loft hand, and dated, "The Victory , ' f p relating to his contemplated attaclqo norca, and particulars of his intende ; ',;( s tero £1 Gs. M. Guizot, the French intends Russell, May 10, 1839, requesting lA ° go could be obtained as to the life of do e, for whom he professed high admire , 00 g ue d Parr, December 17, 1792—a very 'of letter, relatin g t o th e unsettled sts,ta,, 0 1 ,0 period, with two l e tt ers o f Mr. sions entertained by the doctor a i s ra toll o id king, &c., £1 6s. Duke of We''' t ioo, Peel, July 30, 1828, as to the trans la p cofd London to the see of Canterburl i soeP Chester to that of London, with Sir meat, £1 4s. i n Ale) THE BORNEAN PHLATES."'" r ap -- - ts fg bell, who has been at sea for forty ioceA, 4 l,, which were passed in the Indian , 0 1P, Archipelago, writes to the Times t O rOF i 1 seas " swarm with piratical pro o r ,cll numbers of bloodthirsty savages , o ed every man of them carrying a PO's' 9 o3 if everlastingly on the look-out for u° „off o r / sels, or traders .of any description:l;oo:A in boarding her, woe to the eafT„,orti e they master them, they invariabq te c r i 0 1 Oli ve and scuttle the vessel.' eo re b0 ,' 0 4 compliment to Mr. Smith, who aFP, i ci o r di meeting, (as reported in our lest,) lice it I si 6 x o t o een of m t e h n e , se fou p g ir h a t t h es is , s c hi a p p s t u ai e n ee s c s ie t ill three different occasions I have ha h , the on two others T have been chased w c fecos i o of i l off the coast of Borneo. On ol d in o ' l 11, 4 ? of their boats, on another 58; a t o fl o il had with them I lost my only sorb , dec. , • 0. and-twenty as ever stepped a 01 4 r , crew, all of them killed, too, viltl i , 4 ri, c l , c o 6l l was not five miles from the Screed in 19 occasion I was desperately wow' boa", t o th f r m ee y m r e u n nn k i i n ll g ed r , i b gg es in id g es car mY ri ! d e u ;%.--1 1 1 .4 17; . 0 4 know, too, that between 1826 eu c t. cl,Pe l eo English vessels were attacked, five p ad pea t trl i f and every man on board murdered co. Dutch and foreign ships, besides !alp wrecked on the coast of 'Borneo4 s es o „ e le, r ,d slaves—ay, and some good EDP! to 13°1 , 0 1 4 thetoo. most Think cruelof p ethat, lep not five years ago, the Dutch sert ie to her protect their trade, things had co '" up oe . m o o t y Oen i r , t — he so f l a d co l a cofti o t o gi a reci : o , , these Bornean pirates came do,w,r c oil r e p attacked her in thousands, kil l e d an two, who contrived to eseapt_bicha" 3e 1 .4 Afters uch doings, of the truth 0 r i . oll , it is enough to make one's blooc,):0100 lubbers as Mr. Sturge and Mr- 1/ ,.. c ij o g9, A / 4t James Brooke's atrocious proccolty, pp of • cold-blooded butchery, cilla ss . o l4 is all very well to use foul langsZ o eo,,, o oiii h ,rl, quite safe, but I know Sir Jasylf ne of 4 ,4 q L , v4rTi th_ full well, too, that there wilsll a b n y der 913 1 0-1 1 '"t Sint crew that met yesterday to e wor d a9 c d%o at 91 would dare to have uttered one wn k noc ro o, o 1, 1411 been in England. From ° tb°,„,21 0 there is not a kinder, better. 12 ,11, 0 .13hw or a braver Man alive than Sir